I am new to the forums and fairly new to the reptile world. I did have a Burmese python when I was 17. I only had it because girls liked them. I had no idea about husbandry or anything else. Thankfully I got rid of him because I had him for all fo the wrong reasons. I have since gotten interested in them again and so have my kids. 2 teenagers. We went to our first reptile expo last weekend and I must say, I met alot of good people. I am also confused by our visit. My wife, (who doesn't like and was against snakes) fell in love with a pair of ball pythons a male and a female regular pythons for 30.00. It seemed like a great deal. I talked to everyone there and I swear every single person said that you can house 2 pythons together except for kingsnakes. I don't want to stress them and I don't want babies right now so I won't keep them together. (they are tiny). The guy we bought them from said they eat good and they just ate 3 days ago. My thing is, my kids love holding them. I let them and I guess we will find out in 4 days if they are stressed or not when I try and feed them. I hate to tell my kids not to hold them. I read different opinions all the time on all the websites. Anyway, just wanted to say hi and I never wanted a python but am now very happy we got them. We are still getting a red tail but these pythons are cool.