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- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
Today, we are gonna be feeding snakes
over at the Reptarium, starting with this little rabbit,
and my girl Perdida.
Now this is the very first rabbit I've ever offered her,
so I don't know if she's gonna take it,
but she sure looks like she's excited about something.
You ready, girl?
Come on, you want it?
You want it?
I don't know if she's gonna take it.
Come on girl, come on.
There she goes.
Aww, she look, she took it.
That was like the cutest thing in the world!
Oh my god, Perdida.
(laughs)
This is the first time she's graduated to rabbits.
It was definitely a very dainty way of, look,
I think she was like,
dad, I don't know exactly that is going on.
But besides feeding snakes today,
which we're gonna be doing amongst other things,
I did wanna kind of take you back a little bit to Utah
because to be honest with you,
we are filming so much, right?
And there's some things that didn't make it into the vlog
that I thought were really cool.
Starting with the fact when I was over at Dan and Colette's
at TSK, there was a boa that is legitimately
one of the most incredible boas ever,
not to mention a few other snakes.
So, I did wanna kinda through you back to Utah
so I didn't miss out on that opportunity
because I know you guys love boas and stuff like that.
In the meantime, I'm gonna let Perdida eat,
I'm gonna show you guys this,
and then we're gonna feed some other snakes.
Onto the boa section, and there's a couple stunners here.
What are you gonna show me first?
- [Woman] This is an Albino Central American Boa.
This is a male.
- Oh my gosh, and guys this is
a real Central American Albino.
So sometimes you'll see the Columbian Albinos
bred into the Central American.
These guys are actually Central American, which is crazy
because they don't get a whole lot bigger than that, right?
- No, he's three-years-old.
- That's three-years-old, oh my gosh.
So for those of you people that want a boa,
and maybe an albino boa,
but you want one that's relatively small.
That's groundbreaking.
I didn't even realize
that there were Albino Central Americans that were pure,
I thought they were all integrated,
so that is absolutely incredible.
And so, you're basically just working
with the Central South, right?
- Yeah, that's all I have is Centrals.
- Right, gotcha.
The thing, again, that's nice is you can keep Centrals
in something that's this size.
You don't need a this huge cage.
Maybe a big female.
Obviously, you can see some of the bigger cages over here.
What else do we have?
- [Woman] This is Apocalypse male
that we've produced several years ago.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
I mean this is ridiculous.
You're just working on the genetics of this now?
- Yes, we're trying to figure it all out.
Like this right here is a sibling.
And that's are line of T-positive.
And these are Nicaraguan boas.
- [Brian] Wow, that is just crazy.
I've never seen anything like that.
That is gorgeous.
- So they do change some from like when they're small
'cause these were just born this year, so these are--
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
That is unbelievably gorgeous.
Just take a look at that.
Oh my gosh.
That thing is ridiculous.
So this and Apocalypse, then.
- Yes that's an Apocalypse. - Wow, that is ridiculous.
The purples on that. - Look at the purple.
Yeah. - It's crazy, right?
- Beautiful. - Oh my gosh.
That's a wonderful snake.
And so, this popped out of your line of T-positive.
- Yes. - Okay.
- And we acquired the founding female,
which this is her, back in 2004,
so she's got a few years on her.
She's in the shed.
- [Brian] Still, you can definitely see
a very unique animal.
But still, gosh,
I love that real rich chocolaty look to 'em.
- Right. - It's unbelievable.
So that was the first babies that you produced
came out of Apocalypse right after that or?
- No. - Okay.
- We bred her son back to her
and produced the Apocalypse. - Oh, so there's another gene
flopping in there that you're not sure yet.
- Well, I know that there's anerythristic in here,
but as far as anything else,
the only thing I've ever produced have been
T-positives, the Apocalypse and anerythristic.
- Wow. - And that's it.
- Holy cow. - So, I haven't seen
any other types of things popping out.
- Wow, that's crazy.
Like I said, that thing is ridiculous.
That's probably my new favorite
Central American boa, for sure.
That thing is ridiculous.
And again, think of all the things you can do.
You can get into Motley.
You can get into all kinds of different stuff.
- Leopard. - Oh, that's right.
Leopard, Blood.
I mean, you can into the Bloods, oh my gosh.
That's absolutely incredible.
So wow, amazing right?
- Yes.
