Hello everybody!! I recently aquired a Eastern Garter snake. It has a very bad temper, too. to get to the point, is there anything i can do to get it to stop biting me? If I even open the cage to feed it "pop" I'm bleeding everywhere. It bloats when it see's me and strikes when it seees me. What can I do??? My temps are usaully in the high 70's. and the humidity is 50% he has a big water dish. 2 inches of reptile bark(i feed him out of cage). He eats salamanders well(loves to be hand fed but still bites and i end up holding his neck). he has a big hide rock and in a cage abou 6 or 7 inches longer than him.