Snake Dancing
Maria's Snake Advice for the Gilded Serpent
These seem to have most of what you'll need to know. Also forgot to add, snakes like to bm outside of their cages, so it's good to get them between bms and feeding, if you're performing (aka feed the snake, he has the bm, then it's fairly safe to perform). It's all about the timing. Or also, if you're not sure when his last bm was, you could bring the snake out of the cage prior to performance for a few hours and lessen the chance of an on stage bm.