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I recently bought a 5 ft. jungle carpet python who wasn't held enough and so he went into being jumpy and aggressive again. Is there any way to calm him down before he gets bigger?

>>I recently bought a 5 ft. jungle carpet python who wasn't held enough and so he went into being jumpy and aggressive again. Is there any way to calm him down before he gets bigger?

It is hard to really determine true temperment on a snake until it has been in your home for a few weeks. For the first three weeks or so, I offer meals and do minimal messing with the animal. This is something that is a good practice for all incoming hers. Excessive handling stresses animals that are already stressed and can increase agression.

Leave the snake alone for a few weeks and offer food weekly.

Now as for it getting larger, it will not get a whole lot larger. Jungles grow to a size of 5-7 feet and stay reasonably slim, so they are not a large snake. There is a chance that the size the snake is will pretty much be the size it stays.
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I don't handle him at all. Its when I spray the tank or move something around, he bites and makes a puffing noise.

>>I don't handle him at all. Its when I spray the tank or move something around, he bites and makes a puffing noise.

Moving around and spraying are things involved with stressing. If humidity is not good for a jungle, make him a humid hide and leave him be for 2 weeks. I rarely spray my jungles, they have a humid hide available at all times. Learned long ago most snakes do NOT like being sprayed.
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we are going to build a fogger/humidifier for the tank in a couple of weeks to keep the humidity up.