I bought a baby savvie from a reptile farm when I was a preteen, I didn't know what I was doing and it was a miracle he lived past a year, but I took him outside with me every day, handled him almost constantly, and fed him everything that I could catch. He lived well into my 20s and got absolutely ENORMOUS, and I miss him terribly; by the time he got old he was coming to me for comfort and super calm during even the roughest bouts of handling. He was even used as an educational animal a few times! I would not, however, recommend them to someone who doesn't know what they're getting into.

I am surprised you don't mention tegu brumation in any of these videos. I feel like the fact that tegus can potentially sleep for 7 months of the year is pretty important

I agree the tegu wins. It's not that the monitor isn't a great creature but I've heard too many people kill monitors by accident. They are super high maintenance if cared for properly. I cringe when someone I know considers even getting one.

I can nearly hear GusGus purring when you pet him..;-)....

Great video. Would love to see a basic head to head for beginner species like Ball Pythons vs Corn Snakes and Leopard Geckos vs Crested Geckos. These videos are pretty common but I'd love to get your take on them. In my opinion you guys have the BEST (hands down) reptile videos on KZfaq.

Can you do an in-depth video on Tegu care? Bathroom training, feeding, cage maintenance, etc

Hey Clint could you show where you keep all of your reptiles?

I want you to know that after doing my due diligence, watching your videos etc.. I bought a male tegu! he is the trophy of my collection and has made reptile keeping even more rewarding. It truly is a labor of love. I remember when i first wanted to get an iguana, I'm glad I listened to you and changed my mind. Not all iguanas end up like Bryan's Barczyk's rhino iguana "Bella".

Could you make A video on trust exercises with a large lizard?

You should do a reptile room tour or let us meet all your reptiles. Or talk about mites

At 1:25 that monitor is just like, "This is my life now..." lol

I really want a tegu someday. Beautiful big lizards! Also just as a tip, making the table top a rough surface is going to help your reptiles feel way more secure in your future vids!

Great work as usual buddy! As a reptile zookeeper I keep reccomending you for your excellent videos! Keep it up.

Me and my mum love to watch your videos, your such a breath of fresh air and so happy! Keep up the excellent education.

I just commented yesterday about wanting a tegu video and wake up to this in my recommended videos! Love this channel!

i love your videos clint. you helped me decide what snake is good for me. Youre entertaining and informative, keep up the great work man

Wooo, a new video~ I found your channel just about a week ago, and I binge-watched all of it's videos pretty quick, so I'm so happy that there's a new one already. Even if I knew a lot of the things you've brought up in your videos already I love to learn more and refresh my memory about things. Besides that your good mood and upbeat personality feel very contagious. Keep up the good work

this is such a great idea for a series! so excited for more

3:12 What an absolute charm of a lizard. Who would have known they could enjoy being pet.

Thanks for the vid buddy. You have helped me decide that I want a Tegu, as I was going back and forth between a Savannah and a Tegu. 😊

Love watching GusGus just chill out and enjoy some pats. 😁😍

Love the format for the new vids!

Excellent video I look forward to every Saturday watching you on my break at work. I was really happy because I was rooting for the Argentine tegu!!!

I had never heard of the Tegu before this and I’d only seen the Monitor Lizard on Rescuers Down Under. Great to see both of them! Great video, very informative!:)

WOW, dude, I really liked your video. Very informative! Wish you were around when I was a kid!!

i really liked this video, how you handle your tegu is just adorable

Hey Clint awesome video love all ur videos!!

Clint you are always so enthusiastic!

Wow, who said feathered dinos aren't awesome looking? I think they're super cool! Great video, as always! I'd love to see you do one specifically on the BCI!

Very important video! Thanks😇

You're the best!! Love your videos!

