- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
Good afternoon, good evening,
whenever you have to be watching it.
I've got some things to talk to you about today.
Let's push our problems aside and enjoy ourself,
and first thing we're going to do
is go into go my Anaconda enclosure.
Of course, we got Aries back over here right in the corner.
He's looking at me like,
"What's going on there daddy?
What are you coming into my enclosure for me?"
And then of course Ivy is in shed.
Hi baby girl.
How are you, sweetheart?
And the one thing that I wanna talk to you guys
about a little bit, is the things
that we're excited about
breeding here at The Reptarium, you guys know
that BHP is all about breeding but The Reptarium.
It's really about educational, training
behavior, experiences, stuff like that.
But there are some animals that we're pretty
excited about breeding.
And my girl Ivy of course is one of them.
I mean, it would just be absolutely incredible.
If we could produce some baby anacondas.
I've been talking about this.
Now I will be honest with you.
Laurie's not too excited about it.
Now, anacondas can breed in the early winter,
like kind of in this area now.
And then they can sometimes breed in the spring.
I've seen both ways where babies are born say, June area
but I've also seen babies born in like September, October.
So we've seen some courting with Aries and Ivy
and I use this carriole way over here.
And again, you got to keep an eye
on Aries over here because he's looking at me.
You can see him coming up.
He's like, "dad, am I going to get fed today?"
Well, the truth is, we've seen some courting, but we haven't
seen the actual copulation yet.
So there's a chance they could breed any time
or there's a chance that they might not breed until spring.
I'm not worried about, they're in here.
We're feeding them.
We're keeping them something like that, but wouldn't it
be amazing to have baby green anacondas?
Again, a girl, her size is going to lay anywhere
from 20 to maybe even 30 big babies
that are born really large.
I mean literally like 18 to 24 inches, really cool.
I cannot wait until we have little baby anacondas.
And of course you guys know that we've had success,
the last two years breeding Nova and Lilith.
we're definitely excited.
I didn't have as good a success this last year.
We only had two little babies
we were 11 babies a year before.
Nevertheless, you know, frilled dragons are just amazing.
And like I've mentioned in the past,
when you get them as babies,
fresh hatched and you kind of socialize them right away,
they turn into animals just like Nova here.
Whereas a lot of frillies, I'll be honest with you
there's not too happy with people.
They run away.
They'll try to fight, they frill up, all that stuff.
Ours, are puppy dog tame.
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I mean just take a look at Big Mac,
a year and probably two months old animal right here,
just absolutely dog tame. Right?
And basically this guy has been being handled
since he was literally a day old
and he is so habituated and socialized to people.
It's incredible.
So, frill dragons can be pretty awesome.
As a matter of fact,
over at BHB is where
we're keeping one of the little babies.
Kind as a little mascot over in the office.
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(laughter)
Take a, look at how cute
this little monkey is, right here.
It's about two and a half months old.
And again, just with handling it all the time
and so on like that, it's just become super, docile.
when it was a little tiny baby,
he used to fill up and it was so cute.
Now it's not doing that.
That's the thing, right?
They use those frills as a defense mechanism.
So once they become super comfortable
and they don't feel threatened, they really never frill up.
The only time I've ever seen Nova frill up
is typically when he's eating
and every now and then for whatever reason,
he doesn't like Night Fury, the black reticulated python.
So if you bring the black reticulated python
near him, he'll frill up.
Other than that,
they usually typically don't use their frills.
Speaking of Night Fury, for some reason
he is super cranky today.
And I can't seem to get them to calm down.
Normally, he's really food motivated, but
once he realizes that there's not food, he'll calm down.
But today he just seems to be like on fire.
I don't know what is going on.
Okay. Starting to calm down a little bit now.
Literally taking him out of his enclosure.
I almost got bit like five times.
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Still coming around.
He's still coming around
and you can just feel the tension in his body.
Right. And that's how I kind of realize
that he's still not ready to be handled.
And that brings me to my point is I've thought
about breeding Night Fury to Butterscotch.
But what happens sometimes is if they start to get
into breeding mode and oh my gosh, I'm in trouble.
When these guys get into breeding mode
sometimes they'll start to get a little bit aggressive
and you have to start worrying about that aggression.
Okay. He seems to be calmed down now.
