Quote Originally Posted by LOSTCOAST_BALLZ View Post
wow i cant believe this thread turned into correcting me and my opinnion regarding cage aggression. HAHA ok well in my experience with larger snakes burms etc. u dont feed in there tank simply because your hand becomes a target im sorry that it really chapped your behinds that i said that. I believe that it def. has somthing to do with striking at hands when cahes are opened. also i dont enjoy having a snake eye my hand and lunge out of the tub when i open it simply because he or she assumes its feeding time. this is a joke the guy is asking legit questions and all u can talk about is cage aggression get over it, ur opinion really does not bare more weight than mine hahahaha. thanks just help the poster, and i still believe feeding in tub will result in cage "mis fires" if thats better lol. also for your info i feed my snakes in tubs when time is an issue but doing this regularly could easily train your snake.
The notion that two people with differing opinion should have equal weight given to their opinion is ludicrous. If you think the sun rising and setting is our perception of the rotation of our planet earth and I think that that Ra is driving his chariot of fire across the sky, we aren't both equally likely to be correct. What is your evidence to support your claims. You are saying that a snake that strikes at your hand is doing so because he thinks your hand is food and that by feeding the snake in another enclosure you can eliminate this behavior. Have you done any studies to prove this. I have seen no evidence to support the theory. It seams to be me that some people came up with a theory that seams reasonable and ran with it with out evidence. The snake could be striking at your hand for a number of reasons. For instance lets assume that you have two people who more or less never handle their snake. The person who feeds their snake in a separate enclosure handles their snake more than someone who does not handle theirs except to clean. That could make someone think that the trick is to feed in a separate enclosure where the trick might be to just handle more often. Now you might say, whats the harm if it works. Well the harm is that some snakes are very susceptible to fasting due to stress. Moving your snake to a feeding tub and back might be fine for some snakes and completely stress out others. My snake gets fed in her cage and has never struck at me. If you are going to put forth a theory and claim it to be fact you have to have evidence that backs up that theory. Having a snake that is fed in its cage and strikes or having a cage that is fed in a feeding tub and does not strike is not evidence for that theory alone. You would need a larger sample set, with a control. That experiment would then be given more weight each time it was shown to be repeatable. Until then the person with no theory at all is more correct as its a default state.