- Whoo, doggy, I am ready for an unboxing.
Actually, our friends over at Reptek, Cold Blooded Cafe,
where we get all our rodents, by the way,
link in the description to their stuff,
go follow them on Instagram, tell him I sent you,
actually sent us these beautiful animals
Well, we can't see.
They're in a box, but I'm excited about these.
I've wanted to work with these guys forever.
So what do you say we jump in and unbox these beauties up?
(upbeat music)
And I tell you what, these are going to be a great addition
to the reptarium, 'cause they're super cool display animals.
Let's go ahead and show you what I am talking about.
Packed up very nice.
I wouldn't expect any different.
So oh, these are little captive born.
Oh, and they're going to be feisty.
They're going to be feisty.
I don't know.
I thought I was going to be able to take these out
and look at them, but what do you say we give it a shot?
I've got to show you.
We're going to be chasing some lizards around here, guys.
Wow, are you kidding me right now?
Look at this thing.
It doesn't even look...
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
These things don't even look real.
Are you kidding me?
It's like a turquoise blue.
These are actually green bellied keeled lizards,
and they've got this super long...
Oh, and it's biting me and everything.
This a feisty little...
Look at this little dude.
Oh my God, I love these.
These are called Gastropholis prasina,
and they are absolutely incredible.
They're found in...
Ow, look at this little dude.
What is wrong with you?
It doesn't really hurt, to be totally honest with you,
and I hope that we contain these things down because, well,
there you go, what do you think?
Come on, little monkey.
Let go, you silly.
It's like a little tiny monitor lizard,
which is pretty cool.
Let's take a trip to Tanzania.
Of course, Tanzania and Kenya are middle of the continent
of Africa on the east side,
and a lot of really amazing reptiles are from here,
including these little buggers,
and these guys can be up in the canopies.
They can be on the ground.
They're a really social animal, which is pretty cool.
So we've got three of these little guys,
and he will not let go.
As an adult, this would probably hurt, and yeah, now,
he's peeing on me.
It's a great thing, but thank you, guys, over at Reptek,
'cause I have loved these animals since I first saw them
years ago and I always wanted them,
so they're going to be a really cool display animal here,
over at the reptarium.
They get only about a foot long,
but you can see that really long tail.
That's the majority of their body,
and they are just absolutely great.
Again, they're definitely a communal animal,
and I can't let this...
It just won't let go.
Let me see if I just maybe put him down like this.
Let go, let go, little buddy.
It's okay.
They are feisty little monkeys.
Unbelievable.
Come on, dude, let go.
It's okay.
Seriously, I want to put you away.
So it's going to be cool to be able to set up
a real arboreal enclosure.
It's gonna run around.
Like I said, they're really brazen, so they'll come out.
Really cool.
We obviously have to tame them out,
and I know that you can't tame these things.
They are pretty quick,
but we obviously have to tame them out.
So we actually have three of them,
and they turn a greenish color, but wow, these babies,
they're this bluish color.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I love these things.
So again, link in the description,
not only we get all our rodents from Cold Blooded Cafe,
but also Reptek.
You can follow them on Instagram.
I'll put all the links in the description.
Thank you, guys.
As the meantime, I'm just hoping at some point today
this guy will let go.
Oh, and by the way, welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
Let's go ahead and see if these cheeky monkeys
are going to give me any more of a hard time,
getting them in this beautiful enclosure
that Jessica set up.
Go ahead, bud, be free.
There, look at how cool they look.
Woo hoo, doggy.
That is absolutely incredible.
Of course, the female's a little bit more green,
and I'm going to go ahead and just do the same thing,
take this off and let her run around.
There you go.
Up here, up here.
Let's go that way.
All right, and as they get bigger,
they will get a little bit more emerald color,
but this one is absolutely gorgeous too.
Oh my gosh.
Now, we'll go ahead and just let that one go there.
Wow, I tell you what.
They're going to be so cool in this enclosure right now.
They've got all the climb here.
They've got terracing, ledges.
They've got a hotspot.
They've got UV light.
They've got everything they need.
These guys are pretty bold, so again, they're going to be up
at the front of the cage and stuff like that.
