- [Brian] Hey good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog!
Look, Christmas came early!
I have a shipment from my buddy Miguel
over at Always Evolving Pythons.
He sent me some really cool snakes
and then just a bunch of surprises.
Stuff that he was like, "I'm just going to send you a
whole big box of things," so I am excited about it.
But I just realized that I don't have my knife,
so wait one second, I'll be right back.
(whooshing)
I honestly don't know where my knife is.
I had it right on the cart here earlier so I'm not sure.
Hey, Eric?
- [Eric] Yeah?
- [Brian] Do you happen to have a knife?
- Check this out.
- Oh, what, where did you get this thing?
- Oh, this guy Paco under the pier, you know?
He sells biker parts and knives, good guy.
- Okay, so, okay, you just..
- You're welcome, just let me know when you're done.
- I worry about that guy sometimes,
I'm not going to lie to ya, but that's a pretty
cool knife, I'm' not going to lie to ya.
That's pretty cool, so all right, Paco?
Where did he get it from Paco?
What's up with that, oh my God.
Okay, so we are going to have an amazing start to our day.
We are going to be unboxing some cool stuff again.
Not exactly sure what's in here
as far as the surprise stuff, but I know, I think
there's 10 or 11 snakes that I am really excited
about because I've been working with this particular
species, but I've wanted to get some more of them, and
Miguel was working with them and decided that he was going
to get rid of them, so I was like oh my God,
I gotta have it, which by the way, Miguel has a cool
channel, link in the description.
You can go pay him some love, for sure.
Tell him I said to..
(dishes crashing)
Oh my gosh, look at this, he sent some swag, guys!
All right, so what do we have here?
Hashtag big dawg, AEP, I like that dude, I swear to gosh
I will definitely sport that one, that's a good one there.
This one must be for Noah because it's a medium,
and a large for me, so thank you Miguel.
I appreciate you very much, so let's go ahead
see what else is in this box here.
Oh there's another one, hey Eric!
- [Eric] Yeah?
- Got a shirt for you!
- [Eric] Oh sweet!
Dude, big dawg, I like that, 2xl.
- It's perfect, all right go.
All right, let's see what's in this box anyways.
I have no idea, let's see, oh, a bunch of little bags here.
So I'm just going to go ahead and start opening them up
and seeing what we have.
Right off the rip, what do we have?
Oh, my gosh, I am
so excited about this!
(Brian mimics owl hooting)
My gosh, take a look at guys, oh my gosh.
That's right, look at viper boas!
These are adult female viper boas right here.
These are actually a candoia asper.
They're an Indonesian little boa, that is just really
crazy , a ground dwelling animal that's really bazaar.
Now I raised up a handful of babies a couple years ago
that are not quite this big, but they're getting there.
But I wanted to get an established group,
and sure enough Miguel had a whole bunch of adults that
he decided that it was time for him to move on, because
he mainly does pythons and stuff like that, and when
he said, "I was thinking about getting rid of them,"
I was like please let me buy them from you.
I absolutely love them, so there's two, and I think
there's going to be a bunch of them in here.
But there's also going to be some ball pythons
so there's the first two here.
I'm assuming, well I don't know, let's see what we got.
The thing that's nice about viper boas, it's the same
thing when you get into the candoia carinata,
which are the Solomon Island ground boas, is that
they very tremendously, you can have ten animals,
and they all look completely different,
which is really really cool.
Let's see what this one is here.
Oh, whew this one's pretty.
It is so dark, look it's almost black!
That thing is crazy cool, I think this might be,
yep, it's another girl, well no maybe,
oh I think this one's a boy.
So the boys stay much smaller on these guys.
They're sexually dimorphic, meaning that the females
get about twice the size of boys so,
that's going to be an absolute ripper of a boy
to start breeding, for sure.
One thing, I will say is these guys do like to bite
a little bit and they do sometimes like to pee on ya
so I do have to be a little bit careful with that,
but so far they are looking really amazing.
Okay, another one, and again I have
some that are light tan, some that are red looking.
This is another really dark little male.
You can see this guy, he already pooped all in the bag here.
We'll get these guys all set up, now.
They do like a higher humidity, so typically
I'll use more like a coconut husk and kinda wet it down
a little bit because these guys are ground dwelling animals
but they also like to stay kind of humid and moist for sure.
Whew, these are some big ones here.
Look at these big monkeys, whew doggie.
I tell you what, and just look at the eyes on them,
I mean they are just so crazy looking.
I absolutely love these things, oh my gosh!
And these are definitely some chunker females
so look like we got a whole bunch of cool females
that we can get setup and hopefully
with any luck, we'll breed these guys.
These are a live bearing snake so they have anywhere
from 4 to 10 babies typically and they are so cute
when they're born so I can't be more excited.
