- Oh my gosh, they laid eggs.
Oh my gosh, I have no idea if they're gonna be any good.
With any luck, we'll get some baby giant
day geckos here in the future.
(upbeat music)
Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I've got my little guy Andy here, our newest addition
to The Reptarium, of course, the New Guinea Forest Dragon.
Oh my gosh!
He is doing so well, and so absolutely, whoop,
and he's so absolutely incredible.
Look at that little dude right there, hoopa doggy!
I absolutely love that thing.
Again, he's a lot like Nova in the sense that,
when you take him out, he's a little bit
squirrelly, but then he chills out pretty good.
So, we're not going to stress him out too much.
We'll just go ahead and let him go,
but I wanted to let you guys
know that he is doing wonderful.
Today is amazing.
I am actually heading out of the Reptarium BHB,
heading down south for an adventure.
We're first off gonna be stopping at a friend of mine's
place to play with some really cool animals.
Then we are hitting Playlist, the YouTube convention,
doing some amazing colabs with people like
the Dobre Brothers and the Ireland Boys,
not to mention who knows what else.
Of course, I'm going to be heading down to Gatorland
to meet up with my friend Savannah.
Forest may actually be joining me later in the trip,
so, we have a lot of stuff going on, and oh, by the way,
one of the main reasons why I am driving on this trip
rather than flying is because we're picking up
an animal that I am super excited about.
You guys will see that towards the end of this trip,
because it's on our way back, but I think you guys
are gonna be really impressed and really like it.
Regardless, let's have a great day together!
Let's just go ahead and get this day going,
and get on the road here in a few hours.
And listen, you guys always know that I get kind of
bummed out when I leave because I love The Reptarium.
I love BHB, that's kind of my comfort zone,
if you know what I mean.
I love to be here, I love interacting with all the animals,
and speaking of an animal, a lot of people have asked
recently, like, where's Chicken Strip?
Well, Chicken Strip is exactly where he's always been,
in the exact same spot, but look at how absolutely
big and gorgeous he is looking.
Still a little bit hyper.
You can see he's chilled out right now.
When we first take him out, he's kind of crazy,
and you gotta kind of run him, and just let him
get all that energy out, so to speak,
but once he actually mellows out, he's pretty good.
Thankfully he's not a biter, or anything like that.
You get a little scratched up because he kinda claws
you quite a bit, but he's really an amazing animal,
and I really do think that, as he gets bigger,
he'll continue to calm down more and more
if we continue to habituate him to handling,
but what an absolutely gorgeous animal.
All of his shed is off, so he looks just
stunningly beautiful, but, like I mentioned,
I have a lot of things to kinda button up here in
the next hour and a half, two hours before I hit the road.
I don't know exactly where I'm gonna end up today.
For those of you guys that don't know the way I travel,
I really don't make plans, I just kinda go,
and I'll stay wherever I stay, I'll stop whenever I stop.
I think that tomorrow I'm gonna go visit my buddy
that has a really cool zoo down in the Atlanta area.
I vlogged him last year, or so.
So, we're gonna do, like, monkeys and a whole bunch
of other crazy animals that I'm really excited about.
And then again, the next day I'll be down
in Gatorland and then Playlist,
and then Gatorland again, and then Miami,
and then who knows where things are gonna take me.
Regardless, Chicken Strip is looking beautiful
for those of you guys that were wondering.
You know, there's always a lot going on here that I
don't always share with you guys, and we actually put
a bunch of new lights in the hibernation area
so that we can actually work and see.
There used to just be a couple of screw in bulbs
if you come down here, and everyone always was afraid,
'cause they're like, it must be haunted
down there, or something like that.
Regardless, now we have some beautiful lights.
I just turned 'em on for a second
just to come down and check on the hibernation animals
because they're going to be coming out of hibernation
in about a week or a week and a half.
And you can start to see that some of the stuff
is already starting to move around a little bit
like this Albino Arizona Mountain King snake,
so things are definitely getting ready to come up.
We've got this beautiful Plasma Corn right here,
which is actually a Lavender Diffused Corn.
Look at how gorgeous!
Now, I don't want to mess with the snakes too much
because obviously they're still just coming,
kind of, awake out of hibernation.
So, what's happening is we're starting to warm it up
just a little bit down here so that next week,
when it gets a lot warmer, they'll be able to come up
and start feeding within the next couple weeks or so, so.
But regardless, I love the fact that it's so lit up here.
Now the crew doesn't have an excuse,
like they're afraid of ghosts.
Oh my gosh, this is pretty exciting guys.
Take a look at my giant day gecko over here.
We're just gonna try to see if we can't
get it to move inward, this way.
