Feed Inside da cage vs Outside the cage

I'm lazy so i'm just reposting what I wrote in the last thread (dont judge me, im on a phone ;) ) :

Since I feed live, I feed all my snakes in a seperate container outside the cage and never had a snake bite me or regurgitate their food. My snakes don't get into strike mode until I put them into the container. Then, they know their meal is coming.

With live feedings, I have more control in case the mouse or the rat bites my snake during constriction. Also, mice and rats poop a whole lot in a small amout of time. I don't want that all over my terrarium.

You can either feed in the terrarium or in a seperate contanier. It's really up to you. I wish people would calm down with their opinions in this subject...

In my experience, all 5 of my BPs eat well in seperate containers without getting stressed out. BPs aren't as fragile as people think.

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I feed all mine inside there cages and never had any issues

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I started out feeding in a seperate enclosure, but that was when I had only a few. After getting many more snakes its ALOT easier to just feed in their own enclosure. Trying to take each one out, feed, wait a bit, then goto the next one it would take me all day to feed. Feeding in their enclosure I can feed all of them at once in less than an hour.

I know we are talking ball pythons here but I can't emphasize enough how bad of an idea it is to feed a large constrictor outside of its enclosure. With BPs the risks are low because they can't do much damage but with larger stuff it only takes one SFE (stupid feeding error) to end up dead. Feeding outside regardless of species is adding a possibility to get bitten due to the extra steps involved. Not a huge deal for ball pythons if you don't mind a bite or two. I've actually never even come close to being tagged by my retic but have had several near misses with the ball pythons. I think this has to do with me being so cautious around my retic but being loosey goosey with my smaller snakes. Everyone talks about retics having a ridiculous feeding response and they do but I've had plenty of female BPs eat and then continue on looking for more food which is right around the time folks would be moving them back to their enclosures...

I'm not saying one way is right and the other is wrong. I'm only saying what works for me and the best feeding response I have got from my BP.
I feed in the enclosure during early afternoon with the light on. I do the zombie dance at the opening of her hide and she starts moving out. I will pull the rat back until she moves to an open area of her enclosure. This gives her room to constrict and eat without things getting in the way. She will strike, eat, and appear to be looking for more prey right after. I don't feed her twice, I just feed one appropriate size rat every 5 days. She is only 5 months old, but never struck at me or even acted like she wanted to unless it was feeding time.

I say just feed the way u want. If u feed in the main enclosure, maybe some BP's do always associate the lid opening to feeding. Nobody can say they all do. I dont feed mine in a different one. I feed mine in the same one that i pick him up in. He has never associated it with feeding. Ok, he sticks his head out to look. And, maybe one day he eventually will. But, he is good for now. So, i think it just varies from snake to snake.

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I just have to support what other guys said. Find out what best works for your snake. My guy rejected feeding in a separate box for two times and since then I have always fed in the enclosure without any problems, sometimes a bit of bedding (in case you don't have paper as a bedding) can get on the rat, which, in my opinion, is not serious when those are not large sharp pieces. My BP also likes to pull the prey into his hide and eat it there without being disturbed.
Try and see what suits him the best :P. After all, each one of us has different techniques for feeding, breeding, enclosure set-up, etc. Sometimes it is just trial and error (!!! only to the limits where you do not hurt your snake !!!).

Good luck ;)