Has the reptile hobby been lying all along, or are these myths really believed to be facts? Were some of them created to make _more_ money? Be sure to let me know what you think! Don't forget to subscribe to see more reptile videos.
Awesome video Hunter! I would LOVE if you made this a series!! For a while I didn't give my beardie a water bowl, but I've seen her use it multiple times since having it! She also loves being misted from time to time
Thank you, Emma! I’m definitely going to make more of these. Im glad you brought up the misting beardies topic, because River loves being misted occasionally as well! 😁
When I got my first snake, a Florida King, I took her to an "exotic pet vet" near me. He told me the most common health issue he has seen in snakes is respiratory infections and said I should not keep a water dish in the enclosure. Having done tons of research before I got the snake, this went against everything I learned. Needless to say, I ignored his advice and never went back. Unfortunately, the nearest actual reptile vet near me is a two hour drive away. If any of my reptiles needed it, I would gladly make that drive!
Yeap lots of vets don't know what to do with reptiles. They aren't placed to give advice. Ad long your snake hasn't fur, 4 paws and barks or miauws, they don't know what they are talking about...
I’m so glad to see this content! I’m especially glad you went over the humidity thing. I’ve seen people absolutely panic because the humidity in their leopard gecko tank got up to 60%, but they’re exposed to such humidity in their natural environment.
I'm so glad to see more influencers in the reptile community properly educating their viewers & putting an end to ridiculous practices. Thank you, Hunter :)
With the whole "terrestrial species don't climb" it all comes to perspective. In the wild, 1 foot isn't much, even 3 feet isn't seen as much. But in a terrarium, 3 feet is huge! In the wild, landscape makes that 3 feet easier to climb in our terrarium we often don't have the space to make a climbing feature for our animals so therefore we think these animals "don't climb"
I agree with everything you said!! especially the giving water dishes to all reptiles!! I always see my reptiles drinking no matter the species. I haven’t had any problems giving water dishes. Some of the myths have me like scratching my head lol like the one with terrestrials reptiles don’t need climbing space I have 18 leopard geckos and they all climb and seem to enjoy it a lot. Very amazing topic to cover!! thank you so much for being apart of the chance in the reptile community.
I provide a water dish for my crested gecko despite many people saying they don’t recognize standing water. Well, I’ve got multiple videos of him drinking from it to show otherwise haha
The last one is a great point that too many people believe even snake discovery condoned it in their bearded dragon rescue video. They say that it should be able to absorb water through it’s cloaca, though this is false.
Great video, and great to see myths being dispelled. I have ball pythons and they have large enclosures, plenty of climbing opportunities, sky hides, humidity hides, uvb etc and plenty of opportunities to come out and explore. They never refuse food! All animals are individuals and some may prefer smaller enclosures but all should be given the best environments we can provide.
Great video! I had heard that Ball Pythons lived in termite mounds. But my guy has a nice bio-active enclosure and he spends all day in a hide and most nights climbing his branches. So this makes a lot more sense to me.
Well done Hunter. You could easily make this into a series with how many myths you got on that Facebook post. This hobby is full of bonkers myths/misconceptions/ flat out lies.
Great series - I'd like to see more videos like this! For the soaking topic while it's not true that reptiles drink through their cloaca it doesn't mean that soaking doesn't help with dehydration or other issues. It can encourage drinking and help them go to bathroom, etc. I would have just touched on that when discussing that topic 💚
Thank you! You’re absolutely right. In the second study in that section, linked below in this comment, it does mention that. 😁 www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Gibbons-3/publication/242248692_CRITICAL_CARE_NUTRITION_AND_FLUID_THERAPY_IN_REPTILES/links/56fdbdc308aee995dde562d6/CRITICAL-CARE-NUTRITION-AND-FLUID-THERAPY-IN-REPTILES.pdf
Absolutely love this! Great job putting this together, makes me think about doing videos myself to help bring better care and a deeper understanding of the work we need to do for all species we care for. So kudos to you for doing this, it's a lot of work but the hope that we can all do better and push each other to keep learning is amazing. :) P.s. I would love videos about more myths and maybe the difference between keeping to breed and the problems it presents vs. the difference in keeping for show to sell in pet stores vs. the different kinds of keeping we can do at home to focus on care, enrichment, and the over all health of these animals that rely on us!