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Sticking with the rabbit thing,
I figured I'll just kinda up a lot of the food
with some of these animals.
And I'm gonna go with the rabbit for Casper, as well.
As well as Sunrise and a couple of other things.
I just figured it's time to move these guys up,
get 'em a little bit bigger meals,
hopefully get 'em a little bit bigger.
Casper is ready to go.
And you guys know that he is a maniac
when it comes to striking, so let's hope that we're okay.
Casper, whoop!
Come out buddy, come out buddy.
You ready?
Wow, there it is.
There he goes.
Whoa!
Tell you what, he definitely liked rabbits.
He wasn't like pre-eating, he was ready to go, dude.
So I hope you that you guys are enjoying
this little kickback to Utah.
But, that wasn't the only thing that we saw
that was really cool out there
that didn't make it into previous vlogs.
Of course, I went out to Jeremy Stone's place
and he a couple animals that were really cool, too.
Not to mention, I love the history of things, right?
I like looking back and seeing the history.
And the fact that I bought my first
Genetic Strike Ball Pythons from Jeremy,
and then ultimately he bought his first Pinstripes from me.
I just think it's a cool little story,
and me and him talked about it while I was out in Utah.
Interesting story, the Genetic Stripe,
just like we have here,
which is actually a Genetic Stripe Specter, right?
- Yes. - So this is
got a couple genes going on in it.
But my first genetic stripes that I ever bought
actually came from you.
- And you spent a lot of money, Brian, I appreciate that.
- They weren't cheap.
Let's just say I could've probably bought a car,
but instead I bought Genetic Stripes.
Regardless, the thing that was interesting
about Jeremy's Genetic Stripes is,
as you can see, these have stripes on 'em.
The fact that his were like vanishing pattern,
so they didn't have
the dorsal striping - They didn't.
- Like the normal Genetic Stripes.
And still to this day,
they're some of my favorite Genetic Stripes,
to be honest with you. - They really are.
- So we still have some of that stuff floating around
in our colony that's still producing.
They're like vanishing pattern,
so actually, the first striped ones came from him.
And this is cool
'cause it has a little paradox - Yeah, it's just a paradox.
- Yeah, it looks really cool. - So that's again not genetics
similar to Calico, but it's just a paradox.
- But it looks super cool. - Isn't that cool?
It's like big eyes staring at you.
Back in the day, Brian, I could've bought a car
instead of buying this Pinstripe from you
'cause I bought a Pinstripe from Brian.
That's just a codominant Ball Python.
Now quite common in the hobby after many years,
but they make some killer combos.
- Oh my gosh, yeah.
And that is true.
I mean, the thing about reptile people, a lot of times,
it is kinda like horse trading, right?
Like I buy snakes from him,
then Jeremy buys snakes back from me.
And that's kinda how the whole industry has always been.
So whereas I spend a bunch of money with Genetic Stripes,
Jeremy kinda countered and bought Pinstripes.
Back in the day with Pinstripes.
What were they? - It was 40 grand.
- Oh my gosh, like 40 grand.
- It was, and the Spider was 25k, it was.
- Oh my gosh.
Yeah, they were expensive back in the day.
But it's cool to hear the back story on stuff that.
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And like I mentioned, I'm bumping a bunch of animals up
to kinda bigger meals because I wanna make sure
that they're still growing at an appropriate rate.
And you might ask yourself like
how do you jump into bigger meals?
Or when do you do it?
Basically, what happens is if you feed your animal
and within a day or two there's like no lump,
you don't see anything and they're acting hungry,
that's usually the time to start going.
Sunrise is definitely smelling this rabbit.
And she ate a rabbit one other time, a long time ago,
and then I went back to kinda rats with her.
So I'll go ahead, get her onto a rabbit,
and see what happens from here.
Whoa!
Sheesh, Sunrise.
Here you go, girl.
Here you go.
Oh, yeah.
She's ready to go, that's for sure.
Again, she ate a rabbit really aggressively,
probably three months ago.
It was a really small rabbit.
And this is kind of a small rabbit, as well,
to be totally honest with you,
but this will kinda be a start.
And there's always that fine line.
I don't want things to get too big.
You don't want like obese animals.
I'm all about lean mean,
like you would find them in the wild, right?
But definitely, Sunrise is at that point
where she's ready to increase her meal now.
So is so many of these other animals.
They're ready to go up.
So, rabbits are going good so far today.
