- We're down in the gecko room again,
Jessica has another package.
We're gonna go ahead and unbox this little baby.
I tell you what, I'm excited about this.
I'll be totally honest with you,
I don't even know what these things look like.
You showed me a picture of him and said,
"Hey, can we get these?"
And they looked awesome,
so let's take a look.
- Heck yeah.
So these are one of my favorites of the Uroplatus species.
- Really? - Yeah.
So instead of looking like a leaf, though,
they look more like a piece of bamboo.
- Really? - Yeah.
- Oh, my god, that's so bizarre.
And of course FedEx, unfortunately,
didn't deliver these guys yesterday.
They were supposed to be here.
So, they've had an extra day traveling,
but it looks like they're packed pretty well.
So, what do we have?
Oh my gosh, they are so weird looking!
- These are one of the largest ones too.
They're not as big as the fimbriatus,
but they are very large. - Ooh!
And that's obviously the boy,
you can see the big hemipenes.
Interesting they don't have that leaf tail like you say.
- Yeah. So another name they call these guys would be,
lined flat-tail geckos.
- Lined flat-tail geckos.
- And his tail will like, fluff out a bit
once we like get him into an enclosure.
- Oh, my gosh. - And get him some water.
- They're so weird.
I mean the uroplat,
he's obviously from Madagascar,
really interesting genus of animals,
for sure.
But these ones are weird.
I've never seen it before.
I love em, Jessica.
So you said there's a pair of em, huh?
- That's the male obviously.
So they look like they're in shed too.
And that happens a lot of times.
- Ooh this is even prettier. And have these ever bred?
- Yes, so these are a proven pair.
- Proven pair.
- So I'm super, super excited about that.
It looks like this female is actually almost a little
ovulated right now.
- Yes she does look, she looks really plump.
- Oh my God.
These things are so cool. And they're gonna go down here.
- Yep.
So I was going to put them in one of these display
- Okay.
- but I think I'm gonna go with the skyscrapers.
- Since they're so large.
- No, that's awesome.
- Their tongues are black.
- Tongues are black,
wow that's cool.
So these are definitely some crazy weird lizards for sure.
Love a good addition to the gecko room,
for sure.
And oh yeah, let me take a look,
oh gosh.
And again guys,
if you guys ever want to have, oh,
I can see that black tongue come out.
Again you can go to the reptarium.com.
You can always get Jessica and Bruce tours,
see monitors and geckos,
so definitely go pay them some respect.
If you guys want to come down and see the gecko room,
see all the cool stuff and check Bruce out,
with all his crazy monitor lizards too.
But these guys are awesome.
Update on a few colubrids that we're raising up,
including the Albino Wolf snakes.
This is the only pair of Albino Wolf snakes in the country.
And they are just so interesting.
The color is like nothing else I've ever seen
from any of the other animals we have.
They're just really absolutely amazing.
Not ready to breed this year coming up,
but for the next year we should be good.
It's a little feisty monkey too.
We also have the Hypo Wolf snakes as well,
oh geesh, projectile poop right on the camera.
Thanks a lot, buddy.
Yeah, working with colubrids is fun.
You guys know, I love all of my Boiga,
and the Boiga cyanea are really interesting.
Of course this has now gotten its adult color,
and just look at how incredible that snake is right there.
I mean, wow,
absolutely amazing.
Again, remember when these were babies,
it's actually got a green head in an orange body
and then it goes through that color change
and turns green,
doing really well.
Probably one of the more hardy of the Boiga
to be totally honest with you.
This is an absolutely gorgeous snake right here.
This is a scaleless Tessera corn snake right now.
And that is just absolutely amazing.
That kind of almost patternless thing.
I tell a Colubrids are crazy,
I love em' too death and stuff like that,
but I'm getting peed on,
I'm getting eaten.
I'm getting everything today.
Just to show off these animals,
it's worth it.
Don't get me wrong.
But boy oh boy,
Colubrids can sometimes really challenge your
patience, for sure.
