I can see insanity from my back porch.....

[Salamander Rising]

So I've got a '06 Bee male from a very respected breeder who was supposed to be [at least before he came here] a mega-stud who'd 'breed anything you put him in with'.
[which I why I paid so much for him...that "guarantee" of amazing potency]

I've let him settle in.
He is calm and content in his home.
He eats well, even though he refuses to eat anything not alive.
All parameters are spot-on.
I haven't handled him much because he's never been a "pet" and doesn't seem inclined to be.

Last night I put my normal female in with him, she appeared intrigued but he not only was not interested, he went into an hysterical, wall-climbing, cork-screwing, body flinging frenzy which looked like rapid, multiple suicide attempts, culminating in him finally falling upside down on his back and basically just laying there and "playing dead" until I removed her.
[Spider genes are such fun]

Someone here wondered if my snakes were truly the sexes I bought them as so I took said normal female and put her in with my male '08 pastel breeder.

Her tail went right up, he started cruising around, wagging his tail madly [?!?]
They continued doing this perpetual motion/tail display fest until I got bored of watching.

In the mean time, this made me wonder more about the Bee.
So, I took my het Clown male and stuck him in with the Bee.
Same bargain basement histrionics.

Back out came the het Clown male.

I went to fetch hubby so he could witness this madness but put in my het Clown female in this time.

She was her usual mellow, existential self and just to make a liar out of me in front of witnesses, the still-uninterested Bee did not go into histrionics [too tired from all the Shakespearean uber-theatrics before, maybe] and simply crawled into his hide to get away from her.

Out of the 3 times I've tried to introduce females to him, every single time results in this neurotic Ophidiophobia routine.

I spent far too much money on this Bee for him to just be a very pretty, eccentric pet.

Any ideas, thoughts, suggestions, theories [no matter how wild or weird] would be greatly appreciated.