Top 5 1970s Reptiles You NEVER See Anymore! Where Are They Now?

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The 1970s had a much different reptile landscape! So many lizard, snake and turtle species we never see anymore. So, where are they now? Let's hit this 70s nostalgia!
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The coolest 70s reptiles are sometimes also the hardest reptiles to care for. Desert Iguanas for example are really big and certainly not for the average reptile keeper. Big green iguanas can be 5ft or even bigger and have nasty bites and gnarly tail whips. Imagine being sold this little lizard that turns into Godzilla as a kid? Chameleons are also a great example of a 1970s reptile store staple. You would often be sold a Veiled chameleon for $40 and told to keep them in a 10 gallon aquarium with a house hold light to heat it. We have come a long way with chameleon care thankfully. Basilisks also were in every reptile shop or big box pet brand in decades gone by. Don't get me started on African Rock Pythons being available for pennies! These massive constrictor snakes get huge, have bad attitudes and really shouldn't be available to anyone who isn't a serious large snake enthusiast! As for alligators and caimans being available back in the day, oh boy were the 1990s the decade of the pet store alligator! Times have changed and thankfully so! Would you watch a Top 5 reptiles of the 2010s video?
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@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

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@TheCharleseye Год назад

Back then, a lot of pet snakes were being fed gerbils/hamsters, guinea pigs, chicks, rabbits, kittens...whatever was available. Few people were out hunting for rodents for their snakes. The pet stores didn't ask questions if you happened to be in every week or two, buying another hamster. They were just happy for the repeat business.

@loriw2661 Год назад

As someone who’s 61 and graduated in ‘79, “way back when” cuts deep. Lmao! Worst part is……you’re right. 🤣😂 Great video, as usual!!❤

@jamespratt529 Год назад

My dad and mom graduated in ‘76 and ‘80 respectively. You’re not old yet, it’s okay :)

@ladykoiwolfe 11 месяцев назад

As someone who's born in 79 being told the 70's are over 50 years ago hits hard...and hearing this after a really rough birthday was a hard gut punch. I'm 44!

@kinjapan1801 Год назад

I remember every pet shop had green anoles and rainbow amevias. You also saw curly tails a lot. I had all three when I was little, but they didn't do well because nobody told little seven-year-old me about lighting. It's still sad to me when I think about them. I wish there were better care guides back then.

@Shastasnow Год назад

My mom is not a reptile person but she said she liked the wild corn snakes back when she was a kid on her Dad’s farm. She saw them as good luck because they were sometimes better at keeping the mice population down in comparison to the barn cat.

@kated3165 Год назад

Some cats are absolutely hopeless at hunting haha!

@claysoggyfries Год назад

Lmao my mom also doesn’t like reptiles like that but also owned a corn snake as a kid 😂

@kimspurre1242 Год назад

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. We had slider turtles, my first snake. In the (pymts)⭐️ stores and I saw Boas, water snakes, king snakes, black rat snakes, one of which I was gifted by my first husband. My very first snake was a wild caught San Diego gopher snake., in 1964 when I was 10. Green iguanas were also a “thing.” My cousins had one.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

so cool!

@davidolson7227 Год назад

I would catch bullfrogs in Portland Oregon at the golf course across the street from my grandparents house. My Mimi would hold the flashlight in their eyes while I would swoop them up. Also caught their tadpoles during the day by taking the net and slowly bringing it up beneath clumps of pond greenery that they would be feeding from. The tadpoles were huge! I also frequented a pet store called Northwest Seed and Pet in my home town of Spokane Washington. I got my first lizard from them in 1971. It was an Armadillo Lizard which I named Gene after Gene Simmons of the rock band KISS. Gene lived for 18 years on a diet of mealworms and crickets and no UVB. He cost 12$ ! It wasn't a Forrest armadillo but the cool,spikey little dragon with it's tail in it's mouth. Also housed right next door in the petshop were Sungazers. Awesome lizards that were a whopping 25$! Man, I wish I knew how rare and expensive these two types of lizards would eventually be but I was only fourteen and never gave it a second thought. I also had an area we called The Clay Pits where we would ride our bikes too during the summer months. I would come home literally covered from head to foot in clay. Looked like some lost tribesman. I'd come home with the giant yellow and black salamanders that I would find in rotted logs and stumps. Bullsnakes and treefrogs and other types of lizards and salamanders were abundant which my mother would make me take them back and release them. She dislikes reptiles and amphibians to this day and just shakes her head that I am still in love with all of them. I currently have a Black and White Tegu and an Northern Emerald Tree Boa which I recently purchased from a breeder at an Austin Texas reptile expo. Anyway, I enjoy your videos immensely tho I don't have a real use for the wallet advertised cause I spent all my money on the tree boa. Lol!!

