Emerald Tree Skink Editionprevious: >>4828238This thread is dedicated to all animals of the reptilia and amphibia classes. Topics include, but are not limited to: geckos, snakes of all kinds, frogs, salamanders, newts, turtles, tortoises, and much more. Before asking a question, do a search on the internet to see if it has been answeredClassifieds for finding breeders and products:>morphmarket.com>kingsnake.com>faunaclassifieds.com>reptilescanada.com (Canadian breeders)>caudata.orgMost forums will have a "for sale" section on them, so look for that, especially if you have a specific herp you want. Craigslist can also be a good source for cheap aquariums, and make sure to check for any reptile expos that occur in your area.When asking a question, make sure to include these details:>Type and size of animal>Enclosure dimensions>Humidity and temperature>Type of substrate>The decor you use>How often you feed>The type of food you use>If your animal is wild caught or captive bred>How often you handle>Who you bought the animal fromOther Helpful Resourceswww.blackjungleterrariumsupply.comwww.joshsfrogs.comhttp://www.reptilesmagazine.comhttp://www.anapsid.orghttp://www.hylid.clara.co.uk/caer.htmhttps://www.americanmadeexotics.com/breeding-ball-pythons-article.htmlhttp://blogs.thatpetplace.com/thatreptileblog/
I want a dwarf caiman
If I notice more isopods walking around instead of sitting underground does that mean the soil is too moist and they're trying to get out or that it is now at a moisture they like so they're up and about foraging more readily
>>4836578For me, it's Sceloporus, the best lizard genus. >verification not requited
>>4836610Probably the former, but it could also be that your isopod population is high enough that they don’t all fit in the preferred habitat or if you have more than one species of isopod it might mean that the one you see is getting pushed out of desirable habitat by the other.
>>4836627
>>4836630at least they're alive enough to be happy in that case :c
>>4836642Shit enclosure, needs more hides and cover, it's not using 70% of that space.
Where do you find rare reptiles to buy?
>>4836654It is also too small
>>4836654>>4836684This is a joke, right?
>>4836685That size is ok for a single anole
>>4836642absolute fucking pal. I would feed him so many crickets
anyone have a painted agama? are they as chill as bearded dragons like everyone claims?
>get big tank>realize I have nowhere to put it
>>4836747Just build a shelf out of galvanized square steel and eco friendly wood veneers, borrow screws from your aunt to secure it to the wall.
>>4836685Think really hard about it
>>4836751Make a functional apartment in your 1'x6' sliding door closet while you're at it
>>4836755I'm trying
Is it a bad idea to keep a lizard in your bedroom? Would my nighttime activity bother it?
>>4836760why cant all leos be cute like this instead of ugly
>>4836762Which leos are ugly?
>>4836763Yours.
>>4836759>After years of hard work doing delivery driving for Amazon, Little GoHerping finally saved enough money to start up his own business, but when he arrived he found out that the room was only two square meters big, barely enough space to fit Brian Barczyk's coffin. Now we will transform it into a fully functional morph breeding facility.
>>4836766>the urban rescue branch of herptubers>was never actually passionate about reptilesI'm still sad about unsubbing from his boring-ass car-wrapping vlog channel
>>4836627>the best lizard genusBut that's not Podarcis
>>4836765No.
>>4836627more like slop-porus
>>4836771IS THAT PAPER TOWEL SUBSTRATE NIGGA
>sand is le bad because of le impaction!!!>completely ignoring that they evolved to live on sand
>>4836778Post is wrong in multiple ways, get with the timesThe accepted wisdom of today is that impaction is caused by a combination of using the wrong kind of sand combined with bad husbandryfurthermore, the leopard gecko, contrary to the 2002 idea that because they come from arabia, the sandy desert where the call of duty guys shoot brown people, lives in a massive array of habitats across a stretch of asia and africa from dry rocky steppes to lush humid rainforests
>>4836773It's fine.
>>4836781THIS NIGGA ON PAPER TOWEL
>>4836779whatever!
>>4836783It's fine.
>>4836787Ayo bring me that tank bro, I gotta drop a leopard gecko real quick
if your lizard nibba is happy, then your lizard nibba is happydont let weebs on 4chan tell you you're doing it wrong
>>4836770>>4836772kneel
>>4836761Depends on the lizard, some can get used to human presence to the point where they basically ignore you until you actually touch their terrarium. My beardie was like that.
>>4836809i want a painted agama, which people have claimed has a similar temperament to a beardie.
why are abronias so rare?
>>4836822>literally have "bro" in their name
>>4836587Me too. I want to keep one in a heated greenhouse with small lizards and fish.
>>4836642That's so cool. It's like an aviary for lizards.
