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And welcome to the vlog.
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or whenever you happen to be watching.
this little feisty monkey is crazy here.
And, you know, we had a really good year when
it came to ball python production.
And there's some hold backs that we held
onto including this little monkey here
which is actually a lesser leopard clown ball python.
Just really amazing how these genes go together
and just really reduce the pattern
and make them so absolutely incredible.
Of course, the leopard and the lesser
are incomplete dominant.
And then the clown is recessive
and clowns are just so incredible.
But this little dude is crazy.
I can't believe how feisty he is.
And again,
baby ball pythons on can sometimes be this way,
but typically within a few months, they always calm down.
But now that some of these callbacks are getting bigger
they are really looking good.
And this little guy here
was actually a sibling of that last one.
This is actually a super pastel
lesser leopard clown ball python.
So again, it's the killer clown
which is the super pastel clown
and it's a lesser and a leopard.
I mean, oh doggie,
I tell you what that thing is turning nicer
and nicer as it grows.
And you guys know that I've said
I kind of slept on the lori ball project
and now I'm really focused on it.
This one was one of the productions
that I was really excited about.
This of course is a banana cinny lori ball python.
The cinny and the lori go together really well.
But then you get that banana and,
Oh my gosh,
the purple is coming out of this guy.
How cleanly patterned it is,
I'm loving these guys.
And then these are one of those
mystery ball python babies that hatched out,
again there was like seven eggs in clutch.
All seven were completely different, weird looking.
None of them even looked related for that matter.
This one just really bizarre.
Don't know what the genetics are behind it
but I know that it's nothing that you would think it is.
I mean, there's no champagne in this
there's I mean, just all the morphs
that you would think that would make something like this,
there's not in there.
So again, we held back a lot
of really cool ball pythons for this year.
So a couple of years from now
when these guys are up to size,
whether they're males or females,
we're going to have some really fun times.
There's no doubt about it.
So, it's cool every now and then to just look
through some of the babies and trust me
we held onto about 50 babies this year.
So, going to be some really cool stuff in the future.
Take a look at my guy here.
Aries looks absolutely gorgeous.
Of course, he just shed out,
looking really good.
I keep saying that.
I hope that when they both have shed,
which now Ivy has shed
and Aries has shed that maybe they'll actually breed,
which by the way,
look at Ivy,
you look at my hand compared to that animal right there.
Yeah, it's a lump because she ate the other day,
but she's still ginormous.
I cannot believe how big she's gotten.
And then again, Aries got a beautiful shed right here.
I mean, obviously one of the things that's nice
about anacondas they typically shed pretty well
because they spent so much time in the water and of course
humidity and kind of moisture
is what causes a good shed. Right?
So Aries has a beautiful shed.
Ivy looks absolutely amazing,
Aries is right over there poking his head out.
He really is thinking probably more about,
are you going to feed me dad
than he is thinking about breeding Ivy,
but I really believe that there's a very good chance
that this is like a perfect environment for breeding, right?
We've got land up here.
We've got basking spots, we've got lots of water.
We've got everything they need to actually breed.
I can't imagine a scenario where Aries and Ivy don't breed
whether it's this year or next year
it doesn't really matter to me.
And I'm not in any hurry for it.
I just would love to have some offspring from Ivy and Aries,
because I just think it would be so amazing
to kind of carry their legacy on
over and over and over again.
You know what I mean?
How incredible that is, I still am in awe
at how giant Ivy has gotten,
just in the last year and a half.
But do you mind Scott came by from Grand Rapids
and brought some snakes for me to not only take a look at
but also this particular animal,
this is a 23 year old pet corn snake, named Cornflake.
That's right.
Its name is Cornflake, but what's interesting
about this animal is you can see its eyes are white, right?
And that basically is old age.
23 is pretty darn old for a corn snake.
And it actually looks like it's in really good health other
than the fact that it now has cataracts and has went blind.
And it's just really interesting because you know
a lot of times you don't see that.
And I thought it'd be cool to show you guys
what a snake looks like
when it gets old and actually loses its sight
and actually has that cataract and solid white eyes.
I mean, if you saw this and you didn't know, you'd be like
why would a snake have white eyes?
