- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
We're in Durham, North Carolina,
and we're actually going to the first reptile show
that I've been to in about five years. That's right.
Being in North Carolina and having a reptile show here,
I was very, why not go check it out right?
Again, five years first reptile show.
So let's go inside and see what they got.
And look who we ran into. Rob.
- What's up?
- What's up, brother? How are you?
- Dude.
- Good to see you. How are you man?
- Good. People are going to be so pumped to see you here.
- Oh man. I'm excited, man. I'm excited, dude.
So we're going to have a good time. All right.
Hey, how are you, man? Good to see you. Here we go.
I'm not going to lie. I'm a little nervous.
(laughing)
It's been so long. Let's go check this place out.
Well, not bad, not bad at all.
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Here at the demonic reptiles booth
and I'm pretty excited to be holding
a pastel scaleless ball python.
If you guys know the history of the scaleless ball python,
we produced the very first ones.
And they're really amazing
Now we don't work with them much anymore.
Although we might produce one this year,
we're trying to breed a couple of females
just from a nostalgic standpoint, but they're so beautiful.
And the pastel makes it even incredible.
The thing that I loved about the scaleless stuff,
is just how clean it makes them look. Right?
Absolutely wonderful animals.
They do require more care than normal ball pythons.
That's one of the reasons why
we're not producing them anymore, but at the same time,
it's just an honor to see this.
I mean, look at how awesome that snake is.
I'm here at one love reptiles table,
and this is a really cool leopard gecko.
And I'm kind of embarrassed to say that I didn't understand
how the genetics worked on this animal because of course
we work with a lot of the Mack Snow and Mack Super Snows,
but apparently when you breed the Super Snow
to the Super Snow,
you can get something that's called a Super Snow Platinum.
So it kind of looks like this.
It's just a little bit more platinum,
kind of like the purple passion ball pythons
or mystic poachers or something like that.
And so, again, I'm sure Jessica knew this
because she knows everything about them.
Definitely going to make sure
that we go to try to produce some of these this year,
because I love them to death.
What's up with the chicken?
- She's cute
- (Vlogger) I know, what's her name?
- Oh, Owly, because she looks like a baby owl.
- (Vlogger) Oh, it's like a little baby, like Eagle owl.
Oh my gosh. What kind of chicken is it?
- Silkie
- (Vlogger) It's a Silkie
- There's another type that I bring sometimes,
it's a Silkie still, but I bring a white with black spots.
And her name is Henry. So it's Henry and Owly.
- Oh, I love it.
Well, this is a beautiful chicken. Absolutely gorgeous.
So what's actually really cool,
Harper here is thinking about getting a Euromastic today.
Right? Mom gave the go-ahead?
- Mom gave the go-ahead.
- (Vlogger) And so do you like this one
or do you like the yellow ones? Which ones?
- I like this one. Because it's like the only red one
in here right now.
- Yeah. It's the only red one. Yeah.
Well they're absolutely beautiful
and euros can make really good pets.
So congratulations Harper
for being able to potentially get a cool Euromastic.
I mean, how cool is that? That's awesome.
How are you, awesome, it's so good to see you.
Did you get this ball python? That's awesome
Did you get a little mastic gecko?
- Yeah, I actually have seven snakes.
- (Vlogger) Seven snakes? Oh my gosh. You guys are crazy.
- He watches you religiously.
- (Vlogger) What's your name?
- Jacob.
- (Vlogger) It's so good to meet you, Jacob.
Thank you so much. I appreciate you got a python too?
- Yeah
- I appreciate you guys.
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So been here for about an hour or so, and it's cool.
It's a really neat little show.
Lots of really cool animals.
And people here are so friendly to me, which is good.
You know, it's like, yeah, you know, after five years,
you don't know what to expect coming to a reptile show.
So it's, it's pretty awesome.
Definitely a bunch of really awesome animals
and really amazing people
Here with Luna. What do you have here, Luna?
- Dragon.
- (Vlogger) Oh my gosh. Is this your pet? Do you love it?
- Mm-hmm
- Oh my gosh. He's almost as big as you.
Oh my gosh. Well I think it's awesome
that you're a reptile lover. I love these shoes by the way.
Oh my gosh. Whoa. Tell you what, this is awesome.
Well, you take care of that bearded dragon well, Okay Luna?
Okay. How cute is that?
