(punchy music) - We're going to start
the day off with some cuteness for you guys.
That's right, we have a box here
and you guys know I'm becoming a turtle freak.
That's right, there's some pretty cool turtles in here.
What do you say we unbox them?
And that's right.
We've got some little turtles in here.
Let's see what we have.
Oh my gosh.
They're actually in these cold containers.
Could see them right away.
Unbelievable. I love these guys.
I've always wanted to have this vision
of the pond that's behind me,
instead of having just normal sliders,
actually have albino red-eared sliders right here.
So we ended up getting a whole bunch
of little baby albino red-eared sliders.
Look at how absolutely adorable.
There's actually 15 in total here.
We're just going to take a look.
I mean, wow.
Look at how incredible.
These are about three months old.
So, the guy that actually produced these,
a friend of mine down in Texas,
actually wanted to hold them for about three months
so that they were really well started for me.
So that that way we don't have any
losses and stuff like that.
Now these won't go directly into the big pond
because of course, we're going to want to
get a little more size to them.
So we're going to set them up
in a different pond for a little while,
just to kind of grow them out
for the next, maybe, two or three months.
Once they get about two inches longer,
so, that's when we'll be able to
actually put them in this pond over here.
I think they're going to do absolutely well, but wow!
Look at how cool these little monkeys are!
I love them.
Take a look.
Oh my gosh, wait, where'd one go?
There it goes.
Oh my God, come here, buddy bud!
Look at that.
Oh, these are two different sides,
but you could see the red on this,
again, the red-eared slider.
That red marking is why they call them red-eared sliders,
'cause it almost looks like they have red ears.
But again, these are a recessive mutation and albinos.
They're gonna be absolutely incredible for this pond.
Take a look at these things right here.
Holy cow.
This is so cool, man.
I am so excited about them, for sure.
So, again, nice, well-started red-eared sliders.
Love these guys.
Some more turtles for the rept area.
- We're over at BHB.
We're going to get our red-eared sliders set up over here
just so they can get
a little bit more established and everything.
But this is the tank they're going in.
Let's go ahead and make it look nice.
(punchy music)
- So, obviously the end goal
is to get these guys to go into this pond right here,
because they're just cool.
And we're always wanting to do
kind of cool experience for people.
So rather than having normal red-eared sliders,
we'll have albino red-eared sliders.
Now the deal is the red-eared sliders that are in there now
actually were in there since they were about this size.
And basically what that did was
that gave them an opportunity
to learn how to hide really well.
That's why we're going to keep these over at the other place
to kind of interact with them.
And hopefully they'll come up
and actually eat out of our hands
before they come over here.
That way when we get them into the big pond,
people can still feed them
and actually interact with them
because honestly we have, like, 20 sliders in there
and you walk in and you can never even see any of them.
So we're going to work harder
on habituating, socializing these guys to actual people
before they go into the enclosure.
So it's probably going to take us two or three months
to get them to the point where they're big enough,
as well as kind of more socialized.
And then ultimately they'll be here.
And that way, when you come to The Reptarium,
you're not just seeing normal red-eared sliders.
You're seeing albinos.
I always want to give you guys tips and tricks
when it comes to breeding snakes.
After all, that's where this channel started,
we're just really breeding snakes, right?
Well, this happens to be a piebald ball python
that laid eggs 12th of May, right?
So basically what we do is
during the summer months after they lay,
we basically just maintain feed them.
So we want her to get back up to body size.
You can see, she looks good.
She doesn't look fat.
She doesn't look skinny.
She kind of just looks, like, average, right?
So we'll give them maybe one rat a week,
that type of thing.
Now this time of year, they start to really ramp up, right?
So they'll go from one rat to sometimes two rats a week.
Now we don't want to power feed them yet.
We're just going to kind of
increase that food by a little bit,
start to get that feeling, like,
"Alright, breeding season is coming."
And you would do that
all the way through September and most of October.
Once we get to the end of October,
then we start really pushing food to the females, right?
We're going to want to probably
double or triple the amount of food.
And then in November we start introducing males.
The idea is to food cycle.
So basically what you're doing is
heavy feeding during the winter when you're breeding them,
then maintain feeding them through the summer,
and then slightly increasing the food in the fall time.
And that's the way
you can actually get the animals to ovulate.
So these girls are about ready to start taking off.
Continuing hatching baby ball pythons,
and I was so excited about this clutch hatching out here.
Remember when we cut the actual ghost clown clutch,
or possible ghost clown clutch,
and there were some ghosts?
Well, guess what? They hatched out.
Look at that.
These are, again, double recessive mutations,
So this is a hypo clown,
the first ones that we ever produced.
And believe it or not,
it turned out to be a pair of them, too.