Perhaps a question to explore with respect to habitat is "what is reasonable for the species?" Any enclosure will be smaller than the area an animal would cover living in the wild. Some animal rights activist would argue that keeping any animal in an enclosure, regardless of size and stimulating environment, is inhumane. So you might want to explore how big is big enough? How warm/cool/dry/humid is warm/cool/dry/humid enough? How much food is enough? Is living in captivity being kept with good husbandry skills, medical attention when needed, regular feedings, and no constant threat of death from predators a reasonable trade off to living in the wild? It doesn't matter how we judge quality of life. What matters is how the animal perceives it's quality of life. That is difficult to know but perhaps we can judge by the health and longevity of the animal. That requires very long term studies.
To answer a bit to it, I think natural behaviors that are performed regularly in nature should be possible to perform in captivity as well. That should be absolute minimum in my opinion. Why? Because they do it for a reason. Be it that they like certain things, or simply their instincts telling them to do those things, if they regularly perform certain behaviors, they will likely have the drive to do those in captivity too. So I think that's one starter point for enclosure size and what's put in the enclosure.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I’m very happy that you’ve brought up this topic! I was told a handful of these things as well and I was a newer impressionable keeper who didn’t provide enough of certain things for my pets for a long time due to these silly myths. Let’s keep educating and heightening standards! :)
I have definitely seen my ball python climbing the branches in her enclosure. Soon she’ll have four times her current space once her new bioactive enclosure is ready.
Well done! I started herping when I was a kid in the 1970s there wasn't much information available then but there also wasn't any misinformation. Library books and bugging the staff at the local zoo was all we had and it got us by. I took a few years off and during that time they invented the internet. My daughter got me back into it and boy was I shocked when she's telling me bearded dragons crested geckos and leopard geckos get no water dish. Luckily my common sense prevailed over obvious nonsense but I'm still pretty amazed at the things people will believe because they heard it on the internet. Not just with reptiles either.
Great video like always! I knew a guy who once kept his Bearded Dragon without a water bowl, and that's sadly only the beginning of his terrible care. It's definitely sad with the amount of good information out there, some people still don't do their research and keep animals in terrible conditions. Keep up the great work, Hunter!
Something to keep in mind with humidity is that it is relative to temperature. The humidity spike in June and July is likely due to it being winter in the southern hemisphere, when the cold air holds less moisture. You probably would make a beardy sick of you tried to keep it at 70% humidity with summer temperatures for several months
@@HunterHouck I didn't think you were! I was just hoping to add some context for people checking the comments. Sorry if it came off too aggressive! The idea of keeping any animal without free access to water blows my mind.
This is a great video Hunter! I love that so many gen Z reptile keepers are so science and animal welfare oriented! There’s a lot of faith put in industry veterans that are frankly so convinced changing how they keep reptiles is somehow ‘anthropomorphising’ them that they ignore actual studies to the contrary. A huge myth I would love the reptile community confront is that reptiles are somehow “immune” to the negative genetic effects of inbreeding. This is not true. It drives me up that wall. I hate to think of reptiles ending up like domestic dogs. We have a limited time for diverse genetics being brought in from the wild due to mass deforestation around the globe so it is imperative we curb the constant practice of inbreeding.
Plains (western) hognoses apparently spend their summers in wetlands, so anyone saying they can’t deal with humidity have clearly never entered a wetland in the middle of summer.
I fully support your content Hunter, well done. It is a total pleasure to see another younger keeper putting out the correct information out there. Loved this video my friend. Yes we need a few more of these :).
Fantastic video, articulated well and you are clearly passionate about reptile keeping! It's about time some laws are put in place against large scale breeders who do not house their reptiles properly
So wait, you say they breath through their cloaca? I went diving in Egypt with turtles a few times. And I did see them resurface for air every now and then. They surely put their head above water for a breath of air, then went down again to continue eating the seagrass. Their cloaca was remained completely submerged in water though. So I don't understand how they would breath through the cloaca instead of through the mouth. Also biologically I don't understand how the cloaca and lungs are connected... So, if they do it would be more the function of getting oxygen from the water I guess? But how would that work? I mean a gill and a cloaca are not really resembling each other right?
