- This is actually Baby Kush, who is a crocodile monitor
the second largest lizard on the planet.
Second, only to the Komodo dragon.
Today, I'm going to be working with him.
And I gotta be honest with you,
I always say he's the most dangerous animal here
at the Reptarium.
But, it's important for us to tame up.
So I'm going to do another training technique.
First thing I'm going to do, I've got to have safety, guys.
This thing bites me
and I tell you what, I'm going to the hospital
with lots of stitches and maybe even some surgery.
Once I get him out on the ground,
I'm going to actually see if I can feed him this time.
So he can start to associate being out with
actually feeding.
Then I actually put some nice morsels of fish,
one of his favorite food in this Kong ball.
Now he can't get hurt by this Kong ball.
So, I'm going to let him try to actually see
if he can get to the fish with some enrichment for him.
It's going to be amazing.
Where do you say we get in with him?
Fingers crossed.
Everything's going to go well.
First step is getting him out
which is always a little tricky.
I'm going to go in kind of slow.
He sees the glove.
So, he knows I'm probably going to go in after all.
I'm just gonna kinda- It's okay, Baby Kush.
It's okay. We're okay.
Nope, we're all right.
C'mon here, Baby.
C'mon here! C'mon here! C'mon here!
You're okay. You're okay. You're okay.
You're all right. You're all right.
Yeah. Think, think, think, think, think!
No! No! Not my arm.
Okay. Woah!
Okay.
No.
- Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
Okay.
Just think. Think!
Think! Think!
Use your head, you see, he tried to bite me a few times.
He's still a little bit crazy.
I'm gonna try to build his trust for a minute.
It's okay, Baby Kush.
He's not as reactive, but he's still a little crazy.
But the idea is, I can get them on the ground.
It's going to let run for a minute.
Now, what I'm going to do is chase him down
and see if I can get him to actually eat.
Now, if I can get him to eat,
they'll start saying like, "Hey,
I'm outside and I get a reward."
Baby Kush, here! Here!
Baby Kush, here!
There you go, Baby Kush.
See? That is great.
Now he's actually going to say,
"All right, I'm getting rewarded for being out."
But, I don't want him to get behind anything.
So, I have to be a little bit careful here.
(cheerful music playing)
- She lives in the lawn.
- So? He doesn't live in a little black tub.
- [Craig] How about you just shut up?
- This is your first time brushing salt.
You don't even know what you're doing.
- I watched over there last time.
- Yeah, you watched.
Just like you're going to do today.
- By the way, I took your tooth brush out of your sho-
- Okay, so it's out.
- Oh yeah, now you want me to get her out?
You can what?
- [Mike] C'mon here, Sal.
- [Coworker] Is that a French grip?
- [Craig] Obviously, Mike here does not
handle salt too often,
but that's okay. She likes it,
When we do the eyeballs.
I didn't thought she's going to be bad.
She loves it.
I'm getting her eardrum right now.
Look at that. Her legs going!
Yeah, yeah! Get her leg going!
Get her leg!
- [Mike] You're go- I gotta-
I'm just doing the leg!
- [Craig] All right. So we gotta brush your teeth.
- They wanted this.
- Look at how large her nostril is open.
Okay? You're not even holding your face!
Are you ready? We're going to do her teeth.
- Oh, look!
- [Mike] She's like a dentist!
- [Craig] It was so fast.
Let's put her down on the ground.
Post it. Thumbnail!
- [Coworker] I can't wait, just to check.
- [Mike] I'm a professional.
- [Mike] Look, it's sturdy!
- Oh! I can feel how strong she's trying to open up her jaw.
- Alligators have no pressure opening the jaw.
- [Craig] This is actually barrier.
- [Mike] They have.
- [Craig] If you managed to have their mouth closed,
That is very true.
Misty Mike here, is a Savage.
- No, this is Craig.
- Craig and Mikey.
- [Mike] We're playing with the gator.
She's just cracking my-
(Mike mumbling)
- Okay.
- [Mike] And I think we're good.
- Say, bye Salty!
Bye, bye!
(classic rock music playing)
- [Brian] Well, look at him scale that wall!
