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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aint" data-source="post: 80642" data-attributes="member: 6848">It's been years, but when we had a large rose hair, it was a calm T. We didn't hug up on it like a stuffed animal, but we would encourage it to crawl into our hands now and then. It never bit. Never flicked.It would even crawl all over us. Thing to watch was jumping. Twice, it nearly jumped from our shoulders to the ground. We were told they won't always survive a drop like that onto hard ground. After the second time of catching it mid air, we stopped letting it crawl so high.Our technique to handle it was to slowly place a clean hand in the tank a day or so after it had eaten. Slowly move toward it. If it runs, leave it be. If it rared up, stop. Wait for it to settle down and try again. If it kept raring up, leave it be.</blockquote>