Hi,
As an aside to the above post.
I would probably recommend longer tongs for offering the rodent from. I used to tail dangle them by hand and moved over to 18" tongs after seeing the feeding response from a female after egg laying and a few SFE's.
Trust me things are a lot less fraught when there is a good gap between the rodent and your hand.
They do learn the routine for feeding and, generally speaking, I don't see much point in fixing what isn't broken.
But just one thought on your external tub feeding. At the moment 50% of things going into his feeding tub are food so you cannot blame him for getting in strike mode - now when he needs multiple mice you are only going to be 33% of the things that go in there.
In the normal tank you will be going in more often for water changes, spot cleaning etc.
Just pointing out there is a downside to the "when he goes in the tub he knows it is feeding time" idea.
dr del
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