- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
You know the other day I was watching a video
that said "The most beautiful albino animals on the planet"
and I thought to myself,
they were some pretty amazing animals
but then it caught me thinking like,
what are the most beautiful animals here at The Reptarium?
You know, all of them are absolutely incredible,
as you know.
And ironically enough, in that video
there was actually an albino alligator just like Salt
and we know Salt is truly amazing.
But there's a lot of amazing animals here
and each one of them is different to me
but I just thought maybe
you guys wanna do a little fun thing with me today.
We'll go ahead and just look at all the comments
and you guys can decide who you think
is the most beautiful animal at The Reptarium.
Of course, starting with my girl Salt, the albino alligator.
I'll tell you what, she's a beauty for sure.
I think that's what's great about Mother Nature, right,
is that there's just so much beauty in everything.
And you know some people like bright colors
like Baby Karma here, the Nosy Be Panther chameleon.
I mean there is no doubt this animal is stunning.
And then other people like really dark animals
like different contrasts, you know, all kinds of stuff,
and I guess in the end even though
we might be for fun kind of saying,
"What is the most beautiful animal here at The Reptarium?"
The truth is is that
you know, everyone's gonna have different opinions, right,
but there's no doubt that everybody is just blown away
by how beautiful Baby Karma is.
There is certainly no doubt,
ooh, Pickles is definitely fired up right now, ready to eat.
But there is no doubt that green tree pythons, Pickles
and Emerald tree boas as well
are unbelievably stunning animals.
It's hard to beat something as beautiful as that,
there is no doubt about that.
But again I don't know,
I look at every animal we have
and I'm in complete wonder with every single one of them.
Presuming Rainbow boas are ridiculous,
I mean they have a bunch
of different things going on for them, right.
They've got an amazing pattern,
their color being that red
and beautiful kind of orange-ish looking animal
with all these kind of crescents and stuff like that,
that's amazing and then of course,
their namesake Rainbow because of the iridescence
when you're seeing these in person,
in particular in the sun,
you see all of the colors of the rainbow,
that sheen and iridescence,
it just unbelievably pops,
but again that cool pattern and color
kind of really adds to their beauty and their lure
so definitely, one of the cooler
naturally-occurring snakes as well.
All right so just back from Texas obviously
and I've got a box that says
"For Brian to open when back from Texas" so,
this is from Robbie Wilson.
Thank you Robbie.
From Indiana,
so I'm gonna go ahead and do this,
definitely a very nice tape job here.
You guys have been spoiling me lately,
sending me all kinds of really cool stuff,
so thank you guys for that.
Woo, this sucker is definitely, definitely packed good.
Oh my gosh.
(laughs)
You gotta be kidding me right now.
Oh my gosh!
- [Lori] Oh shoot.
- Ah, oh my gosh!
- [Cameraman] That's the one I have!
- Oh my gosh.
- This is ridiculous.
- Give me kisses.
(smooches)
(laughs)
Aw, I love it!
Oh my, it's so cute.
(laughs)
Just wanna hold it and hug it.
Thank you so much, oh I've got a little thing in here.
Hang on a second.
Here, hold my sloth.
- Oh, jeez.
- We know how much you wanted a sloth
so we couldn't resist when we saw this.
Thank you so much.
Also I got you a knife like you wanted
but you can only use it while under supervision of Lori.
(laughs)
We cannot wait to come see you and the crew
and see all the amazing animals sometime soon.
I hope you will.
I would also be honored to come and help on the tent
if it helps.
So yes, that would be fantastic.
Reach out to me, I would love to have you here
and so yeah, I obviously got another knife here.
- Oh lord.
- And that's awesome, thank you.
- A sloth and a knife.
- I mean this is like the best day ever.
- Yeah!
- I mean, a sloth and a knife?
Are you kidding?
Oh wait a second!
- [Cameraman] OTF!
- Oh my gosh, not one of these!
I gotta make sure I'm not gonna kill.
How's this work?
I don't know how it works.
(gasps)
- [Lori] Whoa.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Lori] Yeah, I don't think this is a good idea for you.
- It's a great idea.
- Is it?
- I don't know how to close it though.
- Exactly, I don't think this is a good idea.
- Eric!
- Who's hurting you?
- [Lori] Yeah, you're gonna cut your damn self.
- Okay I figured it out.
- [Eric] Whoa!
- [Brian] I figured it out.
So it goes like this.
- [Eric] Dude, OTF!
- And then it goes like this.
I don't know, okay like that,
and then you just go down with it, is that how it does it?
- [Eric] That's sick!
Yeah I think so, it's a nice one.
(laughs)
Yeah, OTF!
- This is awesome, that is so cool.
Thank you so much for the sloth and this dope knife.
I'm gonna use this a lot.
And if you try to take my sloth away from me...
Here with Bruce.
Remember a few weeks ago, that, aw, let me do it again.
(laughs)
Here with Bruce.
Remember that the Goliath birdeating tarantula
just molted recently.
