- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
Hope the start of your day is incredible,
let me know in the comments how your day is,
I always want you guys to have an amazing day.
You know, Ben and Jerry have been interesting.
For the last six or eight weeks, Jerry has not fed,
Ben has done all the eating, and you know,
the truth is is that, with two-headed snakes,
at least ones like this, they do share the same stomach.
So I'm not sure if it matters, but it does kind of bother me
that Jerry hasn't been eating
and Ben has done all the eating,
so today we're gonna do our best we can do
to get 'em both to eat.
I know Ben is ready to go, so he'll eat for sure,
but hopefully we can finally get Jerry back eating.
So what do you say we give it a shot,
start our day off feeding a two-headed snake.
You guys hungry?
Let's go, guys.
Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey.
Come on.
Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey.
There's Ben, of course.
And what I do, if you guys have followed us,
I'll always let Ben eat a little bit
before I even offer to Jerry
because I think they have that symbiotic relationship
where Jerry realizes that it needs Ben to eat first
before it eats, so we'll let Ben get about halfway done
then we'll offer it to Jerry and hopefully
we'll see Jerry eat again,
the first time in probably six or eight weeks.
Okay, about time.
What do you say we try to give it a go.
Jerry, you wanna eat, girl?
Or boy?
Jerry, you wanna eat?
You wanna eat?
Come on, come on, bud.
And you can see right now that Ben is actually pulling away
and Jerry is kinda not steering the ship at all.
So, but you see now Ben is trying to eat
the second one already, and just won't let Jerry eat.
And I think that's the idea.
So now what happened in the past
was that Ben would actually be preoccupied with eating
and then Jerry would actually eat,
but we haven't been able to get Ben
to stop controlling the body,
and as long as he's controlling, Jerry's not interested.
So again, I don't know that Jerry's gonna eat this time.
And you can see, Ben just took another one.
And that's the thing.
It's really a weird thing right now.
Again, what typically would happen
was Ben was just kind of preoccupied,
and Jerry was like, all right, it's my turn, I can eat now,
and he took over the control of the actual body.
And Ben just dropped it, so we're gonna go ahead
and pull over here and I'm sure, yep, there he goes,
he took it again.
But again, now he's gotten in a weird position.
I don't know what to do,
I mean, I'm trying my hardest to get Jerry to eat.
Again, do I think it matters?
I don't really know to be totally honest with you,
but I am kind of bummed out that Jerry's not eating.
They did seem to be a little bit more robust
when both heads were eating,
which doesn't make a lot of sense
if they share the same stomach,
but that was just maybe my recollection of it.
I'm not 100% sure, so regardless, a little bit freaked out,
gonna continue to try to see if we can get Jerry to eat,
but I don't think it's gonna look very good today.
I think Ben is gonna do all the eating once again.
Excited that we're gonna get to mess
with Beetlejuice a little bit.
Ironically enough, I saw an Instagram story over there,
by the way, you can send feet pic, no.
(man laughs)
By the way, you can follow Bruce @scalesandthings,
and I saw you messing with Beetlejuice,
he was like all over you,
I'm like, what's going on here?
I gotta get in on this action.
So what'd he say we do it?
- Oh, dude, I'm so ready to show you.
It's been so much work in the making, dude.
And I feel like I've been doing it in secret
for a long time. - Yeah.
- I'm really stoked for you
to mess with him today. - Yeah, and you can see
there's meat over here and he's already looking so smart.
- Oh, yeah. - I mean, literally
he's looking like, how can I get that meat?
So- - Like, he knows this routine.
- Yeah. - He knows it.
That's awesome.
So let's go ahead and have some fun with Beetlejuice.
See how close we're getting to get this guy
to where he's so socialized.
'Cause I know down the road, we're gonna be able to mess
with him a ton.
So it's gonna be really cool.
Let's do it.
- [Bruce] Can you not do that.
- [Brian] He's just a little afraid of us.
- [Bruce] Yeah, he's a little timid with the cameras.
Get the one.
(chill jazz music)
How 'bout the other one?
- Come on, Beetlejuice.
And how cool is that?
And just coming up on Bruce's hand, like no big deal.
That's okay.
Just doing a little climbing.
There you go, Beetlejuice.
(laughs)
How cool is that?
I mean, he's definitely come a long way.
