help teach a novice some basics

[Shirkan]

Congrats, and welcome to the addiction!

3. You shouldnt have to mess with your snake on feeding day. If he's in his hide, you can pre scent (if you do frozen thawed) so that he knows its meal time and he'll get the idea quickly (though you might have to dangle the prey in front of the hide entrance the first couple of times for him to take it). Pulling the snake out of his hide on feeding day especially the first few times while he's still adjusting will stress him out more than is necessary and he may refuse to eat, which you dont want your growing boy to do.

That's interesting didn't know that and I just fed my new BP yesterday and i scented the room for like 30mins and and he wouldn't come out of his hide, so I figured he would be a problem eater. But he is so young I thought that couldn't be so I took away his hide only because I thought me dangling the mouse out side his hide would scare him more but after I removed his hide he took the mouse fairly quickly. If I knew this then I probably wouldn't have but it worked I don't know?