- [Brian] Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I have this amazing albino clown ball python right here,
and this is actually one of my breeder males,
and today, Mary is actually gone, so I am taking the task
of breeding the ball pythons, which I absolutely love.
Now, I have a lot of information
to kinda get out to you guys
and for me to process here,
and of course,
these are the group that is being bred right now,
and we can see there's a bunch of numbers on here,
like ten millimeter follicles,
we've got January 16th they was bred,
and we also have January 3rd it fed.
So those are the things I wanna look at now
to make educated decisions on what to breed.
Now this particular animal here we don't
have a follicle grow.
She did feed really well, but she has not been bred,
so that's the animal I want to go because every other animal
in this entire group has been bred in the last two weeks,
so I wanna make sure she gets bred,
and then we'll go ahead and scan her,
but the vast majority of stuff
we have follicle growth on too,
and again what I wanna do
is I wanna breed over ten millimeters,
I want females that are feeding really well,
then I want females that haven't been bred
in the last two weeks.
That's what I'm gonna do throughout the entire day,
going through and putting the right males in with
the right females.
Again, the more information you have,
the more information you can use
to make the right decisions on what to breed.
Take for instance, this is actually
a double-head ghost clown,
and this is a clown ball python
that is het for ghost.
She has 16-millimeter follicles,
she ate a few rats just a couple days ago,
and she hasn't been bred, so it's very important
to get a male in with her, get her bred,
so that she can start to develop those follicles.
Again, I'm gonna keep going through and just
making the right decisions on this one.
This is another one, this is a het albino.
I've got an albino male, 16-millimeters again.
She fed two rats, so she is ready to go.
Gonna get the albino male and put him in here.
And this albino male is actually
been a pretty good breeder for us.
This female is definitely looking nice and chunky,
because we've really been increasing the food,
I mean the females went from being like
lean and mean to now being kinda beefy.
That's gonna help them develop follicles.
So we'll get this male in here, let him alone,
and the fact that we've just given our males
three days off from breeding means that,
good chances, tomorrow there's gonna be a lot of
lock-ups.
This het russo here is actually kind of
a perfect candidate as well:
10 millimeters, fed really well, hasn't been bred,
she's being bred to a super pastel
hidden gene woma.
Now that can produce some soul-sucker stuff
which is really cool.
The problem is that she's in shed.
I wanna kinda share all these little tips and tricks
with you guys because oftentimes when a female's
in shed, males aren't interested.
I'm not exactly sure why that's the case.
It's not that I don't wanna breed her,
but there's a good chance that if I put the male in today,
she may actually not breed,
and I'm kinda wasting that male's day,
being that he's been off,
and he's probably wanting to breed.
So I'm gonna go ahead and skip her,
and move on to the next female.
Interesting dilemma here,
I've got three females that are being bred
to a pastave orange dream,
which is a pastel Mojave and an orange dream.
This is actually a lemon blast orange dream,
so I could potentially get some
really cool stuff with that, for sure.
But the thing is is that all three females have been bred
in the last week, so do I go ahead and re-breed them again,
or just give that male some time off,
or use that male maybe in another group
that might need a male to breed.
So, what I think I'm gonna do is just wait on this
because I don't really wanna waste the male,
I only wanna breed a female every two to three weeks,
because if you over-breed them,
you're just kinda wasting things, right.
So, we'll keep an eye on the follicle growth
because all of these have 10 plus millimeter follicles,
but there's no need to get a male in with him right now,
and then if I get to another group where I'm like,
"Gosh, this really needs to get bred," and I go,
"Wait, that pestave orange dream might be
really good with this one."
I can use him for that group.
(upbeat music)
- And my last male is actually a leopard clown
that's going in a red stripe that's het for clown,
should be some pretty good stuff.
So, I've got all the males in now,
kind of going through, I'll tell you what:
A lot of animals have been bred now which is really good,
so what you want is those advanced follicle growths,
anything like over, say, 12 to 15 millimeters,
something that's been feeding well,
you always want at least one copulation.
A lot of these have two or three,
so, things are looking up really good.
So, we'll do another ultrasound here in another week,
get a gauge of how things are growing,
So, tomorrow with any luck, a lot of locks.
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- [Brian] Eric, I gotta talk to you, man.
- Yo, what's up, man?
- [Brian] So I hear something about, what are you,
starting to do some models or something?
- (sighs) Dude, I didn't--
- What's goin' on?
- I didn't want it to get out there, it's pretty nerdy.
- [Brian] What is it? What are you doing, models or what?
- Yeah, like fighter jets and
- [Brian] Really?
