Thanks for the recommendations(I know it’s been almost 3 months haha) we started to go in the right direction, but still kind of a pain. I have been taking him out and will hold for about 30 mins tops and the whole time he goes back and forth from defensive to hiding, hasn’t struck at me but I learned some techniques to move their attention away from me when defensive. I got a couple more snakes since this all started so I haven’t been trying to handle as much since the eastern indigo is alway in a good mood thus far.
I recently also got all new enclosures for everything, BP is now in a 4x2x2. I also put his cage the highest on the stack so the kids walking around wouldn’t stress him out. But not much difference. I installed cameras in the cages and he is still active at night. He had a good shed. Idk, maybe his personality changed, maybe my one reaction the first time he try to tag me taught him.
tonight I tried to feed, he struck at it 2x but never coiled, just like “back away I’m a big tough guy” strike.
I’ll try to see how he likes being handled during the day, thank you for that recommendation, I might also try having his light turn off sooner and sooner to slowly adjust the day night cycle so I’m not waking him up.
I doubt this has anything to do with it, but I figure ill mention it, this all started when I brought a blue tongue skink home. is it possible that the skink is giving off a smell that is making him uneasy? He was in quarantine and there is zero sign of any sort of illness or mites so it shouldn’t be anything like that.
Thank you to everyone for the recommendations
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