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Old 11-04-2013, 05:31 AM   #5
Nanci
I'll tell you why I _like_ feeding outside the viv :-) I get a weight on each snake every time. Since my feeding schedule runs strongly on weight, this is important to me. I also get to remove the water bowl and scrub it, and remove/replace paper towels or substrate, or even just do a thorough poop-check/hide inspection without the snake's "help." I _do_ believe snakes who are fed in the viv come to hope/associate that _any_ time you open the viv, food is coming. I think they will bite first and apologize later. I'm sure most substrate ingestions are not harmful, but they aren't beneficial, either. And finally, with 60 snakes now, and up to 100 babies in season, if they weren't removed for feeding, they just wouldn't get handled and kissed and photographed as often.