I've always said that these Sudan Plated lizards
should be way more popular than they are
because you know, Skinks are really kind of popular,
obviously blue tongues and all that stuff.
Eastern's northerns even the Indo stuff,
but the Sudan Plated lizards
can be really, really cool,
but no one's really kind of working with them
as far as captive breeding yet.
If this ever kind of takes off as a project,
it's going to be cool.
Maybe we're going to have to get some of these
for the rep tear because look at how chill they are.
They're just so unique looking
and they've got that like really cool kind of pop-up scale
that makes them feel really interesting.
Just a really cool lizard.
This is so cool, we're actually at D&L exotic
and it is unbelievable that they have a captive bred
and born fire skink, the African fire Skink.
I mean, they are ridiculously cool.
I've always liked these guys,
but I've never seen anyone actually breed them.
So these are the first babies I've ever seen
and they're just really, really beautiful little Skinks.
It's cool to come to a place and see something
that you've never seen before. It's just amazing.
These guys are ridiculous.
I definitely would love to have some of these.
I've always said African Fire Skinks are so cool,
but again, never really see captive bred ones.
So it's really amazing to see them and aren't they amazing.
And of course you can't go to a reptile show
without seeing a lot of amazing ball pythons.
And some of these tables have some really cool stuff.
It's been a number of years
since I've kind of been to a show
to see a bunch of stuff kind of on the table.
I mean, it's cool. You see
a Blake cloud ball python, you know,
you've got hypos G Gibel hobbies,
just all kinds of really cool stuff.
So again, it's really neat to see ball pythons.
I'm like a kid in a candy store today, you know,
seeing all these animals,
I don't know how I'm going to get out of here
without buying at least some
because there's already been about 25 or 30 things
that I've said I've got to buy and bring home,
but I know Lori's going to kill me.
If she knew that I was even at a reptile show,
she may kill me.
She didn't know I was coming, I kind of snuck this one in,
so I may have to buy some.
We'll have to see how it goes.
I'm here with Lamar, from status quo, reptiles and dog,
this absolutely is beautiful dude. So a mangrove monitor,
you said, how long have you had it?
- 12 to 14 months old.
- A 14 month old and tame as could be.
A lot of times you do not see these mangroves
so docile like this.
I mean, they have daggers for little claws.
There is no doubt about that
because they all love to climb trees.
But wow, look at how cool that animal is,
Lamar, this is amazing.
You've got a lot of really beautiful stuff here,
but I think I've fallen in love with this mangrove monitor.
Okay. So what do we have here?
- We have a Reticulated Python.
- Is this an Albino Golden Child?
- Oh yes
- An Albino Golden child. Absolutely beautiful.
How old is that?
- She's about two, two and a half.
- Albino is a recessive trait.
The golden child is actually complete dominant,
just making kind of that reduction of having
you've got the purple coming through the center here.
Absolutely wonderful snakes.
I love golden child so, of course the Motley golden child
is with night periods with that black back here
this is one of the genes and they don't get as big typically
as like a lot of the mainland stuff.
So it's going to be a more manageable reticulated Python,
but absolutely wonderful. I can see you're in love with her.
- Oh yeah, she's the baby. We love her.
- I'm here with David from oblivion exotics
and you have a D Stripe.
- Yeah.
- (Vlogger) Tell me what this is.
I don't even know anything about this.
- Okay, so D Stripe is a project we got into
three years ago or so.
And we imported our original animals
from the guy who started working with the gene.
- (Vlogger) So is it a recessive or dominant?
- It is recessive.
We like to think of it as a bigger, better tri-stripe
- (Vlogger) Okay, gotcha, because it kind of reminds me
a little bit of the tri-strip stuff
- Until you take it out.
- Yeah, but it has a lot. Yeah.
You see the crazy patterns on the sides.
(overlapping)
- So the biggest difference that we're finding out
is on the belly line, you get this crazy flame
with really no delineation between the belly
and the lineage
- (Vlogger) Okay. Beautiful striping downside,
It's got that kind of striping done.
Look at how amazing that is.
- You've got the, you know, the big,
bold dorsal Stripe where they get the D Stripe name.
- (Vlogger) Gotcha.
- This is the first time we've ever brought it out.
- Wow, that's amazing.
Well, we're lucky we got a chance to see it
and I love it by the way. It's absolutely incredible.
I can't wait to, have you put it into other things yet?
- We have. We've got a couple of visuals
that we've actually produced
out of our original head parent.
