- I don't have very many dream animals.
This is definitely one that I've always
dreamed about having.
I don't know, I'm so excited right now.
So excited.
Oh my god.
(technic music)
- Hey good morning everybody and welcome
to the vlog.
I didn't get much sleep last night
cause I've got this tattoo, of course.
But that's okay because I am so
full of energy right now.
I am super excited.
You know one of the things that the
reptarium has afforded me is to get
a lot of my dream animals.
I mean animals that my entire life,
I've said, "I want to eventually own
one of those."
but you know, I didn't really have an
opportunity to do that.
But now, that we have the zoo, we can
actually do it.
And literally the animal I'm getting today,
it was something that when I was three and four
years old, I used to see in books and I'd be like,
"Oh my god, they're so cool."
And every time I went to a zoo
I was excited about it.
To give you a little bit of an idea,
it's gonna go in this ken right here.
You'll notice that Speedy is not in here,
I had mentioned that we disinfected
this whole thing yesterday.
(inaudible)
So new animal is going in here, by now you guys
probably have a pretty good idea what it's gonna be.
Oh my god.
I am so excited.
We have to drive about three and a half hours
to the Cleveland area to go pick it up.
It's gonna be absolutely epic.
And you may notice that Speedy
is now over at BHB.
That's right, we had to remove Speedy from
the tortoise pen.
We disinfected the entire pen yesterday.
He's gonna be here just for a short while,
then he'll come home and live in the
backyard like he always does.
But I think he's actually enjoying
kind of cruising around.
He's been here so many times.
Several winters he spent the whole winter here.
So he knows it well.
Speedy's doing good, and I'll be honest with you
he's a little bit more personal
than Savi is over here.
We worked out the deal to get this
new animal that we're about to go get.
My buddy Jeff, the one that we worked out the deal with,
actually asked me if we could throw in
a pair of skinks.
So its a little bit of a trade.
Partial cash and partial trade.
So I'm trying to pick him out a beautiful pair
of skinks that we produced last year.
Now skinks are difficult to sex,
so I'm gonna do my absolute best to try to get him a pair.
It appears that this is actually a female northern
that is really beautiful.
So I think he's gonna really like it,
I just have to get a male and then we can hit the road.
And this is definitely a male.
Now what you can do is you can actually
avert their hemipenes, just like you will with the snake.
But it's a lot more difficult.
So we know this is a male because we averted his hemipenes.
Now we don't know if the other one is a female 100%
because I couldn't get any hemipenes out,
but it looks like it is a female.
So I'd say it's 95, 98% chance that it's a pair,
but that's just part of how we do it.
Basically what happens is when they get big enough,
we put them together and if they act like a pair
then we know they're a pair.
Eventually there will be a test to actually test these guys
so that you don't have to try to avert the hemipenes.
Regardless, beautiful male, beautiful female,
packing them up and hitting the road.
It's pretty cool because just saying good-bye to Bella
really quick and of course there's the camera
over there saying hi to all the people that are watching
on the live stream.
If you guys aren't watching the 24 hour live stream
of Bella, I'll put a link in the description.
You can literally watch my girl for 24 hours a day.
Again, we're gonna be adding more cams as we go.
Lucy, for sure, because as she's getting ready to lay eggs,
we'll definitely have an egg cam in there.
We're gonna do like live hatching cams,
we're gonna do even some live Q&A.
So anyways, make sure to subscribe to Live Reptile Cam,
I'll put a link in the description.
As for now, I'm just gonna say good-bye to my girl Bella.
Come on Bells.
When speaking of the webcam really quick of course,
the 24 hour seven Bella cam,
I do need some help with people that really understand like
OBS and how to do things.
I got some really cool ideas for Youtube
and how we can stream stuff and we can switch
camera to camera and all kinds of stuff like that.
But I don't really know anything about it
so do me a favor, down in the comments could you guys
help me if you have any idea how to work like an OBS IFTTT,
which is If This Then That.
This is what I want to try to do,
you can also email info@bhbreptiles
and I would appreciate any help.
Because I got some really cool ideas
I want to share with you guys
to make this 24 hour live cam super exciting.
So again, I am super excited.
What's kind of interesting about the things lately is that,
you know, I'm usually the one that's
going out buying tons of animals.
And Laurie's kind of saying, "That's a bad idea Brian."
