I love the aggressive feeders... those are the ones that you know are gonna get big. I would say if you place the rats in there by holding them by their back skin so that only the rat is reachable by the snake from the front then you should be ok even just when dropping them in the tub in case they want to attack the dead rat off the tongs. It is feed day today so i will try to get a pic for ya on how i do it tonight.