- Well, today was the day that I wasn't excited about.
Dev came to go get my girl, Juliette.
I was kind of hoping he forgot about her,
you know what I mean?
Like he's like, oh wait, I forgot.
I left that with you.
I love this girl. She's done so much.
She spent time with me during the COVID break.
She spent time with me in the hotel.
Oh gosh she's so big I can hardly carry her.
- Come on! - You got her there Brian?
- I'm trying, I'm trying.
(laughing)
- My gosh, she is so heavy.
- That's a lot of snake. - Okay.
Okay. Ready?
Up, up we go, up we go, girl.
Oh my gosh.
We need an army!
We should have like eight people carrying her.
- A reptile army.
- Yeah, we need the reptile army.
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- Yeah, exactly.
Hey there big girl.
- That's a lot of snake.
(laughing)
- Just let her crawl in. Just let her crawl in.
(breathing hard)
- Gotta catch my breath.
- I want to take a, a quick little nap.
I'm tired.
- He's an MMA guy, you know,
he works out all the time.
- [Dev] (laughing)
This is exactly why I don't want to get rid of her.
We have a birthday party here today.
And they get a chance to meet,
look at this. They absolutely love her!
(fart noises)
This girl, every time I take her out, she pees.
Whether it's on the couch,
it's on the bed or on my floor.
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Okay, Juliette, last time
you're in the big tub for a while.
- There you go, girl.
- Huh, Dev?
(laughing)
- She's coming out. She wants to stay.
- Yes! She wants to stay, yes!
I'm going to miss her so much.
She is definitely an, a brilliant snake.
Say goodbye, Juliette!
(upbeat music)
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We made it.
- Yes sir.
Take it down a few.
All right, wanna bring it back up.
Lift.
- Right, right.
Good.
Ah, my gosh, this is so heavy.
(heavy breathing)
That was fun.
- Juliette is finally coming back home.
- For now, for now. - We're good, for now.
- We're good.
- Yeah, she'll be back at the reptarium.
Trust me, after doing this so many times,
like, you know what?
I'm gonna just go back to the smaller snakes.
- Dev, thanks brother for everything, man.
- Not a problem.
- All right, dude. I'll talk to you soon, man.
- I sure am going to miss Juliette.
You guys down in the comments,
tell Dev how much he needs to bring this snake back here,
needs to be over at the reptarium full time, right?
Cause she is absolutely wonderful.
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A storm is coming!
And what I mean by that is in about 12 hours,
we have a storm front that's coming through.
And you guys know that I talk about attention to detail on
all of the snake breeding type of situations.
In this case,
we want to get males in with females for that storm.
But we're at that point of the breeding season
where we want to really get the males in
with the right females,
meaning that we want animals that have advanced follicles,
which means that we have to do an ultrasound today
on these animals.
Let me show you exactly what I mean by that.
This is an albino Cinny right here
and she's definitely putting weight on.
So basically what we end up doing here,
is we're actually looking on an ultrasound to see
if we can't see if she has any follicles,
and we could see those follicles pop up right there.
I'm going to go ahead and freeze frame this
and you can see this is the follicle right there.
So this is the ova dock and the ovaries
is where the follicles are developing.
So what we'll do is we'll just go ahead
and scan these to see how big they are,
starting here, going all the way over to here.
And it looks like 14 millimeters,
which is kind of the beginning of the breeding season.
So this animal could definitely get a male in with it.
Which would be good.
But, uh, we've got to hit all these females,
decide which males should go into which females.
Cause again, if we miss this breeding,
with this big storm front at this time of the year,
literally that could have huge ramifications for negativity.
So we have to make smart choices of
what male goes in with which female.
And the only way to do that is to get data,
which means we're going to have to ultrasound
a lot of female ball pythons today.
I learned to ultrasound about 15 or 16 years ago.
And it's become an incredible tool for me
to kind of know where females are
when it comes to development of follicles.
You don't need an ultrasound to be successful,
but it certainly is a tool that helps you
because you know exactly what male to put in,
with which female, because of the size of the follicle.
- Do you like coffee, Mike?
- No.
- You don't like coffee?
- Actually I don't.
- Try this out, man.
- What is that?
So it's like chewing tobacco, but coffee.
- You want one Bruce?
- Sure. Let's get into it.
- [Man In Jacket] Are your hands clean?
- [Mike] Well, define clean.
