Trying to escape after handling?

[Marzipan]

The heat and humidity is fine in the RUB. She is very new and does not seem to like being handled. However, today I gave her a taste of freedom by letting her explore my room under close supervision. She seemed to enjoy cruising around, and I let her come out of her RUB naturally (rather than have her recoil when I picked her up). However, after chilling in her hide for a little while, she has been consistently trying to escape/testing out the RUB. Now I am thinking she was actually stressed out by leaving her home, despite wanting to come out naturally?

It is late at night (about 12) and I know they are active then, but it seems like she is trying to escape. Is it possible that snakes might display this behaviour if their RUB is too small? She fits in it nicely, but lengthwise she is too long to stretch out and her measurements indicate that it might be time to move her into the vivarium. However, she did eat fine in the RUB a few days ago, despite being new, so I am confused. My local rat supplier suggested to leave her in the box for another feed or two, then move her to the vivarium after that.

Any advice? Thanks.

[Marzipan]

Yea... so almost as soon as I posted that, she went back into her hide... Ball pythons, man. Anyway, she doesn't really seem to enjoy being handled much (or rather is 'unused' to it). I don't know what this all means, but she always tries to escape after being handled by trying to get away or trying to escape her RUB (even though she fed fine) and I just don't know what it all means.

[cletus]

You said she is very new. I don't exactly how new, but she is most likely just cruising around getting used to her new environment. Snakes are natural escape artists and will probe every inch of their enclosure. She will settle down after a while. She is just getting used to things. As far as handling, they don't like to be handled, they just deal with it. They will usually settle down after a while. I would let her be for a week or so. Let her de-stress and then worry about feeding and handling.