- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I actually have a rat for my buy here, Casper.
Gobble, there you go buddy.
And that's right,
we're going to be doing a little bit of feeding today.
We've got a bunch of other stuff going on as well,
but Casper definitely took a rodent really good.
And we have a meal, a feast for everyone today.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Let me know in your comments,
what you're doing today and how you're doing,
and in the meantime, let's just have a fun time.
And although it's a weekly event to feed these guys
it really never gets old.
Look at Pickles here.
Come on bud.
Right there.
Ah, there she is.
I mean, how do you ever get sick of feeding
such amazingly beautiful animals.
I mean look at Pickles,
she is absolutely gorgeous.
And you know that new arboreal enclosure
that's gonna be over in the new Reptarium
we're gonna be able to install in two days I think,
because we've got today and tomorrow
for the floor getting done,
and then that's that,
and then we can actually put that in.
Course, I have to find the perfect animals for it.
I really want some Amazon basin Emerald tree boas,
but I can also put some really cool
Green tree pythons in there if I so decide,
I'm not a 100 percent sure.
First thing we're gonna do in a couple days
is install that cage.
I am so excited to see how it's gonna look,
the first cage that's going into the Reptarium,
and then we'll decide what we put in there
and where we can get it.
It's a, it's exciting guys,
I mean, it seems like it's taken forever
to get to this point,
but we are so close to actually the install.
Whoa, geez Louise!
He is definitely always fired up, come on buddy.
There it goes, perfect hit too,
which is good with this animal
because for whatever reason,
if he doesn't hit it perfect in the head,
it takes him like, 40 minutes of just walking around
trying to find its head, so that was a perfect hit,
should be a good eat for him,
I'll probably feed him two rats today,
just give him a little bit extra.
Really excited about the progress
with the expansion of the Reptarium.
We have, what 11 days or 10 days or something like that
till enclosures show up and the build starts
so it's gonna be really really cool.
Floor's gettin' finished up obviously today and tomorrow,
so that's amazing,
and then just bunch of little buttoning up things
and by the way guys, Friday the 13th,
that's right, March, Friday the 13th,
looks like it's gonna be our opening day
for the new Reptarium, so if you guys decide you wanna come,
we're gonna have a huge to-do that whole weekend.
As a matter of fact, we may have a party
Friday night and Saturday night, well we sell tickets
so keep your eyes out.
Again, it'd be like maybe nine till midnight
or somthin' like that, after-hour party, to just maybe like,
you know 30 people or something like that.
So Friday and Saturday we're thinking about
having an after-party, but please come and visit us
Friday the 13th for the Grand Opening of the new Reptarium.
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So Eric, you brought a couple of your ball pythons.
- Yep, a couple from home.
- And you're hoping to check follicle growth.
- Oh my gosh, so excited.
- Okay, and oh, by the way, check this out,
someone was just asking about this.
This was the Albino Enchi that was found in the woods
by your house.
- That's right, it's gonna be a mom, hopefully.
Isn't that crazy?
- So Mary's getting pretty good at ultrasounding,
obviously I've had a little experience,
so you ready for the task?
- I'm ready to step up to the plate, I always wanted
to be a doctor - Did you?
What kind of doctor?
- (stammers) I can't say.
- Oh geez.
- A foot (laughs) no I'm just kidding.
Orthopedic guy, I don't know,
I made that up. - All right,
so I'm gonna help you out by puttin' this on it,
and then you have to try to find,
have you ever done,
- I've never done this before.
I know there's a foot pedal. - Yep.
Why don't you get it here.
Grab this. - See what we got.
Prolly starts up 'round by the neck.
- Yeah that's, that's where the eggs are,
out by the neck.
- Yep right there, (laughs).
So what we're lookin' for,
yep, this one's grabbin,' you can see it right?
- There was nothing on it,
you didn't even see the follicle,
- I know, I don't even, this a little
- Whoa, wait a second, what?
You found 'em! - Whoa, oh my God,
I found 'em, is that one right there?
- [Brian] That's one right there.
- Oh my gosh. - Step on that pedal,
Mary, step on that pedal, wait, get it bigger first.
- [Eric] Get it bigger here first.
Oh my God, hold on, what am I doing wrong?
- [Brian] Go back, go back, go back.
There it is, - There it is!
- [Brian] Step on it, all right!
- Oh my God!
- Now we're gonna start the distance here,
this girl has big follicles, dude!
- [Eric] Dude!
That's pretty big. - Look at that,
21 millimeters!
You are, you're like a, - That's crazy.
