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- Hey, good morning everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I tell you what, this girl is the biggest boa
that I've ever personally seen.
I'm not saying she's the largest in the world,
I'm just saying, it's the largest I've ever seen.
And we're gonna go ahead and feed this girl
a rabbit right now.
She is a beast!
You ready, girl?
You wanna eat?
You ready girl?
Come on, girl, come on, come on, come on.
Oh man, she hits hard!
I mean, I tell you what,
there's nothing harder than a Boa bite,
she crushed that rabbit.
But just take a look at the size of her compared to my hand,
I mean, she is a legitimate nine plus foot Boa.
That is the heaviest Boa I've ever held,
and certainly the strongest Boa,
he put it around your neck,
just her holding on actually feels like
she's chokin' ya out, and she's just kinda snuggin' up,
but that is one incredible snake.
Sadly, we actually had her over at The Reptarium
and she hated it there.
She stopped eating, she wasn't doing well.
So listen, I brought her back here,
she is doing amazing here.
I do wanna move her into something else relatively soon,
because she is getting a little bit big for this cage,
but what an amazing snake.
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I know a lot of people have been asking
about the update on the cow reticulated python
that I got from NERD
which was the same place I got Perdida at, by the way.
People have asked, has she calmed down at all?
We have been working with her.
I didn't send her back.
She is definitely not Perdida right now,
I can tell you that much.
She's a little bit strange, but I wouldn't trust her,
but at the same time she's getting better.
We just have to be very consistent
with the way we handle her.
The more we get her to kinda trust us,
the better it's gonna be.
So again, she's making great strides,
but what a gorgeous thing.
I tell you what, that yellow in this animal,
and those spots that are starting to come through,
is pretty spectacular.
She only had one or two spots when we first had her.
But again, when we got her, she was definitely a handful.
She wanted to bite everything.
Now, as you can see, as long as you handle her
kind of thoughtful, she seems to be pretty good,
like at first when I took her out
she was a little bit touchy,
but now she starts to get into that intelligence mode
where she's kinda looking around,
she's thinking, she's no longer defensive
and I feel pretty comfortable with her.
So if we can continue to start doing
these types of handling sessions,
at least every day, every other day,
I think that in time she's gonna become
an absolutely incredible snake.
And the truth is guys,
I was thinkin' about sendin' her back when she was a baby,
but I just kinda fell in love with her.
And you guys know that I like little bit of
cantankerous snakes every now and then,
so she's kind of a little bit of a challenge,
but I have a feeling
that as she gets older she's gonna be sweet.
Will she be Perdida sweet?
Probably not, but pretty close anyways.
Remember the Emerald Tree Boa that we had taken off display
because it regurgitated a couple of times?
And then we tube fed it, and then it started eating,
well it is doing fantastic now,
it's eaten a number of times, I think 10 or 12 times
with no regurgitation, so I think it's time
to take her back over to the Reptarium,
I mean she's put all her body weight on,
looks absolutely amazing,
so I'm gonna go ahead just get her off her perch,
I'll let her kind of perch on my hand,
I'll walk over to the Reptarium and rerelease her
into her big, huge cage, and I've said this before,
it's one of my favorite cages at the Reptarium
with the waterfall and everything,
it's absolutely gorgeous.
What do you say we just get her off her perch,
and ah, let's just hope we don't get bit.
Come on little monkey.
Wuh oh, what's up girl, it's okay,
it's all right sweetheart.
Oh my.
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
Wuh.
There you go sweetie, there you go.
And the thing with these guys is when you're handling them,
you just have to be super gentle.
Uh, I've got the goose bumps.
And I just wanna get her off her perch very gently.
And typically Emerald Tree Boas,
when you get them off their perch,
are pretty good animals, when it comes to handling.
And there we go, so let's go ahead walk her over,
and we'll get her back into her enclosure at the Reptarium.
Did I tell you what, oh, what an absolute sweetheart,
this is such amazing thing, to handle an animal like this,
and getting her back in this habitat,
where she's gonna have higher humidity, misting,
a lot more room, a lot more heat grading,
it's just gonna mean
that she's gonna even look better pretty soon.
So I couldn't be more happy, and to be honest with you,
I've told this story before, that when I was young,
and I saw a picture of an Emerald Tree Boa,
it was one of the first snakes that I fell in love with,
so I never thought all these years later,
that I was actually gonna be holding these guys,
not like most people hold their Emerald Tree Boas,
but regardless, just gonna set her back up in here.