>>4836822They are arboreal livebearers, so industrial scale breeding is hard.
why is it so hard to find info on UVA light, but not UVB light? Everyone says reptiles need UVA light as well as UVB light but there's no fucking dedicated UVA lights, just UVB lights what the fuck is going on
I'll never decide on what to keep, by the time something becomes available it'll be too late because I'll need to build the enclosure from scratch, I'll never have a lizzer
>>4836846that gives you time to try out and balance a bioactive enclosure
>>4836846Excuses
im gonna do itim gonna buy a 4 foot enclosure
>>4836849For what?
>>4836855clown agama
>>4836642>2nd toe bigger than big toeFucking freaky ass toe freak. In the furnace you go
>>4836826Smart thinking. It would give you something interesting to watch while your caiman is completely motionless.
>>4836854Advise me on my toad please. How do I keep him comfortable overnight before I get a chance to release him? My mother insists on doing aversion therapy with her dogs first like is done for rattlesnakes.
>>4836869I was thinking of putting some wet paper towels in with it, it looks dehydrated right? I already put some bugs in there.
>>4836642i love the little pushups.
>>4836869I mean just a quarter inch of water would do, or a to-go container large enough for him to sit in filled with water so he can have a dip or be dry if he wants, but he'd probably be fine with nothing overnight, they're not that delicate.
>>4836578Someone told me to maximize surface area using egg cartons for my next cricket purchase. 200 of them in here. Am I doing this right?
>>4836899>Someone told me to maximize surface area using egg cartons for my next cricket purchase. 200 of them in here. Am I doing this right?forgot pic.
>>4836900>>4836899certainly looks like they're using the space given the frass. I guess we'll see how this one goes.
>>4836900You should have more crates imo. Like, 2x that number, basically pack it in and only leave open space for the food containers. For max capacity, anyways. For 200, that will probably work, wait and see if the cannibalism is too high for colony to survive.
>adopting lined day gecko>every single bit of info is on giant onesare they any different? is it the same just mini?
>>4837053Literally the first result on Google for "lined day gecko care"https://reptifiles.com/lined-day-gecko-care-sheet/
>>4837058thank you for fixing my google algorithm with this link
>>4837063Under the search settings option (far right on mobile), you can tell it to use the old process ("verbatim search" or something like that).Fuck nuGoogle search, it's useless.
so, /herp/, how and why did you guys get into owning reptiles anyway? I just wanna understand
>>4837096
>>4837096>>4837101This, I suspect most herp keepers share this reason.
if anyone is struggling to find a table that can hold their reptile enclosure, plastic tables are retardedly strong. a 5ft foldable plastic table can hold 800 lbs.
>Say skinks name>She turns and looks at meSo you do know your name and just choose to ignore me you little shit.
That guy from last thread was right, this place is weirdly fucking active. Did something happen recently?
>>4836627>>4836642That’s fucking cool. Are they expensive?
>>4836766>>4836769i don’t understand
>>4836779>the sandy desert where the call of duty guys shoot brown peoplehaha that’s how I describe it too :)looks like fun
>>4837096I didn’t. I just hang around here because the discussion is oddly fun and I like herpes. I’d like to someday though
>>4836587>>4836826>>4836867is this really possible
>>4836747>>4836783>>4836790>>4836846>cute anime girlI will now read what you have to say.
>>4837078>Fuck nuGoogle search, it's useless.All those SEO-spamming AI sites shitting up the results have made using google such an ass experience. Apparently they've been trying to do something about it, but if anything it's getting worse.
>>4837313We get periods of activity and inactivity, Ive found, and every once in a while a tourist stops by to stir up shit. Reasonably sure the board's resident autists have popped in here every once in a while, but we dont really go for the bait so they dont get the attention theyre looking for.
>>4837338not him but it really is google's doing, most other search engines still work properlygoogle search makes lots of revenue from ad views and clicks, so if it take twice as long to search for something then that's twice the money they can make
lizzer
newters
>>4836807Why so blue?
>>4836807The forbidden gummy…
My mom won't let me get a lizard ;_;
>>4837358that’s our word actually but you can say newta
>>4837437tell her she’s a bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So 5.0 uvb for tropicals?
BIG NEWS my mom says that if I keep my room clean for 2 months I can get a lizard (I'm a 30 year old man btw)
>>4837563I believe at you, anon!
>>4837315They're native to north america and there are probably hundreds of species of them across the US. I actually don't think you can really get them in the trade, i don't think anybody has taken the time to figure out husbandry and breed out captive lines, they're common in their range. I have kept them a few times, they're pretty easy. Most species aren't as colorful either, other than the bellies. I've only seen the spotty bIue ones like from my first pic here in southern utah. Pic related are the most typical you see in the west, there are a bunch of different ones as you go further east.
