I know exactly how you feel. I saw my first blood sometime around 1995. I fell in love and wanted one so bad. I saw my first one at a reptile store near me and my second one at an arachnid store in chicago that same year. Both store owners told me they were hard to care for, got huge and were not very nice. So I never got one. I instead got a burmese.

After I found out that they are not at all what people thought they were years ago I was determined to get one. Now I have 2 of the sweetest baby borneos I have ever seen! They have never struck at me and never musked. I think all the snakes in the blood family are just amazing. When you can afford one and the proper housing, you wont regret it