@ultravice191 Год назад

Love this. I had my first snake in 1977. And I was in 10th grade in high school. It was a red tail boa. My uncle got it for me at a pet store. It was about 20 inches long. I put it on a terrarium with water dish and gravel. No heating. No light. They really didn't tell us much about it. It ate live, which I would go to the pet store once a week to buy. And if you told them the mouse was for food and not a pet , you got half off. The snake lived for about 5 yrs. Got big. Very tame. I really started feeling bad about feeding it live. And after the snake died, that feeding it live kept me from getting a snake til I was 40. that I when I head about frozen. The I ended starting back in the hobby. By the time I was 50, I had over 15 snakes.

@PhinClio Год назад

I grew up in the '70s and owned three kinds of reptiles / amphibians during that decade: green anoles, a Cuban tree frog, and a green iguana. The first two were fine pets (though I'm sure I had little idea how to keep them well). The last was a terrible pet, though I rehoused it before it grew at all big. I grew up in Berkeley, California, and all of my reptiles came from the East Bay Terrarium, which, I've since learned, is a legendary reptile store.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

this is so cool

@Steevee14 8 месяцев назад

The correct name of that legendary herp store is East Bay VIVARIUM (not "Terrarium").

@PhinClio 8 месяцев назад

@@Steevee14 I realized that after posting it. Thanks for the correction.

@Steevee14 8 месяцев назад

@@PhinClio You're welcome! Not a big deal, but did you know that, by tapping on the 3 dots next to each message, you are able to edit / change a message that you have already posted?

@brentsmith7055 Год назад

Here, in Montreal, we seemed to of had a very different top 5 in the 70's. I worked for a Canadian importer at the time. Probably the #1 reptiles were Green Anoles. I would say the second most prevalent were Green Iguanas. Red Eared Sliders were easily the third most common reptile back then. Next was a toss up between Caimans and Box Turtles for Number four position. Number 5 is a bit harder to say, because so many fell into this slot. Lizards in the $6-$10 range would probably be first. Jones Armadillo Lizards, Haitian Curly Tailed Lizards, Fence Lizards, Common Agamas, just to name a few. I'd also throw Eastern Newts into this pot. Boas would also fit in here. Which subspecies changed bi-monthly as new shipments came in. Then, of course, were the seasonal stuff. Chuckwallas, dessert Iguanas, Horned Lizards, Western Collared and Leopard Lizards. Twica a year we would get direct Asian shipments, and there we had some really strange stuff (For the day, lol). Anyway, just my 2 cents on what was popular in the late 60's-70's here in Montreal Canada.

@krazyrabbit1963 Год назад

The red eared sliders were sold at the dime store complete with a tiny green plastic swimming pond that had an island with a palm tree in the 70's. At the time as a child I was delighted to get one, now I'm horrified at the thought of how many turtles must have suffered and died. Ours were lucky, my Dad ended up getting a 55 gallon tank for the two we had.

@fosterrevesreves8296 Год назад

Great video Adam. As a child of the 70's I definitely have to add garter snakes, tokay geckos, brown basilisks. Green anoles, five-lined skinks, and armadillo lizards (Ouroborus cataphractus...3.99 each!).

@Noahfishes Год назад

If you see This comment you are a legend 🐍🦎

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

you're a legend bud

@Noahfishes Год назад

Thanks Steve Irwin lol

@rottweilerfun9520 Год назад

Darn the luck , I can't see it !

@caseysmith5890 Год назад

Yesssssaaa I'm a legend

@GarysTandAExotics Год назад

Sweet Im a legend.

@TheJoshBartlett Год назад

My dad used to collect snakes such as California Kings and sell them to pet shops back then ! He bred countless different species of snakes as well. He had Dessert iguanas, BCIs, a water monitor, a bengal monitor and other species as well that I can’t remember off the top of my head! He would often walk his big monitors with leather harnesses outdoors in Ventura county CA. He got me into reptiles from a young age. I was fascinated by local blue bellies ( western fence lizards), Horned lizards and alligator lizards … to me they were mini dinosaurs! Love your channel and great video as always !

