- I think while Ben is actually occupied on feeding,
you can tell that they're moving around a lot.
How absolutely fascinating is that?
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Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day
is going to be absolutely incredible.
We are supposed to get five to eight inches of snow today,
and it's supposed to start any minute.
But like I've always mentioned,
it is Summertime all the time here at the Reptarium.
And of course,
I've got my two little alligators with me here.
I've got Salt.
(chuckles)
She is so cute, and of course Pepper.
I am gonna weigh these guys later today,
and Salt was 95 grams just before we left for Italy,
and Pepper was 171 grams.
I figured I'd let you guys down in the comments
have a little bit of a game.
Why don't you comment how many grams you think
Salt is, and how many grams you think Pepper is right now,
and I tell you what, if you guys guess well, no cheating,
so don't you watch for it and then go ahead and comment,
if you guys guess right I'll pick like 10 of you guys
and send some stickers out, if you don't mind.
So go ahead in the comments, let me know.
Later in the vlog we'll weigh these guys.
So it looks like the snow apocalypse is finally upon us.
They're saying that we could get up to eight inches of snow,
it's coming down, it's windy, it is really cold out here.
Oh my god, it should be interesting, that's for sure.
Like I mentioned, this storm is starting to really hit,
which means, of course, lots of breeding.
This action is a dragonfly Het VPI axanthic
bred to a big VPI axanthic girl.
I suspect a lotta males are gonna be hooked up
with this huge barometric drop in pressure
that really triggers a lotta python breeding.
That was actually a pastel crystal
bred to a pinstripe special so we could get some
super specials, pinstripe super specials, some crystals
all kinds of different stuff.
Pretty awesome breeding there.
That's that sinny cypress hooked up again.
He's been a good breeder so far and again,
lots of stuff hooked up today,
we already have probably 15 or 20 locks today.
So a really good breeding day, but again,
I suspected that would happen because of that
barometric pressure shift that happens
when a big storm comes through.
And again, that's just kind of a good tip
if you guys are thinking about breeding snakes,
always try to get snakes together
when you have a drop in barometric pressure,
and that happens when like a thunderstorm comes through,
a snowstorm comes through, something like that.
So every morning when I wake up
I typically check what the barometric pressure was at night
and then what it's gonna be in the day,
and that really kinda helps me know,
like, alright I have a specific female
that I really want to get bred by a male,
I'm gonna put that male in during that time,
even if maybe he's scheduled to breed
another female that day.
So again just another tip that could help you
if you want to be successful if you ever
decide you want to breed snakes.
So I made the decision that I'm gonna increase the food
on Ben and Jerry a little bit.
Obviously I'm always extremely nervous in the first
you know, month and a half or two months that we had 'em.
We've just been feeding them one mouse a week,
and that's completely fine.
But I feel like maybe they lost just a little bit of weight.
I don't really want to increase to two mice at a time
because I don't want 'em to regurgitate,
because you know what happens then,
if it regurgitates it may be a disaster.
So what I think I'm gonna do is
much like I freed my adult clewards,
I'm gonna feed 'em one mouse twice a week.
So today we're gonna feed them one mouse for the week
and then in a few days from now we'll go ahead
and feed 'em another mouse if that makes any sense.
Let's see if he'll eat.
Come on. Come on.
Come on.
There you go. Good job guys, good job.
Now that I've had Ben and Jerry for a little while
I've been able to really observe the behavior,
and one of the things I find very, very interesting
is the fact that with a normal snake,
once it starts eating it typically
stays relatively uniform when it comes to
where it's settled at.
It may move around to try reposition a little bit,
but what's interesting is we all know
that Ben basically steers the ship,
it's the dominant male.
It not only does all of the feeding,
but it also does most of the locomotion.
Well in this case I think while Ben is actually
occupied on feeding, you can tell
that they're moving around a lot.
They're literally cruising around the cage,
and my theory is, and you can certainly see it
in this video, is the fact that at that time
Jerry is taking over the movement.
So while Ben is basically focused on eating,
Jerry is literally moving around,
and you can definitely tell by the position of the head
that Jerry is steering the ship for sure.
I find it very interesting that this is happening.
