- Last night I googled every how to
reptile fact on the internet
and today we're putting 'em to the test.
- I don't do good at tests. (blubbering)
- It's amazing what you'll find
if you actually just google "How to reptiles."
The vast majority of 'em were actually
how to keep reptiles out of our house.
Now I'm not gonna cover that,
but we'll cover the ones
that could potentially be helpful
if you wanna keep reptiles.
First one is, "How do you keep a reptile cage humid?"
(upbeat music)
- Guys, I think if we work out enough
and you work up a sweat,
it will crank the humidity up.
- Oh yeah.
- I don't think that's gonna work.
I mean, well, theoretically it could work.
Really, there's a few ways you can go about it.
Number one, you can go with a large water basin,
because if you have a large water basin
it's gonna actually raise the humidity.
Use something like coconut bedding on the bottom
if that animal is actually good for it.
As a matter of fact, Reptile Prime,
you can get the link in the description,
spray it down and actually raise the humidity
by actually dampening the coconut bedding
and increase humidity in the cage.
Lastly, what you could do if you want,
is you can reduce the amount of ventilation.
If you have a screen top across the whole cage
you can reduce it by putting a damp towel on half
of that screen top,
if your animal needs a 70 or 80% humidity.
"How do you keep a baby lizard alive?"
I can't think of anyone better than my boys
to tell you how to do that.
- So you just let these guys roam around your house.
You won't lose them.
They eat whatever they can find
and they keep spiders out.
- Words of affirmation.
That keeps 'em alive and feeling confident.
You're so beautiful.
Strong.
- I think the best way to keep 'em alive
is just take 'em everywhere you go.
School, the park, the mall.
- Starting to get the feeling
that maybe we shouldn't pay attention
to what those knuckleheads have to say.
We've actually kept these frillies
for an entire year
and you can see how big they are.
Now, every lizard is gonna be different.
The care of a frilled dragon compared
to a care of a leopard gecko
is gonna be something different.
There is a ton of information online.
You could just google how to care
for the specific type of lizard that you want.
Now I will say, try to google about 10 or so articles
and then take the common ground of all 10,
cuz one may contradict the other one a lot.
But if all 10 of those articles
are agreeing on the certain things,
your lizard should be completely fine.
Of course, you gotta pick the right lizard for you
so that it will absolutely thrive under your care.
"How do you preserve a dead reptile?"
This is Laverne and Shirley.
It's a two-headed corn snake
that's been preserved for over two years
and still looks perfect.
And then of course we have a two-headed turtle
and we have a two-headed bearded dragon
that actually perished over the last year or so.
You use a 70% isopropyl alcohol.
Basically, if you use over 70%
it'll actually decay the snake.
But if you use 70%,
they'll stay preserved for the entire time.
And it's a really great display.
Listen, I don't want the animals to be in here.
I'd rather them be alive,
but at least I continue to get to see them.
"Can you keep different reptiles in the same enclosure?"
- Close your legs. - Close your legs.
- Goll, it's hot on my neck.
- I don't know what you're talking about, dad.
This is so much fun.
You get to cuddle and read bedtime stories.
- You guys wanna play a game?
- Can we hurry this up?
It's very hot on my neck.
(laughing)
Stop, stop, stop.
- That was fun.
(laughing)
- Cohabitating species can happen.
A lot of zoos are doing them lately.
Sometimes they'll put like, say dart frogs,
on the bottom of an enclosure
and then an emerald tree boa on top.
Something on that line.
Animals that come from the same region, just like us.
We actually do our red-footed tortoises
on the bottom here
and then we have our albino
and sunglow iguana in here.
And they cohabitate well,
because it's the same environment.
They come from kinda the same area.
And again, the iguanas are gonna spend all their time
up in the foliage or the top of the cape.
And then the tortoises are gonna stay
at the bottom of the enclosure.
So it works out really well.
Also they both eat vegetation.
