- Woo doggy.
I tell you what, Bowser is getting big.
Of course, he's my alligator snapping turtle.
Look at that prehistoric animal right there.
Tell you what, these guys can live up to 200 years.
He's only 42 years old now,
so he's going to be around a long time.
But the truth is, is I have a little bit of an issue
I'm trying to deciding what to do.
Okay, Bowser.
I tell you what, that animal is getting heavy
and it is an absolute beauty, but you know, this is one
of the show pieces of the reptarium.
As soon as you walk in the door, you see this
and you see Bowser.
And a lot of people absolutely love Bowser
but the truth is, is that a lot of times he just
kind of sits around.
And when he's sitting like this, oftentimes people actually
come up and they don't realize that he's actually alive.
They think he's like a statue, right?
And you know, when you want that showpiece...
I love the waterfall.
I love this whole thing.
You want some kind of action, right, and we tried
to put fish in here before that didn't work out too well.
- What is that, red tail?
- So red tail cat, look at that.
Oh, I love that.
It's such a beautiful fish.
- Another awesome thing added to the reptarium.
So excited about this.
We came in this morning
and unfortunately the oscar and the catfish were eaten.
We decided we were going to move the fish
over to RJ's pond.
- Oh God.
All right, hold on, hold on.
Hold on there.
So we're definitely not making that mistake again.
Although there is a fish in here named Jonah
that seems to live with Bowser fine, right there.
There's Jonah, hey Jonah.
So what to do with this enclosure, right?
Originally I was thinking maybe I would take Bowser
off of display and actually fill
up the water and put a fly river turtle in here.
No doubt,
we're going to add a fly river turtle to the reptarium,
but I'm thinking maybe we save that
for upstairs with the aquarium site.
I'm not a hundred percent sure, but I did end
up talking with my buddy Kevin over at nerd the other day,
and he made a really good suggestion
that maybe I could put a couple big northern
common snapping turtles in here too.
Now again, they're not alligator snapping turtles.
They don't get quite as big
but they're still pretty impressive.
And the thing about those is they move around a lot more
and they can get along with alligator snapper.
You can keep them communally.
So the question is, do I do something different?
Do I take them off, put a fly river in here
or do I potentially keep him in here?
I put a couple other big, common snapping turtles
that are going to be a little bit more active.
Maybe even an albino common snapping turtle?
I don't know.
I think it might be a good idea just to fill it
up a little bit.
I'm not sure, I need your advice because I always want
to make the reptarium the most awesome place possible.
And hey, this enclosure, I love so much and I love Bowser
but it's not quite as exciting as I want it to be.
So let me know in the comments, what you think I should do
because I'm open for suggestions.
Feeding a couple of snakes, including my guy, Bugatti,
the Boelen's Python.
Now with this one, typically when it's taken
out of my hands, I have to tease it just a little bit
and it just started taking it out of my hands.
So let's see what it does now.
It definitely seems very, very interested, but like I said
when it gets to this point, a lot
of times it gets a little bit freaked out
and it doesn't grab it.
So sometimes I have to do a little bit of teasing with it
just like this, just like that and 'oop there he goes.
It took it right like that.
Phew, I tell you what, is that snake
absolutely stunning?
So that's a little trick when a snake seems
like it wants to eat, but it's like tentative
as you just tease it just a little bit.
You don't beat the snake up by any chance,
but you just give a little wiggle, kind of goes,
All right, now I better grab this thing,"
but Bugatti is crushing it,
and it's absolutely beautiful.
And just like with Bowser, not a day goes by that
I'm not thinking about how we can approve the reptarium
that it is now and also the expansion
what we're going to do.
I keep telling everyone that we're going to go that way
and then we're going to go up, right?
Well obviously right now that way is the tortoise pen.
And you know
there's really not enough space here for a doorway, right?
So what we're going to do is actually
Lucy's cage is going to get moved down this way.
So what we'll do is we'll move these two cages
with Casper and Sunrise.