Again this was kinda on the list of things I wanted
the most this year, is to add to my viper boa group
so the fact that Miguel has sent me some I am so excited
about this and take a look this one here, whew!
Look at that thing, look at the reds and rust colors
in it, that thing is a ripper for sure, whew doggie,
I absolutely love that animal, wow, and I just love that
kinda shovel looking head, and like I said, these
guys are known for being like little springs where
they'll just come up and bite ya, they're
absolutely so cute, and again we'll get these
guys set up as soon as we are.
I think there should be a couple ball pythons in here.
But right now I'm just seeing a lot of viper boas
which I'm not complaining about.
I wasn't sure how many he was sending me,
I think there's already an oh my gosh, these are incredible!
I think there's already, I don't know, 7 or 8 adult females.
Look at this female here, oh my gosh!
And look at how chubby they are, unbelievable.
But look at the red's in that, wow.
- Wow.
- Unbelievably cool, again a species of snake that
I've never personally bred.
Now I have bred the Solomon Island boas, which are
close relatives to these guys, but never bred
the asper or viper boas so I'm hoping with
any luck now that I have all these
adults that this coming up year we can actually have
some success and produce these guys, because
that would be absolutely incredible!
All right, let's see what we got.
Again, Christmas definitely came early today,
excited about this, oh and now we got some ball pythons.
Now, some more stuff that we're used to right?
Looks like we have just a little maybe pastel ghost here.
A couple normal ball pythons, again what happened
is that Miguel just you know when he produces some
of the by products from his higher end projects
he just you know said, "hey, what if I just sell you
some of that stuff," and I'm like sure, that's good
I mean I like that stuff and it's always good to get
it, so again just a couple little animals there.
We'll see what else is in here.
This is a heavier bag so it's either more viper boas
or, oh nope just bigger ball pythons in this one.
Looks like we just have, oh this one looks like
a little yellow belly right here, really pretty
little yellow belly too, not bad at all, then a couple more
normal ball pythons that look really pretty.
Next bag, what do we have here?
Looks like a couple more normal ball pythons.
Again normal ball pythons are great pet snakes.
You know, you don't have to have some really crazy
wild paint job to have a cool animal, and a lot of times
when people are just starting with ball pythons
you know a normal ball python is a great option.
And we always like to have them in stock so that
people that want to get started can actually get started
with something really cool, again relatively inexpensive
pet snake and it works out perfect again another bag
of normal ball pythons here.
They're really pretty, and the chance, oh here's a
little yellow belly in here too, this guy's a little
yellow belly right here, and again a lot of these
are probably just by products, maybe they're possible
het for something, because a lot of times, when breeders
actually produce stuff, you know when they produce the
off shoot that is kinda the normal or possible hets, you
know they're just usually sold off as normal ball pythons.
It's what we're going to do here too because I don't know
the genetics behind them so I have no idea what they are.
Oh another bag here, it looks like we got some normals
and again another beautiful little pastel ghost here.
You can see this one right here, really pretty pastel ghost,
yeah ghost gene is sometimes called a hypo, it's
a recessive mutation, then of course
the pastel is a codominant mutation.
Looks like another whole big bag of normal ball pythons.
So regardless, a lot of really cool,
beautiful, normal ball pythons.
Like I said, when you look at something like that,
you just say there's definitely a het thing
going on there because you see those bands
and stuff like that not like a normal normal ball python.
So nevertheless, that was an amazing shipment of snakes.
Couldn't be more happy, I got all my viper boas.
I'm so excited to expand that colony
and potentially, hopefully produce, so wish me luck.
Hopefully I can breed them this year and have
a bunch of baby viper boas because there's not
that many people producing them, and I think they're
one of the coolest snakes out there.
So, thanks again to Miguel my buddy,
over at Always Evolving Pythons.
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- [Eric] Big ole bucket of pinkies, today we're going to be
feeding all of our babies and stock snakes.
A lot of these guys we're putting down into hibernation, we
only have a handful of snakes left that are actually feeding
that we don't feel it's safe enough to put into brumation so
today I'm going to go through feed all of our babies, all of
our stock stuff, all the stuff you see on the website.
I get that stuff fed to day that way I can check back
tomorrow and then I have adult feeding tomorrow.
So it's never a dull moment here at BHB.
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- Remember that Sydney new gene animal I've showed you guys
a few time, I absolutely think they're amazing.
Well I keep on kinda struggling with the fact that I don't
want to call them Sydney new gene, it's just a silly name,
so obviously I was thinking mango ball python but there's
already a mango ball python and I'll never
step on anyone's toes on that type of stuff
so I gotta come up with something different.
You guys suggested a few things.
