Congratulations on your new snake! You know we'll want pictures.

Just let the new one settle in a bit and get to know it's new home and feel secure in it. As you go about freshening it's water, cleaning up it's waste product and feeding it you are helping your snake get to know your particular scent and the simple routines of the life you are establishing with it. These are snakes that seem to do very well when they have basic routines in their lives (this is feeding day, this is handling day, this is how I handle you, etc.)

If Salazar is just a little thing, an 08 hatchling for example, then it's to be expected he'd be jumpy and defensive. Little snakes are prey just as much as they are a predator so that drive to survive tends to make them snappy. Who can blame them LOL. After all we are very big heat emitting things in their world and they haven't the first clue that we aren't planning to make lunch out of them.

Just go about the business of letting Salazar settle in, care for him and his home, feed him, get to know him and then handling will likely be an easier process on the both of you.