I live in south Florida. FWC has me absolutely sick and gutted, regarding their treatment of responsible reptile keepers. I hate my state and my heart breaks for everyone here that’s losing not only their animals but their life’s work, in many cases. Thank you for giving these Tegu’s a good home. You’ve definitely got a new follower! I’m just so angry😡 Everyone, PLEASE support USARKFL!!🦎❤️🦎

This is heartbreaking i could not imagine losing 10 years of hard work and dedication. Best of luck to the rose city reptiles family with their new adventure!

This is heart breaking for Hector. These tegus couldn’t be going to a better place!

I can't imagine what Hector is feeling having to give up his business and his animals. So absurd how a government can do this to good, law-abiding people with no thought or remorse. I'm glad they're in your hands Joey. As someone who dreams of getting a Tegu from you, I know they're in some of the most capable hands in the country if not the world.

Hector must be so broken to have to get rid of his whole lifes work my thoughts are with him. And I think it's incredible that you are taking them in. So glad they didn't have to be destroyed and get to live out their lives great ending to a crappy situation.

I am gutted at the thought of them almost being destroyed and such a good breeder losing his business because of others. Good on you and your wife stepping in for these.

My heart goes out to Hector. So much love and hard word being taken from him by FWL. But he couldn’t have picked a better home for his tegus. Can’t wait to see how they come part of the RCR adventure.

This is why it is SO SO important for EVERYONE to strongly and actively support USARK and USARK FL. I've been volunteering every month at my local shows at the USARK table to try and get it through people's head. If we want to stop these bills, we need active members of USARK to be stepping up when these bills pop up. Calling and emailing representatives, sharing USARK alerts and posts, and donating if you are financially able.

Omg!!! Poor Hector! Thank God for you Joey!!

What an opportunity!! Great job being there for Hector during such a crazy time. I'm sure he appreciates it more than he can put into words. You've got a ton of work ahead of you, but don't forget to get some rest!! Can't wait to see all the new babies 😁

Quite an unplanned undertaking! Glad to see that all of Hector's tegus found a good home. Best of luck on this new project!

I wish Hector and his family all the best, I can't imagine what it's like to lose your passion, your hobby, your job, your business and all of the hard work across an entire decade. It is so sad to see. I'm glad Rose City Reptiles is the new home to so many Tegus, best of luck in this new stage of your lives. I'm very excited to see what comes out of this, you got this Joey!

Make sure you get some rest my man. Our high white red we got from you over a year ago is MASSIVE now and doing SO well! These new gus you have will absolutely get the love and care they need. Hector made the right call.

This to me was very inspirational and moving. Im from a tiny country overseas i see species, morphs and stores dissappearing from the hobby. Times are changeing. Thats why this made very happy and moved by this.

Florida has turned into an authoritarian state, so sad! Very happy that the Tegu's are going to an amazing home!

Oh my heart! This is so awful. Bless you for stepping in and saving all these babies. As soon as my lifetime double stack arrives, I will definitely be giving one of the babies a home.

FFW has lost it's damn mind. I am so sorry for all the reptile owners and breeders in Florida. This whole thing has been such a nightmare, and it only seems to be getting worse. Please support US ARC, and sign every petition you can get your hands on!

Thank you for helping Hector out. This made me so sad he had to give up 10 yrs of work. I know how much he loved and cared for these Tegus. I'm happy you have the room to rescue them. Beautiful animals, best of luck with them. And thank you again for saving me their lives.

Wow, what an exciting and sad turn of events. It's amazing how we never know what each day will bring. I'm glad that you were there at the right time for this moment. Great video. Thanks for sharing.

I got my blue tegu from you back in September. Last week I drove from Alaska to central texas in 3 days (4,000miles) with him and he did great on the drive. I’m active army and just got stationed back in texas❤

I feel horrible for Hector. 😢😢😢. I'm glad they contacted you Joey!

Rose city reptiles will always be the best reptile breeder of all time such a great legend

My heart breaks for Hector…but I’m crying tears of happiness right now this is so emotional

A Tegu is a dream animal of mine and knowing hector lost his entire collection I could only imagine what he’s feeling. I’m glad his collection is going somewhere that they are going to be taken amazing care of and his years of hard work isn’t being flushed away. So for that I think I speak for all of us when I say thank you for keeping his work alive 🤘🤘🤘

This is such a bittersweet video, I feel for Hector.

Thank God you could take them! I hate what the breeders are going through in FL. I love that Hector chips them. Bless you both!

