(relaxed music)
- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I tell you what, I'm not gonna lie to you,
I'm a little beat up from that trip.
It was insane and we worked our butts off,
but we got so much accomplished
and I'm so happy to be back here at the Reptarium,
seeing all my animals, spending the next
couple of weeks here before we head back out.
Finish up the Reptarium.
This wall comes out here in just about a week
so things are starting to really pop
and it's gonna be an amazing day,
even if I'm tired, I'm gonna get through it
'cause I'm excited to see all my animals.
But first thing we have to do
is check for breeding with the snakes, right?
This is the breeding season everybody.
It's great to see things starting to hook up like crazy.
Oh, look here, we have one,
an albino just bred to a het albino right here, lock ups.
I tell you, things are definitely heating up
over here and let's see.
We've got a clown het for ghost bred to a ghost,
but that's not locked up over there.
Let's see if this albino clown is doing any breeding.
Oh, yeah!
This is an albino clown that's bred
to an enchi het for albino clown.
So we could produce some albino enchi clowns there.
So, locks are really starting to heat up here.
And what we'll do is we go through
every animal everyday and just see
if something if breeding or not.
This is actually a chocolate pinstripe
bred to a chocolate spinner.
Isn't hooked up right now.
What I'll do is I'll switch all these males around
when I'm don to get 'em into new females.
But first thing I'm doing is just checking
all these cages just to see if there's any locks
and so on like that.
And then I'll write down what is locked
and basically what happens is if something's breeding,
I typically won't breed that female again
for about three weeks.
But I always keep an eye on follicular growth.
Oh, look at this right here.
Look at this, take a look at this!
This is interesting.
This is actually an enchi banana pinstripe,
and it's bred just to a big yellow belly female.
But you can see he's trying to breed right now.
But he's not locked up.
So he's actually doing some courtship.
So this isn't a lock.
But that's a great sign, there's no doubt about that.
Again, just kind of going through everything.
Oh, look at this.
This is another lock right here.
This is actually an extreme gene banana spider
that's bred to a chocolate pinstripe female.
So, that should be a really cool clutch.
So, another lock over here.
See, I'm just look again.
We've got, oh, this is a beautiful animal.
This is actually an extreme gene banana.
But it's being bred to just a big old normal female,
not locked up yet, and we do have some younger males
that sometimes take a little time to get going.
Sometimes you'll see two or three weeks
before their first locks with those guys.
So I'm not that worried about it.
Oh, this is actually super cool.
This is the exact same pairing
that produced that super Lori pin leopard.
This is actually a Lori leopard
bred to a Lori pinstripe.
So that can produce some really cool stuff for sure.
Let's take a look right here.
Oh yeah, this is super cool.
This is actually a banana genetic stripe
bred to a genetic stripe.
Now the genetic stripe is recessive.
The banana, of course, is incomplete dominant.
So these animals are all gonna be genetic stripe.
Some are gonna be banana genetic stripe.
So that's super cool.
Again, just kind of going through and seeing everything.
It's so exciting, guys, it really is.
I'm gonna go ahead and shut that
because I disrupted these guys a little bit.
This is actually a calico pin yellow belly
bred to a pastel to produce some really cool stuff.
They were locked up but they started to squirm away.
So I'm just gonna leave them alone really quick.
Again, going through, it's been a really good
breeding day to be honest with you.
So far, things are going really well.
Banana fire spider bred to a big pinstripe,
no breeding on that one.
So again, when things are moving along pretty well,
just gotta go through, this is a daily thing.
As soon as I'm done here, again,
I'll switch males into new cages.
This is an extreme enchi banana pin.
This is a beautiful snake right here.
But then take a look at this female.
They're not locked up yet.
But look at that right there.
That is actually a calico spider, whew!
I tell you what, that is amazing.
So, all right, well, great start to the year for sure.
Gotta get these things marked up, switch the males around,
and then move onto the next project.
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We're breeding a lot of younger males this year.
This is only an 18 month male
that's probably only about 600, 650 grams.
So he's never actually bred.
One of the things I'm gonna wanna do
is actually check his hemipenes
just to see if he's got some sperm plugs.
See that sperm plug right there?
That is actually a plug that you're looking to do.
So that tells me that he's ready to breed,
and he's kind of get going.
But some of the young males,
if you avert their hemipenes, and there's nothing there,
that means they might not quite be ready.
A lot of times they'll breed later in the season.
So sometimes you'll have to wait on females,
or maybe switch 'em out to get a female
bred in the early season,
if she's got a dense follicle growth,
and then ultimately breed him later in the year.
So, that's just another trick
that we do to kind of get an idea
if a male is ready to breed.