- tanks and stuff. I used to do it when I was younger,
and Mary dragged me into Hobby Lobby,
and I'm like, "Oh, there's a bunch of models here."
Picked one up,
haven't been able to stop since.
I think I've done about five in the past two months.
- [Brian] Which five have you done?
- I've done an F-16,
- [Brian] Nice!
- Did an A-10.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- Another fighter jet.
Did a F-22 Raptor.
- [Brian] Nice!
- And then, what did I do,
an Abrams tank.
- [Brian] I've driven an Abrams tank!
- No way! No way!
- [Brian] I did, I drove an Abrams tank.
- [Brian] Squeezing into these
is an experience all in itself.
This baby sports a powerful gas turbine engine,
and can reach speeds of 45 miles an hour,
which is pretty impressive,
considering it weighs 68 tons.
And this baby can stop on a dime.
- Dude, that's bad, might have to give that model to you.
It's pretty sweet.
- [Brian] It was awesome.
- Dude, it's a dream.
Just doing a few tanks and stuff right now.
- [Brian] I don't mind. I don't think it's that nerdy.
- It's embarrassing.
And you know what's even worse,
is I hung them up in the basement,
- [Brian] No, there's nothing wrong with that.
- The little jets. I'm like, "Mary, is this too much?"
- [Brian] No, I think it's good.
- Guess not.
- [Brian] Keep up the good work.
- Thank you, bud, thank you man.
- [Brian] I'll take you on the Abrams next time.
- Dude, no, please God, I need to do that before I die!
I have to do it.
(laughing)
(woman laughing)
- It's gonna be good.
- Listen, this is the idea.
- [Woman] I'm not listening to anything!
- It'll be good for the gift shop!
- [woman] No. Nothing new!
- The gift shop'll be good!
- [Woman] You're done. You're done.
- It's just a board game.
- [Man] It's just begun (laughs).
- You should see the ideas for this year, Lori.
- [Brian] Downstairs with Jessica,
it looks like you are working on some skink breeding?
Oh! Looks like they're already getting going.
How's it coming, everything going all right?
- Well, this guy is first year
so he's trying his best.
- So, he's just getting the hang of it.
He's definitely trying though.
- [Jessica] He's clearly got the idea.
- And like we always mention,
that's basically the kind of process, right,
is that the male will grab the female,
right about that,
he's a little bit low on her
to be able to get up.
If he's closer to her arm,
he'll be able to go across her body,
and then he'll ultimately try to mount her,
wrap his tale underneath.
Happens very quickly,
but this is something that Jessica has to do
pretty much everyday,
is just sit around and play with these guys,
and kind of figure out which males
and which females actually want to breed.
These guys' breeding seasons are really bizarre,
because sometimes a male will only breed for a week or two,
and then be done for the rest of the year.
So, you got to catch them right at that perfect timing.
But things are definitely starting to heat up.
And that's a little trick here.
Now, if a female grabs a male,
she can hurt him.
She's trying to grab to kind of hurt him,
right, she'll rip a limb off,
she'll kind of do whatever.
So, what happens is Jessica's just got a little
something to put in her mouth.
In this case, it's just a Sharpie pen,
but that way, when she comes around to kind of bite him,
she just can put that right in its mouth,
and it'll save the male from getting a leg ripped off,
or something like that.
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- [Brian] You can see the male finally got it.
He's a brand new male.
Definitely doesn't have her positioned really good,
and Jessica's helping out just a little bit,
but that's all it is! Success!
And then this guy is definitely looking around too.
You can see he's checking it out, for sure.
Female isn't super receptive,
cause she's kind of looking at him like,
"What do you think you're gonna do?"
But you can see he's definitely,
he's on the prowl as well.
So, looks skink season at least is underway
and starting to heat up.
(upbeat music)
- Excited to finally be getting
some of this ceiling stuff done too.
You can see these kind of crazy curves up here.
Definitely taking some time.
So, we're installing all of the panels,
they probably won't get done today,
because the hardest part is doing all the cuts.
So, we'll probably do all the borders
all the way around the place,
and then these tiles just pop in.
So, they're relatively quick.
So, really the hard work is all the
small really intricate cuts,
and then we put all these other tiles in,
and trust me, things will be looking a lot different.
You can see in this room,
we have a lot of the big tiles in too.
THere's just one tile out right now
where the heat panel goes in.
Otherwise, this room is completely done.
It's looking incredible.
We're going to have to put in some border down here,
in the next day or so,
and then this room is done.
The snake massage room is done.
