- About a month ago,
I was actually perusing through my Instagram feed
when I came across this picture.
And so I had to figure out more about this animal
and find out if I could actually acquire it.
The animal was in Indonesia
and I had a good friend of mine named Keo
that was really well connected.
So I called Keo.
Keo, how are you doing, man?
Can you do me a huge favor?
I'm actually gonna send you a picture on an Instagram feed.
Could you see what's going on with this animal
and find out if there's any way
that you could get it for me?
Thank you, all right, bye.
Of course we part hiccup
over the Snowblind albino water monitor from Indonesia.
The only one in the United States,
and it's an absolute ripper.
So when I got this animal, I was absolutely blown away.
And it's becoming an amazing, amazing animal
here at the Reptarium.
Keo actually found the guy that had the animal
but it was his pet and he had had it for five years,
and didn't wanna sell it.
Of course, we've got Toothless here by--
Whoa!
Which is an amazing black dragon from Indonesia.
It's okay, buddy.
My gosh, it's that guy who loves to eat.
He's an amazing animal.
Come on up here, buddy.
Okay, that's enough food for you, little silly monkey.
What an amazing animal.
I mean, take a look at that.
Of course, a black dragon, and these are amazing.
So we've got the albino, we've got a normal,
we've got the black,
but my dream animal was always that white monitor.
I mean, what an amazing thing.
But listen, it's the only one I've ever seen.
With me telling Keo that I really wanted this animal,
it took him a about a week
of really negotiating with the guy.
Everything has a price, right?
So he finally agreed to sell it to me.
But trust me, it was a lot of money
- Mr. Brian, how much was it?
- It was the most expensive lizard I've ever bought
but there is one little issue, guys,
that I'm a little bit freaked out about.
I had several pictures that I got from Indonesia
before I sent the money off, and it all looked pure white,
but then when it got to Miami,
the guy that imported it for me sent me a picture,
this picture right here as a matter of fact.
It doesn't look white.
It actually looks more like a pinkish albino.
Now, I wanted to buy a white monitor,
not an albino pinkish monitor,
because although it's patternless,
there are other albinos that look kind of patternless.
So I'm definitely a little bit stressed out.
I don't know, I hope this thing is pure white.
Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys.
What would you guys do if you had $100,000?
- Oh dude, that's easy.
I would open at McDonald's.
- Nah, ice cream shop.
- No, no, no, you gotta start buying rental properties.
- No, no, no, no, fancy sports cars.
- No, no, no, that gets you nowhere in life Mike.
I'm telling you, duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes.
- I didn't even know there was that many plexes.
Oh, like a suplex.
- oh no, like a duplex.
- Oh, look at that.
- Guess what? It's here.
And I couldn't be more excited about this guys
this was a long time coming.
The last month or so I've had a lot of sleepless nights
just wondering if this animal would get here.
It got shipped into Miami and then got shipped up here.
I'm literally shaking on the inside.
I could barely sleep last night
'cause I knew it was gonna be here.
Oh my gosh!
Now just a little back history on this.
This was actually a wild-caught animal from Sulawesi
which is an island.
This guy had it for a pet
for the last five and a half years.
The good news about that is of course,
that it is supposed to be tamed
because he worked with it all the time.
(Brian sighs deeply)
Guys, you don't even understand.
Oh my God, I'm so nervous.
I'm so nervous, I'm so nervous.
Guess what?
The waits takes a little bit longer
because there's a bag inside of a bag.
This had a long trip from Indonesia.
Can't see it yet, there's a bunch of paper here.
(Brian gasps)
Oh my gosh!
It is exactly what I was hoping for.
Look at this, guys!
This is a pure white...
Whoa! He's a little bit crazy!
And I'm sure it's just he's had a long trip,
but it's a pure white water monitor.
That's right, a solid white water monitor.
Now the interesting thing is it has kind of reddish eyes.
So I'm not really sure if it's a type of albino,
but it is pure white.
So it's a leucistic water monitor,
potentially an albino leucistic, I have no idea.
This is what I was hoping on.
This is something, oh my gosh!
This is what dreams are made of guys.
Calm down little buddy.
I know it's been a long trip.
Now we're gonna actually get him set up here in a minute.
Looks like he's got a little bit of rub nose,
so we'll get some medicine on his nose.
That just comes from the bag itself.
Wow, that is the most insane animal in the world.
I cannot believe how amazing it is.
I was hoping it was gonna look as good
as it did in the pictures.
You could see it's got some stuck shed on it.
So we're getting it a soak too, get some of this shed off.
This thing is pure white, oh my gosh!
It is beyond, this is what I've been dreaming about
for the last probably 12, 15 years.
To have a white monitor like this.
Unbelievable, I'm freaking out guys.
I've gotta show the crew
'cause I know they're gonna freak out.
Bruce, what do you think dude?
- Oh my God.
