Mainly the biggest benefit I see from my experiences with many snakes over the years is that they dont get amped when there doors open or lids come off. I have realy never had more that 2 at a time until now I have 10 and 4 more paid and on there way in the spring. I'll probably get a few more before my 4 het clowns get here. Even though my goal is breeding I still want them tamed down as much as possible for my kids sake. I have an 8 y/o and a 3 y/o and they are at my heels and my 3 y/o handles them as much as I do. My 8 y/o doesnt live with me but when shes here she has a snake in her hand or on her wrist from the moment she wakes until she goes to bed.

As u can probably guess I'm not at all stingy with food and admittedly probably over feed. My under 200 gram babys balls will usually eat 2 hoppers then refuse the third. If they do end up taking a 3rd I wont feed them for atleast 8 days.

I've been keeping records in excell for every feed, shed and I take everyone's weight every 2 weeks.

The biggest benefit I see from feedimg in another tub food aggression. My snakes dont get amped to eat until there in the feeding tub. I've never kept snakes for breeding before but after I sold my boa to get back into ball pythons I realy didnt realize that balls were such picky eaters. So far having a whole herd of snakes I havnt had any issues with them refusing a meal. When i had balls as a kid i never had any of my snakes refuse food either. All that being said I'm hoping when my females are big enough to breed that I wont have issues with fasting after they lay. I'm hoping that I can get them back on food as soon as I pull the clutch so we can keep them at a breedable weight at all times. I'm hoping they know that when there in the empty tub they associate that tub with it's time to eat.

If all my females or even half of them breed and lay I will probably end up feeding them in there tubs/enclosures. At that point I would be swimming in snakes and raising them to sell. So I probably wont have the time to pull all of them out.

I'll look into rabbits for ya tomarrow and let you know. I sold my boa because she we getting a bit to large for me to handle alone and my kids were way to curious and have absolutely no fear of getting bit. That's why I went back to ball pythons. Simple to care for super docile and if one was to latch on to a kid they probably wouldnt end up with stitches.