Blue Tongue Skinks with Ty Park

[@knq1]

Are you kidding me? Ty is a master and perfect example of what to strive for in life. Keenan you do awesome work.

[@Ellsfarm]

Ty seems like a really nice guy

[@elicutler18]

Do some more videos with him! He's awesome!!!

[@littleshotta700]

Kamp Kenan what you do really inspires me keep going

[@babygatorstayflee2272]

IeatNuggz 8

[@romanshirodkar7430]

this is my favorite reptile channel by far!

[@Gottalovecarpetpythons]

We sure do have some beautiful reptiles here in Australia 🇦🇺 we are so lucky. My children grew up with blue tongues in their lives and really enjoyed having them, along with many other animals and creatures. What a great life they had.

[@pamelaflirtyskunk7698]

Ty is an AMAZING breeder! So cool to see some of his BTS.

[@TeguBuzz]

I just came back across this video Kenan. Too good my friend. Seeing you in this video, you're like a kid at a toy store with Ty's facilities, haha. At 2:25 - "can I open one??" -- proceeds to opening it regardless! Gold my friend, gold!

[@Phantomoscar]

TeguBuzz I love ur vids BUZZ

[@raelonewolf]

Ty is so humble. He has 30+ years of experience keeping blue tongues, he literally has a blue tongue in its late 20s right now, and yet he says if people do things differently from him and it's working for them, he has nothing to say. It really puts things into perspective when you see younger/less experienced KZbinrs who have had their pets for one-four years or so and they call anything other than what they do "wrong". I think we all need to strive to be more like Ty.

[@tacticalveterinarian]

Amazing video! I'm actually glad Ty was able to legally import the Aus species into the USA and produce many babies in the future! Demand will be high and eventually prices will decline, but hopefully this will keep people from trying to smuggling them in

[@MrCites1]

tactical veterinarian The guy he imported them from smuggled them... if that makes you sleep better...

[@colasweet1]

I'll be sleeping fine. No worries.

[@bongratunrthdoxtrsh5324]

MrCites1 he said he has the papers from the wildlife and fish organization,thus meaning he legally got them into the u.s,do some research. kid

[@WickedWildlife]

DahDogePup Carter he obviously got them legally But the guy them came from wouldn't have Once they are out of Australia it's a different story but basically nothing leaves Australia legally except to zoos, and I don't believe any zoos in Australia keep mutation bluetongues

[@BryceBroom]

wow Kenan you guys rock... you make very entertaining and super educational videos.... its my dream to one day come and interview you

[@ReptileMountainTV]

Great episode! I love blue tongues. I love his set up as well. Ty is a great dude. Thanks for doing these Kenan!

[@MissButterfly72]

I live in Perth, Western Australia and we have Blue Tongues as well as many other lizards that have made themselves at home in our backyard. My family love summer because we see them out in the sun almost on a daily basis. Great episode!

[@robclippo1161]

In Australia you often see a squished shingle back with its mate sitting next to it on the side of the road, very sad to see its mate almost as if it's grieving the death of its mate😞

[@livelaughForte]

I'm glad I found this randomly. I have a soft spot for skinks :)

[@trevormatheson5307]

the shingleback looks like an avocado

[@kelseybordeaux9206]

I wish I could find a Shingleback Skink breeder in the US,I've always wanted one!

[@azaleapoison3593]

I grew up in Western Australia and the Shingleback that you showed we would call a Bob-Tail Lizard, their tail is shaped like their head to try and confuse predators, specially birds because from the sky it wouldn't tell which side is its head. I have held a few wild ones because my dad while working out in the bush would find half dead ones that were infested with ticks and he'd bring them home to carefully remove the ticks and we'd feed them to get strength back from loss of blood, then he'd take them back to their home for release. It's the only time you can really hold a wild one is when they are weak from ticks coz normally they are feisty lil guys!

[@andrewzuckerman]

Hey Kenan. I love these Ty Park videos. That guy really knows his stuff with lizards! Hope you are enjoying Costa Rica.

[@alexbrazil3556]

Amazing video huge of both you and Ty Park, keep on making these great video!!!!

[@hiniuiuhb902]

I’m not a fan of blue tongue skinks but that melanistic blue tongue is unbelievably beautiful

[@GOMD77]

Ty seems like a genuine person.

[@bullycrew]

Great video Kenan. I love it when you visit Ty's farm.