So this is her first meal?
- Yeah, this will be her first 100 percent meal,
usually what I do a lot of times
after a really, really heavy molt,
usually like I'll feed her vertebra,
like a small rodent.
I wanna also like do other things,
like other animals, other food,
so today we're actually gonna knock out some roaches.
- [Brian] Some roaches?
All right let's, this girl is crazy.
I cannot wait, I hope that she feeds
because she is definitely a beastie
and she's right here in her little enclosure.
Let's go ahead and see what happens.
She's gonna be interested?
Oh yeah!
She's coming!
- [Bruce] She's upset.
- [Brian] She's rearing up, that's for sure.
Yep, she took it, she got it real quick.
Unfortunately she's definitely stuck down in the cave
so you didn't see it quite as good,
but when she finally like got on it, she crushed it.
I tell ya, that is absolutely amazing.
- [Bruce] Oh man, I'm so excited.
She's cool.
(laughs)
- [Brian] Goliath birdeating spiders
are truly one of the largest species of spider on the planet
and actually the largest when it comes to mass.
The only spider that's actually larger than these guys
are the giant huntsmans, which are much more thin.
These guys are girthy heavy-bodied animal
and of course they're known for these extremely long fangs.
Fortunately this particular animal is relatively mellow,
but when they rear up
and actually sink those fangs into you,
it definitely doesn't feel good, that's for sure.
Now they got their name birdeater
believe it or not from an 18th century copper engraving
showing a birdeating spider eating a hummingbird.
The truth is, they would very rarely
eat something like a bird.
The majority of the food they're gonna eat in the wild
are gonna be bugs, small amphibians, maybe a lizard or two.
But they are opportunistic
and if a bird actually came across their way,
where they could actually get it,
I'm sure they would eat it.
These guys are truly amazing.
And seeing it just kinda get into this roach right now
is just truly spectacular.
You can see that spiders have what they call spinnerets
which are what actually produces the web,
they'll actually use those spinnerets to produce a web
that is almost like a bed to lay their prey on,
that way if they don't eat all of it right now
they'll actually sit on that webbing
and they'll kind of encase the prey
to come back at a later time.
Most of my life I've been terrified of spiders
but now I revel in them, I think they're absolutely amazing
and an event like this, seeing her eat
is truly breathtaking.
There's no doubt when I opened up The Reptarium
I had mentioned that I wanted
a solid white reticulated python
and then a jet black one,
and of course Casper is the black-eyed leucistic
and some people have noticed
that he's got a little bump here on his spine.
This is actually produced by Cavin O'Redner,
and it was just born with a little spinal defect,
a little kink and stuff like that.
Hasn't even affected it's life at all,
but it is definitely a stunner, I mean, come on.
A white snake, pearl white,
is pretty darn impressive for sure.
And while you're at it, commenting down below
which animal you think is the most beautiful,
tell me what it is that you love,
I mean do you like the white snakes,
do you love bright colors,
do you like the dark stuff,
do you like, you know, lizards, do you like snakes?
I mean tell me what it is that you love about them,
because again it's funny, every snake that I pick up
there's another reason why I like it, you know.
I always say my favorite animal
is always the one I'm looking at right now
because I just find beauty in all of them.
You guys know I love my dart frogs
and these Azureus are absolutely stunning!
I mean the electric blue color,
these things are, I mean they don't even look real,
they look like little plastic frog figurines.
They are absolutely incredible.
Anyone who looks at these
and doesn't think they're a true work of Mother Nature's art
I don't know who you are but again,
I'm leaving it up to you guys, you know,
if I had to choose, I know I'd be having some problems.
Certainly Jeffrey is an amazing Burmese python,
probably my favorite Burmese morph
to be totally honest with you.
I mean I love albinos and the pied stuff is really cool,
but that hypo-granite,
there's just something about those two morphs
that go together that make them just unbelievably beautiful
so again, I can imagine when this guy is 17, 18 foot
how insane it's gonna be.
It's a true beauty, there's no doubt about that.
(door opening)
Look at this!
I've got a sloth cage guys,
it's my sloth, my two-toed sloth!
I guess Lori is on-board now,
'cause she actually put my sloth in my new sloth cage.
I'm gonna go talk to her, see what she was thinking.
So you let me get my sloth now?
My sloth in my sloth cage?
- Yes, isn't that amazing?
- [Brian] I know right?
(laughs)
So I think that you're on-board,
now I can just get a real sloth and we're all set.
- No that one's all set.
- [Brian] No, I mean it's-
- [Lori] This is the perfect edition, yes.
- [Brian] No I love it, yes.
I do love it.
- I know.
- [Brian] I do love it
but I think that I need a real one now.
That just shows you how cool they are.
- Well it does show you how cool they are.
But let's be honest,
you couldn't put a real one in that cage.
- [Brian] Well not in that cage,
but this shows you we could get a really big enclosure
for sloths, so.
- No.
- [Brian] Good, I'm glad you're on-board, this is awesome.
