- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
Of course, I'm gonna start my day
with my little blue tongued skink here, named Irwin.
Of course, this is a northern blue tongued skink,
and you may ask yourself, "Brian, why are you
starting out showing us a northern blue tongued skink?"
And that's because we have something exciting.
And that's another litter of baby blue tongued skinks!
I cannot wait to see what's going on here with Momma!
Now, I'm gonna take Momma out.
She's actually a coffee, which is just an
absolutely gorgeous animal.
She looks like she definitely got beat up,
having a lot of babies for sure.
And she's bred to a super nice red male.
So, these babies should be absolutely stunning.
And I don't know how many babies are in here,
but you can definitely see,
look at how, oh my gosh!
Hoodoggie!
Those are gonna be some rippers right there!
Oh my gosh!
And by the way, just before anyone says anything,
I mentioned that I'm gonna be upgrading
all our blue tongued skinks into
completely different environments this summer.
I'm super excited about building some stuff.
Putting UV light, putting in all kinds of different stuff.
I'm really excited about it.
This is the way we had been breeding them,
but we definitely are in the process of changing that
to something much more luxurious
for these animals, for sure.
So, let's just go ahead and start looking through
and seeing how many babies there are.
There's one little baby here.
Aww, look at that cute little dude.
Look at him!
Oh my gosh, that is absolutely incredible!
Oh, he is so adorable.
And look at how pretty he is.
This one doesn't look so hot.
Well, it looks okay, it might be okay.
Just looks a little bit frail.
This is a third one.
Again, it might have a little bit,
well it looks like it straightened up pretty good.
At first, I was like, I don't know,
that one looks a little weak.
But it seems to be pretty feisty.
So, that's three so far.
Here's a fourth.
Oh my gosh, look at that ripper right there.
That is beautiful!
That's a fourth little baby.
Fifth little baby right here.
And I can actually see something
squirming around back here.
(laughing) Oh my gosh.
So that's six little babies.
Look at that tongue coming out!
Oh my gosh, that is so absolutely incredible.
So, six little babies so far.
And I was, oh!
Here's a seventh, here's a seventh!
Look at the pattern on that one!
Holy Moly!
I don't think I've ever seen a pattern like that before.
That is super cool!
So different, you can see how most of them
have banded pattern, and this one has like,
kinda like, I don't know like,
oblong circles in the middle.
That is gonna be crazy.
So, I'm just gonna look around,
see if there's anymore.
Looks like a couple infertiles in here too.
Is there any more babies?
Oh! There's another baby!
That's an eighth baby!
Look at you cute little monkey!
Oh my gosh, these things are so adorable.
Do we have another one?
Looks like that might be it, guys.
Maybe eight babies.
And like I said, this particular female
was one that I was super excited about,
cause the coffee line is just beautiful.
And then bred to a really bright male, red animal.
Oh my goodness.
These babies are going to be ridiculous.
And that's the thing about our production this year,
with blue tongued skinks, is that we really refined
what we were breeding this year.
So, although we're not producing any kind
of just normal northerns, we're producing all these
like, kinda really high end beautiful northerns.
So, we'll probably hang on to these
for a least a month or two,
to let them develop their color.
Find out what they're gonna look like.
And then eventually get these guys on the website.
But oh my gosh.
So, eight little babies from Momma.
I mean, that is incredible.
Look at how absolutely gorgeous those little things are!
That is a great way to start the day.
But with that being said,
there's a lot more stuff that's gonna be happening today.
So, buckle up guys, it's gonna be a banger.
So, let's just jump right into it.
Just a quick unboxing from my friends down in Mississippi.
Remember my firefighter friend
that I got two headed turtles from?
Well, he sent us a couple things.
One thing I'm gonna unbox right now.
Another thing I'm gonna save for a little bit later,
tell you what's going on,
and kinda give you an update of that whole project,
with the two headed turtles and stuff like that.
But, he sent me this
which I absolutely am excited about.
I wanna add a bunch of cool turtles
to the Reptarium for sure,
just cause I love turtles,
and terrapins in particular are amazing.
And this is one of the species that I really love.
Oh, and it's already,
I can tell it's so absolutely beautiful.
And of course, this is a little
northern diamondback terrapin.
Oh my gosh.
Is that thing beautiful?
I mean, just the cool colors
and the pattern on the head.
And the shell often times gets really amazing.
Now, the diamondback terrapin, interestingly enough,
have adapted to live in brackish water,
which means just a little bit of
salt salinity in the waters.
But, they can also live in fresh water.
This one's gonna live in the pond right behind me.
And of course, because all of those are captive,
this is captive, I can put him right in there
and be completely fine with it.
But, interestingly enough,
these get about the size of a slider,
just like these other guys.
They've actually adapted to not only
not absorb the salinity of salt,
so they can live in brackish water,
they actually have a gland that can help them
with actually finding fresh water.
