- [Brian] Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog, Reptile Army.
Hope to start your day as amazing.
We are going to be feeding the entire reptile zoo today,
and I'm going to start with my girl, Daisy, here.
Come on, girl, you want some food?
Come on.
What a sweetheart, there.
And that's right, we're going to feed snakes,
we're going to feed lizards, we're going to feed frogs,
we're going to feed turtles,
we're going to be everything at the reptile zoo.
You guys said in the last video,
you wanted a feeding video, so here it is.
So buckle up.
Let's get going.
Let's go ahead and try Lucy.
Let's see if my girl, Lucy, wants to eat today.
Lucy, you want to eat?
Here you go, there you go, there you go, oh yeah.
She finally ate.
She's been off of food for probably two and a half months,
and she finally crushed food.
So, this is absolutely incredible.
I'm excited.
You know, whenever a snake doesn't eat,
you always wonder, like, what's going on?
What's wrong with her?
And I think she just took a break.
I think she was developing some follicles,
and she went off of food.
Now she's back on food.
I am so excited because I love my girl, Lucy.
Butterscotch is coming, guys.
Butterscotch is coming.
Come on, girl.
Whoa!
There you go, go get it, oh!
That was a great catch right out of the air,
like she always does.
She is absolutely incredible.
- Guys, we've got this brand new little box turtle.
Doesn't have a name yet,
So keep putting names down in the comments.
He's only been eating worms the last couple of days,
so now we're going to try to use a little turtle pellet,
like Brian showed, and he didn't take it.
So today
we'll hopefully see what he does.
(energetic music)
Here they go, come on, here.
- Somebody's hungry today.
You buried yourself in the dirt, huh?
You buried yourself in the dirt.
You going to get down or you gonna
try to get it off my belly? Cause that's going to hurt.
That'll work, alright.
- Get down, donkey, donkey.
Grab this, clumsy, clumsy.
Here you go.
I know, that was a small piece.
Oh, good boy, what a good boy.
- My guy, Snaz, typically likes pigs,
but we're going to try a rabbit today.
Oh yeah, he didn't even hesitate.
Again, it was amazing because
he used to hate rabbits and he would never take them, right?
But Snaz crushed it this time,
and that's going to be a nice big meal for him.
He's such an amazing, calm animal.
I love that.
He is just turned on to food.
You see my girl, Sunrise, she knows it's coming,
and she is ready to go.
I gotta be careful because I don't want to
be on the flight end of this.
Come on, girl.
Come on, come on.
Whoa, whew.
Did you see that?
That was quite it's strike.
Ooh, that was absolutely awesome.
You guys know that Knife here is actually ball trained,
which means that it will follow the ball.
Come on, bud.
Come on, keep coming.
Whoa, there you go, whew.
Yeah, that's pretty crazy, guys.
Wow, that was awesome.
- Din din.
Look at that head perk up.
He said, feed me, dag gummit.
I love it.
There you go.
He is like a little pistol.
Today is just one of those days.
It's gotta be all the rabbits and stuff.
It's a big feeding day,
so I'm betting he's just been so riled up from it.
It's crazy.
There you go. There you go, there you go.
- Just like Snaz, Sunfire typically doesn't like rabbits,
but it looks like she's fired up today.
So let's see if she's going to go.
You gonna go, girl?
She just doesn't like rabbits.
I got her to go.
Sometimes you got to just play with her a little bit,
and get her to kind of take things, right?
So, that's just what they would call a tease feed,
where, you know, she's interested.
If that was a pig, she would have crushed it right away.
So I'm just kind of teasing her.
And then I kind of hit her towards the neck,
and she comes around and bites it.
So that's a success.
That's awesome.
Geoffrey's going to get a big meal today, that's right.
Geoffrey, stay away from me, stay away, hey, hey, hey.
Come on, come on.
Oh yeah, there he goes.
Like I said,
that's going to be a nice, big meal for him.
Today I'm kind of feeding heavy, right?
I tell you I cycle things, right,
where I feed light, then we feed heavy,
then we feed light, and so on like that.
Today is a heavy feeding.
Like I mentioned, we're feeding everything.
Of course, that means we have to
feed our albino turtle some food too.
I love them over here.
People have been digging it at the rep care,
so let's feed these little monkeys.
(upbeat music)
We have a special visitor today.
Oh, get the heck outta here.
Oh my gosh.
You guys got this for me?
- Yep, just for you, Robbie.
- Oh my goodness gracious.
You're the cutest little Husky ever.
Oh my gosh, it makes me miss my Artie so much.
Oh my gosh.
I love it.
This is the color I love the best.
It's got the cute mask on.
Oh my gosh, you're just
- His right eye is half blue and half hazel.