Loved this video! I'd love to see more like this!! If you do decide to go ahead on this type of video, I know for myself, I've been stuck between getting a bearded dragon or a blue tongue skink as my next reptile. I think maybe other people may have this struggle as well, because they're both relatively similar in terms of care and handleability. I know beardies are WAY easier to find than skinks, but I think your take on them head to head would be awesome! love your videos!! :)

You gotta throw in the Green Iguana to!!!!!!!!!!!!!! People go into stores and say oh look at this cute little lizard its only 20 lets get it not knowing what that tiny little lizard is going to become.

I wanted this video. thank you! I love my savannah monitor.

Hi Mr. Clint & Friends, I really love your videos, I love to learn more about reptiles and learn about different species, yours and your team enthusiasm and happiness are contagious. Your videos helped me a lot while I was preparing for my beardie and corn snake (my first reptiles and I love them). As for future videos, it is possible for you and your team to make a video about Chinese Water Dragons?! I'm very interested on getting one, but I'm still wondering if I should or if I'm prepared to get one. Off course, extra knowledge never hurts. Thanks for everything, Carla

Great info was scared the Savannah monitor part was going to be wrong, but I gotta give it to you awesome video!

Hello mr. Clint, why does your videos looks cool very awesome I love all of your videos cause I do like reptiles too

just found this channel and its awsome

Great video man

The comparison videos are my favorite

Thank you for this video. I am currently researching several animals before making a choice. I want the experience of having a large lizard. I own many reptiles and other exotic animals and feel confident in my abilities to do this and to acquire all the needed information.

I held a Sav monitor today at a reptile expo and fell in love. I'm not getting one right now at least but to hold it and have it fall asleep on me was an absolutely awesome experience.

Loved this! Can you do a Uromastyx video? Would love to see an Omani but any Uro will do!

I love seeing videos about Tegus!!

I love your channel :D

Great content as always! Thank you! I think I’ll stick to my Leopard Gecko and Crested Gecko for now though.... 😉

Very cool. thx Brosef.

Congratullations for your love to them!

Please do a video on boa constrictors!

Are you planning on doing more videos on other monitor species? I would love to see something on giants like the water monitor. :)

Τhank Clint's 😍

Clint, I missed you! You should upload more often

Love your video. You have alot of passion for the animals. I feed my savannah monitor chicken, boiled or cooked on the bbq. I hand feed it strips. Very agressive at first but getting better.

nice series.

Great video as always, but Clint you are opening the door to a whole series of awesome head to head comparison videos! Please Please do Burms vs Retics!! Sooo many keepers who are ready to step up to the next level grapple with this choice, including me! After months of research and hundreds of posts in forums and groups i decided on a Burm, i've had him for 6 months now and it feels like the best choice i've ever made (might as well do a spotlight video on burms while you're at it, they may actually be the best pet reptile!)

Now every time my tegu does a roll I say death roll...you’re the man Bro!

Awesome video I have a savannah monitor you pretty much nailed it with everything you said about the monitors is always spot-on I enjoy watching your videos keep them coming and that is an awesome savannah monitor must be albino it's cool that you can find morph Gene monitors but they are crazy expensive I wish I could afford them!

Nice video! Only one I have any experience with is the Savanna Monitor. My experience is this: they can be tamed, it just takes a fair bit of work and handling, letting them just get use to your presence and letting them see you’re not a threat (even then, it’s not guaranteed that they’ll calm down). My first one was the definition of a lap lizard, only time he opened his mouth and put them on me was to let me know to move my hand, and even then I didn’t know he did until I looked down.

Hey, Cool you named your Savannah Jabba. My first was named Jabba and tamed beautifully with some work. I could hold him and stroke his belly like you could a cat. It was a very unusual experience. He was truly a wonderful.

Wow Clint, I thought the only Argentina tegu was the Salvator Rufescens, the red one, but I discovered the Salvator Merianae, the one you showed, also occurs in Argentina. Here in Brazil, the only argentina tegu is the red one, and I was almost correcting you before researched😂, very nice content and very nice video

I just love seeing the close ups of Gus Gus. I'm trying to do a drawing of him to send to you! I haven't drawn many reptiles, other than Clever Girl from Jurassic Park when I was a kid. But I think he's so beautiful and when I'm done will send a copy!