Sometimes they'll actually drink like, rain droplets.
So, you'll see their head up in the air,
just drinking the rain droplets,
as well as like, surface water and stuff like that.
So, it's pretty cool that a freshwater turtle
kinda adapted to a brackish kinda saltwatery type of turtle.
But, the northern diamondback terrapin
has the largest range of all of the diamondbacks terrapins.
They can literally be found all the way
from Alabama up into Rhode Island,
Texas, all over the place.
And most of them do live in completely fresh water.
So, this thing is absolutely adorable.
I love him, and we need a name
for this little guy right now.
Cause look at that cute little face.
I mean, that is just absolutely adorable.
So, there it is.
The one little unboxing for the day.
And like I said, I'll update that whole two headed thing,
and show you a little surprise here,
you know, in the next days or so.
Just stay patient on that one, all right?
But in the mean time, let's go ahead
and let this little monkey go.
And again, I'll just let this little guy roam free.
He's gonna have a big, huge area to swim around with.
Have fun little buddy!
(laughing)
And hopefully I can add some more terrapins into this.
I really wanna max out a maybe 12, maybe 15.
I mean, it depends on the size of course.
But he doesn't seem to be nervous at all.
He's just swimming around.
And again, because my friends down in Mississippi
are so great with turtles,
I'm sure that they had this thing socialized and habituated.
So, it's not afraid.
So, maybe this will be one of the turtles
that will definitely come up to get fed
off of forceps, right?
But, look at him!
He's just cruising around like nothing!
I think he loves his new environment.
So, that is awesome.
Oh my gosh!
I love it!
I get so excited when I see that, you know?
When you put a turtle that probably
wasn't as in big of an enclosure,
into something big like this,
and he's just like, yay!
It's like a field day for him.
So, that is awesome.
It makes my heart just explode with happiness.
Down in the dungeon, guess what time it is?
♪ Egg time, egg time egg time ♪
Let's go ahead and see what this girl has to offer here.
This is, ooh, it's a big ol' clutch right there.
This is actually a pinstripe,
and she was actually bred to a banana fire spider.
So, there should be some pretty good combination.
Of course, we could get spinners,
and fires, and fire spinner bananas,
and all kinds of stuff.
And, hoodoggie, I'll tell you what.
Again, I look at these clutches all the time
and I think, "Could this be the 12 egg clutch
I've been looking for all year?"
I don't know, that's a pretty big
clutch of eggs right there.
Let's just go ahead and start pulling these guys
and seeing what happens here.
Kinda loose, so that's good.
Whoa!
Momma almost got me.
That was a close call right there.
I was actually paying attention to the eggs and, whoa!
Look at this.
Whoa! Come on mom.
Paying attention to the eggs and forgot
that there's a mom in there, protecting those eggs.
So, I gotta be a little bit careful.
Whoa! Come on Momma, it's all right, it's okay girl.
Come on, girl.
Let's go.
Whoo, I'll tell you what.
There's a lot of eggs in this clutch, aren't there?
Whoo!
I'll tell you what, mom, it's whoa!
It's okay, whoa!
Oh sheesh!
Dodging, and dodging, and dodging 'em.
(laughing) All right, I just got these last few eggs.
Whoo, I'll tell you what.
And, they can't even fit in the egg box.
My gosh, I'm gonna have to rearrange these eggs
just to get them all in.
This is a lot of eggs right here.
I don't know, this is
it's definitely gotta be close to that 12 eggs, for sure.
Oh my goodness, that's a big clutch.
Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12!
We did it!
We finally hit 12 eggs!
That is, that's like the record for the year.
We've had a bunch of 11 egg clutches.
12 eggs finally, the most eggs we've produced this year.
That's pretty exciting!
This next clutch is actually just a normal female.
And she's bred to actually to a banana fire spinner blast.
So, it's just a bunch of combinations of
incomplete dominant stuff.
So, we should have some pretty good little babies in here,
nothing too spectacular.
But still, some really good, awesome animals.
Looks like a beautiful clutch.
So, we're just gonna go ahead and pull this out.
Go ahead and put these eggs over here.
One more egg.
And look at that, that's an absolutely
gorgeous clutch right there.
Nice, big clutch too.
Two, four, six, eight, 10.
Beautiful, pearly white eggs.
And again, combinations of all kinds of stuff.
These are just kinda the bread and butter
clutches that I really love,
because we know pretty much everything that hatches
is gonna be really, kind of, cool pet trade.
Awesome, beautiful snakes.
So, definitely always excited when I get clutches like this.
So, I'm just gonna go ahead and
feed my dinosaur, Bowsher, here.
I mean, this thing is so prehistoric, so amazing.
I love feeding him, I can't wait
til he gets like, 200 pounds.
It might be another 50 years,
but I tell you, with the way this guy eats,
it'll get there, I promise you that.
(turtle snapping)
Oh! (bubbling water)
Geez oh Petes!
