Quote Originally Posted by Sauzo View Post
Get a T10 at least for a boa. And get a shelf. All my snakes love their shelves.

As for defensiveness, every snake is different. Both my boas were laid back when I got them as babies. Same with all my snakes except the JCP but I think someone messed with her as a baby as I got her as a juvenile but she is taming down. Even my retic is mellow unless food is involved or he's hungry. Then he will just shoot out of his hide and look you in the face lol.

Just give him time to settle in and make sure you provide places for them to feel secure on the cold and warm sides. That will go a long way to making them tame down.

And also remember to give them a cool side. If husbandry is wrong, it can make snakes pissy too. A lot of people just focus on the hot side and don't really look at giving them somewhere they can cool down also. I give all my snake a cool side of 78-80F and a hot spot with flexwatt of 90F. And I keep humidity around 60-70%. And like I said, all my snakes are puppies that you can reach in and grab them, even my retic is getting like that although I do still use a twisted up paper towel to rub on his head but he really doesn't seem to care regardless lol. I got a snake hook but I have yet to even use it. It just sits there lol.

i been doing more research, and i see alot of people say "handle more to get them used to it" but also alot say "leave em alone and dont bother them and that works better to tame them down"

Im not sure which route i should go. For now, i will just do what has worked for me before, even though it was a BP, i remember when i got my BP as a baby, although he never struck, the first few days he hissed at me when i tried to grab him. I left him alone and let him settle in for 2 weeks before i started handling him, and he stopped hissing within a week. So i will try this with the boa aswell. Im going to leave him alone except to refilling his water bowl, and of course feeding. Other than that i wont handle him for 2 weeks and see after that how he does.