@kylemaple Год назад

A good example of the less than ideal housing of reptiles is in Rocky. He kept his turtles “Cuff and Link” in a small bowl seen throughout the movie. Stallone actually kept them after the filming of the movie and they are still with him today.

@ashersamphibiansandreptiles Год назад

Awesome video Adam! My dad was around right in the beginning of the 70s and he told me that there where crazy cool and cheap stuff!

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

wild eh!

@ashersamphibiansandreptiles Год назад

Super wild ehh!

@RKA13 Год назад

I love this channel because it is interesting and you tell everyone the right way to take care of reptiles!!

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

thank you for the kind words!

@rottweilerfun9520 Год назад

@@WickensWickedReptiles , I'm just here as a Diamond fan , I don't even have any reptiles.

@zachl1159 Год назад

I just had an old friend text me after getting a reptile at an expo on a whim. They sent me a photo of their new enclosure and I was aghast to say the least, so many things were an issue, so after a long rant on the proper way to care for their new pet, I sent them a ton of these videos as a start to their research

@austrailalanmtb7557 Год назад

We had beardies, blue tounges and stumpys everywhere (along with the occasional brown snake encounter) when I was a kid living in coastal south australia and I'd regularly bring them home for a week before releasing them again the next weekend.. along with copious skinks, frogs and geckos. Awsome vid.. hard to believe that was over 40 years ago..

@Gizathecat2 Год назад

My sister had a boa constrictor like the one you showed in your video. This was in the early seventies. She and our mom went to a collector to buy the snake which she named “Fluffy.” In a joking tone of voice my sister asked the man where he kept the cobras. A few moments later he showed them a cobra! My mom and sister wanted to run out of there as fast as they could! Fluffy lived in a fish tank on the kitchen counter with no heat light.

@clistiarobinson34 Год назад

Diamond trying to climb up your face is hilarious. Good vlog today. Have an awesome day and week see you again Thursday

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

Diamond is the man!

@theamericanzone1 Год назад

Great video man! Long time fan here, and this is by far my favorite series! Keep it up!

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

more to come!

@vanessavieux7283 Год назад

You are the best RU-vid ever have a super day have a great day have a nice day Wicked wickens reptile

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

I appreciate you!

@COOPERSCICHILDS Год назад

Awesome video great research you did

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

I appreciate it!

@ChantalsCritters Год назад

Great list as always.

@CJM7080 Год назад

I had a desert iguana in the 90s and he was an awesome iguana with a lot of personality. I haven’t seen them around in many years so that’s a shame they are definitely very cool.

@RobCatacomb Год назад

I had a pet sasquatch. Me and my family hit it with our station wagon going down the road. Now he loves us

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

I believe the Species name is Dav Kaufman

@caseysilva6919 Год назад

Great video! It's pretty cool to see what was popular in the era you were born in. Unfortunately I didn't get into the hobby until the mid 90s.

@redhotdevilwoman03 Год назад

Adam!!! The thumbnail picture with the wig!!! LMFAO!!! Love it!!! Love your channel! Props from a longtime sub and fellow Canadian ❣

@KeystrokePOSSoftware Год назад

Great idea for a video episode! And great job with the research. I turned 10 in 1970 and was heavily into snakes already. Boa constrictors- YES! I got my first for my 8th birthday! Kept her until I had to move to college. Also burmese python, green anaconda, rainbow boas, and yes, rattlesnakes and a gila monster - all before I turned 17. Had many CA kings, a speckled and a FL king in the '70's. Bred my own rodents. Fished bullfrogs out of the local Marin County creeks. Tree frogs too, but most for garter snake food. No turtles, but rescued desert tortoises. No desert iguanas in central costal CA, but had many alligator lizards, blue-tailed skinks, etc. I really enjoyed this video, brought back many good memories. I'm 62 years old now and headed out to the Mojave desert this weekend to go herping.

@ladybluofficial4 Год назад

Omg I LOVE DESERT IGGYS! I had two back in 2013 when I worked for LLLReptile. They lived with a black Chuckwalla and he was the desert Iggy's protector. Haha. Loved them all and I miss them dearly.

