- Couple little hiccups here and there but you know.
- [Brian] What the heck is going on?
You got blood all over you.
- They're just happy to see me, that's all.
- There you go, buddy.
There you go, sweetheart.
Oh my gosh.
He's making quick work of these.
(whooshing)
Hey good morning, everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible today.
It's gonna be a crazy one here.
So Lori we're moving colubrids today.
- Yes we are.
- [Brian] You guys excited?
You get your cardio in?
- Well, I'm not looking forward to that one.
(laughing)
- So bringing all the colubrids out of the basement
in brumation, over to BHB.
That's a lot of trips up the stairs
but it's gonna be amazing.
You're excited about the breeding season, yes?
- Yes, I am.
I'm gonna be much more involved this year.
- That's right.
So last year, Lori wasn't as involved in breeding.
This year she's excited to be involved
because we got all kinds of new stuff.
Like I kind of alluded the other day
we actually are picking up another collection.
I'll tell you more about that in the next couple days.
Regardless, let's go ahead
and get these colubrids out of the basement.
It's so nice and bright down here I tell ya.
And these are all the boxes of the Tippster, obviously.
Of course we have colubrids that are behind them.
We'll have to move those in a little bit
and then we have all the colubrids down these aisles here
that we have to bring upstairs.
So it's gonna be a lot of work
but it is nice that it's bright down here.
Last time we did this we were like
tripping over each other and stuff like that.
It's pretty simple, really.
We're just gonna have to pull these out.
As you can see we already took the waters out.
So waters don't spill.
We put a lid on them.
We carry them upstairs.
Slide them in order over at BHB
and then we put water back in them.
So it's really not brain surgery
but it's still a lot of work to take a lot
of colubrids up the stairs.
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It's crazy to start to see that racks fill up again.
I mean it's kind of cool.
It's just exciting to know that we're finally
at that time of the year where we're gonna feeding colubrids
and then ultimately we're gonna breed them.
Get eggs.
I mean I know you're excited about it.
I know you had mentioned that you really want
to take a big part of it, you know.
And for those of you people that don't know,
Lori bread colubrids for years.
I mean you were in charge of everything.
So now this year it's gonna be you and Eric, right?
- Right.
- So you're gonna give him all of your wisdom?
- Exactly.
I'm gonna endow all of the knowledge I have.
And all of the years of experience.
So, I guess he would be my protege, is that what it is?
- Yeah, something like that.
Padawan, I don't know what it is.
- I have a bad feeling about this.
- I don't sense anything.
- All right, okay.
So as you can see we're making some progress
but you still got a long way to go.
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All right, so finally all the colubrids have been moved over
and all in the rack system.
Now what?
You have to kind of rearrange them into breathing schemes?
- Exactly, yeah.
I'll figure out what I have.
Put them in the right order.
And then yeah, we'll be good to go in a couple weeks.
- Now, I think we have three different groups, right?
We have like our old group that's been around for a while.
We have some new animals up
and then I told you guys,
we're actually getting a new smaller collection.
Well, not so much smaller.
But, we're getting some pretty cool stuff.
I can't wait to share with you guys.
I'll talk more about that next week, regardless.
So, do you have a game plan,
or you're just rolling with it?
- Yeah, no.
I don't have a game plan yet.
I will by Monday.
- Okay, and I'll go through kind of the whole process
of what we do here with colubrids here in a minute
but right now it's great that they're all over here.
And I'll let Lori kind of look through, get things going.
And one of the major things we do still have to do
is put waters in here, obviously
because you didn't want to move them with the waters
because the waters were too spilled, of course
and that would have made a mess
but nevertheless you can see these guys are definitely awake
and they're ready to get going.
I'm going to take a quick break
and feed Elvis and Toothless.
I always talk about variety, variety, variety
when it comes to food.
Varying it up.
So I've got some nice salmon for him today.
I think he's gonna absolutely love it.
What do you think, Elvis?
What do you think, bud?
Oh yeah, there you go.
You like it?
Yes.
Oh gonna be able get it up?
There you go, down the gullet.
Good job, guys.
And again, like I talked about
the more you vary these guys diet
the better they're gonna be.
The more health they're gonna be, for sure.
And these guys will have a pretty good
fish diet in the wild.
So I do like to feed him lots of different fish, for sure.
This is the first time I've ever tried salmon.
He seems to absolutely love it.
What do you think, bud?
I could have probably cut them up a little bit better.
Make it a little easier for him to eat but I have
a feeling he's gonna be able to do it, no problem.
There you go, buddy.
There you go, good job.
