- Just take a look at how cute that little monkey is.
Oh my gosh guys welcome to the vlog.
I am actually really proud of myself
for being able to pick up a scorpion right by myself,
much like I did with tarantulas.
When I first started handling taratulas,
I would have to have someone else
take the tarantula out of the cage,
and then I could hold it.
Well, the same thing happened with scorpions,
I could hold this animal,
but I could never go in and actually
take it out of its cage.
Cause it just freaked me out!
I'm like it's gonna sting me or it's going to pinch me!
I don't know what to do!
Well I've finally gotten over that fear,
and I take this little beautiful monkey out all the time.
And I absolutely love it.
And oh by the way,
I hope the start of your day is absolutely amazing.
What do you say we do a rapid fire snake thing really quick?
Starting with this creamsicle corn.
Now the creamsicle corns were actually
a hybrid between an emery rat
and a corn snake way back in the day,
and of course then once they bred him into albino,
Emery influence actually went from red
to a more orange-ish color, hence the name Creamsicle.
Mandarin rat snakes,
oh my gosh,
what a beautiful naturally occurring snake.
One of the prettiest naturally occurring snakes,
in my opinion.
This particularly one is from the Sichuan region.
Tarahumara Mountain Kingsnake, or knoblocki,
are a pyromelana that are just absolutely gorgeous.
Now we have the Arizona mountain kingsnakes as well
that I'll show you guys in a minute.
But oh my god, these things are stunning.
And then here's the example of an
Arizona Mountain King Snake
but this one happens to be a hypomelonistic,
meaning that it's lacking some of the black.
So usually that kind of brownish band
is typically solid black,
but you can certainly see the difference
between the knoblocki,
and what these would be called wooden eye.
The Arizona Mountain Kings.
And then, we also work with the
albino Arizona mountain kings too.
Whoa doggy, these things are incredible.
and we actually worked with the very first
albino Arizona Mountain King, gosh, I don't know.
Maybe 15 years ago.
You guys know I work with a lot of
Scaleless Texas rat snakes.
So this happens to be what they would call
a Snow Texas rat snake,
shes an anerythristic and albino combination,
so this is double recessive, really amazing snake.
And I think that we were the first ones to produce a snow,
at least I'd never seen them when we produced
our very first one and worked with them ever since.
And then another Texas rat snake is right here,
which would be the pink eyed leucistic Texas rat snake.
Now most of the leucistic Texas rat snakes
have black or kind of a bluish eye,
but this guy has pink eyes
that just kind of popped out of nowhere
probably 20 years ago from a regular
leucistic Texas rat snake breeding.
And ever since we've kind of kept a handful around.
You don't see very many in these days so it's pretty cool
that we're going to be producing again this year.
I absolutely adore Honduran mountain snakes.
This would actually be a hypo tricolor,
which is really cool because a lot of the hypos you see,
don't have the yellow banding,
so the tricolors are pretty cool.
Then whooo doggy,
take a look at this one right here,
again, this is a tangerine albino
Honduran mountain snake.
This mama is gonna make some beautiful babies.
I've talked about these guys in the past a lot
because I think they're so absolutely breathtaking.
These are t-positive albino nelson's milk snakes right here.
And when you breed these to a normal albino,
half of the babies come out t-positive,
so the this kind of mustard yellow color here,
is actually purple and stunning!
And this one right here is what they would call
a bullseye albino nelson's milk snake,
just because the bands look more like bullseyes
than the normal triad.
This is a blazed blotched king,
or a Apalachicola county king snake.
Now when these are born,
they are literally like almost bright red and unbelievable.
But as they get older it kind of turns
to a more yellowish orange.
Nevertheless, super cool little snakes.
Speaking of super cool little snakes,
these thayeri nuevo leon milk snakes
are absolutely incredible too.
Sometimes they're called variable kings
because they are so variable.
This animal because literally produce
four or five different colored animals
that wouldn't even look like the same.
I mean from what they call boxskin to melanistic,
to milk snake phase, to all types of different ones.
