- You guys know that I have really wanted
to put some venomous snakes at the reptarium
and we are expanding, so I've got Bruce here
and he decided to bring in his girl,
the girl that I love so much, Jasmine
the of course, leucistic monocled cobra.
Let's see what she's got going on here.
Hey girl.
Ooh, she's looking good.
And of course she had a little nose booboo from rubbing
and that is looking really good now.
Take a look at that snake right there.
- [Bruce] She literally just shed yesterday.
- [Brian] She's looking good.
There's my girl.
So anyways, I was thinking about this idea, right?
First, I wanted to check Jasmine out
a little bit to see what she's got going on
and I tell you what, like I said,
she has gotten to be a feisty little girl too.
Remember how so many times when she comes here,
she'll be like, misses just like a corn snake,
or something like that.
Certainly not a corn snake anymore.
Ooh, look at that snake right there!
That is absolutely wonderful.
So I was kind of thinking,
we just had Jeffrey out at a Zoo To You,
so we cleaned his cage up and I was thinking,
what if we put Jasmine in there,
just as a kind of idea of what it looks like
to have a cobra at the reptarium
and maybe we can get Lori over here
and Lori will actually like the idea too.
Probably not.
What do you think, Bruce, is it gonna work?
- (laughs) I can't even, I can't even.
(laughs)
- [Brian] Jasmine, c'mon girl.
Come on, girl.
There you go, there you go, girl.
Whoop, there you go.
Come on, you silly monkey, you.
Look at that snake right there, hoo!
Tell you what, that is absolutely incredible.
Come on, girl.
Give me a little hood, give me a little hood.
Well, I don't know.
What do you think, Bruce?
You wanna try to see what she'll look like in that cage?
- I'm actually completely down for it.
- Oh my gosh.
I wonder how she'll look.
I'm hoping that when she gets in there
maybe she'll hood up a little bit for us too.
This is so cool.
Again, is this the first chance
of us seeing what it's like to have a cobra
or venomous animals at the reptarium?
I sure hope so.
Come on girl.
Come on, look at her in there.
Look at her cruise around.
Oh my gosh.
That is absolutely amazing.
Yeah. Tell me that if we had that at the reptarium
that people wouldn't absolutely freak out.
I know I would.
That's for sure.
Look at her coming through the, she's right there.
Oh my gosh. That's so cool.
She's loving. Look at her.
Oh my gosh.
And she seems to be really relaxed in here.
She's just kind of cruising around was like
what's going on in there?
What's this all about, you know
she's kind of using that brain.
cobras are extremely smart animals
so she's just kind of cruising around going, wow
I tell you what this, we got to make this happen, guys.
We've got to make sure
that we have a cobra here at the reptarium.
I mean, how could you not have a cobra?
Look at that thing.
Oh my gosh, Bruce, that thing is so cool.
- It's cool too because like, this is a lot taller
than the cages she has at home.
So like I try to utilize as much branches
as I can in the caging.
Right. But to see her actually climbing
on the walls right there. It's insane.
- I know you really don't think of a cobra like that
but cobras do like to climb, a lot of cobras
not necessarily all of them.
And like I said, right now
she doesn't even seem to be upset at all.
She's just kinda, Hey, I just wanted to explore this cage
and see what this cage is all
about and looks absolutely wonderful.
So let's just have a few minutes here
and just see what she's going to do.
Cause like I said, she's look
at her climbing down this rock.
She's finally getting down on the bottom here.
Just getting a little bit of like idea
of what it's like on the ground of the cage.
She's got all these rocks over here to mess with.
Of course it's Jeffrey's cage.
She's not staying here.
This is just kind of to see what it's going to be like.
But holy cow, look at that.
Look how cool that is.
I mean, this gives you kind of, I mean
you're not going to see this obviously
in the wild where these guys are from
but something similar.
Like they come from a foresty area
and wouldn't it be cool to come across something
like that in the wild, obviously she's leucistic.
So she's not the natural color either, but I don't know.
I'm just like a little kid when it comes
to things like this and here she is.
Let's see how she would react if people were around her.
So we'll just kind of see right here.
Okay. Yep.