Great video! Can you do a "Blue Tounge Skink vs. Bearded Dragon" video? I have a lot of snakes and I'm looking into my first pet lizard but I want something that's not too small or too big lol hope you can help me out, thank you and have a good day (:

Amazing

Oh lord. This makes me miss my savannah monitor and want both so much 🥺❤️❤️❤️

Wow.. Amazing animals

Giving you more watches!!

Hey Clint! Do an ackie vs blue tongue head to head next! I am having a hard time deciding which I want first.

Hi Clint! Can you do a head to head on bearded dragons and ackie monitors!? Thanks :)

Hey Clint, would you ever make a video showing the enclosure of your tegu? I see some online but curious what your setup looks like

what an amazing bunch of big lizards!

Great vid. I have a savannah and a tegu.

Clint is the best!!!!!

Great video! I'm considering getting a big lizard in the near future as well. I'm stuck between a tegu and a rock iguana. Is there any way you can do a care or head-to-head video on cycluras?

Savanahs r my passion . I have 4 very intelligent. Your lizards r very beautiful n look very happy . Nice post keep it up. People dnt understand wat it takes 2 take care of n grow big lizards

It would be awesome if you could do a video on a chameleon and maybe a Chinese water dragon in the future. love your videos!

Will we ever get to see your reptile enclosures? Kinda like a room tour of all your animals

I owned the savannah and tegu and both are absolutely gorgeous reptiles to own, my savannah was puppy dog tame I worked with him everyday, the tegu was brilliant too friendly loved to chill on me I love both these reptiles as pets and I miss my savannah and tegu

Gila Monsters also lend themselves to taming--had one that liked it's back scratched, and would sometimes roll slightly to the side to have that scratched too...

Absoultly love head to head vidios and also ttegu is my absoultly fav lizzard and getting one this week lol frfr can't not wait lol frfr love you Clint thanks plzz do a give away thanks.

That subtle shot fired at feathered dinosaurs XD

You should do an ackie vs argentine black and white head to head video!

I'd like to see a video about big lizard husbandry, like how to clean up their poop etc etc etc.

Hey, can you do a review on the Giant Day Gecko because I am thinking of getting one and would love to see a video on what it needs and how to take care of it? Thank You, I love your videos

Do they have voluntary control of their irises like birds do? I love the close up images showing how alert they are!

I would love to see an Asian Water Monitor in a video!

Hey Clint, I have a great (Head to Head) video idea, Ball python VS Corn snake.

I'd love to watch a video about chameleons! (Panther, Veiled, Carpet, etc)!

Thank you for putting the emphasis on Savannahs being for experts only. I've got a big beautiful Savannah myself, and trust me. He's a handful, but I love him so much. If you have the experience to keep them, you couldn't ask for much better of an animal. They're fantastic.

Here’s some ideas I had: Corn Snake vs. Ball Python Blue Tongue Skink vs. Bearded Dragon Burmese Python vs. Reticulated Python Leopard Gecko vs. Crested Gecko Leopard Gecko vs. Fat Tail Gecko Rosy Boa vs. Sand Boa Hognose vs. Garner Snake Box Turtle vs. Musk Turtle Panther Chameleon vs. ??? Boa Constrictor vs. ??? Uromastyx vs. Frilled Dragon Russian Tortoise vs. Red Foot Tortoise Tokay Gecko vs. White-Lined Gecko Chinese Water Dragon vs. ???

