I like how he is honest and tells ppl how to own animals on a budget. And isn't like trying to just sell things just for the money. Actually wants to care. Thanks.

Even if it’s not a permanent situation, a sterilite with a locking lid is the perfect place for a new snake owner. Easy to store and clean. You can literally put it in a shower and use dawn soap.

Great topic for those of us growing a collection on a budget

This video series should be mandatory for anyone purchasing a terrestrial species of snake! Basic info that will make the hobby much more enjoyable for the keeper and the animal. Thank you Kevin! Also, where can I buy or listen to your music? 🤟

I need the Hognose bin size but couldn't find it but in my research I came across the options for the largest bin and figured I'd share. It's my best guess anyway. Sterilite 37 quart clear plastic bin with gasket and 6 latches in blue. Outside measurements are 24" x 18" x 7" according to Amazon. Iris USA has a 41.2 quart Weatherpro clear plastic bin with 6 latches and gasket in black. Outside measurements are 23.6" x 17.75" x 7.88" according to Amazon.

Thank you for time! I love that you’re making this videos now that I’m about to purchase my first reptile!

Great content Kevin! So glad to see these videos. You are a rock star in the reptile world and these videos are very helpful. I raise mostly Skinks and Geckos of various species, but I have learned a lot from this series and the other videos that you have done. This series has been like taking an on-line class. You could easily call these and upcoming series...”Reptile U”! It is like taking Herpetological courses! Thanks for putting these together and sharing with the thousands of reptile (and amphibian!) keepers out there.

Love this series of videos. Each of them contains useful information I’m saving all of them for easy future reference. Keep them coming please

Another great NERD video, I could watch these all day and sometimes I'll play them on loop while I'm tattooing a client. NERD videos have actually inspired a few of my clients to purchase their first reptile witch is really cool.

Seen your collabs with Clint and you obviously know your stuff incredibly well, but this is my first watch of your channel. Haven't even finished the video and I know this is exactly the knowledge I need to help plan out my first project with Rosy Boas. now to watch your vid all the way through and then the one on terrestrial snake enclosures, which im sure will have some great tips for the couple larger display enclosures i'm building for my first breeding pair.

LUCKILY, after 2 hours of SEARCHING, we found our corn snek (corney corn) hiding in my shoe, that was in a hanging shoe rack on the door. REALLY? HOW,WHY😂

I'm enjoying the new video's, very informative. Keep them coming.

Really enjoying these videos! Might go for this route with my first enclosure for a snake

Kevin you are one of two totally Not crazy snake keepers on KZfaq. An amazing resource to have.

im so glad there is A video like this. I just started breeding and am bringing in 3 new hatchlings this month to my collection so I was wanting to do something like this for quarantine for them.

This channel is going to rise quickly!great job Kevin and Donny. Looking forward to the same on monitors

I'm really liking your new informational videos! Keep up the great work!

You guys are killing it. Love the new videos!

Keep um coming. Watching y’all cut up and the knowledge Kevin has is amazing. By far one of my favorite channels 🤙

AWESOME series! Love these videos.

This has been the most helpful video. Thank you so much for putting this information out there!

Love these videos. Have a 9 year old son who's interested in reptiles & I love all animals. These videos are helping us do our research for a future pet. Thank you!

Love this series of videos. Kevin, any knowledge you're willing to share, I'm sure we're all willing to listen. It makes all of us better keepers. Peace. 🐍

Hey there I'm CJ, Marshals wife, a new subscriber and it's great to meet you! I know these are old videos, but I just got done watching the entire three-part series and I just wanted to say thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. It is very kind and generous of you and I know that there are millions of us who appreciate it so much. We are so excited to get started, but have absolutely no clue where to start, because they're is so much info floating around our there! You simplified so many things that I already knew about, but seemed more complicated to me than it actually is. :-) So, thank you again! I look forward to watching more of your videos!!! - CJ

Love the vids could watch for hours. Keep teaching you guys are the best on KZfaq

Another fantastic informational video Kevin and really looking to the panel live stream with Brian Barczyk on snake racks pros and cons :)

Awesome video keep them coming I have just started out with ball python and finding all your information very useful Thanks

Thanks for all the videos guys your info is the best out there and always works!

Getting my first baby corn snake tomorrow!!! Can't wait!

I love your videos so much! This was very helpful!

You guys rock! Favorite reptile channel hands down!!

What a great video Kevin and donny. Kevin your setup helps me more. I have a female ball python that does very well in a 74qt Christmas bin with cool side have a hide, water dish in the middle, a hide on the hot side with a hot spot of 95 with a thermostat with 2 to 3 inches of coconut fiber substrate.

