Rating Your Ugly Reptile Enclosures - #10 

Noo Alex you should never stop this series it's way too funny

Yup definitely a fake cactus in my gecko’s enclosure! She’s a bit special needs so nothing organic, needs to be easy to keep clean but still enough to give her enrichment, she loves to climb. Thank you for the rating!

"I see no substrate in this picture" I can't lol

I’m you’re age and a vet tech in college actually and I love everything about dogs, cats, horses, and other mammals but I don’t know much at all about reptiles, but I find your videos so entertaining and informative. I also have the same sense of humor and think some of your comments are just hysterical! Keep making videos, they’re awesome and so many people love them!

"got some rocks ... got some dirt ... we have a toad, it's a toad enclosure!" INSTANT 5 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Alex with sand: i pretend i do not see it 😐

Thank you so much for featuring my Leo enclosure!! It was the last one - I am so glad you like it and am genuinely honored to have my work featured in your video!

Please remember, linear uvb should cover 2/3 of a dragon tank AND overlap with their basking. Also, say no to red lights. Thnx.

What is happening in the 2nd enclosure… why are they in a bird cage?? Why are there two of them?? Are they okay? How does it retain moisture?? I’m so confused and have so many questions

i hope whoever keeps tagging go herping in the octopus pics keeps doing it bc its hilarious

Hey Alex, that’s my bci enclosure :D It’s half of my garage. It’s about 8 foot x 8 foot x 7 foot high :) there’s two windows an ac unit, and a pond. Sorry for the scale confusion 😂

I stopped buying the basic heat bulbs because they're almost $30 and burn out if you even look at them wrong. I use a ciramic coil bulb

Baby iguanas can be kept together for the first few weeks of life. In the wild they often band together in baby groups to protect themselves from predators but afterwards they should be separated. My green iguana is super territorial with other reptiles and with people who aren't me or one of the people i've hired to help me care for my animals and she's a female. I have no doubt that if I brought in another iguana into her room, she would try to kill it. Tegus imo should never be housed together. My gold tegu is a sweetie but accidents can happen when more than one tegu is forced in a finite area

"There's no substrate... weird" This is how you can tell he's so done with the S-word, wont' even acknowledge it's existence

Alex: what's going on here Also Alex: *refuses to read the description*

“Frog zone done” really resonated with me 😂

"It looks kind of dumb." SRTOP I STARTED TEARING UP FROM LAUGHING

He keeps calling the octopus a squid when it's clearly an octopus And it even says octopus in the tags 😂😂

"....We got a toad. It's a toad enclosure. 5 Stars." Sounds like Alex likes toads lol

Never stop this series it’s funny and the good enclosures gives me new ideas haha

You should do a series where you try to guess the animal biased off the enclosure!!!

My dad who was already a successful reptile breeder cohabbed two green iguanas for over 18 years, they lived a happy, healthy life but their enclosure was custom and took up the entire garage with multiple basking spots. They were a breeding pair as well so I don't think it's something the average keeper should do at all.

That iguana cage looks like it would be all too easy for the babies to catch their claws in the tiny little grates at the bottom 😬

This series is definitely not getting boring! Also I really enjoyed that outro

“You definitely don’t have cats” I feel that.

I'm so happy you're uploading so regularly, you're very funny and I love your videos so much!! Don't stop this series until YOU get tired of it. I'm certain we all love them, though!!

Thank you for reviewing my set up! I’m looking forward to my cage growing in a bit. The pathos and the big leafed plant in the back are supposed to grow big!

You can get a dimming thermostat for 30 bucks these days and a deep heat projector bulb for the same, so 60 in total or so, totally worth it and great for beardies. Wish more people knew about them.

Currently on a road trip, super grateful for something else to watch

The bearded dragon you couldn't see the substrate was on a new calcium sand that is light yellow and is worse than the rest....I dumped a bag of it next to a bag of the regular calcium sand in my backyard almost a year later it's still there hasn't washed away 😳

Please don't stop this series, love it.

I laughed too much at the "done" part

Hi I love your videos so much I haven’t watched for that long but you videos are amazing

The octopus fact was almost correct. They have a brain in their mantle (head) that is wrapped around their esophagus, and each tentacle contains neurons so they can operate autonomously.

The BCI enclosure is a whole but small room, definitely enough for a BCI though.

12:00 looks like the snake version of what I wanna do with my future parrot.

never been so early to a goherping video before...

PLEASE DONT STOP THE SERIES ITS SOOOO FUNMNYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

This is my favourite series of yours

This is almost as depressing as the lack of tax rant videos

1st savannah enclosure - it's ugly but it's nicely squared up, well decorated, and generally nicely put together. Probably one of someone's very few DIY projects (and I'd bet the biggest one they've ever done). 'A' for effort, I'd say 3.5 stars (4 for interior, 3 for exterior) 2nd savannah monitor - sadly typical for savannahs that new keepers pick up :/ that baby needs an intervention.

