I'm having trouble getting Nim out of his enclosure. When touched, he bites if cornered and runs away otherwise. I've been picking him up during the run away phase, but he's long enough now that I have a hard time disentangling him from whatever he grabs on the way out. While I do that, he usually gets his head back in the enclosure and the process begins anew.

I've been handling him minimally since the mite ordeal, and I think I should increase the handling frequency to hopefully desensitize him a bit. To pick him up effectively, I am considering either putting gloves on and taking a bite or two to get him before he starts to run, or strictly picking him up from beneath the hide without moving it off him first. I figure chasing him around for 20 minutes every time probably worsens the problem. Is biting the glove something I should avoid having him do? Is letting him run into a hide, then picking him up from beneath it preferable?