- Look at this snake right here!
This is an amazing animal.
And the way it moves,
it actually goes and strikes like this.
It's absolutely incredible.
And this is actually like a mimicry animal.
I mean, wow, look at that snake!
That is absolutely amazing.
This is an African egg-eating snake right here.
And I tell you what.
It's mimicking an amazing snake
that I'm gonna show you a little bit later in this vlog,
and is the worst bite of any venomous snake
you could ever imagine.
But this little monkey here, ooh doggy!
That is cool as could be!
- I'm a snake.
(smooth music)
- This room has been dark for three months.
It's the colubrid brumation room, but it's about to change.
That's right.
Colubrids are out of brumation, and Jimmy is back!
Hey buddy, how are you doing?
- I'm a snake.
- Jimmy is definitely a hyper snake,
and right out of brumation,
it seems to not be happy with...
What are you doing, Jimmy?
I told it, I missed Jimmy for three months.
It was actually sleeping.
And now that it's awake, I think Jimmy's happy to see me.
Aren't you happy to see me, buddy?
Okay, don't, ow!
Jimmy's not so happy to see me.
Okay, you're going back here.
All right, Jimmy.
Tell what, Jimmy was absolutely hyped up today.
He's excited, as excited as I am!
Things are out of brumation,
which means that we're about to
get into the breeding season.
And there are some ripper snakes.
Take a look at this animal right here.
This is actually a South American tricolor hognose snake,
and we haven't produced these guys in about 10 years.
And we finally have a group of animals up to size
that are absolutely incredible.
Maverick, look at this female right here.
Shed out.
Now this shed probably doesn't really mean a whole lot,
because what ends up happening is
that after they're out of brumation,
for two to three weeks,
they'll go through a post-hibernation shed,
which is basically a follicle type of shed.
And this thing will start to grow follicles and eggs.
So we will take this shed out right here,
throw this over my shoulder.
This is what they call a zigzag tricolor hognose.
Absolutely incredible.
Look at this monkey right here!
The one thing I will tell you about colubrids
where they come of brumation
and you first start handling them, they musk.
Ooh, doggy.
Jimmy got me.
He not only bit me, but he musked me too.
This is actually a gray-banded kingsnake.
And we have some other adults up to size.
This is a new male that's just enough to breed.
I am so excited about getting into the breeding season,
getting eggs and stuff like that.
And we talked about mimicry with that egg-eating snake.
Now milk snakes will actually do a mimicry thing
that is like a coral snake, right?
That's actually a venomous snake.
And these guys actually mimic them, right?
Now the difference is, of course,
is that the saying is red next to yellow is a deadly fellow.
Red next to black is a friend of Jack.
Now there's a bunch of variations of that saying,
but you can see here,
red next to black means a friend of Jack.
So milk snakes are actually not venomous, obviously.
When you get to red next to yellow,
that can be a venomous snake.
But the truth is, even that's a little bit misleading,
'cause there are some venomous snakes
that have red next to black.
So my opinion to you is, hey, if you see a snake like this,
probably stay away from it in the wild.
And as far as all these amazing animals
coming out of brumation, what's the next steps?
- Now that the lights are on in here,
it's time to warm this place up
and start feeding the colubrids.
- Yeah.
- He's a snake!
Hey Mike, before you start getting going,
can we do the gators?
Do you know about the gators?
- I know of them.
- Do you know that you're cleaning them?
- Yeah.
- Why do you have that stuff in your hand
when you're supposed to be cleaning the gators?
- Was gonna feed these guys first.
- What's that knife for?
You try to threaten me?
- Sharpened it too!
- Whoa!
(Mike exclaims)
Listen, listen, if you don't mind,
could you please clean the gators?
- Those ones? - Those ones.
- Do you want to feed the tortoises?
- Yeah, I'll feed the tortoises.
Sounds fun.
It's okay.
Let's go, go clean the gators!
(Brian laughs)
- [Cameraman] Brian, what are you doing, bro?
- Animals are easy to handle,
but vegetables are very different.
Jesus!
- I carried that all the way from BHB
without dropping a single leaf.
- It's all right.
- You get over here, you drop everything.
- I'm okay.
This year's especially exciting,
because I'm taking over colubrid breeding.
That is right!
- You know, Brian,
it's about time you actually did some work around here.
- Things like this Mexican black kingsnake.
I'm the one that's gonna be breeding them this year.
I'm excited about it.
I used to breed all the colubrids
for years and years and years.
But the last four or five years, Lori has been doing it.
And I'll tell you what,
she just didn't do a good enough job, so I fired her.
That's not actually the truth.
The truth is is that she's just gonna be busy
doing other things.