Come on, move that way!
This is what I wanted to show you guys.
Oh my gosh, they laid eggs, oh my gosh!
I have no idea if they're gonna be any good.
I'm gonna go ahead and just see.
This one doesn't look good at all.
See how squishy it is?
Now, with day geckos like this, the Phelsuma,
they actually lay hard eggs that'll stick to the side
just like this one here, but I wonder if there's a chance
that these are so fresh that they haven't hardened up yet.
Now, I don't want them to touch the bedding,
so, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to just
move the bedding away a little bit,
and I think I'm just gonna leave that egg there,
and see if it actually hardens up.
If it hardens up it may actually be fertile.
That would be so cool to produce some
of these beautiful little animals, oh my God!
But now that I know that they're starting laying,
I know they're gonna lay more eggs,
and much like the fimbriatus, the giant leaf-tailed geckos,
sometimes the first clutch can actually be bad,
and they'll lay multiple clutches of two eggs.
So, with any luck, we'll get some
baby giant day geckos here in the future.
Guys, know that I always read all of your comments
because earlier today, I showed you Chicken Strip 'cause
a bunch of people were like, where's Chicken Strip?
Well, a bunch of people asked me about
Jasper too, the African fat-tailed gecko.
Well, he's doing really good too.
He's over here at BHB for the moment,
but he'll probably get back over to The Reptarium.
As a matter of fact, we bring 'im over all the time,
'cause he's such an absolutely incredible handling animal.
But when he's over there, he just got a little bit
stressed out, started to get a little bit thin,
so now he's beefed up really good.
So, he'll probably make his way back there pretty soon.
And look who is back.
- Yo.
- [Brian] What's going on, man, I heard you were
a little gimpy the last few days.
- Oh my gosh, dude, I'm getting old.
My back, look at that.
Got my back jack on.
I'm pretty scared, I'm going to the chiropractor, terrified.
- [Brian] Why, they're no big deal?
- Dude, they're just gonna be cracking ya and twisting ya.
- [Brian] Yeah, but they'll really help you out.
It'll get you right as rain in no time.
- Okay, I hope so, I really hope so.
- (laughs) It has been a little boring around here
without Eric and Noah's antics, that's for darn sure.
Noah's been quiet.
So I'm glad, I'm sure he's happy to have you back too.
- Yeah.
- I hear he has something crazy
planned for us later in the day.
I don't know what's gonna happen,
but I'm sure it'll be fine.
So, anyways, good to be back, but I am leaving today,
so now I'm gonna be gone for a week.
- That sucks man, I wouldn't have played hooky
those two days if I'd have known you were leaving!
- Exactly, you're out there ice fishing or something.
Now, he's pretending to have back problems.
(laughter) Well, the good news is, soon as I get back
we're bringing colubrids up, it'll be really awesome.
- Yeah, so excited!
I told you, I have a surprise about
the colubrids that is gonna come too.
- Okay. - So, that'll be really cool.
So, regardless, I'm just kinda making sure everything's
in good shape, and then I have a 20 hour drive ahead of me.
Another animal that a lot of people have
asked about recently is Pickles here.
She is doing so well, and she looks so absolutely gorgeous.
I absolutely love that animal.
You know, again, I read the comments all the time.
I understand when you guys are like, I haven't see this
in a while, what's going on with it?
I'm happy to do that, as a matter of fact,
go down in the comments, let me know what animals you want
me to showcase when I get back from Florida.
If there's a bunch of stuff that I've been missing lately,
I'll be happy to do it, but I'm glad to say
that Pickles is still doing amazing.
Just doing a really quick walkthrough,
some of the pythons, of course,
we have lots of hookups still happening really good.
So, the animals are doing really good down here.
Lots of big follicles.
As a matter of fact, Kelsey told me recently that
we have a few females that are getting
relatively close to ovulation.
So, eggs are not far away.
Like I mentioned yesterday,
that things start to heat up now.
You know, the winter is a little bit more boring around
here, but now we start to get eggs, we start to get babies.
We are feeding tons of stuff.
It's gonna get absolutely incredible
as soon as I'm back from Florida.
Oh my God, I am so excited to start
getting eggs and babies this year.
Weirdly enough, the last trip I made,
the exact same thing happened.
You can see Lucy is deep in blue right now,
which means she's about to shed.
It's probably gonna be between five and eight days from now
that this girl is gonna come out of her shed.
So, hopefully, I'll be back by then.
I don't exactly know how long I'm gonna be gone.
It's gonna be somewhere between six and nine days.
I'm not 100% sure what's gonna happen.
