oh i just got to say person i got my blood off of claimed it was mean had struck at him and hissed at him allot and acted like it was mean as can be. but like said above my 4 year old holds his blood python once per week. and never been bitten or even hissed at oh and it is a red blood. but when we got it from him it was about a month or 2 old he had it in a 20 gallon long breeder tank he called it no hide(he did have a bunch of moss like stuff balled up in the corner) i just recently moved her into a larger hide (had an old exo Terence hide that came with the cage i bought for my ccb Tokay but the blood grew to where it started to raises up when she took a breath so figured it was time to get a new one

not sure if this goes for most but I've had no problem picking mine up from front scoping but like others have said dont be scared they can sense the fear. (granted mine is only right around a year and I've had her Lil over 8 months. so it's still on the small side