- [Brian] There you go sweetheart.
(laughs)
You getting a treat, girl?
I think she likes you, she's got you under control.
- Absolutely.
- [Brian] She's a beauty, isn't she?
- She's beautiful.
(hip hop music)
- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
As you can see, the light is just starting to come up.
I've been up for about a half hour,
I have an extremely busy day today,
so I'm just gonna take you guys along on the journey.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Though, the first thing I have to do,
is spend the next couple hours editing the video
so I can upload here at 9 A.M.
- [Man] Two hours later.
- I actually love editing,
it usually takes me two to three hours a day
to edit the vlog,
but it's something I really love.
I start each day reading comments and editing.
It just puts me in the right mood,
I just think it's cool, to get those
creative juices started.
Regardless, it's about 8:30 now,
so the edit went pretty good.
It's gonna be a really hectic day today.
We actually have four tours
back to back to back to back,
and then it takes me right up to The Reptarium open.
I have a bunch of animal work
I have to squeeze in there somewhere,
so I just figure I'm gonna
take you guys along on the journey.
As for now, we're headed to the shop
checking all the animals out,
making sure we're ready for our first tour.
(hip hop music)
I always talk about the first thing I do
when I come into BHB or The Reptarium, or whatever,
is just kind of look around,
just make sure everything is okay.
The first thing I notice is that
there's no smell, so I don't have to
worry about something like, what is that smell,
like, maybe we left a rodent,
or something like that, smells pretty good.
Other than that, I just kind of open up some drawers,
you know, make sure everything is looking good.
I mean, I do really just kind of
gawk at the animals a little bit to be honest with you.
Look at this Gray-banded Kingsnake here,
ooh doggy, that thing is absolutely incredible,
and again, when I first come in the morning
before everyone else, a lot of times,
it's really fun because I get the whole place to myself,
and I just kind of enjoy the animals.
Take a look at this Palmetto corn snake.
This is kind of like the Perdida of corn snakes, right?
Like the Karitek of corn snakes,
absolutely stunning, oh my god.
I've wanted those forever, I am so happy that I have them.
Again, just look around, make sure
everything's okay in the Coluber and gecko room,
and then I do the exact same thing down here
in the dungeon, so to speak.
Take a look at this Hypo Brazilian Rainbow Boa.
Ooh doggy, just kind of jumped out at me
as soon as I was walking in, and that's again,
I've said this so many times,
keep your eyes open people, you know,
look around, be perceptive, that kind of shows you,
because the way the animals act,
like for instance, I'm gonna give you a little hint,
if I was to walk down here and every animal
was at the front of the cage, that would tell me
that the hot spot that's at the back
of the cage is too hot,
because everything is pushing up the other way.
Now on the opposite side, if I see everything
is towards the back of the cage, I might say,
well maybe the temperature is a little bit too cool,
and everything's trying to hug the heat.
Regardless, there's this big Brazilian Rainbow Boa
that's about to get bred, and again,
this is the breeding season for the Rainbow Boas,
but regardless, those are little tells that I do
when I walk around and looking around.
I wanna see what the animals are.
If I hear a lot of rustling, I know that
things are maybe active in a way that could be good or bad,
if it's the breeding season, it could be active
because they're looking for males or females,
if it's not the breeding season,
maybe there's something going on with the heat.
So I always keep my eyes open, and my ears open
to make sure that I'm kind of
reading the animals as much as I can.
Look at RJ over here, RJ's actually gonna
come out later on at The Reptarium 100 percent.
I've already told a couple people that
tonight when we're open, we're gonna actually bring RJ out.
Again, I'll spend a little bit of time
looking around down here, I'll spend some time
looking around upstairs, just making sure
everything's okay before we head to The Reptarium.
But oh, I did want to show you you guys
something real quick, a hand full of people
been asking recently how Drama,
the double smiley faced Pied is doing,
doing absolutely incredible, I mean,
look at how big he's getting, he is so absolutely cool.
Okay, let's go ahead and head over to The Reptarium.
(hip hop music)
And then I do the same process over here.
