Quote Originally Posted by scales owner View Post
Hi there. I handle mine very often to make sure that they are well familiar with being picked up. Also if you only pick them up when it is feeding time chances are that everytime that you stick you hand in there it will automaticly think food. Also you SHOULD NOT feed in the tank also to do with they will think everytime a hand enters it's going to be food!! lol Hope this helps any othere questions feel free to ask!-RAY

There is so much wrong in that paragraph, where do I start?

You only want to pick them up when its feeding time? Wrong, unless you want to get bit.

Feeding in the enclosure is fine and most people do it that way. That is seriously the biggest myth in the snake industry almost. I feed all my snakes in their enclosures and have NEVER been bitten.

Ball pythons are picky eaters to begin with and they are ambush hunters, picking them up and moving them a lot is a surefire way to get them to not eat.