@RabbiKolakowski Год назад

This is a great series. Would love to see more. Even to go back to 50s and 60s.

@ConniieBearrr Год назад

It's awesome to see how the hobby has changed sooo much from like 50-60 years to even like the years ago! It's an ever evolving and learning hobby! I love being part of it!

@whitneygagnon8010 Год назад

My father ran an exotic pet store in Canada in the 70s and the reptile stories that stick with me include: boa constrictors; ball, blood and reticulated pythons; Taiwan beauty snakes; “water snakes”(possibly tentacled snake!?); green iguanas; basilisks; tokay geckos; spectacle caimans; water turtles (probably red ear sliders); “orange knee tarantulas” (probably multiple brachypelma species); Haitian brown tarantulas (probably multiple phormictopus species); and lots of other animals that would show up with common names only, no reference material and no internet, leaving people to try to figure things out as well at they could. Lots of people DID figure out decent husbandry and network around local petshops to share and improve setups! But I’m really glad we’ve got the entire internet on our side now :) Very cool video! Thanks for sharing 🐍❤️

@billiescott4949 Год назад

Way back in '79 (I'm that old), I lived down the street from a guy that bred snakes for the Los Angeles Zoo - he had beautiful Indian Pythons that were bigger than me with a green iguana that met you at the door! His fault I am so into reptiles

@kagehikari4281 Год назад

It really is fascinating how much has changed when it comes to the concepts of "pet stores". I grew up in the 80s, far as I remember, there were no big chain pet stores just yet. Pretty much all local mom and pop situations that were as big as they were invested in. I dont remember specifics but defiantly more exotic stuff. Common to see big macaws, pure breed cats and dogs, rabbits, guinnies, ferrets, big boas, iguanas, chinese water dragons, hermit crabs, savs etc all over. And now you dont see hardly any of that unless at specialty places. On one hand, I miss it. On the other, Im glad of more regulation that keeps higher commitment animals out of easy access for impulse buys. Cant believe people could walk in and just buy a alligator at one time! Yet a lot of people falsely still think fish grow to the size of the tank, and small living thing means it can be kept in small spaces. u_u Getting better though.

@chrissy3115 Год назад

I love the frogs calling in the background!

@kb-2358 Год назад

I was in my teens in the 70’s. Desert iguanas were very prevalent in the that era, and they still are today. I live in the Mojave desert and believe me they are alive and well here (as well as a long list of snakes, tortoises, and other reptiles) You make the 70’s sound like the stone ages 😬. The captive reptiles that I was around were taken care of by their owners, heat lamps, large enclosures, exposed to sunlight, of course unless they were owned by kids and not supervised by parents (much like today). I think it has to do with each individual owner. Serious pet owners invested in the care and wellbeing of their animals.

@suran396 11 месяцев назад

I grew up in the Mojave and we frequently caught horny toads (Phrynosoma platyrhinos) because they were so easy to catch, but we would always let them go again. We also caught scorpions and the occasional sidewinder when someone would bet us to. We always released them pretty much were we caught them after 5 or 10 minutes. I was terrified of camel spiders, though, and wouldn't go near them.

@kizmo2317 Год назад

1970's veteran here. The main problem keeping reptiles back then was the lack of information. If you were lucky, you might could find one of the tfh books on the species you were keeping, and, as history shows, most of them weren't very good. Edit-the most common thing I would see in pet stores in the '70's were green iguanas, boa constrictors, American alligator babies, red eared sliders and American horned lizards ("horned toads").

@Steevee14 8 месяцев назад

There were no baby American alligators offered for sale from about the mid-1960s, when the species became protected. Baby / young spectacled caimans were widely available. I bought my first one at a pet store for $1.99!

@braindeadgoldfish Год назад

I really enjoy hearing your frogs singing in the video.

@timladig9406 Год назад

I grew up in the 70's and I am shocked that #1 is not red ear sliders.

@baddkatt9223 Год назад

You talk with your hands, lol. Holding sweet Diamond-do lizards get dizzy? Love your videos, thank you for all the info on such a variety of reptiles!

@Bobertas_Dragons Год назад

My grade 5 classroom in Winnipeg, Manitoba (1978) had garter snakes and leopard frogs that my teacher collected in the wild. Other people I knew also had garters and painted turtles. All wild caught.

