- Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
I'm spending some time here with my guy, Elvis,
and the truth be told, the first 20 something years
of my career, I was a snake guy.
I hardly kept any lizards.
I wasn't really considering myself a lizard person at all.
But now over the last several years,
I have fallen in love with lizards.
Certainly, Elvis is an animal that is,
I mean, it literally is a pet dinosaur.
He is crazy cool.
He's obviously trained to chase a ball around,
can climb up my legs, just hang out with me,
what an absolutely wonderful animal.
So today, I just think I'm gonna show all of my lizards off,
just do an all lizard vlog, if you guys don't mind.
But in the meantime, I'm gonna spend
just a little quality time with my guy, Elvis.
So guess what, Elvis literally had poop on his hand
when I was holding him.
I got poop on my face, on my shirt.
Look it, all over the place.
Stinks, back to being a snake guy.
No, just kidding. (chuckles)
Elvis, you are absolutely amazing,
but you're really stinky.
I think it's time for a bath for him.
Elvis definitely needs a little bit of a bath,
so we'll just put him in here,
let him chill out in the water a little bit,
but he can come out whenever he wants.
He doesn't have to stay in there.
We just always leave him open,
and like I said, he can hang out, he can come out,
he can climb out, do whatever, but he's stinky.
He just kinda pooped in there,
walked in stuff like that, so good bath.
Now, let's get back to some other lizards.
I started working with chameleons several years ago,
and I absolutely love them.
Of course, I've got Karma, the big chameleon next door,
and this is baby Karma here,
just a little several month old, Nosy Be panther chameleon.
And I tell you what, chameleons are some
of the most rewarding animals to work with.
They're so bizarre, so absolutely incredible,
and I love the panther stuff for sure.
But I also work with other chameleons.
Of course, I have Raul, the veiled chameleon from Yemen,
unbelievably beautiful lizard, I tell you what,
and these guys get pretty big.
This is a male, of course.
The male gets that big old veil on it,
really beautiful colored, really amazing animal.
Then, of course, the Jackson's chameleon.
The males have these cool horns, for sure.
And when I was a kid, really,
Jackson's chameleons were the only chameleons
that were in the pet trade.
So you didn't see veiled chameleons or panther chameleons.
They just weren't around, and Jackson's were the only one.
Unfortunately, the majority of them are wild caught
and they don't do all that well.
They're a live-bearing chameleon, which is pretty cool.
I remember when I worked at the pet shop,
we had several baby Jackson's chameleons.
They come out so small, it's really hard to keep them alive,
but they are unbelievable
and certainly one of the cooler looking chameleons.
And of course, we have Guacamole,
the Meller's chameleon over here.
I don't take him out too much,
but he is an absolutely gorgeous animal,
a really large chameleon.
I love that thing, and it blends in so well over this pond.
It's just a great exhibit, for sure.
I love that dude, and he is pretty impressive.
Then, of course, there's my guy Chicken Strip here
that definitely comes out, that is a little bit feisty.
But he starts to calm down pretty good.
We've been working with him a lot
when it comes to kinda habituating and kinda calming down,
and you can see already he's calming down.
Of course, he's an albino Nile monitor
that I got just as a baby about two years ago,
and I love this dude to death.
Again, he's a little bit crazy,
but once he calms down, he is such a good animal.
Albino Nile monitors, I only know of this one in the world.
I don't know if there's any other ones.
There's been a couple before, but I think they passed along,
so I don't know if there's another albino Nile.
This could be the only one in the world,
which is pretty cool.
He's a male and hopefully he can go with Ubusuku,
the black Nile Monitor here in the future.
But nevertheless, that is one impressive lizard.
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Ooh, doggie, that is one gorgeous lizard there.
Again, I'll get into the New Caledonian geckos,
like the crested geckos here that are absolutely incredible.
These are all Rhacodactylus.
This is the most common one, which is the crested gecko.
I often say I think it's the top three pet lizards,
to be honest with you.
You don't have to have heat, they don't need the UV light,
they're very easy to take care of,
so they're just a great lizard,
and they come in a lotta different
kinda polymorphism paint jobs.
This one is absolutely ridiculous.
Then the next size up would kinda be the gargoyle geckos.
I love these guys, and you guys know I'm working
with all kinds of different colors and favors.
Definitely working on a big breeding group
when it comes to the gargoyle geckos,
'cause I think they're absolutely amazing.
And this one's gone some great color,
cool stripe patterning.
I love the fact that these geckos can vocalize as well,
so they make all kinds of crazy
squeaking and squawking noises.
It's absolutely incredible.
Again, from the New Caledonian area.
