- Producing these guys would be a dream of mine.
Again, it's
a species
I have never...
Oh jeez.
Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
As always, I'm gonna wish you guys an amazing day.
I really hope it is for you.
I'm gonna have the best day I possibly can.
I try to wake up every day with that mentality
and I want you guys too.
As a matter of fact, it's pretty cool.
We caught Ivy in the act of shedding,
my big anaconda.
So we're gonna time-lapse her, see her shed out.
I think it's gonna be pretty cool.
So, why don't we go ahead and roll that footage.
(upbeat music)
I told you that is so awesome.
It's not common to catch any snake in the act of shedding.
To catch an Anaconda is even more special.
And it's just so cool to think
they literally just crawl out of their skin like that.
I mean, it is amazing to watch.
I mean, no hands.
I mean, it's just cool, so I think what I'm gonna do
is go ahead and grab Ivy out right now and get her out,
and then we'll actually look at the shed to and...
Oh my goodness.
That snake is spectacular!
I mean, take a look at her fresh shed.
Unbelievable.
Come on little monkey.
Ah, not such a little monkey anymore.
I'm going to be telling you what this is one big snake
and she's only getting larger.
Ah, ah, ah, here we go baby girl.
All right, I told you guys she's my therapy animal.
She's amazing, I love this snake.
And I've never had a snake that I've trusted
more than I trust this snake.
I mean, I never once think she's going to do anything
because she is just such a curious, beautiful snake.
I mean, this thing is incredible
and she's only gonna get bigger.
I tell you what, I'm not gonna lie guys.
It's a little hard to hold this animal even at this size
and think about the fact that
she's gonna get two to three times this weight here,
just in the next year and a half or two years.
I mean, it is gonna be crazy.
I'm gonna miss this right here, her kind of being on me.
But I know that I'm gonna still be able to lay in her cage,
or lay on the floor and she's going to climb all over it
even if she's a lot heavier than I can actually pick up.
But I'm gonna kind of enjoy the time I have now
with my girl Ivy, when I can pick her up.
Let's go ahead and take a look at this beautiful shed.
There we go girl.
So, I'm just gonna go ahead and put her back,
let her climb up.
I just can't believe how good she looks after that shed
and then I'm gonna just kind of get the shed out of here.
Like I said, it looks like another gorgeous shed
for my girl, Ivy.
Just take a look at that shed right there
and you can kind just peel...
They actually turn their shed inside out.
That's how they do it when they're crawling out.
This is actually the outside here
and this is the inside right here.
So, it's pretty interesting how they just kind of climb out
and it curls around them, but let's just lay this out
and get an idea of how long the shed is.
Now, keeping in mind, I've said this a million times,
the length of a shed is not the length of a snake
because the shed not only flattens out
but it also is a little bit stretchy.
But nevertheless,
that has gotta be a good 15 foot shed right there.
She's probably about ten and a half,
maybe coming at about 11 foot right now,
So, that is pretty amazing.
She looks incredibly good,
and you know now that she sheds
that only can mean one thing.
In the next couple of days,
you guys are going to get an Anaconda feeding video.
(box drops and knife opens)
(knife clicks closed)
And you might say reptile people have one thing in common
and we're kind of obsessive is what's going on.
So, I'm gonna do an unboxing of an animal
that I've been getting a few of lately,
and I just keep getting more of them
because I can't stop getting 'em.
And that is some more little baby Leachie Geckos!
Oh, my God.
I tell ya, every time I get these guys
I freak out at how cute they are.
I forget how cute they are 'cause they grow so quick.
I mean, literally the ones that we got, just what?
Four or five weeks, those are like twice the size already.
Look at how crazy cute they are.
And every time we bring out Big Bertha
our Reptar here at the reptile zoo
and they're big, you know they're relatively big animals
that they just blow me away.
And to think that they start this size
is absolutely incredible.
So, I was able to get six more Gran Torino females.
So, that just adds to our GTs, right?
Because the GTs are the ones
that are like the big ones, right?
And there's a bunch of different localities like the Yeti
and stuff like that, that are really, really large.
All the largest ones are the localities from GT
which is called Gran Torino then you get...
And then when you get into like some of the smaller,
kind of more insular islands, they stay smaller.
