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- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I'm just hanging out with my little boy here, Diddy.
Diddy, come here buddy.
And I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Of course, I'm just hanging out with Diddy.
And, of course, Dixie is right down here,
who normally will climb up me as well.
I mean, these guys are so absolutely incredible.
Come on bud, here you go.
Here's some treats for you, baby boy.
So we've been thinking,
things are changing here at The Reptarium.
We've been talking about the fact
that we're probably gonna keep as low number of people,
25, 30 people per hour, and stuff like that.
And we wanna kind of evolve to something different, right?
So sometimes, really cool things come out
of really bad things like the COVID, right?
And basically what that means is
we wanna have a different experience for people.
And one of the things that we really wanna do is
actually have 15 separate hours each weekend,
'cause we're open five hours per day,
and we want each one of those hours to have a special event.
So, if you book an hour, you can certainly come,
run around, and do all the things that you wanna do,
but also there'd be something cool
like a Diddy and Dixie experience
where we'd have 'em out like this.
Now, don't get me wrong,
Diddy and Dixie's gonna be out every hour,
but they're gonna do special things on a specific hour.
And we want each hour to be something completely different.
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And these guys are getting so good
at the clicker thing going backward.
Eventually gonna be able to just click once,
they'll go flying back.
Again, it's all about experiences.
So, throughout this vlog,
I'm gonna talk to you guys about some of the ideas
of the kinda next evolution in The Reptarium
and how we can bring these amazing experiences to you.
That way, if you wanna see,
say Lucy eat at six o'clock on Saturday,
you can actually go on the calendar, book that.
And maybe you want five o'clock will be
the Diddy and Dixie experience
or seven o'clock will be the Elvis experience
or Ivy or whatever the case is.
You could choose your time slot
and hey, you can book more than one time slot
or you can come back more times
if you haven't seen a particular event.
So, I'll talk more about that as we go,
but we have a lot of work today,
so let's just get right to it.
That possible sunset clutch actually hatched out.
And the one thing I didn't actually even mention
was the fact that the male was actually
a scaleless head that was possible head sunset.
So, you can right here, you can see
that's a scaleless head animal and, of course,
the super is solid scaleless.
So, there's one beautiful example right here,
and I'm just gonna go through these
and see how many scaleless heads there actually are.
And you can see on this one right here, even,
that it's just a little bit of missing scales.
That's actually still a scaleless head.
You can have just a little missing scales,
or you can have almost an entire head scaleless.
Another one, so, so far, our ratio has been good.
There's been three out of three so far
have been scaleless head.
So, we may not have hit the sunset, but we'll at least
hit the scaleless stuff.
This one is just a complete normal.
You can see no abnormalities whatsoever
when it comes to scalation on the head.
So that's a normal...
Ah, here is definitely another really cool scaleless head
animal right here.
You can see all those missing scales on the head.
And, again, that's in incomplete dominant mutation
that I brought out of Africa many years ago,
proved it out to be scaleless.
Looks like a normal, a normal, and then the last one here,
yep, another scaleless head right here.
So you can see all those missing scales,
and, again, when you breed these together
one in four, on average, will be completely scaleless.
Now we haven't produced scaleless for a while,
and I don't even know if we're going to
to be totally honest with you
'cause they do need a little more care,
kind of like the silky bearded dragons.
And we just kinda stayed away from them,
but we do still produce some scaleless head stuff.
These are actually scaleless that are possible,
possible hets for sunsets.
Down in the dungeon, and that means one thing.
♪ Egg time ♪
And this is actually a really cool animal here.
The first time this girl has ever laid eggs,
and I produced her about three years ago
and raised her up, so I'm pretty excited about
this clutch of eggs.
This is a ghost spinner, so this is a recessive hypo
that is a pinstripe, and it's a spider.
And she's actually bred to a lemon blast ghost
so should produce some really cool babies here.
So let's just go ahead and see what mama has going on here.
Again, first time clutch, all in all, pretty good.
There is one little slugger here.
But I tell you what, not bad at all.
So let's just go ahead and get these eggs in here.
Again, there was one little slug.
I'm gonna remove this top little egg here.
These are pretty fresh, so they come off pretty good.
So that's awesome.
Two, four, five good eggs, one little slugger,
not bad for a first time female.
And like I said, it's always special when you remember
when you produced the animal, and it was like
oh my god it's so cool.
And now you finally come full circle,
and now she's got a clutch of eggs.
And there should be some really good banger animals
out of there.
Again, a bunch of hypo stuff, hypo pins, hypo spinners,
hypo lemon blast, hypo, all kinds of stuff.
Regardless, it's a cool clutch, and I couldn't be happier
to start my day that way.
This next clutch is a pretty simple clutch
to be totally honest with you.
It looks like she doesn't have all her eggs
wrapped up either.
