I Wish I Never Got These Reptiles! I Made a HUGE Mistake!

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@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

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@L.V.exoticpets Год назад

My animals I love hut really regret is I got my viper boa last year an wish I hasn't cuz of the issues she came with also found out white an yellow has genetic defects that happens in white an yellow morphs she's getting MBD JAW

@elleydoll Год назад

I rehomed a kitten last year, because she was not settling with my dogs, she kept going for them, the dogs are used to cats but she just seemed to want to be the only pet. Now she is with a friend and is soo happy! Not always bad to rehome, if its better for them and you.

@lindsayschmidt2177 Год назад

I definitely wish more people talked about stuff like this in the hobby. I only have one snake myself, and I get jealous seeing people with these huge snake collections, but I suspect that a lot of them have regrets about animals that they don’t share with their subscribers. I enjoy this realistic approach to keeping animals. Luckily I have no regrets with my beautiful ball python!

@bindisherd5923 Год назад

I regretted my bearded dragons. I got one through a classroom grant and another from a rehoming situation. When I got them, I did not understand how difficult it would be to get crickets and keep them alive, and getting super worms in my tiny town with no pet supply store. It is much easier to go to the bigger city once a month to get feeders for my snakes than it was to constantly try to get living insects for the dragons. I was a terrible, terrible cricket caretaker. ...I also hated dealing with the calcium powder. I think this video is super important because when you're an animal lover, you're kind of taught that you don't rehome animals if you love them. You have to be their "furever home." I've had to reteach myself that it's not like that with reptiles and small mammals because if you're not caring for them properly or if you don't have what you need for them to be happy and healthy, then you show your love by letting them have a better life somewhere else. Now I know from experience that I need to stick to reptiles that don't involve insect diets, and just enjoy seeing them at shows and zoos. Ball pythons are where my heart belongs!

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

wow eh

@loriw2661 Год назад

Same. BP’s are my ❤️! I’d love an Asian Water Monitor but I’m too old, unfortunately. My daughter will take my BP’s but not a 6 foot lizard. (I’d love a BIG male Black Dragon)

@cathleengendron324 Год назад

I think this is true for any animal, not just reptiles and small mammals.

@LukeMcGuireoides Год назад

Same. I'm in a small town and homebound, so I went with a crested gecko. Very simple, sweet ass animal. I would love to have a leopard gecko though. Maybe one day.

@lindsayschmidt2177 Год назад

I’m with you on insects. I’ve never gotten an insectivore before, though I have wanted multiple lizards and frogs. I haven’t bitten the bullet though because I already know I would hate dealing with live insects and I don’t want to end up regretting purchasing an animal. I’m sticking with snakes for the foreseeable future for sure.

@MotherTruckinReptiles Год назад

You're definitely right about the tegu! That was one of the hardest reptiles to tame because of how intelligent they are! It took about two years for my tegu to become handleable. I tried to rehome him but could not find a home that was capable of providing more than I was, and in an effort to make him more appealing to buyers, I was working with him more and learned how to communicate with him, which essentially accidentally tamed him down so I ended up building an outdoor enclosure and kept him. 😂

@lindadumarwah7341 Год назад

I often read similar stories like yours! My tegu was really laidback and easygoing,always been like that. He'll be 3 in june, i dont think i've ever owned such a gentle reptile before

@mastercrazyyyd7699 Год назад

My biggest regret was my first leopard gecko. I got him from Pet Smart, I had him for two years and one day he just croaked. I suspect the culprit was reptile carpet since I had no clue at the time that reptile carpet could harbor so much bacteria. For my latest leopard gecko I have kept her on a paper towel substrate up until recently where I swapped her to dirt and playsand. She is a very happy gecko and far more active than my Pet Smart gecko was, but I still love and miss him.

@lancenorton1117 Год назад

I have a Leopard Gecko that has been on sand the entire time I have had it which is 28 years. It poops on one end of the 29 gallon tank that it lives in and I scoop up the poop.

@rosiemoore1435 Год назад

Ive seen a couple of these videos now and they have made me feel less guilty for rehoming my ball python. He was my first reptile that i got when i was 16. About a week after I got him i realized he was infested with mites. It took so much time and effort and money to get it under control and he was my only animal. Once we got past that it was great. He had an even temperament as most BPs do. But when he was 3 years old he went on a feeding strike. I assumed it would just last through the winter, but it kept going. I tried everything. Different methods of thawing (he always ate frozen), different heating, different UVB, bigger enclosure, smaller enclosure, more humidity, less, etc. I tried it all. After 8 or 9 months without eating i rehomed him. He hadn't lost any weight, he seemed perfectly healthy. I just couldn't handle my anxiety in regards to him anymore. Him not eating stressed me out astronomically. I felt like a failed keeper. But after two years of sitting on it, I realized my passion wasn't going away, but maybe it lies somewhere else. I found geckos, and I have never been so happy with my reptiles. Thanks for making this video!

