- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
Guess what?
I've got a little bit
of a package here that I am super excited about.
You guys know that I am extremely into Boiga.
That is the cat eyed snakes,
the mangroves and stuff like that.
And I've been getting a bunch of them recently.
Well, in this box,
there's a new species I've never worked with
and I am stoked to open it.
And of course my love for the cat eyes snakes
so the Boiga dendrophila mangroves have been all my life.
They have just such stunning animals.
When I was young and actually worked at a pet shop,
believe or not, these used to come in all the time.
And wildly enough, the pet shop used to carry these.
I know it's crazy, but they were like 30, $40.
I mean, they were relatively cheap.
You can see they don't have the best temperament
all the time.
You can certainly see that.
Woo, doggy.
Whoa, it's okay, buddy.
Whoa, gotta just be a little careful.
Again, I've been invenomated by these guys
a couple of times.
Really not that bad.
Some people have some pretty good reactions to them.
Me personally, I just get a little bit of a headache.
No big deal to be totally honest with you.
But nevertheless, this is actually the Melanota
which is just a little bit
of the banding actually stops at the very top, right?
It doesn't go all the way around.
The Dendrophila dendrophila
would actually have the banning all the way through.
Other than that, they look very similar.
And these guys come from Southeast Asia.
This particular ones are an Indonesian animal.
And I tell you what, that camera lens has seen better days.
There is no doubt about that.
Woo, doggy.
Whoa, slow down their little Nellie.
I tell you what, but what absolutely gorgeous animals.
And again, we've been producing the Melanota here
for the last, woo!
We've been producing the Melanota
for the last maybe five years or so.
So we have a pretty big group of them.
And this is one of our founders stock females.
And I tell you, she's cranky today.
Woo, doggy.
I tell you what, we're going to go ahead
and get her back in her enclosure
and move on to some other absolutely amazing cat eye snakes.
Then of course,
this is actually the Dendrophila dendrophila
but this is a caramel albino.
So instead of that black and yellow
it's kind of a caramel colored, right?
That kind of toffe colored animal
which is a recessive mutation.
And I've had this guy for a little more than a month or so.
And it still hasn't fed
woo, took a little pop shot at me there.
You got a little bit of spice in you,
don't you little buddy.
But nevertheless, the Dendrophila dendrophila
will have the bands that are all the way across.
And those are the real true mangrove snakes
but absolutely wonderful snakes.
And I love this particular mutation.
It's really cool.
So hopefully we can get this guy eating
cause really what happens is in the wild
these guys are eating lizards as babies.
So we've tried some lizard scents.
Woo, calm down a little monkey, you're okay.
So we tried some lizard scents, but still no go.
So we're still assist feeding this one
which is completely fine.
And hopefully we'll get it going here
in the next little bit.
Cause I told, I love this animal
and I really want to get it go.
And again, the cat eyed snakes and those Boigas
I tell you what, they are absolutely stunning.
And this guy is going to be great when he gets bigger
and hopefully we can produce some of these.
That would be absolutely spectacular.
And this guy is absolutely incredible.
Of course, this isn't a mangrove snake
but it is a Boiga or a cat snake, but this is the Sienna.
And it's absolutely amazing.
Look at that green head.
And as these guys get older, they turn predominantly green.
But when they're babies
they're actually orange bodied and green head.
Absolutely wonderful.
One of the coolest snakes I've ever seen to
be totally honest with you.
That head and just the cryptic nature of it
with that cool patterning
and kind of that really big head compared to the body,
what amazing animals.
And again, I love these guys to death.
They're definitely one of my favorite Boiga
to be honest with you.
And we only have a little male here
so I definitely need another one of these guys
and I've just been buying a bunch of the Boiga.
It doesn't matter what sex they are
just cause I want to have them.
And I want to add them to the collection
because I think they're really cool.
And this will definitely be a really cool display in 3.02.
I could see a really heavily foliaged cage
with lots of greenery
with this is going to be climbing up in the trees.
And it's just going to look so amazing
with that big head and those big eyes, really cool.
Again, not a mangrove snake, but still a cat eyed Boiga.
And then of course these are the Gemmicincta
or Sulawesi mangroves.
Now, basically what happens with these guys
is they have that really heavily banding going on.
And it's really amazing.
These actually are super cool as babies
but they turn jet black when they get older.
I mean, so all of that pattern kind of goes away.
And the fact is the animal that we're about to unbox
is kind of similar to this,
which is going to be pretty cool.
And the thing that's cool about it
is that they don't turn jet black
so that heavy banding actually stays.
That's why I'm so excited about them.
