Quote Originally Posted by Lyssa981 View Post
SO, I'm still very new at this, having gotten my first BP just a few months ago. That being said I did a lot of research and disscussed our options with people that have kept and bred snakes for years. Probobly 90% of them said in- tank feeding was better for a BP as they are rarly get aggressive unless they smell mouse/rat anyway, and moving them can be a bit probematic. The few that recomemded a seperate feeding tubs were breeders that rarely handeled the individual snakes. We handle smpson almost dayly, and feed live (honestly I don't even use tongs, I just pull off his hide about an hour before feeding time, then drop he live mouse in from safe distance. This has the added benifit of a stunnned mousey. Sampson usully stikes it before it fully recovers and so far have had no issues.

Separate tank feeding ideology is a myth.

You will not find keepers of multiple large constrictors doing it, it will take all day and its dangerous, you will not find any keepers of venomous snakes doing it for obvious reasons. Think about that last one for a bit.


It's covered here.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...31#post2288531

And its covered probably hundreds of other times on various chat forums including this one.

If you have a method that works for you great, but there is no NEED to use a separate feeding cage.