- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I have one of the more unusual unboxings today.
If you've seen the thumbnail
you'll know what I've got going on.
I'm definitely gonna be excited about it,
but also extremely nervous about it.
But we have a whole bunch of other work that we have to do.
We've got to weigh some monitors today.
We have a bunch of really cool stuff going on today,
so let's just jump into it
and wish me luck with this unboxing.
I'm either gonna love it
or I'm gonna pass out.
Not sure what's gonna happen.
Regardless, let's push our problems aside
and have a great day together.
So, our friends Ryan and Ben from R&B Reptiles
sent us a little package.
And by us, I mean they sent Bruce a package.
- Yeah.
Oh, you know it, you know it.
- Yeah, Bruce is pretty excited about this.
It's not that I'm not excited about this,
but you guys may know that I got over my fear of tarantulas,
Bruce actually helped me with that,
and I love tarantulas now.
But I do have a little fear of another type of bug,
and that would be what's in this box right here.
So let's just go ahead, cut it open.
- So before you even get too far,
actually I wanted to go ahead and throw it out there
I've never actually held one of these either.
I'm not gonna reveal just what it is.
I've never actually held one, so we're--
- Well, that makes me feel really comfortable.
(Bruce laughs) That makes me feel
really comfortable. - It's gonna be great.
- Okay, so let's hope that this doesn't kill it.
I don't know, these things freak me out beyond belief,
but I am all about getting over your fears, right?
- 100%.
- I am all about expanding our comfort zone,
so let's just take a look real quick.
Of course they sent us some stickers
and stuff like that. - Oh, dude, sweet.
- They sent us some stickers.
- Oh, those are some sweet stickers.
- Little sun gazer stickers, so thank you so much.
A little R&B Reptile stickers. - Oh, I love it.
- So thank you.
Okay, so it's not loose in the box, so that's a good thing.
- You know they would have done it too, yeah.
- I figured there would be a tarantula popping out
or something like that.
Okay.
(Brian screams)
Okay Bruce, it's up to you.
- Oh my God, dude.
Oh my God, look at this thing!
- So it's an African giant millipede.
I am freaked out by millipedes.
I am freaked out by centipedes.
I think centipedes are more freaky than millipedes,
to be totally honest with you.
Apparently they don't bite.
They don't run much.
They can sometimes, I think, poop on you.
But I think they're handleable,
so I think we're gonna give it a go.
I'm gonna let Bruce do the honors first,
and then if he lives then I'll try it, you know what I mean?
But wow, that thing, ugh, it's so creepy.
- [Bruce] Look at that.
Come on little buddy.
Oh my God, dude!
- That is wild. - This is quite possibly
one of the most insane things
I've held in a long time.
- Oh my God. - Holy moly.
- [Brian] Oh my God, look at all those legs.
Which one's ...
That's it's head?
- Yeah, this is the head right here.
If you guys are all looking at it
right here is the head, and right here is the butt.
You can even see there's an antenna right here.
- Oh my gosh there is.
- [Bruce] It looks like he actually does
have some little pincers.
- What?
Don't tell me.
- I don't know if they bite but ...
- [Brian] I heard they don't bite,
but then again, they may have sent me something
that's gonna bite us just as a joke.
- [Bruce] It could bite me.
I don't know, let's find out.
- [Brian] No, let's not find out!
Oh my gosh.
- [Bruce] Dude, you want to hold it?
- I don't, no.
I mean I don't no as in I don't, no.
But I'm gonna--
- Oh, you got to, man.
This thing is the weirdest feeling.
It feels so weird.
I hope you don't start eating me.
- Okay, I'm ready.
Just got to jump in like a pool, right?
- Oh, yeah dude, yes.
- How do I hold it?
What do I do? - Put your hands under it.
There's no rhyme or reason to it.
You just got to go for it. - Oh my gosh.
(Brian screams)
I don't ...
(Brian groans)
- Oh my God, that's so cool. (laughs)
- It's like a hairbrush walking on me.
- [Bruce] Dude, yeah, it does kind of feel like that.
It's sort of weird.
It's like there's these ...
Each part of the feet are kind of prickly at the end.
It's almost like Velcro.
- (whimpers) Oh my ...
I got to be honest with you guys,
I'm trembling, but it is pretty badass.
- [Bruce] This is probably one of the coolest things
we've had in a while here.