Then there's the Chahoua gecko, it's unbelievable.
Another New Caledonian animal, a Rhacodactylus,
but look at the color on this animal.
The greens are just crazy cool,
and you could imagine walking through the forest
and this thing is gonna blend into a tree
like you wouldn't believe.
It just looks so mossy.
What an unbelievably cool animal.
I love Rhacodactylus, for sure.
Then, of course, there's the leachianus,
which is the largest gecko species on the planet
and the largest of course of the Rhacodactylus.
Again, from New Caledonia,
which is basically an island chain that's about,
if you were flying, about 2 1/2, three hours
northeast of Australia, just a little island chain
where all these amazing geckos come from.
But Big Bertha, the leachi gecko,
is definitely one of my favorites.
We have a bunch of leachi geckos.
Now, she's only about half-grown,
so she's gonna get about twice the size.
There si no doubt that one of the animals
that I have the biggest bond to,
especially when it comes to a lizard,
is Bella, my rhino iguana.
She is such an amazing animal,
and this is just a Missouri tortoise treat
that I'm giving her right now,
so it's a manufactured food that is a tortoise food
that's really good for them.
It's got all the nutrition and stuff like that,
and she is such, I mean, look at this animal.
Can you believe her?
I mean, rhino iguanas are truly amazing,
and by the way, Elvis is running around right now,
and she is so jealous of Elvis.
She's always looking out, giving him the eyeball.
She does not like when Elvis is out at all (chuckles)
because she wants to be the number one.
But she knows she's the number one to me,
there's no doubt about that.
Honey, I love you so much.
And Diddy and Dixie are certainly right behind Bella
when it comes to absolutely amazing.
I mean, they're getting so good about pets
and coming down and hanging out.
And Diddy will actually come out
and hang on your hands for sure,
but he loves superworms, there's no doubt about that.
That's kind of our elixir to get him to whatever we want.
All we have to do is give him some superworms
and he's happy to hang out.
He'll come on our arms, hang out on our shoulder.
And here comes Dixie, come on, girl, come on.
I'll give Diddy one so that he stays occupied.
There you go, bud.
And then I'll give Dixie, come here, girl, come here.
That's a girl.
They love their superworms, there's no doubt about it.
But again, getting very similar to Bella now,
where they'll come out and they'll get pets
and they'll kinda be completely habituated.
There's only that left, buddy, that's all. (chuckles)
They're really cool, and this is about the age
that typically rhino iguanas do mellow out.
You can see Diddy is getting so good.
Dixie's just a little bit less habituated to handling,
but Diddy is amazing.
It's gonna be cool to have Bella and these two
to have to come out all the time,
and there's a huge enclosure gonna be made
for Diddy and Dixie at the new Reptarium.
Then there's Argumus Prime, the Argus monitor.
I mean, what an absolutely amazing animal
this is right here, and if you guys remember,
when we first got him, it was handleable,
but it would definitely go after you and it'd go crazy.
And with this big hiss that kinda bluff right now
where he's going like,
"Don't mess with me, I'm bluffing on you."
He's still telling me that he's boss,
but the fact is that, again,
you can see I'm not holding him, my hands are open.
He's kind of feeling like he's okay.
I'm not threatening him, I'm not restraining him.
He's getting it, he's okay.
That ball training and target training
really takes away that food response that he has,
but nevertheless, little training sessions
like this are great,
and he's actually a really,
really beautiful animal, gorgeous.
This is about as big as he's gonna get,
which is cool 'cause it's a big monitor,
but not a huge monitor like Elvis.
What a beauty he is.
(chuckles) Of course, my boy, Toothless,
the black dragon or Asian water monitor.
He's all covered in bedding right now
'cause he was burying himself.
This animal is unbelievable.
I mean, the habituation, the fact that it's so intelligent,
loves people like you can't believe.
When this thing gets five, six foot, bigger than Elvis,
it's gonna be an amazing ambassador,
'cause it really does love people.
It has no fear of people at all.
That is one of the coolest animals that I own.
I always say Nova thinks that we're on display,
because he always comes up and watches us.
He's definitely a people-watcher.
You can see him tilt his head, like, "What's up, daddy?"
Nova, of course, is a frilled dragon
that I absolutely love to death.
This is definitely an insanely cool animal.
Not all frilled dragons are as tame as this guy is
or habituated to handling.
He loves people.
Like I said, when we're open to the public,
or even the workers are just here,
he always comes right into the front of the cage
and just kinda looks out and just kinda checks us out
and stuff like that.
This is one cool animal.
And of course, we had a bunch of babies
from daddy Nova this year.
