Question about my baby coastal carpet python

So in the few days that ive had him ive noticed that hes really cage agressive. This is how i go about getting him out of his enclosure i open it up and hes ready to strike so i mist him a little with a squirt bottle and he moves around the enclosure i then pick him up and hes puppy dog tame. This is how i broke my columbian rainbow boa of his cage agression. So my question is will he tame out with regular handling and age?

Heres a pic of him yesterday when i opened his tub.(the tubs temp until i can get am arboreal set up for him)http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/24/aha7yje3.jpg

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My coastal (a baby when I got her) was bite-y both in and out of her tub but since her slowly gaining size she's been growing out of it. Keep handling regularly and don't praise bad behavior (ie if he strikes at you or bites you don't put him away until he's calmed down) and in time he may calm down nicely.

Thanks for the reply just wanted to know ive handled an almost 7ft jungle carpet and it was the tamest snake i had ever handled and actually was what made me want a carpet

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it will tame down. my IJ was mean as heck when i got her. her name is actually meanie because of it. she is tame as can be now at a year and a half old. they just need some handling and a little bit of size and they get over it pretty easily.

They generally calm down with proper handling. You can also just use the hook technique instead of the spray bottle as well. Probably less irritating to the snake.

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Originally Posted by bigt0006

So in the few days that ive had him ive noticed that hes really cage agressive. This is how i go about getting him out of his enclosure i open it up and hes ready to strike so i mist him a little with a squirt bottle and he moves around the enclosure i then pick him up and hes puppy dog tame. This is how i broke my columbian rainbow boa of his cage agression. So my question is will he tame out with regular handling and age?

Heres a pic of him yesterday when i opened his tub.(the tubs temp until i can get am arboreal set up for him)http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/12/24/aha7yje3.jpg

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Your misting before handling is a good idea. I never thought of that one. Picking up with a hook works good too. One they're out it's usually easy to trnsfer them to your hand.

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Originally Posted by Daybreaker

My coastal (a baby when I got her) was bite-y both in and out of her tub but since her slowly gaining size she's been growing out of it. Keep handling regularly and don't praise bad behavior (ie if he strikes at you or bites you don't put him away until he's calmed down) and in time he may calm down nicely.

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This is my experience too with all carpet subspecies. It's amazing how fast they figure out that biting does them no good. Carpets are among the smartest of pythons, IMO. My adults will even come up and check out whatever's entering their cage to see if it's food first before striking. When they smell me they let me do whatever I want, clean, change the water, change a bulb.

Don't worry about the tub too. I raise all mine in tubs until they are around 4ft. Then they get their adult sized display cage. They seem satisfied with a branch or piece of curled wire fencing to climb on in the fairly shallow tubs.

Ive got him to the point now that he doesnt immediatly lung at anything that enters the tub he examins it first and if its food he will go after it

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