A friend of mine kept a California kingsnake and 2 tarantulas in his barracks. He did that knowing it's prohibited per the military. He got away with it because the walk-in closet where he stored his clothes are considered his personal items where it was mandatory that he buy his own lock to secure his valuables; therefore it's not subject to the inspection for cleanliness lol. I would like to reiterate that this is not me but a friend of mine who's in the military. Yes.. a friend.
I did the same thing. I had a tarantula and a crested gecko when I was at fort Campbell. Funny thing was when I got them I had two of my friends with me and they thought I was high 🤣
Both of my roommates were absolutely TERRIFIED of reptiles, I brought a crested gecko home and they held him and going on about how soft he is etc. They've even volunteer to take care of him when I'm out of town. Crested geckos are the absolute best reptile!!! [Update] she laid an egg!!
Whrn i was at uni (second year - i a rented house, not student accommodation) I kept tarantulas, african bullfrog, beetles, scorpions, mice, ball python, corn snake, geckos, chickens, ducks and more 🤣 only had to get rid of all indoor animals when I got married...
I just knew the hognose snake would be on this list! I keep a male one myself, and he's really awesome and outgoing for being so small. I can also recommend a fire skink as a blue tongue alternative, if you want a smaller, but awesome and reasonable reptile for a small space and don't mind keeping feeder insects.
i have Hobi , my evans hognose and 2 garters. Hobi is soo outgoing. he taps on the glass when I get home from work wanting to be let out to crawl all over me and my desk. best snake ever
@@HeavenlyiceDream Mine named Egon is crazy curious and wants to interact with just about everything he can when outside by rubbing his nose against it. He tests his strength against my fingers by trying to lift them. He also seems to have an obsession with keeping his enclosure as it is, as moving around anything makes him cranky for days while he also becomes way more hissy and seems to be pushing the items back to where they are supposed to be with his nose. He's otherwise very chill, and comes to my hand when I put it into his his area without provoking a feeding response. He's very easy to handle and introduce to strangers when he's outside.
Adam is my biggest mentor in reptile owning, i am aching to get one and Adam is the person who has let me understand how all sorts of amazing reptiles need things that others dont... thank you so much Adam, and stay awesome!! 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
he really is great and deserves more popularity. though so many titles have confused me with like "are ball pythons really that great" or something like that
I'm in a house share, one issue with keeping snakes is that either you will either have to buy a separate freezer or have to have really cool house mates that are cool with you keeping mice or rats in the shared freezer 😅
My wife wasn't okay with me keeping rats in the freezer so I decided to buy my own deep freezer specifically for rats. I lucked out and my neighbor moved and left theirs by the side of the road like a week before I was going to buy my own lol
My personal pick for my apartment reptile (and first-ever reptile pet) was a Mexican Black Kingsnake, and I’ve never looked back. Maybe not the best for tiny spaces, since he uses every corner of his 120 gallon tank, but I personally wouldn’t go smaller than that with a corn snake, either, and corn snakes tend to get rather longer and are also active anyways. I cannot say enough good things about kingsnakes; if you’re not afraid to maybe get munched on by a tiny mouth, their beauty, ease of care, hardiness, and bold personalities easily make them a top-tier small snake.
How's he/she doing now? I own a California Kingsnake aberrant male that's 66% het for albino (but I don't plan to breed with him, he's my family). Also he's born June 29 2020 and I have him since August 24 2020 and he's 110cm now and lives in an 80 gallons enclosure.👍🐍 I really love snakes.
I was literally waiting the entire video for the old "don't bite my ear". Diamond didn't disappoint as usual! 😂 I keep 5 snakes and 2 birds in a small room with a king-sized bed. All of them have big enclosures and I've rearranged the room twice to make space for more whilst aquiring them 👌 To say I'm looking forward to getting a bigger place is an understatement!! Loved the little bit in the middle showing your frog enclosures, they are beautiful 👍 top content as always!
I loved the video! Honestly though, once you go to 4x2x2 enclosures, you could keep so many animals. So many different snakes and lizard (and even frogs) would do great in 4x2x2, bit I get the concept of other care requirements being considered as well. I'd definitely say my easiest reptile that I have is my crested geckos!