It’s an older video, but it’s so good and refreshing to see. A lot of people will shame and rip apart people who can’t provide royal standards of treatment for their pet. Attitudes like that aren’t going to stop people from keeping pets on a budget, but it IS going to stop them from asking for help and advice. That kind of gatekeeping is such a disservice to the community and really should be called out when it’s seen to stop the bullies and provide support to people struggling, which in turn provides much needed support to the animals. Great video to revisit! As usual, perfectly explained by Kevin 🩶

Love your video's I've got over 13 snake's from small to very lager these videos r really helpful for beginners and easy to understand grate work keep them coming please

Oh my gosh Kevin you are so amazing you're helping me save money on setting up my snakes just thank you thank you so much

As you explained a setup for a python... it suddenly dawned on me why many houses here in tropical Aus have at least one [python] living in the ceiling... it is warm, dark, a little moist and there could even be food [mice, rats, possums etc]. Never really thought about it before, just accepted it as "normal".

I use the 37 quart stairilite enclosure for corn snakes, but only for the first 8 months to a year depending on how fast they are growing. I know that is about as much space they get in breeder racks, but for adult snakes I think they would be alot better in about double that space.

Thank you you answered a bunch of questions I had!

Great topic and very informative, thanks for sharing.

love the vids!! are you planning on doing a vid on leachianus geckos,i would love it, i want to get one but need the husbandry info, keep up the awesome work!!

Awesome videos I keep all my snakes in those. I’ve got nice healthy snakes I was worried about humidity but two years later they are still alive and doing well thx for the video love your instagram also!!!

would love to see some amphibian setups aswell and tell us how you adress humidity and the types of water used for them :) much love guys

Love these videos!!

Very good topic for a beginner. Learned a lot from this video

Loving these videos!!!!❤❤❤❤

Awesome video guys, keep up the good work, all we can do is educate and help those who have misconceptions and misunderstandings.

Thanks for this vid💪🏾 Gave me motivation to but a corn snake without investing a lot into a set up...What’s the measurements on the big set up and where’d u purchase it?

Always great info provided

Kevin, thank you for your educational videos, they are fun to watch and contain vast amount of useful information. Would you maybe consider doing a ball python morph video that explains 1- what they are and 2- how certain genes act when combined with others?

Another great video Kev I think everybody is digging all the new content. And who doesn't wanna see or hear what the evil morph god had to say or do next. Keep up the great work Kevin/Donny and the whole NERD crew.

Love in the last couple videos Kevin

Do you have a video of visually setting up the tube tank? Sorry, I’m a visual learner so hearing an explanation kinda confused me. But I really loved this!!

Thanks for the video, doing all the research I can

You and your information are so important, THANKYOU 🐊🐢🐍🦎🐺❤️

Love, love your videos! 💕

I’ve recently started watching your content. Love the information, because I’m scared of snakes and this is making me more at ease. But I noticed their enclosures to me look really small. Do they need a lot of room for roaming around?

Thank you. I’ve set up a small tub similar to what you have, receiving my baby Solomon Ground Boa in the next week or two.

I own no reptiles currently. I have been afraid all my life. but I follow u evolving pythons and Brian barczyk and I really am excited to get my first snake within the year. Soo keep bringing the knowledge I appreciate it.

Would be much appreciated if the links for the first and second parts of this video were in the description. I love your guys video thanks for all that you guys at NERD do!

I got my first snake, a ball python, in March. (thanks to Brian B. and a few other snake enthusiasts who make videos)i plan to build them (lol got a sand boa in April) nice bioactive enclosures but i have started them all in homemade bins like you are showing. I thought it would be best to start them in nice big bins with hides and enrichment since they had been living in rack systems. They both eat well, are healthy, and don't seem to mind coming out to explore' :)

Wonder what the measurements are on the bigger bin?I need something like that or maybe bigger for a very large rat snake I have.

I learn so much from your videos . Thank you... our BP's are S friendly as most of your snakes. Makes me think I'm doing something right. Again, thank you for your videos

If you honestly want to know what I think I sit here everyday for 1 hour watching you and Brian from BHB Reptiles listening to you guys trying to learn different things about reptiles cuz one day I would like to turn my passion and love for reptiles It 2 breeding them for a hobby

People, use a thermostat. Please use a thermostat

So helpful, thank you!!!!!

How do you guys not have more subs? Your production quality is awesome. ❤️

Thanks for these videos. I want to hear more about the super bitey retic you sent Brian Barzyc.

