I feed both inside and outside. Snyder, Hanover, and Seymour eat in what we like to call the 'dining room.' It's a plain aquarium (though we've used cardboard boxes before too) with newspaper at the bottom that we change the top layer of between snakes. The new guy who has eaten twice is soooo shy that I've fed him in his enclosure, and that's worked really well for him. It would actually be good if he'd learn to associate me with food.The new guy who's just shown up may be an inside or outside feeder, I don't know yet.

The others definitely associate the dining room with eating. I can generally tell by the way they behave going into it whether they're going to eat or not -- if they're going to eat, they're perky and alert and start cruising immediately. If they're not hungry, they're just as interested in the outside of it as in the inside, and may try to climb up my arm.

I'm really not concerned about getting bitten by a bp who thinks I'm supper, but I've seen too many clumpsy bp strikes to be happy about feeding in a cage with furniture in it that they could injure themselves on with a clumsy strike. If you've never had a bp who rammed herself into a wall or something and hurt her head or jaw, trust me, you don't want to. That, and supervising Seymour while he still eats live, is why I prefer to feed outside.