- Today, (upbeat music)
we're getting some new animals.
I know, what's new.
You guys may remember,
I went to my first reptile show in about five years,
and I saw some really cool lizards that I really like.
I've always said that these Sudan plated lizards
should be way more popular than they are
because you know, skinks are really kind of popular.
Obviously blue tongues, and all that stuff.
The Sudan plated lizards can be really, really cool,
but no one's really kind of working with them.
And it's here.
Actually, what happened is Jacob Roy from Roy's Reptiles
reached out to me and said,
"I saw that you love Sudan plated lizards."
And he actually had a group of them
that he had had for several years.
Said, "Would you be interested?"
And with some creative boxing I must say,
I actually am pretty impressed
with how he shipped these guys
because with his innovation, he MacGyvered it,
and it looks like they are here good.
So I cannot wait to show you what I've got here.
Woo, doggy.
All right, here we go.
Number one bag.
Oh my gosh, it's gonna be so exciting.
These guys are so awesome.
And you know, the fact is is that--
Oh!
Oh my goodness.
They're great.
These guys are chunky monkeys too.
The thing is that,
really there's hardly any captive breeding of these guys.
So they're all basically wild caught.
They come from Kenya, Tanzania, and even Mozambique.
But look at these guys!
Holy cow.
- I'm gonna show you how to go
from an empty cage, pretty much,
to something more like one of these cages here
where it's all filled out and nice.
I've already got the background kind of foamed in.
I did that originally when I was setting up all the cages.
I'm gonna go ahead and do the seams first,
because I'm gonna put a bunch of stuff in front of it,
and it's gonna be hard to get that.
So we'll do that first,
and then I'll go on to hardscaping.
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- Oh, and guys, stick around till the end of the video
because we actually have a surprise for Jessica.
Another unboxing of some really cool animals.
But back to the Sudan, plated lizards.
These guys are amazing.
And because there's not very many captive born animals,
they typically come in wild caught,
and are pretty beat up, to be honest with you.
These guys are incredible.
Jacob did a great job of beefing them up.
Now these guys are omnivores, right?
So they will eat some vegetables,
and they'll eat a bunch of bugs.
So what we mainly feed these guys
are gonna be roaches and superworms
and all kinds of things like that.
Certainly dusted.
They do need UV.
You want their hotspot to be about 110 degrees.
They really like it warm, but they also like to burrow.
But the thing that's amazing about these animals
as you can see, they habituate to being handled so well.
So they're gonna be great animal ambassadors
here at the Reptarium.
I mean, can you imagine taking out a lizard
that looks so cool like that
and just putting it in a kid's hands?
It's gonna be incredible.
And with any luck,
we have three females here and a male.
With any luck, we will actually be able
to breed these guys down the road.
They're actually egg layers, and again,
very few people are breeding them.
So we're gonna do the best we can do
to actually get captive babies,
because these guys are absolutely a dream.
And like I had mentioned,
when I saw them down at the reptile show,
I'm like, I have to have them.
So thank you, Jacob from Roy's Reptiles
for sending them to us.
We're gonna take great care of them,
and kids are gonna absolutely love them.
Woo doggy, look at how cool they are.
- The seams are done in here.
Now it's time to place everything where I want it,
and then I'm gonna hardscape.
I'm gonna fix it into place permanently,
so I can't pull stuff out.
I already kind of figured out where I wanted stuff.
That way.
Sometimes you have to get creative
to hold stuff in place while you're fixing it to the wall.
And I use this little stack of cups here
to try and get this stuff set up.
I think I'm gonna set this right here
when all is said and done,
but I'm gonna leave it out for now,
because this one I wanna be able to take in and out.
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- Those are sweet.
- Aren't these things cool, man?
Look at how mellow they are, man.
Aren't they awesome?
- Yeah, what are these called again?
- These are Sudan plated lizards.
- They're awesome.
- Aren't they fricking amazing?
- Yeah.
He's got a double chin. (laughs)
- Bruce, what do you think of these guys?
- Oh my God, it's a dinosaur.
- It does look like a dinosaur.
- Oh my gosh.
- Aren't these things dope?
- Dude, I thought they weren't supposed to be
like, genetically mutating new dinosaurs
and stuff like that.
That's cool.
- Isn't this dope man.
- I've ever seen these before, like in person before.
They're way cooler than I thought they'd be.
- Yeah, and all the ones I've seen in the past
have been wild caught and pretty beat up.
You know what I mean? - Yeah, yeah.
- The fact that these have been in captivity
and look so fat and chunky,
I mean, Jacob did a great job of caring for these.
These guys are amazing.
The one thing I know is that Noah absolutely loves lizards,
so I'm gonna go ahead
and show him what he thinks of these guys.
Noah, check this out.
- What the heck is that dude?
- Is these things cool or what?
- Is this like a skink or something?
- It kinda looks like a skink.
There's no doubt about it.
It's called a Sudan plated lizard.
- Wow, look at that thing.
- [Brian] It's cool, right?
- Yes, it's cool.
- Isn't it cool?
- They are cool. (laughs)
Everyone's gonna like these too.
- Jessica, it is looking so good in here.
All these enclosures getting done is amazing,
but this cage is really coming together well.
What's the next steps?
- So the next step is,
I have to trim up the foam that's in here.
Just a little bit,
so it's not so bulky and weird looking.
And then I'm gonna cover it with silicone and moss
so it's waterproof,
and then you can't see it anymore.