Back on the ground, back on the ground.
Here you go, Baby.
Here you go, Baby Kush. Here!
Here, here! Here, here! Here, here!
Use your brain. Use your brain. Use your brain.
Use your brain.
We're going to reset a little bit.
Get him out because he's still in flight mode right now.
So, he needs to get him to start thinking
with his brain. Real gentle walk, walk, walk, don't run!
Don't run! Don't run!
So, if we can get him to calm down, maybe we can do it.
This is definitely a little bit more difficult
than I expected.
Here you go, Baby Kush.
Do you want the food?
C'mon, Baby Kush. There you go.
There you go!
Now, he's starting to calm down a little bit.
He's taking food.
If we can just get him one or more, two more pieces of food,
then we can actually give them the Kong and see
if we can tell him preoccupied by that.
He's starting to use his brain, starting to not freak out.
But I tell you, this guy
is definitely a very reactive lizard.
Sometimes, you can get croc monitors that get really docile
and sometimes, it's a pain.
This guy has definitely taken some time,
but I know we can get there.
C'mon, you want another piece?
There you go!
See, he's starting to slow down.
He's starting to think his way through it.
So what I'm going to do now, I'm going to give him the ball
and see if he can smell that fish right there and just see
if he can do something about it.
C'mon!
Oh, he is so untrusting.
He is so untrusting.
This is definitely a challenge.
Come on buddy.
Well, Baby Kush is out.
- Mike has got an opportunity to clean his cage up,
while we're messing with Baby Kush
So, he's doing the real work. I'm having the real fun.
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Buy yourself a cool Mother's Day gift.
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So stay on it, guys, get a part of the movement
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Do I always tell you guys that we take the water
out before snakes actually laid?
That's typically with clue words,
I don't do that with pythons but this is a perfect example.
This is actually a pinstripe female.
She's about to lay the rest of her clutch, but guess what?
She laid one egg in the water.
It stinks like crazy.
Once they get into water, it, you know-
the embryo drowns.
I mean, these are permeable actual shells, right?
They're not like chicken eggs.
They have a really soft leathery membrane, right?
And it just absorbs water.
And you can see right there on the top
the network of veins and where that baby was.
Unfortunately, the sag is no good.
That gives you an idea of why we take the water
out of females is because they actually will do this again.
This is probably the first time
I've ever seen a ball python do it,
but nevertheless, it's food for thought.
Egg time, egg time, egg time!
Egg time!
- And that's right.
We've got some eggs brewing here.
Take a look at that.
Ooh doggy!
We've got- Oh, look at this little tiny egg right here.
What is up with that?
If that hatches out, that's going to be the world's
smallest corn snake ever!
A mamas- But first, we have to set up some egg boxes.
So, you know, let's just roll in time-lapse.
And back to this girl, again
this is actually a head snow corn snake.
So it's basically just a normal looking corn snake.
That is head for snow. And it's just (inaudible)
For a corn snake
So it's just going to Preuss a bunch of snows
and albinos and annual three sticks all have for snow
just a really pretty normal corn snake, right?
So, we'll get her all cleaned up, get her some fresh water
get that out of there, all that type of stuff.
And then we'll pull this clutch.
And like I said, it's really interesting, this egg's loose,
so I'll go ahead and do this.
And we do the same thing with these as we do with pythons.
We candled them when there's loose eggs.
But, a very very interesting
about that little tiny egg right there.
No idea, what's gonna happen there.
I mean, literally think about the size
of the snake that would be in that compared to being in that
and corn snakes already hatched up kind of strong, right?
So this is going to be the dinkiest little snake
in the world. We have two, four, six, eight, ten eggs,
If you include the little dinky one.
So, basically nine and a quarter eggs,
if you did that.
So, we have one more clutch to pull.
I am always excited when an Abbott Okeetee Corn Snake
lays eggs. This is just a really
you know, lying bread, beautiful type of snake.
That is actually an Okeetee corn snake,
which is the locality that is probably considered
like the prettiest of the normal corn snakes, that is.
And this is a beautiful girl for sure.
