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I just got my first BP (Female Pastel 50% ghost) and I have a male on the way (same morph). Now to my question, do you guys and gals take your BPs out of their enclosure to feed? I do this with all of my other snakes (except my GTP). I do this to prevent any substrate from entering their digestive system as well as the possible myth that it keeps them less agressive when being picked up. I fed her out of her cage yesterday and she had no problems with that. I've been looking around here and the idea I'm getting is most people feed in their enclosures. Is this because having 20 snakes would make this tough to do? Just wanted to know.

Oh yeah, and I want to swith over to f/t shortly and would feeding in the enclosure more condusive to the switching process?
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Yes, for me it's mainly a time thing. Feeding in a separate bin seems like an unnecessary step in the process! I also usually feed about 30 at a time, so putting them in another place would not be very efficient.

Also, I would think that with a picky eater (this happens sometimes with ball pythons, ha ha ha) it would stress them out and make them less likely to eat.

Some people swear by it though, and all the power to them, it's just not for me!
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Durga is my first bp, i got him in august..... the first 6 feedings i tried in a bin.....he refused, the first 3 were f/t.... the next 3 were live fuzzy rats, he still refused.
the next feeding i left him in the enclosure, and put in a live fuzzy, he refused...... the very next feeding i left him once again in the enclosure and put in a f/t, he refused, when i went to take it out he snatched it out of my hand..... hasnt refused a meal yet since then, but im sure at some point he will....

when we feed our snakes we leave them in their bins... i personally think that our snakes know the difference between a rat and a massive hand, and they dont bit us... but if i see any signs of stricking at us ill just lay a cloth over their heads and then pick them up... our snakes seem to understand that they cant bit the hand that feeds them...
imo i agree that it sometimes can stress them out when you put them in another box or whatever you are using to feed them in... i had a male that would not eat anything because of us putting him in a different box... now we just leave him in his home to eat and hes perfect... i think the animal would feel more secure in its home...
but some people have different styles of feeding their snakes so maybe you can try different ways to see what works better...
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I believe it's pointless when you have dozens upon dozens of snakes, it would be very time efficient to drop in a fuzzy or rat pink and just leave it there. If the snake is on aspen,newspaper,paper towels then go right ahead and feed it in it's enclosure. Ive been doing it for about 10 years now no problems. Only time you have to worry is when you have a substrate like bark or gravel which someone probably shouldn't have anyway but I know people that do it.

I was just wondering. Right now I have her on cypress mulch and don't want to feed her on that. So as long as no problems arrive from removing her, I'll continue to do that.

I am getting a rack system for my two and then some other breeders that my friend has. then i'll switch to aspen and feed in the enclosure.
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0.0.1 Jayapura GTP
1.1 Pastel 50% het Ghost BPs
1.0 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Dumerils Boa
0.0.1 Cali King
1.0 Apricot Pueblan Milk
1.0 Crested Gecko