Can you just connect a heat mat to the ceiling of the enclosure?

1:28:05 This was well said. These animals should not be considered semi-disposable play things.

I understand that Tanner was speaking very casually here but I am disappointed that he said pretty much any frog is suitable for a paludarium. Dendrobate frogs are NOT suitable for paludariums. Even tree frogs that can swim fairly well would get little to no benefit from a paludarium, so I would only consider keeping them in a paludarium if it was large enough to facilitate a water feature that did not come at the cost of terrestrial area.

Most common problem I see with paludariums is their sizes. For many species, the water feature is much lower value real estate than the land. So when a considerable portion of a tank is dedicated to a water feature, the the availability of temp and moisture gradients, and hides can be dramatically reduced.

I love my super dwarf.

Hey Dillon! I'm curious about the clear coat you used- I have that in my stock, but my understanding is that in order to be safe for reptiles, clear sealant should be no/low VOC- Victoria from Passionate snakes suggested using EcoPoly. That stuff is VERY expensive, so I'd definitely prefer to go with a standard clear coat like Krylon... but since this is an older video, I just wanted to hear you confirm now that you think it's safe to use as long as it's given time to cure. I plan to use it over top of acrylic paint on perches, in the hopes that it will keep the paint from chipping and make them easier to clean without ruining the finish.

I don't keep any reptiles... yet. I want to, but I'm still in the learning process and recently asked myself why I want to have a snake so much. I'm glad I found this video because it gave me new insights into the subject and I'm very happy you mentioned Lori, I love her work with snakes so much and want to understand my maybe future snake the way she understands hers.

My female platinum, super dwarf, reticulated, python. goes in the shower with me sometimes when she has a stuck shed, she loves it. I do not let the water get very hot at all just about room temperature. She will sit on the glass shower doors in a little perch and just watch.

I'm literally saying hello to my brand new V. Tristis tomorrow and yall have already got me thinking about altering my training plans! For the past 10 years I've only had my bearded dragon (she made it to 22yo before we said goodbye to her in Feburary), and she was so used to me that handling and interacting was never an issue. It's been so long since I've worked with new animals, and I want to do right, this podcast helped a ton!

This is sick man! I rescued 2 BP and 1 BCI and this is a very good podcast.. subscribed cheers

Its weird that heat generators are considered inefficient. If the point is to generate heat, then the way they determine energy efficiency should be different.

Really well done, and I am not a reptile keeper but I do have an interest in snakes and geckos and blue-tongued friends. I think you are a well thought-out podcast maker and that is something I very much appreciate. Anyone can talk into a mic and publish it but you sir have made a podcast worth listening to. I am looking forward to future episodes!

This is making nerd look bad.. okay they might have got something wrong but Kevin is one of the best reptile keepers there is in a hobby. I've learned so much valuable information from that man. He truly understands reptiles.

Is that Tanner?

I have noticed that my water dragon is happier and more willing to jump in the water now that it is black water, it interesting and make sense that he feels less seen

I think that when we talk about welfare of reptiles in captivity, we need to change the language surrounding our keeping.. having a collection... for example suggests that as many snakes/lizards are added as possible... regardless of the kind of care each animal gets. Lauding people who have 100 ball pythons and encouraging people who go to a reptile shop to buy a snake and end up getting 4 is something I see all the time online. Praise should be given to keepers who keep fewer animals and prioritise standard of enclosure, space given, time spent rather than number of animals. If we all changed the rhetoric then we would have less poorly kept animals and less welfare cases imho

"The animal is effectively trapped in the environment you've give it" So true! If you were abducted by aliens, how nice of a setup would you need to feel comfortable? With recent research revealing trauma being passed down genetically, the way breeders keep their animals might affect their offspring in ways we haven't expected.

Another as usual awesom program my man! Im so glad i found you chanel a few years ago. Your attention to this is admirable.

Nice job Ellie and Dillon! Excellent episode and discussion and Dillon, you were correct about antecedents. An antecedent is a stimulus or event that occurs immediately before a behavior that sets the stage for the behavior to occur. When used intentionally by a trainer and/or behaviorist antecedents are cues or signals that elicit specific responses from the animal. Antecedent arrangement means arranging the environment or context in which the antecedent occurs to influence the behavior of the animal; like changing physical surroundings, timing, or the way cues are presented with the goal being to create a situation or circumstances that increase the likelihood of desired behaviors occurring and decrease the likelihood of undesired behaviors occurring. Historical antecedents are stimuli that may occur prior to an official training session starting but that the animal has attached meaning to. The past experiences and learning history of the animal influence its current behavior and can include events and conditions that have shaped the animal's behavior over time; for example, I have to open a container to take out training treats for a session and the animal is already alerted to the impending training session by hearing the container open. For snakes, me setting up a camera, setting a training target and tongs nearby, or sometimes just walking into the room with all of my training equipment has alerted the snake to what is about to happen, and they may retreat/hide if they don’t want to participate, or come out of hiding and wait at the door in anticipation of something reinforcing about to happen. The use of luring and negative reinforcement are two major things that seem difficult for people to understand and properly employ. Ellie did a great job of explain how luring can be used incorrectly versus appropriately. Luring can be a useful training method done when the animal is comfortable and relaxed and voluntarily engaging with the training in the first place. Typically luring is used in early training and faded over time and should not be used in a situation when an animal is experiencing fear, anxiety, or stress to begin with. Well done.

