Quote Originally Posted by Faolan View Post
If you want a hot snake first get a fast aggressive snake, Gonyosomas are known for being good practice snakes, so are olive pythons. If you can go at least a year without getting bitten by the snake you can start thinking about getting a hot one. Talk to a lot of handlers, they offer classes on how to handle hots, and see if you can find someone willing to let you practice with there snakes.
There is no point in any aggressive non venomous snake.

What's the point? Nothing will get you into the correct mentality as working with a venomous snake.

Nothing wrong with learning with venomous snakes.

The first snake I ever handled was a 4ft Crotalus molossus. To be honest venomous keeping is 90% in the mind and 10% skill.

You don't need any skill to hook a lot of venomous snakes, they're a piece of cake. What matters most, is your mentality!