What time do you guys feed?

After 8:00 pm

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Typically late evening. I like to feed a half hour after I've had lights off, then I'll turn a lamp on to give myself some light to work with but without making the snakes wary.

However, not all of my snakes care. I only have one carpet python that is picky about when he eats. One of my two current BPs is a picky eater in general, and the other gets way more active at night but has fed during the day.

My hognose snakes eat whenever, heck all colubrids I've kept have been like this.

My rainbow boas are very much only nighttime eaters.

While I've seen plenty of inconsistencies with feeding times, at least enough to say I don't HAVE to feed at night, I will say that overall activity of movement in cages jumps about 1000% during the first hour after dark and my overall feeding success is statistically higher.

I feed my (one) snake between 8 and 10PM. He's in our study, so I just close all the shutters and dim the lights around 7PM, and then I'll see him surfing around in his cage waiting for his meal. :-)

I'm hoping in the next few weeks he takes to F/T so I don't have to hang on to a mouse for the better half of the day waiting for dusk to feed.

On feeding day, I'll take frozen rats out, and leave them to thaw until around 6 or 7. By then, it should only take about 30 minutes for them to heat up in some warm water, then I feed.