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Okay so things have been interesting with my baby lately. hes not as skittish but he is getting more grumpy by the day. Today I got my first hiss and bite. The hiss was meant to scare, but im not sure about the bite yet, he may have been checking to see if I was food? Everyday for the past few days ive been feeding collard greens out of my palm, he climbs on and begins muching for a moment til he realizes where he is then he gets still and less interested in his food, but at least he willing to get into my hand right? So anywho a day or 2 ago he got in my palm and puffed at me, i did not act scared, just lowered my hand for him to get off when he chose too. He usually jumps off, not in a scared manner but more or less to chase his crickets who are running around on the bottom for feeding time. Today I put my hand in while he was resting on his hammock and patted his back, he instantly puffed and hissed, I did not let it phase me, I just kept patting him. He did it a couple of times and I just kept petting til he stopped. Once he stopped I tried again, no puff or hiss, so I set my hand palm open beside him for him to climb on, this time no collards were offered. He tasted then climbed on slowly. He did not act silly or mean. I lowered my hand to the floor of the tank and he was off to chase his crickets (kind of like a daily elevator lol!). When he was off my hand I flipped my hand over so the palm was face down on his floor and just resting in there. I sometimes help guide the crickets toward him so I did that a couple of times, then placed my hand right back where it was. Lol the cricket he was after spazzed and ran into my finger before hopping away, he ran towards the cricket, saw my hand, stopped, starred then ran up and took a nip lol...I did not move, I kept perfectly still, he let go, starred again and then ran under his heat light and flattened out. The bite didnt hurt at all. Did I do everything right? am I on the right track?
