- You know, we're always trying to get new things
for our reptiles that keep 'em happy and enriched,
so I got some actual whole fish
that I'm going to try to feed a whole bunch of stuff here.
I think they're going to actually love it.
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- [Brian] Oh! Hoo hoo!
Come on Salty!
Salty!
Ow!
Woo!
Still got all my fingers.
- Oh she's angry.
- Salty, come.
Oh!
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Take a look at this pastel cinny lesser pongo, female.
Unbelievable.
This is one of, I don't know,
maybe a thousand ball pythons
that are on the BHB website,
not to mention Colubrids.
Hundreds and hundreds of leopard geckos, all this stuff.
Everything is on sale on this black Friday.
That's right.
It's our, like I said,
maybe 11th, 12, 13th black Friday sale in a row.
So, we have everything on the entire site
is going to be saving.
So, if you're looking for a snake
and you want to save a couple duckets,
you can go ahead and go to BHBreptiles.com,
and the sale starts at midnight
and goes till midnight,
all Black Friday long.
Obviously we've got a lot of cork bark.
We've got wood, we've got plants down here.
So Jessica is working hard on the new Caledonia room.
Now that we have all this stuff going on
it should be going pretty good.
As a matter of fact,
I see there's a new enclosure
that she just finished up
and she's going to be putting
a new gecko in here
in a few minutes here.
So it looks great.
I mean, what an absolutely amazing cage,
this is going to be amazing when all of these enclosures
are done, this room is going to be so absolute dope.
And again, I hope that we're going to have Tana
from serpent design, come up and design maybe a cage.
He wants to come. He's a great guy.
And of course will NACE as well, wants to come up.
So we'll save at least one or two cages
for those guys too.
But like I said,
just cause about to put a gecko in this enclosure.
- So we're putting in our sarasinorum geckos today.
This is one of the ones that I picked up at Tim Lee.
He's so pretty.
I actually thought it was a girl when I bought it.
So when I'm looking for the new new ones,
I'm going to have to get a couple of females
to go with him.
These guys are really cool though.
They get bigger than the crested geckos.
So this is just his grow out cage,
he'll eventually you go into a different one
Oh my God, so I can't wait
to see this guy grow up.
They're so cool when they get big.
But yeah, he's gonna do great
in this little cage until he becomes an adult.
- Remember the other day we cut that clutch
and I said that we've produced
basically what a Barney ball was, kinda sorta.
I'll explain that in a second,
well the whole clutch has hatched out.
And this is actually what as was
the kind of Barney ballish things.
This is actually a banana super sydney.
But to be honest with you,
this is actually a banana black pastel cinnamon.
So it's the superversion,
but it's crossed with a black pastel and a cinnamon.
And what we've noticed is that
when you breed sydney to sydney,
you get a lot of duct billing and get some cliffs.
You get some kinks,
but when you breed a black pastel to a sydney,
we haven't had that type of an issue, right?
So this was actually a black pastel and a sydney cross
into a banana. And it's basically a purple-ish snake.
Now listen, other people have produced
the banana super sydneys probably
five, six years ago.
So by no means, is this a world's first?
And by no means, is this really a barney ball python,
but it's the start of a Barney ball python
because I think
it's a pretty solid purple-y snake right now.
We've got to get that purple darker right now.
How are we going to do that?
I think by breeding into mahogany,
I think potentially breeding and into black head.
I think any of those dark more stranger genes,
whatever the case is, I think we can get the darker purple.
Right? So maintain that pattern list.
Purple look, just like that animal is here,
but then add actually more purple into it
by adding darker and darker morphs.
And that's just amazing.
So I was super happy. You can see it's perfect.
No duck doing no deformities whatsoever.
And then we reached out to which are black pastel,
super Sydney type of things, right?
So it was a black pastel and a sydney
and again, basically what happens
to the black pastel in the Sydney
get a superversion much like if you breed a Mojave and a
lesser, you know, you can get a super version,
which is the blue out of your system.
