I love how he is so brutally honest about this

@rexern1866

3 жыл бұрын

He was about to fight over a turtle

"I lost my shit." Bro I feel that.

I like this guy, no BS, says it like it is

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

He talks absolutely the same on and off camera, no matter what. I askes Andy; is there anything you want me to cut out? And he said absolutely not haha I don't know anyone in Reptiles with the balls to be that transparent

@z0phi3l

6 жыл бұрын

You can tell he's not hiding anything and being truthful, the type of talk that some people hate

@CatAleah

6 жыл бұрын

He's hilarious too. Lol

I agree with you as my Russian tortoise eggs hatched and I won’t sell to anyone who doesn’t give them a good setup.

Love this guy. I respect people so much who actually care for animals even when they work in this business because most of time they neglect them.

Love your attitude regarding animals, business and keepers. Glad you found success. You and your family deserve it.

Andy and Diana are awesome people and I definitely look up to them. I've been vending alongside them at SO many shows now, so it's always awesome seeing the southern reptile supplies business grow even more. Awesome job on this video dude! Hope to see you at another expo, it was awesome meeting you guys at narbc :)

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

They are awesome! We will be around. I'm working on editing my vlog from that day so you will be in it!! But I'm also easily distracted so hopefully I finish soon

@PYROTOAD

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

Your honesty is refreshing and appreciated!

First time hearing about this guy. Smart ass business man and still cares more about the animals then profit.

I appreciate and respect the no “BS” mindset. Definitely would like to learn more from you.

You are a good man who cares about reptiles. I bought from you 2-3 times before in Arlington TX reptile Expo. Your prices are always cheaper than chain stores.

Respect, I’ll take honesty, truth and real over any fake or phony any day. I’ve purchased dry goods and Isopods from you guys at both Repticons this year in Okc and as long as you’re there, I’ll continue to do so. Never knew you had a website until now, about to check you out online.

Man, this is awesome. I'm trying my hardest to get my hat in the ring as far as reptiles go. Really inspired!

Great video. It is awesome to see what others did when starting up. Thank you for sharing.

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching man! I got a lot of value from his story!

I like your attitude toward the animals and your business.

I just now found this video. YESSS! Thank you for being honest and down to earth like this. A big issue with vendors in my area is that 90% of them just have high end animals. Some have normal ball pythons, but trying to find low end corn snakes and geckos is like a needle in a haystack. At the end of the day, you're not just vending to breeders, it might be a kid who's parent wants to get them a pet reptile so you gotta have the lower end animals, and the supplies to care for them!

@Chudchanning

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, reptiles are already fuckin cool as they are, it really sucks how the reptile "market" favors overpriced morphs and charges more money when a species gets popular despite there being an abundance of them. It makes zero sense to me how something like a tokay or leopard gecko for example is considered a "cheap" lizard. But if a dude gets one with a new paint job and breeds it all of the sudden it's 500, 600, 800, or thousands of dollars for it. The average person doesn't typically have that kind of money to blow and even the low end of those prices would be sombodys budget to get the animal and the proper set up, not just the animal. Too many people factor their prices like rich people tally up tax write offs. The sad side effect of the morph craze is that people actively blow thousands on the newest morph with hundreds of normal looking animals are floating around Craigslist for free because nobody wants the "boring" ones. It's nice to hear sombody in the business that tries to stay reasonable and still has success

@angellea9061

Жыл бұрын

@@Chudchanning My comment did not age well lol. Few months later, now my local shows are full of nothing but buckskin, patternless, and dal crested geckos all within the $60-$200 range. The new attitude now is "dont waste your time with high ends, nobody can afford them". Ugh! I dont understand why their cant be a happy medium within the community. As breeders, we control the prices on our table. If nobody is buying your 1k lily..maybe that's a sign you need to change your price. Nah instead everyone in my area just gave up and only work with low end morphs now. Shaking my head. Supplies are now a huge problem as well, if anyone wants an enclosure they have to go pay the overpriced pet store prices because none of the brands are working with expo vendors anymore! I tried exo terra, pangea, zoo med, all 3 will not work with vendors. You have to have a brick and mortar store already stocked and running for them to even consider letting you be a dealer of their products. We only have 1 dry goods vendor at the show I've been doing, and he doesnt even have enclosures. Between overpricing, bad attitudes, premiums, and being unable to have enclosures/dry goods at shows...the reptile industry is falling apart.

