Roe progression thread!

[dakski]

Just had Roe out for a sec tonight. My fault, when I went to pick her up I got her from behind and she turned around and tagged me Barley broke skin, she thinks she's so tough. Just scarred her, I apologized and turned her light off

Oh, GpBp, welcome to the bite club! Behira got me at 3X that size. Still a little baby though.

Yeah, at 150g or so, it's not a big deal.

A couple quick thoughts, as she will get much, much, bigger than that.

1. I feed at night with the lights off in the tank and mostly in the room. Just enough light so I can see what I am doing. I never handle any of my snakes, certainly hand first (as opposed to hook, etc), at night. They are in hunt mode, or, at the very least, not expecting me to be in there getting them.

2. If you really just scared her and she tagged you, again, no big deal now. However, start hook training. This will avoid scared bites as well as food response bites. I, or others here, can describe hook training pretty well if you need.

Again, don't handle under feeding circumstances and hook train to avoid feeding or scared bites!

Good luck and sorry you got tagged, but glad Roe is so small.