Help with aggressive snake please!!

[NomaReptiles]

I realize YT unboxing videos are all about the expectant keeper reaching into the pillowcase, and pulling out a calm snake. The videos that went wrong with that probably don't get posted. Even Emily has admitted she has *staged* unboxings.

Me, I don't like to set the poor things up for failure; I open the sack in the enclosure, and let the animal slither out on it's own time. Enclosure gets latched, and I go away. I'll say "Hello," in a day or two. No need to rush things.

These guys aren't aggressive. That is just the wrong term to use. Tame happens more on their time than ours.

Lolololol yes absolutely! All those unboxing videos are clearly not what they appear to be lol

In all honesty though after thinking some more this afternoon I know that my problem was the disappointment I had when I opened the boxes. All of my other snakes were also shipped and none of them were this defensive! I was able to hold them and inspect them and show them to my family and spend some time with the snakes before putting them in their tubs. No waiting until they de-stress....I could handle them daily and they were all very calm and mellow.

The He difference is that this time I got my snakes from big breeders and I didn’t account for this. I know large breeders don’t spend much time with their snakes besides cleaning and feeding so they are not used to people. My other snakes came from very small breeders that handled them daily and knew all of their temperaments. When this snakes arrived they weren’t afraid of me and not nearly as stressed out as my new snakes are.

And no only 2 of the snakes I got today are juveniles/babies....the Mojave Pied is freaking huge at 1 1/2 years old so imagine my joy opening the box and gently grabbing him from the bag (like I did with all my past snakes) only to be lunged and nipped at multiple times. It scared the :cens0r::cens0r::cens0r::cens0r: out of me Haha

So yes they will eventually be tamed and yes I will get better at handling them and probably get to celebrate my first bite ever lol

It just sucks because tomorrow I’m getting more snakes and now I don’t be want to open the boxes lol