- Hey good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope this start of your day is absolutely amazing.
We have a pretty busy day here at the Reptarium
and over at BHB.
One of the things I need to do
is I wanna finish these gator tanks.
We finally got the glass to prepare these holes
that are in here, right there.
We have to basically clean this up, silicone those down,
get those ready.
We also have to kinda finish all the fittings
to get the tanks ready,
so that hopefully tomorrow we can actually
get the alligators in there full time.
Also we have a little seaming issue right here that we have
to just patch up,
Lori is really good on that,
so I'm gonna have her do that, and I don't,
regardless, the whole day
is gonna be absolutely epic.
And we're gonna have a great day together.
I'm not gonna talk anymore
because we just have to jump right in to get to work.
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We are literally just a couple weeks away
from starting to breed ball pythons again.
I'm going through and just kind of weighing some of our
animals that might be able to breed later,
these guys won't be ready in two weeks,
but maybe like January, or something like that.
Now a female like this Super Enchi here,
we want to be at least 1200 grams
before we start breeding her.
Thinking that we want 1500 grams for a female
by the time she lays eggs so,
if she's at 1200 eating well, she can probably get to 1500
while we're actually feeding and breeding her.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and put her on a scale
see where we're at.
Right now she's at 1116 grams,
so she's getting pretty close,
we have less than 100 grams to get her up to size,
and then we can actually start putting her with males.
Again, only if she's eating good,
'cause we really don't want a 1200 gram female producing,
again what I always say is 1500 grams is the minimum
you want a female to lay eggs,
males can breed at about five to 600 grams,
so what we're gonna do is just go through
all of our animals that we're raising up,
and just kinda give them a little bit of a way,
get an idea, again, 1100 grams on this girl
means that we're not that far off,
we'll probably be able to breed her later this year,
but some animals may stay a little bit smaller,
and we might have to skip 'til next year.
It's just a good way to kinda continue to monitor
their growth and stuff like that,
so just gonna weigh a whole bunch of snakes,
see what could potentially get ready for later this year,
so I can kinda plan my breeding schemes based around
what I think will potentially be able to breed.
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Really excited to see if this girl
is gonna make it up to size,
she's still on the small side,
but she's a calendar, a Calico Spider,
unbelievably gorgeous.
Let's go ahead and see what she has right now,
she's getting close, she's at 1,072.
So again really only 120, 130 grams away
from potentially breeding this year,
so she's been feeding good,
I have a good feeling she might be able
to go later this year.
- Dixie's still sort of being a little nervous,
but honestly, Diddy's almost getting to the point
where he's just like Bella.
Do you want to come down and say hi?
You wanna say hi?
Come here, wanna say hi, come here.
Good boy.
What a good boy,
yeah right to the shoulder as always,
yeah he's a sweet little boy, I love him,
he's such a cutie,
so usually what I always do is I always like to walk around
and do a couple of little chores here and there,
and they're obviously away from all the other animals.
But like to get some stuff done
while he's on my shoulder like this,
so one day we can let everybody
get a chance just like we do here.
We also want to work on Dixie con,
so Dixie up there as you can see,
she's still really nervous,
she's still a little scared of us.
But the cool thing is,
is actually if I sit around long enough
with him on my shoulder just like right now,
she'll actually get a little jealous,
and she'll just be like oh okay so what's going on out here,
are you feeding him and not me?
So then, so we kind of use that little bit of that jealousy
that she gets over him getting attention and not her,
and actually utilize that to our benefit.
She comes down, she'll get right to this edge sometimes,
and we'll just pet her, and love on her,
and stuff like that, just like we did with Diddy,
just a different method because she's a different animal,
different personality.
- [Man] What's going on Bruce?
- I have no idea, what are you doing Diddy?
He's like I don't want to go back in.
(laughs)
Oh my gosh dude, I've gotta get back to work,
oh speak of the devil, look who's coming down.
Getting jealous.
What do you think we're doing out here buddy?
Huh?
Jealous little buddy, come on, come on, wanna say hi?
There you go, there you go.
Good girl, oh look at you giving me kisses.
What a sweet girl.
Come here, wanna come here?
A little attention goes a long way.
Trying not to make too many sudden moves
'cause I don't want to scare her.
Good girl.
Maybe.
Look at that I mean two weeks ago this one
was just freaking out,
I mean like there was no way
you could even touch her like that,
and now she's kinda like all right I see what you're doing.
- I'll tell you what guys I have a group of these animals
that are getting up to size,
and you're probably thinking like,
Brian it looks like, kinda like a normal ball python,
but these are actually het,
what I call white sprinkles,
it's a brand new project,
I'm not gonna say a whole lot about it,
but I hope some of these females get up to size.
Let's see what we got here, oh she's gonna be,
aw she's at almost 1300 grams, 1275.
Ao she's already in that kind of area where I think that
we can start breeding her right along with the adults,
thinking that she'll probably put two to 300 grams on
during the breeding season and get well over 1500 grams.
I'll tell you what if this thing is recessive
it's gonna be awesome,
I'll keep you guys up to date on how this project goes.
