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Arachnoprince
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My P. striata girl is rather calm. If she's hanging out of her cork tube I can usually open the glass doors without her bolting back into her den. It's an exo-terra so to unlock it there is a rather rough 'click' that I know she has to be able to feel the vibration from and she still doesn't react.There are generalizations, but there is also individuality that doesn't always follow with the "norm". Ornata are known for being more defensive...mine (and others) is one of my calmer pokies. Regalis tend to be calmer over-all, but one of mine (out of 4) is super skittish...striata is known for being more skittish, but we have one keeper here who's striata is among his calmer specimens. Vitatta tend to be calm, but my AF is easily the biggest escape risk in my entire t room....but she's never been defensive.
Formosa and tigrinwesselli tend to be more high srttung...but that doesn't mean there aren't calmer examples out there.
In general though, pokies seem to rely on their camo, which makes for a generally calmer, more confident t.....especially as they gan size.pile of legs.
freshly molted ornata, over 8" now.
there is a spider under that pile of legs.
I'd say my P. regalis are all pretty calm, as are my P. subfusca HL slings. It's my P. metallica slings that are super-skittish. Look at the enclosure wrong and they begin to run all over their enclosure. Whereas -every- other pokie I have will run back to the hide, these two go absolutely nuts. My P. tigrinawesseli is also very skittish, but they go for the hide instead of spastic darting like the two P. metallica slings.