...from your snake's perspective. You are putting it into a container with no cover, no place to retreat. Snakes don't like being in the open, especially little ones. Then you throw in a foreign creature, larger than it's used to and a lot more active than it's used to (alive vs. dead)!

I try and feed my snakes in tubs as well, mainly because I don't want f/t "mouse juice" in their enclosures. The really shy ones, however, require a little more privacy so I add a hide to the tub. If that doesn't work, there's always this trick I learned. It's how I finally got one of my wild caught pyros to eat for me.

Put the mouse in a small container with an access hole cut out:


Place the container in the enclosure:


Voilà! No mouse juice or ingested aspen to contend with!
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Diego

SWCHR

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