Awesome stuff man. You know you’re doing good work when a big guy like hector hits you up. Very heart warming video and congrats on all the new children! 😅

This pi**es me off! Grateful that you were there to help…but my heart breaks for hector and FWC has lost their damn minds!!

That's a wonderful thing that you did, to take in that many is awesome! I can't believe Florida fish and wildlife was going to destroy all those beautiful tegus. When you look into their eyes you can see the intelligence there. I am sure that they love watching the sun rise every morning just as we do. Anyway great job!

so sad! your passion, your love! lost! good thing is they can still live their lives!

So sad for them, but I'm glad you were able to step in and rescue those tegus.

This is my worst fear right now. I got my tegu from rose city in the end of December of 2022...ik he's still pretty new but I love my tegu and we are best friends. Watching people lose there animals and hard work of so many years is so sad and it scares me.

So happy all those tegus have a new home! Excited to see them all.

I am so thankful Hector's fantastic group found a home with you. It is tragic that Florida made such a short sighted decision. I understand that they are trying to protect the native species and their natural habitat but it is NOT responsible breeders and owners that have caused the problem. This regulatory change is a knee jerk reaction that will have exactly ZERO benefit to the native species/habitat of Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife is making some foolish decisions.

Wow awesome man. Thanks for sharing the experience. Sorry to Hector and the family but glad he found ya to help 😊😊

I thought there was a hold on licensed tegu breeders from having to evict all their inventory till an outcome in the court case against FWC by USARK? I'm a Florida native and tegu owner. I've jumped through all the manitory stupid hoops to keep mine. This ban has to be stopped!!!

You are a life saver

Your videos have improved so much my man. Keep it up!

Wow! wonder why after 10 years it's suddenly illegal! That's crazy!! Happy that you were able to take them all so they wouldn't be put down.

What a Honor, but also Luck for Hector to have found a Saint like you, able of taking/caring all 200 Animals in, so they can live. Can't imaging his Relief. He lost no Life to Fls reactionary draconian and harming Excuse of Approach. It will get worse. Won't think of how many will get released and mistreated in Future because of this. Good Times for the Blackmarket. Things like licensed Owning, mandatory GPS chipping would do so much more for the Animals also. It would prevent desperate releases, Pet kills and Abuse from illegal trading and keeping. Thanks for stepping in, saving 200 Tegu Souls and giving them a Loving Home.

I know it’s heartbreaking for Hector but I am so glad that the two of you could save all these animals from FWC. ❤

Can't wait for the next video 😁

Amazing work from both parties involved. Sucks what Hector has to go through, but glad you’re able to help him out. 👍🏻

At that point is when I would seriously leave Florida. That’s just insane to me, my heart goes out to Hector.

Super duper awesome !!!!!! Cant wait to see the up coming videos !!!

This is crazy in sad man best of luck man hope things getting better

Amazing. I am so Happy for you and excited to see what are able to do with this opportunity. Obviously Hector chose someone he could trust who is the best man for the job. My wife and I are planning a move and I can’t wait to get one of those high blues that you will be producing as soon as I have the space to do it properly.

I am so excited to see them all. What an amazing opportunity 🥰

This video just got me extremely excited for a Tegu! I will have to get a nice enclosure set up here in the next couple of months

I'm just glad they could be rehomed. I thought I had heard of some folks that weren't so lucky and lost their animals.

1st video of yours I’ve watched-thank you and please take care! Those Tegus are GORGEOUS! What’s happening with all those other owners?

Can’t wait to see what you do with hectors insane collection! I also can’t wait to get a blue from you guys eventually lol.

I can't imagine. Thank you for taking in those poor, sweet animals. Floridia has gone insane. I feel for all our fellow keepers living there. We have to support USARK and any way to keep these laws and ideologies from spreading elsewhere - I guess they got a foothold in FL because of the Burms and fear etc. Fear man, it ruins so much. Sending love to Hector's Habitats and I hope they can at least restart something or, hell, move. To destroy a small business because of fear. So, so sad.

Wow. I live in Florida and had no idea this was happening. Hard to think about how many tegus are being sentenced to death by this changing law. FWC is and has been out of control for too long.

Amazing

Damn that is so sad. Atleast the animals weren’t euthanised. I had something similar happen to me last year. My health took an unexpected turn for the worse and I had to get rid of all my animals. I gave away thousands of pounds worth of animals and equipment for free so I could place them with people I trusted to look after them to the standard I wanted them to be kept.

