("Golden Hour" by Sarah the Instrumentalist)
- Oh, you're such a cutie.
Night Fury's shed and looks absolutely
Whoa!
Take a look at Bowser, he is definitely ready to eat.
Woo hoo hoo doggie, and we vary up his diet
just like we do everything here.
This was actually chicken.
A lot of times we'll actually give 'em
Missouri crocodile chow, we'll give 'em fish,
we give 'em all kinds of stuff.
He is turning back on from his Winter slumber,
it is absolutely incredible.
And we do have a handful of other things
to feed over here at The Reptarium.
Oh, and by the way, welcome to the vlog.
We're gonna do a little feedin' today,
we're gonna do some snake breeding today.
It's just gonna be an all around awesome day.
What do you say, we just put our problems aside
for the next 12 or 15 minutes and have some fun.
We're gonna start with Sunrise.
Sunrise, you wanna eat girl?
Come on girl.
Yes, she sure does wanna eat.
Woo hoo hoo doggie, she is such a beautiful girl
and she just shed and looks fantastic.
Today is finally the day,
the first time that males and female colubrids
are going in together.
I noticed the other day,
you actually put a few in as kind of a test,
seemed to go well.
But today all the males go with females.
So what is the process?
- I have to take each male out.
We do paint markers on 'em.
It's just a lot easier to know which one is which
when you're switching 'em.
- And the thing is, with the paint markers
is number one, silver and gold dry harder.
It doesn't hurt the animals at all.
That way when whoever is switching males
can just see, the one with the paint marker is the male.
Just real simple to go through it.
We happen to use a silver paint marker,
which works best for us.
- So, I just put a nice line on him.
- That way it's super simple and then
that's just going in with the female there, right?
- Correct.
- If you notice, every male has a card.
That card moves with that male.
So, if this male goes into this cage,
this card into this cage.
That male goes into this cage, that goes into that cage.
That way we can always know where they go, where they are.
There's a B1 which means it's rack B, slot number one.
Again, Lori just keeps marking
and switches to the next female
and that's basically it.
So it's not rocket science or anything like that.
And then ultimately, what we're gonna do is
we're gonna leave 'em in over night.
Tomorrow, we'll actually switch B1 into this cage,
B2 into that cage, and so on and so forth.
Keep rotating 'em through.
We do that for about five days a week.
Two days a week they get off and they get fed
and get the opportunity to kinda just keep rejuvenating.
And then of course, you gotta remember
that this marker is gonna shed off the male.
So when these guys go opaque
we put the male back into B1
or whatever tub it goes in, put the tag in there.
We know that means it's going into shed.
Once it sheds out we mark it again
and we put it back in the cage.
That's pretty much a simple way
of saying how we do things.
But we have to do it to all this side
and all the other other side
and we have to do that every single day.
Let's go ahead and feed Ben and Jerry.
It's been a while since we've seen this little monkey eat.
There he goes, Ben crushed it, there ya go buddy.
Oh my God, these guys are so frickin' dope, I love it.
And again, I hadn't showed it in the last couple weeks
and a few people were concerned
about Ben and Jerry's health.
They are doing really good, obviously eating really well
for me and looking fantastic.
Alright, Lori has all the males and females back together.
You excited about this?
- I'm so excited!
- [Man] Danger season's not far off.
- Yes, it's so cool!
- [Man] I know right, isn't it awesome?
So do me a favor, keep an eye on all of these guys,
and if you see something breeding, tag it.
- Yes sir, yes sir, you got it.
Yes, egg-bound, man.
No wait, not egg-bound, clutch-bound.
You know what I mean.
- I'm like, whoa, calm down, calm down, alright.
Peaches, the hypo Honduran
always has a pretty good feed response.
She's a good animal.
There it is, good job girl.
Guys, I am super excited about this.
Mary just came to get me.
We're gonna really gently
just see if we can't look in here.
The blacktail cribos you can see
they're actually locked up right now.
Rico is hooked up with the female
and you know she had big follicles.
You can see it right there, the tails are wrapped.
I'm gonna go ahead and leave 'em alone
but that is great news!
I tell you what, how exciting is that?
Baby blacktail cribos, hopefully anyway.
Thank you for coming to get me Mary, that's awesome.
Woo, I'm so excited, that's the first
confirmed lock of the year with those guys.
This black-headed python is always up for a good meal.
There you go girl.
Oh, you're such a cutie, look at how gentle he took it.
Oh my God, you are so cute!
Just been walking through and checking on a lot
of the snakes that we put together earlier.
A few of the males were actually riding the females,
which is obviously, really great news.
Got a few things, this one's in shed, obviously.
Males don't typically breed when they're in shed.
But I'm just going back through again.
After a couple hours, it's usually done.
With colubrids, it happens pretty quick.
Not like pythons, that it can take literally hours
and hours, sometimes even days.
Of course, this is an example
of a ball python breeding right here.
It basically takes a long time.
They don't do a whole lot.
They just kind of sit there locked up.
And again, they'll stay sometimes like that
for two or three days.
Whereas, colubrids are like really quick.
As soon as you put 'em in they go
and they're like really crazy
and within like five or 10 minutes they're done.
