Cage Aggression Due to Feeding Practices

[Jay_Bunny]

Anyone else want to fill out the little form? Posting in the poll is great, but I really want all the data I can get for this kind of thing. I can post up the results later.

[wendhend]

Do you feed F/T, P/K, or Live?
Do you feed Mice/Rats/Other? (if you feed more than one kind of feeder, how many eat mice, how many eat rats, and if you feed another kind, how many eat that.
And what % of your snakes live in tanks and what % live in tubs? (sorry but I'm collecting all sorts of data that "may" influence aggression.)

Thanks for replying!

1. I feed exclusively frozen / thawed to the corn snakes and boas. Only a couple of my ball pythons will take frozen / thawed, though, so the others get live for now. I'm trying to convert them.

2. The boas only eat F/T rats. The corns mostly eat F/T mice, except for occasional F/T rat pinkies for the subadults and occasional F/T baby chicks for the large adults. The ball pythons mostly eat rats, but the smaller ones sometimes get live mice. The frozen / thawed feeders get occasional chicks.

3. I have 12 snakes in Reptile Basics racks with tubs, and I hope to obtain more of those soon. The rest are in glass tanks. The one aggressive snake I have lives in a glass tank.

[Jay_Bunny]

Thank you Wendy for your input on this!

[TriniBP]

I have several ball pythons..I feed all in their cages..very rarely do I have cage aggression if any at all.

Hobbyist or Breeder: Hobbyist
# of Snakes: 18 and more on the way. (not breeding yet)
Frequency of Handling: 3 times per week.
Do You Feed Inside or Outside the enclosure: in cage.
F/T, P/K, Live: Live and F/T
# of Snakes with Cage Aggression: 1 ( but I dont think it has anything to do with feeding in his cage.
Tank/Tub: Rack system.

[kilabyte]

My 1 bp gets a live large mouse in her tank weekly. I have had no cage aggresion at all. I switched to a small rat yesterday & after striking at it once & missing she wanted nothing to do with it. I have no place to house the rat so now I will try f/t in a few more days. Be great if she takes it.

[Snakeman]

Hobbyist or Breeder: hobbyist
# Snakes in Collection: 2
How often do you handle your snakes: 1-2 times a week
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: in cage
# of snakes with cage aggression: 0, zero, none, nada
F/T P/K or Live?: F/T
Tank/Tub: 1 in each

[BAMReptiles]

Hobbyist or Breeder:
# Snakes in Collection:
How often do you handle your snakes:
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?:
# of snakes with cage aggression:
F/T P/K or Live?:
Tank/Tub:

Andrew .. BAM Reptiles
28 ( including 3 emeralds )
every few days give or take
100% fed in cage
0 ( including the emeralds, who i can remove with my bare hands )

cage aggression from in cage feeding a total myth. dont let her get you down, if i understood your post correctly, she works at petsmart or something which makes you a total idiot almost 100% of the time, since im sure she doesnt actually own any snakes

[Jay_Bunny]

Andrew .. BAM Reptiles
28 ( including 3 emeralds )
every few days give or take
100% fed in cage
0 ( including the emeralds, who i can remove with my bare hands )

cage aggression from in cage feeding a total myth. dont let her get you down, if i understood your post correctly, she works at petsmart or something which makes you a total idiot almost 100% of the time, since im sure she doesnt actually own any snakes

Do you feed F/T, live, or P/K?
Do you house them in tubs, tanks, or both? (if both, how many live in tanks, how many in tubs?)

Well I'm not a total idiot, hahaha. I work at Petsmart too and not everyone there is an idiot. Some of us really do care about the animals and know a lot. We are just not allowed to apply our knowledge. Petsmarts policies do not allow us to.

[Jay_Bunny]

I don't have everyone's info in for those classified as Breeders, but I have all of Hobbyists info in. Here are the results for those classified as hobbyists.

Hobbyists: 5

Total # of Snakes: 25
Avg # of Snakes in Collection: 5
Total # of Snakes with Cage Aggression: 1
% of Snakes with Cage Aggression: 4%
% of Live Feeding: 60%
% of Live Fed Snakes: 24%
% of F/T Feeding: 40%
% of F/T Fed Snakes: 76%
% of P/K Feeding: 0%
% of P/K Fed Snakes: 0%
Avg # of days/week, snakes are handled: 2/week
% of Snakes Fed in Cage: 92%
% of Snakes Fed Outside Cage: 8%
% of Snakes Housed in Tanks: 24%
% of Snakes Housed in Tubs: 76%

So far out of 25 snakes, only 4% experience any kind of cage aggression (1 snake) I hope I have all this info right. Kind of interesting to read all this.

[GoingPostal]

Hobbyist or Breeder: Hobbyist
# Snakes in Collection: 1
How often do you handle your snakes: once a week
In cage/Outside of cage to feed?: in cage
# of snakes with cage aggression: 0
F/T P/K or Live?: Live mice
Tank/Tub: Boaphile plastic cage

The only time I have thought I might actually get bit was when we first got him and fed in separate tub due to the cage aggression myth, once I found out that was crap we started feeding in tank.