macbrush Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Sorry, its me again with all these questions. This time is about hissing, I have a few species of hissers, and they kind of have different hissing behaviour. I'll list them out in order of loudness, and how often they do it. 1. Tiger Strip Hisser: They hiss a lot, and loud. Whenever you touch them, or sometimes even approach them. 2. Madagascar Hisser: A little harder to get them hiss, need to surprise them otherwise they won't. But when they do, its loud consider most of them aren't adults yet. 3. Black hisser: No idea what they are, since I have 6, and they all seems to have different shapes and small colour variation. They do hiss, though its very hard to get them to do so, and when they do, its not really hissing, you know they are trying to hiss, but all you hear is the sound of air being pushing out. 4. Dwarf Hisser: I have 7 of them, and they never hiss. They like jumping off my hand though... LOL Is that normal for some of them never even try to hiss? And for the black ones, since they can't really hiss though they try, and their shapes and colour vary so much, do you guys think that its because their gene have been messed up so much from hybridizing to a point that its compromising their hissing ability? Thanks Kenneth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recluse Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I actually have noticed that my E. chopardi, and E. javanica are more hissy than ALL of my other hissers. I never hear my A. insignis hiss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KitKatie329 Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 My A. insignis have a mighty hiss! I think E. javanicas are hilarious because mine hiss so loudly for such a small thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbrush Posted July 9, 2011 Author Share Posted July 9, 2011 That sounds everyone is having different luck, I guess maybe it is because most colonies are decedents of just a very few individuals or even just a single pair, and their behaviour largely depends on genes inherent from those individuals. And that lead me to think that maybe my black variants have inherent some defective genes, that's why their hissing doesn't work. Thanks for all the answers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makoygaara Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 I agree with the hissing behavior of the G. Portentosa. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosenKrieger Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 Some of my G. Portentosa hiss pretty loudly while others in the colony don't hiss much at all. And my E. Javanica are only 2i still, so I haven't heard any of them hiss yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macbrush Posted July 10, 2011 Author Share Posted July 10, 2011 Talk about behaviour, I actually have a black individual that isn't afraid of me as much as others, when I try to pick him up, sometimes he wouldn't run away, but stand his ground. He would turn around and use his abdomen to push my finger away. Funny little creature... LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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