They're really cool,
and that's certainly why they call them variable king.
I love this particular snake.
This is a lavender snow Cali king,
and when these are hatched,
they literally are solid purple little snakes,
we produced the very first lavender kings
literally like 20 years ago.
Basically what is is,
it is a double recessive mutation
between a melanistic and a lavender albino banded.
When you breed them together,
you get double het to raise them up,
and then one in 16 babies come out lavender albino.
Because this is a lavender,
we're going to be breeding it to other lavender,
you get 100% lavender albino.
Unbelievable.
Might as well stick with Cali kings for the minute.
This is actually a high white albino California king snake.
That is just polygenic,
bred for the highest white year after year,
I tell you what,
this thing is white as it gets.
Its definitely a great example,
and should be a really good male for us this year.
I love garter snakes, it was really my first love of snakes.
You know, when I was a kid,
I was out in the woods catching garter snakes
all summer long.
So I have a bunch of really cool garter snakes
like this albino checkered garter snake,
and they're live bearers,
so it won't be too long before we open up the case,
there's a bunch of little baby garter snakes in there.
It's one of the coolest things we do all year,
and obviously I'm just showing you rapid fire
a bunch of Colubrids that will be breeding here
starting next week and I can't talk about Colubrid
without talking about Mexican black king snake.
Probably becoming one of the most popular
Colubrids out there.
These guys are unbelievably sought after at the moment,
and we have a really nice group of a multiple sizes here
so we should even increase our production
a little bit more than we did last year,
and I have no doubt that people will be waiting in line
to buy these beautiful snakes.
There's probably no cuter snake than a hognose snake.
Of course this is a Western hognose snake here,
and we have a bunch of new stuff up the sides
and we're raising a bunch of hognose up to,
because we used to be really big into them
and we haven't gotten to nearly as many of them
over the last two or three years so,
with any luck will start to really produce some
beautiful animals with these guys.
But just take a look at how cute little monkey is.
The other day when you picked up Matilda,
the Aldabra tortoise,
I actually showed you a coral ghost corn,
and just bathed him,
but the lighting wasn't really that great,
so I wanted to show you what they looked like here.
I mean they are absolutely stunning animals.
Again, it's a ghost corn,
but it's poly genetically bred to have all of that
beautiful pink color.
This is a hypo jelly brooks King right here,
really beautiful.
The brooks kings are really cool because they get big
they eat like crazy,
and they're really good production animals
and they come in a bunch of different colors right now.
So definitely a snake I'm going to be really happy
to be hatching out this year.
And I won't bore you with every single snake,
you're going to see a lot more
over the next few months for sure.
That rapid fire turned into a lot longer segment
that I thought but I hope you guys enjoyed it,
let me know in the comments
which ones you liked the best.
We brought Phoebe over to meet the new turtle!
Phoebe!
She loves Speedy and she loves Savvy,
so we knew she'd love her,
but she's so afraid.
- They're afraid of each other.
- Yeah, you're so silly.
Look at this I had mentioned the other day
about the QR codes that Lori works so hard on.
So are you excited?
It's the first time we're open with them!
- I know, I'm super excited.
I've had a bunch of people test, kids test it,
everybody seems to really like it.
So yeah, I'm really excited to see how it goes this weekend.
- We got some signs up,
just kind of telling people what things are about.
And then if you walk through you can kind of see
that they're on all of the cages now,
so again this was kind of all about Lori.
Lori did this stuff.
I mentioned that we're always trying to
kind of improve things.
What's next?
- The, I have a list, I'm not gonna lie.
There's always something coming up, so we'll see.
I've got animal sponsorships,
people really want to start doing that,
so we're working on the best way to do that.
- I know that we have to do like the,
all the plants up top here, - Yeah
- Just some cosmetic stuff like that,
but we're getting close.
We definitely want to have a place up front,
a little bit more to put some more merch stuff
because the Bellas stuff was doing really, really well.
By the way, if you haven't got your Bellas,
I'll put a link in the description.
