How do they not drive you nuts? Especially when you've got a whole room full of 40 breeders and need to be able to easily get in and out of all of them?

I've had one for a few years for my western hognose, but I don't go in and out of a snake cage as often as I go in and out of a collared cage. Plus, the only thing on top for her was a 4' shoplight that sort of sat on the frame while I slid the screen back and forth right under it. Today I finally got a light rigged into a 4X2X1 stackable and gave the snake an upgrade so I could move the July babies into the 40 (I don't dare try the kind of lighting they need in a one-foot-tall stackable,) and I'll tell you, I'm not as crazy about that tank as I feel like I should be.

Between the awkwardness of trying to give the top opening-clearance while still trying to keep the floor of the tank reachable/ the heavier light fixtures used for collared lizards/ the fact that, really, when you'e going in and out several times a day, you start to notice more that those things really don't slide all that smoothly anyway... I'm just wondering, since this seems to be the most popular tank size for these guys, does anybody have any good tricks or suggestions?
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0.1 2006 Western Hognose (Bebe)
0.1 age unknown Cane Toad (Hengo)
0.1 2005 White-Banded Sheen Skink (Minerva)
1.0 2006 Northern Diamondback Terrapin (Queequeg)
1.0 2006 Madagascan Speckled "Hognose" (Sigmund)
1.0 2008 Bullsnake (Winkle)
1.2 2008 Eastern Collared Lizards (Pancho, Lupe, and Chica)
2.0 2009 Eastern Collared Lizards (Cesar and Nino)

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