I thought my snake was skittish, but reading about some of these posts I guess I am an exception. I have had jub jub for almost 3 weeks now. He is wonderful to handle, as when I take him out he has a light grip on me, then starts moving around my fingers almost before I can bring him over to the couch to sit down. He also goes from hand to hand, and likes to crawl to me on when I put him on the carpet. When I put him back he goes to his hide just like the other posts, but he comes out fairly quickly to search around his cage a bit. When I turn on a light he seems fine with it. Even when I check him when I wake up late and use a flashligh (covered mostly with my hand so I only let enough light to check the temps) and if he is crawling around he continues to do so, and I watch (have a red light over cage that lets me do this).