- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I know I'm gonna start my day off
with my absolutely beautiful blue dart frogs.
Of course, these are the azureus.
There's about 100 species of dart frogs,
poison dart frogs, around the world
with the majority of them in Central/South America.
But the azureus are actually from Suriname.
Now, can you imagine such a cute little unbelievably ...
I mean, these things look like little toys.
They're so incredible.
And truth is, these guys can be pretty deadly
to be totally honest with you.
Now, you wonder if I were to touch them right now
what would happen to me?
Well, the truth is that in captivity
there's not a lot that would happen
to be honest with you.
It's all about what they eat in the wild.
Now, we actually work with three species.
Hoo doggy, where did that guy come from?
We work with three species here at the Reptarium
with dart frogs, the black and yellow ones,
the Dyeing dart frogs are absolutely incredible.
But again, what happens is in the wild
these guys are eating mainly ants
that have alkaloid molecules
that are actually pretty poisonous, right?
Well, the dart frogs can eat them
and actually store that alkaloid
without harming the dart frog
in a secretion gland.
Now, these bright colors like this
actually are what kind of wards off the predators
saying, "Listen, I'm really colorful.
"That means that I am poisonous."
Pretty cool clutch of ball pythons that hatched out.
This was actually a Ghost Fire female
bred to a Champagne het for Ghost.
So interestingly enough,
I'm not 100% sure we hit really anything Fire,
which is kinda weird because I would have expected
to see some Fire stuff.
But it looks like we hit a swatch of Mimosas.
Now, the Mimosas are the Ghost, or the hypo,
Champagne ball pythons
and there's a whole bunch of them in there.
It's really, really cool that we got so many
actual hypos when it came to the Mimosa stuff.
We only got one normal hypo ball python
which is right here.
This is the only one that might be a fire.
This might be a hypo Fire, but I can't tell for sure.
It's hard to say.
Once it sheds I'll have a little bit of a better idea,
but the truth is that it's really hard to see here.
But a bunch of these babies look super, super cool.
And this little dude has this cool paradoxing right here.
Look at how awesome that is.
Paradoxing is just some normal-y pattern
that bleeds through,
so when you have two different expressions going together.
It's kinda cool.
I definitely like this thing, it's awesome.
So all in all, really beautiful clutch of Mimosas,
a Ghost, and some hets and stuff like that.
But nevertheless, I was super happy
with the odds on this clutch.
This clutch that hatched was actually a Lemon Blast
that was het for VPI Axanthic,
and it was bred to a double het Lavender Snow.
So the fact is we actually only hit one Axanthic
in this whole clutch,
but these are all now possible double het Snows.
We have a little Lemon Blast right here.
These are just normals here.
The pastel here kinda has that expression of the Axanthic,
so it's probably a het Axanthic.
You can't set it as a het Axanthic
'cause it's just a probable one,
but nevertheless it probably is
if we decide to raise it up
and it could be possibly het for Lavender as well.
Same thing here, you can kinda see this Lemon Blast
compared to this Lemon Blast, how it looks so faded.
That faded typically means that it's het for Axanthic.
Again, we won't be able to sell it that way
but if it's a female we may raise it up
knowing that there's probably a 99% chance that it's het.
And then we ended up hatching this little dude here
which is unbelievable.
This is actually a Pastel Axanthic
that is possible het for Lavender, so that is cool.
So that could be a Pastel Lavender Snow maker down the road.
Really just an absolutely gorgeous animal.
Although we didn't hit the odds
when it came to Axanthics in this clutch,
we only got one little baby,
we still have a bunch of really cool snakes.
And again, we'll sex 'em out.
Probably raise up a few females
just to pull through that Lavender Snow project
that we're raising up.
Really cool and this thing is a ripper.
These are the tinct powder blues right here.
And again, with some animals when they have bright colors
like milk snakes that warning signal is to say,
"Hey, I'm poisonous," but they're not.
In this case, these guys actually are poisonous.
Believe it or not,
there's the poison golden frog from Colombia
that is said that if a human actually
even just holds it, it could be lethal.
That's right, I mean these guys can be deadly some of them.
Some are certainly more toxic than others,
but it's all about that alkaloid.
And certainly what happens in the wild
is that back in the day the natives
would actually catch these guys, obviously very safely,
and roll their darts in order to hunt.
That dart and the poison on that dart
was fatal enough that it could actually kill their prey,
hence the name poison dart frog.
Hoo doggy, I cannot tell you how excited I am
about this clutch, because oh my God,
this was actually a het albino scaleless
bred to a Redline female.
That Redline beaut of course.
Didn't even know she was het scaleless.
And guess what?
We have all kinds of scaleless.
But not just normal scaleless,
we have an albino scaleless right here
which is that Redline scaleless,
that is absolutely incredible,
which I was not expecting.
Then, get this, we have a little anerythristic right here.
This is the black scaleless corns,
which are probably one of the prettiest.
And then it looks like we have a Ghost scaleless as well.
So we produced a Ghost scaleless, an Anery scaleless,
an albino scaleless, some normal, some Snows,
all kinds of different clutches in this clutch.