>>4837565don't be mean
>>4837572Used to catch these as a kid. Internet says they don't do well in captivity - I'm inclined to believe it's related to different dietary needs that are provided by common feeder insects; I've watched them slurp up ants, which aren't the same nutritional profile as roaches or crickets by any mean.Underground Reptiles has this species listed for about $30, but >UR
>>4837573If you're a 30 y/o man living at home with parents so exasperated they'll bribe you in exchange for basic hygenie habits, getting a lizard is not what you should be focused on adding.Obviously don't actually self harm, but maybe some self improvement is called for. I can recommend a partial hospitalization program as an intervention prior to in-patient psychiatric care if you're feeling incapable of self help for any reason. Then get a lizard once you're taking care of yourself.
>>4837579No.I'm getting a fucking lizard.I'm gonna build a 4'x2'x3' ventilated enclosure using PVC foam boards, a hinged acrylic door, 8 inches of bioactive substrate, gonna make ledges out of XPS foam and carved expanding foam and there is NOTHING you can do to stop me.
>>4837326Probably. I can't imagine a adult caiman bothering with anoles or guppies.
>>4837563I wouldn't be settling for just a lizard, anon.I'd be insisting on some ovaltine and tendies as well.
>>4837602All well and good, but give what he said some thought anyway, take care of yourself, anon. I promise you can do both.
They told me crested gecko diet was cheap, brosI could just feed them real fruit for way less
where are the frogs...
>>4837683Cute frog
>>4836747This is why god made saws. Cut a hole in a wall. Presto! You now live in a public aquarium/reptile house.
>>4837778cute frogs are my lifeblood
>>4837047>>4836900Should I just get something like this? And pack it in tighter right? I was afraid too tight would make it hard for them to get in but I'll pack it tighter. Thanks.
>>4837911They'll find a way in, and the smaller ones will be protected.Pack that shit in.
Do painted agamas like to dig/burrow? I can't seem to find any info online about it, although other agamid species are known to dig and make burrows like bearded dragons.
>>4837576I don't think they're doing so swell outside either, I used to see fence lizards a lot when I was young, but I haven't seen one in years
>>4837911You dont want them nested like in the picture tight (so maybe alternate one vertical and one horizontal) but you pretty much want as many as you can possibly fit in the space minus one or two so you can page through them like a stack of books.
>>4838030I imagine yeah, probably. If you give them the option and he doesnt use it its no big deal.
>>4837576Same, mostly the sagebrush lizards but I did keep a fence lizard for a few months. I would feed them bugs from the yard. When I say "easy" I meant that they still ate, were active, and didn't just surf the tank for hours. I should have probably said they seem tolerant of poor husbandry rather than that they're easy, I was twelve or so after all
What do we think of axolotls?
>>4838086Five-lined skinks (or mine, anyways) are also tolerant of "poor" husbandry. I had an adult wild caught one for 9 years - from when I was 5 until 14 - that lived in the same 20G Long tank with a couple cork hides and occasionally changed wood chips, fed on wild caught cave crickets every few days. She brumated in an unheated room in my house in SC over the winter, and would always come up active and fearless in the spring.I still miss that lizard. Unhandleable, but active and beautiful.
>>4838166Cute and based.
No better lizard then the collared lizards. Just don't keep the dudes together.
>>4836778This has to be bait.Pic related is the natural habitat in pakistan
>>4838394was so mad about that post i forgot the pic
>she thinks this giant geographical region is just a forest
I'm not buying the "leopardgeckos occur in nature" hoax. For something so supposedly widespread there are almost no sightings, and the few that exist are likely staged with pets. It's more probable that they're an artificially created animal that got smuggled out of a lab and spread through the pet trade from there.
Street view from right smack dab in the middle of their geographical range
wow
>>4838415>>4838416>sees generalized geographic range>thinks that means they occur in every single habitat within that rangeRetard alert
>Thank god I have these moistish bushes to hide from the sun while I wait for it to cool down, it sure would suck to be stuck out there on the hot sand, I hate walking on it, this soilier dirt under this bush has much more traction
>>4838440>uhhh just ignore the entire range except the parts that fit my argument, chud!
>is that... IS THAT FUCKING SAND>AAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IM GONNA FUCKING DIE!!!!!!!!!
>use shitty dusty calcium sand as substrate because I'm retarded>forget to fill water dish often>leopard gecko gets impactionomg loose substrate is so bad!!! it's not my fault!!!
