Tips for VERY VERY bitey hatchling?

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Originally Posted by OsirisRa32

Awesome that this is on Desert hatchlings cuz thats my little guy that is giving me issues!! :D

This is EXACTLY what my guy does....and he eats without fail

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Glad it helped

Not that ive had many snakes but i havnt had any bitey BPs. Every time i see a thread like this i read itt because i dont know when im gona get my first crazy one.

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Originally Posted by OsirisRa32

hes drawn blood several times already...not that he hurts really...just a pain in the rear to deal with a bloody finger or side of my hand while handling my snakes...definitely not a feeding bite with this guy....he also strikes fast and repeatedly.

As for my husbandry and a posters earlier request for it...hot side 90 with belly heat...in a glass tank with foil over most the top...cool/ambient is 80.
Husbandry isnt my concern...every other snake I have is fine..including 5 other similarly sized/aged snakes.

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This sounds a LOT like a baby I hatched this year (the one in my sig line named Nipper ;)). All of her siblings were perfectly polite, she was a little bite-a-saurus, I stopped counting after the first 20 strikes when I was washing the egg goo off her post-hatching. I avoided handing her unless absolutely necessary, and over time she realized that the world outside of her nice safe egg was actually not that scary and that being picked up didn't mean she was about to be eaten alive. It took her about 3 months to finally relax and stop striking, I'm sure yours will eventually too, I did find that picking her up from behind helped though.