Never owned a reptile, the strangest/coolest pet I’ve owned is a Prey Mantis
I once feed it a spider, the battle was epic, the mantis devoured it, but the next day I noticed all these strange marks all over it’s body. It wasn’t moving too well, I thought the Spider must have bitten it and it was slowly dying (I cried I was 13). I feed it a bunch of ladybirds (ladybugs in the US) and the next day the spots were all gone
I grew up with lizards and garden snakes as pets. My brother even had a moccasin, but mom wisely made him get rid of it. I’m more into frogs, honestly. I plan on starting an terrarium once I get some money and some space laid out.
Frogs can be cool especially the poison arrows. And I have a friend who had a clutch of many is baby’s don’t know what happened to them but they seem pretty vicious in a cool way
When I was a kid I had a strange obsession with reptiles especially snakes I dontnknowni just thought they were so badass and weird and mysterious, I had a few books on snakes and would stare at the exotic colored ones all day.