Quote Originally Posted by Munizfire View Post
Bites: i have NEVER heard of a BP biting, but im pretty sure it happens quite often... BPs wouldn't bite unless extremely uncomfortable or pissed off, right? How bad are their bites?
Some babies (30%? 20%?) are just biters. I swear my first bp even thought it was funny--he'd stalk my toes like a cat. Most of them are just nervous because they're small. And really little ones will bite everything because they're HUNGRY. But baby bites are a joke. My pastel would basically gum me. Really serious defensive biters get better at with with age. Iit can start to hurt a bit when they're 500 grams and up... but it's still basically a pin prick.

And generally even the meanest babies grow out of it as they get larger and the hormones turn on. Snapping at things all the time doesn't get you a mate.

The only "serious" bites are feeding-related, when they mistake your finger for food. That's when they really bring out their tiny little teeth. Search on bites on this site--it's rare for bp bites to really bleed, so people show them off when they do.

I really recommend feeding in cardboard box rather than the tank to avoid feeding aggression.

Oh! And they have really clean bites. They never seem to get infected the way, say, a cat scratch does. They only hurt for a couple minutes, and I have a hard time finding the bites the next day. Even the "bad" bites disappear quickly.