- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
You know, I've had snow-blind, the water monitor,
here for about a week and a half or two weeks,
and there has been so much drama behind it.
So I wanna clear the kinda water a little bit,
if you so speak.
So, when I got this animal,
I bought it from a guy named Evan
and really didn't know much about it
other than the fact that it is absolutely beautiful.
I have no interest in breeding these animals,
as a matter of fact,
I had the opportunity to buy a pair of 'em,
if I wanted to breed,
and I just wanted to get a male
that was super, super cool
because it's so absolutely incredible.
Well, I didn't really know the back history
and what I had said,
was that there was an albino
that was caught in the wild,
a snow-blind type of animal,
and then they produced hets
and then they bred the hets out, I suppose,
and produce the snow-blinds.
And that these were the first babies
that were actually being sold.
That's what I thought,
I didn't know the whole back history.
Well, it turns out that the actual guy,
his name is Danny he's from an Instagram account
called albino_salvator_breeders,
kinda got really upset
because he was the actual breeder of this animal.
The truth is,
is that I always give people credit,
so I apologize that I didn't give him credit for it,
I didn't know that he produced it.
The other thing is,
I didn't really understand the back history.
So apparently, yes, there was an albino
that was a wild caught, right?
But apparently, it wasn't a snow-blind,
it was just a T-negative albino.
This is where it gets weird,
even with me, genetically,
because I understand genetics tremendously
and this doesn't make sense.
Apparently, what has been said,
is that he actually bred the albino,
produced hets, like I had mentioned,
but then produce more albinos,
but they weren't snow-blind.
But when he was able to breed the albino to albino,
T-neg to T-neg, they produce snow-blind.
So, almost like it was a super version of the albinos,
at least, that's what I understand.
Again, I don't know if I'm 100% accurate,
this is what I've gotten from all the people
that I've talked to about the particular thing.
So listen, typically,
when you have a recessive mutation
like a T-negative albino,
you can produce T-negative albinos
from producing an albino to a het
or a het to a het or whatever the case may be.
What he's saying is that,
when you actually breed albino to albino,
somehow, accelerates,
and goes from an albino to a snow-blind.
So theoretically, there was never a snow-blind albino,
the patriarch or matriarch,
whatever the case might have been,
was an albino, but it wasn't a snow-blind.
It was until he bred albino to albino
that he produced actual snow-blind animals,
at least, that's what I understand about the situation.
Unfortunately, it caused so much drama
'cause I just didn't know,
and I told you guys what I thought was gonna happen
in all the 35 years of genetic experience, I had,
apparently, he got really upset
that number one, I didn't credit him,
which I do apologize,
I didn't know you even produced them,
so now there's your credit.
But number two,
I don't know why it turned into such a drama
where it was like people were so mad at me,
like somehow, I was lying and doing a bunch of stuff,
I didn't live on anything,
I just bought a cool animal,
didn't really care that much about the back history of it
'cause it was just gonna be an animal ambassador,
I was never gonna breed it,
I was never gonna sell babies.
And maybe, I should have done more research,
I have no idea,
I was just saying what made sense, right?
Animals from Indonesia,
probably came from albino,
bread to the hets and then blah, blah, blah, blah.
So regardless, it created a tremendous amount of drama
over the last week and a half,
where I was getting attacked constantly.
And listen, I don't care about that,
you guys know, I don't care when there's negativity,
it's just the way it is.
But I didn't understand why it had to be that way
because now I'm making the record clear,
I'm telling you what I think I know,
and if I'm wrong, again,
please tell me I'm wrong again.
But I don't think I am,
I think I finally have the story straight.
Nevertheless, this is an amazing animal,
Hiccup is incredible.
And it's just a shame that the reptile hobby
sometimes has to have so much drama
'cause we're all in it together, guys.
The fact is is that,
Danny did an amazing job producing incredible animals
enough for me to bring it
all the way from Indonesia here to The Reptarium,
I mean, that's pretty incredible, right?
That I saw the animal over in Indonesia,
I loved so much that I was willing to pay over in Indonesia,
basically, what they cost here in the States
because they were so much more beautiful,
and I just thought it was incredible.
So, regardless, drama, drama, drama,
I hate it, I don't like to be involved in drama,
I don't even like to talk about drama,
but at the same time I wanted to get the record straight
so that I'm giving credit to the right person
and also telling the story
of how they actually produce snow-blind.
