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<blockquote data-quote="Allthingsterrarium" data-source="post: 132376" data-attributes="member: 3930"><p>Well guys I tried picking Yuma up and handling him today for the first time. That didn't go so well. For such a young and currently small lizard you would be amazed how powerful his jaws are and just how sharp his teeth are. I now have two tiny marks and a faint red area on my left index finger. He literally would not let go for almost five minutes until I got him back in his tank and even then he held on for a while. Every time I tried to lightly wrestle my finger free he would just chew into it harder. This is going to be a loooong and difficult taming process. Maybe even worse than my bearded dragon who was an unusually irritable juvenile. I'm actually wondering if he was wild at some point. If so there's nothing I can do about it now even if it does make taming so much harder. He's small and vulnerable though. In nature at his size he might be eaten by anything from a large tarantula to a hawk to a coyote so he's probably just being defensive. I have faith in him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allthingsterrarium, post: 132376, member: 3930"] Well guys I tried picking Yuma up and handling him today for the first time. That didn't go so well. For such a young and currently small lizard you would be amazed how powerful his jaws are and just how sharp his teeth are. I now have two tiny marks and a faint red area on my left index finger. He literally would not let go for almost five minutes until I got him back in his tank and even then he held on for a while. Every time I tried to lightly wrestle my finger free he would just chew into it harder. This is going to be a loooong and difficult taming process. Maybe even worse than my bearded dragon who was an unusually irritable juvenile. I'm actually wondering if he was wild at some point. If so there's nothing I can do about it now even if it does make taming so much harder. He's small and vulnerable though. In nature at his size he might be eaten by anything from a large tarantula to a hawk to a coyote so he's probably just being defensive. I have faith in him. [/QUOTE]
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