Personality Linked to Morphs

The reality is that if you work with these animals in great enough numbers you'll learn that each animal is different ... there are strong feeders and not so strong feeders, shy animals and not so shy animals, aggressive animals and calm animals ... and their particular mutation really has nothing to do with it.

-adam

I have heard that spiders are more prone to star gazing,ETC. I think that is crazy, a morph isn't in the head of the animal its in its genes and "skin".

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Originally Posted by Griggs2121

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

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my pied is super sweet and a great feeder. She hasn't refused yet, and has a great personality, but, i have not had her for that long, so i don't know for sure yet.

Well i cant comment an all the others as we ony have the one BP and shes a normal :p

So far she seems to suffer from rather severe moodswings, and if you let her out to wander and she settles somewhere and gets comfy you can be sure youll have a few chunks missing from your hand trying to coax her back into her box, shes really tame if shes getting her own way tho :p

If she spies a finger and you have let your guard down she will strike it :p

I also learned that she doenst like anything within 10 feet of her when shes eating, I was just letting her get on with it but if I moved she struck at me, so I put the lid on the box and left the room :p

Fiesty wee girl, love her to bits :)

lol. i have only 1 that is potentially fiest, buttt idk yet, i still have to work with him some to see. really havn't held him much.

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Originally Posted by Possum

Well i cant comment an all the others as we ony have the one BP and shes a normal :p

So far she seems to suffer from rather severe moodswings, and if you let her out to wander and she settles somewhere and gets comfy you can be sure youll have a few chunks missing from your hand trying to coax her back into her box, shes really tame if shes getting her own way tho :p

If she spies a finger and you have let your guard down she will strike it :p

I also learned that she doenst like anything within 10 feet of her when shes eating, I was just letting her get on with it but if I moved she struck at me, so I put the lid on the box and left the room :p

Fiesty wee girl, love her to bits :)

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Originally Posted by Griggs2121

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

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My spider and Mojave are both killer eaters they both pounding rat pinks and loving it.

Great thread! I was wondering about that.

What about male vs. female balls in terms of temperment differences?

Well, so far I'm still in startup mode, but here is what I have found:

1.0 het pied male; will eat anything anytime anywhere, even at the beginning of a shed. starts on FT rats within a minute or two. Yearling at 3' and 1100g.

0.2 yearling females; one eats like a pig, anytime, and the other is pickier about timing and quantity, seems to be hesitant about the kill zone (likes to get really slose before striking). weights 1000g and 650g respectively

1.4 early this years hatch ; biggest one eats like a horse, three feed really well, and last one takes up to 20min to kill on live mice

0.4? this years hatch, 3 feed very well and the last one (maybe male??-waiting on probes) is very picky and always trying to escape. the other three are always cuddled in their hide and the one will be out by itself, either sitting there contemplating escape or actively trying to push its way out. Good thing my bins' lids latch....

I've only had one hiss out of any of them, and that was today when I dropped the hide(lightweight) from a couple inches above my big male :0
The hides I'm currently using are thin plastic plant pots in dark green with a rounded half-hole in the side. I try to stick with things that wont hurt the snake if things ever get shaken up.

Oh and since this is a morph thread, I should mention that most of my younger BPs are high yellow, showing lots of flames and mostly clear bellies. hopefully I can prove something out, but it'll be awhile.

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

The reality is that if you work with these animals in great enough numbers you'll learn that each animal is different ... there are strong feeders and not so strong feeders, shy animals and not so shy animals, aggressive animals and calm animals ... and their particular mutation really has nothing to do with it.

-adam

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The color gene mutations almost certainly have nothing to do with their personalities. However, I think its very likely that the methods used to breed them have an impact. For example, the easiest way to isolate a particular gene is through in-breeding. The possible drawbacks of in-breeding are well known and surely apply to snakes.

I would expect that larger, more reputable breeders probably take on the extra cost of mixing in more genes when isolating out a morph. I would also guess that smaller breeders probably engage in much more in-breeding because its faster and cheaper.