Need some help with my leos

How should I go about calming down my leos?

They are all over the place when I even so much as look at their tub. I have my 2 females housed in a 15qt tub and my male in his own 15qt tub. The male is bigger, probably close to twice the size of the females, and he is much calmer. I can actually hold him with out him freaking out, but the females are nuts. I'm afraid to hold them because I've already dropped one of them more than once.

I know babies and juvies usually are pretty flighty, but how do you calm them down? :weirdface

My suggestions would be to interact with them daily. Don't try and hold them or pick them up, but approach them, talk to them, hand feed them or tong feed them. They just need to learn that you're not a threat.

If they act like they are going to bite you, they are probably just hungry. I have one rescue male (once "wild") that would snap at me every time I put my hand into his enclosure. He'd lunge and jump to bite my hand. I didn't hold him for weeks after I got him, trust me, I have been bit by these guys enough to not want it to happen ever again.

Whenever I'd go into the reptile room, I'd pull out his tub and open it up. I'd interact with him after tending to each reptile in my collection. Eventually, he understood I was no threat.

I'm sure they have appropriate hiding spots in their tubs?

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I have a female like that and after handling her every day/every other day she is finally calming down.

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Originally Posted by jfreels

My suggestions would be to interact with them daily. Don't try and hold them or pick them up, but approach them, talk to them, hand feed them or tong feed them. They just need to learn that you're not a threat.

If they act like they are going to bite you, they are probably just hungry. I have one rescue male (once "wild") that would snap at me every time I put my hand into his enclosure. He'd lunge and jump to bite my hand. I didn't hold him for weeks after I got him, trust me, I have been bit by these guys enough to not want it to happen ever again.

Whenever I'd go into the reptile room, I'd pull out his tub and open it up. I'd interact with him after tending to each reptile in my collection. Eventually, he understood I was no threat.

I'm sure they have appropriate hiding spots in their tubs?

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Thanks! I will interact with them daily. :)

I have both tubs set up the same. They have a humid hide, which I made from a plastic sandwich container. They also have two normal hides that I made from plastic plant containers, I cut these in half so they are like half log hides, but they are closed in the back. I've seen the male using the dry hides, but the females seem to favor the humid hide.

handle everyday for about 5 minutes. Also you can try hand feeding as well. You might want to cover the cage with a light blanket as well to keep out some of the light....they are so sensitive to it.