I'm up to 10 snakes now and I don't really have any plans to add more until later this year (either buying one or two or hatchlings). I've been reading about what everyone does with rotating males, harem tubs, maternity tubs, etc but I can't really decide on what to do because I have no clue what size tubs they'll need. It seems like people use the medium cement mixing tubs from home depot so the males can breed multiple females at a time and then take them out to maternity tubs, but what about when you follow the "Should I Breed? How Many to Breed?" thread with 12 females and 2 males. Could I just build a 14 tub rack with kitty litter pans and move the males around while all the moms stay in the same tub?

If that works I think I'd want to do that. That would give me two males so if one died I could rotate the living one every week until I get a new male or grow one up, and at 14 tubs I could easily have 2 extra tubs to hold a few handfuls of grow outs (I figure a male tub with one good sized male as a backup and I'd cull/freeze the others at the right size). Not to mention during the females vacation after weaning I could put like 3 (or 4?) in a single tub, so that would be 8 tubs with pregnant/breeding females, 1 for vacation females, and then 5 for whatever else. I figure this would also be nice if I had to increase production, I could build a 6 cement tub rack and have 1.3 in each tub and just moving the pregnant ones over to a quiet tub by herself.

So I guess the big thing I'm not sure on, in the van ness large kitty litter pans and medium cement mixing tubs, how many females could i have with the male without rotating? How many without rotating? How many moms can fit in each with their babies? How many small/medium sized rats can be held in there for grow outs?