Quote Originally Posted by Evenstar View Post
Every one of my snakes are fed inside their enclosures. As Daybreaker said, there's no way in hell I'd try to move either of my Argentines after they've eaten. I like my blood inside my body too...........

I do use paper substrate, but have used aspen and have never had a problem either way - even if the rat is wet.

The boas are fed off 18-24" hemostats, but the balls won't eat unless I leave the room. So I just drop a rat in with them somewhere near the entrance to the hide they are currently in, and it's usually gone in a couple of hours. But the boas, well, crack open the tub, stick the rat in, and WHAMMO. Done. Love that feed response!

I've never been bitten by any of the boas - even the Argentines who can both do outstanding impressions of king cobras if they want. When there's no rat involved, I can just open a tub and pull out whomever I want. There's no food aggression at all.
Awesome to hear would you consider reptibark a safe substrate for boas and balls I know its harder to change and clean but I want the aesthetic as well as functional for the new builds and am finding the aspen on my floor every day when I pull a snake out to be getting on my nerves as the only room in my hose with carpet has to be the room they are in lol I have never tried leaving a rat in the ball cage I will have to try that they tend to only eat half the time and I usually have to put every one to bed first and shut t he lights off and work in the dark to get them to eat.