- Oh my gosh, you're kidding me, that is so cute.
- He's like, you're getting all the attention,
you little brat.
- Does Lucky need some attention too?> Hi, Lucky.
I love the puppy breaths, I love the puppy breaths.
I'm in love.
Please, can I have?
Can I have, oh, he said yes.
Oh my God, Huskies are my favorite.
I love it.
I'm in love.
Oh, what's his name?
- Weegie.
- Weegie, oh my God, he's amazing.
I'm not going to be working the rest of the day.
So we'll see you guys in the next block.
Like I mentioned earlier, a little bit bigger meals.
So typically, Snowflake the leucistic Texas rat,
actually eats small rats, but we're going to
give it just a little bit bigger rat this week,
just to get a little bit more size on it.
Again, varying up, I just think it's really important
to not always do the same thing every week,
bigger meals, multiple meals, you know,
whatever you can do to kind of vary it up,
really helps the animal and their health.
Then there's Bugatti the boelen's python.
Come on, bud.
There it goes, perfect.
It's doing so good.
Again, just starting to power feed.
Now that it's on to large rats, it's going to get big quick.
- Come on, go ahead and bite at it.
There you go, that's perfect.
I love feeding him small and larger pieces.
That's where it's really where it's at
cause you can tell he always has a different strategy
for each size of the food.
Brian even says it, I say it, everybody says it here.
We don't always try to feed the same size every time,
just because like, we do want to be consistent
in how we feed, but like as far as the overall size
of the prey item, like sometimes,
it's just a good like stimulation for their brain
to have a different size, different way to process,
how do they eat it, things like that.
Even snakes, it's just great for behavior.
- First time feeding El Toro up top,
which is always interesting
because my face is more in range of a strike.
So, we're going to have to be a little bit more careful
than we used to be.
Come on, bud.
There you go.
Definitely loves to eat, and I'm glad that it's eating
in this new environment.
Cupcake literally just shed in the last hour or so.
So hopefully it's ready to eat.
Every time she does it, it scares me.
Cause she just goes from like nothing to striking.
And I can't read her when she's going to strike.
That's what makes boas so interesting is that
they go from zero to spring, immediately.
(lively music)
Al's another one that typically
doesn't really care for rabbits that much.
So, I don't know exactly what's going to happen.
You going to eat, bud?
You gonna eat?
Come on, come on, come on, let's go.
It looks like he's interested,
I just can't get him to take it.
Come on now.
He just doesn't seem to be interested.
Again, he likes pigs, he doesn't really like rabbits.
I'm just going to try a little bit more.
Come on, you want to try?
Come on buddy.
Come on, let's go, let's go. let's go.
Yes, woo hoo.
Again, just sometimes you got to use different techniques
to get these animals going,
and I have to just kind of continue
to be persistent with it.
And again, instead of striking,
cause he doesn't like rabbits,`
he just opened his mouth really gently and took it.
That's pretty awesome.
So happy that Lucy took one rabbit.
So let's go ahead and see if she wants to take another one.
You want to take another one, girl?
Come on, there you go, sweetheart.
That second one, she's always way softer on,
so that's good.
Two big rabbits for her is going to be absolutely amazing.
Start to put that body weight on
because she was losing a little bit of weight.
So now we can start to beef her up,
which is just absolutely amazing.
Shaff and Pop, of course they've been breeding,
which means we have to keep them well fed.
We're going to go ahead and feed the female first.
Come on, girl, come on, oh.
And then look at this little monkey right down here.
It says, I know there's food, come on now.
Ah, there it is.
Interestingly enough, black-headed pythons and Woma pythons
eat throughout the breeding season.
A lot of times males go off of food during breeding,
but when it comes to black heads and Womas,
they pound food the entire time.
Now I'm going to give Pop here, the female,
one extra rat this week,
just to get her a little bit more size
because she's probably developing follicles.
And I want to seed that follicle with a lot of food.
Of course, another state that's coming up
to breeding here pretty soon is Pickles,
the green tree python.
So let's see if she wants to eat.
Whoa, geesh oh petes.
That was quick.
Oh wow.
Yeah, again, you start to see the difference
in the way things feed
when the breeding season is coming up.
Females start to get really aggressive,
so she is definitely looking like
she's going to get ready to breed.
We'll go ahead and get Gherkin, the male, in with her
within the next probably two weeks.
(upbeat music)
- Up next, we've got Mr. Nubbins.
Looks like he's ready to eat for sure.
Come on, bud, come on.
There you go.
Loving that snake more and more every day.
- There you go, good job.
Well, there you go.
We fed everything at the zoo today.
Absolutely amazing.
Animals are happy, which makes me happy.
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