- Oh God, why am I doing this.
This is bad life choices here.
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- Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
This is what Michigan fall is all about.
Cool, unbelievably beautiful.
Ooh doggy it's gonna be a good day.
And, it's certainly gonna be a great day
over here at The Reptarium.
We gotta feed some stuff,
I wanted to give you a quick update on Casper
the Black Eyed Leucistic reticulated python.
He is always full of energy and on the go,
but he is settling in so nicely, I tell you what.
I couldn't be happier with this animal.
I mean, it's just one of those kind of
impressively beautiful snakes
that when I pull out, people just go oh my God.
And again, I just think he's absolutely incredible.
Regardless, we have a lot of work to do today.
It's gonna be a busy day,
but it's gonna be absolutely incredible.
I'm gonna go ahead and put Casper back in.
And, do the rest of my chores
here at The Reptarium, and over at BHB.
We couldn't be much more excited about
the blue tongue skink year that's coming up.
We have a bunch of really amazing new blue tongues.
And, some blue tongues that were ready to breed last year
but maybe just a little bit tad too young
so they didn't brood.
So, this year we have some killer stuff.
This happens to be a Sunrise,
look at that beautiful yellow color.
That's what the Sunrise is, it's the yellow color.
Of course, the Sunset is that orange color.
It's another feed day here at The Reptarium.
I've got Noah, you're gonna feed some stuff, right?
- Yup.
- 'Kay, of course Andrea is always happy to feed stuff.
We're gonna start with Perdita, see if she eats.
She's looking, oh, yup, as soon as she saw the cage open,
she's like, is it time to feed?
All right, ready?
Here Perdita.
You ready girl?
You ready for some food?
Ready for some food?
(growling)
There ya go sweetheart.
Good job.
She's been a monster ever since she came here.
She settled in so well.
Some snakes have taken a little while,
each week it seems like we get a couple more animals
that haven't fed, that start to feed.
But, Perdita here, nope, she's eaten every time.
And then, you have the Turner White stuff,
I mean just take a look at this thing.
It is absolutely incredible.
The Turner White stuff, kinda born a little bit normal,
but then turns this kind of white color
as it gets older, the pattern blows up.
And, this particular one is like super pink too.
Oh my God, that thing's amazing.
One of the things that's interesting about The Reptarium
is just the fact that, you know,
things eat so differently here.
Of course this albino boa, this Sharp albino boa,
always seems to be very good about food.
This animal is a beast, she eats every single time.
But, it is weird because some snakes that were
really good feeders when we put 'em in here
have really kind of either slowed down,
some haven't fed at all yet,
so we have to start making some decisions soon.
Other ones will just kinda eat a lot slower.
So, it's a little bit of a weird thing, you know.
Plus, we don't have as many animals here,
compared to BHB, so feeding is a little bit
of a weird time 'cause there's really not as much to feed.
And, when one snake doesn't eat it kind of
is a bigger impact than if you're feeding
100 snakes and one doesn't eat.
We are gonna try Sunrise, she's actually just
coming out of shed, she may or may not take it
'cause she might shed today, tomorrow by the latest.
And then, I'm sure she'll eat after.
But, we'll give her a try.
Hey girl, you wanna try to eat?
You wanna eat girl?
Oh yeah.
There you go, good job Sunrise.
All right.
I'll be honest with you, I was a little surprised
by that one 'cause she immediately wanted to take it.
And, this is actually her first meal
since she's been over at The Reptarium.
So, like I said, she's just coming out of shed.
You can see, she literally is cleared up.
She should probably shed literally today or tomorrow.
So, the fact that she just took that rodent
is a great sign, means that she's adjusting here,
even as much as she's been handled over here.
She's doing well.
I could not be more happy to see her eat today.
Just the variety and polymorphism within these guys
is absolutely stunning.
And again, the Northerns are gonna have anywhere
from, you know, eight to 15 babies.
And, they are so amazing.
What's crazy about these skinks is once they do have babies,
literally, they like triple their size
within like a month and half.
I swear to gosh, I've never seen
anything grow as quick as a blue tongue skink.
Hey Noah, did you see the backroom?
I guess your ma cleaned it up.
- No, I don't know.
- I haven't seen it yet, she said she was cleaning.
We, we're trying to get organized here.
I get in here and I kinda go crazy.
Lori, you cleaned this backroom?
- Yes.
- [Brian] Let's see.
Ooh, look at this.
- [Noah] Man, that's a lot better.
- I know, isn't that crazy?
- There was just a bunch of tools and--
- [Brian] Yeah, there was just garbage
like everywhere and you cleaned up.
Good job Lori.
- You probably didn't realize it either
I painted the blood red wall.
- Oh my gosh, that's right,
this was a solid red wall.
I knew something looked different in here, I'm like--
- It looks better, and brighter, and cleaner.
- Yeah, it definitely looks cleaner so that's good.
We definitely have some more to go.
Kinda put shelves up, get things really organized.
But, this is definitely a step in the right direction.
Good job Lori.
- Thank you.
- I know I've said it before, but I think
it's really cool, look at how Casper is using the side
to climb on and stuff like that.
Sometimes he'll even get up on this ledge right over here.
I just love the fact that these guys
are using these cages so much.
I think it gives them just that extra enrichment,
you know what I mean?
Kinda learning how to climb and stuff like that.
He's probably actually never climbed
his whole life before getting in this habitat.
So, I think it's amazing.
Noah and Eric are actually gonna be feeding the monitors
and all the big lizards today, right?