Again, no real bad smells,
so I know everything's good there,
and I'm just kind of looking around,
again, doing the exact same thing,
kind of seeing what the animals are doing,
getting an idea of what's happening here.
Perdida looks absolutely incredible,
looks like she might be starting
to go into shed a little bit.
The alligators are out, just kind of chilling out,
I absolutely love those monkeys.
Oh, and look at Bellie, Bellie my girl,
I'll come pet you in a minute girl, promise.
Oh my god, it's gonna be an absolutely amazing day,
like I said, very hectic, because you gotta figure,
tours are an hour to an hour and 10 minutes long,
and there's four, back to back to back to back,
so that means that's about four and a half
to five hours of tours, just before we open
for the Reptarium, then we're open
for The Reptarium for five hours,
so I'm gonna squeeze in kind of animal work
and other stuff in between all the tours,
but listen, I know some people don't like the tours
because they're like, oh it's boring Brian.
The truth is, today is so busy, I can't do much else,
so I'm gonna bring you guys along on the journey,
and we're gonna have a good time together so.
Look at Karma, hey Karma, you're looking
beautiful this morning buddy.
I tell you, I absolutely love this place,
and I do have the best job in the world.
So I have my first tour here from Indiana,
and you're holding a Burmese python.
You just told ne that the only snake
you have held before was a corn snake?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] And so you were afraid of snakes?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] It's crazy, and now you've just
gotten over it, that's insane.
- Yeah, no no, I'm good, I'm good.
- Oh my god, that is so awesome.
So we're gonna have a good time just looking around.
Again, I've got four tours today,
so it's gonna be awesome,
but let's just keep on looking at animals.
We might as well jump right into the Bella.
- [Children] Aww.
(laughs)
- As always, you know, I call her over, she runs right over,
again, if you guys aren't watching the Bella Cam,
definitely go ahead, check out Reptile Live Cam,
put a link in the description, and you can watch her,
and again, you can see what just happened,
opened up the cage, call her, she comes right to me.
She's like a puppy dog.
So by far, the most fulfilling part of my life
is things like this, you came in,
you were pretty kind of scared of things,
and now you're touching snakes, right?
You want to touch him real quick?
And now look it, he's already just touching snakes.
I mean, such a huge improvement, just in a short time.
I'm so proud of you bud, you're doing so good,
and again, that's what I love about this job.
Awesome, you're doing so good bud.
I know, he is amazing, isn't that awesome?
- [Man] He is so sweet.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that is awesome.
- [Boy] Oh, his tail.
- It's a good day.
- While Brian's over at The Reptarium, busy,
I'm over here at BHB going through our adult Colubrids.
Not really gonna start pairing things until next week,
but I decided to go through, look through a few things,
and throw a couple males in with females.
Things like, the garter snakes,
and it looks like these guys
are enjoying each other's company,
and snuggling up.
So I think that it was a good choice
on my end to do that.
Those were Albino Checkered Garters, het for granite,
we also have a Granite Garter, believe it or not,
about 10 minutes after, oh she's very interested,
about 10 minutes after I had thrown him in,
I went back, and just peeked open the cage,
and they were actually locked up.
So that tells me, okay, yup, good time to start
throwing things in.
So I thought that was exciting
that we're already seeing some breeding there.
- The next group is here, you are amazing,
thank you so much, what do you think about Sunrise?
- I love Sunrise.
- And these guys came all the way out from Cincinnati,
and you said it was a surprise, you didn't even know.
- It was, she had no idea.
- Oh my god, we're gonna have a great time,
I can't wait to show you guys around.
Just a little Perdida love going on.
Now let me ask you, one animal you wanted to see,
what was it, I know you said you wanted to see a bunch,
but what as your favorite one?
- I definitely wanted to see Salt and Pepper.
- Oh, okay cool, that's good,
we got those for sure.
I always love to take Salt and Pepper out, obviously.
You'll love Salt, you'll love Pepper, let's go do it.
- I love Salt, she's so pretty.
- So I've never seen Bella do this,
we had the glass open, and we were over there,
and she literally ran up to the front just like this,
and then she started shaking her head,
kind of more like a green iguana,
like she was like, come over, come over.