@DarthScohin Год назад

I think my biggest regret is my panther chameleon. He thrived for about a year then went off of food and died within 2 weeks. (The day I set up a vet visit he died when I got home 😢) I thought I was giving it proper care but looking back I needed some real minor improvements that would’ve helped make it live longer. Probably a little bit of regret with my RES, but I still love him.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

so sorry to hear this

@DarthScohin Год назад

@@WickensWickedReptiles It's ok, it was about 10 years ago at this point. I appreciate the video!

@laurenteasley2094 Год назад

What were some of the improvements you wish you had made? (As a new chameleon owner)

@UnusualElan Год назад

@@laurenteasley2094 I had a Panther Chameleon for 4-5 years, my advice, find a good reptile vet for any concerns you have, they are spectacular animals and i'm glad i had him, but never again lol

@erintraicene7422 Год назад

#1 is kinda the same level of regret I have with my 17 yr old child. Don’t see them much. Seems to always be sleeping. But they are pretty cool when they do show their face and I can interact with them….😏

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

HAHHAHAHAHA hilarious

@erintraicene7422 Год назад

@@squidgamersquidgamer5273 smug? That is my “sly half smile” …I never thought of it as “smug” …?

@suran396 11 месяцев назад

This is great. Love it. My child is 15, and he's still pretty interactive. We'll see if he brumates in the next year or so.

@jewel65 11 месяцев назад

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Mustang10231992 Год назад

I appreciate you making this video there are too many people out there (or are just an overly representative vocal population) who demonizes anyone that either regrets or for whatever needs to re home an animal both me and my roommate were in this situation. In my case was a ultra defensive sand boa that was also a terrible eater one of the reptile stores we frequented re homes reptiles, this was also the place I got him from. The owner tried to make things harder for for me (was in school at the time) and “teach me a lesson” which is the point where people may get frustrated or desperate (ex. Release into the wild, not that I did or would do this.). My roommate’s situation was that his hognose snake got sick and to pay the vet bills needed to sell a large portion of his animals, which he sold to the same reptile store and hailed like a saint. We both needed to re home yet the responses were drastically different, my point is people are imperfect and make mistakes or wind up in bad situations. I hope people in the community learn from this video and gain some understanding and compassion as sometimes helping someone out has more of an impact than penalizing them, sorry for the paragraph.

@vincentskinner8294 Год назад

I haven’t had any reptiles, but I have had insects and the one I regret getting is my ghost mantis that passed away before it even came to be an adult. I regret it just because I had no clue what I did wrong or if it was even my fault and it was also my first ever animal. Great video btw

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

so sorry to hear this

@LukeMcGuireoides Год назад

Sorry, dude, sometimes it just happens. You should try again :)

@vincentskinner8294 Год назад

@@WickensWickedReptiles thanks

@vincentskinner8294 Год назад

@@LukeMcGuireoides i did think about it but I’ve just bought some millipedes recently and I wanted something different to a mantis , but I will definitely go back to a mantis at some point

@ThKiwi Год назад

Oh man that’s hard. I had a ghost mantis who never willingly ate unless I beheaded the prey and held it for him. He lived a full lifespan but he was always annoying to feed. If you try mantids again, my favorites are the P. Wahlbergii. They’re humongous personalities packed into a tiny little body. :)

@LasBlackUnicrn Год назад

I love that Diamond just hangs on like a little baby koala lol he’s a good boy 🥰

@alicemarshall-morrison7438 Год назад

I regret not getting into reptiles sooner but am loving getting into the hobby! ❤ I also love the show.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

That's awesome!

@susan-meaaz4879 Год назад

Diamond's side eye when Adam says "I talk mad trash about bearded dragons"😂😂😂

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

hahahhaa

@maryanncarpenter3060 Год назад

During quarantine I got more reptiles than I should have. Three leopard geckos, two tortoises and a pink tongue skink. I realized I wasn’t giving some of them their best lives. I gave two leopard geckos back to the breeder. The Hermann’s tortoise was not thriving so I sent her to a rescue. The Russian tortoise was awesome and deserved a better outdoor enclosure than I could provide so I gave him to a herpetologist at the zoo. I’m down to my original leopard gecko and the pink tongue skink. I’m confident I’m giving them a good life.

@AntsCanada Год назад

Uromastyx was definitely the most boring reptile I've ever owned. PS - On the opposite end, some of the most interesting hands-off lizards I've ever owned were a pair Sceloporus sp. (desert spiny lizards) as they were always super active and such a delight to watch in a desert-style terrarium, and a community of Asian Grass Lizards in a tropical tank. They were like a pack of velociraptors and bred like crazy! Not sure if these lizards are still available in the pet trade but they are certainly underrated.

