Oh, and: I'm going out of town for a several weeks this summer on fellowship, leaving my husband to take care of the snakes. It will be MUCH, MUCH easier for him if I have them all separated and in racks. I kind of can't stand how tiny the standard tub is, but I'm going to get a rack anyway from Animal Plastics. We'll see how the snakes react.

It'll also be good to finally have enough rack space for everyone, because there is one big, very real danger with shared housing: disease/infection. If one of my girls were to get an upper respiratory infection, I'd have to separate them IMMEDIATELY and keep them quarantined and separate until they were all completely recovered. This has never happened to me yet, but I have had a scare when one of them came down with diarrhea briefly this summer. Frankly, in the case of multiply-housed snakes, it's not even easy to tell WHICH snake had the diarrhea... and we have to assume that sooner or later somebody WILL get sick.