I would have to disagree with your statement about live food. Mine have allways fed live and have shown no special aggressiveness because of it. What I have found is that the extreme behavior is based on motion rather than temperature or smell. When they are in this peculiar defensive mode I can open a door 20 ft. from the cage and they will still do the Hood dance. Invariably they stop when I lift them out of their habitat (on a hook) and then they are fine to freehandle. The only bite I have gotten was when I reached in and picked it up barehanded.

Frank
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