And there's a handful
of other Boiga that I'd really like to get as well.
I mean, I want to just keep adding
cause they're just kind of the coolest genus out there.
I mean, they're just so amazing.
Again, with those big heads, and the cat eyes
and the diversity of colors
is really amazing with these guys.
Gemmicinctas are really probably one of my favorites
to be honest with you as well.
I know I say that about everyone, but the fact is, I mean
just look at the banding and the contrast on that animal.
Like I said, it's a little bit of a bummer
that they turn jet black when they get older
but still that jet black mangrove is pretty awesome as well.
So I love them as babies, and I love them as adults
which is pretty cool.
And again, the one that we're
about to unbox is similar to this.
So what do you say?
We head over there and unbox this new little monkey.
All right guys, you know that it is time.
It's the merch drop time.
That's right, you guys.
Because you were so crazy about Bella merch
and it was out for so many years,
we decided to bring it back.
That's right.
Just for a limited time, you get your Bella Bananas hoodie
if you like, but you know
it's a little bit warm in here right now.
I tell you what, this is a lot better.
That's right.
You can get t-shirts
in the yellow bananas color if you want.
You can get blue,
you got about five or six different colors if you want.
If you don't want a shirt
and you just want something else, you can get yourself a cup
and have a little bit of morning joe, you know what I mean?
It really works out well.
But you know, I have something else too.
That's right.
The coloring book.
It's been a huge, huge success.
So I hope that you guys enjoy it.
I mean, listen guys, I am not kidding you.
There is so many cool illustrations in here.
Here you guys go.
Just take a look at this.
This one is at therepterium.com,
the link is going to be in this description.
The Bella merch is also going to be a link
in the description.
Again, this is for a limited time.
Once this runs out,
we're going to go hopefully on to volume two.
So go ahead and get your merch and your coloring book now.
(swooshing)
Just some context.
I have a friend, Lindsey that lives in Iowa
that actually had this snake as a pet
and she gifted it to me.
And I am super excited about it.
Look, as matter of fact, it's so nice.
It even had a thermometer on it
to tell what the snake is like.
And I'll show you right here.
This thermometer goes into this actual box right here
so that she could tell it, Oh my gosh.
This snake is so gorgeous.
Oh!
Oh my god.
It is so ridiculous!
You know, I showed you guys the Gemmicincta, right?
Now, the thing with those, those Sulawesis
is the fact that when they get bigger,
they're really pure black, right?
So they have those really heavy bands
but as they get bigger, they actually don't have them.
Well, this is actually a Boiga dendrophila multicincta.
And it's actually keeps these bands like this.
And it happens to be a very tame one as well.
Unbelievable.
Now these,
they call these the Palawan gold ringed cat eyed snake.
And you could see, that is ridiculous.
I mean, look at that.
I love the mangrove snakes.
We talk about that black and yellow kind of contrast.
And the fact that these guys keep that yellow banding
is absolutely ridiculous.
Again, the Gemmicincta are so cool
because they're heavily banded like this
and even have that red kind of coming through.
But then when they get bigger, they turn jet black
which again is very cool.
Don't get me wrong.
A glossy jet black cat eye snake is amazing
but the fact that this one keeps
that rings makes it even more interesting to me.
And it's an absolute ripper.
Again, a mildly venomous snake
but this one is super, super docile.
Lindsey told me that she like handles it all the time
and she loved this animal so much.
So it's really an honor
for me to be able to take care of this animal.
And I am super stoked
because I've never actually handled a multicincta.
I've never even seen one to be totally honest with you.
And I know that they're pretty rare.
So this is a little boy here.
So I'm on the look for a female.
It's going to be really difficult to get
but I want to get that.
And then the last Boiga I really want to get
is the Dendrophilia, which is similar to this.
Heavily banded, but almost looks like bluish look to them.
So they're absolutely amazing.
Really a polymorphic type of an animal.
I mean, with all of the cat eyed snakes,
there's all kinds of stuff.
From the Sienna that are kind of green and orange
all the way to the Gemmicincta
that have the heavy banding but turn black.
To the of course the Melanota that have less yellow bands
and then have a basically a break on the top.
And then the Dendrophila dendrophilia would have the bands
like this, but just not as much.
So absolutely wonderful animal, definitely love
to climb a boreal animals and stuff like that.
But this is amazing.
I hope that one day I can find a female one of these guys
and that we could actually produce them.
Cause that would be an absolutely pleasure.
So what we're going to do
is we're going to set up an encloser for this one.
This one's going to be over at the reptarium
because it's just too beautiful not to show off.
