- Look at how cute she is.
So I do need a name for her.
Can you calm down for me baby?
Can you calm down for me sweetheart?
Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I'm pretty excited.
I've got some friends over
that have a pretty special snake, actually a few snakes.
But this one in particular is a male black-headed python,
and not just any male black-headed python,
this is actually Snap, Crackle, and Pop's dad, right?
- You're right.
- [Brian] So this is your stud male.
Tell me a little bit about him.
- I tried to measure him before but you know how that goes.
I believe he's about nine feet long.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh that's so beautiful.
- You know they're a very active snake,
kinda like holding a retic.
They don't just sit still like a ball python for ya.
But certainly handleable and you know,
individuals can at times think that you're food.
- [Brian] Yeah I've been on that end of it.
- The bigger ones that I have have not done that, so.
- [Brian] You know, that's actually awesome.
And you know black-headed pythons
aren't that easy to breed.
That's why you don't see a lot of babies,
but you've had incredible success.
How many years have you bred him now?
- This will be my third year.
- [Brian] Third year.
- The first year I actually had two clutches
the very first year.
Last year I only had one clutch.
- You brought a couple babies for me to see, right?
- That's correct.
- That's awesome I cannot wait to see it.
Again guys this is Snap, Crackle, and Pop's dad.
I mean how awesome is it to meet him?
He is absolutely gorgeous.
We also have another female that I want to take a look at
and kinda talk a little bit about as well.
And take a look at these little baby black-headed pythons.
Again, these are just like Snap, Crackle, and Pop
that I got last year.
This is how big they are.
Now black-heads sometimes can be a little tricky
when they first start getting going as far as eating.
'Cause like Scott said,
they're actually snake eaters or reptile eaters
in the wild so these guys are already started
on rodents and absolutely killing it.
So now the decision is do I get another female?
Again, Snap, Crackle, and Pop are actually
two males and a female.
So if I get another one at least I'll have two pair.
Oh my God they're absolutely so adorable.
What do you guys think I should do?
This is a nice big female black-headed python,
and one of the nice things about black-heads,
and I think you kind of figured this out
with the success that we've had is that
you don't want them to get too girthy.
This one might be just a little bit over the edge.
- Right on the border line.
- [Brian] It's still a really beautiful animal,
but she hasn't produced for you, right?
- No she produced the first year that I had her.
Last year she didn't produce.
I have to say I don't take credit for
having figured that out or anything.
Being that it's a snake that is a little bit tricky,
and requires some experience and stuff.
I've had a lot of help from some very nice folks
that were willing to give me advice.
I have to say that I credit it to that, you know?
- Absolutely.
Yeah and it's kind of known that you'll want to keep
black-headed pythons a little bit on the lean side
when it comes to females and production,
and I was actually pretty surprised
that you guys had mentioned that
you don't feed rats very often
because rats are kind of higher in fat content,
and so your main food sources are?
- We're feedin' quail and young small rabbits.
- [Brian] Okay.
- I fed 'em fish.
- [Brian] Wow.
- They'll eat just about anything.
I've had 'em eat eggs.
I've actually had 'em eat
slug eggs from other snakes.
- What? - yeah.
- Just awesome.
So again a little bit more of a varied diet.
Much like I talk about with monitor lizard,
and something that's a little bit more lean,
like rabbits and quail is really good.
So when you do feed rats you keep the rats pretty small.
- Yeah I keep 'em to young rats.
What I've been told by the guys
that have been in this a long time,
a lot longer then I have,
adult rats have a type of fat,
and their fat is what they can't handle,
and they get a fatty liver from it,
and they get too much body fat.
And when you think about it,
where they come from in the wild
is a super hot, dry, harsh environment,
and they mainly eat reptiles in the wild.
They mainly eat other snakes and lizards,
which are super lean, you know?
They really weren't made to eat fatty,
domestically raised rats.