I was not expecting this outcome at all.
Hang on one second, got the snakes all over the place.
Hoo, I tell you what,
sometimes it is literally opening a can of worms,
I tell you what.
But I was not expecting that at all.
We got the Ghost scaleless, the Anery scaleless,
we've got the albino scaleless.
All this stuff for an animal
that I didn't even know was het for scaleless.
So sometimes it goes both ways, right?
We've had some possible hets
that didn't prove out to be het,
now we have an animal we didn't even know was het
that proved out and produced some banger babies.
I tell you what, Ghost scaleless and Anery scaleless
are some of my favorite cornsnakes,
so that is absolutely incredible.
So you may ask yourself, "Brian, why are you working
"with animals that could kill you?"
The truth is, in captivity these guys don't eat those ants
with that alkaloid, they eat fruit flies
and other things like that
that don't have the toxin in them,
so they actually have very low toxin levels.
All frogs will have a little bit of toxin.
Even the leopard frog you find in your backyard
has some toxin, but the fact is is that
I could handle these guys,
I could probably even eat them
and have very little effect.
Now, I don't handle them because the oils on our hand
actually can hurt the animal itself,
so I always wear gloves if we have to service the enclosure,
and of course I'm not gonna eat 'em.
But the fact is is that they're not extremely toxic
in this sense, but the truth is is that
that alkaloid molecule can actually be pretty important
when it comes to medical research.
And I always talk about how important it is
to preserve the wild and conservation, right,
because believe it or not there is a pharmaceutical company
that has used the secretion from dark frogs
to actually make a painkiller.
It's a non-opioid pain killer that is non-addictive
and it doesn't have all the side effects like sleepiness.
Matter of fact, it has the opposite,
you become more alert and it's non-addictive.
Without these dart frogs and their potential poison
that painkiller wouldn't be made.
Think about what else is in the rainforest
that we can make.
Cures for cancers, cures for all kinds of diseases.
And this little dart frog here,
although it may seem kind of ominous
in the fact that it's poisonous,
actually is gonna help tons of people in the future.
I really need to make a jingle for baby colubrid time.
We're missing the egg time jingle,
so give me some ideas in the comments
what you think we should do jingle-wise
with baby colubrids,
'cause we have some baby colubrids hatching every single day
you guys know this.
And this is amazing.
This is actually some Abbotts Okeetees that are scaleless,
and holy moly look at these monkeys right here.
There's a few of these guys that are absolute rippers.
So I'm gonna put them in the water right here.
And this one down here actually has
even more interesting pattern to it.
Just really, really cool.
I'm gonna shut these guys up on this side
so we can take a little closer look at these scaleless.
But I tell you what, the Abbotts scaleless are incredible.
Look at that one right there.
It's lacking all the pattern on the front half of its body
and it's got a really wild pattern.
That thing is so absolutely adorable.
And the Abbotts Okeetee scaleless I think
are some of the best scaleless cornsnakes out there,
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I couldn't be more happy.
Holy moly, the three are amazing,
but this one patternless thing here,
oh my gosh that thing is crazy.
So although poisonous and pretty fatal in the wild,
these guys are really benign in captivity.
And you can see if you ever want to have
a cool terrarium, paludarium, whatever the case may be
poison dart frogs are amazing.
With 100 species they are so diverse and incredible.
I love these guys.
And although we only work with three species,
we definitely are gonna be adding more
because they're absolutely wonderful.
I love them to death.
And you guys know that I get so much joy
out of feeding them each and every day.
What amazing animals.
(mellow piano music)
(blade whooshing)
(metal ringing)
All right guys, you ready to cut some eggs?
We've got two, four, six, seven eggs to cut.
Now, I'm gonna be honest with you,
I've cut a couple clutches already
that that Black Pewter Lesser Cyprus
was supposed to be the dad,
and he hasn't fathered anything.
The Banana Enchi Pin is awesome,
don't get me wrong, that's gonna be cool,
but I really want to see some babies
from that Black Pewter Lesser Cyprus.
So let's cross our fingers and hope for that,
and hope we don't see any Bananas.
If we see Bananas I'm not gonna cry about it,
but I really want to see that animal.
Let's just jump into egg number one.
Here we go.
What are we gonna get?
What are we gonna get right off the rip?
Hm, let's see, what is that?
What is this?
It's a Pinstripe?
A Pinstripe.
That's not a good thing guys,
because that means that the Banana Enchi Pin
is probably the father.
Let's just keep going.
And again, you can have dual fathered clutches,
but that was a disappointment.
I don't know why, I saw that Black Pewter Lesser Cyprus male
breed a lot and he's such a beautiful snake,
but he hasn't fathered anything.
Let's just see if maybe some of these eggs
are his offspring.
We'll see what happens.
(chuckles) Again, it's been a weird year in a lot of ways.
Another just normal Pinstripe.
Hm, wouldn't you know, no Bananas, no Enchis,
no anything, just Pinstripes.
