Can Breeding Reptiles ACTUALLY Make You Rich? Also, The Loudest Ball Python Fart Ever! 

do you breed reptiles? What species?

Reach Out Reptiles is the gold standard for breeding right now. That's what people should be striving for as a breeder.

My first rule for breeding is only breed what you like. If you like it, other people will like it also. I do cornsnakes and black rat snakes. The trick with cornsnakes is getting on breeders wait lists to get the best animals, and pay attention to the hets. If you have 2 compatible hets that you don't know about, you can't make that money from them. Also keep all records you can. People love to buy from people who can show they are taking good care of their animals

Could you do a video on the ethics (and ethical issues) of breeding for morphs? Definitely an interesting topic that's important to talk about.

I started in boas. I said I was gonna spend 10k. 40k later we are doing great and I'm looking foward to an amazing breeding season this year. I've spent WAY more than planned but I'm loving it and I'm making some killer boas.

Watching you grow into yourself has been awesome.. the quality of your content has improved so much. I’m a fan and I’m glad you keep growing Adam.

Totally agree. And if they eat insects having an established colony is so helpful!

The ball python pooping...classic! Who knew...

Love your videos keep up the awesome work. Keep going with the breeding and business side if how to. Plus your normal reptile talk. Thanks for all you do.

Great video!!!! Thanks for the honest and intelligence information.

You did amazing at explaining tips and advice. And I agree with you 100%

I love when I get a notification that you uploaded a video, I drop everything and watch it😁. Love your videos and keep up the great work

I think you did a phenomenal job explaining projects that include a wide variety of animals and many different ways to achieve progress.

This was a great video these were unique tips and super pro !

Oh my God…😂😂😂 I’m still laughing… your reaction is priceless..❤❤❤

Still cracking up!🤣 serious python blowout! Lol hope he's ok cause that was an epic sound!

Good evening Adam, I hope all is well. Lmao that was a loud poo coming the BP. I hope you have an awesome day and week. Great vlog today

i got 2 red eye tree frogs recently and used your build video to help make my enclosure thank you !

awesome video adam

I like this video a lot, can you go into more details about how to get clients and such you always have the best videos on RU-vid

Good points. Thanks for sharing.

Great Episode!

Really good and informative Video !!!

this is a very helpful video, ty! do you think you can make a video about creating a good social media platform? again ty!

Great tips! And omg that 🐍 fart....wooooow 🤣 🤣

This sure was great and that intro was glorious

This was an amazing video, thank you! I got one question. How is the crested gecko market? I wanna start breeding but I wanna try to get something I like and I want to make stuff I'd like to buy pretty much. What reptiles are good to start with?

Thank you for this video. Helped set some expectations.

Good start up info

Love the video! I totally agree!!!!!

First, I loved the video! If the market is saturated with ball pythons, we need to do better at attracting more people into owning and loving these amazing creatures. 😊😊 Also, being aware of how the best of us fall prey to novelty seeking with the craziest morph combos and taking time to appreciate the classic morph and validating the ball python owners who are just luvin’ their classic. All BPs deserve a beautiful life ❤🐍❤ Keep up the great work spreading the good word!

great video!

You are the best RU-vid ever wicked wickens reptile have a great day have a cool day have a super day wicked wickens

Robby’s Reptiles is a smallish RU-vidr who is a crested gecko breeder. He knows good tips for breeding crested geckos.

DUDE THAT INTRO, the flame WWR looks amazing

"Omg the smell!" *moves closer* Jokes aside, this was super helpful! I'm planning to get my first breeding pair of cresteds/gargoyles (not sure yet) at an expo this weekend so perfect timing!

Great vid, I’m going to start breeding combinations rainbow boas & hoggies soon… that woman at the expo was proper giving you the look, hope you got her number lol

I want you to start breed king snake and this video definitely helped! Thanks!

I was going to breed emerald swifts in a year or two, but I just recently lost my male so that project may either take longer to start up or not happen at all. You don’t really hear much about the species and they have live births so you don’t have to worry about incubation and all that which saves a bit of money in that area so it can be used for other things like extra females, bigger enclosures and high quality feeders. I’m super bummed about losing Raldie (nickname for my male who’s full name was Emerald; I know, not really original but my kids named him and his gf Jade as well) but hoping I might still be able to do something with the project in the future.

Really good video and so true

Great timing on this vid I just aquired green keeled bellied lizards that I'm raising to breed

Nice vid 😊

I'm getting ready to start my first hognose season starting with a het axanthic and a snow. Do you think you could do an updated video on hognose breeding?

I'm super lucky to have an awesome local pet store to buy what I produce! I keep it small with one pair of tokays and I am LOVING it

I'm back with a [related] video suggestion: Either rubber boas OR opinion on breeding wild caught reptiles. [Rubber Boas are super rare to find, but mostly because they haven't been super popular. I know I'm considering capturing one to keep as a pet and/or breed since they're uncommon, but I'm torn on wild caught in general.]

