Welcome to a new episode of Reptil TV practice
Today we have a mixed topic
a basic question we get a lot
which terrarium animals can I socialize
Often you can also see it in shady zoo shops
they hold a lot animals in one terrarium if the climate is the same
Right away, that does not work
Generally spoken most animals like to be alone
Turtles maybe can be still together
There are exceptions where the animals like to be in society
but most terarristic animals are alone
Even if you are looking for reptiles in nature you will seldom find more than one animal
You will find turtles or corn snakes alone in their hiding place
they like to be alone
What is not possible are cannibalistic reptiles...
...like Kingsnakes (Lampropeltis). You have to be carefully and keep them alone otherwise one can disappear
It is the same for Drymarchon corais
It is not important for lizards or turtles
What is not possible is to mix different species of animals
This is a European turtle
This is a north American corn snake
If I kept these animals together, there would be problems sooner or later
the problem is not that they eat each other
but they can infect each other with illnesses they can not tolerate
for example, turtles are considered carriers of certain salmonella strains
As information attached: they are not harmful to humans
but these salmonella stems can be harmful to the corn snake
These two animals come from South and North America
there will be different bacteria and germs
when that comes together both animals suffer from it
An example from the life. when you travel to Africa
you will probably get diarrhea on your first visit
this is probably a similar phenomenon, there are other germs and bacteria that you can not tolerate
So please do not mix the animals with each other
Even if I would have two snakes
A ball python and a corn snake
They also do not tolerate each other. They also have a different climate
and they come from different continents and have different biotopes
You will not be happy with it, and you will bring in diseases
right to the facts!
If you want to keep reptiles together,
only corn snake with corn snake or turtle with turtle
even the same kind like this Testudo hermanni with a second Testudo hermanni
You can conditionally get along with each other
basic requirement number one
same snake with same snake, here two ball pythons, highway and pewter ghost
beside the color they are the same animal
there you have the same snake, color does not matter
I sometimes get the question, can I keep an albino with XYZ. It is the same snake and does not matter
But you can't keep those two together. The difference in size is too big
There is no risk that the big one would eat the small one
but the small one would wither and eat badly
The big one weighs 600-700g and the small one 100g
This is 7 times more than the little animal and that's stress for the little animal
she will eat bad and probably get weaker and weaker
or maybe get sick and dies
If you want to keep the same kind of reptile in one terrarium
they have to be the same size +- 10%
700g and 800g would also be fine, but not a huge difference
Sex is also important, you should not keep two males together
Some years ago, people said that this is not a problem
even if they do not do anything to each other, in nature, two males would never be together
they are competitors, they even hunt each other during the mating season
Reticulated python and green tree python males bite each other seriously in the back or tail
there are real injuries and scars
You can not keep two male together
Some will say that I always do so and there may be cases where it goes well
but you do not know if the animals are 100% satisfied
But as I said, this would not happen in nature
in the mating season, one male would try to chase away the other what is not possible in the terrarium
and that leads to stress what is the main cause of disease in terraristics
and you have stress when you keep male together
females and couples together is OK
but please do not keep too many animals together
If you have a nice terrarium have a couple in there, but do not overdo it
but not 4,5 or 6 animals in one terrarium
then the animals lie on top of each other and that causes stress
couple OK, 3 animals is already critical. don't overdo it
There is one exception
There are often terrarium themes in large zoos
like an amazons or deserts Sahara terrarium where several kinds of reptiles are together
These are huge terrariums that are adapted to the habitat and probably still have the appropriate plants inside
That is an exception. They also have to pay attention to the gender
and then it can happen that snakes are kept together with lizards and turtles
I would like to explicitly exclude this here
I talk about our normal terrariums at home
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