Hognoses are not good for beginners, and there is a good reason for that. They are troublesome feeders and I can see too many situations where a newbie would know what to do or how to do it properly. With corns, you often get a snake the feeds EVERYTIME and they are a good way to learn the basics. Besides, I have found that people who buy animals because of their looks are the ones that have the most trouble (example: people who buy dart frogs and red-eye treefrogs). Do a search on non-feeding hognoses and you will see the difficulty in keeping hognoses. You should buy according to your experience, not to aesthetics.

As far as venom, I don't have any links on this computer, but this question gets asked repeatedly and you would have no trouble finding information if you searched this forum.
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• Bites/ reactions/ venom concern & advice wanted to a newbie - kwikslvr22, Sun Jul 6 22:03:56 2003
• RE: Bites/ reactions/ venom concern & advice wanted to a newbie - Colchicine, Mon Jul 7 06:54:41 2003
• RE: Bites/ reactions/ venom concern & advice wanted to a newbie - wolfchan, Wed Jul 9 16:03:43 2003
• Still... - snakeguy88, Thu Jul 10 08:54:09 2003
• If you let a garter chew on your hand you will get a similar reaction. - Tom Dickinson, Sat Jul 12 19:13:03 2003
• RE: If you let a garter chew on your hand you will get a similar reaction. - BGF, Sun Jul 13 03:18:37 2003