- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
This is I don't know,
day four, five, of insane unboxing.
Well today I'm not going to let you down because
I'm getting an animal that is outrageous.
I mean just like the pinnacle of snakes.
Well, one of the pinnacles of snakes, let's just say.
And it's going to go in this enclosure right here.
So what we have to do is just get this a little cleaned up,
get it set up, and get ready for this box
that should be here any time.
And then I'm going to be ear to ear smiles today.
So I hope that you guys will join me with some
smiles as well.
Let's just get into it.
(Soft electronic music)
Okay, so basically all set up.
We're going to get some foliage in here for sure.
But let's go ahead, the package is here.
Let's just open this bugger up.
I am beyond excited.
And here we go, guys.
And you know there's just those certain moments
where it just like, blows you away.
And I know I've been saying that a lot lately
as I've been unboxing for stuff at the Reptarium
and that's because I've literally been targeting
animals that my entire life I've wanted.
Now I'll be totally honest with you,
the animal I'm about to unbox,
I didn't even know existed my entire life
so it's not something that was even attainable until
the last I don't know, 15 or 20 years or so.
Regardless, I am beyond excited about this.
And I don't know what to say.
I'm running out of kind of things to say to be totally
honest with you about.
Like oh my God this is amazing or stuff like that.
You obviously, you guys know, it's incredible right?
So let's just go ahead, get rid of that,
(crash)
and get into the one bag that's in here.
Now it's not a very big animal,
and it's getting a rather large enclosure,
you guys saw the enclosure I'm setting up,
and this is what's in it right now.
But to be honest with you,
it's eventually going to get pretty big.
So I figure, let's just go ahead and give this amazing
snake that deserves so much,
let's just give it a huge enclosure.
Now again, I've told you guys this before,
that not every animal adjusts to large enclosures,
so we're just going to have to see if it does well in there,
it's going to grow for the next several years,
till it gets to adult size.
And if it doesn't,
we'll have to move it to something smaller.
But nevertheless, I am excited to be working with this,
and oh my gosh.
Wow.
I mean.
Guys.
If you haven't guessed yet what it is.
When I said that it is one of the pinnacle snakes
to own,
this is the snake right there.
Oh my gosh.
Of course for you guys that don't know,
this is what they call a Boelen's Python.
That's right.
A Boelen's python.
Now this is a yearling.
It's eventually going to get jet black and all these
tan bars will turn yellow.
And these guys will literally get 10 plus foot long.
A sizeable, impressive snake that is unbelievable.
Again guys when I first saw my first Boelen's python,
I dreamt of a day, of one day owning 'em.
But honestly, they were just unobtainable.
I mean you just didn't ever see these guys.
I remember Tracy Barker actually produced the first
US captive once from a gravid female that laid
a clutch of eggs.
This is probably 20 or so years ago.
And I remember it was the talk of the reptile hobby,
because no one had ever seen baby Boelen's Pythons before.
And now there's a lot of people that work with them still,
breeding is not very common at all with these guys,
again, it's a really small snake
for a really large enclosure.
But these guys grow relatively quickly.
Again unbelievable, and typically these guys are up in the
mountains in New Guinea, so they're a rare snake.
Just kind of that elusive animal.
And anyone that keeps pythons, will always say that
these guys are kind of the pinnacle of the python family.
I mean there is just something about it.
Their head structure, the way they are,
they're super intelligent, and just really amazing snakes.
I just don't know what else to say,
other than the fact that this is amazing.
Let's go ahead and see what it does in this huge enclosure.
And again, what I'll do is I'll give these guys a
handful of days to settle in,
and then I'll try to feed them.
If they feed in these enclosures, we know that they've
settled in well.
If it doesn't feed, we may have to move it to something
smaller for a time being.
And eventually move it into that maybe a year from now.
I don't know.
Regardless, what do you guys think of that beauty.
Again guys I mean this is just insane,
I just can't believe, I've held Boelen's Pythons,
I've even filmed some Boelen's Pythons obviously when I was
out at NERD, I filmed their Boelen's python.
But I tell ya what, man.
To now have one at the Reptarium and honey no,
this is a really small snake for a big enclosure, but hey.
When you are like, the king of pythons, you
deserve a large enclosure.
We'll see if it settles in or not, so what do you say,
we just let it go and see what happens.
Here we go, guys.
And these guys love to climb, so it should absolutely love
this environment for sure.
We'll see what it does.
Just take a look at that animal.