And stuff like that, and lately it's kind of the opposite.
The animal we're going to pick up right now,
I kind of put the deal together in a way,
but I wasn't even sure.
As much as I want it, I was like,
"Gosh, this is kind of a lot of money, should we do this?"
And Laurie's been kind of like the one going,
"Yeah we gotta do that."
And stuff like that.
So what's changed Laurie?
- Well what's changed is,
A.) I'm business minded so my choices are made, you know,
based on that, not just wanting to have a bunch of animals,
and B.) I'm not gonna lie, this animal,
I don't have many that I really really would want.
And this just happens to be something I have always loved,
and it's near and dear to my heart
so I'm not gonna lie.
This one's kinda gonna almost be a personal pet for me.
- It's awesome.
And I feel the same way.
I mean these things are so cool,
I cannot wait to get there, see it for the first time,
and actually bring you guys along on the journey.
We've got a couple hours left of the drive,
so it shouldn't be that long of a day
because it's only a three and a half hour of a drive.
Jeff does have a bunch of other really cool reptiles too,
so we're gonna get a chance to see his collection.
See this new amazing animal, and then make our track home,
and I cannot wait to see it at the zoo.
It's gonna be so cool.
(bright piano music)
- We made it to Cleveland.
My buddy Jeff here, he has a really cool collection
of reptiles I can't wait to see.
And we get to see our new animal for the first time.
You ready Laurie?
- I'm ready.
- [Brian] Let's go!
Alright, look at this this is awesome.
Oh my god.
It is so much bigger than I was expecting.
- It is.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
That is ridiculous.
Oh my gosh.
What do you think Laurie?
- I'm in love.
I'm so excited.
- [Brian] Laurie's almost crying.
- Oh my god.
- [Brian] I've never seen you so excited.
You're crying.
- Oh my goodness, she's so cool.
- [Brian] Isn't she amazing?
Oh my gosh Laurie, now you're gonna make me cry.
Holy cow, I didn't expect that response.
- I didn't either.
- [Brian] I was kind of blown away by how big she was too.
I thought she was gonna be smaller.
So obviously, this is an Aldabra Tortoise.
Guys, this is like one of our dream animals.
Jeff, what's its name?
- Her name's Muddy.
- [Brian] Her name is Muddy.
Oh my god.
- [Jeff] She loves mud puddles.
- [Brian] She loves mud puddles, oh my gosh.
Isn't she amazing?
- Hatched in '05.
I got her in '06 as a yearling, she was about 500 grams.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Jeff] She came home in a shoe box.
- [Brian] She is beautiful.
Hi girl.
- [Laurie] She's excited too.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
Is that cool, go meet her!
- Wow.
- I'm blown away man.
That is crazy.
- [Laurie] Oh my goodness.
You are so cool.
- [Brian] The kids are gonna love Muddy.
Look at Muddy's coming out for pets.
Oh my gosh.
- She's way cooler than I even expected.
- [Brian] I didn't expect it either,
I'll be honest with you.
Now that we got that over with, we're super excited.
Let's go ahead and look at a few other reptiles,
starting with this little monkey right here.
This is actually a female Bearded Dragon
that just laid eggs.
So what a treat that's gonna be to actually take a look.
So I'm gonna give you this one back
and then let's see what kind of eggs she laid.
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- [Brian] There they are.
Look at those.
They are definitely fresh, huh?
Got two, four, six, eight.
- [Jeff] She has smaller first clutches,
then they get bigger as she goes.
Last year, her third clutch was 22 eggs.
- We're gonna start with some of the coral stuff.
I've showed you guys the coral snow stuff we're working
with, but of course these are the Ghost and Anery.
Which is kind of interesting because you still have
all of that pink, but of course you have
the Ghost will be kind of an anerythristic hypo
and of course the anerythristic which is the black corn,
which is really cool.
These things are beautiful, dude.
And they kind of started, I think, with the anery right?
And then people--
- Started with the anery. - [Brian] Exactly.
You've been working with crazy corns forever.
I used to buy corns from Jeff like 25 years ago,
or something like that.
You had the Vanishing Patterns.
- I still have a few. - You still have em.
Oh my god, that's awesome.
I showed you guys our Tessera Corns before,
there's actually something that's called a Terrazzo Corn.
And its got a similar kind of wacky pattern to it,
but this is actually the coral terrazzo.
