A friend of mine kept a California kingsnake and 2 tarantulas in his barracks. He did that knowing it's prohibited per the military. He got away with it because the walk-in closet where he stored his clothes are considered his personal items where it was mandatory that he buy his own lock to secure his valuables; therefore it's not subject to the inspection for cleanliness lol. I would like to reiterate that this is not me but a friend of mine who's in the military. Yes.. a friend.
I did the same thing. I had a tarantula and a crested gecko when I was at fort Campbell. Funny thing was when I got them I had two of my friends with me and they thought I was high 🤣
Both of my roommates were absolutely TERRIFIED of reptiles, I brought a crested gecko home and they held him and going on about how soft he is etc. They've even volunteer to take care of him when I'm out of town. Crested geckos are the absolute best reptile!!! [Update] she laid an egg!!
Whrn i was at uni (second year - i a rented house, not student accommodation) I kept tarantulas, african bullfrog, beetles, scorpions, mice, ball python, corn snake, geckos, chickens, ducks and more 🤣 only had to get rid of all indoor animals when I got married...
I just knew the hognose snake would be on this list! I keep a male one myself, and he's really awesome and outgoing for being so small. I can also recommend a fire skink as a blue tongue alternative, if you want a smaller, but awesome and reasonable reptile for a small space and don't mind keeping feeder insects.
i have Hobi , my evans hognose and 2 garters. Hobi is soo outgoing. he taps on the glass when I get home from work wanting to be let out to crawl all over me and my desk. best snake ever
@@HeavenlyiceDream Mine named Egon is crazy curious and wants to interact with just about everything he can when outside by rubbing his nose against it. He tests his strength against my fingers by trying to lift them. He also seems to have an obsession with keeping his enclosure as it is, as moving around anything makes him cranky for days while he also becomes way more hissy and seems to be pushing the items back to where they are supposed to be with his nose. He's otherwise very chill, and comes to my hand when I put it into his his area without provoking a feeding response. He's very easy to handle and introduce to strangers when he's outside.
Adam is my biggest mentor in reptile owning, i am aching to get one and Adam is the person who has let me understand how all sorts of amazing reptiles need things that others dont... thank you so much Adam, and stay awesome!! 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
he really is great and deserves more popularity. though so many titles have confused me with like "are ball pythons really that great" or something like that
My personal pick for my apartment reptile (and first-ever reptile pet) was a Mexican Black Kingsnake, and I’ve never looked back. Maybe not the best for tiny spaces, since he uses every corner of his 120 gallon tank, but I personally wouldn’t go smaller than that with a corn snake, either, and corn snakes tend to get rather longer and are also active anyways. I cannot say enough good things about kingsnakes; if you’re not afraid to maybe get munched on by a tiny mouth, their beauty, ease of care, hardiness, and bold personalities easily make them a top-tier small snake.
I was literally waiting the entire video for the old "don't bite my ear". Diamond didn't disappoint as usual! 😂 I keep 5 snakes and 2 birds in a small room with a king-sized bed. All of them have big enclosures and I've rearranged the room twice to make space for more whilst aquiring them 👌 To say I'm looking forward to getting a bigger place is an understatement!! Loved the little bit in the middle showing your frog enclosures, they are beautiful 👍 top content as always!
How's he/she doing now? I own a California Kingsnake aberrant male that's 66% het for albino (but I don't plan to breed with him, he's my family). Also he's born June 29 2020 and I have him since August 24 2020 and he's 110cm now and lives in an 80 gallons enclosure.👍🐍 I really love snakes.
i also like the idea of a blue tongued skink for an apartment/dorm situation because 1) your roommate probably won’t be afraid of it like they may be afraid of a snake, and 2) it won’t get loose and hide like a snake could, which could be an even bigger issue than normal in a shared space
I'm in a house share, one issue with keeping snakes is that either you will either have to buy a separate freezer or have to have really cool house mates that are cool with you keeping mice or rats in the shared freezer 😅
My wife wasn't okay with me keeping rats in the freezer so I decided to buy my own deep freezer specifically for rats. I lucked out and my neighbor moved and left theirs by the side of the road like a week before I was going to buy my own lol
Ok one more: I actually think the solution to loud frogs is to just intermittently play loud frog calls on TH-cam and then sometimes turn them off and sometimes don't turn them off. It's certainly no worse than my neighbor who currently plays the same song over and over and sings along loudly and off key, or my other neighbors who played Forza at 2AM every day.
yeah i think any reasonable person wouldn't complain... but also I used to live above someone who would call the cops if I played electric guitar.... without an amp... just the most silly person
@@WickensWickedReptiles man your neighbor was the WORST. the correct response to someone playing guitar in the apartment above you is to slip a note under their door requesting freebird
As someone who lives in a studio apartment, I do have forbidden skittles (St. Isabel tree frogs). They do call, but it sounds so quiet and squeaky that half the time I forget it's them making the sound. Plus, I agree about the beautiful spaces. Their terrarium let me combine my plant lady tendencies with my love of amphibians.
Haha me right now in my room with 5 gallon betta tank 3 gallon shrimp tank and 30 gall fish tank n bout to add 120 bearded dragon n want collard lizard in 50 n have them all in my room cause we have woodstove for heat but heater in room lol
I loved the video! Honestly though, once you go to 4x2x2 enclosures, you could keep so many animals. So many different snakes and lizard (and even frogs) would do great in 4x2x2, bit I get the concept of other care requirements being considered as well. I'd definitely say my easiest reptile that I have is my crested geckos!
