Another Question?

mine smells the mouse instantly in his cage and comes out hunting, he doesn't bother ambushing :)

touche :colbert2: well played!!!

Yea I feed in seperate enclosure. I wait until he's done (finished swallowing, tongue flicking, moving again) and carefully lift him out and put him back in his tank. With multiples I simply drop in another mouse when he's done with the first. usually the activity level drops way down for 1-3 days. If mine remains active that same evening I take it as a sign its time for bigger feeds.

I guess you could call it ambush but I think its more like stealth. I feed mine it a big empty tub under full lighting and, indeed, he does not chase his prey. Despite the fact that they have an unobstructed view of him he pretty much could sit with his mouth wide open and just wait until they walk in. In reality, he waits until he's got about a 2-3" range and strikes. But, from what I can tell by watching the mouse's behavior, it has no real idea what's going on. My theory is that the snake is mostly motionless and doesn't really smell. Alot of animals have pretty poor vision and rely much more heavily on sounds and scent.

Most likely at some point in the night they will come out when it's quiet and dark some of ours spend days or weeks in their hide's others dont use hides live under the newspaper or other bedding in the cage only see them when cleaning and watering them. If you've left them alone for 48 hours after feeding your fine to handle them on aspen or paper you can feed them in their cages won't hurt them don't feed any of our bp's out of there homes and they are all doing fine. Good luck you snakes are fine just being snakes.