Like, we have a bunch of Bosie Island ones,
like Reptars of Bosie Island.
It's going to stay about maybe half the size of a GT.
So, these are all GTs
and there is six little females too which adds to our group.
I think that we have six females now.
So, now we're going to have 12 female GTs
which I just absolutely love to death.
And each one of these guys look so incredible.
This one's cool.
I got... Oh my gosh!
They're all really beautiful, but this one's neat
'cause it's got a lot of green on it.
Think of walking through the woods
and seeing this little monkey right here.
And listen, listen,
(gecko vocalizes)
can you hear that?
They actually vocalize.
That's what's interesting about Geckos
is they have vocalization
and this one is a feisty little monkey.
Well, like I mentioned, you know,
if you were walking through the woods
and saw a mossy tree and this thing was on it,
there's no way you would ever see it.
I mean, it would blend in so much.
This one is definitely a cheeky little monkey
to say the least.
I tell you what...
But it is so cool to see these guys come in
and to think we're going to set 'em up.
And I've been talking about
the fact that we're going to be setting up
a New Caledonia room right by the podcast room.
So, that room is going to be all for Leachies
and Chahouas and Cresteds and Gargoyle geckos.
And that's where these guys are gonna go.
So, this is going to be really cool.
It's gonna be like a mini Reptarium as well.
So, we're gonna make 'em cool backdrops
just like the Reptarium
but downstairs in a little New Caledonia room.
And by the way, if you guys are interested in the future,
there will be Bruce and Jessica tours
that are available at thereptarium.com
and that is probably going to be the only way
you're going to see the New Caledonia room
to be totally honest with you
because it's going to be down there.
It's going to look like the Reptarium
but it's not open to the public as of yet.
So, you can't get that if you want to see it
'cause Jessica...
It's gonna be Jessica's domain if you know what I mean.
Regardless, six more baby GT Leachies.
I am stoked.
We teamed up with HelloFresh again to make an awesome meal
and save you guys some money.
You know what I mean?
And today,
I'm going to make pork sausage spaghetti bolognese.
The thing I love about HelloFresh again,
is that I don't have to be a chef to make something.
So, I could never make something like that
without this super easy, five-star recipes,
more than any other meal kit out there.
And again, it's just step by step.
One, two, three, four, five, six steps.
Seventh step is in my mouth.
You know what I mean?
So, let's see what we have here.
We have some sweet Italian pork sausage.
We have some noodles.
I got some water cooking right over there.
We've got, let's see, we got some marinara.
You always need that for spaghetti.
We've got some zucchini, we've got some more pasta, pasta.
Let's see, we've got a...
You certainly can't have Italian food without garlic.
You know what I mean?
So, we've got a couple little garlic cloves here.
We've got some Tuscan heat spice.
Ooh, that sounds pretty good.
And again, I love it because it's super simple guys.
I mean, literally, you order it, it gets here, that's it.
You follow the directions.
It's super simple.
It's...
You know, listen,
I don't have time to waste going to the grocery store
and I don't like thinking about what I'm going to eat,
stuff like that.
So, I just get this stuff shipped here
and you guys know I've been getting HelloFresh, personally
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Tons of really delicious food and listen,
most of them are under 30 minutes to prepare.
In some cases you can do quick meals for under 20 minutes.
This particular one let me see really quick here
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I can definitely do this in 25 minutes,
rather than spending a half an hour
or 40 minutes at the store buying all this stuff,
then coming home and cooking it and trying to figure it out.
So, let's just jump into it, go into step number one.
So, I obviously always want to wash my veggies up,
make sure they're nice and good.
Then we're going to actually just cut the ends off
like this, super simple.
You know, I look like a chef here don't I?
Like, I know what I'm doing.
Just cut the ends of the zucchini
and I actually like zucchini
and I love Italian food, so we are good here.
I do have to mince up some garlic,
a little bit of, you know,
you go like this with the knife.
Bam, like that.
Peels off really nicely,
and then we'll just mince this garlic up.
And by the way,
for those of you guys that have ever worked with garlic,
you tell...
You know, your hands smell like garlic afterwards.
I've got a good little tip for you. Stainless steel knife.
Wash your hands with the stainless steel knife underwater.
