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ReptoNick
at Sun Jan 25 14:19:42 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by ReptoNick ]
My personal experience with feeding goes a little like this. When I started off with snakes several years ago, (with a few Kings) I would feed inside the tank. In that reguardless of if I hand fed or left the mouse on the ground, after a short while, everytime I opened the tank, they all came to me expecting to be fed. A few times they even struck at me thinking my hand was the food. And these were all very calm snakes.
It is more common and practical snake keeping to feed outside of the cage. Especially when concerning larger snakes such as the large pythons and boas. Wouldnt want to take a hit from one of those. The good news in all of this is that even if a bad habbit of biting the hand that feeds occurs, it CAN be reversed. Just start feeding them outside of the tank. Good luck.
~Nick
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