- [Brian] Oh, that's got, an egg's out, egg's out!
- [Lori] She's laying.
- [Brian] She's laying eggs right now!
- [Lori] She just started.
- [Brian] She just started laying eggs.
- I like that snake.
("Last Wish" by Ballpoint)
Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I'm gonna jump right into some really cool content.
Something I've been thinking about doing.
You know I've been target training Elvis a lot.
I've been coming up with a thing that's kind of interesting.
Let's just try it and see what happens.
Of course, I've got my ball,
I'm hiding it so he doesn't see it.
I've got my chicken of course, which is pretty important.
I think I'm gonna put that right over here.
And let's go ahead and just jump in.
All right Elvis, as soon as he sees this ball,
it's gonna be game on, because again,
right now he's thinking, all right.
Watch, watch, watch, see?
He knows I'm not food, I can pet him, so on like that.
Now watch this.
See, immediately, I can get him to come down here,
And now I'm gonna hide the ball,
I'm gonna give him a piece of chicken.
All right, so that's the first thing.
We've seen that, that's not that big of a deal.
I'm gonna give him one more, just to get him juiced up.
Come on, and hide the ball, give him a piece of chicken.
But this is the part I'm excited about, here.
(exciting music)
Come on, come on!
Ahhh, there it is! I'm gonna hide this as quick as I can!
I'm gonna go down, all right.
Take this, take this, get the ball, get him off me.
[Lori] Here, here.
- Down on the ground, here, feed him there.
Okay, hide the ball! (chuckles)
(panting and laughing) So there,
so what do you think?
- I think I'm hiding the ball!
(both laughing)
- He is crazy, so, I was just thinking, how can I do that?
Would it work out?
Could I get him to go all the way up?
I mean, he was right there at my face.
Oh my gosh, now look at this, see?
He doesn't see a ball, and now he knows
he's not gonna get fed, and I can pet him,
all that I want, as long as you hide that ball.
So (laughing) his training is going really well.
And I think that was good.
I mean, that id pretty awesome,
and it's great enrichment for him too,
because he gets to climb, because in the wild,
these guy are gonna climb up trees,
and get to their food as well,
so it kinda helps him with enrichment,
it helps me with the training, and again,
I can almost do anything with him if I want.
Maybe I can get him to climb all the way up this sometime.
I don't know, it's just endless what we can possibly do.
The only thing I don't wanna have happen,
is that if he's up me, I can lay down and he can come up.
I don't want him be all the way up this pillar,
and him fall off, but regardless,
Elvis, you're such a good boy!
He is so smart, I mean, I tell you what,
that is the coolest thing in the world.
I love it, what do you guys think?
- Oh man, that was so awesome.
- That was crazy.
(all laughing)
- Just gearing up for a birthday party,
before we open up for the Reptarium tonight.
Always exciting to have a bunch of kids here.
They're just starting to show up,
and the birthday boy is really into reptiles,
which I think is really fun,
so this should be a really good time.
And then right after this birthday party,
we open up for the night,
so it's gonna be an amazing rest of the day.
Before we get started with the presentation,
we just have Elvis out over here.
Of course, Liam with this cool shirt over here.
It says the birthday boy, so it's really cool.
Elvis is amazing. (chuckles)
Got Maze the corn snake out right now.
- [Kid] Don't squeeze him!
- These kids love it, I mean,
everyone seems to be super into the reptiles,
which are awesome. - [Kid] Oh, it's so cute!
- [Kid] Think it's a bird and then try to bite it.
- Presentation done, Lori and the crew
just setting up the tables. This is what we do, we get done
with the presentation right here,
we set the tables up, and that's where we do
the pizza, cake, all that type of stuff,
but, went really well, really good group of kids.
Every birthday party is a little bit different.
We have different packages.
This particular one actually has feeding the gators,
which is always awesome, so, here's our line
for feeding the gators, should be pretty fun.
Okay, birthday boy's up first!
- Come on up, my friend.
Perfect, aw, that was awesome! - Good job, buddy!
("Last Wish" by Ballpoint)
- [Kid] See look they're biting the...
- And that's a wrap with the birthday party,
T-15 minutes 'til we're open to the public at The Reptarium.
Wanted to give you guys a little update
on one of Lucy's babies from last year.
This is one of the females that I decided to hold back.
I mean, not only is it getting big,
but it is unbelievably beautiful.
So as she's gearing up to lay another clutch of eggs,
I figured I'd give you guys a little bit of an update
on what these guys are doing.
