My snakes hate me!!!

[Stefan-A]

Yeah, learned that trick with my first snake.

Interestingly, my tetra seems to have an opinion on which way I should hold my hand, too. Palm up is okay, palm down isn't. I can do pretty much anything as long as my hand approaches with the right side down. It's not a matter of what direction it's coming from either.

[Sid]

Guess I've been really lucky. I've only had one out of the many that I kept that was honestly mean. And I do feel the term for her was mean. Had her for a couple of years and every time the enclosure was opened her mouth went wide open and here she came.

All the others after just some short term handling have been OK. With skiddish one I lay my hand on them flat for a moment, then slip my thumb beneath them and have no problems.