Ooh, doggy!
I tell you what,
that is one gorgeous snake.
This of course is a scaleless Texas rat snake,
just look at the reds and the smooth,
it's really hard to be an animal like that,
and for whatever reason when you take those scales away
which is a recessive mutation,
that's just basically reducing the keratin
in the animal itself.
You just get this unbelievably cool smooth palette
that is shockingly beautiful,
and you know, again,
I'm not trying to pit one animal against another here,
right, because I think when you walk in,
you see cage after cage after cage
you just think like,
that's beautiful, that's beautiful, that's beautiful!
I just thought it was a fun way for me
to make up an excuse to show you guys
some of my favorite and cool animals here at The Reptarium.
Everyone that comes to The Reptarium
is blown away by Perdita,
there's, you know, so many animals in here
that people love to death
but the most requested animal, certainly is Perdita,
I mean she is truly absolutely stunning
and the thing that's great about cow retics
is that every one is completely different from the other,
obviously we have Moo Moo
that's gonna go into the new Reptarium
that's got that yellow look,
doesn't have as much speckling,
of course she's young
so she'll probably get a lot more speckling
as she gets older,
but still I don't know,
there's just something about that pure white
and then they got the grays and the browns
and the black contrast, I mean,
Perdita not only is an amazing snake
but is truly a stunner,
and I can't wait to read all your comments
about what animals you think deserve to be the best
at The Reptarium.
I should probably have an all of the above tab.
(upbeat music)
So the floor is completely grinded here
over at the expansion right now,
so all the rooms are,
we just gotta kinda patch
where there's little imperfections in the floor
so what happens is once this dries,
tomorrow they come back and grind that down.
Then they'll put the first prime coat down,
which will make it look really nice and glossy
and actually start to see what the floor really looks like,
and then the next day they put the finish coat on
with a little bit of grit that has the texture in it,
and then the floors are done
and that's gonna be a huge step.
We finished up the little bit of electrical work
that needs to be done in the ceiling
after tomorrow's electrical inspection,
and then we can put the ceiling tiles in
and then this place is gonna start looking amazing,
and then I'll be totally honest with you,
after that there's not a tremendous amount to do here,
just a little bit of preparation work here and there,
but then we're just waiting for cages
that is now 12 days away.
I think this vlog is kinda more difficult for me
than anybody because again,
I have kinda weird taste as well.
I love all of them,
but I do kinda like really dark animals
and even a lot of animals that are like,
kinda natural-looking, you know,
like kinda that blending colors into the camouflage.
But there's no doubt that things like
the piebald ball pythons
have always been so striking
and I think about the people
that walk into The Reptarium
and the animals that they're always like,
"Oh my gosh!", about
and there's no doubt that Honey the piebald ball python
catches a lot of attention.
Not only is it just an amazing placid beautiful snake,
but the colors on it are truly breathtaking.
And again, I love them all but I tell you what,
there's no doubt piebald ball pythons
are what really spurred my passion for ball pythons
when I was a kid.
There's a lot of really beautiful bearded dragons.
Flaming Hot Cheeto is the type that I really like,
the kinda oranges and even some that are really red
but I like the white ones too,
like some of the Hypo Zeros and stuff like that
are really truly amazing.
Bearded dragons in their self
are just such a cool kind of unique animal,
they're very dinosaur-looking,
they've got all those spikes on them.
Kids love them to death, I love them to death,
but Flaming Hot is a stunner.
Mandarin rat snakes have been coming into the country
since forever, I mean since the pet trade has been going on.
The problem is is that they typically do horrible.
These guys are from China
and usually the animals that come in
actually come from the meat markets,
so these guys are caught
and they're actually consumed over there
and once in a while the pet trade ends up bringing them in
and by the time they got over here
they're absolutely horrible animals,
they don't do well,
they've just been beat up so much
and the survival rate is next to nothing.
But since they've been captive-born
over the last like 15, 18 years,
now they're just as good
as say even a corn snake or something like that.
So they're definitely unbelievably beautiful animals
and I've often said
I think it's probably one of the most
stunning naturally-occurring snakes in existence,
I mean just look at the beauty of that animal.
An animal like Sunrise here is so iconic.
It's interesting because
everyone remembers that one music video.
Britney Spears.
So now it's like, you gotta have your Britney moment, right?
And that's what Sunrise is about,
and every time we get people that come to The Reptarium,
I hear that at least five times a night,
like "I've gotta have my Britney moment!"
But I can understand.
It is a beautiful snake and certainly is iconic.
So again let me know down in the comments
what you think the most beautiful animal is at The Reptarium
and did I miss something,
because I could have showed you about 100 more animals,
if I did miss it, let me know in the comments
what you think.
And again, it's like I said,
I think they're all equally as gorgeous
but I'm just curious what you guys think,
so hit me in the comment and let me know.
And if for some reason there's an animal I don't have
at The Reptarium that you think is the most beautiful,
let me know that as well.
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