Snakes near eachother?

[Meaningless End]

i dont know if anyone has pointed this out to you yet but thats not a cal king, its a mexican black king. theyre totaly diferent species.

the short answer..

if your boa is smaller or of equal size to the king then you have probloms, if your boa is substantually larger then the king then i wouldent worry about it to much but dont push your luck.

 

[Meaningless End]

ALL snakes should be kept in seperate rooms for a quarantine for 3-6 months, because they can transmit everything from respiratory infections to the dreaded IBD. Inclusion Body Disease is believed to be a retrovirus, is 100% fatal and highly contagious, and boas in particular take much longer to show the symptoms.

sick4x4: There are so many things wrong with housing a Columbian and a ball python together, I don't even know where to start.

culubrids dont get IBD so its realy not something he's going to have to wory about.

 

[iturnrocks]

Quarantine is for people that have large collections of snakes, where a spread of disease might matter. Since Ive only every had 1 or 2, Ive never quarantined anything, and never had a problem. If I kept hundreds of specimens, I would be much more careful.

 

[Mushroom Spore]

culubrids dont get IBD so its realy not something he's going to have to wory about.

Haha, I totally forgot what species the other snake was, you're right. Even so, there's plenty of other illnesses and germs and parasites that make quarantine a good idea--though if you can't keep their enclosures in seperate rooms, at least be super cautious with washing your hands and any supplies that both snakes might come into contact with. If either specimen seems agitated by being able to see/smell the other snake, then measures will have to be taken somehow. I guess it depends on the individual specimens' personalities and whether being able to smell the other snake will upset them. :?

I'm not sure why people keep bringing "housing snakes TOGETHER" advice into this thread, the OP has said multiple times that's not even remotely what is being talked about here.

 

[bodar]

yeah its not a mexican king, at first i thought so also. but its not totally black.
its whole belly is cream colored. its funny cause you only see black till you pick em up and its really more of an extremely dark red. cant tell frum the pic though ill take a couple more in a day or two as today was feeding today, and now he is grumpy.
maybe its the flash on my camera?

 

[sick4x4]

ALL snakes should be kept in seperate rooms for a quarantine for 3-6 months, because they can transmit everything from respiratory infections to the dreaded IBD. Inclusion Body Disease is believed to be a retrovirus, is 100% fatal and highly contagious, and boas in particular take much longer to show the symptoms.

sick4x4: There are so many things wrong with housing a Columbian and a ball python together, I don't even know where to start.

they are not housed together now but when i was moving and needed a new home for the ball & it was a necessary evil...it lasted a few months and all turned out well????

 

[edventurous77]

mexican black kings often have speckles of white and sumtimes white stomachs, so it is a mexican black im pretty certain.

 

[bodar]

kewl i will research that more.......
cool either way