Until the cages come in,
which of course, will be the enclosures
for the snakes we're using for the snake massage
and then hopefully by tomorrow
we'll have the rest of the ceiling up.
This place is really coming together.
Hand-full of things to do,
and we should be ready to go,
I think, in the next five or six days.
The only thing we're still keeping an eye on,
is the weather.
Like I had mentioned,
originally we were going to install today,
and it got pushed off an entire week.
So, right now they're calling 40% for snow right now.
So, fingers crossed, the weather Gods are in our favor.
Again, six days and the cages arrive.
- I'll keep reminding you guys,
Friday the 13th, that's right, March, Friday the 13th,
is the projected opening date for the new reptarium.
So, if you guys are going to come out,
please, check it out that weekend.
Friday the 13th,
we'll probably have an after party as well.
Tickets are going to be sold as soon as the cages show up,
just so we know there's no delays there.
And then, of course, Saturday the 14th
we'll probably have an after party as well.
So, we'll keep you posted.
Mark your calendars and be here.
(upbeat music)
- And with any luck,
we'll probably have some baby skinks,
not too long for now.
And this is actually one of the ones
that we held on to that is a caramel skink
from last year.
Remember when these were born?
I mean, it was only, what, six seven months ago,
and they were only this big,
and now look at how absolutely amazing
and big they have gotten.
I absolutely love blue-tongue skinks,
and it's looking like it's going to be a pretty good
breeding year.
Jessica's been working really hard,
and most of the females have been bred
at least once.
Typically, with blue-tongue skinks
you want to breed two to three times,
and then after a second or third breeding,
you can pretty much just shelf them.
And then the majority of the females actually have babies.
Now, will they be good babies or big litters
or small litters, we don't now, right?
But nevertheless, these guys are amazing,
and I'm really looking forward
to some of the pairings we've done this year,
because we have some of the best skinks, by far,
that we've ever bred this year.
So, it should be a really exciting year,
and that's only a couple months away.
And this is a coffee to a blaze male.
Look at the color on that thing.
Oh my gosh! That thing is crazy.
And again, that's one thing that's nice about skinks,
is that they actually get more colorful
typically as they get older.
So, as babies they can be pretty neat,
but when they get a little size to them,
woo doggy! Those things get incredible.
That's one of the reasons why I like to keep most of them
for at least a few months,
just to see what they're going to develop,
cause, look at the oranges and the kind of reds
coming through on this thing.
That thing is gorgeous!
- [Man] Brian's face when he picks up that knife.
He's so happy. Look at him.
- Ready?
- I don't like that knife.
- What'd you say?
- I don't like that knife.
- Okay.
(Laughter)
- So, we're excited because we're actually going to have
a gift shop for the first time.
We've done plushies and stuff like that,
but not really a lot of gift stuff.
- Oh! Okay!
- Kids always come , even families,
that always want a bunch of gifts so,
that is awesome! Oh, that's cool!
- [Woman] Yes, so these are actually neat.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh that's so cool.
- [Woman] So, I hadn't seen them in person,
just by a picture.
- They look so real. I mean, look at the eyes
and stuff like that, are so cool,
- [Brian] That's really a neat little thing right there.
That's awesome. That's super cool.
- Oh my god, look at this. A collared lizard.
- [Brian] Oh my god, a little collared lizard.
We've got to get some collared lizards though.
I've thought about that.
They would be a really cool addition too.
These are really nice, kind of realistic,
I know Lori was trying to find
the most realistic little animal things.
Oh, check the boa out! Oh my gosh!
[Brian] These are nice! Really good quality.
Really cool stuff.
A bunch of these they'll obviously go in.
We've got a little iguana,
which, by the way I'm still looking for an albino iguanas.
Trying to see about add that.
- This is interesting here. I was shocked about this.
This is literally a stripped corn snake.
(woman laughs)
Which is weird, you wouldn't think you would see
a stripped corn snake.
- Well, it actually looks really good.
- Thanks to the guy who sent me this knife.
This is one of my favorite gifts ever.
- This are cool too because these are little tubes
with little tiny ones in it.
- [Brian] Oh, that's awesome.
- So, you get a bunch of frogs and turtles
and some had snakes.
- This is so exciting, man!
- So, that's what the other ones are.
They're a bunch of different tubes like that
with different stuff in it.
- Wow, this is awesome. I'm like a little kid.
I want to play with all these.
- I know! I am really happy with the quality with these.
These are really good.
- Oh my gosh, that's so cool. So, that's cool!
Lots more to add to the gift shop,
this is a great start. That's awesome.
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