@howardjohnson1478 Год назад

I love uros!

@kitkat47489 Год назад

hi AC

@sully9937 Год назад

You guys should collab

@LinxIxlnNlxiXnil Год назад

They have very wide spectrum of personalities, one of mine is very shy and second one is like dog, very active during day, love to be outside of terarium and with us. He learned to ask go outside of terarium to poop, also he eat when he see us eat etc. He likes to sleep on my chest. He react on his name like monitor lizards. :) I have iguanas, geccos, monitor lizards, snakes, caiman too, but so far uromastyxs i like the most.

@christopherhowe1115 Год назад

My uromastyx doesn’t like being handled but she is fun to watch because she will get the zoomies and run around her enclosure and climb on everything

@fuzzymelon1261 Год назад

the good thing about reptiles is that they have little to no connection to their owner unlike mammals. they won't get emotional damage from going to from one good home to another

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

this is very true

@AntheanCeilliers Год назад

My friend also had a boa that switched from being completely handleable to striking every time someone walked by the enclosure. I tried keeping him for a while and he would settle down for a bit anf then get insanely defnesive again, so we made the decision to rehome him to someone with more experience with boas specifically. It was really hard to do but i dont regret it one bit.

@braindeadgoldfish Год назад

I regret getting a crestie. He was my first reptile I ever got, and I chose a crestie because they were so highly recommended on RU-vid. But he's very boring, in my opinion, (which is why I named him Colin Robinson) and doesn't really like to be taken out of his enclosure. He's able to be handled fine, he just seems to hate every second of it, so I rarely take him out to handle anymore. I much prefer animals who are fun to interact with, like Leos and beardies, so that's been more of my criteria to focus on as I've added more reptiles to my collection.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

I totally get that

@vanessavieux7283 Год назад

I want to say thank you wicked wickens reptile have a super day have a great day have a nice day wicked wickens reptile

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

Thank you too

@lizlilliman3644 Год назад

When my daughter wanted a lizard we looked at gekos 1st. Then we went into a shop and she fell in love with a bearded dragon who is missing a foot and end of tail. Gemma came home. My daughter then couldn't cope with her in her room.. so Gemma loves next to my bed (I'm disabled and wheelchair dependent so live downstairs). I'm so in love with Gemma that we are selling my pony (hopefully to a riding for the disabled stables, he is on trail there at the mo) so I can get a leatherback bearded dragon .

@denisewhitney4819 Год назад

I also regret my tegu. He’s an absolute darling and I love him but when they said he’d take up lots of space you don’t really realize how much space it actually is. That said, I can’t wait until summer when I can take him for walks on his harness 😁

@REVO402 Год назад

Loved this video Adam! Felt new and refreshing, and it felt like you had a good aura going on! Keep it up!

@caseysilva6919 Год назад

I am so glad you put together this video. Now I don't feel like it is just me in these situations. I unfortunately had to re-home, actually the guy at the reptile shop took my BTS. I worked almost a year with her and she always was defensive. Just trying to get her in the transport box was a catastrophe. I was super bummed about it because I wanted a dopey potato. Maybe in the future I will, but this one was not for me. I also have no luck with Pac-Man frogs. I had 2 and both died. I keep so many other species of frogs with no issues.

@staceyweatherby5590 Год назад

My BTS is my regret too. He was a juvenile when I got him but he’s always been hissy. I upgraded him to a 5’ enclosure and now all he does is stay in his hides. He’s eating well but is totally antisocial. So not fun to handle and not even a good display animal. 😏

@hondacivet Год назад

I love blue tongues but yeah I think their friendliness is a bit overstated. It does vary a LOT by individual. They are all generally a bit hissy as babies but some of them really don't ever chill out. They are also a little harder to handle when they are adults because they get so big and clumsy. They can't hang on your shoulder like a gecko or beardie can. You need to fully support their big potato bodies, which is inconvenient but hilarious. That said, they are very curious and smart, and most adults are pretty chill, so I think it'd be worth trying again later if you find an individual with a good personality.

@gooood67 Год назад

oh my god, this preview is just amazing, I saw it in the recommendations and now I will watch this channel!!!

@kareehaney52 Год назад

Excellent video!! Love the editing

@JohnZeeX Год назад

Basilisks! I had a pair of them back in the early 90s. There was no internet, so there were no good care guides. Those were the most insane lizards I’ve ever seen. You walk by their enclosure and they’d bounce off the walls trying to get away from you. The male got out one day and he displayed that speed they’re so well known for. Took a minute to get ahold of him, then he opened that gaping maw of a mouth and used his razor blade teeth to open my hand up. In hindsight, I was clueless about how to take care of these animals, but that male was an absolute jerk. No way you’re holding either of them. Rehomed them and bought a lutino cockatiel instead. Much better pet.

