- Guess what everyone,
we're starting the day out
with something pretty darn amazing!
This is actually a het for Granite Albino garters snake
bred to an Albino Granite garter snake
and we have a bunch of babies.
Look at all of these babies, oh my goodness gracious.
We're gonna try to see if we can get these outta here
and count them up.
It's gonna be a little bit difficult,
there's no doubt about it.
Mama don't you run away either,
ops don't you get out of here.
right now we got two, three, four.
We got Granites, we got nine Granites.
Oh boy, this is gonna be tough.
We got four, we got five, six.
Oh my gosh, I don't know if I can do this.
We got this up over seven, eight.
Whew, these are some normal hets.
This one's trying to get away, Mama's trying to get away.
Where are we at, eight?
I think we're at eight, we're at nine, 10.
Again we've got Albinos, we got Albino Granites,
we got Granites.
There's 10, there's 11, 12 little babies right now.
Oh, get in their little Monkey.
12, we've got.
Oh, look how beautiful.
13, 14, 15, 16 babies.
Oh my gosh, I should do this sooner.
16 babies so far.
You're getting away, you're getting away.
Mama's getting away.
Oh my gosh, it's absolutely chaos.
There's 16, 17, 18,
19 20, 21 babies.
Oh my goodness, 21 babies.
So that's what we have right now, 21 babies.
And there's a mix of all kinds of stuff,
Granites and normals and Albinos and Albino Granites.
That is absolutely amazing, 21 babies.
I will tell you, we've got two little babies here
that looked like they were still born.
I don't think that they're gonna make it.
I'm gonna just kind of touch them, see if they move.
Oh, this one's actually moving right here.
This one actually might just be still in the egg sack.
So we'll set it aside and hopefully it goes.
This one doesn't look like it made it,
so it looks like one so far.
And we'll just kind of go through
and see if there's any babies hiding in the bedding.
You did so good mama.
Of course we'll get this cage all cleaned up
because after they have that live birth,
they kind of have all that yuckiness that comes out too.
But it looks like that's it, looks like 21 babies.
Possibly a 22nd if this one actually hatches out.
But woo doggie, what a way to start the day.
Mama You did so good, I mean how cool is that?
Live babies, there's nothing like it that for sure.
And the thing that's crazy about garter snakes
is we can re-breed her and in about seven or eight weeks
she might have another litter.
How cool is that?
So we'll get my mom cleaned up and...
Hey, what a way to start the day.
Good morning reptile army,
I hope the starter day is amazing.
This is the American Gothic Lizard Version.
You can go to reptilearmy.com.
We're about to drop six or eight more designs
that should be later this week, early next week.
As soon as it gets here, I'm gonna go ahead and launch it.
So that should be exciting,
again all the proceeds go to education.
So go ahead to reptilearmy.com, join the movement.
Just found a tooth actually in Sunfire's enclosure.
And this just gives you an idea what the size of a tooth is,
it's actually three eighths of an inch.
Now with reticulated Pythons,
they actually have hundreds of teeth
and they actually have two rows of teeth.
And with three H long teeth, you can only imagine
why you don't want to get bit by something like that.
Unfortunately, I think that I've been bit
more times than I want to admit by reticulated Pythons.
Now thankfully, an animal this size
sometimes can bite and rip a little bit.
With females typically it is just kind of a bite and let go.
So you just get a bunch of puncture wounds,
three eighths of an inch deep and lots of them.
With males oftentimes they'll actually bite and hang on
and rip and that's when you get into stitches.
I can honestly say I am so thankful
and I hope I never experience.
I've never been bit by a male retic
that has had size on it,
So hopefully I don't.
The good news is the vast majority
of our Reticulated Pythons are dog tame.
I mean, you just do anything with them,
you can just see how beautiful Sunfire is here.
You don't have to worry about getting bit at all
but I did want to show you
just the size of that tooth right there
because it's just pretty amazing to think
that they have a mouthful of little daggers like that.
So it's just really cool and snakes are amazing
and that's the thing about it,
every single thing that I find out
about snakes throughout my entire career,
I'm just completely fascinated by.
Are you guys ready for a giant Mojave clutch?
It looks like a big Mojave female,
looks like she's got some really beautiful eggs in here.
Last time we pulled a clutch, we actually had
you guys guessing what the potential morph was.
Again, Mojave to a Calico Pin Yellow Belly.
Honestly, it's not that difficult of one.
So in the comments let me know what the combinations
you think that we could peruse from this clutch.
And we'll go ahead and get mama out here.
She looks like she's mad, mama I'm okay.
All right, we'll go ahead and get her off these eggs.
Oh, she is tight around them that's for sure.
Just slowly unwrap her a little bit
and get these eggs out of here.
Again, a beautiful clutch of eggs.
She's coming around on me gotta be careful.
Tell you what, that was a close call right there.
Look at mama.
Whoa! I told you.
It was a close call, there's no doubt about it.
She's upset, but that's a nice clutch of eggs.