Holy cow. - Oh my gosh,
and we're gonna be able to take this out
and let kids hold this and stuff like that.
We're gonna make sure that they don't bite first,
but I've been told that these guys do not bite,
and if they don't bite I am gonna ...
It's gonna be an awesome animal ambassador,
so thank you guys, Ryan and Ben out at R&B.
- Yeah, thank you guys so much.
Oh man, I am so excited about this.
- Wow.
I got to be honest with you,
it's way cooler than I expected.
When I was thinking about putting it on me
I was freaking out,
but now I'm loving this little dude, man.
- I am in awe of this thing.
It is crazy.
- Oh, look at that.
This is pretty cool, I'm not gonna lie to you man.
I like it.
- It's almost calming,
you watching him move.
It's weird. - Oh my gosh.
This is wild, man.
I never thought in a million years
that I would think it was awesome
to hold something like this,
but it is awesome!
I love it.
Look at the little antenna just going, and going, and going.
Oh my God, this is cool.
All right, I'm sold.
I love it.
This guy needs a name.
- It's got to be a really, really cool one though guys.
- It's got be cool.
- I'm not sure the gender of this one,
so I'll have to ask and stuff like that.
But honestly, with these guys it doesn't really matter.
Something really, really interesting, guys.
- Comment down below what you think
this little monkey should be called,
because it is wild.
Hopefully sometime you can come to The Reptarium
and you can hold it,
because I'm blown away.
I think I've just been converted from a fearful person
to someone that loves millipedes.
Go figure.
All right, with Jessica.
What is happening?
(Jessica sighs)
- We have a really early
hatchling leopard gecko. - Oh my gosh.
(Brian laughs)
- I actually was doing an Instagram story.
I pulled out the first tub and I was like,
"Oh, hatching soon," you know?
And then I pulled the next tub and it was like,
"Oh, I guess I spoke too soon."
I'd already posted it and everything.
Oh well. (laughing)
- Don't get us wrong,
it's exciting to hatch leopard geckos,
but at the same time we just got so inundated
last year with leopard geckos
we thought we'd get a little bit longer break.
But hey, first leopard gecko of the year hatching,
lots more to come, right?
- I want to say that this is the hatchling
of the dad that bit me too.
- Oh no! - Yeah, it's one of those.
- Oh gosh.
(clicks tongue) (Jessica laughs)
Let's hope it doesn't carry on the trait.
- Hopefully it's nicer.
- Yeah. (laughs)
Time to feed my little anaconda, Verde.
Hey girl, you want to eat?
You want to eat?
Want some food?
Oh!
Wow, she took that.
As soon as she was ready to go
she didn't mess around.
That was lightning quick.
That was absolutely ridiculous.
Oh, and by the way, I have an anaconda shirt on.
This is actually Ivy, not Verde,
but I'll put a link in the description.
Obviously merch, you can get the free hugs version
or the non free hugs version,
as well as Lucy free hugs or non free hugs.
Limited time.
Gonna be in the next few weeks, something like that.
So again, if you're interested in the merch
link is in the description.
(mellow music)
Guess what time it is?
♪ Egg time ♪
And this is actually a pretty cool pastel female
that was just bred to a pewter lesser, right?
So we could get some sterling lessers
and stuff like that, which is pretty cool.
Looks like she's wrapped around a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Let's see what momma has here.
Come on, girl.
She's being a really pleasant girl.
She doesn't seem to be upset with me at all.
She's coiling her eggs absolutely beautiful.
She's got 'em nice and ...
(paper tearing)
Oh that was so weird.
Heard that noise of the rip
and I was like, "What happened?
"Did the egg just explode?"
That was a weird one.
But she piled them super high,
which obviously means I have to take them ...
'Cause the egg box doesn't quite fit
if you know what I mean.
So gonna have to take these off,
but first we can count them up.
Two, four, six, eight, nine beautiful, gorgeous eggs.
And again, these guys have been set up
for a little bit, so we're gonna have to be pretty careful.
Like I mentioned in the past,
when they get to the point after maybe six or eight hours
of actually laid, which this girl probably laid
in the middle of the night,
they get pretty hard.
You can see they don't come apart really easy.
If you tear too hard you'll rip the egg,
and then obviously the egg goes bad.
So we have to be a little gentle,
a little bit cautious.
