I feed in a separate tub, and Orchid knows when it's feeding time. She sits in the front of her tank and watches me get set up, I'll open the lid and she'll come right into my hands, I put her in the feeding tub, she immediately goes into her makeshift feeding hide and chills until dinner is served. Soon as I take the lid off the tub she knows what's coming and gets ready. Half the time she will take it from me about 1/3 of the way down, last night she was nice enough to wait for the zombie dance show!
There was a time I placed her in her feeding tub and she must have been super hungry because this time she laid on top of the makeshift hide and snatched the mouse mid air and dropped to the floor of the tub before the midsection cleared the lip of the tub!
She's a beast for feeding now. I watch for her signals that she's hungry, just about every 5 to 6 days. Just glad her strike is over!