@Chudchanning

Жыл бұрын

@@angellea9061 that's a bummer to hear. I've been pondering the idea of entering the industry somehow. I never got to go to conventions until last year (I lived very rural until a few years ago) and didn't really follow content either since I was late to the party with technology, but I've kept reptiles my entire life and always had a passion for them. It was pretty jarring for me to be introduced to the whole large scale breeder and morph aspect of the industry, and I have to admit I was alittle disappointed when I went to the convention with 600 bucks I saved up only to discover I couldn't really afford much of anything available aside from invertebrates and feeders. There's no doubt that there are some beautiful animals in the trade, but the current accepted price ranges and the general attitudes are relatively discouraging from my personal perspective. I hate being looked down on as some kind of cheapskate where the "high end" breeders have the mentality that comes off like sombody saying you shouldn't have a license if you can't buy a Bently or a Lamborghini. I also noticed that the majority of animals were crested gecko morphs and ball python morphs so that must be where alot of the money is at currently. I just hope to see some more unity and more passion over profit in the future, it's kind of sad how hobbies become inherently less fun the deeper you explore into them

@angellea9061

Жыл бұрын

@@Chudchanning Agreed. The deeper I get into the breeders side of the trade, the less and less love and passion I see. Some still have it, but there's a ton of stuff that happens behind the scenes that shows what really comes first for many.

Great video brother. Love the way you think because it's100% correct. I'll be ordering from you from now on. Happy Fathers Day

Your honest attitude is enough for me to be a customer lol. Hope to see you at a show soon

Love it! Will have to look him up.

Love to hear your story bro!! You give me a lot of inspiration thanx

@joe_phelan

4 жыл бұрын

🙌🙌 thanks for watching. Andy is doing big things!

Great video! Learned more about the "behind the scene" of the reptile circuit than in countless other Utube videos. Could be interesting material for a future documentary. Andy is an interesting individual.

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! It really helps that Andy is indeed an interesting subject! There's another one with a friend coming down the pipe. It is just a long process. The next one will hopefully look like a short documentary

youre a good bloke mate glad youre doing well

What a dream! You definitely had amazing success in such a short amount of time. Love the passion too. People often times don’t like me either because I too care about the animal more so than the owners feelings.

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Andy is the man!

I like to know the facts I compared his prices with big retailers like petsmart and even eBay. This man blows them out of the water with his goods. His goods are about 30% off any item. I checked petsmart they had a 60 gallon tank for $250 this wonderful man sells his product for $175 and his is 75 gallon. This guy is about to monopolized the whole industry.

What's good ANDY?!?!?! Love Southern Reptile family!!!!!

Love people who care about the reptiles. When I vend at shows I always see who has the best housing products but as well know how to properly care for the animals. Love people like this keep it up

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Thanks for watching

@SmilingJimsConstrictors

6 жыл бұрын

Port City Pythons sub to my channel I’m going to do a few shout outs today. You and Andy will be mentioned love the video

This man sounds amazing to be around and learn from, I’m a new breeder and would love to work with him for at least one time if possible just to learn , cause trying to sell on morphmarket is definitely a challenge.

Awesome video. Went to a Lone Star reptile expo this past weekend. And I spent money even if I didn’t need too. You are right, it sucks to see ppl not give a shit sometimes and not take care of their pets properly. I have a ball python and bearded dragon and I even have spent money on vet when ppl have told me that it’s not necessary. I love my pets. Hope to see you at an expo soon

Great info I took down some notes I subscribed thanks for sharing 😉

Sounds like a great hope to see him some day

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Wish you could get your voice out there man. Your a real intelligent man sitting up there and being that straight up and having that much business experience.

"I wish we could all get along" "I hate competition, ill crush competition, ill lose money to make sure you never step back in my side of the woods again". 🤣 you are literally the reason you can't all get along. Not bashing the hustle just pointing out the fact

I know not to do it only for money but its an asset to keep the business going but in general I love reptiles and I think my desire to learn more about reptiles and the love for them is a good motive for to start.

I LOVE IT .... say it like it is , hi speed and low drag . I would LOVE to get into this full time . SEMPER FI MY ANIMAL BROTHER

Awesome video...like the honesty...defiantly gong to check the website..

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!

10mins he is talking about respect and helping each other. Right after he got done talking about intentionally undercutting others in order to break them. Even stated he would rather lose money then see someone else make it

Awesome.. Thanx for sharing bro

Yes this is exactly how I am. no bullshit cut to straight to the point. Respect Brother

This is a smart business man

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

👌👌

nice video dude, true what you say! send love to you and your family from PR 🦎🐊🐍

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching and your support!!!

