feeding kSB in other containers

[da_illest]

i feed my KSB in it's tank because i've tried putting it in a tupperware on the warm side of the tank with paper towels and it only kills the pinky.. it won't eat it.. and when i did do that i turned all the lights off in the animal room, he has a black heat lamp, and closed the door so no one was in there and it was pitch black... also it was at 10 at night or so..

can someone help me or give me suggestions?

also what are the benefits of feeding in a seperate container?

[Stockwell]

http://www.ssnakess.com/photopost/data/500/18011590Kenyanfeeding.jpg

Most young snakes are best feed on paper towel or in separate containers with no substrate..The reason this is done is to remove all possibility
of having substrate ingested.
However, there is an exception with sandboas.
These snakes are ambush feeders and explode from beneath the prey. Many young ones will refuse to feed unless they are kept in small containers and covered with substrate.

I raise Kenyans, (&conicus) for months in the 16 once deli container pictured above. I use about half an inch of Beta chip as a substrate. This is a particulate hardwood substrate. Yes they eat some, but it passes through them without problems. I have produced hundreds of Sandboas and have yet to see one impacted.
So in conclusion.. Don't bother even trying to feed them in separate containers. It's not necessary

[BoidKeeper]

All of mine eat in a small dark plastic container. My first two arrived eating F/T my next two I had to convert.
I just leave them in there with it over night in the begining.
Cheers,
Trevor

[da_illest]

isn't it true that feeding in another container makes the snake less aggresive? so it doesn't think your food when you go into the tank to get it?

[Piers]

If you put your hand in to feed or take the snake out to put it in a feeding container its really the same thing. Hand in= food, hand in and put in box=food. Sand boas can be a bit nippy when you pick them up but that is their nature, as Roy said they are ambush feeders.They usually strike first and ask questions later.
Handling them between meals (not to much) will/should mellow them out.
Piers
Guppyranch