67 gallon (48*18*18) enclosures are up there as well when it come to snakes, corn snakes, king snakes, smaller ball pythons, rat snakes, dwarf Burmese pythons, pine snakes, dwarf boas, male Central American boas, and more. Not sure about lizards. You could get away with bearded dragons and keep those lizards that are kind of like small bearded dragons, but I’m not sure about anything else.
I bought a baby leopard gecko a few years ago. Started with a 10 G terrarium and upgraded it to a 20 G a year ago. My mother and father didn’t like her at first, but now they adore her and are now taking care of her while I’m in college. I was thinking about getting some type of reptile once I start renting out an apartment or living off campus, so this list is very helpful. Great video 🙏🏼
As someone who lives in a studio apartment, I do have forbidden skittles (St. Isabel tree frogs). They do call, but it sounds so quiet and squeaky that half the time I forget it's them making the sound. Plus, I agree about the beautiful spaces. Their terrarium let me combine my plant lady tendencies with my love of amphibians.
Haha me right now in my room with 5 gallon betta tank 3 gallon shrimp tank and 30 gall fish tank n bout to add 120 bearded dragon n want collard lizard in 50 n have them all in my room cause we have woodstove for heat but heater in room lol
Ok one more: I actually think the solution to loud frogs is to just intermittently play loud frog calls on RU-vid and then sometimes turn them off and sometimes don't turn them off. It's certainly no worse than my neighbor who currently plays the same song over and over and sings along loudly and off key, or my other neighbors who played Forza at 2AM every day.
yeah i think any reasonable person wouldn't complain... but also I used to live above someone who would call the cops if I played electric guitar.... without an amp... just the most silly person
@@WickensWickedReptiles man your neighbor was the WORST. the correct response to someone playing guitar in the apartment above you is to slip a note under their door requesting freebird
I totally agree with cresties being #1. My room has a huge window which keeps it quite warm year round, so no additional heat source required, diet is super easy, and he's very sweet and docile. Only tricky thing in the beginning was humidity if I've got a fan going in my room, but that's easy to counter with a small humidifier.
Great list, totally agree. Love guessing your next answer on these types of list, and was able to guess that cresties would be number one! I live in a apartment and have cresties!
200k let’s goooo, I got pack into reptiles literally a year ago this mknth and now have started my own channel and “shop” this is awesome congrats Adam
I have a male Western Hognose in my small apartment and he's perfect!! (as well as a few ball pythons..) I would also say that Rosy boas, Rubber boas (if you can find one), and Kenyan sand boas would be other perfect little snakes for a small apartment or dorm!
i also like the idea of a blue tongued skink for an apartment/dorm situation because 1) your roommate probably won’t be afraid of it like they may be afraid of a snake, and 2) it won’t get loose and hide like a snake could, which could be an even bigger issue than normal in a shared space
From watching Adam’s videos I’ve learned so so much about reptiles and I was once one of those people who was a little freaked out or scared by reptiles but now I think they’re beautiful animals with their own amazing personalities. I’ve changed my views so greatly I’m hoping to get a crested gecko very soon and that’s all through Adam’s amazing videos and care guides and I wanted to say a huge huge thank you for posting them and having such an amazing channel.
I have my crested gecko in my apartment and it's the best pet I've ever had! What an amazing and easy animal to have. I live with a friend and he loves Kuzko too and never bothered him at all! Glad they made the list tho it was obvious they would.
My crested gecko has been one of my favorites to keep and has been pretty low maintenance in the bio active set up. It’s my first reptile and I really like having the height to play with rather than floor space. I’m in a small one bedroom apartment so only have one book shelf for tanks, so I have my crestie and is 10 gallon tanks I have a tomato frog, Pac-Man frog, and a fire belly toad. I got them all on a similar feeding schedule and all are bio active so it’s all pretty easy to maintain.