@razzerridez Год назад

A good top 5 video would be "top 5 reptiles that don't require much or any electricity " id be interested

@laurathompson7922 Год назад

I'm glad you're talking about this! No one ever tells you that just because someone you know is passionate about an animal, doesn't mean you will be. But you don't know that until you get them. Animals I thought would be my favorite turned out to not be and ones I thought would not be my favorite have turned out to be my favorite of all. But the one I regret most of all was my very first reptile. A lavender corn snake. I was sold a female but it turned out to be a male. The reason I knew that was because the snake stopped eating and got to the point it had to be force-fed and the vet saw evidence of it being a male. I fought for years trying to get him to eat normally and he never did.

@LukeMcGuireoides Год назад

That must've suuuuucked. I feel your pain. My crestie hasn't put on a gram since I got it, around three months ago. It was born June 22 of 22 and it's still only 5 damn grams :( pisses me off, tbh 😂. I really like it though, like having it. I hope it's just a late bloomer, but idk...

@LukeMcGuireoides Год назад

The breeder said sometimes they don't start growing until they hit 10mo... She was really nice, but now I'm starting to wonder.

@lindsayschmidt2177 Год назад

Wow, this is my first time hearing about a corn snake that wouldn’t eat. Hear it with ball pythons all the time (which is the kind of snake I have).

@lindsayschmidt2177 Год назад

@Luke McGuire have you taken the crestie to the vet? Sounds like potential parasites.

@judahnavidad8250 Год назад

The evolution of Adam with Littlefoot on his shoulders at 4k subscribers talking mad trash about Bearded Dragons to having Diamond on his shoulder with almost 300k subscribers is crazy

@isabellah558 Год назад

In the beginning I definitely regretted getting a red eye croc skink... they're awesome and look amazing but you just never see them. I got used to it now and I honestly don't mind but it refused food for the first month and I got so nervous... I'm aware that croc skinks are a intermediate/expert reptile but I just couldn't wait... taught me more about reptiles and patience than anyone could have prepared me for :')

@sporq Год назад

I'm glad I'm not the only person to get a Tegu and have it almost immediately go into brumation. Mine went to sleep literally the day after I brought them home. It was rather disappointing, it is what it is, I guess.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

crazy eh!

@ChantalsCritters Год назад

You will have to get a baby Uromastyx. I had my chewie for 13 years. She was so tame. Great video

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

Thanks for the tip!

@lindawilson8154 Год назад

Baby Uromastyx are the cutest! But that's all I know about them lol

@caughtafaygo Год назад

sounds like an anomoly with that particular BCI. all of mine are great. My male hypo was a little defensive but not unmanageble. BI's are such great animals. They have changed my life for sure for the better!

@katherineirons4967 Год назад

My uromastyx (pictured lol) acts the same way. I'm somewhat relieved to see the wiggling at 7:52 because mine has started doing this and I was worried there was something wrong with him. I'm trying to build up trust with him but it's hard. The only time he consistently stays out when I'm nearby is when he sees me preparing leaves for his food bowl.

@LinxIxlnNlxiXnil Год назад

Uromastyxs have big personalities, u need to watch when he is comfortable with you. I have 2 atm, one is afraid of everything, but once he is on my hands he calm down. Second one is like puppy, he sleep on my chest, recognize me and my wife, poop only outside of terarium- he waiting near terarium doors when he wants to go poop. If we not at home he stay 2-3 days without pooping, while he is able to hold it. When we open terarium he climb on our hands. He watch us when we eat and eat at the same time too etc. He also recognize his name or tone of our voice when we call him. Before sleep he usually wait for pet and after that go sleep. :)

@spotsandstripes2 Год назад

My tegu is a mole too..brumates nov-feb and the rest of the time he’s under ground chilling apart from eating and basking for an hour each day I rarely see him .. if I want to play I have to go get him .. he’s fully grown and tame as a puppy will eat from your fingers v gently .. I didn’t realise how much they liked being underground when I chose to get one as no one talks about it

@VincentStevenStudio 20 дней назад

There was a time when I seriously thought about rehoming my oldest turtle. I couldn't keep up with the maintenance. I was too busy with college and work, my childhood dog had died, and I was overwhelmed. Pets were the last thing on my mind. I actually tried to find others who would take her, but in the end, I couldn't find anyone I could trust. So I ended up keeping her, upgraded her to a 75 gallon, oh yeah, and then I got another turtle 😂. I fell in love all over again. And now I have a Bearded Dragon and am considering a fourth reptile.

@mattg6106 Год назад

I kind of regret all of the reptiles I've owned in my youth but that's more because I wasn't as educated as I should have been. The only reptile I've owned in my 'responsible adult' life that passed was a Mexican Alligator Lizard. They are absolutely beautiful but this little guy was afraid of life. It took a while to get him eating and I learned the hard way that they are very susceptible to fungal infections. Even after taking him to the vet and getting all of the meds he did not make it. After the whole experience I learned a lot about how I could have corrected my mistakes but it was extremely sad and a bit traumatizing.