In a way you can even see all those
really heavy tongue flicks that Jerry is doing,
almost like he's looking for food too,
but yet every time I try to offer him food,
even when he takes it, he'll drop it once Ben is feeding.
So again I find it interesting that behavioral trait.
Is it the fact that Ben typically controls
most of the things because he's the dominant male,
but because he's preoccupied with feeding
Jerry looks at it as an opportunity to kinda take over?
And then interesting enough,
they actually don't move nearly as much
when they start to get the mouse
a little bit further down, almost like Jerry
can then feel it in his body as well,
and he's not as active.
I find this absolutely fascinating.
And there you guys go.
Ben and Jerry, another meal.
Isn't that crazy?
I had never really even thought about it
til I'd been watching them the last couple times they feed,
and every time I feed 'em the same thing kinda happens,
Jerry kinda takes over, and starts cruising around.
At first I was like "Is Ben having a hard time eating?
"He seems to be moving a bunch."
And then I started to notice
that there was no doubt that it was Jerry,
and the way he was positioned,
that was doing all the moving.
How absolutely fascinating is that?
Update on the snowpocalypse.
Definitely still coming down.
You can see now there's at least
probably a good four, maybe even five inches out here,
and we're only about halfway through the storm,
so, definitely coming down, I'm getting in the warm.
What in the world is goin on out here?
- Dude I just, I'm changing waters today,
and some of these guys are so food aggressive,
they just come flying out.
He had my finger,
- I can see that.
- And then he lets go, and I mean
he's constricting very tight but he keeps going on to me
like he's trying to consume my hand, like look,
I can't get my hand, he's tightening really hard,
but he's cruising around
looking to where to start to eat my hand.
- You silly snake, you can't eat Eric.
- Yeah come on.
- Alright give him a treat for being a good boy.
- Yeah.
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- Made a few kind of adjustments here
with the weather getting really cold this week,
and the snowstorm, we put some weather stripping over here,
the other thing you really want to keep an eye on
is the humidity levels in your building,
or your caves, or whatever the case is.
When you're in a cold climate
that gets to sub-arctic weather like this,
basically what happens is the furnace is on a lot.
If the furnace is on a lot, even with the humidifier on,
the furnace is still going to dry the air out.
So you want to do a little bit
of extra spraying on your animals,
make sure the water dishes are a little bit fuller,
just little things like that,
just to prepare for these really bad Winter weather storms.
Alright let's go ahead and get back
to weighing my girl Salt,
and of course Pepper.
And let me know in the comments what you're guesses were.
Please don't cheat.
I'll pick eight or ten of you guys,
and I'll send you guys some stickers if you don't mind.
So remember, Salt was 95 grams before we left for Italy,
let's see where she's at now.
Come on little girl.
Look at that! 119 grams! 118-119 grams,
right in that range!
Oh my God, that is absolutely incredible.
Oh my God, Salt, I love it,
And this was about where Pepper really blew up.
Right when Pepper hit about 120-125 grams
it just exploded and started adding a lot.
So Salt, my little girl, you are so amazing.
I'm so happy she's growing up.
And Pepper was 171 grams,
let me know in the comments if you did good
on the Salt guess,
and let me see if you do any good with the Pepper.
171 grams. It has to have gained something,
it definitely looks a lot bigger.
Let's go ahead and see what he does.
He's 221 grams.
So that is a really big explosion, almost 50 grams.
Pepper, you absolutely chunker, you.
It's amazing that they're both doing so well,
I am so happy that they're doing good.
Like you guys know,
when I first got 'em I was so nervous,
but after all they're just alligators, right?
So I am super happy about that.
Pepper you're looking amazing,
Salt is looking amazing.
Oh my God, I absolutely cannot believe I own these guys.
They are so incredible.
I swear to God, I walk in on the craziest conversations
between Noah and Eric.
You're talking about your family, or Mary's family
- Mary's family
- [Brian] They see ghosts.
- They see ghosts, man.
It was like the grandma's old house,
and they all had stories from it,
and this conversation got real dark, and serious,
they were scaring the crap outta me.
And then on the way to the airport,
"Oh the house you been staying in for a week?
"Oh it's super haunted."