67 gallon (48*18*18) enclosures are up there as well when it come to snakes, corn snakes, king snakes, smaller ball pythons, rat snakes, dwarf Burmese pythons, pine snakes, dwarf boas, male Central American boas, and more. Not sure about lizards. You could get away with bearded dragons and keep those lizards that are kind of like small bearded dragons, but I’m not sure about anything else.
I totally agree with cresties being #1. My room has a huge window which keeps it quite warm year round, so no additional heat source required, diet is super easy, and he's very sweet and docile. Only tricky thing in the beginning was humidity if I've got a fan going in my room, but that's easy to counter with a small humidifier.
I bought a baby leopard gecko a few years ago. Started with a 10 G terrarium and upgraded it to a 20 G a year ago. My mother and father didn’t like her at first, but now they adore her and are now taking care of her while I’m in college. I was thinking about getting some type of reptile once I start renting out an apartment or living off campus, so this list is very helpful. Great video 🙏🏼
I'm a teen living in a tiny apartment with my two parents and on-and-off sister. A plains hognose snake is PERFECT. They don't need super big enclosures, especially as babies, they're good to get people afraid of snakes unafraid because of their adorable faces, and they're awesome for handling. Highly reccomend.
I have a male Western Hognose in my small apartment and he's perfect!! (as well as a few ball pythons..) I would also say that Rosy boas, Rubber boas (if you can find one), and Kenyan sand boas would be other perfect little snakes for a small apartment or dorm!
Great list, totally agree. Love guessing your next answer on these types of list, and was able to guess that cresties would be number one! I live in a apartment and have cresties!
200k let’s goooo, I got pack into reptiles literally a year ago this mknth and now have started my own channel and “shop” this is awesome congrats Adam
My crested gecko has been one of my favorites to keep and has been pretty low maintenance in the bio active set up. It’s my first reptile and I really like having the height to play with rather than floor space. I’m in a small one bedroom apartment so only have one book shelf for tanks, so I have my crestie and is 10 gallon tanks I have a tomato frog, Pac-Man frog, and a fire belly toad. I got them all on a similar feeding schedule and all are bio active so it’s all pretty easy to maintain.
From watching Adam’s videos I’ve learned so so much about reptiles and I was once one of those people who was a little freaked out or scared by reptiles but now I think they’re beautiful animals with their own amazing personalities. I’ve changed my views so greatly I’m hoping to get a crested gecko very soon and that’s all through Adam’s amazing videos and care guides and I wanted to say a huge huge thank you for posting them and having such an amazing channel.
I have my crested gecko in my apartment and it's the best pet I've ever had! What an amazing and easy animal to have. I live with a friend and he loves Kuzko too and never bothered him at all! Glad they made the list tho it was obvious they would.
I just recently got a California King Snake, I love him! He's still relatively small, and I have him currently in a 24 x 18 x 12, I know he's going to need something bigger in the future.
He big is he now, and what enclosure do you house him in. I’d recommend bare minimum a 40 gallon enclosure, since bare minimum the length plus the width should equal the full length of the snake. However, bigger would be more desirable such as a 75 gallon enclosure, preferably so your snake can stretch out or near enough (like, if your snake is 4’2 and the enclosure is only 4 feet long, it’s so little of a difference that it doesn’t really matter).
I just got an albino axanthic hognose baby boi partially thanks to your channel. He's so cute but I wasn't prepared for how much he stays under the aspen lol (it reminded me of what you said about sand boas being an expensive tank of sand) maybe its because hes still adjusting to the new place. He's above the aspen for about 30 minutes a day then hes back under the aspen for the rest of the day. I love when I see him scooching around his room, its so precious 🥺
@@WickensWickedReptiles thanks, it just makes me nervous because I've never seen him drink and I haven't found any urates so far (although they could be blending into the aspen). He has 2-3" of lightly compressed aspen with undertank heating at approx 85F, a hide on the warm side, and a water bowl on the cool side with lots of leaves in between for cover.
My mum and I have hidden 3 snakes, 9 tarantulas, 2 scorpions, 3 giant snails, 6 giant millipedes, 2 ferrets and a hamster , all in proper enclosures, from my stepdad
I was living in a dorm at college and now I’m living at home and I have an Albino Black Rat Snake and an African Fat Tail Gecko! Both comparable substitutions for some of the animals on the list but I love my reptiles!!
Love this Top 5!! The crested gecko is what I'd have, if I could! I don't need a small space pet but love this for its smaller cost for set up and animal and I love the fact that the feeding is very simple. One question- do they small bad? The hognose was super cute too!!
I have a small house and have recently overcame my fear of reptiles thanks to your channel and a few others. We just purchased a male variable kingsnake. We hope to expand into a small collection and are grateful for such informational content. Looking for to your upcoming tour!
I live in a small one bedroom apartment and have never had a reptile pet before. There are so many reptiles that I do like and would want, northern blue tounged skink, crested gecko, mourning gecko, emerald tree skinks (Clint sold me on those) or pink tounged skink. But the more I researched, the more I really thought about it; my first reptile will be a hognose snake. They are going to fit my lifestyle the best (other than my mom not liking snakes) and I can't wait to get one!