Yep. There she goes.
She's got a little bit of king
but she's not even hooking up.
That means she's super comfortable
in this cage right now, which is awesome.
Right? So I don't know guys.
I think we should go get Lori and
and maybe try to convince her, see what she thinks.
What do you think down the comments
before I get Lori, tell me A, is she going to go awesome?
She's gonna be like, that's a great idea.
B Brian, that's the most horrible idea you've ever came up
with. C she's going to kill me.
I think there's a good chance that C might happen
but let's go get Lori.
So Lori, I've got an exciting thing to show you.
I think you're going to be really happy about this.
I've made this kind of a executive decision to
add a new animal to the reptarium.
Is that okay?
- I don't know. Is it a leucistic Texas rat?
- Yeah. It's a leucistic Texas rat Lori,
do you want to pick it up? No, no. Don't pick it up.
This is something that we need a snake hook for.
- So it's not something that we can interact with people.
- Nope. We can't take this out and play with it.
Unfortunately. Come on little girl.
- What is it?
- What do you think it is?
- I don't know is it a pine snake?
Why are you afraid of this?
- I'm not afraid of it.
It just it's a leucistic cobra.
- It's a cobra? The hells a cobra doing here?
It's a, it's just the test run to see
if it would work at the reptarium.
And I think it looks beautiful.
- Okay. The test run is get it out of here.
No, that's not gonna happen.
- Look at how beautiful that snake looks.
- I literally thought it was a pine snake.
- You
(laughs)
- So we could get a Texas rat.
We could get a pine snake, a pull snake.
They'd be bigger and more impressive.
No. Absolutely not.
- But this is, this is a cobra.
- Stop stuttering. And no (laughs)
It needs to go home and that's not here. No.
- So what I'm trying to understand.
What you're telling me
- No. No. N O
- Alright so we're not going to do a
leucistic monocled cobra.
But how about a king cobra?
I mean, you got to admit that looks pretty darn cool.
- No, no.
- All right.
So this backfired on me a little bit, so I still
liked the idea and I appreciate that Bruce brought it
in and I still think it's a gorgeous snake.
- Oh it's Bruce's. Yeah, he can take that home.
(Bruce laughs)
- We tried people.
We tried, let me know in the comments
if you guys are right.
Remember the other day when someone asked
about Everglades rat snakes
and it just so happened that day,
I had a clutch of Everglades rat snakes.
Well, sure enough, in the comments someone said,
when are you going to have greenish rat snakes?
And guess what, what an absolute trip, right?
What an irony.
We had a greenish rat snake clutch.
So go ahead and keep on putting comments
about what you want me to produce
and maybe we'll keep getting clutches like that.
But nevertheless, I love greenish rats snakes.
I mean, just look how cool that animal is.
I mean, it's just a really cool rat snake.
Of course, these guys will be down
in the Florida area and a little bit north of there as well.
Nevertheless, really cool animals
and much like the Everglades rat snake.
Cause if you remember
they kind of lay their eggs all over the place.
I mean, look at all of these eggs, oh what, oh my gosh
this is a giant clutch of eggs.
This is super cool.
And this is actually a heifer albino greenish rat snake too.
So we'll candle all of these eggs just because, you know
they're not clumped together.
Just like what the Everglades snakes.
And again, because they're heifer albino about half
these babies are going to be
albino greenish rats and
half of them will be greenish rat snakes.
I just absolutely love them.
I think they're a super cool snake.
Love their attitude.
They have a little bit of feistiness to them.
They're really just a beautiful animal
very unique when it comes to a rat snake too, in my opinion.
So it's super cool
that we've got a beautiful clutch of eggs here and holy cow
the eggs just keep coming and coming and going.
That is insane.
This might be the largest clutch of greenish rat snakes
that I've ever produced
because I think the largest before was about 18 eggs
and it looks like there's gotta be more than 18 eggs here
but we'll find out when we get them all.
Again, this is just like a little
treasure hunt here of eggs.
Look at all of these eggs I'm getting here.
Ooh, doggy.
I tell you. That is amazing.
And again, my buddy that reached out and said, Hey
are you going to have some greenish rat snakes?
