Top 5 Aquatic Reptiles That Make GREAT Pets! 

I love all of these, i just wish i had the time money and space for them :(

Rhino Rat Snakes is a good choice. I think they swim, and climb and would be super fun to watch!

It’s weird that my northern blue tongued skink spends LOTS of time in his water bowl and my animals that would normally spend lots of time in water, spend LESS time in water than my BTS

I’ve got a Chinese water dragon, he is SO much fun to watch swim, and surprisingly, he’s pretty darn handleable. (I def don’t recommend them for beginners though, he is an expensive boi)

As someone who breeds Chinese water dragons and has worked with Austrailian water dragons at a former job. Both are amazing captives for the intermediate keeper. They’re expensive to setup, costly to feed correctly, and prone to lots of health issues if setup improperly. But if done correctly, they are very rewarding! Great video, good info on the water dragons!

i have a sailfin dragon (hydrasourus pustulatos) and its very very fun to watch him climb bask run around swim eat fish in the water hunt for crickets worms ect- very fun

Would love to see a video on moving a large reptile room. Can only imagine Chaos.

Hey you did my suggestion! Thanks! I'm happy my suggestion got heard! 😊😊😊 loved the video and now I want nerodia even more 😂😂😂

Musk Turtles are cool too, and they are the most recommended species for new keepers. They stay small, they need really small enclosures (a 20 gallon is enough for 2), they need shallower water than most turtles, and they are carnivorous so you don't need to worry about including greens in their diet, and best of all, they look like small snappers!

The lack of garter snakes/ribbon snakes is kinda disappointing here.. They're semi-aquatic and extremely underrated.

Good job on the vid. Love that you do edit out all of the animal antics, they are too cute!

5. Caiman Lizard 0:56 4. Yellow Anaconda 3:24 3. Nerodia 5:45 2. Water Dragons 7:52 1. Turtles 9:45

I would definitely have put false water cobra's on this list, they are semi-aquatic and totally awesome, I think they can make great pets (from what I've found from my research) it's on the top of my list for sure :D

Hey man, thanks for taking the time and making this list. I know you do it because you enjoy it, but it really does mean alot the amount of time and effort you put into these videos. So, thanks brother keep up the good work.

Your videos are so informative. Especially they help me now, because I'm building a room j to an enclosures 3m long 2m deep and 2m high. Was thinking of semi aquatics or aquatics. I was thinking of sailfin dragon and yellow anaconda, any kind of water dragon(prefer the Australian tho😅). Was thinking of many others too. But especially now I can watch your video and just get some ideas what would be cool and I could handle with care and size.

Dude I literally just searched for an aquatic lizard pet a couple hours ago and now you come out with this...how’d you know 0_o

Really good video as always and could you do a video reacting to amazing bioactive setups for reptiles you own and pickles

All of those are very cool 🙂!! I really enjoy looking at them and handling them but I know an aquatic or semi aquatic reptile would be alittle bit too much maintenance for me but that's just me. I tried to have a young snapping turtle once and I actually worked with it enough that it was pretty handle able but it ended up passing away after a few years unfortunately because it was very hard for me to keep up with the maintenance 😔 but it was very cool. Always enjoy your videos Adam, and can't wait to see the next one 🙂.

Best place to come to get your knowledge.🤷🏽‍♂️

Diamond is so cute! She is just looking at the camera ❤

We had an awesome red eared slider, Turtle man. He loved us, really bonded with people and dogs

I wake up every morning I get a cup of coffee and I go and RU-vid to start the day of watching your videos

Thanks for covering yellow anacondas and other aquatic reptiles. Love paludariums but it's always kinda hard to decide on what to keep in it besides amphibians

Awesome video brother

I would love to own a caiman lizard in the future. I would love to get a zoo grade enclosure done with a huge water area and tons of climbing areas. I would also love to own a wager dragon with a similar ( just smaller ) enclosure.

oh wow good topic for vid they are my fave kind

Love these vids

Love the video! When we lived in the States we had 2 turtles (both yellow-bellied sliders). They were very social with us and loved going exploring in our backyard. We built them a pretty large tank/pond -100 gallon pond liner - & basking platform (which our cat Oscar loved to lay on under the heat lamp), and the turtles loved to come out and bask for hours every day. We gave them pellets as their main food (they wouldn't eat lettuce or veggies), and they'd get live fish to chase around and eat every couple weeks as a treat - FYI this looked a lot like shark week, those turtles can really move when properly motivated 😂

That Will Stone guy has some super beauties

Wow that caiman lizard is really beautiful and striking with that bright green.