>>4838454>okay so from our data this species of lizard lives in roughly this area >HURRRRRRR SO ACCORDING TO YOU THIS LIZARD ALSO LIVES IN LAKES AND RIVERS BECAUSE THEY'RE IN YOUR RANGE MAPRetard alert
what is going on in this thread
>>4838475>90% of the map is desert>UHHHH THEY JUST LIVE ON THE SOUTHEAST PORTION OF THE MAP OBVIOUSLY
if leopard geckos lived in the desert, then where would they get water?
>leopard geckos>not a large apex predator like a leopard>they dont geck their o's
>>4837652You could, however human agriculture has morphed fruit into water laden mutants devoid of nutrition outside of fructose. If you tried to feed a gecko on store bought fruit alone, you'd end up with a malnourished gecko.Also worth noting that they don't literally just eat fruit in the wild, they drink nectar and eat pollen, crested gecko slop is supplimented to simulate that.
>>4838477People seething at the concept of an animal living in more than one biome, apparently.
rate my scaled enclosure design
>>4838538nice
>>4837358wtf they can fly?
>lil AFT only ate crickets>had to put him in a box so they didn't hide in the substrate>now eats dubias off tongsthat's my boy
>>4838478>what are microhabitatsRetard alertHere's a tip, go look at leopard geckos on inaturalist and look at the substrate they're on. It's either rocky or clay, not fine sand because all that shit gets blown away by the wind. Feel free to use the shitty dusty play sand you buy from home depot but don't cry when your lizard gets eye and lung problems.
>>4838603probably because people find them in their gardens
Bros why are eyelid geckos so perfect
>>4838521>>4837652...and also bugs, they have bugs in the lizard soilent as well. Kind of makes sense, since bug ALSO eat decaying fruit, so some probably get in the mix there too.
>>4838538pretty similar to how I did it, only with plywood and two outward swinging doors (and a hood for the lights because I knew for a fact my cats would hop onto the top, so I might as well just cat-proof it)
>>4838621i didnt think about the stupid cats damnit i have to build a hood
>>4838075>>4837954>>4837911Understood. BTW, how long do these beetles take to lay eggs? They used to fuck all the time a few weeks ago now they just hang out.
how do you lower humidity in a well ventilated enclosure when the room the enclosure is in has a high humidity?
>>4838623Its not super hard, you just need to build a box that can accommodate the lights, and a port in the back for the cables out. Mine ended up being about 10 inches. Id also recommend internal supports for extra stability. You end up keeping heat and humidity more efficiently in the enclsoure as a result, and the cats get a nice warm spot to hang out on. Win/win.
>>4838635the only way to take humidity out of the air is to physically remove it via condensation - in other words, getting a dehumidifer.What are you keeping, and what's the temperature and humidity in the enclosure and room? it may not even be worth worrying about, even the most arid deserts get rain, and reptiles getting sick from too much humidity is kind of overstated because facebook herpmommies have abysmal husbandry. so their already constantly sub-clinically ill scalepuppers would get pneumonia because it rained twice in a week. the fact that a straw breaks a camel's back implies a fuckload of additional shit on the camel's back.
>>4838714Cewt newt, mewt
Should a 6 inch long lizard be eating the small fruit flies or the big ones?
>>4838804They could probably go for small crickets at 6 inches honestly, fruit flies are usually for the littlest of guys. Though if it'll eat them it'd be nice to have some as variety, go for the big ones.
>>4838804The general rule of thumb is "they can eat bugs as wide as the space between their eyes without choking," so without actually seeing your critter I imagine the larger fruit flies would work just fine, as would multiple other small feeders at this point
>>4838714Nougrath, The Eternal, floats endlessly through the stary void
>>4838714Cute fella, I saw some big ones on a hike last year.
>https://www.azfamily.com/2024/07/10/monitor-lizard-escapes-arizona-troopers-during-attempted-freeway-rescue/
>It has some tears in it
>>4839048What the fuck
So my kingsnake has started developing a really aggressive feeding response. We're talking like launching himself out of his cage when he thinks food's coming. I had him hook trained previous but now he just bites period. Now sure how to go about fixing this, or if it even is fixable
>>4839097Dress up as a snake too large for him to eat so he understands you're the dominant one and stays in his cuckshed.
What's the point of sizing an enclosure for a baby -> juvenile -> adult? Why not just get an enclosure suitable for an adult and not worry about having to get a new enclosure for each stage of a reptile's life?
>>4839099>I want a bearded dragon but I don't have money or space for a 4ft enclosureStupid people have always been bad at delayed gratification.
>>4839105Is 4 ft enough for a bearded dragon? I've been hearing people say 6 ft as the minimum.
>>4839106>missing the point
Found this turtle walking on the middle of the road and I took it and placed it next to my pond. Wondering if it's a wild turtle that lives here in Europe or did it escape confinement.
>>4839204pic
>>4839205Greek tortoise?