That’s an amazing opportunity! I am excited to see you guys flourish! With that many animals, do you think you’d ever need an extra set of hands? I know it’s a long shot, but I’d love to apply if given the opportunity!

My first blue tegu was from Hector too, he has amazing tegus.

Something like that is amazing to receive but I feel horrible for Hector and all of the real hobbyists in Florida that have to go through this.

Good job respect for all the hard work you to bro 😎 tegus 4 life

Wow that's awesome

Absolutely fantastic job joey. They couldn't have gone to a better home! I'm just thinking where I would put 200 tegus if I was in your shoes. It would be packed over here 😅

Terrible situation but great opportunity to help the reptile community and honor to continue in the footsteps of a personal mentor.

Happy for you but I feel soo bad for him. I live in Florida and what they're doing in Florida is absolutely criminal. It's disgusting

Thank god you were able to save them

Thats that SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY i swear its a real thing😂❤️

If anyone can carry on in Hectors foot steps its you. How special he chose you.

Gosh 200 tegus I can barely handle one such pretty tegus though and what an experience!

very sad but an amazing opportunity for u :)

Such a sucky situation, but not at the same time. At least Hector can see his collection thru KZfaq, when he can't come visit. At least he knows you will take good care of his babies.

😢😢😢 this is so sad poor hector sending ❤❤❤❤❤

I’m speechless…..

It would be a f**king honor to cross paths with a Teague 🥰

So sad, I’m from Florida and all these laws will keep me far away from moving back lol but I didn’t know you were so close to me. Do you ever do any of the reptile shows in Louisiana?

Sounds like you may have a few that need new homes, too. I can't imagine absorbing so many so rapidly, and not needing to find homes for some.

Thank you for rescuing these lizards. Governments are too powerful and mean.

I wish you talked more about hectors situation and why he had to give you all his tegus.

On one hand I understand Florida F&W and their reasons for banning tegus. On the other hand however, there already a breeding population in the wild, banning pet tegus from responsible keepers will not fix that problem. It is for that reason I overall disagree with the decision. It doesn't solve the problem, just ruin good people's hobbies.

I understand Florida's reptile laws because of them already havinga problem with invasive species, but it's still sad to see/think that all of those keepers good or bad having to get rid of or euthanize their pets.

this is so sad that he had to get rid of all his tegus. Georgia is also banning tegus they starting with the black and white tegus first. and its not just ga and fla its south carolina, north carolina, and alabama as well hope texas doesnt ban them to

I’m looking for a pair of high white blues. Very sad he had to give up his tegus heart braking. I couldn’t imagine the pain of loading them all up, watching them one by one go away. I’m cutting back on my snakes thought it would be easy but as people look at them, I say oh maybe I’ll keep this one. Maybe I’ll keep that one.

Those are gorgeous tegus glad they were saved and got a good home to go to.

This is so heartbreaking. So glad you can take them. What’s going to happen if they get the law pass that you can’t transport across state lines💔

What you guys go through in the US in regards to reptiles is just so senseless. Sorry for Hector but I know they will have a great new home.

I couldn't imagine giving up my goos. I cried for Hector and his family 💔 At least he knows they are going to a good responsible tegu owner. I can't thank you enough for my goos. They bring me joy everyday! I brag about them at work. They are part of my family. They live in my living room and I just drew up plans for a bigger better Living room enclosure. With a Disney theme! I can't wait to see all the new goos and see and hear about them. Are all of them blues? Are there albinos? I would love to have a very dark blue male for LORALIE. just saying 😊 And maybe male and female albinos One for your bunch and one from Hectors?

I bet crossing the state line was a pain in the but glad u saved all them beautiful lizards tho 🤘🐍👹

damn I need to come buy a pair

SO SAD AND SO UNFAIR TO THE RESPONSIBLE KEEPERS 🙁

They should start to give them good homes outside of Florida and all you need to do is to prove you can keep care of it and that you can pay for shipment from Florida And also remember where the original owner are so then if they move out they can pay you for keeping their tegu

How are all.the tegus doing ?

That's so sad.

I’d move, no way I’d give up my animals

❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

Dude looks kind of like UK strong man Eddie the beast Hall but without the muscles.😂

What country does the Tegus come from?

These are such gorgeous tame and non threatening animals. Florida is so wrong for this!

Welcome to Texas ! Florida seems to become worse and worse every day

Can I fly out to Texas and just help you I would love to get experience and be there to help!!!!!

So not fair, to make someone give up their beloved pets....unreal

Land of the Freeeeeee