who feeds in separate containers??

Everything gets fed in their enclosures. I have 50 something ball pythons, feeding day would take more a couple of days.....plus all the retics, burms, boas.........no way in hell are any of them getting handled during feeding day. Besides I don't have anything big enough to put them in!
And don't get me started on the venomous, lol.

We feed in the enclosure. Only have one ball python you have to watch out for..


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Using a large Rubbermaid container did me wonders when I had a pair of BPs that would only eat live. I learned a GREAT method for feeding live to maintain safety for my snakes. I figured this out after just once seeing a rat trying to bite my snake when it wasn't interested in eating. I would put the rat in the container in front of my couch, wash my hands, pull out my snake, and sit on the couch with the container in front of me. After just a couple minutes the snake would smell the rat and begin to slither down towards it, all while I'm still holding it. The snake would coil into it's "S" pose in mid-air near the bottom of the container. When the rat came near it would strike and lift the rat in the air while coiling around it. It would then hold onto the side of the container while constricting the rat. By the time the snake would uncoil the rat's head would already be on it's way down the throat. This method would guarantee that the snake would never be within the reach of the teeth of the live rat. This is probably the way I'll feed from now on unless I ever get an exceptionally "bitey" snake.

"Keep on herpin" :D

Im too scared that they'll accidentally swallow an aspen shaving, so I do seperate. I think that whole "they'll associate you entering their enclosure with feeding upping the chance they'll strike you" think is a crock.

-Riveran

A piece of aspen wont hurt them.

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Originally Posted by TheSnakeGuy

Using a large Rubbermaid container did me wonders when I had a pair of BPs that would only eat live. I learned a GREAT method for feeding live to maintain safety for my snakes. I figured this out after just once seeing a rat trying to bite my snake when it wasn't interested in eating. I would put the rat in the container in front of my couch, wash my hands, pull out my snake, and sit on the couch with the container in front of me. After just a couple minutes the snake would smell the rat and begin to slither down towards it, all while I'm still holding it. The snake would coil into it's "S" pose in mid-air near the bottom of the container. When the rat came near it would strike and lift the rat in the air while coiling around it. It would then hold onto the side of the container while constricting the rat. By the time the snake would uncoil the rat's head would already be on it's way down the throat. This method would guarantee that the snake would never be within the reach of the teeth of the live rat. This is probably the way I'll feed from now on unless I ever get an exceptionally "bitey" snake.

"Keep on herpin" :D

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Wow! I feed live exclusively. Over 15K live feedings with no issues and no complicated feeding strategy like yours.

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I feed in a sepetate tub because it gives me time to clean that snakes enclosure. None of my snakes have ever struck at me on feeding day.

I feed all my snakes in their enclosure, it's easier and faster then moving them all into feeding tubs.