>>4839205Where in Europe do you live? Near the Mediterranean? Because there are all kinds of tortoises with that sort of pattern all over the Mediterranean.
>>4839213Nope I'm in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
>>4839214Here in the western part of Europe it's usually a Hermann's or a Greek tortoise, sometimes a Russian one. They're kept a lot as pets here.Does its tail have a hardened tip, or does it have a small knob on each side of its tail (spurs)? If first it's a Hermann's, if second, a Greek.Russian ones are a bit smaller and have four nails instead of five.
>>4839216>Slovenia>Western European
>>4839217Yeah I fucked my post up. I meant to write it could be a pet and those are the most commonly kept species in captivity, here at least. We don't even have native tortoises in my country, sadly.
>>4839214inaturalist doesn't have any sightings for a Testudo species near your city, it's likely a pet
>>4838827Ty, the guy I'm buying him from said fruit flies and crickets are his favourites, but I really dont want to repeatedly buy feeders when you could culture them (more pets, yay!), and really dont want to keep crickets because there's nowhere I can keep them where the sound wouldn't be a nuisance.
>https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/pet/d/phoenix-ball-pythons/7764945749.htmlMy mom won't let me save these two FREE ball pythons from these idiots, I'll never forgive the Chinese and Jews for doing this to the housing market. Hopefully some one else who's not hoarder anon will pick these guys up and give them good homes.
>>4839204At least you didn't throw it in your pond
>>4839097time to start target training, it seems
>>4839221banded crickets, the ones that are typically sold as feeders, are comparatively pretty quiet.
>>4839222>we have two snakes>posts the same snake twicehoo boy.
>>4839226i'll research, admittedly I have only one (reliable) source that told me crickets are "really loud"
Are bearded dragons the most oppressed pet reptile?
>>4839230Undoubtedly. Just walking some pet stores recently trying to see if lighting or food is cheaper than on amazon, I didn't look at a single animal and walked out feeling horrible for bearded dragons.
>>4839230turtles have it consistently worse
>>4839232Fucking hell
will a 5x2x3 foot enclosure make for a happy bearded dragon?
>>4839311should be good, but make sure that three there is the height. they like to get up high and survey their kingdom.
>>4839316the 3 feet are the height. I'm thinking like 8" of substrate for it to burrow in
>>4839230petsmart is seling "bearded dragon diet" now
>>4839369i mean they've been selling beardie pelleds since forever.
Where do you buy massive pieces of driftwood for decoration and for the reptile to climb over? Like 3 feet long?
>>4839402you live anywhere near a coastline?
>>4836578Anyone install a webcam in their tank to observe their herps ? I have an extra Wyze V3 Cam I'm not using.
schneider skink
I saw this when searching Craigslist earlier. Leusistic Albino Pug. Which makes me wonder how much longer until morph fagging goes beyond just herps, fish and inverts.
>>4839522anon...
>>4839522>he doesn't know about the OG SMASHED N SLAMMED
>>4836578Are you guys crocwise?https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3DoAigtIkGI
>>4839535That's a nice beat lol
If a standard lightbulb is 60 watts then an old desk lamp I have would be fine for a 25 watr uvb bulb thats an annoyingly small amount too big for those black reptile lamps, right?
>>4839519The best skink.
>>4839550if you told me this was a Gorillaz song I'd believe you
https://youtube.com/shorts/Aiqfltjw27s
>>4839225I did do a bit of that a year or so ago. Time for a refresher I suppose
>can't find PVC boards anywhere in Canada to build a reptile enclosure I fucking hate this country holy fuck in the states you can literally just walk into a home depot and get it. Fuck.
>>4839766if you get decent plywood it's a bit cheaper and a little easier to put together (no special adhesive, just literally titebond wood glue and screws), you just need to waterproof it. but that's what fiberglass resin is for.
>>4839841Do you need to cover it with fibreglass resin or just treat it like a seal around the edges?
watchu lookin at, bitch?
>>4839402>>4839440This, just get some wood and sterilize it yourself in the oven, do it multiple times and quarantine it too, if you're paranoid.
>>4840010i dont have a big enough oven for what im thinking of
>>4839323Sounds pretty solid. My goal is to go full autism and build an 8x3x4 for a beardie and put it in the place where a normal, well adjusted person would have a television.
>>4840016you're gonna have a couch facing it too?
>>4840015Don't even need to sterilize it as long as its not wet and rotting. Just find a piece of wood and leave it on your driveway to bake in the sun for a few days.
>>4840022does this look like it's rotting?I want it to be hollow so a beardie could also use it as a hide/tunnel
>>4840028bottom
>>4840029
are >petsmart crickets bandeds?
