Also, I meant to say that part of the reason it is good to feed in seperate enclosures is that the snake starts to associate the box with feed time!! This reduces the chance of anyone being bitten while getting the snake out of its living space. I dont know about it increasing the chances of being bit while reaching into the feed box, but i do know that tree pythons are a lot more likely to bite anything because it is there nature to strike stuff that just wanders in front of them.