- He's heavy, isn't he?
- Enough gecko stuff, gecko, gecko, gecko
(upbeat music)
Hey, good morning everybody, welcome to the Vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I have Casper here.
The Black Eyed Leucistic Reticulated Python
and he has a fresh shed and he looks absolutely wonderful.
I mean, just look at this snake. I absolutely love it.
Oh, this weekend we actually have a costume party
so we're really excited at the Reptarium.
Should be absolutely amazing,
whatever is going to happen there.
We just have a lot of stuff.
I have a family coming in from Houston, Texas today.
Very excited to hang out with them today.
But I wanted to share with you guys how beautiful
Casper is to start this amazing day.
Oh, and by the way, I am going to a concert,
I guess later tonight. Regardless, busy day
but it's going to be awesome.
So, we have a big date night tonight, huh Lori?
- [Brian] Who are we going to see?
- Luke Bryan, Sam Hunt.
- [Brian] What kind of music do they play?
- Country.
- [Brian] Country? What?
You're taking me to a country concert?
- Yes I am.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- Yeehaw! (laughs)
- I literally, have I ever heard these?
I never, I don't think I have a song, have I?
- Yes I guarantee you have heard some of their songs,
you just don't know who they are.
- Okay, so apparently Lori, myself and the one thing
that is kind of crazy is, we are open tonight
at the Reptarium so we are probably
going to be there at the very open
and then we are going to let the crew handle it.
I'm a little bummed that I'm not going to be there.
I know the crew is going to do a great job,
but I like being at the Reptarium.
But we're going to have some fun.
Oh, and by the way I do have to mention
that SeatGeek actually is the one
that is hooking us up with this,
so thank you very much SeatGeek.
If you guys don't know about SeatGeek, it is basically
an app that you can go on and you can buy tickets
to anything; sporting events, music events, whatever
entertainment you want. As a matter of fact,
they are so cool that they hooked us up with these tickets.
They are also allowing us to actually give you guys a promo,
so if you go on the app and go to the 'Me' tab,
you can actually enter your BARCHECK and you
get $20 off your first purchase so that is pretty awesome.
- That's awesome, I think I'm going to
buy some more tickets.
(Lori Laughs)
- As long as it's not to country concerts,
I'm okay with that,
but we're going to have a good time tonight.
Thank you SeatGeek. Again go to SeatGeek, go to the app
hit 'Me', BARCHECK, 20$ off whatever you're going to
so anyways we're going to have a good time with SeatGeek.
I'm looking forward to this country concert, kind of.
- Shut up.
(Laughter)
- So my Texas family is in the house.
So you guys came from all the way from Houston?
- Yes.
- Oh my Gosh. And your name?
- Christine.
- Sam Sr.
- Sam.
- Sam Jr. Alright we're going to have
some fun with these guys.
They are with us the whole weekend. Right?
- [Brian] You guys are going to hang out a little bit.
- Yes, sir.
- [Brian] So that is going to be awesome,
we are going to have a really good time.
- [Brian] Any requests of what you want to see?
You tell me, big snake wise right?
Okay, so I will tell you what we're going to do.
Later on we'll take Daisy out
- [Brian] and we'll play with Daisy, with you.
Does that sound cool?
(funky horn music)
- Sam has a rule, nothing that gets over 10 foot.
- [Brian] But you want an anaconda?
- Yes. (laughing)
- [Brian] I think you should be able.
- They don't get over ten foot.
(Sam Sr. Laughs)
- [Brian] Just, they don't get over ten foot, do they?
- [Sam Sr.] A little over ten meters.
(laughter)
- [Brian] Are we talking feet or meters.
What were we talking?
(more laughter)
- [Brian] My gosh, that's awesome.
People's reaction to scale as a first timer is always
interesting right? It's totally different than anything
you've probably ever held, right?
- [Sam Jr.] Yeah.
- [Sam Sr.] It needs lotion I guess,
what do you do with a snake?