- [Camera Man] Now they are.
- [Bruce] Okay, I'll spit in my hand,
would that be clean?
- Ugh!
- Dropped a freaking pouch, jeez.
- Uh-huh?
That's weird.
- But it's got caffeine in it.
- So basically this is all the sunset group
right here that I've now done.
We've got a seventeen-millimeter right here.
Then we have an eight-millimeter an eight-millimeter,
a fourteen-millimeter,
seventeen-millimeter, a fourteen-millimeter.
So obviously I want to get the male in
with the largest female follicles,
because there's the best chance of breeding today
with that storm front.
So basically we have two seventeen-millimeter girls.
I can really pick either one of them.
Doesn't really matter.
I'll breed one today and
hopefully with any luck the next time
we'll get the other female bred.
So let's go ahead and get the male in
with this girl right here.
And this is my sunset male.
Goes in here.
And with any luck he'll breed.
And then basically I just have to repeat this
with every single group
all the way through the entire colony.
Learning how to ultrasound is a learning curve.
The first couple of times that you try it,
I'm going to be honest with you.
Typically, you want to throw the ultrasound
out the door because it is so frustrating
to figure out how to do it.
But once you get the handle of it,
it's pretty easy.
And now I typically can ultrasound a female
in under 30 seconds.
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And this is what I'm talking about right here.
This is actually an Enchi Pastave,
that is actually half a Clown.
And she's bred to a Banana Leo Clown.
So that should be amazing.
Let's see these follicles.
They are definitely big.
Ooh, doggy, this is going to be an early clutch for sure.
Thirty millimeters,
which means she's going to ovulate
about thirty-five to forty millimeters.
So she is not far off from an ovulation at all.
And once they hit about
twenty-two to twenty-three millimeters,
that's when they go off of food.
So this girl,
I'm going to put a check mark on,
which means that we don't offer her food anymore
because she's not going to eat,
it's just going to stress her out to have food in here,
but wow, thirty millimeters.
So this girl actually has twenty-four millimeters.
She's actually a double head albino clown,
bred to an albino clown.
Definitely want to get an albino
clown with her to breed her.
It's been about three weeks since she's been bred.
And I typically want those males to get bred like every
three to four weeks, something on that line.
So now is the time to get her back.
And that's thing is about the pressure of like knowing that,
oh my gosh, there's a storm system coming.
We got to get males in.
You know, sometimes there's only
maybe six, eight, ten,
really good days of breeding
where you almost know that
every male you throw in is going to breed.
So it's kind of imperative.
That's why I'm kind of like stressed out a little bit.
Like gotta get these males in,
I gotta get this ultrasound done.
Cause if I don't hit this opportunity,
another opportunity might not come
for another two or three weeks.
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This actually is a G stripe.
This was the female that laid
the first clutch last year.
And oftentimes the early girls would go early,
late girls would go late and stuff like that.
So she's been breeding really well.
Feeding good.
I'm really excited to see
what the follicle growth with this girl is.
She may be the first clutch this year,
although I'll be honest with you,
there were several girls that had really big follicles.
And sure enough, big old follicles!
Looks like this girl definitely
may still be the first clutch.
We're going to go ahead and measure them real quick.
Thirty-three millimeters.
So, yup, I was right on the money there.
So basically I just have a handful of racks left to go.
I would say overall,
we have a lot of advanced follicles.
We have, the majority of them
are at least in breeding follicle mode,
which would be like thirteen plus millimeters.
And then we have a few that are just under
that we'll keep an eye on.
Basically if they're five, six, seven millimeters,
we'll continue to feed them.
We'll put males in occasionally,
but we'll just monitor them.
And once they pop to twelve millimeters,
then we start breeding again.
But so far it looks like
this is going to be a banger year.
Tell you what.
My guy, RJ, here is getting big.
Look at this monster right here.
Hello, RJ!
What's going on?
Just out for a little uh, dry off session.
Back to the pond.
Come on buddy.
Man, you're getting heavy.
I love you though, I tell you what.
Let him go for a little swim.
Whew!
We always give him a little time out of the pond,
at least a few times a week.
There, you go buddy.
(vocalizing drumming)
- I'm going to go for the orangie.
I got sleeves on, so.
I'll try not to hit the glass.
- [Mike] So we got to clean it anyways.
- [Man In Tank] Why are you banging?
- [Mike] Just letting them know that we're coming.