So we hatched out two of these perfectly good,
perfect noses, no collaboratives,
no kinks or anything like that.
And then we hatched out this little monkey here,
which is pretty cool. This is actually a banana pastel,
black pastel, spider ball python.
So just kind of a cool thing.
It's kind of like what they would call a pewter B banana,
but with the black pastel, not the cinnamon.
Right? So nevertheless, so I'm really happy with the result.
And I can't wait to work
with this form of the barney ball python.
We're going at it all kinds of different directions.
As a matter of fact,
we'll breed this into chocolate as well, right?
So we're going to breed it into everything
to get that barney ball python,
but this is definitely a great stepping stone
to that finished product. You guys know,
I'm always trying to add value
to things that you guys can do,
and we actually started a discord.
The link is in the description,
actually, it was Noah's baby.
He did the whole thing.
I'm so proud that he's trying to take ownership and things
and doing something. He was like, we need a discord.
He made it. It's cool.
You can play games over there. You can chat,
you can audio chat, you can do all kinds of stuff.
So link in the description to the discord.
You guys will love that. And by the way, speaking of Noah,
we did a pretty fun mukbang over on his channel.
So again, I'll put a link in the description,
If you want to see myself, Lori, and Noah
have fun time tasting some really crazy foods.
- Little update on our August monitors
that we got last year.
I Tong fed him a pinky yesterday, going on bud.
And look it already.
I can tell that he's going to poop why,
because I can feel the belly immediately.
It's just a little bit full.
I love hanging out with these guys.
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I love hanging out with these guys. Cause they're so agile.
You know what I mean?
Like I want to be able to teach him how to tripod,
I want to be able to teach them,
go on exterminator missions. Someone's got a mouse problem.
I'll go out there with my little arguments.
We'll release him into the dungeon.
He'll come back with some rodents.
They were having some beef a little while back.
So that's why we separated them.
Chong right here was actually
beating up Cheech pretty good,
stealing all the food
so Cheech couldn't have any,
a chance to really grow as much as our guy Chong here.
But honestly, now that we separate them,
I think Cheech, which is next door
actually beat him inside,
wanna go take a look?
And this is our boy Cheech.
Yeah, I think he got a little bigger.
Oh no, I'm just kidding.
Let's go see the real Cheech.
God, all these freaking lights my mom made
making it real easy to play with my animal here.
We're at BHB. We got- Oh, Cheecher!
This is honestly,
I did not like him over your so many stuff.
You saw, they jump, they fly.
And when you can't let this guy go, cause if you do,
he's gone. He's literally gone.
Within this next week or so,
maybe we can do a little reunion.
Maybe let's try it out. Let's see what my dad has to say.
It was awesome to see them both doing good.
Just want to share a little update with you guys
on how our baby argumencers are doing.
- So it definitely looks like I lost the battle
when it comes to Christmas here,
Laurie is decorating like crazy,
which by the way, they're actually
calling it zoo lights.
You know, a lot of zoos do lights.
So we're actually doing the first time zoo lights here from,
I think November 20th through the end of the year,
we're going to have zoo lights here.
This is just the very beginning. I mean,
this is just the start.
There's going to be lights all over this place.
Lori is having a blast.
You guys know she is a Christmas addict for some reason.
And she is having a really good time.
I can't imagine what this place is going to look like here
in the next couple of weeks. So again,
November 20th is the first zoo lights here at the reptarium.
And we'll go all the way through the end of the year.
So like I mentioned before,
it's that time of the year where we start to increase food
to the females, right?
We want to get those females starting to get a little bit
more weight, get them kind of thinking like, Hey,
it's time to grow follicles.
So I fed all of the females yesterday.
We're going through just kind of double check
and double feed today.
Just again, to put that way.
We usually about double the food this time of year.
And we'll get to a point where we'll even sometimes triple
the amount within the next month.
So it's that slow kind of process of increasing food until
we breed here in just a couple more weeks.