@radomircvijovic3688 Год назад

You are the reason I got into reptiles and I love your vids!

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

oh wow thank you so much

@radomircvijovic3688 Год назад

@@WickensWickedReptiles also I'm gonna be getting a gargoyle gecko and I have a question, could you do a care guide video on gargs. I would really love that

@andreahallas5196 Год назад

I bought an absolutely gorgeous adult male firefly ball python for a pet. I didnt know he was rack kept his entire life and was only a breeder, not socialized. I moved him into a gorgeous 4x2x2 with a custom backround, where he promptly refused to eat for 7 months until I put him back into a small enclosure. Handling him stresses him out to much, so I don't handle him unless necessary for cleaning and weigh ins. He's gorgeous and well mannered, but due to his stress levels, he's not handle-able

@ingeniouspixie Год назад

I regret my crested geckos. One in particular; got him as a hatchling, he hated me from day one and I haven't been able to change his mind over a year later. The other crestie I got as a 6-year-old retired breeder who claims to interact with all their animals on a regular basis. She also hated me from, well, day 2, cos day one I think she was still freaked out. Stopped eating for almost a year and, while she now eats well, she still prefers if I'm not in the room. 😣

@itsLizJaramillo Год назад

I think my plated lizard is so cool! He doesn't whip and bite but he doesn't like being handled and he runs for cover often. We made a break through today though. He ate from tongs and didn't hide when he saw my hand. I've had him 2 years yesterday!

@YochevedDesigns Год назад

I think that so much of this comes down to the individual personality of the animal. They really do vary, just like people! Of course socialization plays a big part too. I had a boa that HATED me, but adored my roommate. When she moved out I sold her the boa for what I paid, plus all the accessories. On the other hand, one of the most sociable and chill lizards I've ever met was a Sudanese Plated.

@jacobhatch4849 Год назад

I'm a newer subscriber ( a week or so) I love your videos and especially the random Trailer Park Boys cut-ins. Video Idea: top 5 or 10 pokemon look-alike pets

@richg6758 Год назад

I have a leopard gecko that I regret getting. I was so close to getting a beardy but settled on the gecko for my first lizard as thought would be alot easier to manage cause smol. She's 3 years old now, and she still bolts at the sight of me, never comes out unless the rooms silent and nobodies in. I had to set up one of those doorbells with a camera which activates when there is motion to even see the bloody thing. The first six months were great, I handled her near daily and she was always climbing all over me and exploring, and then she managed to escape her enclosure. Thankfully she only managed to hide from me for 24hrs (left a warm hide out which I found her in the following eve) and ever since she's been incredibly skittish at the sight of anyone. It was such a drastic change of behaviour overnight I even took her to the vets to make sure nothing had happened during her great escape. Persisted for another year and a half trying to start again, hand in enclosure, speak softly, no grabbing but nothing has worked. For the past year I've limited to daily water changes, feedings (which she will take food but instantly bolts into her hide after shes got a full belly) and poop scooping. Accepted she doesn't want to be touched/handled and trying to give her the best life I can but I'm same as you, I really want a pet I can interact with and handle. Sorry turned into abit of a rant! I still love her but i find it amazing how these animals can all have different personalities and what you say about the tegu and essentially empty having an empty viv resonates with me.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

sorry to hear that

@reptilefae Год назад

Ayyyyyyy. Excited to see this.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

wooooooooo

@KB-ql8cx Год назад

Jeweled lacerta. I’ve had mine since she was a hatchling. Almost 2 years later working with her every day she’s still freaked out by my hand and wants nothing to do with me. She’s gorgeous and out most of the time but if I had it to do again I’d never get her. For the record she’s in a 5x2x2 with 6 inches of substrate.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

wow eh!?

@ItsTheTacoBellFan Год назад

When I was little I got a veiled chameleon and no one in my family knew what was needed to take care of it so we saw problems really quickly and he didn't make it. Its been a long time since I have had him and I look back and realize how bad of a choice it was to get that animal because of how high maintenance they are.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

sad to hear this

@Narutass43 Год назад

I've got a weirdly hands-off beardie. Rescued him from a highschool (poor diet, MBD, stunted, etc) so that probably put a damper on being picked up.

@MatthewWelker40 Год назад

I'm like you, Adam. I currently have two male cordylus tropidosternums who aren't the best of pets. I'm contemplating rehoming them. I don't see them, and when I do, they freak out and hide.

