- I got this two-headed bearded dragon
but not for the reasons you think.
You guys know I have Ben and Jerry,
the two-headed California king snake
and you know that I'm obsessed with two-headed animals.
Ever since I was young,
I just thought they were absolutely incredible
and I've had the opportunity to get a handful of them
and it's so cool to work with them,
there's no doubt that Ben and Jerry
are big attractions here at the Reptarium,
bringing in a lot of people through the door,
giving us the opportunity to educate them on reptiles.
And then of course there's Chopsticks,
the red-eared slider, two-headed,
absolutely amazing animal.
You guys know that the journey
for two-headed animals isn't easy.
I've been down it so many times,
had some real triumphs,
and I had some real failures
and it's really difficult to do
so not every two animal is gonna be a long-lived animal.
Chopstick's about halfway to adulthood
and once they hit this size,
they're pretty much bulletproof
and they do really well as well as Ben and Jerry.
Now it's almost five years old,
it's probably going to live another 20 years
and hopefully Chopsticks will live 25 or 30 more years.
I obviously have these two on display
and they create a tremendous amount of curiosity
from people that come in.
They can't believe
that there's actually two-headed reptiles.
Ben and Jerry, the cool two-headed snake,
gets so much attention it's not even funny,
and then Chopsticks, the two-headed turtle,
people absolutely love them,
there is no doubt that they an attraction
here at the Reptarium.
Let's go ahead and step back a week from now.
I got a message about a week ago on Instagram
about someone that was selling a two-headed bearded dragon.
Peaked my interest right away.
You know, having two heads in one body
must not be the easiest
so I wanna put it to the test a little bit.
Mike you ready?
- Uh-oh. - Me?
- Well, the good news is Mike is the one that's going to be
controlling these two guys
so let's just get to it. (Noah chuckling)
- You got to make sure you don't slither out of it
this time, you know?
Are your heads gonna fit through there?
- Is my hair going to fit through there?
- Ryan ripped the shirt
so when Laurie comes back and (indistinct)
it's not us.
- I mean, we're not incapable.
I think we can dress ourselves.
- [Mike] There's one, yeah.
- Hey, why's so aggressive?
- Hey are you choking?
- Yeah dude.
I'm choking a little bit.
- There it is.
- So Mike?
You can do whatever you want with them.
- Oh, easy, watch this.
- I want you guys to get Salt out.
- So unsafe! - Shut up, I don't do that
with two hands.
I'm not doing that.
- A team work boys.
- Outside. - Outside.
Inside. - Inside.
Outside. - Outside.
Inside. - Inside.
I don't think it helps doing that weird thing.
like it's a peg leg or something.
- Well it doesn't go so far.
- [Jake] Well then take a bigger step.
- [Noah] Well, it doesn't work geometrically.
- Your outside leg is not taped, Noah,
so I don't understand why you're not walking regularly?
- I have tight hip flexors, dude.
Watch out hope for the lake.
- But when I saw the post
I was interested in the animal
but I didn't want anyone to actually
put this animal on display.
It was definitely fragile
and definitely not the size that I'd like to see
at that at age.
So I knew that if someone put it on display
it would be stressing it out way too much.
So I thought to myself,
we might as well go ahead and give it a shot
because with all of our experience with two-headed animals,
figured we had his best chance as anyone
and I wanted this little guy to survive.
So I reached out to him
and I went ahead and made a deal and bought it.
And here it is.
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And like I mentioned,
I really didn't get this
because I wanted people to come in
and look at it at the Reptarium
because I think it would've been too difficult
for this particular animal.
That doesn't mean that I'm still not excited
about the opportunity to work with it.
Because if it turns out to be a viable animal in the future,
it's gonna be a really cool display animal.
It's probably at least six to eight months away
of even thinking about putting it here at the Reptarium.
So I'll be honest with you,
I am excited about it.
Oh my gosh!
I'm really nervous right now guys.
I mean, this is just,
I don't even know what to think to be honest with you.
So here we go.
Oh, let's see what we got.
Oh my God, it is tiny.
Let's go ahead, get this little monkey out of here.
Look at it.
Oh my goodness gracious.
I'll be honest with you,
it's a little bit better in person
than I thought it would be in the pictures.
In the pictures and videos I saw,
I thought it was going to be a lot worse.
I could definitely see how it can move around.
Three of its legs seem to be absolutely perfect.
One leg is definitely off.
So it's gonna have a little bit of a problem moving around.
But again, at several months of age,
it'll only be really just a little bigger than a baby,
that's the issue that I think is the biggest problem,
but my gosh, are they absolutely adorable.