Here you go sweetie, back to your stays bud, there you go.
Ah, she is gonna look so good.
And again, in no time you're gonna see her wind up,
right back on that perch, and that's where she'll settle in.
I love that snake.
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We've mentioned it lately,
that we've been doing a lot of improvement
to their habitats, like the day gecko cage right here,
that Jessica was working on the other day,
she has it all foam and all kind of fixtured out,
now she just has to put some ABG bioactive soil down,
and some live plants, which I think they all really cool.
We're also working on another frog tank
that I'm excited about, these are the dark frogs
that we already have but we've been kind of improving
their habitats so that they look even cooler.
This is the base of that where basically,
we have a little area here and we can have water here,
with fish and stuff like that.
This will be the ABG bioactive,
as well as the fact that we'll put cleaner insects in there.
Things like isopods and springtails and stuff like that.
That way we have cleaner bugs,
we'll do some live plants throughout,
so that should be really good,
so Jessica is gonna start working on that, in a minute.
And I'll give you an idea what I meant by that.
This is one that's already finished,
you can see there's fish in there, water in there,
this is the ABG soil over here,
that has all the cleaner bugs, we've got our frogs up here,
snails are over here, we've got the live plants,
and all kinds of stuff.
I just think these habitats look really good.
So those guys are gonna be working on them
and they should be done by the end of the day.
- I'm here doing the day gecko cage,
yesterday I did pretty much all the hardscaping.
So I put all these branches in here
and I foamed 'em to the wall
and stuck all the stuff on here.
Gotta give it a 24 hour to 48 hours to air out
because we don't want to stick our animals right in there
or plants 'cause they'll die.
But I got all that in there,
I just gotta put the dirt in
and then I gotta put my plants in.
- All right guys so we got actually started on
doing this yesterday but already had gotten,
putting our false bottom in which is,
basically right what you see right here,
kind of looks like little apple slices.
So these little recyclable material,
we put at the bottom of these especially,
for these that have water features in them.
So that way the soil stays nice and dry
and it stays above the water and we can keep,
that nice water feature for all the little fish
and stuff so we have a really nice paludarium here.
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- So Ryan's helping our daughter move today
and that leaves me here at The Reptarium,
hosting a birthday party.
We're having a lot of fun
but he'll be back later once The Reptarium opens.
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Well this is a first for us at The Reptarium,
it's pretty cool, so the birthday girl,
is a huge follower of the vlog, both Brian's and Noah's
and she loves the what's in the box challenge.
So she made her own box and brought a game
to play what's in the box with her friends.
So this is hilarious,
and Brian picked the wrong party to miss.
- A boa stuffed animal.
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- So now's the time of day,
where I'm going through all the colubrid snakes,
just checking, spot cleaning, switching males,
now is the time where we have
to put males in with females for second clutches.
So I got to keep on top of that
as well as still looking for the eggs.
So this time of year is kind of really chaotic
because there's so many things going on
and we gotta do it everyday,
so this is what I'm doing right now.
So we're doing another tour right now
before Brian comes back, it's kind of crazy
but we're having fun.
See, he's got little bumps.
That's why they call it a Hognose,
you see how its got the little turned up nose,
almost like a snow.
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- All right in the basement Eric and I
and we actually got this new Burmese python recently,
if you guys don't know, so we're just gonna come down here
and just kinda check it out
and Eric's gonna try to handle it.
- No, never said that.
- What, what do you mean?
- Okay, honestly very nice snake when it first came in,
I opened up the tub its in a new environment,
maybe it's a little scared.
It literally got that close to my face.
It was like (swooshing sound).
- [Noah] Yeah and as you guys can tell
we have a couple sticky notes, absolutely crazy watch out,
she doesn't give any warning.
Yeah it sounds like a perfect task for you.
- Yeah, sounds good.
- Just crack that right open.
- The snakes name is Bambi,
it was already named that when we got it.
So it is like Bambi, vicious bloodthirsty creature.
Okay right now it's hissing, it isn't blue so maybe we
shouldn't mess with it, we'll just kinda leave it.
- [Noah] No dude I think you should mess with it.
- Okay maybe we'll mess with it.