Do you wanna just
hold it to him or? - Yeah, yeah, yeah,
go ahead and show it to him.
- There you go, Beetlejuice.
There you go, bud.
Look at that.
I mean, that is so cool.
That is definitely huge strides compared to what he was.
Come on, Beetlejuice. Do you want some more?
Come on, buddy.
There you go. (Bruce laughs)
Oh my God.
I am loving it.
And these guys are so smart.
I mean, you can tell he's definitely acting differently
just with us.
I'm sure when it's just Bruce.
Come on, Beetlejuice.
You want some?
Want some food?
- Oh, he's going for it, Brian.
- Watch him. - There you are.
He did it.
- How awesome is that?
Again, you could have never done this to him
not too long ago.
So he's definitely getting better and better.
Come on, you want some more?
There you go, Beetlejuice.
I mean, I tell you what,
when we got Beetlejuice
I never thought we were gonna be able to get him like this.
This is amazing.
And he's only gonna get better and better
as we're working with him more and more.
Last piece, buddy. Good job.
I mean, how cool is that?
Bruce has been doing God's work with this animal.
Definitely getting him habituated.
Definitely not as calm around us
because there's a bunch of people here,
but he's doing really well.
So, slowly we'll get him to a point where he can come out
for not only Bruce, but for anyone, me and anyone else too.
So Bruce, you've been doing great with this guy.
- Thank you, man, appreciate it.
- Can see his reflection over here.
It's awesome, man.
Time to feed my little anaconda, Verde.
She is crushing food now.
Come on, little monkey.
There she goes, whoa.
I tell you what, anacondas hit with a vengeance,
even a little one like this.
And I've said it a ton of times.
I know it is weird that she's like almost a two
and a half year old or so anaconda
and she's only this big.
And then you look at Ivy that is literally
getting to be a monster that's only seven years old.
But this is a side they really start to explode.
Verde has grown a lot in the last five or six months.
She's just gonna get bigger and bigger.
We definitely are gonna move her
up into a water feature enclosure relatively soon.
So, it's gonna be really good to see her continue to grow.
She is such a beautiful animal,
still dog tame, absolutely amazing.
One day she will be the size of Ivy.
And I think that just like the relationship I have with Ivy,
I think we'll have the same relationship with Verde.
I mean, they're just incredible.
I love green anacondas
and it's always a pleasure seeing them eat like this,
whether they're little anacondas like Verde
or giant anacondas like Ivy.
I've called in the cavalry, people.
Laurie, I am frustrated.
I'm defeated.
There's water on the ground.
I can't figure this out, so Laurie,
you think that you can bring in a fresh set of eyes?
What do you thinks going on?
- I mean, it has to be drawing back somewhere
because when we don't have that on, it's not leaking.
- [Brian] Yeah, but I sealed the hole back.
- Right, and I know you did,
but obviously it's still somewhere.
So, we're gonna have to just shut it off,
get the gators out.
- Of course. - 'Cause I'm not going
in there with them in there. - No.
- And then just really look really close
because I mean, honestly it doesn't take
but a little tiny thing.
- I know, but that's a lot of water.
I swear to God, every time I fix it, it leaks worse.
- Yeah. - That's what
I don't understand.
So obviously whatever I'm doing
is making the problem worse, not better.
- Yeah, that happens a lot.
- Yeah. I know. (Laurie laughs)
So I don't know exactly when,
but in the next couple of days, guys,
we're gonna try to tackle this.
I really do feel defeated about this one
'cause I've done everything I possibly can.
If I could just find where I could see it's leaking
then you might have,
but you can't see anything. - And that's the hard
thing, right?
Because you didn't really make these very good accessible.
- No, the accessibility isn't great.
Like I said, I can get behind the waterfall,
but this whole area here is solid.
- Yeah. - So the only thing
I could do is maybe strip back this rock wall
and literally drill holes in there to where we can look.
I mean, I don't know
if that's an option. - Drill holes.
- You know, like drill. - Oh yeah, 'cause that's wood.
- That's solid wood all the way across.
So I don't know.
But anyway, so the good news
is I relinquished my responsibility.
Laurie, you're in charge.
You let me know when it's fixed, okay?
- Actually, you know what we need?
