- Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
I'm here with Rep-tar.
These are Bocce Island Leachianus.
Now, leachie geckos are typically known
as one of the coolest geckos.
Certainly, probably the coolest geckos
that we can get here in America
that are readily available, at least.
And the fact is
that some of these guys can be pretty expensive.
The localities, like Bocce islands,
and many, many other localities can really cost thousands,
and thousands of dollars a piece.
And you know, the truth is,
is that some of these in similar islands
stay a little bit smaller
than the actual main island of Gran Torino.
And the truth is a lot of people think that
because some of these can cost thousands of dollars,
they're out of their reach when it comes to a pet.
You know, oftentimes, someone that has a crested gecko
or a gargoyle gecko, which are both rhacodactylus
just like this guy here, they'll think like,
"Oh my gosh, I could never afford a leachie."
But the truth is,
is that the locality specific animals can get pretty pricey.
But the ones that are generic,
are a little bit more affordable.
And as you can see, Big Bertha here,
which is a generic GT or Gran Torino locality animal,
is quite a bit larger than Rep-tar.
And she can even get larger than this.
I mean, some of the localities,
like the Yetis can get giant.
And that's what it's all about.
It's just the fact that what do you want to do?
Do you wanna pay three, four,
$5,000 for a very cool specific locality
that's gonna maybe have a certain color phase,
or maybe a size, or something like that?
Or do you really wanna just get
a generically cool leachie gecko?
Which is completely fine too.
Again, we work with both.
We work through some localities,
and then we work with some generic ones.
The truth is, the generics are kind of on the lines of,
if you think about it, almost like a mutt dog,
or an integrate dog, right?
- If you wanna get an AKC, really rare dog,
you're gonna pay a lot of money for it.
But if you wanna get that dog
that's maybe mixed with a Chihuahua
or whatever the case may be.
The fact is it becomes much cheaper,
but it's still just as cool of a dog
in a lot of ways, right?
So the truth is that these guys are relatively affordable.
When you get into the kind of generic animals,
which are typically not usually localities
of grand terrain or GT mixed, to be honest with you.
And they can be really awesome.
Again, under $1,000, typically, maybe six to $800.
Whereas the other ones, like I said,
could cost sometimes up to like 10 grand, you know?
Which is a pretty big difference.
And don't get me wrong, some of those localities
are ridiculous and are well-worth it
if you're into that type of thing.
And some people are really, really into it,
and I don't blame them 'cause they're really amazing.
But I just want you guys to know
that leachies aren't out of your price range
if you wanna just get one that's a generic here,
like my girl, Big Bertha.
This is another great example of a Bocce Island right here.
It's got that really kind of pastel look to it.
You know, the greens, a little bit of pink coming through.
Absolutely amazing.
And you know, again, certain animals, whether it comes
to like gray banded kingsnakes, green tree pythons,
certainly, leachie geckos,
really localities mean everything.
I mean, people are really into it.
And to the untrained eye,
someone might look at this and just say,
"Oh, that's a really pretty leachie."
Even I'm that way.
I don't know how to discern the different localities
of leachianus to be totally honest with you.
But the fact is that it's pretty important to some people.
And there's no doubt that I think it's good idea too.
Because you're able to keep bloodlines straight, right?
That way, if we ever do need to reintroduce things
into the wild, we just need to know where they come
from and that they're not mutts, for that reason.
So I think it's a really good thing.
And I think it's pretty awesome, but certainly,
it makes a lot of these out of the price range
of a lot of people that they can afford.
So again, if you wanna leachie gecko,
and that's one of your dreams,
you can go around and get it somehow,
and you don't have to pay the big bucks
just by getting a generic one.
For example, this is a little generic GT animal.
that's about six months old.
Look at that cute little face right there.
I mean, this is amazing.
And again, I think I paid about $650 for this one;
just to give you an idea.
Still, that's a lot of money. I get it.
It's not 50 bucks, you know, but the fact is that $650,
it looks pretty close to a Bocce to me, an untrained eye.
The fact is that it can be really amazing animal.
