- Oh my gosh!
This is a pretty one too.
Yeah, this one's definitely a still born here.
This one's a still born here.
Oh no, that's a still born there.
What kind of disaster is this litter?
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Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
I have to rush over to the shop.
Because I had a shipment from Universal Rocks
of a bunch of just, like, things that make
the zoo even more cool.
Well guess what?
I was supposed to be at the shop an hour ago
'cause I knew the shipment would show up.
Laurie just called me.
It's there, they have to unload it without me.
So I better get over there and help them out
before she kills me.
Oh my gosh.
Are you guys still unloading now?
- Yes, sir.
- Oh my gosh, look at all this stuff.
Holy moly.
Holy cow this is awesome.
You see this?
Are you excited?
- Yeah, no thanks to you.
Where the heck were you?
- I was, I seriously I swear to gosh I thought it
wasn't gonna get here till a little bit later,
so I am so sorry.
- How convient - But I forgive him.
- My gosh look at.
So, check this out, check this out.
These are all the backdrops for reptile prime.
So all the cages, like exo-terra zoo med,
these are all the backdrops that you got, yes.
- Okay, I was wondering, what why do we have
all of these?
- These are all literally stuff that will be selling on
So if you guys have a tank and you want a really cool
backdrop, we're gonna be selling all these.
I mean these particular ones are just here
for display and stuff like that.
What else do we have in here?
Oh my gosh.
- These are the little water things.
- Oh see there's some more backdrops.
We've got water bowls that not only are we gonna use
for our cages, but also will sell these
for reptile prime.
Water bowls and hide boxes.
These are branches for the Banyan tree.
This moment I've been not really happy with this over here.
So this Banyan tree right here (grunts) is actually
gonna go up, it'll go in this corner right over here.
Oh!
Okay, bad idea, bad idea.
Okay, bad idea, there I go.
We'll put this back in here,
we'll worry about that.
So the Banyan tree goes up in the corner there.
Oh let me show you guys this.
This is cool.
So these are actually...
Ya know how, ya know how I been talking about.
(laughing)
I get excited.
So ya know how I've been talking about,
you can see the two by fours,
so these are the inserts that go in here,
so that they'll hide the two by fours, ya know.
So all of these, you won't see any two by fours at all.
So this is the actual side panel.
So that's awesome.
He made quite a mess over here, guys.
- Yep.
- Yeah, you just made a mess.
We kinda had it organized.
- Yeah (laughs) we had it a little organized.
- And you shit everywhere, thanks, thanks a lot.
- Oops.
Okay, so I'm excited.
So we got our work cut out for us,
we're gonna be awesome.
And look at that.
Hopefully, people have asked me about the reptile
prime cages and backdrops.
Hopefully in about a week we'll have both
available, so that is awesome.
Oh yeah.
Oh we got that, too.
- The rocks.
- These are rocks.
These are actually step ups.
Look at these are all new step ups that you can just
you can just use the step up to see things.
So that's awesome.
So we'll have these all around the reptarium
as well, we already have some over here,
like this one right here,
but we wanted to get more.
Because kids are dragging them all over the place.
Trying to be able to get up and see stuff,
like Casper over here.
So, these are awesome.
These are gonna be super cool.
Ah, that's super cool.
Alright cool.
Universal Rocks I am so tickled.
Thanks guys, you did a good job unloading.
- I know.
- Whaddya guys say we take a little break
to un-box a couple of things really quick.
This first one is actually from a guy named Henry
that reached out to me and said that he had
a Blizzard Corn and he wanted to donate it to the zoo.
Now the Blizzard Corn's are very, very beautiful.
They're actually anerythristic and an albino
so essentially almost like a white snake.
Very, very amazing.
And I am excited to put this over at the zoo.
Apparently it's a really docile one
and it looks really good.
So let's take a look and see what we got.
And you guys know that I absolutely love corn snakes.
Oh my gosh, this is a pretty one, too.
Ya know, some of them have a lot of yellow in them
and even some pattern.
This one almost looks like a leucistic.
Oh my gosh, that is one gorgeous Blizzard Corn snake.
Woo-doggie, that thing is beautiful.
I mean just take a look at that.
Wow.
I tell ya what, this is legitimately one of the prettiest
Blizzard Corn snakes and it is a boy,
so we're gonna definitely put this over at the zoo
because I think this is gonna be an absolutely
incredible ambassador animal.
We need more corn snakes, we only have Mazy
over at the zoo.
So this is gonna be really amazing.
So we'll find him a place and he does need a name.
So if you can think of something for a Blizzard Corn,
male, let me know in the comments what you think
it should be.
Next box and by the way Eric just came up with
a fantastic name for the Blizzard Corn.
