Some of the best Beginner lizards for new Australian reptile keepers! Let me know your picks in the comments below! Subscribe for more and follow my facebook page for more @coopsreptileworld
Coop, this is so great! I really love how you did this. Beautiful lizards. It's a shame that you only have access to Australian species, and at the same time Australia probably has the coolest reptiles of anywhere on Earth, and you guys have so many morphs and species that we don't have. Love your work. I'm so glad we got to hang out last year. I hope to see you again sometime soon!
Clint's Reptiles oh my god I was thinking of you the entire video I scroll down in the comments just to make sure and boom! There you are. Please do more videos like you used to?
Thanks so much Clint! Won’t lie it’s hard to not get jealous seeing all the insane species you guys can play with over there! We just have to be thankful for what we do have it was great hanging out with you let me know next time you are coming!
Ya no ***** they got all of what we want in USA in his yard I bet or a short walk lol would love to catch my own pet from there would be amazing ik it's not allowed tho sadly
marbled geckos are defiantly a good beginner as they need no lighting. they are cheap and can be found at expos at around $30 otherwise at pet stores they are around $40-$50. (in Australia)
Could you make a whole video on caring for your mountain dragons? I have a couple and there isn’t a huge amount of information. I wanna breed them this year so caring for them correctly is a huge priority for me.
Hi Coop! I'm in Albany, Western Australia but was sent here by Clint! Great to see your channel, I have a couple of big 40cm King Skinks that hang out on my patio here bobbing up and down to the reflection on the sliding doors. Love them so much!
@@coopsreptiles2588 i love it, my brother in Albany gets carpet pythons in his backyard and it's wonderful! I live in Perth usually (stuck in Albany for the lockdown) and sometimes there are so many shinglebacks. I had to pull over 12 times on my way to work once to get them off the highway. Little cuties :)
Suuuper jealous of the hyper melanistic (and all the other morphs) bts you guys have. We don't have many morphs here in the US, but I love my Northern blue tongue.
As always Coop great advice. I’ve been keeping & breeding snakes & some lizards but still as you say still learning. Your videos have got me setting my lizard enclosures up even more natural. Young pup teaching an old dog new tricks thanks mate
You rock mate love your videos on the mountain dragons I live in Tassie and have 3 myself and they are doing just fine because I have followed what you said and we look after them very well
I honestly don't think there's a beginner pet of any kind, all can be difficult if you don't provide the proper care. But your animals are very very cute sweetie! 💚
Absolutely adore the energy and care for these little critters. Good on you. Would you have any recommendations for finding a northern bluey (skink), or even a pink tongue skink in the US? A lot of sights seem a little shady, and I’d wanna make sure they aren’t being mistreated...
I think ackies are super cool, but I’m a little intimidated by the care. I’ve only kept corn snakes (from my native USA) before that don’t need so much day to day.
Wow! So different than here I the UK! Blue tongue skinks are so expensive! Cheapest are wild caught Indonesians - around £250! Northern Australian blueys are around £300-350. Eastern blue tongues start at £600 and they are very rare. Other species cost thousands!!! Bearded dragons are very common. Ackies monitors are fairly common too, but relatively expensive (around £300). Not many other Australian species available around here... We have so many other species that are not available in Australia though... Hundreds of species and morphs of snakes, geckos etc
I had a knob tailed gecko witch is a tougher gecko then a thick tailed but there like cousins. Don't need a big tank.so I would reccomed that gecko. Great vid coop😁.thank you
Every time I see BTS I like them more. I like their size and mellow nature, and of course they are a lovely lizard. I'm also quite curious about the knob-tailed geckos, they are cute but not common in America. Right now I just have a savannah monitor and a couple ball pythons. The monitor is pretty care intensive so I don't have space or time for another lizard right now :) I love him tho, he is a grumpy cat.
About 4 maybe 5 months ago i bought a duo of year old eastern water dragons which are my favourite pet reptile by far they are like a mix between a monitor lizard and a bearded dragon, ive done quite a bit of work handleing the and Russel the male is about as good as an eastern water dragon can get whilst lizy dosnt like being handled but loves the occasional pat. If you are ever asked where to get a water dragon the breader i bought mine of are for sale from a guy named marty in plumpton near Blacktown, lovely lizards keep up the great vids mate love your work👍
I have just seen your video and im quite interested in geckos omg they are sooo cute. I have plenty of knowledge and experience with dogs and cats, but i have question about reptiles. do the geckos or other reptiles show friendly moves? like cats or dogs do. Do they know you that you are owner?
