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coppers & canebreaks
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by jay71284 on March 28, 2004
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I was wondering if you could put an adult copperhead with a 3 or 31/2ft female canebreak, or could i put an adult dusky pygmy with the cane?
scrub71284@yahoo.com thanks
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by Wollers on March 28, 2004
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I'm sure you know that pygmies will not hesitate when it comes to eating very small colubrids. However, keeping a pig with a large crotalid like a Canebreak is fine. My first Canebreak and Dusky pigmy have been rooming together for the last 6 years without incident. I would reccomend seperating them during feedings to avoid any accidents. Also caging requirements are the same as far as substrate, humidity, and heat. As far as the copperhead goes, I would not trust anything with one other than another copperhead. -Mike
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by TAIPAN78 on March 31, 2004
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Keeping snakes together, weather they are the same sp or not is a bad idea. You never know when one may have a bad scale day and just strike out of defense (which is a huge problem with venomous snakes obviously). Snakes are solitary animals for the most part and enjoy their privacy. It can stress the animals out if they have another which bumps space with them constantly.
Also, keeping a copperhead together with anyother snake is just ignorant (except when breeding)! Copperheads are very much like their cousins the cottonmouth and many chunkers have ate cage mates of smaller or somtimes almost equal size!
Now I know people will argue that they have kept snakes together for years on end with no probs and alot of the time nothing happens but that small chance of a problimatic situation is enough for me to keep all snakes seprate. Its just not worth the risk!
Just my opinion for what its worth.
Later,
J
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by Wollers on April 1, 2004
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If you have any doubts then be safe and house them separate. As far as housing like species of Agkistrodon together, it can be done, and is not as uncommonly practiced in collections as you would think. In fact, two local zoos that I frequent have kept like species housed together long term without incident. Lowery Park Zoo in Tampa keep a 3.5 foot S.Copperhead with a 2 foot specimen in a moderate size cage. Also kept together are two C.adamanteus and three S.miliarius. The curator at Jungle Gardens in Sarasota has kept two FL.Cottonmouths(male&female) together full-time on exhibit for many years. I have one of the offspring from these very impressive parents. -Mike
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