(upbeat music)
- All right, guys, so starting the day off today
with our little Baby Kush.
Now, I'm not just gonna feed him today,
I'm gonna try to hold him for the very first time.
So I'm just gonna get him nice and fed up.
So the idea is that, if he's satisfied food wise,
he may slow down a little bit.
This is definitely an animal that, one bite from this guy,
I'm probably going to the hospital.
They have the sharpest teeth.
I always say he's the most dangerous animal I have here,
but also the most intelligent.
These guys are so smart.
So I wanna get him to a point
where I can actually handle him, and the only way to do that
is to push that envelope.
So today, I'm gonna feed him up really good.
You can see how gentle he is now, right?
So that's the whole idea.
So I'm gonna feed him up as good as I possible can,
get him a little lethargic,
'cause if he's a little lethargic, there you go.
Tell you what, that's an adrenaline rush right there.
Again, just trying to get him to a point
where he understands that I'm not gonna hurt him,
and that my hand coming close to him isn't a problem.
We'll just try to go back to it,
I think he got a little bit scared,
so now let's go back to this.
There you go.
Yeah, we'll give him a few more pieces, just, again,
get him fat and happy, if you know what I mean,
and then we're going to break out the gloves because,
listen, I'm not going to hold him without gloves.
Not only am I worried about that bite,
but I'm definitely worried about those claws,
'cause those claws are ferocious.
So I'll tell you what, one more.
(dramatic music)
This time, I'm gonna try to get him to come up on my hand.
Come on, Baby Kush, there you go.
There you go, there you go.
I'll let him finish that last piece,
and we're going for it, guys.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
Definitely gotta be very slow and very methodical.
It's okay, Baby Kush, you're all right.
We're okay, we're okay.
It's just going to take some time.
It's okay, buddy, we're all right, we're all right,
we're okay, we're okay, come on, come on.
We're all right.
(lizard scratching)
It's okay, we're all right.
We're all right.
Okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, we're good, we're good.
Whoa, whoa.
Okay, okay, we're good.
Okay, Baby Kush, we're good, we're good, we're okay, okay.
Think, use that brain of yours, use that brain of yours.
You're good, and that's what I was hoping for.
Now, he's using he's brain.
He's thinking.
I'm just going to let him roll through my hand.
It's okay, Baby Kush, we're good, we're good, we're good.
It's okay.
Okay, no, no biting.
Tell you what, guys.
This is exhilarating.
- What do you want me to... I'm not holding him.
- How come? - I've got baby arms.
I just Baby and Johnsoned these.
- Oh, and by the way, guys, good morning
and welcome to the vlog.
This is the way I'd like to start every morning.
I really believe that we've made some huge,
huge advancements today.
Look at this.
He's just chilling out on me.
He's not trying to bite me.
He's completely comfortable now.
Look at him.
He's thinking.
His brain is working.
He's no longer flight and fright.
He's actually thinking things through,
and this is absolutely what I was hoping for.
It was a little rough to start with,
but this is absolutely amazing.
I am so happy.
Now the idea is we have him out,
we've spent some time with him,
let's let him go very gently inside, and this is it.
This is the thread of trust that I wanted to build with him.
So I'm going to slowly just let him go.
Don't let him stress out about it at all.
It's okay, Baby.
It's okay, Baby Kush.
We're all right.
Just go like that,
and that's the way I like to start each day.
- (laughs) Sweet. - And I saved one little piece
just as a reward to him, so that's a reward like, alright,
I did good.
I get a reward for food.
That was an adrenaline rush.
(laughs) Doggy,
that was some adrenaline-filled moments for sure.
That was incredible.
What do you say we keep the adrenaline going.
These egg-eating snakes are absolutely amazing.
Their threat display is like no other.
Now, again, this is actually a quarantine box.
This is actually going to be set up next door
in a big tall cage,
'cause these guys will actually have a nest
where they raid for eggs.
They like to climb and stuff like that,
but take a look at this little monkey right here.
Whoo, look at that, look at that right there.
Whoa, oh my gosh.
Look at the way they move.
Again, they mimic (indistinct) and they take big strikes.
Whoa, now, again, these guys really have super small teeth,
but this is absolutely incredible, the way they move.
I have never seen a snake move like that before
in my entire life, other than these guys.
Absolutely incredible.
What a bonkers day.
Can't wait to get this over to the reptarium.
Looks like Gherkin, the green tree python,
shed out really beautiful shed.
You can see its eyes, the whole shot.