Living in a one bedroom apartment and recently just got my first snake, a normal ball python and she's awesome super chill and sweet definitely recommend ball pythons for both apartment living and for a first snake
I highly recommend corn snakes! I bought one in January and I LOVE it! They're super docile easy cheap and they come in so many cool colors we actually just bought a baby ball python as well! But I will say ALWAYS so research with reptiles get advice but learn to make you're own decisions on them! people bicker on enclosure size bedding heat source etc do what you do can do/what you think is best
If I were to be honest Adam is the best reptile/pet TH-camr up there with snake discovery and Clint’s reptiles and also go herping and literally every reptile/pet TH-camr that doesn’t abuse their reptiles and also knows what their talking. About
Your videos are getting so good man. I havent had time to watch for a bit and the quality is outstanding. I love the enclosure footage and the music you put with the presentation too.
You said it, and I vote for a male Plains (Western) Hognose as the best snake for a small space. Easy to hold (not squirmy), a small cage or a 20+ quart tub is plenty of room, tolerates a wide temperature range, fun to watch, once established will eat out of the hand, eats f/t mice and Repti Links if desired, etc. I really cannot think of any other commonly available captive produced snake that has all of those attributes in such a compact package. Great video!
I turned my college dorm closet into our iguana enclosure and my roommate and i just shared the other closet for clothes. Drilled a small hole for the cord of his sunlamp to make it to a nearby receptacle. Took fresh veggies from the cafeteria every morning to feed him. The RA never knew a thing and it was a sweet roomy setup which Rex thoroughly enjoyed.
I’d love to see a video going over different dart frog species! I’d love to own some in the future but there’s so many I don’t really know where to start
Great videos keep it up! You got me into reptiles and it’s been really good for my mental health. Let me know if you do any comedy shows in California. I’ll be there ¨̮
Your channel has helped our whole family overcome our fear of reptiles over the last year. I just got my first snake, a hognose named Nope, a couple weeks ago and am already in love. We already have 2 beardies but the kids have claimed them😂 we'll be moving by the end of the year and can't wait to set up a reptile room in our new house.
i actually kept a male colombian boa in my apartment for the last couple years of college and it worked out great. he was a little guy, maybe 5.5 ft/1.7m, so i managed to give him a nice spacious enclosure. don't get me wrong, it took up half my bedroom and one of my closet doors wouldn't open. but all i had to do to compensate was put a bunch of stuff in storage bins and stick em under my bed. totally worth it imo.
Thanks for this video, it was helpful! I'm actually moving in a bigger apartment and informed the landlady that we intended to get a reptile eventually, asking if that would be a problem. We were expecting a straight-up yes or no. Instead, she replied to us that only salamanders, turtles and lizards (yes, I know one of them isn't a reptile) and later specifically wrote down on the lease that snakes were forbidden. That bummed us out because we had intended to get a hognose snake, and snakes seem to be easier maintenance than other reptiles. But we'll start researching on which type of lizards would fit us better (or wait until we can get our own place and have ALL THE HOGNOSES). Definitely thought about getting a crestie or a gecko though.
Leopard geckos would be top of my list for sure, I had my girl since I was 13 and I had her hidden in my university accommodation all 3 years and hard her well into my 20s.
I'm in college and living with my mom where I have a fair amount of space and my mom loves my reptiles so I'm pretty lucky with space. I have a blue tongue in the living room, a bearded dragon in my bedroom and a couple crested geckos in my office. So where ever I am I have a lizard near me. I just need to be careful about when I move out because I will have a lot less space, but what you said about putting the enclosure on top of a dresser is a great idea for my 4foot blue tongue enclosure.
Well I been thinking what animal should I get and I’m glad to find your video!!!seriously cuz I. Been trying to convince my parents to buy me a pet snake and they said no so maybe smaller quiet pets might work!,idk what I should get that would be perfect for me cuz I love wild animals,reptiles,small insects,friendly cute animals!!❤😅
Dropping a comment on this great video to add that African House Snakes are another option for people needing an easy to keep snake that doesn't need much space, as they are often smaller than corn snakes and take about the same care levels. Just be sure to get a well established eater juvenile if this is your first, since when they're babies up to a few months old, they can go off their food and be difficult to start/restart. Once they're feeding well, they're lovely little shy and chill snakes, with beautiful blue iridescence to win over snake-fearing people.
100% on corn snakes. Low space requirements, easy care, very easy going nature. Just got a corn snake yesterday. The difference between it and the Cali king I had prior are night and day. The king took actual effort to get handleable, and even then it didn’t enjoy it. ALWAYS a threat display, ALWAYS musked on me, and spent all its time buried in the substrate. The corn is a bit skittish when you first try to pick it up (like most baby snakes are) but immediately calms down in the hand. I’ve not seen even the slightest amount of aggression either. Also naturally inquisitive, it’s not uncommon for it to be out of its hide exploring the enclosure. My experience with corn snakes so far has been enjoyable, while caring for the kingsnake always felt like a chore. If you have to choose between the two I’d highly recommend the corn.
I got really interested in the "quiet frogs" topic when you said some of the dart frogs are loud and some of them are not. Can you maby make an episode about quiet frogs spiecies?
I was thinking Lecheanous gecko too along with crested geckos because of the super easy heat and diet requirements but I forgot they're big bois. Great video!
My White's tree frog boi croaks every single day, especially if I put on the water boiler, or if I laugh/talk to loudly. He seems very reactive to sound, so if I croak back at him he keeps going on. :D He's actually croaked since he was 3 months old. The females are also very talkative, but in a much more quiet manner. It's more of a chirp than a croak. Highly entertaining frogs.