Will we able to hold them?
I'm not 100% sure, but we can certainly train to feed,
and I think that's going to be absolutely incredible.
What an awesome addition.
Thank you guys again over at Reptek and Cold Blooded Cafe.
Love these guys.
(cardboard banging) (knife clicking)
(cardboard tearing)
(mat banging)
(laughs) How awesome is that?
Of course, we've got our checking in podcast mat,
just in from floormat.com.
I am super happy.
Of course, they made a bunch of reptarium stuff and, hey,
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with your animal on it, your logo on anything,
you can actually use the promo code, BrianB,
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So again, go to floormat.com, use the promo code, BrianB,
save some money, get yourself a custom mat like this.
Absolutely love this thing.
Let me tell you what.
This place is coming together.
For the longest time,
I've been trying to find shelled snails
for some of the animals, because the blue tongue skinks,
Mango, they actually will eat shells,
as well as the actual inside.
Now, I've just been feeding the inside,
so it's good calcium.
So let's roll some cool cooking music
and let's smash these up.
(whimsical music)
Let the fun begin.
Mango is actually the one that I really wanted
to get this calcium into, so let's see if he eats it.
- Come on, Mango. - This looks pretty good.
There he goes.
There he goes. - Bingo.
- And again, that calcium's going to be so good for him.
He just swims away.
He's like, "I've got my spoils.
"I'm out of here."
So he hides in the back over there.
So he's definitely going to crush that.
We'll give him one or two more pieces of actual snail meat
and the actual calcium of the shell itself.
That will be really good for him.
I think she's going to really like that.
Like I said, I've been looking for a year for this,
so I was really lucky that we finally found a place
that we can get these consistently, and then what do you say
we feed some skinks? - I say we feed skinks,
skanks, lizards, anything. - All right. (laughs)
(whimsical music)
- Did you see the new rock? - What rock?
There's another rock? - There is another rock.
- [Brian] Where's that?
Don't tell me I have to go find it.
Just give me-- - Yeah, go find it.
- No. - It's over here somewhere.
I just can't really remember. - Oh my God.
- All right, so people have been leaving rocks
at the reptarium, and it's super cute and trying to find it.
- There's one over there. - Stop, wait for him.
- Oh, here it is.
Oh my gosh, this is so cute.
It's a little owl. - Whoo, doggy.
- Whoo, doggy.
"Post to Facebook life's a beach rock."
Oh my gosh, I love it.
I love this thing.
I love the fact that people are starting to plant rocks here
and we have to find them.
This one is awesome.
I love it, thank you so much.
You guys remember that first clutch of ball pythons I got
this year were actually slugs,
and I've actually mentioned before she laid
that I thought she didn't feel good,
but what I meant by that is you can actually palp
and feel if an egg looks good.
This is the second girl.
That's from the same male,
so let's hope that it's a good clutch, and basically,
what I'm going to do, is I'm going to just put her head
back in this cage
and I'm going to let her crawl through my fingers
and I'm going to help palpate for the actual eggs theirself,
and what you don't want to have is like, dunk, dunk,
dunk with spaces in between.
What you want is nice, soft eggs
that almost feel like one big sausage.
There's a little bit of concaving going on
and stuff like that.
This girl feels great.
So I have a feeling she's going to lay in the next,
probably, week or so, and it looks like she's got good eggs.
So if you ever have ball pythons,
you want to know if they're going to have good eggs
before they lay, again, if you palp 'em like that,
you want to feel, again, soft,
and you want them to, almost,
the eggs almost mushing together,
because their slugs are actually harder,
and they actually go kook, kook, kook,
with spaces in between them.
So this girl looks good.
I'm super happy about that.
We're going to go ahead and get Potato.
I think he's going to really love these for sure.
Look at that nice, big old chunk.
- [Noah] Look at that, juicy.
- [Brian] Come on, buddy, you want some?
- [Noah] Come on, Potato.
Get a little snail, boy.
- Let's go ahead and see if Erwin wants to eat.
Come on, buddy.
He loves snails. - Come on, bud, Erwin.
Oh yeah, there we go.
We're enticing the beast.
