Its not reallly like taming a snake with monitors its more so of your monitor trusting you and thinking your not going to eat it. With my monitor Ive found the best way to get it to trust me is feeding. I started feeding him with tongs and after a while he stopped running and hiding when I was in the room and now I can open the cage and he will walk up my arm to get his food from me. Hes no longer scared of me. At the same time though he still does not like for me to pick him up. But hes come along way from when i first got him.