So I'm gonna just steal this one egg
before we even move on right here.
Big egg too.
But this is actually a het ghost female
just bred to an extreme banana.
That extreme banana's just kind of a reduction of pattern.
It works really well with things like pinstripes
and a few other things.
So we could get a whole combination of cool,
like bananas, extreme bananas, stuff like that.
Looks like a beautiful clutch.
Just gonna kind of slowly work this girl off her eggs.
See what we can do here, pull these eggs off.
And we'll go ahead and get these in here.
Looks like we've got a couple pretty good boob eggs here.
Again, what ends up happening, obviously you can see
the different of the size of this egg compared
to this egg right here.
And you're gonna have a much smaller baby.
But at the same time, they should hatch fine.
I find it weird when we have clutches like this.
It's not that common that you have
such a huge variety of sizes.
You've got these two monster eggs here,
a couple other eggs, and then you've got a kind of
midsize egg, a couple smaller eggs.
It's just kinda weird how that works,
so in this clutch when it does hatch,
each one of these eggs is gonna hatch
a different size baby.
This might be a 75 or 80 gram baby,
whereas this might be a 35 or 40 gram baby.
But all of them typically do well and stuff like that.
So regardless we have two, four, six, eight, nine
perfect eggs, well semi-perfect eggs and two boob eggs,
but they'll hatch out completely fine.
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Certainly another experience is this experience
right here where you can actually get out
and mess around with Ivy, take pictures.
Definitely I think, again, we might take her out more often,
but to have a special event where you know
at this particular hour you're gonna get a chance
to kinda interact with Ivy like this.
And it's just absolutely incredible.
I mean, look at this girl.
It's the most insane experience you could ever imagine.
And you know, again, just kind of thinking how we can
fill each one of those hours with something special.
Now, again, remember the rest of the time you walk around,
you look at everything.
You do everything you always do.
There's just maybe a special event that lasts five minutes,
10 minutes, sometimes maybe even 15 minutes.
But we want you guys to get the majority of the zoo
in as well, but maybe something really cool
that you can look forward to.
And, again, on the calendar each hour will have
a specific event, so you can book in advance.
So I don't know, just thoughts.
I want to know from you guys what events do you want to see?
I mean, go down in the comments and let me know
what specific event from The Reptarium would you
want to come for for that.
And in the meantime, tickets are on sale
at thereptarium.com
I wanted to show you guys one of our latest ambassadors
here at The Reptarium.
This is actually we call him Gramps.
The reason we call him Gramps is that he's pretty old.
He's about 15 years old right now.
This is an albino king rat snake.
These guys are native to China and just a really cool snake.
We've bred these for many years,
and they're very interesting.
A lot of times they were a little bit high strung,
but you can tell Gramps is really calmed down
in his old age.
It's just cool 'cause they have these
kind of really keeled scales.
They're really rough, very like kind of cobra like,
to be totally honest with you
and just a really long colubrid snake.
These guys can get up to eight, nine feet long
believe it or not.
But Gramps fathered a lot of clutches in his days,
but he's very tired for the last two or three years,
and we decided it's such an interesting snake,
why not bring it over here to The Reptarium
and let people really enjoy it as much as we have
for all these years.
So, again, a snake that you won't see too often.
Definitely not a common snake by any stretch.
So kinda cool to have Gramps back over here
at The Reptarium, and hopefully people will enjoy him
as much as we have.
The other day we actually had
our first leopard gecko hatch.
And now...
- We've got a lot hatched.
(laughing) - [Brian] Oh my god.
Look at all these babies that are starting to hatch.
- [Jessica] There's about 24 of them, I think.
- [Brian] 24 of them.
- [Jessica] This one started to just peek out.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, let's take a look.
Oh, and it looks like, wow, what is, is that a,
whoop, there he goes.
- [Jessica] Everyone's running everywhere.
- [Brian] Everyone's good.
Is this one right here,
that's a Mack snow murphy's patternless?
- [Jessica] Yep.
- Oh my god, that's good.
Look at that bold stripe coming out here.
Wow, there's some wacky patterns.
And, of course a bunch of the geckos just came out,
but look at how cute that is, that little head.
Look at how cute that little nose poking out.
This one's halfway out.
Oh my god,
they are so cute. - You guys.
- Yeah, well now we've pretty much...
- Now I've gotta wrangle everybody.
- [Brian] Oh my god. - [Jessica] That's okay.
- [Brian] I'm sorry, Jessica, I'm sorry.
I gotta look at this one right here though,
just 'cause it's a...
I'm a sucker for like the real light colored ones
and stuff like that.
- [Jessica] That one's probably gonna be a super raptor.
- [Brian] So this is a super raptor.
Look at that, just basically patternless.
You can see the red eyes.
Oh my god, that thing is cool.
And these patterns are getting really cool.
- Yeah, these ones are actually
kind of weird, the F1.