I wish she would actually be doing it,
'cause she does an amazing job breeding colubrids,
but I'm excited for the opportunity
to spend more time with these animals
and actually get through the season.
It is so exciting.
Breeding season for colubrids
is literally a couple weeks away.
Woo-hoo!
- I'm a slippery shedding snake.
- Well, another water feature, another issue.
There's no doubt about that.
What am I thinking about doing an entire aquarium?
It seems like every time we have a water feature,
something goes wrong.
This pipe actually popped out right here.
This is all set here,
so what I have to do is drain the entire pond,
let it dry enough,
and then I'm gonna have to re-glue this piece on
so that the pump actually works,
'cause that's what runs the filter and the waterfall.
So let's get to work!
(smooth music)
So after the pond was actually drained,
all I have to do is glue this connection right here.
We have to prime it and glue it.
Now we have to just let it sit
and actually dry for a little bit.
We'll probably let it dry for the next,
you know, eight to 10 hours,
and then we can actually fill this up,
and hopefully we fix the problem with the filtration.
- Oh no!
- You know, these guys don't realize that I was doing work
for years and years and years without any employees.
So for some reason, my crew is always thinking
that I'm incapable of doing things.
Yeah, I'm a capable person.
I don't know what Mike is always complaining about.
I'll be honest with you,
this is actually really peaceful.
- No!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Ooh, sorry, no!
Salty, no!
There's not...
Not gonna happen.
Go away, go, go!
I'm missing an alligator.
Salty, this is my hand.
No!
Oh man, how did I get stuck doing?
- Just to sit here and kind of chill out with the tortoises,
throw some food to Matilda.
She loves sweet potatoes.
There you go, girl.
Oh, she's right on them.
She's like, "Yes!"
Crunching right through it!
Again, I don't know what the problem is.
I mean, this is super easy.
And by the way, it's super quick.
I think that Mike usually takes like a half hour,
45 minutes every day doing this.
I'm gonna take about five minutes.
So I'm gonna have to start docking his pay.
That's not true.
But I will tell him to speed it up a little bit.
- Doing the weirdest things all the time.
Now I'm in an alligator enclosure.
This is blowing.
Oh, Salty, no!
Go!
Go that way, hey!
(Mike whistling)
(Mike laughs)
Salt!
No, no.
(water splashing)
No.
(water splashing)
Man, oh man, oh man!
Alligators jumping all around!
This is ridiculous.
Pants are falling down.
(Mike vocalizing)
Ah!
Where's all this? It's gone.
Don't lean on that.
- [Cameraman] Oh, on his leg!
You weren't a Boy Scout, were you?
What is going on, dude?
(smooth music)
Samurai.
(water splashing)
- Salty, no!
Bad alligator!
Alli-ma-gator!
That there is an albino alli-ma-gator.
Whoo, whoo, whoo!
Whoo!
Spider.
Salty, no!
(water splashing)
(Mike sighs)
Ooh, hi, Salty, how you doing?
No, Salty, bad alligator!
That's my hand, don't do it.
(Mike exclaims)
That was a close one!
- [Cameraman] Ninja.
(Brian laughs)
(water splashing)
- Woo!
Salty, bad alligator!
Come on.
Close your eyes.
Back it up, back it up!
Pepper's freaking out now.
This is gonna end bad.
No, Salty!
Woo!
Alligator's getting crazy.
He just splashed the clean glass!
Oh, man.
Time to get the...
Whew, it's hot in here.
Time to give the pond a whack.
Don't eat the boot, don't eat the boot! (laughs)
(water splashing)
It's hot in there.
- I know this guy looks a lot like the egg-eating snake
that we just showed you,
but I can assure you it's not.
This is actually a saw-scaled viper,
and Bruce, you just got this animal?
- He actually was surrendered to me.
Somebody actually didn't fully understand what they had.
- This is probably one of the most dangerous snakes
that we've ever had here at the Reptarium.
Saw-scaled vipers are called saw-scaled vipers
because they have layer of skin
that they rub together as a defense.
Almost sounds like sandpaper,
and that's hence the name saw-scaled viper.
Now these guys have nasty venom.
They have neurotoxin, they have cytotoxin,
they have cardiotoxin and they have hemotoxin.
And these guys account for some of the most snake bites
all of the snakes in India and Southeast Asia.
And when these guys bite you,
you can literally bleed from all orifices.
It's one of the most painful
and nasty bites you can possibly get,
so I know you're being really safe with this guy.
- Absolutely.
For a little guy, he packs a punch,
and I don't want to take that to the chin,
you know what I'm saying?
- No, I tell you what.
This animal,
out of every venomous snake I've ever worked with,
this is the animal I never wanna get bit by.
