- Hey good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I really do hope the start of your day is amazing.
I know mine is because I'm back here at The Reptarium
and I can't tell you that every single day as we get closer,
which T-minus 14 days till install,
really all I've been thinking about is that.
You know how it's gonna be cooler.
Don't get me wrong, I love being here at The Reptarium
but the fact that we're gonna be able to
walk down this aisle and walk right into the new place
is really gonna be amazing
and I'm so glad that you guys are
coming along on the journey.
Let me know in the comments if you're excited about it,
if you're gonna come to visit,
again the idea is the second Friday in March
is when we're gonna hopefully open up the doors,
more on that, might do like an after party,
stuff like that
but regardless lot of things going on
and oh by the way, we were open last night
and something interesting happened.
Come here big girl!
Oh!
Ivy is going back into shed
and yesterday was just a weird day,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
You know we do a lot of birthday parties
and kids events and stuff like that,
and when you're working with big animals, you know,
there's always a chance that you know
that there could be an accident.
But it's not very common, to be honest with you.
Well at a birthday party yesterday,
I had Moo Moo the Cow Reticulated Python
and she decided to pee on a couple kids.
Which happens, but it's pretty rare
to be totally honest with you.
Later on, the same birthday party, I had Al Macino out
and guess what, he decided to pee all over the place
including on these people's rugs,
which I was like "Oh my gosh!"
That really never happens
where two accidents happen in one event,
so I was kinda like, what the heck.
People were fantastic about it,
and everything was fine.
You know we cleaned the mess up and all that stuff.
Well later on, we're open up at The Reptarium
and we take good old Ivy out here
and she's just hanging out with people
and then she just explodes.
I'm not talking like, a little pee,
like Al Macino and Moo Moo.
I'm talking like, you turn the faucet on.
(faucet running)
And it just went goo, like projectile all over the place.
Got a couple people pretty good.
And that is just kinda how it goes sometimes,
so to be honest with you that was
probably the residue of that big pig she ate
just a couple weeks ago.
She's probably holding that in,
you know what happens you start moving these animals around
and things start moving and stuff like that,
and then all of a sudden you know.
Waterworks happened.
So anyways that was pretty eventful.
Thankfully, again the people here were fantastic
and often times when someone does get pooped on,
we give them a free shirt, just kinda like hey,
we don't want you to walk around with a pee shirt.
So the way I look at it is, you know,
sometimes it's a lucky thing
to have a little bit of an accident at The Reptarium.
Absolutely love the lavender albinos.
This is actually a lavender
that is het for for piebald ball python,
which is the Dreamsicles.
She is not quite ready to breed yet,
but she'll be ready for next year.
Unbelievable color.
Again, it's a recessive mutation just like an albino
but instead of just being a T-negative albino,
it's like a T-positive albino with that tyrosine
that gives it that kind of
purple-ish hue and stuff like that,
and I tell you, I love 'em and I love the lavender pies.
We actually could potentially produce
some lavender pies this year,
what they call Dreamsicles,
and that would be pretty epic.
So obviously this is the arboreal cage
that we brought back from Texas,
and it's not gonna live here in the front office space
but we're getting the floors done tomorrow
so the floor needs to be clear so we can't put the cage in.
So as soon as the floors are done
we're gonna be able to install this into that curvewall,
but I got it here.
And I'm just excited what it's gonna look like
when it has light.
Obviously this is just a UV light,
we're gonna have a basking light as well
but I wanna put this up here and just kinda see
what it's gonna look like lit up.
I think it's gonna be absolutely amazing,
so I just gotta plug this in, turn the light on.
(upbeat music)
Let's see what we got.
All right so it looks pretty cool,
I'm gonna be honest with you
and this is one of the things about these taller enclosures
is we're gonna have to really play with it.
Obviously it's not extremely lit up,
which tells me that we just have to get
like stronger lights, maybe even some halogens
are gonna have to go to kind of
light the entire enclosure up.
So, still looks really cool.
But definitely that UV light is not gonna be enough
to light up these entire cages,
which may be the case with the new cage.
We may even have to do some LED strips
on the inside shooting down, so again,
it's all about problem-solving.
Still cool, not as cool as I expected but hey,
one step closer.
It seems like forever since I talked to you guys about
Potato, of course the Centralian blue-tongued skink.
I mean, he's amazing, and you know
it's a absolute crowd favorite too.
