This morning I heard a loud thump in one of my garter snake enclosures, When I looked in I was horrified to see one of my albino red sided trying to swallow her cage mate, a non albino from the same litter.

These two girls have been together 3 years and have never shown any sign of aggression to each other.

They both had eaten 2 rat pinkies each on Saturday and still had respectable bulges, so they really couldn't have been THAT hungry.

All I can think of is that one of them had regurgitated and then they both decided to eat that?? Another remote possibility is that the normal girl had just passed jellybeans into the cage, never heard of them eating that, but who knows??

Anyways, a bit of running cold water and some tugging got them apart.

I am really starting to doubt this communal housing.. too many things can go wrong.