Not that they're going to get moved out.
They'll actually be probably next door in the 3.0 expansion
but these enclosures will get moved out
and probably get moved.
Next door Lucy's enclosure will get moved down to here.
That way we can have the opening
like that basically starts here and goes all the way
over to here that you can walk through.
And actually this spot here will be a lot
like Diddy and Dixie's cage
whether it be another enclosure in the window itself,
which means that we're going to have to build a new area
for the tortoises too, which is good because
to be honest with you, Matilda is getting pretty big.
She's going to need a larger enclosure.
So now we can dedicate more space
to a tortoise enclosure for Matilda.
So again
there's always this constant evolution of thinking
not only how to make the reptarium that is
existing now better, but also thinking about the expansion
and how we're going to make that so much awesome.
I mean, the future is amazing guys
and I never stopped thinking
about how to make it even more awesome.
Always stoked when we have baby ball pythons
or any baby snake hatch
for that matter, or born for that matter too
these actually are that genetic stripe that was bred
to that banana pastel G stripes.
So all of them are G stripe
and then we have a combination of things.
So this is a normal G stripe right here
and this is just a recessive mutation here.
And these two beautiful monkeys right here are
actually pastel G stripe.
And the pastel just really cleans it up
and makes it kind of cool.
You could see the difference
between the normal here and the pastel G stripes
how the patterning and the color
and everything else changes makes it really crazy.
Now this is one of the beautiful animals here.
This is just a normal banana G stripe.
Again, everything in the clutch is gonna
be genetic stripe cause it was a recessive mutation
and both of them are genetic stripes
but this is the banana G stripe.
And then just like the pastel G stripe
the pastel G stripes kind of get blown out as well
and just kind of look way more faded and stuff like that.
Nevertheless, absolutely gorgeous clutch'a snakes.
I mean, look at these beautiful monkeys right here.
Just absolutely incredible.
Now these guys will shed probably in about a week
and then they'll feed within three or four days of then,
so about a week and a half or so we'll hopefully
get the first meals in these guys.
And then we always feed them about three to four times
before they actually go up on the website.
So it's going to be cool that not too long from now
maybe a month or so from now, you're going
to actually start seeing new 2021 baby pythons
on BHBs website.
- Man it's so weird when you just zoom in
like I know what you're doing.
We're just feeding bugs today.
Today they're getting fed some super worms.
So we're going to off some bugs to Samantha.
So we're gonna start with a leaf tail, any day now.
Ah, yeah.
Professional.
Sit and try to feed tong a bunch
of these animals that normally wouldn't get fed
with tongs, or fed off of the tongs, so uh...
Lots of crackers with the animals,
I don't know what to talk about.
Knock, knock.
Ooh, that didn't sound so good.
Knocka, knocka.
You want this?
They sound really mad.
You want this?
Yoohoo.
(yelling)
Oh wait, there he is, here you want this?
Here's a fresh one.
Okay, ooh, supper's hot.
Oh, don't jump.
Don't come off...
These things are so freaking fast.
We never really tried to tong feed him yet.
We're still letting him kind of settle
in because they are so relatively new.
It's only been a week.
We usually just put the cup of food in there
and they'll come and eat whenever they want.
- Next ball python clutch should be a banger.
That's gonna be a spinner female looks like she's wrapped
around some good eggs and she was bred to this vanilla
red stripe.
So the red stripe stuff is really cool.
The vanilla stuff is actually a really cleaning
enhancing thing.
Then of course we have the pinstripe and the spider when
it comes to the female.
So should be some pretty cool combos.
Let's see what mama has
and it looks like mama's not happy right now.
Tell you what, let me clean this lens off.
She got a little bit of goop on there, so let's go ahead
and try to see if we get her off without her getting her
to unhappy with us.
It's okay, mama.
Looks like a fresh clutch of eggs.
I mean, literally just laid because you can still kind
of see a little bit of the egg is hardening right now
on this egg right now.