(relaxed music)
So basically what I'm doing
is I'm just trying to find out what the follicle growth is.
Just so it's a starting point, right?
So we can see if there's actually growth
in the next month or so when we actually start
the breeding season.
So what I basically do, I'm going down
trying to find either follicles,
or I'm trying to find a big gallbladder
which is a huge black thing.
Right there, you can see it,
that huge black spot on the screen.
That's its gallbladder.
Now the oviduct is gonna go right down here
so we can just follow that oviduct down,
look around, and bam, there's the follicles right there.
What I'll do is then
is I'll just freeze the screen,
and I come over here, and I put a distance mark here.
I go from this side and I can stretch it all the way
to the other side.
It looks like we're at about 11 millimeter
follicle growth right now.
So what I'll basically do is I'll mark that on the cage.
Now in a few weeks when I come back,
I can see, has those 11 millimeters
turned into 15 millimeters?
Something like that.
Just so you know, 10 millimeters,
or one centimeter, is typically the jumping off point
to the start in the breeding season.
So this girl right here, which is a stinger bee,
an enchi spider, is ready to start getting bred.
- All right, so if Brian's definitely talked about these
and showed these off, but I guess I'm just kind of doing
an update on 'em, these little pastel pink hognose.
That is unreal.
I honestly did not know that these things even existed.
Not that you really see the hognose around too much.
At least maybe for us at the reptile shows.
They'll be here and there, but that is such a cool animal.
I don't know what it is about it.
It's like that off-pink.
This is a really just little agile little snake right now.
Usually they're pretty blasted and stuff.
But I really like these guys.
I love the hognoses.
I'm very curious to see, I've never seen
a full grown adult so I'm really curious
to see what it's gonna look like as soon as it gets older,
and just really excited to work with these animals,
too, man, this is gonna be a really cool project.
Sorry.
- [Cameraman] Are we keeping that sucka?
- Yeah, we're keeping it.
- [Cameraman] It's keep right now.
Dude, that's what I'm talking about.
- [Man In Glasses] Yup, we're keeping her.
(whizzes)
- Sorry, I'm still a child.
- All right, look at this.
We've got a couple packages,
and they are for the crew.
So I think they're really excited.
(they cheer)
I don't know who sent them, as always,
it's just Amazon Fulfillment.
Maybe there's a note in here.
So, here, you guys want to dig in?
- Ooh, ooh, ooh.
- Oh, wait, Nick here's got a knife.
- Of course he does.
He got a knife.
(laughing)
There you go.
- Guess what, we're using the box, right?
- Ooh, wait a second, this one looks good.
(cheering)
That's nice.
(laughing and talking)
Nice.
- [Man] What's this?
Whose 40th birthday?
(laughing)
- [Man] I don't know.
(laughing)
Who's 40?
(chattering)
- [Woman] From 40 years ago, maybe?
- [Man] Oh, maybe, yup.
- [Woman] Vintage candy.
- [Man] Oh, the candy!
The candy's in there for 40 years?
- Let's see what this old candy is.
- This is all before our time.
(laughing)
- Did you just turn 40?
- No, I just 31, pretty close, though.
It's all downhill from here.
(chattering)
Let's see what we got here.
- [Woman] Yeah, let's see.
- [Man] Wow!
That lady's 40.
(chattering)
- [Woman] I remember this bubblegum.
- [Man] Wax lips!
- Oh man.
- [Man] Put 'em on, put 'em on.
Eric, put 'em on, go on, go for the wax lips, dude.
- [Eric] I love these.
- Rock candy was my favorite.
- Oh man, every grandma, right here, every grandma.
- [Man] My mom had those!
- [Woman] Yeah, I know, me too!
- [Lori] This is awesome.
- [Cameraman] You looking good, bro.
(chattering)
Give Mary a kiss, give Mary a kiss.
(chattering)
- Oh, look at that!
- I haven't seen those in a minute.
- That's why I smoke cigarettes now.
(chattering)
(relaxed music)
- All right, the enchi pastave that's het for clown
being bred to a banana clown,
she's got like 12 millimeter follicles.
So, right now, everything looks
to be about 10 to 13 millimeters follicles
which is where you want to be at the beginning
of the breeding season.
And hopefully here in another month,
things will be like 15 to 20, 21 millimeters,
with some good breeding.
Again, I've always talked about
you want food, follicle growth, breeding.
Those three things working in tandem
in order to be successful.
So, just spot ultrasound just to get an idea where we're at.
Didn't see anything that was surprising.
So, we're just gonna keep on breeding.
It's really weird.
I've never really seen Crackle do this position
where he's just literally, I don't know
if he's like doing some kind of ambush hunting,
or what he's doing.