Here in Australia a LOT of people keep the Australian Water Dragons as pets, and they are gaining in popularity as such. The 'Eastern' variety is the most common, but there is the Gippsland sub-species as well (Intellagama lesueurii howittii), which are much rarer, having a range that is limited to a handful of rivers in the far eastern parts of Victoria (the 'Mitchel', 'Nicholson', and 'Tambo' rivers in the local government region of 'East Gippsland').

Own Chinese water dragons and green basilisk and I love them. Basilisk are so flighty though. Very frustrating at times lol but an eastern and Gippsland water dragon are on my list!

I loved my CWD, but you're completely correct about the water situation, considering that as soon as I changed Dylan's water the very first thing he'd do is jump in it and poop. 😆

Awe the beardie

I love caiman lizards so much. One of my dream lizards :)

My Chinese Water dragon was the only reptile that seemed to appreciate petting. They get big joules and my guy loved to have them stroked. He would close he's eyes and seemed to love it. Like a cat.

How about a video on aquatic snakes? As an aquarium keeper I’ve always wanted one

A sailfin dragon is def a future dream reptile for me. Since I live with my parents still, as I'm not old enough to get a house, once I have the space and money, im going to be looking for one. If I cant get one ever, im going for a Chinese water boi

Can’t wait to see your new reptile room.

I have a Chinese Water Dragon (rescued) and all my research pointed to them needing a lot of vertical space too. I know Lily loves to climb and uses every inch of her enclosure.

Great info

Nerodia are awesome! I can’t wait to make a palladium for my pair

common stinkpot/ muskturtle they're small, live 40 years, and can be kept in a small 20 gal. For filtration I use plants, ghost shrimp, charcoal, and a sponge filter. They also can handle literally anything you throw at them. An ideal beginner reptile.

The sailfin dragon is my dream reptile next to a crocodilian of some sort which I will never have considering the difficulty and legality of them

I have an Alligator Snapping Turtle , he's pretty cool. I like to watch him swim around , hunting shiners with his little lure , and he seems to enjoy having his head scratched.

i love caiman lizard and would love another 1 also my water dragon was a sweet heart, he got nose rub from his previous owner so the way he was missing part of his lip showed teeth.

Adam I love your channel! I'm an aussie - do you have a best Australian Geckos video?

Great video

Please do a vid on sailfins!!! They’re so cool and I haven’t seen anyone do a real video on them so I’d love to learn more about them! :)

Could you do a top five expensive blank reptiles, so arboreal or aquatic lizards, or a part 2 for top 5 expensive reptiles? Also love the content keep it up

Hey Adam, you should really consider including a segment at the end of your videos where you introduce your next videos topic and request (us) your viewers to send some video footage of some of our reptiles related to the topic. It would really make your channel a step above the others and more interactive with your viewers.

I had a northern water snake. It was cool.

I love watching my AWD climb around and drop into the water, can't wait to build her a custom enclosure with a big fishtank to swim around in

I go mudlarking in an estuary and one of my favorite things is when I see a gartersnake on the prowl

Hi can you do a detailed vid for dimpnd the bearded dragon pls

My snapper is a feisty boy but tong fed and pretty trained, let see that colonizing lizards video😁

Do salefins please ! Been thinking bout getting one

Can you please do a bearded dragon vs Blue tongued skink video. 've been trying to decide for a while now on which one as a beginner pet

Great video! Always been fascinated by semi-aquatic animals. I know they're not technically semi-aquatic, but I would've mentioned croc skinks. I also would've mentioned that farmed Chinese Water Dragons are hard to keep alive, but those are just nitpicks. PS, Ziggy the Diamondback Terrapin says hi!

Good Video

Serpadesign’s tank was so cool

I got a brown basilisk recently and I dont know too much about them and just would like more info to make him more comfortable and happy

I’d like to see a video about oddballs like the tentacled snake and pipa pipa toad.

