How Rare Are Pet Reptiles In The Wild

[@twotonedfishing]

Another big problem for Aussie wildlife is the invasive Cats. Cats cause so much damage to native wildlife

[@Clover_knows_pets]

In U.S. they call them captive born animals instead of wild farmed

[@kinglokimrvegas8687]

Or captive bred as well

[@Clover_knows_pets]

@@kinglokimrvegas8687 yes, but they are lying when they say that

[@kerseykrewzoo]

I think the wild farming thing is a pretty good idea. It’s better than wild caught animals being yanked from their habitats willy nilly and sold as pets. I have 2 adult mourning geckos and 1 juvenile that came from one of the adults. I had 4 babies, but lost 3 of them to different circumstances (stuck shed complications, overheating [air conditioner broke and my house keeps getting into the high 80s Fahrenheit] and generally a failure to thrive) I bought a flightless fruit fly culture to feed them and a couple just seemed scared of them and wouldn’t eat them. I also feed them the powdered gecko food. After losing 3 of the 4 babies, I decided to move the remaining baby/juvenile (about 2 months old) back into the adult enclosure and made sure there are plenty of hiding places so the adults wouldn’t be able to harm her. I have around 7 eggs that will be hatching soon and I’m nervous that they may fail to thrive like the others. Do you have any advice on how to help the babies survive and thrive? I’d really appreciate any tips or tricks you may have to get my gecko population growing more steadily. Thank you so much for sharing the information about reptiles in danger of population decline and possible extinction if humans can’t get their 💩 together.

[@julieb.8751]

Hello! I don't have mourning geckos myself yet, but have a close friend who has a successful colony and have been highly considering starting one of my own. I asked her about this question, and she says the usual cause of stuck shed is that humidity may not be high enough. For that issue she recommends adding some more plants or moss if you have bioactive setup, and making sure that you're misting once to twice a day depending on how dry your environment is. She also says she's had healthier hatchlings if she uses UVB - this seems to be a little controversial in the community, but is her personal experience. Third, she says that some of hers are picky eaters - they don't all like the same insects or prepared diet flavors, so she keeps a rotation of what she offers. If you plan to keep hatchlings in the adult enclosure, she recommends providing at least one or two more food dishes than you currently have (also provide them close to the hide) so that hatchlings aren't competing with the adults, and (like you already mentioned) providing lots of hides!

[@kerseykrewzoo]

@@julieb.8751 Thank you so much for this information! I believe my adult tank is safe for the babies (just had a new one hatch last night!) so I plan on leaving them in that tank rather than trying to move them to something smaller as I had a lot of issues with humidity (either way too wet or way too dry). I also make sure to mist the enclosure at least twice a day, sometimes 3 times if it’s particularly hot in the house (stupid broken air conditioning!) I also have 2 different flavors of the powdered food but the only insects I have that are small enough for them are the flightless fruit flies. I did make sure to get the powdered food with added insects/protein and one is specifically made for breeding adults and the other is for breeding adults and growing juveniles. I do a rotation of each separately and then mix the two flavors together, then repeat the process. Hopefully keeping them in with the adults will allow them to learn from their mothers and older sister. ☺️ I truly appreciate you asking your friend for advice and passing it along to me and I hope when you start your own colony that everything goes well for you and the little geckos. ☺️💕

[@yasiiuhh]

good on you mate, great vid! loved all the great things you had to say about helping the environment & saving wild animals. super informative & so fun to watch because of your bubbly enthusiasm!