He said "Why don't we name it Yeti?"
I think Yeti for a Blizzard Corn snake
is absolutely incredible.
Let me know in the comments if you have a better idea.
And if you do, let me know and if you like Yeti
let me know that, too.
I think all in all we have pretty amazing
What do we have here?
Now this actually is a shipment of Ball pythons.
This is a friend of mine that's been sending
me some really beautiful things all year long,
so I'm excited to see what he sent me this time.
Okay, here we go.
First bag, what do we have in this bag here.
Let's see.
Oh okay, nice pretty babies.
Just take a look at all of those
Oh my gosh.
These are a bunch of crystals
and what look like either Mojaves or Mystics.
Wow, that's amazing.
(laughs)
This little monkey right here is pretty crazy.
But of course the Crystal come from a special
to Mojave, they're allelic.
And when you breed the two together
one in four come out Crystal.
Oh my god, these things are gorgeous.
Here's example of what the Crystals look like.
Oh my gosh, they are absolutely gorgeous.
This next bag actually has a bunch of Hertford Clowns.
And what looks like at least one pastel Hertford Clown.
And then there's these gorgeous guys here.
Of course these are Clown Ball pythons.
Woo-doggie, I love Clown Ball pythons.
We have a bunch of really cool new Clown stuff
that we're breeding this year,
so hopefully we're gonna have some crazy stuff.
They're always one of my favorite
of the recessive mutations in Ball pythons.
And then the final bag here, let's see what
we have in there.
Ohhhh, there's some nice stuff in here.
And take a look at these right here woo-doggie.
Of course these are some Pied Ball pythons
and it looks like this one right here is actually
a pastel Pied.
Oh my gosh, that is a really good one.
This one here is kinda like a, maybe a 50/50,
but man it has a really incredibly beautiful pattern.
And then this one here, oh my gosh that is beautiful.
That is definitely an 80% white Pied Ball
python right there.
So guys, that was absolutely amazing shipment
of snakes, look at this little Pied.
He's absolutely upset.
I'm gonna go ahead and get these set up.
And I guess we have some baby Sand Boas downstairs,
whadday say we go take a look?
Just messed around really quick and I got the Banyan
tree kind of upward.
Definitely be adjusting it a little bit.
But how awesome is that.
I mean what a difference.
I been saying this all along, ya know,
not that I been disappointed in anything
at the reptarium,
but if there was one spot that I didn't really like
it was this wall right here.
Just seemed a little bit bland and empty
so I think this Banyan tree adds a ton
of character to it.
We're still gonna do some stuff over here,
kind of a little bit over here and stuff like that,
but this is a great first step.
I love it.
Let me know in the comments if you guys like my
new Banyan tree.
I mean, I think it's absolutely incredible
and just what I was hoping for.
Ya know, when I woke up this morning I literally
thought, like, god today's probably gonna be
a kinda boring day.
Well it's been nothing but crazy insanity.
And that's right, I'm so excited when I hear
"You have baby snakes."
So this girl right here had babies.
It's a Sand Ball, oh my gosh, look at all those babies.
Oh my gosh, looks like there's aneuthristic and normals.
Unfortunately, it does look like there might be
a couple of still borns, too.
Oh no, I hope that the majority of them are okay.
I hate that I keep coming to you guys
going oh there's still borns.
But listen, when you have a lot of babies
it's gonna happen.
Oh yeah, this one is definitely still born here.
This one's a still born here.
Oh no, that's a still born there.
And a still born there, oh my gosh
that's a lot.
Oh it looks like this one's barely,
this one's actually alive.
This one might make it.
This one might be okay.
It looks like definitely three still borns in here,
but it looks like there's a bunch of good
babies back here maybe.
Let's see, oh no.
Another still still born here.
What is going on?
This is a horrible litter.
Oh no, more still borns.
Oh my gosh, this whole litter.
Okay, this is a good little baby here.
This is actually an aneuthristic.
Oh my god, what kind of disaster is this litter?
Another still born here.
Like I said, this baby looks like it's gonna be okay.
That's a normal right there.
Oh mama, what happened.
Oh my, oh geez, this is terrible.
Another still born.
Oh my gosh, okay we've got another normal baby here
that looks okay.
Looks like there's some good ones down here.
Yes, there's one, two, three more good ones.
So three normals, definitely angry
and that's okay.
Oh my gosh another still born.
Oh my gosh.
Okay it looks like another good aneuthristic right here,
so we definitely have some good babies.
But the majority of this litter, another
anerythristic right there, that's good.
Let's see what we have.
Okay another anerythristic right here.
This was a big litter, but oh my gosh,
what a disaster with babies.
What do we have here?
Another still born?
Is that still born?
Yes another still born.
