- Whoa, there we go Sunrise.
Good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Of course my girl Sunrise is eating and you know
we have done a lot of feeding videos in the past,
but I thought that I would not only do
a feeding video, but maybe take you guys through
our process because when we're feeding snakes
like Sunrise here, we wanted to do some kind of cool shots,
from different angles, different things like that.
I figured I would just share what we're thinking behind it
show you some of our crazy kinda camera angles
and stuff like that. In the meantime we're going to
feed some amazing snakes here at the Repterium.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Of course we love to do time lapses and
actually Jay has a G7X Mark II right here
its a Canon camera, we like to shoot one frame
every three seconds for a time-lapse for bigger snakes
like this and one frame every two seconds
with smaller snakes to get that kind of really cool
time lapsey feeling. So we're gonna go ahead
now that she has started we're just gonna set
the angle up here and were gonna just let it roll
and it might take anywhere from 15 or 20 minutes.
The downside to doing this is a lot of times
you have to sit and watch them eat because
if they move out of frame, you lose your time lapse right
so the process of actually feeding snakes like
Sunrise here, although in most cases I might feed
and just go on to the next snake,
this might take me 10 or 15 minutes just to
watch her eat this to make sure I've got a cool time lapse.
[Funky Upbeat Music]
Next up we're gonna see if Casper my boy eats
over here, and you can notice Jay is actually
shooting with an EOSR Canon, shooting with an 11 to 24
lense, nice wide angle at 120 frames a second.
Just to get a second angle on us here
so I'm going to go ahead and just see
if Casper wants to eat for us.
C'mon bud, come on eat.
There he goes, right like that.
Now he didn't take the rat really good
the one thing you're gonna have to notice
is if they don't hit it right on the head
often times they'll let go and they'll
have to start over again, so no sense in
starting a time-lapse when he's gonna let go.
So we'll have to just kinda watch him
when he finally lets go, gets the head
then we'll start the time-lapse.
Its interesting, I never see the
Children's python down like this, ever.
He's always up in these rocks over here
so it's going to be interesting to see
how it actually eats, it might
just be looking for food, I'm not sure.
C'mon buddy, sometimes you have to
tease feed these just a little bit to get them to take food.
[Squeak Toy Noise]
And then after all that teasing it literally
just takes it off the tongs like nothing.
That's the interesting about snakes
is that, you have to be patient figure out what
they want, this Children's python was definitely
a silly little monkey, but I'm glad it finally
took food, what a weird little animal.
I definitely like a lot of interesting angles
so sometimes I'll use a GoPro or an action cam
on the end of forceps just so that I can get
kind of that point of view of what it's like
to go in and feed, so we're gonna go ahead
and feed Pickles, the Green tree python.
Let's see if she wants to eat.
Just like that.
So again, more angles more interesting shots the better.
[Upbeat Funky Music Continues]
I'm gonna be honest with you, I am
super excited to be back to kind of building some things
and by the way we have some pretty big builds coming up,
I'm not gonna lie to you. But more on that later.
I do actually have to replace this cage here
and that's gonna require a bunch of things
because the enclosure is going to be more like
this where it's front loaded like this
so I'm going to actually have to break
a little bit of this out, remove all of this to
able to get in here and then the Woma python,
that's an absolutely gorgeous snake right there,
can start coming out because right now
it's just hard, again you have to go behind
the scenes, you have to reach down that thing
to pull it out so it's absolutely impossible.
I am super excited with the way these guys are looking
can't wait to finish them off, get the alligators out here
full time, it's going to be so cool to have
them kinda always right here and not
tucked away in back so we can mess with them even more
than we do now, so regardless let me know what you guys like
do you like build outs? Because trust me, we have some
pretty massive things coming up over the next few months.
And you guys know that I love feeding snakes.
Next up is Peaches, the Honduran milk snake.
C'mon Peaches. There she is! (laughs)
She is definitely a little monster too.
And it's a great snake, that's the thing that's so amazing
about the animals here at the Repterium, is there is super
aggressive feeders just like Peaches here,
but they're really tame when they're not being fed,
that's super important, but I hope that you guys
are learning a little bit about how we do things
here when we're feeding, let me know in the comments
which angles you guys like best, what else you'd like to see
more of, maybe a little less of, just let me know down in
the comments what you're thinking.
Next up is Ivy, I love feeding this girl she's so energetic
and sometimes again, I'll just put a GoPro or action cam
on a Monopod. You know, this thing is nice when you're
trying to get cool shots is that a GoPro now
or an action cam is relatively inexpensive
and a Monopod is like 10 or 15 bucks.
So you can get some really cool shots by just going really
close to it as you're offering the foods.