Don't get me wrong,
I don't want to get bit by any venomous snake,
but the saw-scaled vipers,
they literally send chills up my spine
because this animal gets you,
and oh my God, definitely not in good shape.
And unfortunately, these are in parts of the world
where there's not really great medical care.
So oftentimes they have a lot of fatalities
when it comes to this snake.
Very nasty venom,
but an absolutely gorgeous snake.
Just look at that animal!
And again, isn't it amazing that it looks so much
like the African egg-eating snake?
- This is actually an adult
that we're playing with right here.
A little boy, from my understanding.
I think he's a boy.
They don't get much bigger than this, Brian.
There are locales like (indistinct)
that are from Egypt and parts of Northern Africa
that get a little bit bigger than this guy.
But as far as they go,
I mean, like you're walking across the desert barefoot
with rocks all over the place,
there's no way you're seeing this guy,
and he's gonna get you every time.
- Exactly.
And just accidentally.
They're ambush hunters, so you step near it,
wham, they're gonna hit you.
And well, I tell you what.
Not a good thing to have happen.
That snake is absolutely amazing,
but certainly one you don't wanna muck with.
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Oh, and by the way, Mike,
we're gonna have to get Salt and Pepper
out of the enclosure while you're cleaning,
so when you're draining, they're not in the way.
Put them out, but don't stop cleaning, okay?
- Both of them? - Both of them.
- Me? - Yeah, you.
- I've never even touched Pepper.
Now they want me to just grab her out, you know?
(dramatic music)
Ooh, Pepper!
Mwah. (spits)
That's poop water.
Why?
Why does it gotta be here?
And then I gotta take her to that side?
Ah, Pepper!
Aw, crap.
Do I have to do this?
Woo-hoo!
(dramatic music)
I did it.
I can already get it all in, just saying.
(smooth music)
- So we're filling the pond up
after kind of redoing the plumbing down below.
This is the moment of truth.
Let's hope that this works.
Not sure.
Got water there.
The water reservoir actually has to fill up,
so that's gonna take a little time.
But I do see that the water flow
is a little bit different than it was,
but we'll see what happens.
Looks like everything's stuck together,
and oh, we just gotta wait to make sure the filtration works
and then hopefully this sucker will be okay.
(smooth music)
- I'm a snake.
Stay, I'm gonna go check on your sister!
Good girl, stay there!
Jay. - Yo, what's good, bro?
- I need your help.
I gotta alligator-sit, and I gotta clean the cage.
- Nah, I can't, dude.
I'm like way too busy.
I got so much editing to do.
- What do you mean you're busy editing?
Hey, Lori.
Don't get mad.
I'm so sorry.
But can you help me alligator-sit?
- I don't have time to help you with that.
- How can you be so much busier than me?
Hey, Beth, can you come over to the Reptarium
by Salt and Pepper's cage?
Please don't eat!
Oh, hey, Beth!
- Yeah?
- You want to alligator-sit?
- No! Hell no!
I'm not, no!
(vacuum whirring) (dramatic music)
- I can feel what you're gonna do!
Stay there!
(vacuum whirring) (dramatic music)
I'll WWD you!
Dude! - What's up, man?
- Where have you been?
I've been back here cleaning.
It's hot, I'm sweaty.
I got alligators on the floor.
I got no one to babysit, gator-sit.
- Number one, he's not there.
This is the only enclosure that needs cleaning today.
Need a hand or something?
Is that what you're trying to get?
- I need some gator-sitting real quick, man.
- Oh, yeah.
- Whatever you want to do.
Stay.
(smooth music)
Like them big and juicy, should be good.
(dramatic music)
(gator hisses)
- [Bruce] Ooh!
(gator hisses)
(laughs) The tail on the butt is just too (squeaks) much!
(lips popping)
Here you go.
(lips popping)
Up.
(dramatic music)
Good job.
Now, up.
(lips pop)
(dramatic music)
Here you go.
(lips popping)
Come on.
Up.
Up, back up.
(dramatic music)
Good job.
Oh my goodness, oh my goodness.
I know, you don't even want to go back.
Oh, oh my God.
Ow, ow, ow!
Are you done, are you done?
Not done yet!
- I thought that was an easy one.
She's just a little ordinary,
'cause they got all of them teeth
but no toothbrush.
- [Bruce] Let's go get Pepper.
- Oh my God, look at that.
Oh!
Come here, Pepper.
Come here.
Oh, Pepper.
Got some spice to her!
Pepper, you're such a good girl.
Sweet.
That was the first time ever
I've ever, ever, ever seen Salt go back worse than Pepper.
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- Oh my God! (laughs) (Brian laughs)