I didn't see anything
- Well he didn't notice anything so I dunno,
but, you know, kids see ghosts, so...
- [Brian] Kids see ghosts?
- You didn't know that?
- [Brian] No.
- Every kid sees ghosts.
Comment down below if when you were a kid,
did you see a ghost?
- When you were a kid did you see a ghost?
- Yeah
- I've seen some stuff,
you know what freaks me out,
is when your dog's sittin there,
and then it just looks over at the wall.
- This happened the other day, literally,
Lori was sleeping, I was in bed just kinda
watching TV trying to go to bed,
and Zeus jumped on the bed
and started barking at the wall.
- Oh dude, nope, nope, sell it, sell now, sell now.
- Phoebe does that all the time.
- It's crazy.
Do you know the other thing that happens,
is right at the top of the stairs,
have you ever noticed that Zeus will jump up
and start scratching at the carpet?
- No that's Phoebe.
- [Brian] Phoebe does it, too?
I see Zeus doing it all the time.
- Zeus does it now, too?
- Yeah I see it all the time, the same spot,
he goes to the same spot in the carpet
and he starts scratching and scratching and scratching.
- Phoebe has like three spots where she does it.
- Oh my God, these are probably like portals.
Are they portals?
- One of 'em is in front of the spare room.
- [Brian] Yes, I've seen it yes, oh my gosh.
- I played with some Ouija boards as a kid, I'm scared man
- Okay, now I'm gettin freaked out.
I gotta go back to work guys,
because I gotta, oh by the way, real quick,
Noah is literally at, he's like just a couple hundred away
from a 100k, please subscribe to Noah's channel.
Get him over 100k today.
Please do me a favor, I'll put the link in the description
- Thank you
- Get over that 100k mark, and then
we'll get in with Lucy, right?
Some of you guys may remember that we had these
Pink-tongued Skinks actually next door at the Reptarium.
To be honest with you they were just so small,
look at how cute and small they are,
that you couldn't even see 'em in the display,
so we decided to move 'em back over here to BHB,
and we'll raise 'em up for the next maybe
six or eight months or something like that.
And then once they're hopefully a little more sizeable
they can go over again.
Again they're a really unique arboreal skink
that's absolutely incredible, and ironically enough
when they're born they have like a black
and almost like a bluish tongue,
but as they get bigger their tongue does turn pink,
hence the name Pink-tongued Skink.
For those of you that don't live in a Winter wonderland,
this is what it's like when there's a big snowstorm.
I am going to get out of the Reptarium,
because I have to actually go home
and shovel the snow and stuff like that.
This is what I have to deal with
just to get out of here.
There's probably three inches, four inches of snow
on the top of my car.
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Fun times. Finally home,
look at how absolutely gorgeous it looks out here.
I mean I tell you what, as much as Winter is kinda
not as fun as Summer, it is still absolutely beautiful.
And for anyone that lives in the Winter weather
like we do, you know you have to shovel a bunch,
because if you only shovel once when there's
eight or ten inches, it's a pain in the butt.
Not a whole lot of snow here but I'm gonna go through
and just do a quick shovel just to try to keep it clean
because Lori should be home any minute,
and I want to make sure the driveways good for her.
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Oh and for the record, probably best for you
to wear a coat when you're shoveling snow in this weather,
but today isn't too bad.
A couple days from now we're supposed to be like
negative two as a high,
so I won't be outside without a coat.
Probably not for that long at least that day.
But for now this is certainly one of those times
where it is about staying inside,
getting in some warm clothes, turning the fire on,
maybe watching a movie and chilling out.
You know, this is the first night
that I've been home early to kinda relax
in probably, I don't know, over a month or so.
So I'm excited to kinda have a chill night,
I'll probably have to go out and shovel one more time,
but it is beautiful, and I love it,
and I'm wishing you guys to have an amazing day,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
You're support is amazing,
and I truly love you guys so much.
Do me a couple favors before we get outta here,
can you smash that like button if you liked the video,
can you turn on those post notifications
so you know when I upload a video.
Make a comment down below.
What do you think about our Winter?
Do you live in a Winter area?
Tell me what your favorite time of the year is.
Be kind to someone and I promise
I will see you guys tomorrow.
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