Leo things I'm stealing food

[Anejodave]

My son's leo constantly bites my finger as I'm putting wax worms in the tank. It acts like I'm stealing the food. It's not hurting me a bit since my fingers have so much scar tissue but what can be the result of this behavior?

The leo doesn't do this with anything other than worms. In fact she often takes crickets from my hand with no problem.

 

[Srt14292]

Maybe she is just trying to strike for the waxworms, They do love them, if she is just missing and getting you, why not try taking the bowl out of the tank filling it with the waxworms and then placing it back in?

- Sean

 

[77gecko]

I use tongs to feed

 

[STUTFL]

Maybe she is just trying to strike for the waxworms, They do love them, if she is just missing and getting you, why not try taking the bowl out of the tank filling it with the waxworms and then placing it back in?

- Sean

Waxies look more like fingers than crickets do, too. Easy to grab the wrong thing. :main_yes:

 

[ILoveGeckos14]

There was this one time I was going to feed a waxworm when one of the girls deliberately attacked my hand to get me to let go of it. I know she did it because like you said ive had my hands in there scaring crickets and directing mealworms plenty of times with no attacks. It was hilarious how much I jumped back because she is usually the most timid one!!!:shocked2:...:main_laugh:

 

[fikken]

yeah like said above its probably a mistake she just thinks the worm and finger are alike. i use long feeder tongs and my gecko still gets the tong cause she gets too excited for the worm and bites the tweezer