I would love to get 1 or 2 hots but I need lots of training 1st. I was wondering what would be a good starter hot?? I'm not in the market anytime soon but in the future/down the road i would like to own 1 or 2..Your EDB is amazing very cute!!! 
Someone elses haha! Honestly if you knwo omeoen close who has them then yea someone elses hot is the best which of course that would go with havings ome training an what not.
everyones opion is diffrent but the best thing to just get int it with us probly whatever you have localy thats the least venomous that you know for a fgact yu can get av for. Copperheads are just about everywhere, they don't tend ot be spazmatic or have a realy strong commin outa the cage feeding responce an their venom isn;t normaly deadly though it can an will cause alota pain, tissue loss an greif. i say it all the time that you about have to be the most unlucky person in the world to die from a copperhead bite - its either you got taged in the face, neck, chest, directly into an artery or vein, or your alergic or anaphalactic shock.
Some people don;t wnana keep copperheads, say their to common etc. So they look toward the more exotic snakes. Mangroves, Asian Vine Snake (i think its the one i am thinkin of), an false water cobras tend to be the less potent of the more exotic species if i rember correctly. my knowldge on the more exotics is more of a "need to know incase" then actual practice since all i can keep i southern pitvipers.
the best advice i can give is to find a non venmous snake that has the same "temperment", "body type" an exhibits the same speed or is faster then what your wanting to keep an work with it. For example if you wanted to keep a cottonmouth, many water snakes tend to work great for that. I always encourage working with non venomous first. yall have seen my training snake haha my red tail green rat snake XD haha.
