doing a little short video today this is just going to be the pickups that we got from our trip
to Tinley for the October Tenley show so um it's been a rough couple weeks for us and including
the trip to Tinley uh my partner actually fell and broke her ankle so we were dealing with that while
we were in Chicago because that happened while we were there so we ended up having to leave
a little bit earlier but that's okay saw some really cool people met some interesting folks
so our friends from you know that's that part of the country as well as learned a whole lot
so it was really fun and we got a couple little pickups not quite as many as we were hoping for
because you know things come up but we'll just kind of burn through really quick and I apologie
if it's all the camera is a little shaky I uh I don't know where my little gun is that I hold
the camera when I'm doing these little POV videos but without further Ado let's get started so this
first one is really really cool so yes that's um so in here these are the little quarantine
tubs for these two I add a little sphagnum moss and a little paper towel so right here
this is which was recently highlighted in a video that I did and I'll try to remember to
put the tag right there this is a Green Bush rat this is in the same genus it's goyosoma as the
red-tailed rat snakes and the rhino rat snakes these guys are really cool they don't get very
large their care is very similar to that of the rhino rat um forgive the sphagnum Moss and you
can see it like came up with me with the little um the little quarantine tub I just put this in
here for the time being just to kind of hold them they actually have a few more things in here for
their quarantine tubs but just for the ease and simplicity of the video here is so this guy's
this girl I should say is really cool picked her up from meta Exotics met them really really cool
possibly being on a podcast later schools I'll have to see um it's just been uh Non-Stop and
I have had barely a chance to really continue with anything so I have to readdress this in a
minute so I'm just going to put this back over here and we'll keep on trucking along so here
we go here is another old world rat snake also picked up from meta Exotics ta-da so here is a
male Mandarin rat snake one of the most sought after and recognized snakes in the hobby really
really cool I was trying to get a pair but while I was trying to explain what we were doing someone
kind of snuck in and grabbed the female from me and then that Exotics had an issue with their
card reader and so for five minutes he just sat there just like constantly glancing over because
he knew what he did but that's okay because you know we met Exotics and hopefully they'll hook
us up with a little female a little bit longer a little bit later down the road
um they usually actually hold on to these random rat snakes a little bit longer but
a few of them uh really took to food and got started very quickly so these guys are doing
really really well in the little quarantine area but I really like this guy as I said
before the Mandarin rat snakes might be one of the best old world rat snakes for me they're
fairly hands off especially as kids and they have very slow metabolisms they don't like a
super warm so it'll be a really good fit for me so we'll put this back over on top of him
sorry little guy and then last of the snakes is this girl right here this will be really
really cool so we'll zoom in how the hell so this girl any guesses Last Chance three two one that's
right this is a trans Pecos rat snaker the sub ocularis they call them the sub ocularis because
it's a really cool scale right behind their eye so the ocularis really really cool these guys are
amazing little rat snakes um from the southwestern part of the United States mostly Southwest Texas
and that's actually where this girl's from she is captive bred but she is of the uh big hill
locality in Texas now we have a male which is why I decided to get her the mail is actually
double head for a xanthic and blonde she is not she's just a pure locality animal but to
be completely honest with you I really like just the plain looking sub box and I had a really good
deal on our boy and if I never produce a blonde or a xanthic down the road and I just produce
um just normal looking animals that all end up being possets down the road totally fine with
me just because I really like this little snake she's a little bit larger than our male not by
much but that's okay okay because you know we wanted to have a good size on them but it'll be
another few years before any of these three are actually going to be breeding so I'm going to
put this right back on here and again I will deal with actually refilling their tubs up in a second
now in addition to these guys I did pick up a few other little kind of goodies so one of which is
this really cool poster by Torah tiger Studio you guys have probably seen uh their stuff around you
can see here this is all the different hognose snakes of the world really really cool because
I don't get to play with those here in Colorado and I also picked up another really large poster
right here it's actually the second of another set another series it's a bunch of different reptile
species and I'll hang that up in the office and one of these days we'll do like a full little
video of all the different artwork and stuff that I have up and then the last thing that I got
was I got three more of these jungle cover uh shirt sir sure son LED UVA and UVB bulbs by Viv
Tech these guys are awesome the two year warranty these things last forever an ex an incredibly
Long Life as We Know with UVB even if they say they last a year or so with the 12 on and off
um we really have to start pay attention and metering them to make sure it is so usually
between six months and a year is about what we get for a 12 hour on off cycle for our ultraviolet
lights even if it's still emitting light these things will last a minimum of two years they
average more than three super super sturdy you can even put them in the cages with multiple species I
have one of these things in with my Accu Monitor and they and as anyone knows Accu monitors can be
just as destructive as the full-sized ones just on a little bit smaller of a level again I apologize
for the shakiness um I got three of these ones and one is going to go on to our Eastern Indigo
another one will be going on my gastropolis which is actually right there that's a little
gastropolis so that'll be a little one and then the other one I'm not quite sure we're going to
put that one but I will eventually probably do a video on all of the little setups I do for those
guys featuring this amazing thing and how they actually are interacting and they're uh habits
and actions and behavior change when we have a really nice high quality ultraviolet a and
UltraViolet B light bulb now with that being said these guys all need to go into quarantine
but as everyone probably knows at this point I have a pretty uh pretty fastidious quarantine
procedures of what I do with things and it has now finally come to the time where we finally
got back all of our negative test results for the arena virus and things like that where everyone's
been in quarantine for a very long period of time some of them since February as well as
they are all looking really good very healthy eating fantastic and they are all coming out of
quarantine and moving to the main building with the exception of the except with the exception of
one who will be moving into the uh tropical room so that'll be another separate video that I'll do
um probably the next video that comes out will be all the animals that are moving out of quarantine
that have been in quarantine for months and months and months so hopefully you guys enjoyed
this little video we'll just kind of zoom out as you can see I'm doing this in my kitchen because
um the lighting in my quarantine room is absolutely atrocious so that's why they're
just kind of in the in my living room at the moment not in the main snake building
so forgive my little countertop right there but again hopefully you guys enjoy this a little bit
shorter of a video and then greatly look forward to seeing what else we've been kind of hiding away
for the majority of this year just making sure that they're all nice and healthy again thank
you uh like And subscribe if you can thank you so much for watching and we'll check you next time