- Guys, I am excited,
because I have a snake that I have never actually
messed with in person,
but these are absolutely incredible.
Probably one of the most
sought after snakes on the internet
when it comes to pictures, certainly are the,
what they call the Blue Insularis.
So these guys are actually a white lip island pit Viper.
So they're very closely related to the white lip pit Viper.
But these guys actually are from, like,
the Java area of Indonesia.
They can also be found on the islands of Komodo,
and they are a blue Viper.
I mean, how incredible.
This is just a little tiny baby right here.
We actually have two of them.
A friend of mine stopped by and they wanted to
show me both of them and they are incredible.
I mean, you see picture after picture on the internet,
even on our podcasts,
we talk about Insularis all the time
because they're one of the coolest
and most incredible animals you'll ever see.
I mean, just think about a blue snake like this,
as this gets bigger, it'll get even more and more blue.
The thing that's interesting is the white lip pit Viper
is basically a green snake.
And actually,
even the Insularis can sometimes be green as well.
So sometimes you'll get green animal.
Sometimes you'll get the blue animals,
but the blue ones, like this, are absolutely ridiculous.
And believe or not,
there's even a couple of insular islands
that they'll be yellow, which is pretty darn awesome.
Now these guys are venomous,
so that's why I've done it on the hook
and I have to be a little bit safe.
These guys are a little venomous.
That's why I have them on the hook and stuff like that,
but they're actually hemotoxic.
So, they basically have a kind of,
a nasty bite where you'll have a lot of pain,
swelling, bleeding, some necrosis,
stuff like that, like rotting of skin.
So, the good news is,
is that they're not really terribly venomous.
So there's really been no deaths with these guys
unless you have some kind of anaphylactic shock,
but nevertheless,
we definitely don't want to get bit by something like this
cause it would definitely ruin our day
and even something as small as this
could pump you with enough venom,
that would be pretty bad.
So we're going to definitely stay away from the pokey end
if you know what I mean.
But nevertheless, Blue Insularis, they're iconic.
I mean, literally, when it comes to venomous snakes
and absolutely incredible snakes,
Blue Insularis are kind of like, it's like that gem, right?
And the fact is right now,
they're actually considered least concern.
So they're not endangered.
But, the problem is, there is some smuggling of these guys
because they're in such high demand
and there's not a lot of captive ones like this one.
So, a lot of times, what ends up happening,
is people smuggle them out of Indonesia,
even off of the Komodo island.
And then they bring them in and then ship them over.
So they actually need to be really thought about,
because we don't want that to ever happen
where they go from least concern to say,
appendix-1, appendix-2 endangered, right?
We want these guys to be around for a long time
cause they are absolutely incredible.
But, listen guys, I mean, a blue snake, that's right.
Blue snake.
Again,
these are called Insularis, the white lip island pit Viper,
and oh my goodness.
They are incredible.
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- I'm taking out Lieutenant Dan or whatever his name is,
our legless lizard here at the reptarium.
He's actually doing really good right now.
Okay.
There you have it, Lieutenant Dan.
- We're not naming him Lieutenant Dan.
- I don't care what we name it,
but will you just look at me hold it?
- You're just so proud of yourself, aren't you?
- Are you proud of me?
- I'm so proud.
So proud, there's never been a prouder moment in my life.
- Wow.
This is moving.
Okay.
- It's a puppy dog.
Look it, you can pet him on the face, look it.
Look it, see?
- He's actually really good.
Why am I so scared of it?
- He's just moving, just moving.
He's just moving, this is what living animals do.
- Yeah.
- So this is my buddy, Jason,
that actually brought us the Insularis.
And I can't wait, guys, this is amazing.
I mean, it's kind of like the dream animal, right?
- Oh, yeah.
- So, where did you get these guys?
- So, I actually got these
from a buddy of mine named Alexander Englander,
they're actually capture bred's,
I was looking for them for a long time, like a year or so.
And I finally came across a nice bear, so I picked him up.
- Oh my gosh, they are amazing.
I tell you, out of all of the venomous snakes,
I think the Insularis are the ones that, like you said,
everyone gets that like, oh my God, Insularis,
but you don't see captive ones very often.
So it's a treat to get these guys going, for sure.
- Right, right.
And you mentioned the one from a wet tar island,
the yellow ones.
You know,
my buddy Alex is actually working with those, too,
and there's only five in the U.S. known.
So if he can get some captive bred's of those,
I'll definitely pick them up from around there.
- Oh my God, that would be amazing.
Again, it looks just like this,
but they're yellow and it's just absolutely incredible.
And then my buddies over in South Africa,
at Ultimate Reptile Supply,
actually work with the white lip pit Vipers
that are albino.
So, you know, they've got the greens and the albinos,
which are absolutely ridiculous.
So it's super cool.