all of my reptiles have water dishes the only one who doesn't have access to water all of the time is my uromastyx because he freaks out and buries it in substrate I do give him some water a few times a week and whenever he is shedding (he has a funky spot on his tail that sometimes gets a little stuck shed) but other than that all my animals have water bowls my leopard gecko likes water every so often ill catch him drinking although I can't seem to get him to climb much he's about to get an upgrade to a 40 I'm hoping he will be a bit more adventurous
Hi mate, love this vid, I rescue a lot of reptiles from owners which are very sick due to bad care, lead by advise from shops, I hate starter kits, they only have the very basic items and should come with a warning that they may not be suitable for the animal moving forward, Any one can buy a starter kit and purchase the animal to go into it with out knowledge of the animals care, when I visited a local shop they sold a 2x2 enclosure and the customer had purchased a 4ft boa for £250, alarms bells should be ringing, he got charged £450 for the enclosure and the snake and told this would be enough, they tills were ringing at the poor health of the snake, by the way I own 5 boas, dragons and balls and corns each are given the best enclosure, my dragons have a large bath area which the love, my balls have a purpose made area where they can climb, unfortunately people do not understand the true cost of keeping these amazing animals, the biggest comment I get I did not realise when I purchased I would need to have a bigger enclosure which I have no space for or I can afford to purchase a new one 12 months later
I know this isn't related in anyway but I'm getting a whites tree froglet and I have the 18× 18×24 terrarium. Do I have to put it in quarantine. If so how long would you say
there are really only about 5 youtubers i tell people to get care advice from and i bet if everyone here compaired notes we would have almost the same lists :) Pets stores are big source of misinformation. Chinese water dragon are murdered by the thousands each year by pet owners who follow pet store's care instructions.
Im not saying not to give terrestrial reptiles places to climb, but if you think about it I probably make more sense that an animal that gets it heat from the sunny would move to a higher place closer to the sun to get "more sun". It's like how cats move with the sun while sitting I a window. If you give a animal that needs the sun for heat a place to get closer to the sun they will.(like how if it's cold outside and you get in a car with a heater on you put or Hands closer to the heater to heat them up faster).
@hunter could not find the source on trees and ball pythons . Saw the one about birds but there are alot of ground dwelling birds in Africa. Not trying to argue as I was half asleep when reading through the links
Only heard of 1 misconception and that was that people should keep their pets in small enclosures. And I know it is you have to provide your reptile the biggest enclosure possible, with lots of stuff to explore. The others I never heard of. You should be really stupid if you believe that... lol Wasn't that an enclosure from the snake discovery zoo?
If you don't cite the platforms that are the problems, you are not helping anyone. But also, being a larger reptile breeder is is not an indication they are in it for the money or not caring properly for the animals. It means they are successful. Having sick animals is an indication they are not caring for the animals properly. I'm not trying to be overly critical, but you are making some blanket comments that just aren't accurate. I know small breeders who are terrible with husbandry. You can't raise your platform by lowering another.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Frankly, I’ve seen significantly more “large-scale” breeders who don’t meet the “5 Opportunities to Thrive,” which is a good standard for animal care. Most large-scale breeders simply do not provide proper care for their reptiles.
Has the reptile hobby been lying all along, or are these myths really believed to be facts? Were some of them created to make _more_ money?
Be sure to let me know what you think! Don't forget to subscribe to see more reptile videos.
Awesome video Hunter! I would LOVE if you made this a series!! For a while I didn't give my beardie a water bowl, but I've seen her use it multiple times since having it! She also loves being misted from time to time
Thank you, Emma! I’m definitely going to make more of these. Im glad you brought up the misting beardies topic, because River loves being misted occasionally as well! 😁
When I got my first snake, a Florida King, I took her to an "exotic pet vet" near me. He told me the most common health issue he has seen in snakes is respiratory infections and said I should not keep a water dish in the enclosure. Having done tons of research before I got the snake, this went against everything I learned. Needless to say, I ignored his advice and never went back. Unfortunately, the nearest actual reptile vet near me is a two hour drive away. If any of my reptiles needed it, I would gladly make that drive!
It’s very sad how many vets claim to treat reptiles, but aren’t knowledgeable about up to date husbandry practices.
Yeap lots of vets don't know what to do with reptiles. They aren't placed to give advice. Ad long your snake hasn't fur, 4 paws and barks or miauws, they don't know what they are talking about...
“leopard geckos don’t climb” my girl thinks she’s spiderman climbing her background lmao
Mine, too! 😂
I’m so glad to see this content! I’m especially glad you went over the humidity thing. I’ve seen people absolutely panic because the humidity in their leopard gecko tank got up to 60%, but they’re exposed to such humidity in their natural environment.
Im so glad you enjoyed!
