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i dont see how a tarantula can get hurt from a piece of food dangling from tongs, if thats true then they can get hurt from lunging at food in the cage and hitting the side of the enclosure.
and if feeding a snake in its cage makes it cage aggressive then feeding it out of the enclosure would cause the exact same reaction, the snake would associate being taken out of the cage with eating and it would become aggressive that way. in fact feeding a snake out of its enclosure is more harmful to the snake because once they are done eating you have to move them to put them back in the cage, which could cause regurgitation. i have 4 snakes, all fed in enclosure and none are aggressive, not even that beautiful green tree python.
(i received a longer response via email but you must have erased the snake section of your response.)

[QUOTE="GreenTreeSkink, post: 2697, member: 391"] i dont see how a tarantula can get hurt from a piece of food dangling from tongs, if thats true then they can get hurt from lunging at food in the cage and hitting the side of the enclosure. and if feeding a snake in its cage makes it cage aggressive then feeding it out of the enclosure would cause the exact same reaction, the snake would associate being taken out of the cage with eating and it would become aggressive that way. in fact feeding a snake out of its enclosure is more harmful to the snake because once they are done eating you have to move them to put them back in the cage, which could cause regurgitation. i have 4 snakes, all fed in enclosure and none are aggressive, not even that beautiful green tree python. (i received a longer response via email but you must have erased the snake section of your response.) [/QUOTE]

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