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Hey there,

I was wondering if I could get some help here.

I've been keeping Leos for a number of years, and recently I sold one of mine to a Lady for her son. But when they got him home they had a lot of trouble with him biting, she said she watched him while he was holding him and he was gentle and bit anyways and now they just want to get rid of the leo.

This is really strange to me because in all my years keeping leo's the only time I get bit is my own darn fault, otherwise my geckos have all been really good. I'll admit I'm a new mom and I haven't had the time like I used to to hold them anymore, so it may just not be used to being held, but after hearing the news I went over to my leos and picked all of them up with no problems of biting.

This isn't the little boy's first leo as he has another one that they said does fine. Just wondering what could set the gecko off to be biting so badly?? (they said the gecko drew blood)

Any help/theories would be appreciated.

How old is the gecko you gave to these people? If it's a baby/juvi it's probably just frightened. I've noticed that the older some gecko's get, the less they put up with being disturbed and therefore sometimes get angry and bite..
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Reptiles:
2.2 Leopard Gecko Morphs
1.0 Bearded Dragon Morph
0.1 Box Turtle (Rescue)
0.1 Albino Ball Python (BHB line)

Bird:
0.1 Jenday Conure

Pups:
1.0 Black Lab/Pit Bull
1.0 Maltipoo

and lots of tropical fish!

-Patrick

hmm, never thought of the age perhaps being an issue. I am not sure of the geckos true age, but when I bought him he was fully mature and that was about two years ago, actually bought him from Albey's in Daytona, so he's not a youngster, but not quite an old fogey yet.

It would really be hard to tell without seeing the leo and the cage in person. Not being kept correctly could cause it to be agitated easily. Also some animals are just like that. Ive had plenty of reptiles that are generally considered easy going and handlable, and they arent. And visa versa.

its a single male, and he's being kept in a ten gallon w/ hide and all the standard stuff all by himself, never had a problem with him biting me unless he thought I was food.