I had a few GTP's about 20 years ago. My favorite was a female aru island with glossy green skin and nice blue dorsal stripe. My second favorite was a biak male that was born brick red. His completion looked much more dry as he got older.
I was lucky in college and make friends with a guy that owned a local exotic reptile shop near the college I went to and he paid me to come in and care for, handle and eventually tame exotic snakes so he could sell them as pets. I worked with everything from bar necked scrub pythons to anacondas. The only thing I could not completely tame was an African rock python. He just liked to bite everything that picked him up at least once.
One thing I learned in handling them was that it is not that their (most snakes) disposition was to bite but often times certain breeds depending on where they fit in their food chain in their natural enviroment and what they prey on most often dictates their propensity to bite. Once you figure this out you can figure out ways to modify this behavior.
Using this I was able to get a green anaconda and a pair of amithistine pythons so tame we could take them to schools and let kids touch them. The amithistine pythons were eventually donated to a local zoo the they were stolen from shortly after.
As for husbandry, I kept my gtps in a 24"x24" cube with ceramic heating elements and thermostatic control. For humidity (I live in phoenix) I used ultra sonic humidifiers on timers and large water dishes. This combo seemed to work well and my gtps were my favorite snakes by far. No health issues and they were all easy to handle, so easy I took them to schools too and let kids hold them.
Good luck and I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
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