So, things started really good
for the first day of breeding.
And with the pythons, we're actually at the end
of the breeding season.
Where we probably only have about a month left
before the majority of the females
are already ovulated, but we have some stragglers.
So we'll continue to breed a handful of collection
for two, three, four, even five months,
until we decide that they're done.
Regardless, pythons are going good.
Colubrids are off to a great start.
Time to feed Mr. Children's Python.
This guy's always a little bit of a tease feeder.
There he goes, there you go little buddy.
Oh my God, I tell ya, I always envision this
is exactly what you would see in Australia.
Just on a ledge, a rodent comes by
he grabs it, he's holding it down.
This is absolutely always so fun to feed him.
Night Fury's shed and looks absolutely
Whoa, yo!
Come on boy, you're alright, okay.
Woo hoo!
I tell you what, that was a close call.
That was definitely a close call.
Hey Fury, you're beautiful, but you're definitely cheeky.
I walked away for a minute, doing a time lapse
on Night Fury and look, it just crawled over
and took the rat right off the thing.
Okay Night Fury, I guess you're getting another rat.
What can I do now, I'm not gonna take it away from him.
I won't bore you guys with the video
that I keep doing over and over,
feeding a bunch of stuff.
I just want to hit a few highlights.
Definitely awesome to feed these animals.
I really look forward to Feeding Day
here at The Reptarium, I hope you guys enjoyed it.
Let me know in the comments
what else you'd like us to feed.
As a matter of fact, Noah was actually
gonna be feeding some animals at 3:00 A.M.
Doing like a 3:00 A.M. challenge video.
So I'll go ahead and put the link down in the description.
What could possibly go wrong
with feeding these snakes at night?
Regardless, let me know what else you wanna feed
the next time I do this.
There's nothing I get more enjoyment
out here at The Reptarium, than seeing Toothless eat.
I mean he is such an awesome animal and honestly
is gonna be probably one of my best
ambassador animals moving forward.
I mean just take a look at how awesome he is
and how smart he is.
Oh my God, and no fear, again we talk about that.
When an animal doesn't have fear
that's when you can really unlock
the absolute beauty of the animal.
And Toothless has no fear at all.
Get yourself another piece.
Look at how absolutely cute that is.
Oh my God, I love this lizard, so, so much.
It's gonna be amazing when he's five or six foot long.
Woo hoo doggie, I cannot wait.
There you go buddy, eat it on up, there you go bud.
And we're actually gonna start target training some
of these animals, including Toothless.
We'll start to target them.
Like a red ball on the end of a stick,
that way he knows when it's time to eat.
We'll make him come up, touch his nose on the red ball.
That way we can kind of train him to go
to places we want him to go.
We're gonna do the same thing with Elvis.
We even have something in store for Bella.
I'll share that, maybe as soon as tomorrow.
Look at how cool that is.
'Cause we really wanna start training these animals.
As well as, I think what we're gonna do too
is start to do a little bit more enrichment
with Toothless and Elvis.
Where we might start hiding rodents, like in the cage.
Maybe we'll do a frozen rodent over here,
underneath something.
And that'll actually give them the enrichment
to go find their food,
which I think is gonna be really important,
just for their health and happiness.
When you have these super-intelligent animals
like Toothless and Elvis, you wanna continuously
stimulate their brains as much as you can.
Whether it's taking them out and doing things with them,
target training, or again, hiding their food,
so they have to use their brain to go and find it.
Super quick update, few days into incubation,
the Uroplatus fimbriatus egg still looks absolutely perfect.
Oh my God, when this thing hatches,
which takes like 90 to 100 days,
I am gonna go out of my mind.
That has been a dream animal to produce, literally,
for the last 20 years,
since the first time I saw one of these little dudes.
Oh my God, so far, so good, but we have a long way to go.
You might notice that Pheobe is on a leash outside.
Well, she actually just got spayed yesterday.
So with big dogs, this really was pretty scary
to be honest with you.
We definitely didn't wanna breed her.
So she is doing really good.
I just want you to know Lori has to take care of her now.
Her little baby has to always be on a leash.
Just for anyone that might have seen on Lori's Instagram,
she's doing completely fine
and she's definitely is feisty.
Come on girl.
- Which is why she has to be on the leash.
- Which is why she has to be on a leash.
Oh, and you might notice guys, look at the pond.
Remember, last time I was out here
it looked horrible, there was algae everywhere.
Well, my buddy Dan from Put's Pond
actually came out, cleaned the entire thing out.
The waterfall's not going yet
but you can actually see the bottom.
It looks absolutely beautiful.
So he's gonna be maintaining it this summer,
which is really good.
So, that at least is one less thing that we have
to worry about, and maybe we can just enjoy this pond,
rather than working out butt off, right Lori?
- Yeah, I like how you said we,
it's me. (man laughs)
- Lori literally said, if we don't get someone
to maintain it, she's filling it in.
(Lori laughing) That's what she said.
She said she was filling it in.
So, with that said--
- Thanks Dan.
- Thanks Dan, you saved my pond.
Have an absolutely wonderful day guys.
I love you guys so much, you know that.
Be kind to someone and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.