But what a gorgeous snake.
This is what they actually call a Phantom corn snake.
So it's a type B charcoal corn snake,
which is like a black corn snake without the yellow,
but then it's also a hypo.
So it's a hypo charcoal corn snake,
again called a Phantom corn. I just tell you what I love
the kind of color palette on that,
that real kind of gray with the black outlining what an
absolutely gorgeous snake.
And that's the thing about Culobrids are so diverse.
You can have so many more cool animals.
Definitely awesome.
So I'm loving this guy,
definitely loved the lavender stuff
and I love the charcoal stuff.
This snake looks a lot like the Mexican black king snakes,
right?
The nigritas but the truth is,
it's not,
this is actually an African house snake
and it's got that same black color.
It's called a black house snake
an absolutely incredible sheen to it.
These guys don't get quite as big
as the Mexican black Kings.
So if you want a jet black snake,
just like a Mexican black king,
but you won't want it to get too big,
house snakes are a perfect option for you.
Absolutely wonderful looking snakes.
- Basically we have the sloth stand tree thing,
that we put the sloth on,
when we do interactions.
We're going to try to see,
if we can't get the monkey tail skinks to go out on it,
and see if they can just get a little bit more enrichment.
See how well they actually are
at climbing on the smaller branches.
They both on there?
- Well, there's one.
(laughing)
That's easy, as simple as it gets doesn't it?
- That's not fair.
- You made me do it first, so.
- Woo!
- If you guys actually don't remember the names,
it's actually Fred and Wilma,
for obvious reasons,
they look like they're straight out of the Flintstones.
I know it looks like these guys are pretty simple animals.
But I'm telling you,
this is an animal you don't want to get bit by,
oof man.
- Walnut crusher.
- Exactly, yeah.
Like you got to realize they have massive,
massive jaw muscles,
like that are just meant to just
pull that food and crush it.
- I'm not tickling her butthole.
- She's so cute.
(laughing)
- He's like, no,
now I'm going to kill you.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
- I'm not getting bit by this thing today.
No way Jose.
All right, let's go.
(indistinct chattering)
- Hi, Wilma.
- A lot of lizards typically will have a lot of babies.
These guys only generally have one,
maybe two, if they're lucky.
Oh, look at him.
(tries to sing the Lion King theme song)
- Is that how that song goes?
I'm trying to, you know what,
that's good enough for, for me.
- Yo guys,
I'm always curious why you watch the vlog,
and what you want to see more of the vlog.
I want to kind of break down really quick.
what I consider the vlog is,
as far as like segments only, right.?
You know, so basically I have like the zoo,
then I have breeding with BHB.
Then I have travel.
I have builds,
I have crew,
I have family.
And that's kind of the segments that I look at,
is like what makes up the vlog, right?
So I want to know from you guys, ya know, what do ya like?
I mean, do you like a lot in the zoo stuff?
Do you wanna see more breeding stuff?
Do you want to see more build stuff?
Do you like the family adventures,
you like the crew adventures,
you know, what is it that you want to see?
You know, I mean,
I want to make sure that you guys
get what you want out of this.
And I don't know what more we want to do.
You know, as we're kind of wrapping up the breeding season,
we're not gonna have eggs and cutting and all that stuff.
So over the winter,
I want to make sure that you guys are engaged with the vlog.
And I want to see what you guys want to.
you know, keeping in mind that
when we start building the Reptarium expansion,
which is going to be sometime next year,
it's going to be pretty much all building,
almost all the time,
because my life is going to be absorbed in that.
And of course the breeding and running a business and all
that type of stuff. But the fact is is that I have
a lot of projects I can build out now,
if I want to.
Like the gecko room we're still working on,
there's still a bunch of projects that I gotta do here,
get the waterfall and Lucy's cage working again.
Bowser's tank, we want to do a few things with.
So you like build stuff, great.
If you want to see some more outside the shop,
adventure stuff, that'd be great.
