Best feeding tongs-help

[Barb]

Okay, I bought a pair of feeding tongs, metal, for feeding reptiles. They suck! The worms can wiggle out of them and the crickets, well I can pick them up and just as quickly they are out of them. Is it me or are there better feeding tongs out there? I have lost two crickets and geez, I don't know, about 4-5 worms within the six foot fake ficus. Actually found one of the lost hornworms walking on my couch the other morning, eeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkk

 

[Rush2112]

I use Zoo Med feeder tweezers. I like them a lot. I also have some with rubber tips and I do not like them.

 

[jannb]

I normally just use my fingers but I do have one with the rubber tips that works quite well and should be easier on your chameleons tongue.

 

[dlegare]

I prefer to use ring forceps for feeding. They have a nice wide end and easily grip most feeders very well.

I use a small one for my more shy cham and a big pair to feed my Emerald Boa.

I found tweezers too difficult to hold on to.

 

[crocky]

I have the silver feeding tongs as well and one pair has a rubber tip but I can't for the life of me hold on to a feeder with it. I think for me, I feel like if I squeeze it too hard I will kill the feeder . I saw a pic of some the other day, I think it was Kat using them with simba that were yellow and looked plastic but looked like it has nice ridges on the ends to grasp better. Going to try and see if I can find some of them.

 

[Barb]

Mine are long, has blunt but pretty wide tips and ridges o help grasp and hold the feeder, but either I am also not squeezing hard enough, in fear of smashing or they just don't hold well. I almost bought the rubber tipped ones, but didn't think they would hold as well. I also have tried plastic chop sticks the ones made for people that can't really do chop Stix, they are connected. They don't work good either. Ugh, maybe more practice.

 

[lovepicasso]

I can' get Picasso to even try to eat if I'm holding prey in some kind of tweezers or tongs, since he has lost most of his tongue he will only eat if we pry open his mouth and put the food in it.....but if I had lost worms and found them on my sofa, well, that would be the end of that real fast.

 

[KatCham]

I have the silver feeding tongs as well and one pair has a rubber tip but I can't for the life of me hold on to a feeder with it. I think for me, I feel like if I squeeze it too hard I will kill the feeder . I saw a pic of some the other day, I think it was Kat using them with simba that were yellow and looked plastic but looked like it has nice ridges on the ends to grasp better. Going to try and see if I can find some of them.

Yes, Simba's are the Zoo Med plastic Feeder Tongs. I find them very easy to use and haven't lost grip of a feeder yet. The ridges on the end parts seem to do their job (they have a plastic part in the middle which I assume is designed to prevent to much squishing of the feeder as well )

This is them:

 

[danTHAman152000]

I recently bought ZooMed stainless steel tongs from Amazon.

With my experience, my shy cham looked at the tongs attached to my hand, and did not recognize them as a threat at all. I laughed when I could hold the tongs in my hand above his head and he couldn't care less. One of the first times I tried holding a cricket in front of him, he zapped it but I was not fast enough to let go at the right time. I was hoping the cricket's leg would get pulled off with the grasp of my 4 month old veiled's tongue. Since then he has not tried to go after anything in the tong's grasp.

I have found that using the tongs to grasp crickets and place them on a branch near my chameleon has been more effective. Once he sees them walking on his JungleVine, he goes after them right away.

He does not pay attention to a "cream cheese container" as well as a "sunny D death trap" even if they are full of crickets or lobster roaches.

I blame me spoiling him with blue bottle flies. Before I gave them those, he loved crickets. Unfortunately for me, I have found "black crickets" locally at half the price (even after shipping) at rainbow (which I can pick up, but it's a 2 hour event, driving into sh*tty *ss neighborhoods). The blacks like to hang out at the bottom. The nice banded like the lights, where they get picked off right away.

Anyways, after I bought my tongs, I thought I should have bought the rubber tipped ones. But after trying to entice my cham with plenty of super worms with my steel ones, they always squirm their way off. I think when I hold them I will squeeze their guts out lol.

 

[Barb]

I can' get Picasso to even try to eat if I'm holding prey in some kind of tweezers or tongs, since he has lost most of his tongue he will only eat if we pry open his mouth and put the food in it.....but if I had lost worms and found them on my sofa, well, that would be the end of that real fast.

If it were any other kind of worm, eek but the horn worms are so cute and pretty still eek, but not as bad as the others

 

[Barb]

Yes, Simba's are the Zoo Med plastic Feeder Tongs. I find them very easy to use and haven't lost grip of a feeder yet. The ridges on the end parts seem to do their job (they have a plastic part in the middle which I assume is designed to prevent to much squishing of the feeder as well )

This is them:

Thanks for the pic. I will try those.

 

[nightanole]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004H1MV5A/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00

Been using these with good luck with the supers. They are textured at the end so alittle better for grip

 

[ibdragons]

Zoomed are the best ones in my opinion . I bought a pair from exoterra and even though they make good stuff their large tweezers are too hard to use stiff like.