Again, some really good things
and some really not so good things this year,
but we have such a long way to go.
We still have like 130 clutches to cut,
so we're gonna have some good clutches
and some bad clutches.
Let's just keep going.
Let's see what we've got here.
What do we have here?
It's always exciting no matter what,
especially sometimes with dual fathered clutches
'cause you never know ...
Okay, this is just an Enchi Pinstripe,
so we definitely know the Banana Enchi Pin is the dad.
We haven't had any Bananas yet,
but that is an Enchi Pin and a really pretty one at that.
Egg number four.
What we do we have?
What do we have?
Come on.
Come on little eggy.
Definitely have a Banana here
and definitely have a ...
Oh, that's really pretty.
That's a Banana Enchi Pin for sure
and a really good example of one.
That is about a good of a Banana Enchi Pin
as you're gonna get
so that is absolutely awesome.
Oh, that's pretty.
All right, three more eggs.
And there's still always a possibility
that one of these eggs could be fathered by that one male.
It happens all the time,
but we'll just have to wait to see.
Again, another Pinstripe, so it's weird.
You know what?
Every single egg has been a Pinstripe,
either a Pinstripe, or an Enchi Pinstripe,
or a Banana Enchi Pin, nothing other than that,
which is kind of strange.
Two more eggs.
What do we have?
Come on, give me something.
I got to believe that one egg I'm gonna cut this year
is gonna blow us away.
And oh, another really pretty Banana Enchi Pin.
Oh, another smoker right there.
Hoo doggy, that thing is beautiful.
But like I said, there's gonna be a surprise.
With the next 1,200 eggs we're gonna cut
there's gonna be something that we're gonna be like,
"What in the world?
"That thing is crazy!
"It's purple and blue and has hair," or something.
I don't know, last egg.
Let's just go ahead and do it.
All right, here we go, last egg.
What do we have?
If we get all Pinstripes in this clutch ...
Ah, the last egg is not a Pinstripe.
It is a Banana and it is definitely an Enchi Banana,
and a really pretty Enchi Banana at that
to be honest with you.
So out of all the eggs we had Pinstripes in every single egg
until the very last one.
Again, a little disappointed that
that Black Pewter Lesser Cyprus male wasn't the dad,
but still some really gorgeous babies.
Got my gloves on so I can unbox
some stuff that you guys sent me.
This is actually from North Carolina.
Looks like some material.
I don't know if it's shirts or what it is.
Oh, it looks like a hoodie.
- Oh, okay. - Oh my gosh.
Oh, that is dope.
- Let me guess, a sloth.
- A sloth, honey.
- Wait, with a hundred dollar bill with a sloth on it.
(laughing)
- Oh my gosh, that is awesome.
Love it, love it.
I love that.
This fall you're gonna see me sporting this in this fall,
I guarantee it. - Thanks.
Thanks a lot.
(Brian laughs)
- I love it guys.
I love it.
- That's ridiculous. - This one's actually from ...
From California.
These gloves protect me from hurting myself.
- No.
Next we're gonna need a chainmail vest.
- [Man] A net, something like that for sure.
- Here, let me.
- I got to take them off. - No, keep them on.
- I can't take the gloves off?
- No, you can't control yourself.
- "Greetings from another converted non-snake person.
"I've enjoyed every episode of the vlog,
"and it doesn't matter what you do
"or what reptile you spotlight I learn something.
"Thank you so ...
"Enclosed is a picture.
"Was drawn by my friend of mine."
That's a beautiful bearded dragon.
Look at how cute, it looks like Flamin' Hot Cheeto.
"I thought of The Reptarium when I saw it."
I appreciate that.
"Please open on the vlog.
"Post her on your site.
"She is a struggling artist."
So what is your artist friend's name?
This is Mindy that sent it to us,
but the artist is actually Jillian Lambert Art.
So right there, Jillian Lambert Art.
- Very cool. - Go show some love
because this is an awesome thing.
Look at how cute that is.
That is awesome.
We'll hang that up for sure.
"I know you both work out religiously
"and I want to give you a pair of our dead lifting--"
- Yoga socks.
- "Socks for both of you."
Thank you so much, that is awesome.
Thank you so much.
This is actually Stori Feast,
vice president of operations.
Thank you so much, I appreciate that.
- Are they the same?
- What are these?
They're power lifting yoga socks?
- I will use them tomorrow.
- Oh my God, if I show up to the gym like this ...
Oh my God.
- We should wear them on the same day together.
- We should do it together.
Look at these things. (Laurie laughs)
Do they help you power lift?
- I don't know, but holy crap,
I sweat a lot and these are so thick.
- I'm gonna totally wear these.
- But I will wear them.
- Oh my God, I'm gonna wear these tomorrow.
Yeah, I'm in.
Let's do it together.
We'll go to the gym, this will be fun.
This will be fun.
Thank you so much, I appreciate you.
So we learned about poison dart frogs,
we got to cut some snake eggs,
we saw baby snakes.
What more can you want out of a day?
I would say it's pretty incredible.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it,
and if you did enjoy it, as a matter of fact
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