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I can hold the coachwhip in one hand and work in the tank with the other and it just stays put looking around and tongue flicking.

Mike B

Does it not bite at all?? where did you get it did you bye it or catch it? man i want it.. lol i have a 6 foot adult i caught in Florida and it is EVIL, so im gonna let it go lol...

Never bit. Has some scaring that I originally attributed to coyotes. Now I think it must have been a mower the way it was cut and tail bobbed. Everything is healing very well. Don't know if it is a male or female. It is a voracious eater and takes f/t rats. And has since the second day I had it.

Mike B

I have a red western whip that's the same way. So calm it's creepy. Never a hint of defensiveness, and took the first thawed mouse I offered. It'll go through quite a bit of food, but will almost never accept more than one prey item per feeding, no matter how big they are.

Steve

MOST of my Coachwhips are like this, actually. The Westerns tend to be a bit calmer than the Easterns, but of the Easterns, I only have one, a sub-adult female, who has ever bitten me. I just got in a big adult WC female Eastern who has "threat-gaped" a couple of times, but if I move my hand toward her when she does that, she closes her mouth and moves away. My red-phase Western and my "red racer" (M.f.pisceus)have never even attempted to bite, musk or gape. They are every bit as tame and calm as any Cornsnake. I've seen more "bitey" Corns and Calkings than Coachwhips.

SMcKenzie