Hi! I'm a new member and I apologize if this post is on the wrong forum, I thought this was the best fitting... anyway,
I got a 3 year old ball python one month ago! Her name is Misty. Everything has been great up until just a couple days ago. I painted my room and because the fumes aren't good for snakes, I made sure to move her and my baby corn snake (in other tank!) into my sisters room just while my room was being painted. I just moved them back into my room, but after the first day- the first day she was fine- she started getting more defensive and because of this I haven't been able to hold her or take her out. Every time I touch her she flinches a little and I don't want to make her more uncomfortable. While she was in the other room, I put my other snakes enclosement (which is still pretty small) over hers because there wasn't a ton of room. Now they aren't right on each other but something I noticed was that Misty started kind of hovering to the top trying to sniff out my smaller snake (Whitey). Now she's over to the side of her tank still trying to sniff her out I believe. What I'm wondering is, what can I do to make her more comfortable? Was it just because of the new environment? And since I painted my room, should I leave her alone so she can get used to whats different or should I try to handle her to let her know I'm not a predator?
Sorry for this long post, I'm just worried and haven't dealt with snakes for too long and I don't know what to do! I'll also include in this post some pics of her I just took incase anyone determines that she doesn't look healthy.
Also she looks healthy still besides the fact she seems really curious about her surroundings and I can't touch her :/