- Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
Today, we're gonna get started
with feeding some of the big snakes.
But we're gonna switch it up
and we're gonna feed pigs today.
I always talk about how I like to switch things up.
I don't wanna feed just one thing.
I'll feed rats.
I'll feed frozen rabbits.
Sometimes I'll feed pigs
They all have, like, different nutritional values.
So we're gonna start with my girl Butterscotch,
who is always very, very energetic.
So let's see what she's gonna do.
It's gonna a big meal for her,
but I think she's gonna like it.
Here she goes.
Come on!
Come on, girl!
Come on!
Here she comes.
Whoa!
Come on, girl.
Ready? Ready?
Here we go.
(Brian grunts)
She got it.
There she is.
(Brian pants)
I tell you what, that snake is one beautiful snake
right there, but it's also a handful.
You never know what's gonna happen with her, you know.
I like to, kind of train her to come out like that
because when we're open to the public
we get that kind of really cool show.
So unfortunately, because I've encouraged that behavior,
it's always a challenge to feed her,
but we're gonna go around and feed
as many of the animals that wanna eat pigs.
We're gonna feed a bunch of other stuff, too.
Not to mention, we're gonna check on eggs.
A whole bunch of busy work today.
So let's just go ahead and push our problems aside
for the next 15 minutes and have a wonderful time together.
I'm not sure if Perdita and Night Fury
have actually ever had pigs, so this is the first time.
Hopefully, they're gonna want 'em.
We'll have to see what happens.
Come on, Perdita, you wanna try?
Wanna try, girl?
Yeah?
Let's see what she does.
Again, now different smells sometimes
can be a little bit tricky for them.
There she goes. She took it.
Okay, that's a nice, big meal for her, too, so that's great.
So I'm gonna try to get Night Fury here in a minute, too.
Again, that first time, you know,
the smell can just be a little bit like, you know,
they don't know what they're doing,
so they're like, "I'm not sure if I want this or not,"
but I'm glad to see that Perdita took it.
Again, just different nutritional content, you know.
They're gonna be higher in fat.
They're gonna be this, they're gonna be that.
And it's just good to have variety, right?
I wouldn't wanna feed pigs all the time,
but I think it's a good variety.
And the reason I don't wanna feed pigs all the time
is that, unfortunately, oftentimes
it's a little more stinky on the way out,
to be totally honest with you.
But every now and then, why not give it a shot?
And, by the way, look at Beetlejuice
looking absolutely amazing today.
Beetlejuice is incredible.
He probably wants a little pig, too. (laughs)
Time for my daily check-up with Ball Pythons.
Obviously, I'm just checking for what I can start breeding.
I've gotta check for eggs, check for sheds because,
of course, the females that are shedding, that are ovulated
are 30 days away from laying, so we mark
down the sheds so that we have an idea of
when we can start looking for eggs.
So fingers crossed we'll get some more eggs.
Again, the season really starts picking up
about two weeks from now, but
we're getting the sporadic clutches,
so let's just go ahead, do our due diligence today,
and go through and check a bunch of Ball Pythons.
(relaxed music)
Come here, check this out.
Sure enough we got our first
clutch of Ball Pythons for the day.
It looks like, oh looks like one little slugger right here,
'course it's a pinstriped female,
we'll go ahead and get a box set up,
we'll pull these eggs.
That's what it's all about.
It's cool that it's heating up,
and like I mentioned, a couple weeks from now
we're gonna be getting multiple clutches a day,
but so far it's just one clutch.
Let's set this egg box up.
But before we pull that clutch of eggs,
I actually wanna show you the male that it was bred to,
this is a beauty here,
this is actually a Silver Streak Pinstripe Woma Ball Python,
so there's a lot going on.
It's a super pastel, it's a cinnamon,
it's a bamboo, and it's a Woma,
and then of course it's bred to a pinstripe,
so there's a lot of potential combinations there.
This is a beautiful male.
I can't wait till these guys hatch.
Let's go ahead and pull that clutch.
