i hate whgen you guys say if you were an animal as if they can comprehend the difference in the setups at the end of the day they are in an enclosure with levas and sticks either way they cant tell the difference bruh

My crested gecko wont eat any insects, he is about 5 yrs old and every time if try to feed him anything he gets scared and jumps away.

How long til you can tell the gender? And are males and females of the same morph the same color as babies? How long til they get bright blue (if that’s the morph)?

Love the channel brother. Was looking at some of your morphmarket listing and was just wondering, does RTB mean Ready-to-Breed?

I wasn't too impressed by the recent dav k**fman docu but after watching it, I really want a ball python now lol

i think its dumb to assume the age of the complainers but i find racks are very nice for having many animals in a smaller space

not a keeper anymore but was for almost 10 years, everything from red tail boas to cresties. i see the uses of racks, but dont like the bare bones small tub racks, hybrid with bigger tubs and natural-ish is bare minimum i let slide for racks. also maybe burrowing species are easier to house in racks

I don't know your channel I just came up I personally don't give a s*** if you don't use racks and I don't care if you think of my racks or bad or whatever I really don't give a f*** I don't want your channel and I probably won't thanks for the info and don't give a s***

The sarcasm is just 🤌*chefs kiss*🤌. ON POINT. Love it. 🤣

I keep my hognose in a custom built rack system, but I use clear tubs right in front of a window so they have a light cycle, and as long as they're eating well, I keep them in bigger than usual tubs. They have lots of hides and enrichment. I wish I could keep them all in nice glass enclosures and maybe one day I will be able to, that's the dream!

Im new to the breeding world so i dont have all the experience and im small. However, i do keep my breeders in more realistic tanks and my babies in tubs. I definitely noticed that when i changed my geckos from papertowels to substrate, they started thriving and move around all the time. I will continue to keep my personal collection and breeders in naturalist enclosures and babies in tubs.

My #1 argument for tanks over racks (among the average keeper who doesn't breed reptiles) Visibility You're caring for a beautiful animal Don't you want to see it?

That venom did some damage

Reach out reptiles rack. System is awesome. That’s amazing. The future is now. 😂

I’m on board with the keeping babies and juveniles and racks but I have a guilty conscience about my one rack. I have that I’m breeding pythons In every night when I go down there and they are roaming around a little bit think about how much more they could have! There is a place for them but I agree I don’t think newspaper and a tub is any kinda life for adult breeders! We have no need for thousands of adult breeders, and one building there’s enough breeders to slim down your collection a little bit put the money that you would put into 1000 animals maybe 500 animals and expand what it takes to keep bigger enclosures if you can’t afford that then keep only what you can afford! I don’t know that whenever I show anybody my reptile room I’m always reluctant to leave the rack out! You have to keep your animals and if you do something’s wrong! I kind of get disgusted when I see these people with all this money and then I see their drawers!! Like hire someone to help you upkeep substrate if that’s to much work for you get away from newspaper and get away from all and only racks! Put your newborns till they sell! But I’m a new keeer so what do I know lol

I've been keeping reptiles and amphibians for about 27 years. seeing the hobby change and improve massively over that time shows both sides have substance. I think racks can be useful in certain situations but not a permanent enclosure. if you have crested geckos in 50 gallon tubs on a heated rack, then that's awesome. most ppl do not have appropriate sized setups, tho.

yesssss. continued growth as a keeper is vital. i do like the hybrid model for those temp enclosures. quality (of animal and care) over quantity=more space and better health for the animals. transition from rack to enclosure slow=go slow, introduce them to the elements over time so they aren't overwhelmed at going from nothing to Everything. and if you Have to have racks go the RoR route with space lighting enrichment ect. bored, under stimulated animals get Weird and *we don't know yet* if that kind of weird triggers epigenetic events that make them heritable. i'm team, good with being thought weird for trying to provide better husbandry in bigger enclosures than is currently en vogue. that's been a thing i've encountered in every animal keeping hobby i've been involved with since the 90s. and ya know, i have no regrets either. my quarantine tubs are all as close to enclosure size as possible, and fantastic when i need an easily sterilized environment. and when i don't need them they hold all the plastic plants and cast resin hides that can Also be sanitized more readily than what they'd have when not in a hospital/quarantine bin. as enclosures though? they suck. top entry only, means i have to make sure the critter doesn't freak out thinking a predator is coming in from above. temps? undertank heat only. hold humidity fantastically but that's only because they've got latching lids. oh you want less than 70% but also a water bowl? get busy making more ventilation. a lot. more.