And you can just see the heavy band.
She's actually starting to go kind of a little bit opaque.
So, she's much more beautiful,
after we're getting her cleaned up.
We'll get some water and with her
all that type of stuff, again, we always leave the sheds
in there to know that they're ready to lay.
We take the waters out a day or two before,
because if you don't
oftentimes the snakes will lay their eggs in the water.
Yada, yada, yada, you've heard it before.
But look at this beautiful clutch of eggs right here!
Hoo, hoo doggy!
I tell you what, that is a beautiful clutched eggs.
We've got two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, thirteen eggs.
And I always say 13 to 17 eggs
is the perfect clutch for a corn snake
because the eggs are big enough to where the babies hatch
out big and thrive, but not too few
to where there's actually not that many babies, right?
If you give over 17 eggs,
oftentimes, the snakes hatch really small
and sometimes don't eat really well.
So, this is the perfect clutch right here.
And that's a beautiful snake.
Well, the animal lover in me wants to do anything
I can do to get him to know, listen, I'm not a bad guy.
I wanna do anything I can do to make you love me.
And it's really difficult,
because I know it's just taking time
and we're trying to break those barriers down.
Thankfully, him eating out is one more step.
You know, although he hasn't been crushing it,
he's at least getting a little bit more comfortable.
It's a slow process, guys.
This could take us another year.
I promise you, I'm going to get this guy super tamed,
but it's going to take time
and that's just the way it goes.
So, this-his training session was kind of success
in the sense that he ate outside, but not as success,
cause I couldn't calm him down enough
to use his brain to want to actually go
after the Kong ball.
So, let's see if we can keep working with him
and see if we can get to a point where he calms down
and a lot of work guys, a lot of work, I tell ya.
I keep time rewarding him.
Right? I keep on throwing food at him.
It's a reward like, Hey, it's okay to be out.
You don't need to be stressed
when you're out of your enclosure.
Cause, that's basically what it is.
He gets out of his enclosure and he's stressed out, right?
Cause that's his home,
and he feels comfortable in there.
Out in the open, he doesn't.
So we need to get him comfortable out
of the enclosure, in order to make him an amazing animal.
So, I'm using every trick in the book
that I know a guy is. I'm trying and I'm trying.
You guys have sent me all kinds
of stuff, been unboxing for days, but I'm going only unbox
one of these on the vlog today.
I'll unbox the rest on the vlog,
maybe in the next couple of days.
But, I think I'm going to do this one,
just cause I like the actual packaging here.
This is actually, I don't even know what it is.
It's from spreadshirt.com or something like that.
Let's go ahead and see what's in here.
There's a box, a box inside of a bag.
And then what do we have inside this box here?
And she says, woo doggy look at this part!
So, let's see what actually
if that's what it actually says. Oh my god,
That is absolutely dope.
Thank you, take a look at that.
"Oh Doggy look at that clutch!"
And on the back says, "Brian Barczky YouTube quote".
So, I absolutely love that and let me open up this card
really quick to see who it's from.
Let's see it says, "Hi Brian,"
"My name is Jasmine."
"I'm from Maine."
"I'd love to know when you guys will be making"
"more snake shed jewelry. My favorite snake is Perdida".
We're making more.
There'll be some on the website at some point.
I'm not exactly sure when. You can buy them here
at The Reptarium gift shop.
But, we're going to definitely put them out online.
I'll be sending a letter soon.
"I also love the Lavender Snow Cal Kings."
So thank you Jasmine, for this awesome shirt.
- It's okay!
You can see, I'm just literally holding him right now.
I'm not squeezing him at all.
I'm not doing anything.
That's the progress that you make
as he starting to build a little bit of trust
and I'm going to let him just kind of crawl
into the cage on its own,
just like that.
Not terrible.
I mean, I was a little bummed
that the Kong ball didn't work a little bummed
that we didn't have a little bit better interaction
with him, but again, work in progress guys.
So that is one awesome lizard.
- Baby Kush is definitely energy,
but I'm going to get him there.
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Reptile Army.
Remember, be kind to someone and I promise
I'll see you tomorrow.