Thanks so much for watching everyone 🦎! Aren't tree monitor lizards incredible?! That tactile function is one of my favourite things ever! Don't forget to answer todays QUESTION OF THE DAY! As always, a sincere thanks to my patrons over on Patreon for making videos like this possible www.patreon.com/Reptiliatus !
I am waiting every time for your videos man I have seen people that work with Reptile or animals like you I could see you love to them thanks for everything GBU
So you never responded to my last comment about Sabzi's name? Is it because of his green color and Sabz being the name of color green in Farsi? or is it Sabzi as in general vegetable which again is the meaning of the word Sabzi in Farsi? I mean Basil is a vegetable so it makes sense lol
I think a huge part of their enrichment is adding live feeders, even for my crested gecko (he loves ambushing crickets). I'm also constantly making small adjustments to their scape, adjusting their "weather" by slightly varying temperature, humidity, adding and removing fans, and also just straight up interacting with them. We also have a cat that likes to help with herp cardio through jumpscares. 😅
Ok So I have MANY animals in my home: 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 rats, and one White Australian House Chicken (Cockatoo) For the enrichment, I do many many things: cats get treats on different surfaces, like the headboard of my bed and the chair where I sit most days. The dogs get treat balls stuffed with peanut butter and frozen in the summer. The rats have to go through a maze to get their bedtime treats, and the Cockatoo has to find it in the bottom of his cocoanut shell under a mound of shredded paper! Just a few examples!
Holy progress Batman! Yay Basil!! QOTD: I change up my lizards enclosures, add fans for wind, bring them outside in the summer, feed different food items, in different sizes, I block off my 2nd story deck railing so they have free rein outside sorta too. So excited about the new build! Sabzi and Basil old enough to mate? Baby green tree monitors?! So exciting 🥰😍
Wow. Thank you for creating such wonderful videos for us to enjoy. I sooo want to get either a hognose or an egg eater as my first snake. I love them so much. I never would have known that I loved them until I accidentally fell upon Snake Discovery. I had a video of an alligator in a bathtub in my news feed and then checked out her channel then it was on. I'm extremely picky about which reptile channels I dedicate myself to. I can honestly and very thankfully say that your channel is definitely one of the select few. Again, thank you so much for sharing your creativity, knowledge, and amazing animals. 🙂 I just saw your Collabs with Snake Discovery!! That's no surprise. Y'all are freaking awesome sauce! 😁
I absolutely love your videos! They are informative and entertaining. You're babies have such personalities. Keep up the great work on the species specific content. 👍
As a tarantula owner I truly believe that leaving them alone gives them all the enrichment they need. Unless you are feeding or rehousing of course. They feel best in dark and quiet areas which is pretty difficult to achieve out in their wild habitats these days.
Yay Basil! He really has come quite far in trusting you! Which is a testament to how much effort you put into the relationship. He was a bit older when you got him compared to Sabzi's age and size. Sabzi was sooo tiny and you got to work on socializing her very early on in her life. Bravo Dayyan!👏👏 I can not wait to see the new, huge enclosure! Loved this update, thank you so much for sharing your animals with us! QOTD: I am working on a PVC pipe jungle gym for my snakes and a small maze with stone vertical aspects as well along with random bug snacks along the way for Jackson's leopard gecko 'Doom'. I have simple smaller versions of each, so these will be much more elaborate. The horses enjoy their huge kickball 😄
What a great cage for your, tree monitor’s. You make all o f your videos so entertaining and well done. What I enjoy the most is your humble attitude. Keep up your good work. This is Alan, greetings from Riverside in Southern California.
Wow! Congratulations on some amazing progress!!! I am still only 6-months into having my first reptile. Each week, I change up different things for my baby Leopard Gecko to explore. It is amazing how comfortable he(?) has become with being handled and cruising around his terrarium. Thanks for sharing! You inspire me.
I really like to enrich my reptiles life with bioactive enclosure. The best thing is when you keep a new reptile in sterile tubs with paper towels to see if it's doing okay , and then after a month transfer them in fully bioactive large enclosure with live plants and a lot of branches and rocks . Then you can see that your animal is truly happy . Can't wait to see new tree monitor enclosure!
LOVED this video. I've been a ball python owner for going on 6 years and I've loved it and as of late I've been thinking about Tree Monitors. So much info and thank you.
I’m absolutely lucky to have a very social Leo-he waits for me every night when I do my evening reptile chores. He sits on my shoulder as I go from room to room, misting, feeding, etc…he seems to really enjoy watching the fish when I feed them-he’ll track their movement across the tanks and seems very interested! Its super cool to watch.
Congratulations ❣️ I'd so like to have a little monitor! You are doing so good by them, handling often, enrichment prone activities...lots to boost the value of these beautiful animals as pets! Good Job!
For enrichment of our many pets, we give toys and treats and field trips for our fur babies. For my reptiles, I put branches for them to climb and explore. For my Tarantulas, they have bioactive enclosures with plants and leaf litter.
My little _Kermit_ love to hunt crickets out of a small bucket with a small hole on top. Just have a look how he is growing and how I build a huge enclosure over 8 month.
For my cats I like giving them puzzle toys, or they also tend to pull them out and throw them around themselves. For Keven my bearded dragon, he has a bio active enclosure, so part of his enrichment is hunting down the beetles that develop from escaped superworms. Loved seeing how intelligent these animals are. It always amazes me when you see tasks being completed that by animals that takes brain power to figure out!
