- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing,
or afternoon, evening, whenever you happen
to be watching it.
Of course, we've got my guy Karma here, come on Karma.
And of course, Karma is a Panther chameleon,
but he's what a call a Nosy Be Panther chameleon.
Which just is a locality, right?
So the interesting thing is that localities
of chameleons are different in Madagascar
as far as coloration, the nosy be males are typically
a blue color and Karma is certainly absolutely incredible.
And I think that Panther chameleons are probably
the coolest, as far as handling chameleons.
We have veil chameleons,
we have Jackson's chameleons, but when kids come
really holding a Panther chameleon,
not only are they a hardy animal
and they really seem to endure the handling pretty well,
but they also have relatively soft pads
their claws aren't nearly as bad.
So kids absolutely love them.
So again, we have Karma, which is the only male
Panther chameleon that we have.
But we had someone reach out to us
and actually has a couple new localities
of Panther chameleons that they have
that's two to three years old and he just wanted
to donate them to the zoo.
So what do you say we go take a look and see what he brings?
And look at this monkey.
He doesn't seem to be too happy right now,
but he just literally got here.
This is actually an ambilobe
which is really the classic Panther chameleon.
I mean, typically when you see a Panther chameleon
this is kind of the one that you think of, right?
It's got that beautiful reds and greens,
little blue hues to it.
That is one stunning animal.
And this guy is actually about two years old right now,
unbelievably perfect health.
And again, we're gonna always quarantine animals, right?
You know, we never just bring an animal
and throw it in The Reptarium.
So typically we're gonna want to spend at least 30 days
just kind of making sure their health is here.
Even though these were raised up by the guy
for over two years, I'm sure they're completely healthy
but I don't want anything to happen.
But I tell you what,
there's no doubt that this guy is gonna be super popular.
Again, Panther chameleons are amazing.
And Karma is definitely one of the coolest animals
when it comes to people coming going
"Oh my God, I want to hold a chameleon."
Now we're gonna take a little of the pressure off of Karma.
And we have this beautiful locality right here.
And like I said, it is a ripper.
I mean, wow.
And he's a little bit, you know, he's a little bit
not sure what's going on,
but we're gonna give him a little time to settle in.
And I think he's gonna love it here.
And then there's this guy here, really beautiful animal.
This is a really interesting one here.
And this is what they were calling Nosy Faly locality.
And again, I'm not sure
that I'm saying all of these localities, I'm not Madagascan.
You know what I mean?
But I think that something like that, but nevertheless,
these guys typically have a lot more red
than the nosy be's and they'll have, you know
still the blues, but they have the reds.
And this guy you could tell is probably
in a little bit of a stressed out color mode
to be totally honest with you.
Just came in,
just kind of settling in and stuff like that.
And these are like, again, quarantine type of a setup.
And you'll notice between we have cardboard, right?
Because two male chameleons that see each other
will actually get upset and it stresses
them out tremendously and they'll actually fight.
But nevertheless, he is a beautiful animal, too.
This one's probably about the same size as Karma.
And it's just definitely looking at me like,
"I don't know", look at it, standing like that
on it's two feet.
I love when chameleons do that.
It's absolutely amazing.
And they're just such incredible animals.
Again, zygodactylus feet,
stereoscopic eyes.
I mean, such interesting animals, aren't they?
And these are gonna be great additions
to The Reptarium when they finally get over there
like I said, it'll be about a month or so
before they get over there.
But wow is it gonna be cool?
Of course we do need names for both
of these two little guys.
We have Karma and Destiny
are our other Panther chameleons.
So let me know what you think these two male
Panther chameleons names should be,
but wow this guy is super, super cool.
And that's the thing about Panther chameleons,
you can get like a yellow ones, all green ones.
I mean, now I'm kind of addicted.
I want a whole bunch of Panther chameleons
from different localities.
That's absolutely amazing.
So nevertheless, cool animals cannot be more happy
that we're adding these in.
It's gonna be an amazing addition to The Reptarium.
With Bruce, it looks like we're getting an upgrade
on Chicken Strip today?
- Yeah, dude, honestly,
I know you and I both have been like,
man that cage just looks rough right now.
Today's the day I really wanted to get his cage
looking really, really nice.
So obviously I'm not gonna do it.
Jessica's gonna do it.
- [Brian] You gotta tear it down for us.
So you do the hard work and tear it down.
