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We're actually heading downstairs
and we're gonna sex those red tail boas
that we got in yesterday.
That way I know what we have
and I can start to decide what I want to keep,
and there's a couple other people at the shop
that would like to get some too,
so let's go ahead and just sex these little monkeys.
Hopefully they have tamed down a little bit since yesterday.
Alright, let's just jump right into it here,
see these guys.
Oh my God.
Oh, already, they're little feisty monkeys!
Come on!
Little, it's like a little machine gun!
They look amazing now.
You can actually spur sex boas
by seeing, the males will have, ow!
Will have larger, come on, ow, ow!
The male will have, oh gosh, they have big teeth
for little teeny babies!
What are you doing?
Come on, little dude!
Oh my gosh, ow!
Ow, ow, ow, ow!
Oh, it's caught me in the cuticle!
Okay, I'm gonna sex this really quick.
I'm just gonna avert the hemipenis,
I'm gonna get this little guy back.
Holy moly, that hurt!
I mean, I tell you what, that thing,
for a little baby!
Now, I've gotten bit by big red tail boas
and they are actually way worse
than Columbian common boas, let me tell you what.
This one seems to be a little bit calmer,
and like I was mentioning,
if we didn't have a psychopathic snake,
you could actually spur sex them.
Females will have little tiny spurs,
and males will have much larger spurs.
The problem is that, well, I'm not as young
as I used to be, and my eyesight isn't quite as good.
So I'm gonna go ahead and just avert their hemipenes,
which is basically going like that,
I'm just gonna take the base of the tail,
gently kinda roll up, and if hemipenes pop out,
we know its a male, and if they don't,
we know it's a female.
You'll also notice that the way the actual vent is,
you'll see the cloaca will be a little closer together
on a female than a male.
So, you're not only looking for hemipenes,
but you're also looking for the placement
of those two little bumps, right there,
and that basically.
So far we have three females in a row,
and that's really good because I'll probably
wanna keep a male and maybe two females.
Maybe even three females, if the ratio is good.
And I think that Jay had one marked,
and he was hoping that it was female, as well,
and I think even Jessica and Bruce and,
let's face it, Eric and Mary want them, as well, too.
So, everyone wants them.
And if we have some, we're gonna have, who knows?
We probably won't have any for sale!
The point is that this is a little girl right here,
and so far it's been good that since that first baby
that lit me up, they're starting
to mellow out, a little bit, because oh my gosh.
That thing!
I tell you what, guys, I wasn't acting.
That hurt!
Okay, it looks like we might have, oh, nope, another female.
Gosh, this is crazy.
So far we got five females in a row,
which is really good.
That's awesome, because I wanted to keep extra females.
And again, look at just how incredible these things look.
Alright, let's see what we got here.
Another female!
This is absolutely crazy, to me,
that we have this many females.
And again, if I didn't know that I know
how to sex boas, right now I'd probably be saying,
I'm doing something wrong.
'Cause, a lot of the times when you're not confident
about sexing, you don't get the hemipenis to avert,
and then you think it's a female and it turns out
that it actually is a male.
So, let's just keep going.
And oh, this one's gonna light me up too.
I can just see the way it's going.
Come on, buddy, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it.
Just trying to position it in a way where
it won't bite me, oh.
What have we got here?
Another girl!
Ooh, this one's already hissing.
Don't do it. (snake hissing)
Oh, it's gonna tee off on me.
I tell you, when that got me
in the pinky cuticle, it hurt!
Okay, okay buddy.
It's alright, baby.
It's okay, we're not gonna do anything.
We're gonna be friends.
We're gonna be friends today.
Right, right, right, right?
We're gonna be friends.
Yes, we are.
Oh, gosh.
Okay, another girl.
Oh, this thing is crazy.
I tell you what.
Gonna go ahead and set this down.
The good news is, when they're kinda hyper like that,
oftentimes that means that they're
pretty good eaters, and that's always a good sign, for sure.
So, this is the one Jay wanted, right here,
and I can tell why.
That is a gorgeous snake.
I mean, look at the tail and the redness on this.
Let's see if it's a boy or a girl.
It is another girl.
I'm starting to worry a little bit here, guys.
I really am.
I don't know what I'm thinking here,
as far as sex goes, but I'm pretty sure
I know what I'm doing, and I might just have
gotten all girls!