We've got 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 gorgeous eggs.
Keep those guesses going
and let me know if you guys are enjoying
this kind of new game that we're doing
'cause I think it's cool,
that way you guys are learning things
and this is all about the education.
I love it, let me see how you guys do.
It is always so exciting to get baby garter Snakes
because my love of snakes and catching snakes
started with garter Snakes.
Of course, there are 35 species of garter snakes
with a bunch of different subspecies.
Here in Michigan, we actually have
like Butler's garter snakes, Eastern garter snakes.
And believe it or not in 1758 Eastern garter snakes
were the first garter snakes actually described.
So they've been around a long time
when it comes to classification.
Of course there's some debate about
how many species there are because some scientists think
that some are sub species, that's a whole nother thing.
The fact is this is actually a
Granite checkered garter snake.
So these guys are more from the plains area
and there are a ton of garter snakes all over the Americas.
As a matter of fact, they can range
all the way up into Canada,
all the way down to Costa Rica believe it or not.
And that's a lot of different ones
and these guys, again come from the plains.
And of course with the mutations of all the garter snakes,
they've really become super popular in the pet trade.
This happens to be a Plains garter snake,
again from the plains and the technical name is Radix.
So typically a lot of times
people just call these Radix garter snakes.
And they stay a little smaller
than the Checkered garter snakes.
Typically only have about 10 to 15 babies,
where the Checkered garter snakes we saw had 21 today.
We can have up to 30 babies with these guys.
But these will double clutch as well
and there's actually melanocytic ones, there's snow ones
and of course there's all kinds
of different amazing species.
And the fact is if you ever want a snake
but you don't want it to eat on rodents,
garters are a great option.
They'll eat fish, they'll eat worms and stuff like that,
so you don't have to actually feed rodents.
And like I mentioned there's so much variety
when it comes to garter snakes.
This is actually what they call a Scott's garter snake
or a Mexican garter snake
and it happens to be the largest species
of all of the fam Novas.
These guys can literally get you know, four
sometimes even up to five feet.
They're a giant garter snake.
This is a male, and a lot of garter snakes
actually are sexually dimorphic.
Just meaning that males are much smaller than females.
So, this is a pretty big male considering that
a male checkered garter snake is about half this size
and a female like I said is gonna get much larger,
really big around.
I absolutely have to get a female,
I only have a male Scots garter snake.
Have to get a female.
And really to be honest with you,
my goal is to get a bunch of different garter snakes,
'cause again that's where my love of snakes all started.
This is a great Tortoise escape.
For whatever reason, Matilda goes through periods where
she like doesn't come out hardly at all for a while
then she comes out and she's out every day
and you can't keep her in her enclosure.
Steve of course has learned how to break loose recently,
so now he's out all the time.
So, it's kind of an interesting thing here
that every time you walk in the Reptarium,
there are definitely Tortoises kinda all over the place
but I actually love it.
I think it's great that Matilda
has time to kind of walk around.
And if we do this expansion, not if.
When we do this expansion,
we're talking about doing outdoor Tortoise pens.
That way during the summertime,
they can be outside the majority of the time.
I think that will be absolutely incredible.
But for now, Matilda's just having a little walk about.
Excited, my buddy Brad
who actually does a bunch of construction is coming.
We're about to meet, we're gonna look at blueprints.
Just get an idea of the starting point.
Again, what's this gonna cost?
Is it possible?
What do I have to do to make this Reptarium
3.0 and 4.0 into actual reality.
So we're gonna go have a pretty cool meeting right now.
(indistinct chattering)
Definitely a great meeting with my buddy Brad.
Brought up all kinds of things
that I hadn't even thought about.
He's all about trying to do things
that are gonna save me money
but still make it just as grand, right?
Little things like moving things around that
aren't gonna really change the overall
but save a ton of money.
So I have such a great team between Steve, obviously Brad.
I've got my guy Tom down at Universal Rock with Stewart.
I mean, all these kinds of connections with me
are gonna make this project potentially feasible.
I'm gonna be honest with you,
there were a few days here where I thought
there's no way I could do this.
I'm starting to have more confidence
that we are gonna be able to do this.
So, today was a good day.
We still have one more meeting
with an architect here in a couple of days
then we'd come back with Brad
and now we can start actually getting some numbers down.
Oh gosh, so much to do.
But hey, we're making progress guys.
I tell you what guys, this snake is an absolute ripper.
Look at that.
That is actually an Amber Motley scaleless Corn snake.
Just take a look at this snake right here.
That thing is absolutely wonderful
and she laid a beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
Take a look at that right there.
Whoo, doggy.
I tell you what, that's what I wake up in the morning
and can't wait to see.
Nice clutches of eggs from beautiful female snakes
and this is as beautiful as it gets,
there's no doubt about that.
Mama, You did so good.
I'll get her all cleaned up,
get her some fresh water,
get her all ready to go and stuff like that.
In the meantime we'll see how many eggs she had
which is 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 beautiful eggs.
