- [Brian] It's a bunch of little,
gorgeous banana ball pythons.
Guess what?
Right now, I am watching Bella.
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Good morning, everybody and welcome to The VLOG.
From my girl, Bella and me,
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Today is pretty awesome, I'm not gonna lie to you.
It's been something I've been working on
ever since we opened up The Reptarium.
We are gonna have a 24 hour live cam in Bella's cage.
That's right.
That's the first cage that we're gonna do
and if everything goes well,
we'll probably put like 12 maybe even 15 live cams
where you can watch your favorite animals
at The Reptarium all day and all night.
We still have some bugs to work out.
I'm not gonna lie about it,
but Bella is my trial animal
and with any luck, by the end of today,
we might be streaming Bella 24 hours a day
or at least trying to.
Probably gonna have to work some bugs out,
but we're gonna give it our best shot.
So, what do you think Bella?
You're gonna be a star.
People are gonna watch you all the time.
So if you guys are interested in that,
also let me know
what other animals at The Reptarium
you would like to watch
all night long if you want to.
I think Bella's just going to be the perfect one,
because it's a nice, big cage, number one.
And she does move around quite a bit.
Originally, I was thinking maybe Lucy,
but Lucy doesn't move around that much.
So, as a trial, we're gonna go with Bella.
On top of that,
I actually have a really cool shipment of snakes
that is coming in, that Lori ordered.
So, we're gonna be unboxing that.
It's gonna be an epic day.
Alright guys, we are gonna do a quick unboxing here.
Lori ordered some snakes.
I don't know what she ordered,
but I know she's always doing a good job of it.
So, this is my exciting time to open.
I think I'm gonna actually get some help on this.
Because, you know I always do unboxing,
where I'm unboxing everything.
Why not bring the crew into it, right?
So maybe I'll get Eric and Noah to unbox a little bit.
Lori, I don't know, get their reactions.
Might be kinda interesting.
But as for now,
I've got two boxes in here,
full of snakes.
And let me tell you what,
they are pretty heavy boxes,
so I don't know
if maybe Lori bought them by the pound or not.
No, I'm sure she didn't.
Regardless, let's go ahead
and see what is in these boxes.
Okay, what do we have here?
Now I know what's going on with some of this stuff,
because now I know who they came from.
And as soon as I know who they come from
I get an idea of what she's getting.
Again, it's kinda cool
that we're kinda restocking some things.
Because, again, you know,
during the winter months, we get low on stuff.
You guys know that we're just a little bit away
from eggs right now,
which is super exciting.
But that means we don't have a lot for sale.
Anyway, the first bag
is a bunch of little, gorgeous banana ball pythons.
I mean, hoo doggie!
We can always use banana ball pythons.
People every day are calling us up
like "When are you gonna get bananas in?"
So, I guess the answer is now.
Of course, we'll set these up,
get a couple of meals into them
before they go on the website.
But, wow.
These things are gorgeous.
And you can start to see, a few of them
are even getting a little bit of their black freckling in.
And that's something that happens with bananas.
When they're born, they have no freckling
and then as they get older,
they get some freckling.
A little bit like Prettia,
but not quite as extreme of course.
Next bag, what do we have here?
Oh, they're pretty little monkeys,
that's for sure.
Of course we have two things in here.
We have banana spiders
and then right here we have a pastel G.H.I.
I tell you what,
with all the controversy with the spiders,
I guess Lori didn't seem to really be concerned about it.
And the truth is,
they are really truly amazing animals.
I mean, the banana spider stuff is gorgeous.
And certainly, so is the pastel G.H.I.
I mean, just look at the blushing
and busy pattern on that.
And of course, that's what the G.H.I does.
It makes things really busy patterned.
That's gorgeous.
Breeding this into a bunch of different other mutations,
hoo doggie, I love this combo.
And the last bag that I'm gonna actually unbag
before bringing on some help doing this
are these guys here.
Hoo!
These are nice.
And of course these are banana enchi ball pythons.
Hoo doggie.
These things are ridiculous.
Again, that banana and enchi really go together beautifully.
It just kind of cleans things up,
makes the pattern a little bit different.
And then that enchi brightens it up too.
So, wow, we have some beautiful snakes that Lori ordered.
Let's go ahead and grab someone else
and they can unbag a few of these things.
Okay, back to The Reptarium,
my buddy's going to be showing up any time
to start working on Bella's cage
as far as the 24 hour webcam.
