(jazzy techno music)
- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
You know, your day is going to start out good
when you have to glove up before you even get started.
Right? Well, actually I tell you what,
I saw something that was crazy here.
Of course, my girl, Daisy, who is absolutely gorgeous,
but take a look at this.
This almost looks like an elephant egg
or something like that.
Look at, this as actually a urate.
That has to be the largest urate I've ever seen.
Basically what happens is sometimes snakes will actually
have like, almost like a calcified urine, right?
It's called a urate.
And that is the largest urate I have ever seen.
I know it's a weird way to start the vlog,
talking about, you know, kind of like snake poop,
or you know, calcified urate,
but the point is is that today
we actually are open at the Reptarium later on tonight,
and we're going to get a chance to feed Lucy,
our 20 foot python, Ivy, of course the big anaconda,
and Butterscotch.
So it's going to be absolutely amazing.
But before we get started with that,
we have a bunch of work to do here.
Some snakes, all kinds of different stuff here at BHB
and the Reptarium, so what do you say we buckle up,
push our problems aside and have a great day together.
You guys remember that clutch that we cut
that had the soul sucker?
Well it's actually a pastel soul sucker,
well they are hatched out now.
And you can see all the different results here.
We have pastel lessors,
we have this beautiful pastel hidden gene woma right here,
that is absolutely a ripper.
Another pastel hidden gene woma here.
Man, I tell you what, that thing is beautiful, isn't it?
Absolutely incredible. But I want to show you the
pastel soul sucker out of the egg.
Is that thing absolutely adorable or what?
I love it.
And again, that's an allelic,
that basically is this animal here
bred to this animal here,
produces this animal here, and the allelic trait.
Absolutely wonderful. And when these guys shed out and get
a little size on them, whoo,
I tell you what, these are gonna be rippers.
Had that het Russo to the super pastel,
hidden gene woma clutch hatch out, and got some cool stuff.
This is just a pastel het Russo right here,
which is one of the genes, but weirdly enough,
we didn't really hit anything else in any of these animals,
except for these right here.
These are actually the pastel Russo suckers,
so much like the soul suckers of the lessers,
these are the Russo version and they are really cool.
Look at all of that crazy intricate pattern on them.
They turned out so cool.
So again, this is an allelic animal
between a Russo and a hidden gene woma,
and it also has pastel in it.
I couldn't be more happy.
These guys turned out to be amazing.
You know, feeding the big snakes like Lucy and Ivy
when we're open, it's just awesome to me,
because the fact is is that most people
don't get an opportunity to see a 20 foot snake,
or a big anaconda,
or a snake that catches a rabbit out of the air.
They don't get a chance to see that.
So it's like a once in a lifetime opportunity.
We do it every week,
but to be able to see it live in particular,
when you're literally standing there is pretty amazing.
So I always love to create those experiences
here at the Reptarium that people can leave and go,
"Oh my God, I can't believe I got a chance to see that".
So it's going to be a lot of fun tonight.
We're going to have a blast,
and I cannot wait for people's reactions.
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And we have a pretty cool clutch of eggs to cut here.
This is actually a pastel crystal to a pastel crystal.
Now the crystal is actually an allelic animal.
It's a Mojave bred to a special ball python,
guy named Tom Baker is the one that produced
the first crystal ball,
great name by the way, crystal ball.
So we could get all kinds of different stuff.
We could get pastel crystals,
we could get super Mojaves,
we could get super specials,
we could get pastel super specials,
all combinations thereof.
There's actually 11 eggs in this clutch.
So, and a couple of heads are already poking out.
So let's just go ahead and jump into egg number one.
And like I mentioned,
there's going to be some cool potential, I mean,
this whole clutch should be nothing but unbelievably
amazing animals and right off the rip,
it looks like we have actually a super special.
Now the thing that's nice about a super special
is the fact that,
and it could be a pastel super special too.
I could breed this super special to a super Mojave
and everything is going to be crystal in it.
So it's kind of a cool thing to produce the super specials.
We still have a lot of eggs to go.
Let's just keep on rolling.
Here we go, what do we have here?
I mean, again, there's going to be so much combination here
of things, and sometimes it's going to be a little hard
to actually see in the egg.
I think this one might be,
gosh, I think this might be a super Mojave.
It looks like a white snake to me,
but it's a little off white.
So the fact that it's off white
could be a super special too.
So this clutch is going to be a little difficult
until they actually hatch out,
but either a super Mojave or a super special,
not sure a hundred percent, but nevertheless,
there's just going to be a bunch of really cool snakes
in this clutch, so let's just keep going.