So what we're gonna do is here,
I don't wanna stress out the animal
(snake hissing)
- [Noah] She's not that big just grab her with your hands.
- Now, we haven't fed this animal yet
so we're not gonna upset her too much
but I'm gonna tell you what,
this thing bites ya you're going to the hospital all right.
No you wouldn't but it would definitely hurt.
You know, she just doesn't want to be messed with.
- [Noah] Just grab it out with your hands.
- You're in range.
- [Noah] You're in range.
- Come here little girl, I just wanna love ya,
I don't wanna hurt ya.
- Use your hand, you got this dude.
You got this!
Perfect!
Boom baby, there it is!
Look at Bambi, now like we said she hasn't shed
but I'm telling you she is definitely one
of the more prettiest Burms I've ever seen.
The browns on her are just absolutely delicious.
- I love a normal pattern Burmese python,
absolutely beautiful, it looks a little bit lighter,
it looks light to me though.
I don't know usually the
normals are a little darker - Yeah.
in my opinion but,
(snake hisses)
- [Noah] Whoa, oh my god!
- We're gonna go ahead, that's a sign she wants to go back
- [Noah] Oh my god!
- So, we're gonna put her away here.
- [Noah] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You okay, did it getcha?
- No, no it didn't get me, it did not get me.
Oh dude she's not feeling good.
- I'm not feeling good.
Listen baby, listen baby.
- [Noah] Snake hook it!
- Snake hook.
I don't wanna stress her out or nothing,
you know she's new to the family here.
There you go, I think we gotta leave you right here.
Are you okay, did it get you?
- No it didn't get me, I was good dude,
I hope I got it on camera.
I was just moving the camera, I was about to talk
and then it struck and it caught me off guard,
I forgot what I was gonna say.
- What an exciting life we live.
- Yeah that is true, so there you guys go,
little update on our girl Bambi.
She's a sweetheart but she has a little attitude.
- There's a nice snake under there somewhere.
- There is and we're gonna find it, just believe.
- Jessica is finally done with these cages
and I'm telling you what, that looks incredible Jessica.
- Hope you like it.
- [Brian] Yeah I do, I like it
and I think they'll like it too.
So of course these guys are lightning quick,
these are day geckos, unbelievably beautiful animals but,
- [Jessica] I'm just gonna aim them in here actually.
- [Brian] Just hope that they just go on their own.
- [Jessica] Yeah.
- Go ahead guys.
Ah there's the one, and the trick is to get 'em
before they get out. (chuckles)
They are gonna absolutely love this cage,
oh my gosh they're gonna love this,
it's so nice, wow what an upgrade!
We're trying to do this for so many habitats now,
just upgrade obviously, now we're gonna have
bioactive soils in there with ABG,
gonna have some filtration down here,
so that they can actually drain.
Of course they missed a whole lot,
so this is gonna be so much better for them
and the dark frog one is done too,
so we get to go release those as well.
Take a look at this habitat here.
Of course this is for one of the dark frogs,
wow I love this Jessica!
- I like this one too.
- This came out so good and again,
this has the air where we can put fish
and snails, we've got the land over here,
unbelievable these guys are gonna be super happy.
Of course these are the powder blue tanks,
so let's go ahead and just get those back
in there enclosure.
- [Jessica] Hop right in there.
- [Brian] There they go look at that.
Oh, went right in the water. - Oh, went right in the water.
(laughter)
It'll be able to climb out I promise.
There it goes, look at these guys, wow!
- [Jessica] Last one. In you go. He's the biggest one too.
- There it is, oh my gosh.
So that is fantastic I mean looks absolutely incredible.
I tell you what Jess but you out did yourself,
this is absolutely amazing.
- I like this one I think it's my favorite so far.
- Oh my god totally, I agree with you.
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Got something to really quick unbox and guess what I found,
my handy dandy knife the downside is
there's nothing here to really cut.
I just have to rip this box open
and I can see what's in here and really
to be totally honest with you,
this isn't even my animal its Jessica and Bruce's animal.
But they said I could unbox it
because they know I love to unbox things.
So let's go ahead and take a look and see what it is.
They told me what it is
but I don't know anything else about it.
So it looks like it should be a bigger animal
than I was expecting.
It is a Boa and I thought it would be a little tiny Boa
but it turns out that it's actually
a pretty medium sized Boa just 'cause I can tell by this
but I cannot get this thing untied.