Again, another first, believe it or not,
Ricky has always just fed on rats,
even though he's a pretty big snake.
So I don't know what he's gonna do.
He definitely looks like he's fired up to eat.
Whoa, oh, oh!
Geesh!
Whoa!
Did you see that?
Whoa, he just let go!
Now, what do I do?
This is bad!
Oh no!
He's wrapped up on the rabbit, but now he's let go.
I think that that rabbit smell just kinda got to him
and he's like wait a second, I've never had a rabbit before.
What's going on?
Now I'm in a little bit of a predicament now.
I'm not really sure what's going on.
He's on the floor, he's definitely ready to go.
I think I'm just gonna walk away
and hope he goes back to that rabbit.
This is definitely interesting.
Hopefully, we survive it. (laughs)
Ricky, you're such a silly monkey.
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It looks like Ricky finally ended up taking the rabbit.
He decided that a rabbit was a good choice, I guess.
Really what I'm gonna try to do
is just really gently move him back into his cage
because what I don't want happen is him finish up
on the ground right here
because then I have to pick him up after he eats,
which is not good for him and it's not good for me,
my safety, you know what I mean?
So, good job, Ricky.
Down in the dungeon and we have a few clutches
of Ball Pythons to pull really quick.
Gonna start with this Pewter right here.
She's got eggs all over the place.
Who doggie mama.
That wasn't very good.
So we're definitely gonna have to candle these guys
because she didn't coil even one of 'em.
What are you doing, mom?
Oh, there's one little egg that she coiled.
The rest are all over the place.
And again, with them rolling around like this,
we definitely are gonna wanna candle these guys.
So I'm gonna get these guys in here just really quick.
This is really a beautiful clutch, though.
And she is actually a Cinepi
which is actually a Cinnamon, a Pastel, and a Spider.
And she's bred to a Mojave Calabi.
So she's got all kinds of stuff going on with that.
Should be some pretty good ones.
Again, we'll go ahead, candle these guys,
make sure the embryos are on the right side.
But we have two, four, six, seven eggs.
I tell you what.
And this should be a pretty cool thing
because Calicos and Spiders mix really well.
They get really high weight and the size.
And then the Mojaves stuff and Pastel and Cinnamon.
Oh my gosh, this is gonna be a beautiful clutch of eggs.
And last, Ball Python clutch today
is actually a Pinstripe female.
And it's actually bred to a Fire Bee
which is a Pastel, a Fire, and a Spider.
And once again, we have a couple of little sluggers in here.
That's not good. (laughs)
I think that that just happens from time to time.
It's been a unbelievably good fertility year,
so I'm not gonna complain too much.
But again, not a really good clutch here.
It looks like we're got another slug in here.
And then it looks like we've got three pretty good eggs.
One little boob egg on the end there,
so we'll just try to get these off the paper really quick
and then get these into an egg box.
Again, it's kind of a cool little breeding
'cause you get all kinds of stuff
that Pastel, the Fire, the Spider, the Pinstripe,
all that type of stuff.
Looks like we've got three good eggs, three slugs.
Again, that's just the way it goes.
Literally, I think we have like seven to 10 more clutches
and we are done with Ball Pythons for the year.
But again, been an amazing year,
not only fertility, but the amount of clutches,
and we are starting to hatch some ripper animals!
So, that's it for Ball Python Clutches in the dungeon.
- Traveling to Sea Quest was a great adventure.
I really am happy that we went.
We were able to talk them and see because the fact
that they are similar to the Reptarium
but with mainly aquatics,
we were able to exchange ideas.
They talked to us about stuff and we were able
to see some of the things that they were doing
and start maybe implementing here.
We've already started with one
and that was using little clothes pins
to help feed the tortoises.
That way, even though we haven't really had a problem
with getting fingers nipped, it's been a concern of mine.
And having that little extension there was a great idea
that I was able to take and implement here.
We've got a few others down the pipe
that we're working on, too.
All in all, it was a great trip.
We really loved it.
And I tell you what,
I was amazed with the scenery and stuff,
but I'm not gonna lie,
I was not nearly as amazed as Jay Brian
because, for some reason, they just couldn't get over
the fact that there were freakin' mountains everywhere.
And they couldn't stop talking about it,
which was kind of annoying.
- When we were out in Utah,
a lot of people actually commented about our excursion
for the fish spa when we were at Sea Quest.