So it'd kind of be interesting to see if we
produce anything kind of normally in here,
because really we shouldn't,
everything should be pretty special
to be totally honest with you.
Hence the name special, right?
So what we have here is we definitely have
a pastel crystal here,
that crystal ball python's just such a beautiful animal.
And that is a pastel crystal, just like the mom and dad.
I could see in the window in this egg,
it looks like a darker animal.
So this would tell me that maybe we do have
maybe a Mojave or something.
No, I was completely wrong about that.
This is definitely a super Mohave.
White snake, got that little bit of a gray look to it,
which means that it's got the gray het,
which a super Mojave has.
So, so again, keep on rolling on with cool animals.
We still have what, two, four, six, seven eggs to go.
Here we go, what do we have in here?
And gosh, these things are oh, this is pretty.
Again, it looks like another super Mojave right here.
Because again,
whenever you get that gray-ish, purple-ish look,
that usually tells me it's a blue eyed Leucistic complex,
not a super special, not a crystal.
So let's just keep going.
And it's weird when you breed
pastel crystal to pastel crystal,
because you're going to get more combinations of things
than anything, this again is a pastel crystal.
So the fact that we're getting a pastel crystal is kind of
cool because the alleles have to line up just perfectly.
You have to have special, and you have to have Mojave.
Whereas with the combination thereof,
there's almost just as good a chance of having
a super special or super Mojave
as there is a pastel crystal,
but this egg already pipped, so let's see what this one is.
There we go,
looks to be another pastel crystal.
You could see the patterning in it, right?
The gray is there, but it has some patterning.
So it's a pastel crystal, four eggs to go.
It's kind of interesting 'cause this clutch,
everything is kind of monotone a little bit, right?
Everything is similar looking.
When these hatch out we'll really be able to come back
and get a recap and really figure out what we have here.
All right, what do we have in this egg?
And these guys are so ready to hatch right now,
it's not even funny.
I mean, even as I'm pressing on this egg,
this snake is pushing back on me like don't touch me.
This is another pastel super special or super special.
Now the super special stuff has more like orange in it.
So again, you're starting to see like that grayish white
is super Mojave, kind of peachy look is the crystal,
and then when you have the orange look,
it's the super special.
Here's another egg that his head was actually
sticking out a little bit ago.
It definitely looked like maybe it looked like
it was a crystal, but it was hard to say for sure.
And yes, a pastel crystal.
So again, lots of cool,
I mean, this is this like a dream clutch.
I mean, it's got like everything awesome in it.
And when you're breeding this combination,
you should produce nothing but awesome babies.
Two eggs to go.
Let's see what we got here.
Like I said, don't expect anything too crazy,
but another pastel crystal, so that's awesome.
I love the pastel crystal stuff.
So we've produce, I think now,
four pastel crystals out of this,
a couple super Mojaves,
a couple of super specials, one egg to go,
and let's see what this last egg is gonna bring.
Have no clue.
Gosh, like I said, these guys are bucking,
so when snakes are bucking,
you have to be a little bit more careful,
another pastel crystal.
'Cause obviously you don't want that snake to buck
when you're cutting,
'cause you could potentially hurt the snake.
I've never done it, by the way, but nevertheless,
another pastel crystal.
So man, I tell you what guys,
that was a frickin' awesome clutch of eggs right there.
Wasn't it?
So that was super cool.
We're always pretty busy getting ready
for the Reptarium open tonight.
Obviously you've got Jay over there.
These guys hanging out.
What are you doing over there Beth, anything at all?
- Nothing, literally not a thing.
- No, Beth is always working hard.
I promise she's working hard.
So Morgan's doing stuff too,
so we've got a lot to get ready and we're
opened up here pretty soon.
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Another corn snake clutch that hatched out.
This is actually a bunch of caramel corn snakes,
but they were actually caramel het for hypo.
And the hypo ones are these ones right here,
which they call amber corn snakes.
So this is a hypo and it's a caramel, both recessive.
So this is a double recessive amber corn,
and then these guys are what they call
the caramel corn snakes, which again,
just doesn't have all those reds
and orange of normal corn snakes.
It's a recessive mutation that is a caramel animal.
We still have a couple of little babies still in the egg
that have yet to hatch.
SO I don't know what we're going to have.
It looks like we got a couple ambers right now
and a bunch of caramels, but nevertheless,
they're pretty cool corn snakes.
I've always loved the amber stuff.
And this is the first year we produced them
in the last probably five or six years.
