I will look into tempguns (when you said that I read that as 'tampons' and thought you were messing with me for a moment).
I notice that my temperatures mostly drop when misting and/or opening the lid, but they rise again quickly enough.

As for debunking, I do apologize, but that's still one more person, and even a thousand who do it successfully really couldn't convince me otherwise on this, once more, when hundreds of thousands feed live with no problem, but that does not mean that the risk does not exist, and pretending or hoping that "it would never happen to me" is just foolishness, to me.

And, I quite agree. I'd much rather have a snake who wants to eat everything in sight, than one who's shy or timid or who turns down ever meal offered, or goes off of food for months. Mine went a few weeks during shedding and then ate like a horse the moment his eyes weren't all cloudy anymore, I'd barely moved it in front of his face before he had it in his mouth.


"How?"
How does it back up my suspicion that she associates the enclosure with eating? ... Um. ... Because she immediately goes into hunting mode when she's put back in there, striking at anything warm, but take her out and she loses interest unless there's a rat in her face? =/ ...

"Yes, that makes no sense. There maybe something about being in the tank that is upsetting her, and it's not getting fed in there."
If she's expecting to bite the first thing that draws near and I would like her to STOP doing this, do I really want to re-encourage that by dangling a rat in there, rather than "re-training" her to realize that warm things that reach in there are not food? ^^'

"Some are just like that, most are not."
I know. Nothing about this girl makes me think she's one of them.

"Key words, "you can't see". You explained up front that you don't have a lot of experience. It could be something that you don't see."
I did not get my animals blindly, I have read about snakes since I was a little kid, after an event at my school ("Oh My Goodness Snakes") that made me fall in love with them. Upon learning that they can eat frozen-thawed food, I redoubled my interested over the prospect of someday owning them. I may be new to owning them, but I am not new to knowing about them. If you don't believe me, believe someone who has owned and bred BPs and other snakes for years who agrees?

"Not asking you to conform, but rules of thumb get that way for a reason. As I stated up front, do whatever you see fit, but don't expect me to buy into the cage aggression myth just because you think you have a snake that fits the bill."
I wouldn't dream of trying to get you to believe something you consider a myth. Thinking something is untrue doesn't make it so, though, and if enough people have had this problem for it to become a "myth", then what are the actual facts behind it? I'd love to ask the snakes and find out what they think, but that's not really an option.

"That's your choice of substrate...there are others that have almost zero chance of ingestion."
And as mentioned, that is not the only reason I refuse to feed inside of the snake's habitat. "Almost" zero would still concern me.

"Been there, done that, please feel free. That's what Forums are for..."
A little off-topic, but not a problem. To begin: do you feed live? If yes, why?

"Again, I ask, are you sure you've had this snake long enough to know what's got her upset? I highly doubt it's a case of cage aggression."
There is no one hundred percent sure way TO know, again, I can't exactly get the animal to tell me. I've watched her for around two weeks, you have never seen her at all.
I have seen a dozen or more BPs showing various types of aggression, and I have seen many more who show a strong urge to eat, both in real life and in videos -- I must have watched thirty or more videos (this is not an exaggeration) on how to properly feed frozen-thawed food before ever attempting it. I do have a rather good idea of what they look like when they're about to latch onto a food item. Her behavior, in every way, looks exactly like the latter.
I can tell when a dog is wagging its tail due to excitement or if it's wagging its tail because it is about to attack another dog. I can tell when a cat purrs if it is content or if it is in pain. These are minute signs of body language that most people miss or simply can't pick up on in non-human species. I've always been a bit of an outcast and animals do tend to make more sense to me than most people do.
I really don't think this is aggression -- warm water in a misting bottle catches the same attention, because it's warm and moving around as I mist her..as are my hands, which to a snake, might indeed appear to be a rodent. I can't get rid of the smell of my other animals completely, even with washing hands, so I suppose she could smell mammals on me, too; but she lived with dogs and cats before without any issues.
And IF it is aggression, that still doesn't explain; why wouldn't she nail me the moment I pick her up to feed her or take her out to clean, or when I reached in the tub to put her back after spot-cleaning her enclosure? If she's stressed or angry, I can't see why she would only react when she's in a place highly reminiscent of where she has been fed.


"Do tell? Digital/Probe thermometers and hygrometers are pretty much the standard of the hobby."
They're on this very site, as well as others. The most memorable was the snake accidentally spilling a water dish on the probe and having the temperatures soar sky-high as a result of the probe thinking it was way too cold and needed to be heated up.
I want my snakelets warm, not well done. ._.;;