Hi,
I really need advice. I have two ball pythons. A normal female het hypo, and a male Mojave Hypo. My female is an adult, 4 years old, about 3 and a half feet long, and around 1300 grams. I have her in a tank I just finished building. It's a 55 gallon tank set on its side with plexiglass doors in the front, I'll attach a picture. I have a hide on the cool side, a hide on the warm side, and a pond in the middle. The heat pad and humidifier are hooked up to a thermostat/hygrostat combo. The humidity was too high so I have a computer fan attached to the outside that sucks air out of the tank. The humidity stays around 65% and the ambient temperature is 80 degrees.

Now, my question is, why does she bite me every time I try to take her out and hold her? And it's not just a strike. She literally grabs on to my hand and wraps around my arm. There's no way she's hungry. I feed her a frozen/thawed small-medium sized rat every week. Unless she needs more than that, but I don't think she could handle two of them. She ate two days ago and I tried to take her out today and she instantly bit the back of my hand and tried squeezing me. Is there anything I can do to stop this?

My second question is about my male. I bought him from TSK a little over a month ago maybe two months. He's a little under a year old and I can't get him to eat anything but rat pinkies, and it takes a lot for him to eat those. I had to leave him in a bin overnight with them. I tried feeding him a rat pup and he wouldn't take it. His temp and humidity are in the right range as well. Are there any tricks I can use to get him to eat?