Sounds like you need to get some w.c. YT's from where I get em! Luck had nothing to do with why my docile YT's are docile.

I only handle my snakes when it's time to clean their cages and give them their periodic once overs that's it, so I didn't really "tame" them down. Those particular snakes are what they are. Regardless of the amount of handling, my w.c. YT's temperments stayed the same. If they were aggressive, they remained aggressive. The snakes that were docile were that way to begin with. I believe in 2004 I got 3 c.b. snakes. 2 were from your Elliot line and those were semi aggressive and remain that way to this day. In 2003 I got 23 fresh, impoerted, w.c. YT's ranging from 30" juvies to an 8 foot male. Of those 23, 4 were truly aggressive and the rest were very docile. Of those 4, I know of one that was still aggressive last I heard and Jeff in Florida has that snake. Dan Felice got another male YT that was aggressive and his actually calmed down. I also got 6 c.b. YT's from Dr. Phil and 9 or 10 c.b. from Don Bordner. Maybe 2 from Dons snakes are a bit snappy and one from Dr Phil is also snappy. The rest are docile. This year I got 5 w.c. YT's and of those, one 7 foot male is truly aggressive, the rest are docile so I think I have have some knowledge on these snakes. They are definitely more active, than the other Drys when handled some flighty, but to say they are just pure evil snakes or "the most aggressive snakes you've ever seen? I just don't see it. I've had Racers that were 10 times more aggressive than most of my YT's. I've had Cobras and Pit Vipers that were more aggressive than YT's. Cleo is doing good by the way although age seems to be catching up to her.

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