- They said keeping green anacondas were going to be fun.
They said "fun." The truth is I love them to death,
but I tell you what, the one thing about big green anacondas
is that every time that you feed them,
they poop a lot and pee a lot.
More than any other snake I've ever worked with.
So, we literally have to clean this enclosure
at least once a day, sometimes two or three times a day.
But we always want to keep it nice and clean.
So, that's my task to start the day.
But first I'm going to need to on some shorts.
That's a lot better.
(upbeat music playing)
(door creaks)
You know, there's nothing like starting your morning,
getting into a pee-water bath with some anacondas.
You know what I mean?
But the truth is that this is all part of it.
Ivy, how you doing, sweetheart? I love you so much.
You're such a good girl. I love you so much.
Look at how big she's getting.
But again, you just got to get in here and do it.
I mean, that's what this is all about.
And it's not like the water is terrible,
but there's definitely urine in it. It's cloudy.
We don't like it to look that way.
We don't want them to be in it.
And, of course,
Ariana over there has got a giant lump still.
She's one day going to be as big as my girl Ivy here.
Listen, it's a lot of work to keep anacondas.
I'm not going to lie to you,
but it is so worth it,
because they are one of the coolest snakes on the planet.
(upbeat music playing)
Alright. Got all those. Got the muck out of here.
So it's time to kind of do some cleaning of the glass
and then filling it up.
But what's so funny about anacondas
is you can see Harry's just wrapped around me.
The entire time that I'm cleaning.
He's just like kind of hanging out on me. It's weird.
Ivy does the same thing. Right?
When I get in the water, she immediately comes over.
Wants to just kind of be by me.
Anacondas are really bizarre,
Especially really docile ones like Ariana and Ivy,
when there's just so curious.
I mean, like no other snake I've ever met.
So it's nice to have a little buddy hanging out with me,
while I'm cleaning.
(upbeat music playing)
Just got to fill her up and we're all done.
Look at how cut they look right there.
I mean, Ivy and Ariana, just chilling out.
I love these guys. A lot of work, but, hey,
that's the way I have to start my day sometimes.
Now, I gotta clean up,
because I did step in pee water
for the last half hour or so.
So I'll clean up, get on with the rest of our day.
(upbeat music playing)
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Been a minute since I've updated you guys on some animals.
That BHB. As a matter of fact,
there's a ton of animals I haven't updated you on.
But we're not going to spend a ton of time with it.
In fact, this, of course, is that male mole sake.
Did he just give me a kiss? I swear to God,
he just gave me a kiss.
The fact is that we thought we were going to have babies.
Now, I don't know if that female's gravid.
She had some follicles. She looks super huge.
I wonder if I stopped breeding too soon.
That's a little tip for you guys,
especially with live-bearers,
is that if you think a female is swelling up,
sometimes it's an ovulation or pre-ovulation swell.
And if you stop reading too soon, you don't get babies.
And I think I might've messed up this year.
So, nevertheless, still really cool snakes.
And, although I'm really sad
that it looks like we're not going to have babies.
I'm still super excited for the future with these guys.
- Are you ready?
- Ready as I'll ever be.
- It is me, Noah Barczyk! I'm here with Mystic Mike!
Ooh! Do this. Ooh!
And today, we're going to be messing with Chicken Strip.
Because Mike's never done that before.
- Never. I never laid my hands on the animal.
- This is great.
You're going to have such a good time. Very relaxed animal.
But before, I gotta equip myself.
All right. We're ready.
[Noah] Yeah, Chicken Strip's so tame. Look at him.
Oh! Did that hit you in the face?
- That was close.
- Oh, my goodness, dude. You have to act quick.
- You're going to get me killed.
- Grab him! Grab him!
Under body! Other hand under body!
Get that underbelly.
Dude, underbelly. Whoa! Whoa!
Get your hand underneath those front arms.
Support him, man.
- Oh, he almost got my finger there.
- No, you're fine, dude.
You're fine.
- How many people have been bit by him?
- None. None of them. Ever.
There you go.
It's good.
It's gonna hurt a little bit. There you go.
Whoa. Whoa. Whoa! Whoa!
Don't restrict. Don't restrict. You gotta let him move.
- I don't want them to bite my finger.
- That's why he's trying to bite.
It's because you restrict him.
- [Mike] Jay, you wanna come help?
- No, actually I don't.
I'm really scared of Chicken Strip.
- [Mike] Come on, get in here, man. Come on. We missed you.
- I don't want to. Is he being so good?
- He's being so good right now. He's being so tame.
- You need me to pick him up for you, Mike?
- He hit me with his back legs.
- I don't wanna do it. I don't wanna do it.
