- This is a watermelon and Lori's about to feed
my giant tortoise later, which means we have
to cut this up or do we?
And this is Bowser.
He is actually a 41 year old snapping turtle,
and I tell you what, he is getting heavy.
He's over a hundred pounds now.
He could live over 200 years.
And you know what?
I think that this might be the best way to cut
up that watermelon.
With a bite force of over a thousand pounds per square inch,
I think he's gonna do the job.
What do you say,
we see what he does to this watermelon.
So the hardest thing is not getting my fingers in here.
Come on Bowser.
Let's help cut this up.
Oh my gosh.
He makes short work of this.
Oh my God.
That's like cutting through nothing.
So Bowser is doing a pretty good job of this, for sure.
So I think that this'll be good and Lori
should be proud of me. Right?
Good job, Bowser.
And the truth is, it doesn't hurt Bowser to bite
into a watermelon, but of course he doesn't eat watermelon.
Right? So we'll go ahead and get Bowser back in
and we'll give him a treat a little bit later
for being such a good sport.
Come on, Bowser.
Back in the- oh, you are so heavy.
(strained mumbles)
Up you go.
One big turtle.
And by the way, welcome to the vlog Reptile Army.
I hope your day is absolutely amazing.
Lori?
- [Lori] Yes?
- [Brian] I helped you out with the watermelon.
- What?
- [Brian] I helped you out with the watermelon,
getting ready for Matilda.
- What did you do?
- [Brian] Well, we thought that rather
than you cutting up, maybe we would have Bowser help
cut it for you.
- Are you serious?
- [Brian] Yeah. That was Bowser did that.
- You're lying.
- No, I did. That was Bowser. Is that good enough
or do you need more?
- Why would you give Bowser a watermelon?
- The question is why wouldn't I give Bowser
a watermelon?
- Cause that's not what they eat?
- No, but he, I just thought he would help cut it up.
So--
- I don't even understand.
- No, it didn't work out the way- you weren't impressed?
It was cool.
- I think you're lying.
- I swear to God. That that's Bowser's mouth.
- What was he out?
And then you stuck it?
- Yeah. (chuckles)
- Did he like it?
- He bit it. I don't know if he liked it.
- He spit it back out?
- Yeah.
- Okay, so he didn't like it.
- Okay. So we're going to cut it up and feed Matilda?
- Well why don't we just give it to Matilda like this?
- Right, let's do it.
Okay, Matilda feeding time.
They're just going to get, oh I think Steve's going to get--
- [Lori] Yeah, he already knows.
- [Brian] Steve's like, Hey, what's up?
- [Lori] Look what we got.
- [Brian] Matilda's got a big old watermelon.
Here she comes.
Here come's Matilda.
- [Lori] You're gonna like it.
- [Brian] She doesn't know what she wants to do.
What is she doing?
- I don't know
- [Brian] Why's she running away from it.
- [Lori] You know, it smells good. Yeah, there you go.
- (chuckles) I love how she raises
her feet up to like-- (mumbles)
- Leverage.
- Of course, things like watermelon.
We're only gonna do that on a very rare occasion.
You know, fruit really isn't that great
for tortoises long-term, you know, but once every month
or so to give her a treat and she seems to really love it.
It's pretty cool.
It's so interesting, but it seemed
like Matilda was actually afraid of the entire watermelon.
So Lori decided to cut it up
into pieces and I think she's going to be much happier.
Not to mention our leopard tortoises are gonna
get an opportunity to eat as well.
(upbeat music)
Like I mentioned, I'll give Bowser a couple
treats for being so good earlier
and participating.
Here you go, bud.
There you go, buddy.
And of course, it's just crocodile chow
which is actually made by Missouri.
It's just a manufactured food for zoo animals.
Of course crocodilians
and we vary this guy's diet up a tremendous amount.
And you might be wondering about that fish in there.
That fish is named Jonah.
Jonah has survived in there
for the last probably six months, so
I think him and Bowser are buddies.
What's interesting about Jonah the goldfish,
and Bowser is the fact that when Bowser is eating
Jonah actually goes and cleans up all the scraps.
So it's a really cool symbiotic relationship
for whatever reason Bowser doesn't seem to mind
and the fish seems to be happy.
- Hi guys, I got Taito and we're off to a Zoo To You.
- [Brian] It's really cool as things start to slowly open up
that we're starting to do Zoo To You's again.
After several months of really not taking
the animals out at all.
Sure. We've had lots of in-person tours here
at the Reptarium, but it's really cool
that more and more people are starting to book
because it is so fun to take these animals
and see people get so much enjoyment out of them.
- All right guys, catch you later.
- I keep telling you guys that we're
in the midst of the colubrid breeding season
but I figured I'd take a minute
and kind of explain what does that mean?
You know, we've been breeding pythons for six months.
Well, things happen a lot differently
when it comes to colubrids.
I mean, you guys know that these guys brumate.
Now they've been out of brumation
for about two and a half maybe three weeks,
something like this.
This happens to be a mosaic female Cal King that is
actually feeding like crazy.
And that's basically what the process is, right?
They come out of brumation
and basically you try to feed them as soon
as they're getting warmed up.
And then they'll go through,
just like this girl here, they come out
and do what they call a post brumation shed
or a pre follicle shed.
Same thing. Right?
So basically after brumation they go through
a shed about two, two and a half weeks later.
This is not only a post brumation shed
but it's also a pre follicle shed.
Once they shed out, that basically just means
that they're ready to start breeding
and things happen pretty quick.
You know, like this granite Mex Mex here
that is an absolute ripper.
I mean, take a look at that thing.
This one shed out just about three or four days ago.