I just got an albino axanthic hognose baby boi partially thanks to your channel. He's so cute but I wasn't prepared for how much he stays under the aspen lol (it reminded me of what you said about sand boas being an expensive tank of sand) maybe its because hes still adjusting to the new place. He's above the aspen for about 30 minutes a day then hes back under the aspen for the rest of the day. I love when I see him scooching around his room, its so precious 🥺
@@WickensWickedReptiles thanks, it just makes me nervous because I've never seen him drink and I haven't found any urates so far (although they could be blending into the aspen). He has 2-3" of lightly compressed aspen with undertank heating at approx 85F, a hide on the warm side, and a water bowl on the cool side with lots of leaves in between for cover.
I just recently got a California King Snake, I love him! He's still relatively small, and I have him currently in a 24 x 18 x 12, I know he's going to need something bigger in the future.
He big is he now, and what enclosure do you house him in. I’d recommend bare minimum a 40 gallon enclosure, since bare minimum the length plus the width should equal the full length of the snake. However, bigger would be more desirable such as a 75 gallon enclosure, preferably so your snake can stretch out or near enough (like, if your snake is 4’2 and the enclosure is only 4 feet long, it’s so little of a difference that it doesn’t really matter).
I turned my college dorm closet into our iguana enclosure and my roommate and i just shared the other closet for clothes. Drilled a small hole for the cord of his sunlamp to make it to a nearby receptacle. Took fresh veggies from the cafeteria every morning to feed him. The RA never knew a thing and it was a sweet roomy setup which Rex thoroughly enjoyed.
I have a small house and have recently overcame my fear of reptiles thanks to your channel and a few others. We just purchased a male variable kingsnake. We hope to expand into a small collection and are grateful for such informational content. Looking for to your upcoming tour!
Love this Top 5!! The crested gecko is what I'd have, if I could! I don't need a small space pet but love this for its smaller cost for set up and animal and I love the fact that the feeding is very simple. One question- do they small bad? The hognose was super cute too!!
Great videos keep it up! You got me into reptiles and it’s been really good for my mental health. Let me know if you do any comedy shows in California. I’ll be there ¨̮
I was living in a dorm at college and now I’m living at home and I have an Albino Black Rat Snake and an African Fat Tail Gecko! Both comparable substitutions for some of the animals on the list but I love my reptiles!!
I live in a small one bedroom apartment and have never had a reptile pet before. There are so many reptiles that I do like and would want, northern blue tounged skink, crested gecko, mourning gecko, emerald tree skinks (Clint sold me on those) or pink tounged skink. But the more I researched, the more I really thought about it; my first reptile will be a hognose snake. They are going to fit my lifestyle the best (other than my mom not liking snakes) and I can't wait to get one!
Living in a one bedroom apartment and recently just got my first snake, a normal ball python and she's awesome super chill and sweet definitely recommend ball pythons for both apartment living and for a first snake
I'm a teen living in a tiny apartment with my two parents and on-and-off sister. A plains hognose snake is PERFECT. They don't need super big enclosures, especially as babies, they're good to get people afraid of snakes unafraid because of their adorable faces, and they're awesome for handling. Highly reccomend.
I’d love to see a video going over different dart frog species! I’d love to own some in the future but there’s so many I don’t really know where to start
I highly recommend corn snakes! I bought one in January and I LOVE it! They're super docile easy cheap and they come in so many cool colors we actually just bought a baby ball python as well! But I will say ALWAYS so research with reptiles get advice but learn to make you're own decisions on them! people bicker on enclosure size bedding heat source etc do what you do can do/what you think is best
Your videos are getting so good man. I havent had time to watch for a bit and the quality is outstanding. I love the enclosure footage and the music you put with the presentation too.
i actually kept a male colombian boa in my apartment for the last couple years of college and it worked out great. he was a little guy, maybe 5.5 ft/1.7m, so i managed to give him a nice spacious enclosure. don't get me wrong, it took up half my bedroom and one of my closet doors wouldn't open. but all i had to do to compensate was put a bunch of stuff in storage bins and stick em under my bed. totally worth it imo.
I got really interested in the "quiet frogs" topic when you said some of the dart frogs are loud and some of them are not. Can you maby make an episode about quiet frogs spiecies?
I'm in college and living with my mom where I have a fair amount of space and my mom loves my reptiles so I'm pretty lucky with space. I have a blue tongue in the living room, a bearded dragon in my bedroom and a couple crested geckos in my office. So where ever I am I have a lizard near me. I just need to be careful about when I move out because I will have a lot less space, but what you said about putting the enclosure on top of a dresser is a great idea for my 4foot blue tongue enclosure.
this video could not have come at a more perfect time than today. just got the news i need to move in august, and my partner and i are hoping to move from a townhouse to an apartment.
