Kevin and Donny! Thank you so so much for this new series of educational videos! Seriously awesome! I run a small local rescue and breeding business. I am FOREVER looking for good resources to educate and help people wanting to properly keep reptiles. These videos are the answer to my prayers! Clear, concise and actually useful information for people in the hobby. Living in a high mountain desert like Utah, with constantly fluctuating temps and horrible humidity, is not ideal for anything besides California kings and cornsnakes LOL. I can't even tell you how big of a deal you talking about the ambient temp in the room changing is! All of this is pure gold! You literally addressed about 70% of the mistakes that creates the rescue cases I get. I love you both so much for your work on this series! 🙏🙏🙏👍👍👍💜💜💜

Great content! Thank you for addressing the issue of the difference between a thermostat and rheostat and describing that difference. It's something that is often confusing for beginner hobbyists. Well done.

Absolutely loving these “back to basics” videos. Really educational and informative. Keep up the fantastic work guys x

Keep the videos coming bro! These videos are gold!!!

Love your vids, thanks for sharing your knowledge, Kevin! And great job getting NERD in the spotlight, Donny!

Really appreciate your videos! Learn so much from these, love how easy to understand Kevin makes his explanations as well.

Great job very thorough. Always learning

Great presentation! It goes into way more precise detail than any other video I've seen on husbandry.

Fantastic video content Kevin with great educational content and really so helpful for people that may have snakes but really don't know all the basics because they don't have enough experience to know these things and how to set things up to benefit each reptile !! Excellent advice on covering those screen or wire mesh tops with clear plastic !!! Big difference in maintaining the humidity also I've found move the water dish a little bit closer to the heat source so the heat can evaporate some of the water and covered with the plastic the evaporating water from the heat turns into humidity inside the enclosure but definitely never place belly heat under a water dish.

I love these new videos keeps them coming

I’ve learned so much from your videos, I’ve rescued as many as 8 reptiles thus far and I never thought I would be a reptiles gal but I really am. I feel like I can’t stop, I just want to take them all In.Im so stoked for the expo coming up!

Great video, way back when (20 years ago) i used my mother's old heating pad without the cloth cover on the bottom of the cage with a 🌡 when the nearest reptile supply store was to many hours away to drive, thankfully most of us know how to better care for a snake now days

Good vid. Thank you. Kevin always educational and entertaining at the same time. Also enjoy seeing the people that work for you in the videos.

I love how you just spread your knowledge and love for snakes, i have learned so much. I just bought a HGW Enchi Ball python and I'm happy I found your videos, I have learned so much, although I'm still not confident in my husbandry:/ I will keep watching and keep learning so I can be the best I can be haha

Excellent points regarding the securing of dome heaters, the coverage of the screen top to suit the humidity for the species being kept, and the use of heating in general. Too many KZfaq videos show the same setup whether it is a boa/python or a temperate colubrid, and that is unfortunate.

I love it! You did explain a lot of things that were unclear to me!

Please make a video similar to this that is about a full grown adult salvator setup especially with how you clean the water and light setup/timing. Love your videos

Kevin can you perhaps do a video on the pros and cons of a bioactive enclosure for a kingsnake or any snake

Love these videos Kevin!! Thank you for sharing. Keep up the great and amazing work.

Again great stuff!!! Could you use the products that you showed us to actually set up the enclosure (maybe for a ball python or other common pet reptile) to show us how to set the probes and other devices? Maybe a time lapse.

Really helpful video! Thanks!

Kevin, thank you so much for your videos! My daughter Lillian and I have 2 ball pythons and several times we have had questions and could look up a video of yours to help us out! You are awesome and we appreciate you so much! Much love from us to you! ❤

These helper videos are great. LORD, we're sick of the other BS people had been dumping, and so appreciative for your informative, educational work here.

Great Vids fellas. Keep them Comming

Loving the new videos Kevin 👍🏻

Thanks Kevin awesome information and overall content I just found your channel about a week ago I've been enjoying since thanks.

I've always liked your videos, but I thought the recent video on how to deal with mites was on a new level. The way you communicate the information is excellent, it honestly reminds me of the delivery given by many of the better university professors I've been fortunate enough to study with.

Excellent info for beginners, novices and experts alike. I think we get set in our ways, get tunnel vision and forget about some of these factors.

I bought and read both your books about 5 times . I’ve learned so much from watching your videos and reading your books

I support you 100% so I hope everyone on KZfaq is very happy with you and every other breathers choices of changes

Great video thank you for sharing ♥️

Underrated channel! This guys a genius when it comes to socializing reptiles!! Only thing I would change is that you start working with niloticus!