I'm so glad to see more influencers in the reptile community properly educating their viewers & putting an end to ridiculous practices. Thank you, Hunter :)
Thank you! I’m glad you agree. 😁
With the whole "terrestrial species don't climb" it all comes to perspective. In the wild, 1 foot isn't much, even 3 feet isn't seen as much. But in a terrarium, 3 feet is huge! In the wild, landscape makes that 3 feet easier to climb in our terrarium we often don't have the space to make a climbing feature for our animals so therefore we think these animals "don't climb"
I agree with everything you said!! especially the giving water dishes to all reptiles!! I always see my reptiles drinking no matter the species. I haven’t had any problems giving water dishes. Some of the myths have me like scratching my head lol like the one with terrestrials reptiles don’t need climbing space I have 18 leopard geckos and they all climb and seem to enjoy it a lot. Very amazing topic to cover!! thank you so much for being apart of the chance in the reptile community.
Thank you!!
I provide a water dish for my crested gecko despite many people saying they don’t recognize standing water. Well, I’ve got multiple videos of him drinking from it to show otherwise haha
@@Radiogumdrop thank you for this I do the same for my crested gecko sense he was a few days old he’s always had a water dish
The last one is a great point that too many people believe even snake discovery condoned it in their bearded dragon rescue video. They say that it should be able to absorb water through it’s cloaca, though this is false.
Yeah! It's a way too widespread myth for sure!
Great video, and great to see myths being dispelled. I have ball pythons and they have large enclosures, plenty of climbing opportunities, sky hides, humidity hides, uvb etc and plenty of opportunities to come out and explore. They never refuse food! All animals are individuals and some may prefer smaller enclosures but all should be given the best environments we can provide.
Thank you! I’m so glad you provide all of those enrichment opportunities!
Wauw, you are a good reptile keeper... congratulations 👏
Great video! I had heard that Ball Pythons lived in termite mounds. But my guy has a nice bio-active enclosure and he spends all day in a hide and most nights climbing his branches. So this makes a lot more sense to me.
That makes me happy to hear yours has a great enclosure! Thanks for watching!
To be honest reptile content on UA-cam in its current form shows a negative correlation between audience size and validity of information. 😅
Very true!
Well done Hunter. You could easily make this into a series with how many myths you got on that Facebook post.
This hobby is full of bonkers myths/misconceptions/ flat out lies.
Thank you!
Great series - I'd like to see more videos like this! For the soaking topic while it's not true that reptiles drink through their cloaca it doesn't mean that soaking doesn't help with dehydration or other issues. It can encourage drinking and help them go to bathroom, etc. I would have just touched on that when discussing that topic 💚
Thank you! You’re absolutely right. In the second study in that section, linked below in this comment, it does mention that. 😁
www.researchgate.net/profile/Paul-Gibbons-3/publication/242248692_CRITICAL_CARE_NUTRITION_AND_FLUID_THERAPY_IN_REPTILES/links/56fdbdc308aee995dde562d6/CRITICAL-CARE-NUTRITION-AND-FLUID-THERAPY-IN-REPTILES.pdf
The thing with humidity is mostly just making sure there is good ventilation.
Absolutely!
Absolutely love this! Great job putting this together, makes me think about doing videos myself to help bring better care and a deeper understanding of the work we need to do for all species we care for. So kudos to you for doing this, it's a lot of work but the hope that we can all do better and push each other to keep learning is amazing. :)
P.s. I would love videos about more myths and maybe the difference between keeping to breed and the problems it presents vs. the difference in keeping for show to sell in pet stores vs. the different kinds of keeping we can do at home to focus on care, enrichment, and the over all health of these animals that rely on us!
Thank you! I appreciate those ideas!
The large intestine will absorb water but you’d have to give your reptiles enemas for actual cloaca hydration
Interesting! I wouldn’t tell that to the bearded dragon Facebook groups though… they might start doing enemas at home. 😂
Nice video with very good and clear points.
I started following. It would be nice to see a mini series
Thank you!
Perhaps a question to explore with respect to habitat is "what is reasonable for the species?" Any enclosure will be smaller than the area an animal would cover living in the wild. Some animal rights activist would argue that keeping any animal in an enclosure, regardless of size and stimulating environment, is inhumane. So you might want to explore how big is big enough? How warm/cool/dry/humid is warm/cool/dry/humid enough? How much food is enough? Is living in captivity being kept with good husbandry skills, medical attention when needed, regular feedings, and no constant threat of death from predators a reasonable trade off to living in the wild? It doesn't matter how we judge quality of life. What matters is how the animal perceives it's quality of life. That is difficult to know but perhaps we can judge by the health and longevity of the animal. That requires very long term studies.