I had a Savanna years ago! He was awesome!! Same size as the one you had on this video. His name was Murray. I had a large aquarium for him, but ended up just letting him roam my bedroom...😅 needless to say, my sisters, of which I shared my bedroom with, did not approve! I fed Him baby rats, wet cat food with vitamins. He was way too big for bugs. I bred the rats myself. I had chicken for a late night snack one night and Murry laid straight up my side for the warm.( He was VERY VERY tame!) His head was right at my armpit/shoulder area...I felt his tongue flicker my chin and it proceeded to quicken. I KNEW what was coming, I also knew if I moved, he would strike. He was about 6 inches smaller at the time. Needless to say, I moved he attacked. All I could do was lay there and contemplate how I was going to get him off my face. Hahaha.i wasn't scared, did not jump or freak out. I pinched his jaw line and after a few tries he released. I BLED A LITTLE AND THANK GOODNESS IT WASN'T A TEAR or WORSE. It then, AFTER the fact, it felt like I was hit with a baseball bat in the between my jaw and chin. No bruises. Just a bunch of little dot marks from his teeth... I washed my face and then we went to sleep. Lol. Being aware of having a food scent on you from most animals, (especially rodents) He was truly a beautiful and tame, cool buddy I had for 4 or 5 years. He was about 6 to8 inches when i bought him. I had to move to another state and could not take him with, so I have him to a friend who raised many reptiles and LOVED HIM! You did a wonderful job at explaining these reptiles!!!!!!❤ One thing I would like to add is that he NEEDED A LOVED a LARGE tub of water to poop in! It seemed that he needed to have that to go. and it also smells SOOOO BAD! It is easy: clean up and he didn't poop anywhere else in my bedroom! So I guess it was like a little box, right?! Thank you so much for all you do here. You where kind of like Steve Irwin in a way, thorough and excited to show and TEACH Avira what you love. It was Fun to watch, and educational too! Sincerely, Lanni

I have had my sav for almost three years, I love her so much, if I had to pick a favorite out of all my animals, it would be her That being said, I'm picking up a tegu this weekend lol

Both Lizards are Beautifully Awesome, But I really love that Argentine Tegu!

I had a savannah monitor, it was 70 cm when i took it over and the guy had prob never held it so i had my work trying to get it tame. 2 times i woke up by my girlfriend screaming that the monitor had escaped and she was afraid as f since it was in our bedroom and it had gone behind the closets and tangled up in all the power cords. The monitor didnt think 3000 litre terrarium was big enough. I bought a rabbits harness and walked it in my garden only problem is that they are smart so it tangle up in bushes to try to get the harness off.

Yessss Clint 👌 getting my argentine tegu this summer :-)

I had a Savannah monitor in my twenties. Picked him up from a breeder and it cost me around 80.00. I had it for about 4-5 years before I had to choose between it and my wife (Girlfriend at the time). I wasn't happy but I gave it to my wife's sisters boyfriend. It was extremely tame and 4" in length. Feeding time was crazy because of how aggressive it was. a few times a live rat tried jumping out and made it to the top of the enclosure about 2 and a half feet high and it would snatch it from the top of the enclosure and press it into the ground back and forth until he knew it was dead or you would hear the crunch of the skull. pretty awesome and I wouldn't mind getting another if I was aloud!

My husband and i just got a 4 month old tegu, this will be my very first tegu, but he/she (we don't know the sex yet) its such a lovely being,He/she is surprisingly very close to me and sweet. i am still learning many things about my tegu. i can actually see why its best for an intermediate/ advanced reptile owner. But overall, I have been spending a lot of time with it and trying to make it as happy as possible.. Right now I'm working on his feeding time. My tegu isnt used to eating in a different enclosure.. Im guessing the store wasn't exactly bringing him/her to the food but rather bringing the food to him/her. But i am here being patient :) In all. I am extremely happy with my tegu.

I know it’s not really popular or common but could you do a video about chuckwallas? I’m really interested and haven’t seen many things on youtube. Thanks!

Hey Clint, Can you please make a video about taming tegu?

Hey Clint I just adopted a savannah monitor that my neighbor gave me. He is about half grown and occasionally he is a but head, so I was hoping you could make a video about how to tame savannah monitors

Clint is the best