Do you feed in tank?

I feed in the tub. No difference in temperment. :D

All of you feeding in tubs use newspaper? I feel like a snake choking down / defacating a shard of aspen could do some serious damage...?

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Originally Posted by MrLang

All of you feeding in tubs use newspaper? I feel like a snake choking down / defacating a shard of aspen could do some serious damage...?

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My snakes are kept on cypress mulch. I've never had a problem with them swallowing more than a tiny piece or two of bedding. But I do make sure the f/t rats are dry when I feed them so bedding doesn't stick to them readily. :gj:

I went away from aspen when a female snake struck at a rat and missed, shoving a piece of aspen into her throat.
Pulling a piece of wood out of the mouth of a large snake thats thrashing about is no fun.
Rare maybe, but no aspen for me ty.

I used to. I don't anymore. Nothing changed in the way they eat :)

I feed in the tub and they are on paper towels. Never had a problem with aggressiveness. Generally balls know the smells of rodents and don't confuse people with food. The strikes I have seen are usually balls missing and striking the hand if you don't use tongs. Other snakes might be different.

I do both. For those that eat frozen I feed in enclosure and for those that eat live and have loose bedding I feed out of the enclosure. For the one that eats live and is in quarantine and has paper towels I feed in enclosure. My reason for feeding in or out has NOTHING to do with temperament or "cage aggression". I've had a couple bad experiences with attempted bedding consumption.

All of our snakes currently get fed in their tub. When we had a couple burms we fed in the bathtub because they were on loose substrate and we didn't feel like trying to fight a hungry 8 foot burm with bark in it's mouth. Also was way easier to clean the bathtub of rat blood afterwards. That said, there are risks to moving a large hungry snake, and a long snake hook and a helper are certainly important the bigger they get. Nothing like feeding a large burm in the bathtub only to have it come flying out at chest level, then swearing at myself for forgetting the snake hook at boyfriend's house... had my roommate run a bird perch/dowel to me to gently redirect the burm's head. Certainly a learning experience and a reminder not to be a complacent fool.

Never an issue with the balls in the tub and on newspaper though :)

I feed in the enclosure, and the only time I've been bit was when I tried to remove the food with my hand after dropping in the enclosure haha. Whoopsies.

I leave mine in tank. I was going to start feeding in a separate bin, but he refused after a couple times. So I put him in his tank, and he took a small mouse the next day without hesitation.