- Hey, good morning everybody, (upbeat music)
and welcome to the vlog. (water splashes)
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
What do you say we push our problems aside
and have some fun for the next 12 to 15 minutes?
What do you say about that?
You guys know by now that my life is really split
into two very different worlds.
One being here at the Reptarium
with some amazing animals, education,
open to the public, it's been so amazing.
But there's another part of my life,
and then of course, there's BHB,
where we hatch some amazing snakes,
and I've been breeding snakes believe it or not
since 1989 is when BHB started.
So all the animals here are actually breeding stock
to produce amazing babies.
And I've talked about it before
that when you want to produce something
like a super lori leopard ball python,
it takes years and years to get to that phase.
Sometimes I've been working on projects
that are you know five, six, seven, eight years
in the making.
You guys know that we have a clutch of eggs
that is gonna be cut here in about a week
that I've been working on for about seven years.
So sometimes, you'll start with a project
much like this beautiful animal here,
and it's just the kind of beginning of something bigger.
I've said, "I want to do a super lori leopard pie.
I want to see what that is."
But almost every project has a lot
of thought that goes into it.
So when we're going into the breeding season,
I have so many wonderful snakes,
but this snake in particular,
which is a pastel enchi bongo,
I thought what was I gonna do with that?
Because that bongo gene hasn't been worked with a ton.
Been around for maybe the last six or seven years,
but there's not a ton that is (mumbles) with it.
So this animal really gave me an opportunity
to think like not just what could I produce this year,
but what could I start that could maybe
five, six years from now be absolutely incredible?
So I actually decided to breed to this banana clown.
Clown ball pythons are a recessive mutation
that are so popular.
Of course, the banana clowns, oh my goodness,
look at how gorgeous that snake is right there.
And I thought to myself, wow,
what if I combine this with that pastel enchi bongo?
What possibly could we get not only this generation
but also something that's two or three generations from now?
'Cause I'm telling you what,
a pastel enchi bongo banana clown,
not to mention what else we could get into,
could be absolutely stunning.
And guess what?
Today is the day that we get to cut the clutch
that was fathered by this one
and the mother was the pastel enchi bongo.
So what do you say we head over and jut cut that clutch
and hope for some amazing combo?
(razor whooshes)
I tell you what guys, (water splashes)
I have been excited
about this clutch for, well 57 days.
This is actually a pastel enchi bongo
that's bred to a banana clown,
but before I do some of this, I've got this to do.
(claps hands)
I had a great family from St.Louis come
and bring me this shirt,
so I can't cut eggs without it, right?
So let's go ahead, jump in, see what's going on.
I have never seen a banana enchi bongo clown before.
We won't get them in these, these will just be (mumbles),
but it's gonna be amazing and to start,
I'm hoping we accrue some bongo stuff.
That's the idea.
I don't know that I've even seen
a bongo enchi banana before,
even a banana bongo for that matter before.
Could be some world's first here.
Let's jump into egg number one.
And here we go, oh my gosh,
I'm so excited to see what's gonna be in this clutch.
Ooh, what is that, we're gonna have to riff here.
What in the world?
Oh, I think we may have hit, I don't know even know
what this is to be honest with you,
but I think it's a banana.
I don't know what this is.
Maybe it's a banana enchi bongo, heck clown?
I think this is the all gene animal.
Wow!
I think we might have hit all the gene animal
in the first egg.
It's something crazy, and I'm super excited about it.
And we still have two, four, six eggs to go.
Let's jump into egg number two.
So wow, I was wondering what that animal's gonna look like,
and it's a lot different than I expected
to be totally honest with you.
What do we have here?
We have an animal that's spun upside down,
just on the thing, so I'm gonna see this again,
see if I just can't manipulate what this is.
Ah, looks like it's something really cool again too.
I can't see what it is.
I'm just gonna kind of move it around a little bit.
I tell you what guys,
I think we may have hit another one.
It looks like another banana enchi bongo
that would be (mumbles) for clown.
Looks like we're two for two on the mutations right now.
That is crazy.
And we still have five eggs to go.
Let's just keep going.
And here we go, another egg, ah!
Man, what a trip.
I would never have expected to produce even,
I was hoping to hit one let alone two,
and then now we have, ooh,
we have a beautiful snake in here.
Looks like just maybe, ah, it's definitely a pastel.
It's definitely an enchi, maybe a bongo.
So I think this might be a pastel enchi bongo,
which is really cool, I mean, again,
these are all (mumbles) for clown,
because the banana clown, the clown is recessive,
so oh my gosh, this clutch is amazing.
Four more eggs.
Oh my goodness.
Every egg is an absolute dream here.
What have we got here?
Okay, this is cool, it looks like,
looks like this is, ah,
it looks like this is just like the mom,
which is a pastel enchi bongo but (mumbles) for clown.
So so far, it looks like we've gotten
every egg is bongo with (mumbles) for clown.