That was violent!
You missed that one.
There you go, Bowsher.
There you go, there you go, buddy.
I'll tell you what.
That animal is ridiculous.
I mean, that bite force on that first strike, whoo!
I'll tell you what.
You wouldn't your hand in there, that's for sure.
But, that thing is awesome.
♪ Egg time ♪
That's right, it's colubrid egg time.
But, I have something I have to talk to you about.
I am a little OCD, and what I do with these
yellow dots, which basically is just to mark
that the animals laid eggs,
is I always remove them from the top, like this,
over like this in rows.
What kind of crazy person came onto my cart
and took this - it's pretty much destroyed my entire OCD.
Cause now I gotta get rid of all those dots
to get to that dot!
Why didn't they just take that dot?
Regardless, all right, I'm done with my rant.
Let's just go on and pull this clutch of eggs,
and I'll be happier. (laughing)
There's just little quirks that I have
when it comes to breeding snakes,
that I do like, every year, and I've always done it.
And that's one of my little quirks.
So, I apologize for the little mini rant there.
So, this is actually an albino het scaleless corn,
bred to an albino scaleless corn snake.
And she's got a gorgeous clutch of eggs!
That definitely, that cheered me up
from the yellow dot incident.
I guess we should call this yellow dot gate,
because I'm gonna find out who did this,
and I'm gonna have to have a little talking to them
(laughing) if you know what I mean.
Which, by the way, I guarantee it was Laurie.
Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 15 eggs!
Hey, I tell you what. That's a good way to start.
We still have a couple more clutches.
This next clutch is actually a butter corn snake,
and it was actually bred to a butter tessera.
And it's this little male right here.
Of course it's that same thing that albino caramel,
which is the butter, and then the tessera
is that striping, cool pattern.
So, everything in this clutch will be a butter,
but half of them are gonna be tessera,
because the tessera is an
incomplete dominant type of thing.
Looks like a nice little clutch there.
She's not a big girl at all.
So, we're just gonna have to take these eggs out one by one,
cause they aren't stuck together.
Get her kinda rolled over here.
See, here we go.
We'll get Momma out here, just make sure she's okay.
Again, she's a small corn snake.
So, this is a pretty big clutch for such a small girl.
First time female.
Definitely gonna want to get some food, water in with her.
Get her kinda back situated.
But she ended up having a really nice clutch.
It's two, four, six, eight, nine eggs.
Nine eggs for a small girl like that,
that's not that bad, I'll tell you what.
Again, nice to post some more colubrid eggs,
but that's it for the day.
Look who finally shed out!
My girl Cupcake, and she looks amazing!
And look, it's just a beautiful shed.
It's ripped here, but nevertheless,
you can see it's a really good shed.
And wow!
Does she look absolutely beautiful?
And you know, the fact is,
that that full shed means that we're dialing in
the proper humidity for her.
As well as Mr. Nubbins had a beautiful shed too.
You can see it just kinda wrapped
all over place right here.
Perfect shed.
Again, that just tells me that we're
really dialing things in.
And you can take a look at how beautiful
Mr. Nubbins is looking after that shed.
I mean, look at that snake.
I mean, just the rust colors,
and the reds coming through, hoodoggie!
I tell you what, that is absolutely incredible.
I then there's my girl Perdita of course,
that didn't have a perfect shed.
And like I always mention, yeah, for the most part,
those sheds have to do with humidity, right?
If we dial the humidity in right, they usually shed well.
Now, when you get really big snakes,
that's not always the case.
Just because they're so big,
it's hard for them to shed in one piece.
It happens occasionally, but not so much.
But definitely Perdita always seem to struggle
a little bit, which means that we just have to
figure out a way to maybe get this enclosure
a little bit more humid.
Maybe a little thicker bedding here.
Possibly some misting going on.
Something has to go on.
She shed decent, she's just gonna need a little soap.
But, certainly gotta dial in that humidity.
So, if you have a pet snake and it's not shedding properly,
there's a good chance that the humidity is off.
Again, if you have a giant snake,
it's probably not gonna shed in one piece.
But when you have a snake that's smaller,
not shedding in one piece, it probably means
your humidity is just a little bit down,
gotta dial that in.
But in the meantime, you can just soak them,
and get it done, and kinda dial it in.
With that said, the majority of stuff
here at the Reptarium now seem to be shedding perfectly.
Which means we're finally getting the humidity right.
Pretty awesome after a few weeks of not having babies,
thanks to have to some more babies, thanks.
I think we have a few more females
that are gonna drop pretty soon, too.
So, fingers crossed for more of those.
You know, the breeding season and the hatching season
and the entire production season is just heating up.
And it's getting more and more exciting.
But don't get me wrong.
I still love the fact that the Reptarium
is keeping me super busy too.
These animals are incredible.
And my girl Ivy is not too far off from shedding.
And we're gonna have that experience inside with her.
It's gonna be really dope.
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