And these guys are gonna probably get pretty big
because again, they are a generic GT,
which is basically the main Island of New Caledonia, right?
And there's all kinds of localities on those.
And these animals do breed specifically to those localities.
But if you take one locality from GT,
and another one from GT and bring them together,
you can't sell them as a locality,
So they're called mutts, basically.
And they're just called generic GTs at that point.
And to me, I absolutely love them.
So we have a group of these,
and we have a group of some locality ones.
I'll probably add some to both
to be totally honest with you.
I'll get some more GT stuff that's generic,
and then I'll certainly add some more stuff.
Like I want to add Yeti's for sure,
Cause there's some of the biggest ones,
and there's some amazing looking animals there.
Nevertheless, I love leachies,
and they aren't that far out of your price range
if you really wanna get one.
And just like the leachies geckos like I'd mentioned,
gray banded kings are the exact same way.
This is just a generic Blair's phase gray banded kingsnakes.
And these guys might be a hundred, $125.
But they're specific localities that the people
from West Texas that are just really into.
I mean, certain localities that are really rare
that can go for thousands of dollars
and certainly are in high, high demand
for those people that are really
into locality specific gray banded kingsnakes.
Again, to people like me and you,
probably can't tell the difference
between a Juno road or a two 77,
or a black gap animal, something like that.
But the fact is that I just like
the generic beautiful Blair's and alterna phases.
And again, they're relatively inexpensive.
Same thing goes for green tree pythons.
Again, when you get into some of these localities,
I mean, you can get really, really expensive
thousands and thousands of dollars,
but a normal just generic green tree Python
is relatively affordable.
And I think, again, it's a good thing on both levels, right?
For the people that really wanna get
into the locality specific things,
you have a really cool hobby there,
but at the same time,
the affordable way of actually owning
some of these animals can still come through
from more of the generic animals.
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So Jay's excited about something.
He went running off, told me I can't move.
Something just screaming, !Dwayne, Dwayne, Dwayne!"
What is it?
- [Reptarium worker] Oh, Dwayne is the aligator.
Dwayne, the croc. - I know Dwayne.
Yeah, I know Dwayne, the croc Johnson, I know.
- First off, I don't know if you know or not,
but this is Dwayne.
- Yeah, Dwayne the croc Johnson.
- And I actually like literary love him.
So I do want to know whatever we have to do.
Cause I wanna keep him for forever.
I don't want him to go back to gateway.
So we can talk about that later.
But I've been working with this guy, cause I'm a trainer.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- Dwayne, stay calm, calm, play dead, bang.
(everyone laughs)
- What!
(everyone laughs)
- Boom.
- There you have it.
- [Woman's voice] Wait, what?
(laughs)
- Do it again, do it again.
- [Woman's Voice] That was real?
- Dwayne, ready? Play dead.
(water flowing)
You're all right.
- Yo, what?
- Holy moly, look at Heinz the crimson albino iguana
and how chunky that thing is getting.
I mean, I tell you what, it's interesting,
iguanas when they're small, grow kind of slow,
but they hit a certain size, right?
A little bit below him, and they just explode.
I mean, we saw that with Tabasco and Sriracha as well.
He is at that size where it's crazy.
But look at how chunky he is.
He's definitely been eating double time.
And of course Frenches is way up in the corner over there.
She's not quite as chunky, but still doing really well.
But I am so happy.
And remember, he broke his tail off right here.
You can't even tell that it's broke at all.
It's completely grown back,
and there's no real seam in it or anything.
So, I couldn't be more happy with this guy.
I mentioned it before and I am super excited
that Bella bananas t-shirts are coming back.
That's right, a little throwback,
we're gonna do a short run of these guys.
It's been a long time since they were out,
and it was our most popular drop.
So I know a lot of you guys have said,
"Where can I get a Bella banana shirt?"
Well, guess what? You can get these guys now.
This one's actually been washed about 50 times
and still is holding up pretty good
but they're gonna be brand new designs.
We're gonna have them in hoodies.
We're gonna have them in shirts and sweatshirts
and stuff like that.