Again, I thought animals like Lucy might be interesting,
because when she does move,
I think it'd be incredible
and the truth is that at night,
she moves a lot and I don't know what it's like.
To be able to watch her at night
might be really, really cool.
I thought Bowser as well.
Because I know Bowser moves around.
Not to mention, people ask me all the time,
"How long is it that he can hold his breath?"
Well, if you could actually watch, you could tell me
because, I'll be honest, sometimes,
I watch him for hours and hours
and he never comes up.
I mean there's so many options, you know.
Nova would be really cool,
because Nova, look at Nova,
he's always kinda running around being cool.
I don't know, Tazzie.
Again, the alligators.
I mean, I don't know, let me know in the comments
which animals you'd like to see
or which ones you would actually watch.
- Here we go, now this is our first time
that we've ever been able to unbox these animals.
- I'm pretty sure that's true and I'm exicted, man.
- Alright, here, you grab the first bag.
- With honors.
- You choose, you choose.
- Bless you, Noah.
- It's because you have a beard.
- See what we got (laughs)
Let's see what we got here.
This is so exciting.
I love getting animals.
[Eric] Pull them right out of the bag like a magician.
- [Noah] Like Christmas, you know
it's just like Christmas, unboxing presents.
- What have we got here.
Some real nice animals.
- [Both] Whoa!
- Look at all that.
- Dude, look it, is this?
- Dang.
- Wait, wait, wait.
I know this animal.
- What is it, Noah?
I'll tell you if you're right.
- Well, let me see the eyes.
(both laugh)
- This one's hiding
- That's a blue-eyed lucy, right there.
- That's a blue-eyed lucy.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and say that this one
that my thumb is touching is that super vanilla
and this must be that mojave russo.
- [Noah] Yeah, it's cool, but you know,
this is really hard because I don't know any morphs.
So like,
- Hey.
- I'm sorry I can't tell you guys what it is.
- It's pretty sweet, regardless though.
I really like this super vanilla, man.
That thing is just popping, huh?
- Yeah.
Oh, these are some of my favorites
if it's actually what it says on the bag.
These are some of my fav, hoo doggie,
as my dad says.
- What have we got?
- Oh, man.
These are the best.
Honestly, I'm surprised that these just like,
hoo, look at them.
Look at them bananas, baby.
- [Eric] What are they, some 'nanas?
- [Noah] They are some 'nanas.
- [Eric] Three male bananas, you gotta love that.
- Grab you a fruit, man.
- Let me get one.
- Grab you a fruit.
- They are ripe, am I right or what?
Wow.
- [Noah] Look at the oranges on that guy.
- [Eric] You really can't go wrong with a banana.
- You never can go wrong with a banana, guys.
- You know what I mean, it's got the little specks.
- My favorite part about the bananas are that
they have the oranges.
Honestly, the yellows are cool too,
but the oranges are my favorite.
- That one is definitely,
has a lot of orange on the side.
- Yeah.
- I haven't really seen them like that before.
- I'll be honest with you,
I've had this kind of virtual zoo type of idea
ever since I started thinking about The Reptarium.
Even with something like, Speedy and my tortoises here.
Can you image if you actually virtually feed them.
So, maybe there'd be a camera up here
watching the tortoises all the time,
but then there's like an automatic feeder in the corner here
and you have the ability, somehow we trigger it,
I'm not exactly sure how it is.
There's actually something that's called I.F.T.T.T.,
which is "if this, then that",
but regardless, we're working on that one.
You would be able to trigger some pellets
that fall down here.
Speedy, Big Momma, Franklin, and everyone else
would go over there and start eating it
and you could actually watch.
Again, got some work to do,
but that's my vision is that even
if you can't visit The Reptarium,
you'll be able to actually virtually see
almost every cage and what's going on
every single day, 24/7.
- I'm gonna grab this one,
we're gonna open it up and see what we got here.
I'm gonna hide the letters.
- Don't read it.
Don't read it yet.
- No, I didn't see it yet.
- Let's keep this one a surprise.
I didn't see it.
Slip on shoes, you don't have to tie or knot, nothing.
Am I right or am I right?
- You're getting old.
- I'm getting old.
(laughs)
- Let's grab these balls out. - Let's see what we got here.
- Whip these babies out.
Ohh!
- [Eric] Oh, my lord!
- [Noah] I don't think I've ever seen this.
- [Eric] Look it, I don't even know.
