- Oh my God!
How awesome is that?
And, oh my God.
Wow!
Oh my God!
These guys absolutely crushed the food this time.
Like when they can't get their back way over
and they can drop.
- Eric is now the largest producer of Everglades Rat Snake.
- Cory, uh oh, uh oh, Uh oh Uh oh!
(dramatic music)
Good morning everybody and welcome to the Vlog.
It's gonna be a banger of a day.
I hope that you have an amazing day too!
Actually waiting on a shipment that's gonna get here
that I am super excited to share with you guys.
A little nervous I'm not going to lie to ya,
but anyways, shipment should be here any minute.
And you guys are gonna be blown away
at what I'm about to get.
And it's finally here guys,
and I know that it is an emotional thing
and a lot of people are like,
"Brian, you shouldn't do it."
But the truth is I took a poll on the community channel,
you guys might have participated in that
as well as I kind of just decided, you know what?
It's just like with Ben and Jerry, if you don't take risks
how are you going to actually get there?
So listen I understand the risk I'm taking.
The good news is that snapping turtles typically have
a much better survival rate than sliders when it
comes to two headed.
There seems to be a lot higher rate of them actually
doing well, all the way into adulthood.
So you know what, this one's been around for a little bit.
It's supposedly doing extremely well, eating like crazy,
so I thought, you know what?
I'm going to take the risk because I know if it lives,
some kids are gonna come in in the next year
(explosion) or two or whatever.
And they're going to be like oh my God, how awesome is that?
And, oh my gosh. Wow!
- Wow! - Wow!
- Wow!
- Holy cow. And the thing I love about it again,
is this isn't a tiny baby.
Oh my God!
This thing is like out of a horror movie
or something like that.
Oh my gosh.
It is the cutest most little adorable thing in the world!
Take a look at this, and it's really crazy
because a lot of the times, two headed turtles,
they'll only have two legs on the side.
This one was interesting because it actually has
four legs on both sides.
So it literally has two legs in the middle.
So there's a head, two legs, a head
and then legs on either side.
What a trip!
It's really rare to have six legs instead of just
having four legs on a two headed turtle.
I think it almost looks like it has a third head.
I mean, what an absolute trip.
This thing is adorable
and again, because it looks like it's got some size to it,
it's really doing well.
I think we're going to have really good success
with this animal.
Of course there's a risk people,
and I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
Even when I asked you guys, "Should I do it?
What should I do?"
An overwhelming number of people said,
"Hey you gotta give it a risk."
I was almost thinking about not sharing it with you guys
and waiting six or eight months
just to see that it was doing well.
Because I listen, I know that there's the emotional thing.
If they don't make it it's definitely
gonna be an emotional hit to me but,
the truth is I'm willing to take that risk,
much like Ben and Jerry, you know?
I love those animals so much
and if I would've given up every time I wasn't successful
with the two headed snake,
I wouldn't have Ben and Jerry now.
So here it is guys,
the two headed snapping turtle, unbelievable.
Obviously we're gonna go ahead
and get them set up here in a little bit,
but I'm also gonna need a name for this guy.
So go down in the comments, let me know
what you guys think, and here we go again.
Swingin' for the fences guys,
that's just how I've always been.
This animal is awesome
and how many kids come into the Reptarium
and ask about a two headed turtle?
This is gonna make a lot of people really happy,
including myself for sure.
So all right gonna go set things up,
get him in his tank and we'll go from there.
Looks like Bowser's on the hunt,
these guys are ambush predators.
Meaning that when his mouth is open
and that little lure is going he wants to eat.
Now a lot of people have asked me,
"What do we feed 'them?"
We give them a lot of variety, we give them fish,
we sometimes give them rodents, sometimes chicken.
Today we're gonna give him Missouri Crocodile chow,
which is a pelleted food that has all the nutrition
that he needs.
Let's see if he'll eat.
(gentle music)
When it comes to hatching reptiles,
there's no doubt that the little baby frillies here
were on the top of the coolest things
that we hatched this year.
I've never hatched real dragons,
never even tried to breed them before,
and they are so absolutely cute
and absolutely adorable.
When we throw crickets in,
which I'm gonna do in a second here,
it's kind of funny like they're so lazy
if the crickets don't run right in front of their face,
they don't even care about them.
But we've been taking them out,
putting them in a bucket, throwing crickets in it,
and they just destroy the crickets
so I'll go ahead
and throw some crickets in here.
But these guys might be the cutest things
I've hatched out all year.
(upbeat music)
Oh my God, these guys absolutely crushed the food this time.
Like I said the last time we threw them in,
they just kinda sat there
and unless the cricket came right by them,
they were just like, "Whatever!"
This time they jumped down
and they murdered those crickets,
they are definitely (murmurs), that was awesome!