- Oh yeah.
Okay, so, who's feeding Abasuku?
- Eric.
- [Brian] Eric?
- Am I? I'm doing it?
- Yeah, by your mouth.
- Nope, I can't do the mouth this time.
(laughing)
You know what, actually, I think I can.
- [Brian] And, you're gonna use these tongs here,
that's the opposite of the mouth.
- It's the only ones we have. - No.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- That's not gonna work out.
- [Brian] No, you got to, you got, he needs to eat.
- We need some real long ones though, you know.
- No, no, this is fine.
- If you, I trust you.
- All right so, I'm gonna let these guys film it
because me and Andrea are still feeding
some other snakes and stuff like that.
So, it's gonna be over on Noah's channel.
- Yup.
- Feeding Abusuku, feeding Argamus Prime.
- Yup, all of 'em.
- Argamus Prime, Tazzie, all that stuff.
So, you guys have fun.
Please don't get hurt.
And, Eric if you get it, missing a finger,
just act like you don't know him and kick him out, okay.
- Yeah, yeah, there's some weird guy here, get him out.
- Deny that we ever knew him.
Deny it.
Be safe guys, be safe.
We're also working with the new South Wales Eye Banded
blue tongue skinks, take a look at these.
Oh my gosh.
I mean, just look at the color and the size.
I hope I produce these.
I've never produced Easterns before,
so this is the first year that hopefully
we'll get some babies from these guys.
And, take a look at this Eastern right here,
this is actually a little baby we're raising up
from my buddies Ryan and Ben, over at R and B Reptiles.
Oh my God, I love the pattern on this one.
Andrea, I think that Love to Nip might be ready for food.
Judging by his craziness.
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- Abusuku, come here.
- [Noah] All the way at the top.
Oh my gosh, this is probably--
- Oh God, why am I doing this?
This is bad life choices here.
Come here buddy.
- [Noah] If he like jumps out of the cage
I'm running straight for the back door.
- [Eric] Come here, you smell it?
Come on.
Holy (air horn bleeping).
Here you go.
- [Noah] Can you grab?
- Oh my gosh.
- You got more.
- Wow.
Incredible.
Wow, it really knows where it's food is at.
Oh my gosh.
- [Noah] Hurry up dude.
- [Eric] Ooh, it's a little more creepy
when you're face to face with that thing.
- I just had to see those guys feed Abusuku.
It's the first time they fed her.
It's, she is a great animal.
She's very food driven so, Eric almost pooped himself.
Oh my God, that was awesome.
(laughing)
Buddy, you gotta give the forceps back.
You can't eat those.
What are you doing silly monkey.
Finally.
Crazy.
Casper's only been here for less than a week,
so I have no idea if he's gonna eat,
and I actually don't even know how he eats
because I've never fed him before.
So, let's just see what we can do.
He's so far in the back, I think I have
no choice but to just go in the cage.
I don't know, Casper, he took it,
but then he dropped it.
So, I'm gonna just leave it in
and see if he actually crawls up to it to eat.
I think that's the best thing we can do.
I'm gonna be honest, this is the only thing
I don't like about these cages,
is that you have to sometimes climb in 'em
to feed the snakes, there's nothing else I can do.
That is not for the faint of heart,
let me tell you what, that was crazy awesome.
We also have these Hypo Eastern.
It's the only mutation of Eastern
blue tongue skinks we work with.
But, look at this chunky monkey right here.
Oh my God, if she has babies I will literally die.
I have wanted to produce Easterns for so long.
We have a bunch of animals that are so conditioned
and ready to breed this year.
It should be an amazing blue tongue skink year for us.
You think Butterscotch is ready to go?
She was in the back of the cage a second ago.
She's smelling the rodent, she's like, ah, yup.
Let's go ahead, give this a shot.
Honestly guys, I think I need longer tongs.
Remember that time when I was time lapsing
Butterscotch eating and the camera fell in the water dish?
Yeah, we might be down one more Canon G7-X.
I'll let it dry out.
Chances are it's probably busted.
Back to the gator tank.
You can see, this is what Lori has to do
to finish the gator tank out.
She's basically putting silicone over
that Great Stuff foam, and then she's
basically texturing it out, and kinda making
all the pigment look the same.
And just kinda the artistic part of this,
to be totally honest with you.
And, finally, let's go ahead and see
if the Mexican Black King snake will eat.
There ya go buddy.
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We even raised up a group of Kei Island skinks.
Oh my gosh, take a look at these things.
This is the first year they'll be big enough to breed.
I've never bred 'em, so I'm not a hundred percent sure
what I'm doing, we're gonna have to
do some more research to see.
'Cause again, just because Northerns and Easterns
breed a certain way, doesn't mean
that everything is gonna breed that way.
But, my gosh, these things are stunning.
We have a handful of these Blaze Line Northerns as well.
When this was a baby and God, little sized,
it was like bright red.
It's kinda dulled out a little bit now
because it's three years old.
But, oh my God, I hope we can produce
some of this bloodline.
We're breeding it to a couple really special females.
So, oh my gosh, it's so exciting.
All right, that's enough blue tongue skinks for you guys.
And, so where we're at is, we're basically gonna
start to cool these guys off.
And, just here in another six or eight weeks,
we'll start putting 'em together
and hopefully get babies early next year.
And, I tell you what guys, I think I'm gonna
go ahead and end the vlog, and do a few last things
over here at The Reptarium before shutting it down,
and getting some rest, and starting tomorrow
with all the energy in the world.
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evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
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