The answer is, yes
we're going to have some greenish rat snakes.
And interestingly enough, these guys typically
hatch a little bit quicker than a normal colubridae snake.
So a normal colubridae snake and just more and more
eggs will hatch in about 60 days.
These guys usually hatch in about 52 days
right in that range.
So is that all of the eggs got one little slugger here.
Look at that.
How terrible is that?
I think we've got all of the other eggs here.
Wow. Wow. That was an amazing clutch.
And we've got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 20
22, 24, 25 eggs.
Wow. Was that absolutely incredible.
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Obviously, Helen is an albino ball python
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here at BHB and we actually just babied her
from the beginning and she is such a wonderful snake.
I always say that someone comes in
that's a little bit afraid of snakes.
For whatever reason, they kind of feel bad
for Helen a little bit.
The other thing is, is without eyes
they don't feel like Helen is actually looking at them.
So they feel more comfortable actually holding her.
And with pythons, they actually have three senses.
They have their eyesight
they have their heat pits that senses thermal.
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and tasting the air.
So with Helen really
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And with ball pythons in particular, their eyesight
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So my friend, that's actually a police officer that helps us
out lot in the town is next door.
And I think that we're going to go see what
he thinks about Drogo. What do you think?
- It's going to be crazy.
- Let's go.
- Looks at these toes. Never seen anything like it.
- Look at who shed. My girl Ivy and it's always
absolutely amazing to see this look
at this giant shed right here.
Usually it's almost in one piece
this one's got a couple of little breaks, but you know
snakes actually shed because they grow, right?
So basically to breakdown a shed,
snakes have three layers of skin.
They have an inner layer, minium layer
and then what they call an epidural layer.
This is the epidural layer.
It's actually dead skin, right?
Just like on our body.
We're always shedding the dead skin off that epidural layer.
Right? So what happens is when this epidural layer
with a reptile can't stretch any more, they go
into a shed cycle or if there's an injury
or something like that, they go into a shed cycle, right?
And then they actually shed that skin off.
And then that middle layer becomes the outer layer.
And that can stretch a little bit more, right?
And they develop a new inner layer, a minium layer
and it kind of continues to repeat now
as snake gets bigger it actually sheds less.
And the reason for that is it's the growth rate slows down.
Ivy honestly has almost doubled her size
in the last 12 to 14 months.
So she's been shedding an awful lot, but as she gets bigger
she's going to slow down shedding.
And maybe instead of shedding every eight to 12 weeks
she's going to shed maybe twice a year.
Right? So that's how the shed cycle works.
But I tell you what, it's always amazing to
see something as awesome as this.
And wow, does she look breathtaking.
Absolutely love chocolate stop
the chocolate pinstripes, the super chocolates
the chocolate, you name it, chocolate bananas
all that type of stuff.
And this is actually a beautiful chocolate
pinstripe probably produced her about 10 years ago.
To be honest with you she's been a really good animal.
And she was actually bred to this banana chocolate spinner.
So again, it's banana, it's chocolate
it's spider and it's pinstripe.
So down in the comments you guys discuss amongst yourself
what are we going to get
by breeding a banana chocolate spinner
to a chocolate pinstripe.
Let's go in his head and see how many eggs mama has.
And like I mentioned, I'll be keeping an eye on the comments
and kind of seeing if you guys know what you're talking
about. Again, this is kind of what we talked about last year
being the Barney ball project that turned
out to not being very good.
But I think that when we add probably blackhead
into that combo, we're really going to probably
able to get there with that really purple snake.
So that's the idea, this is the beginning
the building blocks for something more.
I think it's going to be really cool.
It looks like she laid a pretty good clutch of eggs here.
Definitely have a couple of wrinkles in them
which is no big deal.
It's just sometimes happens from time to time.
So we'll go ahead and separate
out this one eight right here.
Well, let's just count them up first.
We'll go to 4, 6, 7, good eggs.
We did have one little slugger here.
No big deal.
Seven good eggs.
Let me know in the comments what you think
we're going to get.
Oh my gosh.
Heinz is looking so amazing
and getting so big has a bunch of greens on his nose.
He's amazing.
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