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The Natural Herp Keeper
Приєднався 7 жов 2020
The Natural Herp Keeper was created to share our passion for reptile keeping, herping, DIY naturalistic enclosures and inspiring others to change the way we keep reptiles by increasing the standard of husbandry and striving to create the best possible life for our animals.
Join us as we explore how to build naturalistic enclosures, discuss all things reptile husbandry - from lights to food, and look to their wild counterparts for inspiration on how to care for our captive reptiles the best way we can.
Join us as we explore how to build naturalistic enclosures, discuss all things reptile husbandry - from lights to food, and look to their wild counterparts for inspiration on how to care for our captive reptiles the best way we can.
Herping the Channel Country - Finding Holy Grails! Big Herp Trip Part 1.
Join us on Part 1 of our Big Herp Trip around Australia in 5 weeks! In this episode we head out to the Channel Country of Western Queensland in search of our Holy Grail species, Colletts Black Snake and Ingrams Brown Snakes. While we are out there we meet up with our good mates from Josh and Greeny's: Wild Aussie Adventures - be sure to head on over and check their channel out as well!
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Species list for Part 1:
Colletts black snake (Pseudechis colletti)
Eyrean earless dragon (Tympanocryptis tetraporophora)
Curl Snake (Suta suta)
Kristin’s Spiny-tailed Gecko (Strophurus krisalys)
Blacksoil bearded dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni)
Central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps)
Eastern water-holding frog (Cyclorana platycephala)
Knife-footed Frog (Cyclorana cultripes)
Buzzing Tree Frog (Litoria electrica)
Ingrams Brown Snake (Pseudonaja ingrami)
Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus)
ua-cam.com/channels/6gWkDIqch2Vwt-qd5M7Ehw.html
Species list for Part 1:
Colletts black snake (Pseudechis colletti)
Eyrean earless dragon (Tympanocryptis tetraporophora)
Curl Snake (Suta suta)
Kristin’s Spiny-tailed Gecko (Strophurus krisalys)
Blacksoil bearded dragon (Pogona henrylawsoni)
Central bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps)
Eastern water-holding frog (Cyclorana platycephala)
Knife-footed Frog (Cyclorana cultripes)
Buzzing Tree Frog (Litoria electrica)
Ingrams Brown Snake (Pseudonaja ingrami)
Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus)
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How to Clean Your Bio Set Up!
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One of my most common questions is 'How do I clean a bioactive enclosure?' In this video I will show you how as I do a big clean and tidy up on my Night Tiger (aka Brown Tree Snake) Enclosure.
Massive enclosure renovation for my Salamanders!
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Massive enclosure renovation for my Salamanders! I have let this enclosure grow wild and it’s time to trim it back and check out my awesome morphed axolotls!
Herping Cape York Australia Part 2- Wild Taipans!
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Herping Cape York Australia Part 2- Wild Taipans! Matt, myself and our good mate Jake Meney (check him out @jakemeney for more awesome reptile content) spent 10 days exploring and herping through Cape York including the amazing Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) National Park! Check out Part 2 where we get up close to some wild Coastal Taipans!
Herping Cape York Australia Part 1 - Green Pythons Galore!
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Herping Cape York Australia Part 1- Green Pythons Galore!! Matt, myself and our good mate Jake Meney (check him out @jakemeney for more awesome reptile content) spent 10 days exploring and herping through Cape York including the amazing Kutini-Payamu (Iron Range) National Park where the Green Pythons were plentiful! What more could you ask for?? Come along as we explore this amazing part of Aus...
Cape York Biotope Build Part 2 - Planted Aquarium!
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Cape York Biotope Build Part 2 - Planted Aquarium! In this video I will show you how I went from the finished background in Part 1 to the completed aquarium! Music: Buddha by Kontekst soundcloud.com/kontekstmusic Creative Commons - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported - CC BY-SA 3.0 Free Download / Stream: bit.ly/2Pe7mBN Music promoted by Audio Library ua-cam.com/video/b6jK2t3lcRs/v-deo.html A...
Cape York Biotope Build Part 1 - DIY Naturalistic Aquarium Background
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In this build I will show you a simple and easy technique for creating naturalistic looking backgrounds fast! These can be used for reptiles or fishtanks! Make sure to like and subscribe and turn your notifications on and tune in for Part 2 where we will set up the tank and add the inhabitants! Music Used: Adventures by A Himitsu soundcloud.com/a-himitsu Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unpo...
Herping Southern Australia Part 2 - New South Wales
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Herping Southern Australia Part 2 - New South Wales! Part 2 of Matts herping trip takes him through Kosciusko, Barington Tops and Central New South Wales. Let us know if you would like to see more herping videos, we love herping and it gives us plenty of inspiration for the enclosures we build! Leave us a comment! Music: After the rain by Rexlambo soundcloud.com/rexlambo Creative Commons - Attr...
Herping Southern Australia Part 1 - South Australia!
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Herping Southern Australia Part 1 - South Australia! While I was at home tending to all the hatching snakes and getting everyone feeding, Matt was out herping Southern Australia! In Part 1 of his trip you will see him travel through South Australia including the Nullarbor, Coober Pedy, Gawler Ranges, and Lake Eyre looking for all types of reptiles and a few mammals thrown in for good measures! ...
Cape York Spotted Tree Monitors Hatching!
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Cape York Spotted Tree Monitors Hatching! Just had to share with you all this amazing moment as our Cape York Spotted Tree Monitors (Varanus scalaris ‘pengilleyi’) started hatching! This is a species that Matt has been trying to breed for a number of years and has gotten plenty of eggs but none of them have ever made it to hatching so we super excited to see these four healthy looking babies em...