Well now, you know, it's pretty fricking awesome.
So you guys know projects never stop here at the Reptar
and we've been kind of achieving a lot of them.
Now that the sloth room is basically done.
Then obviously the tortoise store is done.
And so many things we've been doing,
then next up is actually to move
these cages around a little bit.
You guys know that we have the new
panther chameleons next door.
Well, the big thing here is that we are talking
about the fact that I kind of liked the jaggedness
of the way these cages are set up
but it doesn't really work for these cages
up here because no one can actually see them.
So what I have to do in the next few days is actually take
these cages out here.
I'm going to actually rip this out,
rip this out and move this cage
so that it is even with this cage here
and then move these cages down here.
So you have four small cages here
and then two screen cages that are at the same level.
That way we can probably put
like the ambilobe panther right here.
And then we can put these two cages down here
where kids can actually see them and access them.
Because again,
we've got the scaleless corn snake, Loki up here.
And then of course we have the notorious frog up here
that no one can see.
So if we get those down, I think it works a lot better.
So that's the next project here.
But again, there's always projects.
There's always going to be the next build project.
And then we do have to work
on the basement downstairs, that sitting room area.
That's going to be a huge project coming up real soon.
Little update on the suriname red tail boa,
of course these are the true red tail boas
the constrictor constrictor, and my goodness.
Are they looking incredible, getting some size.
I always mention you raise true red tail boas
a little slower than you do colombians
because if you feed them too heavy
they seem to have regurgitation issues.
They just don't eat as large a meals when they're younger.
But now that they're about this size
you can start to hit them pretty hard with food.
So I have a feeling that, although these are about a year
and a half old, they're going to probably put a lot
of size on in the next 12 to 18 months.
And again, some of these suriname boas
can get 10 foot plus like Cupcake.
So it's going to be amazing.
But look at that tail and just look at the markings,
again, the true red tail boas have that crisp
beautiful markings to them, unbelievable,
I love these animals.
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It's definitely been a while
since I've updated you on Mango
and remember he broke his tail off.
You can see his tail is almost a hundred percent
grown back right now.
What's kind of interesting is that,
you know, he's coming up on, I don't know,
10 months old or something like that.
And he's not all that much bigger
than he was when he was a baby.
And sometimes what happens is
when a lizard breaks his tail off
and puts all of its energy,
basically into the growth of their tail
and actually the growth of the animal
slows down tremendously.
Now he's starting to beef up a little bit
grow a little bit more, eating a lot more.
Again, his tail is probably 80 percent grown back
maybe even 90 percent now.
And he is looking absolutely wonderful
chunky little monkey doing really, really well.
So I have a feeling that here in the next year
this guy's going to go from this tiny little baby
to probably a foot and a half, or better.
So he is doing really cool, and I tell you what,
that is one cool animal.
So it looks like you were busy today Lori.
- Hi mister.
- [Brian] Oh look who's out.
- [Lori] Hi!
- [Brian] Hi little monkey.
He was in his little hammock just a few minutes ago,
now he's come out to say hi.
So obviously you did all of the seaming.
I showed you did the ledge before,
but now you've got all the ground,
all the way over here.
And, is it done all the way?
I mean it's done on this side,
but are you going further?
- [Lori] I think it's still going to go further
along that other wall.
I'm trying to prevent leakage.
- [Brian] Yeah.
What happens is that, yeah.
What happens is that when Drogo climbs down
and by the way if you guys don't know it,
they always climb to the ground and they pee and poo
on the ground and then they climb back up the tree
and it was actually getting underneath the actual,
even though it was sealed, it was somehow getting through,
so now you've caught it and sealed it.
- [Lori] I'm hoping.
Cause honestly he's probably
due to use the bathroom tonight.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- So I wanted to get it done prior so hopefully,
that way I'll know.
- [Brian] It is interesting how like consistent it is.
Like, you know, every third
or fourth night he goes to the bathroom.
It's really interesting.
And look at, look it him.
- [Lori] He ate a lot today.
Yeah. He took like eight biscuits for my hand.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh!
Well, it looks good.
And again, you can see how cool it looks
once you've seen the bottoms and everything.
It's just kind of really finishes it off.
So this room is 99 percent done,
once you're done with that, we're all set, right?