Again, it's gonna be a little bit silly to see this
little snake in this huge enclosure, but trust me, guys
this is gonna blow up, I mean here in the next year or so
it's gonna be seven plus foot long, these guys grow
really quickly, and they change from that octogenic kinda
reddish brown, to that black with yellow.
That is just stunning, breathtaking.
So, I'm just gonna let it go and just watch it for a while,
see what it does, you can see it's
immediately gonna start climbing.
And there's a lot of temperature range in this cage too,
which is really important because these guys are so high
up in elevation, there's gonna be times where they drop
relatively cool in the wild.
So we wanna give it the opportunity to get warm in this
enclosure but also get to spots where it
can really cool off, so.
But again, I love the fact that it just immediately
is gonna climb and just kind of explore the enclosure.
Wow.
This is awesome.
(soft electronic music)
Again guys, just a handful of days, Friday the 13th,
the opening weekend.
I mean Friday, Saturday, Sunday, we're gonna have all
kind of festivities, fun, it's gonna
be absolutely ridiculous.
A lot of work is still due, I'm not gonna lie to you, but
it's getting closer, you know that punch list is getting
smaller and smaller, it's gonna be and amazing weekend,
super busy weekend, insane, I am so excited about it,
just to share this with everyone.
So if you're in the area, come visit us, all right?
- So we got this guy all set up.
- Actually take all those out, leave one roach in there, and
we back off from there.
The hope there, is that it accepts your scent on the cup.
You know what I'm saying?
You've held that, you had it all in your hand, you're
sweating on it, oils, whatever.
But we're hoping that he still will make that association
on his own.
[Speaker 2]- Okay.
- No guarantee it will work that way, 'cause this is a
different animal, it's a different, whole other horizon
that we gotta sort of like, take it over from it.
(fountains in enclosures drown speaker 3 out)
He's gotta feel safe to come down, and where he feels safe
where he's at right now.
After doing all this waiting, and patience and stuff like
that, I ain't gonna lie, to a point it's gonna get to
where it's like, if he's not truly trained to take off
tongs, you're gonna have to try some (mumbles)
where you're gonna kinda have to like try to push that food
right there and see if they just bite.
- It's crazy, look at Ivy is actually on land today!
I'm not really sure what's going on this is the first time
she's kind of out, but she's comin' at me like, I don't know
what she's doing.
I have no idea what's going on.
I don't know if she thinks I'm going to feed her, or
what's going on, she is comin' right for me.
Ivy, what're you doing, sweetheart?
But it was wild when I came in this morning and actually
saw her on land I was like "What is going on?".
Are you okay, girl?
What's goin' on, sweetheart?
You all right?
Hi baby, you just comin' to see me?
Oh, oh.
I think she might be hungry, guys.
There you go, sweetheart, you're a good girl.
It's cool.
I'm glad that she's utilizing the land of this cage too, but
she's definitely very curious this morning, again I think
she's acting like she's gonna feed.
She's scheduled to feed in the next day or two, so we'll
definitely get her some food, but I think she's out on
land hunting right now.
This is cool as could be!
(soft electronic music)
And she's back in her water.
It's weird, I don't like the reason what's for her to spend
this morning out of the water.
Again, maybe she's looking for food, on the hunt.
I'm not sure.
But it's cool.
Again, learning the different ways animals are reacting to
things has been pretty interesting already, and it's gonna
be going on for many months to come.
Just the new animals that we have, obviously the old animals
like Ivy reacting differently to the enclosure, so.
It's been awesome so far, and I love it, and it's something
I look forward to every morning.
Coming and just watching everything and seeing how they're
reacting, so yeah.
So Ivy, back in her water.
(whoosh)
- These ones I'm pretty excited about.
[Speaker 1]- Ooh!
- So this is the female here.
She's a red phantom, I believe.
[Speaker 1]- She is absolutely incredible.
- Yeah, and then the male is actually really pretty too.
He looks a little different than her.
But I'm hoping she lends her red background to him.
So we'll get some cream and red babies.
[Speaker 1]- Oh my God, that would be awesome.
- So he's a whiteout pinstripe.
[Speaker 1]- And now is the whiteout the whiting
on the sides and stuff like that?
- Yep, so it's just technically a harlequin.
[Speaker 1]- Oh, cool, really cool.
- Yeah, it's just a line of harlequins.
He's pretty crazy though, so he's gonna be
running around, I guess.
Yep, I can already see she's got, she didn't even really
cover that well.
[Speaker 1]- Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
Another two beautiful ones.
- They look great.
It'll be cool to maybe produce something that looks like
him just with a red background instead of that brown.
[Speaker 1]- That would be so sweet.
