Quote Originally Posted by snakemomma View Post
I'd prefer to keep them all together(but divided) in the same cage. We made it ourselves and I must say it is pretty nice haha. I'll save the 20 gallon for the next snake once I get this all figured out and fixed!

We have heat rope throughout the bottom of the cage. Both are on a lamp dimmer thing and are monitered by two thermostats. One on each side of the cage. We don't have a device to measure the humidity in the cage but we do have a humidity box in the cage for them to hang out in if they want and they shed in one piece.

Also Nick seemed concerned that feeding them in thier enclosures would make them more likely to bite you when you handle them. He also said that they could swallow thier substrate and that would be bad for them.
What kind of thermometers are they? Digital ones with probes?

Ball pythons are such docile snakes that cage aggression is never an issue. As long as you go into the cage on days that are not feeding day, they should never "mistake your hand for food". You don't smell like a rat, you don't look like a rat, so your snake should not just bite you because it thinks it is being fed. I have never heard of a case of impaction with ball pythons. i have had my snakes eat mouth fulls of substrate and be perfectly fine. Remember, these guys digest rodents WHOLE. A little substrate is no big deal.