(laughter)
- So, by now you guys know that I get excited
about everything. I get excited when I get animals,
I get excited when all kinds of stuff.
But I am excited because I got these here.
These are shop vacs for the Reptarium.
I know you're probably like why would you excited about it?
But I really am, because now I can have a wet one
that we can do all the water bowls.
I can have a dry one that we can use for you know,
whatever other maintenance we have
because right now we just switch back and forth.
Now I will say in all disclosure that I reached out
to DeWalt and they originally said they were going to
send me these guys for free and then they stopped
returning my emails.
So after a couple of weeks of reaching out to them,
like hey, are you going to send me those, I just decided
to buy it because you know we really needed them
and I couldn't wait any longer.
So here are the beasties. It's a stainless steel.
Looks awesome and can hold, I think, like 10 gallons
which is more than enough than we need.
So I think these are going to be amazing
and I think Andrea and Bruce are going to really enjoy them.
Let's go talk to Andrea.
- I'm up here.
- [Brian] Andrea, I got you a gift.
- Wow. Very Nice.
- [Brian] I know, don't say I never got you anything.
- No, it's a tough one, I like it.
- [Brian] (laughs) I have two of these, one for wet
and one for dry. So, you're good to go.
- Better then the other ones for sure.
Do they get to see the last one?
- [Brian] No, no, I'm embarrassed. I won't show them
the old one, its really embarrassing.
You're just playing around in Casper's cage?
- Yep, cleaning up. He shed out so we're hanging out.
- [Brian] Yeah, he looks good doesn't he?
- He looks great.
- [Brian] Oh my God, that's awesome.
So, there you go, Shop Vac.
(funky music)
We're ending the tour kind of on the big side
with Daisy here. (laughs)
- [Brian] The first thing you said
when you came in "I want to see big snakes".
So we're certainly going to take Daisy out.
I mean, how does she feel?
- [Sam Sr.] Heavy.
- [Brian] She's heavy, isn't she?
- [Sam Sr.] Yeah.
- [Brian] I mean, she's a lot heavier than people give
her credit for. She's a big snake.
Then again, it's just incredible
for me to be able to spend time with people
that you know, who you know are as equally as passionate
as I am about reptiles.
It's so cool they came all the way up from Texas
to visit with us. So, I'm looking forward time when we're
open as well as a little time tomorrow with them too.
It's going to be awesome.
As for now, we need to get ready to open the Reptarium.
Lori and myself are only going to be here for a short while
then we're off to a concert. Thank you SeatGeek.
- [Brian] Thank you so much seriously you guys are awesome.
Thank you for coming, it's awesome. Thanks man.
See you, you're stopping back again tonight right?
- Yes, sir.
- [Brian] Okay, we'll see you tonight. Thanks guys.
Perfect. I wanted to talk to you two, together.
- Why?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] I was actually offered a group of crested geckos.
Do you want to work with crested geckos?
- What kind of crested geckos?
- [Brian] They are supposedly really nice high end stuff.
They're like European and Canadian blood.
Supposed to be really nice. There is 80 adults.
- No.
- Oh my God.
- [Brian] 66 adults. 66 females and 12 males.
- No.
- Are you planning on getting rid of some of the Leopards?
Like, because I don't have time for that.
- You know, we don't really need those because you know why?
We've got Eric and Mary producing the killer Crested Geckos
for us.
- [Brian] That would be like a turn-key start-up.
We could be producing... How many do they produce?
- They produce a lot, like...
- That's way too much.
- [Brian] We could produce like probably
a couple of thousand. No?
- Who is? Who is this person?
- You'd be doing what we are doing with Leopards,
That's too many.
- [Brian] Who is what person?
- Who is this person who came to you with this?
- [Brian] Why?
- It wasn't through me.
(laughter)
- I am not on board.
- [Brian] Alright.
- Do not ship those, I swear to God.