So, when the iguanas are eating their vegetation up here
and anything falls to the ground,
the tortoises can actually
eat that as well as their own food.
But keep in mind, not all animals can cohabitate.
So make sure you do your research before you try it.
- It didn't melt your shirt. - I dunno.
- [Jay] Oh, it melted your shirt.
- I like this shirt. - Oh!
- Did it melt it?
Let me see. Dude, there's-
- I said I wasn't gonna talk about
keeping reptiles away from your house,
but unfortunately, about 10
of the top 50 things that I found online
were, "How to keep a black snake away from my house."
(record scratching) - Why do they
have to be black?
- A white snake could just as easily sneak into your house.
- Oh my God. - Oh my God.
- Look at that snake trying to get in here.
Go away! - Go, go, go, go!
- I'm callin' 911.
- The truth is, there's no real remedy
to keep snakes away from your house.
Interestingly enough, there's been some studies done
that people actually do fear black snakes more
than they fear other colored snakes.
I don't really know why,
because Night Fury is one
of the most beautiful snakes that I have,
but a lotta people fear black snakes
getting into their house.
And unfortunately there are some kind
of snake repellents that you can buy.
But to the best of my knowledge,
they really don't work.
Tons and tons of people wanna know,
"How do you keep your crickets alive
for your reptiles?"
Of course, we keep a lot of crickets here.
The thing you wanna do is have some egg crate
and some surface for them to actually climb on,
number one.
The other thing is you have to feed 'em.
You can feed 'em some veggies.
You can also gut load 'em
with some things that are gonna be really healthy for 'em,
because if they're gut loaded,
they're actually gonna be healthier for your reptile.
You also wanna have a water source.
So, if you have a little water bowl in there
you could put a sponge in the water bowl
so that they don't actually drown.
As long as you're keeping 'em hydrated,
you keeping 'em gut loaded.
You can also feed 'em like chicken food as well.
So, food, water and some climbing areas
and your crickets will survive.
- Yeah, what he said!
- "How to keep garter snakes?"
- Super easy to keep these alive.
- Just a little bit of water - Water.
And, - Sun.
- Make sure they're getting enough nutrients.
- Soil. - Whoa!
- Garden snake!
- Just like that. - That's how
you get a garden snake.
- Bill, Sally.
- [Jay] We found that in your hibiscus plant.
- Did you really?
- Yeah. - Yikes.
- [Noah] You gotta be careful.
- They grow really easy.
- Just food, water.
- Does it like hibiscus?
- It loves it. - It loves-
- It loves everything that has to do with garden.
- They're actually garter snakes.
They're not garden snakes,
so they don't stay in gardens.
Although you can find 'em in garden
and they're actually really cool snakes to keep.
One of the easier snakes
when you wanna keep as a pet.
You can see they're super docile.
They don't just eat rodents.
You can actually feed 'em fish and worm
and they don't need the heat
that a lot of the animals keep.
You know, something in the mid eighties
during the summertime,
all the way into brumation.
They'll go down into the fifties.
Really cool snakes to keep.
One of my favorite animals,
because this is where my passion
for reptiles started.
"How to keep a legless lizard."
It's okay. I'm gonna get him out.
- You gotta get him out
cuz we had to teach the people.
- Whaa!
I can't do it guys.
- You got-
- Oh, my God! I can't do it. - Oh.
- He's got his eyes closed. - I can't.
- [Mike] Two hours,
butt's right over the stick right now.
- Yeah. - A little bit farther up.
- Get them! I can't. I can't do it.
- DAD!
- Legless lizards are actually
pretty easy lizards to keep.
They do like to burrow, so you want a substrate
that they can burrow down a little bit.
They will also do a little bit of climbing.
So, climbing areas are important as well.
And then they eat insects, a little water
and that's it.
Vlad does amazing.
Super hardy animals and super easy to keep.
- Whatever dad.