>>4840028you could probbaly drill some holes through the middle and make a quasi-swedish fire log to burn out some of the mass in the middle. the heat would do double duty to sterilize, too, though you obviously need to watch it like a hawk while it burns and then fully douse the fire/knock out the ashes later.
>>4839766No we can't. It's been out of stock since covid.
>>4840174Then how is serpadesign able to get it
>>4839519#1 on my wish list
skinks look like weasels
>>4840255
>>4840250I assume he orders it online. I’ve actually ran the calcs on materials for a pvc enclosure. Building vs buying is only marginally more cost efficient given current prices. Sealed plywood is a much better budget option unless you need constant high humidity, and at that point you could just buy a can of pond seal like they use in plywood aquariums.
>>4840275>fat white woman>okraOh I wish I were in the land of Dixie...
>>4840174>works on my machine.jpg
>>4840325Why is one more expensive than the other?
>>4840328Not sure. Different brands for one, the cheaper option also has a fake wood texture on one side rather than smooth on both, those are the only differences I can see.
>>4840325I've literally never seen sheets like this at any big box store
>>4840325>Go to order >Put in address>Says out of stock in my state
So the basking temp for a day gecko is like 90 degrees. Is that surface temperature (read with an IR heat gun), or do you read it with a probe placed on the basking area?
DO CRICKETS NEED HUMIDITY OR BONE DRYNESS EVERYONE SAYS DIFFERENT THINGS NO WONDER THEYRE KNOWN FOR DYING IN DROVES
is it okay for a baby bearded dragon to go into a 6 foot bioactive enclosure? or should i keep it in a smaller enclosure with no loose substrate?
>>4840293>Building vs buying is only marginally more cost efficient given current pricesnot if you want something bigger than 4x2x2. 4x2x2 you can get cheaply now, but for a 6 foot enclosure? you're gonna be paying over 1000 USD when you can make it for like 300.
>>4840535There's no problem with putting any baby herp in an adult vivarium, just make sure you have plenty of places for him to hide, even if you need to litter the open space with a bunch of little plastic hides, it'll make the little guy feel safe.And the loose substrate thing shouldn't be an issue so long as you make sure he has access to water, Temps are good, etc.
Love how people say to only ever buy from a breeder, meanwhile behind the scenes it's just pure inbreeding
>>4840586I think that's to avoid wild caught
>look up reptiles on kijiji>get depressed
>>4840597Day of the Rake when?
If I click one more link to someone trying to get information on breeding crickets and every response is just "use dubias" I am going to set something on fire
>>4840617Use dubias.[spoiler]it's actually midrange humidity they need, aim for 50-60% at 85F. They dessicate pretty quickly below 30% and slowly die over 80%.[/spoiler]
>>4840635how big of a colony of dubia roaches do i need to sustain a bearded dragon?
>>4840485>>4840450well I mean I DID say works on my machine.That said, for the same money and one extra step you're in the same boat, so it's not that big a deal.
superworms are just easier
People be like "hurr durr reptiles are easier to care for than cats and dogs!!" Meanwhile you have to not only take care of your reptile, but also take care of colonies of various insects with their own dietary and temperature/humidity needs. A cat or dog? Just feed it fucking kibble.
Herpers it whatever you call you people are so fucking stupid man reptile care is so much more involved than any fucking cat or dog this shit is nuts
>>4840670>>4840671Sorry, /herp/ has no place for retarded consolewars bickering and isn’t going to take your bait. Might I suggest you kill yourself quickly and quietly
Anybody ever tried keeping small skinks or geckos with much larger snakes?
>>4840698Okay but I'm not wrong Reptiles aren't easier to care for
Yes they are. Particularly than dogs - you have to get things set up, but then the time commitment is about 5 minutes a day, an extra 5 once a week, and an extra half hour every month or so. If you're not spending that much on your dog, you're doing it wrong.Cats are roughly equivalent to reptiles, similar upkeep really.
>>4840781>you have to get things set upso much in so little wordslet's just set up micro environments with gradients of the right temps, humidity, UV levels, then set up colonies of insects in various bins and hope they don't get wiped out for no reason, constantly checking temps and humidity so they can thrive and breed, prepare a literal salad for both your reptile and your colonies, make sure they aren't molding in the insect colonies, water plants while being careful not to raise humidity too high, replace bulbs every 6 months, replace substrate every few months, dust food with calcium some days, dust food with a multivitamin other days, spot clean as much as you can, give them occasional baths, check if they're shedding and raise humidity some levels in their enclosure to help them, etcClint's reptiles said that reptiles are easy. What a fucking retard. A dog? You just gotta feed it kibble, take it out for walks every day, and bathe it if it gets dirty. No fucking micromanaging micro climates in their enclosure and taking care of their literal food.