This is just a mess of snakes right here.
This is what I really like.
- Hold up, let me grab this one real quick.
- Let me try and separate some here.
That is pretty cool.
Look at all that.
I love just a little mess of snakes.
It also looks like there's some sort of spider gene in here.
- Dude, alright so
- I'm sorry, Noah, I'm trying.
- Yeah, there is a spider.
We got a G.H.I. mojave spider.
- Oh, there we go, I got them loose.
Why don't you hold on to that one there.
- Alright, you gave me the pie bald.
- What kind of spiders are these, man?
- I told you, there's a G.H.I. mojave spider,
and then supposedly the other ones just a G.H.I.
- [Eric] I know, it might just be one long one.
- It's kinda cool though how they ball together.
- I kinda like that, yeah.
- It's like a transformer almost.
They come into one singular ball python.
- That is a really good way to look at it.
(laughs)
- So again, let me know what you think about the idea.
Are you as excited as I am?
As for now, we're just gonna go ahead
and work on Bella's cage.
With any luck, this thing will work.
Fingers crossed, guys.
This is my buddy, Rob.
He is helping me out with this project.
So basically, what we're doing is,
you are putting a camera over here in the corner.
- Yes.
- And then what after that?
- So, we're going to put a camera in the corner
and we're gonna run the video signal back
to your utility room
where it's gonna be digitized
and then streamed on your YouTube channel.
- Hopefully, it will be steamed on our YouTube channel.
(laughs)
Because we're not exactly sure
how that's gonna work yet.
But so, basically, Rob brought all the hardware
and stuff like that.
And he knows the software side of it.
So, with any luck, it will be streamed
on a YouTube channel called
"Live Reptile Cam".
It's one of my URL's that I have.
That's where we're gonna try to have this live.
So, right now, we're definitely get
all the hardware kinda wired in.
Hopefully, it'll work.
I'll put a link in the description
to "Live Reptile Cams" on YouTube
or you can just search it out.
Hopefully, if everything goes well,
you can stream Bella 24 hours a day.
And then, like I said, if this works out well,
we get all the bugs worked out,
we'll start adding them to the rest of the cages
or at least 10 or 12 cages.
Again, the description, let me know
which animals you'd like me to do next.
But for now, we're gonna do Bella.
So, that might be the last time
I have Eric and Noah unboxing.
I'm not 100% sure.
Actually, they're a lot of fun.
I'm sure you guys enjoyed it.
They get enthusiastic about stuff
and when I told Noah,
"Hey why don't you unbox something"
He was all excited because he was like
"I've always wanted to do that!"
Even though he may not know a lot about morphs,
he was excited to see what we got
and I think they did a fine job.
Let me know in the comments
if you guys want to see them unbox some things
more in the future.
Alright, what do we have here.
They certainly are gorgeous for sure.
So, let's go ahead and break this down.
This one right here is actually
a super pastel fireball python.
So, it's got the kind of double gene pastel
which is the super and then of course the fire
which is co-dominant that when you breed together
produces the black-eyed leucistics.
Really gorgeous snake and what's interesting
is you can see the poly-morphism in these guys.
This is another super pastel fire,
but you can see how they're very different looking.
And that's one of the things that's really cool
about all snakes, and all reptiles,
really all animals for that matter,
is you can have two of the exact same genetic animals,
but they look a little bit different
which make them kinda unique, regardless.
Both of them are beautiful.
They are definitely a little different looking.
Then this one right here, is just
a spider lesser ball python.
It looks absolutely incredible.
Again, not to get to controversy at all,
but you can see this animal doesn't have a wobble,
it doesn't have a head flip,
it doesn't do looping and stuff like that.
Again, so, I don't want to get into the controversy
but I always think that as we learn more about things,
we can't kinda throw the baby out
with the bathwater.
Yes, there are some issues with them.
But at the same time
the majority of the ones
or at least the ones that I've worked with,
certainly the ones that I'm buying from guys like this,
I've never had one that's come in with a wobble.
So, again, I don't want to get
into the controversy with that.
But, this is really a beautiful snake.
So, it begins.
We finally are gonna be punching a hole
in the top of this where the cable will go
for the actual camera.
Bella is looking like, "What is going on here?"
Alright, let's do it.
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Alright, there you go.
Cable's going in and then gotta mount the camera.
Then ultimately, the biggest chore
is to figure out how to network this
onto YouTube.
