do yall feed in its tank?

I heard to never feed in the tank and that its living and eating places should be completely different one because if you drop a mouse in where it lives and eats it it could confuse your handnext time you want to pick it up and strike at you...and if it goes in a different place each time it eats (I put makeeda in the bath tub) it will know that the only time its there is when its eating so it will know to eat and will eat better so my question is ....if anyone feeds in where the snake lives? and if it works out? I would think that if i were a snake and ate something as big as the width of your body I wouldnt want to be picked up and moved from the bathtub to the tank again either

I feed nine snakes week after week in their cages without a hitch. This has been discussed to death.. but as long as you open the cage sometimes other than feeding time, the snake won't think that open tank automatically means food.

what she said

For me the separate enclosure thing didn't work. Lily was more prone to skipping a meal. Now I feed both my girls in their enclosure and it's worked wonderfully. I regularly get them out, so feeding isn't the only time their cages are opened. I don't bath in mouse/rat perfume so I don't smell like a mouse and neither snake has ever struck at me. It's worked great for me!

I have only fed my snake twice, but both in his living place. When I put my hand in, he barely moves, but when I put a mouse in, he jumps out of his hide quickly and looks for the mouse. So I think that it would be just fine to feed your snake in his living enclosure.

we feed our snakes and lizard in completely seperate tub that is clean with nothing else in it and that is all that tub is used for. Depending on what you use for substrate you run the risk debri going down with the meal. Not so much an issue for newspaper or similiar lining but I still choose to do it in a seperate "clean" area. The whole feeding in their every day enclosure deal...well I've seen it both ways with snakes I've had going into hunt mode but its not my personal underlying reason for the way I do it.

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Originally Posted by TekWarren

Depending on what you use for substrate you run the risk debri going down with the meal.

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A ball pythons stomach is designed to break down rodent bones and the cellulose laden contents of their stomachs ... a little bit of substrate ingested with their meal won't really present much of a problem.

As for feeding ball pythons in separate enclosures .... it may work very well with other snakes, but in my experience, many ball pythons are very easily stressed by being removed from their familiar surroundings and placed in a "clean" environment and expected to eat on queue. A ball pythons cages complete with heat, substrate, and hides provides a much greater feeling of security and ease to an easily stressed species like p. regius.

If feeding a ball python in a separate enclosure works well for you and your snake, great! .... but what readers of this thread should understand is that many many other people don't own ball pythons that are able to deal with the stress of being shleped to a separate container each time their owners decided to feed them and for them, feeding inside the enclosure is perfectly acceptable and works extremely well!

Those are just my thoughts for whatever they are worth.

-adam

Ditto Adam.

ha ha.... If anyone wants to know why I feed inside the normal enclosure, feel free to come by and attempt to take my female out of a box after she has just eaten...ha...and bring some neosporin too :D

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Originally Posted by daniel1983

Ditto Adam.

ha ha.... If anyone wants to know why I feed inside the normal enclosure, feel free to come by and attempt to take my female out of a box after she has just eaten...ha...and bring some neosporin too :D

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Ditto that for my hogg island boa. :)

my girl is wierd she can never get used to one feed ing place. See i used to feed her in an old tank until my girl wouldnt eat in it, then i started feedin her in a box and then she wouldnt eat out of that, now i feed her in her tank untill she wont eat in that..wierd????

well at least she eats...and very good too with what im doing...thanks for the comments

im so slow on the forums :( but anyways i feed both mine in the "original" tank i do take their hides out but that is just cuz they make me nervous :) but i have never had a problem with them hunting after feeding, usually i wait 10 minutes before putting the hides back in and i dont have any troubles sticking my hands right back in the tank after they eat.

I feed all 7 of my snakes in there inclosure. I have yet to have a problem with any of them. Only time i have a problem is when they are in shed.

We feed our young snake in her regular sterlite tub and haven't had a problem with that. She's never struck at us as we handle her daily anyways or are in there changing water or removing wastes. She once did a rather abortive attempt to tag me but I know I was in a hurry and moving my hands fast around the tank and she was in blue, so for me that doesn't really count.

As far as worrying about substrate we don't as we ended up trying a few things and liked either newspaper or thick papertowels best. When we used the cypress tho we just popped a layer of newspaper in and wiggled the mouse on that. Baby came right up no troubles and the newspaper kept any mulch out of the way. I do agree with Adam tho on this issue. I think nature must have designed a snake's digestion to handle this to some degree, after all they must get some stuff in their mouths when they hunt in the wild.


~~Joanna~~

I also feed all our pythons in their enclosures, not nearly Adams numbers but a healthy pool lol. We've never had any negative experiences as a result.