It's important to remember that even though we breed these snakes in captivity, they don't really pop out of the egg thinking, "Sierra Hotel!, a plastic tub, no worrying about predators in here"!

They really don't get hip to the whole captivity thing for a while. They hatch programmed to act like they are the smallest things on the food chain, because in Western Africa, they are. Keep working with it, and chances are very good that your snake will calm down over time.

Though I have had the pleasure of owning one, snappy, spastic adult BPs are pretty rare.