So that is absolutely incredible.
This is actually the little girl right here,
has some really interesting color and pattern on her.
Love that. So I don't know.
I probably will keep the pair.
Not a hundred percent sure.
We did actually end up hatching two clowns
that are Het ghost as well, which is pretty cool.
And we have a couple of
double Het ghost clowns here.
So, again, a first time for QB here,
I, there've been produced for quite some time,
but I have never produced them.
I've tried for the last three years and missed on my OD.
So it's always awesome to finally hit that success
so I'm super excited about that.
Then we ended up right here.
We just have some really cool animals here.
This was actually a banana fire spinner blast,
bred just to a normal ball python.
So we ended up getting,
of course a bumblebee here,
another little bumblebee here,
and then bunch of banana stuff that's really cool.
This is just a banana pinstripe here,
which is really absolutely beautiful.
The banana and the pin go really well.
Just get all that purple color where the pinstripe is.
Then of course, we ended up with a couple of,
just like the dad,
these are actually banana fire spinner blasts right here.
So they've got the banana, they got the pastel,
they got the fire, they got the pinstripe,
and they've got the spider ball python.
And then we ended up with a little fire banana spider here,
which is really cool too.
Again, the spider stuff's always amazing,
especially with banana,
and then just a couple spider ball pythons
and a pinstripe ball python here.
So definitely a really beautiful clutch.
A nice variety.
And I like those clutches because oftentimes,
they're kind of entry level, right?
They're not too expensive.
So they're kind of cool,
and they're absolutely beautiful.
And speaking about beautiful, some really cool stuff here.
This was actually a Het Russo
bred to a banana lesser Ghi,
which is pretty cool.
So we have all kinds of little stuff here.
We actually have this one is a Het Russo Ghi,
then we have a bunch of little Ghis right here.
These are just normal Ghis,
which stands for gotta have it, in complete dominant,
dark morph animal, really cool.
Gonna definitely breed that into the Barney Ball project.
Then we ended up with just a nice little banana.
Weirdly enough, we didn't hit any banana Ghis,
no banana lessers or banana Het Russos,
which is kind of weird.
And then, of course, we ended up with this one right here,
which is actually a blue-eyed leucistic,
which is a Het Russo and the lesser from the daddy here.
So just a really beautiful collection of snakes
that have hatched out today.
So we'll get all this stuff set up.
They'll get eating here within the next couple of weeks,
get them up on the BHB website
if you guys are interested in any of them.
Just going through some snakes
as I'm down here in the dungeon.
An absolutely beautiful jungle carpet python.
we produced these guys a year and a half ago,
and we hung on to a handful of them, and wow.
I tell you what, they are absolute rippers.
Again, these come from Australia,
from a place called the Atherton Tablelands.
They're a smaller carpet python,
and the pure Atherton Tablelands
only get about four and a half or five feet.
Most of the ones in America, to be honest with you,
are probably a little bit mixed,
either into coastals, maybe even diamond pythons,
stuff like that.
But the fact is they might get, like,
five, maybe six foot, somewhere in that range.
Nevertheless, unbelievably shocking animals.
And then this one's another absolute ripper,
which actually is a sibling to the jungle
that I just showed you.
But this is what they call a jungle jag.
Now the jag is actually an incomplete dominant thing.
Just kind of reduces the head pattern,
reduces the body pattern,
has that really cool head stamp
that is absolutely ridiculous on it.
And again, when you get the jungle into them,
they're really, really amazing.
But again, now you're starting to mix
different localities outside the Atherton Tablelands,
so they start to get different sizes and all like that.
But nevertheless, this is an absolute ripper,
and these are both females,
and they'll probably be ready to breed next year.
It's been a while since I talked to you
about the expansion type of stuff.
I am still super excited about it.
And basically we're just in a spot where
there's not much really going on.
October 6th is the meeting that we have
in the city for what they call a variance,
which gives us the approval to actually do it.
And then we have to actually apply for permit,
and that'll take six or eight weeks.
So basically, we hope that
everything goes well on October 6th,
because it's a public meeting,
meaning that anyone in the area
can actually come and view their grievances with it
or view their excitement,
whatever the case is.
And then it's,
I think it's a seven panel commission.
So we have to have
at least four of the seven people vote yes
for us allowing to do it.
Like I said,
all things I've heard from the city
seemed like they're super excited about it.
So I don't think we're going to have a problem,
but it's always a little bit nerve wracking.
And then we go and apply for the building permit,
which will take six to eight weeks.
So some time around the end of the year,
we'll get the permits and everything back.
Then we can actually start to figure out
where we're going to break ground.
So we're still working on it, guys.
Just wanted to give you a quick update.
