(slow and jazzy piano music) (Brian and Lori laugh)
- You could see, whoa!
- [Lori] You're the worst!
- [Brian] Oh no!
Okay, oh, wait, I'll take Diddy,
I'll take Diddy, I'll take Diddy!
(electronic whooshing)
I'd have to say that I get excited
about each and every clutch of snake,
lizard, whatever the case may be, we produce,
but I figured today I would spend some time
kinda trying to narrow it down
the five projects that I'm probably
the most excited about this year,
and I wanna preference by saying
that none of these projects
have anything to do with financial gain.
It's, all right, it's things that I'm
excited about to produce myself.
This happens to be a hypo-melanistic,
hundred flower rat snake, or Moellendorffi.
I got this girl as a baby about five years ago,
and typically these guys take about five years to mature.
She did lay a clutch of eggs, but unfortunately,
they were infertile.
Now this year, I think that she's finally up to size,
and could potentially produce.
I have a normal male, so really,
I'll be producing heterozygous for hypo-melanistic,
have to raise those guys up for five more years,
and potentially produce hypo-melanistic hundred flowers,
or Moellendorffis, another five or six years from now.
It is definitely a labor of love,
but I think that's the thing to be totally honest with you.
A lot of times the projects I'm the most excited about
aren't necessarily like, the coolest,
the newest, the cutting edge.
Again, not the most expensive animals.
It's just projects that I have a lot
of emotional attachment to.
Again, when I bought this animal five years ago,
I was over the top, I was so excited about it.
It was a species of snake I always wanted to work with,
and to get my very first hundred flower rat snake
as a mutation, the only really mutation
that's ever been produced,
I think there's only like, two or three of these
in existence that I know of, I was pretty darn excited.
So this is a colubrid, is certainly right up there,
at the top of the list.
And I showed you guys my female
black-tailed cribo the other day, that had just ovulated.
Well of course, this is Rico.
Rico has been one of my favorite snakes for many years now.
I mean, just look at this animal!
This is a colubrid, absolutely enormous.
I mean, that is an incredibly impressive animal,
and the truth is, is that I've actually
bred these guys in the past,
and produced a few clutches of eggs,
but I've never actually hatched one,
because they were always infertile.
Whether it was Rico's problem,
whether it was the female's problem, I have no idea.
This looks like the first clutch of eggs
that actually looks good.
And you might ask, well how do you know that Brian?
Well the truth is, is after breeding snakes
for as long as I am, you can really feel
if a snake has fertile eggs, or infertile eggs in it.
And the females will typically look pretty swollen up,
but when you actually palm 'em,
let 'em run through your hand,
they'll almost feel like, hard,
like little marbles, or ping pong balls.
This girl feels real soft and really full.
That's usually a sign of fertile eggs.
So there is no doubt that I am over the moon excited
to finally, for the very first time,
produce blacktail cribos, because the dry mark on her,
all the family that the cribos and indigoes in
have always been one of my favorite snake,
and a lot of people talk about them being
some of the most intelligent snakes out there.
Certainly Rico is amazing, and he's about to be a daddy!
So I definitely know that this one
is one of my top five most exciting clutches of the year.
Another project that is definitely a labor of love
is this girl right here.
This is actually a super Lori ball python,
and I've told this story before.
The Lori ball pythons actually came
from where used to import baby ball pythons,
and we would pick through, sometimes thousands of babies,
and pull out just little anomalies.
This is way back in the day when little,
tiny mutations really weren't that interesting.
Even stuff like sinnies really weren't
that big of a deal back then,
before the ball python, whole thing popped,
and became super, super popular.
So Lori picked out a couple ball pythons
from one bag that came directly from West Africa,
that was hatched in West Africa,
and she marked 'em keep, Lori.
And over then next year or two,
we always just kept 'em as Lori balls,
just to identify 'em as those were the
two ball pythons that Lori picked.
Well people were coming to visit,
and they were saying like, what's these Lori balls?
What's these Lori's balls?
I always had the intention to change the name at some point.
Nevertheless, as the ball python hobby started to explode,
we ended up proving out that the Lori ball python
was co-dominant when we bred it to a normal.
Now, the female wasn't ready til the next year,
and then all of a sudden, everyone already knew 'em
as Lori balls because everyone had already
been talking about 'em.
And the following year we produced
the first super Lori balls, which is just like this.
And I'll be honest with you, I haven't done
nearly as much with this project as I should.
So it's near and dear to my heart,
so this year we're taking this super Lori female,
which means all the babies will be Lori,
and we're taking it to a banana enchi yellow belly,
because the enchi Loris look really cool.
We've never seen what a banana Lori looks like,
and we've never done a yellow belly Lori yet,
so maybe that combination could be really, really cool!
All right, I'm gonna throw in a bonus
because we were talking about Loris,
and as I was looking around, like,
I've gotta include this one!
So theoretically, this'll be another one of the top five,
just because, again, I love the Lori project,
and this is a leopard Lori ball python, super cool.
Now this is actually being bred to a super Lori
and a Lori just as a back up,
so hopefully we can produce a super Lori leopard,
because already, the super Loris,
as you saw with the super Lori I showed you,
the pattern is crazy!