- "How do you keep lizards from eating my plants?"
- [Noah] Mike, what are you doing?
Aha! You can't eat plants.
- Ow.
- Did it hurt?
- No, his hands are cold.
- Okay, we gotta do it again.
(electronic buzzing)
- [Noah] Mike! (hands slapping)
Can't be freaking eating plants on the job.
- You can't eat the plant.
- Hungry.
- That's a monstera.
You know how much that cost?
- Wait. - A monstera.
- You know how long it took us to grow this?
- 18 years, that plant is. - 18 years.
- Bad enough we gotta worry about lizards.
- And now we gotta worry about Mike too.
- I'm hungry.
- I suppose there's really two parts to this question.
If you live down in Florida,
an area where there's a lot of lizards,
they may be eating your plants.
There's not a whole lot you can do.
The other part would be
if you are a keeper like we are
with a panther chameleon cage like this.
They will actually eat leafs,
so you have to make sure, number one,
that you're getting plants that if they eat,
it's not gonna be poisonous to them.
Or, number two, you can actually keep artificial plants
in there where they actually can't eat 'em.
We actually do a combination of both.
We use some plants that they can actually chew on
and it's not actually harmful for 'em.
And then we use artificial plants,
so that they don't destroy the enclosure all the time.
"How to keep lizards from pooping on my porch?"
Totally gonna leave this up to the boys.
- All right guys. - All right.
- So the best way to do,
is you just shove 'em full of cheese
- A little Pepper Jack cheese.
Eat all of your cheese.
- Cheese is a great way to constipate a lizard,
which means no more pooping on your porch.
So if you ever have a bunch
of wild lizards around your house,
just stick out a giant block
of Colby-Jack or Swiss cheese and they love it.
- Or Pepper Jack.
- "How to keep lizards warm."
- So cold out. - Warm it up, warm it up.
Warm it up. - Warm it up.
- Aah. - Take the pain
for the love of the animal.
- Need a hat,
we need a sweater - Sweater.
- Sweater. - A Blanket.
- I got one, I got one. - Booties, booties.
- Oh yeah, don't forget the little booties.
This is my neck.
- There you go. - All right, thanks.
Let me tuck it, let me tuck it.
- Oh - Hoo hoo hoo. My boy.
- There's a handful of ways to keep your lizards warm.
First, you can have a heat mat
if you have an animal that likes
to lay and bask on the ground a bun.
The other thing you can do is like we do.
We have basking lights up here for our iguanas.
That way when they climb up
and you have different purchase they can get as close
to this basking light as they possibly can.
The other thing is there's actually something
that's called a heat emitter,
which is basically a panel that's not a light,
that will actually push down heat.
But if you keep, say a rock on the bottom of your cage,
you have a heat emitter or a basking light over it,
it will heat that rock up.
So not only are they getting basking light,
they're also getting surface temperature,
because of course they need heat to digest.
- Guys, I need some help. Guys.
- Too busy thing about Saturday.
So. (loud burping)
- "How to keep superworms alive for my reptiles."
- How do we keep these alive?
I don't remember what my dad said.
- I think he said something about butt loading 'em.
- Butt loading? - Butt loading?
- It's a new technique with the superworm.
- How do you do it?
(Mike blowing)
- Dude, it doubled its size.
(Mike blowing)
- Just like crickets, bugs are animals.
They need to be fed to keep alive.
We actually will typically use
like an oatmeal substrate on them.
And then we always want to have things
for them to climb on,
so that they can get away from one another.
The other thing is to feed 'em
lots of different varieties.
The healthier your bugs are,
the healthier your animals are,
because they're actually eating whatever's in their gut.
So oftentimes before we feed,
we'll actually do what's called gut loading.
So, we'll give 'em a bunch
of high vitamin type of food.
They'll eat that over a half hour, 45 minutes.
That is still in their gut
when the lizards actually eat 'em,
so they're pretty easy to keep alive.
