Now that I seem to be past the sneezy mice issue, I thought I'd start a new thread. Here's the link to that thread in case anyone wants it:
http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=73792

The good news is that several of my females appear to be pregnant. The store I bought them at keeps all of their feeder mice in one bin, so I knew they might be pregnant when I got them. I just picked out the 4 biggest females to put in with the male, but I think it is possible all 4 of those are pregnant. One is starting to look like she swallowed a golf ball, so she'll probably pop soon. I think I'm going to try to remove the male before she delivers, and put him in with the next group, in case he would have any notions about those babies not being his and therefore needing to eat them.

The bins I bought measure about 11"x16" on the bottom. I had thought, by eyeballing them at the store, that they were about as big as a 10 gallon tank, but they are definitely smaller. About what size breeder group can I keep in those bins? The 1.4 group that I just put together looks ok, but I think by the time there is a litter or 2, especially in the hopper stage, it will be too crowded.

I am feeding them hog feed (this is probably more than 50% of their intake) plus a mix of black oil sunflower seeds, wild bird seed mix, lentils, split peas, dog food, and assorted table scraps. Is that a reasonable diet or am I missing something?