I tell you what, I think every scale is female,
we bred this year actually had fertile eggs.
That is really exciting.
Can't wait till these babies hatch out
'cause there's gonna be some absolute rippers in there.
And like I mentioned earlier, Steve is out again.
And I don't know what his deal is,
he loves to get under the stool.
I swear to you I didn't put that stool on top of him.
I don't know what it is, he must like it somehow
and when he pushes under it, he gets trapped underneath it.
This time I'm here to take it off him
but what an absolutely crazy monkey.
Got Aislynn, our animal educator here along with Jay.
Today you launch your new thing.
It's actually virtual with your reading kit.
What is the book?
- The Day Jimmy's Boa Ate The Wash.
- Oh my gosh, it's so awesome.
So we're gonna have a, how long has these last?
- These are 20 minutes.
We're doing them two times slots, every Tuesday
12 and three o'clock.
And we're gonna do them every week
throughout the summer with different books
and then we get to meet different animals.
- How cool is that?
We'll pull out an animal, it's gonna be absolutely amazing.
So if your kids are interested in 20 minutes of education,
you go to Reptarium.com
I'm excited to see how this thing goes.
(upbeat music)
I'm always saying that I need
to work more with certain types of animals
and there's no doubt that the Cribos and Indigo's
which are all dry mark on,
are an animal I definitely would love to work more with.
This is actually a Yellowtail.
Look how she's blown that throat up
in that defensive mode right now.
She's never actually bit me
but she definitely seems
like she's a little agitated right now.
But look at the color on the back end.
Now of course we work with Blacktail Cribo,
unicolor Cribo and the yellow tail Cribo.
The yellow tail Cribo are one of the biggest.
They can get up to nine foot in length, believe it or not
and are absolutely stunning but this animal is ridiculous.
And there's a ton more dry mark on, in particular
the Copper head which are the Easterns
which are the ones I really want down in Florida.
But you need a permit to actually own them
because there are on the engendered species list.
I do want to get that permit
and I do want to get some Eastern indigo's because,
holy moly! I can't even imagine what it would be like
to be working with those guys.
Just really intelligent animal, super active, really cool.
I mean, I love all of the Indigos in Cribos for sure.
Just have to show this little monkey off
'cause she is gorgeous.
and certainly another really Giant Culebra
that puffs it's neck up is this puffing snake.
And this is one that we got,
a captive little baby a while ago
It's getting pretty big and I tell you,
there is no other cool display line.
This, this is amazing.
These again will get much
like the Yellowtail Cribo, nine foot plus.
Absolutely wonderful.
We had a wild caught one that lived a few years with us
that I absolutely loved.
But this one's a captive baby,
so it should last quite a while.
Now this is a male,
so hopefully sometime I can get a captive female.
But look at that threat display right there.
I mean, that is just absolutely stunning,
and it's coming towards me now.
They got quite a big strike range too,
So you have to be a little bit careful, but wow.
I tell you what, that is one impressive snake.
And again, when this thing is eight or nine foot
and having that type of threat display.
Trust me, that is an impressive, impressive snake.
Tell you about this opening here,
this is actually from Ireland.
- Oh, Ireland
- Yes, we need to go to Ireland soon.
Just spread like a tablecloth or something.
- Oh yes.
We could always use a tablecloth.
- From Ireland.
(laughs)
- It is shirts.
These actually looked pretty good to be.
Oh, this is pretty Lorrie.
Chocolate doesn't ask silly questions,
chocolate understands.
Love it.
- And it's Very, very true.
This is for Noah and he's got a taco and a beer.
(both laugh)
That's actually good.
I love these shirts, these are amazing.
And then this is for me.
I think there's two shirts in here.
This is Brian, is me.
There's two shirts in here.
Crazy reptile dude, alright.
Alright.
What's that mean?
- [ Announcer ] Like Patty's maybe, like padidas
I don't know, right?
- Does make sense I guess.
I don't know...
(laughs)
- I guess.
- I'm not Irish, Probably makes more sense to you guys.
- Maybe a good one to wear on st. Patrick's day.
- Yeah, absolutely.
(laughs)
And then this actually really cool.
So thank you.
I really, there's more.
There's more.
Is that for you?
- There's one for me and there's one for Noah too.
They feel fragile.
- Oh, I actually broke it.
I know how much you love your yellow dots,
this is a way people can mess your dots up.
- [Announcer] Oh, your dots.
For (indistinct)
- Oh yeah, so I got a whole little thing of yellow dots.
(laughs)
That's right,
and they're not in a square so i can't mess up.
But you know what Lorrie would do, is I would be here
and Lori would take that one up there.
So that's how she'd mess it up.
- Is that what you do?
- I hate that.
- This is what you do on the vlog.
- [Announcer] We did a 15 minute piece about it.
- An entire vlog was about you messing my dots up.
Hope you enjoyed today's video.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day reptile army.
Remember, be kind to someone
and I promise I'll see you in the next.