The other one I was really excited about this Albino Cynnie,
I love these guys, and I have a feeling
she's gonna be pretty close.
Yep, already 1323 grams,
so again, once they hit about that 1200 to 1300 gram mark,
I feel pretty good about putting 'em
in the cycle right away,
knowing that they're gonna probably eat really well
because once you start breeding a male to a female,
often times it kicks that female into like heavy food mode,
so a lot of these animals are really close,
I wasn't expecting it,
I thought we'd might have to put it off 'til January,
but it looks like it might be
a really good breeding season this year.
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- Oh what's happenin'?
- [Brian] You excited Colubrids are going in hibernation?
- You know excited, I know I say this,
but I'm sad, you know, I'm gonna miss 'em.
- It's sad to see 'em go right?
- To see 'em go.
- [Brian] I know, but they'll be back in a few months.
- Yep. - It'll be a little bit
of a break on other things,
I was gonna ask you, you know,
I've worked with Colubrids forever but,
they've been outta food for what,
three and a half weeks, something like that?
- Somewhere around there, yeah, for sure.
- [Brian] Do you think they're kind of going into dorms
or are they still hungry?
- They're definitely,
some of 'em are ready to go, you know, they sit there,
you open it up, it's almost like they're already asleep,
but other ones, not so much.
You open it up, and they want food really bad.
- [Brian] Show me what you mean.
- Yeah, so like this one here,
you know we'll take a look, obviously,
it's, you know, a Brooks King, it's absolutely crazy,
it's gonna try and eat me right now,
see I'm pressing his face there,
- Oh my god. - It just still wants food,
but you see the size of this animal.
- [Brian] Right.
- It's time to take him off food.
He's squeezing me pretty tight,
he's just waiting, any second now.
- Oh my gosh, that's crazy.
I remember when I was doing Colubrids, that's how it was,
it was like when it was just before hibernation,
you had some animals that were dormant,
and other ones were just like I'm gonna eat you,
gimme food right now. - Yes.
- [Brian] You can see he's definitely like--
- He's cruisin' for a bruisin'
(Brian laughs)
That's for sure.
- [Brian] That's awesome, well cool.
Well they'll be down and we'll go from there, man.
- Awesome.
- [Brian] Did we revamp already?
- No we did not revamp yet,
we still have to do that so I told Mary wash plenty of tubs.
- It's been awhile since we actually updated you guys
on the little Leachie geckos that we got,
I don't know awhile ago,
oh my god, she's got huge!
- It's a boy too. - This is a boy?
- Yeah. - Well that's actually
good though. - We have a lot of boys
now though. - Oh we have a lot of boys?
- We've got four, and two girls.
- [Brian] Oh that's it?
Oh my gosh.
- So we need to get another girl at least,
I think. - Yeah.
This'll be good though for Big Bertha probably, right?
- Yeah, yeah,
I think he looks really good, and then we've got another,
the female that we've got looks good for Reptar over there.
- [Brian] Oh perfect.
Yeah, 'cause this one looks almost like Big Bertha
- Yeah, it doesn't have as much
like spotting and snow flaking.
- [Brian] Exactly, that'll be a good pairing,
and that is awesome.
I can't believe--
- He's getting huge isn't it?
- I cannot believe how big he's gotten.
I didn't know it was a boy,
but hey that's all right.
- I didn't either, it was supposed to be a girl.
- It was supposed to be a girl, oh.
- I was like oh you're not actually a girl.
- Aw that's too bad, but that's all right.
And that's how it goes,
especially with geckos, sometimes it's hard
when they're babies,
and then as they get a little bit bigger,
it's easier to tell, so.
- These are the two tiny ones that we got.
- [Brian] Oh these were the little tiny babies,
aw they're cool looking though.
- Yeah.
- [Brian] So that's a girl there?
- [Woman] This is the female, yep,
and then this one I'm pretty sure is another male
- [Brian] Oh okay gotcha, oh my gosh.
- But they're gonna be really cool,
this one's got a lot of nice like lavender color around it.
- [Brian] Yeah it's got all of that, yeah,
like pinks, and lavenders.
- [Woman] This one too yeah.
- Yeah these are really nice. - I think this'll come out
a little more when-- - Like you said,
these look more like Reptar, you know,
more like that, whereas the other
looks more like Big Bertha so.
That's awesome but they look great, and they're fantastic,
and then this is the last boy.
- [Woman] Yep.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, yeah he's got that same thing too,
these almost look like those Boyce Islands,
or whatever, right? - Yep that's what they are.
- Oh that's what they are, okay, gotcha, yeah,
'cause that insular island is a little bit smaller,
a little bit more like slender and long.
And then they have kinda color,
that pastel color to 'em, so,
wow those things are awesome, so,
it's good to see 'em.
I literally haven't checked up on these guys for awhile,
so, you guys and me are seeing 'em at the same time.
Just heard that Lori wants to see me in the basement,
I have no idea what it's about.
Hopefully I'm not in trouble,
I don't know what this is gonna be about.