I Adam I have an enclosure I got off of swap shop that was an iguana enclosure, it's 5ft tall by 3x3, it is made out of hardware cloth, anything you think would work well in something like this? Thank you for the insight, have a good day.

IMO Southern Painted turtles are the absolute best pet turtle. Super easy to care for, friendly, and they stay pretty small.

I would love to see a ball python breeding video/ series simular to the one you did on leopard geckos.

My bearded dragon loves swimming and I have 6 fish tanks also

I got an Australian Water Dragon. Have 5 x 2 x 2 enclosure. Was skittish at first but it's starting to get less spooked and is eating out of my hand sometimes.

I know garter snakes aren't technically aquatic, But mine spends almost as much time in the water as it does on land. Especially when it comes to feeding time. She loves to swim around and catch fish!

I couldn't take my eyes off Diamond throughout the entire episode. What a beautiful animal

I'm one of the people that got a baby red eared slider... 28 years ago. I still have her, along with a cross red ear/yellow belly male I got as an adult 14 years ago from a turtle shelter. The red ear can be a b...ch sometimes (according to her everything in the water is potential food) but the cross has a very nice character and does not bit, could be due to character, him being smaller or perhaps its the yellow belly blood? He is also very curious and surfaces or even comes towards me when I talk to him. As long as you have a big aqua-terrarium they are easy. Give then a land space with UV lamp for basking and a BIG filter to clean the water (which you have to clean sometimes) they are not much work. They don't even need food every week. I give them pellets and other dried pet shop food along with raw meat/fish and sometimes vegetables. And when I find insects, spiders or snails in or around the house they become turtle food. They eat everything. You can go on holiday and they can go without food. They are less work compared to my rabbits which need food every day and require their cage cleaned often. But before you start with them you need to realize they can live for 30-40 years. Which is actually not very old for turtle standards. :) Watching this channel from the Netherlands and its great. Currently doing research to get my first lizard: a rankins dragon. It appears to be a lot more work compared to sliders, especially day to day work.

Nerodia are awesome. Really fun personalities and beautiful colors. I'm starting my own locality breeding program.

If you have a backyard turtles can kept in a hole in the ground. Don’t get me wrong the pond’s not gonna be the size of a tire but it doesn’t need to be massive.

Hey I have a standard 20 gallon tank I’m not sure what aquatic reptile I should get? Do you have any ideas

Just a warning about smelt it does contain the enzyme thiaminase so if you feed it you should make sure you supplement vitamin B-1. Lord knows I fed a lot in my youth, a bag of frozen smelt in the 60's cost fifty cents compared to comet goldfish that ran around ten cents which was more in my budget at the time. Tongue firmly in cheek if you want an aquatic snake similar to Nerodia but will take rodents you should look into cottonmouths. They eat anything including Nerodias are a lot more calm in disposition to Nerodias (wild caught that is) and are quite mellow captives. I have a lot of stories with old chunkhead, Wonderful snakes apart from that whole venomous thing. One native to Florida snake that got my interest is the red bellied swamp snake a friend of had some of these accept Tetra Reptomin as food. Also elephant trunk snakes and the various asian water snakes that are much more aquatic than nerodias. Trouble is finding healthy imports.

If you get a CB yellow anaconda it can be tamed down. Just like with a Amazon Tree boa. (Ps was wearing the shirt today)

I would love a caimen lizard. Not only gorgeous but incredible to interact with. They remind me of Tegus in how they interact.

I would also argue that rainbow boas benefit from filtering water features like an in-enclosure pond as opposed to a pet bowl.

He was at number 2 and he hasn't said turtles yet so I was getting worried that he wasn't going go put them on the list

Before I got my Nile my breeder and contractor had several meetings before he built the 15ft x 19ft room for my baby boy. The water, aside from maybe food, is the biggest secondary cost its crazy. The enclosure was expensive as hell though. Smooth plastic walls with TONS of natural light and a 500 effn gallon pond. Please do your homework with semi aquatic critters and really know what you are getting into.

Sailfin dragons are on the top of my dream pet reptile list.

