- [Brian] There's a handful of them.
Oh my gosh, oh, that is so amazing.
- I could seize up and die,
or maybe like, make my brain bigger.
- I think I want him to get bit.
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- Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
You know that feeling when you come into your office,
well, I don't know if you have an office, and
all of the sudden your desk is cleaned up.
You have no idea why, and guess what?
I also have a calendar.
Looks like Lori's been hard at work this morning.
(laughing)
Oh my gosh.
I hope the start of your guys' day is as amazing
as mine is.
Let's go ahead and make it awesome together.
Mary just came to me and said that we had
a litter of rainbow boas, but this one is a het leucistic
bred to a leucistic.
She said there was at least
one or two white ones in there.
Oh my god, I'm so excited 'cause these will be
the first leucies we've produced this year!
Are you guys ready?
Oh my gosh.
Let's look and see what we have here.
Oh! Oh my gosh!
Look at that!
There's a handful of 'em.
Oh my gosh!
That is so amazing!
Okay, looks like there's a couple infertiles too.
There's one, two, three infertile.
Aww.
It looks like this little bugger didn't make it.
I always get so bummed out when I see a fully formed baby
that just came out stillborn.
There's all kinds of potential reasons for that.
I mean, it could be that she hung onto it too long,
there was a deformity, congenitalism.
Regardless, we still have some beautiful babies, here.
It's not a very big litter, but oh my gosh,
I am so excited.
Look at these beautiful white ones here.
Oh my gosh!
So, what we're gonna do is,
we're gonna move Mamma so she--
(nervous muttering)
It's okay, Mom. it's okay.
Don't bite. Don't bite.
It's okay.
That's alright.
We're just gonna move you away from you babies
for one second.
Okay, Mamma?
Okay, good, let's see what we got here.
Oh my gosh!
Do you guys see this?
Oh my god, a leucistic rainbow boa.
We only produced two of these last year and
it was the only two that I've ever produced before.
It's amazing.
This is a little blue-eyed leucistic.
Oh, my gosh, that thing is amazing,
but this is what's really crazy, is I can see it right
from over here,
and I can't really explain this.
That last one was a blue-eyed leucistic.
This one is a black-eyed leucistic.
Now, I don't know much about the genetics behind this.
With ball pythons, there's either blue eyes or black eyes,
and they're genetically completely different.
This one has solid, jet, black eyes.
I mean, completely black, whereas, this one here,
literally has blue eyes.
What the heck is that all about?
I have no idea.
Let's take a look, and see what else we have here.
We have a couple hets here.
Look at how beautiful these guys are.
Essentially, they call 'em hets, but really
this is a super version of a co-dominant animal.
You can see this animal certainly looks
different than a normal Columbian Rainbow.
That would be a codominant version.
When you breed the two co-dominants together,
you get leucistic.
In this case, we have a co-dominant female and
an all-white male.
That's why we had a good amount of leucistics.
Here's another little baby here,
that's a het, right here.
It's got a little bit of a yolk sac.
Oh, it's okay, monkey, you don't have to be upset.
Then, we have two more beautiful baby leucies here.
Let's go ahead and see what we got.
Now, that's interesting.
This is another black-eyed leucy, right here.
Just solid black eyes.
Oh, it has a really neat yellow sheen to it.
Oh my god, That's amazing.
So, there's three white ones and then,
this is the last little baby, here.
Another white, little baby.
Look at that, guys.
That is a blue-eyed leucistic there.
So, we got two blue-eyed and two black-eyed leucistics.
Look at all that goop and nastiness.
Okay, you get in there.
We'll let those guys kind of dry up.
Soak up the last of their yolk.
We'll keep 'em nice and moist, so that they can
absorb that yolk really well.
We're just gonna look around.
Again, there's a couple infertiles here.
Again, this poor little stillborn.
Okay, that's okay.
I'm just gonna take a quick look around and
just see if there's any other babies in this
that we didn't--
looks like she jus got done.