If you want to see us to travel more this winter to other
collections and zoos and stuff like that,
that would be awesome.
Do you want to see more about the animals
here in our training and our behavior.
I mean, let me know down in the comments,
what you like about the vlog.
And what I can do better to keep you guys engaged
during the winter months when things
aren't as spontaneously crazy
like they are during the summer.
These are the albino granite garter snakes.
I love garter snakes.
You guys know the love of snakes
for me started with garter snakes.
And these guys are absolutely incredible.
A double recessive mutation.
And you guys might be asking like,
how many snakes does BHB raise up each year?
And it really is depending on projects, right?
When we want to get into a certain project
and we need more snakes,
we'll raise that project up.
Or for some reason we're getting animals that get old,
you know.
Because some of our Colubrid colony is literally now,
you know, 15 plus years old.
So we obviously have to replace those animals,
right, With new things.
And we usually upgrade them.
Or if there's like something that's really super popular,
we'll work with that more,
stuff like that.
So it's just, it depends on the year.
Sometimes we'll raise up to 200 snakes
when it comes to Colubrids,
sometimes we're only raising 50.
It really just depends on the year.
This next batch is pretty big.
I think there's at least 150 or 200 snakes that won't be
ready to breed in 2022 but will in 2023.
We were so excited to produce the Palmetto corns this year,
it's the first time we've ever produced them.
And of course we hung on to a bunch from last year too,
just to grow a group.
Cause it's definitely one of the most spectacular
of all the corn snakes.
I mean, again, they're born this color,
they stay this color, they don't like develop into pigments.
So this animal is gonna look this way its entire life,
which is pretty cool because that way,
if you want one that has a lot of pattern,
you just pick a baby that has a lot of pattern.
Or if you want one with a very little amount of pattern,
you pick a baby with a little amount of pattern. Either way.
these things are absolutely spectacular.
A little history about corn snakes is one of the first
mutations that actually was
produced in captivity way back in the,
probably late seventies, early eighties,
were albino corn snakes.
And then of course not too much longer,
people bred the albino corn snakes into Okeetee corn snakes,
because Okeetees were so popular in their localit,
y cause they're just so pretty.
And then they called them reverse Okeetee corn snakes,
much like this one.
And then over the years,
people started to refine em.
And these are actually what has come out with,
actually super reverse Okeetee corn snakes.
So essentially what they are is just
albino Okeetee corn snakes.
But then they're selectively bred
for like the most contrast possible.
And I tell ya what,
these things are wonderful.
Can't wait until he can get up to size.
Not only to prove more of these next year,
but also to start crossing into other things.
And I tell ya what,
African house snakes are such an
underappreciated snake.
I mean, look at how beautiful this hypo house snake is here.
I mean, with that cool kind of almost
like giraffe pattern down its back.
They don't get big.
They're really easy to breed.
They really need to be so much more popular than they are.
I mean, I know a lot of people love these guys
and there's a lot of mutations
that are starting to come out.
That's making it more popular,
but I'm telling you what,
this is such a cool species of snake to work with.
So it's going to be cool to have a whole bunch of new babies
up to size to breed here.
This one should actually breed this coming year.
So we should have some babies from these,
as well as a couple other house snakes.
So I'm definitely excited about
producing house snakes again.
Take a look at the belly on this thing.
An absolute ripper,
that red,
this of course is a Mussurana rat snake.
I've showed you guys the pied Mussuranas,
but this is what they look like without the pie.
Just a jet black animal with a reddish belly.
Absolutely incredible.
And they'll get big,
like eight foot long.
They're really amazing.
And then of course this is the pied version
of the Mussurana rat snakes.
You can still see a little red in the belly,
but you have that white speckling.
Absolutely incredible,
love these animals.
Since the first time I saw many years ago, I was like,
oh my goodness.
And now of course we have pies.
We have normals and we have super pies,
the ones that are almost all white,
which is a little bit of pattern on em.
Absolutely incredible.
