What Lizard Not To Hand-Feed?

[TheBloodyIrish]

I just hook up a PVC pipe to my vivarium for crickets and cockroaches... when it come to feeding lizards.

 

[evilxyardxgnome]

I use tongs to feed my LG just for that fact I don't like handling crickets...........

 

[santoury]

The bloody Irish

That's an awesome idea - I'll have to do that for my frogs. So they stop JUMPING OUT (The crickets) lol

Handfeeding only invites your hands to be bitten - and even with big frogs that is a problem

 

[evilxyardxgnome]

I got lucky with my crickets last night. I was moving the container they are in and the top came off and the container came crashing down, luckily none of the crickets got out.

 

[paul112]

I handfeed my Ameiva, because it's under a foot and wont do any damage

@evilxyardxgnome
Lucky you. I dropped a full box of pinheads ages ago. My mum keeps going crazy when she finds adult crickets wandering around

Paul

 

[aro-man]

A tip some breeders told me if you really want to hand feed is dont let that be the first thing you do when you get home or wake up or whatever. Stick your hands in to clean the cage, or stick your hands in to change water or handling etc. Let feeding be one of the last things you do so it wont associate your hand entering the cage with being fed. Really important with caimans and monitors even big (or venomous snakes). Hope this helps and watch your fingers

 

[davo]

well i don't have any lizards, but with snakes, i generally take them out the viv for feeding. That way with handable species, they don't immediately associate me with feeding time.

 

[evilxyardxgnome]

I handfeed my Ameiva, because it's under a foot and wont do any damage

@evilxyardxgnome
Lucky you. I dropped a full box of pinheads ages ago. My mum keeps going crazy when she finds adult crickets wandering around

Paul

I bought one of those cricket holders from Petsmart, the ones that have two tubes sticking out and you take the tube out when you feed your animal and there are crickets in the tube. Well the crickets seem to have found a way out of it so I stuck the thing into a bigger plastic animal container and what do you know, the next day there is about 15 crickets outside of the cricket container.

That was after I found 2 crickets on the wall by my bed.

 

[pumbus]

heres the monitor that got me