So let's go ahead and give this a shot.
Whoa! (exclaims)
I'll tell you what the power of that animal
is ridiculous! I don't ever wanna be at the biting end
of that animal for sure.
Did you see the power of her striking?
(exclaims) That was insane.
Lori, I have a little bit of a bone to pick with you
cause you click baited me yesterday.
- [Lori] What?
- [Brian] You click baited me yesterday!
- I don't even understand.
- So the deal was, yesterday before I left,
I had a late night, I wasn't gonna get home til like 8:30
you left I don't know 4:30 or something like that.
You said you were picking up steaks for dinner
so you click baited me! (Lori Laughs)
So the rest of the time I was like
Oh I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna eat some steaks
for dinner tonight! - There was not
- I get home at 8:30 - There was not a click bait,
I bought the steaks and I left them
at work in the fridge (laughs)
- You click baited me! I was home, I was smiling ear to ear
thinking I'm getting me some steaks and I get home
and I got tacos.
- You're not nearly as mad as I was
when I realized that I forgot them.
- Well, stop click baiting me. - Shut up! (laughs)
- Stop it. So we get steak tonight?
- Listen, it made you come home, right?
- Yeah, that's it. That's true. (Lori laughs)
The tacos were good too, but she still click baited me.
Next up is my girl Honey.
Definitely looks like she's ready to go.
[Air Striking Sound]
Whew! There she is. Here you go, sweetie.
There it is, good job Hon. Way to go.
Let me know down in the comments if you guys keep snakes.
What's your favorite snake to feed or is there
a dream snake that you really want to feed
and just tell me about it I mean, what it is.
For me, probably Anacondas are like that dream animal
when it comes to non-venomous snakes feeding.
Cause they are just different next level type animals.
[Funky Upbeat Music continues]
[Squeak Noise]
[Funky Upbeat Music Continues]
I love the fact that Night Fury has graduated to rabbits
definitely starting to get big. Where you at buddy?
Where you at? C'mon, c'mon. Oh! Here he comes.
Oh look at him!
Ah there you go, buddy!
There we go! I'll tell you what, as he's getting bigger
just more and more beautiful. What a gorgeous snake, huh?
(laughs) Loves To Nip, I love this snake.
And it's really calming down to be honest with you.
It used to be absolutely crazy.
Now, its actually relatively good when it comes to biting
to be totally honest with ya. C'mon little girl.
(Exclaims) Ah! There ya go! Look at you!
Absolutely wonderful and like I said this animal
lived up to its name loved to nip before.
Now its actually pretty tame. It'll strike sometimes
when its in its cage, but once you get up, dog-tame.
Again, everything around the Repterium
is just getting tamer and tamer.
Lets see if Jeffrey wants to eat.
Just starting to go into shed, so he may or may not eat.
You want to try, bud? You want to try?
Oh gosh! Whew! I'll tell you what
I wasn't prepared for that. It kind of got me,
I was holding it like really close thinking
it wasn't gonna strike and oh, oh yeah, he was,
he was still ready to eat.
Mr. Nubbins, the Dominican Red Mountain Boa is always
usually pretty good about eating.
Here we go and I love the way that these guys actually
pose like that where they'll get up there
and they'll just crush it.
Definitely, you can see that these guys will eat a lot of
birds and bats in the wild just by the way they perch
on a rock like that and will come out and just ready for it.
These again are the ones that sit in cave openings
and just wait for bats to come out at night
and just start picking bats off.
One of the coolest little animals for sure.
Like I mentioned before, this is an exercise in patience
you can see Honey has just finished up her rat.
We're time lapsing over here and kind of gotta keep
an eye on the time lapse. Over here, we have Ivy
just getting ready to take her rabbit right there
with a time lapse ready to go.
So, its kinda like hurry up and wait, right?
You feed, and then you sit around
you wait for them to get done before you can move on.
So, even though this might be a 15 minute feed video,
the truth is we spend hours and hours of time
trying to get the coolest shots. I hope that you enjoy it.
This is my Hypo Brazilian Rainbow boa
and I'll be honest with you guys, we had disaster here
when it came to Rainbow boas. He was supposed to
be my stud male and he didn't do a very good job
of breeding this year at all. We had infertile slugs,
we had dead babies, we didn't produce even one good
Rainbow boa, Columbian or Brazilian this year.
And typically we have a lot. I mean last year
like 150 Columbian Rainbow Boas and a bunch
of Brazilians, we had a disaster year this year.
But that just goes to show you, even with the fact
that we had a great Colubridae year,
a great Ball python year and other pythons
and a bunch of other boas like Sand boas.