@EsotericDrifter Год назад

There is a town in my state that has a festival with showing off bullfrogs, racing bullfrogs, possibly worshipping some eldritch frog being deep in the swamp... Desert iguanas are pretty cool. On my short list of reptiles. If i can get my chucks breeding i may get a desert iguana.

@DEAexotics Год назад

in 1974 the guy down the street from me had an entire basement full of boas it was so cool when I was a kid

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

that is amazing

@joshuatempleton9556 Год назад

desert iguanas are protected by state laws so you don't see them in the trade anymore, people had chuckwallas a lot in the 70s and 80s and they were easier to keep than green iggy as they tolerated cold temps and ate anything crunchy and or green.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

absolutely

@eric2max Год назад

I’m 58, so around in the 70’s! I saw boas sold at $10/inch, green iguanas, wild caught rat snakes, I collected garters and toads and sold them to stores when I was 11 (don’t do that now!!).

@NotSure876 Год назад

I remember in the 80s , fire belly newts and garter snakes were in every local pet shop along with water dogs

@Ohhhhawew Год назад

Thanks for making this and my dad used to have a desert iguana in the 60’s growing up and tells me about how terrible reptiles where treated and how poorly he kept it, I’m also looking into getting my first reptile “ Chinese cave gecko” and was wondering if you made a video on it, if so couldn’t find it

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

I sure did, just type in species and my name and boom, pops up

@sierrayoutube Год назад

I’ve loved reptiles all my life. I started watching reptile room videos when I was 13/14 and have dreamt of having one ever since. Now I’m 22 and in a stable situation where I’m able to take in more animals and properly care for them. I’ve had several reptiles/amphibians in my life, but I haven’t had any in 4 years. I’m finally able to start building my collection. I got a Russian tortoise on April 22, a rec skink a couple weeks ago, and I’m rescuing a green iguana in a few days. In the next few months, I’ll have a bts and a hognose snake. You have inspired me so much since I found your channel a few weeks ago. I have binged your videos. Thank you for all of your informative and straightforward videos. I made an instagram to capture my journey and to be closer to the reptile hobbyist community. The account will mostly include my reptiles, but also my cat if you don’t mind the occasional cat post. I would love some support and to support other reptile keepers on social media! @ kratoscreatures (Disclaimer: I’m aware of the care and space requirements for all of these animals. I’m aware that animals like iguanas are not “beginner level”. Like I said, I had several reptiles growing up and have done endless research on many many reptiles for nearly 10 years. At this point, I’m ready for even the biggest rescues and my dreams are coming true. It’s not just a “collection” to me, these are my babies and I continue to do constant research on my current pets to stay up to date and refreshed.)

@DebbieOldSchool-1442 Год назад

I was around in the 70s. I kept red ear slider turtles and the desert horned toad, plus the common stream salamander

@r1verman Год назад

I was a kid in the 70s. The only reptiles I ever kept were found in my area. Mostly box turtles or maybe a fence lizard or blue tailed skink. Also, kept a tree frog once and had tadpoles as well as aquatic frogs. I never kept any long. Mostly, kept for awhile to observe then would release. I don't ever remember seeing any reptiles at my local pet shop. Just fish, parakeets, finches, and canaries. I do remember they had the African clawed frogs and I used to beg my parents for one.

@blastboygamerguy5204 Год назад

Thank you for this amazing educational video. I was surprised to see how people in my parents generationnwould have kept reptiles

@rottweilerfun9520 Год назад

Those Desert Iguanas are really beautiful.

@prickly_procyonids Год назад

I’ve seen newspaper clippings / ads from the late 50’s and 60’s selling all kinds of exotic animals. You could get a bobcat kitten back then for $50 (not sure what that would convert to nowadays when you factor in currency devaluing) and in the early 2000’s there were a lot more species of animals being bred in the pet trade then there are now. I’ve found websites for breeders of Eurasian red squirrels and Siberian chipmunks for example, and they had so many beautiful color morphs in their captive bred animals that you really wouldn’t believe it! We also used to have jerboa and all sorts of other “pocket pets” that are now not available in the private sector here… People just stopped breeding them, and nobody’s imported any more since. Goes to show how important it is to maintain a healthy population of captive bred animals in your country- when they’re gone, they’re gone!

