I just trained my gecko to eat from my hand

[samthebigkid]

I was pretty happy

obviously she's not gonna get all her food this way, but it's cool that she'll take it out of my hands like that

 

[Amber7399]

congrats on this :main_thumbsup: jus be carefully. sometimes they see fingers as being "big worms" :main_laugh:

 

[Jenn]

hehe Becareful what you start. My bearded dragon will only eat out of my hand now LOL.

 

[samthebigkid]

i was planning on one cricket by hand and then all the rest like normal everyday. I don't want her to get dependent on it, but i also want her to stay comfortable with it

 

[Jeremy Letkey]

I think it is obvious that your gecko has trained you to hand feed it... lol
They are sooo lazy. :main_thumbsup:

 

[nats]

That's a great way to get them tame.
Just put a fat yummy waxie in the palm of your hand and they have to
get on it to eat the worm.
Of course, you dont want to make a habit of hand feeding, or you will
spoil them and make them very lazy

 

[nats]

i was planning on one cricket by hand and then all the rest like normal everyday. I don't want her to get dependent on it, but i also want her to stay comfortable with it

Sometimes, what I do is dust the cricket, than hold it by its back legs between thumb and finger, and put it a few inches in front of the leo.
Be sure to hold BOTH legs though, because if you only have one, it will
break off.
Crickets dont seem to mind loosing a leg to make an escape, but they
dont want to loose both.

 

[your gecko guy]

thats cool

 

[project1]

yea its cool but i did this with one of my beardies and now she assumes theres food about any time she sees a hand and i tryd to do this with my gecko and he bit my hand twice so i stopped lol

 

[nats]

yea its cool but i did this with one of my beardies and now she assumes theres food about any time she sees a hand and i tryd to do this with my gecko and he bit my hand twice so i stopped lol

Oops!

 

[Skeeter]

don't do that to much cause then they think that's where there food will be

 

[nats]

don't do that to much cause then they think that's where there food will be

Yep! that is true.

So, scratch the "feeding with fingers" idea!

New plan; use plastic or wooden feeding tweezers when you have to.

Of course, its always best to let them chase their own prey.

I always drop the food in, one at a time. I dont drop in another until they
have eaten the last one. That way, I dont have to go chasing around
trying to find un-eaten crickets!