Every kid that comes in just loves Potato
because again, no he does look like a potato
and like you can see right here,
he basically acts like a potato too.
And it's like I've mentioned in the past
that Potato's a pretty rare Centralian, as far as the US.
You know they're from the Red Centre of Australia
and there's just a handful in the entire country,
so it's really a pleasure to be having an opportunity
to work with an animal like Potato here.
Now he's a male,
I don't have any other animals to breed it to,
so I don't know if I'll ever breed it,
he's only about four years old
so he's gonna live a long, long time.
So he'll be a big part of The Reptarium
in future education and all that type of stuff.
Whether or not I ever get another female
and try to breed them, I'm not sure if I could.
I certainly would love to
because they have always been
one of my favorite blue-tongued skinks.
You guys know that it's
breeding season right now for blue-tongues,
and boy do I wish I could be breeding these
little monkeys right now.
Interestingly enough, where they're from gets pretty cold.
It'll get down into the 30s and even the 20s in that area.
So these guys can really just kinda find a place
that's not quite as cold, you know dig down
and get through it.
Usually warms up into maybe the 50s during the day or so,
but pretty interesting skink species
and the reason I love Potato is the fact that,
again he acts like this.
Most other skinks would kinda be running away,
these guys are just so chill
and they're just absolutely cute.
All the lights are on now
at the building in the new Reptarium,
so looking really good here.
Obviously the rooms are getting done,
we've got the windows trimmed out here.
Doors are on.
So things are coming together.
Lori over here is fixing up the wall,
and that looks really good Lori by the way.
I wasn't sure how it was gonna look
but it looks literally like it wasn't ever painted.
So unfortunately the previous tenant
actually had purple bricks.
(Lori laughs)
Well purple bricks don't really work for what we want,
so Lori just got the paint
that's the same color as the normal brick color
and it doesn't even look painted,
it really turned out well.
- Yeah.
That's what I was going for,
so yeah I'm happy with it.
- [Brian] Gotcha, and then so the technique
is some weird glove you've got going?
- Well I wanted a sponge and I couldn't find what I wanted,
I found this glove and
it actually is working out pretty good.
- [Brian] So this isn't for paint, this is just like?
- It is for paint.
- [Brian] Oh it is?
Okay.
- I don't, I don't know what, but.
(laughs)
It works for this!
- [Brian] Yeah, yeah.
It actually works out really good.
Literally, the brick looks really amazing,
so that's good.
So, okay, good, excellent.
So I'll let Lori get back to that.
Like I said, things are coming together really well here,
starting to look better and better.
We're gonna get all this stuff out of here today
because we have the floor going in tomorrow,
so they're gonna grind the floor, stain it
and stuff like that.
So we gotta get this place cleaned up
and ready for them tomorrow.
That's gonna be a huge improvement.
When they're done with the grinding and surfacing this,
now I don't know how long it's gonna take,
a day, maybe two tops,
but after that this place is gonna look
absolutely incredible.
Inspection's on the ceiling,
and then we can actually put the ceiling tiles up
which is again gonna make the place
even look better and more finished.
(upbeat music)
Welcome guys to Breaking Bread with the Barczyk's.
We just wanna thank HelloFresh
for kinda helping us out with this,
and for those of you guys that know,
I've been using HelloFresh,
or we've been using HelloFresh for the last,
like, almost year.
- Mm-hm.
- And it is huge for us,
because we're super busy
and we don't like to eat unhealthy, so.
For me, HelloFresh is a great option and you know,
spending time with Lori is always a blessing.
- It is.
- So I like to be able to.
(laughs)
Today we're actually gonna be making this right here,
which is melty Monterey Jack burger.
- I'm all about the burgers.
- Lori likes her burgers.
But, tell you what, so we have all our ingredients.
And that's the thing that's great about,
at least my experience with HelloFresh,
is the fact that I'm not gonna, you know,
I don't like onions.
Do you like onions?
- You can skip it.
- Yeah, so that's the thing that's nice.
They send you like a recipe, that anyone can use,
I mean, it just literally step by step by step.
And if you don't like onions like I don't,
you just throw them away and everything.
(glass shattering)
(laughs)
- What are you doing?
- I'm sorry!
- That's not what you do.
- I'm cutting potatoes into half-inch wedges
and then I've got to mince and grate garlic.
Then I'm gonna do my quick chef thing, Lori,
I know you'll be impressed by this.
