- She literally is like a kitty cat in a reptile body,
right Bells?
There's probably no snake that wows people more
than my girl, Purdida.
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Hey good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog.
I'm not exactly sure what time it is but it sure is early.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
We are road tripping to New England Reptile Distributors
in New Hampshire so it's gonna be a little bit
of a boring 14 hour drive ahead of us so I thought
to myself, it would be a really good day
to just go ahead and shoot a reptile zoo tour
cage by cage so yesterday I shot that,
let's go ahead and check that out.
Obviously I'm on the road to NERD right now
and I figured no better time to do a reptile zoo tour
than when I'm on the road 'cause listen,
14 hours in a car is gonna be pretty boring,
I don't think you guys are gonna wanna see that
so as soon as you walk in the door of course,
the first thing you're gonna really see
is either Guac up here or Bowser's tank right here
and of course Bowser is a 40 plus year old alligator
snapping turtle that weighs almost 100 pounds,
he's absolutely a prehistoric beast,
we love him to death and the kids actually
love getting right down here and getting an opportunity
to see Bowser in there, what an amazing, cool animal.
And of course, there's Guac's cage, the Meller's
chameleon and it's juts a beautiful, beautiful animal,
of course, the largest chameleon species on the continent
of Africa and a lot of people ask us because look it,
you can see the ponds here.
A lot of people are like, how do you get to that cage,
I mean you can't really get to it to do anything
well I'll show you guys a little secret of course,
the secret door right here leads us into the back room
where we can see all of the stuff back here
and this is how we actually get to him.
You kinda see right here and there's Guac right there.
Hey Guac, what's going on?
He doesn't like it much when I open his cage from behind.
Next up we have the tortoises over here,
of course leopard tortoises and Speedy
and they are really cool.
I usually just jump right in here and when the kids
come we give em little lettuce leaves
so that they can feed them.
They're absolutely incredible.
What's up, Speedy?
Want some food, Speedy?
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Next up of course is Lucy's cage.
I mean definitely one of the more impressive snake cages
that I have, there's no doubt about that.
Lucy is amazing and of course she's an eight year old
tiger reticulated python that sometimes loves you
and sometimes well, doesn't so much love you.
Regardless she definitely is a lot of work
because you have to climb in and clean her constantly
but I absolutely love the way she looks in here.
There's Pickles the green tree python,
oh my God, I just love the way she looks.
Green tree pythons make such amazing display animals
and Pickles typically is a really sweetheart,
doesn't come out to play with people but definitely
looks awesome in her cage.
This guy's not overly impressive now but it's a male
vale chameleon of course as he gets older
it's gonna be absolutely gorgeous.
As for now, we're just feeding him a bunch
and he's definitely suspect saying, hey, don't touch me.
He definitely doesn't like to be handled.
Sticking with chameleons, we actually have a male
and three female Jackson's.
Of course, the male Jackson's have to have
those beautiful horns and the females are over here,
she's looking a little chunky, maybe there's some
baby Jackson's chameleons on the way.
In this beautiful cage right be the banyan tree,
there's actually a really gorgeous tiger reticulated python
that just is absolutely beautiful and then right
beneath it is Snaz here, of course, this is the Burmese
python that's absolutely incredible.
Dog tame, loves to come out, I mean just look
at how beautiful Snaz is and of course,
this is the one that my friend Rhonda gave us
that had him since he was a little guy
and just really spent tons and tons of time
into habituating him to be handled.
He is definitely a crowd favorite for sure.
We actually have four argentine horn frogs,
including Snoop Frog here, look at how big he's getting,
oh my gosh that thing is absolutely incredible
and then this one here is gorgeous.
This is a strawberry pineapple pac man frog,
oh my God, what a little chunker.
Back to another chameleon, of course, Kharma,
the nosy bead panther chameleon, oh my God,
he is such a cool animal and he's loving his
new, big cage and the thing that I find interesting
about these chameleons, of course we know they
love these branches but one of the things I didn't
expect is they will literally climb on these rock walls
behind which I think is absolutely awesome.
And then there's Daisy but she's actually in shed
so let's just go ahead and go in the cage
and see how she's doing.
How you doing, honey?
You doing okay?
You gonna get ready to shed in the next day or two?
You're a good girl.
Oh my gosh.
And of course when she's not in shed,
we pull her out at night and the kids absolutely
love the fact that we can pull out a 19 foot,
amazing reticulated python like Daisy.
Titon.
He hangs out way up in the corner of his cage,
that seems to be his favorite place.
There's no doubt when I ask people what their
favorite animal at the zoo is, a big majority
of em say my Girl, Bella.
Hi, sweetheart, how are you doing today?
You loving all the attention, honey?
Ah, you're such a good girl.
Absolutely love this animal.
She literally is like a kitty cat in a reptile body.
Right Bells?
And then there's Abusuku, the night Nile monitor.
He actually just hangs out here.
A lot of times she's up on the rocks right over here
and then a lot of times in the water.
Of course my friend Bryce over in South Africa
said that Abusuku means night in Zulu
and that's why we named her Abusuku.