Maybe he was just in mega-food mode
and I couldn't break him.
Typically, what happens if he's in mega-food mode
you just have to touch him once or twice and he's fine.
And that's one of the reasons we ball train, right?
So he's been way better about not being
out of control when we take them out.
But, this is a perfect example.
Maybe, it is kind smell in the air.
Some females Butterscotch, Lucy, Daisy
and maybe he's just kind of turned on
for that breeding mode.
Males can be really aggressive during breeding season
because they're going to fight with other males
and that's how they can show their dominance.
But as you've seen now
Night Fury seems to be calmed down, but
that just reiterates, maybe why I'm not going to breed him.
I really thought
that it'd be awesome to have babies of Night Fury
but I tell you what. I want people to be able to hold them.
And what I just went through with this guy right now.
Yeah. I wasn't going to be able to hold him.
I tell you what, if I had put this around someone's neck
I was going to be taking a big risk.
So even tonight when we're open at The Reptarium.
I think we're going to give him the night off
because we don't want to take any chances to
see what his personality does over the next couple of days.
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And I tell you what,
these little basilisk are getting huge.
Now again, these are green basilisk.
Basiliscus plumifrons and these guys are incredible.
You start to see the fin that started to come in.
This of course, is the male and that fin.
They will even get bigger and you could see all the blues
and the white starting to come through.
These are incredible. I'm going to be honest with you.
I am really looking forward to breeding these.
We have three females and of course, this is the boy
right here, and you hope they are super cheap now
because you could buy them out of Florida for dirt cheap
but you know, producing these things is going to
be absolutely epic.
We are probably a year off.
And in the next couple of days, we're actually moving these
into their new enclosure.
That's going to be absolutely epic.
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Came from one feisty black animal,
to another feisty black animal of course Pepper here.
Pepper is an awesome animal.
Absolutely beautiful.
Now, I'm not going to be breeding alligators
here at The Reptarium.
Or at BHB for that matter
but we have talked to Gatorland
and we may send Pepper down to try to get breed.
You know, if we're talking about.
(exclaims)
slow down, slow down Skippy.
You're okay, baby.
You're alright, everything is going to be fine.
If we're talking about maybe breeding it to an albino
and maybe produce some snow alligators down the road.
It'd be really cool.
Again. I would always want to keep Pepper here long term
but I could see sending her down to Gatorland,
maybe for one season and see if we can get eggs.
Now that's going to still be, you know,
maybe four or five years from now.
Before Pepper would be big enough
to actually potentially breed.
But, I would love to see little baby Peppers
and potentially produce an albino melanistic.
Which would essentially be this snow alligator.
Oh my God.
That'd be cool.
Again. Don't know if it's going to happen
but we can certainly see that Pepper is not going to be
in the water if we have people swimming with salt, right?
Because it's a little bit feisty.
Of course, one of our most ambitious breeding projects
in the future is Chicken Strip and Ubusuku.
Chicken Strip's getting big, getting a little feisty.
So I'm hoping that this is going to go okay,
let's go go ahead and get him.
(exclaims)
Stop. Stop.
Stop, stop.
Oh my goodness, gracious.
Chicken Strip, come on.
(hissing)
Chicken Strip, come on.
(hissing)
(exclaims)
(thud)
(exclaims)
Okay, Chicken Strip.
(exclaims)
Come on. Come On.
(exclaims)
Chicken Strip.
Oh my gosh.
Definitely to need to work with Chicken Strip more,
because it's just getting out of control.
What we need to do is just run it around.
Hopefully it doesn't bite me because it's getting
to that size where a bite from this hurts really bad.
Chicken Strip.
I don't want to restrain it at all.
If I don't have to.
I'm just trying to calm it down.
Calm down.
Oh my goodness, gracious. Yeah. We're going to need to work
with Chicken Strip a lot more
because it has gotten out.
Oh man.
When that mouth opens up and comes around
I do not want to get bitten.
As a matter of fact, when Ubusuku was about this size.
I have a pretty gnarly scar on my hand.
From getting bit by it.
Well, my goodness gracious.
Chicken Strip.
Cool. I tell you what, we don't work with this, out a lot.
Sharp nails.
but it is definitely gotten fired up recently.
Oh my gosh.
Now that it's starting to calm down
in my heart rate is starting to go down to.