I live in an apartment and I have this spot in my living room with no furniture it's just like an open space that's like half room. Perfect space for a couple of scaly pets but I still need them to be easy to move. Thanks so much for the video! Hognose is a dream for me
I'm in an apartment shared with a significant other who's not a big fan of most reptiles, but I did convince her into letting me get one crested gecko, which quickly became 5... Would love to add a hognose and a BTS to the mix but I have to wait, too much going on in the apartment already because I also have 4 fish tanks and she has a chinchilla. Great video and it was cool to see a lot of species I have or want to work with very soon.
My roommate in my dorm a few years back actually was breeding crested geckos and is how I got my first one. She had originally one pair of crested geckos and I got one of her second clutch of babies. She also had some cane toads, an amazon milk frog, a white's tree frog, dubia roaches, and madagascar hissing roaches. Then she also had a black lab puppy she was raising for a Leader Dog association to be a service animal for people who are blind. Plus I had 3 fish tanks in that dorm, so it was a wild time. She raised I think 8 additional baby cresties from her first pair and we had just got a few new females and a male crested gecko to start more breeding projects when covid hit and we both moved back home.
this video could not have come at a more perfect time than today. just got the news i need to move in august, and my partner and i are hoping to move from a townhouse to an apartment.
Glad cresties made the list! I love cresties and I want to get one super bad, but I am holding off for the time being. I want to see what's going to happen with the Lacey Act situation.
Well, beside the blue skink, it's literally my bucket list! I have a Hognose and it only question of time when something else follow me home!! :) Love your video! keep up the good work!
i have a 50 gallon tank for my turtles and a 15 gallon for my dwarf clawed frogs in the livingroom of my flat. everybody loves it. they are very heavy planted so its nice to have some natural plants in an otherwhise fairly dark room
another great apartment amphibian: African Clawed Frogs (they are illegal in some US States though) can be housed in as small as 10-15 gallons, eat a prepared pellet diet, males aren't very loud when they sing. They don't require excess heat either. No specific lighting needs. Just change the water once a week and they're quite hardy.
I'm a HUGE fan of thr channel and I absolutely love all the content lately and how you reach out to see what we'd like to watch from you! I like to know if you'd be making a tiktok account!? That'd be awesome!!
So ive really been wanting a snake. My top picks are ball python and hognose. HOWEVER hognoses and balls are picky eaters, so I've been looking into corn snakes even though I wasn't interested in them before, because I figure if my ball or hognose refused a meal I could feed it to the corn snake. kinda weird this was the time you decided to talk about them. Ps as an apartment dweller and a stay at home mom, I doordashed for everything I needed for my leopard gecko and I use a cash back on groceries app to pay for his food. Absolutely PERFECT apartment pets. no misting or anything, just feed them and clean the tank here and there and set the temps and hes good. Absolutely love him.
What species do you think is the best for small spaces?
Leopard gecko
R O S Y
B O A
Leos
Defo a pygmy rattler
Dart frogs
A friend of mine kept a California kingsnake and 2 tarantulas in his barracks. He did that knowing it's prohibited per the military. He got away with it because the walk-in closet where he stored his clothes are considered his personal items where it was mandatory that he buy his own lock to secure his valuables; therefore it's not subject to the inspection for cleanliness lol. I would like to reiterate that this is not me but a friend of mine who's in the military. Yes.. a friend.
I did the same thing. I had a tarantula and a crested gecko when I was at fort Campbell. Funny thing was when I got them I had two of my friends with me and they thought I was high 🤣
HAHA that was me too. I kept snakes in a rack in my barracks locker. waaaaay too much anxiety every field day...
@@dakotaalexander9292 I thought i was the only one
De pura casualidad no hablas español?
My friend had a ferret in the barracks in Germany.
Both of my roommates were absolutely TERRIFIED of reptiles, I brought a crested gecko home and they held him and going on about how soft he is etc. They've even volunteer to take care of him when I'm out of town. Crested geckos are the absolute best reptile!!!
[Update] she laid an egg!!
seconded ✋
Whrn i was at uni (second year - i a rented house, not student accommodation) I kept tarantulas, african bullfrog, beetles, scorpions, mice, ball python, corn snake, geckos, chickens, ducks and more 🤣 only had to get rid of all indoor animals when I got married...
Cresties are like gateway reptiles😂 we started with them and have moved up to bearded dragons and hognose snakes.
laughs in hognose snake
Update on the egg?
I just knew the hognose snake would be on this list! I keep a male one myself, and he's really awesome and outgoing for being so small. I can also recommend a fire skink as a blue tongue alternative, if you want a smaller, but awesome and reasonable reptile for a small space and don't mind keeping feeder insects.
i have Hobi , my evans hognose and 2 garters. Hobi is soo outgoing. he taps on the glass when I get home from work wanting to be let out to crawl all over me and my desk.
best snake ever
@@HeavenlyiceDream Mine named Egon is crazy curious and wants to interact with just about everything he can when outside by rubbing his nose against it. He tests his strength against my fingers by trying to lift them. He also seems to have an obsession with keeping his enclosure as it is, as moving around anything makes him cranky for days while he also becomes way more hissy and seems to be pushing the items back to where they are supposed to be with his nose. He's otherwise very chill, and comes to my hand when I put it into his his area without provoking a feeding response. He's very easy to handle and introduce to strangers when he's outside.
Thank you. Finally; someone with sense.
