- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is as good
as it can possibly be.
As for me,
I'm going to start my day
trying to breed the chameleons again.
You guys may remember,
a few days ago we had them together.
Some people reached out to me
with some advice on them too.
I'm learning right along with you guys.
So everything's a little bit different.
We learned the other day that with leachie geckos
you want to put the female in with the male,
because the female can be territorial,
it can be the problem.
With most snakes,
I usually put males in with females.
Well it turns out that
a bunch of people said that
I should actually put the male, like Raul here,
in with the female,
because it's typically a better thing
to actually move the male into the female's cage,
so that's what we're going to try to do.
And basically, what you want to do
is just introduce these guys together,
just like this,
and then see how they're going to react.
All right, so I'm going to just see what they do.
Kind of see where they're at.
It seems like--
Oh, no, no, no, no.
And I just have to keep an eye on these guys for a minute.
It looks like right now she kind of ran away,
which is not a good receptive thing.
I'm going to keep an eye on it.
He seems to be a little bit perturbed as well.
The female went to hide right now.
I guess, theoretically, when they're receptive,
the female's going to kind of wag her tail a little bit,
maybe brighten up her color,
so I'm not sure if she's ready yet.
I'll keep an eye on these two guys
for maybe the next five minutes,
keep them together,
and if they don't kind of settle down,
I'll remove them, and I'll just keep on trying.
And eventually, she's going to start to ovulate again,
and when she starts to ovulate again,
she's going to be receptive to breeding.
So it would be really cool to breed
some baby chameleons.
It's something that I guess I've been excited about
for a long time.
Regardless, we'll just keep an eye on these guys,
and hope for the best.
If it doesn't work out,
we'll just separate them out,
and try again in a couple days.
I want to give you guys a little update
on Heinz here, the crimson albino iguana.
And again, he's just a little bit wiggly
in the beginning,
you got to just kind of walk him around.
But he's doing really, really well.
I had mentioned before that he lost his tail,
and oftentimes, when iguanas lose their tail,
the biggest thing that you want to worry about
is them stop feeding and stressing out.
And as you can see, he's super fat and super chunky,
and I'm just kind of letting him roll through.
And eventually, he's calming down,
and he'll just sit on my hand like that.
You can even see a little tip of his tail
starting to grow out, just a little bit.
Again, hopefully his tail will grow back,
it will probably be a little bit darker.
But these guys are doing so well.
I'm just happy that even with him losing his tail,
that he is just a chunky little monkey.
It's crazy how much food these four iguanas eat.
We fill up their food every single day,
and almost all of it's gone.
So he's doing really well.
French is, by the way,
his female albino is doing good,
as well as the two reds, too.
These guys are absolutely wonderful,
and I can't wait 'til they start to get bigger,
and again, you can see,
even though he's a little crazy when you first take him out,
he certainly is calming down tremendously.
Still on Ivy watch, still no shed.
She's totally cleared up from blue now,
so I know she's going to shed probably today,
tomorrow by the absolute latest.
And like I said, keep commenting down below
if you think she's going to shed in the water
and just use the rocks in the back there to go.
Or is she going to climb up on land
and use the land?
I don't know.
But she's finally, definitely, 100 percent
out of blue now and in that clear stage,
definitely within the next 24 hours
we're going to find out what this girl's going to do.
Just going through and marking a bunch of animals.
Lori has been bugging me because
there's a bunch of snakes down here
that we just haven't had marked for what the genetics are.
Because it sometimes isn't that easy, right.
This is actually a pastel lesser clown female
bred to a pastel leopard clown male.
So I'm just going to mark these,
because Lori wants to put a bunch of stuff on the website.
Not sure if all of these are going to get on the website,
because this is actually
a pastel lesser leopard clown ball python,
just a beautiful animal.
It's a female.
So I might keep it, I'm not 100 percent sure.
But a lot of the things I'm going to go through
and mark today will get on the website.
Again, we probably have maybe 100 ball pythons
that aren't on the website yet
that will go up here in the next couple days.
It's just that things are selling pretty good.
So we need to get more stuff up on the website,
which is completely understandable.
You know, sometimes when you are actually
looking at mutations, obviously it's important
to know what the male and the female is,
but it can be a little bit subjective,
it's a little bit difficult.
This is actually a killer leopard clown ball python.
So it's a super pastel,
because there's pastel on both sides of the animal.
And of course, it's leopard and clown ball python.
And the fact that it's recessive,
when you start to know the genetics,
like recessive means everything has to be clown,
then you start looking at
does it have one or two expressions of pastel,
does the leopard gene, which is in complete dominant,
does that kind of bleed through?
So these are all things
that you kind of have to learn just through experience.
It's not super easy.
And there are some times where an animal is like,
it might be this, but it might not be,
so we always sell the animals
with the lowest possible expression,
and then we'll tell people,
there's a possibility it could be a yellow belly,
or it could be a vanilla, or whatever the case might be.
And that's actually a male,
which is a powerhouse male, by the way.
That's awesome, that's a killer leopard clown.
That's a powerhouse animal to use, for sure.