It takes the smell off.
So, I think Martha Stewart actually told me that.
Well, she didn't tell me that, I saw it on the show.
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That's a really good thing.
Not to mention that there's less waste, right?
When you go to the store and you buy a meal,
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Let's get this pasta in the water.
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All right, time to give a this bad boy a try.
And again, less than 25 minutes for this.
So, let's see how it is.
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It's been forever since I've updated you on these guys.
These look kind of like the Mexican Black Kings, right?
Those jet, glossy black Mexican King snakes
but these are actually African House snakes.
They're actually the Black African House snakes.
And they look again just like the Mexican Black Kings
but they stay a little smaller.
And their they're obviously from Africa
as opposed to Mexico.
I love these things and again,
another high production animal.
These guys will again, have four, five, six clutches
per year.
So, it's really cool.
We have two pair of these raising up.
They won't be ready to breed this next year
in 2021, but probably in 2022,
we'll finally get a chance to breed these guys.
Absolutely stunning.
Super cool snakes.
Always love African House snakes
because they actually look more like a little Python
than they do a Coluber.
So it's really cool and they are doing well
and look fantastic.
Someone recently asked me to show off Rico,
the Blacktail Cribo
and I realized that I haven't had him in the vlog
in a long time.
Again, Cribos are a cool animal, for sure.
Very intelligent, fast moving.
You can see he's always on the go
and kind of all of the drymarchon,
which is the Cribos and Indigos kind of fast moving animals.
They're always kinda on the go and he is a beast too.
He's a big, big thick Blacktail Cribo.
Absolutely incredible.
I tell ya, I've been trying to breed this guy
for the last couple of years and haven't had any success.
So, hopefully, with any luck,
this year we'll get some good eggs.
We've have bad eggs the last two years.
So, let's hope Rico does his job this year
because producing these guys would be a dream of mine.
Again, it's a species I have never...
Oh, jeez!
Species...
I swear to gosh, I thought he was going to bite my nose off
or something.
It's a species that I've never bred before
and Rico is absolutely insane.
Hope I can get some babies outta him this year.
I've mentioned to you guys in the past
that we're just wrapping up the breeding season.
We still have two clutches of eggs,
still to be laying Ball Pythons
but we're already gearing up for the next breeding season.
Here, in about a month and a half,
we'll have our first males and females together.
The thing that's always exciting every year,
is the possibility.
I mean 2020 was an amazing breeding season
where we literally had almost everything
that we hope to breed, breed and produce eggs.
It was the best percentage breeding season we ever had.
Now, we're gearing up for the new season
and we always have new animals up to size,
which is always exciting, right?
Because you have new males, new females that are like,
Oh my God!
I just want to show you guys a handful of those males.
Again, we have a whole bunch of 'em up,
but gosh, just take a look at a few of these right here.
This is actually a Banana Enchi Sinny Pinstripe.
Oh, my gosh.
Just look at the colors on that animal.
It's absolutely going...
Again,
because these are all incomplete dominant mutations in here,
I can breed this to almost anything.
Maybe I take it to a three or four banger female
that doesn't have any of these genes.
It could potentially prove some crazy stuff.
Certainly maybe into Orange Dream,
maybe into another Enchi,
so we can get some Super Enchi stuff.
Nevertheless, really, really loved
the way that this one turned out.
And then of course there's this guy here.
This is actually the Banana Super Chocolate.
Now, we did have another one of these last year
that did some breeding.
This one is even more spectacular.
I mean, unbelievable, the purples in this animal.
Now, you understand why I thought that there could be
a Barney Ball Python, right?
'Cause the purples in this Super Chocolate Banana
was so crazy.
I thought if you just took the yellow away,
it would be all purple.
Turned out that that wasn't the case,
but we are still working on it.
And speaking of the Barney Ball Python,
we will have this one up to size.
This is actually a Pastel Barney Ball Python.
So, it's the Pastel Super Chocolate Pinstripe Banana.
It's again, very yellow not a lot of purple,
but it has the genes, that purple gene.
So, we're gonna probably take this into something
like a Cinnamon or a Black Pastel, maybe a GHI,
something with a really dark morph
to try to get another dark morph layered in here
hoping that the purple even pops more.
