Feeding in a separate tub vs. enclosure.

[Eric Alan]

I was watching SnakeBytes TV on wed dealing with getting a snake to eat. Bryan dips into this top a little bit. How do you guys feel about his comments in regards to this topic? The part im talking about begins at 7 mins exactly.

He makes a few important points which support feeding in the enclosure between the 7:00 mark and the 8:41 mark:

1. At 7:23, he stays if your snake tends to be timid or why, then it benefits from staying in its enclosure to eat. Since he's talking about all species of snakes, we need to translate that to ball pythons who by their very nature tend to be pretty reclusive.
2. At 7:40, he says that as long as you're in the enclosure doing other things besides feeding, "cage aggression" is all but eliminated (and even rolls his eyes as he says, "I get the argument...whatever you guys want to do.").
3. At the 8:07 mark, he brings up "in the wild" as it relates to substrate ingestion and at 8:30 says flat out that a little substrate ingestion is perfectly fine.

Brian definitely knows a thing or two about snakes.