- I'm pretty excited right now,
'cause you guys know that.
How could I not care? - I open the container
and said what the hell is this?
- The thing that's interesting of course,
this is parthenogenesis because there's no male in here,
and they look like they're fertile.
It's really gonna be this really cool
nature kind of thing where there will be like
shows kind of like Animal Planet or Nat Geo,
but on YouTube.
A leucistic king cobra.
- Oh my God.
- [Brian] White King Cobra with blue eyes.
- Nothing venomous, nothing venomous.
- So I'm thinking about maybe hiring on a business person,
someone that really knows business.
Not just someone that's passionate,
but someone that can maybe help mold all our companies
into something bigger and better.
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Hey good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
Hope the start of your day is amazing.
I'm pretty excited right now 'cause you guys
know that we had a couple clutches
of mossy tree frog eggs.
Because you guys know that we had
a couple clutches of mossy tree frog eggs
that didn't hatch because they were basically infertile.
Well today, I was walking by and guess what,
they are in amplexus.
So basically what happens is when frogs breed
it's called amplexus.
The male will actually grab the female
wrap around her and that's how
they actually fertilize the eggs.
The first two clutches were infertile
'cause we never saw amplexus.
Now that we've seen amplexus, I'm assuming
that this girl is gonna lay eggs
within the next 24 hours.
And when she lays eggs,
hopefully they're gonna be fertile
and hopefully we can hatch some baby mossy tree frogs.
I am so excited about this,
because, again, I'd kind of given up.
We had four males and a female.
I thought, maybe they're just never going to breed.
So now we're one step closer to hopefully
having some mossy tree frog babies.
That would be so cool!
And in this vlog today,
I actually have to ask you guys for some help
on a couple things.
Maybe you can help me out.
But in the meantime we have
a bunch of other things going on,
let's have a great day together.
- [Brian] Lori, I just want to know one thing.
Who ratted me out about the snake?
- What snake?
- [Brian] The Retic.
How did you find out?
- I literally walked down the stairs.
- So no one told you, no one ratted it out.
- No, no, I saw the container - How can I not keep...
- I opened the container and said
what the hell is this?
- How can I not keep a secret from you, ever.
- Because you're the worst,
you're just like the kids, like you don't know
how to hide or do anything.
Which is fine by me.
Clearly disappointing to me, but (laughing)
no, you're the worst.
- [Brian] So you mad?
I mean, okay. - Yeah, no I'm not happy.
- [Brian] Why?
- Why would I be happy about another retic?
- [Brian] Because it's a mochino retic.
Do you know what it's name is?
- Bye-bye?
- No, it's name is not bye-bye.
- [Lori] (laughs) Yeah.
- I came up the name, I asked you guys
yesterday what name, I'm sorry,
I came up with the name on my own.
Let me know if you guys like it down below.
And I think once I tell you this name,
you're gonna to love it.
And then, it'll endear at you.
- No.
- [Brian] It's name is Almochino.
(crickets chirping)
- I'm gonna call it Bye-bye.
- It's Almochino!
- Bye-bye is what it's name is.
- No it's not. - And anybody who's interested
in re-homing Bye-bye, email me.
- (laughs) Don't email her, Almochino's
in the Reptarium for a long, long time.
It's gonna change peoples' lives.
- Bye-bye. - But I can't believe,
I mean literally, you couldn't have been in the building
for five minutes and you found that snake.
How's that possible?
I hid it from you!
(she laughs)
- Worst hide job ever.
I literally tripped over it, that's how. (laughs)
- Sheesh, I guess I gotta get better at being sneaky.
I'm pretty excited guys,
because we have these little tiny mourning geckos.
They are so cute.
These are adult mourning geckos right here.
And they're two females.
The reason we got them is we wanna put them
in with some of our dart frogs because we have,
like true polarium.
Paludarium.
'Cause we have some true paludariums
where basically we have fish,
we have the frogs, and then we have the mourning geckos.
