Feeding Brevs With Tweezers...

[OldSkoolxReasons]

In the past 3 months or so I have begun feeding some of my brevs crickets, silkies, baby mantids, and other food items straight from the tweezers. I was just wondering if anyone else does this or if anyone sees any real harm in it. I know they should be more terrified of me than my panthers however they are not an will not readily accept food items from the end of my little tweezers. Like I said I was just wondering if anyone else has done this or is trying to due this and if it seemed to stress your pygmies out. Mine seem to be doing fine with it however I only hand feed them one or two food items each every other day and let them catch the rest on their own. I'm going to upload a video on youtube then put it on here. I just have to figure out how. Lol. Computer retarded over here. Thanks.



Justin

 

[Leilaskeeper]

In the past 3 months or so I have begun feeding some of my brevs crickets, silkies, baby mantids, and other food items straight from the tweezers. I was just wondering if anyone else does this or if anyone sees any real harm in it. I know they should be more terrified of me than my panthers however they are not an will not readily accept food items from the end of my little tweezers. Like I said I was just wondering if anyone else has done this or is trying to due this and if it seemed to stress your pygmies out. Mine seem to be doing fine with it however I only hand feed them one or two food items each every other day and let them catch the rest on their own. I'm going to upload a video on youtube then put it on here. I just have to figure out how. Lol. Computer retarded over here. Thanks.

Justin

Nothing wrong with it. Feed the chams however you wish. It's the same as hand feeding. You know how it goes .. everyone has their own preference. Some think it's better to free range .. some prefer cup feding. I do all three personally ..

 

[gary1621]

The only problem i can see is that the chams may harm their tongues shooting at the food item and catching the sharp point on the tweezers! That really could cause some damage.

Please dont try it with the Panthers, their food items are much bigger so easier for you to feed with your bare hands if you so wish

 

[OldSkoolxReasons]

I hand feed each of my panthers usually one or two of their bugs every feeding. It takes awhile with 19 of them but I get it done. Everyone gets a hand fed treat here. My tweezers are not pointy and therefore will not harm their tongues. I was just looking in terms of long term tweezer feeding causing stress related illnesses and such as I had not heard of it being done too often or for long periods of time with the brevs.


Justin


EDIT: When I say tweezers It is referring to a set of tweezers with two circular flat ends where the pointed ends would be. Trust me I would not use pointy tweezers to feed my chams, especially and adult since they just engulf anything their tongue hits.

 

[gary1621]

phew!

 

[OldSkoolxReasons]

I've heard a couple horror stories of peoples chams with infected tongues that clear up, go away, and keep coming back. My vet told me he had two different keepers who had chams with chronic tongue problems and both were concluded to be caused by feeding related issues with pointy tweezers. One was feeding a meller's with little pointy eyebrow tweezers and the other was using 10" long tweezers that were pointy as well, not too much unlike the zoo med super long tongs that I use for my frogs except the zoomed kin have flat ends that could in no way injure my animals. I believe he said the second cham was an adult female veiled.



Justin