- [Brian] So we're in agreement,I should
go ahead and get them then?
- Do you want to die today? Because no,
we are not in agreement. Even Jessica is like, no.
- Only if you're trading them for Leopard Geckos
because I don't have time for that.
- No, that's too much, we don't need that much.
- Who would take care of them?
- [Brian] So what you're saying is that I just have to
get rid of some Leopard Geckos and I have to find more time?
- Why don't you try to find the more time first?
- Yeah
- [Brian] Yeah okay. Good job alright, thanks guys,
I appreciate your cooperation.
- [Jessica] Talking about getting some more
- [Lori] We're talking about getting some other,
raising of Gargoyle, you're talking about getting Guccis
Like we don't need Crested.
- [Brian] I like Crested. I think it would be nice to have
a group of them.
- [Jessica] Right, you just said like a few weeks ago,
you didn't want any.
- [Lori] Exactly.
- [Brian] Because I didn't want to have a small group.
I want a big group.
- [Lori] No. No good.
Now was that through email they contacted you?
- [Brian] Troy's a friend of mine.
- [Lori] What friend?
- [Brian] Like I don't have friends? (Laughter)
- [Lori] That's not a friend.
- [Jessica] Where would you keep them though? Because...
- [Lori] Nowhere. That's what I'm saying. We couldn't even
take them.
- [Brian] The Crested Gecko room, next door.
- [Lori] No.
- [Brian] The whole room.
- [Lori] The whole room? We've already got
that whole basement already notched out for...
- And speaking of geckos, we have some amazing geckos still
I mean, we literally have a
couple of thousand amazing geckos to be honest with you.
This happens to be a bold stripe bell white and yellow.
Oh my gosh, is that thing crazy? (laughter)
How absolutely cute is that? This is one of those
hypo-snows that we hatched a couple of that just look
incredible. They have super cool patterns and as they get
bigger they are even cooler. Then take a look at thing here.
Oh my gosh, I absolutely love this.
This is actually a snow raptor. Oh my gosh.
This thing is so cool. As it gets bigger it might not
be quite as cool as it is as a baby because
some of that patterning is probably going to fade.
But right now that thing is smoking hot.
You know this isn't like some super rare animal
by any stance but I just love them.
This is actually a Tremper Albino Murphys Patternless.
So both of those are recessive traits and put together
they are just really cool. There is just something about
them that when you mix those two animals they just get
so gorgeous.
This little bugger here blows me away.
We actually produced a handful of these.
These are actually super snow Eclipse animals.
And they just come out super pied looking.
I mean this thing is crazy looking. Look at that.
This is as close to a pied leopard gecko
I think that you can get.
I mean, wow, that thing is crazy.
And again, we produced a handful of these guys.
So anyways that's a little update
on some of the beautiful geckos
and by the way, when I say beautiful geckos,
this whole aisle there is full of this type of gecko.
I mean, we have a lot of great ones on the website.
Okay, I know you guys are probably by now saying,
Alright Brian enough gecko stuff. Gecko, gecko, gecko.
But I did want to share with this. These are
the last three female leopard geckos that we are
hatching for the year. That's it.
No more female eggs left.
Right there, three little cute little monkeys there.
We actually have a couple incubated for males that are
still due to hatch and then we done with eggs.
It's crazy. We had thousands and thousands of eggs and
these are the last three females.
And the crazy thing is that Leopard Geckos are going into
hibernation and we are going be breeding them again in
just another couple of months.
And just like with the Leopard Geckos, the Colubrids are
about to go into hibernation as well.
I had mentioned that Eric and Mary are actually on
their honeymoon so he's not taking care
of the adult Colubrids which worked out perfect
because we had the last meal just before he left.
So now they are off of food. They will clean out for
the next probably three weeks or so.
Because what you want to have happen is when they go into
hibernation, their system basically shuts down so they
won't digest. So if they have any matter left, you know,
rodents or whatever the case is, it can actually kill them
because it will rot in their gut.
