➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[ShrekDawg]

I have always preferred to cook stuff I can eat off of for a few days. That’s why if I say anything it will more likely be something cooked down in a big pot.

I think I need to start doing this because I always wait to eat all day, get starving/sick from not eating, and make something fast/junky or more often but it but if I made something with leftovers, then I could just eat that while still eating healthy. Seems like a much better option.

 

[Tesumph]

That said, I did just find this article but I had to Google hibernation or something specific like that to find it, I don’t think it would have popped up in just regular searches for info/care.

Anyway, do you agree with it?

http://www.reptilesmagazine.com/Reptile-Health/Habitats-Care/Preparing-Reptiles-for-Winters-Sleep/

Yea.. why wouldn’t I agree with it? Haha.

 

[CSAchook]

Hey fellow reptile lovers, any tips on taming and handling a gecko? Hoshi thinks I am food

 

[Kiki]

Hey fellow reptile lovers, any tips on taming and handling a gecko? Hoshi thinks I am food

Awww..he's a killer like my little Faker.

 

[CSAchook]

Awww..he's a killer like my little Faker.

It’s pretty funny. He always assumes that I am reaching into his cage to feed him. If he fails to find any bugs he starts nibbling on my fingers to see if they are the food

 

[Tesumph]

Hey fellow reptile lovers, any tips on taming and handling a gecko? Hoshi thinks I am food

I would start by taking out all the hides and just leaving your hand in the tank until he stops running and approaches you. That might take days or weeks. Make sure your hands don’t smell like bugs.
Then I would move to getting him to crawl on my hands in the tank, then picking him up, and eventually taking him out.

Is he scared and running, or just mistaking you for food?

 

[CSAchook]

I would start by taking out all the hides and just leaving your hand in the tank until he stops running and approaches you. That might take days or weeks. Make sure your hands don’t smell like bugs.
Then I would move to getting him to crawl on my hands in the tank, then picking him up, and eventually taking him out.

Is he scared and running, or just mistaking you for food?

If I place my hand in and leave it there next to him, he tries to eat me.

If I move my hand towards him he either nibbles fingers or slowly moves away.

He only runs if I try to pick him up (only tried it once and it was necessary for cleaning and adding a new temp probe).

I know taming will take time. I am just trying to find ways to interact with him that don’t involve food So thanks!

 

[Tesumph]

If I place my hand in and leave it there next to him, he tries to eat me.

If I move my hand towards him he either nibbles fingers or slowly moves away.

He only runs if I try to pick him up (only tried it once and it was necessary for cleaning and adding a new temp probe).

I know taming will take time. I am just trying to find ways to interact with him that don’t involve food So thanks!

Haha! He sounds like a brave little burrito! I thought you meant he was running in terror, not trying to chow down.
What do you use to feed him? I stopped giving food with my hands after Finn accidentally bit me. I have some giant long metal tweezer things that I use (including for manipulating food bowls), so that’s what they associate with meal time now.

 

[ShrekDawg]

That is why it is important to read actual books and focused/in depth discussions not just basic care sheets and videos. The latter sources give you a general sense of what to buy, how to select a healthy animal, typical temperament, what it eats etc. But there is a lot more to learn than that! I am still researching and learning as much as I can about my reptile pets.

ETA this is not a criticism. YouTube videos and internet posts are a great way to start your research and figure out what animal might suite you. But I have noticed that a lot of the popular sites and videos contain the same fairly basic info. To really get a good understanding though, you eventually have to dig deeper. In my experience, books typically offer more detailed info.

Thanks! This is helpful. I’ll definitely have to get some books maybe. I think I might have one actually. I will have to look. I know I have some small animal ones I found yesterday, like gerbils and guinea pigs, but not sure if I have one for geckos or not.

But anyways, I could definitely do some more research aha although that said, I didn’t just look at like Petco sheets or anything like that, I don’t trust those things haha

I was reading like articles and actual reptile sites and stuff and also a lot of the info came from actual reptile owners because I was on a blog type site thing when I did most of the research so I read stuff they posted and/or asked questions and learned that way and same for a lot of the stuff I learned about fish, small animals, birds, dogs, most things actually haha I thought it was good info considering a lot of came from owners and/or corrected common mistakes and misconceptions but clearly I need to do even more research haha

And btw, I didn’t take it as criticism, you’re right, I definitely need to do more research and there’s definitely a lot I don’t know still, but I do also know some stuff that some people might not like about MBD and never using sand and now the brumating so that’s a good step I think haha but definitely still very basic.

I guess I just figured the Internet would have more in depth information somewhere since everybody uses it these days and almost no one uses real books anymore haha seems the more detailed information should be more readily available! But maybe it is if you know how to look. Idk. But it does seem like a book would probably be the best place and/or easier cause it’s all in one place instead of having to dig to find different info in different places.

I think I need to find a book.

But then again books aren’t necessarily always great either because you have no way of knowing if it’s a good/reliable book or author or not. Of course it’s probably usually more reliable than articles if they were able to make a book but still. Don’t know for sure haha

Sorry for yet another novel.

I really need to work on that.

This more general than I would like. It is not bad as a starting point but you are better off in the long run looking up info specific to your type of animal.

Thanks! This is very helpful.

Yea.. why wouldn’t I agree with it? Haha.

Idk, I was just making sure it was good information and not anything blatantly wrong with it or anything haha there’s a lot of false information out there these days, anyone can write anything, so I just wanted to make sure the information in it was right haha

 

[CSAchook]

Haha! He sounds like a brave little burrito! I thought you meant he was running in terror, not trying to chow down.
What do you use to feed him? I stopped giving food with my hands after Finn accidentally bit me. I have some giant long metal tweezer things that I use (including for manipulating food bowls), so that’s what they associate with meal time now.

The very bravest of burritos!

I think the vast majority of his human interaction has been at feeding time. So hands but no worms = confused predatory burrito

I will try switching to tongs. I have ones just like you described, but haven’t been using them. I just place individual worms in front of him....which probably cemented the association between fingers and food. Oops.