Sadly, a lot of what I learned was through failures.
Ever witness a grown man try to give mouth to mouth resuscitation to a baby snake??
There is a wonderful product that I found, it is cheap, and attractive but best of all the safest thing I have found for little babies.
Cage carpet! Nothing for them to ingest, and loads more attractive than newspaper.
Now, this I have witnessed, more than once.
We raised some little babies up for 8 months, hand fed, handled, all of it.
Then we released them, weeks later when found, they were fully wild!
One even coiled up and pretended to be a rattlesnake, so there is no fear of "taming" them, once they hit the wild, instinct will take over just fine.
