How To Save Money Keeping Reptiles
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- Good Morning, Reptilians! This week, as voted on by the Patrons, we're talking about money saving tips for keeping reptiles.
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0:00 Intro
0:57 Cut Your Own Veggies
2:25 Plant Propagation
3:15 Bulk Feeders
4:49 Non Pet Stores
6:18 Buy Used
7:03 Breed Your Clean Up Crew
8:39 Breed Your Feeders
9:55 Buy Final Tank First
11:12 What NOT To Do
12:30 Outro
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If you can, and can do it securely, keep some reptiles outdoors during the warmer months.
I keep my bearded dragons in outdoor enclosures from spring to fall. They do great and their colors are phenomenal from the natural sun. You save a tone of money from not having to replace uvb and run heat.
Some people say they don't need it once you bring them in for winter, but I do out of caution.
Ooooh, that's a good point! A lot of people in warmer places (like Florida) do this for things like iguanas, and I always thought it was such a cool idea.
Hi Elle, there should be a warning if you begin to breed Dubia roaches - when I changed their water the other day, an adult female just stood there watching what I did, then went for a drink. It then stood around patiently waiting for me to put fresh vegitables in for them, then it casually wandered across and began eating, crunch, crunch, crunch, on a bean sprout. Now I'm expected to feed it to the bearded dragon? Warning, they may be devious and try to grow on you. Lol.
Right!? They're adorable!
I have not bonded with any Dubia roaches, lol. I can say they are very fast and good hiders when they get loose in the tank.
oh shoot, now this is going to be the only thing on my mind when I look at my feeders🫠😂🫶🏻
This has happened to me I ended up sparing one and named it lucky I’m sorry I just couldn’t feed Her to my leopard gecko
Tip on propagation - if you've rooted your plant in water (like you did with the Pothos), make sure to water the plant more than usual for the first week or two!
It's a big shock moving from water to dirt, and I've found that the plants tend to make the transition more smoothly if you support them with extra water at first. 🌱
Good morning Elle, hope you are doing well and recovering at your pace!! Looking forward to future videos you are putting out!! 😊
Thank you so much! I think the super speedy part of the recovery is over. Now it's a slow waiting game for the rest. But that's ok! I am much better than I ever would have expected. 🥰
Have an amazing week! 💜
@@ellesreptiles better to heal slowly than have setbacks from rushing it along. Just glad you are doing well though!! 😊
Good morning Elle. Always glad to see you upload. My daughter and I have been watching as we prepare for her leopard gecko.
Oh awesome! 🎉 Congrats on already giving your leopard gecko a great start by researching first!
I'm all about non pet stores for pet supplies and decor! Originally learned that from you. ❤
Hey Elle! Glad you’re doin better! My brother-in-law had a stroke last year, and he’s doing better, but he still has things that are affecting him from it. It’s just takes time to heal. I have a dragon, and he fell in love with him, so for an early Christmas gift I’m buyin him a baby hopefully this week! I already bought the enclosure for him as well. It’ll be great because we can share feeders and veggies. I have sent him in your direction to research about dragons and etc., so I thank you SO much for your hard work and making these videos. Hope you have a great week! Love ya girl! ❤❤❤
Ok I just went shopping for RickyBobby AKA Fluffy lol… frozen greens are cheaper here than fresh, but will that work? It says frozen fresh… @Ellesreptiles
AND… I bought a styrofoam cutter and plan on doin a flour and water paper mache basking area etc… will do a mod podge top coat? Thoughts on this?
Hey Elle, glade to see that you are making content, miss you. How is your health? Hope all is well. Just to let you know, I think your the bee's knees.
Thanx for the video Elle! A lot of good tips for new keepers.
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As long as you're updating older videos, I'd love to see a current take on a corn snake care guide! 🐍
I have a tip for people who keep both exotic plants and animals. Try to plan ahead of time how many environments you have capacity for and match animals and plants within those. Seems obvious, but it’s really easy to instead adopt random animals and plants, then be like “oh we need an X type enclosure now” and end up with way more different terrariums and greenhouses than you can handle because you are filling them out instead of going to a loose plan.
I need ways because the second I get money I spend it on my pets 😂 have a great week Elle!
Haha I completely understand. And I hope you have a great week as well! 💜
Good morning Elle, glad to see you are doing well. Lots of cool tips! Have a great week.
thank you for these tips!
I hope you are doing well and taking care of yourself!
love your channel and all your videos keep up the good work!!!!!!