You want to clean them out for about three weeks
at normal temperature and then for a few days you want to
bring the temperature down a little bit then ultimately
put them into, you know, 55 degrees or so Farhenheit.
And they will stay that way for about three months before
we bring them back up.
The Leopard Geckos stay a little bit higher and they only
hibernate typically for about two months.
But regardless, Colubrids are about to go down.
This Mexican Black Kingsnake is absolutely gorgeous.
Speaking of which, I think we still have a handful of babies
that haven't been on the site yet, so bug Lori,
tell her to put them on the site if you guys are interested.
We're about 15 minutes away from opening up the Retarium
and you know this is our seventh weekend and I'm going to
be honest with you, still every time we open I think
maybe no one is going to show up, I know it's weird but I
still get nerves. But with that said, Friday nights, which
is what tonight is for us. I realize it's later for you
guys, is actually one of our slowest days.
So I don't expect it to be packed in here
and of course Lori and I will be at the concert,
so hopefully everyone holds the fort down.
I will leave my camera with Noah so he can document
a few things while we are gone.
So lets go ahead, get our last minutes things and
open up the Reptarium.
- [Brian] Dude, you're doing good, is it heavy?
(laughter)
- [Brian] He's awesome, you're so awesome.
As much as I hate to leave because it looks likes it's
going to be a really fun night here at the Reptarium.
Lori and myself are off to the concert.
I'm actually going to leave the camera with Noah.
Noah is going to document whatever is going on tonight
and I will see you guys at the concert I guess.
(music plays in background)
So we are at the concert, we've got floor tickets.
Near the stage. Lori is happy.
That makes me happy.
- [Noah] We're at the Reptarium here and we've got
some people holding Snazz. What do you guys think of him?
Do you love him?
- [Man In Blue] Oh, he's cute
- [Man In Purple] very friendly.
(laughter)
- [Noah] He is very friendly.
- [Man In Blue] He is saying hi to his neighbor up north.
- [Noah] Yeah, exactly. My boy Casper chilling in the back.
He's pretty beautiful huh?
- Oh my.
- He's definitely had a firm grip on my leg for awhile here,
but he's worked his way down. He's starting to let go.
- [Noah] Hey, you're alive so that's all that matters.
- Right.
(laughter)
- [Noah] You guys are taking this home right?
- Oh yeah, I'm just throwing it in the trunk real quick.
(laughs)
- [Noah] Exactly, he is so big,
you have to literally throw him in the trunk. There you go.
There you go. Things are going great here at the Reptarium.
Everyone loves everything.
That's how it's supposed to be.
- Just leaving the concert.
Now, I'm going to be honest with you.
I like Sam Hunt. I really thought he was pretty good.
But I don't understand why Luke Bryan is the big deal
in country.
(Lori laughs)
I know I'm offending a bunch of people but I think
he was like, I'm not a big country guy but...
- You don't get it because you're not a woman.
Like all the women just go crazy.
- Really?
- Yeah, I mean, it's not my thing but Jade informed me.
As you can see from the concert, he gets the girls.
- Whatever.
(Lori laughs)
- There was a lot of flannel in that place.
- Of course, its a country concert.
- So, we're heading home now.
Back home, I'm not a big country music fan, per se
but I am a fan of going out and having a good time with Lori
so we absolutely had a great night and honestly it wasn't
really that bad. I had a really good time and
thank you to SeatGeek for hooking us up.
Again, you can go on the link in the description.
You can get $20 off with the coupon code BARCHECK.
Go ahead and support SeatGeek, because they supported us
and save yourself a few bucks if you're buying a ticket
anyways, you might as well save yourself.
With that said, I'm going to go ahead and end the vlog and
wish you guys and absolutely amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
As always your support means the world to me and truly,
truly, truly, I love you guys so much.
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I will see you guys tomorrow.
(funky music)