- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
Reptile army, I appreciate you guys so much.
I've got a box right here and you guys know
that Jessica has been with me for a long time,
I mean like, eight years or something like that.
She's also been working so hard
on this new Caledonia gecko room
that I decided to surprise her with something, right.
And that surprise is in this box right here.
She has no clue that I did this,
and I have one enclosure that's actually downstairs
that we can go look at right now.
And although we have a lot of work, and what I mean by we,
is Jessica has a lot of work fixing all these enclosures,
she does have one enclosure that is completely done,
that's right here, that's amazing.
And I think it's about time to put an animal
in this gecko room.
The first animal in the gecko room,
and it's in this box right here.
So, I think it's gonna look amazing in here,
and I'm hoping Jessica is gonna be blown away.
I think she will be.
So what do you say, we just call Jessica,
and get her to open up this box and surprise her.
Jessica.
So, Jessica.
I know you've got a lot of work to do down here
and I know you're excited about it.
This enclosure looks beautiful, and I'm thinking,
do you wanna put an animal in it today?
- Yeah.
- Do you wanna put one?
All right, so I've got something special for you, though.
Not just any animal,
something that's in this box right here.
My buddy Ryan from Orlando actually hooked us up.
Thank you, Ryan, by the way.
So, we'll see what Jessica thinks of this one right here.
(Brian laughs)
- I'm completely surprised,
I had no idea this was coming today.
- I know, we kept it a secret.
We kept it a secret.
I'd like to see what you think it is.
All right, here we go, here we go.
- Oh, I'm excited.
Oh, here's a letter for you.
- Oh, here's a letter for me, so I'll do that.
Look it, it's hiding, it's hiding, it's hiding.
- Oh, my god.
Is it a Lilly White?
- [Brian] It is a Lilly White.
- Oh, my god.
- [Brian] It is a Lilly White, here.
Go ahead and take a look at it.
- Here, I want to open it, yeah.
It's so pretty.
- That's right, I knew it.
You know, obviously Jessica does a great job
with all our geckos and everything here at the shop,
so she definitely deserves to have something really special.
Ryan said, hey, let me hook you up
with this animal for Jessica.
And it is an absolute beauty, huh?
- [Jessica] Oh, my god.
Look at it.
- [Brian] Isn't it cool?
So, it is a boy.
- That's, well, that's amazing, that's perfect.
- Yeah, it's a boy, it's a boy.
And obviously, we have some other Crested geckos
we can breed him to.
The Lilly Whites are actually an incomplete dominant animal,
and you can see just the amazing thing.
So, how awesome is that, huh?
- Oh, my god.
I never thought we'd have one of these,
so this is really amazing.
Thank you, Ryan.
- Yeah, Ryan, you're the man.
I appreciate you so much.
And Jessica, you deserve it.
What do you say we let it go and see what it does in here?
- Yes, let's do it.
- [Brian] The first animal in the new Caledonia room.
Oh, look at that.
Oh, my gosh, is that thing beautiful or what?
- Oh, my god, it's so amazing.
- [Brian] I know.
- Oh, my god.
It's got so much white on it.
- [Brian] I know, this is a good one, too.
- It's gonna be amazing when it looks,
when it's like, full grown.
- I know, he did a good job.
And we've been talking about this, literally, Ryan,
myself, Jay have been talking about this
since we've been to Florida.
- Really?
- [Brian] We've been keeping it a secret from you
for a long time, so.
- Well, you guys did a really good job.
I had no idea.
- [Brian] Yeah, so, there you go.
So, there it is.
Officially, the first animal is in here
at the new Caledonia room.
Now we just have to finish the rest out
and then move all the animals in here,
which is gonna be amazing, so, good job, Jessica.
- Already disappeared.
- It already disappeared.
Yep, there it goes, goodbye.
That's how these,
that's why they are gonna be happy.
They know if they have all those areas to hide,
they're gonna be super happy and do really well.
So, that is cool.
Look at how cute it is.
Oh, my god.
I am excited, again, thank you so much, Ryan,
for this animal.
This is one of my favorite things,
is when Ivy is up on land,
and then she starts to go into the water.
It's just amazing.