DIY Cave Enclosure for Brown Tree Snakes!
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In this video I will show you around the cave enclosure I built for my pair of Northern Territory Brown Tree Snakes (Boiga irregularis). This enclosure was inspired by the caves we found on our travels through the Northern Territory and Western Australia that were full of Brown Tree Snake Eggs. I lost a lot of my filming of the actual build, so this is just a quick video to show you the final p...
"Sticks & Stones will break your bones!" Scrub Python Enclosure Cleaning and Feeding!
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“Sticks & Stones will break your bones!” Let me introduce you to my adult pair of Scrub Pythons (Simalia kinghorni). Sticks is our 3.7m, 8-year-old male and Stones our 3m, 7-year-old female. Join me as I show you how we keep these guys outside in Tropical North Queensland and watch as we feed Sticks! If you have any questions about outside enclosure maintenance or would like to know more about ...
DIY Naturalistic Enclosure Background for a Bearded Dragon
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A step-by-step guide to help you create a naturalistic reptile enclosure background out of polystyrene and grout! This enclosure houses my Nullarbor Bearded Dragon and was created to look like a little piece of his natural environment. Let me know what you think in the comments! Plants Used From Left to Right: Graptophyllum sp. Vitex ovata Leptospermum sp. Banksia awmula Follow Us: @thenaturalh...
Beautiful Work. May I ask, what you used to seal the work?
Wow that Saratoga was very curious this just gets better and better
Watching that green tree python climb a bare vertical trunk was amazing 😂
WOW 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
AMAZING WORK 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻
Looking for frogs.? They neva shut up! Wet sesson Nt where i live.
Wow.!
Class 🔥
Wow! This looks beautiful. Love the idea of the "sunlight" coming in the back.
Love it! Great idea😊
hi great work what do you use to cover the polyurethane structure
What a beautiful enclosure. Very inspirational 😊
They were Black Kites (Milvus migrans) in the video. You can see quite a few forked tails as they turn in the air. And they are far more common inland too :)
Light you used?
Thanks so much! I really love your channel!
What a talent you have! Very impressive.
Beautiful work, the only downside is that I feel the background was made too thick to where it took up most of the usable space of the enclosure.
Wow, that is the most realistic looking enclosure l have ever seen. I just can't imagine it looking more natural than that. That belongs in a museum somewhere. Mam, you are a true artist!!!
This looks really good. But isn't it impractical? Animals will poop on it and scratch it. The surface isn't hardened?!
I need a tutorial on building the enclosure 😭😭 You're the first Australian UA-camr for this type of content I've seen and I'm so happy but I need you to tell me where you got everything and what everything is This is so amazing and exactly what I've been looking for thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
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nice background and a pretty woman to boot!
Awesome video!!
This is such an impressive setup! Exactly like you would see up in Cape York. Well done!!
Loved it how it turned out! Really good tutorial!
So when its dry this paint... It wont dissolve when spraying water in there? Like if I use it in a rainforrest enclosure.. It works there?
Hi just wondering if I can get the list of stuff u used on this video and the exact names of the items please and thank you
I can see why you guys were stoked to be on the lookout for a green tree python. They are absolutely stunning reptiles. Ya just wanna give him a kiss on the head don't ya? Here in America we have mostly boring reptiles. You guys have no idea how lucky you are to do what you do for a living, and 'good on'ya." for that.
Amazing that’s the most realistic DIY rock I’ve seen 😊
We done great production
Great production, I'm going to the Cape in june/July. My grandson wants me to do some helping, I'm a " bird nerd" so I was doing some research and came across you guys. Thanks heaps
So would these be "Cape York" locality?? If so it's a locality I've never seen or heard of being available/bred in the US! I know some breeders that would probably kill to get their hands on some of those genetics! Looks like some serious "high white" potential!! Also very curious about all the "grounded" ones you found in the wild, wonder if they would spend more time on the ground in captivity if given larger enclosures with natural substrate?!?! That juvenile also looked rather large to have not even started OCC, wondering how much that differs in that wild?!?! There's a rather large & dedicated group of Chondro keepers & breaders that I'm sure would follow a dedicated Viridis channel that did long term video documentation on a single population group!! Definitely alot to be learned!!!!
biggest black-head ive seen
Also is there any sealer that goes on after ? The grout says sanitized which i belive has mold inhibitors? Is that ok ?
Is it groute or concreat?
I think one of the most useful tips that I got out of this was to make extra freestanding rocks, using the same technique as the background. This really helps with keeping the entire enclosure feeling natural, and All allows you to change things up a bit from time to time. So thanks for that!
Definitely put your work in. Nice job
Really awesome natural looking desert-ish looking!
Amazing work! Thank you for sharing!
Great way to inspire people to build their own enclosures!
How come you don't seal it with with a animal safe pond sealer? it would lock in all your paint and protect your animal from anything in the grout, also helps with the longevity of your build
Do you have a video of how you manage all the cords, sensors gauges, etc. ? I don't like seeing them hanging in view.
Awesome!
Wow, what a terrific video. Great job! The cape York locality is definitely my favorite gtp, second only to Kofiau Island :)
I have recently made a few rocks using this method but a few have cracked and it seems like some places the dried grout rubs off. Do I need to seal it ?
hi on your video of building a rock wall for beardie for the first 2 coats did you use sanded or unhanded grout
Do you soak your grout after it dries by chance to get rid of PH levels? And how do you keep grout from cracking
wow that's the best enclosure build I've seen can't wait to use your techniques in my leos enclosure but I have a question did you seal the grout when you applied it or did you just use the grout all by it self
My bearded dragon Tyfose loves watching your videos.
Very well done !