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nah not a gd idea it can lead to allsorts of problems mainly with breeding to early or the male breeding non stop which can lead to going of there food ect


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Old 17-04-2008, 03:06 PM
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really? hognoses do not eat snakes, so very unlikely they would eat a male in the same viv. It is a risk, though if they are fed together, not because the female has decided cannabalism is the way forward, but because they have both tried to eat the same mouse, with inevitable disaster.
Oh yes they do, and snakes are on their diet in the wild at times. Also there have been reported cases on the reptile forums of the smaller male having been eaten by the bigger female.

I have a male here retrieved from a female that has been left brain damaged too.

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PS African house snake females are noted too for the same as above.
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