You know Jay, the edutainer, loves these things,
so I'll go ahead, give this to him,
and Gherkin is actually down here on the ground,
which is unusual for green trees.
They don't go down there very often,
and he's actually pretty chill.
A lot of people think you can't handle a green tree python.
It's really not true.
A lot of them are very docile and stuff like that,
but I'm going to go ahead and just put him back up
on the branch up here, where he usually lives,
and of course, Pickles is looking really good over here,
looking nice and plump, so with any luck,
maybe some eggs in the future.
- Hi, Jay, guess the shed.
- (indistinct)? - Yes.
- Should I know this?
- I don't know, should you?
You are a professional.
Okay, so I'm going to do this a little differently
than you did. - Let's get to it.
- You came from over here. - Did I
or was that a ploy to trick you?
- I know exactly who this is.
- Who is it? - Gherkin?
(water splashing)
- Don't forget, guys,
you can get your Bella merch right now.
Link is in the description.
Gonna last only for a handful more days,
so definitely get yourself some Bella bananas merch.
I appreciate everyone that's got 'em.
Starting to see some people rolling
to the reptarium with them,
so you guys are absolutely awesome.
All right, so back to some adrenaline.
Of course, there's nothing cooler than a mangrove snake,
and they are absolutely beautiful,
and I love having an opportunity to spend some time
with these guys because they're so absolutely incredible.
Just look at the beauty of these animals, but again,
they're a little bit more crazy,
when it comes to the striking side things,
and I always just want to keep it...
Focus on my hand, rather than my face
or something like that, but again,
I've been envenomated by these guys a handful of times,
so I know how I react,
so I don't suggest anyone messing with them,
'cause you never know how a venom is going to react to it,
and even though these guys are typically mildly venomous,
you never know when you're going
to have an allergic reaction to them or something like that.
For me, thankfully, I just get a little bit of a headache
or a little bit of lightheaded
for a very short period of time,
and then I feel completely fine.
But look at the beautiful snake like this,
and there are days, like today, woo, woo, come on, baby.
Whoa, whoa, come on, slow down.
There are days like today,
where I'd like to just pack myself with adrenaline,
you know what I mean?
And the fact is is that I don't drive fast cars,
I don't jump out of airplanes, I don't do things
that a lot of people do for adrenaline.
This is what I do for adrenaline, right here,
is mucking with animals that are absolutely beautiful.
But again, I want to show 'em respect.
There's no doubt that this animal
absolutely deserves respect, but look at how amazing it is.
Who, doggy, I tell you what.
This thing is so cool,
and mangrove snakes are a great starter area,
when you're starting to get into some venomous animals.
Where you know, hey, listen, if you do get bit,
and things do happen, you're not going to actually end up
in the hospital.
Well, at least most of the time.
Again, like I had mentioned, you definitely want...
Whoa, come on.
You definitely want to always be careful,
'cause you don't know how you're going to react.
A good friend of mine actually got bit by a snake.
It's very similar to this, mildly venomous,
and ended up...
Whoa, ended up in the ICU for three days
because of anaphylaxia, so again, always know your animals.
Thankfully, I'm okay now, when it comes to mangroves,
but I still want to be careful,
because you can develop an allergy to these guys
if you get bit enough, so I want to stay away from that.
In the meantime, this is just a gorgeous snake.
Always love when we start to make progress with growth.
So basically this is the razor rack over here
of baby Colubers.
A bunch of stuff just got moved up into the midsized tubs
and ultimately going into bigger tubs,
but they look absolutely incredible
when you put 'em in these tubs, 'cause you're actually like,
"Oh my God, they're growing up.
"They're going to be breeding pretty soon."
These guys should all be ready to go by next year.
This is actually a hypo-diffused scaleless corn, and,
oh my gosh, that thing's on fire.
Look at this.
This is actually an albino diffused scaleless corn snake,
so it's a triple recessive mutation, albino, diffused
and scaleless, and, who, doggy, that thing is a ripper.
You ready to be wild, Lori?
I mean like, wow. - (snorts) Sure.
- All right, well, look at this. Watch this, watch this.
(snake hissing)
- Wow. - Look at that.
- Wow? - You're not impressed?
- I'm sorry, what am I looking at? (laughs)
- It's spinning in circles and striking.
- It's a snake. - Oh my gosh, okay.
It turns out that Jay actually lied.
He saw the shed in the cage,
just about 10 minutes before I pulled it out,
so that one doesn't count.
Take a look at how big our ackie monitors are getting.
