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- Hey, and good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I've got my girl Ivy here, of course the green Anaconda.
Now she's been with us since summertime.
So it's been quite a while
and she has just been hammering food,
I mean like crazy.
And we are surprised that she was only 35 pounds
when we first got her 'cause she seems
so dense and so heavy, but she's been eating so much.
I really do wonder how much weight she's gained.
So I went ahead and I zeroed out of scale,
and I'm going to step on it and see what she's done.
I'll be honest with you again, I wouldn't know
if she's gained five pounds, 10 pounds.
I'd be shocked if she didn't gain
at least about 10 pounds because she is definitely heavy.
She's been eating like a maniac.
So let's just go ahead and see what happens.
And the moment of truth.
Let's see what she's got.
Yep, 45 and a half pounds.
So I was right.
She gained just over 10 pounds.
That's pretty good for about six months.
Again, those large meals she's been eating
have been really putting some weight on there.
She is such an incredible animal.
And what we're doing is giving her kind of a big meal
and then waiting and giving her a smaller meal
and kind of just alternating things up.
I've been going between pigs and rabbits now,
so I'm varying the diet up a little bit there too,
but I tell you what, she's amazing.
And I've been talking about the fact that
we're making a huge exhibit for her,
that's going to have a big water feature with a waterfall
at the new Reptarium expansion.
So it's gonna be really cool to see how she actually acts
when she has the ability to swim in the water,
'cause a lot of times when you go to aquariums and zoos,
the Anaconda will spend most of their time in the water.
I don't know if that's going to be the case or not with Ivy.
I kind of hope she stays on land a lot
so we can go in there and mess with her
but it's going to be a cool experience.
She is definitely getting big.
Breeding season is just pumping along down here
and the barometric pressure is starting to drop today.
It's our first kind of storm that's rolling through
it's actually going to happen
more tomorrow since we started breeding.
So I've said this before,
usually when your barometric pressure start to drop
and you get a low pressure front through,
you'll actually see an increased amount of breeding.
So it's really important to make sure the right males
are in with the right females
at the time where barometric pressures drop.
Now, I'll be honest with you this time of year,
we don't have enough data to know which female
we want the males to be in because we have an ultrasound
and everything as a baseline yarn,
but we know what males have bred
and which females need to be bred still.
So what we're going to do is just kind of strategically
make sure the right males are in what we think.
And then probably next week,
we'll do our first baseline ultrasound
where every female is ultrasound.
That way we know for sure we need
to get a male in at a certain time.
I've talked about that before.
I'll continue to talk about that
as the breeding season goes on.
But for now, I'm just going to check with Mary,
see if we've seen the increase breeding today.
And I assume tomorrow
is going to be a really good breeding day.
So do we see breeding today?
What's going on with today?
- Yeah, we had a few locks today.
- A few locks today. - Yep.
- Now, we're, what, two and a half weeks in?
Something like that for the breeding season.
I mean, you know, what do you think so far?
We're getting going?
I know we have young males.
- Yeah, we do have some young males
but I have seen a few start breeding
so that's really good.
- Yeah, and that's the thing, you know,
young males oftentimes just take some time.
The good news is that our young males
are at least a year and a half old.
I used to breed five and six month old males
and those guys sometimes wouldn't start breeding
until like March or April,
I think we're going to start seeing more
and more of these young males switch on.
And of course, pretty soon we may have
to start making some decisions if males aren't breeding,
like switching into a different male
so we don't have that female
start to reverse or follicle growth
'cause like I've mentioned before,
male copulation causes follicular growth
along with feeding and all that other stuff.
So you're a couple weeks in, settling in pretty good.
Feel good about it?
- Oh, yeah, I'm really excited.
- I know. I can't wait to see
it's gonna be so cool for Mary to see,
again, ovulations, then eggs and stuff like that.
So it's starting good, we got a long way to go.
But hey, at least we're underway.
Chris and Jessica were excited
about some emerald tree boa poop.
- Yeah. So they actually shed their teeth
and you'll find that in their poop sometimes.
- So the emerald tree boa pooped a little bit.
So we're going to just go ahead and take this out,
and we're going to do a little poop inspection here
to see if there's any teeth in there.
Of course, emerald tree boas have
the largest teeth of any non venomous snake.
And really why emerald tree boas
and pretty much all tree pythons
and stuff like that have such long teeth
is obviously they mainly birds in the wild,
they're going to be up in the canopy
and when a bird flies by it's going to be pretty important
for that animal to grab that bird because if it gets away
who knows when the next time another opportunity
to eat is going to come.
That's why they have such long teeth,
but these guys have amazingly long teeth.
So let's go ahead check some poop
and see if we can find some teeth.
All right, here we go Jessica.
Have fun. - Alright.
Sort of like dissecting an owl pellet, right?
- I don't know I've never done that either.
- I think maybe right here we got one.
Yeah, it's a small one but--
- It's a small one. Oh! Yeah, there's a tooth right there.
