Josh please don't take this as an attack but I do feel that the level of experience that you boost about may be found wanting when measured with that of members that you are disagreeing with. For example stress in ball pythons can be a quick or slow progression.

Now with that being said out of the 11 snakes you boast about doing fine how many of them have been in your care more than a year. By my count at least five of them have been with you less than 6 months and three of those less than 2 months. So how many have been in your care for more than a year and house in nothing but 66qt tubs?? I have had established animals well eating animals stress months after an enclosure change as simple as using newspaper instead of aspen?????. Please understand that the advice we give is a combination come to after years even decades of experience keeping ...successfully I might say these animals for years.

The advice we offer for newbes is structured so that they can enjoy these animals with little to no problems. To say that you can't keep a ball python in a 66qt tub is not true you can keep one in a bath tub maybe even for along time. Is it the easiest and least stressful manner to do so..no.

Being a small bodied ground dwelling nocturnal animal that's natural habitat is ground burrows and termite mounds. Large open areas with lots of head room and light even if its just to travel from hide to hide is stressfull..Why you might as ..BECAUSE THEY THINK THEIR GOING TO GET EATEN.

Please understand that when we give advice it is not the only way to do things even we are still learning new things about these animals needs but it is the easiest way to achieve the long term goal of keeping these animals.

So I can say with years thats YEARS of experience keeping many of these animals for years. That a 66qt tub will stress a ball python baby.