And the Terrazzo's are recessive right?
- Correct.
- [Brian] Okay yeah, whereas the Tessera's are codominant.
But that thing is really cool.
Rosy boas are really cool.
Something that we worked with years and years ago,
and haven't worked with in a long time.
They have a bunch of different localities,
this would be the Mexican variety right here
that has that kind of almost like, black striping to it.
And then these are the Kofa Mountains
which are actually from Arizona.
And Rosy Boas are actually a live bearing snake,
but an animal like this which is basically an adult animal,
is gonna have anywhere from like 3-5 babies.
So they have really big babies,
but they're really cool kind of smaller boa
so a lot of times if you're into like the Kenyan Sand Boas
or something like that but you don't quite like
the stuff that's gonna hide.
Rosy boas can be a great option.
Jeff actually works with four different types.
Alright you said the Mexicans, the Arizona,
this would be the California, and which range is this?
- Morando Valley.
- [Brian] The Morando Valley.
Now that is absolutely incredible.
And then what's the fourth one you work with?
- Fourth one is an Albino--
- [Brian] The Albino, which is the Whitewater Albinos.
Let's take a look.
These are the Albino Whitewaters right here.
How absolutely stunning.
I remember when these were first produced.
They were crazy, there was the Whitewater,
there was the Limber ones.
And they were huge money and people just loved them
to death.
They're still really cool animals,
but now they're a little more readily available.
But again you don't see em a whole lot.
So I think that I've gotta buy some babies
from Jeff here pretty soon.
This is a really beautiful big Woma Python.
I mean just take a look at it.
Great patterning to her, you said she's like 15?
Oh my god, so you got these when they were sold big bucks?
- Oh yeah.
- The first ones that we bought,
remember we bought em back in Baltimore.
We paid $15,000 for a pair of babies from Don Hamper
and so this is basically... looks like she wants to--
- She's feisty.
- One thing about Woma Pythons, they have a
very very heavy feed response.
So we won't let you get bit.
By the way, Laurie uh... this is what you're gonna be--
- No that's your job right now.
- [Brian] My job, what?
I--
- Here you go.
(laughing)
- I don't think this is gonna work out so well.
Muddy what are you doing girl?
Really all kinds of cool stuff down here.
He's got a bunch of really cool Ball Pythons,
again a lot of Colubrid stuff.
Mentioned I've been buying corn snakes from Jeff's
for like 25 years, so it's cool to have a
collection like this.
Just really a collective,
again Colubrids, got Rosy Boas, Ball Pythons,
Woma Pythons, obviously the Bearded Dragon.
There's some Ackies over here I want to go check out.
And these guys are like little Dwarf Monitors,
these are Atkin (inaudible) right here.
And we are definitely gonna be getting some of these guys.
They are really, really beautiful.
These are Reds, you can actually get Yellows
and a few other ones.
And this is an adult animal right here,
so I think it's gonna be really good for some displays
over at the reptarium because some of the animals
like Toothless are gonna get so big we're gonna have to get
bigger and bigger caging.
But these guys can stay in something much smaller
and you can see how they love the heat.
I mean literally, that's probably 120,
130 degrees right there.
And it's just basking under it right now.
But what an absolutely amazing little Monitor lizard.
Look at these.
These, of course, are Pancake Tortoises.
What crazy little dudes.
Hey Jeff, remember like back when we were kids,
these guys were like $25 or something like that.
Now they're super hard to get, super rare.
And don't they just have like one egg at a time?
- Two at the most. - Two at the most.
So one or two eggs.
So obviously it's not a high production animal
so the fact that there's a lot of deforestation
and a bunch of stuff like that,
these guys have become pretty rare.
But what crazy little tortoises.
This is cool, you've got such a cool collection,
I love this place dude.
Now the interesting part.
How to get the tortoise up the stairs
and into the back of the vehicle.
This oughta be fun.
(peaceful music)
- Oh my lord.
She has definitely
got some weight to her.
- [Woman] Pretty good workout.
There you go girl.
- Real anxious to see how much.
- [Woman] Perfect.
- And that's it.
And that's how you move a tortoise.
Tell you what, Jeff she's more than a hundred pounds.
You told me a hundred pounds.
Glad we're not paying by the pound
because she's heavy.