- I'm gonna make a sanitary,
I'm gonna make it a beautiful place
for him to not get sick in.
And Jessica's gonna make it a beautiful place
for him to live in.
- Oh, sounds good, well, yeah, that's the thing.
I mean, it's really cool at terrorist tank
and stuff like that, but no doubt that we've been
going around and trying to just make everything
look a little bit more aesthetically pleasing, right?
So Bruce will tear it down.
Jessica will come and put a bunch of cool stuff
in there and let's see how this animal turns out.
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Ooh, look at this, man.
This is actually a Tangerine Albino Honduran Milk snake
that we're raising up and oh my goodness,
that's a good one right there.
Again, that's the thing that's nice about it.
You can breed these guys polymorphically to produce
you know, more orange, more red, more bands, you know
whatever the case may be.
But in this particular case
we wanted to have like the most kind of orange
Tangerine look with as little contrast
with the yellow bands as possible.
And Oh my gosh, this is getting good.
Another couple of generations and my gosh
these things are gonna be crazy,
but I cannot wait till next year till this girl is up
to size, cause she is a crazy cool animal.
Been a minute since I showed you guys our Ackies,
which of course are a little dwarf monitor from Australia.
Super cool animals.
If you ever wanted a monitor lizard
but there's like no way you can dedicate a 10 foot cage
like we do, a dwarf monitors are the way to go
and the Ackies are kind of the most common.
And of course they come in like yellow and red.
These are the red Ackies
and you can see how chill and super intelligent they are.
I mean, you can train these guys just like a giant monitor.
You can target train 'em,
you can have eat off of tongs,
you can have them do all the things that we do
with the big monitors, but in a little body.
I will say when they're younger
they're a little bit more skittish than the big ones.
I always say, you know, think about the difference
between a great Dane and a Chihuahua, right?
The Chihuahua's always that hyper little dude.
Well, that's the same thing
with pretty much all dwarf species,
but that doesn't mean that you can't have
a tame Chihuahua, right?
Of course you can have a tame monitor like this, too.
Absolutely incredible animals.
And again, these are almost adult now.
Getting close to that adult size.
And it's pretty cool to think
that you can get a adult monitor that can fit
in the palm of your hand.
You guys know that we really have two distinct lines
of red Tikis Geckos, which is Dracula and Deadpool.
And we've been producing some Deadpool,
we talk about how Deadpool's so amazing,
but Jessica, Holy cow.
- Yeah, this is probably the best one we produced
so far this year.
- Yeah, and that's a Dracula line.
- Yeah, actually for whatever reason
the Dracula ones turned out better this year.
- [Brian] Really? - Yeah, I think
maybe just the different genes combined better.
Cause I used a different male, not from Tiki's Geckos.
- [Brian] Oh, Gotcha.
Yeah, so if we would've bred maybe two Deadpool
or to Dracula together, maybe you'd line breed through.
But we want it to get some outbred new gene pool
in as well, too.
This one turned out. - [Jessica] This is male,
- [Brian] It's a boy. - [Jessica] Yeah, it's a boy.
So this one'll, we're keeping him and raising him a guy.
- So yeah, next year we can take the Dracula,
this one here, bring it to the Deadpool,
that way we're outbreeding both really red lines.
Oh my gosh, those babies are
gonna be crazy. - [Jessica] It's gonna
be amazing.
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- Holy moly, that's a big difference.
- Dude, oh my God.
- [Brian] Jessica did an amazing job.
I think Chicken Strip's gonna really love it.
And he's just gonna feel a little bit more secure, right?
Because the plants and stuff like that are gonna feel
a little bit more comfortable.
Can't wait to see what he looks like.
So let's just go ahead and let him loose, Bruce.
Hey that rhymes.
Loose, Bruce. Loose, Bruce.
- [Bruce] Oh man.
I don't really think I want my name associated
with looseness, but.
- Come on, all right,
let's see how cool this thing is.
- [Bruce] I know you're already excited
to get away from me.
- [Brian] Oh, look how beautiful he's gonna look in there.
Gosh, the colors are just gonna pop so much more.
- [Bruce] Check it out, big guy.
- [Brian] Wow, absolutely incredible.
Yeah.
- [Bruce] I'd say that's pretty sweet.
- [Brian] That's gonna be beautiful.
I tell you what, and again,
I know that it takes us, you know,
this cage has been here for two years, you know,
but it's just taken time.
We're slowly getting around.