Dont stop :)) I love this series! Also what light should I use for a bearded dragon?

Please keep it going thanks, will always watch this series ☺️ Edit: I don’t even have any reptiles or pets other than a cat, so even if I’m not your target demographic, you are so entertaining!! I hope others enjoy your reviews too.

Keep this series going 🙏🙏🙏

You know the more of these I see, I wanna see some current Alex enclosures! 👀👀👀

I wonder if at this point Alex's editor has some random txt with notes on what sounds to play for each star number. "Oh man time to find that sfx for the 5.67195 stars"

I got a crestie for christmas and please, his enclosure is so full i cant even put my hand straight in without having it twist to in weird ways 😭😭😭

Let’s hope whoever’s reading this comment doesn’t have their reptile enclosure in this video

Thank You So Much For Doing Another!!!!

I love the Alex absolutely cannot tell the difference between an octopus and a squid

The way I immediately click when the notification pops up 😂

Love these way too much

the last one is so cool!

Omg u are so funny i love your videos so much! They make me laugh!

Never stop its so funny

Unless you're bored from filming these reviews, I'm always ready for more 👍

I have 3 green iguanas and that cage at 2:40 is definitely a 1/5 stars 🤦🏾

Nuuu don't stop, its great

13:25 that’s an octopus. The brain is in its head and is shaped like a donut, but there are also a lot of neurons in the arms that can function as a series of brains. Also I would have like to see how big the aquarium is and whether or not they got any toys or any hides because these are like own a parrot but instead of an aviary it’s a saltwater tank.

Pls do more, I’m making a post right now of some very bad enclosures I saw at my local zoo. And I don’t know what to do about it. I’m talking cohabitation, ball pythons with boas. No humidity, stuck sheds, underweight snakes. It’s a nightmare at this ZOOs reptile house. How can I make a difference for those animals?

All these enclosures make me feel really good about mine.

ayyy 4.5 on mine, thanks Alex!

I’ll have to submit my custom curio cabinet build after I’m finished, I actually made a tree out of a TON of large cork bark rounds and half rounds.

My experience: Flat roofs are hellish. Water will pool on it, and water rots the underlying substrate (though shingles worse than the pool-liner-like plastic sheet type), and water damage is horrible for a home, for repair and mold issues. Also, leaves build up and have to be removed, and they trap water. Also, if you *do* get a freak snowstorm or ice storm, that weight sits and sits. Also, an attic provides space to run wires and pipes and such, and to fix them. I have a flat roof: there's no ceiling space and no basement, jsut cross beams every foot or so. I couldn't get access to see where mice were getting in until I had a company rip out the ceiling in two rooms for several thousand dollars. It's not feasible to run Internet wire, or wire for smoke detectors up to current code, or better pipes (the water pipes are in the slab, so it takes 4 minutes for the hot water at my kitchen sink to get hot). No -- you absolutely want an attic and a slanted roof. You may not want a finished attic, and yeah it looks like a pain, but an unfinished one is still a godsend versus a flat roof. A flat roof is like keeping a reptile on sand.

Tegus are just a vibe lizard. My local reptile shop has a whole room enclosure for a tortoise and a tegu that live together, beautifully might I add. They are rescues the shop decided to keep and take care of.

First one: You can totally use two bulbs! I wouldn’t use the reds tho, beardies can see red and it might keep them awake at night. I use a 60w ceramic heat emitter and a 75w basking bulb. The basking and uvb are on a timer, and the ceramic heat emitter stays on all the time. I get about 104F on his basking spot during the day, and 80F at night (70 on cool side at night). As long as the temps are met you can use as many heat/basking bulbs as you want I guess lol

In response to the first bearded enclosure, the uvb has to be a certain distance from the basking point for an animal to be able to receive a certain the benefits from the UVB(measured with a solar meter and determined using the Ferguson zone method) also, the red lights have been determined to be bad for at least bearded dragons eyes(can’t speak for all reptiles cus I’m not sure) hope that helps at all!

This is great

Alex’s math is just amazing 🙌🤣

I would do this but I'm very self conscious of the cloudy water that i can't figure out how to get rid of even after quadruple washing my substrate

Bro Alex I love you you’re hilarious dude also I live in NC too :DDD

Keep up the badd work kido....

i never understood the water on iguanas , there was only 1 time i saw my iguana drink it, was when i forgot to mist, then he neversdrinks from bowl he just drinks from plants or simply absorbs it

im gonna submit something cool for the next one i swear... dont stop doing these please at least until you see my tank lmao

Octopus have 3 hearts and their brain is shaped like a donut, they also have 8 mini brains that control each arm

Seeing these lizard enclosures makes me want to have a lizard so bad 🥺 I had a bearded dragon when I was younger but since then we’ve only kept snakes (in terms of reptiles.) Don’t get me wrong, I do love all reptiles…. But lizards definitely have more of a personality than snakes from my experience 😅

I have very rarely visited homes with slanted roofs but it feels like every youtuber has them lol

I never kept iguanas, but the enclosure in my opinion can use a lot of improvements, along with adding UVB/UVA. As for the enclosure not having any way to hold humidity, perhaps the owner lives in a place where it's naturally very humid so humidity isn't a problem?

