glad to see from your posts that you arre reading and searching!!



color: if he was in green sand his color may not be that green when he sheds.... normaly colors range mostly in the tan-brown range to the red-orange range. sometimes white, yellow happen

I have heard of / seen photos of some with bits of lavender.



and of course black in the pattern.





$400.00 -- some can cost that much, can you give us some idea of length? post a photo? any record of where he came from and what he / she was sold as?

for example a "SandFire"?



as for handling etc....



my personal opinion here:



take your time.

I'd give him a few weeks of just feeding and cleaning the cage.

let him see that you are not attacking him and are a source of fresh food and water.



after a few weeks of just seeing you and learning you are not going to eat him etc.... he will probably come to you when he sees you with food.



also just sit near him and talk to him in a nice low voice.



when he starts to come and look at you and such see if you can hand feed him some super worms or greens.... if he is ok with that then start to pick him up a little.... always from the front.





as was posted: in the wild any thing coming from above and or behind would be a danger and if they can't run and hide they start with the threat display of puffing up and hissing.



when doing that they are not happy and if this is happening to much it could actulay make him get ill.

imagin if you got scared every day to the point your hart was racing... and you did not know why this was happening etc...



mealworms: not good! go to a pet shop that sells reptiles and get "super worms" they look almost the same but are different.



keep asking, posting, reading...... good luck!



PS: when he calms down he may be a realy nice pet!!!!
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