Tips & tricks for switching a ball python to out-of-enclosure feeding

[Raven01]

Sometimes when I open one of my snakes enclosures they'll be in food mode. A gentle tap on the head with the feeding tongs will snap them out of it and then I can pick them up no problem.

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Try not to use feeding tongs for anything but feeding time.
A small snake hook works as does just opening and waiting a second to let them realise there is no prey present.
To the OP, I know some people with a number of snakes that do feeding tub routines. While I have picked up a lot of useful info from these people this is one item that in practice I stopped entirely. It was just too much of a pain for me and the snakes.