So that was from a blazing blizzard to blazing blizzard,
so it's like, it should've been all blazing blizzard.
I'm not sure what happened.
- [Brian] And instead we got some tremper albinos.
Wow, that's crazy.
So as you guys can see, we are in full bloom
when it comes to to leopard geckos,
and unfortunately, I messed Jessica up.
- Ah...
- Let all the geckos out. - I've done that before,
so I know where they go.
- Okay, good, excellent, so good stuff.
So these guys will get up and hey keep checking
the website 'cause I mean, there's gonna be tons
of leopard geckos on the site this year,
some really good production.
Keep up the good work.
- Awesome.
- Guess what time it is?
♪ Egg time ♪
And we're gonna start with this actually albino
that is het blizzard scaleless and is bred
to a blizzard corn snake.
Let's see what she's got going on.
Beautiful snake.
Look at the color on that animal right there.
That is absolutely amazing.
Again, this is like an albino,
but it's really more like a candy cane
with more orange instead of the red.
The real candy canes are really red,
but this one's kinda orange with white on it.
Very beautiful snake.
It's actually bred to this animal right here,
which is a solid white snake,
which is that blizzard corn snake.
Absolutely wonderful, so let's see how many eggs she has.
She's got two, four, six, seven good eggs.
And, again, this is a second clutch,
so that's pretty good.
She's done for the year.
She did really well for us this year.
This next clutch is actually a blood red
that's het snow scaleless corn snake.
So this should be really cool,
and it's bred to a blood red scaleless
that is actually het or snow.
And you can see just how absolutely incredible this is.
This is actually going into shed too,
so it's even more beautiful when it's out of shed.
So let's see how many eggs she has.
I hope it's gonna be a good clutch.
Again, this is a second clutch.
Most of the stuff we're gonna pull now
are going to be second clutches.
And, again, you can see that blood red
or what they call diffused corn.
Really interesting kind of side patterns
are a little bit muted out.
As they get older, they turn more and more red.
Looks like we have a little bit of a mixed bag.
The majority of the eggs look good.
But we do have a couple little sluggers here.
We'll take this one out, this one out.
We'll take this one out,
and it looks like a couple on the other side.
But we'll just go ahead start pulling the good eggs
out over here, put them in the egg box.
These look all really good.
These look good.
And ultimately this one looks good here.
So it looks like we have four or five slugs,
but we also have two, four, six, eight, nine good eggs.
So all in all, pretty good.
Again, second clutch is the fertility isn't quite as good,
but that's really a beautiful second clutch in all honesty.
So she's done for the year and gonna get ready
for brumation here in a few months.
- Today I wanted to give you guys a little bit
of an update on my boy, Beetlejuice.
I wanted to let you guys know
that he's doing really, really well.
He has fattened up, and I'll let you guys know
at a later time as far as his weight change.
But, boy, it's a surprising one for sure.
But to be honest with you guys, behavior wise,
he hasn't really been coming around the way
I would like him, in at least the rate I would like him.
Now, again, we don't want to rush anything
with this dude here.
But for a fact, I think we needed to sort of change
up with a bit of a different plan of action.
My new idea is that I've noticed a lot of his behavior
has been sort of like almost been curious motivated
and not necessarily food motivated.
So like every time he sees me walking by, he sees
something else, he's always sort of like at the window
sort of checking out, going hm, what's going on.
And so like pretty much I had seen that a number of times
to think I kinda wanna encourage that obviously.
We all wanna see him, right?
You guys wanna see him when you come
to The Reptarium, right?
What I'm going to do is I'm going to start,
every time I see him starting to get,
and I want him right here.
I don't mean right here, and I don't mean right here.
I mean I want him right here.
So when I see him right there, I'm gonna,
the moment I see it, I'm gonna run get some food,
open this bad boy up
and immediately feed him, encourage that.
It positively reinforces every time he does it
to the point where he like, just like he's normal,
so you guys see him right now where he's a little bit
like interested what we're doing.
Like he sees my active movement.
(screams)
Like obviously you can tell he's certainly,
certainly curious, so we wanna motivate him
to be more curious.
We want him to think there's no reason at all
for him to think when a hand goes in there
that he should run.
He should just think, hand goes in there,
I'm probably getting fed or something to that realm.
It's not gonna be anything I should be afraid of.
I'm just gonna check out.
I'm gonna be more curious as to what's going on.
It's gonna be a really lotta, lotta fun,
especially when we get that clock monitor.
Especially when we get that in there,
it's gonna be another one we're gonna actually
do the same thing we're doing here.
Take it slowly but really, really show you guys
every little step of the way of what we're doing
and how we're doing it.
- It's always amazing to see the evolution
of The Reptarium and this kind of new birth,
this new idea where I want the best experience
for every single person that comes through the door.
So I hope that you guys will like it.
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