- I think so.
And then others, well, no, there's always something.
- [Brian] There's always stuff to do.
- It looks better though.
No more foam.
- Yeah, not to mention, you know,
we rearrange the ropes every like maybe week,
week and a half
just to give him like more mental enrichment.
So this is always going to be constantly changing.
But as far as the actual infrastructure,
it looks like we're done.
- Getting there.
- [Employee] Gianna is actually one of my
favorite animals nowadays,
just because of how like,
she just naturally wants to be like,
have attention.
At first when, we first got her,
she's not really too keen on being touched.
She even, I even took a little couple of nips that I
wasn't really expecting.
We're going to try and get her out.
And what I'm kind of curious about is like, even
though, like I said, they're not the same animals
as our rhino iguanas,
I want to actually try to get her where she's on the floor,
like a rhino iguana,
as to where maybe she can interact
with kids a little better.
Considering she has some really sharp claws,
I don't want to hand her to a little kid
and then they get traumatized, because they got,
they're going to look like me, pretty much
with all my arms, my arms scars
and stuff like that.
So let's get started, lets see what she does.
This is really just an experiment.
I've never actually put her on the floor before.
Usually what I do is I put her
on my shoulders and walk around.
So let's see what she does.
(giggles)
Come on, there you go.
Because they're so smart,
I really don't want to like stand over her too much.
Just because again, this is a new environment.
As you can see, she's looking around in the cameras,
looking around at everything.
I don't put her on the ground at all.
This is actually probably her first time ever
being on the ground.
So, I don't want it to make it a super traumatizing thing.
So you do want to keep it sort of short
just so it's just a very temporary, very
very quick positive thing,
look at the cute little licks that she does,
just rhinos do.
So it's going to be really interesting to
see what she does next,
but I don't want her to stick her in, out here for too long.
All right sweetheart, hi.
Have you guys ever actually seen her and do the head nod?
Very often these are communications from her.
She is, she, it could be her telling me that she's scared
she's freaked out or she could be also communicating
to me that, that like, you know
just to watch her back, like, hey, you know
like I don't really know what's going
on here and I need you to be, be watching me.
You know?
So I think that went well, really really well.
So let's go ahead and get her back in her enclosure.
I think she's going to be a lot, lot more
attentive about the next time we opened it up.
So I do want to actually do
that a couple more times, probably off camera
just to see how long we can really push it
without freaking her out too much.
So let's get her back inside and get her
some food in her too.
Another banger down here in the dungeon,
of course, is this Atherton Tablelands
or jungle carpet python, my goodness.
And the ones I really want to work with are ones like this.
Jet black, brilliant fluorescent yellow.
These are the ones that absolutely are striking.
So we've been working on trying to produce
the best of these contrast ones.
And I tell you what this one takes the cake.
This is a beautiful snake.
Can't wait till it gets up to size and start producing.
Again, through line breeding, you can get better
and better animals each generation.
But I don't think you get much better than this one.
This one is a ripper.
Earlier I showed you that suriname red tail boa
and mentioned how typically they get bigger
than the colombian red tail ball.
Now Cupcake, of course is a giant
colombian red tail boa.
I tell you what, I haven't seen
I haven't seen many bigger than this, to be honest with you.
She's definitely top five huge animals.
She is heavy, she is strong.
But can you imagine that suriname pattern and color
in a snake this size,
that's what makes the true red tail boas,
at least some of the localities of the true red tail boa
is so amazing,
is that they get giant like Cupcake here,
but they have such amazingly cryptic
and beautiful patterns and colors.
There's no doubt about that, but I tell you what
it is rare that you're going to see
a colombian boa this large.
She is amazing.
And I honestly think she's one
of the coolest snakes that I've ever seen.
All in all you know,
that old corn snake should be completely fine.
It's weird that it would be blind
like that and have such strong cataracts.
You don't typically see it that much,
but I've seen the snakes get cataracts a lot.
That's crazy.
But again, we've seen with Helen
that blind snakes can actually thrive and do very well.
It's cool to have a corn snake to live plus 20 years,
isn't it?
It's awesome.
Think about that, when you're getting a snake
you're going to be keeping it for a whole long time.
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