- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
Take a look at this, Jessica over here actually hatched out
a little tiny mourning gecko.
Might be the smallest,
it's like the smallest lizard on the planet, I think, right?
I mean I don't know if there's smaller ones, but--
- There might be smaller ones,
but this is definitely the smallest thing
we've ever hatched here.
- Oh my God it is so absolutely adorable.
These are the ones that are parthenogenic,
which means that they don't have any males,
so they're all females and they produce viable offspring.
This is the very first one we have ever hatched,
and it is so absolutely tiny it's crazy.
I mean, how in the heck, what do these things eat, Jessica?
- Fruit flies, and then they eat that same, like, pangea--
- Okay, so they'll eat like a nectar type of thing.
So they are ridiculous, it is so cool.
So I'm gonna go ahead and get this set up,
I'm gonna do the smallest terrarium
that we've ever made here, because why not?
We've got two little babies hatched out,
they are absolutely adorable,
so that is my task for the day is
making a really cool littler terrarium
for these little monkeys, aren't they crazy?
But before I get started building that terrarium
for the mourning geckos,
I do have to feed a bunch of animals here
over at the Reptarium.
We're gonna go ahead and see if Pickles wants to eat,
come on girl, come on.
There she goes.
What a beautiful snake, whoo,
tell you what, she's incredible.
So we're gonna have some fun feeding the Reptarium,
and then we'll get back to building that terrarium.
The always entertaining Butterscotch, come on girl,
come on, come on girl, over here, over here.
Over here, whoop, there she goes.
Oh come on, come on, whoa!
Okay girl, there you go.
(grunts)
she's awesome, I mean what a cool snake, right?
Always talk about getting to know your snakes
and how they feed and stuff like that.
Some snakes, you know, will grab it,
some snakes you have to lay it on the ground,
some snakes you know, you do different things to it.
When it comes to Pepa the western hognose snake,
you literally just have to lay them on the ground,
she crawls up to eat them.
For whatever reason, she doesn't like to take them
off of tongs or when you actually handle it to them,
she just gets a little freaked out for some reason.
So I put them in there, set it down,
she'll go right at that,
within 10 or 15 minutes she'll
go ahead and crush those mice.
- Dude I just noticed, is this like,
school like you get the turds?
Like I got four bronze turds.
Look at that.
It's a hell of a trophy.
- Hey what's going on guys?
So I have been a little bit lax on the cool videos
with the spiders lately,
so I figured I'd get this little
cute little guy out and show you guys him.
So this is our Brazilian black tarantula,
or the Grammostola pulchra.
Grammostola pulchras are just a lot like the rose hairs,
it can be a little bit more temperamental,
but they are wonderful, beautiful creatures,
but I will say they definitely definitely
carry a little higher price range,
especially for a tarantula.
But that being said,
one really cool fact about tarantulas
is that believe it or not,
a lot of people seem to think that I've trained
all our tarantulas to be really cool.
Well, actually just know that there are certain ones
that are less likely to bite you than others.
Believe it or not, tarantulas actually don't have brains,
so they can't learn, they don't really like,
retain information like that, necessarily.
They actually have what we call ganglia.
It's this like cluster of nerves that basically,
sort of like, just help fire off the synapses
that need to happen for it to move and eat and react.
And that's pretty much all it really, basically does.
But it makes them even more cooler
because like, these animals,
just like every other animal here
they're all very, very misunderstood.
And one of those things being especially
that everyone thinks that they have brains,
that they think, that they're planning everything out,
and trust me my friends,
these guys are nothing like that at all.
- Let's go ahead and see if
the woma python wants to eat today, come on girl.
Ah, there it is.
Good job.
She's loving her new cage.
We had pretty good luck last time
feeding the little pigs off,
so we're gonna do a combination of pigs and rabbits today
to our bigger snake Casper,
let's see if he wants to eat for us.
Oh there he goes.
It's so good that Casper seems to like pig,
because you know, we're having to feed him four or five,
six rats 'cause he really doesn't want to take rabbits.
This is a nice big meal, get some girth on him, I love that.
Again, just knowing your animals,
I know Maisie always loves to stay in this little hide,
and it definitely always is happy to take rodents
right off the tongs, here you go sweetheart.
