Cage aggression question please help

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I rescued a king snake that was surrendered at work (an animal hospital, people always dump their animals with us) about 2 months ago. He is 2 years old and really undersized and thin. I have been feeding him 2 rat fuzzies every week and he is eating great and getting bigger. Lately though he has been very cage aggressive to the point where I have to hook him to get him out to move him to his feeding bin. This is a complete 180 from when I first got him he was so sweet. What is causing this and please tell me how to fix it, he is a beautiful Lavender albino banana and I would like to be able to hold him more, however he thinks he’s a cobra or something.

Well I guess I have thought about cage aggression a lot and I just don't believe that its real. Let me put it this way. If every time you feed your snake you take it out of its cage and put it in a feeding tub then it would make sense to me that every time you go to take your snake out of its cage it will think its feeding time. On the other hand if you feed in the cage then every time a mouse comes in the cage it will think its feeding time and every time your hand comes in the cage it will not associate your hand with feeding. I would say stop feeding your snake in a feeding tub. Feed it in its cage. Then when you go to take your snake out it won't be hungry and hopefully not so aggressive. It just doesn't make any sense to me to put your hand in the cage on feeding day at all.