They produced baby albinos last year.
So, it was the first time anyone had ever produced albinos,
that I know of, anyway.
So, nevertheless, absolutely incredible animals
and I can't, I can't thank you enough, dude.
I just, as matter of fact,
I'm going to put a link in the description to his Instagram.
Go show him some love.
We'll definitely have him on the podcast sometime, hang out,
and your local, so we got to hang out more.
- Yeah, for sure, for sure.
- As these guys get bigger, you'll bring him back?
- Oh yeah, 100%
- Oh, that's awesome.
I'll tell you what, guys, Blue Insularis,
absolutely incredible.
Let's go ahead and stick with that blue theme,
just like that Insularis.
And we're gonna actually cut a clutch of eggs
that is actually a Lori Ball to a Lori Ball.
You know, the Super Lori Balls
have that blue and silver look to them.
So, we have two, four, six eggs,
a couple of eggs, actually, I've already picked out.
I can't see what's inside of them yet.
So let's just cut into them
and hope we can get some blue and silver snakes.
Let's jump into egg number one.
Come on, blue and silver.
Come on, come on.
Again, you've got one in four odds
to produce a Super so we'll see what happens.
Oh, that's not good.
That's a normal baby right there.
That's not a Lori or a Super Lori.
We breed a Lori to Lori.
It's about a one in four odds to get a normal.
So, let's go the other way with the odds, right?
Egg number two.
And I can kind of see inside this egg a little bit,
cause it's already slit
and it didn't look like a Super Lori to me,
but it is a Lori Ball Python.
So at least we got a Lori Ball Python,
but we still haven't hit that blue and silver snake.
Again, we have four more eggs, let's hope and pray we get,
I want to get two blue and silver, is that greedy of me?
Let's just see what we get.
Come on, baby, right now, this is it.
This is the blue and silver, baby, I could just feel it.
Can feel it, no, it's not.
Oh geez.
Oh, this is another normal Ball Python
Ah, this is not what I want.
We got three eggs left, guys.
That's not good, we've got two normals already.
So we're hitting the one in four odds but on the wrong side.
Oh my God.
Let's just go ahead, all right.
Let's see, three more eggs.
Wish me luck, guys.
All right, let's go.
Okay, here we go again.
We've got a Lori Ball Python.
So,
so far we got two Lorries, two normals, two eggs left.
That means they gotta be two Super Lorries, right?
Let's even this baby out, you know what I mean?
All right, let's go.
I'll be so bummed if we don't get a blue and silver snake
after seeing the Insularis, come on.
Oh, another Lori Ball Python.
So, there goes my chances of producing
two blue and silver snakes,
but we have one more egg, one egg to go.
Let's end this with a Super Lori.
Come on.
All right, it's gonna happen.
I know it's gonna happen right now.
Blue and silver snake, let's do it.
Come on, come on, come on.
It's gotta be.
It is!
Oh my gosh, we hit it.
Woo, doggy.
So we only got one blue and silver snake.
But, we did get a Super Lori, blue and silver.
Look at that monkey right there.
That thing is absolutely a ripper.
It's got a beautiful dorsal striping on it.
There it is.
So, hey man, I tell you what, I'm satisfied, right?
We've got a bunch of Lorries.
We've got some normals, and we got a Super Lori Ball Python.
So, hey, it all ended well.
What the heck, if we're sticking with blue animals,
like the blue Insularis,
and then of course we've got the Super Lori Ball.
I mean, this is a great day.
So, Karma certainly fits in that blue category.
I don't think there's a more blue reptile,
to be totally honest with you, than Karma.
Of course,
this is a locality in Madagascar called Nosy Be
and the Nosy Be's are always this blue color, right?
There's some other ones like Nosy Faly
that are blue and red,
but these guys are the ones that are really blue.
And I tell ya, he is an absolute stunner.
Every person that comes in to the reptarium's like,
oh my gosh.
And I'd really like to know
why every locality in Madagascar
has a different colored chameleon.
I think it's pretty amazing, I mean,
obviously, the Ambilobe's look completely different
than the Nosy Be's, and so on and like that.
I'm assuming it's got to have something to do
with like, the flora in the area?
So these guys can actually blend in.
Cause again,
chameleons can't change dramatic colors like people think,
they're not like an octopus, or you know,
something like that.
They actually will lighten and darken.
So, Karma would go like, light blue, dark blue,
almost even a little bit of a greenish tinge,
but he's not going to turn like,
yellow or red or any of that color.
He just doesn't have that ability.
And I know a lot of people think chameleon's do,
but they actually don't.
So, regardless, this is pretty cool to see a blue animal
after we're making it the day of blue reptiles.
You know, Lori's always getting new stuff for the gift shop.
This is like, her baby.
And I just noticed we have, what?
Wait a second.
That's not a, that's not a gift shop.
