1. Wait the week and feed him rat pups. Fuzzies are too small.

2. You can wear gloves if you want but I have some pretty nasty tempered BP's and I have never been bit out of aggression or deffensiveness. RTB's are different as they are very cage deffensive. I have 6 year old Boas (my male is 8 feet) and I still use hooks to get them out of their enclosures. Ball Pythons are big babies. If it's something your concerned about you can wear gloves, but don't waste your money on them from a pet store. Grab a pair of heavy duty gardening gloves from the dollor store, I use them for ASFs if I have to get at them with my hands and they try but they can't bite through my $1.00 gloves haha.