You wanna keep superworms probably
in the upper seventies or lower eighties to survive.
"How to keep a reptile cage from smelling."
- Oh my God. - Noah.
- Oh my- - What are you doing?
- Oh.
- Noah. - What are you doing?
- Stop, - Guys.
- Peeing in the cage.
- Trying to keep it smelly.
- No, we're trying to- - No, we're trying-
don't help.
- We wanted to keep it from not smelling.
- Not smelling? - Noah,
stop peeing in the cage.
- Why, it's-
- Stop peeing in the cage. - It's hard to cut
a stream off.
- Noah, you gotta stop.
We're trying to keep it from smelling,
not keep it smelling.
Cut it! - Oh!
- Catch it.
- It makes, that.
Dyslexia.
- We all know that anacondas love to pee a lot
and trust me, they sure do.
If you actually smell the snake itself,
it doesn't smell.
The only time a snake will smell
if it's laying in its own urine or fecal matter.
So, if you keep your snake clean
and then you clean your enclosure,
there's really no reason
that an enclosure ever smells at all.
So, the only time a reptile enclosure smells
is if it's dirty.
So go ahead and clean it, bleach it out
make it really clean
and you won't have a problem with odor.
(Jay laughing)
- [Noah] So, what-
- Jay, you're a little sweaty.
- "How to keep reptiles warm
during a power outage." (electric sizzling)
- [Noah] The power's out guys.
- [Mike] Guys, I can't see anything.
Where's the snake? He's gotta be cold.
- [Noah] How are we gonna warm up our reptiles?
- [Jay] He's right here. Just. (exhaling)
- [Mike] Oh, breathe at him, breathe at him.
Blow it, blow it.
- [Noah] Do you feel it?
Maybe rub it a little bit.
- Guys.
- Wait. - Wait.
- Where'd the snake go?
- You can actually go to almost any hardware store
and buy heat packs.
These are actually typically used for people
that are working construction in cold climates.
The iron reacts with oxygen
that creates a chemical reaction
that creates warm and it lasts up to 40 hours,
depending on the heat pack that you have.
So, you can use these guys to keep your reptiles warm.
If you can't find these,
you can actually take a bottle like this
and you could fill it up with warm water
if you could find warm water somewhere.
Wrap it in a towel and you could put that in his cage.
And for a short period of time,
either the heat packs,
or the hot water will keep your reptiles warm
for a short period of time.
Now, if it goes more than a day or two
you may wanna find a place where you can take
your reptiles to keep 'em warm.
"How do you keep a reptile zoo?"
- What the heck do I know
about running a reptile zoo?
Can't talk to daddy.
- Well, keeping a reptile zoo
is a little bit more difficult than you think.
The first thing you need to do is open a reptile zoo,
which is very expensive.
It cost over a $1000,000
to open up the Reptarium originally
and we put a lot more money into it since then,
but to create enclosures like this,
to get really cool animals is very expensive,
but once you get it, you know,
it's just a matter of upkeep, right?
You have to have yourself, your crew,
you have to clean, you have to feed, you have to water.
And speaking of clean, look at that right there.
That's a big turd from my girl Sunrise.
Yes, you have to clean that every day, right?
That's gonna happen.
So, keeping the upkeep of a reptile zoo
isn't that hard when you just put work in,.
You have to make sure the humidity is right,
the temperature is right.
There's a lot to it.
It's not the easiest thing in the world,
but if you do it, holy cow,
owning a reptile zoo is awesome.
Mike!
Clean some poop up!
- Mm, pooping. You just pooping, pooping.
- "Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile"
and he's in the shower
washing up, singing a song and it's a musical.
- "How to keep snake venom."
- [Jay] So, here we have
the wild garter snake.
And right now
we are milking it's venom.
He's gonna take it
and he'll place it right in the bag.
(Noah spitting) (Jay laughing)
So now we have the venom in the bag.