Not sure if this counts as enrichment. I have two different snakes (C. trivirgata, L. inornatus) that seem to like to burrow for much of their day. Instead of just using one substrate for their respective enclosures, I split each in half with two different types. I don't mix them, and I like to think the choice it gives may make them happy. The warmer side is aspen bedding, and the cooler side is cypress mulch. Each is piled enough to allow for full burrowing. I also deliberately give my tarantulas extra water "dishes", usually from soda caps. They bury them, web over them, even had a blue fang stick one on the outside of it's corkbark, right side up. Thanks for the video.
For my reptile babies enrichment I like to switch things up in the enclosure periodically. Rearranging my apartment improved my mood, I like to think it’s similar for them!
I have so many questions for you! 1) what are the tags in your philodendron? 2) are you housing then together? I know you talked about breeding them eventually. 3) what are you going to do with their old enclosures?!
I enrich my pet budgies life by playing music or moving their cage to a new position sometimes. I also take the cage into the garden for some sun I have to sit with them outside because butcherbirds try to eat them through the cage wire! I also pick native seed heads for them to eat.
I handle my crested gecko about once a week so he is accustomed to handling, which makes it easier to check him over for any health issues. Since he doesn’t exactly *enjoy* handling, I keep him distracted by holding him next to my 20 gallon wild betta rubra aquarium. He and the fish are super interested in looking at each other, and it’s definitely an interaction they’d never experience in their wild environments. 😊
I always loved monitors, sadly here in Italy every kind of monitor lizard is illegal because of "danger", so I learn all about these amazing animals by your videos
So proud of Basil! Nice work, and for one of the ways enrichment for my neon day geckos I use a tiny vine ball and put tiny little mealworms inside for them to get out, some are more interested in getting that food out than others but if nothing else they like to climb on the ball lol
I have 5 garter snakes, and one of their favorite thing is changing their environment. Add a new branch, switch things up, re-mix the substrate... They'll re-explore everything for a few hours every single time
I've managed to get my hands on a green keel bellied lizard on the latest reptile expo. (gastropolis prasina) But they really do look like the small version of these monitors. And after a few days hes already getting less shy and comes close to me
I love taking my ball python outside and allow him enjoy the lawn and smelling new things. (I stay with him, his body length away and check for escape routes and holes + on the lookout for predictors)
Just one example of something I do is giving my birds toys that require them to figure out a puzzle to get treats or teach them tricks positively reinforced with treats!
It's been a while since I watched, maybe even back when Basil arrived, so I have the pleasure of seeing the HUGE progress you have made with the tree monitors. And they both look 100% healthy and growing. I'm 60 and a wildlife biologist/naturalist, but I have never seen a lizard using its front feet like that, and maybe even weirder was the way he was using his entire front legs to pull the jar toward him like apes and humans do. The proportions make it look eerily similar and indeed like an reptilian anthropoid space alien.🦎 super duper cool! The hand-like dexterity must be a huge advantage for foraging in arboreal habitats, grabbing branches and feeling around in tree holes for grubs, amphibians, etc. Sort of interesting - tool use in species other than humans is extremely rare, but in apes and corvids it usually involves using sticks to poke into tree holes and logs to get insects they can't reach. Arboreal snakes can just go right in the holes. Green tree monitors evolved little monkey arms and hands. 😊 You are doing perfect enrichment by simulating these foraging situations and I'm sure there are many more ways to do it. Here's a tip for other people socializing very shy animals - do it at the same time every day if you can. The predictability helps them learn what is about to happen and associate it with food. Animals respond well to consistency. Can't wait to see the big cage for them.
I love these lizards so much! Every time I think I've found my favorite monitor... I see another one I love more! Green tree monitors are in my top 5! They are so gorgeous and sweet! I love how pink their mouth is compared to their bright green body!
Can’t wait to see that tree monitor upgrade. I would absolutely love a green tree monitor and I’m trying to figure out if I can possibly make space in my house for something big enough for an adult tree monitor. The size you’re going for sounds great for the monitors but we don’t all have that kind of real estate! Hahaha
Hi Dayyan! I have Oliver the kitty cat. And I try to find scores of ways to enrich his life. He is an inside cat so he needs a bit more than say an outsider. I let him go out onto the porch for bird watching. I play with him with toys. He likes to climb inside of my pillowcase. I give him a bit of canned food as a snack. And so so much more! He is quite the character!
@@tracybowling1156 Not long at all! I was really worried, as he was hadn't liked collars as a kitten and was already 10 or so when I introduced the harness. But he took to it very easily! Lots of positive reinforcement and treats, and wearing the harness indoors for short periods.
@@lillyh3447 Hi Lilly! Thank you for the feedback. My Ollie is a year old now. I think I will do what you did. I'm so interested in seeing how it works out. Wish me luck. 😂 And thanks again. Dayyan's community is filled with such sweet people. I really enjoy it!
