Hey Everyone,

Myself & My girlfriend a new owners to the entire reptile deal, we have a Female Ball Python, that was born the 1st week of August 2012, and we purchased her from the breeder Late July 2013. We track how often she eats and poops, an sheds and when we change her bedding. Anyways, roughly around Oct/Nov she bit my girlfriend when about to feed her and has started to become aggressive when feeding before, after and during which hasn't happened before all that. We fed her every week until early oct when we started feeding her every 5 days, Normally feed her Rats, although if we can't get her any live rats that suit her size we get her a decent size mouse to hold her off until we can.
We take her out and handle her ALL the time, at least twice a day. Tank is normally 70-80 on the cool side, and 80-90 on her warm side (with a heat mat in her warm side hide and a hide on her cool side. She hasn't been aggressive until recently which has really startled my girlfriend (she doesn't like going near "lilith" when feeding, so i feed her.) She gets aggressive and gets ready to strike when we feed her (out of container) but when she strikes towards us she doesn't latch on for long just a nip.

Can anyone give me some ideas on how to calm her down? Should we feed her more? 3-4 days instead of 5-7 days? No signs of RI or mites, always been healthy (except for a cut on her face from a while back that has healed) so no idea..


Shifty