Well let's go ahead and get her home,
get her to the zoo alright.
- It's like I was telling Eric this morning,
I don't have very many dream animals and
this is definitely one that I've always dreamed
about having.
So, yeah, I don't know,
I'm so excited right now.
(laughing)
- I wish you guys had smell-ivision
because she is going to town back there.
It's gonna be a long three and a half hour
drive.
- Sounds like Noah's in the backseat.
- Sounds like something was going on back there.
It didn't sound very good, I can tell you that much.
- It doesn't smell good.
- We stopped like about 20 minutes after
we left and this is what's going on.
Oh my god, it is so bad.
And there's nothing I can do,
I've actually taken small tortoises
into rest areas and washed them off
and washed the tub.
But there's nothing I can do about this.
So we have almost three hours left and
(coughing) it is unbelievable.
Oh my god, Muddy what did you do?
We just got little girl cleaned up.
She looks absolutely incredible.
She definitely was such a stinky mess.
That was the most incredible three and a half
hour ride.
Oh my gosh.
But she's all cleaned up now,
Laurie's just kind of cleaning up things outside
and then we're gonna let her kind of
do her thing, wander around,
get her in her pen, let her meet the Leopard Tortoises,
which by the way,
I talked to my buddy Kenan at Kamp Kenan.
He said that the Leopard Tortoise and these guys
should be fine, but we'll see how well things go.
And then we're just gonna play it by ear.
But oh my god,
what an adventure.
She is such a cutie,
and she's so big.
I think for now, I'm gonna let her just
crawl around and get acquainted with the place.
Just for the next maybe, half hour or 45 minutes,
something like that.
Then we'll go ahead and put her in her pen.
Cause a lot of times she's gonna actually
be out roaming around so I want her to get
familiar with her environment.
I think she's gonna absolutely love it here.
And the kids are gonna be like
over the moon about it.
Look at that animal.
Look at how incredible and how big she is.
Oh my gosh.
Maybe tomorrow we'll weigh her
cause I think she's definitely over a hundred pounds,
but who knows?
Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know.
Absolutely incredible.
This is crazy.
Laurie what do you think?
Is that awesome or what?
- She liking it?
- [Brian] I think she is,
she's just kinda hanging out you know?
Seeing things, kinda exploring.
So think I'll let her crawl around a little bit
before we put her back in, right?
- Yup.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, it's awesome.
You look beautiful girl.
And by the way, we're thinking about
maybe renaming her a little bit.
We certainly are gonna talk to Jeff
and his wife and make sure that
they're okay with it.
But Muddy isn't one of those names that
kind of catches you right?
So you're thinking...
- I think she looks like a Matilda.
- [Brian] Matilda would be a great name.
So again, we'll run it by Jeff and his wife
just to make sure that they're not upset
at us for changing her name cause
obviously for almost 15 years she's been named
Muddy.
But we just thought Matilda might be
actually a great thing.
Matilda the tortoise, it just rolls
off your tongue right?
So I think she kind of look likes a
Matilda too.
But again, we'll let you guys know.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think.
(relaxing music)
- Alright, time to go ahead and put her
in the pen and see how she does for the night.
So we'll definitely see how she's got going on.
She's heavy, you're gonna get a chance to
pick her up.
You pick her up and I'll watch ya.
- It's a two person.
(laughing)
(peaceful upbeat music)
- And there she is.
She's got plenty of space in here
for the time being.
She's doing pretty good I think.
- Yeah I think she's gonna like it.
- We're gonna definitely keep an eye
on her and the other tortoises for a
little while.
Make sure that she's okay, but
she seems to have found a corner.
The vapor ball that's right there with the
heat lamp and UV an stuff like that.
So I'll keep an eye on her for a little bit.
And I think she's gonna settle in just fine.
Well there it is guys.
They seem to be settling in good,
again I'll keep an eye on them
a little bit here.
But for the last hour or so,
they've been completely fine.
Even the little tortoises went up
and kind of sniffed around.
It's absolutely amazing.
And I'm gonna be honest with you guys,
in all the years I've been keeping animals
with Laurie, which is about 30 years,
I have never once seen her cry
when we're getting an animal.
Not even her puppy.
So that was absolutely crazy.
I just, I'm so happy that she
was so passionate about it.
What an amazing thing.
Be kind to someone and I promise
I will see you guys tomorrow.