A positive life
We continue our real-life stories with Josh of South Bay Reptiles.
He reflects on how these incredible animals have helped him turn his life around and shape the person he is today.
An Adler Romer Production for RRK.
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They've brought me a lot of good, a lot of good in my life, a lot of positive in my life. I mean, like I said, I wouldn't be even in front of this camera today without these reptiles, to be honest.
Like where everything else is stressful, this is like, I can sit here, do nothing, no social media, no selling, no breeding, and just enjoy the fact that I have a piece of every bit of every country and a piece of every bit of the world in one place, and I can interact with all these reptiles. So I guess you can say happy, like so real happy.
These animals have brought me a lot. First and foremost, which I'm most appreciative of, they've brought me a gateway out of being a troublemaker that I was, being out of a certain life that I didn't need to be in. They've made me a better person. I've been able to meet a lot of people in the reptile hobby that I really like, that are really cool, and on a different basis, past the reptiles, been able to be friends with, connect with certain people that go fishing a lot, and I love fishing, hunting, you know, even breeding, and learning different things from other breeders.
They've also brought me a social media life, which I wouldn't do social media without reptiles.Me and reptiles, that is my social media right there. I wouldn't do it without them. I wouldn't have done it without them.
They've brought me a lot of success financially, which I couldn't be more thankful of. I wouldn't have half of the things I have now, or be in the position I'm in now.
They've brought me a lot of good, a lot of good in my life,a lot of positive in my life. I mean, like I said, I wouldn't be even in front of this camera today without these reptiles, to be honest.
I always tell people I shouldn't have been South Bay reptiles. I should have been ADHD reptiles. And I just can't, I can't get myself to focus on one species. I love having a bit and piece of every country and every piece of the world here with me, where I can go from retics Indonesia to Brazil and South America. And I can go all the way to Madagascar with some of my geckos. I can go to Vietnam with the blue beauties. I can go to New Caledonian Islands with the majority of my geckos. I can go to every bit and piece of the world with everything I have. And that's probably why I work with so many reptiles, or so many species of reptiles. It is genuinely just because I like the differences between them and the different types of care.
If there's one thing I can leave off to anyone, getting into the reptile hobby, getting into it as a business. Make sure you have the passion for it.
I'm not necessarily in it to leave a legacy. I do reptiles because I genuinely enjoy them. Take away social media, take away the sales, take away breeding, and I would still own reptiles. But no, honestly, I'm just in it just because I genuinely enjoy reptiles. I do, I love seeing different types of reptiles. I love seeing what people are able to make. That's it, really. There's just a joy that I get out of it. And like I said, whether you take away all the other aspects of it, I still love reptiles.