This is absolutely amazing! This just goes to show how far one can go with the work. I'm incredibly sure these guys as well as other reptiles can bond with people (no I'm not comparing human to reptile emotions.). I have been away for 4mo or so from home since we are trying to move and what have you. It's not easy and my tegu that I've had since he was a hatchling keeps on exhibiting signs of missing me he breaks out of the enclosure searches around the bed to go back in. My wife approaches the enclosure to show me how he is doing and he huffs going back to his basking spot ignoring her completely. She does the same thing a couple days later but this time I talk he looks at the phone and actually it seems like there is recognition he not only doesn't shy away he starts going at the glass. Example three my wife came out to visit me for a week so some of her clothes smelled of me, soooo when she came back from the trip she went to visit some friends and he breaks out of the enclosure. She comes back and he is buried in the clothing in the suit case... when I say I'm trying to not anthropomorphize these creatures I mean it I worked as a vet tech did the studying so has my wife, but dang he is showing all the signs of an animal missing their person. What to do I don't know we are trying to figure something out including potentially getting him a larger enclosure with swinging doors that would be more sturdy to lock shut vs his sliding glass doors that he has pushed the glass doors out. For the question of the day: I on occasion would give my tegu a full egg untracked and put it in the tub. I also put a fully adjustable cat harness on him and will take him out into town for further socialization. His diet is varied, bit on occasion we will give him whole prey dragging it around the enclosure making him give chase, then doing a sort of tug of war to stimulate natural behavior such as thrashing and hitting the item against other objects in said enclosure. We recently got him a large rubber ball he can grab and throw but not eat from petsmart to play with when he takes his bath. Constantly trying to think of new ideas for him, although unfortunately live prey items would be incredibly hard to do. When he was younger though he would get blue horned worms, dubias, and even earth worms. It was always interesting to see him finding random cocoons for those that made it to that point. As far as reptiles go though one can always tell who has put in a ton of work vs not it absolutely shows and I can tell you have done as such.
QOTD: I have cats and I think the most important thing we do is to keep introducing new things. Every few months they get something new in their environment. A new cat tree, a new toy, a set up to allow them a new window view, etc… they’re environment is pretty consistent and in some ways that’s great for them, but they definitely get excited about new experiences! It makes them think about what’s happening.
To enrich my cat's life, I used to play tag with her. Now that my disability had reduced my mobility well beyond that activity, my son has taken my place.
They are my dream lizard😁. I don't have any reptiles but I give my ants every year a new nest and my terrarium a new look the last one is for my self haha
For my two rats - Aster and Fluer - I have a chopped fruits/veggie day, whole fruits/veggie day, Whole egg day, Seed day, Meat day, Insect day, Leafy Greens day, cat kibble, and a mix match day, I like to enrich their lives using random days of mix and matching their foods that I previously mentioned. I usually will try to hid their food in Toilet paper rolls, in crumbled up news papers, in small cardboard boxes, in jars filled with food and newspaper, egg cartons filled with food, I hang their food in hard to reach places. Some days I will scatter their seeds or kibbles throughout their enclosure. For me its really important that all my animals, wether its a chicken, geese, Peacock, fish, frogs, doves, turtle, tortoise or rats. They need to be able to practise their natural rang of motions and practice their instincts whenever and as much as possible . Love that you are working hard to enrich your pets life Keep it up and looking forward tot he next videos :)
I'm considering getting a tree monitor in the future. Their look and personality/intelligence is very attractive to me. I currently have a leopard gecko, fire skink, bearded dragon, red-eyed tree frog, and an abronia graminea. All in bioactive setups. I have a perfect spot for a 4x2x4 tank. Only thing I'm unsure about is if their size would prevent having a bunch of nice plants in a bioactive.
for my daygecko i use a variety of food, like superworms, which i handfeed him, so he has to climb on my hands, flys to catch, i let crickets run free in his enclosure for him to hunt, once a week some pangea or gecko nutrition in various flavors. and every now and then i add new plants or branches to his enclosure and he loves to watch me or my boyfriend playing video games. he sits sometimes hours looking through the glass on the monitors
Glad to see them both doing so well. I'm making great progress with my male but my female is still very timid and has no interest in tong feeding or even taking food I leave near her. She's young so I still have plenty of time to work with her
Those monitors are really intelligent. I didn’t know that green tree monitors eat mice. Very nice animals. It would be extraordinary when they will live in the large enclosure together. As for the question, I think that every animal needs different kinds of enrichment. For example, I sometimes toss the insects in my crested gecko’s enclosure instead of putting them in the bowl. He then needs to calculate the distance and often he needs to attack them when they are hidden inside foliage or on bark. I would like to make a fake nest for my rosy boa with smaller frozen mice inside. They are considered nessed predators in the wild. However, my project hasn’t given any result yet. He has learnt to eat from tongs and it is difficult to change him now.
I keep pet rats, and I have many many foraging toys for them to make them work for their food. I also do not free feed them like many people do. When they run out of food they either have to wait for their next meal or eat the food that they have stashed. Some rat owners wrongly believe that they need access to food 24/7 but once rats are adults there is no need for that. I have five different foraging toys that I rotate through for them. I also make sure they have plenty of things to chew on and destroy as that that is a rats favorite pastime. They also get daily exercise outside of their cage. For my leopard gecko, I make sure she has ample hiding spaces and different textures to explore, I also make her chase her food. My crested, I change the cage decor around once a month. I also try doing live food but he doesn't take it, not sure why. I also change up the flavors and brands of his crested diet or even mix them together sometimes. for my tarantulas I make sure they have ample burrowing space (I only have terrestrial ones at the moment) with different textures to explore if they choose to. My hedge hog gets live insects several nights a week and make sure she different things to taste and hide in and interact with (she loves sticking her head in TP tubes and annointing herself with mint) and It is 100 percent essential that she has her wheel to run on.
