- There's only one proper way to search Reddit,
which is by sorting controversial.
Today on our leopard geckos.
So let's see what we can find.
Starting out with pretty innocent post,
looks like it is normal leopard gecko,
but it's got a GoFundMe link,
which goes to my own brother
who doesn't properly know how to treat reptiles,
decided to handle my poor baby while I was at work,
and he bit him.
So he decided to shoot him in the head
with an airsoft pellet gun.
My poor baby isn't eating
and has a hole on the top of his head.
The bullet came out the bottom of his chin.
It's swelling up more and more,
and I wanna get him a vet surgery quickly.
Please do whatever you can.
People always say, you shouldn't get an animal
unless you're ready to afford a vet.
But then again,
normally you don't expect your brother
to shoot them with an airsoft gun.
Or maybe you do, I don't know.
This brother is clearly off to a great start in life.
But that's not what I expected to find.
I also don't know why
this is like the most down-voted thing,
I feel like they should actually have
maybe a little bit of support, but that's the sub.
Just got the 10 gallon for my leopard gecko,
I'm getting tomorrow.
I'm excited.
Probably gonna make them some hides out of Tupperware.
I don't really get why they posted this,
it's just a very boring post.
For reference, 10 gallons is pretty small
for a leopard gecko.
Lots of videos, lots of guides say a 10 gallon's fine.
The comments do not, neither does this sub like that.
Then one comment said,
I don't know if you've read the guides or not,
but 40 is recommended,
or at least a 20 long, which is, though not ideal.
I think a 20 is ideal,
but of course it's up to opinion.
They responded, which got a lot of downloads.
Oh, I watch a video on the internet
with an actual veterinarian
who was saying a 10-gallon is fine
for an adult leopard gecko.
I figured I would go with what a doctor has to say about it.
I think it's good to always read as much as you can,
but if you talk to veterinarians,
they say commonly 10 gallons is just fine.
I think that should be considered the gospel.
And here's the thing, I agree with them. Kind of.
I agree with their frame of mind,
but I also agree with the other person,
but I also disagree 'cause I think 40 is not necessary.
And this is why I have so many problems
with the reptile community.
This is why I don't consume reptile content.
That's why I don't really...
I'm not really active in any reptile community.
The only reptile community I'm active in is this one,
my YouTube channel.
Imagine getting an animal,
there's two sources of advice.
One is a veterinarian
who went through years of schooling and got a degree.
And the other is an anonymous poster on Reddit.
I feel like everyone would reasonably expect
that you should trust the veterinarian.
But they're wrong a lot.
And it's very funny because (laughs) a lot of the times
I say I really dislike veterinarians.
And then people are like, "Don't say that,
the veterinarians they're the best, they're good."
And I get that, there's different veterinarians.
There's some good veterinarians, some bad,
some that you disagree with, some that might be great.
And I've always had these poor experiences
and ironically, I've done things in videos
that were told to me by the veterinarians
I thought I could trust them most,
and then the same people that commented
how dare you say negative things about veterinarians,
you don't know what they're going through,
are the same ones that say,
how dare you do this thing to an animal?
And I'm like, well, it's that same veterinarian
that told me to do that.
That's why I think getting into reptiles,
like being responsible and educating yourself
while getting into the reptile community
does not sound fun at all.
And I can say that because I got into reptiles
when I was just a little kiddo,
catching reptiles outside and doing my thing.
I was not educated.
I shouldn't have been probably catching those animals
at six years old and keeping them in a tub,
but it happened.
It's my past, I have to live with it.
But then over time I realized,
oh, I need to improve this and fix this and stuff.
But then there's these people that go into it,
actually trying to research and everything disagrees.
Sorry, I went on a tangent.
My point is I don't think 10 gallon should be used,
and I would also recommend that they use something bigger.
But also you can't blame them
for trusting a reasonable source,
especially if this is their first time
in the reptile community.
Or any animal community probably.
Reddit marked this as not safe for work,
but Reddit is also a big softy,
so I think I can show it.
When I wanted to take a pic of my leopard gecko
side by side, one of them bit the other.
Now he has this exposed meat as the skin peeled off.
I applied some water and medicine
and closed the wound with a plaster.
What should I do?
So basically a lot of people keep the animals together,
which is oftentimes not recommended.
I have a video on cohabiting leopard gecko,
so I don't really go in depth with it.
My quick opinion is just, there's not really any reason to,
I think it could be okay,
but there's not really a purpose in it.
And that pretty much everyone would be better off
not doing it unless you're breeding,
in which case you would hopefully be more knowledgeable
on them in general.
But surprisingly, even just putting two animals together,
whether it's leopard gecko next to a leopard gecko
or a different species next to another,
it's like most of the time, it'll be fine.
Like when people take a picture of their cat
and their ball python, which most of the time,
I'd say over 99% of the time, they're probably fine.
But then you got these experiences,
like the leopard gecko with the exposed meat,
'cause they took him out for a picture.
Hopefully it's okay.
This was two years ago. I don't know.
(laughs)
He gets grumpy if I don't do this.
Just so you know,
leopard geckos are not human babies.
I know you like to call them your babies.
I do feel some people anthropomorphize
I'm trying to make a valid point and I can't say the words.
I mean to say.
I think a lot of people forget that reptiles
are a bit different from not only people,
but domesticated, pets like a dog or a cat
and a leopard gecko, unless there's some medical reason
that needs to take a bath, maybe it was constipated
for some reason.
They always throw them into these environments
that don't make any sense that,
"Oh, it's cute. The gecko is smiling."
No, that's not smiling.
It's just it's bone structure and this (indistinct)
I'm not complaining that there's a gecko in a tub.
I just think it's kind of dumb and there's no point in it.
My gecko likes my feet when I come out of the shower.