Yeah, there's a lot of things that
have to happen to go right.
At least we're making progress.
- [Lori] Alright, so hey guys,
I am unboxing a couple animals that I ordered.
It's always fun to see, because while I might know
what the morph is, until you open it,
some are cooler than others.
So, let's see what I have in these bags.
This is very pretty.
What I have here is a banana cinnamon.
I'm not gonna lie,
these are one of my favorite morphs.
They have so much purple
and I love the way you get really
that orange in them too.
Enchi bumblebee, again, holy crap.
This thing is a stunner.
But I'm not surprised, because again,
what you get with these genes is
the enchi brightens it up so much
and then a bumblebee is so pretty
in and of itself that these genes together
always make a pretty animal.
So you always know if it was that combo,
it's gonna be really pretty.
Don't have a big selection of pieds right now,
so when I had the chance to get a high white pied,
I snatched it up.
Let's see how high white it is.
Okay, this one's pretty nice.
Definitely has a lot of white on it.
One of the fun things about the pieds too,
is I love how it just messes the pattern
and the coloring up.
You usually get like a lot of orange
and stuff like that in there.
This one's really pretty.
Now, it doesn't have a smiley face,
because I know everyone's crazy about this.
But, it does have some really pretty cool patterns.
Yeah, I'm really happy about this.
The last one in this bag is a banana lesser.
And you know what, I'm actually kinda surprised.
I'm not very familiar with this morph,
but again, another really pretty combo
because that lesser really lightens up the banana.
I kinda like it.
It kinda puts a little yellow
and you know the blushing and stuff
that you normally get in a lesser comes through.
I'd say this thing is pretty nice.
My money's gonna be that Eric and Mary put a tag on it.
(laughs)
I feel like when we get a nice one,
I see that tag, so we'll see if I'm right on that one.
But this is really pretty.
That's it for the shipment that I ordered.
You guys will see these guys on the website
as soon as we get a few meals into them,
make sure they're well established
so keep your eye out for that.
So, essentially, this is the camera right here.
It doesn't look like it's that big.
It's a pretty small, compact thing.
And then we're just gonna go ahead
and mount it in the corner.
Hopefully, we'll eventually get like that view
all the time, 24 hours a day.
So, again, we're just kinda figuring things out
and see if it works.
But so far, we're streaming it kind of on a test stream
but not to YouTube.
So, I'm not exactly sure
how we're gonna stream it to YouTube.
I mean I know there's live streaming on YouTube
so I'm hoping that it's pretty simple,
but I'm not 100% sure.
Regardless, right now, it's a kind
of trouble shooting thing getting things dialed in.
But so far, so good.
Pretty cool, tonight were at now actually
in a Science Olympiad program that come in
with a bunch of kids that love reptiles
You guys are doing absolutely amazing.
Just kind of teaching them about stuff.
A little bit of Sunrise time, what do you guys think?
- Awesome
- [Brian] Alright, cool, awesome guys.
- Yeah, it's awesome.
- So we have all the hardware done.
We did the software.
It took us about a half hour to figure out
how to interface YouTube.
But guess what?
Right now, I am watching Bella.
See Bella right there?
She's moving around.
This is live guys,
so again I will put a link in the description
it's called "Reptile Live Cam"
which is the name of the YouTube channel.
So, definitely check it out and subscribe guys.
I will put the link in the description, like I said,
"Reptile Live Cam".
For now we've got Bella.
As we go, we're gonna have dozens and dozens
of cages that are on there.
So, I am super excited that it actually worked out.
And for now, I'm gonna go watch Bella.
Tell you what guys, what an amazingly awesome day.
Got some really cool snakes.
Got a chance to finally get the live cam up.
Again, we have a long way to go
and this camera might not even work out.
We may need to get another.
We don't know what it's gonna look like at night
and all that type of stuff.
But at least we've got the progress going
and it's gonna be awesome
when we can kinda figure out
the whole place in live cam
and you guys can kinda follow along
your favorite animal and stuff like that.
And how cool is that, that Science Olympiad kids
actually came for us.
We actually had an event last week
and we have one more next week with them.
Really cool group of kids.
These guys actually won the county
for the Herpetological Science Olympiad.
How awesome, I mean they knew so much.
I was asking them questions.
They were just like, all over it.
It was really cool, so again,
the end of an absolutely amazingly beautiful day.
And I hope that you guys have
an amazingly beautiful day too.
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