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- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
Another clutch of Children's python
hatched out right here.
These are 14 little baby Children.
They are absolutely adorable and it's kinda crazy
to see all these Children's pythons hatch out.
Like I've been saying, it was a weird thing
where all the Children's pythons laid,
then after they were done laying,
all the Stimson's pythons laid.
And after they were done laying
all the spotted pythons have been laying,
so it's weird that there was no intermingle.
Regardless, we have a bunch of little babies here.
And speaking of spotted pythons we actually
have a clutch we can go pull right now.
And as per mentioned we have a spotted python clutch,
so do the honors Kelsie.
- All righty.
- What do we have?
It's been a few days since we've had
a spotted python clutch, so hopefully
these guys will be good.
Oh yeah, that's a beautiful clutch.
That's awesome.
I know the last couple clutches have been
a little bit weird with these guys,
but these ones look absolutely incredible.
And that's one thing about spotted pythons is
it looks like they have bigger eggs
and fewer of them for some reason.
But Children's pythons seem to be
the highest production, at least for us.
They have a little bit smaller eggs
and a ton of 'em, but these guys look good.
We'll get 'em in an egg box,
we'll count 'em up and see what's goin' on.
Mama, you did absolutely amazing.
Just checkin' her to make sure
she's completely fine, which she is,
so she is good.
We'll get these in here, count 'em up,
see what we got goin' on.
- One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11.
- 11, again, those are hard when they're all piled up.
And again, these incubate about 52 days or so,
so they hatch pretty quick, so that's why
we've been hatching so many Children's pythons lately.
And of course, ball pythons, I think next week
is our first clutch of ball pythons,
if I'm not mistaken, so.
- Yeah, it's almost that time.
- Oh my God, it's so exciting.
So there is 11 more spotted python eggs.
- Just gettin' some food together
to go next door and feed the tortoises,
Manly and Matilda.
Sweet potatoes seem to be one of her favorites,
so I got her some of those today.
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- It is so absolutely gorgeous this time
of the year in Michigan and you know,
the crew always has their lunch like
inside in the office, so I decided
that I brought some tables and chairs
that we can put out here.
I figure we'll put it right over here.
That way, on days beautiful like this,
we can all just hang out and have lunch out here
and just enjoy this absolutely amazing weather.
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It's eatin' time back here over at the reptarium.
You know, a lotta people ask me like,
why do your snakes eat so good?
I always show you these great stripes.
The fact is that a lotta times when a snake
is like happy, healthy, in a proper enclosure
with the proper temperatures and humidity
most snakes eat, but not all snakes.
But, with that being said, let's go ahead and feed Casper.
You know he's always high energy.
Boy, I tell you what, just opening the thing is crazy.
Come on Casper, don't, bite me don't don't, ahhh.
There he goes.
Whew.
I think this is probably the only snake
that I always get a little jittery on for some reason,
because he just over strikes everything, so I'll
just go ahead, I'll put him back and we'll
move on to the next.
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You have to remember, it depends on the type
of snake that you're keeping.
If you have a ball python that goes off of food
for some time, that's absolutely normal,
as long as it looks happy and healthy.
If it's acting good and his body weight is good,
you don't have to stress out.
But if you have a retic or you have a Burmese python
or a colubridae, unless it's during the breeding season,
usually they wanna eat.
But snakes will skip one week, so don't panic
every single time that an animal doesn't eat.
But just keep an eye on it.
Obviously Sunfire here is definitely ready to eat,
so let's go ahead and see what happens.
Whew, Sunfire, come on girl, come on girl.
There you go.
Oh, there it is.
Whew.
She's another sketchy one.
I love that snake.
She is so absolutely beautiful.
- Hey, what's up guys?
Just gotta do some maintenance today round the shop.
We've gotta change some waters on some snakes,
unload some meal worms, get mopped up,
things put away, just another beautiful day
here at the shop.
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- The other thing you have to keep in mind is
you have to try different things, right.
Some snakes like rats, some snakes like mice.
I hate to say it, but if a snake has been
off food for some period of time,
you might have to try live, just keep an eye on it.
But, you know, when someone comes to me
and says like, my snake won't eat and I say,
well what have you tried?
Well I've tried frozen mice for the last month
and they haven't.
Well, that might not be enough to get the animal to eat.
You've gotta give it all kinds of different options
because usually again, a happy, healthy snake,
that isn't on a food strike like a ball python
will typically eat if you have the right food.
But, when you get into a snake like Night Fury here,
that said, whoa, gees.
I didn't even try to offer it.
It just came out and took it, so yeah,
you don't have to worry about snakes like Night Fury.
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Feel free to comment down below if you have any questions
about your snake and you can always
reach out to BHB because at BHB we're always
helping people out with their animals.
I mean, that's the way it is.
Feeding snakes is intuitive for us
because we've been doing it for so long.
I know it can be stressful when you have
a snake that doesn't eat, trust me.
Second rat for Casper.
Whew, you may have noticed, the one thing
that we're really trying to do more of now
with the vlog is you know is give you the same of this
as always and also kinda pull the veil back
and just show you the things that are happening
when I'm not around with the rest of the crew
and stuff like that.
Speaking of which, Andrea, what's goin' on?
What are you doin' today?
- Hi, right now I'm just feeding some geckos.
- Okay, your typical feeding and cleaning
and all the other maintenance.
- Yeah, all the duties.
- All right, cool.
Again, we wanna just kinda bring you guys
on the journey of all the things,
sometimes boring, but still show you
what's happening on the course of a day here
at the reptarium or over at BHB.
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Number three for Casper.
Oh, whew, that thing is awesome.
I love that snake.