To give some enrichment to my leopard gecko, I wouldn't be able to just give him some substrate. He doesn't like to dig-weird, I know-but he really loves to climb, hide and sploot. I'm wanting to build him a custom giant "hide" that looks like a rock wall with holes for him to crawl into and passageways between some of them for more enrichment. But make this giant "hide" big enough to take up the cold area of the tank and maybe have spaces I can see him through? Edit: I would really appreciate any ideas too!
for my bearded dragon I take her out (shes a baby) handle her and play with her, then During feeding time, I put her in a box with leaves and a bunch of hiding spots and put in food (dubia roaches, super worms,etc) and let her find her prey instead of hand feeding
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I loved this video and I’m SO excited for the walk in sized enclosure!!! I know you will make it incredible & large enclosure builds are my favorite. Are they going to be cohabited? I’m sorry if you answered that question in the video and I missed it lol
For the question of the day I say encourage foraging Behavior we have a habit of tongue feeding or bowl feeding animals which is not really mentally stimulating yeah it's easier on us cuz we know that the animal is eating but a lot of these animals are very smart and inquisitive when I had my rats they love foraging for food and it was so cool to see them using their brain to figure out the puzzle
ima need you to back up a bit please and ty LUL that intro WOAHHHH awesome animals, beautiful and well taken care of. O and i enrich my youngest boa with a small rack to climb on made from athletic equipment. it has two cross bars to climb to and from and two loops to crawl to and play on inside a open top box so theres no real danger of falling. what an amazing animal to use its hands like that and accomplish what it wanted to do. awesome!
Hey, I 'm was planing on getting i rather big terrarium with a little waterfall, small water area and JUST plants (no animals because i never had a terrarium and didn't want to start with a big terrarium). When I looked for video's of how to set up a terrarium i stumbled over your videos and now i just cant stop thinking about how beautiful those animals are. Can you recommend a reptile for a beginner? I was planning on doing a jungle themed terrarium.
I put my snakehead fish food various kinds of floating insect like cricket and roaches in same spot (a feeding ring) and same time of the day while sometimes spread life feeder shrimps, So whenever I'm not around he swim around the bottom of enclosure while if I'm around he goes swimming up around the feeding ring
I believe enrichment should work in concert with trust. Your pet associates you as providing a food source for them at first; however, they need to feel trust and comfort from you. I think we as owners forget that we are larger than our pets & can be easily thought of as a threat to their safety. My son and his Beardie Stoner, are best pals, but it took a lot of trust and patience for them to bond as they have now. Stoner now refuses to take food with tongs & prefers hand feeding.
I have a question what age would you sell your baby crested geckos at. Also for enrichment for my rat I use a small cardboard box put food in it and wait for him to figure out how to open it
So are Sabzi and Basil going to live together in the new habitat? Are they going to be husband and wife and have little tree monitors for us to enjoy? Am I getting ahead of myself or mostly yourself? 😉
Currently I only have crested geckos on my channel. If you like cresties, you should check it out! Appreciate all you do for the hobby and I love your vids! I love monitors so much! One day I’ll be getting one. Same with a tegu. Those are my goals for the future for sure
I've been learning clicker training with my cat. I wonder, with their intelligence, if your green tree monitors could be taught too. I'm completely enamoured by the peacock clubmoss I got at the expo. It's such a lovely colour! I got into moss research and found one of your ancient videos and you've definitely improved your video and animal/plant husbandry skills over the years! Still. It was an interesting watch.
Thanks so much for watching everyone 🦎! Aren't tree monitor lizards incredible?! That tactile function is one of my favourite things ever! Don't forget to answer todays QUESTION OF THE DAY! As always, a sincere thanks to my patrons over on Patreon for making videos like this possible www.patreon.com/Reptiliatus !
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@@kingbaah68 Thanks for watching!
I am waiting every time for your videos man I have seen people that work with Reptile or animals like you I could see you love to them thanks for everything GBU
So you never responded to my last comment about Sabzi's name? Is it because of his green color and Sabz being the name of color green in Farsi? or is it Sabzi as in general vegetable which again is the meaning of the word Sabzi in Farsi? I mean Basil is a vegetable so it makes sense lol
The green tree monsters are so cool, their intelligence level seems to be a velociraptor
Haha monsters 😉 (I know what you meant but technically if you are a 🦗…). Yes they are amazing!
Beautiful lizards. Stunning. Great job with their training. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Thank you so much! 🙏🏼
I think a huge part of their enrichment is adding live feeders, even for my crested gecko (he loves ambushing crickets). I'm also constantly making small adjustments to their scape, adjusting their "weather" by slightly varying temperature, humidity, adding and removing fans, and also just straight up interacting with them.
We also have a cat that likes to help with herp cardio through jumpscares. 😅
I could watch these guys all day. The way your girl uses her arms looks exactly like a human the way she moves in. Absolutely incredible.
Ok So I have MANY animals in my home: 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 rats, and one White Australian House Chicken (Cockatoo) For the enrichment, I do many many things: cats get treats on different surfaces, like the headboard of my bed and the chair where I sit most days. The dogs get treat balls stuffed with peanut butter and frozen in the summer. The rats have to go through a maze to get their bedtime treats, and the Cockatoo has to find it in the bottom of his cocoanut shell under a mound of shredded paper! Just a few examples!
Its so fascinating watching them grab the cricket with their feet, you truly can see the gears turning in their mind.
Awwww I love to watch ur lizard reach in with its hands just so adorable!! CANT WAIT TO C UR NEW ENCLOSURE!!!! SO EXCITED FOR U!!!!
Thank you so much! I can’t wait to share with everyone!
Holy progress Batman! Yay Basil!!
QOTD: I change up my lizards enclosures, add fans for wind, bring them outside in the summer, feed different food items, in different sizes, I block off my 2nd story deck railing so they have free rein outside sorta too.
So excited about the new build! Sabzi and Basil old enough to mate? Baby green tree monitors?! So exciting 🥰😍
I think hanging food items could be hung by a string from their branches! They would have to jump or reach for it. I'm on love with your entire setup!
That’s perfect, great suggestion! Thank you!
They are so beautiful, and I love how active they are. And it’s fun to see them think en find a solution to get to the food.