That was a crazy run with this long guy, for sure.
But now he's starting to calm down a little bit.
Of course, I think by next year he's going to
be big enough to potentially breed.
Now he's going to be three and a half
almost four years old,
which is mature enough with age.
But now we just got to get the size out of him.
Because right now, of course
if you put this in with Ubusuku,
there's a chance that it will just eat it, right?
Because Ubusuku is so big.
So we need to get Chicken Strips quite a bit larger
but definitely growing a lot now.
But we got to work on it's attitude guys
because I tell you what I'm bloodied up just from his claws.
And there was a couple
of really close calls when it come to biting.
That's the one thing that Chicken Strip hasn't
done much recently is try to bite.
You know, it'll still run and kind of wear out
but it was trying to bite today.
And that is something I do not want
Chicken Strip to ever do.
So again, just like the albino and black alligators
it'd be the same thing.
We would get double head for snow Nile monitors,
again the only ones in the world.
How awesome is that?
So this is a big initiative and hopefully
next year we can do our first monitor
breeding here at The Reptarium
and produce some little baby double head
albino melanistic Nile monitors.
I mean, how awesome would that be?
But like I said
you can certainly see the Chicken Strip,
calms down after a little while.
(exclaims)
That thing gave me a run for my money.
Of course, we have three species of dendrobates.
These are the azureus,
which are the blues that I love so much.
I hope that we can breed all three species here.
You know, they're getting
to that sexual maturity now almost big enough to breed.
It'll be really cool to produce baby dart frogs.
There's no doubt about it.
I mean, look at how cute those things are.
I would go crazy if we ever hatch any of these.
Of course we have our guys Diddy and Dixie.
Come on guys.
Let's go, come on, out, out.
Come on, Dixie.
Come on out.
Get Dixie.
Come on.
And typically what happens is one Dixie is out.
Diddy will come out as well. Come on, girl.
There you go.
And here comes my boy, Diddy,
how are you buddy boy?
Good job bud.
There you go.
You guys are so cute.
Can you imagine baby Diddy and Dixie,
they are definitely
going to be ready to breed this coming year,
for sure.
So hopefully this summer
we could put a lay box in with Dixie here
and hopefully we'll get some eggs.
I tell you what I will absolutely freak out if that happens.
And they are so funny, they know where those soup worms are.
See Dixie. She's like, "Oh, I know where they are, dad."
(laughs)
Silly little monkey.
So we just have to keep on peeping there.
Like I said, they're not quite big enough yet, but I think
over the winter, they'll definitely gain enough size where
they should be big enough, you know?
Cause from a maturity standpoint,
they're basically sexually mature now.
Right? Okay.
Okay guys, you guys are so cheeky.
Come on bud.
Come on, all the way.
There you go.
You too. Diddy.
Here we go bud.
No, no, Diddy, no Diddy.
He found it as soon as he saw it.
I mean, they are so smart.
This goes back to what I was talking
about yesterday with reptiles being so smart.
As soon as they know where they are
they always know I hide them behind my back.
So they go behind my back and follow.
They are so funny.
Okay. You guys ready to go back home?
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We'll want to have a go at
the nosy be panther chameleons.
Karma and his girlfriend Destiny.
She's about a year away
from potentially being big enough to breed.
But again,
just an animal I would love to actually produce more of.
And again,
these guys have like an eight to 10 year lifespan typically.
So it'd be cool to kind of keep his line going, right?
So if we produce babies and he's going to be about
you know, three and a half, four years old.
By the time his babies are big and beautiful,
he's going to be kind of getting to old age.
Maybe we'll retire them over at BHB
and put some of his babies on, if that makes any sense.
So anyways, it's just one
of those things that I'd love to do.
So I don't have a ton of breeding plans,
over here at The Reptarium.
But there are certainly some species I want to breed
and I'm sure in the future that will expand
Again, The Reptarium is more about education, behavior,
training experiences with reptiles.
More than it is about actually producing reptiles.
But hey, we still have a bunch
of animals that we'd love to produce.
There's no doubt about that.
So yeah, hopefully we'll have some luck breeding some
of these animals. I mean, it'd be pretty cool again.
It's from a sentimental standpoint.
Just having more babies of the animals we love.
That will be so cool.
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