That's all he's gonna get today.
Three rats is good enough.
As I'm wrapping up the feeding over here
at the reptarium, just kinda wrap up
my thought process on the food thing is
well, you know again, if you offer your snake
everything that he could potentially eat,
sometimes they get really picky where they'll
eat rats for a bunch of times and then
all of a sudden, they want a mouse or sometimes
even trick or something like that
or even a bunch of other tricks.
Let me know down in the comments if you want me
to do a vlog where I talk about a bunch
of the tricks like dipping rats in chicken broth or tuna
or salmon scenting or whatever, just let me know.
In the meantime, my last victim to feed here is Rickey
and we'll see what he has goin' on here.
Come on, Rickey.
And there he goes.
He wasn't as energetic as he usually is,
but regardless, that wraps up the feeding
at the reptarium.
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Excited that we finally have my Bella cam
back up and running so for those of you guys
that don't know, we have a 24 hour Bella cam
so you can watch Bella.
The camera's right up there in the corner
and it's not that she's that exciting,
but it's still cool to watch it.
It's reptile live cams, I'll put a link
in the description, go check it out.
But more importantly, we are actually today
running lines for six more cameras
that are gonna be coming out.
That's right, there'll be six more cages.
Lucy, the alligators, the tortoises,
a couple other cages as well as a live
reptile egg hatching cam.
That's right, you guys can watch clutches hatch
all summer long, so I'm pretty excited about it.
But for now, you guys can just watch Bella
if you want.
And there's a really cool chat feature there,
so I pop in every now and then and just
say hi to everyone, so go check it out,
show it some love.
- In case you checkin' back in with me,
as you could see earlier, Brian pulled out
those Children's pythons, so we got 'em
washed off here in the bucket.
I've got 'em some fresh tub set up.
We've got the hides in there.
I'm gonna go back and put waters in in a minute,
but we'll get 'em in the cage for now
and kinda put 'em on the old Eric program,
grow 'em up real nice.
- [Questioner] Jessica, what do we have today?
- We have Chinese cave gecko eggs.
These are the weird locality that we have.
- [Questioner] Yeah, exactly.
These guys are awesome though.
Gosh, they're so beautiful.
How do you know?
Just because of the way they're pushin' around?
- Well I looked at the bottom of this actually
and you can see them.
- [Questioner] Oh yeah, she's doin' a little
cheating on me there.
- So, they're right around here.
- [Questioner] Should be right there,
Yep, there they are.
Awe, the look good, too.
Oh my gosh that is so awesome.
- It's stuck.
- Sometimes they literally will adhere
to the bottom so they look really good.
So, there you go, two more.
We got more there, so we got a bunch
of Chinese cave geckos.
These things are absolutely incredible.
Again, similar to a leopard gecko,
but a little bit different as well so.
- They're actually a little easier.
You don't need as much heat.
You do have to mist 'em down once a day though.
Little higher humidity, yeah.
- Gotcha, cool.
All right, so a couple more eggs for the day.
We're all packed up with our new reptarium
containers and everything.
We're off to do two school events, but as you guys know,
sometimes at schools with kids you know,
you're just not allowed to film, so we don't
have permission to film, so we're not
gonna be able to take you on this journey,
So I'm gonna go ahead and leave it with the crew
and then, when I get back I have a tour
and speaking of tours, actually Noah and Eric
have their first tour this weekend,
so it should be really fun.
We'll see what those guys get into.
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All right, we are over here at the reptarium
and if you guys don't know, you should know
that we have a Noah/Erik tour, Erik and Noah tour
or whatever you wanna call it, and you know
we've been brainstorming because we gotta make
this thing a lot better than my dad's are, right.
- You know what?
No offense, we can't do it geezer style.
- No geezers man.
- We've got to be the young, fresh,
two fresh strapping young lads.
- They say, hip nowadays.
You guys say hip.
- Oh dude, I'll do the old, the Macarena.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, you know, we been brainstormin'.
I think that we're gonna bring like some sorta like
Cajun wings on.
- Yeah, I think we should have a wing and pizza table.
- Yes, that's what I'm sayin', where when you walk
in you're getting some food in you.
Then walkin' around holdin' some animals, man.
Sounds like a good time, but this is just an update
lettin' you guys know that you can book
your Noah/Eric tour right now.
Go do that because if you wanna have
a little bit more fun with your life.
- Just a little more wild, little more reckless.
You're in danger though, because it's just me and Noah.
Anything could happen.
- You literally have to sign a paper saying
if you die we're on your will, okay.
- Guarantee you.
- Literally guarantee.
- We'll be upset, but we'll probably move on.
- Totally, like don't worry about it.
We're just gonna take a little bit or your money.
Anyways, we're gettin' off topic here.
Go book a tour right now guys.
Please go book a tour.
- Just back from these school presentations.
I wish I could've brought you guys along
'cause it was really fun.
We had two of 'em at two different schools,
but it was the same school district.
We have two more actually tomorrow,
believe it or not.
Again, it was a great time.
Good kids and hopefully one day one of those kids
that were excited to see those animals
will grow up and wanna work with animals
or be involved in conservation or whatever the case is.
Regardless, a great time.
Now I'm back at the shop, I actually have a tour
to wrap up here before we're done for the night.
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All right guys, bye.
Thank you guys so much, safe travels,
come back any time guys.
See 'yo, bye guys.
I tell you what.
That is going to go ahead and end the vlog today.
I hope that you enjoyed this crazy journey.
It was a packed day, but an absolutely beautiful one.
Have an amazing day.
I love you guys so much.
Be kind to someone
and I promise I'm gonna see you guys tomorrow.