- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
I know my start of the day is gonna be amazing,
because Lilith no longer looks like she has marbles in her.
Looks like she must have laid her clutch of eggs.
So let's just go on a little bit of an egg hunt.
I am excited.
I've been waiting for this every day
for the last like 10 days,
so let's just hope that there's
a bunch of good eggs in here.
Good job, Lilith.
Good job, Nova.
Now the big question, and again, you can see Lilith
definitely looks like she is deflated,
and Nova looks like a proud daddy right here.
The question is did she lay in her nest box,
or did she lay underneath her nest box?
Last year a lot of times she laid underneath her nest box,
so I'm just gonna open this up first
and just do a little bit of excavating in here,
see if there's any chance that there's anything in here.
Even maybe look underneath.
I'm gonna start searching around inside here first,
and then if we can't find eggs in here
we'll look in that nest box a little bit further.
So first thing I'm gonna do is just everywhere
in the entire cage I'm gonna look for eggs,
make sure she didn't hide them anywhere.
I know they're in here somewhere.
Where are you?
Going on a little egg hunt.
Okay, interesting.
Don't know where they're at.
Not seeing them in this anywhere.
Again, I'm gonna just keep searching
just to make sure that there's nowhere else,
and then if not I know that they're in that nest box.
I'm gonna make a real quick search, again,
just to make 100% sure that I'm not missing them
anywhere in this entire cage.
Definitely not in the cage.
So, gonna just even climb up here
and just look inside here.
She is definitely deflated.
I mean, look at her, definitely deflated.
So she laid them.
Nova, you better not have eaten them.
Let's go ahead and take a look in this nest box
a little bit closer, 'cause they've got to be
in here I'm pretty sure.
Whoa, was that one right there?
Yep, they're there!
There they are, there they are!
Woo!
Look at that.
There's the eggs, oh my gosh.
All right, beauties!
I am so excited.
They look perfect too.
Nice pearly white eggs.
Just gonna set them right over here.
We've got three eggs so far.
Let's see what we go.
Oh, where are they at?
Oh, there's some more!
There's some more.
There's four.
Oh my gosh, there's five.
Look perfect.
Six eggs so far.
Oh my gosh.
That's good.
I figured she was gonna have maybe six or seven eggs,
and she did great by laying them in the nest box.
There's a seventh there, right there!
So that matches her big clutch of last year of seven.
Let's see if there's any more in here or if that's it.
That might be it, guys, but I'm gonna just
do a real thorough search just to make sure,
but I think seven might be the number.
And that looks like that's it.
Hoo doggy!
Take a look at seven eggs for my frillies.
Now, these guys hatch in about two months.
We incubate them at 88, 89 degrees.
Oh my God, you guys are amazing.
Nova, you did so good.
Lilith, you're such a good momma.
Oh my God, I am excited.
I'll get these guys in the incubator,
get these guys some extra food today,
because let's give them a little bit of a treat
for their amazing work.
But it finally happened guys.
We started the day with beautiful frilled dragon eggs.
How incredible is that?
Laurie, are you excited?
We're just a few days from opening at The Reptarium again.
It seems like we've been closed forever.
- It does.
It does feel like a very long time.
- [Brian] Yeah, this is nine weeks.
That is a long time. - Yeah.
- [Brian] But pretty excited.
It's gonna be amazing, huh?
- Yeah, it'll be nice to start to get back in a rhythm,
and obviously it's not exactly the same,
but something is better than nothing.
Maybe it's good for us to ease back into it.
- Yeah, I was thinking about that.
It's probably good to kind of ease back in,
'cause if we just opened up with hundreds of people again
it would have been overwhelming.
So this gives us an opportunity
to get our feet underneath us.
Over the next month or so I'm sure it'll go
from 10, to 25, to 50, and back to normal
over the next little bit.
But hey, it's pretty cool.
But we do have some work cut out for us to get ready.
- I know.
- I know. - Busy week.
- Busy week.
All right, cool.
(soothing music)
Guess what time it is?
If you said colubrid egg time,
you'd be wrong because we're in the dungeon.
It is ball python egg time,
and I am so super excited about this female right here.
Ho doggy!
That of course is my blue eyed leucistic.
This is one of my old girls.
She's been around for a long time.
One of the very first blue eyed leucistics every produced.
Probably top five or something like that.