That is what I wanted, because I want the bongo clown stuff.
So so far, we have crushed the odds with three eggs to go.
And here we go.
Oh my goodness gracious, this is so awesome.
What have we got?
Whoo, looks like oh my goodness,
you have to be kidding me right now.
Another one!
And I can't tell, ah, I can't tell exactly what this is.
This might be, I think this might be
a banana bongo enchi without the pastel,
and it's (mumbles) for clown.
So this is crazy odds guys, crazy, crazy, crazy odds.
Two more eggs.
I don't even know what to say.
Let's just go ahead and rip into this next one.
Oh my goodness gracious, this is so crazy.
Who knows what we're gonna hatch in these nests,
a couple eggs.
Another beautiful snake right here.
Looks like this is just maybe again,
maybe a pastel enchi bongo.
Wow, I tell you what, these things are beautiful.
One egg to go.
Let's just go ahead and finish this off great.
Wow, I tell you what guys, this is may be,
I've got to say, this might be the clutch of the year so far
as far as genetically, 'cause there has been
some rippers in here, and then we just finished it off
with what looks like again another pastel bongo enchi.
So I tell you what guys,
I think that we literally had two, four, six, seven eggs,
I think we had seven bongos,
which is really what I was hoping for.
The bongo is the gene that I really want to see
get into the clown.
Again, all crazy combinations of bongos.
I'm gonna say it's because of the shirt.
So I think I need to cut all my eggs
because of this shirt.
So wow, there it goes, (claps hands)
wrapped up egg cutting time.
And now we've started (water splashes)
to bridge that gap right,
between BHB and the Reptarium,
taking the knowledge and the experience
of breeding reptiles for all those years
and applying it here like Nova and Lilith obviously.
We've produced now two years in a row,
we produced baby frillies.
That's pretty exciting.
Night Fury is deep in shed,
but I've been considering breeding
Night Fury to Butterscotch.
I just want to produce some more black reticulated pythons
just like Night Fury, and although Lori's not too excited
about the options, I think I'm gonna try it this fall.
And speaking about shed,
take a look at this pickle shed out today,
and that is amazing.
One beautiful perfect shed,
and the way she has it all draped like that,
oh my gosh, that is so awesome.
I wish I would have had a time lapse on that,
I wish I would have had a camera on that,
that is an opportunity missed there,
but never less, that is amazing.
Of course, we're super excited to have Big Bertha in
with another male now and hopefully produce
some leachies here this next year too,
because they're definitely one of my favorite gecko species,
and to be able to breed them over here,
that would be a dream come true.
And certainly nothing more exciting
than Chicken Strip and hopefully (mumbles).
Chicken Strip next year should be big enough
to hopefully breed (mumbles).
He's a boy, she's a girl, the only albino
and the only black one.
I tell you what, that will be incredible.
It will be a feat that I've never accomplished before
with breeding monitors.
So it's my first shot, and it's gonna be a big one,
but I am excited.
Could you imagine little baby (mumble)?
The problem is, they're all gonna be normal
that are (mumbles) for albino melanistic,
meaning that I'm gonna have to raise them
all up to breed them,
and that's gonna take another four or five years.
So before we actually produce the albino melanistics,
more albinos, more melanistics,
and the double recessive, it might be seven
or eight years from now, but man,
getting that project started, wish me luck.
It's gonna be pretty awesome.
We actually just got our first clutch of eggs
from Archer, who is here just last week.
Unfortunately, they weren't fertile,
but still, we have some eggs, so we know
that she'll probably maybe lay fertile eggs
the second time around, and that's gonna be pretty exciting.
Again, these are chahoua geckos from New Caledonia.
Of course, we have a few species of Dendrobatidaes,
the poison dart frogs, and hopefully,
they're finally at that age where they're gonna
start producing eggs.
I've never bred poison dart frogs before.
It's really amazing.
The males will literally carry the tadpoles on their back
until they metamorphosis.
It's gonna be pretty cool to see the process,
and again, with the three species,
I've got to imagine we're gonna have success.
And of course, we just got Karma,
the nosy be panther chameleon.
His girlfriend just recently, so here in another year,
hopefully we'll be able to produce these,
but now keep in mind that once we do get eggs,
if we do get eggs, it takes nine months
to incubate them, so it's gonna be a long process.
We'll hopefully breed them next year,
and then it will probably be the following year
before we potentially hatch baby Karmas.
You guys know we have Diddi and Dixie,
the rhino iguanas.
Definitely this time next year,
these guys should be able to be laying eggs,
because their age, and they're unrelated,
so we should have success.
I have no doubt the way they get along
that they're gonna have babies.
Can you imagine baby Diddi and Dixies?
I mean, I don't know if I'm ever get rid
of all of these, every time I produce a baby,
I'm gonna probably just want to keep it,
because it's gonna mean so much to me.
But I am super excited to see these guys become parents.