Wow. Thank you for creating such wonderful videos for us to enjoy. I sooo want to get either a hognose or an egg eater as my first snake. I love them so much. I never would have known that I loved them until I accidentally fell upon Snake Discovery. I had a video of an alligator in a bathtub in my news feed and then checked out her channel then it was on. I'm extremely picky about which reptile channels I dedicate myself to. I can honestly and very thankfully say that your channel is definitely one of the select few. Again, thank you so much for sharing your creativity, knowledge, and amazing animals. 🙂
I just saw your Collabs with Snake Discovery!! That's no surprise. Y'all are freaking awesome sauce! 😁
I love how they will use their face and hands and any surface to push their prey around so the head is pointed down their throat! So smart!
Yes! Indeed!
Fantastic vid. Love the fact that you care about the enrichment side of keeping. Very impressed. Looking forward to seeing the new enclosure.
I absolutely love your videos! They are informative and entertaining. You're babies have such personalities. Keep up the great work on the species specific content. 👍
Thank you so much! That’s so kind of you to say and I’m so glad you enjoy them! 🙏🏼
As a tarantula owner I truly believe that leaving them alone gives them all the enrichment they need. Unless you are feeding or rehousing of course. They feel best in dark and quiet areas which is pretty difficult to achieve out in their wild habitats these days.
I hide food for my frogs in bromeliads secretly and he always finds it!
It amazed me to see how the green tree monitor grabbed the prey with those claws while the head was too wide to fit through that little jar.
Yay Basil! He really has come quite far in trusting you! Which is a testament to how much effort you put into the relationship. He was a bit older when you got him compared to Sabzi's age and size. Sabzi was sooo tiny and you got to work on socializing her very early on in her life. Bravo Dayyan!👏👏
I can not wait to see the new, huge enclosure! Loved this update, thank you so much for sharing your animals with us!
QOTD: I am working on a PVC pipe jungle gym for my snakes and a small maze with stone vertical aspects as well along with random bug snacks along the way for Jackson's leopard gecko 'Doom'. I have simple smaller versions of each, so these will be much more elaborate. The horses enjoy their huge kickball 😄
That enclosure sounds so sweet, hidden mist king 👌👍💯🙌👏
Thanks bro 🙏🏼
I love this animals. I buy soon a breeding pair of blue tree monitors.
Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
Wonderful! Thank you for watching! Greetings from Canada!
What a great cage for your, tree monitor’s. You make all o f your videos so entertaining and well done.
What I enjoy the most is your humble attitude. Keep up your good work. This is Alan, greetings from Riverside in Southern California.
Wow! Congratulations on some amazing progress!!! I am still only 6-months into having my first reptile. Each week, I change up different things for my baby Leopard Gecko to explore. It is amazing how comfortable he(?) has become with being handled and cruising around his terrarium. Thanks for sharing! You inspire me.
I really like to enrich my reptiles life with bioactive enclosure. The best thing is when you keep a new reptile in sterile tubs with paper towels to see if it's doing okay , and then after a month transfer them in fully bioactive large enclosure with live plants and a lot of branches and rocks . Then you can see that your animal is truly happy . Can't wait to see new tree monitor enclosure!
Hopefully custom background and water part in the new monitor vivarium.
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LOVED this video. I've been a ball python owner for going on 6 years and I've loved it and as of late I've been thinking about Tree Monitors. So much info and thank you.
Glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for watching/the kind feedback!
I’m absolutely lucky to have a very social Leo-he waits for me every night when I do my evening reptile chores. He sits on my shoulder as I go from room to room, misting, feeding, etc…he seems to really enjoy watching the fish when I feed them-he’ll track their movement across the tanks and seems very interested! Its super cool to watch.
Congratulations ❣️
I'd so like to have a little monitor! You are doing so good by them, handling often, enrichment prone activities...lots to boost the value of these beautiful animals as pets! Good Job!
For enrichment of our many pets, we give toys and treats and field trips for our fur babies. For my reptiles, I put branches for them to climb and explore. For my Tarantulas, they have bioactive enclosures with plants and leaf litter.
Wow when u did the close up on the Color’s of their skin that was incredible all the Color was wild
My little _Kermit_ love to hunt crickets out of a small bucket with a small hole on top. Just have a look how he is growing and how I build a huge enclosure over 8 month.
For my cats I like giving them puzzle toys, or they also tend to pull them out and throw them around themselves. For Keven my bearded dragon, he has a bio active enclosure, so part of his enrichment is hunting down the beetles that develop from escaped superworms.
Loved seeing how intelligent these animals are. It always amazes me when you see tasks being completed that by animals that takes brain power to figure out!
Not sure if this counts as enrichment. I have two different snakes (C. trivirgata, L. inornatus) that seem to like to burrow for much of their day. Instead of just using one substrate for their respective enclosures, I split each in half with two different types. I don't mix them, and I like to think the choice it gives may make them happy. The warmer side is aspen bedding, and the cooler side is cypress mulch. Each is piled enough to allow for full burrowing. I also deliberately give my tarantulas extra water "dishes", usually from soda caps. They bury them, web over them, even had a blue fang stick one on the outside of it's corkbark, right side up. Thanks for the video.
For my reptile babies enrichment I like to switch things up in the enclosure periodically. Rearranging my apartment improved my mood, I like to think it’s similar for them!
I have so many questions for you! 1) what are the tags in your philodendron? 2) are you housing then together? I know you talked about breeding them eventually. 3) what are you going to do with their old enclosures?!
I enrich my pet budgies life by playing music or moving their cage to a new position sometimes. I also take the cage into the garden for some sun I have to sit with them outside because butcherbirds try to eat them through the cage wire! I also pick native seed heads for them to eat.