As soon as I came over, she stopped,
and she's just amazing, I've never seen her do that before,
but you actually brought her some blackberries
that I know she's gonna love, so go ahead, she'll love it.
- [Girl] Here you go Bella, you want a blackberry?
- [Brian] There you go sweetheart.
(laughs)
You getting a treat, girl?
- [Girl] I remember how much you like blackberries,
don't you Bella?
- There you go, sweetie.
(laughs)
But again, that was such a trip,
I've never seen Bella kind of call me over like that before,
that was absolutely adorable.
- [Girl] You go the tweezers, silly.
- You silly monkey.
It is now 1 o'clock, we went through a couple tours,
had an absolutely great time.
Again, that first tour was unbelievable,
because there was one guy that was kind of afraid of snakes,
but he had kind of gotten over his fear,
but he had never held anything other than a corn snake,
and then the younger kid,
literally was terrified when he walked in,
both of them held everything, and it was so cool,
especially to see the younger kid
that literally went from like,
being terrified, would even touch a snake,
to wanting to hold everything.
I tell you, I love days like today,
but hey, we're still moving on.
I've got my next people here,
and we're about to have some fun.
- Another pair of animals I decided to throw together today
just because I couldn't wait,
were our Mandarin Rats.
So I only have a pair of these guys right now,
breeding size, and it doesn't look like
anything is going on yet, but these are really pretty.
That's the female there, the really light one,
and there's the male there, the little bit darker.
I'm really hoping we get lucky,
and get at least one clutch of eggs from those guys.
They've been a fan favorite of mine forever,
so it'll be really exciting
if maybe we can maybe produce some of those babies.
- You might remember these guys from yesterday's vlog.
They were here from Alabama,
so you guys had a tour this morning,
and the two wishes were hold Ben and Jerry of course,
and then you wanted to hold the big snake.
- We agreed to it, yep.
- Alright, so I think we're gonna
try to get Daisy out here after this.
So we're gonna end one tour with Daisy out,
and start another tour from some people
from Pittsburgh, way to go Steelers.
So we're just gonna play with Daisy a little bit
before we end this, and we'll take it from there.
You want to get a picture with her, right?
- Absolutely.
- Alright, we'll make sure to make that happen.
So we're definitely gonna make dreams come true
the best we can today.
What do you think, man?
- This is incredible.
- [Brian] She's heavy, isn't she?
I think she likes you, she's got you under control.
- Absolutely.
- [Brian] She's a beauty, isn't she?
- She's beautiful.
- [Woman] Hey buddy.
- Of course, Elvis coming out,
people always trip out about Elvis.
Of course, it's always just weird to have
like a little dinosaur just walking around.
What do you guys think?
- [Boy] It's cool.
- You said that this was
the snake you were the most excited about, right?
Of course, Perdida, and the thing I love
about this the most is look it,
it matches his shirt.
Like it almost just blends right in.
Do you have Perdida, where's she at?
(laughs)
Alright guys, it is 3:15, just ended the last tour,
now we have to get ready for The Reptarium.
Have to make sure that everything is clean and ready to go.
I've obviously got Bruce, I've got Andrew,
I've got Jessica here, they're working their way,
and I'm just gonna kind of see what's going on.
Ooh doggy, I tell you what,
not even a minute break since early this morning,
oh my god, what a crazy busy day, but it was great,
and tonight should be absolutely incredible
here at The Reptarium, so buckle up,
it's not over yet, we've got a long way to go.
- So the last pairing I did today
while I was going through, was actually a corn snake one.
I don't know why, I just chose this guy
because I thought he was really pretty,
and kind of cute, and I was like,
what the heck, let's just throw him in.
So I decided to put both scaleless corn
in with some poss het females.
They're together, so that's always a good sign.
We'll see if this guy's interested in breeding or not.
Well, I think this season is gonna be
off to a really great start,
I'm really excited for two days from now,
when I throw all the males in,
get this season officially kicked off.
