- Let's see how this cow reticulated python, whoa!
She is definitely still angry.
She's supposed to be a really tame animal.
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Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog
and another amazing day!
What do you say we head into The Reptarium?
(water rushing)
You know, I'm not gonna lie.
Every time you kind of walk into the zoo or BHB
or something like that,
you're always a little bit squinting your eyes,
like, I hope everything's okay.
I don't know, I think people that keep reptiles
or keep animals understand that feeling.
Like you never know what's gonna happen.
Is the power gonna be out?
Is the water gonna be leaking?
Did I leave a cage open?
We try to check the locks every night.
But every time I come in it's always like that.
And look at Bella, as soon as I walk in she perks up,
like hi daddy.
But you know, you walk into a place and you always
just want to go, alright problem solved.
The first thing you want to do is kind of
just look around, you know, make sure everything is good.
And I always talk about using all your senses.
Listen to make sure that a waterfall feature
isn't working or something like that,
smell to make sure that nothing smells unusual
and then keep your eyes open and look around.
So far everything looks absolutely amazing,
which is usually the case, but you know,
you've got to always be prepared for anything.
So we have a pretty busy day today,
but it's gonna be awesome.
And I always do the same thing here at BHB,
the first thing I do is kind of come in,
walk around, make sure that everything is looking good,
smelling good, acting good, all that stuff.
Take a look at this cute little (mumbles) snake right here.
Woo, doggy, that thing is absolutely gorgeous.
And again, as an animal keeper, it's super important
to be really perceptive.
Look around and make sure everything's okay every day.
I mean take a look at this jungle carpet python right here,
woo doggy, that thing is absolutely gorgeous.
But I think a lot of people make that mistake, right?
They come in and they're like,
oh I have to clean this bank of cages and then they
don't really even look at the other things.
It's important to kind of perceive everything
every day just so that you can make sure everything
is in good shape.
And I know it can drive my crew crazy sometimes.
I can walk into a room and within like 10 seconds
I can find something that is wrong,
just because I've been doing it so long,
and again, I use all my senses to kind of see
what's going on.
Let's see how this cow reticulated python, whoa!
She is definitely still angry.
Woo, doggy.
I am a little bit concerned about this one.
She's supposed to be a really tame animal.
Whoa, calm down, girl.
Okay we're gonna go ahead and just close that up
and come back to her later.
Hopefully she's gonna calm down.
Perdida was never like that.
Oh my God, cow reticulated pythons are usually so docile!
I've got my work cut out for her.
We'll get her tamed down, but we definitely have to
work on that for sure.
Once again my guy, Bowser, is out and about.
Again, good sign.
I'll go ahead and try to offer him food
probably in the next day or two,
just let him kind of wake up just a little bit more
before we go too crazy with it.
But I know he's gonna be eating soon.
A lot of you guys have been asking me,
can you feed Bowser, well he's been off of food,
but he's gonna be back on the food in no time.
Good morning, RJ, how are you buddy?
Love you.
I might actually bring RJ over to the Reptarium tonight,
I'm not really sure.
So we actually have two tours this morning
and then we, of course, are open for the Reptarium
tonight so definitely a busy day.
I think my first tour is here in about 15 or 20 minutes.
My girl Lucy is hanging out in the water and Titan is,
where is Titan?
Is he over here?
Oh there's Titan, yup.
Titan is still up in the tree.
He hasn't come down, he needs to get down and
breed Lucy, but he's just hanging out here up in the tree.
And that's one of the things I always find
really interesting, people always talk about like,
you need really large cages,
which I do love to have large cages for my animals now,
but the truth is a lot of times they just cram
right up in the corner just like Titan over here
and then they just never move.
It's just kind of weird.
But it is nice, I'm sure he will get used to it
and he will roam around and hopefully he'll breed
my girl, Lucy, pretty soon.
Welcome guys, you guys are awesome.
Happy birthday to you, by the way, thank you so much.
Where are you guys from?
- Redford.
- Redford, so you guys are close, that's awesome.
Got Sunrise out and Sunrise seems to want
to go in your pocket.
You said this is the biggest snake that you've held?
- Yeah, biggest I've ever had,
like I said I had about a seven, eight food red tail boa
and I used to put her in my tub and just let her
go around the tub.
But this is, and it's pure muscle,
I've never had something this big.
- [Woman] You can tell your friends you held an anaconda.
- Bella always is soft. - Look at you, girl.
- Definitely gets a lot of attention, girl.
It's funny she saw and she just came running down,
just running down for you guys.
- Hi, baby.
- What do you think? - Um.
- She's amazing.
- You're a little bit freaked out, doing good.
- Just wrapping up and guess what?
Someone is ending up taking a new snake home,
a beautiful pastel sugar ball python.
He actually has a bumble bee which is a pastel
spider ball python so it's gonna make a beautiful animal.