>>4840787Oh, I think we're discussing different difficulties. If I'm understanding you, you're saying herps are intellectually more difficult to keep (e.g. More thinking required) than cats/dogs. I was arguing they don't take more ongoing time spent.I think we're both right. One 5-10 hour chunk to get set up vs daily hourly walks, but you can't just yeet a herp into your home and feed it kibble and do very well, there's some actual planning and thought required.
>bro it's so much easier!>oh, you must not be an intellectual like me, hehherpers are genuinely fucking retarded
I will never understand how sad of a life you have to live to browse the animal board on 4chan and spend time in your day posting about animals you hate so you can get angry at people who like them
>>4840801Didn't say that, but here's your (you) anyways.It's not hard to do either, but you can't walk into a store and get a herp and be fine. You can with actually domesticated animals that thrive in your home like cats and dogs. Would your panties be less twisted if I said herps require more planning and less maintenance than cats or dogs?
>>4840810No because that's not true either
>>4840804I don't hate reptiles I love reptiles. I wanted to get a lizard. I've been watching Clint's reptiles looking up different lizards, and he says they're all easier than keeping a dog, but every time I go down a rabbit hole of research and realize this shit is way WAY harder and involved than these youtubers claim.
Stop feeding the troll newfag
>>4840699This guy did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br-c_iqSdN4
Changing the topic from bait, I bought some frozen quail chicks for my sand boa for V A R I E T Y, should I cut off their beaks like a psychopath before I feed them to her, or do snakes not really have an issue with them?
>>4840861my carpet python was eating frozen quail fine; and preferred them to rats. but I'm keeping them more as a rare treat rather than a staple.no, cutting the corpse up makes no sense the snake would eat it whole in the wild -- assuming it's a typical part of its diet (or some similar sized bird).
>day gecko doesn't shit for like 6 days>get paranoid>lose sleep>think he's impacted, think about getting vet involved>give him a little bit of olive oil orally and mix some into some CGD and head off to a reptile expo>depressed the whole time worried that my gecko is about to kick the bucket like 3 weeks after I got him>curse myself for feeding him meal worms>come home and see two shits and a massive urate on the bottom of the terrarium>feel immediate relief and joy>gecko visibly confusedI've never been happier to see lizard shit, impactation scares are a nightmare. I doubt the olive oil worked THAT quickly, but thats the second time I've given a reptile the stuff and they've quickly gotten over their constipation, so who knows.
>>4840861they're already dead bud, yeah snip them
>>4840867That's the thing, sand boas, to my knowledge, mostly eat rodents and lizards in the wild, so I kind of wanted to play it safe.>>4840873Will probably just do it yeah, I doubt it'll be that big a deal since I'll likely just end up feeding them every few feedings as a treat like that anon said.
How many watts do I need for a basking light for a 6'x2'x3' enclosure for a bearded dragon?
>>4840971100 at least. You might need two as well for an enclosure that size, just to maintain a good temp gradient. Though the second one might be a lower wattage since its more just for ambient.My reccomendation is to experiment with the equipment before you get the animal so you can dial it in.
>>4840983I got a 150W
why should a UV light only cover half of an enclosure? that makes no sense
>>4841004animal gets the choice
>>4841010Even the cop gets in trouble
>>4840990There you go, give that a shot, see if you can find a wide dome lamp to help disperse the heat. If you're still in the building phase you can play around with perch heights in order to find an ideal set up.
Is it true that you should run a uvb bulb for a day before using it in a tank because they shoot concentrated radiation beams out of the box that calm down after a while?
>>4841068>when you install the UV bulb right away
Anyone ever get a burning smell from new uv bulbs?
>>4841004the basking light is only in one half, so it makes sense that the sun of your little simulated world only puts out UVB in the same place it does light and heat, and given a light/thermal gradient helps the critter warm up and cool down as it needs.
>>4841105but what if he wants to chill somewhere a little cooler? wouldn't he still need UVB?
>>4841107anon it's a light, not a laser beam
you guys ever try to eat a cricket?
>>4841108but im making a 6 foot long, 3 foot high enclosure, im just worried he wont get enough UV if i dont have a tube that covers the entire length of the enclosure
>>4841110the only way to make sure is to get one of those things that measures it.
wait are you telling me "reptile calcium" isn't absurdly overpriced because it says reptile on it and is generally about the same price as regular calcium carbonate powder?
>>4841111yeah i bought a solarmeter 6.5
man.
>>4841068I have never head that before honestly.
>>4841110a good idea would be to buil your enclosure in such a way that the highest spot is up towards the basking area so your beardie can move up or down in the basking area to get as little or as much as they need.