He's been sitting there for the last three or four minutes.
He's just kind of facing straight up.
I mean, Perdita, you can see her,
she's always kind of climbing and moving around.
But it's not normally like sedentary
where he just like is looking up at the sky.
I don't know what he was doing.
That was a weird behavior I hadn't seen
with a black headed python.
I mentioned before that I think the monkey tailed skinks
are gonna have a baby.
Because it looks like the female is gravid.
Well, she also could be kind of swelling
from an ovulation standpoint, too.
They're back there.
Their tails are kind of twisted.
It's kind of hard to tell if they're actually breeding
or copulating, but it's definitely interesting behavior.
And this is like the second or third time
I've seen this exact same behavior,
where their tails are kind of twisted like this.
Not sure if they're locking up or not.
But still a really good sign.
It's gonna be crazy if we have
a little baby Soloman Island skink.
One of the things that I've learned
over the last year plus here at the Reptarium
is that animals like Santana the Savannah monitor,
the exanthic Savannah monitor,
actually are gonna grow bigger.
So, a lot of times we're getting things
in enclosures and then six or eight month later,
we're like oh my God, now what?
The next step, what are we gonna do?
And we always kind of figure it out.
But thankfully now I'm trying to have the foresight
to always build big enough habitats
so that we can continue to house them.
So, Santana, the Savannah monitor here,
is gonna go next door in one of the really large cages.
It's gonna be really big for him,
because it's gonna be either four foot or six foot,
which is gonna be huge for this guy,
but he'll grow into it over the next year or two,
which is going to be pretty awesome.
He is so cool, I cannot wait to see him in a big habitat.
I am loving these little red ackie monitors,
little dwarf monitors from Australia.
They're not quite as docile, or easily tamed,
as say like Elvis or Toothless, or something like that.
But we're working really hard at trying
to see if they'll actually start to mellow out
so that we can take them out.
Because it's really cool to be able to take out
a really intelligent monitor lizard
that is only gonna get maybe eight or 10 inches body length.
These guys are about half grown,
or something like that, which is really cool.
But they're still a little bit hyper,
and these guys are known for being hyper.
Not biters or anything like that,
but just runners, you know?
So we have to gain their trust
and hopefully they'll slow down
and start sitting in our hand like this.
It's a process, but it's gonna be really cool.
We've got two now.
We're gonna get like four, five more babies
to raise up, too.
So, really cool little dwarf monitor lizards.
One of our newest animals on display
here at the Reptarium is so cool.
Scott's garter snake from Mexico.
Unbelievably cool animal.
It's awesome to be able to take this out
and let people handle them.
Garter snakes are super cool.
They seem to be really inquisitive.
Fun snakes to handle.
Super easy to care for,
and for people that want snakes
but they don't want to feed rodents,
garter snakes are a great alternative.
They'll eat all kinds of things from worms
to fish, you can even feed it fish filets,
like little strips, they'll take it right out of your hand.
Super easy to habituate and socialize to people.
So it's cool to finally have a garter snake
here at the Reptarium.
And this is actually the newest member here
at the Reptarium.
We wanted to bring over a Mexican black king
because when we first opened up,
we had one of these, and it was really popular,
but it was an adult.
And we thought if we brought a yearling over
that's a little bit smaller, again,
a really small snake, it's really the smallest snake
that we have here at the Reptarium.
But for someone that's not comfortable
with even say a ball python or something like that,
they can handle something that's super tame,
super calm, super beautiful.
People still ask about that Mexican black king that we had
here for the first two or three months.
And then we just kind of ran out of cage space
so we took it off exhibit,
and we actually bred and stuff like that.
So, this is the newest exhibit.
And by the way, we need a name for the garter snake
and we need a name for this little guy here.
I guess a lot of people that we go on that insane
road trip, drive through the night,
everything else, will probably take a day or two
to recoup, but when you run your own business,
there's no time to really rest to be honest with you.
It was right back to it because we have a lot to do.
Take a look at this scaleless motley corn snake.
This is actually a female that should be ready
to brumate here in the next couple weeks.
We'll get a late brumation,
and then we'll go ahead and breed her.
But I love coming into the shop, too,
it's hard for me to even imagine taking a day off,
to be honest with you.
By the way, this is a diffused blood red corn snake
that's het for ghost which is absolutely insane.
And I think that's the thing is that
if you're really passionate about something,
even if you're dog tired and you've been
going like crazy, and your body is telling you take a break.
Emotionally, you want to be involved,
and I can't stress enough how much I love being
at the reptarium, BHB, it's exciting
with the breeding season going on.
Exciting with the expansion next door.
I mean, it is just gonna be an incredibly good
end to the year and beginning of 2020.
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