Franklin, what are you doing in there?
Franklin, get outta there.
I tell you what, these turtles,
I tell you, they're escaping every day.
I'm going to have to probably put a lock on their enclosure
because, I tell ya, they're all over the place.
So let's get Frank.
Franklin, get over here you silly monkey.
Franklin.
Okay, buddy, be free.
Lori and her gift shop.
Definitely not a blue animal,
but kind of a greenish blue animal.
And you know what?
It never ceases that these guys will bite you
every time I take them out.
I've been trying to get them tame.
I just try to be like, hey, little monkey, it's okay.
But no, it's going to hang on to me
for the next 10 or 15 minutes, I guarantee it.
Thankfully, it doesn't really hurt that bad,
but these are actually Gastropholis Prasina's
or what they would call, green keel-bellied lizard.
That's why people just call them Gastropholis Prasina's,
it's actually easier than the common name.
These guys are actually native to Tanzania and Kenya
and they do have that kind of bluish color to them.
There's no doubt about it.
But the thing that's amazing,
is look at that tail right there, yeah.
This guy will just hang on, just like that.
It's about 70% of their body.
This is about maybe, you know, halfway grown,
so they will get a little bigger.
And I'm imagining that when they get bigger,
the bites going to hurt a little bit more.
So again, we try to tame these guys down
and I swear to gosh, I don't want to get bit by this animal,
but every single time that I take any of them out,
they immediately bite me and they just keep crunching down.
You see how he goes like, argh.
He's just going down.
But this is an absolutely beautiful lizard,
there is no doubt about it.
Again, kind of that bluish color.
So we're sticking with the bluish theme today.
So, I'm going to show you some blue animals.
I couldn't think of a cooler animal
than these Gastropholis Prasina's, but holy moly,
these guys love to hang on.
They're like the little Tokay geckos, man.
I tell ya, as a matter of fact, if I had Tokay geckos,
that's another blue animal I wish I had,
but I don't have any
because I was sick of getting bitten by them.
But, I tell you what, let me know down in the comments,
what your favorite blue animal is
because I would like to know,
and hopefully,
I can get this little monkey off my hand sometime today.
- Molly's still, still very timid around people,
but he's mad food aggressive.
So it's like, nothing at all to get him to come out.
Every now and then he'll let me pet him,
but I can tell he's not too fond of it.
So, I try to give him a lot of space if I can.
But, he's definitely one
I've been trying to work with pretty hard.
Good boy.
There you go, get your food.
We don't always feed, obviously, just red meat and beef
and things like that.
Typically, we'll feed like, fish
and other things like that for him.
But red beef is still full of lots of lots of nutrients.
And I do try to do a very, very little amount.
Ready?
You want more?
Now, what a lot of people don't really realize
with a lot of these lizards
is a lot of them
actually will hold it in their gullet almost,
kind of like a bird does, just in case,
if there's ever a reason for them to want to run,
they're running on a full stomach,
which would be bad for them, it'd make them sick.
So they'll just immediately just
throw up what's in their gullet and go and run.
There you go.
Oh yeah, there you go.
- Of course, you guys know we've got Argimus Prime,
the Argus Monitor.
We've had this for a long time.
Absolutely wonderful animal.
But remember, we got those baby Argus Monitors?
We haven't really showed them in the vlog at all.
And they're getting really big.
They're still a little bit crazy.
So let's give a go at seeing
if we can actually get these guys out, because trust me,
they are a fun, fun lizard.
Chance I might be chasing these guys around on the floor,
to be honest with you.
I don't know where they're at right now.
So first, I gotta find them.
Oh, there's one right there.
Ooh.
It actually went pretty well.
It went pretty well.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
There are, whoa,
these are really beautiful.
Oh my gosh.
Come on, calm down.
I'm hoping that once I get it out
and calm it down a little bit, it'll chill out.
But Argus Monitors, woo, are kind of a mid-size Monitor.
They don't get huge like Elvis,
but they get relatively sizable, like Argimus Prime.
That's about a full grown adult
to be totally honest with you.
But these guys are getting so big
and they're from north Western Australia
and Southern New Guinea.
The thing that these guys are known for,
probably more than anything,
is what they call tripoding, which is pretty cool.
These Argus Monitors will actually go up on their back leg,
lean on their tail, and stand straight up,
almost like a Prairie dog or something like that.
And they do that so they can look over the grasslands
that they're actually from, to see everything.
And it's kind of unique to them.
Some Monitors will tripod,
but Argus Monitors in particular are known for it
more than anything.
But you can see this guy's already starting to chill out,
just a little bit,
but it is one beautiful Monitor lizard.
And again, these guys are both getting really large.
There's a pair of these ones.
Of course, these are Noah's little babies,
but I had to take them out and show you guys, cause wow,
they are looking beautiful.
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