Quote Originally Posted by Eric Alan View Post
What was their husbandry like? Feeding schedule? What were they eating?
Husbandry was/is spot on. I've been working with that genus since I was 12 and active in the hobbyist community for years, so I supervised the setup and husbandry. Feeding is every 5-7 days depending on when they last took food, and they were eating pinkies, which look a lot like human fingers. They are always fed in-tank and not handled often. Once out of the tank, they become very docile and easy to handle.
I think a lot of this is due to the individual personalities, so I wouldn't say that rule applies to every snake, but I really think it does apply to some extent just based on Hebbian principle; even flatworms can learn to associate a stimulus with a conditioned response. Theirs seems to be that when the tank opens, what comes in is food.