Depending on the age/size of your snake you could feed it a large rat. If it's a full grown adult it should be able to handle a large rat. All you do is just feed less often if you do so.


This could be a bit of him just not wanting him to be held so he is defending himself. Snakes are a living thing and can change behaviors.

How do you react when he bites you? Do you keep holding him or put him back? If you put him back too soon this would teach him that a bite on you lests him get left alone so he would learn to keep doing it if he wanted to be left alone.

I would treat it like you would any snake that has a biting problem and eventually he would grow out of it.

I doubt that not handling him regular would be the cause. This can be for some snakes but generally doesn't fit into bps because of their normal friendly behavior. That being said, it could be the cause, I just doubt it would be. How often do you hold him nowadays? Even if it's only once every week or two for just a couple minutes I find that keeps my species that can sometimes turn nasty with less handling at bay.