I'm 46 y/o and been into the hobby for 40 years. I class keeping reptiles in vivs and terras as old school, I never switched to racks because I stick to what works. I find a happy reptile is a healthy reptile. So I try and give them what is the most natural. How do they live in the wild?

Love the video ❤. I like to see my reptiles and a rack doesn’t work. So my racks went out the door and nice big enclosures came in. Will never go back to the racks. My ball pythons are also active in the daytime.

Just about every full blown anti rack person I've ever met has been a know it all and has always seemed miserable about everything. One told me a 10g wasn't enough for a mourning gecko one time 💀

It's like living in an apartment complex versus living in a house. But there are ways to do it properly. You could give them a studio apartment (no hide, just an open space) or a 3br apartment with the jacuzzi tub, fully decorated. You can still allow them to thrive in a tub and set it up the same way you would set up a Viv, but with more seclusion which makes the animal happier

I think, in a breeding capacity, racks are necessary to house babies and females that are about to lay. Any breeding adults should have proper husbandry. Any pets should have proper husbandry! Ball pythons are semi arboreal ffs!

I could literally find a free, ball python, leopard gecko, pacman frog, bearded dragon, leopard gecko, crested gecko..... any week of any month.

Hey how's your monitor living in a tent doin'?

Lmao I love sassy Dakotah 😂

Great video, so cool to see you fighting the good fight

Honestly i wish for a bioactive system in a rack version. Sometimes hybrids are the best.

Best video ever! I'm with you dude

Racks are a necessity for breeders and quarantine needs!! We need breeders!! So I'm pro rack!! If a regular collector wishes to keep in a rack system , there are many ways to enhance a plastic tub. Size is my big issue...let's face it guys...at the end of a day? Whatever way...its still a box!! Should we build better boxes? Sure! But breeders need racks!!!

i mean how do you have an operation like kinova and have "large enough enclosure" again i agree with you but hmmm and yes STOP BREEDING bs BPs!! lol

😂 You’re hilarious, I agree with you though! Much love ❤ from a “Covid Keeper”

i agree. much love bro

HOW ABOUT YOU STOP KEEPING LECHIES IN A 2X2 OR 4X2. START BEING A RESPONISBLE OWNER AND STOP TREATING YOUR ANIMALS BAD

I find them only good for babies as you have said. But when you have walls of racks with breeding adults and that's where they live their entire breeding life is just wrong IMO. That to me just shows that you actually don't care for these animals and see them as dollar bills only. If you're doing it because you don't have the space... Then maybe you... Shouldn't breed that many until you DO have the space, just cutting corners to maximize your profits. That's my 2 cents.. Millennial chiming in lol. Imagine if roles were reversed and we were the ones being shoved in small dark tubs our whole life.. *shrugs*

Can do a bio vs no bio setup neg vs postive please i would love to hear others thoughts

I think tubs are good if you treat it like an actual tank like adding substrate, and hides and enrichment. But adding a paper towel and some water is horrible . And I like dakotahs point of ball pythons don’t need to breed so theses conditions are unnecessary. But even if stuff needs to breed, you treat it decent . Like I’m planning to breed rosy boas ( awesome small snake , just not enough of them, there’s only 5 on morph market rn) but I still plan to spoil . Overall what I’m saying is terrariums are best , but racks are ok if you make it good for the animal.

Coming from a boomer ‘an old fucken fart’ 💨 ( lol) 😂 I agree with you about the racks. Back in the day Way back then when dinosaurs were still roaming (maybe it was a long time ago) I wanted to get into breeding But I didn’t Because I did not like racks would not put my snakes in them. And did not have room for multiple spaces that I would have liked So I didn’t breed

What we need to focus on with racks are larger tubs, adding clutter/hides/fake plants. A way to incorporate uvb

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Great video Dakota. I.M.O racks do serve a purpose, just not really for long term habitation. Also, thank you for all the Tokay info....I can't wait to get one

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I agree. Tokays are not aggressive. They are defensive. Even tame tokays have boundaries that they just do not allow us to push sometimes. And that's ok.

For sure Gargoyle Gecko's. Just better overall.

Awesome video these guys are wonderful ❤ started to work with them up here in Canada 🇨🇦 love an follow your work keep it up ! Good job Bert on your video work 👏

Woowwwww

They are the best 👌

hi, so my frog sits next to a window , does it still need the lamp? thank you

My big guy was like this when he was younger. Started feeding in the bath tub instead of the enclosure to change the behaviour 😂

Cool looking little guy

Dakota, I have to admit, watching your content is really making me want to take the tokay plunge.