- What are these?
- [Brian] What are those?
Those are snakes.
- Um hmm, where did those come from?
- [Brian] These are Viper boas, aren't they awesome?
- [Lori] Where did they come from?
- [Brian] Miguel sent them to us
from Always Evolving Pythons, aren't they cute?
- No they're not, why?
- [Brian] Don't they remind you
of like the Solomon Island Boas
we used to have when we were young?
- That's not a good memory.
- [Brian] What's not a good memory about it?
- Solomon boas?
- [Brian] Why what's the matter?
- What is the matter?
They're crappy animals that don't do good.
So yeah that's a great memory. - What are you talking about
crappy animals?
They're not crappy animals (laughs)
- Yeah this isn't what we talked about,
we talked about ball pythons.
- [Brian] They're actually cool, did you see 'em?
Did you look through some of 'em?
Look at how awesome they look.
- Awesome.
- [Brian] You know, actually look at this one right here,
I think you'll like this one, look at that woo, pretty.
We're gonna have all kinds of baby viper boas,
this is gonna be the biggest viper boa
breeding project ever.
(laughs)
- This has disaster written all over it.
- [Brian] I know you're gonna warm up to 'em,
you're gonna love 'em.
Is that all you needed from me?
- (scoffs) Apparently.
- Okay, thank you.
Okay, well I didn't get into too much trouble there,
so, I wasn't sure what that was about,
but it went, it went pretty well.
The last thing I have to do
as far as the filtration goes there,
these are the tubes that are the intake,
and the outtake tubes.
Basically they have a little threaded thing here,
that I'll put some pipe tape on,
actually screw this on here.
Then I have to cement this onto this, this onto this
and then this cements right to the bulkhead
and then ultimately this just plugs
right into my flue of a filter that's right over here so,
relatively simple but you wanna make sure that this is
all sealed good, you don't want any leaks,
so just get this done,
then we can put the glass pieces in to seal the new hole,
let that cure for 24 hours, and then we can start adding
water and alligators.
Hey guys, what's goin' on? - Number two, Eric.
- Was it shower, or a show, or?
- Really depends on where you're from.
- Yeah that's true.
- [Brian] Hey guys I just wanted to stop you really quick.
- Oh yeah? - Honestly--
- What's up? - You guys have been working
super hard lately.
- Thank you so much - I really appreciate it,
I just wanted to tell you guys thank you.
- You're welcome.
- Yeah, just keep working hard,
'cause I know we got a ton to do.
- That's true.
- So I wanted to let you guys know I appreciate it,
so just keep up the hard work, okay?
- There's work, and there's playing
- Are there bonuses coming?
- [Brian] If you guys keep working hard okay?
- Lets go.
- Good job guys, thanks guys.
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(tense music)
- [Guy] I'm hit in the head.
(Brian exclaims)
(Bruce yells)
- [Brian] Watch out Kelsey, you will get shot.
(Brian exclaims)
Ow!
(suspenseful music)
- [Man] We're gonna get all the way over there.
- [Bruce] All right a truce.
Truce man.
(tense music)
(laughing) - Gotcha.
(man grunts)
(men yelling)
- [Brian] Okay, I give up,
I surrender, I surrender. - Hold out your white flags.
- [Brian] Oh here, here, here, I'm surrendering right now.
I'll never surrender.
- Hey get over.
I'm gonna blow her head off if you don't drop the gun.
- You let her go.
- I won't do it.
- I swear to God. - I'm gonna do it.
- I'll shoot before you can.
She won't mind this.
- Help.
(Brian yelling)
(Brian laughs)
(upbeat music)
- Eric, you hear that?
- Dude I think it's your dad.
- Hide the guns.
(whistling)
- [Brian] Hey guys still working hard?
- Oh yeah, harder than ever.
- [Bruce] Yeah, working hard.
- Why are you guys so sweaty?
- Oh just working hard for you,
you know we gotta earn this money.
- What's on your face dude?
- Oh, I've been spot cleaning snake poop.
- All right, well you guys
just keep up the good work I guess.
- Yep.
- All right, so now all I have to do is actually
silicon this glass down.
What I'm gonna do is, I'm gonna make a good bead
right around the outside edges right?
So that there's a nice seal right here
and the way to the water
and the rocks, and everything else like that,
is just gonna help this kinda
continue to seal up really well,
but again you want a nice seal all the way around the edge.
And then I'll just kinda fill in some areas here,
just to seal it all 100%.
Then ultimately, I'll just flip this upside down,
and then I'm gonna put a little weight on it,
keep it weighted down,
and that should pretty much seal this thing up 100%.
I'll do this on the rest of 'em.
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And with any luck,
these guys'll dry up, seal itself really good,
and again the weight of the water, the gravel,
and everything like that,
should be good to go, give 'em 24 hours,
tomorrow we can actually put gravel back in here,
water in here, clean it up,
do everything the last minute, get it all set to go,
and then hopefully by tomorrow afternoon we can actually
have gators in here which is gonna be absolutely amazing,
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