Hey guys. I posted a couple weeks ago about my ne BP striking. He does it quite frequently. He finally tagged me tonight. I have him in a 40 gal breeder tank with pothos vines, a climbing tree(which he gets on every night), 2 hides (one is small but he fits nicely) and it's on the warm side... the other is medium and is on the cool side and he has a medium sized water dish in there on the cool side. I have 2 uth, both hooked to thermostats as well as an overhead heat lamp(I use a daylight bulb during the day and a solid ceramic heat bulb with no light at night). I have a digital humidity Guage and a temp gun. His warm side stays between 85-93 and his cool side in the mid 70s. I use reptichip substrate with some new England sphagnum moss inside his hide area. The substrate is about an inch thick on the warm side and a little deeper on the cool side. He's been with me going on 5 weeks. The reptile store where I bought him said he was about 8 or 9 months old when I got him and he was very docile (one of the ones they always got out when people wanted to hold a snake). He's about 18 inches long and I'm not sure about his weight. He was on f/t rat pups and I have been feeding him every 7 days. I just this week switched him to extra small rats bc of his striking out, I thought he just may have still been hungry. So...... I wanted you guys to know everything about him and his habitat to maybe help eliminate some reasons. I feel like his habitat is spot on and I have been keeping up with the humidity every day making sure it's at least at 50%, sometimes a little more. This is the first snake I've ever had and I love him so much but he keeps striking and biting and my 7 year old picked him out and she wants to hold him so bad but she doesn't want to get bitten. I don't think he's about to go into shed. His color is pretty dark, his eyes don't seem hazy and his belly isn't changing colors. As soon as we uncover him, he gets very angry. He ate 3 days ago and we left him alone a whole day longer bc the rat was larger so I wanted to make sure he had plenty of time to digest. Sure enough, when I uncovered him, he struck at me but didn't get me, I moved him around with the hide so I could get him facing the other way and when I picked him up, he struck and tagged me on the hand I wasn't holding him with and immediately tried to tag me again. I put him close to me and cupped my hand over him for him to ball up and get out of the aggressive phase and he never relaxed or tried to explore. He finally took his head out, struck again, again, I put him in a ball. I held him for about 10 minutes and then just put him back and told my little girl he wasn't in the mood today. She is heart broken over and over and I don't know what to do. 😔 Is he still considered a baby and just still scared of everything or did I luck up and get an aggressive BP?