Also thanks for featuring Athena, Hera and Aphrodite. (the mourning geckos) {Im kinda a bit to lazy to make and find an enclosure that has really really small gaps for the geckos because of how small of spaces they can fit through}

Hi I would like to ask you what's the general opinion on non natural looking enclosures if they have everything the animal needs to live safely and well. Is it possible for example a modell to stress them. My leopard gecko does not seem to mind but I'm curious if I should remove it. In the future I plan on upgrading to a bioactive one for her but currently I don't have enough natural decor to make a proper natural looking one for her.

Good evening gohepee 🐐

I don’t know how you’re feeling about the pine litter so far, but I just wanted to mention that we’ve been using beans (just any bulk dried beans) as kitty litter for a few years now and it’s so much nicer than any commercial brand we’ve ever tried out! The cats love…using it, and personally I’ve never been a fan of finding cat litter anywhere around my house outside their actual box lol, so the main reason we use it (besides it being safe and unscented) is because there’s basically no tracking and the s m o o t h beans don’t stick to cat toe-beans. Plus, zero dust! It’s generally cheaper and easier to dispose of too. I can’t really speak to its odor trapping abilities because all three of our cats are raw fed and subsequently have really small, inoffensive deposits haha. And it gets scooped whenever someone uses it. But I think you actually fresh feed too, if I’m remembering right so you may be able to smell what I’m stepping in 😏 We call it the ~forbidden chili~ The only thing is it doesn’t clump with pee the way it would with conventional litter so we use it with the litter breeze box that comes with a replaceable pad underneath. I hate dealing with the pads but it’s really the only con.

ily and i do particularly like ur reptile vids but like honestly idc what u do imma watch it

Was that the devil laugh from the XBox original “The Bible Game” at 4:03?

don’t have instagram but i have a giant day gecko in a 100 gallon vivarium his heat and lighting (uvb) are on one side with two large bamboo pieces and then i have a long UV light for my plants and just to brighten it up a bit. It took me around 4-5 weeks just to get everything set up. i’m working on getting some hanging plants or air plants to give him more cover but i think he’s enjoying it.

Hi GoHerping! I have a leopard gecko and hes about to shed what should i do

I would hope/assume it's a fake cactus Sure wild reptiles might encounter cacti out in nature, but as a pet owner it's really your job to protect your animal from the hazards that the great outdoors would expose them to. In the wild they also come in contact with parasites, diseases, and predators. Plus, even if a reptile knows to avoid it, you're basically taking up space in their home that they are not allowed to access.

How do you feel about red night time heat lamps I know some people have said that it stresses leopard geckos but I don’t think it’s been proven

Just gonna put this out there, that was not a "$60 enclosure" if I have the dimensions close to the one shown in the video, the terrarium by itself is a little over $100, and it comes with a few of the things inside the enclosure. Your price range for the total cost is probably still the same if not a little more, I just thought I'd speak up about that enclosure price being a bit off. I only know this because I'm poor and I looked into several different setups for a good price range and that was one I've seen before. I don't think it's a bad setup, it's great for beginners actually, but whoever bought that whole set for $200+ definitely got ripped off 🤣 great video as always dude

Don't stop these please, unless you aren't enjoying them anymore.

Don’t stop these ig vids

I just got a huge tank for my turtle it’s 4 feet long 2 feet tall and 1 foot wide the water is about a foot and a half deep with a basking area that’s like 3 times the size of him

where does one find a squoctopus?

YAY I GOT A FOUR STAR ON MY MOURNING GECKOS

2 basking bulbs are irrelevant as long as it meets the required heat necessary to digest food and proper gradient from one side to the other. UVA is also important and something that should be considered. Red lights are the problem. Little Bearded dragons are fine in "huge" enclosures.. what difference does it make? It's helpful to offer lots of platform options under the basking area including the overlap of the uvb/basking bulb. It's also important to give an ares where the animal can retreat from the uvb as well. The second Bearded dragon was on sand and the 3rd was eating a huge bowl of dried meal worms but the fire truck sticker? 🙃 I linear uvb recommendation would have bumped that husbandry advice up to a 4* ..... (no I'm not a MOD. 😂 even if I was what difference does that make?)

Lmaoo "what substrate? I don't see shi..."

„He looks kinda dumb. Not in a bad way… jus in a dumb? way.”

Can we get an update on your personal animals?

2 of the 75 bulbs = 1 of the 150 bulbs

The first one the red heat lights are bad for the beardie it can make them blind so hopefully it’s not blind