- You're a natural, you are like a doctor.
- I know it, I know it Dr. Chambers.
- All right, let's see if you have the same luck
with the fat one. - Oh my God, that is,
- This girl actually looks
like she's got some good follicles right now,
I'm assuming that she's gonna, - Yeah I know she looks big.
- (mumbles) will be easy,
so smaller follicles are harder to find so,
but this one looks like she has a big follicle,
I'd go a little bit further down.
- [Eric] Oh whoops, what do I, okay there we go.
Little further down. - Oh, they're there.
Right off the, oh my God.
- [Eric] Oh my God, what is happening?
- [Brian] There it is,
holy moly. - Dude,
you're gonna have baby ball pythons!
Yeah!
- [Brian] You're gonna have babies before us.
23 millimeters, - Holy crap,
that's good, right?
I don't know what that means, but
- At 23, that means they're well on their way.
They'll ovulate at about 40-45 millimeters.
So I tell you what, not only is it awesome
that he's gettin' snakes,
but he's pretty good at ultrasounding.
So let's, let's try one last one,
- Learned from the best.
- [Brian] So now we're gonna see,
- [Eric] Oh what is that?
- [Brian] Go down down down. - [Eric] Is that poop?
- [Brian] No, you had 'em, back up back up,
back up.
All right that's the, that's the gall bladder,
so keep going down towards you, down towards you,
- Towards me.
This is harder than it looks. - They're right there,
they're right there.
See 'em?
- [Eric] Oh little teeny weenie things huh?
- Yeah, so these look like they're probably only,
maybe six, five, six,
somethin' like that. - Oh man.
- Yep seven millimeters.
- Seven millimeters.
- All right, well hey, you're well on your way,
so let me know in the comments how you feel Eric did,
Mary, you taught him well I think.
- Learned from the best you guys.
- Yeah, good stuff good stuff, good luck (laughs).
Next up is the Tiger Amazon, Lucky of course,
come on buddy.
It's so weird how these Amazon Tree Boas,
I've talked about in the past, how they,
they don't really spend much time up in the trees,
most of their time, they spend actually down on the ground
just like Lucky is right here,
and it's just kind of weird, I'm not sure why that is.
I mean we've given him all kinds of trees and branches
and foliage and all that type of stuff, come on bud.
There you go buddy.
And still, not just Lucky,
but every Amazon Tree Boa we've ever had,
spends the majority of their time on the ground.
I don't know what that's all about,
I mean they are a tree boa,
and it's really cool when they're up in the trees,
but for some reason, they spend a lot of time on the ground.
Perdida, you ready to eat girl?
She was adventurous with me last time I had her out,
but she got out of her tub a couple times
in the school presentations,
so she's definitely been on the go,
give her a couple rats and she should be good to go.
Lori and I were just talking about
how you wonder where she's gonna end up, you know?
Lori was like, "Maybe one day she'll look like Night Fury,
"be just solid black."
I think she'll definitely slow down and then kind of
increase pigment as she gets older,
but it will be interesting to see what she looks like
a year or two from now.
It's super rare for Maisie to be out
of its little cubby hole over there,
so he must be really excited about food today,
you ready bud?
There you go, there it is, good job buddy.
(laughs) That's awesome.
Maise is great, you know,
a great ambassador of corn snakes.
You know, I had someone come in the other night
and they wanted to get a corn snake as their first pet
and it's kind of cool that you can kind of,
you know kick your tires with Maisie, you know what I mean?
So they were able to hold it,
and just get an idea if that was the animal
they wanted as a pet.
It turns out they loved it and it was really great,
so Maise is a good ambassador.
I can't wait to get Geoffrey in a nice larger exhibit,
just to kind of show him off a little bit,
and we can work with him a little bit more.
There you go buddy.
There you go, there it is.
Because again, as he's gettin' bigger
it's just getting more and more impressive
and I want to start taking him out a lot more
like we so with Sunrise,
because he's kind of that, you know,
bigger snake but not too big,
you know, kind of bridging the gap
between the little tiny snakes
and the bigger snakes.
So he'll go into a nice four-foot probably by six-foot cage
in the new Reptarium, or here,
I'm not exactly sure yet, why,
but nevertheless, it won't be long
before he's probably 10 foot long.
Come on Peppa, you ready for some food?
Come on silly, there you go.
Oh, you're so gentle.
(laughs) Hognose snakes are so wild.
I love the fact that they're such
gentle little creatures for sure.
Looks like she's just starting to go a little bit opaque
to go into shed,
but just enough to have one last meal before that shed.