Here's Fatty Wapp's cage.
Fetty, you doing good, buddy?
Oh my gosh, he's great and again,
we get him out almost every night, kids love Fetty Wapp,
the bearded dragon.
And I know that you guys aren't surprised
that I'm gonna say one of my favorite things are
the little dart frog.
We have three species of tinks,
of course these are the blue ones,
which are the arzurous and then we also have
powder blues, they are unbelievable animals.
I tell you what, I just get such a kick out,
I'm surprised how excited I am about frogs every single day.
This is an animal that I really love on display
because it's just such a bright and beautiful snake
and this of course is an albino carpet python,
I mean look at how amazing that animal is.
Oh doggy, I love it.
Here's an albino kunisir island rat snake,
look at how crazy cool that animal is
and again, I think that those bright yellows
just make for a really good display animal
and it's always out so you don't have to
kinda look around and try to find it,
this is a weird animal where it doesn't seem to ever hide.
It's always kinda right out in front of the cage,
which makes it awesome for the zoo.
So I'm on the side of the highway somewhere
here in upstate New York, been driving for about
eight and a half hours, I hope that you guys
are enjoying the zoo tour that I did for you guys.
I thought it would be a good way to kind of fill
the time while I am driving, we still have about
I don't know five and a half hours to go to New Hampshire
so back to the zoo tour.
This is a tricky one here.
This is actually an Amazon tree boa snake.
You can see it has all kinds of branches to hang out in
and this is pretty much where it stays all the time.
I'm not sure why Amazon tree boas hardly ever
seem to be up in the tree but they always
seem to just be hanging out on the ground regardless.
His name is Lucky and you can at least come in and see him.
We have a couple cages of gargoyle geckos,
just look at how absolutely stunning these animals are
and again, they really don't hide that much.
They kinda hang out and people are able to actually
see em and we'll even take this girl out usually.
I mean she's not too bad to be honest
when it comes to handling.
She's not fired up right now.
When she's fired up, she's really beautiful red
but again, she's a pretty cool animal and she doesn't
mind being handled.
There's Roswell, the alien gecko
and there's his spaceship.
For now we have a pastel piebald ball python on display.
We may actually mix this up a little bit
and we might even put one or two other ball pythons
because they're really good for taking out
and letting kids handle.
For now this pastel pie has been doing amazing,
kids absolutely love her so I don't know,
we might put one or two more ball pythons in,
just maybe even a little bit bigger one
so that we can kinda take em out and let
the kids kinda enjoy handling,
which is a pretty easily handable snake.
Of course there's little Mr. Escaper Potato here.
Potato of course the Centralian blue-tongued skink,
absolutely incredible around people because
he doesn't really move much.
He literally is like a potato, he looks like a potato,
he acts like a potato but everyone seems to love him
and he is absolutely adorable.
Of course this is the new displays that are gonna
go up probably this week we'll have some animals
that we're getting from NERD as well as some other
things that are going in these racks right here
around to here and I had told you we're gonna
put in a rack thing right over here to with some
really cool spiders.
We want some really cool kinda ornamentals,
that would be great displays but we also want
a handful of em that we can take out and people can handle.
I absolutely love this display right here,
I just think it's super cool for this animal
and again, this is a Mandarin rat snake that
seems to always just kind of hang out on the ledges here,
which makes for a really great display so again,
some snakes might look really cool
but they're always hiding.
I want snakes that people can actually see
and believe it or not, for a Mandarin rat snake
this one can come out and get handled
and is really good about it.
Here's the giant day geckos.
They're absolutely great and it's kind of a cool display
because they're always kinda on the walls
so you can always see em, you know here's one here,
there's one over on the other side and we have three
of em in here, the other third's in here hiding somewhere
but they're actually really cool display animals.
Of course, there's chicken strip hanging over
on the wall like he always is, he's always right
by that hot spot.
Every now and then, he'll come down, he'll kinda chill out
again, we've been working with him a lot
and he really is chilling out a little bit.
Every day we'll keep handling him and hopefully
he'll continue to get better but people love
coming in to see such a rare animal
like an albino Nile monitor.
Then there's Argimus Prime here, I tell you what,
this dude is high energy, loves to feed,
I do a lot of feeding while people are around
because he's just so fun.
He'll jump around, he'll go crazy for food
so Argumus is super cool.
Here's Darwin, the Centralian carpus cage,
he absolutely is a great animal to
and again, an animal we pull out a lot because
he's really good to handle.
Big Bertha, the leechianus is in here somewhere
but honestly I can't seem to find her.
She's probably hiding right up in that
little crevice up there.
And then of course the rhino rat cage here,
I tell you, this thing is a cool animal.
People are always tripping out about it going,
oh my gosh, it's so bizarre and thankfully,
this one is super handable so he comes out quite a bit
but again, we keep him to maybe a 10 or 15 minute
maximum handling so that he doesn't stress out.
Of course here's Joker, the scaleless Texas rat snake
and it's cool because people come in and go,
what is scaleless rat, what is that, I've never seen
a scaleless snake and then they touch it
and they feel how weird it feels and it really
peeks their curiosity.