- I mean, look at how amazing
this wall is already starting to get.
We're getting there guys.
It's amazing.
And this enclosure is gonna be sick.
So the other day, Jessica actually came to me
with a couple leachie geckos that she really wanted to get.
And I'm actually surprising her today and getting them.
They should be here anytime.
- Hi sweetheart. Hi sweehteart.
I know, I know, you are big and scary.
- You're rejecting tongs?
- We don't use tongs.
Up, there you go, there you go.
Good job, good job.
Good girl.
What a good girl.
We're doing really hard
working on training her and stuff like that.
We're also training her to a leash like Brian wanted.
I think that's coming along better than I thought.
Oh, look at that one.
That was a good one.
I'm about to do what Noah did and chop all this off.
And if you actually noticed,
see how she's standing like that guys?
She has her food still in her throat right now.
So she's kind of waiting right now to swallow it.
A lot of times gators, if they feel like, threatened
or scared or anything like that.
Oh no, no.
We keep it open.
Here you go.
See, look what happens when you do that.
There you go.
Come on.
Come on, come on, girl.
Here you go.
That's my Beastie.
Up, up, up.
Good girl.
Open, open.
There you go, that's a good--
Oh.
There, yeah you can grab that yourself.
All right, there you go.
You're starting to like that camera little bit.
Up, up.
Open.
- All right Jessica, you ready?
- Yeah!
- All right.
- I can't believe you got these.
- I know.
I knew you wanted them really bad
and you're working your butt off on that gecko room.
And I know that we needed some extra females,
so this is gonna be dope.
This could be...
- Okay. - She's big.
- Oh my gosh.
- Look at her. - Ooh, look at that.
So what exactly is this one?
I don't even know what they are.
I mean, I know they're leachies.
- We don't have any of these yet.
So this one's an Isle of Pine crossed with a Nuu Ana.
- Okay. - Or Nuu Ami.
So she actually has a lot of cool purple coloration in her.
- Oh my gosh, she is really good.
And she's a proven breeder?
- Yeah, she's a proven breeder.
- Oh, so she's a proven breeder.
- So let's see.
She's 2015, so she's.
- 2015.
Yeah, she's got some age to her,
but these guys will live a long time,
so she's still in her prime.
She should show up really good.
And then there's a smaller one here.
- I'm super excited about this one.
- I don't know anything about it.
So tell me what it is.
- So this is a GT type A.
These are one of the biggest species of leachies.
- So this one's gonna get bigger
than probably any of our other leachies here.
- It's also a dark morph.
So when it gets big, it's gonna be nice and dark.
Almost black.
- Oh my gosh, that's cool.
Jessica showed me the pictures of the adults
and they are like, jet,
I mean, they are super dark animals
and look absolutely beautiful.
So, this a girl too?
- Yeah, they're supposed to both be female, yep.
- Okay. Let's hope they both are.
This one's definitely a proven breeder,
we know this one is.
This one's a little young,
but hopefully she is a female.
Looks absolutely incredible.
It's gonna take a couple years
for this one to get up the size.
This one could probably start breeding here pretty soon.
Huh?
- Oh yeah, she should be ready this year.
I'm gonna give her a couple weeks to settle in
and then we'll pair her up with probably Shrek.
- Oh my God,
that sounds absolutely amazing.
And you're actually getting that enclosure done.
Are we putting some leachies in there today or...
- Yeah, we have some leachies to put in there today.
- Alright.
That's awesome.
Thanks South Bay Leachies for some amazing animals.
- So I'm at a stopping point pretty much
now on this cage,
I've gotta wait till all the foam cures
before I can really move on.
I'm thinking let's go ahead and throw some animals
into the cages I've already got done because why not?
Let's look at some animals.
This is one of our grow out male leachies.
He's got a lot of really nice like, pinks and purples
and just different colors of greens in him.
It's a GT mix,
so he'll get pretty big.
So, we're gonna go ahead and throw him in here
- [Brian] You can barely see him now look at that.
He disappears.
How cool.
- Awesome. So,
we have another grow out, male leachie
that's gonna go into this cage.
And one more that'll eventually go into here too,
but let's go ahead and grab him.
So this guy's a lot different looking.
He's got a lot more white blotches instead
of like, pinky purple ones.
And they kind of go all the way across.
So he's another grand terre,
so he'll be pretty large when he gets full grown.
He's pretty spazzy too.
So, in our next cage here
we're gonna put a pair of gargoyles.
We've got red velvet and sinister.
They're both fired down like, mid fire actually right now.
So, when they're fired all the way down
they're like just pink, like strawberry pink.
And when they fire up, they're more of a brick red color.
So, they're pretty cool.
They're both super stripes too.
- [Brian] Firing up too.
- Here's our male.
Yeah, that pink light really shows you the coloration
on these guys.
This one's a pretty cool pair too.
So this is hell raiser here.
He's actually, if you look at his eyes,
they're really really dark.
He's got, we called phantom eyes.
And I know the female here that I've got in with him,
her name's black swan.
She's probably het for phantom eyes,
or carries that trait,
just cause I know her father has phantom eyes.
So I'm hoping I will get some really dark red retic
with all black eyes.
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- It's absolutely incredible
what Jessica does.
Look at how amazing this enclosure looks.
I mean, you know, to go, you know, have that imagination
and stuff like that is absolutely incredible.
And to turn it into reality.
I know the lizards are gonna absolutely love this room.
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