Oh, this is really pretty, wow look at this!
Oh man, I tell you what,
that is one gorgeous snake right there.
This of course is a Hypo Sonoran Boa.
Wow, I really like this
and Sonoran Boa's don't get large
as a matter of fact I think that this is a boy maybe?
Let's take a look and see what it is.
Ah, looks like it is actually a girl,
if this was a boy it would be full grown
but this is a girl so it will get a little bit larger.
But the patterning color on this thing,
Oh doggy, that thing is gorgeous
and I tell you what maybe I should just hide
and tell them it didn't come in or something like that.
But no the truth is Bruce and Jessica love their Boa's
and they particularly love the dwarf Boa's stuff.
There always into it so there you go,
a beautiful snake, super happy that they got this.
It's absolutely gorgeous
and like I mentioned I am a little bit jealous,
so there it is a Hypo Sonoran Boa Constrictor.
I've got one more thing to unbox today
but it isn't an animal and for those
of you guys that don't know
I'm as passionate about film and cameras
and I'm definitely a gearhead.
I like all kinds of stuff and this
is actually something that I didn't buy,
actually YouTube reached out to us
and we are part of a pretty cool program
about virtual reality.
So we're gonna be doing a handful
of virtual reality videos and they actually sent us.
First, a Sony a73 which is an awesome mirrorless camera.
I love it, I haven't worked with this one
but I think its gonna be absolutely incredible.
We have this I don't know what that is
but that's from YouTube, so thank you YouTube
for sending us this, I don't know what exactly it is.
Let's see here.
Oh, there's Velcro on it, what do we got here?
Oh, look at this it's YouTube glasses.
I don't know exactly how you,
you go like this and you can see VR.
Okay YouTube that's I'm not gonna lie a little cheesy.
But anyways regardless there's that.
There is this lens that is actually gonna film the VR,
which is 180 degrees.
So basically what's gonna happen is,
looks like we have a bag here for our camera stuff
and then of course a compact flash disk right here.
So that's that.
Anyways regardless what we're gonna do
is film four to six virtual reality.
If you happen to have VR glasses
or a YouTube glass that I just threw over there,
you can use those but you can also just look at it
on your phone as well which is really cool.
That's coming up here later this Fall.
I think the first one is gonna be in September
and then all the way through to the end of the year.
And if you guys like the idea,
we'll film a whole bunch more VR stuff.
I think it's gonna be really fun,
I'm super excited about it.
Let us know what kind of ideas you'd like to see in VR.
I don't know if it's like maybe going in with Lucy
or maybe feeding some alligators.
I'm not really sure but it's gonna be really cool,
where you guys are gonna get a chance
to pan around and see the same thing that I see.
So let me know in the comments how you feel about it,
in the meantime I couldn't be more excited about this.
Thank you YouTube, this is gonna be awesome.
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And I kind of feel bad that I made fun
of YouTube's little glasses here
especially when it's really not that bad,
if you don't want to spend like six seven hundred bucks
on VR glasses you can buy these.
I think they're like 20 bucks.
You just put this in here, this goes like this,
this goes like this, and then you can literally
look in here and you can see it in VR.
I mean that's actually pretty cool.
This isn't VR but it is pretty wild how it looks.
I apologize YouTube,
for throwing your glasses they're pretty cool.
Looks like there's plenty of people, hi guys.
- Happy Fathers Day.
- [Brian] Thank you, you too!
Absolutely.
Everything okay Lori?
- Yeah, yeah a lot of people asking for you.
- [Brian] All right well I'm here.
Hi how do you like my Perdida?
- She is so great!
- [Brian] She's beautiful huh.
How you guys doing?
- Good.
- [Brian] Do you like Maisey?
(crowd noises)
What's going on, how are ya?
- Good.
- [Brian] Good to see you guys, awesome.
How you doin'?
How are you?
- By the way I subscribed.
- [Brian] Awesome thank you, you're awesome.
I love you guys.
Thanks, I appreciate you guys awesome!
Having fun with my girl Sunrise?
- Yeah, she's pretty.
- Well guys as you can see we are having a blast here.
We're winding up the night a little bit.
We're gonna be shutting down pretty soon
so I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog.
Just enjoy the rest of the night.
Wish you guys an amazing day, tell you how much I love you.
Please do me a favor and be kind to someone
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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