So it's nice to start producing them again.
They're just cool.
And trust me when they get a little bit of size to them,
whoo doggie, these guys are beautiful.
Joey just called me and actually said that someone had
showed up at the Reptarium with a guitar
and they wanted to sing a song or something to me.
So what do you say we head over there
and find out what this is all about?
Guys, how are you?
Oh my God, how are you guys doing?
- We're so good.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- Benny and I are here because we heard you
were having a rough time lately,
and he wanted to cheer you up.
So he brought a little song for you.
- [Brian] Oh my God, you guys are so amazing, this is crazy.
- My name is Jesse, this is Benny,
this is Jasmine.
- [Brian] Hi guys, how are you guys?
- Jay and Layla, our daughters,
are gonna be very upset because
they're big fans of yours.
- [Brian] Oh, well tell them I said hello.
But oh my gosh, this is awesome.
- Ready Ben?
All right, one, two, three, and.
(acoustic guitar and drums)
♪ We heard that you were down ♪
♪ We heard that you were sad ♪
♪ So Benny said Dad, let's go to cheer Brian up, yeah ♪
♪ Gotta keep living, be happy, ♪
♪ 'Cause we love you, yeah ♪
♪ And we're your favorite Puerto Ricans, yeah ♪
♪ And we came to sing to you ♪
(guitar music and drums)
(cheering)
- [Brian] Give me a hug.
- [Noah] That was awesome.
- I'm actually a gospel artist,
I do smooth jazz and stuff like that for a living.
- Oh my gosh, I tell you what, that is like,
- [Jesse] I don't know if you noticed, I play upside down.
- Oh you, yeah.
- [Jesse] I play a right handed guitar upside down.
- Oh my God, hey, oh my God.
- We're just happy that we got to see you guys.
- [Brian] Thank you guys so much, I mean seriously,
- That was awesome man, that was awesome.
- I tell you what guys, that was absolutely incredible.
I mean, what a, what a shock that, you know,
people care so much and I'm so blessed to have all of you.
Every one of you that support me the way you do.
And it's really helped me get through
this really difficult time.
That was, it was emotional.
I wanted to cry, it was beautiful.
I just am so thankful for everyone
that does everything for me.
But that was, that was,
that definitely put me into good spirits today.
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All right guys it's that time,
we're open at the Reptarium,
and we are going to feed Lucy with everyone watching.
Let's hope it goes well,
she looks like she's definitely ready to eat.
You guys ready?
(crowd cheering)
Here we go.
Oh Lucy.
- [Child] Is that alive?
- [Brian] Nope.
(crowd gasping)
So that went well, we didn't get bit, that's awesome, right?
What do you guys think, is that awesome?
- Is your camera still on?
- Yup, it's on.
- Hi (laughs)
- Hi.
- Come over here, I can tell you it's a lot easier to do
with only 35 people in the Reptarium,
as opposed to when there was hundreds of people,
because it's a lot less dangerous with a lot of people.
So Bruce, you wanna open up that cage for me?
- Yes sir, you know I got it.
- [Brian] Here we go.
Here you go girl.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
(crowd murmuring)
- [Bruce] Good, good, good.
- Awesome. - Awesome.
- There you go!
Worked out great, and I got rabbit pee on me now.
(laughs)
Squeezed so hard I got rabbit pee.
So there you go, there is the dolphin show of reptiles.
(laughs)
So that went well, actually that was really good.
She was energetic, it's so much fun, again,
with smaller groups of people,
we have a lot more opportunity to do a lot more cool stuff.
Having a great night.
Got Sunrise over here hanging out,
how are you doing man, you having a good time?
- Yeah, I'm good.
- [Brian] All right (laughs) You guys have a good time?
- Yeah!
- [Brian] What was your favorite thing?
- Ivy. - Yeah, Ivy.
- [Brian] Just finishing up a little foot spa here,
You guys have fun?
- Yes.
- All right, good job, that foot spa's awesome.
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Next up is actually feeding the anaconda, Ivy, obviously.
Okay, you guys ready?
You ready, girl?
Ready, girl?
Come.
(crowd screaming)
There she goes.
So there it is, she definitely took it good,
she's back in the water.
It's all pretty awesome, having everyone around watching.
What'd you guys think?
(crowd clamoring)
- Very scary.
- [Brian] (laughs) it's all right, it's good.
- He jumped so fast I didn't get it.
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- And there it is guys,
wrapping up another day here at the Reptarium,
had a good time, great feeding Ivy and all that stuff.
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