So, there you have it,
that's it I'm not talking about again,
Hiccup is gonna be talked about
only as an amazing animal,
not as the genetic or drama that it caused.
I just caught this and I thought I would share it with you.
This of course is Cupcake, the boa constrictor,
and oftentimes, people think of big, giant boa constrictors
as animals that don't climb and stuff like that.
But I'm telling ya this animal climbs like,
and this is a giant boa,
I mean, it's as big of a boa as I've ever seen,
and she is always up on the branches,
up here, climbing all over the place.
So it just goes to show you that,
we don't really realize how important it is
to give these animals the room that they need
in order to climb,
to really give them that mental enrichment
and just exercise that they need.
If they're a big lump
just sitting on the bottom of an enclosure,
they're not getting the exercise that they probably need
to be healthy, right?
And I just think it's amazing
when you see a 70, 75 pound boa constrictor,
climbing up on branches like this.
And I've been told, from friends of mine,
like Tom Crossley and Chris Gillette,
that literally, they have caught
most of their boas in trees, not on the ground.
So, I just love it,
and I just thought I would share with you guys.
And just another example
of what I was just talking about with the boas.
Look at Predita, just perched up here,
just loving life.
Again, reticulated pythons do a lot of climbing
in the wild, in particular.
When we caught ours down in Labon Baiju in Astana Lar
it was in a cave,
but they were mainly up on the walls,
like six, eight feet in the air.
We only caught one that was on the ground.
So, retics love to climb too,
and again, look at how amazing Predita looks.
Guess what?
I got an early Christmas present.
You know what?
This is actually from Facebook.
I Have no idea what it is.
Oh, I should say, Meta, by the way,
the tag actually said, Meta.
I have no idea what they've sent me,
but it's pretty cool,
I just figured I'd unbox it with you guys
and see what we have here.
Look at this, Meta for Creators.
Let's see what we got.
All right, what did they send?
12 days of holiday cheer.
Some sprinkles?
So I got stuff cookies, obviously.
Making cookies.
We've got a little,
oh, it looks like a Reese's pieces cups type of thing.
Got some recipes here.
We've got, what is this?
What is it?
This is chocolate.
Oh, so this is the chocolate and the peanut butter
to make the Reese's and then all of these.
Some beautiful socks, oh my gosh,
these things are, are these are mittens or socks?
I don't know, I'm gonna take a look.
I'll look at these man.
Oh my gosh, these are snugly.
That is amazing.
So I got a couple pair of socks
and it looks like I've got a candle.
It's old school, I love it, man.
I mean, it's super, super cool.
Yep, it looks like we've just got a candle here,
Lori loves candles, so that's great.
I think that is it for that box.
So I just thought I would share with you guys.
It's always awesome
when a platform appreciates you and gives you stuff.
So I chose these socks, put these on right there.
Oh, so comfy.
- Oh, boy, chew this.
No, no.
Don't.
Oh, goodness.
Here we go, so up like that, don't.
God, it's a lot of handiness going on right there.
Alright, good.
Stay, stay.
You're so quick, man.
You're not giving me time.
Oh, got monitor juice in my mouth.
Awesome.
Pink, perfect, toothless.
Absolutely amazing.
Right here.
Pink, run.
Oh no, right here.
Perfect.
He's getting so big 'cause he grows.
One last one for your big butt.
Packed, dropped,
and loaded.
Perfect.
- It's been a few weeks since the multicincta
actually got moved into this new enclosure,
looks absolutely incredible.
Loves to hang out in this little thing right here.
Hey buddy, what are doing silly monkey?
Come on.
Oh, you look so incredible.
Look at this animal,
you guys know that I'm a boiga nut for sure.
Of course, mangroves and stuff like that.
And this multicincta is incredible
with all the yellow bands, jet black shiny,
absolutely, incredible.
But again, we moved it into this enclosure
and it seems to be thriving like you can't believe.
So, it's cool to see this animal go,
but it's gonna eventually get like five or six foot.
So, it will eventually get a much larger enclosure
than this, as it gets bigger.
You guys know that our animals are in brumation,
but actually, these ones here
are ones that are just about big enough
to go into brumation,
but we wanted to feed 'em just for a handful more weeks.
So they're almost ready to go.
And there's just like some scalers,
corn snakes that are absolutely amazing.
Again, just on that course breeding, right?
Not quite there,
so we'll feed it for another few weeks
and then actually put 'em down.
Another note black eye,
which is a Tarahumara Mountain Kingsnake.