Adam is my biggest mentor in reptile owning, i am aching to get one and Adam is the person who has let me understand how all sorts of amazing reptiles need things that others dont... thank you so much Adam, and stay awesome!! 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
thank you so much!
@@WickensWickedReptiles no problem man you deserve more popularity then you get...
he really is great and deserves more popularity. though so many titles have confused me with like "are ball pythons really that great" or something like that
The new design on the thumbnails is much more eye-catching than the old ones. Keep up the great work!
thank you!
I definitely agree, it's more dynamic and sticks out more when scrolling through
Agreed. They're quite nice and remind me of the thumbnails gamers often use these days.
My personal pick for my apartment reptile (and first-ever reptile pet) was a Mexican Black Kingsnake, and I’ve never looked back. Maybe not the best for tiny spaces, since he uses every corner of his 120 gallon tank, but I personally wouldn’t go smaller than that with a corn snake, either, and corn snakes tend to get rather longer and are also active anyways. I cannot say enough good things about kingsnakes; if you’re not afraid to maybe get munched on by a tiny mouth, their beauty, ease of care, hardiness, and bold personalities easily make them a top-tier small snake.
I'm so glad Cresties made it on the list. Easy, sweet and amazing little lizards! Can't wait for the reptile room tour!
I was literally waiting the entire video for the old "don't bite my ear".
Diamond didn't disappoint as usual! 😂 I keep 5 snakes and 2 birds in a small room with a king-sized bed.
All of them have big enclosures and I've rearranged the room twice to make space for more whilst aquiring them 👌 To say I'm looking forward to getting a bigger place is an understatement!! Loved the little bit in the middle showing your frog enclosures, they are beautiful 👍 top content as always!
Diamond is a mad lad
@@WickensWickedReptiles Diamond 🔹 should take over as the program's Host.
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I'm almost at two weeks with my first snake, which is also a hognose! He's eating great and seems pretty well settled. I love him!
How's he/she doing now? I own a California Kingsnake aberrant male that's 66% het for albino (but I don't plan to breed with him, he's my family).
Also he's born June 29 2020 and I have him since August 24 2020 and he's 110cm now and lives in an 80 gallons enclosure.👍🐍 I really love snakes.
Who gave you the hognose bug was it Adam or a different TY person; for me it was 2 channels Exotics Lair and SnakeDiscovery.
That was funny when the frog was making noises. Western hog nose are so adorable
I agree!
i also like the idea of a blue tongued skink for an apartment/dorm situation because 1) your roommate probably won’t be afraid of it like they may be afraid of a snake, and 2) it won’t get loose and hide like a snake could, which could be an even bigger issue than normal in a shared space
I'm in a house share, one issue with keeping snakes is that either you will either have to buy a separate freezer or have to have really cool house mates that are cool with you keeping mice or rats in the shared freezer 😅
I put the bag of mice in a paper bag so nobody can see the mice
Yeah, I just let them take the L. Fortunately, my roommates are all males so their amount of fcks to give are a lot more flexible.
My wife wasn't okay with me keeping rats in the freezer so I decided to buy my own deep freezer specifically for rats. I lucked out and my neighbor moved and left theirs by the side of the road like a week before I was going to buy my own lol
I’m ok with it if my roommate has one lol😂
It's about $40 for a mini freezer
Ok one more: I actually think the solution to loud frogs is to just intermittently play loud frog calls on TH-cam and then sometimes turn them off and sometimes don't turn them off. It's certainly no worse than my neighbor who currently plays the same song over and over and sings along loudly and off key, or my other neighbors who played Forza at 2AM every day.
yeah i think any reasonable person wouldn't complain... but also I used to live above someone who would call the cops if I played electric guitar.... without an amp... just the most silly person
@@WickensWickedReptiles man your neighbor was the WORST. the correct response to someone playing guitar in the apartment above you is to slip a note under their door requesting freebird
As someone who lives in a studio apartment, I do have forbidden skittles (St. Isabel tree frogs). They do call, but it sounds so quiet and squeaky that half the time I forget it's them making the sound. Plus, I agree about the beautiful spaces. Their terrarium let me combine my plant lady tendencies with my love of amphibians.
adorable!
Haha me right now in my room with 5 gallon betta tank 3 gallon shrimp tank and 30 gall fish tank n bout to add 120 bearded dragon n want collard lizard in 50 n have them all in my room cause we have woodstove for heat but heater in room lol
I loved the video! Honestly though, once you go to 4x2x2 enclosures, you could keep so many animals. So many different snakes and lizard (and even frogs) would do great in 4x2x2, bit I get the concept of other care requirements being considered as well. I'd definitely say my easiest reptile that I have is my crested geckos!
Good point!
67 gallon (48*18*18) enclosures are up there as well when it come to snakes, corn snakes, king snakes, smaller ball pythons, rat snakes, dwarf Burmese pythons, pine snakes, dwarf boas, male Central American boas, and more. Not sure about lizards. You could get away with bearded dragons and keep those lizards that are kind of like small bearded dragons, but I’m not sure about anything else.
I totally agree with cresties being #1. My room has a huge window which keeps it quite warm year round, so no additional heat source required, diet is super easy, and he's very sweet and docile. Only tricky thing in the beginning was humidity if I've got a fan going in my room, but that's easy to counter with a small humidifier.
How warm does the enclosure get?
