The Expert and The Idiot - A Reptile Podcast
Sep 2, 2026 · 2 hr 51 min · 23 segments
Paul Lucas, better known as The Retic Keeper, is a longtime mainland reticulated python keeper, breeder, and educator with decades of experience working with one of the world's largest snake species…
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You know, I look at some of these animals like green tree python keepers, they put them in a two by two cube and people are like, okay, that's good.

But yet you're giving your very small species and even smaller cage to move around.

I mean, green tree python, four feet, you know, an adult, what, four or five feet long, you're giving it a three foot cage.

But I'm the bad guy because I give my snake a 10 by four or by three that it can, you know, fully extend and it can, you know, sit there without feeling like it's, you know, its sides are busting out the, you know, its coils are busting out the sides like nothing's touching them.
You know,

Or is it just because my husband's injury is on par? Like when I clean my cages, it's not spa cleaning.

Are you cleaning your cages like this? Or are you just wiping it down and calling it clean? I mean, I clean the shit out of my cages.
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