Okay so here is the setup that we have right now.
We wanted to have about an inch or so of water
because two headed turtles,
believe it or not, can sometimes flip over on their back
and when they flip over, unlike a normal turtle
a lot of times they can't get their back way over
and they can drown.
So we don't want too much water in here.
We want a little bit of gravel,
we went with a lighter gravel
so you could actually see the animal.
And then we have some foliage.
So they can maybe hide back here, kind of move around.
The other thing is if something does happen
where it flips over, its got things to grab on to
to hopefully right itself.
We'll obviously keep a close eye on it regardless.
Let's go ahead and put these monkeys in here
and see how they do.
And here they go, there you guys go.
What do ya think?
Oh they're in the water.
Okay they're starting to wake up just a little bit,
moving around, they're gonna get their self kinda situated.
Now I know some people are gonna think
I'm crazy probably for getting another two headed turtle,
because two headed animals have such
a mortality rate.
But listen guys, I love this thing.
Look at how fricking cool it is moving around like that.
Oh my gosh, both heads came up
for a breath of air, unbelievable.
And the reason I like these is that number one,
snappers typically do well.
Number two the heads are really separated
which tells me they have a little bit better chance
because if they're too close together,
sometimes there can be other issues.
Regardless there he is, he's set up,
need a name, in the comments let me know
what you guys think and hey listen,
I hope that you guys approve of the fact that
I'm still willing to try,
because I think it's gonna be an amazing
educational tool for kids.
So there it is my two headed snapping turtle.
Tomorrow is the big day, the anniversary party
here at the reptarium, 12 o'clock to eight o'clock.
Things coming together or no?
- They're comin' together but,
there's still a lot of work to do
and it's gonna be crazy. - It's down to the wire,
Down to the wire, so you know me guys,
I say this all the time.
But you know I get so nervous like I think maybe
no ones gonna show up.
But hopefully it'll be a great event,
we're really putting a lot into it.
We're hoping everyone comes out,
again out in the parking lot we'll have animals
and a whole bunch of other stuff
and it's free to be out in the parking lot
with all the animals, take pictures,
hang out with us, the whole crew will be here.
So you can meet everybody and then you can
come in the reptarium and have a good time
if you want, 12 to eight tomorrow.
Fingers crossed, wish me luck.
Quick egg cutting really quick, oh my God.
A real quick egg cutting, four eggs only,
so this won't take too long.
This is actually an albino clown that's bred
to a double het albino clown.
So we can get albinos half a clown,
we can get double het albino clowns,
we can get albino clowns potentially
but we only have four eggs.
On average we would think that we would get
one albino clown, one albino heifer clown,
and then a couple double heifer clowns.
That's the kinda averages that goes.
Lets go ahead and jump in and just see if our odds
are with us or against us.
And as I grab the back
and see it's an albino, it's an albino
and guess what?
It's an albino clown, right off the riff
we hit an albino clown.
The thing that's nice about this
is that this is the first time this double het female
actually proved out to be a het for clown
so that's always good.
Listen, we thought it was because we produced it,
but you never know when there's maybe
sperm retention or something like that.
So the first time a het proves out is always the best.
So now we know we have a double het albino clown,
let's just go ahead
and jump into these last few eggs.
Interestingly enough, I'm gonna just show you
real quick, these two eggs here are light.
I'm assuming they are probably albino's
because they just don't have the dark look to them.
This one I can almost see that there's something
dark in it, let's go ahead
and see if my presumption is correct
and that these are albino's.
So we're gonna go ahead
and cut at this one
and I was totally wrong, but it's a clown.
It's a clown het albino.
Here I was gonna try to act like I knew what I was doing
and I completely blew up in my face.
So we have a clown het albino,
and albino clown,
so far the odds have been really good.
Let's go ahead and see if this one is albino,
and this one isn't an albino either.
Man I totally ruined this one,
this is actually just a normal that's a double
het albino clown.
I think I see something dark in this last egg
but you know what, maybe it's an albino for all I know.
One last egg, let's go ahead
and cut into this
and see what we have.
Alright let's see what we have
and just another double het albino clown,
so not bad we got an albino clown,
we got a clown heifer albino,
we got a couple double heads so hey,
I'll take that every day of the week.
Not a bad way to do some egg cutting.
Noah is fresh off his 24 hour challenge with Lucy,
remember I told you well the video has dropped,
I'm gonna put a link right down in the description
- I survived. - And it will be
pinned comment, so go check it out.
How ya feeling?
- I feel much better now, when it was over
I felt horrible, you know I just was kinda sick.
I ate so many peanut butter and jellies.
It was not good, but we survived.
- But we kinda ruined it right now,
'cause you're still alive
- Yeah. - So we ruined it,
he lives okay.
Link in the description go show that some love.