It's not a big tooth but it is a tooth.
- Our Gaboon viper is at home actually.
You'll find they're, shed teeth in their poop.
So that's what actually made us start doing this here.
(laughing)
- Yeah, animal people are strange.
Yeah, we're a diffrent breed to say the least.
But still cool.
- Their poop's so weird.
- I know it's just good that she's doing,
well, this is that emerald tree boa,
remember that had some issues with digestion,
just you know, four or five months ago,
doing really well now so I'm super excited about that.
- Oh! There's another one.
- Oh! There's another tooth.
Oh, that's a little bit bigger one.
(Jessica mumbling)
- Still probably not the huge ones
that their front teeth are the biggest teeth.
But essentially, now again,
snakes will shed their teeth and oftentimes
they actually poop them out.
Snakes will go through thousands of teeth in their lifetime.
It's completely normal for them
to shed them and then regrow them.
- So do they all shed their teeth?
- Yep, they all shed their teeth.
Yep, even crocodilian shed their teeth obviously.
(laughing)
- Smells lovely guys.
- Smellivision.
(laughing)
- Lot's of mouse hair, rat hair hair.
- Sometimes I think like,
sometimes I think like,
what do normal people think of us?
You know, I mean? Like the things that we're like,
we're all like riveted like, what's in that poop?
Let's find some teeth. (Jessica laughing)
Normal people must think we're absolutely insane, right?
- So we got halfway through it so far.
- Halfway through this poop and we got two teeth.
- There's literal evidence on literally
every single one of us.
There's a picture somewhere of us with poop in our hands.
- Yeah, excited about.
- So happy! (laughing)
- Beans are healthy, right?
I'm about to open them - Yeah, exactly.
That's good stuff.
- (laughing) Oh, man. I can't believe we do this.
- Do you ever think this was gonna be your job Jay?
No, but I hoped and prayed it was.
- Yeah. What more could
you wish for in life? - Yeah, dude that's it man.
- We got bone fragments.
- Yeah, that's right there's the bone fragment.
- What if find out either
the last or this one right there actually--
- Yeah, skip it.
- It's a real one.
- Look at that Elai.
- Oh, yeah, look at that.
- Let's go over the fruits of our spoils, as they say.
- Not very much guys, but it's cool.
Let's see we've got three little teeth.
- Three little teeth.
We've got, this is the biggest tooth obviously,
then a couple of little teeth.
So pretty cool to see just again how snakes
can shed their teeth like that.
Again, not the biggest teeth for an emerald tree boa,
but I will keep trying, we'll keep going through
that poop just for you guys.
Okay, what do we got here?
- Some spotted pythons they're breeding.
- Oh, my God! How cool is that?
(laughing)
A super cute little Superconda Hognose snake.
And the reason I'm showing this is the other day
we did a video where Eric talked about hognose snakes,
and something really funny happened.
So I want to ask him a question see what he has to say.
Erick.
- What's up, man?
- What do I have here?
- That is a Superconda. Hognose.
- What kind of snake?
- Hognose?
- Hognose. If I had to have these,
what would they be called?
- Like a pair, what do you mean?
- Like yeah, if I had two Hognose what would you call them?
- Like a pair of Hogs, pair of Hognose?
- What do you call plural Hognose?
- Oh! That's, it's like deer you don't say deers.
You know, just deer.
- So you would say?
- You just got Hognose.
- Really? You don't say.
- [Jay] Should we rewind the tape?
- Yeah, I think that you called it something else recently.
- I love the Hognoses. (echoing)
- Did I call it Hognoses?
- Yes, you did.
- Oh, my Gosh! It's not, yeah.
- I was just wondering
if you thought they were Hognoses or--
- No, it's Hognose.
- Okay, good. I just wanted to make sure.
- I have a friend that's from China.
Okay. And you just say Chinese.
You don't say Chineses, okay?
You know, can you say that?
- You just did. - Okay.
- So there you go. Alright, we're cool.
I just want to make sure you're--
- Yeah. No, I'm smart. - Alright, good. Good job.
- Alright, yeah. Thanks, man. Appreciate it.
- Dude no worries.
- You guys know that I keep talking
about how excited I am about the podcast.
Well guess what, we have pretty much all
our podcast stuff here.
Basically what we have here is a soundboard
that can switch all kinds of sounds,
effects, stuff like that.
We have a video switcher, that way
we can do a live stream video with up to four cameras.
We obviously have our mics
and stuff like that we're waiting on our mic stands.
That's really the only thing we're waiting on
and a couple of chords to make this all work.
So with any luck here in the next week
or so we'll have everything we need.
And we could do our first test podcast,
I'm gonna to put a little link in the description
as well as pin a comment,
please help us get over 10,000 subscribers
before we get started, that way we can monetize,
well, the plan is, is to do
a live stream while we're doing it.
That way you can get in chat and all that type of stuff.
