A ball pythons stomach is designed to break down rodent bones and the cellulose laden contents of their stomachs ... a little bit of substrate ingested with their meal won't really present much of a problem.Originally Posted by TekWarren
As for feeding ball pythons in separate enclosures .... it may work very well with other snakes, but in my experience, many ball pythons are very easily stressed by being removed from their familiar surroundings and placed in a "clean" environment and expected to eat on queue. A ball pythons cages complete with heat, substrate, and hides provides a much greater feeling of security and ease to an easily stressed species like p. regius.
If feeding a ball python in a separate enclosure works well for you and your snake, great! .... but what readers of this thread should understand is that many many other people don't own ball pythons that are able to deal with the stress of being shleped to a separate container each time their owners decided to feed them and for them, feeding inside the enclosure is perfectly acceptable and works extremely well!
Those are just my thoughts for whatever they are worth.
-adam
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