Of course, we're not power-feeding 'em,
so I'm sure that some of her other babies are even bigger,
but unbelievably beautiful, and like I had mentioned,
I don't know, I'm just, I don't feel good about that clutch.
I have a feeling there's gonna be a lot of infertile eggs.
Sometimes I get fooled, so you never know
what's gonna happen, but I have a feeling
there's not gonna be 42 good eggs
like they were last year, because last year
she just looked so full of eggs,
she was just exploding.
This year, she just looks a little thin,
so you know, who knows?
Maybe I'll get some fertile eggs,
and some infertile eggs.
Regardless, it's not like I really
wanna produce a lot of big snakes anyways,
but with that being said, when we do produce babies,
this is what they're gonna look like
when they get a little size on 'em, absolutely stunning.
It's a supper sunny, just beautiful day outside,
so I don't know if it's gonna be busy
or slow at The Reptarium tonight.
I know a lot of people are probably gonna be out
just trying to enjoy the day.
Regardless, either way, we're gonna have a good time.
Again, gonna be opening up in a few minutes.
Hoo hoo hoo, look at the size of this mama,
just loaded up with babies.
Last year, our first babies were the second week of May.
With any luck, in a couple weeks,
we'll start to get our first litters
from northern and eastern blue tongue skinks.
Hoo hoo, doggy, am I excited!
And with these chunky monkeys like this looking,
she should definitely have probably
at least 10, 12, maybe even 15 babies.
Oh my god, I am so excited!
Fingers crossed they come out
as beautiful as they did last year.
And this year we even bred nicer animals,
so oh my gosh, I'm hoping for a great skink year this year.
Having some fun at The Reptarium, obviously.
Been open for an hour or so, just kinda hanging out.
Everyone's having a good time.
What's goin' on guys?
Night Fury over here, just kinda chillin' out.
Again, not a super busy night,
but definitely a fun night.
- [Woman] That looks fascinatin'.
- [Employee] It is.
- Looks like some more Elvis feeding.
- [Employee] Great job, great job, great job, great job.
Right there, right there. - Right into his mouth hole.
- [Employee] There you go, there you go, perfect, perfect.
(crowd buzzing)
- Taking a quick break from The Reptarium
to get a little bit of an update
on the colubrid breeding season.
Lori's been working diligently hard this whole year,
and today kinda going through, so what's the update?
I mean, what are you gonna show me?
- I had a question.
- [Brian] Okay.
- What do you think about this girl?
Do you think she's pregnant? (laughs)
- [Brian] Oh my god, it looks like she's gonna,
she can't even bend!
- (laughing) I know. - She can't even bend.
Okay, I was just making sure, I wasn't sure if,
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- If she may have some eggs in her. (laughs)
- Yeah, she might have some eggs in her.
So as you can see, we're definitely getting pretty close.
Do a lot of the females look this big?
- Uh, yeah, believe it or not,
over the last, like, week or so,
a lot of 'em are starting to look like that,
which actually is very exciting,
- [Brian] That's good.
- Because that means good eggs.
- Tell me a couple highlights of what's goin' on here,
and again, egg season is coming, it's really fun.
This'll be our biggest colubrid year
since we're in this building,
'cause we kinda downsized a lot,
and didn't do as much with the colubrids
over the last few years, so it's pretty exciting.
Oh, that's got, an egg's out, egg's out!
- [Lori] She's laying.
- [Brian] She's laying eggs right now.
- [Lori] She just started.
- [Brian] She just started laying eggs.
- I checked her earlier, and there was none.
- Okay, guys, the first colubrid clutch of the year!
Okay, shut that really quick, 'cause with colubrids,
unlike pythons, that kinda go into a trance to some extent,
sometimes if you interrupt a colubrid too much,
they can actually egg bind.
We don't want our first clutch
to be an egg-bound clutch,
so we're slowly shuttin' that,
we're gonna leave that alone, but how exciting is that?
I guess when I said "an update,"
I wasn't expecting a clutch of eggs.
- I wasn't either, obviously,
'cause I just checked her a half hour ago,
and there were no eggs in there, so.
- Oh my gosh, that's so exciting!
First clutch of colubrids this year.
That is absolutely epic.
All right, what else we got?
- [Lori] This girl here, as you can see,
same thing, look at that. - Oh my gosh.
This is that Blizzard Sunkissed, right?
- Yes, bred to the male Blizzard,
so obviously it'll be all Blizzards.
- Yup, these'll all be Blizzards,
they'll all be half her Sunkissed,
but when it comes to the Blizzards,
the Sunkissed add a little bit of green flecking to 'em,
but other than that, I mean, this is a pure Blizzard here,
which is basically just a white snake with pink eyes.
Because what it is is that is a muted corn,
or muted black corn, that's bred to an albino,
and when you do that, it's not only
lacking the red pigments, which is erythrophore,
but it's also lacking the xanthophore,
which is the yellow, hence, a solid white snake,
or in the case of a Sunkissed,
a little bit of green coming through.
- This one I'm excited about.
I've been a big fan of Granite corns myself,
- [Brian] Oh yeah.
- She just shed today, again, do you think
she might have some eggs in her? (laughs)
- Oh my gosh, she's looks so loaded,
and ironically enough, I actually looked
at this snake just yesterday, she was in shed.
Obviously she shed. - Yep, she shed today.
- And just so you guys know, we'll leave
a piece of shed in here, just as a kind of a marker.
You'll notice that we'll have dates on here,
of when they shed, and then seven to 10 days after,
is when they're gonna lay, so that's just our kinda marker.
We should have a clutch in seven to 10 days.
Definitely pretty exciting about that.
And that was bred to the-- - Let me show you, yeah.
That was bred to this guy here,
which is a Granite Scaleless.
- Oh my gosh, that thing is so adorable, I'll tell you what.
So, again, that's gonna be all Granites
that are Scaleless and het for Scaleless.
So wow, that's gonna be a big clutch.
- [Lori] And they're both poss het Snow,
as well, so who knows?
- [Brian] Oh, so we could have all kinds
of really cool stuff. - Yup. That is super cool.
Again, it's just exciting to get back into this.
Like I had mentioned, we haven't had
the biggest colubrid years in the last three years,
so, this year is gonna be pretty darn exciting.
- Here's another one who just shed,
so again, I'm a big Motley fan,
so this is an Anerythristic Motley corn,
- Right, beautiful, exactly, and this is one of those,
like, striped Anerythristic Motley corns,
so it's striped and Motley,
giving it a connected dorsal stripe like that.
That one looks like she's loaded up with eggs too,
so that's gonna be really exciting.
I'll pick her up and let her go
in this nest box right here.
A lot of times we'll just guide them
into the nest box, just so that they see,
and again, they can come and go in the nest box,
but again, when they lay their clutches of eggs,
it doesn't dry out, because there's some moisture in there.
- [Lori] And she was bred to this Scaleless Motley corn.
- Oh, gosh, that's a beautiful snake right there.
Gosh that's gonna be amazing.
We're gonna have some killer stuff this year.
At least fingers-crossed, anyways.
- And another girl who just shed and due to lay,
Uh, do you think she's ready to pop? (laughs)
- Oh my gosh, you can just tell,
see all the distended scales where they're just spread,
and you can almost see the skin in between the scales?
That means that they're definitely gravid,
and the good news is when you start
to see that real big distension,
that oftentimes means that they've got
good eggs in 'em. - Good eggs.
- Yeah, because what happens,
if you don't see that big distention,
or that spreading of scales, they have slugs,
'cause the slugs are much smaller.
So far it's looking like we're gonna have
really good clutches of eggs, let's hope so.
That first clutch, you could see
there was actually good eggs out,
so that's a good sign, so colubrid year is shaping up.
It's gonna be amazing, cannot wait to take
you guys along on the entire journey.
Had a kinda interesting night,
because it started out kinda slow,
picked up a little bit, and then it got
kind of a little bit busier as the day went on.
Just a weird day, I don't know about it.
But it's such a nice, beautiful night out there
that I'm sure people are finding
many other things to kinda do,
but it's still cool that we got plenty of stuff out.
Of course, seeing Peach is out here,
and again, it's been a consistent night,
which has been really fun, perfect night.
(man in gray yells playfully) Oh, what do you think buddy?
You like that snake?
(adults laughing)
- I like that snake.
- Awesome!
And that's what it's all about, man,
just making people happy.
That's a little bit of Reptarium.
We're about to shut down here for the night.
Really had a fun night.
It was weird because I thought it was gonna be slow.
It kinda started slow, but then it kinda was busy
throughout the entire night, really a weird night.
Unusual, 'cause usually there's a spike,
and then it kinda falls off, but again,
I've told you guys this, I'm always thinking like,
okay, no one's gonna come anymore,
I don't know why, so I really do appreciate
everyone that does make the effort to come.
We have such a good time here, so thank you guys.
As for now, I'm just gonna go ahead and end the vlog,
wish you guys an amazing day,
tell you you how much I really do love you guys.
Remember to be kind to someone,
and I promise, I will see you guys tomorrow.
("Last Wish" by Ballpoint)