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Plastic tubs can be found at WalMart or any sort of store like that for well under $10.00 each for your new babies. You want to go fairly small and not deeper than 7 or 8 inches (6.5 is best) as bp's aren't climbers and feel most secure in a low environment. Think floor space more than top space. Pick a tub with a very secure, lock style lid and then pull on it looking for areas of give. Snakes are escape artists. A lot of us that use rubbermaid, sterlite or iris (Iris is the best) add extra security to our tub lids.

You'll also need either a drill or a soldering wand to drill/melt lots of vent holes in the lid and sides. For heating go with UTH not a light, much better for the snake, much safer for you and those lights just suck up humidity anyways.

You'll also want to look for an Acu-Rite at Walmart (other brand names at Lowe's and Home Depot), runs around $11.00 plus 1 AAA battery. It will read two temps plus humidity. You'll find it in the outdoor thermometer area.

You need two hides per tub (one cool side, one warm side). Plastic pans that go under flower pots are great! Cheap, easy to clean and you can just cut or drill in an entrance hole. Think small, dark, and barely bigger than your snake is coiled up. They love the security of a tight hide. Happy, secure snakes feed better.

Heavy small dish for water. Think easy to clean and not easy to tip. Does not have to be big enough to soak in....most BP's that are healthy never soak.

Substrate can be aspen, plain newspaper, paper towels, kraft indented paper, etc. Never use cedar. Best to start babies out on plain white papertowels so you can watch for any bugs on them plus gather fecal samples easily if you need to take one in to the vet.

If you shop smart and stay away from most over-priced "reptile" things you can easily set up two lovely tub enclosures for a very reasonable price and they will run so easy for you.

Set up both tubs with everything including a full water dish, then let it sit for a day. You may have to add more holes to achieve the right temps and humidity but best to do that fiddling and tweaking before the 2 baby snakes arrive.

Hope this helped.