Feeding container?

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For balls, I'm not sure it makes much of a difference. I feed mine in a separate container, but I know a lot of folks who don't, and they say it doesn't really matter as far as temperment.

With other species, it may be a different story.
 
You shouldn't have to feed any species in a seperate container. The reasoning behind feeding in a separate container is flawed to begin with, but some keepers prefer to do so and if it works for them, there's nothing wrong with it - its just unnecessary, though. Snakes do NOT become more aggressive just because they are fed in their own cages.

I think that the only scenario where conditioning your snake to feed in a seperate container would be if you had a very elaborate, highly decorated terrarium that would gve the rodent a lot of places to hide at feeding time.
 
Or if your using a substrate that you don't want the snake to also consume while feeding.
 
or if you reach in by hand to grab it each time right?Id rather not risk it being hungry to the point of going off movement before smell.I feed in the cage for the boa and the corn outside of it because of what davo said.I use however a snake hook to get my boa out.
 
Snakes do NOT become more aggressive just because they are fed in their own cages.
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I own(ed) three very good examples of why that isn't true lol. The big 7' Macklot's Python I used to have was a ferocious beast in the tank. You literally could not put your hand in there without him coming after you. Outside the tank he was tame as a puppy. I currently have a Indigo and a Blacktail Cribo who will lunge and bite in the cage, but have never bitten outside. In fact the Indigo will bite at through the side of the cage but once he's out, nothing.
 
SimonL;1492508; said:
I own(ed) three very good examples of why that isn't true lol. The big 7' Macklot's Python I used to have was a ferocious beast in the tank. You literally could not put your hand in there without him coming after you. Outside the tank he was tame as a puppy. I currently have a Indigo and a Blacktail Cribo who will lunge and bite in the cage, but have never bitten outside. In fact the Indigo will bite at through the side of the cage but once he's out, nothing.
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Well, there's a difference in being "cage aggressive" (which many animals are), and simply becoming aggressive because they're being fed in the cage. You say you have good examples, but you never implied your feeding strategy: do you feed inside the cage or out?
 
Sorry, I should have been more specific. They were (and still are) aggressive due to being fed in the cage. It has definately conditioned them to expect food coming in. That said...they are still fine once removed, I've just got to be more careful when changing water and such. I haven't seen a snake become more aggressive outside the cage do to being fed inside.

My point was it encourages them to respond to anything coming in as food, something you must be aware of if you decide to feed in-cage.
 
Whether it is due to being fed in the cage though is different. They can be more "aggressive" (or should we say defensive) if your coming into their space. Once they are outside it, they don't have the same response. Not sure if any research has been done on it all.
 
My7' jungle carpet was the same way .I would enter his cage with a roll of paper towels and he would approach and bump them after that I knew I could grab him without a problem.Or clean his cage without a problem . But if I did not I was assured a bite and it always drew blood!! Only takes me a time or two to come up with a diffrent stragety .
 
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