My roommate has a pretty well behaved carpet as a rescue. He was crazy active and pretty fun. I like them overall but they are too arboreal for my tastes. Do you like blood pythons? Those are my realistic wishlist pythons if I ever decide to go bigger than my current BPs! I kind of like the idea of dealing with a fiestier species, but from babyhood to up my chances of getting a well behaved beast. But allt he carpets I know of were pretty cool. A little hissy as adults but not badly behaved and some really pretty colors on those guys!