Mamma, you did so good.
Oh, and you're a feisty little monkey , right here.
So, the final count, again,
is four white, beautiful babies.
Two of them blue eyes, two of 'em black-eyed.
Then, two of the co-dominants or
what they would call het leucistics.
Mom, you did so good.
Oh my god, I am so happy right now!
Sure, I would have loved to have more babies,
but that's still amazing.
Four little, beautiful, white, rainbow boas.
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First look at The Reptarium, this morning.
Lori was over earlier.
I've been kind of busy doing some other stuff.
Just kind of coming in.
See what's going on.
What we have on the tap for this week
for next week's open,
is to finish the aligator tank.
We have the sump going in in the next couple days.
I'm gonna do the lighting and all the other
fixturing out of this tank.
Hopefully the gator tank will be ready.
Then, I can surprise you guys with what we're
putting in there, I'm hoping.
We're definitely gonna finish up the cage here,
get animals in.
Again, we have Toothless up here.
Let's go ahead and soak him today.
Then, we're gonna do the same thing.
Finish up these cages.
Then, even if I have time.
I'm not 100% sure if I will this week.
If not, it will be next week.
I'll start to work on the tarantula area.
I've got some ideas there.
In the mean time,
I was just gonna kinda look through--
Hi Bella.
How are you sweetheart?
Just kind of look through and
make sure everything's okay.
We may even feed the frogs.
You know we're gonna feed the frogs, right?
Right, right, right?
Erik's just doing the last kind of
few feeding before hibernation to
clean out with glue bricks.
You're down to hog nose, huh?
- Yeah, we just got our hog noses left.
Then, I'm good to go.
- Let's see if this one--
This one looks like it's interested.
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- He's goin' for it.
What a little weirdo.
(laughing)
Geeze, take your time, huh.
(laughing)
- Oh my god, that's so funny.
Do you know how many more feeding we have
before we start shutting it down?
- You know, me and Lori were talking about it.
I don't think that it's too many.
I was having her making up a bunch of feeding cards.
I had to go Tina and say,
oh, stop, stop, don't make anymore.
I forgot we're gonna take them off food.
I think within the next week or two, we're
gonna start towing them down,
and get ready to cool them off.
We just laid Erik off for the winter.
He doesn't have a job anymore.
- Nope, it's back to the old,
collecting cans and--
(laughing)
- No, we always find--
we always find stuff for Erik.
He ain't goin' anywhere.
You're not going anywhere, trust me.
- Good, you're makin' me nervous there.
- Yup.
(jazz music plays)
Time to give Toothless a little soak.
You ready for your soak, buddy?
Again, it's like I mentioned yesterday,
we have to soak Toothless everyday to
keep him really hydrated.
At this age, it's really important to keep him hydrated
and to keep him habituated to people too, is
very important.
One day he's going to be a big, big monitor lizard and
I want him to be dog-tame.
You ready for your soak, bud?
Hi, sweetheart.
Hi. What's going on?
There ya' go, bud.
There we go.
Nice, warm water.
There ya' go, bud.
Just checking on the water monitor, today.
We've been calling him Elvis.
I'm not 100% sure that I'm sold on the name.
I think it's an okay name.
Again, need your guys' advice.
We want a awesome name for this little monkey, right here.
You okay, bud?
You okay?
Yes?
Good job, bud.
How are you?
You havin' a good day today?
Hi, sweety.
LooK at this thing.
Isn't it amazing?
Oh my gosh, you're so incredible, buddy.
Hi.
Hi, sweetheart.
You know, he's really getting good.
We had him out a handful of times over the weekend, and
I tell ya, he's just absolutely incredible.
Look at him. He's just so curious.
Doesn't seem to be nervous at all.
I think it's just amazing that
he's really getting the hang of things.
I think that this guy's gonna be a star, for sure.
He's only gonna get better as he gets bigger.
- So, Erik told me that he wanted to mess with
some little baby snakes today.
