I'd like to hear what everyone's ritual is when it comes to feeding day.

What I have to do to insure that my bp eats is: remove everything in his cage, except for the current hide he is in and his water dish. I move the water dish away from the corner. This is hours before I even get the rat from the pet store. When I come home I remove the hide he is currently in and drop the rat in. Then I have to shut off the lights so it's really dark and then POP he grabs the rat and starts the eating process within a minute of me shutting off the lights.

Do any of your snakes HAVE to have the lights off or it won't eat as well? I get sad because I want to see the whole bite then constrict move just once but the moment I turn off my lights and I hurry back to the cage he has already done this.