Can anyone please help me my palmerston jungle carpet pythons are very nippy?

Question

i have just bought 2 new palmerston jaungle carpet pythons and iam starting to regret it as they are VERY nippy... evan if i touch them i have to dodge multiple bites... can anyone please give me advise to how to calm them down??... any help will be much appreciated

thanks

Answer 1

I'm not suprised carpet pythons tend to be a very nippy species

if they are babies just handle them as much as you can

but even so you can not garantee you will have a tame and docile carpet python when it gets older and bigger

and a bite from a carpet python is very painful as they are large snakes and very powerful feeders meaning they strike at a fast and powerful speed

Answer 2

Babies can often be very nippy. The only way to tame them is to handle them. They usually tame down pretty easily. Jungle carpets are the first snake I ever bred, and they were mean as heck. Their parents are extremely tame. I started out taming the babies by just holding them for a few minutes and not moving. If I moved, they bit me. I used a snake hook to pull them out to avoid being bitten.