Back to our female here, and she's actually pretty loose,
oh, but boy, she is fired up right now.
It's okay, mama, I'm just gonna take your eggs.
I know, I know you're a good mama
and you're just trying to protect 'em, I get it.
Good job, girl.
Definitely not a big clutch
but again its not a big female either.
Like I'd mentioned, another little slugger here
so this is only the second infertile egg
that we've had so far out of the first five clutches,
not bad, but this is definitely one of the smaller clutches,
of eggs that we're probably gonna get.
And it's okay, mom, I promise things are gonna be okay,
I'll take care of your eggs, mama, I promise you.
Okay, it's okay girl, slow down, slow down.
All right, so we're just gonna go ahead, pull these out.
They were all stuck together, but these are pretty fresh.
You can actually feel, boy, they almost have
like a little bit of moisture on 'em from being laid.
Here in another couple hours
they actually harden up quite a bit more,
and they actually are stuck together even more,
but mom, you did a great job, I know you're upset right now,
but like I've mentioned in the past
it's better to take the eggs away for two reasons.
Number one, we have a higher hatch rate,
number two, this female we can clean her up,
get her back onto food.
As a matter of fact, the first four females
that laid eggs have already started to feed.
If she was wrapped around those eggs
she wouldn't eat for, like, 60 days.
So we'll get this girl feeding again,
get her all beefed back up and now she'll be happy
and again in 57, 58 days, we'll be able
to cut this clutch of eggs and see what the combination is.
With only four eggs we have a lot of potential,
but that's awesome, at least one clutch of eggs today.
(air whooshing)
Hey Daisy, you want something, girl?
Here you go, baby.
Ah, there she took it right away.
Woo, I think she likes it.
And like I was mentioning, some animals
just don't like the smell as much.
Now, Sunrise has actually eaten a couple little pigs before,
but today she was not interested at all.
She wouldn't strike at it, so I just went ahead
and laid it in the cage and she crawled up to it
and is now eating it, so that's awesome.
So again, just different reactions.
I wanted to feed Casper but he's going into shed,
'cause he loves pig, so we gotta miss out on him,
but I'm super happy that Sunrise is gonna eat
and have a good meal as well.
We have plenty of animals that aren't large enough
to eat pigs here today, so we're gonna be feeding everything
like Ace, the D'Albertis python, here.
Come on, bud.
There it is.
That's right.
So he's doing well.
And you know, I always tell people,
I don't take any enjoyment out of feeding animals.
I've said this a million times.
You know, whether it's a pig, a rat, a mouse,
whatever, I don't enjoy that.
I do enjoy feeding snakes, and I love feeding snakes,
but I don't like the fact that
we have to feed off other animals.
But it's just kinda part of it,
so I just don't want you guys to think
that when I get excited when I see an animal like Ace
or any of the other animals eating the pigs today,
that I somehow am taking some pleasure in it,
because that's not the case at all.
Yes, I'm happy they're eating,
but I wish they could eat something that was manufactured.
In a perfect world we wouldn't have
to feed another animal off, so I just wanted you guys
to understand that it's not something that I take joy in,
but I do love seeing my snakes eat.
Gunfire is definitely been searching and hunting
the last little bit, so I know she's hungry.
Come on girl, there ya are.
What a pretty snake.
Weirdly enough she only likes rat.
So I've tried rabbits, I've tried little pigs.
She's just a picky animal, much like Lucy.
She just likes rats, so eventually
when she does kinda graduate to that larger meal
she's gonna grow a lot quicker for sure,
but right now we just have to give her a few rats a week.
Course, my guy Crackle here is always happy to eat.
Whoa, Crackle, calm down, calm down, calm down.
(air whooshing)
Whoa!
It's okay, okay.
There ya go, buddy.
(laughs) Hopefully Snap and Pop
will eat here pretty soon too.
They still are adjusting to their cage.
A matter of fact, I think Snap and Pop
are the only two animals that we moved over to the Reptarium
that are officially still not eating, so
fingers crossed we'll get those guys to feed today.