- Is that crazy?
- What even are you? Look at his eyes, man.
- Like I said, he's got a little bit of rub nose.
We're gonna have to a little--
- Oh, we could take care of that easy.
- We'll put a little ointment on that real quick.
That'll heal up within a week or two.
But that is, I mean, look at the skin underneath the shed.
That's solid white.
I mean pure white.
- Oh, he's peeing. - Oh!
- Of course, always.
It's not a Reptarium animal if they don't poop on us once.
- Oh my gosh, well, Bruce is lucky.
I'm actually jealous.
I wanna get pooped on first.
Why did you poop on Bruce first?
- I got pooped on by a white monitor first.
- Oh my God.
Let's see what Jessica thinks.
Jessica, what do you think?
- Oh my God!
- Is it crazy?
That thing is ridiculous.
- Oh, he is so white.
- He is white white.
- Oh my God.
- Look at even his nails are white.
- Holy crap it's so weird.
He looks leucistic, but his eyes look like albino.
- I know, right?
It's like a leucistic with like albino eyes,
which I've never seen anything like this.
- No yellow, no pink, no nothing.
- By the way, this guy does need a name.
Down in the comments, let me know what you guys think
about a name.
Do me a favor while you're down there,
hit that like button.
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'Cause holy cow we have a white monitor people.
I was so nervous it wasn't gonna be what I thought you know.
Knowing it had red eyes,
I thought was there a possibility
that there was doctored photos.
That it didn't look that white, but it is pure white.
I mean everything I dreamt about and more,
I mean good news is guys this is a boy.
That's right, this is a boy.
Which means I could breed him to other females
and gets some heterozygous.
We can figure out the genetics.
Why does it have albino eyes?
This guy is absolutely incredible.
And the fact that it's been in captivity
for five and a half, almost six years
means that it's already really well established.
But except for that little nose boo boo right there,
it looks absolutely perfect.
Every claw is perfect.
Every nail is perfect.
It's tail is completely...
Look at that tail is absolutely wonderful and white.
What do you think dude?
- He's so chill already, look at him.
He's just like what's going on?
- Oh my gosh.
I guess he's happy to be out of that box.
He's been traveling from Indonesia for the last three days.
- I think I know a name.
- What do you think? - Ice cream.
- Ice cream.
Okay guys, continue down below.
Let me know names guys.
So I'm actually gonna go ahead and FaceTime Lori
and let her see this animal.
Then we're gonna get it in a soak.
Help that shut out a little bit and get the enclosure
that we're gonna set him up in.
Oh my gosh, Noah, what do you think man?
Oh my goodness.
I've never seen a white monitor.
An Asian water monitor.
- I know this is the only one.
There was a Leucistic Nile Monitor about 20 years ago
and that's the only other pure white monitor I've ever seen.
What do you say we FaceTime mom and see what she has to say.
What do you think? - Let's do it.
Oh my God, he's so cool.
He's really, really calm too.
He doesn't really mind being held.
- Well, the guy was literally just pet
for like for the last five and a half years.
- Sorry, sorry, oh God, I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
- Oh my gosh, whoa!
- Sorry sorry.
- So what do you think?
- Oh, that looks, that looks fun.
- See how white it is?
- Pure white, I mean, it's just like leucistic white.
- Wow, looks very white.
- That's a stuck shed on top.
- Yeah that's a stuck shed
on the top right here its outta shed.
- Like look at his butt.
Butt's really white.
- Oh, what a cute butt.
- Got a cute butt.
- So it came in good.
It's got a little rub nose, but it won't be anything major.
That thing is amazing, isn't it?
- Yeah. I mean it's big.
- It's basically full grown too.
It's not gonna get much bigger 'cause it's a a celebencis.
So it's a smaller island form of monitor.
- Okay, all right.
- Look at how cool it is.
It's just hanging out.
- I see that.
Yeah, that's cool.
- Yeah, so it's melonated.
- Is it a girl?
- It's a boy.
- Oh I was gonna say Snow White.
- Snow white, yeah, that would've been a good one.
- Definitely.
- But, but these guys in the comments are going to tell us
what name we should name it.
So just wanted to share with you okay.
- Sounds good. - All right, thank you bye.
Let's go ahead and get this guy in his soak
and we'll go ahead and get the enclosure all set up for it.
Like I said, a little bit of a soaking, hydrate it.
Getting a little of that skin off
will be really good for it.
So come on Noah. - Let's do it.
- Let's go for a little swim.
He loves it.
You're okay bud?
Oh my gosh, this thing is crazy.
- It's so beautiful.
Look, it's pure white.
I mean, there's literally nothing as white as that skin.
- It's pure white.
I was so nervous after seeing that picture down in Miami
thinking what if this thing comes in
and just as a normal albino that the pattern is faded,
but no, this is definitely leucistic.
Exactly what we're hoping for.
