My experience is more in colombians than brazilians, so I would defer to some of the others here with more knowledge and experience than my own when it comes to these...



I don't think any rainbows as babies like to be reached down towards and picked up hardly. I don't know if their natural instinct is "there's something coming out of the sky, it's a bird and it wants to eat me!" or what, but the just don't seem to like it...and that's true I think of a lot of boa's and pythons in general. Now when I do reach down to grab one, I reach in quickly with my hand totally covering its head, and kind of hold it down firmly but gently for just a couple of seconds, then scoop it up. I think this changes it's current mentality from the agressive defense mentality, to a kind of more submissive mode. Most of the time this works...occasionally it'll just piss one off even worse and then they're really determined to show you how big and tough they are and become extra fun to hold...lol.



What you described though about how you got bit, unless I'm just reading it wrong, it sounds more like it was crawling along your arm and just decided to have a taste? When I think of "nippy babies" I think more of the agressive defense than just random "I wanna see what this tastes like" type of bite. Was it due to be feeding time, or how often are you feeding? Any chance you smelled like something tasty?



Charlie

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