- Remember a few days ago,
we actually hatched out some of those tiger
scaleless corn snakes?
Well, this is what they look like
when they got a little size to them.
Of course they just get better and better with age.
And again,
the reason why we call them tiger
is because they kind of remind us of a Siberian tiger.
Just the color.
And it is something that's inherent. So it's really cool.
And we have a handful of these coming up from last year.
Really cool to add to this group.
I'm excited about this project.
And this is another animal that I absolutely love.
I mean, just take a look at how beautiful that snake is.
This is of, course, is what they call a scissors crossing,
black-and-white stripe, California cane snake.
And what an absolute ripper it is.
I mean, if I can produce these, this line,
this kind of quality of that stripe.
And look that little heart on top of its head.
If I could produce this,
I mean the only break in it is right there.
This would be a super popular line of snakes.
So definitely some I'm working on,
we've got a few of these guys coming up.
Gonna be absolutely incredible in the future.
So I have so many cool snakes here.
I mean, I wish I could take like an entire day.
As a matter of fact, let me know in the comments,
if you guys want me to do a tour of BHB
and maybe The Reptarium,
a video where I just kind of tour the whole place.
Let me know in the comments,
if that's something you guys want.
Got a cool clutch to cut here.
This is actually a Mojave bred to a pin calico yellow belly.
Now interestingly enough,
the Mojave in the calico sometimes cancel out a little bit.
So I'm not sure what's going to actually come of it.
But we got a ton of eggs here.
So let's just jump into egg number one.
With all the combinations,
there's all kinds of potential for sure.
And sometimes Mojave and calico can still be pretty cool.
So, we'll just have to see what happens.
Oh, right off the rip, we got a beautiful calico.
This looks like a calico or a calico yellow belly.
You can see that pink and orange and beauty.
Whew, man, that is a good one, too.
Wow. That's beautiful.
So, let's hope we keep our luck going there.
Because that calico is amazing.
Egg number two.
And you can see this one's already pipped out.
So we know that the clutch is definitely ready to be cut.
And then we have what looks like just a normal Mojave.
Maybe a Mojave yellow belly.
We'll have to wait until we see this hatch out.
Definitely no Calico with no pinstripe
or anything like that. Let's keep going.
All right. Let's see what we got here.
Again, it'll be interesting
if we actually produce the all-gene animal
to see what it actually looks like.
Just another calico here.
So this one isn't quite as beautiful as the first one,
but you can see that orange and pink coming through.
So we've got two calicos,
maybe calico yellow belly, it's hard to say.
And then one Mojave.
So far we've been whiffing on the combinations,
but we still have two, four, six eggs to go.
And I know once we get that Mojave calico,
you guys will see kind of what I'm talking about.
If we get it, I should say.
Oh, wait a second here.
Wait one second here.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Wait one second here.
This is the all-gene animal here.
And it looks way cooler than I expected.
So this is a jigsaw,
which is a pinstripe and a Mojave.
It's a calico and it's a yellow belly.
And it's completely changed the color.
Which I didn't expect to happen.
So that was way nicer than I expected.
So, hey, we hit the all-gene animal.
We know what that looks like.
Let's just keep on going
and see what other combinations we hit.
I am super happy with the results of that.
There's no doubt about that. Come on, buddy.
Come on.
And, guess what? We hit another one!
Another one and they look so interesting. Wow!
This one is even cooler than the last one.
Again, that calico could have more oranges or less oranges.
This one's an absolute ripper.
So again, Mojave, calico pinstripe and yellow belly. Wow!
Two in a row, guys.
We still have four eggs. Here we go.
Gosh, I don't know how we could top that.
That was absolutely incredible.
But this one's actually really cool too.
So this is actually a Mojave calico, possible yellow belly.
But you can kind of see
how the Mojave and the Calico cancel out just a little bit.
You could definitely see it's calico
cause the orange and the flaming come up the sides,
but it's not extreme. Right?
So, nevertheless, we did hit it.
Now you guys know what it looks like. Three eggs ago.
Absolutely incredible.
I'm still on cloud nine with that one. Whew doggy!
I told you that was beautiful. Okay.
It looks like we have just a little yellow belly here.
Doesn't even look like a calico, just a normal yellow belly.
Two eggs. Wow.
I tell you what, this has been a good clutch though, guys.
This has been absolutely amazing.
Oh my gosh. Don't even tell me.
Don't even tell me. It looks like we hit another one.
Another one. This one might not have yellow belly,
but we definitely have a Mojave.
We have a pinstripe and we have a calico for sure.
Possible yellow belly,
but all three of them look a little bit different,
but we hit at least the three genes
I really wanted to get together.
So we are banging it with one egg to go.