While our little monkey is soaking,
we're gonna have Mike clean up this enclosure here.
And this enclosure is actually Daisy's enclosure.
To be honest with you,
when we expand we'll put Daisy back on.
But Daisy's being pulled off exhibit for now.
'Cause to be honest, she doesn't really like to get handled.
We have a handful of other giant snakes.
So it's a little bit redundant to have her here
but don't worry she will be back.
I promise you that.
In the meantime, this is gonna be the enclosure
for the new one.
It's eight foot long by six foot deep and four foot high.
So that is a giant enclosure, much, much larger
about three times the size it was living in
for the last five and a half years.
So it's gonna absolutely love it.
And it's gonna look really good in here.
But we have to first get it all cleaned out and disinfected.
And then, secondly,
Jessica is gonna come spruce it up a little bit.
And then this guy gets released into his new enclosure.
Oh my gosh.
My heart's still beating.
While Mike is cleaning up the cage, getting it ready,
we're gonna go ahead and let this guy soak
and try to do the best we can do
to keep him really hydrated.
Then we're gonna give a little treatment to his nose.
We'll put a little medication on it.
It should be healed up within a week or two.
- Suplex man.
(indistinct)
- Suplex, for 100 grand we buy one
of them space rockets and go visit the moon.
- There's no way you buy a space rocket
for $100,000.
Maybe some bottle rockets.
- I literally could care less about spending money
things on cars, fancy things
and all kinds of stuff like that.
But when it comes to spending money on animals
I have no problem with it.
And it was definitely the most expensive animal
that I've ever bought to be honest with you.
But it was so worth it I don't care.
Again, all the money I make just goes into the zoo,
into more animals to make this amazing.
Just think when people come into the Reptarium
and see this white animal
and know it's the only one in the world.
It's gonna create curiosity.
That curiosity gives me the ability to educate them
on amazing animals like this guy.
- Super excited about this new lizard we got.
We're gonna fix up this cage a little bit,
put some greens and stuff in there.
Basically, give him some stuff to rip apart.
- Jessica always does such an amazing job
when it comes to fixturing out enclosures
just to make it look cool.
But we don't wanna over plant this cage
'cause we definitely wanna still be able to see the animal.
It's a tricky thing between it feeling comfortable
in the enclosure and us still being able to see it.
This cage looks absolutely amazing.
We'll fill this water up and we'll go get this little monkey
and put him in here.
This is my favorite part of the whole thing.
Mr. Brian, Mr. Brian, I got you your water.
- Got some of the skin off, but we'll get some more off.
We'll soak it over the next a little bit.
Let's go ahead and release it into its enclosure.
I'm so excited about this
and after it gets settled in a little bit,
we'll come back and put some medicine on its nose
and a couple little areas
that it's got a little bit of abrasions on through shipping.
So let's go ahead and just see where it wants to go.
This is your new home buddy.
You wanna go in, look at him, use that brain.
He's thinking like,
I don't know what the heck is going on here.
You know, it's naturalistic, it's a giant enclosure for him.
This is gonna be absolutely incredible.
Again, I love this part of it
when you actually let him go.
Here he goes, it's gonna go exploring.
That tongue, it's gonna just look at everywhere.
He's gonna see that's your home bud.
Have a good time.
Ever since I opened up the Reptarium,
I've been addicted to letting animals go
in these beautifully big enclosures
and letting them enjoy it.
It's gonna be amazing.
I'm gonna sit here for the next half hour or hour
and just watch this little monkey explore his new enclosure.
And like I had mentioned, he came in with some rub nose
and stuff like that.
So we've got some peroxide to clean up a little bit,
Silver Sulfadiazine's gonna be really good
for the healing part.
And here he is looking up.
He's been cruising out his enclosure for a while.
So he's definitely really kind of getting to know
what's going on here.
We're just gonna really quick just kind of clean up
these little things.
He's probably not gonna like it that much
but you can see how beautiful he's got.
A little bit on the head right there,
little bit on the nose,
and then there's a little bit underneath too
that I'm gonna get right here.
Again, these are just kind of shipping problems
that happen again.
Even just cleaning it up, doesn't look as bad right?
Now, we're gonna put this on.
This is super good stuff right here.
It heals almost anything.
They use this for burns
and everything like that get some on his head there.
Like I said, if we do this every day within about a week,
this thing is gonna be completely healed up.
Gosh, look at that animal right there.
Woohoo! I just, I don't know.
I still can't believe.
I'm still in shock.
Maybe the next couple days we can offer him some food.
Hopefully he'll eat,
kind of get him a little bit beefed up and stuff like that.
So yeah, so now it's just a matter of keeping him calm.
So he doesn't wipe that off his face and rub it off.
Like I said, we're on our way guys.
Wow, this animal is crazy.
This whole process took well over a month
to finally get him here.
But it's amazing that the wait is finally over.
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