About a month ago, I received two tokay geckos. One male, one female. The people that owned them before did not handle them, and they had little human contact.
Before I say anymore, I want to clarify. -If I can never handle them, fine. If they're look but don't touch, again; fine. I just want to try-
The reason I want to try to be able to handle my geckos has to do with their feeding. The female, I tweezer feed. In an attempt to gain her trust. She's not my issue. It's the male.
He will have nothing to do with anything on the tweezers, and takes forever to eat on his own. So I have to separate them to feed them; little miss piggy eats the ones I put in for him before he can.
I feel bad having to scoop him up in a small animal habitat, but it's the only way I can move him. I don't want to stress him out by grabbing him the wrong way.
My question to you all is;
What's the safest/least stressful way to handle them
Note;
I'm not afraid of being bitten. If I'm bit, then I'm bit. I just worried about putting unneeded stress on them
Before I say anymore, I want to clarify. -If I can never handle them, fine. If they're look but don't touch, again; fine. I just want to try-
The reason I want to try to be able to handle my geckos has to do with their feeding. The female, I tweezer feed. In an attempt to gain her trust. She's not my issue. It's the male.
He will have nothing to do with anything on the tweezers, and takes forever to eat on his own. So I have to separate them to feed them; little miss piggy eats the ones I put in for him before he can.
I feel bad having to scoop him up in a small animal habitat, but it's the only way I can move him. I don't want to stress him out by grabbing him the wrong way.
My question to you all is;
What's the safest/least stressful way to handle them
Note;
I'm not afraid of being bitten. If I'm bit, then I'm bit. I just worried about putting unneeded stress on them