Another thing I was thinking about is that and Lori's like,
"No Brian, no more," is that
you know we're doing the virtual tours,
which have been really great, thank you guys,
we're also doing the virtual shout-outs
that we're doing a bunch a day too.
And I thought maybe we do a miniature one,
you know, because obviously
the virtual tours are an hour long.
It's a lot for everybody, including the people
that are watching, so I thought
about launching maybe these like
five minute tours where it's like one animal,
like, "Hey, I wanna spend five minutes
"talking about Perdita.
"I wanna spend five minutes talking about Sunrise."
Or whatever the case may be.
Let me know what you think about it.
Like I said, Lori's like, "I can't handle another thing,"
but I'm just trying to figure out
how we can adapt to this new thing.
So let me know in the comments,
should I do that, like a five minute thing
that would be really you know, cheap, 15 bucks,
something, I don't know, something in that range,
so let me know what you guys think about it,
and if you do maybe we'll get that rolling too.
I always say when it comes to business
there's always a million things
that people don't actually see that you have to do.
We just got Sani-Chips in, of course the bedding
that we use for all the colubrids and stuff like that.
So we store these in the basement,
so we have to get the whole crew together
and get all of these downstairs and stacked up.
And mission accomplished.
Good job, guys! (Brian laughing)
Way to go! Teamwork!
Teamwork makes the dream work, guys.
Good job - That's right.
♪ What's gonna work ♪
(air whooshing)
So Bruce said Avasuco just walking around
and he was actually working on Argumus Prime's cage
and it looks like Avasuco decided
that she wants to spend a little time with Argumus Prime.
So Avasuco, what are you doing you silly monkey?
What are you doing, you silly monkey?
What are you doing, silly girl?
You just hangin' out in Argumus Prime's cage?
You're okay, baby.
She seems super defensive right now.
What's your problem girl? Are you okay?
I wonder if she smells Argumus is kinda like,
freaking out or something like that.
Come on girl, you're okay.
Come on out.
Come on out, come one.
You're okay sweetie.
You're all right.
Come one.
That's a good girl.
You're okay.
What a silly monkey.
Next up is my guy Night Fury and I know he's been hungry,
'cause the last couple days every time I've been around him,
he's actually been lunging out at me, super tame animal.
But shed out and he's just full of hunger right now.
Come on buddy.
Come on, come on.
You're way up there, that's not gonna help me out.
Come on.
Okay, (laughs) silly monkey.
I tell you what, that thing is so beautiful
and this is gonna put a nice lump in him, again amazing.
So Night Fury took a pig for the first time, too.
That's pretty awesome.
Nantz, what's going on bud?
Oh yeah.
He hit that hard.
He was ready to eat.
Aw, he definitely loved the pig for sure.
I think this is actually his second little pig
that we gave him, so he already knew
the smell a little bit and he just crushed it.
Al's been eating rats like crazy,
but I'm gonna try him on a pig.
Just see what happens.
I have no idea if he's gonna like it or not,
but we're gonna give it a shot.
Al, you wanna try?
Al, you wanna try the pig?
He seems like he's interested.
Oh yeah, he's interested.
Oh man!
He took that thing quick!
Sometimes that's what happens, too.
You know, you get a snake that just loves
a particular smell and he's usually really gentle.
This time he just crushed it and coiled it.
I mean, that was pretty impressive, for sure.
And that's gonna put a nice lump in him
and make him look amazing.
Got a quick unboxing here, John Kramer from Dayton, Ohio.
It says fragile extinct animals inside.D
Do you think it's fossils?
- You know I don't ever know--
- Or do you think it's actually--
- I don't ever know what's here.
- Or do you think he killed the last black rhino,
and sent it in a box?
"Congratulations on officially opening the reptile expansion
"I've been a fan since the snake bite stage.
Please accept a one-of-a-kind wine rock.
"I sell them online and occasionally at art shows.
- What?
Wine?
- It's a wine rock.
(paper crinkling)
Oh, so it's a wine thing holder.
