We have one too and he's been great. We have never been struck at and he is really sweet and fun to handle. We recently picked up what we were hoping was a female. But she turned out to be a he oh well, he is really sweet too. The only issue we have had is with us being in Vegas with such hard water, he started loosing scales from calcium build up. We started using a water delivery service for ourselves and started using that water for our snakes and 3 sheds later, he looks 100% better. I know you won't be disappointed if you get one, they are a pleasure to have.