I handle my crested gecko about once a week so he is accustomed to handling, which makes it easier to check him over for any health issues. Since he doesn’t exactly *enjoy* handling, I keep him distracted by holding him next to my 20 gallon wild betta rubra aquarium. He and the fish are super interested in looking at each other, and it’s definitely an interaction they’d never experience in their wild environments. 😊
I always loved monitors, sadly here in Italy every kind of monitor lizard is illegal because of "danger", so I learn all about these amazing animals by your videos
So proud of Basil! Nice work, and for one of the ways enrichment for my neon day geckos I use a tiny vine ball and put tiny little mealworms inside for them to get out, some are more interested in getting that food out than others but if nothing else they like to climb on the ball lol
I have 5 garter snakes, and one of their favorite thing is changing their environment. Add a new branch, switch things up, re-mix the substrate... They'll re-explore everything for a few hours every single time
Fantastic! Thank you for sharing!
I've managed to get my hands on a green keel bellied lizard on the latest reptile expo. (gastropolis prasina)
But they really do look like the small version of these monitors. And after a few days hes already getting less shy and comes close to me
That’s too great to hear! Very happy for you! Yes! In fact they sometimes call them the “poor man’s tree monitor” 😅. Such a neat species!
@@Reptiliatus yes! Really cool animals 😁
I love taking my ball python outside and allow him enjoy the lawn and smelling new things. (I stay with him, his body length away and check for escape routes and holes + on the lookout for predictors)
Just one example of something I do is giving my birds toys that require them to figure out a puzzle to get treats or teach them tricks positively reinforced with treats!
Fantastic!
Oh my the progress Mr.Basil has made is awesome !!! 🎊
Thank you! 🦎
Love the way you take care of your reptiles you can tell they come first before your channel
Thank you so much! They certainly do! 😊🦎🐢🐍🐸✨
It's been a while since I watched, maybe even back when Basil arrived, so I have the pleasure of seeing the HUGE progress you have made with the tree monitors. And they both look 100% healthy and growing. I'm 60 and a wildlife biologist/naturalist, but I have never seen a lizard using its front feet like that, and maybe even weirder was the way he was using his entire front legs to pull the jar toward him like apes and humans do. The proportions make it look eerily similar and indeed like an reptilian anthropoid space alien.🦎 super duper cool! The hand-like dexterity must be a huge advantage for foraging in arboreal habitats, grabbing branches and feeling around in tree holes for grubs, amphibians, etc. Sort of interesting - tool use in species other than humans is extremely rare, but in apes and corvids it usually involves using sticks to poke into tree holes and logs to get insects they can't reach. Arboreal snakes can just go right in the holes. Green tree monitors evolved little monkey arms and hands. 😊 You are doing perfect enrichment by simulating these foraging situations and I'm sure there are many more ways to do it. Here's a tip for other people socializing very shy animals - do it at the same time every day if you can. The predictability helps them learn what is about to happen and associate it with food. Animals respond well to consistency. Can't wait to see the big cage for them.
I love these lizards so much! Every time I think I've found my favorite monitor... I see another one I love more! Green tree monitors are in my top 5! They are so gorgeous and sweet! I love how pink their mouth is compared to their bright green body!
Can’t wait to see that tree monitor upgrade. I would absolutely love a green tree monitor and I’m trying to figure out if I can possibly make space in my house for something big enough for an adult tree monitor. The size you’re going for sounds great for the monitors but we don’t all have that kind of real estate! Hahaha
Hi Dayyan! I have Oliver the kitty cat. And I try to find scores of ways to enrich his life. He is an inside cat so he needs a bit more than say an outsider. I let him go out onto the porch for bird watching. I play with him with toys. He likes to climb inside of my pillowcase. I give him a bit of canned food as a snack. And so so much more! He is quite the character!
My cat has recently begun climbing into pillow cases too!! He's a 12 y/o indoor kitty who loves going outside on a harness and leat
@@lillyh3447 Cats are so much fun aren't they? I am thinking of the harness for Oliver as well. How long did it take your kitty to get used to it?
@@tracybowling1156 Not long at all! I was really worried, as he was hadn't liked collars as a kitten and was already 10 or so when I introduced the harness. But he took to it very easily! Lots of positive reinforcement and treats, and wearing the harness indoors for short periods.
@@lillyh3447 Hi Lilly! Thank you for the feedback. My Ollie is a year old now. I think I will do what you did. I'm so interested in seeing how it works out. Wish me luck. 😂 And thanks again. Dayyan's community is filled with such sweet people. I really enjoy it!
@@tracybowling1156 of course!! Let me know how your baby takes to it!
This is absolutely amazing! This just goes to show how far one can go with the work. I'm incredibly sure these guys as well as other reptiles can bond with people (no I'm not comparing human to reptile emotions.). I have been away for 4mo or so from home since we are trying to move and what have you. It's not easy and my tegu that I've had since he was a hatchling keeps on exhibiting signs of missing me he breaks out of the enclosure searches around the bed to go back in. My wife approaches the enclosure to show me how he is doing and he huffs going back to his basking spot ignoring her completely. She does the same thing a couple days later but this time I talk he looks at the phone and actually it seems like there is recognition he not only doesn't shy away he starts going at the glass. Example three my wife came out to visit me for a week so some of her clothes smelled of me, soooo when she came back from the trip she went to visit some friends and he breaks out of the enclosure. She comes back and he is buried in the clothing in the suit case... when I say I'm trying to not anthropomorphize these creatures I mean it I worked as a vet tech did the studying so has my wife, but dang he is showing all the signs of an animal missing their person. What to do I don't know we are trying to figure something out including potentially getting him a larger enclosure with swinging doors that would be more sturdy to lock shut vs his sliding glass doors that he has pushed the glass doors out.