They really are cute.
We're gonna go ahead and get 'em set up
and we're gonna do everything we can do
to keep these guys alive.
I tell you what, wow!
They are so cute.
Again, when I first saw 'em I felt a little bit bad
for them to be honest.
Now I kind of think that they're super cute,
and I think they could have a chance to survive
if we really baby them.
We're gonna set them up.
We're gonna do the best we can do with the experience
that we've had actually working with two-headed animals.
And hopefully we're able to get this animal thriving
and maybe eight or 10 months from now,
it will be big enough and maybe three, four times the size
and maybe we would consider
putting it here at the Reptarium.
But for now, we're gonna go ahead and get it set up.
- [Jake] No way I'm grabbing that thing, dude.
- Come on, she's excited.
- Look it, she's biting.
- Can I use both hands?
- No.
No. - Can I go like this?
- I'm not doing this. - Noah, grab her.
- You guys, it's so easy.
- [Noah] I'm not doing this.
- [Lake] Noah, just grab the front part.
- [Noah] I'm not grabbing the front part.
- Noah, grab the front part, Noah.
Noah! - My finger slipped in.
- Oh my God. (Noah laughing)
Noah, I already got the tail,
just grab the front part, Noah.
(Jake groans)
Oh my God.
Great, now she's mad.
Now we lost our opportunity.
- Is that right?
- No, I ain't getting her front, hell no.
- Come on, she's going back in
until you get her. - No, you grab her.
- I'm not grabbing her dude.
- Jake, how many times have you done this?
- Never with one hand.
(lips popping)
- [Noah] Jesus, what is that?
- They're gonna die later (indistinct)
We need a little bit nose poking her with one finger.
Come on boys.
Go, go, go, go.
- Keep that neck boy.
Noah, don't put her back.
- She's wet, dude.
- Okay, we got her, we got her.
- Bring her out!
Bring her out! - No, no, no.
- Noah, you can't use both hands.
- I'm not dude.
- Oh my God, my wrist are going to get bit.
- That was impressive, guys.
It only took 20 minutes, but you got it.
- I got glitter in my eye.
- So what do you guys think?
- What?
- Isn't that crazy?
Two heads?
- Isn't that wild, do you wanna hold it?
- No.
Wow, it's so weird, dude.
- It is weird, right?
- They're so little.
- They are small for their age.
Definitely has me a little concerned.
There's no doubt about that.
Obviously, guys, we need a name for these two right there.
We need two names for these two
and we're gonna do the absolute best
that we can do to keep these guys to survive and thrive.
Not a slam dunk by any chance.
As a matter of fact,
we're up against it to be honest with you
but I think we're gonna try our best
and we'll keep you guys posted on their progress
but we definitely, in the comments,
let me know what names you think we should name these guys
and send all the positive vibes you can for us.
So I wanna keep this set up super simple
because we don't want it to ingest anything.
One of the things that I didn't tell you guys
is that we had our bearded dragon Fetty Wap
for 17 years and he recently passed away
and he actually was in this enclosure, and Beth,
Beth actually took care of Fetty the last year of his life.
I mean, babied him like you can't believe,
so I can't think of anyone better
to kind of oversee
this little two monkeys too than Beth, all right?
- Yeah, I'd love to.
- Beth babies our animals up here in the office
like you can't believe
so obviously I'm going to be helping her.
Best to be right here.
It's kind of on the way.
It's not going to be stress for anything.
There's really no commotion up here.
And basically I'm just gonna keep paper towels
so that it has something to actually go on here.
I'm gonna put a little hiding spot in here.
So that way, if it feels like it needs
to get away and stuff like that, it can.
Now, I'm gonna put the slate right here
which is gonna be right underneath
the kind of basking light, right?
Then we're gonna do a lot of UV light
because, again, it's probably got a lot of bone issues
so we wanna make sure there's lots of UV.
We'll try to see if we can get a variety
of food fed to this guys
with lots of calcium and vitamin D and multivitamins.
So I think this is just gonna be really simple.
That way we can clean it as often as we want,
we can keep an eye at it,
there's no bedding for it to actually ingest
to potentially impact itself.
So I think this is exactly how we're gonna keep it.
And we're gonna have to probably soak it probably every day,
every other day,
because it's probably not gonna be able to crawl
up into a water dish right now.
But we will put a water dish in here just for humidity.
- Next thing.
- There's a next thing?
- How many these things are there?
- Next thing we do,
we're gonna make you guys chase the armadillo.
- What do you mean chase it?
- Like you know he's gonna run away
so you got to go get him.