He has a little--
yeah, he has a little surprise for you.
These guys, you don't necessarily wanna get bit by.
- He has a little surprise for me?
- Yeah.
- I don't like surprises, unless
- Why not?
- it involves chocolate or ice cream.
- Or wine?
- Or wine.
- Or a timber rattlesnake? - What?
- I'm just saying, I-- - No!
(laughing)
- I don't have one of those.
I don't have one.
I wish. - What are you doing?
- Just do it? - [Man In White Shirt] Alright
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Just do it? - [Man In White Shirt] Yeah.
- They're baby Mangroves. Surprise.
- Surprise?
What are you doing?
- [Man In White Shirt] I'll give you a little--
- We're just checking them out.
- [Man In White Shirt] I'll give you a little--
- It's for amateurs, don't worry.
Come on, you need it.
- Okay, I'll take it.
- [Man In White Shirt] You're an amateur.
- Yeah, we're just gonna show them off and
get your take on them.
What you think about them.
I think it's really cool that you guys
finally produced some.
That's pretty sweet.
Look how cute they are.
- So, are you gonna just pick it up?
- Yeah, you just pick it right up.
Get this crap out of here.
It's broken anyways.
(clangs to the ground)
You just scoop it up like this.
Just set him on there.
- So, what happens if it does bite you?
Do you know?
- They're so venomous, I never messed around with it.
I could seize up and die.
- [Woman In Black] Really?
- Maybe it will make my brain bigger.
- [Woman In Black] Really?
- Or I could run faster.
- Can he get you there?
- No, no, no, no, I don't wanna--
- But, you can run faster.
- I don't wanna test it out.
- You could potentially run faster.
- Like Spider-Man? - [Man In White] Yeah.
Or you could turn into Mangrove Man.
- Mangrove Man? - That's right.
Be slithering through the forest.
Probably not a good idea.
- That's stupid.
- That does sound pretty stupid.
- [Man In White] So, why do you like these guys so much?
- Dude, I don't know.
They're just, they're so cute
with their big, old doe eyes.
They're really shiny and beautiful.
These ones in particular have that red-orange,
right there, up to the yellow bands.
There's just something about them.
- I think I want him to get bit.
- No! (laughing)
- [Man In White] I do too.
- I don't know what can happen.
- [Man In White] Can we do a science experiment and get you?
- No, no, don't--
(laughing)
Those are babies.
Look how cute they are.
- I don't think it's too bad. - Oh my gosh.
No, no, no, okay, okay, okay.
I can't believe the first thing she did
was put it in my face.
(laughing)
There you go.
- [Man In White] That would be sick.
- You don't have to pay Erik and he's dead.
(laughing)
- I literally had someone come to the door.
I went and answered the door and
guess what happened.
I left Elvis's cage open and now
Elvis is just out, over here hanging out.
Or whatever his name is gonna be.
Hey, Elvis, what's up, bud?
What are you doing?
You out here exploring today?
You out exploring sweetheart?
Yes, you are.
Yes you are.
You having fun today?
You having fun, buddy?
Okay, have fun.
Again, I want to continue to let him roam around.
Allow him to really get habituated to the place.
Get really comfortable.
Want to come out.
Understand that there's nothing to fear.
You can see.
What an amazing animal.
(laughing)
Sometimes, I literally have to pinch myself.
I can't believe that I'm living this life right now.
I mean, it is absolutely crazy to me to think about.
What's up, bud? What are you doing?
You just coming to check out and say hi?
Yes, love, I know.
I know, I'm fine. Hi sweetheart.
Hi sweetheart, yeah. You're such a good boy.
I'm excited because, finally
making progress on this alligator tank.
I'll be totally honest with you.
I have kinda just keep putting this off and
putting this off.
So, we now have the basking light over here.
And we have the basking light over here.
We may put some rock fixtures so
you don't see the actual fixtures.
I'm not 100% sure.
It is looking pretty good.