You know, again, I've seen it a thousand times,
but it never gets old, just seeing her, you know,
bubbles will come out of her nose.
She's kind of, it's just makes me happy to know
that she's got an enclosure that she's happy with, right?
She can spend time up on the land if she wants to,
but she can also go in the water where they feel
the most comfortable, right?
They'll spend about 80% of their time in the water.
I noticed that she comes up on land more
when she wants to eat, for some reason.
Again, that might be a hunting thing,
maybe in the wild, when they haven't got food in the water,
they'll go on land to actually find food,
and then, of course, drag it into the water.
So, you guys know I love my girl, Ivy is amazing.
And Ariana is too, don't get me wrong.
But there's just something special about Ivy,
and seeing her go in the water like this,
this is a dream come true, you know.
Because as I had reptiles when I was younger,
I didn't have enclosures like this,
these $40,000 enclosure with a water feature
and stuff like that.
So, I am really enjoying every second,
seeing how much Ivy and Ariana love this enclosure.
- Here we go, come on buddy.
- He makes it so much harder.
- God, he's got some razors on that hand right there.
- Stay out of this.
- I don't want to get ripped up man.
- He gets paid to get ripped up though.
That's awesome.
- All right.
Go get work done.
- You got it, Mike.
All right, So I'll coach you through it.
Grab the body, and just like that.
See, I love these iguana, and he's grown so much, dude.
Oh Mike, Mike.
Oh, goodness.
He's grown so much, dude.
He's like a thick daddy now.
I remember when he was just a skinny little boy.
- He just don't like the guys that man handle him.
- Yeah, maybe that's the truth.
If you want to get hired at The Reptarium
we put you through a sensitive lover's test.
- Yeah, we met at the bar.
- God, I don't remember much from that night.
- Me neither.
Next thing you know I was working here.
I can feel it hitting my arm but I can't see it.
- Oh.
- Is it a good one?
- Look at that ear cavity.
- Matching.
- Did it look like I ate it?
If you guys ever realized, look at this turkey guzzard
this guy's got, oh my, look at,
look at this dude, what does he use this sack for,
you could like put some serious gems in there.
Bruce, where do they use this for, defense?
- It's kind of like with birds,
you know like males have a big plume
to like show off for females, it's the same way thing here.
He's got a big old.
- He's puffed out for sure.
- [Bruce] Oh yeah, he's hung, he's hung.
- He hards it out and just.
- [Bruce] For sure, it looks really cool.
- That's amazing.
- Just a little update on all the boiga or cat eyed snakes
that we're working with, not all of them, but some of them,
this is actually the gemma sinkda ones,
these are the ones that were born with the heavy banding,
like you could see, but when they were young,
they actually had a ton of red on them too.
You could see they're starting to lose the redness,
now it's just a black and yellow banded snake.
What happens over the next year or so is the yellow bands
actually turns black and these guys
will be solid pitch black.
I mean just midnight black, beautiful, beautiful snakes.
Definitely starting to get that oxygenic color change
and starting to turn to their adult black here
within the next six months or so.
And speaking of the oxygenic color change,
this is the Senia.
Remember this one used to have like orange
with a green head.
Now of course it's turning all green
and that's what they do.
When they're babies, they're absolutely amazing
with that kind of orange color.
And again, the green head makes them wild,
but as they get older, they turn just like this.
So this is almost the adult color.
Of course it's gonna get much, much larger than this,
but it's cool that it's already adult color.
And ooh, that guy almost got me right in the face.
No big deal, it's only mildly venomous.
And then of course there's the Burgess,
which is the latest subspecies that we added.
This is probably one of the coolest ones.
Again, you can start to see it's getting
that bluer and bluer color.
Trust me, as it gets older,
it's gonna turn really blue in between
those yellow and black bands.
Unbelievable again, dream animal
when it comes to boiga for me,
but all the cat eyed snakes are absolutely wonderful snakes.
And I'm so lucky that we're working
with so many species of them now.
And like I said before,
I'm gonna envision in the expansion,
having all of these on display,
it's gonna be absolutely ridiculous.
There's really nothing more special than looking at a green
tree Python or an Emerald tree boa perched like this.
