bitten while hand feeding

[beardeddragonlover2]

can you break a 3 month old beardie of biting when being hand fed?

 

[Tonja]

Have you tried using feeding tongs or a blunt pair of tweezers to feed with. I have never been bitten by any of my scaley friends so not sure if you want to continue to hand feed and if so, I would use tweezers or tongs which is what I do for Emily since she has a pocket in her mouth <birth defect> and bugs tend to crawl back out of her mouth through it.

 

[KarenInCA]

We also use the long tweezer tongs that we got at a reptile pet shop. When Rin sees the tongs, he gets very excited. We just hold the feeder with it gently, and she licks it out of our grip.
I would strongly suggest you get a one. You dont want to get her in the habit of seeing you finger as a time to get excited about food.

 

[beardeddragonlover2]

she gets exited when i put a salad in her cage, or when i have a black tub of crickets

 

[Tonja]

can you take her out before adding the salad to her tank or food, then put her back in?

 

[beardeddragonlover2]

she is on one side of the tank, and i oddly enough have bad luck with the lights, and she wouldnt stay still too long