- All right, so we got some good little baby-- well, not
babies, eggs to collect today.
[Speaker 1]- Three babies.
- Yeah, in a couple months they'll be babies.
This is Pumpkin Spice.
(speaker 1 is drowned out)
She's one we produced last year.
[Speaker 1]- Wow, really, so they get
pretty big pretty quick, huh?
- Oh, yeah.
[Speaker 1]- Oh my gosh.
- Her mom's pretty big too, so her mom's like, 70 grams.
Usually, like average size is about 50, 55 grams, maybe.
[Speaker 1]- Oh, so it's big.
So they dig a little bit more--(Speaker 2 interrupts)
- Yeah, you can see she had it all like, up to one side
and that's usually how they'll dig.
And maybe it just has to do with like, temperature actually,
they like it a little cooler.
[Speaker 1]- So the farther they go underneath...cool
(Speaker 1 talks over Speaker 2)
so what do you think, you think we got a
good egg and a bad egg?
- This one looks perfect, this one's, obviously it's not.
[Speaker 1]- Very cool, well hey, that was awesome.
Thanks, Jessica.
Continue try to fill up all these cages before we open,
obviously, Friday the 13th coming up in a handful of days
so join us if you happen to be in the area.
So, we're gonna bring back an animal that used to be at
the Reptarium called Darwin the Bredl's Carpet Python.
I think we're gonna put him in an enclosure that has a lot
of climbing branches, hopefully it'll hang out up there,
and love it.
Every day we're getting new animals, every day we're moving
animals in, we just got a handful of days, and all of
the enclosures are gonna have to be full, so let's go ahead
and get Darwin, get him over here and see how he's gonna
like his new enclosure.
(whoosh)
And of course, this is Darwin, if you guys remember, Bredl's
Carpet Pythons are some of my favorite
of all the carpet pythons.
Number one, they're typically super docile animals, they're
one of the larger localities for sure, so.
These guys are absolutely ridiculous and I cannot wait to
see what he's gonna look like in that enclosure.
Let's go ahead and walk it over.
(soft electronic music)
And carpet pythons are extremely arboreal snakes, so
they love to climb.
As a matter of fact, when I was in Darwin once, I caught
a carpet python that was like, 20 foot in a tree, so they
love to climb.
Now, the Bredl's are actually from the Red Center area.
They're not from the Darwin area, I know his name is Darwin,
but it's because of (mumbles)
right now because of where he's from.
These guys are from the Alice Springs and that Red Center
of Australia, and they get much larger than the actual
Darwin's Carpet.
But again, they love to climb, so this is going to be a
really cool enclosure, that is going to be up here
and I'm hoping it does a lot of perching right here.
Of course, the hotspot is here too, so hopefully it's going
to perch up here soon, it'd be an amazing display.
It looks ridiculously beautiful in here, get a little
foliage in here, just to make it pop, and whoo, doggy!
I tell you what, this is awesome, and this snake is going
to be so happy.
I just gotta sit back and just watch this for a while,
it's insane.
(soft electronic music)
- Now, the roach didn't work, but we're gonna try some
chicken this time, and see if that maybe
entices him a little.
[Speaker 3]- There you go.
[Speaker 2]- We got it!
(soft electronic music)
Wanna come down?
(laughing)
That's good progress, we're gonna keep it short, though.
And just do like, short little bursts for the first like,
week or two, I think.
[Speaker 1]- But it is so awesome that it ate, it means
that he's settling in well.
- Yeah, it means he's liking the cage, I think.
[Speaker 1]- what's cool is he actually started coming down
too, he didn't just stay up there, so I think within
a couple weeks, we can get this guy to come and--
(Speaker 3 interrupts)
- Honestly, full discretion on this one, like, tong
feeding is 50 percent of the battle.
And if he's taking off the tongs, I'm telling you there's
gonna be no time to overeat
he's just gonna be this sweet, little, cute thing that
just crawls all over you.
- I just can't believe it, guys I have a Boelen's Python.
I mean it's, again pinnacle of pythons, it's crazy, I'm so
excited to learn as much as I can about the animal, find out
what makes it tick, how it is.
They're supposed to be super inquisitive, super intelligent,
so it's gonna be cool to be working with the species that
I dreamt about for so long, and just share that octogenic
change with you guys from that brown and reddish rust color
to black and yellow.
It's gonna be pretty awesome.
I'll obviously take you guys along on the journey.
Thank you for watching today, I hope that you enjoyed
this whole process that we're going through.
Lots more animals to come, so tune in tomorrow, 'cause
there's gonna be cool stuff then, too.
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