We'll get all these eggs apart
and we'll move on from there.
We actually have a cinnamon here
that just has this weird scaleation on her.
I'm not exactly sure what it's from.
But it looks like she's got one little ...
Come on, little girl.
It's just like a dermatological thing
where it was born with all kinds of weird misscaleation.
Don't know if it's genetic.
Probably hope it isn't genetic
to be totally honest with you.
But I'm gonna pull her off.
She was bred to a really cool male to be honest with you,
but we'll get these eggs and then I'll show you the male.
I'm really excited to see what kind of an offspring
we'll get over here.
We'll get these eggs in here.
Just two more little eggs.
We'll get momma all cleaned up,
get her cage all cleaned up.
Which by the way, I'll explain a couple things
about why I keep these on paper,
and I think I'm about to switch over to bedding,
Reptile Prime bedding.
If you guys don't know,
we have a product called Reptile Prime.
It's a coconut husk without dust.
We're thinking about putting all our ball pythons on that.
Again, start to give them a little bit more
of a surface substrate.
Maybe even put some planting in there
for some environmental enrichment.
So that's something that's gonna happen here soon,
and I'll explain later why I went to paper
and why now I'm ready to go back to something
a little bit more enriching, right?
But regardless, she has two, four, six beautiful eggs
and this male she was bred to is a ripper.
And it's a spider, it's a super stripe,
and it's a red stripe.
So the super stripe of course is specter yellow belly.
It's a spider, and then a red stripe, bred to that cinnamon.
Who knows what we're gonna get?
But I think it's gonna be pretty awesome,
there's no doubt about it.
So 57 days from now we'll see what happens.
Pretty excited you guys.
We brought on some help to help me out with this,
but you know we did all those virtual tours
when we were shut down,
and then when we opened we just couldn't do them
because there was so much going on.
Well, guess what?
We are launching the virtual tours again.
I've got some help to help with it as well,
but I'll be hanging out as well.
We can do now five minute, 15 minute,
half hour, and hour virtual tours.
You can go the thereptarium.com
and you can check it out and see
if you want to book one of those.
The five minute obviously is just gonna be
like one animal, we can talk about one animal.
15 minutes expand, 30 minutes expand,
hour you pretty much see the entire place.
But anyways, link in the description.
Thereptarium.com.
If you want to do a virtual tour
they are now available, and we'll get back to you.
So Noah has been in quarantine
for the last three months,
but he is back to work
so that's awesome. - I'm back, baby.
- Noah and I always like to do a lot of scary stuff.
What can be more scary than ...
- Three months in quarantine, baby!
No, just joking.
We made it through that.
I'm talking about the 3:00 AM challenge.
I went around The Reptarium with you,
my father, my padre,
and we just fed Ivy, we fed a bunch of different animals.
- Yeah, it was cool.
And it takes on a completely different feel
when you're in here at dark feeding, especially Ivy,
that was tricky. - It was wild.
- Link in the description
if you want to go watch the 3:00 AM challenge.
I think you guys will like it.
Guess what time it is, guys?
♪ Egg time ♪
And the first clutch we're gonna pull today
is actually a really beautiful candy cane tessera corn.
Now, this is, again, a second clutch,
so I expect it to not be as big as the first clutch.
I also expect that there might be an infertile egg or two,
which happens, but actually this is pretty darn good.
Look at how beautiful that snake is.
Again, that tessera is that pattern,
that striping pattern, and really cool stuff.
That is pretty cool.
And then, of course, it's an albino as well.
Like I said, really nice clutch.
I wasn't expecting such a big clutch and such a good clutch.
There's one little slugger in there I can definitely see,
but for the most part these eggs look really good.
I'm gonna see if I can somehow lift these up
without dropping them.
I'll probably move that one.
Take these over here, get these in here.
One last egg.
Again, that little slugger we'll set aside.
This is a little bad egg definitely.
There's two, four, six, eight, nine eggs.
And that tessera is actually an incomplete dominant,
so half the babies are gonna come out tessera,
and then of course they're gonna be albino as well.
We actually bred I to an albino scaleless,
so they'll all be het for albino scaleless
and then there'll be albino tessera
that are het for scaleless as well.
So good way to start the day.
And then the next clutch is actually a coral snow corn.
