Tub Size Question

[Montypython696]

Good evening all,
I made a rack for my younger balls at the beginning of summer, and I have to say I’ve had nothing but success with it. Perfect sheds, perfect appetites, you name it. So I was thinking of making a rack system for my full sized male. He’d be the only one going in it right now. But as my young ones get older, I would switch them over to larger tubs and therefore a larger rack.
My question is, right now I have my young balls in 32 quart sterilite tubs. But my 7 year old ball is in a 40 gallon breeder tank. What size tub do you feel is appropriate for him? I feel kind of bad for having him in a 40 gallon all his life to putting him in a smaller tub.
But I was looking at these ones:
http://www.sterilite.com/SelectProdu...=252&section=1
http://www.sterilite.com/SelectProdu...=252&section=1
What do you guys think? Am I going too big? Or is that good? A large black hide would be in there as well as a nice sized water bowl.
Thanks for your imput!

[decensored]

Males are usually kept in 28qt tubs so 32 is more than adequate. I have my females in 42 qt tubs. Once they hit 1200 grams or so. Hope this helps. A really big male might be better suited for a 42 qt tub but generally, big males make terrible breeders so I don't usually let them get overly big. My biggest male is 1700 grams.

[bcr229]

I also felt weird moving an adult male over to a tub, the people who had him before me kept him in a 40-breeder (with no UTH, and no way to keep up humidity, but that's another story). They said he was a really friendly snake and easy to get out of his enclosure. Well, he must have hated the thing because after a few days in a tub with correct temps and humidity, he would fight to get back into it if you tried to remove him, and if I tried to remove him now he would hiss and puff and fuss until he was out. I don't have enough adults yet to justify keeping males and females in different sized racks, they're all in a rack with 41 qt tubs, and they all have hides to use if they want.

[The Serpent Merchant]

Those tubs are really too tall. Most people keep adult ball pythons in 41 qt tubs (IRIS CB-70/Sterilite 1860 or 1960 under bed box/Vision V70/ARS 70 series tubs)

BP's are terrestrial snakes and really don't make much use of the extra height.