We've got a couple of difference
We've got some lesser Peweter's visuals,
which is crazy looking.
We've got a lesser Pewter yellow valley.
- Wow
- Which is great OD.
- That's amazing.
So definitely I'll be coming to the project.
I'm going to keep my eye on
because I love the striping stuff.
It absolutely looks incredible.
You know what an honor to get a chance, to see it today.
So thank you, David. I appreciate you man.
- Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. It was great to have you.
- Next up we actually have what?
A black head Silver street champagne.
- Black head silver Street champagne.
- (Vlogger) Oh my gosh, so there's a lot of stuff
going on in this
- Yeah, we kind of call her Oreo.
- (Vlogger) It looks like an Oreo. Yeah. Cookies and cream.
- Cookies and cream. If she sticks around, you know, cool.
If she finds a home also cool.
- (Vlogger) All right.
- We're just happy to be able to produce
something like this.
- (Vlogger) Oh my gosh that's just amazing.
- And this was actually Anthony's brainchild
- Yes a black head black pewter to just champaign
- The blackhead stuff. Obviously it's amazing.
It's a really dark animal that I really loved.
You got the champagne and a couple of dominant.
Then of course, you've got the silver streak,
which is a super pastel, black pastel.
You kind of have everything in that,
making this amazing kind of cookies and cream
type of thing that they got.
You guys have got some banging stuff here.
- Thank you.
- (Vlogger) Keep killing it man
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So this is a black head black pewter
which is the sire to bred to a pastel champagne.
So when you're adding two genes of the pastel,
you're getting the super pastel
and then you're getting the champagne and this is how it is.
So it's amazing how you can add just one or two genes
and change the color from this all the way to that.
I mean, that's just absolutely amazing. You did good work.
- Thank you. Thank you Brian.
- A lot of beautiful leopard geckos here.
This one is a stunner right here. What exactly is this?
This is a pure blood Sunglow Tremper,
only things linage or Mary gardener.
Some people know her by.
- (Vlogger)Oh. Wow.
- This one is six months.
- Really six months, six months is that big
Oh my goodness. That is a giant animal.
And again, that blood stuff is really cool.
Obviously you have the Tremper,
you have that sunglow, which is a,
of course the albino hypo looking animals
brings out all that beautiful Tangerine.
Absolutely stunning leopard gecko.
Lots of cool leopard geckos.
It's just great to be out here to see it,
all of this cool stuff.
Here at reptile collective and take a look
at this T-negative blood python.
I love blood pythons. I've loved my entire life,
and there's so many morphs now in blood pythons
when it comes to cool things,
but there's still something really special
about the T-negatives to me,
the T-positives were the ones
that came on the market first.
It was one of the first real, real mutations
of blood pythons, to be honest with you.
And then several years later, the T-negative came out,
which of course is the real true albinos.
And it's just still amazing to see them every single time.
I see a little baby. It's just so darn cute.
There's something about a blood python.
Because they kind of look a little bit like a ball python,
but a little bit more pudgy, a little bit bigger head.
I don't know. I just love him to death
and it's so cool to see one here.
I definitely wasn't expecting when I came here.
So definitely a cute little monkey for sure.
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It is definitely cool to be back at a reptile show again.
I got to make sure that it's not five more years
before I go again.
So I might go into the Tinley park reptile show
here in March, possibly,
but this has just been absolutely incredible.
Again, it's a little bit of a smaller show, but really cool.
The people have been amazing,
a lot of incredible animals to see around here.
So definitely a little bit of that nerves
when I was coming in. Because again,
after not doing something for five years,
you don't know how much has changed,
but it kind of feels like, it's like riding a bike.
You know what I mean?
I've been to so many reptile shows in my life.
I mean literally thousands of reptile shows
and it feels like I never left to be honest with you.
And the people here really welcomed me with warm arms,
which is amazing to me
because I didn't know how that was going to go.
So we had an absolutely incredible time.
So I think it's about time to wrap up here at the show and,
and head back to our hotel,
We've about an hour and a half drive.
And supposedly there's like a winter storm coming
that everyone's freaking out about,
but literally they're talking to like a half inch of snow
and a little bit of ice potentially.
So for us, northerns up here where like,
what are you guys freaking out about? But the truth is,
is that a lot of people are kind of stressed.
So we're going to go ahead and get back to the hotel
and call it a day. But this has been an amazing time.
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