- [Noah] My legs don't work like yours, dude.
- All right, ready?
Hello.
Hi, buddy.
You guys have to give me a Brillo experience.
- This is Brillo.
- This is our Armadillo.
- This is our Armadillo, six bands on him.
We call him six bands. - Six bands.
- I'll support this leg.
- Scratch the belly.
- You mean like this?
(group laughing)
- It tickles.
(Noah screaming) (indistinct chatter)
Stop it, stop it.
Dude, he's chewing my laces.
No, no, no, Brillo! - He's so bad,
he's really biting it.
We're gonna have to use centrifugal force.
- What does that mean?
- It means, together.
- Cake and burgers today.
- They did everything.
- Can I use your-
- How did he get up here?
- I don't know but he's gonna hurt
'cause he's gonna bite.
- He hurts so much.
- I love you so much, Brillo.
Scoot. - Scratch the booty.
(group screaming)
- He's biting it, oh my God!
Oh my God, he won't let it go.
Wait, he's choking me.
- Laurie, I just wanted to show you
the two-headed little bearded dragon.
What do you think?
- Oh wow, it's pretty tiny.
- I know it is pretty small
but that's my only concern at this.
I think Nathan approves, huh?
- Yes, he agrees that it's kind of small.
- Yes I know Nathan's very...
So what do you think?
It is cute though, isn't it?
- Yeah, it is pretty cute.
- It is.
I know we we've got an uphill battle with this one.
I don't know if it's gonna work out,
but I just had to give it a shot.
I just wanted to show you it so that you saw 'em
and we're gonna let Beth take over
and work with these guys on a daily basis.
I'll oversee it.
But I think that she'll take good care of him, huh?
- I'm sure she will.
- Okay, all right.
well, I'm gonna get 'em set up, okay?
- All right-
- All right, I'll talk to you later,
bye.
(group laughing)
- [Noah] This thing's outta control, man.
(Noah screaming)
- Noah, put him in the cage.
- I need help.
Brillo, no!
No, it tickles so much.
- This makes no sense that I'm trying to slide it
all the way from the other side.
No slide the rest.
Slide the rest, Noah, slide the rest.
I'm so hot.
Okay, slide it, slide it!
I don't have anything to hold on like you do.
- Centrifugal force.
- Can I use your arm?
- Yeah, three, two, one.
- Don't pull my arm.
Just hold it.
- Hey, hey, hey!
- You got to put your other arm in the front.
- Well, it hurts.
(Noah screaming)
- Noah, come on.
- Release my pants.
Noah, wait.
Get up here.
(group laughing)
- Noah, come on, just stand up.
- Get up.
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- Take a look it, guys.
We actually have a pinstripe pastel py
not so coiled around the eggs.
And it's bred to this beautiful male pastel py.
Let's see how many eggs she has.
Oh mama!
What is going on girl?
She didn't coil around it very well.
So we're gonna go ahead
and candle all of these eggs here.
Try to get them off the paper the best we can.
Here we go, two, four, six, eight, nine beautiful eggs.
- Ouch!
I choke a little bit every time.
(group laughing)
- All right guys, so one last thing,
we need some extra free advertisements.
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and just wave it around like and spin it a couple times.
Do whatever you got to do.
- Reptiles, get your reptiles here.
Reptiles.
- Reptiles.
- Turtles, humans, tortoises.
- Live reptiles.
- (indistinct) Reptiles.
- Live reptiles.
(group cheering)
- We got snakes.
- We got snakes!
Live reptiles.
(group cheering)
- Get a couple spins going.
(group groaning)
- Oh no!
- Get the sign.
(bright music)
- Get your reptiles.
- Get your reptiles here.
You're gonna sell this shirt?
- Yeah, it's going back on the shelf.
- Drop comment down below if you guys want
a Noah and Jake sweatshirt
with a little bit of armadillo saliva.
- So not every animal I buy is an investment.
You know, obviously Ben and Jerry worked out,
Chopsticks worked out.
This one may or may not work out.
It wasn't about the money.
It wasn't about what it would bring in return
to me down the road,
hey, listen, I would love that animal to survive and thrive
and eventually be over here at the Reptarium.
But that's a long, long way from now.
And I'm not even thinking about that.
The only thing I'm thinking about
is how can I keep that animal's life
as good as it possibly can get?
'Cause, listen, it's not the greatest example
of a two-headed animal.
I know it's gonna have struggles
and I don't know what the future is gonna bring,
but in this case,
I was willing to put it out there
because I want to give it the best life
that possibly can have no matter how long it is.
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- Do you see how wet that leg is?