94: Breeding Rare Reptiles | Reptiliatus

Dayyan Saylany is the creator of the popular YouTube channel, Reptiliatus! In this episode, we discuss using the term "specialty" instead of "exotic", Dayyan walks us through his Red-Eyed Crocodile Skink and Shinisaurus breeding projects and we also talk about why he chose to move away from bioactive setups for his Satanic Leaf-Tailed geckos. We wrap up the conversation with Dayyan's YouTube journey and his future plans for the channel. SHOW NOTES: https://www.animalsathomenetwork.com/94-reptiliatus/ 0:00 Coming Up 1:09 Guest Introduction 3:15 Housekeeping 4:18 Welcome Dayyan 4:38 Specialty vs Exotic 9:23 How did you get into reptiles? 13:34 The Excitement of Breeding 16:18 Keeping Unique Species 21:03 What Species do you Keep? 22:44 Importance of using WC for CB Programs 27:48 Breeding Red-Eyed Crocodile Skinks 49:18 Breeding Shinisaurus (Croc Lizard) 1:03:18 Varanus prasinus (Green Tree monitor) 1:10:55 Moving away from Bioactive for Leaf-Tail Geckos 1:27:47 Dayyan's YouTube Journey 1:50:54 Closing Thoughts 1:54:41 Outro