Dr Del,

I say to wait a little longer because I don't know the temperament of the snake, and it's a safe time limit; with my bigger girl I tend to wait longer because she's snappy when the scent of rat's in the air, and I'm at risk of being bitten if I put my hand in any earlier than 30 minutes or so, so she gets calmed down and off of her "FOOD! I wanna bite!" feeding response. With the babies I want to give them plenty of time to get their food settled to keep from scaring them into regurging (that and they're both strong feeders too, and I've had both of them go at me when I stick my hand in) and I guess it depends on the temperament of the snakes involved. With one that's not so snappy with food then I guess there's no problem, but I like to make sure they have plenty time to get the food down and be comfortable again. XD Maybe just me being paranoid but like I said, I've never had any problems with it.

However, I feed live so that may be part of it--Matika refuses F/T and I haven't convinced my mom to let me buy F/T mice in bulk and put them in the freezer.