- Mister Jay Tingles in the house,
actually has a surprise-
- Jay Tingles.
- Jay Tingle in the house.
- Okay, I got you something.
- Okay, what did you get me?
You got me a box.
- Yeah, because the other box is too heavy.
- This is actually pretty exciting
to be totally honest with you.
Oh, wow, wow, it looks so good.
He's super tame, huh?
- Super tame, he's actually my best friend.
- Oh my God, take a look at that, man.
Of course, that is a white throat monitor,
we have black throat monitor and that is Flapjack,
this is what?
- Grits. - Grits.
So we have Flapjacks and now we have Grits.
That is amazing.
Now the white throat monitors are similar to black throats.
They have both African animal
but the difference is,
is that these guys actually stay much smaller.
This is about as big as it's gonna get.
- Yeah, it's about two years old.
- Yeah, it won't get much bigger than this
and they call these actually rock monitors over in Africa
but absolutely wonderful.
Oftentimes very tame just like the black throat minor.
Now while we have to do some work, right Bruce?
- Oh, yeah.
- I did amazing work team in this animal Brian.
- Yeah, you did so good that's awesome.
So another animal ambassador meet Grits.
- Hold it, I don't think I've ever seen you hold a lizard
actually ever.
Wow.
Here let him lick your face. - No.
- Okay, do you want to know what his name is?
- No.
- Grits, Flapjack and Grits. - No.
- Black throat monitor, white throat monitor.
- I know it was already a bad name
and now this is gonna be another terrible name.
- Grits?
- Yeah.
- Look at him.
- [Brian] That's cool though, right?
That is a cool monitor lizard, isn't it?
- How old is he?
- Two. - Really?
- He actually just turned two on February 13th.
- Isn't it big for two?
- [Brian] I think she likes it, she's smiling.
- Look at her.
(Brian chuckles)
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Super excited about The Reptarium expansion
as you guys know.
And I've been talking about the fact
that we met with the architects a few weeks back.
Well, I just got word
that the architects are gonna bring me the first renditions.
I think there's two or three actual in durations
of what it could potentially look like
and that's five days from now.
So five days from now, we get a chance,
look now listen, you know,
I have it kind of built in my head all over
but the thing that's great about architects,
is a lot of times they'll bring like some visions
that you didn't even think about.
So it's not just about what's going on inside
but the facade of outside.
Like I'd mentioned the entire top is gonna be windows
so that when you look from the road,
it's just all windows up into the aquarium side of things.
And then who knows what the architects are gonna do
to make that look absolutely amazing.
So I am so excited, it's a bummer
that's gonna be five days from now
but I'm going to share the time when they bring it
so you guys can see it
and maybe you can tell me what you think.
So, tell you what guys, we're moving forward,
one step closer to the expansion,
I could not be more excited.
You know, that time of day,
where I have to check the animals that I fed.
We're still feeding all the ball pythons,
there's a lot this time of year.
The ones that aren't actually breeding,
are still getting fed.
The ones that later are now getting fed
and the ones that are growing follicles
that need that extra food are getting fed.
So I have to check all the ball pythons
so let's go ahead, roll a time lapse.
(upbeat music)
- Okay, checked all the animals.
Feeding went really well, definitely have a bunch of animals
that I ultrasound that are even more advanced
on follicles.
So we're about to wrap up,
I mean, we have maybe two weeks left of breeding
and we're pretty much kaput here.
It's looking like, again,
right in that 155 to 160 clutches range,
we already have about 65 clutches down, 70 clutches down.
So we're about halfway there
so things are continuing to go good.
Super busy day here at The Reptarium,
Aislynn and of course Jay over here
are gonna be working their butts off a lot with me.
We actually have a birthday party showing up right now.
So we have birthday parties, we have tours,
we have a zoo to use, we have open to the public tonight.
It's gonna be an absolute banger, I always love this.