What is the leopard gene gonna do to it?
Oh my gosh, it could be really cool.
So again, I wanted to just keep it
to one ball python clutch, but I saw this one,
and I was like, I gotta include this one too!
And like I said, this isn't the most exotic animal
that I'm gonna produce this year in ball pythons.
It certainly isn't the most expensive
ball python I'm gonna produce,
because the truth is, is that I don't really
even look at clutches like that anymore.
I look at clutches that just get me excited,
and sometimes we're actually even breeding animals
that we could breed to something else,
to produce a much rarer animal,
but we just decide, hey, we really like to produce,
I think this'll be a really cool combo.
So it's kinda nice to be in that position now,
where the animals are more about having fun
producing awesome stuff, and not really worrying
about the financial side, like I used to have to with BHB,
like I've mentioned over and over again.
We loved BHB, and BHB is such a big part of what I do,
but the fact is, is that I don't look at it
as a financial thing anymore.
I look at really as like a glorified hobby, in a weird way.
Regardless, a super leopard Lori is gonna be incredible.
I've had a bunch of people asking
about the baby rhino iguanas that we got a while ago.
The male is getting absolutely huge.
Let's go find Lori, (crickets chirping)
and I'll show you both of 'em.
They are awesome, but they're still a little bit crazy.
So we got Bella when she was like, six, seven months old,
so I think she was past the like, crazy stage?
But these guys are crazy, so what do you say
we try to get 'em out and show 'em?
You'll be blown away how big Diddy did.
I mean, Diddy's like,
twice the size, - Yeah,
it is pretty-- - Of the females.
Let's give it a shot.
(rhino iguanas shuffle and thump)
Oof.
Oh.
Oh! (Lori laughs)
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- [Lori] I got her, I got her, I got her!
- [Brian] Got her?
- [Lori] Kind of.
Kind of.
Kind of. (shushes) - Oh, oh, oh,
it's okay girl, - It's okay,
it's okay. - It's okay girl.
Okay, let's see if I can get Diddy.
(Diddy shuffles and thumps)
Where'd he go, where'd he go!
Okay, Diddy, Diddy, Diddy!
Now Diddy's actually not that bad.
Diddy, whoa! (Lori laughs)
Oh, I?
Diddy isn't as bad, but-- (Lori laughs harder)
- [Lori] Oh, right.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh,
whoa! - Ah!
- [Brian] Whoa, whoa!
- Okay. - Okay, okay.
- [Lori] Why do I have both! (laughs)
- [Brian] Okay, you (mumbles) have to hold them! (laughs)
I'll take the little girl.
Okay.
You could see, whoa!
- [Lori] You're the worst!
Uh, Brian! - Oh no!
- [Lori] Okay.
- [Brian] Okay, oh, wait, okay, I'll take Diddy,
I'll take Diddy, I'll take Diddy.
- How 'bout you take none! - Which one do I?
Okay, I'll take none. - Like, (laughs)
- [Brian] Okay, lemme take Diddy.
- Do you have him? - Okay.
Yes I have him,
okay, okay. - Are you sure? (laughs)
- All right, so once you get 'em up,
and they chill out for a minute,
you can see, look at Diddy now.
You can usually just hang onto him.
But look at the difference in size between these two.
They were the exact same size when we got 'em,
and of course, you could still see the bands on her.
But they're doing incredible!
Even she's absolutely chubby as can be,
but I tell ya, I tell ya, (Brian and Lori laugh)
these guys are a handful.
They are so cute though, aren't they?
- [Lori] They are.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Lori] They're adorable.
- But Lori's gotta learn how to handle 'em,
'cause she does a terrible job.
- (laughs hard) Right, because I'm the one
who let 'em both loose.
- But isn't that awesome?
I mean, Diddy is a monster, he is so big!
But this little girl is a chunky little monkey, too.
She's looking really beautiful as well,
so there you go, guys, for the people
that wanted the update,
we are continuing to try to handle them,
and try to tame them out,
but I've heard that yeah, like, six, eight months
is when they kinda just chill out naturally.
- Yeah. - Sometimes like a year or so,
so I think these guys are gonna be fine,
and again, once they're out,
look at how cool they are. - Yeah.
No, they're way better, 'cause at first,
we could never have open hand like this,
they'd be running away, so.
- Exactly, that's the thing. - Yup.
- So it's just a matter of-- - Don't rush.
- Yup, just continue to work with 'em,
and they'll get good.
But anyways, there's the update on the baby rhinos.
I'm gonna go back to what I said,
I'm not talking about the most expensive,
or the most rare animals I'm producing,
just thinks that mean a lot to me.
So this is actually an Indian smooth scale sand ball,
this is essentially what they turn out like
when they're adults.
They actually are born kinda more orange,
with the little bands on their tails,
and then as they get older, they fade into this brown color.
Now I actually really do like the brown color,
don't get me wrong, but of course,
this is the sunset version, which stay nice,
and orange, and beautiful.
Now we did produce some of these a couple years ago,
but then the female took a year off.
