A Pastel with attitude!

[TJsBalls]

My wife and I recently got more interested in ball pythons, beyond just your run of the mill normals. We have been working on our collection, which is still small, but currently consists of:
1.0 Pastel (Atticus)
1.0 spider (Ares)
1.0 100% het pied (Eros)
0.1 Pinstripe (Genesys)
0.1 normal (Mya)
0.1 het albino (unnamed)
1.1 het caramel (unnamed)

And that's just BPs! My wife has a thing for corns. Anyways, over the last couple days, every morning when my wife turns on the pastels light, he snaps at her. Not a full out strike, but snaps his jaws. Anyone seen this kind of reaction before? He just ate this past Friday, I can't imagine him being hungry again already!

[Highline Reptiles South]

hatchlings can be that way. I have a lesser that for the first 3 or 4 months would strike at me through the tub. they will chill out as they get older.

[ballpythonluvr]

I have a hatchling pastel male that always strikes at me through the tub, so yes it is indeed normal.

[Quikcobra]

I know the feeling with a other half like yours... My fiance has gotten a BP bug... In the last 4 months or so we went from 0 snakes to 21, And now I got the bug so im always looking. We dont name them tho.

I have a mojave that has a bad attitude, And one pastel. But the older, and more I handle them then better they get. How is the housingsituation you have them in?

[TJsBalls]

The pastel is great to handle, the only time he strikes is first thing in the morning when the light comes on lol.

At the moment the females are in 20 long tanks, the males are in 10 gallon tanks. This weekend I'll be building our first rack, a 9 bin unit, for 41q sterilite bins. It will be heated by 11" flex watt, regulated by a VE-300 thermostat. I am not a big fan of heat lamps, but we only have them on 2 tanks at the moment.