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Sorry for the newbie question. do you all recommend feeding in the primary cage or outside the cage? If inside the cage; what about feeding on shavings?

new yearling Albino corn
Ball Python.

thanks

I prefer to feed in seperate container. I use plastic shoe box or deli cup. I do know that some people feed in the cage. I have 10 corns and 3 albino nelsons milk snakes and 9 ball pythons and all are fed in seperate containers.

hatchlings and feeders who will not take the food out of my hands (mostly hatchlings and yearlings) i feed in "feeding" containers. i have too many snakes to feed in different containers... heh.
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Personally, I use a plastic shoe box to feed both my yearling corn and ball python. This way, I don't risk ingestion of substrates. With that said, I only have two snakes at this time so it is easier to separate them during feedings as opposed to someone with a multitude of snakes.

1.0.0. '07 amenalistic (red albino) cornsnake
0.1.0. '07 normal royal (ball) python

0.2.0. English Bulldogs
0.1.0. miniature piebald Dachshund

1.0.0. Betta

Does separating them to another container trigger them to strike cause the know they are gonna be fed? Mine perk up when I enter the cage until I move their hide or go to them but they lick their lips. However in 10 yrs my ball has not bit me. corn is still new. I'm wondering if I feed them in another container when I go to get them out and back to their home cage will they still be in feeding mode?