Personality Linked to Morphs

What an interesting and enlightening thread!

It also reinforces my new plans of a mojave Morticia instead of my original plans for an axanthic. ;) There's a few reasons, but a nice personality is certainly a perk!

1 Wilma is my norm girl very nice but I have to be carefull with her feeding response.
2 Jeanne this girl is a real BBBB she strike's at everthing that move's , once I have her in control she's fine I guess.(Normal female)
3 Mystique is a sweetheart. (Normal)
4 Morpheu's my pastel is scared of his shadow.
5 Neo my Albino is fearless he doesn't mess with me but he isn't scared.
6 Trinity my het-albino is nice but she'll hiss like crazy when I take her out.
7 Link my het-pied is still a little nippy it's going away though.
8 Charlotte is my Spider she's a sweetheart.
9 Fate is one of my poss het-pied girls she doesn't mess with me either.
10 Desire is my other poss het-pied girl she's also nice and calm.
11 No verdict on Mr Smith yet he's my Yellow belly just got him he's nice so far.

So out of my group so far there's only one i really have to be careful with , This girl jeanne see's rat's and me as the same.LOL

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Originally Posted by kavmon

how about granites? is everyone else's pissy too?vaughn

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I've only had my grantie male for a week but you can tell that he's gonna be a grumpy snake!! Struck at me as soon as he was set up in his tub....I'm giving him another 3 or so days and I'll take him out and see how he is!!

Orpheus M (Normal) - Calm cool and collected.
Bandi F (Normal) - A real B&*^%. If you ever want to know what its
like to get bit, She'll help you out
Odin M (Het pied) - Hisses but a real active guy once he's out
Pastel M - see Odin
Pastel F - A little defencive at first but real sweet after she calms
down
Spider M - Real sweet no hissing nor hiding he just lets you pick him
up and then loves to explore.
Mojave F - Same as the spider but a little shyer.

so now that i have my pied and the het. pied, and know a little more about them i'll add to the thread what i think.
Normal male- coolest snake, loves everybody, never hissed or struck
pied- finicky eater (she bites and constricts great, but if you watch her eat she'll drop the rat)
het. pied- only have taken him out once, cool personality, very cocky, but hasnt eaten yet (i'm trying again tomarrow)

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Originally Posted by tmlowe5704

I hear het albinos can sometimes be jumpy as well as het axanthics. Not sure on the truth though, I have only had my male for a month and my female for 2 weeks so I can't really tell from experience.

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I have a het albino male and possible het albino female... they'll both take a finger off if your not careful! :O

I have to say, that I haven't really had any real pissy animals...The het 4 pied I have has hissed onced or twice and my big girl has hissed a couple times when I first got her...but she wasn't held very much by the person who had her before me. Other than that I've been pretty blessed with rather docile and extremely tame ball pythons... I've been bit by only 1 ball python and that was a tiny tiny hatchling that i had bought as my first ball python and it was MY FAULT...I didn't give it a full week to acclimate and the poor thing was just scared...
( I didnt know about the acclimation period at that time... The guy I bought it from didn't give me any kind of information or anything...I bought the barker's ball python book soon after back then)

This is great. Its cool how ball pythons have such different personalities, all of my have distinctly different personalities. Its interesting to see these traits that seem to be common in certain morphs. Possible because they're mostly gentetically related??

Luna - Normale female - Shy, pretty laid back most of the time, used to be quite a scarty cat will revert back at times. She can also have her bad days, if for some reason she gets really scared or stressed, she may strike. She has never gotten me.
Big Female - (no name Normal) Big girl and so far big feeding response, I have to try and convince her its not feeding time everytime I open the lid. She hasn't struck yet, but she sure looks like shes wanted to.
Rill - Normal Female - Will hiss from time to time, only when your taking her out, does a lot of moving around and exploring when you take her out
Zesiro - 66% Het for Albino male - Best snake I've got, will eat anything, anytime, anywhere. Would only bite me if he thought I was food (hasn't mistaken me yet) Doesn't flinch much, very active when you take him out, not even very head shy. Awesome snake!
100% Het Albino female - Head shy, not sure too much of her personality yet, but shes a great eater. She had a bad shed, and after a good soak, she and I worked GREAT together helping her shed out, funny how much she knew I was there to help. Smart snake.

Anybody have a Spider that is aggressive? Or a Mojave that has gone off feed randomly? Or a really nice feeding, tame Pied?

I think spiders are the BEST eaters in my experience and yes one of my female spiders was a FREAK.Half the time she just wanted to eat anything including ME :eek: lol.
They are ALL puppy dog tame now even the nasty one and very inquisitive.
I have a Mojave that is a pain in the ASS eater but a GREAT breeder.
Pastels I find are freaks and nasty when young but MOST hatchlings are.
Cinnys I find are GREAT eaters also.
I find Albinos are great eaters but are kind of shy.
ALL of my normal girls are eating MACHINES I find and just NEVER bite except one LOL.I have a 4500 gram female that is just the NASTIEST ball python I have EVER seen.She will bit and bite and bite till you put her down.I HATE cleaning her tub or taking her out :mad: lol