>>4841107Yes and no, the primary purpose of uvb is to provide the animal with vitamin d3, which is needed to properly process calcium, to that end, you only NEED it near the heat, as that's where your animal is going to be basking (digesting food).However, it's also said that uvb is needed for the mental wellbeing of most herps, and that they can get lethargic if they don't get enough of it, so it could be assumed that it should be roughly tank wide. However like some anons are saying, an animal will just go where they think they need to go, your job is to just make sure they have those places to go.
>>4841109I had dried crickets once. Didn't really taste like anything.
>>4841139did you add salt?
>>4841041this shit is gonna cook my bearded dragon
>>4841143Oh, I assumed you were using an incandescent. Halogens tend to run higher temps I believe.
>>4841143I sincerely doubt that's accurate, but that's why you make sure you get your shit dialed in. pop it in, let it get hot for half a day, take a reading, and if it's too fucking hot, swap it out for a 100.
>>4841146apparently only 2% of the emission from a halogen is visible light. if they were classed as what they mainly output, halogens would be called IR-A bulbs.
>>4841141I think they were lightly salted already (they were for human consumption). I think the most striking thing about them was their texture, the exoskeleton has the same quality as a shrimp exoskeleton, but thinner. which I guess isn't surprising when you think about it.
So cringe that amphibifags need to latch on to reptilegods and can't sustain their own hobby desu
>>4841251Those amphibifags have the best enclosures in the business and look down on reptilefags for our morph shit and tublord behaviour with their dart localities. Don’t let them realise that
>>4841251I have reptiles and amphibians, and I love them both. Do not drive a wedge between brothers.
is it possible to be a reptile hoarder? how many reptiles is too much?
>>4841348yeshowever many you can't take proper care of
Is reaching 100 humidity at night fine for high humidity species? I'm not sure how to keep it at 70-80% during the day and not have it increase at night...
Is it safe to let him go in the grass, I don't want him to catch a disease or something
>>4841355Depends on the species, 100% is REALLY high, but if we're talking about a frog, I think it's not too big a deal. Though if you have plants you may start to see mold issues.
>>4841367That's a big hognose
>>4841379yeah, and a male too if you can believe itbeen thinking about getting a husky female to breed just to make giant babies
>>4841143this shit is fucking hot2 feet above a surface and it's reading over 150F and i've only had it on for like 10 minutes
>>4841400Lol I regularly lurk /dog/ and was extremely confused by this post
>>4841401tilting it by a few degrees lowers surface temps at least
>>4841355If ventilation is good then humidity will be a non issue
How many days of hiding should I be worried about? I've had my day gecko 2 days and I've only seen him come out of hiding twice, neither was to bask. The move was very hard on him and it was my fault so I know hes probably still very stressed right now (im trying to be quiet and move slowly around the tank) but Im worried he's not going to get enough heat or light if he stays hidden all day away from the bulb, I put some food in for him this morning but as far as I can see he hasn't eaten any, I know reptiles can go a long time without food but he's a tiny little guy and don't they usually have faster metabolisms? I think he'd be too scared or maybe even low energy to go for crickets and Im worried about there being a snowball effect where he's too scared to bask so he cant eat his food properly and it's all going to compound and it's going to be too much for him, I'd be less worried but it's a day gecko that are supposed to be super brave and outgoing, and the guy I bought him from said he was really active and personable so Im worried the move is literally going to scare him to death, should I keep fresh cgd in the tank for him? I know insects are supposed to be most of what they eat
>>4841500I heard when you get a new reptile you should leave them alone for like 5 days, don't even be in the same room with themI got a snake and put cardboard around his tank so he couldn't even see outjust gave him what he needed and left him aloneprey species need time to inspect their environment
How do these people get these insane enclosure deals? They get a whole vision cage collection for $300 and I'm stuck with the same two retards trying to sell their 40 gallons for $300. I've used every site and live in one of the 5 biggest cities in the US. It's It's not fair.
this is the craziest bearded dragon i've seen
>>4841555There's tons of dope bearded dragon morphs but most are from the Hong Kong lines which are so inbred they die from organ failure at like 3 or 4 years old. They're also 2+ grand each. Negative experience for everyone all around.
is it okay if UV levels near the substrate are low if the UV levels at the basking spot are good?
what if my dragon is retarded and wants to bask in a "cool" zone?
>>4836578What should I name him/her?
>>4841648Yeah, focus on the intended basking area, that's where you'll want your target heat and UV levels, if your guy doesn't want heat or UV, he'll get off the perch.>>4841651Then he will simply perish at the hands of Charles Darwin.
When frogs fight, is it dangerous for them?I can't imagine their slaps causing each other any damage.https://youtu.be/dM-GEnvlkRM
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