She has been literally producing
for the last five or six years in a row
without taking a year off.
And I tell you what,
I love, love, love this girl so, so much.
Not only is she just super sweet,
but she's also a great producer.
We actually bred her to that super pastel hidden gene woma,
so we can get a bunch of pastel soul suckers,
and soul suckers, and all kinds of cool stuff in here.
Let's just go ahead, get these eggs out of here.
And I tell you what, this girl is a producer.
I mean jeez, I tell you what,
I don't think she's ever laid an infertile egg,
hopefully I'm not jinxing myself for next year,
and she hasn't taken a year off in like six years.
So she's got two, four, six, seven gorgeous eggs.
Love that girl.
Oh my God, what an amazing way to start
the ball python egg collecting day.
This is actually another girl
that has been around a long time.
This was the very first ever
pastel chocolate ball python produced.
We produced the very first chocolate ball pythons
at BHB way back in the day,
and this girl was the first pastel that we ever produced.
Oh, come on momma, don't bite me.
It's okay, girl.
Whoa!
Come on little monkey.
And she's got a bunch of eggs in here.
Some of them are rolled,
so we're gonna have to candle these guys for sure.
And she's bred to that banana chocolate spinner,
so we could get some Barney balls,
some pastel Barney balls, all kinds of stuff.
If they turn out to be purple, that is.
But let's just go ahead and pull
this clutch of eggs really quick.
Looks like that egg probably rolled,
but we're gonna go ahead just pull all these eggs out.
Oh, momma,
oh, oh.
Come on, momma, it's okay.
It's all right.
Oh!
Come on, it's all right momma, we're okay.
She's just protecting her eggs.
She's being a good mom.
She's a really good mom.
And this is another snake that actually has produced
a bunch of years in a row as well,
because she is, like I said, at least 12 or 15 years old.
So she's doing really, really good.
I think there's one little egg over here.
We'll get this female cleaned up,
get her washed up to where she has that egg smell off her,
get that maternal instinct to go away.
We'll candle these eggs up,
but she's got two, four, six, eight, nine good eggs
and there was a couple slugs too,
so that was a beautiful clutch.
Can't wait till we potentially get that banana camo.
Oh my gosh, fingers crossed.
Like I've been mentioning, The Reptarium is opening up
so you need to book your time slots.
We're selling one hour experiences.
You can book as many hours as you want,
but you do have to have an appointment in advance.
We're not gonna be doing walk ups
per the state regulations right now.
It's gonna be cool.
10 people only.
10 people, so you're gonna get a lot of individual care,
get to see all the animals for an hour, two hours,
however long you guys want,
but you do have to book your slots,
so go over to thereptarium.com.
Also, if you want a private tour under 10 people,
a birthday party under 10 people,
other special events under 10 people
we can start to book those now too.
It's something, guys.
It's not what we exactly want,
but it is certainly something
and we're excited about it,
so head over to thereptarium.com
and make sure you book your time slot.
And I know now that things are so busy
at BHB with egg production and stuff like that
there's been so many animals that haven't been
in the vlog for a while, like Joker here,
the scaleless Texas rat snake.
Absolutely incredible.
So everything's still doing good here,
and I'll try to show some more stuff off now,
especially now that we're gonna be open
we're gonna be spending more time over here as well.
Back to my frill parents here,
and we'll see if we can give these guys a little treat.
There you go, Lilith.
Good job, girl.
Way to go.
Nova, you get one too.
Nova.
There you go, buddy.
There you go.
Good job, guys.
You are so amazing.
Lilith, you can have another one.
Lilith, here, here, here.
There you go girl.
There you go.
Don't, don't, don't fight.
Don't fight.
Nova, here.
There you go buddy.
Good job, you guys are doing so good.
Here you go, Nova.
Lilith, come on.
There you go, girl.
Last one, Nova.
Good job, guys.
You guys are amazing.
(chuckles) Good job.
Just had to give them a little treat
for being such amazing animals.
And again, typically they're gonna lay
every four to six weeks,
so hopefully Lilith will lay maybe two, three,
maybe even four more clutches this year.
So we want to get her nice and fat as well,
so wow, how awesome.
Do I even need to ask you what time it is?
It's colubrid egg time. (chuckles)
We actually have a Miami het crimson scaleless
bred to a motley scaleless corn snake here.
Let's see what we have here.