@rottweilerfun9520 Год назад

I'm digging your Fro in the thumbnail...lmao. How do your fro grow bro ? I forgot where I heard that but it's always stayed with me.

@rickcroney1286 Год назад

I'm old than this list...lol. I was keeping reptiles back then, mainly because I had no idea that I could. Fast-forward, 50 years and I have quite the family of pet reptiles!

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

you have so many cool reptiles

@rickcroney1286 Год назад

@@WickensWickedReptiles Thanks!

@user-xh6ij9dw5c Год назад

I love these videos

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

thank you!

@LuckyStone888 Год назад

I got into reptiles in the late 70s with Green anoles, Anolis carolinensis, which was sold to me as "American chameleon". I remember that everyone who got African Chamelkions always had problems with their tongues not retracting. When I worked at pet shops in the late 80s the African Chameleon tongue not retracting was still a problem. I never saw a Chameleon in person, but we often got calls from people asking what can they do "fix their chameleon". I would figure if they could afford to buy a Chameleon, they could afford to call a vet and not a pet shop. I was mistaken. I'm glad reptile care is so much better now.

@320Metat Год назад

Idk if you’ve talked about them before but can you do a southern alligator lizard care guide?

@El_Rossco Год назад

Had never heard of a desert iguana, they're awesome

@rjdaire38 Год назад

Part 2 suggestion: reptile that fit in a 120 gal tank that aren't as common

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

good idea

@kennithnieman9130 Год назад

My parents had a pet shop in the 70's and we had tons of exotic animals you can't get now.

@starlawilson9011 Год назад

In the 70s, you could buy gerbils and hamsters at Kmart, or Woolworth. I don't remember seeing mice, but rodents were available. A guy my mom knew had a 6 ft alligator in Kansas. Box turtles were big as pets, but not many people really knew what to feed them or about lighting and heat. I saw a rattle snake at my aunt's neighbors house in the mid 1970s. Of course, I was never allowed over there after that. That's about the only pet reptiles I remember from the 70s

@cozymonk Год назад

3:16 My grandparents owned a pet shop in the 1970s. In their store, they bred and raised their own feeder animals, including mice, rats, and rabbits. You could buy any of them as pets or feeder animals. IIRC, they weren't necessarily dead and frozen for you, either, including the pinkies... I have to imagine this was more typical than not. My grandparents spoke about it as if it was what most pet shops did. Also, my dad, growing up in the hobby, told me that many avid reptile-keepers would breed their own mice and rats, instead of buying them. Or, there'd be a group of friends and maybe one would be the guy who breeds the rats. He even bought me a breeding pair of mice as a kid with the presumption he could feed the babies to his milk snakes and later backed out of that plan when he realized how kind of twisted that was for a child to go through.

@cozymonk Год назад

Not a reptile, but maybe the most interesting pet they ever sold was a river otter. There were very few restrictions on what could be kept as a pet back then.

@DanniHansen1985 Год назад

You should have mentioned the family Cordylidae (Cordylus, Pseudocordylus, Platysaurus etc) maybe even talk about some of the skinks out there that has been forgotten. Also I think one of the most common milksnakes would be Lampropeltis t. honduras or sinaloa

@bazamere Год назад

I used to hang out at a pet store in the late 80s/early 90s when I was a kid. Only snake I ever remember seeing were ball pythons (they usually came in with tics so Im thinking probably wild caught). There were also red ear sliders and green iguanas. My favorite were called blue-tailed skinks though (not blue tongue). Im thinking they were the 5 lined skinks that are from eastern north america. But they were always my favorite. This was in BC Canada

@Gizathecat2 Год назад

Oh, and when my sister and I were even younger in the 1960s our mom brought home a green iguana. We were the hit of the neighborhood-everyone wanted to see our iguana! We had the iguana for a few months and we decided it needed a new home. She decided her best friend and family need a pet lizard. As we drove up the drive way our mom briefed us on how she would present the iguana to her friend. We arrived at her house but left the iguana in the car. My mom skillfully steered the conversation in the direction of family pets and eventually “exotic” pets. Her friend agreed that her sons might enjoy something exotic to take care of. That’s when she looked at my sister and me and calmly instructed us, “girls, bring in the iguana.” Being the older and bigger of the two of us, I carried in all four feet of green scales and my sister had his supplies. After an initial look of horror, my mom’s friend cracked up laughing and soon my mom joined and and moments later we were all laughing. Her friend said, “I knew you were up to something!” The iguana lived in a larger rubber tree for a few months and was eventually given to a local zoo to live out his life.