But the thing that's really cool is,
take a look at what we just got!
Right here, looks like a couple eggs.
The thing that's interesting of course,
this is parthenogenesis because there's
no male in here.
And they look like they're fertile.
So it looks like we've got some
fertile parthenogenesis mourning gecko eggs.
- Is there any other alternate pronunciations please?
- That is so cool.
I'm not exactly sure how long these guys take to incubate.
But when Bruce and Jessica get in tomorrow,
'cause today's their day off.
They probably know all about them.
They are hatched really small 'cause you can see
how small the adults are.
But it's gonna be super cool
to hatch little mourning geckos.
And eventually like I said,
we'll hopefully put them in all of our dart frog cages.
And that is definitely a first for here
at the Reptarium.
So there's really two things on my mind today
I want to share with you guys
that you may or may not be able to help me.
You guys know that I'm really looking at trying
to relaunch Animal Bites TV.
- [Announcer] This is a ABtv, Animal Bites Television.
- That's really gonna be this cool nature kind of thing
where there'll be shows kind of like Animal Planet
or Nat Geo, but on YouTube.
You know, something like that.
Well, we got some people that are happy to be involved
as far as the talent side of things.
Obviously we do a traveling show,
these really cool like high-end shot
literally TV shows that are like 15 minutes long
where we're traveling around the world
doing animal adventures.
We also have Andy Brandy Casagrande for sharks.
Maxstrong, has showed interest in maybe doing something,
a few other people have expressed interest
in maybe being a part of Animal Bites.
It's gonna take a pretty considerable investment
to do it the right way because we're gonna have to have
film crews, we're gonna have to have travel,
we're gonna want really great kind of sponsors' involvement
in it and I think it could be really big,
to be totally honest with you.
I'm not really 100% sure.
But the reason I'm asking you guys
is because I figure, why not?
I'm bringing you guys along the journey.
So why not ask you guys?
We're probably gonna need some major investment
behind this project because the first year,
we're gonna be in production.
We're gonna be traveling the world.
We're gonna be filming, we're gonna be doing stuff.
And it's gonna take a pretty considerable amount of money
to kind of fund the whole thing
and hopefully it's gonna turn out something big.
If you happen to know someone or you're interested
in maybe being a partner on a project like this
and you have the ability to kind of help invest in it,
it's something I'd love to talk to you about.
Again, I'm not begging for money here guys.
I'm just saying that I don't know that I have the resources
to make it happen by myself.
So if I could bring someone on as kind of a partner
in the project, it makes sense.
If you do, I'm gonna put a link in the description
to my email address and you guys
can go ahead and email me with your thoughts.
So the year is definitely coming to an end
when it comes to production.
We actually have a couple little colubrid clutches
here that are the last kind of corns, kings, milks.
We do have a mangrow clutch that is due
to hatch in about a month or so.
But you can see these little monkeys here have pipped out.
Looks like one egg is out.
I don't know where the baby is.
It's gotta be in here.
So, oh, there it is, right there!
Oh, it's a little butter corn snake.
So that it is it.
It's a bummer when we get down to the last couple clutches.
I can't believe this one's hatching,
this one should be hatching any time.
We got a little baby butter corn
that's absolutely adorable
and listen guys, when these guys hatch out,
that is it for production.
Again, a mangrow clutch will hatch in about a month
or something like that.
But that's the last colubrid clutches
that we'll have for the year.
Got a handful of ball python clutches and then we're back
into the breeding season again
when it comes to boas and pythons.
Colubrids go into brumation.
I'll tell you what: what an amazing year this has been.
But it is always sad to see it come to a close.
Well that last clutch that could potentially
prove the banana camo's is out
and I wanted to kind of show you guys the result.
Of course, this was a chocolate pinstripe
bred to a banana spinner chocolate.
So this is a normal chocolate ball python here,
for those of you guys that are wondering.
Just a really cool co-dominant dark morph animal.
