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Do any of you have ball pythons that are a little nippy inside the tub or cage and are as tame as can be when your holding them.

thanks

steve

sorry no

mine are [bleep]es all the time *laugh*
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1.0 alb. okeetee "Grissom"
1.0 American Pit Bull Terrier "Vanyel"
1.3 Ball Pythons "Moogle", "Kupo", "Koume" and "Kotake"
0.1 Somali "Willow"

My 0.1 spider is "fiesty" (hissing and striking) if I approach her too quickly in her cage, but is docile and curious when outside.
My 1.0 pastel was the same when I first got him in July, but now that He is used to being handled he never strikes. He does hiss though, If I 'bother' him when he is going into shed.
BRGDS,
A
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"There is a fine line between a hobby and mental illness"
COLD BLOOD.........WARM HEART

All of my females are nippy inside of their cages until they realize that I am not going to feed them, and they dont hiss at all my big girls just have nasty feeding responses
thanks
tony butler

could it be a feeding response? perhaps they expect food when you open their cages. i'm no expert but it sounds plausible to me.

Yeah, I have an 04 that would strike and all at you in the cage and she was as sweet as could be once you picked her up. At least that's what I though until she nailed me after I had been holding her one time. So no...her name is "Bee" by the way (Named after her personality trait's first letter...if you know what I mean!).
Jeremy
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Isn't it cooler that serpent's don't walk anymore?
(Genesis 3:14)

Mine tends to panic when I first pull her out of the cage. She's not nippy, but she tightens into a ball and is very stiff. Once she's been held for a few minutes, she relaxes and seems to be fine.

I got nailed reaching in once (a feeding response), so now I use a cage hook. As soon as I touch them with it and pull them towards me a little bit, they know they are going to be picked up and not fed, and they become docile. When I took the female off her eggs she hissed and resisted, but didn't strike.

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1.1 Jungle Carpet Python
1.1 Ball Python
1.1 Corn Snake
0.1 Gray band Kingsnake
0.1 Desert Kingsnake
0.1 Pueblan Milksnake
1.0 Bullsnake
1.0 Rhodesian Ridgeback (Hondo)
0.1 Spouse (WC)
0.0.8 hatchling ball pythons