Oftentimes with sand boas and other boas,
they will skip a year, it just depends on the species,
and so (mumbles) like that.
So the fact is, we have this male
breeding back to a sunset female again,
not to mention we're raising up some babies, too.
It's pretty exciting that we could produce
sunset, smooth scale sand boas again,
and for me, that's just exciting.
I mean, it's things that I just like,
can't wait to open up the drawer,
and see a bunch of babies!
I'm excited about these live little babies to be born,
hopefully in a few months.
Just wrapping up a really fun birthday party, hanging out
with these girls here. - See, look. (mumbles)
- [Brian] Do you guys like it?
(all girls shout yeah)
- (mumbles) Got Snazzy here,
so happy birthday to you!
I tell ya, this got increasingly difficult
when I started looking for the last ones
that I was gonna pick out,
'cause there's about a hundred animals
I went by and said, oh, I cannot wait for this one!
I cannot wait for this one!
But as I promised, I was gonna go ahead
and narrow it down to five, well in this case,
six clutches or litters that I am super excited about.
I bought my first hypo Brazilian rainbow boas
about five years ago, it just takes a while
with this particular mutation,
it's a recessive mutation, and they don't grow quite as fast
as a normal Brazilian rainbow.
If you feed 'em too much, they seem to have
some digestive issues, so we took our time,
we raised these guys up, and last year,
I put this male hypo Brazilian rainbow
with a couple females, including a het-female,
and he just wasn't ready to breed.
He showed no signs of breeding what so ever,
so we tried, and we tried, and we finally just gave up
and said I guess we're not gonna get
any hypos or het-hypo Brazilian rainbows.
Well thankfully, this year, he's much bigger.
You can see, he's got a meal in him right now,
and he has been breeding this year,
so that is really great news.
So with any luck, we will not only produce
some het-hypos, which are gonna be out-bred,
new gene pool, which will hopefully make the bloodline
even that much more stronger,
and hopefully we'll produce some hypo Brazilians, too.
Again, I think that the projects
that you work for really hard, you know,
four, five, six, sometimes eight or 10 years you work for,
those are the ones that are kinda
the most exciting to me, anyways.
So even though there is a million other animals
that I'm super excited about producing this year,
I tried to narrow it down for you guys.
Let me know in the comments, if you're breeding snakes,
what is your most anticipated litters or clutches
of the year, and if you're not,
what would you like to breed?
I'd like to know from you guys, or, and hey,
while you're down there, hit that like button,
and tell me what you're the most excited about here at BHB.
So that wraps up that part of the vlog.
Just wrapping up here at the Reptarium.
We're actually open tonight,
so I'm gonna be here for a very short period of time,
because I am traveling out to the East Coast,
to go do a collab with a couple cool YouTubers.
I'm also going to Steve at Leapin' Leachies,
I am so excited.
This guy has not only the best leachie collection,
of course, the giant geckos,
and a bunch of other really cool animals,
so it's gonna be absolutely bonkers.
So I've gotta get things wrapped up here,
we'll open up, I'll stay for maybe a half hour or so,
and then hit the road for about a nine to 10 hour drive.
(Lori laughs)
You ready? - Yes! (laughs)
- [Brian] All right, let's go. (laughs)
How are ya, hi, - [Family] Good.
- [Brian] Come on in guys!
Hi, welcome, welcome, guys, welcome!
How are you?
- Hi! - Hi, how are you?
Welcome guys, How's it going? - Hi!
- Hi!
- Hey there. - How are ya?
Hey, how are ya?
- Good! - Hi, welcome.
- Hey dude! - What's going on man?
How are ya, welcome!
- Thank you! - How are ya?
- Good! - Good, good.
Awesome, well come on in, man!
(laughs) Okay, welcome! - Hi!
- All right, so things are definitely popping off,
we got all kinds of stuff out.
We got Potato out over here,
we got the children's python over here.
(crowd talking) What is going on over here?
Perdita, of course.
- [Customer] Why is there no markings?
Why is there?
- [Brian] We got Verde out over here.
- Beautiful.
- [Customer] (mumbles) Looking.
- [Customer] We were looking at her first.
- [Brian] I'm sorry.
- [Worker] No, you're fine!
- All right!
All right, so as much as I hate to do it,
'cause I hate leaving when it's really busy,
and we're having a lot of fun,
but I do have to get on the road, 'cause again,
I've got like, a nine and a half,
almost 10 hour drive ahead of me.
So what do you say we get out
of the Reptarium, get on the road.
About an hour into this long drive,
I mean, who doesn't take a drive at five o'clock,
nine and a half or 10 hours to the other coast,
if you know what I mean.
So Noah's in the back there, you sleeping yet Noah?
- No, you keep waking me up.
- Okay, you excited?
- Uh, sure.
(Brian and Noah laugh) - All right, cool.
My buddy Cory is with me, so,
it's definitely gonna be a long drive,
but it's gonna be a good one.
And with that said, I'm just gonna go ahead,
end the vlog, wish you guys an absolutely amazing day,
tell you that I love you.
Be kind to someone, and I'll see you guys tomorrow.