You definitely got to get your Bellas.
We're going to do salt, is coming up next.
And then we want to do some other plushies.
Whole bunch of stuff, postcards, all kinds of stuff.
So we're going to have to work on something
up front over there for kind of that,
kind of gift shop area feel.
I'm not 100% sure,
and then of course we've got to expand next door,
and put all new cages next door too.
- What?
- Oh, I didn't tell her about that yet.
I'm not sure that,
I'm not I'm not gonna say that's going to happen,
but I do, I do have this grand plan of a reptile cafe,
the Repterrarium.
And then snake massages, that's my dream.
It's the reptile complex.
- No. - Yeah, I, like it.
- The zoo is your dream.
- Reptile cafe. - And here we are.
The zoo and snake massage.
Let me know in the comments you guys are excited,
you going to come visit?
- No, no.
- So Eric actually brought a corn snake in for us to breed.
- Oh my gosh, this is awesome. - Damn.
- That's a beautiful snake right there.
- Yeah
- This is a black motley corn snake.
- Oh okay yeah, I thought it was a charcoal motley.
I really don't know that much about it.
But you can really tell.
- Yeah the charcoals will, won't have,
you see that little bit of yellow
on its neck. - Yeah!
- Charcoal won't have any yellow on its neck,
and they're going to look a little bit more,
almost like a ghost animal,
- Ah okay. - as is almost normal black,
or an anerythristic.
- So this is a double recessive mutation.
And anerythristic lacking the red, of course,
but it will still have some yellow,
and as it gets older that yellow will come out even more
and more in this right here,
and of course that motley is that pattern right here,
and they actually were produced you know,
I mean back in the late 90s,
and a call the Motley mutant corn snakes.
Believe it or not. - Oh really?
- Then over the years they got shortened to Motley,
it's kind of interesting.
Just like cinny ball pythons used to be called
cinnamon pastels,
spiders used to be called spider webs.
You know a lot of animals get started on one thing
and then get shortened to something else.
So this is a motley, absolutely gorgeous.
Looks really good, female,
definitely should get some good eggs
and produce beautiful babies from her.
Still working out all the bugs on the Bella cam right here,
but I'm pretty excited to say that,
we now have music on the 24/7 Bella cam.
And I think she absolutely loves all of the attention.
The truth is I don't know that she even cares,
although it was really weird.
She typically spends all her time over here,
on this side of the cage.
Right when we started the 24 hour cam,
she was spending all kinds of time on that side of the cage.
I don't know if I wasn't perceptive and
she had been doing it before,
or was there a chance that she somehow
was sensing like I don't know,
the EMF that the camera is giving off.
I'm not 100% sure.
I found it very interesting, now that it's been a few days,
she's going back to her old ways,
and pretty much spends all their time again,
on this side of the cage.
Just some weird observation I'm not sure.
But anyways if you're watching the 24 hour Bella cam,
you now have some music.
- We've been talking about I think you need a new truck.
- Yeah, it is true guys.
I mean I'm one of those guys that just doesn't want to
spend money on vehicles.
I mean, I kind of have this attitude like,
if it gets me where I want to go
I don't need to but,
it is about time and my truck's getting a little bit beat up
so probably this summer I'll have to get something.
What do you think I should get?
- Think about like one of them Abrams tanks.
- What, Abrams tanks?!
They're like, they're like,
they're like five million dollars.
I can't. - I don't know.
I saw like Arnold Schwarzenegger crack an egg on one before
and like literally cook it.
- Did you, did you guys know,
have you ever seen that I drove one,
Abrams tank?
I actually had a buddy of mine out in California
that allowed me to take an Abrams,
Bradley fighting vehicle or whatever it is.
I took both of those out.
I literally was alone in a M1 Abrams!
- Did you shoot it? - No we couldn't shoot it.
But I got it to like 60 miles an hour.
Now I will say this, and I'm sure Dave is watching,
because he's a friend of mine,
he always watches the vlog.
