Syringe Feeding - Getting Veiled's Mouth Open

[J-Man]

Hi,

Some of you might know about me force feeding my roughly 3 mo. old male veiled smahes bananas with a syringe... I was succesfull in doing so the first time by making him mad and so he hissed at me and then I squirted some of the mashed bananas in and he started to enjoy it.

Well today I tried and he wasn't as excited about it. I couldn't get him to open his mouth (nothing was pissing him off, which kind of scared me because I heard male veileds were supposed to have an attitude)

I had to end up holding his casque and pulling the skin on his neck to open his mouth... this didn't SEEM painful, just annoying.

Can anybody please tell me if this is harmful to the cham and also, are there any ways to get him to open his mouth for feeding? Any help is very much appreciated!