Hells yes !!!! I hope to meet you one day man .

Your awesome , hope to see you at a up and coming show

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Great guy, see him at every show in dfw. only person ill purchase dry goods from.

great video bro love your attitude because it's the truth

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Super awesome video! Hopefully I can meet him one day 😃

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you! He may be coming to a reptile show near you. You never know

Do you do Wholesale? I LOVE your attitude and passion! Our local pet store went out of business. People are having to drive 45 min to get reptile food. So We own a fishing store and already sell worms an different bait so I am going to add a pet section :) You seem like someone I would like to work with.

@ImmanuelSpirit

2 жыл бұрын

What do you look for in potential vendors for doing business with for supplying reptiles ?

Come to Michigan! I’d love to get advice from you and buy your products!

Im glad he cares for the animals

awesome dude! Go Pack Go!

"we should all help each other up" "I go out of my way to make sure they don't make money and never come back."

@malshasilva5518

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

Awesome! You got my respect!😊🐍🤘

You have inspired me my friend

Bought some stuff from him last year at HERPS Corpus he’s great to deal with

"I will go into the hole to CRUSH any competition that pops up!" "Man I wish everyone would just get along!" Those are kinda mutually exclusive :P That said, I appreciate that you are straight up about the animals needs and husbandry, good on ya!

@emilel-ward2899

5 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking lol. But I do buy a lot from this guy.

@staceyroberts3468

4 жыл бұрын

That’s the only part of the video where I kinda cringed 😬

@superviro

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he sounds arrogant. There's a lot of these guys in the hobby. Love to act like a hard ass and tell you how much they don't give a shit. I visit so many tables at shows and these guys love to sit there and 'educate' you because they know so much and you don't. Look man, just sell me some bedding and let me move on.

Great interview.... Great guy 👌🏼👍🏼

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, couldn't agree more!

Dope dude=Dope video 🙌🏻

Love his ethic on his way how he says he doesnt love competition hes basically using a modified monopoly system

Your telling me your not going to any buffets after the show ,I'm not believing it. Kidding I'm going straight to your web page now.

I work for him!!!

I love this guy I was a bearded dragon breeder and people what to go cheap on everything

@JohnJJeong

3 жыл бұрын

Was?

((Talks about a guy that called a turtle disposible.)) (I explode)

Yessir gotta have money to take care of these babies. I spent over 200 dollars on my initial setup for my juvenile ball python. Which ain’t shit, to me at least, but just at glance of the whole setup, snake included, you’d never expect that almost 500 dollars went into it. People don’t take that stuff into account.

Where do u buy ur stuff in bulk

You right i got 3 snakes a corn snake a ball python and a kenyan sandboa those 3 snakes kost me 120 euro. I had to pay more than 600 to give them all they need.

I like this dude he he doing his thing. Legit

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

👌👌

I have so many questions for you I don't even know where to start. I've been wanting to start my own reptile business for some time now? Did you start orginally out of your house? How many reptile shows do you go to yearly? Do you travel all over?

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

I'll do my best to answer on Andy's behalf. He has a warehouse now but certainly started in his house. He goes to shows almost every weekend. He even sometimes sends his brother so they can vend 2 shows in one weekend. He covers Texas and Louisiana and is branching out slowly. There's pretty much enough shows in Texas alone to be busy most weekends

Great video brother 👍

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@xmarksthespotmarksmanship2730

5 жыл бұрын

Port City Pythons maybe u can give me some advise i have my own business as well down in miami but mine is on Marksmanship

Easily I've had people ask me How it is to keep a bearded dragon and I'm told on it's a lot of work to get him set up properly besides cost of the lizard you're looking at $500 for set up and $100 a month in food you gotta get the right lights get the right humidity get the right heat on each side of the tank at the tank all kinds of shit that come with it and people think they can just take shit and put in a tank and call it a day...

So how exactly do you go about producing all those non animal things for the animals and having that as a business?

Do you do the Atlanta repticon show? I'm in need of a aboreal cage for my green tree python and jungle carpet pythons

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think Andy goes that far east yet

Pretty much any business is a cutthroat business. There's some selling at a ridiculous price where you sell at market price. You work hard to get where you're at while others are trying to unload shit just to make a little extra money. You have to make money for your business while competitors are sabotaging your business at low prices.

Do you do any shows in alabama

This is really good shit

I wish we could all get along. Also I will crush any competition lol

Whilst in Sydney there’s only like 2-3 reptile expos a year XD

I love this no BS approach 👌🏻👌🏻great vid bro 👍

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks man and thanks for watching!