It always seems to be that way. It's hard to put together
a season where you have everything going great. You know?
So sure enough this year we missed out on our Rainbows
and I think what happened is we bred about three weeks later
than we usually do and that window may just have closed
I'm not gonna lie to you so this year we're gonna try
to get back on track, stay on our schedule,
and make sure that mister stud, Hypo Brazilian Rainbow boa
has the best chance of hopefully producing
and that's just the way it goes when you're breeding
reptiles you know? Sometimes you have good years
sometimes you don't. This year was a big disappointment
for Brazilian Rainbows.
[Upbeat Funky Music Continues]
My girl Perdida actually missed a meal last week
cause she was in shed so I think she's gonna be pretty
ready to eat and you can see she smells that food.
And that's the thing that's amazing about snakes
is that they know when its coming they can
smell it in the air and they just completely change
their mannerism. Here we go baby, here we go.
There we go! Oh, there perfect hit!
And that's what you really want. You know, when they
can hit it right in the nose, you know they're gonna
eat good, if not they let it go
and they search around for it,
but regardless she definitely needed a meal
after shedding last week and skipping a meal
so, I know she's happy and she is unbelievably gorgeous.
Its a relatively small meal for Daisy,
but I don't have any real big rabbits thawed out
so I'm just gonna see if she wants a little small rabbit
and it would be a nice little meal for her.
C'mon little girl. Oh! There she goes!
Whew, she took a second where she was like
I'm not sure if she's gonna eat,
but then she definitely crushed that rabbit.
Again not a big rabbit for her,
but we'll give her a couple small ones
which will suffice for the week.
The thing I love about Maize is this enclosure
of his right here and the fact that he just stays
right in that little hole right there
It's so cool because again when I made this,
I literally attached this to the back of the cork
and when I saw this cork at Josh's garage
I was like I wanna make an enclosure for a Corn snake
and maybe he will stay inside there like, kinda like
who you would see in a tree in the wild with a Corn snake
and literally Maizey stays in there 99% of the time.
I think its absolutely amazing that it was kinda the
vision that it might work and its worked out perfectly.
Typically, it doesn't work that way,
but Maize is a super cool animal
and his enclosure is so dope. Definitely excited that
this will be the last time I have to feed the Woma
this way. We'll have front opening cages next week
that we're gonna put in so this way I can actually
get to her and I can open up the cage, take her out
more often, but then I can feed her from the front,
but as for now I gotta go back and kinda blindly feed
this animal. Never a good thing when you
have a snake to blindly feed em'.
[Funky Upbeat Music]
Crackle is always happy to eat as a matter of fact
if you're not careful, you get your fingers too close,
it'll eat your fingers. This guy is just in food mode all
of the time. C'mon, buddy. C'mon over here.
Right over here, don't get my finger.
Don't get my finger. I should be using forceps
right now, but I'm not because I'm stupid.
Oh! There he goes! (laughs) There's always that tingle
even after tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands
of snakes that I fed. Still that just before
they strike, you get that little tingle in you like
that's just awesome. I'm glad I have it after all
these years because I still enjoy feeding snakes so much.
[Funky Upbeat Music]
[Squeak Toy Noise]
There we go, sweetheart. Aw! (Laughs)
How cute was that? I love it when
sometimes again that first strike is vicious
the second one just like, they just open their mouth
and take it. I love it when reptiles do that.
My theory behind that is that, you know,
in their minds they might think I've never seen
food before, I may not see it again because
in the wild, they might not come across food
for a long time, but once they eaten their first meal
they kinda calm down they go alright well I've already eaten
and then they do it much slower the second time.
Same thing with crocodilians.
And another one of those kind of behind the scenes things
you figure when I got a time lapse, I have to then
go in and get it after its done, right?
And of course we got Ivy right here.
This can be some of the most dangerous moments
to be honest with you is when you're going in there
cause they're in feed mode and your hand is right there
so a lot of times ill get bit and you guys don't even see it
cause its when I'm pulling a time lapse camera out.
[Funky Upbeat Music]
Last animal we're feeding is the D'Albertis python, Ace.
C'mon little monkey. Oh man! Ace was ready to go for sure.
I hope that you guys enjoyed all of the feeding.
I wanna know in the comments what shot did you like
the most, what would you like to see more of, what would
you like to see that we missed. You know, give me
ideas. I wanna make our feeding videos some of the
most awesome YouTube videos you could ever watch.
So let me know down there and if you did like today,
here's another feeding video right here
and here's an entire playlist of feeding videos.
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Remember to have an absolutely wonderful day
and you better be kind to someone.
I promise, Ill see you guys tomorrow.