Thanks, he was my first squam, and I plan to breed him to the black squam female.
I know, that's really the primary reason I got into venomous honestly. Hands down look the most unique.
She's growing on me a lot, and out of all she's the most temperamental. I'll try to give her water from a lab style rinse bottle and she'll strike at it.
Thanks. I mean I don't free handle per say, but I do deal with them, more so the cobra I have which isn't picture because he's in shed. I'll take him out, and let him roam around a bit, and I have grabbed him towards the tail to slide him or re-position him, but I do it with great caution. I don't really put my hands on the vipers because I find them highly unpredictable, but if I have to I have the pin tool and tubes so that I can do it safely.
I just find I read my cobra really well, although he's a spitting cobra, he has never spit at me, and he rarely hoods, sometimes he does a partial but never a full hood.