A lot of people felt kinda bad for Lori
because you kinda cried.
But were you laughing or were you crying?
I thought she was like,
it was like so ticklish that you were kinda tearing up.
I mean, I wasn't like laughing 'cause she was crying,
but were you crying or were you laughing?
(laughs)
- That's kind of a hard one.
I wasn't like crying crying 'cause I was upset.
It was not an enjoyable experience.
And I think I was kind of tired
and kind of whatever on that day,
so, I guess a little more emotional. (laughs)
- [Brian] Really?
- I didn't like, obviously, it wasn't like I was crying
because I was in pain or anything,
but I think I was just so overwhelmed, I guess,
with the creepiness of it that it brought tears to my eyes.
- Well, it definitely was that way.
Oh, and by the way, Lori,
I don't know if I told ya I'm excited.
I checked with the Michigan Health Department
and it turns out we can have a fish spa at the Reptarium.
So I think we're gonna look into it.
I'm gonna discuss this in a later day
of all the potential health risks.
You know all the health risks
that people think are related to fish spas
that turns out aren't real, but there's ways
to get around to make sure everyone is safe.
So we're gonna have a fish spa and you can do it every day!
- Well, I will not be,
but I'm well aware because the two people
sitting next to me had their feet in and they're loving it.
So I know some people like it, I'm just not a fan.
So if you like it, then cool.
We've got a place that you can do it.
- Oh! (laughs)
Sunfire is a cracker, for sure.
But the fact is is talking about Sea Quest,
we actually had some pretty cool experience
that didn't end up making it into the vlog.
In particular, a really cool encounter with the Kinkajou.
And even met an absolutely wonderful Red Tegu.
So what do we have here?
What have you got going on here?
- This is our little Kinkajou Honey.
He's a little sleepy right now.
- We actually had a friend that had a Kinkajou
when we were like 18-years-old
and we used to play with it all the time.
What's his name?
- Honey. - Honey, and how old?
- He actually about eight-months-old.
- Oh, he's only eight months.
So he's just so little dude.
He's tired, too.
These guys are, obviously, heavily nocturnal.
And Jay, over there, he said that I have to mention
that Pikachu, from Pokemon, was actually named
after a Kinkajou.
And he said that you guys would love it,
so go down to comments,
let me know if this is the most amazing thing
that you've learned since we've been at Sea Quest
about the Pikachu - Yo, that's messed up, bro.
- Let me know in the comments, if you guys.
I mean, he says it's gonna be
the most popular thing that happens.
So, isn't this thing amazing?
Pandora is actually a Red Tegu,
much like my Argentine Blue Tegu, Taz.
It's the same region of area, and it's absolutely amazing.
It reminds me so much of Taz because they're just so lazy.
They just kinda walk around,
but of course, this one's four or five-years-old,
so those jaws are really coming in
like Taz's gonna be over the next couple of years.
But as you can see, Taz is almost the same size
it's just not quite as big of a head
and not quite as big of jaws.
But again, absolutely incredible animal, so amazing.
As a matter of fact, Red Tegus were my original thought
when I came to what I wanted to get the Tegu,
but then I, of course, got Tazie
and I fell in love with the Blue Tegus.
So, this guy is unbelievable.
Just look at his tongue.
I mean, this has to be one of your favorites, right?
- Oh, he is my favorite.
I wanna take him home with me every day.
- He's so crazy.
Oh, and look who's coming over to say hi.
(woman laughs)
What's going on?
You want a little bit of attention, too?
It's okay, buddy.
And the last animal I need to feed today at the zoo
is actually this Northern D'Albert's Python.
Absolutely love this dude.
He's hiding way in the back over there,
so I'm gonna just kinda put it over here.
Hopefully he comes out.
Oh yeah, he's ready.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
There he is, oh my god. (laughs)
That thing is absolutely incredible.
And I hope that you guys like the kinda lost footage,
so to speak, of the throwback to Utah
'cause I didn't wanna not share that with you guys
because it was just some awesome stuff.
But again, we film so much,
sometimes things get left out of the vlog.
So let me know in the comments what part you liked,
if you enjoyed this kind of throwback,
and if you enjoyed all the feeding.
As for now, I'm gonna shut down the vlog.
Wish you guys an absolutely amazing day,
tell you that I love your beautiful faces,
and ask you to be kind to someone today.
I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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