Hi guys, I'm new to this forum as well as new to owning a BP.
In the past I had a 40gallon breeder with a community of 6 garter snakes, two 30 Gals one with a corn and one with a king and presently own a corn snake named Zoro.

I was at PetCo looking through all the summer sales in the reptile area, hoping to find some really nice river wood or something fancy on sale to spruce up my tank and I noticed that Ball Pythons were on sale for 32 vs the 120 they normaly cost. Apparently ball python sales went way up or something. Anyway I did some research and my friend Joe owns a pretty large ball python so I talked to him about it and then bought one just yesterday.

I'm not totally sure what morph he is, he looked like a jungle or a normal to me only with a much brighter pigment then the other snakes in teh cage displayed. He's a bit skittish and headshy but my friend told me that's normal for baby bp's.

So I named him Noir, and am planning on trying to feed him his first fuzzy tomorrow and I wanted to know. Are there any tell tale signs that a BP is going to strike?

Like with kings and corns they like to puff up and beat their tails around and garters spread the forks of their tongue into a T and rear back. Do Balls have any signs of attack to watch out for? Even though I've had a good 6 years handling snakes, I'm used to leaner more vivacious snakes so I find myself a bit nervous when I hold him.