Such an interesting topic to dive into! Thank you!!
To answer a bit to it, I think natural behaviors that are performed regularly in nature should be possible to perform in captivity as well. That should be absolute minimum in my opinion.
Why?
Because they do it for a reason. Be it that they like certain things, or simply their instincts telling them to do those things, if they regularly perform certain behaviors, they will likely have the drive to do those in captivity too.
So I think that's one starter point for enclosure size and what's put in the enclosure.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video and I’m very happy that you’ve brought up this topic! I was told a handful of these things as well and I was a newer impressionable keeper who didn’t provide enough of certain things for my pets for a long time due to these silly myths. Let’s keep educating and heightening standards! :)
Thank you! I agree!
I have definitely seen my ball python climbing the branches in her enclosure. Soon she’ll have four times her current space once her new bioactive enclosure is ready.
That’s awesome that you’re providing her with opportunities to express her natural behaviors!
Well done! I started herping when I was a kid in the 1970s there wasn't much information available then but there also wasn't any misinformation. Library books and bugging the staff at the local zoo was all we had and it got us by. I took a few years off and during that time they invented the internet. My daughter got me back into it and boy was I shocked when she's telling me bearded dragons crested geckos and leopard geckos get no water dish. Luckily my common sense prevailed over obvious nonsense but I'm still pretty amazed at the things people will believe because they heard it on the internet. Not just with reptiles either.
Thank you for sharing your experience! Sometimes I wish I could go back and see what it was like. :)
Great video like always! I knew a guy who once kept his Bearded Dragon without a water bowl, and that's sadly only the beginning of his terrible care. It's definitely sad with the amount of good information out there, some people still don't do their research and keep animals in terrible conditions. Keep up the great work, Hunter!
Thank you! Hopefully we can all work to end these myths and improve the lives of reptiles in captivity.
@@HunterHouck Hopefully!
Something to keep in mind with humidity is that it is relative to temperature. The humidity spike in June and July is likely due to it being winter in the southern hemisphere, when the cold air holds less moisture. You probably would make a beardy sick of you tried to keep it at 70% humidity with summer temperatures for several months
Absolutely! I’m definitely not suggesting that, but rather trying to end the myth that water bowls harm bearded dragons.
@@HunterHouck I didn't think you were! I was just hoping to add some context for people checking the comments. Sorry if it came off too aggressive!
The idea of keeping any animal without free access to water blows my mind.
I totally understand! I really appreciate you adding to the conversation.
This is a great video Hunter! I love that so many gen Z reptile keepers are so science and animal welfare oriented! There’s a lot of faith put in industry veterans that are frankly so convinced changing how they keep reptiles is somehow ‘anthropomorphising’ them that they ignore actual studies to the contrary. A huge myth I would love the reptile community confront is that reptiles are somehow “immune” to the negative genetic effects of inbreeding. This is not true. It drives me up that wall. I hate to think of reptiles ending up like domestic dogs. We have a limited time for diverse genetics being brought in from the wild due to mass deforestation around the globe so it is imperative we curb the constant practice of inbreeding.
Thank you so much for sharing! That is definitely a topic that I will research in the future!
Plains (western) hognoses apparently spend their summers in wetlands, so anyone saying they can’t deal with humidity have clearly never entered a wetland in the middle of summer.
what morph is the ball python in the thumbnail? he looks exactly like my rescue boy!
Just a random one from Google, so I’m not sure! 😅
I fully support your content Hunter, well done. It is a total pleasure to see another younger keeper putting out the correct information out there. Loved this video my friend. Yes we need a few more of these :).
That means a lot. Thank you!
So proud of you Hunter! Keep up the amazing work!
Thank you, Dara!
Fantastic video, articulated well and you are clearly passionate about reptile keeping! It's about time some laws are put in place against large scale breeders who do not house their reptiles properly
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
make it a series king 👑
Thank you! 👑
I understand that people would think that turtles could drink through their cloacas as they breathe through them but lizards, come on…
Right?!
So wait, you say they breath through their cloaca?
I went diving in Egypt with turtles a few times. And I did see them resurface for air every now and then. They surely put their head above water for a breath of air, then went down again to continue eating the seagrass. Their cloaca was remained completely submerged in water though.