@angelkisses5933 Год назад

I had the same with a second BP I got just striking, wasn't eating, even would stroke at the glass and bit the 💩 outta me after 4 months of trying everything I just realised he's not "clicking" with me, like us we don't like everyone and I'm glad I have him back to the reptile shop I got him as he went off to another home an he was so happy he never showed any aggression towards new owners an ate, an I got another an I have such a close relationship with him it's unreal c

@alexispletka4167 Год назад

My beardie brumates for a long time, usually around september to feb/march kinda like your tegu. I have tried to wake him and tried different temps/times and other things but nothing. He just seems to want to sleep🤷‍♀️

@Libby_izzy Год назад

I had an iguana back in the 90's had no idea what i was getting into. Currently I have my first beardy and I love her.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

very cool!

@mollycontent Год назад

I had brown anoles but since my vision is terrible, they were very very hard to care for I was always terrified to open the cage because I thought I would lose them and they got out several times which required me getting my whole family to come help me look for them, definitely regret getting them, but I’m looking into getting a boa instead

@PunchCounterpunch_Lizzy Год назад

The reptile I regretted getting was a green iguana, it was still pretty small but couldn’t take care of it properly so had to get rid of it sadly. I wish my Argentinian tegu was still around because I loved him

@quix66hiya22 Год назад

My Mt. Etna Hermann’s was supposed to be petite but got relatively large and I had to rehome him to his breeder. Too large for his indoor enclosure. Regret more having to lose him.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

ahhh gotcha

@AVDB95 Год назад

Have you looked into blue tegu? Apparently a lot off people don't hibernate them as they are from a warmer location as the black and whites.

@thejerseyherper5320 Год назад

My red eared slider, he hates everyone and everything, gorgeous paludarium but he drowned a lizard and frog, also has a foot infection that he keeps reopening. Also bites every time he's out, which is very difficult when he needs shots in his front foot.

@miparo6088 Год назад

This is a very good video and subject in general. It's important to hear it's okay to regret and I believe many feel the same way I do; I feel ashamed to admit I do regret some of the animals I have had. My 1st corn snake and my 1st ball python are both something I regret I got. Both were very beautiful, very tame animals and chill af but I was not patient enough to wait until I found snakes with morphs I really love. Also in general I sort of regret I didn't go with species that are diurnal from the get go. Now I have a leopard gecko and 2 ball pythons whom I see only when feeding them meanwhile I can spend hours in front of my takydromus smaragdinus enclosure and enjoy watching my pair goofing off.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

thank you!

@theadoshiagoings878 Год назад

Mine is our bearded dragon. It’s tame and a good pet, but it didn’t get as big we thought it would. Not to mention we spent a bunch on a 120 gallon tank. We have since gotten into leachie geckos (Which I find a lot more interesting)

@VTwinFTW Год назад

Man that is a drag about the tegu. I hope that things improve for you!

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

me too!

@ThKiwi Год назад

There are several I regret…a wild caught rough green snake who I did not know how to care for correctly who passed away, a male hognose and a rosy boa who I could not get eating for me…I rehomed the hoggie and the boa to a local acquaintance who they both ate for just fine, so my husbandry was lacking somehow for sure. :(

@jaygeejones3314 Год назад

I absolutely love BEARDED DRAGONS! I have one on my own and she is so intelligent and interesting, I can watch her all day ❤

@rikrob Год назад

Although I've not had regrets with my reptiles, as it is a very small collection, my arachnid collection is a completely different story. The juveniles & above I've got are all good & manageable, but I went far too fast with my spiderlings. Sometimes I was getting into double-figures being delivered at a time because of offers at my chosen supplier. Ideally there are a small few more reptiles I'd add if I had more time, but with my tarantulas, I wish I'd just stuck to the dozen or so bigger ones, without almost quadrupling it with s'lings!

@howardjohnson1478 Год назад

I have a BTS. He doesn't let me pick him up. However, I like him. Picking him up is not as important, I enjoy watching him eat and taking care of him. I would love to have a Ackie.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

for sure

@leahgarland3473 Год назад

So we got a bearded dragon in August 2022 she was a baby. I don't regret getting her but I wish we had went with a male.. we do not plan to breed ever so now she is gravid and brumating. Now I'm worrying everyday and going to the vet once a month, not very fun but it's experience and I love her all the same. Bearded dragons, in my opinion, are not a starter pet if you don't do the research. Thank you for your videos, they help A TON..

@georgedowling7744 Год назад

Pixie frog baby. First one didn’t work out so I rehomed. After my cat died, I bought another, only to be in same position. That and the crested gecko are the only animals I’m meh about. My crested terrifies me but my Savannah monitor is my pal 😂

@deafpleco1602 Год назад

Great video appreciate the honesty. I feel like a lot of people get rid of reptiles because they’re bored with them and they’re not entertaining enough. Perhaps you can do a video on most active pet reptiles/least active reptiles.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

I already have, enjoy

@deafpleco1602 Год назад

@@WickensWickedReptiles Saw it , loved it, keep up the good work. Also ackie monitor video soon ?!?!?