- And again, I know some people said
that the tours are boring,
I actually like them, I hope that you guys
did enjoy at least going through
as much as I could this morning.
I tried not to over film it,
but the fact is, is that's just really what I love.
Again, seeing people get excited about the animals,
and people coming all the way from Alabama,
and Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati,
just to see animals, I mean,
how freaking awesome is that?
Regardless, because I was so busy today,
I couldn't really tell any other story of the day,
because it's been crazy, and like I said,
with that said, I only have like a half hour,
and were opening up, so it's gonna be bonkers tonight.
You ready?
- Let's do this.
- Yup.
- Nope.
- Yes.
(laughs)
- [Brian] Hey guys, how are you?
Alright guys, come on in.
You're good, hi how are you,
good to see you guys, thanks for sticking around,
I appreciate you guys a lot, come on in, come on in.
How you doing, how you doing, hi it's good to see you.
How you doing, welcome, welcome, hi guys.
- [Man] How you doing?
- [Brian] Welcome, good to meet you guys,
thank you for coming, how are you.
Hi, how's it going, man?
It's actually now 5:30, we opened up at 4 o'clock,
but I'll be honest with you,
it was absolutely so busy that
I didn't even have a chance to pick up my camera.
Slight break in the action,
but still extremely busy, tons of people here.
Whoa check that out.
Getting the forest dragon out.
Oh my gosh, Andy is looking so good.
- Doing really well.
- [Brian] Oh my god, that's awesome.
Hey guys, how are you?
Alright, what do we got going on over here.
We've got Bruce over here, Bruce, how's it going today?
- Oh, we're rocking and rolling.
- [Brian] Rocking and rolling, alright.
You guys having an alright time, alright cool.
How you doing, hi.
Looks like we got Casper out over.
Oh, we finally got Casper out, finally, alright.
Fully absolutely crazy, having a great time,
definitely thought I would have a chance to do
a little bit more vlogging tonight,
but tell you what, it's been gongshow for sure.
Come to that time of the night where
we're gonna go ahead and get RJ.
I told a bunch of people I was gonna bring him over
so no matter how busy it is, I'm gonna go get RJ.
It's pretty cool, it's been about two weeks
since I've brought him over to The Reptarium.
So what do you say, we go get RJ,
and have some fun.
I've got my victim here because, you know,
I'm gonna be honest with you,
pulling RJ out is fun and all that,
but then you get wet, and it's kinda dirty a little bit.
So you know, you came a long ways,
might as well experience this right?
Then we're gonna head over to The Reptarium.
Ready?
Look at this, it's like he's a pro.
You kidding me right now?
Now I feel bad, I mean normally
I have a hard time with this,
RJ is like, acting like a baby.
Hey RJ, look at me, hey, hey , hey.
Look at me, look at me, yes, thank you buddy.
You okay, we're good?
Thank you, bud.
(hip hop music)
He's definitely not getting lighter,
I can tell you that much.
I think that in the next six to eight months,
I'm not gonna be able to carry him over here like this.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I think I gotta hit the gym a little harder.
(hip hop music)
Okay, I'm gonna put them in that area right here.
This is the deal guys, anyone that wants to take a picture
can come around and take a picture.
You can sit on this ride, remember we gotta
watch his head side, right?
Because these teeth right here are chompers, right?
So we want to make sure, now as far as adults go,
you guys can hold it, and I'll help you out,
but any kids that want to take a picture,
the only thing I ask is that you only come this way,
and we always protect this side of his head, right?
He's heavy, now I'm gonna go like this,
now RJ be good for me, alright?
Okay.
(hip hop music)
It's always amazing to have RJ out.
I mean, people just absolutely freak out
at how amazing he is,
but I don't want you guys to think
that I just randomly let people hold it.
I am constantly looking at every move he has,
and I know this animal inside and out,
and I've literally spent thousands and thousands
of hours with him, so with that said,
I think people have really enjoyed it.
It's time to get RJ back in his pond.
So at The Reptarium, I can only sum up
this day in one word, insanity,
because it was really fun.
Remember to be kind to someone guys,
I really do appreciate you,
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
(hip hop music)