Quote Originally Posted by hijacked View Post
Thank you for the "species" link. Based on my avatar, it appears that I have a regular blood python.
Would you agree?
Her head is gray, not black like the Sumatra depicted in the link. When I adopted her, I was told she is a sumatran , but that's okay. However, I would like to be correctly informed about my snake.
It took me a while to notice the differences between the short tail pythons and the blood pythons. The easiest way of telling the difference is that the short tail pythons will have small scales separating their eyes from the scales on their mouth. Blood pythons do not have those very small scales.

As for your initial question, I feed all but one of my snakes in their enclosures. Never had a problem with them mistaking me for food, unless it was already feeding day and they smelled the rats. Good luck with your python. They make great lap buddies.