I'm sure some folks will take offense to Ellie's response here, but I urge folks to take a look at the people mass producing these animals, knowing full well, very few people are equipped to provide one a life long, enriched, humane home? It's always done for profit, hidden under lots of BS rhetoric about "passion" and professing love for said animal. But how is producing an animal that will have a miserable existence, never able to act out most of it's natural behaviors, love?

I especially loved the part about the four quadrants of training! Gonna put that knowledge to good use with my emerald tree skinks!

Looking forward to the study on Sthenodactylus social behavior

Beginning my turtle paludarium today. Great refresher on podcast and KZbin.

Patience. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I think, as long as you're reproducing the wild as best you can, while minimizing risk, stress, and fear, your animal will hopefully have good welfare. I think the idea is that they'll live longer as a result of good welfare, while not necessarily using long life as a guaranteed indicator.

I see this response all the time regarding captive fish. “I’ve kept my East African cichlids with angelfish for years and they’re fine” or various claims of keeping brackish fish in full fresh for years, all of which is highly stressful to the fish. Yes, some fish are tough, it doesn’t justify knowingly keeping them in far from optimal conditions.

She's describing the behavior of my gecko when I first got her, and it's night and day compared to how she gives my hand cuddles now and curiously approaches me every time I'm near the enclosure. It feels relieving to know I've done something right and the behavior isn't stressed.

I believe this is why most people have trouble seeing these animals as thinking about living breathing creatures. People need cognitive distancing. I know I have trouble now, I see more than most, I study body language and have a better understanding of the animals, had a friend till me I need to keep the animals in a basement so the landlord will not see them, I have seen how wowed the animals are to windows and just a view outside, I can never go back, it would break my heart to completely withhold the view of the outside world from them. F the landlords. I want to do an episode these yr on what landlords should understand about keeping reptiles, how the lighting and the downside and the upsides, they do so much less damage than a dog or cat, and without water less damage possible than a fish tank, so if a fish tank is OK, so should reptiles.

In israel lizard in house is good omen

The topic of welfare goes straight to the controversy over rack systems. Personally, I HATE them, even though some of my favorite KZbinrs use them. The animals may be perfectly healthy, but I can't imagine them living their best lives in those little tubs. People say "Oh, snakes are cryptic, they like to hide in small places." but they have no choice about it. If they can't even stretch out to their full length, how can they have any quality of life? They're barely better off than battery hens. It just makes me so sad.

100% ID10T user error. 🙄

Great discussion To provide a counter argument to the cohabbing is for self only: I think all animal keeping is fairly gray/complicated, but I think keeping an animal by itself, while typical and very accepted, is also a very gray area that people should also consider more --- they wouldn't be alone in nature for most part (species dependent), they wouldn't having nothing else moving for the most part (outside of when human is interacting), nothing else providing stimuli. It, as far as I can tell, is based on a fairly simplified view of animal needs -- e.g. safety & food. IIRC a previous podcast guest called this possibly need for more biological feedback. Thus, I only have animals that can at least cohab with other of the same species (e.g. some types of frogs and dwarf geckos) and have cleanup crews for additional stimuli -- tho I don't really think cleanup crews provide that much stimuli. There's species I'd like, but aren't good in groups, so I don't keep them. So, I think it's good to push back on the idea that cohabiting it purely selfish (tho, keeping animals in some respect can be purely selfish -- lot of the money would ethically be better going to preserve environment if the intent was really about doing the most good for the animals).

saw a beautiful palladium at my local pet st neons in the water n a day gecko on top ..

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Love my retics, best snake in the world.

Commenting for the algorithm! This definitely deserves to be a bigger channel!

Could not understand the name of her YT channel. Healsheptiles?

This is my favorite episode so far, such great information!!

Another great one bro ,,, i did enjoy the show '

Very well said!

This is definitely one of the most exciting topics for me. Thank you for this. I already like it, and I haven't even watched the episode yet. 😂❤

Can I submit my enclosure to you now? I just did a custom 5x2x2 for my BP

Dayan was zoned out lol

Would the acrylic last in comparison to the quikcrete tho?

This comment is for the algorithm 😂

The goat! Love this podcast or channel my go to at work

I have similar setup for mine 👍

Awsome man

Taken from "How to Build a Paludarium: Step by Step" - The Animals at Home Podcast: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmephZmep6-cnas

Taken from "How to Build a Paludarium: Step by Step" - The Animals at Home Podcast: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmephZmep6-cnas