Any suggestions?

Well i am just curious if anyone out here as any advice, my issue is with my male YB. So i got him about a month and a half ago and since the day i recieved him he has been super cranky! He eats well, does his business and has shed once. Since i know that you will all ask his temps. and humidity are all good. I have 4 others living in the exact same conditions. So i was wondering if there is a way to calm him down, or am i just out of luck now and stuck with a grump? Any advice would be great!:confused:

Me personally, I think that much like in humans, animals have different personalities. Chances are you just have a pissy snake :D Just my .02 I'd try to handle him as much as possible without stressing him too much, who knows he could come around.

Nothing wrong with a young aggressive male! They are my best breeders...:gj:

just show that snake whos boss it will shape up

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Originally Posted by veerman73

just show that snake whos boss it will shape up

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ur joking, right?

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Originally Posted by python.princess

ur joking, right?

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Yeah i have to agree with that one! He already thinks my hand is a chew toy, would like to make it better not worse!

personally handle it more than your other snakes and dont more real slow when you pick it up just reach in. sometimes if you reach in slowly they think your just food.

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Originally Posted by nixer

personally handle it more than your other snakes and dont more real slow when you pick it up just reach in. sometimes if you reach in slowly they think your just food.

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Wrong fast movements will get you bit also ;).I advise getting a glove to handle this snake until he chills out :D

Try to minimise the stress by turning down the lights a bit, if you can block its strikes with the palm of your hand so that it bounces off rather anywhere it can get a bite of. After a while it should calm down.

Being cooler will decrease its metabolism and make it strike more slowly if you let it cool for a bit before handling (18-20 deg for a short time shouldn't harm it, but be careful constant temperature changes will increase the chance of illness and stress, remember to turn the heater back on after handling) that will allow you to handle it for slightly longer before it warms up and it will hopefully become used to you.

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Originally Posted by veerman73

just show that snake whos boss it will shape up

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This is new advice...i'm always open to hear new methods of care. please, tell us your methods...

No worries, my 06 YB is an :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: too ;) It's really the only way to describe him. He eats with a vengeance and is almost 900g, but is still as hissy pissy as when I got him in February.

I would certainly try the dirty shirt method . Let one of your worn shirts sit for a few days in his tank, maybe a week so it gets used to your smell. Snakes are very good with sensing smells of different substances.
I have 2 bp . one of them never hises or tryes to byte or gets into a ball and doesn't care if being handled. On the other hand my other Bp is just too frail , always tries to hide and gets spooked very easy ,seems like it hates to be handled but it never bytes. I'm currently trying to get him more used to being handled without being spooked all the time . So I guess there are all types of snake personalities, but do not give up

ive heard that if you get a tough leather glove and wear it and just let the snake chew and bite and you dont react at all it will learn that it is no use to bite and will stop

good luck:snake:

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Originally Posted by izzy

ive heard that if you get a tough leather glove and wear it and just let the snake chew and bite and you dont react at all it will learn that it is no use to bite and will stop

good luck:snake:

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where does this info come from?
ball pythons don't just "chew and bite". they will strike for two reasons, fear and food.

I have a little nippy male myself, I asked this question as well on here. The best method is probably just to be calm and patient with the lil guy.

If he's really nippy, you could try putting gloves on as some other people had said on here. Continuing to be with him, holding him and such should calm him down and let him get used to you. I know my ball was extremely nippy when I first got him. He's gotten noticeably better with handling, though he still thinks I want to eat him or something :P It'll get better. Small handling periods frequently should make him feel more secure. Hope this helped a little bit!

(Another thing that I was told, which makes a lot of sense to me, is to leave a shirt that you've worn for a day by their cage. It could help them get used to your scent as well)

:)