hey guys today we're gonna talk a little bit about mmm we'll call them display animals so in
the reptile hobby we'll say that there's basically kind of two kinds of reptiles that people go for
it now the first is you know the more pets type of animals ones that you're getting out of the
enclosure or handling and interacting with all the time and then the other one is more of a display
animal where you know you you make the big display the big bioactive or naturalistic or whatever set
up and you just kind of enjoy it because of the natural beauty of the animal itself and so that's
why that's obviously why I don't have one out right now because I'm talking about more of like
a display type of animal and in this video I'm going to talk about five different species that
make great reptile you know display animals where they're not really like out and about handling
because it can be stressful for them and you know that can cause them to react negatively which
for a reptile that's basically the only defense mechanism that they have is by biting you which
is stressful to them they can lose teeth it can it's a whole thing so animals that work best when
it comes to just being displayed and appreciated for really what they were versus like a corn snake
or a ball python so the first species is a pretty famous pretty classical and that is the chameleon
these guys are probably the ones that are most willing to be out and about and handled we've seen
them all around but a lot of chameleons in and of themselves don't like to be messed with they like
to you know they they'll hop up they'll hiss the puffs they'll change colors then everything that
they're really famous for so these guys make just in general really good display animals where once
you create like a really nice heavy planted lots of branches and climbing stuff for them to be in
there you can just kind of sit and just enjoy them even just moving around with their cute
little grabby hands and their little eyes and then feeding them off tongs it's just really
cool so that's a really good display species I think a lot of times they get really popular
because they like them and they're really famous but they're not really a great beginner reptile in
general and they're really best appreciated you know just kind of you get a lot of fulfillment
enrichment setting up there habitats and this goes for all of them in general we're that's a really
good interaction you have is taking the time to set up the actual cages or boxes or whatever the
heck you're gonna put them in to where that they can get the most from that and you consider to
enjoy them in all of their natural beauty in the closest thing that we can make to their natural
environment which is really really cool the next one is our boreal stinks so these guys are very
very famous they're getting more more popular and it's quite a few species of them you know
green tree pythons Amazon tree Boas the emerald tree Boas and I don't necessarily really want
to get into this but like you know a lot of like the palm Vipers and stuff like that if you're in
a place where you're legally allowed to keep those but I'm going talk about this so it's mostly about
you know the green tree pythons or GTP's Amazon tree Boas ATBs and then the emerald emerald Boas
those guys are very famous they're very pretty arguably some like the just the prettiest looking
snakes there are period there aren't a whole lot of morphs when it comes to them as far as like
actual like genes and stuff like you see in ball pythons there's some variations in color which
makes them really cool but just then the none of themselves are amazingly beautiful animals
the reason why that there are best left to just display purposes is that they are known and with
right are very defensive striking animals a lot of that and they usually have very large teeth
that's because they live up in the trees and a lot of the food that they eat is fast moving birds and
lizards and stuff like that so where it's going by super fast you mean they need to be able to grab
it and not have it let go so that's why we've all seen that picture of that emerald tree boa
with its mouth open they have some of the largest teeth of any non venomous reptile there are the
rough scale pythons have really long ones and do Murrells bows too but like the gtps and the
emerald tree Boas those things have very large teeth which if getting hit by those you're gonna
feel it and it doesn't feel great you can rip the teeth out stress of the animals like we said about
before so that's an animal that you can put a lot of energy into making a great environment for and
you can just sit them you can just look at them even just sitting on a branch you can just stare
at them and see just how amazing they are which is why they're really great for does more of us
display reptile the next one is de geckos so de geckos are a very easy lizard to keep but they
don't make a really great handable pet because they are super fast and they are very quick to
drop their tails as well we have two species here we have the giant day gecko which is super famous
of the Geico commercial and then we have a peacock day gecko both of them are pretty small though the
giant day geckos they get you know probably about like that or so full-grown but a lot of the other
