Thanks for the replies guys. Yea, he was only a foot or so long, and not much thicker then a medium pen, he did definitely didn't like being bumped with a sandal. So yea, I can imagine to occasionally be around and working with, wouldn't be the best idea. I'm not the biggest snake guy to begin with, but the idea of a full terrarium setup, with a large dry area and a large pond, is really cool.
I can see I could setup a tank, where I'd add a drain to the pond, so having my hands, etc, would be at a minimum, just to add food/clean up I guess. But don't snakes have to visit the vets (or a snake specific veterinarian, forgetting the term) every so often? I know people with boas and pythons are in there all the time. Or do people with exotic/highly venomous species just let nature take it's course? Or sort of what we do for fish, just post images/videos, and try to expert advise from those? A pet store back home, had a king cobra. I can imagine the vet doesn't feel around him like a python?
Though this is really just an idea for down the road. I just re-setup my 5th fish tank (a fw this time) and if I do a snake, I think my roommates are going to walk out on me.