Of course, this is a dwarf monitor from Australia.
They don't get much bigger than this.
They'll get just a little bit bigger, but again,
it's absolutely amazing.
It's been a while since I've taken him out
and played with him, and I tell you what,
this thing is an absolute ripper, for sure.
It's so cool, 'cause you can see
they have the same intelligence as a big monitor lizard,
but at the same time, they're in this little pint size
that is super cool, so again,
you guys out there that want monitor lizards,
but can't have an eight or 10 foot cage,
this is a great option, I tell you what.
They come in yellow.
They come in red.
They are absolutely wonderful animals,
and this guy is super cool.
I keep coming back to this rack
and staring at all these racer Colubers.
Easter is coming and I can't think of a more Eastery snake
than a pink corn snake.
Of course, this is a salmon snow,
sometimes called a coral snow.
Un-fricking-real.
I promise I'm going to get some work done, but again,
I can't stop looking at these snakes.
This is actually a hypo lavender corn snake.
Again, very Easter-like.
Just absolutely beautiful. I always say this is one
of my favorite corn snake mutations,
and you can certainly see why,
'cause that is just ridiculous.
What are you guys doing?
- Sorry, I'm sorry.
- Whenever these guys are together,
I know there's nothing good that can happen.
- Okay, so RJ has teeth.
- Of course, yeah, that's an alligator.
That's why they're so ornery.
They've got no toothbrush. - Exactly.
His teeth shed out, all right?
- [Brian] Yeah, they lose their teeth every month.
- Every week, he gets a new set.
- Every week? - Every week, new set.
- No, once a month. - That's not true.
- It's once a month. - Look at it.
- [Brian] Oh, this is a good one here.
- Hold on, don't touch it. - Don't touch it.
- Don't touch it. - It's very fragile.
- It's only for the professionals.
- Yeah. - Oh my God.
- You can touch it.
- [Brian] Are you guys seriously going to try to find more?
Are there any more in here? - Yeah.
- Well, that's what we're going to look,
since there are so many that he sheds.
- You going in? - I have to.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, they're gonna get killed.
- Oh, oh, oh, we've got one.
- Got a tooth. - Oh my gosh, let's see.
You do have one.
It's on now, boy. (laughs)
No, what's the matter?
Poor RJ. - Come on, RJ.
- Is that a tooth right there?
(laughs) Are you guys gonna find teeth or am I?
I've got work to do.
- I'm sorry. - I thought you were coming
to help us find the teeth. - No,
I thought this was going to be fun,
but this has become very boring.
- On your mom's life. - Don't tell her that.
- [Brian] That's a tooth.
That's a good one.
Good job, all right. - Yeah, that's a professional.
- All right, so you guys do me a favor?
clean the entire pond out of teeth and I'll come back
and check on you guys in a couple hours, all right?
- So wait, can you give us a fact though, real fast?
Hit us with some Brian Barczyk facts.
- All right, they go through about 2000 teeth per year,
alligators-- - 2000?
- 2000 teeth, not a year, in their lifetime.
- Okay. - 2000 in their lifetime.
So there's a lot.
There's probably hundreds of teeth in here.
- So how about this?
Can me and Noah get the job of redoing RJ's pond?
So that way we can just pull out all of the rocks
and then sift through all them.
- No, because there's bacteria in there
that filters the water. - Okay, that's fine.
You normally say no to everything.
- Yes, exactly, so just skip the off key.
I think the reason I love this sized snake
is that this is just that sub-adult area,
where they really start showing their adult colors
and are just absolutely stunning.
This is actually a striped black and white Cal King,
and I tell you what, that is just incredible.
I tell you what, I love snakes,
and when I see snakes like this, it just makes me realize
that they are truly amazing animals.
I've told you guys a million times
that my love for snakes started with garter snakes and,
of course, this isn't a garter snake
that I'd find locally here.
These are more plains garter snakes, but nevertheless,
this is a checkered,
but a recessive mutation called a granite checker,
and my God, that thing is ridiculous.
We'll definitely produce some more of these this year.
Okay, okay, this is the last snake I'm going to show
from this rack, cause I'll be here all day,
but nevertheless, this is an albino Applegate gopher snake.
Look at that thing, and I've said this in the past,
this used to be known as the prettiest albino snake.
Now, there's so many other beautiful albino snake,
but I can certainly see why, for many years,
this was the king of albino snakes, when it came.
Just absolutely gorgeous color and gorgeous patterns.
I love my little Uromastyx.
He is absolutely adorable.
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