Oh my gosh, this is horrible.
Geez, I was not expecting this at all.
Okay here's another good anerythristic right here.
Gosh, this was unbelievably big litter,
just too bad that it was such a terrible litter.
Look at all these still borns there.
Oh my gosh, mama, what happened?
Okay, I tell ya what guys, that definitely
was not what I was expecting.
She looked so good, I thought she was gonna have
a ton of good babies.
But it does looks like we got what,
two, four, four, six, eight, 10, 11 good babies.
But it sure looks like there's at least
10 or 11 still borns.
I mean they're completely perfect, you can see that.
But guys that's just part of breeding snakes.
You're gonna have good litters,
you're gonna have bad litters.
(sighs)
This was about 50/50.
I am just so bumpmd up because that's a lot
of babies that went full term and didn't make it.
But, again, I been doing this long enough to know
that that's part of the game.
We still have a hand full of female Canyon's to go,
let's hope we have some better litters than this.
But in the meantime I just have to be happy for what I got.
We definitely have a handful of anerythristic
and a bunch of normals as well that do look really good.
Alright, so I'm gonna get this mess cleaned up.
Poor mama.
And again guys that's just kinda how it goes.
This is sometimes the things you don't see
because most breeders really don't share the negatives
or the downsides or the failures.
You only see the successes.
And trust me, as many successes as you have,
you sometimes have failures, that's all part of it.
So if for some reason down the road you wanna breed
snakes, just realize you're gonna face these
types of adversity.
It's just all part of it, but that can't take
the wind outta your sails.
You gotta still forge forward and you've gotta be happy
that we had 11 good babies.
You can't look at it as oh my gosh,
there was 10 or 11 bad babies.
You gotta just be happy for what you get.
A good friend of mine, Mark Adams, out in the Chicago
area, was super excited when we had eggs from Lucy.
It's one of his favorite snakes that I have
and he asked me to pick out a beautiful Citron
female for him.
So Mark, this animal is gorgeous.
Tame, beautiful, I love it so I know
you're gonna love it, too.
Packing it up, it's gonna be to you tomorrow.
It's like I always mention, ya know,
you have to try and see the positive instead
of dwelling on the negative.
So, again, yes I'm bummed out that there was a bunch
of dead babies or still born babies,
but the fact is I've gotta be happy,
that's part of it.
And one more thing to do today is I have to feed reptiles.
I'm not gonna do a really big feeding thing
because some people have said "I don't want
"to see feedings."
But, I do have to feed the reptarium,
that's just part of my day so let's go ahead
and jump right in.
(heavy metal music)
It's so weird that really the majority of my career
keeping reptiles was mainly snakes.
And now as much as I love feeding snakes
and keeping snakes, I'm just becoming a lizard maniac.
I mean they're just so fun, ya know.
Their level of intelligence and interaction
is something else.
Ubusuku is really not a handling animal,
but it's still super fun to work with.
So let's go ahead and see.
(heavy metal music)
There ya go, there ya go, good job.
(heavy metal music)
Way to go girl.
What more can I say about Elvis?
I mean this animal is such
an amazing, amazing animal.
(heavy metal music) Come on.
There ya go.
Yes, yum.
(heavy metal music)
There ya go.
One more for good luck.
What an animal.
Ya know again, we're gonna vary his diet,
not just rodents.
Ya feed 'em all kinds of stuff.
Sometimes ground turkey, some eggs.
We'll give him chicken, different stuff like.
Get that variety going, but he is absolutely amazing.
You're such a good boy.
You're a good boy.
Way to go Elvis, thank you.
Ya know, Argimus is always ready to eat.
(heavy metal music)
That animal eats so fast and look it,
he's ready for more.
Oh my gosh Argimus you got plenty, buddy.
(laughs)
Monitor's are so crazy, but I love 'em.
Might as well give Sunrise another one.
There ya go, girl.
Oh, you're hungry today.
We just had a little staff meeting today about
varying the diet of these guys.
Come on, Tazi.
There ya go, bud.
There ya go, sweetheart.
It's so much fun to feed 'em rodents,
but the truth is they do need a varied diet,
so Taz has been eating bananas, grapes,
different things like that.
We're also offering them chicken and other things like that.
So he's getting a complete diet.
But he loves his rodents, there's no doubt about that.
(heavy metal music) There ya go, buddy.
There ya go, bud.
I mean, it's just hard to even explain how much joy
I get out of these animals.
I tell her, Taz you're such an amazing animal.
And that basically wraps up the feeding
here over at the reptarium.
And since I got done with feeding the snakes,
I may or may not have just eaten six Oreo cookies,
but regardless, I'm gonna go ahead
and end the vlog here.
And just wish you guys an absolutely amazing day,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
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