Feeding snakes with a restraint tube.

[pennfisherman]

Does anyone have any experience and/or success with feeding snakes through a restraint tube? The concept basically involves putting your snake into a tube with a diameter just small enough to not allow the snake to turn around. On the other end of the tube, you insert a pinky, mouse, rat, etc... and the snake is supposed to eat its way out of the tube. I have a baby hognose snake that will not eat and has lost more than 50% of its body weight; he now weighs about 7.7 grams. I've been thinking about trying this method instead of assist or force feeding. Incase anyone is wonder, I have already exhausted all the other trick and methods of enticing feeding and it is now being tube fed weekly by my vet.