We've gotten you know a hundred meals from HelloFresh,
it's always came in really, really good
and I don't know how to cut these.
Too small?
- It's supposed to be like a fry.
- [Brian] So I'll just...
- Do you know how pissed I'd be if I got that for a fry?
- [Brian] If I opened up a restaurant,
that's the size fries I would sell.
(sighs)
- You'd go out of business.
- These guys are actually also ecologically friendly too,
where you know, all their bags and stuff like that
and everything they send is recycled stuff.
- Good to know.
- It's pretty cool.
- Nice.
- You know I mean, I don't know,
it's cool that a company like HelloFresh is around,
because you get to eat good,
good sustainability for the environment.
- Yeah, it does make it good.
Because A between the time which you said a lot,
and B I'm not gonna lie I hate shopping.
Whether it's for food, clothes, anything, so.
That also, I don't like cooking.
I don't like shopping.
So he cooks, but to not have to worry
and just have the ingredients delivered
takes one more thing off of the plate which makes me happy.
So next, let's see.
We need a baking sheet
and we toss them with a drizzle of oil.
- Okay.
- And half of the dry seasoning.
- [Brian] Drizzle with oil and salt?
- [Lori] Yes.
Yes sir!
All right.
(gasps)
- [Brian] Oh that's balsamic vinegar!
(toy squeaks)
- Guess who didn't read the directions.
Brian, here.
(laughs)
Oh man those are gonna be flavorful.
(laughs)
Yep, that's how that goes.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- We gotta put those in the oven for,
let's see, 20 to 25 minutes.
The thing that's nice is that
a vast majority of HelloFresh's meals
take less than 40 minutes.
With a lot of 25 to 30 minutes.
And we're gonna move on to making some garlic mayo.
What do you think about that, Lori?
- [Lori] Go for it!
- [Brian] Ooh!
That looks good.
- [Lori] That's exciting.
(laughs)
Ooh, no.
You like garlic and mayo?
- Tastes like mayo.
(laughs)
Okay, got to shape them into two equal patties.
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- [Lori] Literally anything you need, they have, so.
You don't have to worry about,
oh crap, I'm out of this,
because they give you what size you need,
which is very convenient.
- [Brian] HelloFresh is now $5.66 per serving.
Mm!
- Mm!
(laughs)
- Definitely tastes good.
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For now, I'm just gonna go and get down on this.
It's good.
Let's go ahead and see if we can feed our two turtles.
We've got this little freeze-dried shrimp right here.
We'll do fish, we'll do freeze-dried shrimp,
we'll do little turtle pellets.
Just kinda mix them up.
Let's see if these little monkeys wanna eat.
Come on little dude.
Come on!
Aw, he loves it!
Oh my gosh, that thing just took it like nothing, man.
Oh my god, that's awesome.
Let's see if this other one wants to eat.
You wanna eat, bud?
He's trying.
There he goes.
Oh my god, it's so cute!
It's probably a little bit hard for them,
I mean they're trying really hard to eat.
Oh my gosh, that is so cute.
Look at them both go!
Oh my god, that is awesome.
Let's see if I can feed this little dude here.
Come on little guy!
Gonna eat?
He's so funny!
You're not in the water, silly.
I'll just leave that for him a little bit.
I'm gonna see if I can get this little dude to eat.
You guys wanna eat?
Come on!
Spork is definitely going.
Come on Sporky.
Oh my gosh.
Spoon over there loves to eat.
Fork on this side, definitely took some food too.
He is so adorable.
It's gonna take these guys
a few days to kind of adjust and stuff like that.
I'm really excited that Spoon and Fork, of course Spork,
is eating really good.
Other two-headed little monkey didn't take any food,
but seemed interested.
And then of course the Snow hasn't taken food yet either,
but these guys will get settled in shortly
and get going
but they are absolutely adorable.
A quick break from everything,
I just wanna kinda continue to tell you guys
to follow your dreams, right,
because you know, for so many years, BHB was my dream!
To build the collection, breed snakes,
do that for a living
and it's been such an amazing experience
and then of course it kind of evolved to
kinda education and YouTube and social media
and now The Reptarium
and now the expansion of The Reptarium
and I actually have ideas for a second expansion,
I'll share with you guys in the future
because it's a wild expansion.
It would happen to do with this basement
that I'm standing in right now
to be totally honest with you.