We got a couple kind of variations of spider in here.
A normal spider ball python and then a spinner
which happens to be a pinstripe
and a spider ball python mix.
Then we started getting into some
of the chocolate stuff, right?
So this is a chocolate pinstripe
just like the adult female is.
Again, just chocolate and pinstripe mixed.
But then when you start getting into the super chocolate
stuff because both the parents have chocolate in it,
you get what's called a camo ball python.
So this is what the animal looks like
that I'm hoping would banana will turn all purple.
So this is a super chocolate and it's a pinstripe.
And again, I gotta imagine all that dark pigment on him
is just gonna turn purple.
Of course we produce the pastel banana camoes,
but again the pastel blows out the purple
so we don't know what it's gonna look like.
So, again, don't know until next year.
And then we produced a few of these beautiful
monkeys right here, these guys are absolutely gorgeous.
Of course these are the banana chocolate pinstripe.
The only thing that this is missing
when it gets to that banana camo
is the super chocolate version, right?
So this has like one chocolate on one side,
but not on the other side.
Nevertheless, really beautiful
and in the end, we produce a lot of really cool
banana chocolate stuff.
I love that combination of animals.
We produce banana chocolate pins,
we produce banana chocolates,
of course we produce the pastel banana camoes,
and a bunch of other stuff.
So hey, it was still a really amazing year
and that's the end of the banana camoes for this year
and it gives me something to look forward to next year.
Then we just have two eggs in this clutch
and talking about dark animals,
this one's actually a black pastel pinstripe
bred to a mahogany.
Now the black pastel pinstripe,
of course that black pastel,
is a kind of a dark animal.
The mahogany is similar to the chocolates
a little bit, which is pretty cool,
but this happens to be one
of these is just a normal ball python.
So this doesn't have any of the mutation at all.
But this guy hatched out
and I was pretty darn excited about it.
Just look at that thing!
That thing has got such busy patterns.
It's absolutely incredible.
This is actually a black pastel mahogany pinstripe.
So this is kind of the all gene animal
that we were actually hoping for.
And it turned out absolutely incredible.
I told you before that the chocolate
and the mahogany mixed together
can kind of produce a super version,
so I had never bread it to the black pastel before.
And the results were pretty cool.
It's not like a super version,
but you got kind of two doses of different types
of dark animals and then it really busies the pattern up
like I wasn't expecting.
So this again is a chocolate pinstripe mahogany animal
and I love it to death.
I think I'm definitely gonna raise this up
and start working on it.
And again, think about this in the banana stuff:
all that purple coming out, hoo doggy!
That's gonna be a pretty amazing animal
but hey, like I said, no more banana camo potential
for the year, but hey, we've got something
that we're gonna definitely look forward
to hopefully hitting next year.
Hey, Lori.
- [Lori] What?
- [Brian] There's another snake I want to get.
- [Lori] No.
- [Brian] No, no, no, no.
Kelsey will be okay with this.
- Mm, let me hear this.
- [Brian] Check this out, check this out.
A leucistic king cobra.
- Oh my God. - White king cobra
with blue eyes. - Nothing venomous.
Nothing venomous, no.
- [Brian] There's a leucistic hypo we're definitely curious
getting it and I'm gonna get it.
- No, you will not get that, I'm not even kidding.
- [Brian] Kelsey. (laughs)
(crickets chirping)
- Very smart, Kelsey, no!
- The other thing I kind of wanted to bring up to you guys,
and again, this just kind of spitfired,
I bring you guys along on the journey.
It's been something on my mind for a little while now.
You guys know that I'm an idea guy.
I run a lot of different business,
I've got a lot of other things going on,
but to be honest with you, everyone's kind of at max
capacity here, right?
We are just stretched to the limit.
I'm thinking about maybe bringing on a business mind.
You know, I'm thinking like the Steve Jobs type, right?