Now this one is actually
just a really beautiful leopard lesser clown.
It's unbelievable how amazing that animal is right there.
That is beautiful.
And then take a look at this one right here.
Oh my gosh, that thing is ridiculous.
Again, that leopard pattern
with the clown and the lesser combined, hooh.
I tell you what.
That makes for a beautiful snake.
You guys might remember a couple days ago
I asked you about this enclosure here
and said I really didn't have a vision
for what I can put in here, and asked you guys.
You guys had a lot of great ideas,
to be totally honest with you.
The one thing that really did stand out to me,
again, you have to have a little bit of vision for this,
because I'd probably have to put
some more branches and climbing trees in here,
and then tons of foliage,
is maybe some green basilisks.
Now I used to keep green basilisks
when I was like 20 years old,
and actually even bred them, believe it or not.
Now, they're relatively common
because they're invasive to Florida,
and they're all over south Florida, to be honest with you.
Where they used to be extremely rare,
now people are actually catching babies out in the wild.
It's really kind of bizarre.
But they're really a beautiful lizard.
And I thought maybe being able
to put a male and a couple females in here,
again, really heavily foliaged out, some more climbing,
might be pretty cool.
So let me know in the comments
if you guys think that that's a good idea.
I can definitely see this being a pretty cool option
for them, but still not 100 percent sold.
But it is a really good idea, I think.
Olivia, what are you doing?
- Just hanging out.
Enjoying my social distancing.
- All right, at least the fish are getting fed.
All right.
See that's what happens,
I walk away for one second,
and they're doing fish spas.
What can you do?
This is actually a pin specter
that was bred to a fire yellow belly.
Now the specter and yellow belly would make super stripes,
but this is obviously a fire pin,
but the fact is is it's a specter or is it a yellow belly,
because both have kind of similar traits.
But in this case,
you can really see there's no flaming in the sides at all.
That would be yellow bellies.
So we know that this is actually a fire pinstripe specter,
not a fire pinstripe yellow belly.
So it's just little things like that,
that kind of little cues
that you have to become really familiar with.
Beautiful animal,
and really a beautiful genetic animal as well.
But if you were to add yellow belly to this,
then you would get a fire pin super stripe,
which would be ridiculous.
Oh, and speaking of which,
this is actually the animal I was just talking about.
This is actually a fire pinstripe super stripe.
I don't even remember hatching this,
to be honest with you.
That thing is ridiculous.
That thing is beautiful.
So, yeah.
Fire pin super stripe.
Just to kind of round that out,
I actually found a fire pin yellow belly.
This is the fire pin specter,
and this is the yellow belly.
Again, see all the flaming in the sides here
compared to this one here.
That's how you tell the difference
between a yellow belly and a specter.
Elvis is definitely loving the pine now.
He kind of figured it out.
Remember the other vlog when he was not sure about it,
he climbed up?
Well, now he's loving it.
Climbs up here, he jumps in the water,
he swims around, he comes out,
he crawls around again, and he's just kind of repeating.
And again, it's really not hurting anything
for him to go on there, but he is absolutely loving it.
And again, this is a huge mental enrichment thing for him,
so I think it's super cool,
he seems to be super happy with it.
And I'm just enjoying watching how awesome this is.
(slow electronic music)
Had a little discussion with Lori
because the gift shop,
when we were open for the one weekend,
which was so wildly successful,
obviously with all these plushies, cool things,
I mean all kinds of stuff like that.
And you guys know that at thereptarium.com
we do have some things,
like keychains and posters and merch and stuff like that,
but we don't have any of this type of stuff on there,
and I talked with Lori about,
what do you think about putting all of this merch,
everything in the gift shop, up online?
She wasn't a big fan of the idea,
to be totally honest with you.
But I want to know from you guys.
Do you think it would be cool
to just kind of upload all this onto our website?
Is it something you're interested in?
I don't know.
I'm just thinking of things to do
while we're not open, you know what I mean.
So let me know what you think down below.
And if you guys think we'll do it,
maybe that's a project I could work on
over the next week or two.
A lot of people have been asking
what happened to Santana, the savannah monitor.
And I guess I just haven't showed him in a while.
Now we got actually two babies in a while ago,
but we only kept him.
He was actually the axanthic one,
and was really beautiful.
Now that he's getting older,
and of course he's in shed right now,
he's just coming out of shed,
so he looks kind of dull,
it's not as apparent that he's axanthic.
As a baby, it was like silver.
And axanthic just means it's lacking the yellow pigment.
So it was more like newsprint looking
than a normal savannah monitor that's more tan looking.
But genetically, it might be something interesting.
I don't know that we'll ever breed these guys,
but he's still pretty cool.
And you can see, he's getting big.
Super, super tame.
Really cool animals.
I've mentioned it before,
that savannah monitors are a bigger lizard,
but not as big as say, a water monitor.
But it's a good monitor choice
if you're thinking about getting something that's sizable,
like the size of a tegu, let's say.
But you don't want something as big.
Because these guys are super chill, typically.