Oh my gosh, so these are rocks for, that's cool!
- [Lori] Okay.
- All right, so the instructions,
there's actually instructions to this.
So it's the same thing as the balancing thing, right?
Where you put the rock here
- Yeah, this is actually-- - And then you balance it.
- The best part, I think.
- What is it?
Is it wine? (Lori laughing)
- I think it's a bottle to go in the rack.
- So again, there's instructions to this
and everything with that, so that's awesome.
- So, ooh! - Okay
- Looks good.
- So it goes on like this. - So what?
- It goes like this right?
- [Lori] Oh.
- [Brian] There it goes, like that.
- Oh, that is so cool!
- And look at, do you see the little fossils?
- [Lori] Oh, those are fossils on it!
- [Brian] It's like little fossils in there.
- Okay, that is way cooler than I was thinking.
(Lori laughing)
- You were thinking it's just a rock.
- I'm not gonna lie, I was like, "Oh, cool."
(Brian and Lori laughing)
- Oh my gosh, no, it's like that with fossils.
- [Lori] This is way cooler!
(Lori laughing)
- I like it.
Thank you so much, that's awesome!
Love you man, I appreciate ya.
(air whooshing)
Guys, I'm not gonna lie, the one animal out of everything
I'm the most freaked out about is this right here.
(Brian yells) (dramatic music)
- Oh my gosh!
That was, oh my God, those are little silver fish.
My heart is racing.
So when I was a kid I used to live in my ma's basement
with all my snakes, and we used to have those.
Sometimes they would crawl on our bed
and I've only seen a couple here at BHB or Reptarium.
(Brian sighs)
Okay, I gotta calm down.
So I think I caught it.
I'm just gonna let that thing go outside.
I don't want it in this building.
Oh my God, that thing is freaky.
Time to come inside with Snap and Pop and just see,
of course they're together,
so I'm gonna offer one at a time.
I have no idea if they're gonna eat or not.
Interested for sure, there he goes.
There it is.
There's the one.
That's actually Snap.
What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try to get him
to just kinda come out over here,
and move him all the way down over here on that ledge there.
Let him go over there and then we're gonna see if
this guy wants to come up here, oh.
There it goes.
All right!
Woohoo!
They're both eating!
That is absolutely awesome!
So we got Snap down over here,
Pop over here, both crushing food.
So I'm gonna keep a close eye on these guys,
not only when they're eating now to keep 'em separated,
but afterwards because they're gonna have
the smell of rodent on their coils,
we gotta make sure that they don't
actually try to eat each other.
So we'll keep an eye on 'em
for the next few hours, but that's awesome.
Now officially every animal at the Reptarium is feeding.
I absolutely love Geoffrey, the Hypo Granite Burmese Python.
I mean this snake is ridiculous.
(air whooshing)
(chuckles) He got it good.
So that is just one gorgeous animal.
And for those of you who that don't know,
we actually called him Geoffrey 'cause we thought
he looked like Geoffrey the Giraffe,
with his pattern a little bit.
So he's just a beautiful snake
and only gonna get better as he gets older.
Next up is El Toro.
El Toro, of course, is a bullsnake.
And usually this guy is a pretty aggressive feeder
so we'll see what happens.
Come on buddy, there it is.
There it is, it took it.
Tell you what, bullsnakes are absolutely incredible animals.
They're super, super dope, I mean they're really cool.
And El Toro is gonna get much much bigger than this, so
it's a cool snake.
I can't wait till we're opened back up
so people can actually get to know El Toro,
'cause it's just such a cool snake.
(relaxed music)
It's always good to have all my snake-ies eat,
that's for sure, and of course we didn't feed Ivy
'cause she just had an absolutely huge meal.
We'll probably feed her next week.
If you enjoyed this, here's a playlist
of feeding a bunch of snakes.
I hope that you'll enjoy that.
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I appreciate that.
Have an absolutely wonderful day.
Remember, be kind to someone.
And I promise I 'll see you guys tomorrow.