Reptile Tongs

Using Reptile Tongs allows the feeding and handling your reptile to safer and more comfortable for the both of you, reducing stress and danger by allowing you more control over what is happening and keeping a healthy distance between your reptile's food and your hand during feeding time.

Swell Reptiles stock a fantastic range of stainless steel tongs, forceps and tweezers, all designed specifically for the handling or reptiles and their food. Available in the smallest sizes to giant for large snakes and lizards, all are made from durable and reptile-safe materials, and are sold at our low prices with Next Working Day Delivery options.

Take a browse below at the different lengths, sizes and grips on offer from leading manufacturers, including our own Swell Reptiles range.

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Swell
Standard Snake Tongs (2 Sizes)

£15.99

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Collapsible Standard Snake Tongs

£24.49

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Reptile tongs and forceps allow you to feed lizards and snakes with aggressive feeding responses more easily. Holding live or frozen food between your fingers and allowing a snake or lizard to strike is not often a great idea, potentially causing injury to you and harming the relationship between you and your reptile, as they may begin to associate your hand with their food.

Instead, always try to wash you hands before handling, removing any smells that might be associated with food in your reptile's mind and therefore meaning that your reptile will focus their feeding response on the food at the other end of the forceps or tongs. Try to hold the food by the smallest bit possible (eg, with mice, the end of the tail), leaving a larger target area for your reptile to strike at.