It's great to see the world is opening up again
and seeing people's smiling faces is absolutely incredible.
- Children go ahead, we'll start the presentation,
if you wanna come up here.
(Jay mumbles)
(children chatter)
(keys jingle)
(children chatter)
- One of the things I love about reptiles,
is the history of reptiles
and certainly because I've been doing it so long,
I have a lot of knowledge of the history of reptiles.
And I think I'm going to share with you,
every now and then some of that history.
And today I'm going to talk about piebald ball pythons.
You know, piebs are an amazing animal.
They're one of the most incredible mutations
on the planet, when it comes to just like wowing,
people that don't know anything about reptiles,
see a pie and they're blown away
and that's what makes them so special.
Well, it turns out that back in the 80s
there was one animal that was imported.
A guy named Brian Sharp friend of mine,
old time breeder actually bought that animal
and unfortunately never was able to breed it.
Now back then, most people thought that piebaldism,
like this wasn't a genetic mutation.
Now years later going into the 90s
actually another male was imported into the country
and Brian bought that one to breed it as well.
Then shortly thereafter, a guy named Ernie Wagner
that used to be the curator of reptiles at the Seattle Zoo,
actually bought another male that came into the country.
Then a farm over in Accra, Ghana,
run by a guy named Emmanuel Noah,
actually got two female babies.
They were ended up importing into the country
and went to VPI, which is Vida Precoisa International,
Dave and Tracy Barker.
And they ended up having those two baby females,
while, Pete Kahl, you may know the Kahl albino boas.
Pete Kahl actually decided,
he was gonna try to buy that project out
from everyone he possibly could.
So he bought the male from Brian Sharp,
who had never bred it.
And he bought the two female babies from VPI,
which ultimately did still belong to Emmanuel Noah
over in Africa.
Now at the same time Ernie Wagner,
actually produced one clutch of heterozygous babies
and then Pete bought bale.
So then he had a monopoly and he had the only two males
and he had the only two females in the country
and he ended up producing a handful of clutches
of heterozygous.
Later that year, I actually bought one of the males
from Pete Kahl.
And then the next year the two females
that Pete bought from Tracy and Dave,
actually were up to size and he bred piebald to piebald.
And sure enough, when those eggs hatch,
there were piebald babies in it.
Up until that time,
most people didn't think it was gonna be genetic
and it changed the entire ball python game.
Because for the first time there was a ball python
that was worth $25,000.
And people started looking at ball pythons,
not only as beautiful animals and actually cool to keep
but then they started looking at them investments,
which was really interesting
and something that was different in the ball python game.
Right around that same time,
Bob Clark was doing it with albino ball pythons too.
And that's really what started the entire ball python craze
but piebald ball pythons certainly started,
my love of breeding ball pythons.
And now, you know, the history behind them.
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(both chatters)
- That one's inside of your skin, right there.
- Oh, so sharp, he's not a shoulder,
he's not a shoulder pet.
- Okay, so we won't be having that experience
at The Reptarium but come and visit Grits.
- [Brian] That'll be great for kids.
- Yeah.
(Brian chuckles)
(group chatter)
- Oh, it's not that bad.
- Turning it around for us, give us a little 360.
(upbeat music)
- Pretty awesome clutch that we have here,
look at mama's rafter out a bunch of eggs.
This is actually a Walmo Lesser Pinstripe
and she was bred to this Pastel Crystal male,
which is an absolute beauty.
So let's go ahead and play a little game guys, all right.
Again, this is a Pin Walmo Lesser bred to a Pastel Crystal.
What possibly could come from that breeding.
So what I want you to do down in the comments
is tell me what combinations you think I could get
from a Pastel Crystal to a Walmo Lesser Pinstripe.
We'll see how many eggs she has here,
she looks like she wrapped on it, beautiful clutch eggs.
Come on, mama, let them go.
Oh my goodness gracious,
look at this girl right here.