@daffysreptiles Год назад

Awesome video bro!! but my favourite part is the thumbnail, that afro suits you!! 😉

@dqreps Год назад

Having boas back in the day was kind of a unique thing. I miss the good old days.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

the good ol days

@thesnapperkeeper Год назад

Where do you find old import lists.I’d love to read some but haven’t had any luck finding them

@rottweilerfun9520 Год назад

AWWW ...it was so sweet when you kissed Diamond, you're a good Dad. Happy Fathers Day Adam !

@ashton5493 Год назад

In the 1970s my dads friend had Bullfrog named Jeremiah after that one song from the Three Dog Night. 🐸

@DuneDemon8 Год назад

I had a sinaloan milk snake as my first snake and it was the best snake ever. It would eat anything, as long as it smelled like food it was OK. Garbage disposal snake, but of course I fed her the top notch food items. Very calm and hardy snake, never once bit me and mellowed out to be handled nicely. It would actually go in to fast mode only if someone else was holding her. With me I could carry her around my neck. Incredible snake.

@justaguywithabible2313 Год назад

in the 70s , we kept green tree frogs on sand with Texas Banded Geckos .. it lasted for about 2 weeks..

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

that's insane

@rockyhorror1969 Год назад

disco wickens. great thumbnail.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

hahaha thanks

@crotchetyoldtrekkie3565 8 месяцев назад

We had dozens of snakes when I was a kid in the 70s. The largest was a Boa Constrictor that was 6’ long. Others we had included an Eastern Hognose, a California King, a Scarlet King, an Eastern Indigo, and others I can’t remember. As a kid, it was my job to care for the dozens of rats and scores of mice we raised to feed all the snakes. We lived in Florida, so didn’t have to worry about cold winters. Enclosures were pretty simple, lined with newspapers and had a water bowl. Very sparse by today’s standards. Times have certainly changed - for the better.

@InsaneCarverUpqik Год назад

i used to have a snapping turtle named tarzette had her since she was like the size of a half dollar coin and she was kinda like a puppy she would walk up to you while she was out of her enclosure and stretch her neck out to get pet

@salvatoreangius5338 Год назад

American Bullfrogs jumped very far crashing into glass walls. Asian Bullfrogs were the mainly used food source more robust but similar distance jumpers making very large spaces needed like outdoor ponds/ enclosures. African bullfrogs were ideal for terrariums. In California once popular reptiles less seen in our pet trade included: Ribbon snakes, pine snakes, green snakes, day geckos, sandfish, hingeback tortoises, Bull Snakes and Albino Gopher snakes, amievas, anoles. Species thst went rsre like monkey tailed skinks and pancake tortoises and also the made illegal species like African clawed frogs.

@1965KareBear Год назад

I breed gerbils back in the 70's for a pet store and I know sold a lot of them as feeders. I was in my early teens...

@hosjamannual4131 Год назад

my mom who is 59 said when she was 12 she had a neighbor who had a green iguana and it got nippy with a toddler (who for some reason was just playing with the iguana) in the house next door and she said that when she got there the kid was bleeding and the mom was screaming at him to leave with the iguana, so he left with the iguana. The kid didn't have major damage just a nasty scar on the face. what she was telling me he got bit near the eye and was lucky it didn't actually hit it.

@DK-vn7lr Год назад

I expected Green Anoles to be #1, and Red Eared sliders were all over the place.

@maryannh9074 Год назад

When I was 7 years old (1967) my mom bought me two tiny turtles from the dime store because I was good at the doctor's office. They were named "Bonnie" and "Clyde". They were about the size of a half-dollar. They were sold everywhere. I think it is illegal now to sell turtles under 3 inches in diameter. Unfortunately, like their namesakes they came to a tragic end when they escaped their enclosure.

@kekkelpenneypeckeltoot5700 Год назад

I would say green iguanas are missing from this list. My parents had all of these except the frog. They had parrots and macaws, boas, retics, box turtles, chuckwallas, green anoles, and curly tails. Along with cats and dogs. It feels like every other person has an iguana and or a boa but they usually had both.

