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[nazanova]

I have a quick question for you guys and I did post on an older thread but no one replies so I'll start a new one. So my Baby Corn Snake is, not hard to get out of his tank, but he just doesn't really like it. Like he will go into a striker posture when I pick up his hide to go in and get him out for a handle, and when I touch him he will try and wriggle away. When I go in to get him i put my hand flat infront of him so he knows I'm not food and knows I'm not a predator from above and I'll leave my hand there for about 30 secs or so then I'll try to touch him but then he'll move away still in his threat posture so in the end I just pick him up from halfway down his body then support the rest of his body as I get him out. At first he's all over the place but as soon as have him in my hands he's very calm and cute but it's just getting him out. So my question is what can I do to make him less stressed when getting him out? Or is just because he's a baby he's abit erratic? I have heard people saying babies are more nippy and stressful but when they get older they mellow out. Oh and he had never bit me before he just does a strike posture.