It's just amazing.
It brings back those childhood memories of going to the zoo
and seeing this exact same thing.
Of course, this is Pickles,
she's actually a Biak green tree python.
And so it's a locality which is called Biak.
We actually have a male that we had in here
with her last year, we called him Gherkin,
we actually still have him,
but we removed him for the season
because we wanted to keep them separate,
make sure they were healthy, number one, and number two,
make sure that they had some separation
so that when they went back together,
they could potentially breed.
We saw them locked up one time last year,
she swelled up a little bit
and then didn't have a clutch of eggs,
but I think that we introduced them a little bit too late,
to be honest with you.
So here coming up in about a month,
we're gonna actually put Gherkin back in with Pickles
and it looks like Pickles is giving it a go like, hey,
why don't you get a little closer?
I'll be happy to bite you if you don't mind.
She's actually a really tame animal.
She's probably just thinking she's gonna get fed.
So with any luck this year,
we can have some little baby Pickles and Gherkins
if you know what I mean, but they're just amazing.
Again, I love her and I love this enclosure.
I just think it's one of the coolest things
we have here at the zoo.
- Elvis here,
he always hangs around in his cage all the time.
The reason why is actually because he's waiting for me
to clean his water, he's figured out out of the consistency,
of this is when the gate is open
and then there's dirty water in there.
And he knows when he sees this little vacuum over here
that I'm about to clean it out.
And then when I clean it out,
he'll go right back in there and he plays in the water.
He loves it, he loves the hose,
like the water pressure on his head and stuff like that.
So it's really gonna be cool,
so I'll show you guys how I do that.
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Golly, he really does love to get sprayed with the hose,
but unfortunately it does actually create
quite a bit of a mess.
So I'm trying to keep him over the water
so I can actually get it done.
Sometimes when it's like fresh, fresh water,
he'll actually go into the water and rub his face around
and stuff like that.
- And still getting clutches of eggs.
That's right.
We are still getting eggs up,
got one egg out right here.
This is actually a possible hat sunset Ball Python.
And the fact that it has all this blushing in it
tells me there's a good chance that it might be an actual
hat because that's a kind of a marker for hats, right?
So these would be kind of probable hats,
but I'm not worried about the sunset part.
It was actually bred to a really cool male
and it was bred to this vanilla walnut bamboo ball python.
That's absolutely amazing.
So let's go ahead and see how many eggs mama has.
And it looks like mama's not too happy.
It's okay, girl.
Oh, gotta watch out for her.
She is definitely not wanting me to take her eggs.
Got this one egg out.
Let's just put that aside and then whoa,
come on girl.
It's okay, it's okay.
Don't bite me, don't bite me.
Ah, there you go, sweetheart.
Let me have those eggs, sweetie.
Come on, come on, up you go.
There you go.
What a pretty snake though, right?
I mean it's a really beaut, whoa, uh oh, uh oh.
Oh, come on now.
I tell you what, mama is definitely not happy,
but a pretty good clutch.
We do have one little slugger.
It's okay, mom, we got one little slugger in here.
No big deal with that.
We've got two, four, five good eggs.
It's crazy that we're literally gearing up
for breeding season, literally a little over a month
now we're gonna have males back with females
for the 2022 breeding season.
And here we are still getting clutches of eggs.
It's just a bizarre thing, right?
Nevertheless, five beautiful eggs.
It's gonna be really bangers with the male
that it was bred to.
And again, these are kind of probable hat sunsets.
So maybe I'll keep back some females,
breed them to the sunset male,
and they'll be up to size next year.
You guys know I'm always on the quest
for the Barney ball python.
We know that the super chocolate banana pinstripe
didn't work out the way we wanted it to,
so what we did with this clutch was actually go
cinny to a banana super chocolate.
So everything is gonna be chocolate,
some is gonna banana, some is gonna be cinny chocolate,
all kinds of stuff like that.
Working towards a more purple snake.
Now I'll be honest with you.
If they've already started to hatch out,
and this animal here is a good example.
This is actually a chocolate cinny, right?
So the cinny's already a dark more,
but then it has to be chocolate
because it's a super chocolate.