So, If I get back in time I'll be able
to help her if she sheds and they have to clean up the cage.
If I stay a little longer, I don't know what's gonna happen.
I'll have to leave it in the crew's hands.
And, by the way, where is Titan?
Guess where Titan is?
If you guessed up in the tree, you're 100% right.
Titan has climbed up in that tree,
and literally hasn't moved yet.
He hasn't come down to breed Lucy,
hasn't come down to do anything.
But the fact is, it looks like Titan might be in shed too.
So, I think he's gonna shed out, she's gonna shed out,
and my guess is, there's a good chance that
she will breed right there after.
So, anyways, with any luck I'll be back by time Lucy sheds.
If not, my crew might have something fun.
I'll leave a camera back and let them film it.
You guys'll probably enjoy that.
And like I mentioned earlier,
there's another traveler in the family.
You are off the Europe tomorrow.
- That is correct, I don't even know where we're going
I told my sister, keep it all a surprise, so.
- [Brian] Really, so you don't even know what's going on?
- I literally have no clue.
- [Brian] Oh my God, are you excited at least?
- Yes, I am a little bit excited, of course.
You know, I haven't even left the country before, so.
- [Brian] Except for Canada.
- That doesn't count.
- [Brian] That doesn't (laughs).
- We're literally above Canada.
- [Brian] (laughs) That's true.
- So, you know, like, come on.
- [Brian] But you'll be gone for, like, ten days?
- Yeah, I mean, if that's what you say, then sure.
- (laughs) Noah definitely got his traveling ways from me,
obviously, that doesn't plan anything,
doesn't even know what's going on.
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Well, I'm gonna miss ya.
I can't wait 'til you get back so I can hear all about it,
but make sure to Instagram stuff so I can follow your stuff.
You can follow him @barczyknoah.
Definitely, I'm gonna need you to do at least
five stories a day from Europe, okay?
- Yeah, I can do that.
- Okay, alright, cool. (laughs)
Alright, alright, I'm gonna get out of here
in a second, so I'll talk to you soon, okay?
- Bye.
- Yep, Bowser's out again.
So, Lori, I am on my way here in a few minutes,
and it's kind of weird because
I'm leaving, then Noah's leaving tomorrow.
- Yes, I'm well aware.
- [Brian] So, you are solo.
- Solo with the dogs, plus I'm adding a dog.
- [Brian] Oh, that's right.
- 'Cause I get to dog-sit for Meeko.
- That's right, so there's gonna be three dogs.
She's gonna have plenty of company.
I'm actually pretty excited 'cause tonight,
I wish I was here, there's something that's called
the Science Olympiad, right, that's coming tonight,
and it's a bunch of kids that are coming to,
kinda, learn about reptiles.
Something that's happening in the area for,
is go on for like a month, or something?
- A couple months.
- Okay, couple months.
So, every night we have a week where we have slots
where, what, like twelve families can come,
and for an hour they get to learn about specific stations.
Tonight is the first one.
I'm gonna totally miss it.
So, you're gonna do it yourself.
- (laughs) You're leaving me solo. (laughs)
- [Brian] You probably are as excited as I.
Like, I would totally be into it,
but I know you'll do a really good job.
- No, I'm excited.
I have my notes, which I need,
unlike you, but I'll be alright.
- That's good, well it's gonna be really cool,
and if you guys are in the area and want
or are interested in this Science Olympia stuff,
it's all on thereptarium.com where all
the calendar event are always are,
but anyways, you're gonna be okay?
- Oh, yes.
- [Brian] Okay good, so, I'll be in touch.
It's gonna be fun.
So, I will be back in a week, or ten days,
or a month, or something like that, okay?
- Oh, oh, okay. - Somethin' like that.
I'm not sure when I'm gonna come back.
- That's great, yeah.
- Okay, alright, I'm gonna get some last
things done, and get outta here.
So, I am literally taking off in, like, I don't know,
15, 20 minutes, and what does Noah do?
Noah's like, oh, before you go,
let's go ahead and film a challenge with--
- This very hot jerky.
We're gonna film a very hot jerky challenge.
- Okay, remember, the guys over from Las Vegas
over here sent us this crazy hot jerky,
so, what better thing to do before I leave
than eat a whole bunch of really hot jerky?
- And, I'm pretty sure, if anybody out there knows
anything about peppers, you would know a couple years ago
the Carolina Reaper was, like, the big deal,
but I'm pretty sure it's upgraded now, and we got this
stuff called, like, Scorpion Peppers.
- [Brian] Oh gosh. - No, I can't do it.
- Oh my gosh, so anyways, you can watch
all of our pain over on Noah's channel.
