Snake Personalities...pretty different..

I have 6 who are all either shy or dont care whats going on but not aggressive ones yet. Picked up an albino Nicaraguan and got my first constrictor bite and a open mouth display. Strangely enough shes the most fun :D


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The different personalities are interesting.

I see that a lot of work has been done on BP color variations.

Is it possible to breed for personality/behavior/intelligence? Has anyone tried?

All of mine are pretty chill, only my dinner is head shy, my pastel used to be. And all our mellow in the cage for the most part except my spider, who is the opposite of all other ball pythons, everytine I turn on the light she comes out of her hide and cruises around investigating. I know it's just the light, cuz when there's nothing but natural light in she doesn't care.

Eissa is pretty relaxed. He has his moments of being jumpy but that's normal. He loves to watch tv or any video. It's funny because if I shut it off he will go back to his hide until I turn it on. When I take him out he's curious and cruises around but his go to spot is on my shoulder. He's super mellow and I'm thankful for such a patient snake that's so forgiving.


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Kismet, my eldest normal, is my shy girl...she's fine on me, but gets pretty stressed with others lol. She's gradually getting better, I chalk a lot of it up to the fact that she had a lot of changes since I rescued her last May. She also likes to randomly hiss...kind of funny. No real reason, just let's out an occasional hiss and goes about her business.

Persephone, my reduced pattern normal, is a baby. BEGS to come out when I'm in the room...and once she's out, she's nuzzling my lips and snuggling up with me. And good luck putting her back lol.

My newest girl, Andromeda, is a sweetheart, but has a little feisty streak, I think (as she struck at me when I was topping off her water after a fantastic hissing display). :)


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My baby BP Bruce is extremely calm. He's a lazy bum when he is in his cage, sleeps under the hide on the warm side of the cage most of the time. But he doesn't have a problem when I open it up and take him out of his hide, it's almost like his attitude is "oh, what's up man? Nice, I get to go explore!" :P.

I am convinced that there is nothing I could do to make him bite me, he is just that chill, totally comfortable with me.

My favorite is when I'm laying down watching TV with him and he decides he wants to go exploring, I find hit hilarious when he tries to squeeze his head in different crevices (between my arm and body, between my fingers, under my back or leg). Or when he yawns lol, it gets me every time. He's really just a goof ball. I couldn't have asked for a better personality in my BP.

Boots is a puppy. Not even head shy and is always going to be my main go-to ambassador snake. She's even confident enough to sleep outside her hides.

Julius is her sheer opposite- she might be the only aggressive defensive BP around. She's hissed, intentionally crapped and smeared it on me, musked, bit and tail wagged numerous times. Which is one reason I like her lots- if I ever want a NatGeo snake catcher experience, it's only across the room.
That being said, she sometime calms down when she's been out for a while. I dare not put my hand in front of her face though.

The ball python is lazy in his enclosure, but inquisitive and active outside of it. He spends most of his time periscoping. lol I remember one time I had him out Skyping with a friend and he kept booping me on the nose or resting his head on the bridge of my nose so that one eye was staring right at one of my eyes. This is how he usually says hello, but it's usually something he does once or twice when I first bring him out. It's almost like he was jealous. XD He's the only snake to have reared up at me, and hissed. Neither of my other two have gotten defensive towards me (although Draco isn't much of a fan of the camera in HIS tank lol and he used to be frightened of the mice), although the boa has become a bit twitchy like what I've seen in retics when getting him out.

The garter is inquisitive and silly, sometimes the smallest movement sends him flying through the air and it's hilarious to watch his body move back and forth from the force of his jump. XD Sometimes he'll follow my finger, and he'll watch people as they move around, but if nothing interesting is going on he usually stays hidden. He's probably got the strongest feeding response of my trio, though. lol He'll come from the opposite end to chase it down, and does laps around his tank as I thaw out his food.

The boa is really chill, and will just relax after awhile. Outside, he does a lot of exploring, though he rarely periscopes. Luckily, his feeding response doesn't kick in unless he physically sees the food, in which case he'll rip them right out of the tongs and hitting anything full-force on the way down. He's also taken to climbing on top of my head, a habit he only recently picked up, around the time he hit 5ft. I don't know why he couldn't do this when he was a baby. lol His weirdest habit is probably his tendency to stare at me while he does his business...I hear a "pffffft" and look over and he has his head lifted up over the lip of the enclosure (a good 6 inches) staring dead at me. o.o

Their personalities are something that always seem to surprise people. My collection numbers close to 40 and all of my snakes are very, very different. And somehow they always seem to embody their names well. Something that always comes back to bite me (:rofl:) when I pick a cool, edgy name. Our two nastiest balls are Drusilla (named for a Buffy the Vampire Slayer villain) and Maduro (a dark smoldering cigar. Trust me, he's got attitude to burn!)