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