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Should i be handling him by hand so he can get used to it? At the moment i use a glove and he still gives me a pretty good bite through that? And what will he be like once i get another C/L? i hope he doesnt attack or fight with this one!!

Oh another thing, i have also an adult male bearded dragon and when i let both them out the collared seems to like him and doesnt hiss or bite him which i thought he would. I think he kinda likes him, they cant live together can they?

Cheers again folks

i don't really have any advice for you...i was just wondering if it really hurts when they bite because i have always read that but the one time i was bitten it did not hurt at all. in fact i thought it was cute. my lizards are captives but i wonder if that had anything to do with it or if it is because they know me or if i just got lucky. two of my lizards got tangled in a piece of string and i was trying to free them and i must have pulled too hard. other than that, i can pretty much do whatever i want to them and they just flick their tongues at me.
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vonnie
***One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne***

yeh it hurts like hell!! its over in a flash though, they sort of lunge at you really quick then clamp down like a bloody vice for a few seconds then let go but i think its more the speed of the attack that gives you a wee fright. Still though every lizard i have ever owned has never bite me or been agrresive, oh im telling lies i once had a tokay gecko (say no more...lol...

well i guess i did get lucky when i was bitten or maybe since i could not see them, the whole lunge thing was not there to psych me out.
i had never heard of a tokay before but i just looked it up and they definitely sound like mean little babies. my sister was watching a gecko once for a friend and the lid was off the top and i was looking at him and my hair was wrapped up in a towel. that crazy little guy leaped out of the cage and grabbed on to the towel. out of reaction i flung the towel across the room and him with it. he lived but trying to get him back into the cage was the worst. he made the most god awful barking sound ever. this happened like 10 years ago and me and my sister still laugh about it. he was purple and orange. i want to say he was a barking gecko. does that sound like a familiar name to anyone? anyway that is my one experience with a gecko
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vonnie
***One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. - A. A. Milne***

him, Dang that would be frieghtning ! hhehehhe.

I never used a glove, Hey gotta get tough, it's only a small lizard !!

Seriously I personally would dump the glove, and just keep trying. Make sure you never approach him from the top, as so do their preditors, before they get eaten.

Approach low, at his level, from front or side, let him see you!

Oh and the adult Beardie, can EAT him ! I have a beardie to, pretty meek , I would not trust him with the real small ones.

They eat smaller lizards, real quick! Not a good idea to think of housing them together.

Hey hope your collared calms down soon.
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