By the way, thank you for everyone
that donated on the GoFundMe.
I'm going to put a link in the description
to all the GoFundMe pages.
Feel free to go over there and check them out.
All your support means the world to me.
Thank you for all the people that have already donated,
and thank you to the people that are going to donate.
It really does help this project move along.
But listen, it's still hot and heavy.
We're just in the waiting period for a little bit longer.
The last couple of years haven't been very good to me
when it comes to rainbow boas.
The truth is it's just kind of
me missing the season, the way I should breed them.
I used to breed rainbow boas every single year,
so this year I'm really committed
to getting rainbow boa babies again.
And this happens to be a leucistic rainbow boa.
Absolutely wonderful animal.
He fathered a bunch of litters a few years ago.
Then the last two years, I've just struck out.
And like I mentioned,
we're beefing these animals up
and getting them really ready for breeding season this year
so we can have a super successful 2022 with rainbow boas.
And then we actually have a T positive albino rainbow boa.
Now this is a male.
Woo!
And he's just about ready to breed.
He's a feisty little monkey.
Some rainbow boas can be a little bit nippy,
but most of them are actually pretty darn cool,
but I love the T positive ones
because they have that kind of purplish-brown look to them,
have a little bit of the purple ring
still kind of showing through.
Absolutely amazing.
This would be the first time we ever tried to breed these.
So hopefully this male will get a little bit,
a little bit calmed down, number one,
and hopefully we'll produce some babies.
And then of course we have the T negative albinos, as well,
which I absolutely love.
I mean, look at how beautiful that is.
Again, this is another male
that is ready to breed this year.
So hopefully we'll produce some T positive albinos,
some T negative albinos,
and some leucistic rainbows this coming year.
Definitely, absolutely amazing.
And we also work with the hypos as well, too.
So rainbow boas,
hey, I've got to get it this year,
and I'm going to put a lot of effort into it,
'cause I miss producing these little monkeys.
- I'm ready to ready unbox.
- You ready to unbox?
Okay. We've got something.
Hang on, this comes from Europe, first off.
I, well, I'm not sure Europe, it's international.
I shouldn't say it's Europe, but I think, but it, listen.
(faint shaking noise)
- Chocolates.
- Do you think it's chocolates,
or do you think it's something that's broken?
- Chocolates. - Chocolates.
- Or marbles. - Or marbles. (chuckles)
Okay, we got, let's see.
Bag inside of a bag, that's always a good start.
- I thought I was unboxing.
- It's an Amazon,
oh yeah, here.
You unbox that.
(laughs)
How is this, like, an old label?
Like, maybe this has been out there forever.
- 3 years old, 2017.
- Does that say 2017?
(chuckles)
Okay.
Let's go.
- You're unboxing it.
- Okay, go.
I was just, I was just cutting it.
- Okay.
Whoa, there's two things. - Two things?
- I don't know what they are yet.
- Ooh. Soul Cafe.
- Lori, I'm Lori for today.
- You're, (in unison) Whoa!
This is actually our friend, Jane,
actually British-born Jane.
- We got more beads!
- She had, she had, oh this is cool.
Oh, that's dope. I like it.
- Gleaming!
- I was getting a little bit light on the actual,
you know, jewelry side.
- [Cameraman] I know,
you've worn them around real quick recently.
- Yeah. So yeah, so thank you, Jane.
I appreciate you.
That got here quick.
She said she was sending it, like, last week.
- Wait, let's see what they do.
- Oh yeah.
- [Cameraman] You've got a tiger's eye on yours.
- Tiger's eye.
Let's see what the gemstones provide.
- Alright, let's see.
- This stone provides good luck, wealth, and courage.
- Oh, good. I want that back.
- No.
I need the good luck right now.
- Malachite, which is absorbs and clears negative energies
- Malachite? - and pollutions
from the atmosphere and body.
I need that.
Shungite, is that what it's called?
Shungite. - That's my favorite.
Shields and protects from electromagnetic radiation.
Good, 'cause I'm around a lot of radiation in my life.
- There's a bunch of that here.
- Smokey quartz.
Oh, I love smokey quartz.
Removes all negative energies and replaces it,
lighter, uplifting.
I feel lighter and uplifted even more right now.
- I feel, like, just around you.
- And then we got turquoise.
Of course, a powerful, protective stone
that shields from all types of negative energy.
See, I don't even want to be around you, Noah.
Because your negativity is really getting me
- Well, mine protects from negative energy, as well.
- It's like we're,
"Oh, we can't be together!"
- But is that a double negative?
- Yeah.
- [Cameraman] It just now attracts negative energy.
- Now we're just, like,
- Thanks, Jane. We appreciate you.
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