I'm gonna do this, wrap up the last
few things, and then get on the road.
(Noah laughs)
Oh Noah, don't ever say I didn't love you.
- I think you're gonna need to take a couple pit stops
at the old dumper, if you know what I mean.
(pleasant music)
- Okay, we've just finished.
A little update, none of us can feel our tongues.
It's the most horrible experience of our lives.
- It was bad. - That is so bad, guys.
Oh my goodness!
- You guys, if you want to see some crazy reactions.
- Check it out down below, please.
This is very worth the watch.
- I need milk, I need milk.
(Noah groans)
- (laughs) Now I gotta go on a 20 hour car drive.
- Thank you, Noah, thank you. - I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Come see me, baby girl.
Aw, that's right, Bells.
Hi, sweetheart, how are you doing, honey-bunny?
I tell you what, I love this animal so much.
And of course, I'm gonna say good bye to her
because I'm gonna miss her so much.
I'm sure everyone's gonna give her lots of attention
not only from The Reptarium crew, BHB crew,
but also all the people that come
into The Reptarium always love my Bella.
Isn't it amazing to see a lizard like Bella
that literally comes to her name?
I open up the cage and say, come here, Bells,
and she just runs right over to me.
Girl, I love you so, so much, I really do.
And I'm gonna miss you, but I'll be back
in about a week, okay, sweetie?
You be good for everybody.
Okay, bye, Bells.
Okay, Lori, so, I am outta here,
so I will call you in a little bit.
I don't know where I'm gonna go,
maybe down to Atlanta or something like that for the night.
I figure I'll do like 12 hours tonight down to Atlanta,
somethin' like, I don't even know what.
But we'll see what happens, so, I love you,
I'll see you soon.
- Alright, love you too.
- M'kay.
- Drive safe.
Bye, bye to winter.
- We're 'bout an hour into this long drive again,
like I mentioned before, it's about
a 20 hour complete drive.
I'm gonna drive about six or seven hours tonight,
and just find a place to crash for the night.
And then I'll drive to the Atlanta area
to my buddy's zoo in the morning.
We'll go play with some animals, have a good time.
And then I don't know, some how, some way,
I'm gonna make it down to Orlando.
I'm not exactly sure when I'm gonna get down there.
I'm just gonna play it by ear.
I do have to be down there in a day and a half or so
for the start of Playlist, which is a huge
YouTube convention I'm really excited about.
Like I mentioned, hookin' up with some people at Playlist
to take 'em over to Gatorland, have a good time.
I might go hook up with some YouTubers
and take 'em to a lemur sanctuary.
That's right, lemurs, play with lemurs,
that sounds pretty awesome.
Regardless, we have a long way to go, but listen,
I love road trips and I love the fact that I'm going
into warm weather and getting out of the winter here.
I think it's supposed to be 85 degrees in Florida
when I get there, so, I'm excited about that.
Regardless, let's buckle in and get ready
for a long night of driving.
(upbeat music)
So, I'm somewhere in Kentucky, I'm not exactly sure where.
I don't know, maybe an hour past
the Ohio border, somethin' like that.
It was about 20 degrees when I
left Michigan, it's now 51 degrees here.
Definitely heading in the right direction.
Again, I don't know how far I'm gonna drive tonight.
Maybe another two or three hours, I'm not even 100% sure.
I'll just see how I feel. Right now I feel great.
It's been a great drive, it's been absolutely uneventful,
so, we'll see how far we take it.
But gasing up and then hitting
the road for another few hours or so.
Okay, made it to a hotel.
I think I'm somewhere in Tennessee.
I'll be totally honest, I don't know.
I'll find out in the morning when I get back on the road,
but regardless, definitely gonna be
nice to get a little bit of rest.
(card clicks)
And just try to get refreshed from a long travel day
for sure, but tomorrow starts the adventure.
Cool zoo of my buddies that we're gonna
meet some really cool animals.
And then the next day, down to Gatorland, Playlist,
oh my God, this venture's gonna be so awesome!
We have several days of some stuff ahead.
So, I hope that you guys are buckling up for it.
I know that I am gonna absolutely enjoy it
as much as I can be, and by the way,
the temperature update here, it's 62 degrees,
so, definitely heading in the right direction.
As for now, I'm gonna go ahead and shut down the vlog,
and wish you guys an amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching
because as always, your support means the world to me,
and I really do love you guys so much.
Thank you for coming along on this journey with me.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get outta here?
Smash that like button, turn those post notifications on,
remember to comment because again,
I love reading about your beautiful faces.
Be kind to someone, and I promise
the adventure starts tomorrow, and I'll see you then.
(upbeat music)