day geckos they say really small they need full spectrum lighting they are diurnal they eat kind
of pretty much whatever you give them but a little food powders work really well so if you're keeping
crested geckos they work very similar to that but they really aren't great for being handled
or flight either fast they move and a lot of times if they get out it's gonna be a really hard time
getting them back so spending the time to build a really cool enclosure which is why these things
get really cool we they they thrive really well and heavily planted habitats but because the
diurnal you'll see them out about moving under like unlike a lot of other reptile species where
they're nocturnal you won't see them moving a whole lot so even if you have like you know a
big 24 by 18 by 18 enclosure and it's filled with bromeliads and logs or even artificial plants or
whatever may have you they're up when we're up so you're gonna see them moving around which
is really cool and that's why I think de geckos while they are an easy to keep species not great
for having like a crested gecko a leopard gecko but they're still really really pretty the next
species is very similar to that and that's the nulls everybody's seen them you know there are
a lot of people's first reptile he's kind of you know back in the day like if you're in Florida
they're everywhere brown and green anoles people just have them for feeder lizards these days but
they do make pretty good pets because they're actually really cool to sit there and watch if
you have a large enclosure with them and you have quite a few of them because they can live
fairly communally it's really cool their behavior like males they sit there and they will you know
essentially fight over territory and males not aggressively but you know they do their head
bobbing and they'll flare their big a lot have really brightly colored dewlaps which was that
kind of floppy skin right there that they'll flare up and you can sit there just watching them are
really cool to see that and so if you have you know a very large enclosure that's filled with
lots of you know it doesn't have to be bioactive necessarily but you know very naturalistic thing
with lots of plants and and logs and hives and stuff like that and you have quite a few of them
in there just watching your behavior is really cool so that's why you know animals a lot of
people they probably didn't keep them as well as they should have back in the day but if you do
it right like you would for like a day gecko or something else where you give them UVB and full
spectrum lighting and you know the room like a lot of lizards really need they're really cool
to see so that's why I think the anoles are a little bit underappreciated when it comes to
kind of reptiles these days but having like a big like if you have like a 75 gallon tank and
you have like five or six and holes in there it'd be super cool to just kind of sit there and watch
them do their thing and I think that'd be really cool and I've seen some enclosures like that and
the day out I'm about like going to zoos and just like other different places like that so I think
that's really cool and it Knowles kind of get overlooked but they're really good species to
just have a display the last one that I'm going to talk about isn't a reptile it's an amphibian dart
frogs dart frogs are probably the most iconic display animal you can get especially when it
comes to like bioactive naturalistic cells because they essentially have to be kept in a bioactive
setup really just a fry four-diamond live feed on us they're super brightly colored they're diurnal
they're always moving around they're really really cool because they don't get really big
you don't need a whole lot of rooms so a lot of people will keep multiple species and it's
really cool to see all their little behaviors the thing about dark frogs like all amphibians
is they have that porous skin so they'll absorb oils which can be harmful to them I know what
a lot of you guys are thinking dark frog those are the poison arrow dark frogs but as probably
a lot of you guys know who if you actually watch this channel they actually get their poison from
poisonous and insects they eat out in their match habitats even wild caught animals once they bring
him in after a few months when the diet changes they're no longer poisonous there are some frogs
that are very similar to dart frogs that are found in like Madagascar and stuff who will still retain
a little bit of poison but we're not gonna talk about them this is just kind of mostly about you
know the new world dart frogs although the set up is basically the same but you don't want to
handle those because they can really stress out and it can be really harmful for them but just
having a dart frog it's kind of like I wouldn't say that Everest of it but like if you're keeping
dart frogs successful you're doing something right you had your stuff out in and it's just
so cool to see dart frogs if you go to a zoo or a reptile store wherever you go you see dart frogs
it's always hard not to just kind of sit there and stare at a few logs because they're so cool
to look at you don't want to handle them and so that's kind of the same thing with all the animals
that we talked about in this video is that they're really really cool to see but not great to handle
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