Leopard gecko are awesome as well.
Really, the first lizard that I started working with
when I worked at BHB, I had had lizards as pets
and stuff like that, but leopard geckos are kinda
what started me on the path of keeping a lotta lizards,
and then of course, when we opened up The Reptarium,
we needed a lotta lizards for animal ambassadors,
and I've absolutely fallen in love with them.
We have a lot of really amazing leopard geckos.
This guy's named Mac, and I love him to death
because he's so absolutely tame.
Oh my gosh, of course, this is Cosmo and Wanda,
the uroplatus fimbriatus,
the big giant leaf-tail geckos from Madagascar.
These guys are ridiculous.
I mean, those big eyes are incredible.
They can see 300 times the light
that we can see, so in night...
We can see she's about ready to jump right here.
At night she can actually see in full color.
What amazing animals,
and we've gotten eggs from Wanda before,
and it looks like she's gearing up for another clutch,
so we're pretty excited.
Hopefully, this time we'll hatch some baby leaf-tail geckos.
(whistle)
Whoa, Jumper!
The Cuban knight anole is absolutely incredible, of course.
I showed him just recently.
This is an anole species from Cuba
that is absolutely incredible,
and obviously his name is Jumper
because this guy loves to jump.
What a cool animal it is.
Look at those eyes and that face.
I mean, this looks like something
that should be in the movie Beatlejuice
or something like that.
Absolutely incredible, woo, there he goes.
Jumper, see you later, buddy.
This is actually a Madagascan day gecko,
absolutely incredible animals.
Unfortunately, I can't take these guys out
because if I open the cage and try to get it out,
it would be gone, I'd be chasing it all afternoon.
But of course, Geico the gecko
made these guys famous as could be.
Beautiful animals, absolutely incredible.
I can't think of a more beautiful lizard, for sure.
Unfortunately, can't handle them,
but they're great to look at in a habitat.
Of course, we have Ubusuku.
Ubusuku, no food, and we use this hook
just as a habituation thing for her to understand
that we're not gonna feed her.
So once she knows that there's no food,
she's actually extremely docile, really almost like Elvis,
like we can just pick her up and take her right out.
And this is a long cry from where she was
when we first got her back.
Now, we got her when she was a baby,
but then we ended up putting her on loan
with another lizard breeder.
Unfortunately, she didn't have any eggs,
so he sent her back here for The Reptarium.
What an amazing animal, again, a melanistic Nile monitor,
I think the only one.
I think there was another baby that popped up last summer
over in West Africa, but I'm not sure what happened to it.
I saw a picture of it, and then it was gone.
So this is the either only night black Nile monitor
or there's another one floating around out there.
Regardless, she's a female, like I mentioned earlier.
Chicken Strip is a male, so hopefully,
one day they can make some double heifer
albino melanistic Niles.
But what an amazingly beautiful
and intelligent animal Ubusuku is.
Oh, and by the way, Ubusuku is Zulu for night.
Then, of course, there's the little dwarf monitors,
the Ackie monitors.
These guys are just like Elvis and Ubusuku,
Argumus and Chicken Strip, but in a dwarf body.
This is about half-grown, so they get about twice this size.
You can see a little bit more hyper,
but we've been working with them a bunch
to try to calm them down.
Hopefully, one day we can get these guys'
as docile as Elvis or Ubusuku, but in a little dwarf body.
I mean, they're so beautiful,
and these guys are from the northern part of Australia.
Of course, bearded dragons are another one
of those pet animals that is absolutely incredible.
I've been keeping bearded dragons on and off
quite frankly for like 25 plus years,
so they were a lizard that I kept
long before The Reptarium, that's for sure.
This is actually Flaming Hot Cheeto.
Of course, we have Fetty Wap as well.
So we just have two bearded dragons over at The Reptarium,
but they're both really great habituated animals.
Kids love it.
You can come in and play with these guys.
And again, if you're thinking about a pet lizard,
definitely bearded dragons are high up on the list
of most awesome pet lizards there are.
And then there's Taz, of course, the Argentine blue tegu.
This guy is ridiculous.
I always say he's like the sloth
of the reptile world, really.
He is lazy, just lays around and sleeps all day,
but he is unbelievably tame.
Kids love him 'cause they can come in
and just mess with him all they want,
and he just is fine with it.
But of course he goes back in his cage on his own,
and you guys have all seen that.
As you can see, there's a lotta things
that we don't show all the time on the vlog,
just 'cause there's so much,
and we're gonna be adding even more
with the expansion of The Reptarium.
We love lizards, and that's all of my lizards
basically in one video for you guys.
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