(mocking) 'I have sleeves on' goo goo goo goo.
Oh, it always sucks when they get you with their nail.
Come on, now, what's taking so long?
- It's got his finger underneath the branch.
I can't get it out.
Dude!
This branch is bullets!
Thank God.
Oh my goodness.
Got him.
Pfft, that was east.
Yours is so much nicer.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
I have sleeves on.
- I have sleeves.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Not the eyes, not the eyes.
I need those.
This is a mess.
- He's licking your ears.
- If you want a couch pet, when you get older,
it's important to handle them while they're young,
you know, get them situated, used to it.
Eventually, just be able to chill,
watch the game with your boy.
(clattering)
- That is nasty right there.
Of course, now that Matilda
is drinking all that water with that bath,
she is peeing a lot more.
So again, just like everything,
more work for us to do.
Which is kind of all par for the course.
But ooh, doggie, I tell you,
it's amazing that a tortoise can pee so much.
It's like a gallon of water coming out all the time.
So I got to get the place cleaned up,
cause we are open later on today
at the reptarium.
(heavy metal music)
- Guys, oh my god.
This is the greatest time I've ever had in my life.
- And we are just minutes away from opening up
here at the reptarium.
That's when the fun starts!
Got a podcast tonight, VIP.
So it's going to be a really good time.
I can't wait to get this candle lit.
(upbeat music)
And the fun begins.
It doesn't take long for people to come in here.
It's going to be an absolute magical night.
(upbeat music)
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It's much like, listen,
you're always taking chances, right? - Right
- You know what I mean?
It's like when you breed Kingsnakes.
If you breed Kingsnakes in the spring,
they typically don't eat each other.
Every now and then we had Carol Baskin
that ate a bunch of them,
but uh, uh. - Check the septic tank.
- Yeah, but uh, uh.
But, but, but most of them, you know,
if you're breeding at the right time,
they usually don't eat each other.
So we've knock on wood.
We have not had a mangrove eat another mangrove.
You know, they can be snake eaters.
We haven't had that happen.
So I'm here with my VIP,
and we're going to meet a few animals tonight.
Are you guys having fun so far?
- [Children] Yes!
- All right, so this is Verde, the green Anaconda.
- Very wet, I see.
- [Brian] Yup, she is wet.
Cause she's in the water.
These guys love anacondas, right?
Is one of your favorite snakes an Anaconda?
- Yeah! It is my favorite snake!
- Your favorite snake.
So obviously we couldn't take out Ivy,
and all the rest,
cause they're in shed right now.
Plus they're a little bit big.
But we can definitely take out Verde,
and let you guys handle him.
And then we could see some other stuff here too.
We'll just kind of have a fun time.
How's that sound?
- That sounds great.
- This is Ben and Jerry, the two headed snake.
- Which one's Ben and which one's Jerry?
- This is Ben that's Jerry.
- I don't think I'll remember that.
- No?
This one's always Ben, and that one's always Jerry.
These guys were thinking about
maybe getting a corn snake
or a ball python in the future.
So we figured we'd
just go ahead and show them Maize the corn snake.
Just so that you get a little bit of an idea
of what these guys look like.
So, this is as big as they get.
You can see that this adult is actually really classic.
We move a little bit faster than anacondas,
but not as fast as, you know,
as a baby, it's going to be much quicker, right?
But this is big as they get, which is kind of nice,
because they don't get too big.
And they're pretty awesome.
What do you guys think?
- It likes you, Wyatt.
- I think he's going, yeah.
- Where is it?
- It's crawling on your back.
- I can feel it. I can feel it.
- It's going around back.
- You guys wanna meet an Armadillo?
- Yes
- Let's go meet Brillo.
- [Child] Brillo.
- Hi, Brillo.
Oh, oh, Brillo.
Where are you going?
- [Older Child] Brillo!
- Next up, these guys want to check out Perdita.
And you know what?
I'm happy to give it to them.
Because Perdita is pretty amazing.
- It's huge and heavy!
- [Brian] It's huge and heavy!
But pretty awesome, isn't it?
- It looks like an Oreo.
- [Brian] What's your name?
- Tate. - Tate?
Well, it's his birthday,
and you want the whole flaming hot?
All right.
Well, happy birthday, all right?
- Thank you.
- And that's going to go ahead and end the vlog.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day Reptile Army.
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- Bye!