Yeah, I don't know I included this.
(chuckles)
Again, good to know.
You see what I do for these videos
you can see, I already pulled up all the tabs,
but what I do is I do it like two weeks in advance
and my memory is so bad I forget about all of them.
So (laughs) I don't know.
It was funny. I put in a drip nurture up her.
Yeah. All right, moving on.
And we need some fun ones.
I'm between the ones that kind of irritate me.
Each of my leopard geckos has their own 20 gallon long.
But since I work at home,
they get to play on the desk a couple times per day.
There's a few ways you could look at this post one is,
oh, it's kind of cute 'cause they're hanging out.
The other, I mean, oh, it's actually marked with a tag
that says dangerous practices.
I assume because it's two geckos in the same area
that are not being bred.
In my humble opinion leopard geckos
do not want to play on your desk.
I'm not saying you shouldn't take your gecko out.
I'm not saying that you don't get enrichment
from putting your gecko on the desk.
And I'm not saying that's necessarily bad,
but a leopard gecko, if they could talk,
they would probably say, "Put me back in my enclosure.
I want to be left alone."
But people forget 'cause they're super solitary.
I guess, because they look kind of cute.
It's assumed they're not like you want your gecko
to have to be incel lifestyle.
That's a terrible example.
You don't want your gecko to be super social
because leopard geckos are not very social
they just wanna hang out by themselves in a dark space
and be left alone.
But I think people, "Oh, I don't wanna be left alone
in a dark space by myself.'
Well, maybe you do. That's what the leopard gecko likes.
So it's okay.
Again, I don't really care that they put them on their desk,
but just be honest that you're doing it for yourself
and not for your leopard gecko.
Okay, that's all. (laughs)
Getting this printed out and taped on my tank
because I got a female that tried to go have it with my boy
within a minute he made advances on her
that she did not look happy with.
And I didn't want her to be a miserable egg layer
with a shortened lifespan.
So I took her back.
A lot of people they're like, "Oh, I got a leopard gecko.
I want another leopard gecko.
I want baby leopard geckos together.
(indistinct)
Technically, I guess that's how it works.
I mean, yeah, male and female,
they do this little funny dance
and then which is actually surprisingly violent.
If you watch videos, not that I have
it's pretty aggressive.
It's natural, it happens.
But you just got to kind of know what you're getting in to.
You are technically risking the life
generally more of the female when it comes to reptiles
when you breed.
I'm not saying you shouldn't breed.
I think breeding, there wouldn't really be any animals
if they weren't bred.
But I don't know what the point I was trying to make was.
There's this.
(laughs)
In my humble opinion, which I should stop saying,
it's not humble and it's not an opinion.
In my accurate correctness,
everything in this picture is wrong.
But think about all the people that are doing this,
that don't post it on Reddit.
I kind of appreciate when people post it.
And what I used to try and do is just kind of give a nice
like, oh, hey, cute pic.
That's a lie. It's not cute at all.
It's a pretty ugly leopard gecko.
Here's one suggestion.
I never tried to throw everything on at once
because people aren't really very susceptible to that.
But yeah, it's like, even if you down-vote
and get upset that this one person
for every one leopard gecko picture of this,
there's probably 50 that are in worse condition.
Being kept by some random four year old
who got it from Petco for their birthday.
I'm a bit negative today.
Am I always this negative?
I'm a positive boy.
If you don't know, I'm a very positive boy.
Is Powerade poisonous to leopard geckos?
I wouldn't give mine any
nor if it wasn't, I'm just curious.
This feels like that asking for friends sort of thing.
They totally get in Powerade, but go on them for asking.
Also, I'm kind of curious myself now.
I guess there is a lot of sugar.
I wouldn't suggest trying it,
but if there was like a leopard gecko simulator,
I would try it on all offense.
I'm gonna move on. I shouldn't have said that.
What is my gecko gender?
(laughs)
Of all the ways to handle a leopard gecko
and they picked this one and posted it.
God, I forgot about this one.
Keep your pet away from ants. Good to know.
There it is.
I think there's a story in the comments. Let's see.
The poor owner took a two-day trip
to his grandmother's house.
Out of fear of starvation, the owner threw some crickets
into the tank, but loud smelly and high-protein crickets
always attract ants.
In captivity the gecko has no chance to escape.
So please see if you have to go away for a week,
remember the gecko will survive without feeding.
Do not leave uneaten food in the tank. (laughs)
I personally, I've never had ants in a reptile enclosure,
but I can see, okay, actually, that's not true.
One time I tried to use get some organic substrate
and it was the source of the substrate was great,
but it turns out where the substrate was being
or like where the dirt was being stored
in the store had access to ants.
So I did actually have an ant thing on time,
but I just dumped the substrate (laughs)
and it sounds pretty vicious.
It's pretty insane.
And I've never actually thought about this.
When I was a kid and we'd go on like a week long trip
I would usually feed the animals and give them water.
Ideally, I would suggest not leaving your animals
more than like a leopard gecko.
I'd say I could leave mine three days
without being seen or something.
If you just have someone come like once during the week,
hoping they have some sort of idea of how to care for them.
And also won't shoot them with an airsoft gun,
I guess it is possible, I don't know.
Have you had an animal eaten by ants?
Let me know in the comments as the question of the day.
And I think I'm gonna pause there.
If you want me to do more, I can,
but that's enough juiciness for one day.
I do the Instagram videos where like you post under hashtag
go herp in a view and I like give it a rating.
I still love doing those.
I'm gonna do more, but most people aren't gonna send
such negative posts when they know
I'm gonna look at it publicly.
So I thought it would be fun to mix it up
and check out the rental side of things,
but I'm sure there's plenty more we can do.
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For this video, I'm Alex.
Thanks for watching.
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