- So if you're ever raising black-heads you know
certainly it's not a good thing to just
power feed them with large rats and stuff like that.
An animal like this might actually eat
two or three medium rats,
or maybe on the small side of rat,
rather than big rats because it's
just not that good for 'em,
and then again a continued varying of diet,
like the quails and rabbit, and obviously eggs,
and crazy stuff like that.
It's how you keep these guys kinda in that trim state,
where they can actually produce viable babies.
I have my first tour of the day,
they're actually from Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Welcome guys, of course you're getting a little Elvis time,
and Bella is jealous up here saying,
"wWat are you guys doin' not paying attention to me?"
Right girl, it's all right sweetie.
So was it you that kinda prevocated the trip here?
- Yes.
- Or did everyone want to come?
- Absolutely.
- It's my birthday trip, actually.
- What? Happy birthday.
- Thank you. - That's so awesome.
- I'm so excited for you,
and you said this is like the second time
you've been around snakes.
- Yeah.
- [Brian] So you like look like a pro.
- Thank you, I mean I watch your vlogs every single day so.
- [Brian] Thank you so much.
Well I appreciate you and obviously Night Fury
seems to love you too.
Fun times with Perdita, and Dierade.
Our first tour is done and now we actually have a
birthday party, that's gonna be pretty cool.
Eight year old girl, really excited about reptiles,
so this is gonna be really fun.
And Then I actually have the very first Zoo to You,
here in about an hour and a half.
So when this is wrapping up,
I've got to get on the road,
because I have to get to someone's house,
and we're actually bringing animals to them.
Now I've done that before on BHB,
but this is the very first Zoo To You
since the Reptarium opened so I am excited about it.
So the truth is guys,
I've kinda been sick now for the last I don't know,
maybe eight weeks, 10 weeks, something like that.
Goin' kinda, I think, from one bug to the next.
Like a flu then a cold, then a flu,
and now I actually think I have the flu again.
And I know what it is.
It's just I'm so worn down now, you know.
I'm just going day to night, seven days a week,
never really stopping.
And I'll be fine, you know, it's gonna be completely fine.
But I have no choice, I mean it's not like
I can take a day off.
I have so much on my plate and today is
an absolutely bonkers day, you know?
Starting with my buddy Scott
that came in with the black-headed pythons.
Then we have a birthday party.
I have a Zoo To You thing.
I have the Reptarium open,
obviously I'm going to vlog because I love vlogging.
So listen just bear with me guys
because my voice is gonna hurt.
I'm gonna be a little bit lower energy.
I'm trying my absolute best.
And hopefully here relatively soon I can get on track.
I'm startin' to take more vitamins.
I'm tryin' to do a bunch of different things.
Let me know in the comment if you have any advice for me,
because listen, I'm normally a very, very healthy person.
So it stinks to kinda be sick
for the last eight or 10 weeks.
I just didn't want to tell you guys
but regardless don't worry about me.
I'm gonna be fine, trust me.
Life is still good just
got to keep the energy level up
'cause we got a lot to do today.
The birthday party is going absolutely swimmingly.
We got Tazzy out right now so.
So the birthday party here at the Reptarium is wrapping up
and I am hitting the road to do, again,
my first Zoo To You birthday party,
so it should be pretty awesome.
Just made it to my birthday party,
and in all honesty we're about 10 minutes late
which I hate doing, so we gottta go in,
and hopefully this will be awesome.
This is actually what they call a corn snake, okay?
Does anyone have a idea why these are called corn snakes?
If they killed all the snakes in the field,
then the mice would eat all the crops.
So snakes actually control the rodents,
which actually helps the crops.
(children laughing)
- Gotta be really gentle, okay guys?
If you want to touch it just gotta be real gentle.
This is an albino Burmese python, her name is Sunrise.
She's about 10 foot.
It's wrappin' up here at the birthday party,
Everyone's just kinda holding all the animals.
