housing multiple snakes/clutch questions

[Koviack]

Can males and females be housed together if the cage is large enough? Since boas give birth to live snakes instead of eggs, does temperature still affect the gender? Are clutches mostly male or female? Or would it be totally random?

[XzyluM]

Clutches will more than likely be random. And to my knowledge, you can't determine the sex of snakes like you can with lizards by using a lower or higher temperature.

[toker]

Based on everything I have been told and have read, it is not a good idea to keep more than one snake in a single cage unless to breed

[Vegetatoboaotaku]

The sex of a snakes is determined at conception... its not temperature dependent. but unlike in humans it is the female that gives the sex determining set of genes not the male... i have a nice website on it somewhere... i'll go look it up and post the rest of this info...
And like toker said most of the time snakes should be housed seperately as it eliminates a great deal of issues.

[Ed_r]

I'm a big advocate of one snake per cage. But I would be a hipocrit to say its wrong, bacause i do it. My 3 femal BCIs live in one cage but its an 8' cage. I'm not proud of it, but they came into my house when I wasn't prepared for them as rescues, and never finished their final cages. Never house different breeds in the same cage. If you trying to breed, its best to have males and females seperate. If they live together constantly, it lessens the cance of succesful breeding. They probably will copulate, but the female probably will not ovulate.
Not to up on sex of the young. Clutches usually distribute the sexes pretty evenly.

	Boa Constrictor Imperator Boa Constrictor (Boa constrictor imperator). Most common is the Colombian Boa.