You guys are incredible, thank you so much.
I really do appreciate it. - Thank you, Brian.
- Definitely stay in touch and you guys have a good day,
I'll see you guys soon.
- [Woman] Thank you, enjoyed it very much.
- Still have lots of stuff breeding here.
That's actually a super enchi yellowbelly bred
to an enchi orange dream,
so we should be able to get some super enchi
orange dreams out of that,
that will be really awesome.
Woo, I am excited about that breeding right there.
That is actually a pastel leopard clown
being bred to a pastel leopard clown.
Woo doggy, that's gonna be a good clutch.
And that's actually a bamboo wilma being bred to
a lemon blast vanilla.
Again, some pretty cool baby potentials there.
That one's actually a banana enchi bred to an
enchi pinstripe, so we could actually produce
some super enchi banana pinstripes,
which would be awesome!
That's actually a pretty interesting breeding,
and that's a banana super enchi pinstripe
bred to a blue eyed leucistic,
which is a lesser lesser so everything is gonna be
lessers, everything is gonna be enchi,
and there could be banana and pinstripes in there
so yeah another pretty awesome clutch on the way.
That's actually an albino clown bred to an enchi
het albino clown, so we could potentially get
some albino enchi clowns, how awesome is that?
I tell you what, this is the biggest breeding day
we've had so far.
We have about 80% of the females hooked up,
I left a lot of them alone, but wow!
And I think it's because tomorrow we have a big storm
coming through and I've talked to you guys about this
before were barometric pressure changes
really spurs on breeding, so holy cow,
this was an awesome day for breeding
when it comes to pythons.
Got my second tour, another local tour,
which is really cool, you guys aren't too far away,
which is fantastic.
And we started off with Nova today.
Look at Nova, he's getting some love.
Looks so cute and ready.
Alright so I'm gonna let you pick the next animal.
What are we gonna take?
- I've been excited for Bella this whole time.
- Alright, let's go see Bella.
It's banana time for Bella.
Bella look it.
Come on girl, you want a banana don't you?
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You can pet her all you want.
(chuckling)
Isn't that awesome?
It's pretty amazing how big our leechy is getting.
Of course this is Big Bertha, she is just incredible.
I mean it's just a cool animal.
Once again we're ending the tour with Casper
and it's bringing families together.
You guys have fun?
- Oh so much fun. - Yes, thank you so much.
(laughing)
- [Brian] Now you got left out.
- Yeah I did.
- Okay great times, tours are done,
definitely an absolutely amazing morning,
I had a great time.
Bruce over here just doing some transfer stuff.
This is how you got to mist the goudy sapphire here.
- [Bruce] So she doesn't dart out.
- Yeah, so she doesn't dart out,
but they need higher humidity.
Beautiful tarantula.
Oh my gosh, how incredible is that?
So just getting our last minute things done
here at the Reptarium.
We open up in about a half hour so I'm gonna
shoot over to BHB and see what's going on over there.
So Laura I wanted to tell you,
obviously I'm leaving in a couple days.
You're gonna be all set for about a week?
- Yes.
- Okay basically I'm going down to Orlando for playlist
to do a bunch of other cool stuff, too.
We're gonna do some collabs over at Gator Land,
do some other animal adventure stuff,
and I have an animal I'm picking up
on the way back that is a secret.
Laurie knows about it, but I'm not gonna tell you guys.
So really a lot of why I'm driving down to playlist
rather than flying is because on the way back
I want to pick this animal up.
Super excited about it, I can't wait to share it
with you guys.
I'll take you guys on that adventure and stuff like that.
And then Noah is leaving for Europe.
- Yeah, Noah's leaving for Europe on Thursday.
- [Brian] So you're gonna be all alone.
- All alone and I get to dog-sit.
- That's right. - Our grand-dog.
- That's right 'cause my daughter Jade is going
to Europe with Noah.
They're doing like England, Scotland, and Ireland
and Meeko, the Husky, stays with Laurie.
So good news is--
- And then Brian conveniently goes out of town.
- I don't want to have to deal with that dog.
That dog's insane.
No, we love our grand-dog,
but I'm glad I'm not gonna be here for it,
I'm gonna be honest with you.
So again, a couple days for now I leave
for the trip down.
I'm gonna hit Forest's place on the way down,
maybe one other place, then I'm gonna hit Orlando,
do a few days in Orlando then head back,
stop for my special animal,
and then I'll be back to the Reptarium.
So I'm gonna be gone, I don't know,
six to eight days, not even 100% sure yet.
So gonna be excited, you gonna be okay without me?
I know you're always a wreck when I'm not around.
- I know, I don't know what I'm gonna do.
- Yeah, yeah. (Laurie laughing)
She won't miss me at all.
It's that time guys, let's go ahead and open up
the Reptarium.
And I'm not gonna lie, you guys know that I always think
like no one's gonna show up today.