There you go, there it is.
And then he always just drags it right back into that hide,
and he eats it, very predictable snake, but pretty awesome.
And this is the little terrarium I'm gonna set up
for the mourning geckos.
I'm gonna actually cut some polyurea,
make a nice rock face back,
we'll actually foam that in, I'll show you how to do that.
And then I just have a couple
little decorations that we'll do,
but I think this is gonna be a really cute,
it's gonna be a really cute terrarium.
Definitely the smallest terrarium that I've ever set up,
'cause I've never had lizards this small,
so first thing we have to do is cut the backdrop.
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- And that's one of the advantages to working with
this polyurea just like the whole Reptarium,
I mean it's hard to cut,
it definitely is very durable, but it's gonna last forever.
I mean literally, 30 years from now,
this is gonna look exactly like it is.
You can scrub it, you can do anything you want with it,
and of course what we're gonna do is
foam this in number one,
and then we have to foam all these cracks,
'cause obviously these mourning geckos
are super, super small,
we don't want them to get in these cracks at all.
So we'll go ahead and foam all the way around,
just locking it in, number one,
as well as making sure that the
animal doesn't get behind the backdrop.
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- So I'll let that dry, obviously,
for the next several hours,
and you can go back and actually with a razor blade
just kind of trim it off a little bit.
Then what you do is you actually put a layer of silicone
in there with a little bit of cement dust,
and it actually blends right in,
so you don't see the big thick black foam,
it just looks like rock blending right in.
So I think that's gonna be a really nice backdrop.
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- I think Crackle the black headed python
is definitely ready to eat, but let's face it,
it's always ready to eat.
There you go bud.
There it is.
And woma pythons and black heads are really similar,
I mean they're just different species of Aspidites.
Obviously that black head is there
because they'll hide down and kinda burrows,
and just stick their head out to
absorb that sun for thermal regulation,
whereas woma pythons come from an area that's much warmer,
and they come out and they sun their whole body.
But pretty much a real similar animal,
black heads often times get a little bit larger as well.
Cool, cool, Australian pythons.
Sunrise also loved their little piglet last time too,
so let's see if she wants to take one.
Here you go girl, good job girl.
Again, I love the fact that we can get this kind of
mid size animal, I love all animals,
pigs, rabbits, everything like that,
so I don't take any joy out of it,
but this is a really good meal
for some of our big constrictors.
This is Mr. Nubbins the Dominican red mountain boa,
and it's a cool snake.
There it is, whoo!
Just a pretty amazingly beautiful snake,
and you have a handful of these,
you have like the Dominicans, you have the Haitian boas,
you have all of these animals that are in that area
that are all live bearing boas
that are pretty interesting looking for sure.
Some can get relatively large,
like the Cuban boas can literally get like,
six or seven foot, whereas the Dominican mountain boas,
that's about as large as they're gonna get.
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- I wanted to tell Eric that we watched
that Bigfoot show yesterday--
- Oh, actually it was really good.
- [Brian] Expedition Bigfoot.
- No way, what was it on, I don't,
- [Brian] It's on travel channel.
And it's actually pretty legit - I liked it.
- [Brian] I mean, I think it's good.
And they teased, like, some footage that they found,
like, infrared of what the primatologist said
it was a big primate.
- In Oregon.
- [Brian] Yeah Oregon, that's right.
- That is, I'm a big, I am a total believer, man.
Total believer, I've only been, dude.
- [Brian] I was thinking about this,
when we do a podcast we need to
do a podcast all about Bigfoot.
- 100% totally down.
- [Brian] We'll have Eric--
- That can be a segment of ours, it's like--
- [Brian] Like, every week?
- Not, it's not like, - Bigfoot update.
- Sort of like conspiracies, but it's like, you know,
common stuff, UFOs, Bigfoot,
- Dude but you could see how,
I've only been to Oregon and Washington
one time in my life, and you look out on those woods,
and it just goes for miles, like,
there could be something out there, man.
I could see why people, you know,
Loch Ness, yeah - I've been there, been there.
- [Brian] Hey, what should we call our podcast?
- Oh man that's, I need, you know.
