Quote Originally Posted by obsidianembrace View Post
He's young, about 230g.

It's not that feeding in the enclosure causes aggression, it's just with conditioning the way I see it... hand -->food will turn into hand=food.

In my experience that's what happens when I gave my rats treats.. fingers in the bars were always perfectly safe until we started giving them treats through the bars. We had to open the door and give treats that way to avoid getting fingers chomped by unsuspecting friends and family.
And I'm telling you that doesn't happen with snakes, in my experience with a decent sized group of animals. Why? First of all, snakes are no where near as trainable (aka "contitionable" if that's a word) as rats. They don't make the association. And even if they were trainable enough to make associations like that, moving them to feed wouldn't solve the problem because they would just associate being taken out of the enclosure with being fed.