Really, I mean look, he just sits here like that.
They're pretty lazy, they don't do a whole lot.
And they're really a hardy animal.
The thing that you've got to be really careful
with these guys, and a lot of people make mistakes,
is feeding them too much meat.
You should feed them a lot of bugs.
He eats tons of roaches, superworms, stuff like that.
You don't want these guys
to have too heavy of a diet of meat and rodents,
because they get fatty liver disease.
Because these guys will eat theirselves to death.
Other than that, amazing animals.
This was actually bred by a pewter B female,
and then a dragonfly.
The dragonfly is actually a pastel fire pinstripe,
and then the pewter B would actually be a pastel,
a cinnamon, and a spider.
Believe it or not, this has all of those things going on.
So it's a super pastel, it's a cinnamon,
which would make it a sterling, it's also a fire,
it's a spider, and it's a pinstripe.
So it's all the genes mixed into one animal,
that's pretty impressive.
There's a lot of different ways
to get white snakes and ball pythons, which is really weird.
This was actually a lesser bred to a pastel crystal.
Basically, when you have the special in the lesser gene,
it kind of makes a blue-eyed leucistic.
It's another complex of that,
but different from all the other ones.
And ultimately, usually they have quite a bit
of pattern on them, but they're a white snake
with kind of yellow patterning.
You take the pastel into it,
and it turns into basically almost a solid white snake.
And the more complicated genes are,
the more difficult they are,
this is actually a lesser russo
that was actually bred to a banana enchi pin.
So what we have here is a banana, it's an enchi,
it's a woma pin, and it's a het russo.
Really wild animal.
So I think I now have everything marked down here.
Lori's going to be so happy,
because she's been asking me to do it for so long.
Now, she just has to upload, like I said,
at least 100, maybe even 150 ball pythons,
including pythes, bananas, whole bunch of different,
got blue-eyed leucistics,
all going to be going up here within the next week,
week and a half or so.
I know you guys will be happy as well,
that there's a bunch of new stuff going up on the site.
Just put Raul back in.
Definitely a no-go today.
The female was just hiding,
she seemed stressed out.
So we'll try again in a couple days.
We actually have a bunch of packages to open,
but we're just going to open a few of them today.
Maybe we'll open a couple every few days,
or something like that.
Because you guys always spoil us,
and we really appreciate you guys' support
with everything in these crazy times.
The first thing we have...
- Oh my God.
- This is actually for Beth.
- This is just what we need when the gyms are closed.
- [Lori] For your candy dish.
- These are the big bars, thank you.
- Oh my gosh.
- They're not going to fit in her dish.
- Well they should just maybe go in my office then.
Thank you. I don't know who sent this, but whoever,
there's no note in here, but thank you for sending--
- Oh my gosh.
Who the hell did this?
(laughing)
- Oh my gosh.
Are you kidding me?
This is Skittles.
Oh, white chocolate.
- I'm going to need a bigger candy jar.
- I'm not sure if this is from the same person or not--
- It has to be.
- Unfortunately there's no note in here.
Well, we got lots of candy.
This is Dots.
- Nice.
That'll be great because that'll take our teeth out too.
- Nice.
Well yeah, you don't want to be going to the...
We can't go to the dentist now.
Thank you for that.
Seriously, whoever sent that is amazing.
You got to keep nutritious.
- Yeah, I definitely did not order this.
(laughing)
- We'll keep opening stuff up,
and let me know if you guys like it or not.
Anyways, what do we have?
It looks like a bunch of shirts.
This says Brian,
do you want to read that note real quick?
- Hi Brian, hope you and the crew like these shirts
I had made for you.
If any don't fit, let me know.
I'll get the correct size.
I will see you on the vlog tomorrow.
Have a wonderful day.
Robby Wilson.
- Robby, thank you.
This one says Brian.
And "Hoooh doggy!"
- Oh my gosh.
- Oh my gosh, hooh doggy, let's see this.
It looks like you've got everything,
are they all different?
- Yes, everybody has their own.
- Let's see (crosstalk).
I want to see what that says.
- Beth got a shirt.
- Let's see, what does yours say?
- Hi, my name is Beth?
- Be kind to somebody today,
and I promise I'll see you tomorrow!
Look at that, Beth.
There you go.
- Brian quote, nice.
- Jay's shirt.
- What does Jay's say?
- [Beth] Oh, look at the sleeves.
- Says "Hooh doggy, that's a ripper!"
(Lori laughing)
So incredible.
We'll definitely be sporting them, I can't thank you enough.
- I'm curious to see what this says.
- Oh yeah, what does yours say?
I want to see.
- [Cameraman] Oh gosh.
- Mine says "Brian, shut up."
(laughing)
Close.
- That's awesome, that's awesome.
I don't like that shirt.
Thank you guys, all right.
We'll open some other stuff up, maybe tomorrow.
Again guys, stay safe out there.
Stay positive as you possibly can.
We will be in this together.
We will get through this together.
I promise you that.
One way or another, we will make it through it.
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Subscribe to it right over here.
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Be safe out there, be kind to people,
I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.