And then of course, we'll upload it afterwards as a video
and we'll actually have a second channel
called Checking in Clips that will actually break up
some clips and stuff like that.
That way if you don't want to watch a two hour podcast,
you can watch an eight or 10 minute segment of each one.
So I'll put a link in the description
to that channel as well.
We need to get that one over 10,000.
I really appreciate it, super exciting.
Yes, the True Story is gonna be animals
but (mumbles) is gonna have a lot of fun stuff,
you know, maybe my buddy Burnsy
from the San Jose Sharks, when he's in town
again, like I said, maybe a carry from slayers in town,
you know, stuff like that.
So we may be talking about animals,
but we'll also be talking about a lot of other stuff
that interests me and hopefully will interest you.
So checking in podcast is right around the corner
gonna get rolling right after the first of the year.
Just heard that our first Antaresia are locked up,
of course have the children spotted Simpsons pythons,
really cool little pythons.
I produced a bunch of them last year,
we had a really good year.
So it's exciting to get into 'em again this year
and the fact that they're breeding
now means that babies are on the way.
I think the thing about
the expansion that has me the most nervous,
the first big thing anyways, is that in three days,
we start to take this wall out right here.
So the fact is, we're gonna actually have
to take everything off this wall, peel this back,
we're gonna punch a hole through here,
and that is kind of pretty permanent, right?
I mean, once you start altering a building,
there's no turning back not that I'm turning back,
I'm pretty much too far into it.
But this one's got me scared a little bit.
Just because you know also when you start
to take away structure, you never know
what's going to happen.
So three days from now this wall opens up
we are gonna kind of put the thing back
so that it closes back up just until we're actually
ready to open up when the actual enclosure
come here and so like that,
but this one has my heart going a little bit
hopefully everything goes well
again, three days from now.
Taking a quick break from the normal vlog
to do you a little pizza hack.
Now Noah told me about this,
apparently Miguel from Always Evolving Pythons
told him the best way to heat up old pizza,
I don't put in your toaster? Let's try this.
So apparently you just put it
in here like this or something.
Not even sure how it goes down.
Just push it in there and it's supposed
to be the best thing ever.
I'm not sure how this is gonna work.
I know it sounds crazy guys, but it is,
it's like you toast your day old pizza.
It's got snap on. This is a pretty good hack.
Good job Muguel and Noah, all right back to the show.
The baby frillies are getting so huge and what's interesting
is about the size, you can start to sex them.
And it might take us another month or two before
a lot of them are completely able to be sex.
But this one finally you can start to see that this
is a male right here you can see kinda all
of that area down here is how you will tell it's a male.
And this is the first one that's actually showing it,
a couple of the other ones are almost the same size.
So we're going to start to be able to tell.
We have 11 of them.
So I think we're going to wait till they all are sexible
to where we know what our sex ratio is with the 11
and then we can decide if we're gonna keep them all
and I have a feeling the ones we aren't gonna keep
are just gonna go out to the crew or whatever the case is,
we'll probably keep the majority I would be honest with you,
but it's cool that we at least have one male
and not we'll find out what else
we have in the next month or two.
Looks like Lorey didn't take the keep off my banana GHI.
You guys might remember when I first got this in
I was blown away at how beautiful it was.
And I told Lorey I wanted to keep it
and she was like, "You're not gonna keep that."
So when I marked keep on it I thought
for sure she was gonna erase it and put it on the website
but turns out that it looks like we're actually
we're going to be able to keep this little monkey.
I'm giving you guys kind of the overview
of what's going to change here at this Reptarium
as we open up next door.
Of course, Butterscotch is way up here,
she's going to go next door because she's gonna be
in a little bit more accessible cage
if that makes any sense.
Of course, Ivy, my green Anaconda is gonna get
the really large Anaconda exhibit over there,
which is going to be amazingly cool,
which means we have two exhibits
over here that are gonna be open.
Then we have Santana, the Savannah monitor is getting big,
it's actually gonna go in Chicken strip over Vier's habitat,
and then Chicken strip is gonna go into a larger habitat,
that's more of the size of Perdidas cage,
then we're actually going to have you know,
certainly Verdi is going to have to go up at some point,
she's probably good for the very moment now.
Then we have Diddy and Dixie Kong,
the rhino gliders are going in that big 12 foot cage
that's going to be right in the window.
We've got of course Salt and Pepper
getting their new exhibit.
So these are going to be open to some other aquatic things.
Not sure if I'm going to do turtles in here,
I'm going to do something else not 100% sure there.
And then lastly, we're going to have Night Fury.
Obviously, he's gonna need larger exhibit as well.
So he's gonna go into a bigger exhibit.
So as you can see, there's gonna be a bunch
of stuff that's getting moved next door
and then there's gonna be a bunch
of exhibits that are open here to put new stuff in.
We have some stuff at BHB that's gonna move over,
but we're gonna definitely be looking for other things too.
So exciting, you know, but there's a lot of moving parts
to try to figure it out and a lot to think about.
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