Whew, doggy, I tell you what, man, what a clutch.
And that looks like just another, just yellow belly.
But wow. We really hit some really cool stuff.
Cannot wait to show you what these guys look like
when they hatch out.
Pretty excited to tell you guys,
that basically the VIP room is basically done.
We gotta cleaned it up a little bit,
but we are ready to start offering the VIP experience.
Let me tell you what that means.
I'm going to put a link in the description to The Reptarium.
It will be available there.
Only one spot will be available per weekend.
It will be on a Saturday and this is how it's going to work.
We can have up to six people. It's going to cost $400.
But what you're going to get with that $400
is that all six people can come in at four o'clock.
Spend basically a half hour,
45 minutes at The Reptarium, hanging out, doing whatever.
Then you come down and hang out with me.
Whatever guests are going on for the podcast.
Then these two TVs here,
you'll be able to actually watch the podcast live, interact,
or whatever you want to do. We'll have like pizza down here,
some drinks down here.
And then after seven o'clock
we'll hang out for a little bit.
Then you can go upstairs
and hang out the rest of the night at The Reptarium.
So it basically,
it's like a five hour experience
and up to six people for 400 bucks.
And the reason we're charging that
is that'll help us pay for guests coming in for the podcast.
That way we can continue to do that.
So again, one a week, that's it.
Whoever gets it, you can have less than six people.
You can have two people. You can have three people,
but you can have up to six people here.
So link in the description.
If you want to jump in and be a part of the podcast,
hang out with us, be in the VIP area, sit down, you know,
hang out, have some pizza, stuff like that.
Chill out with my turtles and stuff like that.
It'll be available over @thereptarium.com.
One thing that a lot of people have been asking me to do
is show more leopard geckos. And it's really weird.
You know, we just, we've been so busy with so many things.
We haven't shown a lot of our leopard geckos off.
This happens to be a Mack Snow,
white and yellow, Rainwater albino.
Now there's three albinos, right?
There's Rainwater. There's the Bell strain.
And then the Tremper strain.
They are all incompatible with one another.
So if you breed two albinos together,
you won't produce albinos.
That's why it's important to keep the albino line separate.
Because if you raise a couple of albinos up
and breed them and they're not the same bloodline,
you're going to produce normals.
And you're going to be pretty bummed out, right?
This happens to be the Rainwater albino. And again,
it's a Mack Snow, and a white and yellow.
Love this little monkey right here.
This is actually a Mack Snow, Murphy's patternless.
I just love that.
It's like that gray, almost like steel blue gray look to it.
Really amazing animals.
As these guys get bigger, they'll get a little bit lighter
to be totally honest with you.
But at this size, they're incredible.
Look at that blue on top of their head.
That's solid black eyes. Unbelievable.
Definitely a lot of really cool leopard geckos this year.
And we've got hundreds of them.
Jessica always does a great job with them.
Take a look at this sucker, it's on fire.
This is actually a tangerine Bell albino,
just like the Rainwater albino.
This is actually the Bell strain albino.
And this is a tangerine,
which is a polygenically bred thing.
Just meaning you breed the nicest tangerine orange color
year after year, and you get better and better animals.
And this thing, when it gets older, trust me,
it's going to be, I mean,
you're going to need sunglasses to look at this thing.
This is actually a bold Bell albino.
I always loved the bold Bell.
I mean, it's one of my favorite leopard gecko morphs
to be honest with you.
Really the bold stripe Bells
and the bold stripes Snows are like my two favorites.
But look at the head pattern on this one is very unique.
Very unusual.
That's what makes this one super cool.
I've never seen a head pattern quite like this
on another leopard gecko.
And it's a crazy little monkey. It's just on the go.
It's always moving kind of hand over hand.
This one got to mellow it out for sure. Where am I?
Calm down. It's okay.
But look at how cool that head pattern looks.
Take a look at the pattern on this one here.
This is actually that dark line that we have
that produces a lot of really great stuff.
And then it's actually bred to a Snow jungle.
So this thing's like a Snow jungle dark line.
I don't know what it's gonna look like when it gets older,
because the dark lines change a tremendous amount.
Really cool animals.
But this pattern is as crazy as it's going to get
when it comes to a leopard geckos.
This is just a really weird leopard gecko, right here.
It's kind of an interesting kind of reduction of pattern.
Definitely a hypo carrot tail.
It's also a little bit of a jungle,
but its head is really interesting. Purple right on the top.
You don't typically see that. So just interesting.
I wonder what it's going to look like
when it gets a little older.
And that's the thing that's interesting about leopard geckos
is they go through such a change
when they actually get to adulthood
and they start losing that baby pattern.
No idea what it's gonna look like, but I like it now.
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