handling- I screwed up

[KMG]

We feed in a separate enclosure and always handle each snake for 5-10 minutes prior to feeding. Their tanks are cleaned and water bowls topped off or changed while they are ingesting.

Why do you do these things? Feed live?

I have never understood trying to move a snake when it is ready to eat. I cant even imagine trying that with some of the snakes I have. I would end up all kinds of bloody. It would be a circus.

On feed night I try not to do anything but feed them. Then I give them two days alone before I will take any of them out. I check them a few times a day and will give them water or take needed action then. During the night I try to do nothing more than I have to.