For the question of the day:
I on occasion would give my tegu a full egg untracked and put it in the tub. I also put a fully adjustable cat harness on him and will take him out into town for further socialization. His diet is varied, bit on occasion we will give him whole prey dragging it around the enclosure making him give chase, then doing a sort of tug of war to stimulate natural behavior such as thrashing and hitting the item against other objects in said enclosure. We recently got him a large rubber ball he can grab and throw but not eat from petsmart to play with when he takes his bath. Constantly trying to think of new ideas for him, although unfortunately live prey items would be incredibly hard to do. When he was younger though he would get blue horned worms, dubias, and even earth worms. It was always interesting to see him finding random cocoons for those that made it to that point.
As far as reptiles go though one can always tell who has put in a ton of work vs not it absolutely shows and I can tell you have done as such.
와 그린트리모니터가 저렇게 착할 수 있구나... 항상 뛰어다니는 애들만 봐서 신기하다
training my parrots to do silly tricks. it realy stimulates there brains needing to figure out what im saing without understanding. great vid btw
great job with working with them. they are beautiful. nice vid.
Awesome video, gorgeous lizards, Basil has come along way, your doing a great job with him & Sabsi, she is just incredible 👍😁
Great video as always! Excited for the new tree monitor enclosure 🦎
Thank you! Me too!
QOTD: I have cats and I think the most important thing we do is to keep introducing new things. Every few months they get something new in their environment. A new cat tree, a new toy, a set up to allow them a new window view, etc… they’re environment is pretty consistent and in some ways that’s great for them, but they definitely get excited about new experiences! It makes them think about what’s happening.
Awesome, love the channel. Just shows how far Reptile Husbandry has come in the last 40 years! Incredible work.
Where did you find the wood ball toy ?
Your enclosures are stunning!
Thank you! 😊🙏🏼
So happy to see the progress with Basil 💚 good job bro
Thanks so much!
To enrich my cat's life, I used to play tag with her. Now that my disability had reduced my mobility well beyond that activity, my son has taken my place.
They are my dream lizard😁. I don't have any reptiles but I give my ants every year a new nest and my terrarium a new look the last one is for my self haha
For my two rats - Aster and Fluer - I have a chopped fruits/veggie day, whole fruits/veggie day, Whole egg day, Seed day, Meat day, Insect day, Leafy Greens day, cat kibble, and a mix match day, I like to enrich their lives using random days of mix and matching their foods that I previously mentioned. I usually will try to hid their food in Toilet paper rolls, in crumbled up news papers, in small cardboard boxes, in jars filled with food and newspaper, egg cartons filled with food, I hang their food in hard to reach places. Some days I will scatter their seeds or kibbles throughout their enclosure. For me its really important that all my animals, wether its a chicken, geese, Peacock, fish, frogs, doves, turtle, tortoise or rats. They need to be able to practise their natural rang of motions and practice their instincts whenever and as much as possible .
Love that you are working hard to enrich your pets life
Keep it up and looking forward tot he next videos :)
I dream to have these lizards one day, but I need to get things together before committing to it.
They are so pretty. Can't wait to see the new enclosure
Thanks so much! I’m very excited as well!
i enrich my hognose by rescaping it's enclosure every week.
love your videos.
Awesome! That’s great!
@@Reptiliatus thank you so much!
They are both getting Soo big!
Hello it’s so good to see you! I remember when you got your lizards and they sure have come a long way! You should be very proud 💕🦎🦎
I'm considering getting a tree monitor in the future. Their look and personality/intelligence is very attractive to me. I currently have a leopard gecko, fire skink, bearded dragon, red-eyed tree frog, and an abronia graminea. All in bioactive setups. I have a perfect spot for a 4x2x4 tank. Only thing I'm unsure about is if their size would prevent having a bunch of nice plants in a bioactive.
for my daygecko i use a variety of food, like superworms, which i handfeed him, so he has to climb on my hands, flys to catch, i let crickets run free in his enclosure for him to hunt, once a week some pangea or gecko nutrition in various flavors. and every now and then i add new plants or branches to his enclosure
and he loves to watch me or my boyfriend playing video games. he sits sometimes hours looking through the glass on the monitors
Glad to see them both doing so well. I'm making great progress with my male but my female is still very timid and has no interest in tong feeding or even taking food I leave near her. She's young so I still have plenty of time to work with her
Those monitors are really intelligent. I didn’t know that green tree monitors eat mice. Very nice animals. It would be extraordinary when they will live in the large enclosure together.
As for the question, I think that every animal needs different kinds of enrichment. For example, I sometimes toss the insects in my crested gecko’s enclosure instead of putting them in the bowl.
He then needs to calculate the distance and often he needs to attack them when they are hidden inside foliage or on bark.
I would like to make a fake nest for my rosy boa with smaller frozen mice inside. They are considered nessed predators in the wild. However, my project hasn’t given any result yet. He has learnt to eat from tongs and it is difficult to change him now.