This is the birthday boy here with the pastel pie
so it's been a good time.
We are back at the Reptarium.
We got Sunrise goin' back in her cage.
So that's good, so again really busy morning,
really kind of insane, you know,
having all those parties and tours,
and the Zoo To You event,
and not feeling very good, you know,
very much under the weather,
but hey we got back here,
now we need to open up the Reptarium.
I just have to get through another five hours.
It will be absolutely fun,
and then maybe I can get some rest and start feeling better.
Okay so just stepping into the Reptarium after we're open.
Definitely a bonkers night, huh Lory?
- Ah, yeah, I'm sweating.
- Fun times, fun times.
We're gonna take Casper out actually right now.
Takin' a quick break from the Reptarium
to kinda give you the update
on the little black-headed python.
I ended up buying one of these little females.
For those of you that don't know,
Snap, Crackle, and Pop are two males and a female,
so now I have two pair.
So this little girl is absolutely gorgeous.
I mean look at how cute she is.
So I do need a name for her, again, Snap, Crackle, Pop.
I'm not really even sure what the female is
to be honest with you, it's one of the above.
Well, I need a female name
that would go with Snap, Crackle, and Pop.
And by the way, do me a favor
and check out my buddy Scott's Great Snakes
link in the description.
He's got a lot of really cool animals obviously.
He's one of only a handful of people
that are consistently purchasing blackheads,
but he works with a whole bunch of stuff,
and he helped me out a lot with the Reptarium,
so he's a good friend of mine,
and I always appreciate all of his support on things,
and I can't thank him enough for this
absolutely gorgeous little baby black-headed python.
I'm here with RJ of course,
and this cool little person,
and one of the things I love about the Reptarium
is meeting awesome people like you, right?
What's your name?
- Alexis.
- Alexis, it's so good to meet you.
Do you like RJ?
It's awesome isn't it?
- [Woman] Okay.
Yeah, I normally take pictures.
- Jump in over here.
Okay, this is the picture you need to get right here.
They want to take a picture just stop.
Hang on a second, he'll be good in a second.
That might not work.
Can you calm down for me baby?
Can you calm down for me sweetheart?
Okay wanna try again?
- Yeah.
- All right so now I'm going to go like this,
and just let his thing go down,
there you got it.
- Some of my favorite times at the Reptarium
is when we can get RJ out and you can hold him,
I mean, how awesome is that, right?
- Very cool.
- [Brian] He got you RJ, you're doing so well sweetheart.
Just a little update on what's
been happening here at the Reptarium,
I don't know I think it's like
seven-ish o'clock something like that.
We have Karma that's been out with Andrea of course,
looks like we have,
oh look at this, we got Sweetie the blood python out.
I love when she come out, she is such a great animal.
We have, oh my gosh, we have all kinds of stuff.
We have Dumal out,
we have Bruce The Maniac in the back
and he's gotten bit by a boa.
- Yeah, he's gotten bit a couple times.
- [Brian] We've got this boa over here,
oh my god this is awesome.
What do we have over on this corner here?
- You might need to pull him out the other--
- We've go Joker, the scaleless Texas rat.
You okay?
You guys all right?
- Yeah.
All right guys, so we are gonna go ahead
and end the vlog here.
I am gonna definitely get home and try to get some rest.
Unfortunately I have a very early morning tomorrow,
so it is gonna be back to the grind tomorrow,
hopefully I will feel better.
Thank you guys for allowing me to
kinda complain a little bit.
The truth is I will be fine, I am sure of that.
And I hope that you guys have an absolutely amazing day,
evening, whenever you guys happen to be watching.
Can you do me a couple favors before you get out of here?
Can you smash that like button?
Turn those post notifications on so you
know when I upload a video.
Make sure to comment down below
and let me know some of those good remedies
that I should be doing so that I don't get sick so much,
Even though I have a very, very busy life.
Be kind to someone,
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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