An important lesson on hand feeding

[artnic93]

If you have a gecko with poor vision..do not hand feed, because he/she will miss the worm and latch onto your thumb.
Fun fact: geckos have teeth.

lol

 

[Klogue1]

Ouch... I use small tweezers to pinch the cricket, Nefarious actually let me hand feed him today. Hope your hand gets better

 

[artnic93]

Ouch... I use small tweezers to pinch the cricket, Nefarious actually let me hand feed him today. Hope your hand gets better

Thats a good idea. thats cute! yeah itll be alright, I was just suprised at how sharp their teeth are!

 

[Klogue1]

Ya, I didn't really suspect them to have teeth to be honest. Wow, that's surprising, they must be tiny.

 

[artnic93]

They are, its like a bunch of little puncture wounds, like little T-rex. lol

 

[fl_orchidslave]

Feeding tweezers for reptiles come in a variety of lengths.........

 

[acharpenter]

Been there - done that

Didnt want to purchase a set of feeding tongs that could possibly injure Geek - so I picked up these:
http://toronto.flyerland.ca/product...-5925215/big-als-aquarium-services-store-1483

He has no problem with them even though he was used to me feeding him by hand for a couple months.

May want to leave the tongs in there for a few days so your Leo's get used to them but - again - works great on this end!

 

[artnic93]

Been there - done that

Didnt want to purchase a set of feeding tongs that could possibly injure Geek - so I picked up these:
http://toronto.flyerland.ca/product...-5925215/big-als-aquarium-services-store-1483

He has no problem with them even though he was used to me feeding him by hand for a couple months.

May want to leave the tongs in there for a few days so your Leo's get used to them but - again - works great on this end!

Ill deffinately consider something like that. He likes to be fed by hand, but Id rather not have any more wounds.

 

[roger]

Ill deffinately consider something like that. He likes to be fed by hand, but Id rather not have any more wounds.

why not let him do what he naturally does and that is hunt ??

 

[sausage]

why not let him do what he naturally does and that is hunt ??

because was already stated that he has poor vision so to hunt naturally would probably mean starvation for the poor little guy. i have a male whos very lazy and only will eat adult locusts so just grab hold of its wings and feed it to him that way fingers well out the way

 

[Coby78]

Leila is a brat and will only eat if I hand feed her. (I've tried crickets and unless they're RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER NOSE, she won't even look at them). She's bitten me by accident a few times by accident because of it, but WOW, I can't imagine how that felt! I'm used to Leila's weak little pinches ahaha.

 

[artnic93]

why not let him do what he naturally does and that is hunt ??

He does hunt when he can, and I put worms in a dish for him, but the bigger worms escape and he cant get them, so for stuff like waxworms and large meal worms I try to give them to him by hand.

 

[ElapidSVT]

feeding them your hand isn't really the goal of hand feeding.


OUCH!

 

[roger]

because was already stated that he has poor vision so to hunt naturally would probably mean starvation for the poor little guy. i have a male whos very lazy and only will eat adult locusts so just grab hold of its wings and feed it to him that way fingers well out the way

it would help if i read the op first

 

[gothra]

Haha, welcome to the club! I use an 8" rubber tip tweezer to feed my geckos. Maybe I should take pictures of how that rubber tip looks now, could've save some innocent fingers, lol.

 

[artnic93]

it would help if i read the op first

Lol, yeah probably, but its all good.