I have 17 snakes so far, about half are ball pythons. I have one in particular that's a pain in the but. When I open up the tub if I don't feed her she strikes out of aggression several times in a row even if I'm several feet away. She strikes at me so hard she rolls herself over LOL. She is going to be a terror when she gets full size, but I love her anyway. She only eats live mice too HA! I'm starting to think that it's a genetic trait, she is a pastel spider, possibly yellowbelly and possibly het pied. Not sure but I think it may be the combo of spider and pastel or yellowbelly. Seems like many aggressive snakes have these genes. It would be interesting to track all of the mean snakes and what genes make them up, I'm betting certain combos bring out the aggression gene LOL. Your snake looks like it may be a pastel or yellowbelly? I agree with feeding in the tank, less stress for sure. Way too much light on that tank too, I'd put an IR heat bulb in there and track temps to make sure it doesn't get too hot, use a heat gun probe. All my snakes hated glass tanks, I switched them to dark tubs and they love them. Keep the glass tanks for raising rat babies.
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