Quote Originally Posted by Vasiliki View Post
Rhacs don't usually get 'nippy' in the same sense that other insect-eating or predatory geckos would. Oh they'll still hunt and whatnot, but they generally don't associate fingers with biting unless you overdo it.
Quote Originally Posted by Evenstar View Post
Thank you, but Rhac geckos aren't like monitors and many other types of lizards. Being primarily fruit eaters, they don't generally react to hand feeding.
I have a crestie who is downright chompy sometimes, to the point where we've gone to using gloves to handle her because she's so unpredictable and we're tired of getting bitten. Sure, she can't do any real damage (it's basically like getting pinched), but she knows the difference between skin and leather - she never tries to bite the gloves, so it's just more expedient to wear them. We've never been able to determine what caused the change in her behavior (she's never been hand fed, and never bit for the first 4+ years of her life, and then went aggro on us seemingly at random about 2 years ago), but the situation has left me thinking that anything that could encourage biting should be avoided.

Admittedly, it's a sample size of one, and therefore not statistically relevant, but it has colored my opinion.