Neglected Ball Python
Hi everyone I'm pretty new to all of this recently (4 days ago) I moved into an apartment and found a aquarium with a snake in it. At first I thought it was dead because it had been atleast 3 weeks since the previous tenants moved away. I turned on the heat lamp and heat pad and it stared to move around. I did my research and it is in fact a ball python pretty young maybe a year old. Well I got her to eat and drink some water and I've been trying to maintain her aquarium to the best of my abilities but I'm wondering what I can do to make her trust me. He has yet to strike at me and allows me to move her water bowl in and out and I've touched her a few times but all she does when I do that is tense up into a ball tighter. I've never owned a pet snake before neither has anyone in my family. I noticed she's shedding a bit right now. What steps should I do to make her trust me and let me handle her cause I'm afraid if I pick her up that's when she will strike me. I want to keep her and give her the best life possible because I can tell the previous owners didn't care much in a small aquarium with no humidity and paper towels as bedding but I'm dying to actually handle her and have her trust me I just don't know what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
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