Good points!Originally Posted by Physician&Snakes
I hadn't considered using a snake hook to help signal that difference for in-tank. That would make quite a difference.
But I don't use snake hooks, and we don't even have one on hand for our education snakes at the zoo since they're all so handle-able, so I wouldn't have ever thought of that. Plus feeding time is usually weekly cleaning time as well, so having snakes out of the tank lets me kill two mice with one stone.
What I was trying to get across, though, is the same thing you're saying. There are different parameters. Taking a snake out and letting it chill on the couch with you is different than taking it out and putting it in a separate feeding tank, so that act of taking the snake out alone wouldn't make it aggressive due to out-of tank feeding, and just as you pointed out, entering the enclosure wouldn't automatically cause aggression for a snake fed in-take.
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