More on that later.
But the point is is that,
it's amazing when you follow your dreams.
I tell people all the time, you know,
I work seven days a week, you know,
day to night every single day,
but the fact is I'm doing something I love so,
I don't need a day off hardly ever
because this is what I would do on my day off,
and if you're following that dream
and doing things that you really love,
you never have to worry about working too much
because it's what you wanna do even in your spare time,
so make your hobby your job or something like that.
Make something you're passionate about
your job and your future,
and it is truly amazing
and I wanna inspire you guys
and just kinda encourage you guys
to please follow that dream.
(water rushing)
Looks like someone's hungry!
Tell you what, it's so bizarre that
Bulger's been eating so much all winter long.
Really crazy because again, he shut down all last winter.
This winter he's just been pounding food.
Just going through all the ball pythons,
looks like we've got a bunch of locks today.
This is actually a Lori ball python
bred to a Lori Pinstripe ball python,
so we can obviously get Super Lori, Super Lori Pins,
some more Lori Pins and stuff like that.
But that's a good lock, and this girl you can see
she's been bred a lot.
She had 15 millimeter follicles last time,
she's been two, four, six times.
Which is pretty good, that's usually a good sign.
Again just a bunch of other little locks right here,
we actually had Enchi Pin Banana
that's being bred to a Chocolate ball python
and that should make a pretty cool combo,
because that Enchi and Chocolate and Banana stuff.
And of course the Pinstripe stuff together
is really cool too, so.
Breeding season's moving along,
females starting to swell a bunch,
so that's really a good sign so.
Everything's good here.
Of course we're still breeding
Children's and spotted pythons.
We've got Woma pythons breeding, a bunch of other stuff, so.
Python breeding season's going pretty well,
so just keep you guys posted.
We gotta get an ultrasound later on this week as well
so still a lot to do, but it's coming along.
Got a couple things in today.
This one's from Australia,
cost them $56.40 to ship this.
- Holy cow.
- Holy.
- Thank you!
- That's wow!
Thank you.
That's crazy.
Australia always sends us great stuff,
so we appreciate you guys.
And I love Australia.
- Hope they send us Band-Aids,
the way you use that knife.
- No, this is good stuff.
(laughs)
So, I can't wait.
I hope I can get back to Australia this year,
I really do wanna get back down there.
Let's go ahead and open this up.
- [Lori] Oh wait.
- [Brian] What's that?
- It just, nevermind.
Just cut away.
- Yes.
Look it, whoa!
This is cool!
What in the heck?
(laughs)
Okay so we've got,
first off we've got Barczyk family and crew.
Joey Rue, Australia.
- Says I watch your vlogs every day,
it's helped me get over my fear of reptiles.
Sending some sweets from Australia,
hope you like the shirt!
Regards, Elizabeth.
- Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
And look at this, we got koalas, kangaroos, crocs.
- Aw!
- Uluru, got black swans.
- That's awesome.
- That is dope!
I love it!
I love it, right size, too.
A large.
I love that, thank you so much.
- Snake gummies.
- Oh my gosh.
- Killer pythons.
- [Brian] Tim Tams!
You have no idea.
- Oh god.
- Oh my god.
- Nobody but Brian is gonna get any of these.
- Oh!
These all go in my room.
These aren't for the crew, these aren't for.
No, I've been really doing good.
I don't eat too much junk.
- But he will eat all of these.
- I'll eat some Tim Tams.
(laughs)
I can get on some Tim Tams.
And I love these.
I remember being in stores
and it's just cool that Australia does this
with like snakes alive and killer python gummies,
I mean that is awesome.
So thank you so much, that is incredible!
I just am admiring this animal right here.
This is a Banana Clown ball python.
Oh my gosh, I remember when
Mike Wilbanks from Constrictors Unlimited
produced the very first one,
I saw it in Arlington, Texas at a show
and I was blown away.
Now it's been several years since then
and they're certainly more common than they used to be,
but still a stunning animal
and this guy has been a little stud.
Today he's not hooked up
but he has bred a lot
and we are breeding some really cool Clown stuff,
Enchi stuff, Pastave Enchi stuff,
I mean there's gonna be
a bunch of cool babies from this guy.
I am so excited for when we can start cutting eggs again
just in a handful of months.
And like I mentioned we are ticking away,
just a couple weeks before install
to The Reptarium expansion!
Gon' be incredible!
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