How to gain more confidence....

[tttaylorrr]

You beat me to it. My suggestion was going to be to go visit a friend that has a defensive snake and take a bite. As long as the friend's defensive snake isn't a 10+ foot animal, you will find out that even if you do get tagged, there is nothing to it. Then with this knowledge, your nervousness will go away.

i kind of agree with this. my 0.1 Super Cinnamon paradox was an 80g firecracker as soon as she settled. she would strike the side of her tub if i got too close, and generally never relaxed out of her S pose when held or i was near. it got to the point that i was actually anxious to deal with her, and kind of started to not even like her tbh.

well, then i got bit. it was totally my fault, as my hand "snuck up" behind her while she was posing to strike. she was the first bite i ever got in 3 years of keeping beeps. here's the result of my bite, and what it looked ~24 hrs later. i will mark this NSFW for the children:


as you can see: there's not much to it. the quickness of the actual bite is what's startling, not the pain or the hit. i had to laugh at myself for getting so worked up afterwards. anyway, this happened when she was 170g; she's now ~600g and has grown out of her "aggressiveness" (that's not the word i want to use, but can't think of another way to say it atm). she's easily handleable, except when food is around.

confidence comes with practice and knowledge. keep reading, go watch Brian Barczyk get bit 100 times on his YouTube channel, and don't sweat it. paper cuts are worse!