Quote Originally Posted by dakski View Post
I agree with what's been said, but I'll also add a couple of things.

1. BP's can get tired of handling quickly even as established adults, .
I have experienced this. I had a good feeder adult start to slime me when I over stressed her trying to take pictures for too long. She slimed me every time after that and went of her food for a while.
I had to leave her for a month or so for her to get confident again. Now she is ok with handling (within reason)

I didn't know ball pythons could stink slime you. Other species yes, but can they or is that something different? It smelt the same as say when a rat snake does it.