separate tank for feeding?

hey there....newbie here again...I'm sure there are plenty of threads about this topic. How do you feed your snake? in a different tank or the same he/she lives in? what are your opinions...Sheldon's feeding day is tomorrow :-)

Same tank. Most feel moving them just adds stress.

You can do what you want IMO, either way is fine. But I do feed in the same enclosures as they live in.


0.3 Normals (Coilette, Athena and Mary Jane)
1.0 Pastel (De Sol)
1.0 Spider (Zeus)
1.0 Mojave (Prometheus)

0.1 Brazilian Rainbow Boa (Stella)
0.1 BCI (Kiyoko)

Drop in rat and move on to the next.
It really doesnt matter as long as your snake is feeding.;)

i feed in same enclosure... he has never shown any aggression but i do go in to his cage quite a bit for handling, cleaning, etc etc etc.... always wash hands though cause if they smell rat on ur fingers, u might want to take caution

What he said^. I've fed inside the terrariums for a few months now. Never led to any kind of cage aggression or stress. Twice I've seen a snake of mine eat a small piece of cypress bedding with zero after effects. It may be cited in care guides as the safest way to feed, but it's not the least stressful and can result in not feeding at all. That causes pet owners stress half the time.

My bps eat in the same tub they live in. Nobody is tub aggressive.

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I have a very shy WC rescue there is no way I could move her and have her eat. I have never seen a cage aggressive ball.


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Yeah, I would say only WC do not feed in separate enclosure. Personally, I have only been bit once and it was my fault and it wasn't even during feeding time lol.

I feed animals in the tubs, but not in the tanks. George the black pastel did start launching himself at my hand every time I opened the tank. Cage aggression mostly only happens to me when there is thawing mouse smell in the air, but George is especially dumb. Or hungry! Or both. And for whatever reason he decided the tank opening meant it was meal time.

I use cardboard boxes. Shoe boxes when they were babies, old shipping boxes for adults.

I feed in same tub. even the aggressive feeders are fine to handle once you get them out of their enclosure and they know it's not feeding time. they will switch out of their feeding mode. one of my big normal females 4000 + grams will come out about 2 ft head going back and forth mouth open when you slide her tub open. once she knows it's not feeding time. she's one of my best snakes to handle.

I've wondered about this too. I was less worried about my boy associating my hand with food since I used tongs than I was about him associating opening the door of his enclosure with it. I've only fed once so far and I did it in the tank because it was just a week after he was shipped to me, and I didn't want to stress him out too much by moving him around since he's still getting used to his home. I have an enclosure with a little top mesh screen that pops out in addition to the door on the front--I thought maybe if I fed him through the top one he might not associate opening the front door with feeding? Don't know if there's anything to that, it just seemed possible.

I feed all of my balls in their cages, since it's enough of a challenge getting them to eat half of the time. I have yet to see any sign of aggression, but I would only ever do this with BPs. I feed my red tail in the bath tub (easy to tidy up any blood smudges), and she knows exactly what's going on as soon as she touches the porcelain.

Both mine get fed in their cages my ball just cuz it's easier and he's not aggressive at all I used to use a seprate tub but stopped. My carpet I feed her in her tub too she likes too strike from her perch and I don't feel like handling a seven foot plus snake that's aggressive half time already when she's also in feeding mode too much of a handful and I'm not as fast as her when she's hungry lol

I feed them in their tubs, and when the females get wired up in the fall and start feeding heavily, I just touch them with a snake hook or stick to get them out of feeding mode before I pick them up. No big deal.

We feed in the enclosures between 10 pm and 1 am. We have no problems with aggression at all outside those hours. :) Once it's dark and rat scent is in the air, watch your knuckles!