Of course, we have the Mexican black kingsnake,
got a false water cobra here that is,
look at that, look at an animal right there.
Whoo, doggy, look at that,
flatten out like that?
Oh gosh, look at it.
That a perfect example of a false water cobra,
and that's why they call 'em false water cobras, obviously.
It's because they have that cobra hood, right?
But the truth is they do have a mild venom,
but nothing too absolutely terrible at all.
But there's a whole bunch of other stuff too.
We've got, this guy's here,
this is the pyofecia cox eye,
which are really absolutely amazing.
And I'm really excited about this.
It's been several years since we actually produced
the Japanese rattlesnakes
or Kunashir Island rattlesnakes, actually.
These are what they call climacophora,
but we actually, have an albino male
and this is actually a het female.
So, we can produce some more of these guys
and some albinos too.
And they're just super cool.
Again, it's been a number of years since we produced them,
so I'm super happy that we actually have a female
that's up to size breed for the first time.
So, these guys again,
will get fed over the next week
or maybe two or three weeks go off of food
and then get into brumation,
just brumate for maybe a month or something like that.
And hopefully, we can get these guys to breed.
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- It's waffles everybody.
Dude, I just was about to say, "I want waffles."
Come on.
I know you move a little bit quicker than.
Great, you guys, your legs are longer.
Come on, come on.
Come on, big boy.
You got that?
Good boy.
Nice and slow.
Yeah, kill it, there.
Is the tail ticklish?
Another one?
Yes, little boy.
It's a dancer.
- While down in Florida,
we actually talked to Chris Gillette
about alligators shedding their teeth, right?
They have 80 teeth and they'll typically shed their teeth
about every two years.
Well, snakes actually shed their teeth too.
And green tree pythons are no exception to that.
My buddy Mark, over at Texas Chondro
actually, sent me a bag of adult green tree python teeth.
It's pretty cool.
I actually have reptileteeth.com
and I always say,
I wanna do something with these teeth.
I don't know what I wanna do,
maybe some jewelry or something.
I'm not exactly sure.
I just think reptile teeth are really cool,
and I think the same thing with alligators too,
like what can we do that's amazing?
So let me know in the comments,
what you think we can do with these teeth
that maybe someone would want or something on that line.
I just think they're too cool
to just waste and throw away, right?
But I appreciate Mark sending 'em through.
They are absolutely awesome to think that that one day,
these guys were in the mouths of some green tree pythons.
So I had a tour that actually came in yesterday
and they brought us a bunch of freeze dried stuff.
This is from Fancy Freeze,
it's actually fancy-freeze.com.
It's pretty cool.
So, I tried these yesterday
and oh my gosh, they were good,
but Lori wouldn't try 'em,
so you're gonna try them today?
- I don't know.
- These are freeze dried.
I mean, I'm telling it is so good.
This is freeze dry cheesecake.
Give it a try, seriously.
- Are you gonna eat it those?
- Well, I'll eat it, yeah, look.
(Lori laughing)
- Yeah, I guess you will eat it.
- That's good, it's astronaut food.
- It literally looks, it feels like styrofoam.
But you'll clearly eat again.
- Yeah, it's good.
It's good, right?
It tastes like cheesecake.
I think it's really, really good.
- That's very weird.
The more it melts, the more it does,
but that's a really weird consistent.
- It's a weird texture, it is, but it's good.
So I wanna try two more things real quick.
We've got actually freeze dried Milk Duds
that's gonna be weird. - That's a Milk Dud?
- That's what they say.
Here's a Milk Dud for you.
Oops, you dropped it.
- This looks like a pork rind,
it doesn't look like a Milk Dud.
- That is even better.
It's good, it is good, it is so good.
Oh my God, it is melting in mouth.
That's good. - That's weird.
I just don't know,
that I believe that's a Milk Dud.
- That tastes like a Milk Dud
and it's amazing.
- How does a Milk Dud turn into that?
- I don't know, but it's amazing.
Skittles. - Skittles?
You see, they're kind of exploded.
- Freeze dried Skittles,
I'm gonna take a red.
These are so good, man.
I'm so shocked.
- Wow. - Wow.
- This just what happens like with dry ice or whatever?
- I guess so, I don't know how they do it,
but it's cool.
So I appreciate you guys dropping these off.
Got a couple other things to try.
Watermelons, happy.
Oh my gosh, it's gonna be really good.
Mango, yeah, this is banging.
- Here's like a donut.
- A Milk Dud donut?
- Yeah.
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