Hissing is a bluff? Yesterday I took out my BP and put him on the floor and almost immediately he started "escaping" and everytime i tried to pick up again he would hiss and snap violently. He ended up under the bed, and was staring at me so I tried poking it with a pencil and it stuck at it. It was getting late so next time it turned around my room mate said screw it and grabbed it (even though it hissed and snapped but didn't have time to turn around etc..) so we put it back in the tank.

is this common for a baby BP? I've had it since monday and did't touch it for the first 3-4 days until it seemed like it was comfy in it's tank. And it's not like it doesn't like me to pick it up. but it hisses quiet a lot which i've come to understand as "don't touch"