@davidforsyth4073 Год назад

Green anoles were sold at the traveling circus in the sixties. They cane in a cigarette size box with a cellophane window. $4.00 and a free little box of meal worms.

@Steevee14 8 месяцев назад

I bought my first boa constrictor (a baby) at a local pet store for $9.95 - it refused to eat until I provided it with a hide box.

@seanbennett7916 Год назад

Hmm I started with curly tailed,brown skink, brown basilisk, green iguana. Boas , rainbow boa, ball python, Burm, Texas indigo I guess I had most of the normal stuff and a few rarer species. But yes we had heat rocks, dome lights with normal house bulbs, fake grass turf. Trying to get back into it its a new game.

@LukeMcGuireoides Год назад

I watch all your videos. Can I get a pat on the back?

@sdorr9369 Год назад

Love it so much

@sdorr9369 Год назад

I love reptiles

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

thank you!

@kanetheoutcast1835 Год назад

I saw desert iguanas at a reptile show on Mothers Dau, and I had no idea they were a thing until then

@tkmccoywv Год назад

Never even heard of Desert Iguanas. Weird. Beautiful lizards, though. And yes, I was around in the seventies. And the sixties, for that matter. But I did have a snapping turtle for a while. I caught it as a tiny thing about the size of a dime out of the pond. I kept him/her for a couple of years before releasing it into the wild as he grew too big for the aquarium I had. I didn't know back then that releasing them was a bad thing. :( I hope the little guy made it.

@kengregory6937 Год назад

I'm a 70's Guy. I was lucky enough to have a cottage to go to. If it moved I caught it, almost every type of snake, turtle, amphibian and fish in my province. I was lucky going to Essex P.S. for grades 7 and 8 (1970 & 71). The science teacher Mr. Daniel's had an Eastern Indigo, Golden Rat, Eastern Hognose, Pine, Fox and other snakes also a couple of turtles and lizards. Sadly to say all the snakes were wild caught. There was little information and no one was breeding. The only reptiles I remember seeing in the pet shop were Green Anoles and Iguana's and painted turtles. For less than $10 you could get a turtle and starter kit. The container was donut shaped. The middle was a raised island out of the water and ramped for the turtle. You also get a 3 inch high plastic palm tree for the island. Lastly food to feed it.

@cowlauncher0901 Год назад

I was born in the 80's, but my brothers came from the 70's and my one brother learned how to care for WC individuals back then brcause its all they had. This came in handy for when we had a large constrictor rescue

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

no doubt!

@yoclark2723 Год назад

Dang! I was in high school in the 70's. My brother had a boa and assorted lizards and frogs. I let his bluebelly lizard out and grabbed him by the tail as he scurried under his bed. It did not go well. He was mad.

@coreymac2381 Год назад

Horned lizards were common near where I lived in the 70s.

@dominicflorio5708 Год назад

Tiger and spotted salamanders, leopard frogs, skinks, curly tailed lizards, red eared sliders, eastern box turtles, Chinese box turtles, fowler toads, green anoles, garter snakes, ...

@hazelgrunts Год назад

Honestly it’s a little disturbing how catching a wild reptile and putting it in a box under your bed was seen as perfectly acceptable not too long ago (And some people still do that, too)

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

crazy right

@Eyeoot Год назад

Have you read the book The Lizard King? It's pretty interesting, it talks pretty in depth about the early days of the reptile trade and how some of it was tied to some pretty shady stuff involving drug smuggling.

@PfalzD3 Год назад

I was. My first Lizard was a green Iguana. I was told to feed him Lettuce and applesauce.

@WickensWickedReptiles Год назад

wow! that's insane

@rottweilerfun9520 Год назад

How many days did the poor thing live ?

@L.V.exoticpets Год назад

So the back part of the milk snake looks like you put a fluffy ass wig on for the 70s nostalgia hahaha nvm i looked closer u did do that 😂😂😂 im tired been awake an hour so far

@tuomi1154 3 месяца назад

I have heard that in my country it was common to keep Russian and greek tortoises in small wooden boxes with only hay, no heat, uvb or calsium pretty much from the 70s to the 90s. These tortoises are of course hardy and many of them are still alive, but I feel bad thinking about how much stress they must have felt...