I use seperate because it's a hassle to have to clean rat defication out of the tank and sometimes blood is an issue (happened when she caught the rat, wrapped around it and repositioned her mouth and allowed blood to flow onto her and into the seperate container).

I'm a skeptic when is come to cage aggression because I know some BPs are like that around here and there have been instances. I'm glad I only have a problem with her not eating because the rat is white and not colored. For some reason, correct me if I'm crazy, but my BP doesn't like white rats. I would buy white but she'd never take it... I would have to exchange for a colored and she'd take it down right away, no problems. All my animals are picky as hell.

I should have gotten a vidoe of her this week. She was a meany. Spying her prey for like ten minutes before getting it. She was really into it the other day.