And even Heinz and Frenches the albino iguanas,
I mean, they've got a ways to go,
but here in a couple of years
when they become sexually mature and big enough,
hopefully, we can produce some more crimson albinos.
I mean, I think it would be pretty awesome to do that.
So you kind of get the idea
that we have a lot of plans to breed some things
here at the zoo, but it's more about the experience
than anything right?
We want to take these animal ambassadors
and hopefully produce babies from them,
because we hope that we can pass on that lineage,
and I think it would be really an amazing
kind of ride to go on from the start to the finish.
Can you imagine how exciting it's gonna be
to start getting eggs from some of these animals
or seeing live babies?
I mean, it's gonna be so next level,
so much more rewarding than I could ever express.
So obviously over here at BHB,
there's amazing animals.
I remember this one here.
This is that pastel lesser clown
that just laid a clutch of eggs the other day.
As a matter of fact, I'll put a card right you here
if you haven't seen that video.
It's pretty cool.
But the fact is that you know,
these guys don't have names.
You guys don't see them interacting with people.
You guys don't see them doing amazing things
like behavioral stuff.
So it's not quite as special
when you're actually breeding them.
But don't get me wrong.
I love producing snakes.
I mean, it's part of my life,
and it's absolutely incredible.
And I am so excited to see what babies come out of it.
So I don't want you guys to now think
that I'm not excited about things over here at BHB,
because I certainly am.
But I'm really excited to take all the knowledge I've had
for the last 32 years of breeding animals at BHB
and kind of now put it over to the Reptarium
and really grow on it,
because I've never bred monitor lizards.
I've never bred chameleons.
I've never bred all kinds of things
that we're super excited to do now,
and it's gonna be an amazing journey.
Take for instance Ivies and Aires here.
We've seen them do so many things,
interact, so amazing, we're emotionally invested,
I know I'm emotionally invested,
but I think you guys are emotionally invested too.
So can you imagine some time next year,
we come in, and we look, and there's baby green anacondas
all over this cage?
So not only did we produce amazing animals,
but we've actually now produced something
from something that you guys are so familiar with
that I'm so familiar, and things that we really spent
a ton of time from a behavioral standpoint.
Same thing with Diddy and Dixie,
same thing with all of the animals here.
It's gonna be a different level,
not just the fact that we were successful breeding them,
but the fact that we were able to reproduce something
that we're so emotionally attached to.
We have so much mail time to open up here.
We're gonna do a couple a day
over the next week or two or something like that.
You guys crushed it.
I'm hoping there's some Revive eucalyptus oil in here.
(group laughs)
Lori said that I had
to say Revive. (knife clicks)
You guys, anyone that wants to send me some essential oils,
I'm all about essential oils.
"Boyfriend is a fan of yours
and doesn't know that I'm doing this, haha.
Hope you enjoy it from Ashley K. And Adam B."
And this is... - Our Name is Mud.
- Our Name is Mud.
- We see a mug. - It's a mug.
Let them hear you roar. - Oh!
- Oh, it's a, they will be a rip (laughs).
- It will be T-Riffic.
T-Riffic, - Oh yeah.
- and I don't have my glasses on.
- Today will be T-Riffic.
- Today will be a ripper (laughs).
- I don't read very well.
I don't read very well, but I do like this,
that thing is dope.
- Yeah, you gotta start
drinking coffee. - That is super cool.
It's cool, I mean, his tail goes around,
thank you, you guys.
You guys are amazing.
Speaking of coffee.
This one says open on the vlog,
so let's see what we got. (cardboard tears)
Here we go.
- Oh, oh boy! - Oh!
- This is good. - This looks terrible.
This looks like - Oh my god.
- a long time in the toilet.
- This is the hot ramen stuff, man.
Oh my god, me and Noah are gonna so do that.
- And this is something (laughs).
- Oh my god, these are so cool.
All right, so this is, "My name is Kim.
I've been watching your videos for a few years now.
I think they're really awesome.
It's really nice.
Here is two spicy noodle packs,
super spicy, a nice treat, even a snack for (mumbles).
There are two packages of my favorite cracker cookies."
So these are cracker cookies.
- Oh, these are cracker cookies.
- Awesome.
They are coconut
and sesame seed. - So where is she from?
I don't know, "You and (mumbles) have done a lot for me.
I always start the morning with your videos
to start it off right."
Thank you so much.
Coconut, sesame, - It's interesting,
all right, - sounds great.
- that's worth a try, (mumbles).
- I am totally gonna do, that sounds,
I've wanted to do these.
Me and Noah did our own hot noodle challenge once.
We're gonna do these, that's awesome, thank you.
I tell you what, (water splashes)
that clutch of eggs was beyond
my wildest dreams, and now I hope you guys understand
the kind of the future, you know,
where we're gonna bring a little bit of the BHB breeding
into the Reptarium,
but also continue to grow the Reptarium
from the education and entertainment side
and experience side, 'cause that's what matters to me.
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here's a playlist of an entire playlist
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