Acclimating hatchling - when to feed?

[Neal]

Thanks for the advice! I have contacted Andrew (or Drew?) to see when Beau's last feed was.
As a few others have suggested, I will wait until Beau sheds to feed him.

I don't want to feed in his vive because I have had a bad experience with a cage-aggressive corn -- I realize that they are different, and that BPs are pickier, but it is something I'd like to learn for myself, and also hopefully, if possible, get my snakes in the habit of. The corn has already gotten the hang of it.
Obviously I want what is best for my pets, but the BP is young, and I'm hoping to be able to "shape" him, if that makes sense?

I promise I won't come back in a few weeks saying "My BP won't eat!" if he gets stressed about moving containers

You moving your BP to a different enclosure can easily make him refuse his food. Like Ricky said, handle your snake instead of never bothering with him and you'll be fine. The only animals I feed outside the enclosure are my 3 Rufous and the ONLY reason I do this is because I keep them housed together and I don't want more then one of them to go for the same food item. So I avoid this by putting them in tubs and feeding them.

My BP's I feed in the tubs but I deal with them once a week at least if not more, depending on various situations and I've never had any of them become aggressive. However my black pastel if I put a rat in there for him and I try to remove it by hand will strike at me but it's because there is the smell of food right in front of him and my warm hand going near his face.