Next time I'm definitely gonna have to cut them up
just a little bit more.
These pieces are definitely a little bit big
but I still think he's gonna do fine.
There you go, buddy.
There you go, sweetheart.
Oh my gosh, he's making quick work of these.
Just like he does everything.
Here you go, want some more?
There you go.
There you go, good job, buddy.
Wow.
What a good animal this is.
All right, last piece, buddy, last piece.
There you go.
All right, good job.
Way to go, Elvis, way to go, bud.
You did so good, sweetheart, good job.
That'll be a nice meal.
Let's go ahead and see if Toothless'll like it.
We've actually never offered Toothless fish yet.
This will be a very first time.
Let's see if he's gonna like it.
Toothless is still a little weird about handing food to him
but he loves to take it out of the plate.
So I'm just gonna drop it in here, oh yeah.
I think Toothless likes it.
There you go, buddy.
There you go.
Oh my gosh yeah, Toothless loves it.
There you go.
Oh big meal for you buddy.
Again, I probably could have cut these up a little bit.
I guess my size proportions not very good
when I think about these animals
but he's getting his way down.
You okay Toothless, you get it?
There you go, buddy.
There you go, bud.
It's pretty amazing how they almost work like a snake
where they kind of move that neck
to push that food down with a big prey item.
Toothless, you want more?
You want more, bud?
You want some more?
Want some more?
He sure does.
Big ol' piece again.
Okay.
I definitely need to cut these guys up.
I'm gonna just let Toothless go ahead
and get into these things here.
He's looking like he's wanting to rip off a chunk.
There he goes.
Right there, down the gullet it goes.
Oh my God.
This is gonna be a great meal for him.
He's gonna love it.
So I'll leave Toothless here to eat a little bit.
Hey Eric, you doing all the waters.
How's thing going? - Yes sir, really good.
Really, really good.
Couple little hiccups here and there but you know.
- [Brian] What the heck's going on?
You got blood all over you.
- They're just happy to see me, that's all.
I think they woke up and they're just
like me when I wake up.
I'm hungry.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, how many bites is that?
- Couple, couple dozen, no, probably seven.
Baker's dozen, I don't know.
- So, you went through and you did the waters.
You've got seven bites already, are you kidding me?
- We're only about 75 snakes in.
That's not good odds.
- Oh my God, well be careful man.
Holy cow, you're gonna become anemic.
- Yeah, I know.
Pass right out back here.
- All right, get back to work.
I can always rely on Tazzy here to eat.
Right bud, you want to try?
You want to try?
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I tell you, this is the weirdest thing.
Taz has been acting so goofy lately.
He doesn't ever turn down any food
but apparently today he just wants to wander around
and he liked to play with it so that's weird.
All right, I guess Tazzy's not gonna eat it after all.
So, I don't know.
I tell you what guys, I am super, super excited
about all these colubrids being back up.
Again, I was a colubrids guy my whole life.
So kind of having them up
is like I get a whole new collection.
It's like they were gone for three, three and a half months
whatever it is and now they're back
and it's almost like you acquire a brand new collection.
Get to know the snakes again.
Take a look at this chunky monkey right here.
That is one big corn snake right there.
That of course is one of my big males
and he is a beasty animal.
And again, just like you saw with Eric's hand,
these things definitely were woken up.
It got a little bit warmer in the brumation area,
so I think they kind of started to wake up
before we even brought it up.
So, I have a feeling these guys are ready
to feed like any day, to be honest with ya.
Take a look at this corn snake here.
This of course, is a butter motley corn snake.
Oh my gosh, that thing is absolutely breathtaking.
Again, I'm just so excited to see these animals
because again, it's almost like
I've got a bunch of brand-new animals.
This is what they would call a plasma corn snake right here.
Man, that thing is cool
and of course it almost looks purplish.
Just take a look at how unbelievable that is
and what that is is actually a diffused corn
which is what some people call a blood red corn
and then a lavender corn.
So those are two recessive mutations.
This one happens to be another really special snake to me.
Of course the albino Arizona Mountain king snakes
and the reason it's so special
is we had the very first ones.
So, I think they're absolutely stunning
and it's just cool to have been working
with them for so long.
I tell you what, I love Arizona Mountain king snakes.
I have a whole bunch of different ones
and the albinos and the hypos are unbelievably beautiful.
And speaking of hypos this is actually
a hypo Pueblan milk snake
but it's a little bit of an apricot as well.
So it's a hypo apricot Pueblan.
Now the hypo is a recessive mutation
but the apricot is actually almost like a polygenic mutation
which is pretty interesting
because it's not really co-dominant
but if you breed an apricot to a normal
about half the babies come out apricot.
