Hello everyone. My wife and I recently decided to jump head first into the hobby and I'd like to share my experiences so far and get feedback.
Originally I was going to get 1 large snake (red tail boa), so I bought a 125 gal tank for use as a show piece in my livng room. I set the tank up with a custom built rock background, hides for each side (warm and cool), water dish, aspen bedding, UTH, ceramic heat emitter, and a Zoo Med Repti Temp 500R w/ temp and humidity gauges. After ensuring the tank was finished and the temperature was stable at 85F on the warm side, we went to an expo here in Omaha and ended up buying 2 Ball Pythons instead because my wife came around and told me she really didn't want a large snake. So we have a male Pinstripe that is 3 months old and a female Spider that is 8 months old. Upon getting home we introduced the snakes to each other and they've seem to have taken to each other like best friends, because for the last 4 weeks they've spent almost all of their time together. They have both shed once so far and as for diet, the male only eats live mice/rat pups every 6 days. The female eats a F/T medium rat every 6 days, but we're considering switching to live medium rats instead.

I'm considering splitting the tank into 2 sections with a plexi-sheet to keep them apart, because I eventually want to breed them and I'm not sure if keeping them together is the best plan. Advice would certainly be welcome.