Ooh, come on, little monkey!
Oh! Ugh.
Right off the bat.
Come on, don't do it, don't do, ow!
Ow, ow!
He did it, he did it, he did it.
Okay, that's okay, stop, ow!
Okay, I can't, oh my gosh!
I cannot believe how bad these things hurt
for such little tiny snakes!
Okay, buddy, I promise I'm not gonna hurt you.
I promise.
Let me just sex you real quick, alright, alright.
There's the first male!
See the hemipenis right there!
Alright, okay, okay.
Put that thing back.
Look at that!
Look at, I mean that is crazy!
Just from little tiny boas that are only
a couple weeks old!
Oh my gosh!
Oh, this one's gonna be another one.
Don't do it, don't do it!
(snake hissing) Please!
Please, we're friends!
Don't, don't, don't.
I know I seem like a baby right now,
but this really does hurt!
I'm not even joking around.
Okay, I'm just going for it.
Okay, we got another boy, right there.
Okay, we got another boy right there
and I'm losing blood, here.
So so far we've got two boys,
and the rest are girls which is pretty interesting.
Okay, buddy, let's go.
Man, I still cannot believe how beautiful
these things are!
Again, another female.
Unbelievable.
This one wants to light me up too,
so I'm gonna put that back.
One last boa.
Right now we've got two males and all females,
which is crazy.
And this one is gorgeous, oh my!
It's gonna be really hard for me to choose
which ones I want to keep.
Ow!
Okay, okay, okay, alright.
We're good. Ah, don't do it!
Okay, this is another girl, okay.
Hoo.
I tell you what, guys, it looks like we've only got
a couple males.
Definitely got bit up a little bit, here,
so that's the way it goes.
I'll be honest.
That's, like, the first time that's happened to me
since I've had, like, baby Burmese pythons like that.
So, okay, two males, all the rest females.
So, there you have it.
So, today we have the drywallers that are coming in
and actually gonna be boarding the wall,
but the inspectors haven't come yet.
So we can board one side of the wall,
but we can't board the rest of it because you can't
cover up the thing, or the inspector will be upset.
So, he didn't show up yesterday.
Hopefully he'll be here soon, today,
so that we can get the rest of these walls
all boarded up.
And it's gonna start looking like
something completely different.
(chill music)
Guess what, good news.
We have our approval for the inspections which mean
we can now drywall everything up.
They're already starting on this wall over here.
Some pieces over here are getting going,
so hopefully by the end of the day we'll start
to really see these rooms and feel what they look like.
So, exciting.
Getting closer and closer every day.
Max is in the house over here.
He's gonna be with us on a podcast tonight.
Check that out.
Also, I put a link in the description to his Instagram
and everything else, but you are really
into the false water cobras now.
- That's what we're doing now?
- [Brian] Well, that's what we're doing right now.
- No way, no way. - Yeah, yeah.
So, Eric brought-- - Yeah.
- [Brian] Eric brought his big false water cobra,
so check it out.
- Wait, wait, how big?
- Medium sized, it's not very big.
- [Brian] It's super chill.
- It's super nice.
- Oh, it's staring at me.
- Oh yeah. - Oh, oh!
- No, she's a real sweetheart.
We were really lucky with this one.
You know, famous last words before she bites me, right.
- Yeah! - But no, we never had
an issue with her.
She's always been super, super nice.
- I hate it when people say that.
- Yeah, that's always-- - We've never had an issue.
We've just never had an issue.
- Never had an issue.
- Not before, though. - As long as you
signed a waiver, we're good, so.
No, I'm just kidding.
- [Max] Where are you going, there?
- [Eric] She's super nice, as long as you haven't been
rubbing your hands on some fish or rats
you should be pretty good.
- [Max] Well, thanks for telling me that
after you handed her to me.
(Eric laughs)
- [Brian] I know, right?
We were just playing with rats out there.
- Oh! - Crap!
- [Brian] I'm just kidding, I'm kidding.
- Oh, no, I think she smells something on me.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- Uh-oh, that's not good.
- The thing that's cool about, yeah,
the thing that's cool about false water cobras too
is that most people don't hardly have a reaction,
so it's really cool. So.
- Most people, huh?
Most people don't have a reaction.