- What's that? - Does anybody have one
of those little scope cameras? - Oh yeah, little
scope cameras. - Yeah. Yeah.
There you go. - Yeah, that's actually
a good idea. - 'Cause we could
get through the thing instead of cutting wood
and doing that.
- Yeah. Then just drill a little hole.
Yeah. So hit me up if you have a scope camera.
I think plumbers have that.
- Oh, we know a plumber.
- Oh, yeah. - So give him a call.
- Okay.
See, she's already thinking better than me.
Been a while since I've updated you on Mango here.
Look at how long his tail is getting.
He's doing really well.
Growing, crushing food, definitely an incredible animal.
He's definitely gonna get big one day.
So we definitely gonna have to start thinking
about where he's gonna go.
I mentioned that I wanna actually eventually put it
in Salt and Pepper's enclosure, but we'll see what happens.
It's still got a ways to go,
but again, doing absolutely amazing.
I love this guy, such a cool animal.
Just wanted to show off a couple colubrids
that we got raising up.
This is actually a little porphyraceus
or a bamboo rat snake.
These guys are absolutely crazy looking.
And there's a whole bunch of species of the porphyraceus.
There is coxi, vaillanti, pulcher, all kinds of stuff.
And they're actually pretty highly reproductive animal.
They only have like three to five eggs
but they can literally have several clutches per year.
So we have a few of these guys just coming up
and they're absolutely beautiful, encrypted,
love these things.
Can't wait till we can actually produce
some of these on our own
'cause I've never bred 'em before.
So this will be a species that will be a first for me.
Holy moly.
Take a look at this snow corn snake here.
I mean, it is so pink
it actually looks like an albino corn snake.
It's got so much color
but this is actually one of those coral snow corn snakes.
I mean, that is probably the highest colored coral snow
I've ever seen.
I mean, again, it's got so much pink,
it literally looks more
like an albino corn snake than a snow corn snake.
That thing is ridiculous,
and we have a lot of these coral snows.
And I've talked about it in the past,
how they're polygenic,
just basically meaning you're breeding the highest pink
to the highest pink at every generation
to get more and more pink.
I tell you what,
I don't think we can go any more pink than this.
This is gonna be so much pink,
it's gonna not look like a snow corn
and it's just gonna look
completely like an albino corn snake.
But that is one stunning example.
It's time to feed Salt and Pepper.
I think they're hungry.
And I think it's gonna be awesome,
even though their tank is leaking
I'm still gonna take care of 'em.
(chill jazz music)
Got some baby colubrids hatching right now.
And of course, this is a pretty interesting combination.
I really usually put one clutch of eggs per box,
but I actually have some Mexican black kings,
but these are those ones with pattern again.
And it's always a little bit of a bummer.
They do get blacker as they get older,
but of course you wanna hatch out
these solid jet black ones.
So we have one female that has been producing these kind
of yellowy blotch,
almost look a little bit more like splendida
or the desert kings,
but in actuality these are nigritas.
And then we have a whole bunch
of really beautiful scaleless Texas rats here.
So these guys look like they're gonna be amazing.
Once we get these guys in some water,
get 'em all cleaned up, get 'em set up,
they're gonna be stunners.
I mean, look at how beautiful
these scaleless Texas rats are.
So again, rare that I put two clutches in one egg box
but in this case we've got a whole bunch
of babies and I better put the lid on
or they're gonna be all over the place.
Always love hatching these guys out.
This is a pretty small clutch,
but still there's three babies.
These are actually tangerine albino Honduran milk snakes.
And oh my gosh.
Again, I've told this story before
that we had the first albino Honduran milk snakes here,
produced the first ones,
but they weren't tangerine.
They were just kind of normal.
So over the years
we've kind of refined the line to produce
just more orange and more orange
and just absolutely stunning.
These guys are so cool.
Again, Honduran milk snakes are a larger colubrid,
you know, five, six foot long.
They do really well.
You can see they're relatively placid.
As babies they can be a little squirmy
but they calm down really well.
One of the cooler milk snakes, for sure.
And then the tangerine albinos, who told you,
that thing is gorgeous.
Well, Ben ate, Jerry didn't.
So I don't know what's up with my two-headed snake.
They were both eating so well
but that is the way it goes.
As a matter of fact,
right here is the video when I actually got Ben and Jerry,
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