@TFerrazzo72 Год назад

I got a Texas Rat Snake at the Hamburg Expo. She is wild caught, but was only $40. She is very defensive and hates being handled. I think the musk is worse than the bite! That being said though, she's a great eater, and she's healthy. Yeah, I'd like a more handleable animal, but I have several other snakes that are great for handling. So there is some regret, lol. However, it's been an experience!

@Loviekinz Год назад

Only ones I kind of regret are my Mourning Geckos. I too like reptiles I can handle which is why I love my Crested Geckos & Gargoyle Gecko. But Mourning Geckos are just insanely fast and cleaning their tank stresses me out so much as I hate catching them. I love new babies when they hatch, but I am starting to get way too many and now my babies are having babies and I don't have the heart to break eggs and nobody wants to take some off me lol.

@banana.muffinss 9 месяцев назад

hearing about your tegu made me laugh so hard I’m sorry she’s so sleepy but also same

@collindelarosa8963 Год назад

i got a full size blue tongue skink and I’ve seen it maybe 5 times, it’s super shy, burrows like crazy and I can’t walk in the room without hit running away, still love him thought but def a regret

@OnSchoolyard Год назад

my BCI Gomek is super chill most of the time

@ricardo68 Год назад

I had a ball python for a while but it had a very erratic eating pattern which was a great source of worry for me. I had it rehomed to someone I know takes good care of it.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

wicked!

@BornAgainFarmGirl Год назад

Ok, how about an Emerald Tree Skink , that’s my next addition once my bearded dragon Levitation 13 passed away but he’s awesome and happily living a long life with me so no hurry 😊.

@JessicaNyquist37 Год назад

I've only owned 4 reptiles. I've owned a green iguana, a ball python, and two corn snakes. I don't regret any of them. They were all great pets although the green iguana was sometimes a bit territorial.

@hondacivet Год назад

I don't regret any individual animals but I regret collecting them a little too fast in the beginning. I know a lot of reptile keepers can have dozens of animals and be fine, but for some reason when I got up to four animals I got very anxious about being able to take care of them all. IRL they were all cared for just fine but I'd still have nightmares about forgetting to take care of them pretty often. I could physically handle their care but not emotionally I guess? So I ended up rehoming a couple of them. I had only one blue tongue for awhile and now I'm trying again with a snake as well.

@caitlyncampbell9269 Год назад

Jeweled lacerta is mine 😅 I rehomed him recently to someone with more experience than me. Absolutely gorgeous animal , ate like a champ......but then he'd bite in defensiveness anytime other than meal time. It's made me completely rethink ever getting a tegu.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

Lacertas are very cool!

@Qurisx Год назад

Diamonds Side-Eye is so Loud at the beginning LOL

@benxsolace89 Год назад

I got a Fire Skink that I thought was CBB but ended up being wild caught and was the absolute flightiest animal ever and even bit me once. Rehomed them later but it made me super sad i felt so bad. A socialized CBB Fire Skink is something I would love one day but this lad/lass was not a happy camper

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

very interesting!

@MaliciousMollusc Год назад

I regretted a few of my reptiles when I was just starting out. My first reptile was a beardie (rehomed when I realized I couldn't sustain the bills). Then I stopped owning lizards. A few years later, I tried taking care of snakes. I was overly cautious. If I had known how relatively simple the care was, I would've skipped Kenyan Sand Boas, Western Hognose, and Corn Snakes altogether and jumped straight into BCI or Madagascar Tree Boas, etc...

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

for sure

@docyu09 Год назад

I absolutely love my bearded dragons. I did have a learning curve when i got my very 1st one yrs back. I thought i did enough research but apparently it wasnt, so maybe i regret getting one at that time. Took me years to get my next ones. Now i have a happy adult and recently got another one. No regrets. I feed the little one dubia nymphs and the adult the occasional worms. They sell it for very cheap where im from.😊 and then i adopted a blue-tongue skink. A very chill cutie.😂 Want to get snakes but my family would rather i add to my lizards than get a snake so im adding another one.

@LSproductions00 Год назад

Good video

@MrNiC0S Год назад

My first crested gecko. Got him from a reptileshop and is skittish af. My other 2 are fine that i Got from a breeder.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

wicked!