I bought a baby leopard gecko a few years ago. Started with a 10 G terrarium and upgraded it to a 20 G a year ago. My mother and father didn’t like her at first, but now they adore her and are now taking care of her while I’m in college. I was thinking about getting some type of reptile once I start renting out an apartment or living off campus, so this list is very helpful. Great video 🙏🏼
I'm a teen living in a tiny apartment with my two parents and on-and-off sister. A plains hognose snake is PERFECT. They don't need super big enclosures, especially as babies, they're good to get people afraid of snakes unafraid because of their adorable faces, and they're awesome for handling. Highly reccomend.
I have a male Western Hognose in my small apartment and he's perfect!! (as well as a few ball pythons..) I would also say that Rosy boas, Rubber boas (if you can find one), and Kenyan sand boas would be other perfect little snakes for a small apartment or dorm!
Great list, totally agree. Love guessing your next answer on these types of list, and was able to guess that cresties would be number one!
I live in a apartment and have cresties!
Glad you enjoyed!
200k let’s goooo, I got pack into reptiles literally a year ago this mknth and now have started my own channel and “shop” this is awesome congrats Adam
My crested gecko has been one of my favorites to keep and has been pretty low maintenance in the bio active set up. It’s my first reptile and I really like having the height to play with rather than floor space. I’m in a small one bedroom apartment so only have one book shelf for tanks, so I have my crestie and is 10 gallon tanks I have a tomato frog, Pac-Man frog, and a fire belly toad. I got them all on a similar feeding schedule and all are bio active so it’s all pretty easy to maintain.
From watching Adam’s videos I’ve learned so so much about reptiles and I was once one of those people who was a little freaked out or scared by reptiles but now I think they’re beautiful animals with their own amazing personalities. I’ve changed my views so greatly I’m hoping to get a crested gecko very soon and that’s all through Adam’s amazing videos and care guides and I wanted to say a huge huge thank you for posting them and having such an amazing channel.
I have my crested gecko in my apartment and it's the best pet I've ever had! What an amazing and easy animal to have. I live with a friend and he loves Kuzko too and never bothered him at all! Glad they made the list tho it was obvious they would.
So much respect for you and the channel you've created.
I didn't think I'd ever see number 2 beat number 1 on any top 5 from Adam.... I own a number 2 and she is great as always great video
3:05 majestic scaly friend .. great footage
she sure is majestic
Agree 100% on crested being #1. I’d have added sand boas too, if you get a nice curious one that at least periscopes sometimes.
I just recently got a California King Snake, I love him! He's still relatively small, and I have him currently in a 24 x 18 x 12, I know he's going to need something bigger in the future.
He big is he now, and what enclosure do you house him in. I’d recommend bare minimum a 40 gallon enclosure, since bare minimum the length plus the width should equal the full length of the snake.
However, bigger would be more desirable such as a 75 gallon enclosure, preferably so your snake can stretch out or near enough (like, if your snake is 4’2 and the enclosure is only 4 feet long, it’s so little of a difference that it doesn’t really matter).
I just got an albino axanthic hognose baby boi partially thanks to your channel. He's so cute but I wasn't prepared for how much he stays under the aspen lol (it reminded me of what you said about sand boas being an expensive tank of sand) maybe its because hes still adjusting to the new place. He's above the aspen for about 30 minutes a day then hes back under the aspen for the rest of the day. I love when I see him scooching around his room, its so precious 🥺
they can hide a lot at first
@@WickensWickedReptiles thanks, it just makes me nervous because I've never seen him drink and I haven't found any urates so far (although they could be blending into the aspen). He has 2-3" of lightly compressed aspen with undertank heating at approx 85F, a hide on the warm side, and a water bowl on the cool side with lots of leaves in between for cover.
My mum and I have hidden 3 snakes, 9 tarantulas, 2 scorpions, 3 giant snails, 6 giant millipedes, 2 ferrets and a hamster , all in proper enclosures, from my stepdad
I was living in a dorm at college and now I’m living at home and I have an Albino Black Rat Snake and an African Fat Tail Gecko! Both comparable substitutions for some of the animals on the list but I love my reptiles!!
Love this Top 5!! The crested gecko is what I'd have, if I could! I don't need a small space pet but love this for its smaller cost for set up and animal and I love the fact that the feeding is very simple. One question- do they small bad? The hognose was super cute too!!
pls do more care guides about corn snakes
Love the increase of video quality keep it up
Thanks!!
I have a small house and have recently overcame my fear of reptiles thanks to your channel and a few others. We just purchased a male variable kingsnake. We hope to expand into a small collection and are grateful for such informational content. Looking for to your upcoming tour!
That’s so awesome
I live in a small one bedroom apartment and have never had a reptile pet before. There are so many reptiles that I do like and would want, northern blue tounged skink, crested gecko, mourning gecko, emerald tree skinks (Clint sold me on those) or pink tounged skink.
But the more I researched, the more I really thought about it; my first reptile will be a hognose snake. They are going to fit my lifestyle the best (other than my mom not liking snakes) and I can't wait to get one!
"Top 5 reptiles you can keep in a dorm room!"
#1: *Komodo Dragon*
I swear this guy reads my mind on what videos to make!
I have a crystal ball
Love this video every time I watch your video and wait for one the school week goes SO fast!
You're the best!
Living in a one bedroom apartment and recently just got my first snake, a normal ball python and she's awesome super chill and sweet definitely recommend ball pythons for both apartment living and for a first snake
Great thumbnail, loved the video! Awesome, Adam!
The "Eyelashes Always On Fleek" was hilarious ☀️
My Guinea pigs heard the frog croaking and went crazy wheeeking. Males were ready to bring it on and me female was like, come here big boy.