Tonight I have a prediction that it's gonna be
completely a gong show.
Lots of people have come by all morning
kind of like when are you open, when are you open?
That phone's been ringing off the hook.
My prediction is tonight is gonna be insane.
Cannot wait for it to happen,
but let's go ahead and get this party started.
Ready? - Yeah!
That was really enthusiastic, let's go ahead and open up.
Hey guys, how are ya?
How are you? How's it going?
Come on in, guys, come on in, how are you ya?
Come on in, how are you, come on in.
- [Woman] She's back.
- Hi guys, how are you?
Hi, how are ya?
Hi good to see you guys, hi, how's it going?
Hi, how are you?
Hi guys, how are ya?
How's everything?
Welcome, welcome, welcome.
I told you guys I thought it was gonna be
gong show in here tonight.
A lot of people, a lot of people all over the place.
We have Salt out right now.
You guys stay nice, I appreciate it.
What do you think of Salt?
- I think he's really cool.
- Wow.
- Like I mentioned we're having a great time.
Sunrise is out and guess what?
We have someone special in the house.
We actually have like three or four people
that it's their birthday that I've met already.
But Amy over here is, it's your birthday girl
and you're coming with me and she has never held a snake.
No snake at all?
- None, never.
- [Brian] But you're not afraid of them?
- No, not at all.
- [Brian] And you're excited for the opportunity?
- Yes. - Okay.
So Laurie, do the honors.
- Alright, step right up.
- [Brian] Here we go.
- [Laurie] And you get to meet our beautiful Sunrise.
- Oh my gosh.
That is awesome.
- [Brian] What do you think?
What's your first reaction of holding your first snake?
- Um, it feels kind of weird.
They're a lot more solid than I thought they'd be.
- Lot of muscle, right? - Yeah.
It's super cool.
- [Brian] There you go, happy birthday!
- Thank you so much!
- This is the part of the Reptarium I love
more than anything is when people actually get to
hold their first snake.
I mean, how freaking awesome is that?
For it to be Sunrise is even more cool.
That's awesome.
So you always know it's a busy night when Laurie
has to pitch in to help out.
So Laurie's been here kind of manning the Sunrise station
all night so your guns were getting worked out--
- Always. (laughs)
- Why does it seem so busy tonight?
- I don't know, I mean it's just,
I think I knew from yesterday that today was
gonna be busy, it's just the way it goes.
- Yeah, the last two weekends have been just unbelievably
humbling for us so I can't believe that,
I keep going back to when we first opened
and I told Laurie that we'd be lucky to have like
20 or 30 people. - Will anybody come?
What if nobody comes?
I'm like, oh God. - And then it's packed.
Regardless, I think Laurie's about to butt out
and then we'll take it over 'cause it's starting
to finally come down here at the Reptarium.
So it's been about two and a half hours since
I picked my camera up 'cause it's just been
absolutely crazy in here.
Hey what's going on, good to see you.
What's up man?
Everyone else just hanging out,
checking out Bowser over here, having a good time.
Again, just an absolutely fun, fun, fun filled night,
but definitely really crazy.
Again, just starting to kind of slow down,
taking a little bit of a breath like, okay,
let's see what's going on.
We've got Flaming Hot Cheeto out over here.
Let's see, we've got Bruce's corner over here.
Bruce has got to have some tarantulas out.
I knew it!
You've got some tarantulas out.
Regardless, I think we're probably about
a half an hour away from close,
but what an amazingly crazy night.
It's definitely been a good one.
Woo, but I'm pretty exhausted, I'm not gonna lie,
even my energy is kind of drained tonight.
So heres the deal, you were like pretty terrified
and you wouldn't hold a thing,
and you were holding everything,
you were so amazing and you were like,
no, no, no, no.
And you're telling me that you just held something.
Do you got proof of it?
Oh my gosh, look at that, you did it.
Give me high five. - This is my dream!
I get to be on one of your videos.
- Yes! (laughter)
That's awesome.
You guys are both awesome, thank you guys.
- Don't worry about it. - You're okay, it's good.
What do you think?
- Oh my gosh.
Thank you, Cora, for sharing this with me.
Look at his little eyes, he's looking right at me.
- Woo doggy.
Back over at BHB and kind of wrapping up the night.
You know, I've kind of run out of adjectives
just to tell you how unbelievably humbled
and blown away, how well things are going at the
Reptarium and everything else.
I mean, it's like a dream come true,
it is a dream come true so thank you guys
and I hope that you guys are enjoying coming on the journey.
I try to share as much as I possibly can without
absolutely boring you to death with the same old same old,
but it was an absolutely unbelievable night.
So amazing, so many people held their first snake,
so many people had a great time, we had a great time.
So there it is, I hope that you guys enjoyed it
and I hope that you have an absolutely amazing day,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching this vlog
because your support means the world to me,
and truly, I love you guys so much.
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