Again, that's that corn snake that's bred
for that pink color that's absolutely incredible,
and it looks like, oh,
this girl didn't lay a very good clutch.
Again, this is a second clutch.
I told you a lot of times
second clutches aren't very good.
We're gonna go ahead, get this girl in here.
We'll get her all cleaned up.
We'll pull this aside and see how many eggs
we can salvage from this clutch.
And again, it's very typical
to have fertility issues with second clutches.
It's just a part of it.
As it actually warms up, believe it or not,
heat can kill male sperm in snakes,
so as you get into the warmer seasons it winds down
and the fertility goes bad.
We just have two good eggs here, handful of slugs.
Again, we had a really good clutch to start the day,
not as such a good clutch to end,
but that's part of breeding snakes
and it's part of second clutches with colubrids too.
So I expect to see more of these clutches,
and I expect to see some good clutches as well.
Anyways, that's it for colubrid clutches for the day.
We have our scale out here.
We're gonna actually do some weighing
of some of the monitors.
I think we're gonna do Elvis, Toothless.
We're gonna actually do an iguana probably, maybe Diddy,
and I think Argumus Prime as well
just to see what their weight is going,
'cause now we're going that portions,
where we're weighing the portions out.
We want to make sure that they're continuing to gain weight
so that if we have to adjust, right?
So last time Elvis was 27 pounds.
Let's see what he is today.
Well, it looks like Elvis
actually didn't gain any weight,
but he's basically the exact same weight,
which is fine because it's only been a few weeks.
He's definitely your buddy.
- So for sure I want to at least go maybe a percentage up
just to see if we can get somewhat of a weight change.
I do want to see a slight weight change.
I don't want to see a major one.
- Right, exactly.
We'll increase that food just a little bit on Elvis.
- Last time we are 3,180 grams.
- So he is about seven and a half pounds right now.
- If I remember right it was about almost eight,
so I think he lost weight and that's good.
That's what I was hoping for.
- [Brian] Yeah, 'cause he was a little chubby.
- [Bruce] He was real chunky.
- Yeah, he was a little chubby.
He slowed down a little bit. - Good job, bud.
Now we can go back to 8% with you,
so we'll go back to your regular diet.
Aren't you excited?
I know you're excited.
- Next up is Toothless.
How much did he weigh last time?
- Last time we were at 949 grams.
- [Brian] 949.
- Do you think he might have broken 1,000 now?
- I think he would. - You think so?
- Yeah. - Yeah?
- [Brian] 970 grams.
- [Bruce] 900.
Aw, man, you did gain a little bit.
It's not much.
Not as much as I thought,
but he did gain some. - Yeah, he gained a little bit
so he's on the right ...
He's gonna be a big boy one day, that's awesome.
You're doing good Toothless.
Look at how cute he is.
- [Bruce] (laughs) He's such a good monitor.
- Last up is actually Diddy here.
And it's important,
we're gonna weigh a bunch of other stuff today,
but we just wanted to give you an overview.
It's important to keep track of your weights,
that way you know what you're feeding,
if you're doing the right thing,
they're gaining, maintaining, not gaining too much
and stuff like that.
What was Diddy last time?
- Diddy was right at three pounds.
- [Brian] Right at three pounds.
- So I'm sort of curious to see how much he's grown,
'cause he's already grown quite a bit.
You can tell he's already kind of chunk.
- He's a monster for sure,
so let's see what he's got.
Come on, Diddy.
I know bud, you're like, "No!"
He's actually almost three and a half pounds now,
so he's gained a bunch of weight.
He was at three pounds before.
Gained about a half pound.
That's some pretty big weight
in the last month in a half or so.
Diddy, you're doing so good.
Again, we're gonna continue weighing things, keep track.
Every month or so we'll weight again
just so we can adjust food,
make sure the animals are not gaining too much
but want to gain enough where it's healthy for them.
Good job, Dids.
- You're a god boy.
- There's a chance we actually could have
Desiree, Steve, and Lars up this weekend
to bring us our crock monitor.
Elvis is doing a little inspection of the cage.
Literally I just opened up the cage,
he climbed up over here, went right in.
So I guess he's gonna let us know
if the cage is acceptable for a crock monitor.
So what did you think of that millipede?
I am honestly blown away that I love it so much.
I thought I would never even hold it,
and I'm messing with it like crazy.
It's really cool.
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