Why keep hatchlings together until shed?

It's a lot easier to manage them in a single tub. Plus our incubator isn't big enough to have 10-20 individual tubs for babies until they shed out.

Once ours start pipping we move them to a tub on wet paper towels in the incubator, then as they come out they get rinsed off and moved to a second tub with wet paper towels and a water bowl in the incubator. As they shed out we sex them, give them their ID #s, weigh them and set them up in their own tub in the hatchling rack.

I do it so I can get pictures like this:
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Seriously, I keep them together because it is just easier to do until they shed. In the incubator, I can keep the humidity high until they shed. After that, the next step is to feed and that is tracked better when they are in individual tubs.

The advantages that I saw with housing them together for the first shed was this.

An increase in humidity from a bunch of moist snakes piled up. A trapping of humidity in the pile. Added security in numbers. Ease of shedding by using the pile to shed.

I have only done one clutch and it was from the Volta girl. She hatched out 10. So I split them in two groups of 5 and put the groups into V-18 tubs. All had perfect sheds and they definitely use the weight of one another to get off the shed.