Having a 5 foot monitor hanging on my shoulder at the shows leads to my being asked this, at minimum, 20 times a day. After dealing with various lizards (small and large) and snakes, we have found that the key to keeping them tame is by avoiding feeding live food. Feeding your reptile a live, moving target triggers an aggressive response used to protect themselves or capture their meal. This is why they try to bite when you go to take them out of their enclosure. To them, they just see a moving target….like their attacker or prey.
Your alternative to live prey is frozen/thawed food. You can easily purchase frozen rats, mice, chicks, bunnies, etc., online, at your local reptile shows, and even at some pet shops.
Of course, feeding frozen/thawed does not solve it all. The 2nd part is handling your animal daily (or as close to it as possible). I always recommend to people that they can do this when they watch a 30 minute TV show. It’s easy to fit in 30 minutes every day of handling and it will certainly pay off!
Granted, there are some animals that just have a wild nature about them and I tell people it’s just like some humans…no matter what you do, some are just plain ornery 
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