How to calm a leopard gecko with a crazy active feeding response?

[Christywoowoo]

a few of my leopard geckos (mostly the young ones, but also one adult) have what I call an overactive feeding response. The leopard gecko I'm mostly concerned about is a sub adult female named Mango.

Mango tries to eat most things that move, especially hands. She gives the hungry eyes and looks at my hand as if it were food, and even if I hold it still she strikes at me. I have managed to take her out and handle her before, which went smoothly until she noticed the creases in my hand and began to bite me. It's definitely starting to hurt now that she's big.

I need some advice on how to snap her out of being so hungry all the time ;-;

 

[Neon Aurora]

I have one like this. She is young, and I expect she will grow out of it. I'm always a tad nervous to open her tub because she has actually jumped at me before.

For those that don't grow out of it (since you said you have an adult like this), I would think it would be treated the same as a snake mistaking hands for food when you open the enclosure and feed the gecko in a different container. I'm pretty sure the association between the tank lid opening/tub being slid open and being fed can be pretty strong, so as soon as that happens, their feeding response gets kicked into gear and some react very strongly. If the gecko was only fed after being moved into a different container, than opening the enclosure would no longer be associated with being fed. Being moved into said container would be the cue to activate feeding response. Alternatively, you could try opening the enclosure often without feeding the gecko. Open it and handle the gecko, move stuff around, clean inside, just open it for the sake of opening it. I think the key concept here is to break the idea that opening enclosure=food.

 

[Christywoowoo]

There's one big problem here. My tank has no lid and we usually take her out and put her on the desk before feeding her, but anything that moves still grabs her attention.