Someone that could come in and help run
an entire company, not only make everything
that we do better, but also the things that I'm trying to do
that I'm not doing really well.
You guys know the reptile app game went sideways
because I was so busy that I didn't
really manage it properly.
Reptile Prime, great coconut bedding.
But we want to launch the back drops
and a bunch of other products.
There's a whole bunch of business, ideas,
not only in reptiles, but also other business ideas,
that I want to launch and get rolling.
But to be honest with you, I don't know
that I can do it because we kind of have
only so many hours in the day.
So I'm thinking about maybe hiring on a business person.
Someone that really knows business,
not just someone that's passionate.
But someone that could maybe help mold all our companies
into something bigger and better.
I don't know if that's something that you
or someone you might want to get involved in,
that someone that really buys into it
who wants to be a part of the future
to take this thing to the next level.
If you do, again, I will put a link in the description
to my email, you can send me a resume,
your ideas, your thoughts, and maybe we can talk
and we can hire someone on.
I think that kind of having someone that oversees
all of my insanity might be a really good move for me.
And like I mentioned, we had an absolutely
incredible year this year.
I just want to show you a few
of the scaleless corn snakes that we produced.
Trust me, it was a really good scaleless corn snake year.
This happens to be a snow scaleless corn snake right here.
Sometimes the snow scaleless will be completely patternless.
This one has the little white circles down its back
which makes it pretty awesome.
And one of my favorite scaleless corn snakes
certainly is anerythristics, or black scaleless corn snakes.
I'll tell you what, there's just something
about when you strip away the scales,
the pattern, the color, it looks literally
like its shaded with a pencil.
Unbelievably ridiculous.
Then you can take the anery one step further
and actually add diffused corn to it.
So this is an anery diffused corn right here.
Hoo doggy!
That thing just looks like lavender and beautiful
and that diffused, of course, blows out
all the pattern on the side.
This thing is ridiculous.
One of my favorite scaleless snakes
that we produced this year is this one right here.
This is actually an albino diffused corn.
They call them fire but this is scaleless,
and oh my gosh, I mean the color on that thing
is, it's surreal.
I've never seen a snake that color before.
Absolutely insane!
And then this is actually a creamsicle corn snake.
Again, another kind of albino.
But because it's got a little bit of the emery influence
originally, it makes it more of that orange color
rather than a red color.
Really pretty snake.
But honestly, even just normal scaleless corn snakes,
this is just a normal scaleless corn snake right here.
It's still an absolutely ripper of an animal.
I mean, look at how incredible it is.
I never thought that we'd see scaleless corn snakes
15, 20 years ago, and now some of the mutations coming out
of 'em are just mind bending.
And then in that kind of normal corn snake,
this is actually an okeetee
or an Abbott's okeetee corn snake.
It's just got a little bit darker blacks
and more defined color.
Again, you strip those scales away,
and it looks really absolutely amazing.
I love okeetee corns, and in particular,
the Abbott's okeetees.
But the scaleless ones they take the cake for sure.
And this one here kind of blew me away.
This is actually an amber striped corn snake.
Now the amber is actually a hypo caramel,
and then of course the stripe.
So this is a quad mutation when you add the scaleless
to it and it's absolutely just wild looking.
And trust me, there is a ton more that I'm showing you.
But I'm gonna end on this one right here.
This is actually a scaleless tesserae corn snake.
Ohh doggy.
I'll tell you what, those racing stripes on this thing
are ridiculous for sure.
So I wanted to just give you an oversight
of some of the scaleless corn snakes
we produced this year.
And again, I only scratched the surface,
to be honest with you.
There's a lot of good stuff.
Again, it was a really amazing production year this year.
In the end if you guys think you can help me out
with either thing, maybe someone that's interested
in the Animal Bites thing or you're someone
the next Steve Jobs or something like that,
and you want to get involved in some business with me,
I'd love to hear from you, again,
the link is in the description info at BHB Reptiles.
Let me know what you guys are thinking.
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