I'd say it more than "might be" worth the little bit of extra money to buy a thermostat. It's absolutely necessary. Those heat mats get well over 100°F without a thermostat. You *will* cook your snake to death without one.

Thank you for this great video

Wonderful topics !! Have been researching past few months which snake would be best for our family new to reptile world !!

Do you know the brand of those tubs? And the size of the ball python one?

For a tub like those I'm using heat tape..would I put the tstat probe under the heat tape to properly regulate the heat at 90 for a burm?

Great video thanks for your help

Thank you for this video! I have a 2 year old corn snake that is overdue for a bigger enclosure, but I can’t afford an Exo-Terra. I do have a question…is there any chance of the heating pad melting the plastic?

By ball is set up in the tub shown and is set up with pretty much everything shown. I used forest floor and a small amount of eco earth. It is an awesome tub and a great size for my 2 month old and he will be able to grow nicely. I was having trouble with too high humity with only one row of holes around the base so I added an H pattern in the lid and that worked wonders. The tub also has an indentation on the bottom that works well with the heater and cord. I also elevated mine so there is air moving around. T rex makes a great duck tape that is waterproof and has a temperature rating that helps hold the pad if it loosens. This is a great set up and a great video.

Loving these videos, very informative. My wife and I just switched from a tank to tubs (we had an as of yet unrecovered escape) and it seems to retain too much humidity. Daily I've been checking the humidity and drilling a few more holes in the lid. It's been dropping closer to where I need it. Is it safe to manage humidity this way? The snake should be ok at the wrong humidity for a few days until I have it all sorted, right?

Kevin!!! I just had both of my daughters subscribe!! We LOVE your videos! Could you please do a video on Ball Python behavior and maybe a 'what to look for' when buying one. Much love from us to you! ❤

In your experience does the cork hides mold at all? Because I started out with a real wood hide and it got moldy within 2 months

I'm a hopeful future hobby breeder of garters, I have a decent start of a collection (2 albino, 1 albino granite, and 2 wild type all of them checkered) and I hope to add some California reds this year. Any suggestions or tips for a beginner?

This was a great 3 part series. Question. I keep ball python in a 20 gallon glass tank. Just realized I can have many many more in these plastic containers. Is there any danger/ fire hazard with that UTH mat in direct contact with plastic?

So for fire safety with a plastic bin I just need to drill more holes? And get a thermostat. Does it need to sit on anything special because I just had it sitting on the floor. I went to a snake shop and spent $500 kind of sad that they didn’t send me home with a thermometer because they knew I was a new sneak owner

I’m in the works of buying my first snake but I’m just worried about the temperature & lighting part. Do I need both or is the light only for them to use to see at night time ?

Great video 📹👍 very informative

I love the topics

Kevin good video 👍🏼🐍

Hey I love your videos! You and Brian Barczyk have taught me a lot over the years! I would love to see a video on transitioning baby boas, burms and retics into larger cages and what to do about hides and ways to keep the proper humidity in a larger cage! My boa is ready for a larger cage and currently doing some research

Can you please do a video on how to get rid of mites just seen 1 on my snake and want to know a way to get rid of the before it get out of control and causes more health problems

Thank you so much guys. My wife and I appreciate you a ton.

great vid

Love this video! Is any sterlite with a locking lid okay or does it need to be one with the gasket?

U should say whT size the enclosures are and what brand tub and where to get them

How do you keep the ambient temps or cool end at around 80 in these tubs?

which tub is the right size for a ball python baby? and the substrate?

Im guessing that bigger box is the 37 QT. I want to try the DIY approach this time with my new boa I'm getting and wanted to confirm that this could be ideal.

What type of heater and thermostat would you guys recommend for a hatchling carpet python in a tub setup?

I'm trying to find a good tub for my 4ft ball it's really difficult lately.

hey I'm looking to upsize my tub on my short tail Sumatran Python and they used to have a Christmas tree tote that was the perfect size for an adult it looks like they don't sell it anymore It was a 65 gallon And the size I believe was like 52 in Long by 12 high by 20 wide Is there anything that you know of that would be comparable in size

I would like to hear some cool stuff you've done with colubrids. I keep corns and a Nelson's milk. I'm sure you've seen a lot of cool stuff

Would the first size tub be okay for a young boa? I plan on upgrading her within the next couple months. Her breeder told me she was in a 6qt tub and I’ve bought her a 12qt but it still seems quite small:/

I have thought bout using the reptile heat mats on the plastic tubs. But they wouldn’t melt the tub?