This was definitely the last egg laid right here,
so absolutely wonderful clutch.
I'm going to love the combos that are going
to come out of this.
Cause red Stripe mixed with all of those genes going
to be incredible.
Then you add that vanilla gene in there
and they're going to be awesome.
We've got two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
I tell you what this year is definitely shaping
up to be a banger.
Next animal we're actually feeding is my girl Beer day here,
and she is definitely looking like she's interested in food.
Come on Beer day.
Come on.
Do you want food?
Come on baby.
All right.
Way to go.
If you guys are missing the feeding videos
let me know down in the comments.
If you want an entire feeding video, maybe
in the next week or so, I'll do the feeding all of the zoo.
If you want to comment down below, if you agree
enjoy that
Next up we actually have an albino
that is het for scaleless.
That's bred to an albino scaleless corn snake.
Always a beautiful snake,
there's no doubt about that.
It looks like we've got a couple of sluggers in here.
Kind of a mixed bag to be totally honest with you.
And she's actually kind of more
like almost a creamsicle looking animal right there.
We'll get mama all cleaned up, get her some fresh water
get her some food in the next couple of days
and let's see just how many eggs we actually have in here.
Like I said, it's a mixed bag.
We have some good ones and we have some bad ones for sure.
There's a, let's see two, three, four, five, six,
seven good eggs.
And it looks like we have uh...
I don't think that's a good egg
right there looks like we have four sluggers right there.
So not a great clutch but not too bad.
Seven good eggs, four bad eggs, uh you know, I'll take it.
It's not the best, but I'll take what I can get.
Next up we actually have
a het hypo diffuse corn snake.
Again, that diffuse corn snake is what they used
to call blood red corn snake.
And it's actually bred to a plasma
which is actually a blood red lavender.
We'll just see she's some big eggs in here
and not a lot of eggs, but some big eggs.
She's not a really big girl
but she only has that many eggs.
We'll go ahead and take her out.
And you can kind of almost see a little bit
of that diffused bleeding through.
Sometimes the head diffuse actually have a little expression
and the head itself is something that really is different
with a diffused corn.
Although this one has total side pattern whereas
the diffused corn has kind of a diffused side pattern
hence the name diffused corn.
So we'll get mama back in here, get her nest boxed in
and get her all cleaned up.
Get her some fresh water, all of that good stuff.
In the meantime, we'll take a look and she has two, four
five eggs.
So definitely a small clutch,
but hey, no slugs and that's awesome
Corey, I was actually excited about this.
I know exactly what it is.
Julian from Dreamscape Dragons actually did this
for me and I want you to open it
because I think you're going to love it.
I actually do, seriously,
I was excited to get this, but I don't know.
- Am I gonna like it or no?
- It's just for you.
This is, well it's a gift
to me that I'm going to have for you.
- Is it a picture of you?
- You can never have too many pictures of me, but seriously
this is actually pretty dope.
Check this out.
I actually saw it on Instagram.
Don't be afraid.
(laughs)
- I'm always afraid.
- Take a look at that.
(laughs)
You don't like...
- No it's actually...
- It's beautiful. - He drew this?
- Yes.
- [Cameraman] This is beautiful, man.
- This is like super, super nice.
- Yeah, that's awesome.
- So I want you to put this right by your bed,
- Our bed?
- Yeah, our bed.
- Did you buy your own room now?
- I'm moving out.
Guess what, I'm moving out.
- But I left you a picture. - But I left you a picture.
No, but it's really cool.
Seriously, Dreamscape Dragon.
Give them a follow on Instagram.
Absolutely wonderful.
I appreciate you, and wow, that's pretty cool.
I think actually baby Kush looks absolutely amazing.
- [Cameraman] The whole thing look
at the glove, the textures, everything.
- I know, this is crazy.
Wow, that's impressive.
Super, super talented.
Thank you so much, seriously.
- I hope you enjoyed today's video.
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