And then the females just pound food for the first two
months or so, or the breeding season.
Then we start to see a little slowdown as follicles grow.
So got to check all these females,
get as much meat as possible so that we have a successful
2022 breeding season.
So far I'm about three quarters through the adult females.
I've only had six animals that didn't eat
out of all the females so far,
we still have about 25% to go,
but definitely the females are turned on food.
And that's what happens this time of year is that females
start to think like I need to feed a lot to produce
follicles. So you have to give them that food, right?
So that you trick them into producing follicles.
Because basically I think what would happen in the wild is
at this point, they're thinking I should feed.
And if they can't find food,
then they're not going to preach follicles because they
don't think there's enough food for their babies to eat.
Right? So it's kind of like playing
that mental game that we continue to play
with these guys and food cycling.
So, so far things are going great.
So I'm done with the females again,
there was only a handful of females that didn't eat,
which is absolutely amazing. You know,
I've talked a lot about cycling females food.
I really haven't talked about male cycling food.
They cycle in a different way, right?
Because typically when males start breeding,
a lot of them go off of food
about five to six weeks into the breeding season,
whereas the females are feeding heavier
during that time.
So what I want to do in the summer where I maintain the
females, I feed the males a little more.
You don't want fat males or overweight males,
but you want beefy males going into the breeding season,
knowing that they're going to go off of food within probably
four to six weeks of breeding. Not all of them do,
but the majority of them do.
So you got to have that weight to carry them on that four or
five, six month breeding season.
Right?
So during the summer we actually feed the males a little
heavier and the females we maintain, right?
So now I've got to go through the males because they've been
turned on feeding like crazy to now.
So I'm continuing to push food to them too.
So onto the males.
And that's a rap out of all the males,
we only had two males that didn't eat,
which is pretty absolutely impressive.
I just checked several hundred ball pytons.
That's all looking good.
Cannot wait to get the breeding season started.
Well here in a few hours,
we actually have the last and final meeting with the city,
the city council for the variance of the building.
What do you think is going to happen?
You think it's going to go okay?
- Yes. I'm going to go out there,
and put good vibes out there,
I'm going to say yes.
- Is there any reason to believe it won't go okay?
- No, but you know.
- It is a public hearing meeting,
meaning public can show up,
Now the last one was public as well.
The planning commission, no one showed up,
but I'm assuming that I don't know.
- If anybody's Going to show up, they'll show up.
- If they don't show up tonight, they can't say anything.
Cause it's over. So wish us luck in a couple of hours,
we head to city council and we have the last meeting.
If they say, yes, we are moving forward.
Fingers crossed. So tonight's meeting is actually,
obviously at night when it's dark out, for some reason,
this one's later than the last one.
So again, this is the city council meeting
and like the fact that there's no one
in the parking lot yet.
So, but there is another parking lot
on the other side.
So hopefully that won't be a mob of people in there
wanting to kill us or something.
So that's going and get the meeting over with, sorry guys.
So it's late. We just got out of the meeting again.
Absolutely amazing. The mayor, the city council,
not only approved everything,
but they were like so complimentary towards us. I mean like,
it was amazing. So I'm literally shaking.
I don't know if you see the camera, I'm shaking.
So I'll fill you more in tomorrow guys, but we did it.
We made it. This is amazing.
So we're just back from the meeting and celebrating.
I'm not shaking now. I was literally when we left the,
I was literally shaking like a leaf because today,
right this very minute and this,
Lori and I've just been talking a lot,
it feels real like before this,
it was just a dream and now it's real. I mean, it's,
this is, it's like, this is scary.
It's crazy. So now I stopped shaking.
I'm excited. I'm a little bit nervous.
I'm not going to lie to you, but it's, it's awesome.
So there it is.
I just wanted to give you guys the update when we were in a
dark parking lot. Number one and number two,
when my phone wasn't shaking like this,
because I was like so nervous. So I appreciate you guys.
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