So I'm gonna put a link in the description,
As of today,
you can buy your Bella bananas throwback shirts.
And again, they're only going to be available
for the next probably three weeks or so.
So if you wanna get one, jump on it now.
So I hope that you guys are excited.
More and more stuff's coming out pretty soon,
but for now we wanna do one throwback
to the most popular drop that we've ever done.
Take a look at this crazy tangerine gecko that we have here.
I was just kind of going through geckos.
You gotta be careful not to get like obsessed
with leopard geckos again
because I've been trying to like downsize that colony.
But as I'm looking through, holy moly.
There are some beautiful animals, like this one here.
I mean, that thing sets your eyes on fire.
And this is kind of the direction
where I want our leopard gecko colony to go,
to be honest with you.
Just improving, making brighter animals,
more cool animals, stuff like that.
So a little less producing quantity
and just really producing quality, if at all possible.
But this one is an absolute ripper.
So I had to tell you guys a funny story,
Ivy is obviously going into shed again
and that's because she grows so much.
Her growth is so big,
she seems to go into shed every four to six weeks,
something like that, which is awesome.
But we were open last night at the Reptarum,
a bunch of people didn't realize
that this blue eyes, and this is crazy,
Of course, she's just laying in the water
and stuff like that.
So a bunch of people came up and said,
"Did you know that your Anaconda wasn't alive? It's dead."
And I'm like, "What are you talking about?"
But what it was is
that people didn't realize when snakes go into shed,
that they get those blue eyes,
and it kind of almost looks like a preserved snake, right?
So I was just like, "What?"
But, literally, like five people came up to me
and said the same thing.
So maybe, I have to put a sign up that says,
"She's in shed now," or something like that.
Nevertheless, she should shed off probably
in the next four or five days.
And that means she's gonna grow even more.
Loving this little monkey right here,
This is of course just a little corn snake,
but this is a snow, it's Sarah .
Of course, it's a Sarah
it's that pattern mutation that's incomplete dominant.
And then you have the snow,
which is albino and anerythristic.
And it's a feisty little dude. Look at this guy.
What are you gonna do? Are you gonna bite me?
I tell you what,
I love when little corn snakes have such big attitudes,
but man, I tell you what, colubrids are coming out.
And it's gonna be so much fun to see babies again.
Egg time coming guys. You know, you love that song.
It's about on it's way.
- (suspenseful music playing)
I've gotta show you something.
You know, the guy that did the reptarium, Matt?
His name is Rick from floormast.com.
He actually did the front, Matt.
Guess what?
He came last night,
and he brought us a present. - Really?
- Stay here.
- Oh, I'm staying. What am I doing?
I was worried what the heck that was,
well, its a good thing I didn't touch it
because you'd yell at me again.
- I haven't seen this. I haven't looked at it.
I gotta get some scissors.
- I got a knife
- You got a knife? Perfect, Yeah.
I have no idea what this is,
but he came by last night and surprised me.
I hadn't met him. He's a real nice guy.
And he said he brought us other an gift.
- Don't show that. It's like the worst knife safety, ever.
(laughs)
- Hang on.
- What are you doing?
(indistinct)
- It looks like Legos.
- [Brian] Agh. Oh, my God.
- Ooh.
- This is dope.
- Wow, that's so weird.
- Yeah. It's all like...
He said you could even put this outside-
- Yeah.
- if you wanted to.
- But at this point we're good up at the front door for now.
What do you think? How awesome is that, huh?
- Thank you. Thank you, Rick from floormats.com.
This is absolutely incredible. Love it to death.
So he said, again, we can put it outside,
we could put it inside, we could do whatever.
That doesn't look bad right here to be honest with you.
I mean, we'd have to turn it around but...
What do you think?
- Yeah, it's hot.
- (indistinct) right? I love it. That was a good surprise.
I hope that you guys enjoyed that.
And it's crazy to think that there's geckos
that are worth thousands of dollars,
but again, you can get one, a little bit cheaper,
if you want a generic one.
I wanted to show that off
because they are absolutely amazing animals.
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