Feeding in different box Good or Bad?

[Brimstone111888]

It is a good idea to feed in a feeding tub unless of course you want to teach your snake to strike and byte your hand everytime you reach in the tank . It is up to you !

A swing and a miss.

[dsirkle]

I only have 2 snakes and I feed them both in their enclosures.I pre scent the room for about an hour before feeding and have not been mistaken for food when reaching in their cages so far. One pokes his head out of his hide when he smells the rat and waits for his meal. He strikes immediately at live or f/t. The other one at this time eats only live mice and waits in her hide with a hole in the top. She doesnt come out to get the mouse.She waits for the mouse to enter the hide and then strikes immediately.

[canrio]

I also pre-sent before feeding, he always comes looking for the food, I just switched over to F/T small rats with no problems, I hold the F/T rat with a pair of tongs up away from the substrate and it still takes him a several seconds before he strikes,we tried the seperate feeding tub but he would not eat, after feeding I leave him alone for a couple days without handling but still change his water and strighten up his cage, then we handle him every day until feeding time with no problems.

[PythonChick]

I have three ball pythons, and have fed them in a separate tub since the day I got each of them. Having never fed otherwise, I can't comment on how snakes that are used to being fed in their enclosure behave, but several people on this board have expressed the sentiment that they 'would not want to reach into the cage on feeding day.' I have one girl who is an absolute monster on feeding day but, since she is used to the 'pre-feeding routine' she never gets too excited until she is put into the feeding tub. The second she hits the floor in the feeding tub she strikes at anything that moves, but prior to that I can handle her, weigh her, and just generally inspect her to ensure that she is healthy. The reason we initially chose to feed out of enclosure was because we were told the 'it will make them less likely to bite' story. None of my snakes seem to mind hunting out of their cage, and as I have never been struck at I will continue feeding in this manner. I can, however, see the time and security advantage that feeding in the enclosure might give, especially when feeding a new snake or a large number of snakes.

[frankykeno]

It is a good idea to feed in a feeding tub unless of course you want to teach your snake to strike and byte your hand everytime you reach in the tank . It is up to you !

Hmmm, well odd that since I've had one bite in my time with the snakes and they are all fed in their home enclosures. That bite by the way was a defensive grab by a very stressed recently rescued snake, so it really doesn't count in my books. You'd think by what you said that with feeding 26 of them every week....I'd be chewed to bits by now.

[canrio]

To quote Kevin McCurley author of The Complete Ball Python page 41 top. Since ball pythons are shy snakes by nature, it is neither necessary nor recommended to remove them from their enclosures for feeding.

[Drew87]

I agree with both sides, depends on the snake but i worry about them taking more then the mouse down so i feed myne in a different tub as soon as i put her in there she knows its time to eat as soon as the mouse hits the tub shes on it, and ready to strike hope this helps

[k1ingdomKaa]

the only way i can get mine to feed is if there in their tanks!

[Skiploder]

the only way i can get mine to feed is if there in their tanks!

Aren't you keeping your two snakes together - in one cage?

If so, until you get your new enclosure, you need to separate them at feeding time.