Well, Scylla was wild caught as a baby but remains wild. I was hoping through feeding and her associating me with food she'd calm now. I have a lot of fake foilage in the cage so she will fell safe. However, if you so much as look at her she flees back into the foliage. Lately she hasn't been eating. It could be that she's about to shed. I picked her up to today (I.E. Gently had to chased her around until I got her, then she musked me and bit me twice, which didn't hurt, but made me pretty mad as I've spent a lot of money to make her comfortable and healthy, so I at least want a snake that's not too scared to leave its hidey hole, even to eat.

After biting me I tossed her into a tub of warm water with my turtle (with fish for her) hoping maybe that'd get her to eat something.. plus I don't want to reward her for biting me by just putting her back in the cage. I got her to take food from my hand once, but not it seems she's far more wild than she had been when I caught her. I don't know where I went wrong. I do weekly cage cleanings involving moving her to a temporary location so she has weekly contact with me anyway. I have left my hand in the cage so she could smell and get used to it.. but she just doesn't like people. At all. We're having a warm break at the moment, living in Louisiana, and I caught her in my yard, so I'm wondering if its just time to give up and buy a hand-raised one. I certainly want a water snake that feeds on fish, not mice, because I have a soft spot for rodents. This is why I don't have any larger varieties of snakes. Plus watching them swim is beautiful.

Advice?

EDIT: My profile picture is from when I first caught her. She's a lot bigger now.