One of my 2 kings I've had nearly a year now and she's still irritable about any handling. She's 10x her starting size (15 grams up to around 150-160g now) and only just now getting better about musking... I'm 4 for 4 now in the last month of not getting musked, but before then it was exceedingly rare to not get musked (often for the entire duration of handling;and let me tell you.. a 90g king has a LOT of musk to go around compared to a 20g king LOL) She seems to have flipped a switch at about 140 grams to not musking.
She's a chain/eastern king and I had better luck reducing handling to picking her up to do a spot clean (if I left her in, she would try chasing me out of the cage biting) about once a week when she pooped and making it 2 or 3 minutes longer than needed for that every other week and waiting for the calmer behavior before letting her go back to the cage. Truly calm was never going to happen the first few dozen times, so anything calmer than she started was my initial benchmark, like slowing her frantic fleeing behavior for half a seconr; now I'm getting close to waiting for truly calm behavior.
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