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Finally the floor is all sanded.
Yeah it looks great man, it looks really good dude.
So we have all the rooms done,
everything is good to go,
so now the fun part,
we actually start to lay down the prime coat,
which is when it really starts to look like
what it's gonna look like when it's done.
So, we do the prime coat today,
tomorrow the finish coat,
a little bit of grit on it
and it is ready to roll.
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The first epoxy is done,
you can see it's in this room too,
and basically what they do
is they just take this
and they'll start spreading it out
as a thin layer on the floor, but you start to get the idea
of the actual color of the floor right here,
so it's gonna look good, you know.
Again, we won't be able to walk on this later on today
because it'll be wet obviously,
but tomorrow we'll probably be able
to walk on it in the morning,
and then to next day, completely done,
we can walk on it all we want, ready for cages to come in.
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Tiger Lily, the Brazilian Rainbow Boa,
is really beautiful.
She's probably a year away from breeding,
so next year we may actually take her and breed her.
Believe it or not, she's a het for hypo,
which of course we have a hypo male,
which is a recessive mutation,
so it'd be really cool to do that,
and these are outbred.
The original hypo stuff,
honestly it was a little bit weak,
I mean it just didn't thrive as well in captivity,
so you have to do smaller meals,
sometimes a lot of fertility issues,
so this is an outbred, new gene pool animal,
so hopefully with any luck,
she'll be up to size next year
and maybe we can produce some really strong
hypo Brazilian Rainbows.
And just like the other animals,
Sunrise has been eating larger meals,
like maybe three to five pound rabbits,
but I'm gonna give her a little break from that this week
and just give her a couple rats.
Looks like she is ready to go for sure.
Kinda grabbed it in a wonky way,
so it might take her a minute to get started here,
but again, I think that this break from like,
bigger meals every now and then
is kind of a good thing, right?
Because it just gives them an opportunity
to clear their system out,
digest a smaller meals that take only a day or two
as opposed to something bigger
that's gonna take, you know,
four or five, six days, or hey, in Ivy's case,
it took her like 10 or 12 days last time.
Just is how I like to vary things up
with lizards and tortoises,
I do the same thing with my snakes.
So Casper here is,
whoa!
Come on Casper.
It's okay buddy.
Whoa!
Here you go baby,
there you go.
Oh, there you go,
you crazy monkey.
He's just, he's crazy,
but again, I like to vary up the same thing,
where sometimes I'll give large meals,
and sometimes I'll give a handful of smaller meals,
so obviously Casper's been eatin' kind of,
three to four pound pigs,
now I'm gonna feed him three or four rats,
just kind of vary that up.
'Cause again, in the wild you figure,
it's gonna be different for 'em every time,
and that's even a little bit of mental enrichment, right?
Because they're feeding on smaller meals
which is different, which makes them think, like,
"Why is it smaller this time and bigger last time,"
every little bit just makes your animal
a little bit more mentally healthy.
Come on Mr. Nubb Ins, you ready for some food?
Come on buddy, let's go.
Ah, there it is.
And you know, the fact is, is that these are obviously
a Caribbean-type of a boa.
You can find this exact (speaks foreign language)
in Jamaica, Haiti,
all over the place,
and although they're a relatively small boa
with live-bearing babies, they have really large teeth.
I've been bit by, not Mr. Nubb Ins,
but a few of the Haitian boas, and I'll tell you what,
you know, they're grabbing bats out of the air,
so they have to have big teeth in order to really grab
so they can't get away.
So, although it may look pretty benign,
to be honest with you,
those little front teeth right there
are something you do not wanna get bit by.
Next up is Honey.
Beautiful pastel piebald Ball python, you ready for an eat?
Whoa, geez, you missed, girl.
There it is.
There you go, sweetheart.
Sometimes snakes just are weird like that, you know,
they just get so excited about eating
that they, they miss it all the time,
that's how I get bit a lot to be totally honest with you.
A lot of times I've been using these,
I used to never use forceps or tongs,
and I'd get bit all the time with stuff like that
so I guess as I'm gettin' older
I'm gettin' smarter.
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Really see it comin' together now, I mean,
it looks amazing, right?
You know, that kind of richness of color,
the gloss on it looks really amazing.
It's quick work once they get started for sure.
So it's only been like 10, 15 minutes
and they've got all this done.
The rooms are done over here,
which are pretty awesome,
and then of course they just gotta
finish this last part out.
So here in another 15, 20 minutes,
I won't be able to come back
into the new Reptarium expansion until tomorrow.
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