I highly recommend corn snakes! I bought one in January and I LOVE it! They're super docile easy cheap and they come in so many cool colors we actually just bought a baby ball python as well! But I will say ALWAYS so research with reptiles get advice but learn to make you're own decisions on them! people bicker on enclosure size bedding heat source etc do what you do can do/what you think is best
This is the funniest video I've seen in a while. Cracked me up so much
yay:)
If I were to be honest Adam is the best reptile/pet TH-camr up there with snake discovery and Clint’s reptiles and also go herping and literally every reptile/pet TH-camr that doesn’t abuse their reptiles and also knows what their talking. About
thank you so much for the kind words
Another very awesome WWR video
Thank you
I would love a video on how to set up proper UVB for a crestie! I’ve seen it talked about more and more lately
I’ve just found your channel and I’m so so glad I have !! Thank you so much!! Love from the UK 💕
So glad! Welcome aboard
Your videos are getting so good man. I havent had time to watch for a bit and the quality is outstanding. I love the enclosure footage and the music you put with the presentation too.
You said it, and I vote for a male Plains (Western) Hognose as the best snake for a small space. Easy to hold (not squirmy), a small cage or a 20+ quart tub is plenty of room, tolerates a wide temperature range, fun to watch, once established will eat out of the hand, eats f/t mice and Repti Links if desired, etc. I really cannot think of any other commonly available captive produced snake that has all of those attributes in such a compact package. Great video!
I turned my college dorm closet into our iguana enclosure and my roommate and i just shared the other closet for clothes. Drilled a small hole for the cord of his sunlamp to make it to a nearby receptacle. Took fresh veggies from the cafeteria every morning to feed him. The RA never knew a thing and it was a sweet roomy setup which Rex thoroughly enjoyed.
Actually picking up my first Crestie this weekend. Enclosure is already set up and ready to go.
Enjoy!
I’d love to see a video going over different dart frog species! I’d love to own some in the future but there’s so many I don’t really know where to start
I just got the blue tongue names! Steve and Irwin! I love it
In Australia we only really have Eastern and Western Blue Tongues for sale. Until I found your channel I’d never heard of a Indonesian Blue Tongue.
This list is spot on I have little room in my apartment and have considered all of these but stuck with crested geckos.
Amazing
Great videos keep it up! You got me into reptiles and it’s been really good for my mental health. Let me know if you do any comedy shows in California. I’ll be there ¨̮
Awesome thanks!!!
Your channel has helped our whole family overcome our fear of reptiles over the last year. I just got my first snake, a hognose named Nope, a couple weeks ago and am already in love. We already have 2 beardies but the kids have claimed them😂 we'll be moving by the end of the year and can't wait to set up a reptile room in our new house.
i actually kept a male colombian boa in my apartment for the last couple years of college and it worked out great. he was a little guy, maybe 5.5 ft/1.7m, so i managed to give him a nice spacious enclosure. don't get me wrong, it took up half my bedroom and one of my closet doors wouldn't open. but all i had to do to compensate was put a bunch of stuff in storage bins and stick em under my bed. totally worth it imo.
Fedsmoker! Omg I was not expecting that in a video like this haha had me rolling. Keep featherin it brother
Thanks for this video, it was helpful! I'm actually moving in a bigger apartment and informed the landlady that we intended to get a reptile eventually, asking if that would be a problem. We were expecting a straight-up yes or no. Instead, she replied to us that only salamanders, turtles and lizards (yes, I know one of them isn't a reptile) and later specifically wrote down on the lease that snakes were forbidden. That bummed us out because we had intended to get a hognose snake, and snakes seem to be easier maintenance than other reptiles.
But we'll start researching on which type of lizards would fit us better (or wait until we can get our own place and have ALL THE HOGNOSES). Definitely thought about getting a crestie or a gecko though.
I wouldn’t have seen Adam giving the cresties the dub over hogs in a million years 😂! It’s nice to see more appreciation for cresties here ❤️
Leopard geckos would be top of my list for sure, I had my girl since I was 13 and I had her hidden in my university accommodation all 3 years and hard her well into my 20s.
holy crap adam. almost reached that 200k subs. congratulations in advance🥳
Love your videos. I love how your content is always improving
Keep fetherin' it brother! Follow that proto.
Love your videos, and the late great Conald.
I'm in college and living with my mom where I have a fair amount of space and my mom loves my reptiles so I'm pretty lucky with space. I have a blue tongue in the living room, a bearded dragon in my bedroom and a couple crested geckos in my office. So where ever I am I have a lizard near me. I just need to be careful about when I move out because I will have a lot less space, but what you said about putting the enclosure on top of a dresser is a great idea for my 4foot blue tongue enclosure.
Good to see that some things never change - like Diamond trying to chew on Adam's ear
Well I been thinking what animal should I get and I’m glad to find your video!!!seriously cuz I. Been trying to convince my parents to buy me a pet snake and they said no so maybe smaller quiet pets might work!,idk what I should get that would be perfect for me cuz I love wild animals,reptiles,small insects,friendly cute animals!!❤😅
Hognose snakes are the best. I love their little faces. Great video.
I love this! I also think Kenyan Sand Boas are great for small spaces. I’m curious if you’ve done a bio active enclosure for one?
not yet!
Forbidden Skittles XD I absolutely love your humor! That's an animal on my wish list. Josh's Frogs makes them too easy
Finally one of these.
wooooooooo
YOU ROCK! Love watching your videos.