Now what happens as soon as they shed out
you want to start getting males
and females together immediately
because it happened super quick.
Unlike the pythons that can take literally up to six months
or something like that from the time you started breeding
until you get egg laying, basically you have,
again about two weeks,
they come out they do their brumation shed.
Then after that, they basically need to breed
for probably three to four weeks, which by the way
this is a Hypo Arizona Mountain King snake.
I love that animal so much.
And during that three to four week window, the follicles go
from little tiny babies up until full grown ovulations
and then they go through what they call a pre lay shed.
Again, post brumation shed, pre follicle shed,
then feed, feed, feed, breed, breed, breed,
three to four weeks later, they go through
a pre lay shed and then believe it or not,
that quickly, seven to 10 days later,
you get your first clutch of eggs.
That is absolutely crazy, it happened so quick.
And this will be the kind of advertising part of the blog.
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if you want yourself a coloring book.
And if you wanna become part of the reptile army
go ahead and email us at join@reptilearmy.com
And there's still time to get Bella merch and
a few other things, link in the description.
If you want to pick yourself up some merch
and right now you can get yourself some disinfect--
No, I'm just kidding.
That's all I have for you guys.
Take a look at that, guys.
You don't see Luna out that often.
As a matter of fact, that's one
of the hardest things about running a zoo.
It's right.
It's like having a really cool enclosure
but not having it so cool
that you can't actually see the exhibit.
Remember that scene like in Jurassic Park
the movie when they're driving around, there's no dinosaurs
because it's just all overgrown and stuff like that.
That's the hard part.
Well, Luna here
of course is an albino high white, Black and White Cal King.
Absolutely beautiful.
But honestly she hides almost all the time in here.
So it was pretty cool to see her out this morning.
Breeding snakes is literally
like a kid opening Christmas gifts on Christmas morning.
(upbeat music)
- So the question is, today, will it be Christmas?
You know I'm waiting on that pike clutch.
(climatic music)
Not today.
I got my Salmon Bird Eating Tarantula of course
this is going to get giant one day.
It's one of the biggest tarantulas on the planet
as far as heavy bodied.
Not quite as big as the blondi or stirmi
but nevertheless, we're going to see
if we can get this little monkey to eat.
There it goes. Oh yeah, it took it!
Oh my gosh, that thing is lightening.
I definitely don't want to be handling this crazy monkey.
(upbeat music)
And you can already see with this female pueblo
and she starting to look like she's filling up with eggs.
Now interestingly enough, every year,
Mexican black kings and Pueblan milk snakes
are our first clutch of the year.
I'm not sure why that is.
I don't know why they actually develop follicles quicker
than other snakes, say, than corn snakes.
Cause it's always like Pueblans, Mexican black kings
Cal kings, and then corn snakes are always the last one.
Really weird. Right?
But the point is, is that it happens really quick.
And the nice thing is, is that once this female goes
and lays her clutch of eggs, which will probably
be within the next probably two and a half
maybe three weeks tops, you can actually re breed them.
Unlike boas and pythons that only have one clutch
or one litter year, colubers can have two clutches.
And with garter snakes, have two live litters per year.
It's just really crazy.
So again, lots of fun stuff going on with the colubers.
We're gonna have egg time coming here really soon.
But I want to explain what I meant when I say we're
in the coluber breeding season.
So you guys understand the process that we're going
through each and every day.
These Green belly keel lizards or Gastropholis prasina
actually are doing really well.
You can see they're crushing food
and we're actually starting to use these
as actually feeding during open hours.
Cause they'll actually take food off of tongs too.
These things are so incredible.
(upbeat music)
Look at this thing that we just got from the p.o box.
This is actually from Arizona or Arkansas
I don't know what A--(mumbles)
It's a giant waffle!
(laughter)
Oh my gosh. Get me the syrup! Quick!
No, this one is like packed, whatever it is.
- So, probably be careful not to cut it.
- I've never actually--
Have you ever seen cardboard that thick before?
Never.
- Yes, I have.
- No. You haven't trust me.
- No, I have.
- You have not seen cardboard that thick.
- I have.
- You haven't though.
- Oh yeah. It's artwork.
- It's artwork.
Ooh, this is nice. Look at that.
- Wait you're ripping something up.
- Look at that. That is dope.
- Oh wow.
- Oh my God. I liked that a lot.
Thank you so much. That's cool.
Look at the leaves are like added on after
for like texture and stuff.
Wow that's actually cool. So, thank you so much.
And what do we got here, says
"Remember, always be kind to someone and I promise,
I'll see you tomorrow." Brian Barczyk.
It's got Drogo.
Oh, it's got all this stuff. That's awesome.
"Dear Brian, Lori, crew, family,
my husband and I love your videos.
We started watching your story shortly after Karma,
the first one, went over the rainbow bridge.
I painted this fan art of Karma."
Thank you so much. That is so nice of you.
"All of you please take care of yourself and each other.
Please keep up the good work and your videos.
I hope you enjoy the fan art."
And I absolutely do thank you so much.
And this is from the Book--
What is it?
From the Bookouts from Arkansas, by the way.
So thank you.
So Bella was a cheeky little monkey today.
Actually, while we were working, she jumped out
of the cage onto Anthony's head, which never really happens.
She always just hangs out in her cage.
So I don't know what she's up to today.
She wants to go on a little adventure, I guess
but Bella, I love you, you gotta stay in your cage.
And the thing is we leave this enclosure open pretty
much all day for her to just, you know
pop her head out and look around and stuff like that.
She never really wants to come out.
When we take her out
she actually gets stressed out and wants to go back in.
So that was definitely pretty usual.
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