- A small percentage, you never know!
- [Max] I feel like I'm gonna be, just in general,
it's gonna happen to me.
It doesn't happen to most people,
but it's gonna happen to me.
- [Brian] It'd be a pretty cool plaque story, though,
if you died.
It would say like-- - Oh, yeah.
- Y'all would give me a plaque?
- Oh, for sure. - We'd give you a plaque.
- Yeah. - As long as I'm a member,
you know what I'm saying?
That's all that matters, but.
- It is a beautiful snake.
Of course, we have the male that is
gonna raise up, so hopefully, next year we can get them
together and get some babies.
- I really hope so.
It's so weird, I always forget when I see it
at home, how big it is compared to the male
and then it's like, ah, we've really gotta
beef this male up, so hopefully soon we can bring--
- Next year. - Next year'd be really cool.
- [Brian] She is gorgeous, dude,
and she's really well behaved, so.
- [Alex] Oh, love her.
Got really lucky on this one for sure.
- She's chilling, I can't lie.
- That's awesome.
So, in a couple hours we're gonna be going live
with Max on the podcast, Checking In.
I'll put a link in the description if you guys
haven't watched it.
Definitely go check that out.
(chill music)
Guess what?
It is the first day that we are
introducing skinks together!
So, they're out of brumation.
Of course, look at that little monkey, right there.
- I know! - He is not happy at all.
- [Jessica] I know, he's not very nice.
- Oh my gosh.
Of course, that's a sunrise northern, right there,
and it's just right to a nice, classic female.
And a lot of times, this first day, you don't see
a lot of breeding.
It's really a complete lesson in patience.
Jessica has to sit, (alligator hissing)
Jessica has to sit here for a long time.
And you be quiet, over there, RJ.
You be quiet.
And she has to just watch these guys.
So, you can't leave them together.
If you leave them together they could
potentially rip an arm off, hurt each other,
kill each other, something like that.
So, we've got an eastern right here.
- [Jessica] This guy's really bright.
- High-banded eastern, right here.
And then we have a hypo eastern it's gonna be going in with.
And again, we're just kinda looking.
You can see how the males react,
how the females react.
What you'll see is,
Jessica, will you tickle them a little bit?
This male over here seems pretty defensive
with the way his actions are, so I don't know
that he's that interested yet, and sometimes it just takes
a little bit of time.
These guys down here, just kinda not doing
a whole lot, and that's a lot of what skink breeding is.
It's just watching them and kind of not a whole lot
of stuff goes on, to be honest with you.
But then, when it does happen,
it happens super quick.
The male grabs her, kinda brings her in,
and then just breeds here.
Literally only takes, sometimes, a minute
or two minutes, and he is completely done.
So we're just gonna continue to kinda switch males around,
get pairs together 'till we find one.
And some will start breeding maybe as early as today.
Some might take us two or three weeks to finally
get them going, so, this is just the very start
of the skink breeding season.
- A lot of the females are actually still in shed,
so we'll probably have to actually wait
until they shed out before they're even
interested in breeding.
- Yep. - I don't even know
if a lot of these males have gone
through a shed cycle since we brought them
out of hibernation, so it might be
another week or so.
- Yeah, and that's the thing, that when these come out
they'll actually go through a shed cycle,
and once she males actually shed out
they'll start breeding.
Same thing goes with the females, so some of these males
may of just not went through that shed cycle.
It's only been about eight or 10 days
since they've been out of brumation, so,
again we're just kinda testing out,
seeing what happens.
We'll probably spend maybe an hour down here,
see what goes on.
Maybe we'll get some breeding and maybe we won't.
While Jessica's working on the skinks,
so I think I'll go ahead and just give RJ
a little bit of treat time.
Come on, RJ, over here, bud.
Come on, over here.
Come on, help yourself.
Oh, there you go, buddy.
Right here.
There you go, buddy.
Here you go, buddy, here you go bud.
(rubber squeaking)
(laughs) Cute.
- It's gonna be a lunch with Aaron.
We should totally see Aaron.
- [Brian] Yeah, I just love it.
Because usually, Eric makes you wait for lunch, and then--
- That's lunch-- - And then he's yelling at me,
and now he's talking.
- [Brian] Yeah, yeah, he's talking.
