The Meanest Baby Morphs!

I'm not sure if I have had any specific morphs be more aggressive than others. I can tell you that the male Super Stripe I just picked up is 'hellish', makes some of my mean girls look like puppy dogs. I'll just walk by the racks and I'll hear him hissing, pull the tub out and you'd swear he could fly. ;)

My het albino is my meanest. He doesnt really hiss hes bitten my husband a few times. Hes not really mean just nervous. I guess i say hes mean because my other 2 are complete sweethearts!

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My black pastels are sweeties, though.

My cinny pewter was a MEAN yearling. She knew how to make it hurt. So I would have said it must just be a cinny trait, but she just hatched a cinny poss het pied and a pewter poss het pied, and those two don't seem to be biters. (Yet.)

My mojo females are the mean ones! My sub adult is really vocal and my hatchling will come out of her tub at you just for looking at her!

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I believe temperament is heritable (all experiments certainly support that), and only hold back docile animals. An aggressive/overly defensive snake is a deal-breaker for me.

My cinnie het albino girl is fine, nothing unusual about her temperament. My cinnie breeder male is also docile.

Out of hatchlings, I have found it follows clutch lines more than morph lines. Some pairings produce more aggressive hatchlings than others. Most of the babies will calm down with age, either way.

I believe if cinnamons or black pastels tend to be more aggressive, it's because people have been breeding aggressive ones.
I've yet to encounter a morph in which the general tendency is for increased aggression, it's always down to bloodlines, not morph genes.

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Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion

I believe temperament is heritable (all experiments certainly support that), and only hold back docile animals. An aggressive/overly defensive snake is a deal-breaker for me.

My cinnie het albino girl is fine, nothing unusual about her temperament. My cinnie breeder male is also docile.

Out of hatchlings, I have found it follows clutch lines more than morph lines. Some pairings produce more aggressive hatchlings than others. Most of the babies will calm down with age, either way.

I believe if cinnamons or black pastels tend to be more aggressive, it's because people have been breeding aggressive ones.
I've yet to encounter a morph in which the general tendency is for increased aggression, it's always down to bloodlines, not morph genes.

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This makes a lot of sense. :gj:

Like most of yall, our black pastel/cinnies have been abnormally aggressive. This year we had two clutches sired by our grumpy old black pastel and his babies definitely inherited his attitude, every last one, even the normals.

My Pewter and Lesser Cinny are by far the meanest of my snakes. They're also the only ones that have actually struck at me. My ghost is a little scary but she's flighty, not defensive.

No bites yet ;)

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I wonder how many people who keep other snakes besides BPs are looking at this thread and laughing

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Originally Posted by MrLang

I wonder how many people who keep other snakes besides BPs are looking at this thread and laughing

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You make a good point! :gj:

We keep amazon tree boas as well, so we know mean snakes quite well. We have only had one ball who was even remotely as mean as them. She is a normal that we hatched out this year that was sired by our black pastel. I don't even like opening her tub because she launches herself out every time. She means business too and is NOT bluffing. We can't even give her away. :D

How many of us are mistaking a strong feeding response for aggression? None of my snakes are what I would consider mean, but I have a couple of young snakes that are bottomless pits, and are aggressively slithering out of their tubs as soon as I open them. Even a caress with a snake hook won't get my Sulfur female out of feed mode. I swear she would eat every day if I let her.

Well it was my pastel, then she hit 600g and settled out a lot, then it was my pin, then she hit 500g and settled a lot, now its my YB weighing in at 72g.....