[@MOONOVERMIAMI]

Hello great video information Richard

[@djcuro126]

The salmon pink birdeater is reducing in numbers due deforestation and the only place it can be found is the atlantic forest in Brazil. They are the cheapest tarantula on the market because they are so easily bred in captivity. And the savannah monitor is reducing unfortunately due to leather and its habitat is being chopped down and replaced with palm trees for palm oil

[@Stephen-gp8yi]

Thanks for all your advise on breeding crickets mate worked a treat✌️

[@pythonpatrolexotics]

At this point there is no reason to buy wild caught Ts as long as they are already established in the hobby. Lasiodora Parahybana are easy to breed (after the years it takes to mature), and can have 1000+ babies! I'm trying do do specialized breeding of rare-ish Aviculariinae and that's a bit harder since they don't have many babies, and finding a male at the time that your female is ready can be a issue(hell finding a male at all can be a issue).

[@NathansWildLife]

You should post more

[@wozza74]

i have maybe englands only dwarf savanna monitor had him for 2 half years an only 14 inches long

[@ramons8908]

I'm from Australia and it's 100% cats. People outside Australia and many inside don't know the extent of the problem. I've caught a western bearded dragon in my workplace to release him back into the national park next door but sadly, I haven't seen any reptiles there for the last year because the cat problem. Just this year we have trapped about 5 cats to be taken by local authority and put down (good) if not claimed, and the other day we caught another cat, that was chipped and had been missing for 2 years, proving that there is zero difference between a wild cat and a domestic cat. This is happening all over Australia and it's going nothing to do with climate change, reptile numbers are going down because cats eat reptiles, and here cats are everywhere, around the cities, like Perth, out in the farmland, where they are hard to hunt and shoot and out in the station country where every tree has a cat up it. Here we have the tightest controls on reptile pet ownership, the owner must be licenced, the reptile itself must be licenced and sourced from a licenced breeder, but zero controls over invasive pests like cats, rabbits, rats and goldfish, all seen as good children's pets because they are "furry and nice". Australia is one place where children should be pushed away from the keeping of invasive pests and more towards native species like snakes and lizards.

[@kinglokimrvegas8687]

Y'all Brits have such a bizzare way of saying things to us in the states it's neat though

[@kindnessiscontagious3458]

I have a question. I want to get a leapord gecko but I live in a small town up north and we don't have live insects. Are meal worms ok rather then crickets? I would breed them ( crickets are way to loud )

[@Toydvoid9090]

If you want you could probably feed it mealworms and they are ok for them to eat according to google and KZbin!

[@Kenny-jg8ld]

So do you not have your flat anymore

[@loganrp06]

I got a dragon he is so cute

[@JanThMan]

i got my leopard gecko for free(caught him in my yard)

[@jess-sweetheartt8820]

funny it was almost impossible to find out where tegu babies came from b4 brexit, 2019. Closest i got was they came via germany, so most likely captive farmed, eggs harvested and incubated by humans. They are now under Cites so theres alot less tegu's but alot of ppl are trying to breed them in uk now. when i looked up Cites some records showed that they where more imports of skins than pet trade which made me so sad :'( the tegu issue in Flordia doesnt have a resettlement scheme sadly so now they have banned tegus they cant sell for pet trade, which is sad :( Think its kill on sight :'( i do feel as a hobby we should be getting some sort of paperwork with species, guessing only certain breeders do this and more likely high end animals but i like to see it across the board. A female tegu i have rehomed was supposedly CB 2021 but cant give me any details...why not? 🤔 Dam frustrating!!!

[@titchsmythe393]

Don't know where your getting your facts from there's heaps of wild bearded dragons in Australia I see them all the time they are definatly not threatened like other Australian native animals. Look at the sugar glider instead there threatened here but cruel people in America think there a cute pet that can live off chocolate. Nothing against you though mate

[@specteractual1]

Well he didn't say that they're in danger he said their numbers are declining. Just because you have a bunch of them around you doesn't mean there's a bunch of other places and the video is specifically about reptiles

[@specteractual1]

And before you say anything about spider being on there people that are keeping reptiles are much more likely to be keeping a spider than a sugar glider

[@kinglokimrvegas8687]

Fuck all the regulations for what I can have in my home you won't know what I have without a warrant

[@Clover_knows_pets]

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