Again, not gonna be ready this year.
These are all animals that'll be going in 2023.
But as you can see,
we have some bangers coming up.
And that's just a small amount of what we have here.
We have a lot of really cool stuff. And again,
I haven't even gotten into the pythons.
There's so many animals there that we're raising up to.
So I just love the whole part of it.
You know, the breeding side isn't as big as it used to be
because of the Reptarium,
but still I absolutely love BHB.
What exactly you got goin' on here?
- You really want to know the truth.
I don't really know,
Lori ordered it and I guess we're
putting Brillo in a playpen.
- I don't know.
I just overheard what Lori was saying.
I think she was saying to put it all the way across so that
you could just keep.
No? Cause I don't,
you can't put him in a play pen cause you got to have people
inside there.
- Yeah but the people can go inside of the playpen.
- No they can't.
There's not enough room in that playpen.
- Oh, its huge.
Watch this, wanna see a magic trick?
- There's no way you're going to fit six people
in Brillo in there.
- Definitely.
- Little bit, little bit tight.
- A little tight,
look it, there's no way, no.
I think what I heard was that Brillo was getting under the
tables,
and so she got this so that we could go just across here.
So let's try that.
Why don't we put it closer to the table,
so there's more room.
Tell ya,
you guys see what I have to deal with on a daily basis.
See just like that. Perfect.
See that's what I thought, good job.
All right. I think we've got to figure it out.
So you don't think this is what she was talking about?
- Not even close,
- Not even close?
- Not even close remotely.
- I think this is exactly what she was talking about,
I think this is perfect.
- Where are we going to take Halloween photos at?
- Well, we're not set up for all the time Halloween photos.
We're still gonna take Halloween photos here,
but then if we don't take Halloween photos,
this is what it's going to look like.
- Maybe we should get an
experience room with the experience.
- Experience room, okay.
- Yeah so the armadillo can go in there,
whatever other experiences we have.
experience going in there. Yeah.
- It's not a bad idea.
- Yeah, not the birthday party room.
Where's Lori?
- Lori?
- She's probably not gonna come.
- She's probably not even comin'.
- Yeah she's not.
- She said she'd be right here.
She's not even going to come.
- If there's ever a under appreciated animal here.
Its probably these guys.
- They are so cool.
- So, do you want to climb up there
and put the plant back that you tore down?
- Uh, I didn't tear that down, they did.
So uh, noes goes.
- Well, you can't just say it and do it as.
- Yes I can. Yes I can.
All right are you ready?
Rock paper scissors, shoot,
rock paper scissors, shoot.
Gotcha.
- Only because like we're always fighting,
which sibling gets to go first.
I was like, rock, paper scissors.
And mom's like, that's a great idea.
- Don't you dare do it. I don't fit in this cage.
- Yeah, ya do.
Probably your worst enemy here.
- Geez, she took enough time.
So let me ask you, is this what you thought?
- Yes.
- Dang it.
See, I told you.
So, Jay asked, where we're gonna take pictures now?
- Okay.
- So ha.
- This is what I thought for regular time.
But for this weekend,
we're gonna have to do something different.
- I have literally no idea what's going on right now.
- No?
- Things are always so much more difficult
when you are involved.
- Why?
I'm the one that, that.
- Am I wrong?
Wait a second, wait a second.
Am I wrong?
Be honest.
- Jay was trying to set this up in a circle.
And he said that eight people and Brillo
could fit.
- We already knew that wasn't gonna.
- I did try, I did try it.
- And that's what he said you wanted.
- So.
- No, I didn't say that's what she wanted.
I said that that's what I wanted.
And that's what I discussed.
- But then when I said like this,
then you said no that's not what she wanted.
- This is not what she wants.
- No, not for this weekend.
- See.
- Yeah, but that's what you want. (phone rings)
- Yeah, for later. See I've got to go.
I have so much stuff to do.
- Okay.
- All right, lets just all go.
No, were just all gonna go.
- Okay.
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