I like all three of these, actually I like everything that
you guys suggested, but I know I say it's a ripper
an awful lot, I got that from my Australian friends,
so I'm thinking maybe ripper ball python?
Also I think another one was ginger ball python.
I really like that one.
And last was cinnamon toast crunch.
I think all of those are really cool.
I'd like you guys down in the comments tell
me which one you like.
Do you like ripper, do you like ginger, do you like
cinnamon toast crunch, or is there something
else that you guys would like this animal to be named?
I just am excited about this project and obviously
I've gotta change the name from new gene to something catchy
so that if it proves out to be a super form that's
really ridiculous people are going to be more excited about
it or at least understand the gene a little bit better.
Nevertheless, love these animals, doing amazing.
We've got 1.2 babies that look exactly like
this growing up so in a couple years now hopefully
we'll be able to prove out a super.
And I just realized that I used 1.2 as
an example of how many babies we had.
Well, a lot of times, I use snake lingo as a matter of fact
I might do an entire vlog just about snake lingo so you
guys understand a little bit better.
What it is is the 1 is a male, the .2 is a female.
So anything on this side of the decimal is a male and
anything on that side of the decimal is a female.
I just wanted to clear that up so you guys aren't like,
"what the heck is Brian talking about?"
Guys, I have some pretty absolutely amazing news.
You guys know Snaz, my Burmese python that is just
absolutely a wonderful, wonderful snake.
Well the thing you may not have know is that this guy
hasn't eaten in 8 months.
Yep, 8 months he has been off of food.
And I'm going to be completely honest with you guys,
I was a little bit worried because he was starting
to look a little bit thin but you know I've been
doing this for so long that I know that sometimes snakes
just go on fasts for whatever reason.
Well guess what, last night, look at this right here.
He's got a nice lump in him right here.
This is a nice probably 2 and a half pound rabbit.
That's right he ate a frozen rabbit yesterday
for the first time in 8 months.
This is just kind of a reminder to people
that if your snake goes off food but still looks healthy
even if it starts to lose a little weight,
you don't have to freak out.
As a matter of fact, I'll probably do an entire vlog
about this topic here in the next week or so.
But regardless, I just wanted to share I am beyond
happy with the fact that Snazzy is now eating and should
be back on the track of getting nice and big and fat again.
You guys know that you help me fulfill so many dreams,
I gotta be honest with you, I've got one huge dream,
I don't know if anyone out there can help me or not,
but I'm going to share it with you and
I believe that sometimes when you kinda speak
your dreams they can come true.
You know, I don't know if that's true or not, regardless
there's two people that I really wanna
meet before the end of my days.
I'll be honest with you, there's probably a lot more than
just the 2 but its Betty White, which I used to have
a connection with but unfortunately don't anymore.
And then, this is the big one that I'm going to ask
a favor for is David Attenborough.
You know David's like I think 93 now, he probably doesn't
have that much longer to go.
I have to meet David Attenborough before he's no longer
around, one of the biggest inspirations in my life.
I have to, so if anyone knows a way I can get to
David Attenborough, I will fly there in a minute, just
to go meet him and then fly back.
So please, if you know anyone, down in the comments
let me know, or email me info@BHBreptiles.
I don't know, again I just felt if I spoke to you guys
this dream, maybe it would come true.
So we got the viper boas all set up and they look absolutely
incredible, its amazing what just setting an animal up,
giving it a few hours to hydrate and just look better
I mean look at this animal right here, whew doggie.
And this is a big female, too and hopefully
I can figure out how to breed these guys.
Like I mentioned before, I never actually bred them
and what we're basically doing is just using coconut
bedding, the reptile prime right here, and just
keeping it a little bit damp.
We'll probably put a little hide in there so they can
hide but to be honest with you, these guys are
more burrowers, they're going to go right into the bedding
and they really don't need much of a hide but
we'll probably put one in there regardless.
Definitely ground dwelling animals.
Unbelievably polymorphic, it just means that there's a ton
of different variation between animal and animal.
And again, these are live bearers, so I'm pretty sure
that we're going to probably breed them
here in the next month or so.
I'm assuming because of where these guys are from
there's a wet season and a dry season, not so much a cold
and hot season so usually when the monsoons come which
is basically now is when they start to breed so again
just look at how different each one of these animals
look, I mean I am beyond happy with getting these guys.
I can't thank Miguel enough for giving me the opportunity
to finally grow my entire colony.
Again we have three babies that are basically
sub adults upstairs that we're gonna be able to move down
here and these guys are definitely ready to go so with any
luck we'll have some babies here later this spring.
Regardless, I hope you like this unboxing video.
If you did, here's another really cool
unboxing video over here.
Here's an entire playlist of me unboxing.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day.
Remember you better be kind to someone,
and I promise, I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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