If I were to be honest Adam is the best reptile/pet RU-vidr up there with snake discovery and Clint’s reptiles and also go herping and literally every reptile/pet RU-vidr that doesn’t abuse their reptiles and also knows what their talking. About
You said it, and I vote for a male Plains (Western) Hognose as the best snake for a small space. Easy to hold (not squirmy), a small cage or a 20+ quart tub is plenty of room, tolerates a wide temperature range, fun to watch, once established will eat out of the hand, eats f/t mice and Repti Links if desired, etc. I really cannot think of any other commonly available captive produced snake that has all of those attributes in such a compact package. Great video!
Your channel has helped our whole family overcome our fear of reptiles over the last year. I just got my first snake, a hognose named Nope, a couple weeks ago and am already in love. We already have 2 beardies but the kids have claimed them😂 we'll be moving by the end of the year and can't wait to set up a reptile room in our new house.
Glad cresties made the list! I love cresties and I want to get one super bad, but I am holding off for the time being. I want to see what's going to happen with the Lacey Act situation.
I'm in an apartment shared with a significant other who's not a big fan of most reptiles, but I did convince her into letting me get one crested gecko, which quickly became 5... Would love to add a hognose and a BTS to the mix but I have to wait, too much going on in the apartment already because I also have 4 fish tanks and she has a chinchilla. Great video and it was cool to see a lot of species I have or want to work with very soon.
My roommate in my dorm a few years back actually was breeding crested geckos and is how I got my first one. She had originally one pair of crested geckos and I got one of her second clutch of babies. She also had some cane toads, an amazon milk frog, a white's tree frog, dubia roaches, and madagascar hissing roaches. Then she also had a black lab puppy she was raising for a Leader Dog association to be a service animal for people who are blind. Plus I had 3 fish tanks in that dorm, so it was a wild time. She raised I think 8 additional baby cresties from her first pair and we had just got a few new females and a male crested gecko to start more breeding projects when covid hit and we both moved back home.
Ooh! Will you do a snake video on snakes good for good for an arid environment? Your comment about Arizona made me think about it. Looking at a ball Python but worried about the humidity. We live in high plains desert in Colorado. Was kinda considering a western hognose because of it..
Hey Adam, I live in Toronto and am super keen on getting a San Francisco garter snake. I am new to snake keeping and can definitely need some guidance on setup and care.
You put this video up at an interesting time. I plan on moving next year and want to bring my California Kingsnake with me. Here’s hoping it won’t be an issue
I'm a HUGE fan of thr channel and I absolutely love all the content lately and how you reach out to see what we'd like to watch from you! I like to know if you'd be making a tiktok account!? That'd be awesome!!
I live in an apartment and I have this spot in my living room with no furniture it's just like an open space that's like half room. Perfect space for a couple of scaly pets but I still need them to be easy to move. Thanks so much for the video! Hognose is a dream for me
Thanks for this video, it was helpful! I'm actually moving in a bigger apartment and informed the landlady that we intended to get a reptile eventually, asking if that would be a problem. We were expecting a straight-up yes or no. Instead, she replied to us that only salamanders, turtles and lizards (yes, I know one of them isn't a reptile) and later specifically wrote down on the lease that snakes were forbidden. That bummed us out because we had intended to get a hognose snake, and snakes seem to be easier maintenance than other reptiles. But we'll start researching on which type of lizards would fit us better (or wait until we can get our own place and have ALL THE HOGNOSES). Definitely thought about getting a crestie or a gecko though.
Lol dorm master. RA Adam. I want my own apartment and a reptile so this is the perfect list for me. I’d also love a corn snake so I was glad to see that on here.
another great apartment amphibian: African Clawed Frogs (they are illegal in some US States though) can be housed in as small as 10-15 gallons, eat a prepared pellet diet, males aren't very loud when they sing. They don't require excess heat either. No specific lighting needs. Just change the water once a week and they're quite hardy.