So I don't understand how they would breath through the cloaca instead of through the mouth. Also biologically I don't understand how the cloaca and lungs are connected...
So, if they do it would be more the function of getting oxygen from the water I guess?
But how would that work? I mean a gill and a cloaca are not really resembling each other right?
@@horsemanshipper
There are many many species of turtles. Some are indeed capable of breathing through their cloacas.
you are becoming such a good content creator! your channel is totally underrated
Thank you so much! That is very kind of you! 😊
all of my reptiles have water dishes the only one who doesn't have access to water all of the time is my uromastyx because he freaks out and buries it in substrate I do give him some water a few times a week and whenever he is shedding (he has a funky spot on his tail that sometimes gets a little stuck shed) but other than that all my animals have water bowls my leopard gecko likes water every so often ill catch him drinking although I can't seem to get him to climb much he's about to get an upgrade to a 40 I'm hoping he will be a bit more adventurous
Hi mate, love this vid, I rescue a lot of reptiles from owners which are very sick due to bad care, lead by advise from shops, I hate starter kits, they only have the very basic items and should come with a warning that they may not be suitable for the animal moving forward, Any one can buy a starter kit and purchase the animal to go into it with out knowledge of the animals care, when I visited a local shop they sold a 2x2 enclosure and the customer had purchased a 4ft boa for £250, alarms bells should be ringing, he got charged £450 for the enclosure and the snake and told this would be enough, they tills were ringing at the poor health of the snake, by the way I own 5 boas, dragons and balls and corns each are given the best enclosure, my dragons have a large bath area which the love, my balls have a purpose made area where they can climb, unfortunately people do not understand the true cost of keeping these amazing animals, the biggest comment I get I did not realise when I purchased I would need to have a bigger enclosure which I have no space for or I can afford to purchase a new one 12 months later
Great info as always Hunter. Keep up the great work 🙌
Thank you! My beardie from 7th Galaxy is doing well!
I know this isn't related in anyway but I'm getting a whites tree froglet and I have the 18× 18×24 terrarium. Do I have to put it in quarantine. If so how long would you say
Yes, 30 days.
@@HunterHouck ok thank you so much
there are really only about 5 youtubers i tell people to get care advice from and i bet if everyone here compaired notes we would have almost the same lists :) Pets stores are big source of misinformation. Chinese water dragon are murdered by the thousands each year by pet owners who follow pet store's care instructions.
Hopefully we can work together to change that! Thanks for watching!
Awesome video!
Thank you so much!
Dude I’d love to chat on these same things I’m going on about too tbh
I’m always happy to chat over on Instagram!
Great job and great points!!! Kudos!!!
Thank you!
Im not saying not to give terrestrial reptiles places to climb, but if you think about it I probably make more sense that an animal that gets it heat from the sunny would move to a higher place closer to the sun to get "more sun". It's like how cats move with the sun while sitting I a window. If you give a animal that needs the sun for heat a place to get closer to the sun they will.(like how if it's cold outside and you get in a car with a heater on you put or Hands closer to the heater to heat them up faster).
Interesting thought! Thanks for sharing!
@hunter could not find the source on trees and ball pythons . Saw the one about birds but there are alot of ground dwelling birds in Africa. Not trying to argue as I was half asleep when reading through the links
sources.hunterhouck.com/reptile-misconceptions
Amazing video
Thank you! I enjoyed making it!
Only heard of 1 misconception and that was that people should keep their pets in small enclosures. And I know it is you have to provide your reptile the biggest enclosure possible, with lots of stuff to explore. The others I never heard of. You should be really stupid if you believe that... lol
Wasn't that an enclosure from the snake discovery zoo?
Thanks for watching! The enclosure that I used to demonstrate climbing opportunities was the Vietnamese blue beauty enclosure at the SD zoo!
This is great
Thank you!
Hi hunter
Hey!
I like ball pythons
They’re great!
If you don't cite the platforms that are the problems, you are not helping anyone. But also, being a larger reptile breeder is is not an indication they are in it for the money or not caring properly for the animals. It means they are successful. Having sick animals is an indication they are not caring for the animals properly. I'm not trying to be overly critical, but you are making some blanket comments that just aren't accurate. I know small breeders who are terrible with husbandry. You can't raise your platform by lowering another.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Frankly, I’ve seen significantly more “large-scale” breeders who don’t meet the “5 Opportunities to Thrive,” which is a good standard for animal care. Most large-scale breeders simply do not provide proper care for their reptiles.