Absolutely beautiful clutch, beautiful animal,
there's no doubt about that.
So we'll go ahead and get these eggs off here
and we'll put them in the egg box right here.
We have two, four, six, seven good eggs.
I'm curious to see, have you been following along,
have you've been learning about genetics.
Down in the comments, let me know what you guys think.
And by the way guys,
like I had mentioned, we're trying to switch up our filming
and try to make things a little less repetitive.
So if you guys want to see egg collecting,
we're gonna go ahead
and post some stuff over on our Patron
that link will be in the description.
So we're just gonna really pull the clutches
that we're excited about.
We're excited about all of them,
we're gonna just pull the coolest clutches,
the other clutches will be over on Patron,
just so you guys don't get bored with us.
(upbeat music)
Always great to see baby snakes,
you guys know how exciting this is.
Pastel Yellow Belly that was bred
to a Lemon Blast Extreme Gene Enchi.
So just some really cool combinations.
Actually, this one right here is kind of an interesting one.
It's what they would call a Super Blast,
which is a Super Pastel and a Pinstripe.
I don't think it's an Extreme Gene
and I don't think it's Enchi.
So he kind of missed on that one,
which is a little bit of a bummer
but this one right here is really a ripper.
This is actually the Lemon Blast Enchi,
Yellow Belly Extreme Gene.
Look at the striping on that animal
and the cleanliness, woo doggy,
I tell you what, that is an absolute ripper.
And then I love this one right here, too.
This one is basically the same exact animal,
I just talk about minus the Enchi.
And I kind of really like it,
I mean, the way the Extreme Gene cleans it up
so it's a Lemon Blast Yellow Belly Extreme Gene.
And that thing just is absolutely gorgeous.
Then we have a little Enchi Extreme Gene here,
doesn't look like a Yellow Belly
and it looks like these two right here
that are absolutely beautiful,
again are Enchi Extreme Gene Lemon Blasts.
So just like the daddy here
so really nice, beautiful clutch of eggs.
I can't believe how absolutely incredible there are.
So definitely awesome to see babies hatch.
It's kind of cool now that we have these stands
that we got for the sloth,
we can actually bring other animals out
that don't typically come out.
Guacamole is actually a Meller's chameleon
and he's always back in his cage.
He doesn't like to be handled
so we really don't handle them too much
but now we can actually bring him out
and let him crawl around on this new kind of apparatus
for him.
Now, the Meller's chameleons,
I think are some of the most spectacular chameleons
and his color changing
that comes from those guanine crystals,
can happen so quickly.
I mean, he goes from like no black dots
to all kinds of black docks within seconds,
it's pretty, absolutely stunning.
Now these are the second largest chameleon on the planet
that's right only second to the Parsons chameleons
on Madagascar.
But it is the largest chameleon species
on the continent of Africa.
Absolutely stunning,
I mean, he's a big male right now
so he's not gonna get much bigger than that
but wow that is incredible.
In the wild they say they actually can eat little birds
and stuff like that.
Unbelievable, in captivity, we typically feed them roaches
and crickets and super worms and horn worms
and all kinds of things like that.
So mainly we keep him on an insect eyes
but have had him for about three years now
and he is amazing.
The other good thing about the Meller's
and the Parson, the giant chameleons,
is typically they live longer, you know,
when it comes to like Vail chameleons maybe five years,
Panther chameleons might do 10, 12
if you're really, really lucky.
These guys can actually live up to 20 years.
Now, the downside is that we got him as an adult
so I have no idea how old he is.
But he's three years with us
so I'm assuming he's at least eight or nine years old
but he still seems to be crushing it and doing well.
So hopefully he'll be around for another 10 years.
So my tour is in the house from Evansville, Indiana,
we're gonna have a good time, you're ready?
- [Both] Yes. - Let's go.
(upbeat music)
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have an absolutely wonderful day reptile army.
Remember be kind to somebody and I promise,
I'll see you tomorrow.