i ha a friend about 15 years ago that had a huge femle retic (24') that the had given the spare bedroom to. it seemed to worked well for him at the time. but i haven't spooken to him in years so i really can't say how well it worked for him in the long term. the one problem i noticed is the room had your typical wood door so when you entered the room you were going in blind and had no way of noing where the snake was or what mood it was in.