As you see, he's twisting it.
Now this bag of venom right here
is gonna save about 9.2 billion lives.
- In all honesty, I'm not sure
why you'd wanna keep snake venom, anyways.
Most people that do venom extraction,
they actually do it for say antivenin or medical purposes
and they actually dehydrating the venom,
so that they can sell it off
for certain proteins within the venom
that helps either save people
from a venomous snake bite,
or maybe for some medical use.
If you have a venomous snake
and you wanna keep the venom,
probably not gonna really do anything for you.
I probably wouldn't suggest it.
- Noah!
That's the venom!
- Mm.
- Oh, I hope you don't have a cut in your mouth.
- What's that about cut?
- "How do you keep snakes from escaping?"
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Let's move on to, "How snakes stay in their cages."
(tape unrolling)
- I think we're gonna need more tape.
- Well, you might remember one time, Al Machino,
the articulated python escaped
and was cruising around the reptile zoo
for about eight or 10 hours.
We actually have locks
on every single one of our enclosures.
And if you're keeping a snake,
you should have something
that's a locking mechanism as well.
The fact is that snakes love to escape.
They're good escape artists.
So if you forget to lock it,
like we did with Al one day,
they're gonna escape.
Or if your cage isn't locked properly
it's probably gonna happen.
So, my advice to you is just get a really good cage
with a good locking system
and don't forget to lock it.
And this kinda goes to the last one,
which is, "How do I find a loose snake?"
- Hm.
(shelves crashing)
- Where's the snake, man?
(fast paced drums rolling)
Dad's gonna kill us.
(fast paced drums rolling)
- Well, there's no trick to finding a loose snake.
A lot of people will say like,
"Put a frozen mouse out,
maybe it'll come out.
Maybe put a water dish out,
a hiding bucket."
All those things could potentially work,
but most of the time they don't.
Usually the only way you find a loose snake
is you look for it
and you look in little cracks and crevices.
They love to hide in places
that you don't think they are.
And let me tell you what,
you could have a 10 foot snake,
think would never fit into a little tight area
and they'll be in there.
So, look everywhere you can.
Look in the little areas like this,
anywhere that they can actually fit.
The only way to find a loose snake is
to typically look really hard
and do a little praying
(fast paced drums rolling)
- Found it.
- Oh, thank goodness.
- Did you know we make toddler Ts now?
- None of that is right.
- All of that- - None of it is right.
- It is really all right. - No, it's not all right.
- Yes, it is all- - Look at all the bottom.
- We didn't even- - What are you talking,
- we didn't touch the bottom.
- It's fine. - You guys threw all this off.
I know you did. - We did not.
- We were looking for our snake.
- Look here. - Yes, they do.
- These were on the top shelf. - No, they weren't.
Bowser and chameleons
and we have alligators and trans-
- You guys are messing with my flow.
- That kinda looks straight. - It's that time
of the month again? - Hoo, hoo.
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- Some may say a ball python is the best starter snake,
because it's so easy to keep.
They're very docile.
They typically work really well as far as pets go
and of course they come in a lot
of different color phases.
As for a lizard, a lot of times
people will say a leopard gecko,
because they don't require as much heat
as say, a bearded dragon,
but they're still really cool animals.
Again, come in a lot of different colors,
they're relatively affordable
and they live 20 to 25 years.
And then of course,
there's the aforementioned bearded dragon,
which is a really great pet.
They're super docile.
They're pretty easy to care for
and they make amazing first time pets.
But the truth is,
whatever reptile you decide to keep,
all you have to do, is a ton of research
to make sure that you're committed to do 'em,
cuz most reptiles are actually pretty easy.
So if you wanna keep something,
just make sure that you're ready for it
and I hope that all of these tips
have helped you guys out.
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Remember,
- Mike, stop acting - Mike, what are you doing?
- like you've never done this.
- I thought we were using this
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