Definitely a banger of a video.
Eric, you're a happy man today, huh?
- So cool, so cool. - What happened I don't know?
What happened?
- Let's just say, Eric is now the largest
producer of Everglades rat snakes in Lake Orion.
- [Noah] In Lake Orion?
Oh look at it - Just in Lake Orion.
- Look, oh my God.
- Go ahead Noah pick it up.
- [Eric] He'll get you he's already
feisty look at him.
Aww, he came right out.
- He looks just like his daddy.
- He does.
- So Eric actually has this clutch of eggs that
Eric and Mary bred their Everglades rat snakes
and these are the very first ones
that he hatched so, you're excited huh?
- So cool, this is actually the first things
we've ever kind of hatched out or bred or anything.
So we've always just kinda been collectors, you know?
But put the two together, magics gonna happen, am I right?
- Oh sh(beep) it died. - Well it's okay.
- (laughs) Well Noah, that's it.
- [Noah] You gotta get that.
- Oh here we go here we go.
- [Noah] It's stuck in the corner.
- Geez gotta really... - [Brian] Oh yeah you
can move it. - There we go
- Oh man
- You guys are excited? - [Brian] We're so excited.
- I'm not. - [Brian] So how's it feel
to be an uncle?
- I wish he was a little more handsome.
- [Brian] More handsome, look at that face.
Look at how cute that is.
- Look at that, oh it just peed on me.
Well that's okay
- Welcome to fatherhood, - It was musk.
- I peed on my dad a lot when I was a baby.
- Oh yeah, no, same here I just let it loose.
- [Brian] He just stopped a couple years ago.
(laughter)
Alright, well congratulations man.
- Thank you so much man.
- Got a little baby Culebra update coming up,
let's see if we can get through this without
letting any snakes out.
This is actually a beautiful clutch right here.
This is actually an abbots Okeetee scaleless clutch.
I mean, I tell you what, I'm gonna put this little dude
in the water really quick,
get some of that vermiculite off,
and then you can see how absolutely stunning that is.
Again that Abbots Okeetee is a locality,
line bred animal.
They have those really wide black saddles and in scaleless.
I tell you what, they look absolutely incredible,
of course we have just a couple hets here,
another little Abbott's there,
so that's pretty cool.
Let's go ahead and get that lid on,
hey so far I'm doing really good.
I tell you what I think that I'm feeling good
and confident about the future.
Oh until I open this box, I'm not as confident right now.
So what we have here is just a little
albino scaleless, get some of that vermiculite
out and just you can take a look at how
absolutely gorgeous the albino scaleless is here.
Looks like we've got a couple other scaleless
and what's really cool about this clutch
is we have some Halloween clumps.
Oh my gosh, wait a second, uh oh.
Okay so we have, let's get this little monkey back in here.
We have some Halloween Pueblan milk snakes,
again Halloween is coming the Halloween
has a little bit more red in it,
the real good Halloween's don't have hardly any red
and they're just orange and black.
But nevertheless, some pretty cool animals
in this clutch right here,
we'll just kinda take a look right there.
Oh yeah look at some of these here.
Oh this is almost like, uh oh.
This is more like an orange, uh oh, uh oh.
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh.
Oh sheesh, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy.
Okay I literally had snakes everywhere
that was manically crazy.
I tell you I had snakes all over the place,
I had to run and grab a bucket really quick.
Regardless, got them back in now,
this is kinda opposite of the Halloween,
this is what they would call an Oreo Pueblan.
So this is basically the Halloween
without the apricot, just a normal,
and again has a little bit of red on it.
The best ones don't have any red at all
but let's go ahead and see if we can get this little guy,
putting one snake in that box is not gonna be easy.
So I'm gonna set my camera down for one second,
and hope for the best.
Check really quick for heads,
make sure no heads are stuck, whew.
That was a tough one I gotta be honest with you.
And then of course we have just a really cool,
het coral diffuse, it looks like this one right here
is a coral diffuse corn.
Which is the blood red corn of course coral as well.
Really beautiful animals, just a bunch of
really cool corn snakes here, loving it.
So again, onto the nitty gritty
when it comes to Culebra eggs,
I'm not gonna lie to you,
we only have a handful of clutches left
but I tell you, I am gonna miss
hatching these little babies.
But we'll get you updated on some cool pictures
as they start growing and feeding and stuff like that.
They're absolutely incredible.
I know I'm takin a risk with a two headed turtle,
I know that there's a chance that things may not
work out well, but again.
You gotta take risks to get to where you wanna go
and I'm willing to accept the responsibility
of those risks.
The fact is, that animal is here whether
I have it or someone else has it,
I've gotta give it the best chance it
possibly can for survival and hopefully it works out.
If you guys enjoyed this, this is the video of
the last two headed turtle I got,
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