@n3vxr693 Год назад

tegus will go into brumation if you allow them, keep temps up, use humidity boxes instead of relying on substrate for humidity, they will burrow all day

@n3vxr693 Год назад

i know you know what you’re doing but with my experiences this is the best way to keep them happy, i give them an area to burrow but temps are kept up, above brumation temps. my tegu used to go weeks with no food now she if a hog and never stops

@alanastanley8501 Год назад

I don’t like the word regret lol but my Panther chameleon might be one of them. He’s beautiful but he isn’t handleable, his enclosure is a lot of work, and so is he. But I definitely love looking at him and having him. Also my chahoua he isn’t too bad but he bit me once and it scared me so I get nervous to handle him lol

@Wontstop975 Год назад

My giant plated lizard is not holdable either, you see these videos where they are so relaxed and chill. Not mine, same with my uromastyx, the tail whips cut my arms open with needle pinpricks and just bleed all over.😅

@alisaurus8254 Год назад

When we were kids my brother and I got a boa but when it got big my dad was like hell no! Lol..I love my tegu tho but he’s a boy got him as a baby and he’s already my scale puppy lol

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

poor boa

@alisaurus8254 Год назад

@@WickensWickedReptiles I know🥺but I’m sure he found a good home for him 🤷🏼‍♀️

@TheAwesomes2104 Год назад

I regret getting my blue tongued skink. He was such a sweetheart to his original owner, who graciously gave him to me when she could no longer care for him. He had been nothing but extremely violent to me. And nothing I do makes him any better unfortunately. I'm hoping maybe a front opening enclosure might help, but that's still in the works. He was so mean to me, that I rehomed him, only to get a call begging me to take him back a few months later, where he had been obviously incorrectly cared for. He had so much stuck shed that he had already lost toes, and I had to have help getting him out to soak him and picking the stuck shed off the rest of his toes. I feel so sorry for the little guy, hopefully someday we can be friends, I'm still very helpful despite like a year of being attacked anytime I come near him

@kinshasa2001 Год назад

Parakeets. I watched an animal show where the host said they were so easy to train to be held and the first time I had one out of the cage it flew behind and somehow into the fridge. Took us forever to get it out, and then I was scared to try again. Plus for the two smallest pets besides guppies, they made the biggest mess. Our apartment was covered with feathers and bird seed! Don't think I will ever get another bird.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

wow eh!

@spacepebble Год назад

We haven’t got any reptiles yet but we did raise 2 red eyed tree frogs from tadpoles. One froglet never thrived and passed away. The second one seemed to be doing ok until it escaped. Still not sure how that happened…. I think it might had to do with a seven year old boy…. Anyway, it was a great experience but I think waiting a couple years and not living in a desert would have been better. Also they were kind of boring in the day since they are nocturnal and I had a poor success rate in getting fruit fly cultures to thrive and I didn’t like messing with them.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

sorry for your loss

@beamerhull6373 Год назад

I guess you love your fiji banded iguana cause for the past few videos it has been on the thumbnail s. Also, when will there be more content about them?

@LukeMcGuireoides Год назад

Bold move, putting that animal in the thumbnail. I was gonna be pissed if he included one of those lol

@beamerhull6373 Год назад

@@LukeMcGuireoides yeah, me too.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

coming soon!!!!

@parkerexoticpets3355 Год назад

Whoa, dang, nice shirt!

@dorianthegrey2685 Год назад

I regretted getting giant day geckos. I didn't get them intentionally really--I was buying a mating pair of crested geckos--and the guy threw in a pair of day geckos in a too-small enclosure as part of the deal. They were pretty, but the cost of upgrading the tank for a pair of animals I hadn't been planning on, and on top of that not being a species you can really handle just wasn't it. I eventually rehomed them to someone to wanted display animals more than I did.

@joshuaanderson340 Год назад

I have this Nicaraguan boa, who has done the same thing as your BCI did. he was okay for months and now I cant even feed him without him attempting to munch me. any tips?

@beenherebrforemurry6365 Год назад

My biggest surprise was our green igunana we rescued. Poor dude had a rough start 2 years later he's puppy dog tame

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

this is amazing to hear!!

@jimmyheidt1250 Год назад

My biggest reptile regret was a Nile monitor that taught me that I wasn’t as ready as I thought I was for one. He was rehomed to someone that has more experience and he’s living a much better life. I do see him from time to time and always greeted with a rough tail whip.

@Narutass43 Год назад

Respect. There's too many people who'd just try to tough it out with an animal few can handle. (For their ego or whatever). Glad you set him on a good path.

@KaiSub Год назад

I regret getting an adult tegu who wasn't socialized at all, she would hiss and launch at the glass as soon as I got close to her enclosure and she was fed an improper diet (dog food) all of her life, when I got her she refused to eat anything else. Six months later she passed away

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

that's brutal

@bnutz3k Год назад

I just got my third uromastyx. I also have two hognoses and one rosy boa. They take a really long time to build up interactions, but they come around. They are very skittish by nature, but I still have more physical interactions with them than my sneks, which are burrowed most of the time. To each their own, but if I had the room for it and less of a social life, I would have a dozen uros by now. They're so easy, don't stink and are hilarious. They're like little puppies that don't necessarily like to be held. All that said, a full grown, wild caught uromastyx is probably going to be a lot more defensive. If you ever come back around, and I do think you misjudged them, you want a cb baby.