Now I'm trying to decide, originally,
I was thinking I was gonna do LED lights to kind of
brighten it up and stuff like that, but
I don't know.
I don't know if it looks kinda cool,
a little bit darker.
Again, the animals can climb up here to get basking.
It's nice an warm.
Probably a good 110 degrees over here.
Same thing over here.
It's gonna be nice and warm.
That'll keep this whole enclosure nice and warm.
Including the water.
The sump goes in again, within the next couple days,
the sump's gonna go in.
I'm really excited about it.
You're gonna actually be able to see the bio-active
balls moving and stuff like that.
Everything's got lazer with the logo.
The reptarium.
It's really gonna be amazing.
My buddy, Steve Bashsea, from Bashsea Aquatics is doing it.
We're making progress.
We still got a long way to go, but at least,
we're starting to get somewhere on this thing.
Taking a quick break from insanity
with my buddy Wild Charles Wieand.
- What's going on?
- You guys can check him out.
I'm going to put his link to his YouTube channel.
He has a great Facebook following, Twitter following.
We're gonna have some fun.
Play with some animals.
You can check all that stuff out on his channel,
as well as what we're doing here in the vlog.
- Let's do this.
- You know that while Charles came, I had no choice,
but to introduce him to Daisy.
You guys know that he absolutely is beautiful.
What do you think?
- She's awesome!
Huge, beautiful snake.
- I know right?
- And she's just powerful, and
she's all over the place.
(laughing)
- And I tell ya what, he's--
- I can feel her wrapping around me right now.
This snake has some power.
- She does. She does.
Thankfully, she's a super beautiful, tame snake.
You're doing a good job.
You're absolutely a killing it.
Again, I'm going to put all the links in the description.
You can see what he's feeling.
We're gonna do some absolutely rad stuff.
We're having a great time so far.
- Isn't he awesome? - He is awesome.
- Just wrapped up the colab with Wild Charles.
It's just really cool to be able to have a place now
that people can come, and film a bunch of animals.
Again, he has a pretty big Facebook following,
Instagram following, and Twitter following.
Growing his YouTube following.
He's gonna reach hundreds of thousands of people.
Maybe even millions of people.
That is a great thing because we continue to
try to change people's minds.
Not only face-to-face and in person with the reptarium,
but also online.
We had a really good time.
It was awesome.
I do have to get back to work on
this little thing right here.
Trying to figure out how to get this tape done.
I want these gators to be in here pretty soon
so, when you come to visit, you can feed
some pretty cool gators.
Basically what I need to do is fill all the gaps that
are kinda all over the place in this.
We want to definitely have it sealed up.
Not only does it have to be water-tight, if there's
water in here, but we also don't want anything that
could potentially escape.
Listen, alligators don't really climb walls, so
we don't have to worry that much about it, but
hey, we got to play it safe, right?
Not to get crazy with you, but there is big gap filler.
It expands a lot.
Then, there's the normal grade stuff
that just expands whatever.
Then, there's even low expansion foam.
Depending on how much the cracks are, that's what you use.
Right now, I'm just going to fill
some pretty big cracks and crevices.
Just kind of work my way around.
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(can spraying)
Got everything pretty foamed up, so,
that's as far as I'm going to get tonight.
I've got to let that dry tomorrow.
Lori can come in and patch it up.
Making the coloring and make it look awesome.
We got the sump coming in in a couple days.
Then, hey, with any luck, we'll be ready for
alligators very soon.
With that said, I am going to go ahead and
shut it down, end the vlog,
and spend a little bit of time just hanging out
with my animals before I head home and
try to relax a little bit.
I am home, and I am gonna go ahead and end the vlog here.
And, switch things up a little bit and just tell you to
go out there and do something awesome.
Make the best of today for me.
Do me that favor.
Just go out there and do something that you
really wanna do.
Make this day incredible.
How's that sound?
Then, I think I'm just gonna go ahead and
leave you with that.
Make sure to be kind to someone, and I promise
I will see you guys tomorrow.