This little monkey is gorgeous.
This is actually a Puma,
which is the Spark and Yellow Belly,
but it's also a McKenzie gene.
So, we can start getting that McKenzie,
the Puma, the Spark, the Yellow Belly, into other animals.
So, again, really beautiful male.
I have some big plans for this guy.
And take a look at this little monkey right here.
This is actually a Pastel Bamboo Vanilla Woma Ball Python.
I mean, woo-hoo, doggy!
That thing is so gorgeous.
I can imagine getting this into some beautiful females
and making some wicked combinations.
I'll be honest, this one has a lot of high hopes.
It's just a Woma Pinstripe, right?
But it's actually a Head Paint
and we're gonna be taking that to a Paint female.
We could potentially produce Woma Lesser Paints,
Lesser Paints, Woma Paints, all kinds of stuff like that.
So, I'm really excited that this male will
be up to size to breed back to a Paint female.
This is actually a Bumblebee Enchi Orange Dream.
So, again, Pastel Spider Orange Dream and Enchi.
That thing is crazy.
And you guys know, I love Orange Dream stuff
and I wanted to get more Orange Dreams.
Finally, we're going to have another male that we can breed
to a bunch of different things
to continue to grow the Orange Dreams in our colony.
I couldn't be more excited about this animal here.
This is a brand new gene that we're working with
that has a super, like, orange, weird look to it.
This is a Cinnamon, but it also is that new gene.
So it's a Sydney new gene animal
and it's just got wild colors.
And I have no idea, this is something brand new.
We don't even know for sure what it is.
We think it's incomplete dominant
but we'll find out this year when we breed it.
But wow, this male's gonna be up to size,
and he's definitely gonna have some action this year.
And honestly, I could sit here all day
and just show you the new animals
that are going to be up to size
but this one is definitely gonna be a good one too.
This is actually a Killer Clown Leopard.
So, a Leopard Killer Clown,
and it's just absolutely wonderful.
So, it's a Super Pastel, it's a Clown and it's a Leopard.
It's gonna go to a lot of different Clown females.
Definitely gonna make some cool animals from that.
Again, have so many more animals up to size.
This 2021 breeding season with Ball Pythons
is going to be a ripper.
And although I'm still wrapping up 2020,
I can't wait to jump into 2021 'cause it's gonna be epic.
So, we're really retooling this whole kind of a bug wall,
the spiders, arachnids, all different stuff.
And I think that this is the coolest
little enclosure we have
because if you look in here,
it doesn't look like there's anything.
Oh look at these.
Dead leaves are just blowing around a little bit right here.
That's the only thing.
Wait, are those dead leaves?
No, actually these are not dead leaves.
These are little Ghost Mantis.
Look at this little thing right there.
Oh, my goodness.
These things are so...
Oh, my gosh!
They are so absolutely adorable.
And we actually have a handful
of these Ghost Mantis in here.
Again, we have to do a little bit better job
of probably telling people that they're in here
'cause I'm sure a lot of people
probably don't even know they're there.
And the Ghost Mantis are probably
the most commonly kept Mantid
when it comes to the pet trade.
Just because they're easy.
They're relatively long-lived.
You gotta remember Mantis, as a general,
don't live a long time,
but females can live up to eight months,
males a little bit shorter.
They are sexually dimorphic.
Females get a little bit bigger,
males stay a little bit smaller.
Nevertheless, look at how cute they are.
And they'll literally fight each other too.
They'll like kinda box at each other.
They're super cool.
And one of my crew members Jay, not Jay camera guy
but the other Jay, actually breed these.
So, as these get older and unfortunately will pass away,
he's going to give us more
and we'll always keep these Ghost Mantis
since I mean, they're just so amazing.
Such cool bugs because literally,
they look like dead leaves on a plant.
Like I said, there's no way,
unless we do some great signage on here,
which we have to do, that anyone would look in here
and think anything other than the fact that
there's some dead leaves hanging on these sticks right here.
So, nevertheless, I love 'em
and I wanted to show you guys how awesome they are.
Again, it's always awesome to see Ivy,
or any of my animals she had,
but in particular, green Anaconda.
And the rest of the day was absolutely amazing too.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it.
As a matter of fact, if you did enjoy it,
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