And so we have even a darker snake.
Hence, we get that into banana,
we should have a more purple snake.
And then ultimately working towards
maybe mixing blackhead into it,
something like that to get that Barney ball python.
Regardless, I think every egg in the clutch has slipped,
but we can still see what's inside.
So we'll set this little guy aside
and we'll get into egg number one.
And again, remember, everything has to be minimum
of chocolate in this clutch.
And what we have here is just the chocolate ball
python here.
We also have another little chocolate ball python
that already hatched out, which is this one right here.
So this is a chocolate cinny, it's obviously not a banana.
So it's just a chocolate, and then moving on,
I definitely see some banana stuff.
The question is is it gonna be banana chocolate
or banana chocolate, cinny don't know yet.
Let's go ahead and see what this one right here
is sticking out, again I can see it's a banana,
has to be a banana chocolate at bare minimum.
And it looks like this is actually just a banana chocolate
right here, which is pretty cool.
But the next one, I see, it looks a little bit special.
So let's go ahead and cut into this one.
And this one has to be a banana chocolate cinny,
hoo doggy.
That thing is beautiful.
So again, chocolate cinnamon banana,
much more purple than the chocolate banana.
You can see the difference between the two right here.
So again, that little bit of cinny in there
really change the color palette to a much more purple snake.
That is absolutely incredible.
So we're working our way.
Now, I think that if we could take the pattern
away from it, that is a solid purple snake right there.
So let's just keep cutting
and see what this next egg has.
I get all, look oh my god, another one.
And this one is absolutely a ripper too.
Look at that.
Oh my gosh.
And the cinny sometimes can bring a little bit
of orange-ness to it too.
So you've got that purple purple
with a little bit of orange.
If we could mix NG into this, oh my gosh,
could you believe it?
So this is again, building blocks
towards other things, loving it.
We still have a few eggs to go.
We have, I don't know, five, six eggs to go.
Let's keep going.
Wow, we've hit some bangers already,
and it looks like another.
Yup, it is.
It's another banana chocolate cinny.
So we've hit three banana chocolate cinny's
right off the rip, that is incredible.
And again, because everything has to be chocolate,
we know it's chocolate because we know it's cinnamon.
We know it's a chocolate cinnamon and of course a banana,
wow, let's keep going.
I am so pumped on this because the results
were exactly what I was hoping for.
And guess what?
Another banana chocolate cinny,
four in a row, people, that is amazing.
And because the banana is a male maker, chances are
these are all males, right?
Which is good because then now
I can take that to something else,
like maybe up banana cinny to produce some super cinnies.
That'll reduce the pattern down to,
oh, their potential.
I'm telling you, I could just see the Barney ball python,
we're going to produce it, guys.
I guarantee you we will.
Let's move on, four more eggs to go.
What do we have here?
Looks like another banana.
This is a banana chocolate here.
And again, you can really see the difference
with the banana chocolate.
Definitely a purple-y color,
but it's got a lot of orange in it.
That banana really is coming through.
You mix that cinny in, changes everything.
So again, I love the banana chocolate stuff.
Don't get me wrong.
Unbelievable.
The banana super chocolate is amazing,
but get that cinny in, changes everything, loving it.
All right.
We've got three more eggs and it looks like we have just
another little chocolate here.
No cinny there, no banana there,
two eggs, see what we have here.
A little hard to cut sometimes.
They already, when they already split,
it just makes it a little bit more challenging
and it looks like, yep.
Another banana chocolate cinny wow.
That's five banana chocolate cinnies in this clutch.
Oh my goodness.
And I want to keep them all, right.
I don't know if I'll sell any or not
because I love this project so much.
Last egg.
Doesn't look like a banana from what I could see,
but let's see when we got inside.
All right.
I'd love to have another chocolate cinny.
'Cause those things are really beautiful as well,
but nope, we just got another chocolate ball python,
no chocolate cinny.
So all in all, we got five banana cinny chocolates.
Unbelievable.
Wow, I tell you what and I, I'll be honest.
I love this animal too.
This chocolate cinny is to die for, such a dark animal.
So, wow, this clutch turned out so much better
than I expected.
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