So i got my male ball python around 2 months ago and since then I've been holding him like twice a week for 15 minutes and he always had been fine with it and crawls around my arm and likes to explore. So yesterday i discovered some mites in his water bowl so I'm gonna start treating him. But also now whenever i hold him he will jerk his head back a lot and he never used to do that is this just because he's stressed from the mites. He also struck at me but didn't actually bite.