24/06/2025
Possibly the most surprisingly peaceful couple of 2025, we have Tempest and Toranos. Cohabitation is always a divisive and unnecessarily heated topic, but that's never stopped us from asking questions, carefully exploring options and tailoring our care to our individual snakes based on their behavior, not based on what the loudest people online say.
Tempest has always been what I would affectionately call... completely crazy and out of control. Her food drive is second to none and she would crash into her door on a daily basis at the sight of any movement. Getting her out to handle or do cage maintenance was a whole task to calm her down. Once out, she's always been sweet and easy, but in the enclosure..... the definition of chaos.
Since we started pairing these two this spring, they have shown a completely different side of themselves when in the same cage. They are calm, peaceful, curious and just much more content seeming. They spent time together, whether actively breeding or not, but also have their separate spots they like to hang out. We don't feed them together, but otherwise, it's been really cool to see such a dramatic shift in snakes I assumed would just always be extra dramatic.
