Just recently bought a ball python and I love him. Clyde is really cool and docile. This whole habitat setup is really difficult to keep up since there's so many factors I learn about each day. Hopefully I can come back from deployment and Clyde will be healthy since my wife will be his caretaker for a period of time.

Anyways what I'd like some more knowledge about is this... I take him out of his habitat and he's calm for 5 minutes until I'm on the couch with him and then he tries to just get away. I sit there with my hands acting as a treadmill while he works hard to go explore away from me. I understand he's curious but how can I coax him to relax and stay on me and watch some tv.

I don't want this to be some super long story with millions of things to answer in it and people get lost at what to pick out and answer. So here's my final question. He is about 3 feet long. Maybe a tad shorter. Is he suppose to eat every other week or every week? And how will I know if he's hungry. I've had him for 5 days now and don't know his eating schedule from his past. Don't know when he last ate. I unthawed a small fuzzy mouse the proper way. Did everything right and the past two days in a row attempted to feed him. He did not seem phased by the food. And when dangled in front of him no interest. Gave a little bop to the nose to entice him and he backed away. I made sure the environment was right (in a separate container) and even left him alone for two hours with the fuzzy in there. I will appreciate your input greatly.