I keep pet rats, and I have many many foraging toys for them to make them work for their food. I also do not free feed them like many people do. When they run out of food they either have to wait for their next meal or eat the food that they have stashed. Some rat owners wrongly believe that they need access to food 24/7 but once rats are adults there is no need for that. I have five different foraging toys that I rotate through for them. I also make sure they have plenty of things to chew on and destroy as that that is a rats favorite pastime. They also get daily exercise outside of their cage. For my leopard gecko, I make sure she has ample hiding spaces and different textures to explore, I also make her chase her food. My crested, I change the cage decor around once a month. I also try doing live food but he doesn't take it, not sure why. I also change up the flavors and brands of his crested diet or even mix them together sometimes. for my tarantulas I make sure they have ample burrowing space (I only have terrestrial ones at the moment) with different textures to explore if they choose to. My hedge hog gets live insects several nights a week and make sure she different things to taste and hide in and interact with (she loves sticking her head in TP tubes and annointing herself with mint) and It is 100 percent essential that she has her wheel to run on.
To give some enrichment to my leopard gecko, I wouldn't be able to just give him some substrate. He doesn't like to dig-weird, I know-but he really loves to climb, hide and sploot. I'm wanting to build him a custom giant "hide" that looks like a rock wall with holes for him to crawl into and passageways between some of them for more enrichment. But make this giant "hide" big enough to take up the cold area of the tank and maybe have spaces I can see him through?
Edit: I would really appreciate any ideas too!
for my bearded dragon I take her out (shes a baby) handle her and play with her, then During feeding time, I put her in a box with leaves and a bunch of hiding spots and put in food (dubia roaches, super worms,etc) and let her find her prey instead of hand feeding
I have a pet snapping turtle and what I did was I added dirt and sand to the bottom go the tank so it inmate's a silt bottom for him.
That’s great! I’m sure it also stimulates a foraging behaviour!
BUG LOVERS! I would suggest going over to Amazon Prime and watching a new 4 part series called 'Bug Out'. It's a true crime/drama about an invert museum, really need to watch all 4 parts. Anyone think we could help Steve get his business back?
Sabsy is left handed it would seem.
Quite possibly!
I loved this video and I’m SO excited for the walk in sized enclosure!!! I know you will make it incredible & large enclosure builds are my favorite. Are they going to be cohabited? I’m sorry if you answered that question in the video and I missed it lol
I have a menagerie so changing environment once in a while is welcomed. Even my fish. 😃
Nice!
I introduce new types of food every now and then to my aquarium critters, to try and keep them happy.
Perfect!
For the question of the day I say encourage foraging Behavior we have a habit of tongue feeding or bowl feeding animals which is not really mentally stimulating yeah it's easier on us cuz we know that the animal is eating but a lot of these animals are very smart and inquisitive when I had my rats they love foraging for food and it was so cool to see them using their brain to figure out the puzzle
ima need you to back up a bit please and ty LUL that intro WOAHHHH
awesome animals, beautiful and well taken care of.
O and i enrich my youngest boa with a small rack to climb on made from athletic equipment. it has two cross bars to climb to and from and two loops to crawl to and play on inside a open top box so theres no real danger of falling.
what an amazing animal to use its hands like that and accomplish what it wanted to do. awesome!
I give my BPs enrichment with a KONG ball. They love it. Its like a maze
Cool! Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful animals
Love youre vids
Thank you so much! I appreciate your support so much!
Hey, I 'm was planing on getting i rather big terrarium with a little waterfall, small water area and JUST plants (no animals because i never had a terrarium and didn't want to start with a big terrarium). When I looked for video's of how to set up a terrarium i stumbled over your videos and now i just cant stop thinking about how beautiful those animals are.
Can you recommend a reptile for a beginner? I was planning on doing a jungle themed terrarium.
I put my snakehead fish food various kinds of floating insect like cricket and roaches in same spot (a feeding ring) and same time of the day while sometimes spread life feeder shrimps, So whenever I'm not around he swim around the bottom of enclosure while if I'm around he goes swimming up around the feeding ring
Question for you: Why did you pick green tree monitors? Looks? Temperment?
Amazing one!
Thank you!
I believe enrichment should work in concert with trust. Your pet associates you as providing a food source for them at first; however, they need to feel trust and comfort from you. I think we as owners forget that we are larger than our pets & can be easily thought of as a threat to their safety. My son and his Beardie Stoner, are best pals, but it took a lot of trust and patience for them to bond as they have now. Stoner now refuses to take food with tongs & prefers hand feeding.
Love the vids keep going lad
Thank you so much! Will do!
I have a question what age would you sell your baby crested geckos at. Also for enrichment for my rat I use a small cardboard box put food in it and wait for him to figure out how to open it
So are Sabzi and Basil going to live together in the new habitat? Are they going to be husband and wife and have little tree monitors for us to enjoy? Am I getting ahead of myself or mostly yourself? 😉
Waw man I love wath you do keep it up very good man thanks
Thank you so much! 🙏🏼🦎
It is currently night time in south africa so i will not watch your video now but definitly watch it tommorow sorry
No problem! Thanks for commenting and hope you like the video tomorrow! Sleep well!
I am trying to figure out how to breed guppies and snails so I can give my turtle live feeders on a regular basis without going broke
Currently I only have crested geckos on my channel. If you like cresties, you should check it out! Appreciate all you do for the hobby and I love your vids! I love monitors so much! One day I’ll be getting one. Same with a tegu. Those are my goals for the future for sure
I definitely will have a look.
@@rufflesal Awesome! I appreciate it!
suprised your not using target sticks .. or have you?
UNREAL
Thanks! 🦎
I've been learning clicker training with my cat. I wonder, with their intelligence, if your green tree monitors could be taught too.
I'm completely enamoured by the peacock clubmoss I got at the expo. It's such a lovely colour! I got into moss research and found one of your ancient videos and you've definitely improved your video and animal/plant husbandry skills over the years! Still. It was an interesting watch.
You should check out my outdoor enclosure tell me what you think. I love them tree monitors been wanting some black tree monitor