- Oh
Oh.
Ah.
And there she goes right away.
(Fast whoosh)
Hey good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I am in Lucy's cage right now,
and we're gonna get this vlog started
just by feeding my girl Lucy.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
When I start my day feeding a huge snake,
you know it's gonna be a good one.
Come on Lucy, you ready girl?
You wanna eat a nice rabbit?
C'mon sweetheart.
There ya go, come on.
C'mon girl, c'mon girl.
I know you're hungry.
C'mon, c'mon you got it.
C'mon girl.
Ah there you go girl.
Good job, way to go.
Woohoo doggy, that never gets old.
I don't know how many thousands of times
I've fed big snakes like my girl Lucy here,
each and every time I absolutely love it.
But I wanna make one thing clear,
as much as I love feeding all snakes,
I just think it's one of the most
incredible things on the planet.
I have said this before,
and I'll continue to say it,
that I don't like feeding animals to other animals.
I get no joy out of seeing an animal die or get fed off.
That's why I never show live feeding on the vlog.
Yes we do feed snakes live, but I will
not use that as entertainment to try to get views
or whatever the case may be.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
In the last 20 years I have never
watched a snake ever eat a live meal.
When a snake does need to eat live,
I'll put it in, I keep an eye on it
to make sure the snake doesn't get hurt,
but as soon as it strikes at it I walk away.
I don't wanna see that, I don't get enjoyment
out of seeing a snake eat another animal,
or any animal eat other animals.
But that is nature, and that's the way things go.
With that said, I think that a snake
like Lucy is absolutely amazing
and seeing the force of that
power feed is truly breathtaking,
I mean just take a look at that animal right there.
Woo doggy, that's amazing.
(calm music)
It's a pretty heavy pack day here at BHB
Laurie's got a ton of shipments going out.
Looks like we've got some really cool corn snakes here,
some peublan milksnakes,
and some more cornsnakes here,
even some garter snakes, oh these guys are so gorgeous
Oh it's a scaleless Texas rattlesnake,
a bunch of leopard geckos.
I know she has a bunch if ball pythons to pack,
so she's definitely has a busy day today.
(chilled music)
These are all the ball pythons that are
going to be going out today,
and in particular this one got me a little sad.
This is a little tiny micro smiley face,
and you guys know I love smileyfieds.
This one has a little tiny smiley right there,
that's absolutely good, so whoever's getting that,
congratulations I absolutely love that.
Now we actually have a handful of pyths going out
including this really high white female py here
that is absolutely incredible.
We also have this pastel mimosa ball python right here,
which of course is pastel, it's ghost or hypo,
and it's also champagne.
Here's just a two bang animal here,
this is actually a pastel yellowbelly
and I remember loving pastel yellowbellies
since the first time we produced them way back in the day.
I just think that that combination is absolutely stunning.
It has a couple mutations that when you
breed into other mutations really make
some incredible, incredibly beautiful paint jobs.
And woohoo doggy look at this here,
this is actually an Enchi Kingpin.
Oh my gosh, so that is an enchi,
it's a pinstripe, an' it's a lesser,
and together that makes a stunning snake.
And speaking of stunning,
this is actually a Dragonfly here,
which is a fire, a pastel and a lemon blast,
but this one has a really wide pattern in it,
making it really unusual, and really cool.
And lastly we have this animal that is super clean,
and really beautiful.
This is actually an Enchi Hat Russo .
Now the russo stuff is the ones that make
the white snakes, the blue eyed Leucistic
but they've really cleaned things up,
so it's interesting the hat russo
and the enchi are both kind of that enhancing cleaner gene,
together they are a stunning stunning snake.
Feeding a handful of things today,
but I'm actually going to turn over Butterscotch to Noah
and Eric, - Lets do this.
- Nothing can go wrong there.
The reason I'm having them feed her is
that this is the one cage that I hate feeding,
because she's a face biter so,
- Whoa, man
- So you guys should be good.
So that'll be over on Noah's channel
I'll put a link in the description,
and if Eric survives you'll see him later on in the vlog.
Next girl I'm gonna feed is this girl here,
who is definitely ready for food.
This is actually Sunfire,
and this will be her first rabbit ever.
We always just feed her large rats,
but she's getting pretty big now.
And she is so gorgeous, I cannot wait
'til this snake gets 15 or 18 foot.
'Cause she is one of the prettiest
retics I have, maybe outside of Perdita,
so let's see if she takes this rabbit,
and trust me she is a very very intense feeder,
so this should be pretty fun.
Here you go girl, you want it?
You want it girl?
Here you go girl.
Do you want it?
D'ya want it?
It doesn't look like she wants it.
Sometimes transferring from rats
to rabbits that can happen.
Look at her go, she is one of the fastest snakes too.
Look at her, she's all the way up there,
already on the other side of the cage.
So I think I'm gonna have to feed her a rat,
'cause I wanna get her going,
but no rabbit for her today.
C'mon girl, you wanna rat instead?
You get an idea of the difference of the smell.
Sometimes with rabbits, when they're switching
they just won't eat but then you just offer them a rat
and they should just take it right away.
C'mon girl.
You want this?
Here you go girl.
There you go girl.
Oh.
And there she goes, right away.
It's pretty amazing how these animals can have
such a different response to different pray items.
She took that rat right away,
but she had nothing to do with the rabbit.
So we'll just keep feeding her rats,
and eventually she'll switch over to rabbits .
But what a beautiful snake.
We've been having Noah and Eric feed some stuff,
so they're having a good time with that.
They're gonna feed Perdita next, right?