When we pull it out, that's a little bit tough,
because even though you can see how absolutely tame it is
compared to some of my other mangroves, that's for sure.
But the fact is it still does have a little bit of venom
and we don't want to take any chances.
But I have a feeling we'll be pulling out
probably on tours and maybe with certain people
and stuff like that,
cause this thing is too cool not to share.
But let's go ahead and get it into its new enclosure.
So Lori's all mad at me
because of the coloring book sold out of our first run.
And now she's all mad because people are getting upset
that they're not here yet.
But our next run's going to be here any day.
So for anyone that ordered the coloring book,
it's going to be fine.
But now, why are you mad at me about this?
You keep yelling at me because the coloring book
- Cause they need to be here, like last week.
- [Vloger] Well, they're going to be here this week.
- They better be.
- [Vloger] So should I stop selling coloring books?
- We need to start shipping them.
So I need them so we can ship them.
- Okay, well the coloring books are going to be here next
in like two days.
Two days from now.
Are you going to stop being mean to me?
- Maybe.
- Why?
- Are you going to stop doing things to make me angry?
- I didn't.
Because people bought all of our first run
of coloring books, that wasn't me trying to make you angry.
It was awesome.
Thank you guys for buying them, as a matter of fact
but it's not me.
Why do you make it sound like it's my fault?
- Cause you make
You don't have to field the angry emails and phone calls.
- Well, no one can be that angry
cause it's just a couple of days for their coloring book.
Is it?
- Okay.
- All right.
Well, if you're angry, I guess it's my fault.
So I apologize that we sold out of coloring books.
They're going to be here any day.
I promise.
And then Lori will be nice to me again.
So do me a favor, send Lori nice emails from now on, okay?
Because it's very damaging to my mental health.
So this is the enclosure that we set up right here.
And Lindsey actually brought this little thing here
is like a little home for him
that I guess he was comfortable in.
So we figured we'd just go ahead and put that in,
make it part of the enclosure.
We have some climbing branches in here
a bunch of areas where it can hide and feel really good.
So I'm just going to go ahead and let this loose in here.
And you guys know
that I love when I can let an animal go into a new enclosure
and just see it wander and see what it's going to do.
It's going to be absolutely incredible.
What a beautiful snake.
And again, I think that the contrast
with the greens and all the other colors in here,
it's going to make it really pop.
I think people are going to really love
this snake a tremendous amount.
And like I said,
we'll have to be a little bit sparing
probably about taking out.
But there's no doubt we're going to take it out
from time to time, cause it's just absolutely a ripper.
So, wow.
I tell you what, another species of Boiga,
another species of cat eyed.
Like I said, Dendrophilia divergence
is probably the next one on my list
but I tell you what, I've got to get a female
for this little monkey here
because it is too cool not to breed for sure.
But it's going to be awesome
just to watch this a little bit.
I have a feeling I'm going to be doing that a lot today.
Just kind of walking back and looking at this cage
because I am in love with this animal.
It is unbelievable.
Wow. I tell you what, and it looks great in there.
- They're all gone.
Like everything we're getting is pretty much shipping out.
- [Vloger] But that's like nothing.
- Just stop.
- All right, I gotta show you
this crazy thing that happened.
- Okay.
- Okay?
- What the heck was that?
- Wait, watch it again.
- Oh my god.
What did you do to him?
- Okay, so I was walking out of the room
with the sloth bowls.
I had both of my hands full.
So I went like this, and I closed the door.
So I did this motion, and I don't know what Pepper thought
but Pepper thought that I was like coming for it.
So she just like, perpelled herself out of the water.
- Pepper jumped like,
I mean, it was like a saltwater crocodile.
- I think her nose hit the top of the encloser.
- Oh my god, that was crazy.
So stop making her mad.
- Sorry. I mean, she should be trained better.
- I was just talking
about those Sulawesi jet black mangrove snakes
and speaking of a jet black animal,
Night Furry just shed out, and oh my goodness.
And you know, it's so funny.
I know I show Night Furry on the vlog quite often
but the truth is every time someone comes
in and sees him in person,
they're always like, wow.
You just cannot capture the beauty of this animal.
And literally this is a fresh head
and the iridescence on it is ridiculous.
So again, the Sulawesis are jet black,
but they still don't have that unbelievable rainbow sheen
that Night Furry has.
This thing looks incredible.
Especially once he just sheds out.
Wow, what a ripper.
So there it is.
What an amazing snake.
I am so happy to have it here at the reptarium.
It looks so cool.
What a good animal ambassador.
People are going to love it.
I hope that you guys enjoyed this.
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