I have 2 ball pythons - a 10yo and 9yo, very good, regular feeders.

When I got them, I fed frozen, but when each reached about 2 - 2 1/2 years old, they went off the frozen and since then have been eating live: 5 medium mice each every 10-12 days. That's not the issue; that's just background.

For many years now, I have fed them outside their tank (they share a 60 gal), each in a separate feeding box. Originally, I'd take one out, feed the other, then switch them, but Darby is a biter and I got sick of dealing with that, so I started feeding them in separate boxes. Much less time consuming.

However, I've got a baby on the way, and I don't have room for the feeding boxes. It's going to take some very creative space-saving engineering to enable me to keep the snakes in their 60gal tank.

Now, I don't know what to do about feeding them because I'm afraid to go back to in-tank feedings. Does anyone have any suggestions?

PS - When I say we're short on space, I'm really serious. We've got a 2-bedroom, 900 sq ft. house that's home to a menagerie with every useable corner taken up with some pet's bed. And we've got to get baby stuff in there, too.