marbled geckos are an awsome first gecko cause you probably wont need a license and they're small and easy to care for. they dont need heat or uv and they do well in a reasonably small enclosure
Hi Coop, I am a beginner at this an i am very interested in getting a lizard and was looking at a bearded dragon, I have just watched your video and subscribed. what other advice could you please give me, like the size of the tank, what food and all that good stuff. thanks heaps of you get to read this
I think my favorite is the anthill pygmy python to be honest. I've been researching since like january this year. If I do get a reptile, I'd like to be able to handle it. But my apartment is small so I can't get anything too big. I was thinking about a blue tongue skink but they're too big and they need a big cage. Not sure if my little apartment could fit such a big enclosure while still looking nice. Few several months I've been considering getting the thick tailed gecko since that doesn't require such a big enclosure. But then again and again, I keep on hearing that the gecko I'd like can't be handled. And the fact that it can't be handled is a bit of a deal breaker. During this Covid19 time...I think I need to be able to handle something eventually. Handle ability is important to me. The thing about the anthill pygmy python is that my parents have seen it at a reptile park we went to before this carona virus stuff started. The staff at this reptile park took out the snake to let their customers handle it. I held it of course but what surprised is one of my parents (my mom) decided to hold the snake as well. It was probably the only reptile my mom has ever willingly decided to interact with. So I know my parents are okay and can deal with that snake to some degree. And of course, because it's the smallest python in the world it doesn't need such a huge enclosure and it'll probably be happy in my little apartment.
Anterasia Pythons would certainly be in the snake version of this video! Like I said in the video get what will interest you the most and properly care for!
Get a baby if you like. Start smaller with enclosure like a 2-3 ft exo terra maybe. Ackies typically do well on a substrate they can burrow in such as sand and coir peat mixed
i only just got my kids a beardy yesterday they absolutely love it the eldest which is 7 checks on her every half hr to see if she ok hahahah its awesome
is there a lizard I can let free range in my garden or garage for Crickets or whatever else it chomps yet can have an enclosure and be happy... like a scaly insect-eating dog that likes cuddles?
I live California and I am thinking about getting a lizard and I'm thinking about getting a crested gecko or bearded dragon which one do you think I should get?
1:32 "And they're [blue tongue skinks] are available everywhere" EHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA that's the funniest thing I've heard on RU-vid. Comedy gold right there
I live in northern TN. Never owned a lizard but have wanted to for years and now I can thanks to the stimulus money. I was thinking leopard gecko but I’d love to get a chameleon. Thoughts?
Do lots of research in each species and see if its something you can handle, Chameleons can be quite involved and more sensitive then some other species
Thick tailed geckos are awesome. I had 3 over the course of about 5 years. I kept one so long and fed it so well that it grew massive. My 1 piece of advice is DO NOT HOUSE MULTIPLE THICK TALIED GECKOS TOGETHER. They are territorial and will not hesitate to snap each others necks if kept in close proximity. Also, don't say "shhh" around them. The shh sound is how they show a threat display. Also also, don't try and show your mum the new huge thick tail that you just found in an ice cream tub while she's watching her favourite show, especially if she's a shhh'er
Coop's Reptiles they have some for sale on bsrauctions.com they are leaner and have longer legs and longer tail than the sausage-esque northerns they are freaking sweet looking!
Had one for roughly a year now and Coop is spot on, the species as a whole is shy so it takes more work then your bearded dragon, very rewarding and extremely active.
If you are in Australia you cannot own leopard geckos. But knowing google I do know if the 11 year old in question is mature and uses common sense I’d say so with adult supervision
In the rest of the world, bearded dragons are extremely common but blue-tongued skinks rare and too expensive. I have kept a male central bearded dragon for years, and he was the most interactive and intelligent lizard I owned. Some other people have kept thick-tailed geckos, but claim that they are sensitive to high temperatures. I have kept northern velvet geckos, and they were very easy. Just like crested geckos with Australian characteristics - heat-loving, don’t eat their shed skin etc. The Bynoe’s gecko is also extremely easy. Sadly no Australian gecko can surpass large non-native ones like leopards, cresteds or gargoyles in handlability or friendliness.
I found out bearded dragons are not easy to take care of it takes a lot to take care of them they're very friendly and loving but it's a lot more to take care ofcome to find me doubt crested geckos are easier they either have to have light or no light adalat just depends the temperature inside your house and in their terrarium
My family rented this house and theres this shed we never go in my mum saw lizard crawling out the shed so she estimates there is a bunch of them in the shed as im typing this i see a big lizard on top of my shed
"this is the most common monitor you'll find for sale" I so wish this was true elsewhere, because the savannah monitor being the most commonly available monitor is so much worse. Not to knock savannahs, but I wish easier monitors were common.
I hate how people say: ackies aren’t good beginner pets Like bro I just want to have an entertaining and pretty lizard that is unique and not common (looking at you BTS and BD) that I can hold and feed and it will be SMART. And my confidence is knocked to its knees when people say: ackies are bad beginner pets. Like I know I want them as my first but I have a year to research before I even get the damn enclosure. I’ve talked to experts that own ackies online and I’ve calculated costs and will study their body language and requirements (I’ve already studied their requirements but the more the merrier for info)
And all the pretty ones are from places outside Australia. That pisses me off because I get so excited and then so disappointed when they aren’t allowed here