- He's a chatty Cathy. - You see it?
Look at him.
- [Man] The craziest thing is, he's not even that big
of a rapper--
- There's a camera, Malcolm.
(woman laughs)
- What is his deal? - I dunno.
- Is it off yet?
Oh, no.
I bumbled in it to protect myself.
- You went into my office, and then I was
waiting for you.
- Dude, but no, I had a really good story, though.
That is crazy, Nella.
We'll get back with,
he knows what's up.
You know what's up.
We're going to lunch.
- Things are looking a little bit different here.
We've got the wall up over here,
we've got the rooms, obviously.
This is the massage room, obviously, here.
Got the opening there,
we can see in here.
The birthday party room is all good.
Now you can kinda see the swoop
and the texture of this curved wall,
absolutely looking amazing.
Now, the next step is to actually do
all the drywall mud, and actually cement.
And ultimately, we'll be able to paint it off,
get the windows and doors,
so this part is almost done.
The next step after this is done, of course,
after the paint and mud and all that other stuff
would be the actual drop ceiling.
That's gonna happen here in the next four
or five days, so things are moving along quick.
Definitely looking a little bit different
around here, isn't it, guys?
But I am super excited.
Finally, it's starting to really take shape.
Classic female right there,
and he's obviously grabbing on.
And that's the typical breeding posture
of a blue-tongued skink.
He's gonna grab her like that, and eventually
he's gonna just kinda use his claws
to start scratching on her back,
and then he'll eventually mount her and wrap his tail,
if it goes on.
Now, sometimes in the very beginning of the year
you'll see, he'll just go through this process
and eventually give up.
But right now, you can see he's kinda grabbing her,
pulling her back into a position where he can actually
mount her, and this may take, again,
five minutes, 10 minutes.
If he doesn't give up, he's actually gonna
be able to mount her,
and the actual breeding process will literally
only take between a minute and two minutes.
And guys, there it is!
He finally has a lock!
That is what it is!
See how he's lifting her tail.
His hemipenes are probably inserted right now,
and Jessica's just gonna help kinda keep her stable
for a minute while he kinda finishes his business.
Again, this only takes a minute, so this is kinda
what skink breeding is about.
It's crazy.
And we use this kinda artificial turf
just so there's some traction, right,
because if it's slippery, he's never gonna be able
to get enough traction to kinda keep her in place, so,
looks like we've got a good lock, there,
and let's see what we've got.
We're just gonna kind of watch out and see where it goes.
- [Jessica] That's it.
- And guys, that is literally what skink breeding is.
He's done, he's all wrapped up,
he's gonna kinda just go to his own corner,
she's gonna go to her corner, and that's it.
That's how long it takes.
I dunno, I hope it was satisfying for them.
(Brian and Jessica laugh)
Alright, guys, so here's the deal.
Not 100% sure yet, and I'm gonna reach out to some people
that I've already been talking to, but there's a chance
that we may postpone the in stuff from February 3rd
to February 10th, not because I want to, but because
there's some issues with Universal Rock
in getting stuff done.
I'm not sure 100% yet, but I'm gonna reach out
to the people that were coming in for February 3rd,
see what we can work out so that you can maybe
come in on February 10th.
For the rest of you people that think
you might want to come on February 3rd,
if you can't come on February 10th, again,
reach out to me.
I'll be sending an email out to everyone that's responding,
asking what you can do, and help,
but again, good chance February 10th is gonna be the date,
not February 3rd.
I am so sorry.
I thought everything was set in stone for February 3rd.
The date has been solid since we started the project,
and just today, I talked with Stewart at Universal Rock
and he said that there's a chance that we're
gonna have to push it off a week.
So, it'll be Monday, February 10th instead
of Monday, February 3rd.
I am so sorry for anyone that's made plans.
I will make it up to you.
I will figure it out.
Don't worry about it.
But I'll keep you updated, and you'll be hearing
from me soon.
But he's like three or four--
- [Woman] Oh, you're not telling this story.
- I remember, I remember!
- And he just literally poops on the floor.
- No way. - Dude!
- He poops right on the floor.
- He pulled down his pants and dropped a dookie
right on the floor.
- Right in front of us, right in front of us.
We were like, okay.
- I was like, where's this kid's parents?
- What a fun time on that podcast.
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