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r/reptiles

258.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3.9K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
258.7Kmembers
3.9Kbest post
159most comments
302posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

25% 18% 17% 17% 13% 9%
Image 25% Link 18% Gallery 17% Text 17% Question 13% Video 9%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Best from of enrichment for tortoises

↑ 3.9K πŸ’¬ 77 video 2026

Turned my basement into a caiman swamp

↑ 3.1K πŸ’¬ 159 video 2026

Is it safe to cohab these two?

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 59 gallery 2026

I know they are considered invasive pests here but I love watching them

↑ 535 πŸ’¬ 52 video 2026

Check out the size of this alligator's mouth

↑ 503 πŸ’¬ 21 video 2026

Worked at a reptile shop for a bit, here’s my pics!

↑ 427 πŸ’¬ 42 gallery 2026

2 Beautiful Vietnamese Mossy Frogs

↑ 394 πŸ’¬ 8 image 2026

Never heard of this lizard before it’s in Petco

↑ 323 πŸ’¬ 70 gallery 2026

Post Expo Depression

↑ 315 πŸ’¬ 112 image 2026

I’ve had my gargoyle gecko for 3 weeks now and I still haven’t named him

↑ 292 πŸ’¬ 70 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/reptiles, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/reptiles have?
r/reptiles has about 258.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 302 of its posts; the biggest reached 3.9K upvotes, which is 15 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/reptiles?
"Best from of enrichment for tortoises" reached 3.9K upvotes and 77 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/reptiles.
What subreddits are similar to r/reptiles?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers.
What kind of posts do best on r/reptiles?
Of the posts we hold, 25% are image posts and 18% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/reptiles?
Across 302 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 05:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 13:00 UTC (790 avg upvotes), Friday at 00:00 UTC (300 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/reptiles?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/reptiles has 110 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/reptiles, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.