[@blaisepayne1821]

Blue tongues definitely make really good pets. I use to look after native Australian animals and birds that were hurt or lost there mum and I had a few baby blue tongues over the years that imprinted on me so they couldn't be put back into the whild but ended up some of the best pets I have ever had and they are just a easy animal to look after. If you live in the right area with the right weather and humidity you actually don't need all this kind of stuff for them to be a very healthy happy lizards. Mine lived in my house and just ran around with the dogs and cats had a little cat bed that was kinda like a fluffy cave and they went out for fun in the garden or out for little walks. I think they are the easiest reptiles to have as a pet if you live in the right area for them.

[@otter7097]

they have such tiny legs! they look so odd but super cute at the same time.

[@shaunbang]

Those tiny little legs are so adorable

[@orangeriderz]

Ty is a realy great guy love the way he keeps his blue toungs

[@sizzybubbles]

I love that Ty is putting in the good word for blue tongue skinks! The are such underrated lizards in the pet trade here (the US). The are great, interactive, tame pets that are quite 'easy' to care for in my opinion. BTW, I keep my Northern in a 2ft by 4ft animal plastics terrarium. It's great! Plenty of room!

[@Shamalishus]

Love watching this video as a zookeeper in Western Australia. Watching you get so excited at a bobtail when we find them in our backyard hahaha. We're very limited in what exotic species we get here in Australia but we are very lucky with the natives we have.

[@OmegaMegalodon]

this is awesome! The blue tongue skinks is also very healthy looking.

[@peerless77]

I just saw a blue tongue lizard that lives in my back yard. It's been there for years, but I only see it maybe once a year because it is good at hiding. It hissed at me while poking its blue tongue out, then crawled into bushes. It always scares me when I see it because it is so large and looks like a snake. I live in Sydney suburbia, very built up, lots of houses and no forests anywhere nearby, weird how a large wild reptile like that just randomly lives in my back yard in the suburbs. I pretty sure there is more than one as well.

[@rovena996]

I'm getting a northern but that black skink is beautiful. Super expensive though i bet.

[@dudemvp9619]

Alyssa the black skink is called melanistic skin

[@dudemvp9619]

Alyssa *skink

[@jaydensaw2947]

I've got 13 Easterns

[@oneyedthing]

6:48 Ty: I'm going to show you a hyper melanistic.... cathy come over here..

[@cheinonen]

You need to do a show on his lace monitors. The pictures he posts on Facebook isn't enough lol

[@jamescaine507]

It's funny because in Australia I find blue tongues in my backyard all the time and yet Ty said they were uncommon in America to buy

[@chaoticimpulse]

Wow I had no idea the shingle back was a thing. Never seen one before. Very cool!

[@zetsu8080]

Love the westerns. I don't understand how you got legal papers for these blueys. I thought only zoos could show them off

[@specialkids4662]

my guys, live in Australia also so in the country parts, we often see "shingle backs" but we aussies call them bobtails. We see more bobtails then actual blue tongues. We have lots visits from both blue tongues and bobtails due to our dogs water bowls. When i always get close to the bobtails, not so much blue tongues. If i have time I'll feed them apples or other fruits. The dogs ignore the lizards when they come into our yard and walk to lay down while they do as they want in our yard. Bobtails are more friendly and calm compared to blue tongues.

[@hannahs4624]

I have never owned any type of lizards, but I didnt realize how cute the skinks are! Their little legs are so tiny!

[@bongratunrthdoxtrsh5324]

Hannah Sibbach its obvious that they where once giant trex with There stubby little arms,yet slowly de-evolved into the little lizard that a lot of aussies regularly find in their gardens.

[@justrealityshift8613]

I have two red foot Tortoise's❤ And omg the blue toung skinks are so cute!!!

[@belizeguy]

Great video. These guys are amazing. Thanks for taking us along.

[@sellersownslizards8712]

I absolutely love blue tongue skinks I'm getting one for my birthday so exited

[@johnno49]

Shingle backs are very unusual reptiles in that they mate for life.

[@ChuckHorneTheLizardRoom]

Awesome! Are you going to be at Ty's event in May?

[@kevinpoe8137]

Hypermelinistic blue tongue looks like a mini toothless

[@biguglyoiboy]

Great tour.

[@Dionaea_floridensis]

Ty is such a sweet heart omg

[@GreedKiller00]

is it possible that you could have another live stream or ask him where did he get his shingleback skink?