Definitely do a gecko breeding guide like cresteds, gargoyles or leopards

Can you do an updated version of crested gecko breeding or chahoua breeding

Have you done a video on a rainbow boa, I know another guy did and I’ve really wanted to get one.

Love your videos. Can you make another video about bearded dragons? I’ve had one for a year now following your guides.

I don't want to breed reptiles, but as a business professor I think you are giving some good advice here.

When I was looking for a bearded dragon I saw some beautiful dragons on FB groups, but no company name or no website. I kept looking for an ethical breeder and found mine through a Dav Kauffman video. Now, she'll be who I go to when I get another someday. So yeah, social media presence is important! Also found the guy who I first crested gecko through a Dav K vid.

Thanks for the breeding start-up video! I'm not entirely sure how much applies to the project I want to start, since I want to work with candoia (specifically candoia paulsoni). Do you have any advice for someone that wants to become a breeder primarily to help prevent wild caught imports and works with less commonly kept species?

Thar noise sounded like you had a raptor walking around but lol then I remembered you have a dog

I love reptiles but I also love arachnids. I am not planning on starting a breeding business or anything but I am interested in breeding some in the future. I wonder how much of this advice is the same/different in the arthropod world

I don't breed animals, but if I were going to I think I'd breed something I am super excited about but that is not widely available Captive Bred. Just because then there might be some demand, and I'd be helping the spread of a favorite species in captive care.

I'm currently working on raising up some cresties to breed. I'm trying to focus on getting some higher end geckos to add more value to my breeding group, but I didn't have too much money to start out with. I'm currently not trying to get rich, just trying to responsibly produce and raise one of my favorite species, but I also want to be smart about and not end up with 50 hatchlings that nobody wants

Great advice 💙💜💙

Yes. Lots and lots of paper towel. This year is my first year breeding. I didn't think I'd get much out of it. Both cornsnakes were first time breeders, so wasn't expecting a high fertility rate. BOY WAS I WRONG!! Out of 22 eggs, I only got 1 slug. And the other 21 eggs hatched into healthy babies. So now I have to house, feed and clean 21 babies on top of my 18 other snakes. And some of those babies are being tough to establish. Stock up on LOTS AND LOTS of pinkies, and have alternatives on stand-by. I finally had to assist feed adult mouse tails I chopped off of frozen mice from my freezer to get something in their system. So, yeah. Fun. 😅 On the plus side, I volunteer every month at my local show. And there are very few, if any corn snakes. So there's a niche I can fill. And I've had vendors come up to me wanting to buy the mom of the clutch every time I bring her with me to the show. So word has spread that babies from her, which are all powerhouse multi-hets, and already have a few people lined up to buy babies from me as soon as they're well established. Now we'll see if the mom double-clutches or not. And I put the male in with another female. So we'll see if those go or not. As far as balls go, we'll see what happens. I was all in for the long game of producing my own visual axanthic pied. I found a very beautiful expression axanthic. Since she was a single gene, I figured I'd find a pied that was het axanthic, keep a female or 2 to breed back to the male, and get an axanthic pied. Then I ended up finding a visual axanthic pied from a breeder I had been following that produces quality animals, and couldn't say no. A year later my boyfriend who has been in the game got me a nice male. A leopard lemonblast 100% dbl het axanthic pied. So now I just have to raise him up to breed to the axanthic pied and some great combos should come from them if they produce viable eggs. Aside from those 2, I want to eventually breed bullsnakes, and also create a captive bred population of Madagascar Golden Hognoses. A local exotics pet store had a long term captive male, and after a year I gave in. The next Tinley expo I found a female. So we'll see if we can't help slow the importation of Golden (or blonde) hognoses from Madagascar. Not expecting to get rich on any of it. I just love reptiles and want to breed what I like, and fill niches in my area.

Reach out reptiles!

Great video great pets reptile 👍

Can you do a video on emerald tree boas

We made the following decisions in choosing breeding products: What do we like? What do we already have? What is there demand for but not a lot of supply? What can we afford? How long do we want to wait until we start producing saleable reptiles? We expect to make money eventually and to make a reasonable profit, but do not expect to become rich. Agree on the social media. We do Instagram and RU-vid (coming up on 4 years - it is very hard to break into the big time like you have). We are also planning educational outreach programs. MOST IMPORTANT! Whatever the money making project is, you should have fun doing it!

I would be interested in watching a video about the ethics/benefits of breeding hybrids.

I wish I could but I have no space 😂 like nowhere I only have space where it is cold but then it isn’t good for the enclosures 😅

I've been seriously thinking about starting a small breeding project but I'm still waffling on what species. I would love to do spotted pythons (get my granite gal a het boyfriend) but I feel like there would be way to little demand. Also thinking about house snakes but I'd have to get myself better acquainted with them and their care, although they seem fairly similar to spotteds. Oh and also cresties, but their genetics are so unpredictable it intimidates me a little.