Uh, he told me the only thing he said,
don't slam on the brakes because have you ever seen
those Abrams that are like, - Yeah!
- And what did I do?
I was going like 60 and I slammed on the brakes.
(Brian laughs) - Wow!
- You almost rolled that boy forward.
- No, it was super good man.
It was awesome, that was awesome.
So anyways, I'm not getting the tank guys.
- But that would be cool.
- 35 hundred, Diesel Dually. - Diesel dude.
- No I'm do not doing that.
I liked I liked the environment too much to do that.
- I was just about to compare, - Yeah.
- It to like buying a hummer - Yeah.
- You can't buy a hummer. - You can't do that.
Come on man. - H1!
Dude I was looking at them!
You can get them from Maydolf for about five grand.
They're not street legal. - Oh my god.
- You gotta put a bunch of money into them,
I've been thinking about it.
- I'm done, I'm done talking to these guys.
I mean I tried to have a conversation
and these guys are they're impossible.
They're impossible.
We're about to open up for the reptarium.
I'm actually going to try to have a little bit of a
early night tonight because I want to take
Lori out to dinner.
We haven't done that in months.
So if it's not too busy tonight,
I'm going to probably butt out of here a little bit early,
like I mentioned,
I'm going to hang out here
at the reptarium for a litte bit.
Its really cool we got some people from Massachusetts,
that came in that are hanging on to Perdida here,
it's uh, it's pretty awesome I mean
already a lot of people from all over the place.
We had the actual tour earlier today from Arizona
and these guys came all the way from Alabama to visit.
So I appreciate you guys so much.
What do you think of my girl here?
She's cool, huh?
- We love her so much. - Yeah.
- Isn't she so pretty. - And so sweet, yeah.
And she doesn't get nearly enough attention
so I'm glad that you had a chance to take her out
because she's super cool.
- I'm from Marion, Iowa.
It was 10 hour drive here and we got here Wednesday.
- Oh my god.
- And it was, it was so much fun meeting you here,
at the reptarium.
- And my man here came all the way from California,
to come visit.
I appreciate you very much,
and you work with ball pythons now, right?
- Yes. - You have a Facebook page?
- Uh no, I don't man, not at the time.
- Anything else? - No.
- Anything else I can shout out?
- No.
- All right, just keep an eye out for this guy,
you'll see him eventually.
Where'd you guys come from?
- Indiana, southern Indiana.
- Southern Indiana, how long of a drive?
- Eight hours. - Eight hours?
- Yeah eight hours.
- You know you guys are awesome,
thank you for coming, oh you had a good time.
Just a quick walkthrough,
got Night Fury out over here.
Got some tarantulas going on over here,
so as always having a good time.
I hate to leave early
because I'm having a great great great night,
it's nice because it's a little bit slower
so I'm able to spend a lot of time
but I'll hang around for a little while longer.
Because I'm just having a blast.
Our little baby veiled chameleons
are doing absolutely incredible.
What do you think of this little monkey?
- Uh, it's very nice, and it's very cute.
And it changes its colors all the time.
- As reluctantly as I want to,
me and Lori are going to go out and grab some dinner.
Actually we're supposed to go out,
like an hour and a half ago but
it's just been so much fun here,
and a lot of kids and a lot of people.
And so I just didn't want to leave but finally,
I think there's about an hour before we close.
We're going to go ahead and get out here and grab some food
and just have at least a little bit of the night off
with Lori
So I'm back here, and I'll be honest with you,
originally I was thinking about filming our dinner out.
But then I thought to myself, you know,
Lori myself used to go out to dinner almost every week
this is the kind of little bit of a date night,
we haven't done in a month because we've been so busy,
so I thought, you know,
I'm just not going to do that,
I'm just going to put my camera down and enjoy myself
and I absolutely did with that said,
I am back home,
and I've been trying to shorten the outros.
So I'm just going to tell you guys that
I really love you guys so much and
I'm going to tell you to be kind to someone,
and I am going to tell you, I'll see you guys tomorrow.