And these Miamis are actually the phase
that comes down in Miami.
Sometimes they're called milk snake phase,
just 'cause it looks like they have
more banding than saddling,
and then of course the crimson is the hypo,
and then of course it's also het for scaleless
and all that other stuff.
So we could have some really cool stuff.
Looks like we got one little slug here.
Another little slug on the bottom side here,
but the rest of this clutch looks like it's pretty good.
We'll go ahead and put it in here
and get this all set up.
We've got two, four, six, good eggs, a couple bad eggs.
Not exactly a big clutch, but hey,
still some really potentially
beautiful babies from this clutch.
Next up we have this girl.
I hope this is a good clutch of eggs.
This is actually an anery stripe
that is het for scaleless.
Oh yeah.
Not a big clutch, but beautiful.
Actually, this is an interesting thing.
These are actually like the motley stripes
is what they call it.
So there's a striped corn,
and then there's a motley corn,
and much like in some ball pythons
it's kind of allelic.
If you breed a motley and a stripe you get this,
which is kind of a combination of motley and a stripe.
But this girl is het for scaleless,
bred to the exact same thing,
so we could produce some anery motley scaleless,
some anery stripe scaleless,
some anery stripe motley scaleless,
all kinds of really beautiful animals.
Two, four, six, eight good eggs, so that was exciting.
I wasn't sure if it was gonna be a good clutch,
so I am stoked it was.
Last colubrid clutch for the day is actually
a greenish rat that is het for albino,
and I love these guys.
I've talked about this before,
where I just think they're the coolest snake.
Laurie is not a big fan of them for some reason,
but look at how gorgeous that snake is.
I mean that is such a pretty snake.
I guess they sometimes have
a little bit of an attitude to be honest.
You can see she's coming around trying to bite me
right now to be honest with you,
but it's okay because I still think that
that is one gorgeous snake, I tell you what.
And I could not be more excited the fact
that this is a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Get this shed out of here.
Of course we always get the girls cleaned up afterwards.
We're probably gonna have to candle these,
'cause it looks like these eggs are all over the place,
but there's a bunch of pearly whites.
And some eggs are just whiter than other eggs
and just perfectly formed.
These almost look like tiny chicken eggs,
I mean they are perfect.
I'm just gonna get these here.
Like I said, I'll go in a dark room
and candle each and every one of these,
'cause they are definitely rolled all over the place.
And for whatever reason, certain rat snakes,
everglades rat snakes, greenish rat snakes,
they will oftentimes do that
where their eggs don't stick together
and they roll around a lot.
I don't know why that is.
I have no idea what the nature
or mechanism behind that is,
but they hardly ever stick together.
We've got two, four, six, eight, 10, 12,
14, 16, 18, 19 beautiful eggs
and that wraps up colubrid egg collecting for the day.
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Little Karma 2.0 is doing amazing too.
I mean it is absolutely stunning.
I love the Nosy Be stuff.
I mean that blue color is incredible.
And again, another animal that I've been trying to hold
as much as possible, usually at least once a day
I have him out just to continue
to keep him socialized.
Now that people are gonna be coming in it's gonna be cool.
And again, with small parties of like 10 only,
it's gonna be pretty awesome to be in here
with just a small amount of people
getting to see these animals,
getting to interact.
Again, myself, Jessica, Bruce will be here,
Andrea will be here, Laurie will be here.
So there'll be almost as many people in the crew here
as there are people in the place,
but it's just, hey, listen,
I'm just happy for what I can get.
Not reptile related, but I had mentioned
I'm gonna redo the bathroom.
Laurie's just cleaning some stuff out.
Time to demo this.
Rip the toilet out, rip the sink out, get the floor going,
and then we can start tiling and get this thing going.
You know I'm a Bob the Builder on the side,
so let's hope this works out.
Fingers crosses.
I know, again, it's probably boring to some of you,
but what the heck, this is my life and I'm gonna film it.
(upbeat music)
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(drills whirring)
(upbeat music)
And just like that the bathroom is basically done.
Just a little cleanup.
Got to still paint the walls, put a mirror on,
put a little storage area over here,
but for the most part that was
a pretty quick fix for a bathroom,
and now it certainly looks a lot better in here.
How absolutely incredible that we have
little baby frilly eggs.
I mean here in a couple months
we're gonna hatch those baby frills.
It is so absolutely exciting.
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