This post is to help calm my wives nerves.

So, as some of you have seen I made a thread about my new 900g fire fly female. Tonight she got me!!! I'm not scared to get bit and I was kind of expecting to get bit because I'm impatient. A lot of the research I have done does say the only way to calm a snake down and tame it is to handle it. A lot of you told me to just let it be. I'm a bit conflicted by this.

The family I got this snake from had this snake in a giant aquarium but fed it in a 36 gallon tote. I house all my snakes in 32 gallon totes so I set her up a tote and ever since then she has been extra aggressive. Every time I walk up to the tote she hunkers down and gets that look in her eye like she want to eat my face. Tonight I decided to test my luck...

I opened the lid and sat with her and just used my hook to keep her head away but she was a bit twitchy. Not at all scared or trying to run. So, I picked her up. with out hesitation she curled around and grabbed a hold of the knuckle on my wrist. Then curled up like she was trying to kill my wrist. The bite wasn't bad and little to no pain. WHAT A RELIEF!!! It almost seemed like I needed to finally take a bite from a bigger ball python. The baby balls are one thing witch isn't nothing at all when they bite. The big ones though will draw blood.

My conclusion is. This snake is in constant feed mode because I have her in a tote. Correct me if i'm wrong, but a defensive bite would have been a strike and no hold. A feed bite is a bite and hold. Am I right?

Tomorrow after work, I will be putting her into an aquarium to see if she settles down.

I know im probably driving some of you a bit nutty but this really is the only place for making well rounded conclusions for Ball Pythons. I Like this forum a lot no matter how much i agree or disagree with how other people do things. This place is gold.