- [Brian] I need people to comment down below
about what we should call our podcast.
- Took me two weeks to name that hamster,
there's no way I could just come--
- It's Hammy Boy.
- Hammy Boy, Hammy Boy.
- [Brian] It took two weeks for you to name Hammy Boy.
- Yeah, I was like Hammy, Hammy, Hammy,
and then the next week I'm like,
- Boy, Boy, Boy - Boy, Hammy Boy
so I'll come up with a good one.
- [Brian] Is it Boi or Boy?
- Like Boi - Boy, boy
- Like a B-O-I - Hammy Boi
- B-O-I, it's trending right now.
- [Brian] Okay, good, all right yeah, good job.
(laughs)
- You guys know that I'm always trying
to teach you things, I love educating.
I'm gonna teach you something right now,
it's called the art of delegation.
When you know someone else does something better than you,
it's good to have them do it.
Lorie is very good at this, and I'm gonna let her do it,
and I'm gonna sit back and just watch,
is that okay with you?
- First of all,
you could have at least got the stuff ready.
Second of all,
- [Brian] You know, if you put that energy
into working instead of complaining,
- Oh I'm gonna put the energy into something.
You're not gonna like it.
- [Brian] All right, I'll be over here, I'll be over here.
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- This is actually Tiger Lily,
she's a het hypo Brazilian rainbow boa.
Come on girl, wanna eat?
There it is, good job honey.
Brazilian rainbow boas are definitely
one of the coolest animals and ironically enough,
they're really related to the
Dominican red mountain boas too.
It's in the same genus of them,
and unbelievable how gorgeous they are,
of course that rainbow sheen is why
they call them a rainbow boa.
Hopefully with any luck we'll have some babies this year,
'cause last year it was a terrible production year,
we didn't produce even one baby.
But fingers crossed this year'll be a really good year.
Next up is Nightfury, come on bud, wanna eat?
Whoa!
Where you going buddy?
Come here, over here, over here, come here, whoa.
Whoa, whoa!
There he is, whoo.
He got a little crazy, I think it woke him up,
because he was kinda sleeping he didn't seem interested,
soon as he started like,
oh my God there's gonna be food, wham, it was on!
Butterscotch for number two, come on girl, it's okay girl.
It's okay, it's okay.
There you go.
Whoo.
That animal, I'm not kidding you,
you know, I've been feeding big snakes forever,
there's something about that animal,
'cause she strikes so far,
it's like I have to toss it to her,
'cause I know if I get close she's gonna get my arm,
I mean wow, that animal is crazy.
I've never had a big snake so wild like Butterscotch.
Perdida's just coming out of shed
so I'm not sure if she's gonna eat.
Typically I don't like feeding animals
when they're just coming out of shed,
but today is the only day I can feed this week
because we're actually open for the public
and then we're going out of town to Texas,
so it looks like she's actually interested.
And it's interesting because Perdida
is one of those snakes that sometimes will eat and shed.
Yup, there she goes, she definitely took it,
so it is interesting, you know,
she seems to always be in shed when I'm
thawing out for food, so, and I want her to feed,
'cause again next week we're gonna be gone,
so she ate, that's awesome news.
And it's Daisy's turn!
Come on little monkey, come on, come on, come on.
There she goes, there you go big girl.
She looks so beautiful, huh?
What do you guys think?
- Cool!
- [Brian] You guys like it?
You're gonna be in tomorrow's vlog, all right?
- Thanks!
- It's a bunny. - What's in there?
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- Snazzy, you want food?
Oh yeah, look at this, whoa, whoa, whoa.
There you go buddy, oh there he goes.
Look at that, perfect, that's amazing.
And we're actually just breaking down his cage right now,
so we're feeding him,
then we'll kinda revamp his entire cage,
and that's it for feeding for the day.
Always love feeding, let me know in the comments
if you guys enjoy it as much as I do.
And that's pretty much it guys.
We'll just get some water in there, moisten it up,
we can put those geckos in there.
Pretty cool little terrarium, I like it,
definitely the smallest one I've built.
We'll eventually do some ABG,
or what they call Atlanta Botanical Garden,
which is the bioactive stuff.
Get the geckos in here and that's it.
So let me know what you guys think,
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