I totally hear you those were my concerns, the aspen and biting thinking I'm food but a couple of my friends also have corn snakes and feed in the viv, what they have done is trained their snakes that a knock on the glass means food time, now when they hear that knock they come out and look for the food. So I'm going to try that but so far we've had 2 successful feelings and she hasn't even looked like she wants to bite me!
As for the bedding I've been feeding her by her "open hide" so what I do before feeding is lay a piece of paper towel down on top of the bedding and feed on there removing it as soon as the mouse is down, she doesn't seem to mind and eases my mind about the bedding
The photo is her color now, she just had her first shed with me!
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