[@andrewfan7526]

Ty!!!

[@darcieclements4880]

It takes about 7 generations to see behavior selection show up in a dramatic fashion and it usually shows up around the same time color mutations starts popping up. The point at which something is declared domesticated is arbitrary :)

[@kayane2843]

The two of the pets I want is a tortoise and a blue tongue skink they are amazing animals

[@shawntaylor1594]

Very nice video do you guys have a website?

[@jellybeansi]

That black skink looks like Toothless. :'D

[@dylanjwicklund92]

They actually develop better color under UVB and i noticed mine grew faster

[@wa5780]

Great vid, blue tongues are my fav!

[@zoeyratcliffe_27days2go]

Omg I 💕 blue tongue skinks there amazing their different colours are gorgeous if I get my way I want my own blue tongue skinks eventually x😍😍😍😍

[@nicoleotoole666]

How can I get a blue tongue . I live in Canada so I don't now where to buy one

[@CaseyRead]

Love my blue tongue. he's so cool. excellent video as usual man.

[@blakegregg1258]

My favorite lizard is the basilisk

[@bobstranzenbach4700]

What type of Mulch is Ty using? Cypress mulch?

[@tortoise629]

I LOVE BLUE SKINKS!

[@itz_ryan2227]

I love this guy he's brilliant

[@scottemerson1335]

Dude I own 4 eastern blue tongues there is pretty much one in every backyard here love ya vids I want a tortoise we can’t get them in Australia😤

[@ninjsteve1]

Where does one buy a black one? 🤔

[@leblalimb]

Before I started the video the title I knew was a stumpy tail lizard we have them here in nsw Australia

[@fungus2116]

Wild blue tounges are actually pretty vicious

[@sofachips]

Wow so cool to see this they are all so cool.

[@Mooffgamesgamer]

What if it is an introduced species of spider?

[@J_Z666]

ty is so cool as well

[@KaaPlaaw]

I love Tiliqua. but this video surprised me Kenan; I thought you were against this style of keeping. This is not how you care for these animals. They do require UV. They shouldn't be fed dog/cat food as a staple. The Tiliqua rugosa had a better diet, why is that diet not replicated throughout the rest of the animals in the room?! I breed Tiliqua (along with many many other reptiles). They have UV, I feed them mixed greens, locusts, crickets, earthworms, morio worms, beetle grubs, fruit, crested gecko diet, baby mice, and yes cat food. But my point is these animals require more variety. I respect Ty for his work with iguanas and chelonia and he should stick to that. its obvious that he struggles to understand how to care for animals inside. He should contact the Austrian breeder of the Iguana delicatissima he has for advice on how to care for things correctly inside. That's all we can do here in Europe as our climate in most places is not good enough to allow for outside enclosures.

[@connorrudd2070]

I'm from Australia and most breeders keep them very similar over here. yes UV is a benefit to their health and more variety is always a plus but this is similar to the care they get here in Australia.

[@bongratunrthdoxtrsh5324]

KaaPlaaw Jesus fucking Christ ya moron,they have bigger than needed enclosures,hiding spots,calcium, food that they would eat in the wild,etc.calm the fuck down. also have you ever kept them? no.have you ever watched them in the wild no,so stfu.last thing,with the calcium,they don't NEED a uvb light.yes,it would help.but they don't need it if they have the calcium.

[@WoM]

4:35 GORGEOUS

[@danteghaz]

Thanks for this- great video from 2 of the best 👍

[@LanceKirkman]

Awesome video, thank you Kenan

[@tenin982000]

I really enjoy when kenan visits this guy. he has an amazing personality and just love for animals. not sure doing it for the money.

[@lachlandavies4792]

Just curious how you can import from australia when we dont export our animals except for zoos....

[@nalanz4805]

You can’t

[@notepad3144]

Those are some nice bluiiis mate

[@nethaye]

Omg this is my heaven

[@thecontriver118]

MORE TY PARK

[@RHR147]

Only people like him should breed and own these animals

[@Melmac1756]

Awesome vid!!!

[@alexshoemake8241]

The UV light helps them keep their color

[@matthewtaylor72]

Ohhhh boy!can you guys tell us about taking care if hyperactive lizards/geckos etc. =3=

[@boglenight1551]

Us Aussies just call em blue tongues or blue tongue lizards, didn't even know they were a skink, would have thought they were too big.