So it kind of acts like a co-dominant in a way
if that makes any sense.
Regardless, look at this little monkey right here.
Hoo hoo doggy, this of course is a
tangerine albino Honduran milk snake
and you can notice that these guys
have only been up for an hour so over here.
And they're so active, I mean they're moving around.
That again tells me that coming out of brumation,
that they were definitely ready.
This is another tangerine Honduran milk snake
but a beauty, look at how incredible
that animal is right there.
Whoo doggy, I cannot wait till we start getting
some eggs and some babies from these things.
It's gonna be incredible.
Of course we have the 100-flower rat snake or moellendorffi
over next door at the Reptarium.
This actually happens to be a hypomelanistic moellendorffi
or 100-flower rat snake.
So, there's only a handful of these in the entire world.
So it's really exciting that this female
should lay some eggs this year.
We're gonna breed her to the male over at the Reptarium.
As you can see guys I could just keep going on forever
because there's so many cool animals.
And again I told you before
that things are gonna start heating up here
because now we have all of these animals
to talk about and vlog about
and show you guys the progress.
And the course up excited as I always am
about the Rhino rat snakes.
Of course we have Pinocchio
that will go back over next door.
Now that he's gonna be out of his short brumation
but we have some females
that are gonna hopefully produce again.
We've been producing rhino rat snakes for the last
I don't know, six or seven years maybe even eight years.
I'm not sure but regardless what gorgeous snakes.
I tell you what guys, I couldn't be happier
to have colubrids out of brumation.
And by the way just for the record
sometimes I call it hibernation
when we're talking about colubrids
but the truth is it's actually brumation with reptiles.
It's kind of just a bad habit because when I really started
no one really called it brumation.
They called it hibernation.
So I kind of got stuck in my head that it's hibernation.
Theoretically, it is brumation.
So I do apologize if sometimes I call it brumation
and other times I call it hibernation.
Like I mentioned I'm always trying to
kind of experiment and see what happens.
Let's see if Irwin wants some salmon.
You want some salmon, bud?
Wanna give it a shot?
I know you're like I've never smelled that before.
Wanna try or no?
Oh, you don't like?
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Definitely seems interested
but he don't know if he wants it.
I don't know, what do you think?
No, okay Irwin.
So that's a no-go.
I guess Irwin doesn't like salmon.
While I'm just kind of getting myself reacquainted
with such beautiful animals, I'll take you guys
on the process of what we're doing.
Again, coming out of brumation,
they're gonna warm up for a few days.
Usually I give them about a week
but like I had mentioned things are so happening right now.
You can see this one even just shed
within the last couple of days,
that they're really ready to go.
That shed is really that trigger, right?
Males will usually shed pretty quick right on a brumation.
This happens to be a male here
and that means they're ready to go.
Now females typically shed about two
sometimes even three weeks out of brumation
and when they shed,
and that's what they would call a post-brumation shed.
That's when they're gonna actually
start developing follicles and when you want to start
breeding the males to those females.
Right after that first shed out of hibernation.
As long as it's about two weeks later
because sometimes a female pre-lay or two later.
That isn't the brumation shed.
That's just a shed that doesn't really count
but once the female shed out
and they start feeding really well
then we're gonna put them together.
And again, we'll feed these guys probably
in three or four days.
Oftentimes, we'll wait about a week.
Once they start feeding and breeding,
it usually happens pretty quick.
I mean literally we just feed the females
as much as we possibly can,
try to get as much weight onto them
and keep breeding those males five days a week,
putting males and putting males in
and then they'll go through what
they call a pre lay shed,
which is typically four to six weeks
after they do that brumation shed
and then that is a pre-lay shed
that is gonna have eggs in about seven to 10 days.
So as you can see things are gonna heat up quick.
It's gonna be awesome.
It's gonna happen quick.
Before you know it we're gonna have eggs.
So there you go guys.
Colubrids are up.
Things are heating up.
I'm excited about the future.
I tell you what, I cannot wait to bring you guys along
on another breeding season here.
Let me know if you guys are as excited as I am
and what are you the most excited about?
Is it a specific species?
Or just over all excited about snake production?
You want to learn stuff?
Let me know in the comments what you want me to do
over the next three months with the colubrids up.
And geckos are coming up next week.
Oh my God, things are gonna get crazy.
And pythons aren't too far off from laying eggs, too.
Wow, it's gonna be an amazing year.
And this is the first year
that we have a full breeding season and the Reptarium.
So wow life is gonna be busy
but it's gonna be absolutely incredible.
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