Considering a blood python/python curtus. Please help :D

Retic,
If you'll look under general pythons, Got a pair of Borneos thread..
You'll see a fellow who visited here and had a great time..He handled probably 20-30 snakes of different sizes and ages..There was no bites and 1 baby piddled on the carpet due to the exercise it got going thru his hands..
All in all he walked away with a new appreciation for the group and he's a retic keeper..

From what I've read your area should make a shorty one happy camper..

I have one of each of the 3 subspecies, my black (curtus curtus), and the Borneo (brownish) are the easy ones to handle a few hiss in cage but easy to handle after, my brong (red blood) is a nother matter, she has never liked handling at all hissing and striking fast, she's still young, but Ive had her for more then a year and always been these way, thing is once she is an adult and keeps being nasty it wont be such a big problem as my small ratic that is also strike happy, when she gets to be 4 meters long she will be a problem if she still does not like me!.
food wise, when young, be sure to keep them in small enclosure, and pay lots of attention to temperature, I've kept mine in a small tub at 80 to 82 constant heat with out hot spot, and a 60 to 80% humidity, for the first year, and never refused a meal, now they do have a larger 41 lt tub and temp. at 79 low end 84-85 hot end humidity 60 to 80, with out misting and they are doing great.
In my experience I prefer them to tics, and balls, once you have them in such conditions they are easy as pie to keep.

Retic720 -

I have kept brongersmai in the past, and they were NOTHING like Afrocks or retics, as far as "mean" personalities go. Very rare is the nasty retic these days due to the captive breeding efforts, and the same can be said for the blood complex. I have never been bitten by a blood. I have, however, been the unfortunate recipient of a "waste dumping" when I was sexing an imported, not-too-friendly adult blood. Stinky and messy all at once!

You will enjoy bloods, they are awesome.