.. But I think I'm making some progress.

He fed last week, so I gave him some days of quiet time. I was changing his water out and checking out the terrarium for feces or anything remiss, so I decided to try to get him out. He slithered away, though he wasn't as jumpy as the last time I tried, and when I went to get him at the bottom he wrapped himself around the base of the tree

I didn't want to push him too much, so I just pet him a little and after a while he stopped recoiling so much, and actually seemed to want to come out while sniffing the air (I left the glass door open). He never did, and after I pet him a little more he crawled back behind his hide.

This is better than last time, when he fell off the tree running away from me when I gently put a finger on him. He seemed to accept my presence after a short while this time. At the shop he was being handled all the time, but then he didn't have anything to wrap himself around in that little clear box they had him in.

I closed the door and will let him be for a couple of days, maybe next time he'll let me carry him out. What do you guys do with a scared snake? Just give him time to get used to you, I guess?

I did manage to shoot a couple of quick pics. The camera didn't have enough light so had to shoot at a really high ISO: