- You wanna try one bud?
Yeah?
Oh my gosh, there we go.
Here we go, yes, yes!
Oh my God, they took it.
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Hey, good morning everybody.
As you can see, winter is basically upon us.
And, I'm gonna be totally honest with you,
I do not like cold, I do not like snow,
I do not like winter, but,
I do like being happy.
So, I decided that I'm just gonna go ahead
and embrace the insanity of winter here in Michigan.
After all, it is absolutely beautiful out here.
Regardless, we are gonna feed the two-headed snake
later today, Ben and Jerry.
I am so excited about this.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing.
What do you say we have a great day together,
head over to the shop, and just make this awesome.
Long time friend of me actually called me up
and said, hey, I've got a couple Boas,
they're kind of a little bit unusual.
Do you want 'em, i just need to get rid of 'em.
I said, of course.
I hadn't seen 'em but they're absolutely cool.
I'm gonna go ahead and show Kelsey and Eric,
and see what they think about 'em.
Hey guys, I got some new boa's I want you to see.
- Oh, bag snakes.
Oh, crack it open, crack it open.
- They're actually just normal Boas,
but they're really crazy looking.
I've never seen boas like this,
so genetically I don't know.
And, I guess he said he produced a whole litter like this.
So, I think they're, one of them is really cool.
- Wow. - Ooh.
- I know those are just--
- What are these?
- Clean, look it, oh wow.
- They're not hypo-boas either.
- You're sure?
- I'm sure these are not hypos.
- I don't know a heck of a lot about boas.
- They're beautiful.
- But, these are beautiful.
- You can tell by the tail that they're not hypos,
because the hypos wouldn't have the black pigment
on the tail like this, like it would come down.
This is kind of hypo-ish but you can still see the black
coming through and certainly it doesn't look hypo.
- Look at this like really nice light tan rusty color.
- I know I'm just excited about it.
- I love the reduced pattern.
- I know that's what I'm saying, they're just so cool.
There's 18 of them like this.
But, ironically, out of 18 there was 15 males
and two females so, he kept the two females.
Sold the other 16 off as normals to like a pet shop
and so he was gonna raise these up but,
he decided to get rid of them
and we're the lucky recipients.
- Sweet. - That's awesome.
- When I first opened them,
I thought they were actually Bolivian red tail.
They aren't, they're just normal Colombians.
How crazy huh?
- These are incredible.
- They're nice and chunky.
They're really good looking snakes.
- Alright cool.
So, we're gonna set those up.
I guess, I think were just gonna raise those up
cause they're too cool not to.
I'm a little bit anxious about feeding the two headed snake.
I'm hoping that Ben and Jerry will eat.
Because, that first meal is so important.
But, before we do that, I'm actually gonna try to feed
the monitor some croc diet.
You guys know I like to vary up the diet
and this croc food is actually a great little
nutritional thing, let's see if they'll eat it.
And, again, I've talked about how varying
the food is so important with so many animals but,
in particular with monitor lizards.
Again, with Elvis and Ubusuku and stuff like that,
we feed the rodents, we feed them chicken,
we feed them ground turkey, eggs, all kinds.
So I'm gonna try this again.
Missouri croc chow.
Which again, has all the kinds of nutrition that crocodiles
can actually live on this pretty much full time.
I mean, although, you should give them some
full body prey now and then.
But, I think it'll be a good change up.
It looks like Elvis is definitely interested.
So, let's see how well he does.
Elvis, you want to try one of these?
You wanna try one bud?
Yeah.
Oh my God.
There we go.
How awesome is that?
What are you gonna do?
My God, he seems to love it.
Oh my gosh.
Look at that.
Down the gullet.
Oh my gosh.
Elvis that was awesome.
You wanna try another one?
You wanna try another one bud?
Oh yeah.
Oh my God again, I wasn't sure how this was gonna go but,
he seems to absolutely love it.
Oh my gosh.
Look at him.
That is the cutest thing ever
and I'm gonna give him one more.
I think I'm gonna drop it in his water.
Come on Elvis, there you go.
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Perfect.
And, that just gives him a little
bit of an enrichment thing right.
So, then he can go in the water and play around.
Oh my gosh, he just keeps dropping it.
That is so cute.
Oh my God.
Look at it, it seems like he's actually enjoying it.
And, again, I think that's what it's all about.
It's just that enrichment.
He's playing with it, he's picking it up,
he's dropping it again.
Oh my gosh that is so awesome.
There he goes again.
Elvis is just like a little puppy.
He's like playing catch with it.
This is awesome.
Elvis that's so cute.
So, I'll go ahead and let Elvis play with this
for a little while, that is absolutely amazing.
Let's see if Ubusuku would like it too.
I have no idea how this is gonna go.
In all honesty Ubusuku is a little on the heavy side.
So, this might be a good diet for her.
Come on girl, you want that?
There she goes.
She definitely took it.
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Again, I think it's really weird
how it seems they absolutely like to almost play with it.
I've never seen that before.
Because, they don't do that with rodents.
So that is cool.
I think I'm gonna do the same thing with Ubusuku
and maybe just throw one in her water
and let her kind of go after it.
Ubusuku what are you doing silly?
You stay girl, you stay.
Good girl.
There's another one for you sweetheart.
I love it, again, I'm drop in her water
and then let's try Argumis Prime.
Obviously, Argumus is definitely smaller
than Ubusuku or Elvis.
So, I just broke up a little piece like this.
I have no idea if he's gonna like it or not.
Normally it's a very aggressive eating animal.
So, let's hope it works out.
Argumus you want food?
You want food?
Come on, want food?
Whoa!
You want food?
Okay, come on.
Take it.
Take it, Argumus you don't like it?
There he goes.
Holy cow.
Wow.
I didn't expect that at all.
It just came out of nowhere.
Argumus, you're such a crazy man.
Holy cow.
Argumus.
Oh my God.
It still might have been a little bit big.
I thought I broke it off small enough but,
maybe it's still little bit large for him.
But, he'll be able to crunch it down.
It's just like Ubusuku and Elvis,
he seems to be kind of playing with it
and toying with it a little bit.
Oh my God that is so awesome.
I'm not gonna feed the monitors this all the time,
But, once in a while I think this
is a really good treat for them.
There you Argumus.
There he goes.
Oh yeah, there it is.
Again, varying their diet is so important.
It's going to be absolutely amazing.
You know what?
I'm gonna go ahead and feed some super worms
off to a couple of my animals before
we feed that two-headed snake.
We really vary the diets with the Blue Tongue skinks.
So, we give them vegetables.
We give them low sodium dog food.
We give them super worms.
All kinds of different things.
Let's go ahead and give Potato one of these.
Usually he loves it.
Potato you want?
There ya go buddy.
There ya go bud.
(soulful music)
You want another one?
There ya go.
There ya go buddy.
Okay, one more.
One more sweetheart.
Potato that's so good.
We don't normally give them too much but,
these are the things we do.
Not only for enrichment, variety,
all that type of stuff and we really enjoy it.
I get such a kick out of feeding these animals like this.
But, Bella loves super worms and so does Erwin.
Let's go ahead and give Erwin one.
There ya go Erwin.
There ya go.
There ya go bud.
What are you doing silly monkey?
Gosh you're so cute.
(soulful music)
Here's another one Erwin.
There ya go.
There ya go sweetheart.
You are a pig.
One more.
There ya go.
I ain't gonna lie to you, I have the best job in the world.
Then of course I have my girl Bella.
She loves super worms, horn worms, all kinds of stuff.
Again, you don't give them too much.
She eats mainly vegetables and then,
the Missouri iguana diet she eats as well.
So, let's go ahead and give her a treat.
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You're so pretty.
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Hey.
I guess she didn't even let me hand feed her.
She was just like I'm gonna eat these on my own.
Bella, you're such a silly monkey.
Oh my gosh I love you girl.
Okay, so, that's it for the treat for the animals.
The monitor thing was really really cool.
Let's go ahead and feed this two-headed snake Ben and Jerry.
Before we get going with feeding Ben and Jerry,
I got to tell you I'm a little bit nervous.
I always say that first meal,
when you first get an animal, it's so important.
It just makes all those nerves kind of go away
and with a two-headed snake it's even more so.
Now, of course, Ben and Jerry are adults so,
we would assume that they're eating very well.
But, this is the very first meal.
So, once I can get that meal in, everything else calms down.
I go, alright, they're eating now.
Now I know how they eat.
Will both heads eat?
Will only one head eat?
We know that the left head is dominate
and has the predominant eating but,
we know that both of them can eat.
So we'll offer it to both of them.
We'll see what happens and once that happens
I can calm down and go alright we might be alright.
What do you say we give it a shot?
Okay, and here we go.
Come on girls.
Are you gonna eat for me?
Come on, come on.
Come on, are you guys gonna eat?
I hope that they are gonna go.
They don't show any interest right now.
It doesn't seem like they're interested at all.
Okay, okay here we go.
Yes!
Oh my God they took it.
How freaking awesome is that.
I was so nervous but, yes, they took it.
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I tell you what, what a relief.
When I first offered it, it didn't seem interested
and I was in complete panic mode.
Like, oh my God, these guys aren't going to eat
and then the left head took it no problem.
I honestly could have enticed Jerry a little more,
the right head but, to be honest I just wanted see it eat.
So, that was absolutely incredible.
Ben and Jerry ate for me, which is super cool.
And, now I can get that baseline
I been talking about with stress, right?
So, now I know that it eats,
I can see how it passes it through it's system.
And, then if we handle it, we can kind of tell
if it continues to eat and continues to do everything
we can handle it more and more and more.
It's just kind of that baseline that I really needed.
Awesome, unbelievable.
Ben and Jerry the two-headed California King snake
ate it's first meal at The Reptarium
Everything is looking good here at The Reptarium.
Fed well, everything went good today.
Oh my God.
I just love it over here.
But, let's go ahead and wrap things up over here.
As well as, wrap things up here at BHB
and head home for the night.
I'm home and I think I'm gonna go ahead
and shut the vlog down here.
Spend some time with my family and just wish you guys
an amazing day, evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
Wasn't it so amazing that Ben and Jerry ate?
I am so so excited and I had a good day.
I just had a great time today.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
Can you do me a couple of favors before we get out of here?
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Leave a comment down below.
Cause, I love reading about your guys beautiful faces.
Be kind to someone and I promise
I will see you guys tomorrow.
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