Plant person here, your birkin in the dart frog enclosure is stunning.
Dropping a comment on this great video to add that African House Snakes are another option for people needing an easy to keep snake that doesn't need much space, as they are often smaller than corn snakes and take about the same care levels. Just be sure to get a well established eater juvenile if this is your first, since when they're babies up to a few months old, they can go off their food and be difficult to start/restart. Once they're feeding well, they're lovely little shy and chill snakes, with beautiful blue iridescence to win over snake-fearing people.
thanks for the awesome video! love the new thumb nail by the way
100% on corn snakes. Low space requirements, easy care, very easy going nature.
Just got a corn snake yesterday. The difference between it and the Cali king I had prior are night and day. The king took actual effort to get handleable, and even then it didn’t enjoy it. ALWAYS a threat display, ALWAYS musked on me, and spent all its time buried in the substrate.
The corn is a bit skittish when you first try to pick it up (like most baby snakes are) but immediately calms down in the hand. I’ve not seen even the slightest amount of aggression either. Also naturally inquisitive, it’s not uncommon for it to be out of its hide exploring the enclosure.
My experience with corn snakes so far has been enjoyable, while caring for the kingsnake always felt like a chore.
If you have to choose between the two I’d highly recommend the corn.
I got really interested in the "quiet frogs" topic when you said some of the dart frogs are loud and some of them are not. Can you maby make an episode about quiet frogs spiecies?
I was thinking Lecheanous gecko too along with crested geckos because of the super easy heat and diet requirements but I forgot they're big bois. Great video!
That's a great idea!
This was a super great video! Keep up the great work!
My White's tree frog boi croaks every single day, especially if I put on the water boiler, or if I laugh/talk to loudly. He seems very reactive to sound, so if I croak back at him he keeps going on. :D He's actually croaked since he was 3 months old. The females are also very talkative, but in a much more quiet manner. It's more of a chirp than a croak. Highly entertaining frogs.
Got a genuine laugh from that lemon meme
I live in an apartment and I have this spot in my living room with no furniture it's just like an open space that's like half room. Perfect space for a couple of scaly pets but I still need them to be easy to move. Thanks so much for the video! Hognose is a dream for me
I'm in an apartment shared with a significant other who's not a big fan of most reptiles, but I did convince her into letting me get one crested gecko, which quickly became 5... Would love to add a hognose and a BTS to the mix but I have to wait, too much going on in the apartment already because I also have 4 fish tanks and she has a chinchilla. Great video and it was cool to see a lot of species I have or want to work with very soon.
My roommate in my dorm a few years back actually was breeding crested geckos and is how I got my first one. She had originally one pair of crested geckos and I got one of her second clutch of babies. She also had some cane toads, an amazon milk frog, a white's tree frog, dubia roaches, and madagascar hissing roaches. Then she also had a black lab puppy she was raising for a Leader Dog association to be a service animal for people who are blind. Plus I had 3 fish tanks in that dorm, so it was a wild time. She raised I think 8 additional baby cresties from her first pair and we had just got a few new females and a male crested gecko to start more breeding projects when covid hit and we both moved back home.
this video could not have come at a more perfect time than today. just got the news i need to move in august, and my partner and i are hoping to move from a townhouse to an apartment.
I love just when he was about to start muck started croaking 🤣🤣
Glad cresties made the list! I love cresties and I want to get one super bad, but I am holding off for the time being. I want to see what's going to happen with the Lacey Act situation.
Well, beside the blue skink, it's literally my bucket list! I have a Hognose and it only question of time when something else follow me home!! :) Love your video! keep up the good work!
i have a 50 gallon tank for my turtles and a 15 gallon for my dwarf clawed frogs in the livingroom of my flat. everybody loves it. they are very heavy planted so its nice to have some natural plants in an otherwhise fairly dark room
Thanks for confirming that the Plains Hognoses are what I need in my life ❤️ (and apartment ..)
Our pleasure!
another great apartment amphibian: African Clawed Frogs (they are illegal in some US States though) can be housed in as small as 10-15 gallons, eat a prepared pellet diet, males aren't very loud when they sing. They don't require excess heat either. No specific lighting needs. Just change the water once a week and they're quite hardy.
alright i'm gonna say it: your montage music is all bangers no skips 😎
I like the little subtitles underneath of each of animals.
I'm glad you like them :)
@@WickensWickedReptiles I think it's so funny how you do the subtitles.
I'm a HUGE fan of thr channel and I absolutely love all the content lately and how you reach out to see what we'd like to watch from you! I like to know if you'd be making a tiktok account!? That'd be awesome!!
Already have one. Please follow
I figured that garter and tri color hog nosed would be on the list. But otherwise, you're spot on
So ive really been wanting a snake. My top picks are ball python and hognose. HOWEVER hognoses and balls are picky eaters, so I've been looking into corn snakes even though I wasn't interested in them before, because I figure if my ball or hognose refused a meal I could feed it to the corn snake. kinda weird this was the time you decided to talk about them. Ps as an apartment dweller and a stay at home mom, I doordashed for everything I needed for my leopard gecko and I use a cash back on groceries app to pay for his food. Absolutely PERFECT apartment pets. no misting or anything, just feed them and clean the tank here and there and set the temps and hes good. Absolutely love him.
The more common eyelid geckos (leopard, fat-tail, Chinese cave) are also great for folks with limited space.