>>Age of baby, even my nippiest litters calm down with normal care. I don't "handle" my babies, too many and too little time. Just the simple act of feeding and cleaning the cage gets them used to the big bad hand. You're PRB is already started by the breeder and is most likely much calmer than when born.
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>>You're experience level is more than back in the 90's. I've seen it many times where I pull out a relatively calm baby and hand it to a more novice potential buyer and they get bit. Hand it back and calm again. They can sense your comfort level or maybe you know how to handle them better.....

I wouldn't be surprised if the first reason (age and previous handling) was important here, since this little girl is actually 4 months old. The second reason (handler experience) doesn't apply, though -- since I regularly handled snakes, fed snakes, cleaned snakes, did educational programs with snakes, heck did veterinary diagnostics and therapeutics with snakes, for years before I ever kept my first personal snake.

As for pics -- I haven't taken my own pics yet, but here's a pic from Jeff's site (she's from our good friend Jeff Clark) --

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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa
0.3 Honduran milk snakes
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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• just a comment on baby temperament - amazondoc, Fri Dec 18 22:44:38 2009
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