I see Kevin as the godfather of reptile keeping on husbandry education and the best way to keep a reptile and to keep it healthy.... And I need to buy a copy of your book..

Outstanding vid! I'm starting my baby male normal Reticulated Python in a 20 gallon long locking Zilla tank. In 1 year I'll move him to an 8 foot long by 3 foot wide animal plastics cage. Reticulated Pythons are the coolest pythons to keep as pets in my personal opinion.

I personally love the knowledge you share with everyone including my family

Great video. For my almost 5 year old female ball python I have 2 temperature probes set up in her terrarium with 1 in the heated end and 1 in the cooling end and both are connected to thermostats with 2 separate under tank heating mats. I found that when I kept the hot side at 90F she stopped eating and spent almost all of he time submerged in her water bowl on the cooler side at 80F. When I dropped the temperature on the hot side down to 86.5F she started eating again. I use the 2 under tank heat mats because it can get very cold here in Vancouver, BC and if I turn my furnace up her humidity level drops drastically within an hour. I also am using cypress mulch for her because it held the humidity level higher than the aspen bedding did. I found that the aspen bedding promoted mold growth so I had to clear it out every 2 weeks but the cypress mulch is good for 2 months without breaking down or any mold issues.

Im sure there are plenty of other videos on KZfaq but I'd be interested to hear your opinion on how often to change substrate or specific substrates for different species (currently I keep all my snakes on Cypress mulch) and what methods or product you use to clean the enclosures. I'm currently keeping: A False Water Cobra, a Coastal Carpet Python, a Dumerils Boa, an Albino Honduran Milk Snake, a Piebald Ball Python, an AZ Mountain Kingsnake, and a Savannah Monitor.

Wonderful information, thank you!

Always love these videos! My question is when it comes to ambient temperature in the cage and then surface temperature, over your heat mat for instance. You mentioned achieving the proper temps in the cage, but with your Tstat probe on the actual heat mat, being surface temperature, what is something you would set it at?

Awesome video! Keep them coming!

Great video man

Its nice seeing you guys gain social media traction getting out your knowledge to the world!

I really appreciate the fire hazard discussion and how to avoid fire hazards I'm sure a lot of it's obvious but dealing with hate sources like this really freaks me out

I use the same thermostat and absolutely love it.

Good video becoming the best reptile channel out

Well done and well said🤘

Thank you, it was very helpful.

Awesome back to basics video! Where in a glass enclosure do you recommend putting the probe for the thermostat?

Thanks Kevin! My snakes seem like they are happier since I have made some changes because of you. Sincerely, thank you.

Ok some pretty good information thanks Kevin 👍👍

merci pour la video super

Great video, will there be an arboreal edition ?

Great stuff!!

If you keep snakes, this is all information you need to know. It is not ALL of the information you need to know, but you should definitely know all of this! So glad you're putting out more videos, Kevin. An intelligent, articulate, and knowledgeable person, such as yourself, is a spokesman for the hobby. ( whether he enjoys it or not!) But he is a damn good one in my opinion!

I'd really love to see a video on your actual caging and the actual stuff that you use.

Straight forward, thank you.

Great video! Thank you for making it bite size and not too overwhelming. Do you sell these items? Do you sell a beginners tank with the items you recommend all together? Do you have a place you recommend purchases from? Or are you an Amazon affiliate? You don't list a website for making purchases so I am unsure. I am interested in getting a snake as young as I can. What time of year are the babies available for purchase usually? Sorry for so many questions but I like how you explain everything. Many other youtubers that deal with snake hold you in high regard. This leads me to feel your company is one I can trust to get things from. Please keep up the great work! The more of these videos I watch and re-watch the more confident I become in knowing I can properly care for my first snake. I look forward to the next installment of the tank set up!

Love your videos, they are excellent and very informative. One question ---- Where can I find those acrylic panels that you show for putting on top of the screen top to prevent loss of heat/humidity?

I have a zoomed thermostat just like that it doesn’t seem to keep it exactly as warm as the display indicates but has been working well on my gecko rack

Great video!

Great information

Nice video. Do more videos on your monitor. Your channel has help me a lot 👍 love your channel friend.