- Uh-huh, that's right.
- [Brian] So uh, go for it guys, go for it.
- [Eric] So what we do here,
- [Noah] Oh here we go.
Come on Perdita.
- Man here face is the best.
- [Eric] Oh, did you hear that?
- [Noah] Oh that was a full Mayweather style
- [Eric] Yeah it was, man.
That was fast. (Laughter)
(chilled out music)
- [Brian] So what's this crazy story?
- Dude, it's so, it's just so crazy,
I started a salt water aquarium a few weeks ago,
I just haven't had the best luck, okay.
I get these little shrimp, they're so cool,
they're so fun to watch go around,
they're cleaning the fish an' everything.
"oh is it going to be okay with the hawkfish?"
"Oh they'll be fine".
Well one of my shrimp goes missing,
I find the little legs,
and I'm like "it's not looking good".
Right when I'm telling that to Mary,
bam, hawkfish comes up an' swallows the other one down.
- [Brian] What?!
- $70 meal right there.
- [Brian] What they were 70 bucks?
- Yeah, yeah
- [Brian] And they ate them, you had two of them?
- Two of them, ate 'em right down.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- And then two weeks before that, my pufferfish died.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh
- Don't get a saltwater tank
- Oh god, yeah, marine fish aren't for everyone.
Lets see if Casper wants to,
remember last time he missed the rat
and bit my hand, so this time I'm gonna use some forceps,
just to keep my hand a little further away.
Casper, you wanna eat bud?
Aren't you bud?
Oh there you go buddy,
there you go.
There you go.
(chilled out music)
The other day I talked to you guys about
breeding boas and pythons,
as well as colubrids, it's kind of a how-to thing.
So I figured I would still continue that series
a little bit, with blue tongued skinks this time.
And in particular I'll start with
Northern blue tongued skinks.
They're a little bit of a hybrid between
our colubrids and our pythons when it comes to cycling.
Basically what you do is you cool them down,
like a colubrid but not as dramatic.
With the Northerns we only cool them down to about 72,
73 degrees but we take them off of food
just like we do with our colubrids,
or we let them clean out at full temperatures
for probably about two to three weeks,
then we actually drop them down to about 72,
no heat pad, no anything like this, and they actually go
and they hibernate for about two months.
Sunrise certainly looks like she's ready to eat too.
Here you go girl.
There you go sweetheart.
At the end of the two months we do exactly
what we do with the colubrids, we slowly turn the heat on,
and start feeding them, offering them food
and stuff like that.
What typically happens is somewhere between one
and two weeks out of hibernation,
the males will actually shed out,
and that's usually the sign that they're ready to breed.
Now what's interesting is that it seems to be
a pretty small window when it comes to blue tongues skinks,
in our experience most males will
only breed for maybe about two weeks.
But the good news is you can breed
them two or three times a day,
and the actual copulation only takes about 60 seconds or so.
But the courting cam sometimes take 15 or 20 minutes,
and with these guys when you put them together,
if you don't watch them they could
potentially kill each other, so it's kind of a boring task.
You put a male in,
and you just watch it, watch it, watch it,
and then hopefully it'll breed .
The good news is once they start breeding
they typically breed super quick,
and we could easily roll through 10, 20, 30 females
within a pretty short period of time.
Blue tongued skinks are actually live bearers
so after you breed them one to three times,
we typically like to breed three times,
usually within a couple of week window.
If we have three copulations from a male, we just shelf him.
But there are some breeders that literally only breed once,
and once they see a verified copulation
they basically say "alright, the female is ready to go."
After they become gravid within a few months
they actually have litters of babies.
With Northerns that litter is typically somewhere
between eight and maybe 15, somewhere in that range.
Believe it or not, this girl here was actually
produced back at the end of May.
(laughs) That's right, literally less than seven months,
and it's almost an adult.
I've always loved feeding Crackle,
'cause he's always happy to eat.
Here you go Crackle.
There he goes (chuckles)
How awesome is that.
And that's what's so neat about womas
and a lot of blackheads is that they won't even
like strike a lot of time, they just open their mouth
and they start to eat it.
My Eastern blue tongued skinks are actually
in hibernation, so here's just another beautiful
classic Northern that we have here.
And we do actually cycle our Easterns
a little different than our Northern.
We actually will put them into a
little bit cooler hibernation state.
Again the same thing, we clean them out,
we put them down for about two months.
But rather than dropping him to the low 70's,
we literally drop it down to about 62 degrees.
It's just because where they're from,
in the New South Wales area,
it actually gets pretty cold during the winter,
and if you don't cool them down enough,
at least in our experience,
we haven't had as much success
when it comes to breeding 'em.
(chilled music)
Then of course there's all kinds of stuff,
like Centralian, there's Westerns, there's Indonesians
with the Meraukes an' the Irian Jayas
and stuff like that.
And they're all just slightly different
but I wanted to give you kinda the overview
of the Easterns and Northerns of Australians ones
which are the ones we work predominantly with.
And let me know in the comments
if you like these kinda how to breeding things,
'cause I can still keep doing them.
Let me know what else you'd like me to cover,
I'm happy to do it.
And with all that said I think I'm gonna go ahead
and end the vlog here because it's about 8 o'clock at night,
an' it's about time to go home,
get my stuff done at home,
sleep a little bit, get up
and start another beautiful day
here at the reptarium over at BHB.
I hope that you guys have an amazing day,
or whenever you happen to be watching this vlog.
Your support is so amazing to me,
and I truly love you guys so much.
It's gonna be an absolutely incredible year.
I'm just sure of that.
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(chilled music)