[@olivercooper97]

love the video

[@Tigerpuffer]

I dont really like morphs either, I like an odd one here and there, and I do have a leucistic leopard gecko that I bought from a corner pet store when I was fourteen and an albino kingsnake that was rescued from a glue trap. But one of the morphs I just cant understand is the albino blue tongue skink. It doesn't have a blue tongue! That's a deal breaker for me.

[@hamishharker7153]

Can I ask how Ty can get documentation for legal importation of Australian reptiles considering that they're a banned export? As the blue tongues aren't being imported for a zoo (or anything of that description) but instead for a private breeder, I find it difficult to believe they were legally imported. I am happy to be corrected on this. Just curious as I am Australian and have heard of no legal way for private keepers to get their hands on our wildlife.

[@marcuswilliams6106]

I feel the same way. This is sketchy as fuck.

[@alexandermiller2794]

It's not too sketchy. But Australia has reptiles that the hobby in America would kill for. You can't get an Aussie perentie or lace monitor in America which sucks

[@hamishharker7153]

Alexander Miller I'd say it's very sketchy since no private breeder can import them at all. Mate we can only keep Aussie stuff, Your reptile selection is far greater than ours (not that I'm complaining, just fact). A guy here just spent 4 months in prison for keeping created geckos and a chameleons. Kenan has always advocated for captive bred reptiles and to stop the illegal trade of reptiles but yet will close a blind eye to his mate doing it? I just don't respect that. I respect him greatly overall and I love his channel and seeing tys facility is awe inspiring. Just can't go on videos saying its bad to smuggle yet say nothing when your mate does. #weak

[@alexandermiller2794]

Hamish Harker I've seen other private breeders with Aussie blue tongues. I've seen centralians for sale around

[@ogalbo4435]

He got them legally. Does not matter how the person he got them from got them. All blue tongued skink morphs are smuggled from Australia to Asia. From Asia they either to straight to the U.S or Europe to the U.S. Same how Australian gecko species end up in Europe.

[@tiffgarcia]

I wanted to see him put those turtles in a nice pond

[@nicoleotoole666]

Where can I buy one of those lizard albino things

[@bongratunrthdoxtrsh5324]

NICOLE OToole "things"?if that's you attitude you don't deserve one..

[@mrhades2436]

How big do blue tongue skink grow?

[@bongratunrthdoxtrsh5324]

mr hades 40-44 centimetres.(Australian ones that is).

[@TheAztro0123456789]

i thought they were only in the brown and white color and black lol they are a lil like big geckos

[@furfeathersscalesnmore6149]

I really want to meet Ty Park

[@MiLa-ek4si]

I want to be like Kennan some day

[@Yx90]

Cab anyone tell me an good blue tongue skink breeders

[@iammt00]

They are from tassie

[@keithdouglass3618]

🐍🐊 my shingleback and bluey live together since babies.one year old. put out in sun . seem to know routine .Keith Australia

[@blakegregg1258]

What do hermit crabs eat

[@matlocknat3wawaw261]

Yay!!

[@tragicboy9991]

The skinks he owns will make you money they go for 10k some of them that’s money. Not trying to sound like a jerk but I would buy one.

[@JamieS1992]

hmm so blue tongues do live birth no wonder I never found eggs as a kid lol I once found a nest of one of our native lizards they were hatching it was cool but not really even sure what lizards they were we called them blue tongues as kids but clearly they were not blues some kind of garden lizards

[@bongratunrthdoxtrsh5324]

Yamaha Rider J probs garden skinks.

[@nicholaszoppa3274]

Is Ty able to directly import animals from Australia with his permits?

[@Empress_Moth]

No. Australia has a no export policy on its native species.

[@nicholaszoppa3274]

That's is what I thought. Ty must've meant that he imported them from Europe or something.

[@Empress_Moth]

Maybe he did it before the ban? Not sure. Love if Kenan replied and gave us more info. Because there is for sure a ban on exporting native wildlife currently.

[@nicholaszoppa3274]

Do you happen to know when the ban was enacted? It seems like it would have happened early on in the hobby, but relatively recently. Like the 80's.

[@robramsey5120]

These morphs would have had to have been smuggled out of Australia to begin with unless Ty has a CITES permit, it's the only way he'd get them directly from Australia.

[@blakegregg1258]

Or an iguana

[@joshmaroney9913]

Does Ty have an instagram, facebook or youtube account?