😂😂😂 poor BP. Must’ve had a good meal earlier.

I'm currently in the middle of growing up a couple Cornsnakes to breed, I'm doing as it's been a life long dream and I decided to take the leap. I originally (a year ago) had a Anery Pinstripe and a Toffee Granite Tessera as they were sold. Turns out both were missold so this season I brought a female Snow Tessera as I'm hoping the Anery Stripe will is het amel based on the shops reported lineage. So hopefully should get some Amels Anerys and snows and some with Tessera which will make a awesome clutch and if I make anything from it would be a dream come true to pursue it make it a proper thing but only time will tell. I wanted to do Ball pythons but as my female is Spider I wouldn't feel comfortable breeding that gene on so decided to do corns, if it works out I would like to diversify it a little with kings or Rats maybe Hoggies and see were it goes

I don’t breed to try to get rich, I breed my animals because it’s a passion of mine.

The Beeper Shart made my day

i'm thinking of starting a breeding project for fun instead of profit, my emerald swifts (Sceloporus malachiticus) might breed eventually but i'm thinking of breeding some more small diurnal lizards, maybe a sphaerodactylus sp or some other dwarf gecko.

I wish my beardie was that mellow. He's a red dunner, just over a year old and huge.

I like the geeky stuff. I don't really know much about leopard gecko genes. Do leopard geckos and crested geckos basically work the same?

I genuinely thought he was saying pet, just realized he said het

New intro 🎉

What enclosure size do you recomment for a cornsnake

YeH right lol...... Great video

I was considering gila monsters would be good for me

I spent over $2000 on hognose! Hopefully I'll get it back! You're scaring me! Some of mine were worth more than I paid too...I just got lucky! And that's not counting supplies and food and all that. I mean I am also very happy to have them as pets but I still have breeding plans and hope to be successful 😊

You getting right back to work after that massive 💩, is pretty funny to me.🤣

A thousand bucks barely gets you a pair of normal ball pythons and proper housing for them lol.

Lol 6:00 your reaction to it lol

"That person is going to die of old age tomorrow" LMAO

Truth !

Totally agree on all points! Also be sure to get a small business administration consultation/services for a business plan that includes modern marketing (i.e. social media). If a SBA consultant doesn't recommend or downplays marketing (yes, that includes social media), WALK AWAY (ok, maybe run, because that mindset lost all credibility a decade ago.) This can be a FREE service for you, depending on your locality - USE IT! Treat the venture like a BUSINESS and NOT a hobby; if you need business education (and 99% of people do, ESPECIALLY in bookkeeping), GET IT. SBA is a critically important skill set, and is transferable far beyond your reptile breeding business.

iT TAKES time dedication, research, and marketing.

I'm so scared to breed so I don't want to! I'll let the more experienced people to do so and me giving support! 🥰

Que pasa calabaza! It's unrelated to the video so please don't hate me 😅. Have you made or thought of making a care guide for Pacman frogs? I know you own hella other 🐸s from your videos but figured I'd ask ya, cause I always appreciate your content and I think it woulda be hella cool of you if ya did one! 😄

When it comes to balls/royals, there's also the ethical aspect of how much you think it's fine to be line breeding your animals. I know that reptiles in general tolerate inbreeding better than mammals, but the longer you line breed the same relatively small breeding stock, the more issues you're going to run into down the line.

You know I honestly had the same reaction to my skink going poop. It sounded like a little screech and I was afraid he was stuck or something. Nope. . .just pooping.

I do believe the snake heard it when you said "Crap in, Crap out"

i have a sunkissed okeetee corn snake breeding age and i am looking to get a tessera female and a sunkissed tessera to breed

Love a great fart joke.

I was here for snake farts.

Pro tip! Word of mouth is on the internet. You need to build your brand your platform on the internet!

Who’s enclosures are shown at 10:20?

For me personally I went 3k in and by the end of my first season I'm even (the few hundred extra I count for there food and stuff) this coming season I can't wait, I have a male and female red base full pinstripe Harleys, black and white Harleys, and brindle super dals all amazing genetics and but I too got lucky the female I got is going for big $$ but my buddy gave her to me for 400 pluse a enclosure 4x2x2, and the male I ran into someone who had one but really wanted to breed snakes so we traded, sorry for the rambling I just thought I'd say what happened for what I started

Can someone please answer these 2 questions for me. 1 : Are Corn Snakes Venomous ? 2 : Is a Corn Snake a Good Starter Snake ?

Well. I've seen some cheaper het pie bald ball pythons on morph market. Breed het pie with het pie and you get a chance of a pie bald with the gene actually showing. So around 250 worth of snakes can get you like 300 or 400

First snake I ever heard poop was an obese timber rattler that a guy was “walking” 🤣💀

How to mess with genetic knowledge... my father has blue eyes, my mother got blue eyes, i have one blue and one brown and green eye🤔