What I don't understand yet everyone sells it is the bearded dragon complete setup from zoo med. You keep the glass, the water dish, and maybe the dome but toss out the coil bulb, the sand, etc... why not just focus more on regular screen top cheap tanks if the other stuff is useless for a proper setup? I'm not trying to be a critic towards you in particular just don't know why that kit is still available and hasn't been motified to come with a tube florescent and repticarpet or something? Thank you for being a straight forward guy and maybe you can speak to zoo med about changing that kit up. Most other guys probably think "I'll sell that kit to the impulse buyers, then after they research they will come back and buy the correct accessories"

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

All of those "complete kits" are trash unfortunately

I was totally on board with all of this until he said he would let his best friend die rather than dip $10k into his business money to save him. Thats just gross! I 100% would never support this breeder/keeper/company for that reason alone. Thats just GROSS!!!

@teweruyyygbb3361

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly he’s a hypocritical 🤡

@bossbrown9759

2 жыл бұрын

I agree I was liking everything he said but that comment alone just made it clear he cares more about the $

This guys got teeth. I like this!

I buy from him every lonestar expo, its really cool to see his story. Makes me feel glad i have been buying from him

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

That's awesome! Thanks for watching!

I’m so lost section 8 Government housing 😳 what that have to do with the reptile

I love reptiels all i got to say

How does this guy say he beats prices when there is MAP pricing on dry goods from the manufacturer?

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

Not all products have MAP. But still I guess theres room on many products.

I like this god damn video man

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

What if someone had 500 today and they wanted to start, what is a good investment?

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

You'd ask Andy. I beat someone could do it with reptile supplies and just do your regional shows

@waragainstmyself1159

5 жыл бұрын

@@joe_phelan I never replied, but thank you! Is ordering online from say facebook groups a decent idea? Ive been looking into crested geckos, they seem so cool already, why not breed as well? I dunno just a thought i had. thanks for your time

Sooooo, can i breed snakes for a living?

@joe_phelan

6 жыл бұрын

Some can! Just hard work and patience I'd think!

That’s just how it is...

This guy contradict the hell out of himself.. He says if some Newby comes in to a reptile show with dry goods, he'll lower his prices less than theirs, making sure his competition doesn't make money and never come back,,, then he goes on to say i wish this community could all get along, and help eachother out and stop being so cut throat against eachother.... lol which one is it man?

@timothydean9407

9 ай бұрын

I believe he also complained about someone that wasn't "full time" undercutting snake prices...

Fucking Andy! Lol

I wouldn't sell to anyone who called an animal "disposable" and probably would have punched him. I applaud the restraint. There is no such thing as a "disposable animal" even if you're talking about feeder insects.

@joe_phelan

4 жыл бұрын

👌👌👌

How is this 500 to 5k you said you spent thousands on your sbakes

4:45 i love you

@joe_phelan

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂

$5,000*

I agree with you people are idiots im in the same boat started with a dragon last yr now 10 retiles later we want to breed ball pythons cool video i wish i can do something like your self in the future

i fuckin like this guy! i like turtles too, way to go!

Love the rebel flag tattoo southern pride! #notracistjustsouthern

@brad238899

5 жыл бұрын

You may not want it to be racist but it is. Hell you may not want a nazi flag to be antisemetic... but it is.

I spend 150 on a snake and 800 on terrarium setup just to make sure she is gonna be ok

@waragainstmyself1159

5 жыл бұрын

whats your opinion on the western hognose if i may ask?

@yuongsanti8312

5 жыл бұрын

War Against Myself a rather docile snake, and they’re not big either, the way they eat is funny and honestly they’re all around a really good snake, Id definitely get one if I had the money

Seems like a good guy who really cares about the quality of care other people's animals will receive. On the other hand, he has a really shit attitude towards start up competition: "I would lose money to make sure they go home without making any money." Seriously dude? If someone like Pangea comes in with your attitude at all of your shows then you'll be on the other side of the fence going home without making any money because they can outlast you on the moneybags side of things. Heck, even earlier in the video he was complaining about about assholes who sell the same reptile for $15 when everyone else is trying to sell them for more which makes it impossible to turn a profit. How do you know they weren't simply operating with your business model and losing money to chase the competition (young upstart) out of "their" neck of the woods? Hypocrisy on display right here.

Good Libertarian!

How do u get the stuff to sell if u don’t have a company

@joe_phelan

4 жыл бұрын

If you are getting stuff to sell... doesn't that make you a company? You contact a wholesaler/distributor