The only reason I have ever kept and worked with hots, was for education. I kept and raised CBB local species (Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes, Southern Copperheads, and Western Cottonmouths) and took them on a tour in various parts of Texas using them as teaching tools, displaying them in a locked cage within a larger cage, but still allowing for ample viewing pleasure, and discussion of their importance. It does take a proper keeper to work with hots. You will get many people, especially in the US, that will keep hots for the sake of masculinity or being the "king" by pocession such things. Many of the best keepers, do not disclose their hots to many people outside of the community.

It's like being a Dr. If you try to do it for the wrong reasons, things will not go well. . .