Great video ❤
Good tips on the veggies!!
i got me a coversain it should be here monday took around a week,, keep u updated ty elle
my tank looks great ty elle and i love geckos
Hell yeh thank you !
These are great tips! Oh when you talked about the plant propagation- I felt that. I have a cursed thumb. Like a green thumb's opposite. I am slooooooowwwly learning to keep things alive trying to ready a bioactive for when my snake is grown enough to live in it.
I do disagree on the final size tanks for some species - like if I put my Rosy Boa in his 50G right away I think he would've slipped through the sliding glass :/ (He's in a 10G for now.) But for something like a Beardie or a thicker snake, definitely!
yeah, colubrids like corn and king snakes are sooooo tiny and flighty as hatchlings that i would be *terrified* to put them in anything too big.
Love ur vids! ❤❤
Thank you so much 💜
I bet this is in the video, but DIY is the way to go if you’re on a budget. When Autumn (my beardie) gets older we’re probably gonna build our own cage that’s gonna be bigger than a 120 gallon (she’s in a 40 rn)
Like literally everything in a beardie’s tank (excluding lights and maybe wood) can all be diy. I use bearded dragons for an example because that’s what I have but it really depends on that reptile.
We grow leafy greens along with the organic spring mix. I grow microgreens for them, one girl gets them in bowls and my girl is bioactive and what grows in her tank varies. A $3-5 pack of seeds goes far! I also have an anole and use my girl's old uvb, same size and she is also bioactive. Almost all of her feeders breed in there but bsfl, those I seed into the cage's substrate. They hide and eat, get huge, morph into huge flies. My bearded dragon is bioactive and some of hers breed in there too. The rest we seed or just give in a bowl. I grow leafy greens and microgreens in there, that she forages on. She gets a daily salad and it stays for the critters too. Also want to add for a reptibreeze, rescreen the top with a 1\4 inch hardware cloth. Barely any uvb gets through their screen.
Thank you for all your information! Do you have to lay your aquarium on one of its sides to put in the front opening piece? I didn't quite understand that🌞🌈
One thing I have wondered about and that is why has no one started making and selling window vivariums for small reptiles to enjoy during the warmer weather? I think this would be great for some of our smaller lizard and snake species kept as pets. They do this for birds,so why not for reptiles? I've actually had some ideas,but while I'm an artist,building window stuff is outta my wheelhouse,as it were. I can draw it or sculpt it,but never worked with mesh cloth,wood,nails...Errrr,you get he idea.🙄Also what's the thing with springtails and charcoal and where do you even get charcoal; that does not have gasoline sprayed on it?
i found plasic ball things at dollar tree other day has a hole for my crestie i painted it and stuck moss on it and in it like a coconut hide
I decided that a cost effective way it to build your own enclosure. I recently got an adult leopard gecko and i thought the first tank was a 40 gallon. I was wrong and i bought from Facebook. Granted it came with 2 hides so it wanst a complete loss. Then i found another tank which i was told was a 40 gallon front opening tank. After further research, It was a 20 gallon low boy tank. After spending $125 for both of these which the 2nd tank came with a heat lamp and more accessories, i could have build a 40 gallon to the way i wanted it. So next weekend. That is exactly what im going to do and i will sell the two tanks that i found back on Facebook. Also, if you make your own substrate for a leopard gecko, make sure to sift out the wood chips and bake the top soil in the oven (at 180 to 200 degrees for at leats 2 hours) to reduce the risk of any unwanted guests and other particles for a bioactive or non bioactive substrate
Nail clipers dollar tree has cat nail clippers alot cheaper
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I learned a lot having my dragon grow my own vegetables & fruit
Saves a lot of money 😎
Great video! Thanks for sharing these tips! I have heard of people buying live plants from Etsy. Have you every bought them from Etsy and had success? Have an awesome day!
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is there anyway to heat a converted tank ? because you can’t place something like a DHP on the glass, it will explode..
just wondering if anyone has any ideas.
hi looking for some advice b4 spending money i dont have to spare for vet , my bearded dragon is almost 1 year old every 2nd poop he does he does it in his sleep and when i turn his lights on in the morning he is just lying in it does this mean something is wrong or is it just laziness ?
Just a quick note,your in this video:Wild Animals That Will Become Pets If You Do This ua-cam.com/video/FoDNpjPdW40/v-deo.html
how old is ur bearded
She's almost 8 years old