We're finally getting our groove
getting around to redesigning things, lots more leaf litter
lots more foliage and stuff like that.
So we're doing this with all the enclosures here.
So, couldn't be more happy.
They did an amazing job.
2020 is almost over.
I think most people are pretty excited about that
which means 2021, we can do some fun things.
And of course, black headed pythons remind me of one thing.
And that's Australia.
That's right.
I was supposed to go to Australia in September
and obviously that wasn't going to happen.
So I'm hoping in 2021, I can get to Australia.
Believe it or not for my 10th time.
That's right, I've been there nine times.
I want to get to double digits,
you know what I mean?
But there is so much travel I want to do in 2021.
I think that we're all been cooped up for so long
that we're just excited to get out of here.
I mean, I want to get to Africa,
I want to get over to the UK,
I want to get to Italy,
I want to get to Indonesia,
Get to China.
I mean, I want to get all over the place
but Australia has a special spot in my heart.
There's actually a place up in Darwin called Fog Dam,
that is probably my favorite place on the planet
to be honest with you.
You can find water snakes,
you can find death adders,
you can find tons of saltwater crocodiles,
tons of amphibians.
Slaty grays,
I mean, there's just so many animals,
as a matter of fact
it had the highest predator to prey ratio
on the planet at Fog Dam.
How cool is that?
So, I'm hoping that although right now
I just can admire these beautiful black heads
from Australia,
hopefully I'll be out in the Australian Bush
sometime in 2021.
Sunfire is the coolest retick I think I own
when it comes to climbing.
She is always up on the branches and every time
I walk by this cage and see her, I just have to stop
and admire it because that is fricking cool.
Again, catching reticks in a bat cave in Indonesia,
I remember them looking like this,
and oh, now she's coming up.
And I think that she thinks she's gonna get fed.
So again, I'm gonna continue to work with Sunfire,
cause like I had mentioned the other day
I want her to be the next giant snake like Lucy
but tame that we can actually take out.
I need to have an 18, 20 foot Python that I can bring
out so people can do it, but they have to be Bulletproof.
And I really do believe other than the food mode,
this girl can be that animal.
I haven't talked about blue tongues skinks often lately
because they've been in kind of brumation
which is just a cool-down.
This is actually what they call an Eastern Eye Bandit.
And guess what guys, if you're in the market
for blue tongue skinks I hate to say this,
you guys know that BHB has to downsize in some areas
so that we can expand at The Reptarium,
we are gonna be selling some of our
adult blue tongue skinks, so,
I'll have them out on the website sometime next week
and I'll do an update.
But if it's something you're interested
Eastern's, Northern's, really cool blue tongued skinks,
ready to breed,
literally in brumation now,
ready to breed here in another few weeks
they're gonna come up and actually start breeding.
I mean you could produce baby blue tongue skinks,
so again, keep an eye out on the BHB reptile website
because we're gonna be putting a bunch of these guys up
and as much as it's gonna break my heart,
I just need to downsize in some areas.
And these guys are one of the areas that we're gonna
reduce a little bit.
We're keeping a bunch, but we are gonna reduce some.
So, I don't know which ones,
it's gonna be so hard to choose, but there's gonna
be some banger animals available.
Back with Jessica,
and we talked about red geckos earlier with the Dracula
and this is a male that you're starting to pair up?
- Yeah, so I actually got him in
with our Deadpool lady right here.
- [Brian] Oh, so this the Deadpool girl,
and then what line is this?
- [Jessica] So this one actually, it came from Tiki's Geckos
but it was labeled black reptiles.
So I think it's actually from them,
- [Brian] Oh, okay, gotcha.
- Which is cool because like another Bloodline.
- [Brian] Yeah, that's crazy.
But Oh my gosh.
I didn't even realize we had a third red line that
was this good.
- [Jessica] Yeah, this one's so like bright
and neon isn't it?
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, it's crazy.
So what a pairing, I mean, can you imagine the babies
from these two and again, because they're outbred
that's gonna be great.
Wow, I hope,
and she starting to lay eggs, or?
- Yeah, she's starting to lay eggs.
So, hopefully they're by this guy and not the other male.
- Yeah, so hopefully this guy does his job.
Man, I am excited about that.
So that's pretty cool to get a couple of new chameleons,
Chicken Strip's got a new cage.
I mean, things are good, right?
We're ending the year in a positive note.
2021 is going to be amazing.
It may start out a little bumpy, but I have high hopes.
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