Yeah Psilocybe, personally I have a problem with someone with ZERO unsupervised venemous experience giving advice.



Aaron: Your inexperience is clearly indicted by your own words.



"the keeping of venomous snakes is over complicated by many."



How do you know? Do you have the experience to judge? To fill in the blank...I have 35 years of keeping hots as an amatuer and as a former Zookeeper.



"Decades of experience with other snakes will in no way prepare a person for a hot."



Decades of experience will teach you proper keeping protocols and will give you the skills necessary to spot problems (hopefully) before they become serious. A smart keeper would practice the use of tongs and hooks on non venemous. They might not move the same but it will teach you to use the equipment properly.



"...my warning to some that are too quick to tell people they shouldn't keep hots...."



Too quick...Aaron?



When are we supposed to comment or advise? It is my recollection that you asked the advice of us, so for you to belittle people with decades of experience is a bit RUDE.



All we have to go on is what you say...If you don't seem ready, why should we tell you to go ahead?



And that is the point. An inexperienced keeper is a lousy judge of his abilities.



Aaron, With all due polietness....Sit down and listen to people who know what they are doing BEFORE giving advice on something you know damned little about.



Frank
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