Come on.
- Remember yesterday, when we put the egg in
with the female egg eater, the male ate,
but the female didn't.
Well, guess what?
The female did eat that egg.
You can see right back here,
this is the actual shell of the egg, so she did eat it.
And again, it's so weird.
They eat it and then they crush it in their actual neck,
and then just eat the yolk and then spit out the shell.
Really crazy.
So really cool.
I promise you guys, we're going to get some footage of this,
of her actually eating at some point,
and it's going to be absolutely incredible.
Well, Noah and I tried to feed the skinks,
didn't work out so well.
So what do you think, Elvis?
- Oh, yeah, Elvis would crush it.
Which one do you want to feed him?
- I think we just end up just putting it right down here,
like a dinner plate, and see if he'll come over
and eat it up.
Oh, he's smelled that now.
- [Noah] Come on.
- [Brian] We've got a big dinner for you.
- Go to town, buddy.
Now, will he eat the shells as well as the snails?
- [Brian] I think he will,
and it will be really good for him.
It's good calcium for him.
He's liking the smell of it.
Look at him, he's like, "Oh, this is exciting."
There he goes. - Oh, he grabbed the big one.
Look at him go.
Oh, yeah, he's singled one out.
Go, Elvis.
Now, it'll be interesting to see
if he chomps it or swallows.
Come on, use that pressure, crunch it a little bit.
Crunch it.
- Swallowed it down. - Oh, he just swallowed it.
- That was the biggest piece right there,
so the rest of them, I think he's going to have a good time,
and most of them are unshelled,
so that he's really going to like that.
- Oh, but he can grab-- - But he went right
for the shell.
- [Noah] Exactly, I wonder if he knows.
- [Brian] Interesting.
- [Noah] He knows he can just swallow those.
- Gobbled that one down too, so this worked out really well.
So unfortunately, the skinks didn't eat,
but Elvis is the good recipient of their passing it up,
so this is going to be good for him, and water monitors
actually in the wild will scavenge for clams and snails
and all kinds of stuff.
They are definitely a scavenging animal,
and pretty much come across anything
that they could possibly eat, especially water monitors
that literally live right by the water.
He's absolutely loving this delicacy.
- Oh, it's funny how he uses the plastic cup so perfectly.
He never tries to eat the plastic.
He knows exactly what to go for.
- It's amazing how smart they are,
- Doesn't mess around. - Aren't they?
- Yeah. - Just amazing
to see that brain thinking, right?
He's looking at everything, trying to figure it out.
It's something that he's never really had before, but yet,
he's still using his brain to figure it out.
This is awesome.
I'm pretty excited about this right here.
This is actually an older female woma python.
She's almost 20 years old.
I've had her for a long, long time.
But look at, she is coiled up,
and she is ready to lay a clutch of eggs here pretty soon.
She might still be another couple of weeks away,
but she is definitely loaded up and she hasn't produced eggs
in the last two or three years,
so this is the first clutch from her,
so hopefully we'll get some good eggs from this girl too.
She is an absolute beauty and, again, like I said,
I've had her for such a long time.
When it comes to ball pythons,
clown stuff is certainly what everyone
is really always looking for.
Clowns and pied seemed to be that recessive, like oh my God,
I've gotta have some stuff,
and there's so many great combos.
I'm loving this one.
This is actually a Super Pastel Lesser Leopard
Clown ball python.
This is a little boy that should be ready
to breed next year, so he's going to definitely go
to some really beautiful females, but wow,
that is just one stunning animal.
This is such a cool ball python right here.
This is actually a Suma ball python,
which is the super mahogany, but this is also het for Pied,
so we can get that black and white ball python.
Just really cool.
Again, some ball pythons,
you can take away the color and it makes it really amazing,
and some ball pythons,
you want to add a bunch of color and pattern.
This is definitely the opposite way, right?
No pattern, and the only color being almost a black animal,
but absolutely a ripper.
And by the way, people always ask me,
"Do scaleless snakes shed?"
The answer is, yes.
This is what a scaleless snake shed looks like.
You can see it's got the ventral scales, but on the back,
it's completely scaleless, so it's really cool.
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