Garter Snakes are pretty awesome and some species are semi-aquatic! Only problem is, you gotta make sure you have a very secure enclosure because they will escape. I had one that I rescued from my cat, and she was incredibly calm... she never musked on me or anything, she was very easy to handle and liked to just chill, and she even had babies (which I actually released right away since this was technically a wild animal that I rescued) ... After her babies, I got her a new, bigger enclosure and didn't think she could escape from it ... well she did... escaped through the tiniest hole. So yeah, as long as the enclosure is super secure, I think Garter Snakes are pretty awesome pets!

Hey what watts do you use for your UVB and Heat lamp?

Can you do a video about rough green snakes 🙏🏾

I have a random question but since I'm allergic to animal dandruff and I can only have reptiles or aquatic species's as a pet. Which one would you recommend for a beginner?

Hey so I have a tangerine albino hypo leopard gecko mix and I don’t know if it’s a male or female it it’s only a baby about 9-10 weeks old and it’s pretty aggressive we’ve had him for over probably 2 weeks so I wanna know if it’s a male bc if it’s aggressive actions

Love this video. How about a “Most Amazing Aquatic Reptiles” video. I was expecting an Asian Water Monitor but those guys are not that easy to keep.

Water dragons may still be common near you but I personally havent seen them in any pet stores since i was a little kid. For as long as i can remember petsmart has been beardies, leopard geckos, ball pythons, corns and albino corns, mexican black kings and the occasional slider or sideneck turtle

Video idea top 5 New Caledonian reptiles

What about a video on where your critters originated from? Like talk about beardies being from Australia and their ecosystem out there, leopard gecko from ____ etc etc be fun to learn about their natural habitats a little

Coming from someone who owns a female Yellow anaconda (whom I love very much), they don't make good pets. I have a 11 ft female and I've been socializing her for years, yet she musks and is still pretty defensive (not once we get her out of the cage though, she generally calms down). They also aren't all that much smaller than Green Anacondas, that for the most part being because of the misconception that female Green anacondas can easily get up to 20ft, when most females max out at 13 to 15 ft. Yellow and Green anaconda are large snakes that must be taken seriously, even if it's a friendly socialized snake mistakes can happen. A good sized Yellow Anaconda is no joke, and it takes two people to handle my average sized Yellow anaconda. They also are very different than typical Boa Constrictors. Not a good idea to put the idea that Anacondas are anywhere near as good of pets as BCIs BCLs BCCs or other Boas, into the minds of non-experienced keepers. In my opinion, these are one of the hardest non-venomous snakes to care for. I do agree with you that they need a large water feature in their cages, which is one big thing about Anacondas which is difficult especially since they often poop in these huge water features, and their poop isn't small. I have a small warehouse that I rented for my reptiles, and my Yellow anaconda's cage is large, around 15x8 ft. In her cage she has a 6x8 ft water feature, that's hard to clean and has a ton of water in it. Something I feel that Brian Barczyk doesn't do correctly with his Anaconda is he doesn't have any cover inside the water feature, which is very important. I have a bunch of foliage and plant life in there, and ever since I added that she has been using the water way more, and has shown signs of being way less stressed. This does make cleaning and monitoring the water harder, but from what I've seen it's essential. They feel most at home in the water where they can't be seen, so crystal clear water with no foliage won't be comfortable for them, which is probably why his snake isn't in the water very often. Sorry about ranting, I actually really like your channel and I know you know that these aren't beginner, or intermediate snakes, this is just something I wanted to elaborate on, that they may not even be for lots of advanced keepers

Can you do a video on water dragons specifically? :)

so im currently building an closure for my water dragon, im doing 4ft long 2 ft deep and 7ft tall. Do you know if thats good enough or do they require more space?

I’d like to hear your thoughts in a video on keeping reptiles in grow tents

can you do more bird care? Thank you

I own a water snake named liki he is more skittish he’s in a custom 170 gallon I think something like that and I give him fish and sometimes salamanders I try not to give him salamanders and I’m going to try and pair him this year or next year

I vouch for turtles. They’re such inquisitive and personable little creatures.

Oh and water skinks! I think they are fun!

I have a noridia fasciata, this specific spices is very docile. I feed her goldfish.

Garter snakes are also good for the same reasons as nerodia with the added benefits of less gnarly teeth, better attitude, and more available species