I keep all of my ball pythons on aspen shavings it works great for humidity and temps not to mention it is pretty easy to clean, i feed my snakes in a seperate rubbermaid container with newspaper as bedding, i have heard alot of people say they dont feed their snakes in the same containers as they are housed in simply for the fact that when you stick your hand into their habitat they might mistake ur hand for food because they are used to you droppin the food into their habitat, so its up to you but IMO i think its safer to feed them away from there homes