I love listening to you I understand you better Thanks

I wish you cooda SHOWN the EXACT things you were talking about! The light stand- & flood light thingy- What clips? UGH- I had a STROKE, so, i dont KNOW what some things are

That bad temp gradient is the problem I'm trying to solve before I can get a reptile - how to keep a healthy ambient tank temp in a room that drops to 60f at night (and isn't much better in daytime ugh) while also not being too harsh a drop from the hot spot temp.

Awesome video. Gonna get the kid to watch this.

this video needs more subs

My Pythons will not leave their thermometers alone to the point of breaking one🐍Thank you Kevin🙏🏻💕

Can you do a video on telling the difference between male and female monitors because I have no Idea about mine.

ok I subbed, if your looking for suggestions frozen vs. live and how to switch your animals to frozen would be great if not already done. I own a 4 yr. old BCI Boa who is my side kick.

66 views and only 15 likes, come on ppl it takes 1 second !!!!!! fantastic video x

Hey kevin would you use a heat mat or radiant heat panel for a boa

What are you're most updated versions on your books? Where can I see a list and latest editions ? Thanks

These are probably a silly questions but.... when I put a heating pad on the bottom of a glass tank ( x large exo terra) should I put something on the inside between the glass and the substrate , aspen bedding for corn Snake. And should the hide be on top of the heating pad or next to it. I do plan on having 2 hides.. and a lamp on top with lots of branches and foliage I’m hoping it will like to climb on. I did learn and appreciate that I should put the corn snake i get in a more confined place when we get it ( i was thinking that an adult would be easier to “handle’,than a young one especially for our 9 year old grandson who lives with us. Although this is my obsession he is very excited. Sorry TMI)

thank you!

Wanted to know if my Ball Python has tiny little dull looking spots on his scales and he also got his tail caught on the sticky glue that is on the humidity and temperature gauges that I have stuck two monitor the temperatures and now has glue on the tip of his tail

Any thoughts on Visions fiber glass enclosures?

Is the bottom of the tank temp with a thermometer down there the temperature we aim for if we don't use a light. Mine will read 90-95 but the mulch temp on the surface will be 70.

Awesome video....

Can u do managing arborial snakes

Thank You

Could you use foil on the top? Or does it need to be plastic?

Brilliant as always, but I always been told any tape is typically a no no in snake enclosures since it could cause injuries to the animal? Off to bed working the Graveyard shift is a bit strange in the sense everyone else is starting their day and I am just ending mine but whatever's clever right? Thank you ever so much for sharing and best wishes always. P.S. Hope Snarfles is doing fabulous ❤🐍❤

I hope ZooMed is sponsoring this.

Would the rheostat work as a replacement for the dimming stat or nah?

Where has this channel been😍

Where can I find those plastic panels that go on top of the enclosure? Couldn't find anything on Amazon.

I have my ball python in a glass terrarium and I use a heat lamp and I also have a heat pad on the bottom. Is it ok to use both the heat pad and lamp but only right after my snake has eaten yo help with digestion and then only use the heat lamp.

How would I get the other side to a higher temp if the hot side is 90-95 the other side is at 70-75 how can I warm up the other side so it's not too cold

I have a red tail boa, a blood Python, and just grabbed a tree Python. How much humidity does my blood python need? And how will I know if I have them too much

Kevin how can I keep my humidity level correct in a 55 gallon tank. I hv heat pad, 150 day light, and a 75 night. Added a bigger waterbowl. My humidity is around 50% a little low

I always wondered what kind of enclosure that they are using in the video for demastration

I have a red tail boa and have a heat light on the enclosure . It's one of those exo Terra cages. I have stirphom on ethe mesh part to keep humidity. My question is back heat ok? I had 5 ball pythons 2 yrs ago and the heat mat malfunction and I had a fire in my house , killed all snakes and my Savannah montior . Please help

Does anyone know the name of the terranium he’s using as an example with the type of lid and covers for humidity he’s referring to?

HOW BIG ARE THE TOTES/TUBES/CONTAINERS/ THAT YOU USE FOR ADULT TO JUVENILE BALL PYTHONS?

Can you make a in depth video of where to buy enclosures for adult reticulated pythons (15+foot) and a perfect cage setup for the animal please. It would be very educational for everyone I feel

Where did you get those plastic top stern covers from?

Love the video. I currently have my female Butterspotnose in a 36x18x12 exo terra terrarium. Will that hold her through to an adult or will I need to go bigger eventually?

I got an exo-terra terrarium for my ball python, and it has circulation vents beneath the doors as well as the screen on top of the enclosure. should I tape over those vents to help keep the humidity in?

What size are the enclosures in the back ? Who makes them ?