i am confident Amanda1226 knows what she wants and is informed that you get hit more often when you cannot plan how to exactly reach into the enclosure. there will be some bites. a few more than usual, and usually bites are rather infrequent. And noone complains because they heal so rapidly. Some ball pythons never bite a human. it varies.
anyway, if it happens, there are two different bites. one is called the tag, you get teeth, but the python immediately retreats. needle pinches followed by nothing. just a more extreme version of hissing or fake striking / head bumping.
Then there is the food bite, when your BP mistakes your hand for food. These can be quite nasty, because the python will keep up the pressure and wont release immediately. Often they release when you blow out air hard against their nose. Spraying water on the head will also often get them to release. Also they release on their own after a while. these are far more likely to occur when there is rhodent smell in the air, or during feeding.
anyway, it heals really very fast. and its all needle pinches.
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