Top 5 Reptiles For Beginners (Clint Responds)

In response to our last video about the 5 best pet reptiles, we wanted to address a lot of great comments, ideas, questions and potential criticisms we received from Reddit, Facebook and YouTube. We have loved receiving all of these comments. It gives us a lot of encouragement. And gives us motivation to keep making these videos.

0:53 Reddit user: hoorayexplosions
"I’m a new reptile / corn snake owner… Mine is a juvenile so I also have a lot of questions about how often you can handle them."

2:15 Reddit user: ChompsonGeckos
"… with the corn snakes & ball pythons, do they bite at all? I’ve heard they don’t too much, but I didn’t hear you say anything about that in the video."

3:11 SPECTACULAR reptiles that didn’t make the list and why

3:28 Common Boas

4:20 Blue Tongue Skink suggested by Reddit user: ImaLumpyPotato
"From what I've seen blue tongue skinks are quickly becoming more and more popular, a video on them would be cool!"

6:02 Kingsnake suggested by Reddit user: Cowql8er
"The only change I would make is to put Kingsnake instead of Ball Python"

7:05 Russian Tortoise suggested by Reddit user: LightSlayerPantyOn
"Russian tortoise would have been good. Small. Slow. Easy to feed. Doesn't need hugs."

7:49 Future video suggestions

7:57 Reddit user: jjhill001
"The main problem I see with some videos [is]… They never give the WHY part of the equation. WHY does my Beardie need these lights, WHY does my snake need these hide spots…"

8:10 Reddit user: jjhill001
"Getting a tiny little baby at the pet store might not be the best idea… they are in general hardier the bigger they are and can be held more."

9:16 Reddit user: wallyTHEgecko
"Another good video might be 5 common, but bad … starter reptiles … focusing on the easily available and cheap ones .. price does not equal ease of care."

9:47 Reddit user: Azraelrs
"You should show more variety.. a person might see the 'normal' corn in your video and not catch their interest.. if you had some examples of other morphs and variations you might truly pull someone’s interest to the animal."

10:23 Reddit user: plu7o89
"Also maybe highlight what kind of products in the pet industry people should be using or should be avoiding (heat rocks)."

10:50 Reddit users hoorayexplosions, jjhill001, plu7o89, wallyTHEgecko, syberphunk, ZMan941, and MCwaffle89 as well as YouTube user Isa7ada123 all suggested we go deeper into each of the reptiles we chose.

11:06 Thanks to everyone who was so nice to us!
Reddit users Hackenfied, ImaLumpyPotato, MCwaffle89, jjhill001, Panties85, wallyTHEgecko, ZMan941, Azraelrs, and ChompsonGeckos as well as YouTube users Amjad Gujjar, Mung0, AsianBatman, and DerpyQuagsire.

11:15 Criticisms

11:27 Reddit user: _ataraxia
"… corn snakes shouldn’t be eating rats, certainly not on a regular basis."

12:11 Reddit user: _ataraxia
"I don’t know why you would include ball pythons on a list of animals that don’t get stressed easily."

12:40 Reddit users: WorstWarriorNA, ZMan941, and plu7o89
concerned that you should never feed live rodents to snakes.

13:44 Reddit users _ataraxia andWorstWarriorNA
concerned that interacting with reptiles is not playing with reptiles.

14:40 Reddit users: paintedpythons, SmolderingDesigns, and ZMan941 hated the fact that we mentioned pet stores rather than breeders, online breeders and reptile expos.

15:54 We love you guys!

16:15 Everyone who has given us such great encouraging words!
Reddit users Hackenfied, ImaLumpyPotato, MCwaffle89, jjhill001, Panties85, wallyTHEgecko, ZMan941, Azraelrs, and ChompsonGeckos as well as YouTube users Amjad Gujjar, Mung0, AsianBatman, and DerpyQuagsire.

16:52 SPECTACULAR!

17:07 Bloopers!