Taming aggressive BP

I feed my snake in his enclosure, and since the rat is wet from the hot water he gets a little aspen in his mouth but some bedding in his mouth here and there isn't going to have any ill effects, it just looks like he wants to attack since his mouth will be partially opened from the shavings!But anyway, my snake has bit me, I am not saying this is from cage aggression, its just me not reading the signs leading toward a bite(then again, it does not hurt, so its alright).

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Originally Posted by guambomb832

I feed my snake in his enclosure, and since the rat is wet from the hot water he gets a little aspen in his mouth but some bedding in his mouth here and there isn't going to have any ill effects, it just looks like he wants to attack since his mouth will be partially opened from the shavings!But anyway, my snake has bit me, I am not saying this is from cage aggression, its just me not reading the signs leading toward a bite(then again, it does not hurt, so its alright).

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Do you feed F/T or Live?
If you'd like to prevent your snake from eating your substrat, just put a piece of paper down before you put the prey in.

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Originally Posted by Kaorte

Where in this process does it say "wave your hands around in front of the snake when the food is nearby". It doesn't. That is because your hand should have NOTHING to do with the feeding process. You are not a mouse, you do not smell or look like a mouse, so why would your ball python associate you with a mouse?

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I would love to ask my BP that. As far as we're concerned no secondary contact comes into play with our BP while it's feeding. We always wash our hands after touching any sort of mouse (since we're kind of a bit of OCD freaks about that anyway), so that does make sense what you said.

As far as what our enclosure consists of, we have a 30 gallon tank. Aspen Snake Bedding Substrate, a hide made out of a dark plastic bowl that it could coil in perfectly without it being too big for its hide, fresh water every other day, heating pad underneath its hide. Humidity is usually at 50%-60%, and the heat on the warm side of the tank is around 85-88, and on the cool side between 77-80. There is no heavy traffic where the snake is at, nor any loud noises/music. Thermometers are the ones purchased at PetCo for $12 (the heat and humidity ones that stick to the glass).

If you are using stick on gague thermometers then all of your temps are probably wrong :/

Get a digital thermometer with a probe and a digital hygrometer.

Let the snake flicker it's tongue before you pick it up.

If your husbandry is good it is possible he may be getting ready to shed. That could also explain the recent moodiness. Is his color fading or does his belly have a pink tint to it?



Rob