Joker is awesome.
Chunky Monkey, the African bullfrog.
Here's the black headed python cage,
there he is hiding right back there.
Then there's Verde, the anaconda.
People love her to death and she's starting
to go into shed and she's still an absolute sweetheart
and a lot of people have asked like, what's gonna happen
when she gets big?
Trust me, we'll make accommodations for her
as she gets bigger.
Each time she grows we'll get her a bigger cage
and eventually we'll just figure it out.
We've got a ways to go 'cause she's still just
a little tiny little dude but I love her
to death and it's so cool for people
to actually hold a green anaconda.
Honduran milk snake.
I've said this a couple times recently, I love this cage.
This is actually an Okeetee corn snake right in here
and when I attached this piece of cork on here
in the middle, I was hoping that it would go up
and hide in it and it literally spends almost
all its time in there, how freaking awesome is that
but thankfully, it's a really handable snake
so when someone wants to hold a clubert like a corn snake,
it's a great snake to take out.
This is a cool cage because these are Vietnamese
mossy frogs and there's six of em in here
but yet you can hardly find maybe one or two
but see one is right there, one is up on this corner
over here, I can't really find any of the other ones
in here, they're here I promise you.
But their camouflage is so amazing,
it literally, it's almost impossible to find all six of em.
There's probably no snake that wows people more
than my girl, Purdida, the cow reticulated python,
I mean people come in and are just blown away like,
a dalmatian snake?
I just think that as she gets bigger,
it's gonna be even more impressive but she is
such a sweetheart and again, she wins over
so many hearts of people that have come
and visited the Reptarium.
This is actually a leopard gecko cage that we're
gonna be selling at Reptile Prime.
The thing I find interesting is look right up here,
that animal literally climbs the wall and hangs out here,
they hang on all of these little crevices.
We got a bold bell, we got a super snow
and then a maxno up here.
They seem to be well and they absolutely love
all the little crevices that are all throughout this cage.
I may have mentioned how much this
is one of my favorite cages.
Of course this is an emerald tree boa that my friend
Dedre and Forest ended up giving me for the Reptarium,
has this beautiful waterfall in it,
just a great feature.
I just, I don't know, I could sit here
and look at this cage all day.
Then of course there's Tazzy, the Argentine blue tegu,
I tell you what, he is absolutely incredible
and again, I could take him out around kids,
I know I can trust him, they just love petting him,
it's such a cool thing and to think that he's
gonna get probably almost twice this size,
it's gonna be even more impressive as he gets older.
I have to say, I'm a little surprised how many people
that come in and specifically ask to hold Helen.
I think it's awesome.
I'm so excited about it and she's done exactly
what I thought she was gonna do, give me an opportunity
to talk to people about disabilities and all that stuff
so Helen has been a hit and one of the things
I think is really amazing is she climbs like crazy
on all of these terraces.
I just assumed she'd stay on the ground
but she's always on one of these ledges right here.
And then there's what I call the yin and yang cages.
The leucistic Texas rat snake and the Mexican
black king snake right there.
Sunny, the sharp albino boa.
Macklemore, the python.
Of course there's my buddy, Nova, the frill dragon,
what's up, Nova?
What are you doing?
He's awesome.
If I had any complaint, it's only the fact
that he never frills.
Everyone wants him to frill up but he's just so docile
that he never frills.
Then of course there's Sunrise, the animal
that really people love to come and handle.
She's out almost all the time 'cause she really tolerates
handling and I say she actually likes it.
I didn't show you each and every cage but I showed
you the vast majority, I have a few surprises here
and we're always adding new stuff.
Now I'm wondering where I'm actually at right now
while I'm driving, I'm imagining with a 14 hour drive,
I'm getting pretty bored right now so I think I'm gonna
go ahead and throw it back to real time Brian
and hope that you guys enjoyed
this cage by cage zoo tour.
Welcome back to real time Brian.
We're somewhere in the Boston area.
I think we have about an hour to go.
We made it so this is home for the night.
I mean look at this place.
New England is so awesome.
I mean you aren't gonna find a hotel like this
anywhere near us I mean, oh my gosh, this is so cool.
And it turns out that I booked the hotel for tomorrow night,
not tonight so we don't have a room here
but fortunately, they're very, very nice here
and it looks like they're gonna try
to accommodate us so oops.
So of course, I'll end the night of touring
the reptile zoo with a tour of my room.
Take a look at this, is this freaking cool or what?
I mean you don't see hotel rooms like this very often.
I mean, it's just cool.
Look at the beds, they're awesome.
Got this like cool cubby over here, bathrooms over here,
I'm loving it so I'm definitely gonna get some sleep.
Tomorrow we head over to NERD New England Reptile
Distributors by my buddy, Kent Mckerly.
Gonna pick up some cool animals, see some amazing animals.
It's gonna be a great, great adventure,
cannot wait to share it with you tomorrow
and as for now, I'm gonna end the vlog
and wish you guys an absolutely amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
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