It's up to the individual keeper what works best for them. I personally feed all of mine in their enclosures, I like mine being able to hunt from the security of their hides. Additionally, on feeding day, mine are locked and loaded and ready to go, I really would not want to be handling them.


I've fed previously on aspen, but now use newspaper. I had no problems with feeding on aspen, a few stray pieces of aspen were fine if they were ingested and posed no problem.

You will find with shy animals such as ball pythons, often moving to a separate feeding enclosure could cause them to refuse, because they've been removed from the safety and security of their hides.

I personally haven't seen any benefit to feeding in a separate enclosure to make me want to try it, and I've never been mistaken for food by feeding my crew in their enclosures.