I actually shelled out the money and bought a third enclosure for my two retics. It works fantastic, you can clean up the spare enclosure and move your snake just one time. And my enclosures are close enough so that you don't even have to pull out the whole snake, just guide his head to the empty enclosure and guide him along. Plus if you are in a hurry and your snake makes a mess you can simply move him to the clean spare enclosure and leave the mess until you have some extra time. I used to try to put them on the table or hold them and try to clean, that turns out to be a nightmare as they get bigger LOL.