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- (sighs) So guys, today's my last day at the the Reptarium.
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Well, I don't mean that I'm leaving the Reptarium.
I mean that I'm just going on a trip,
but what's gonna be a pretty amazing trip
and we're going to visit a lot of people.
I will have more on that later in the vlog.
Just brought the ultrasound over, and you might ask,
"Why do you have the ultrasound over here?"
Well, the fact is, is that I'm pretty sure
that Diddy and Dixie might be, you know,
they might parents pretty soon.
Actually want to ultrasound Dixie
because we're gonna have to get a lay box made
and put in here, if she's actually gravid.
She startin' to look a little bit thick
and this is the season where they start laying eggs.
So wouldn't it be amazing
if Diddy and Dixie were little parents?
That would be absolutely incredible.
So let's go ahead and get Dixie
and see if she's got some eggs.
Look at how thick she looks. I mean, she looks bloated up.
So what I'm gonna do is just set her down really gently
and I'm gonna just go ahead
and see if I can ultrasound her.
Oh my gosh! Look at that egg right there!
Look at that egg! Oh my gosh, she is full of eggs!
Oh my goodness. She's got a ton of eggs in her, guys.
That is absolutely incredible. Wow.
So we definitely have to make an egg box
before we get out of here,
because she's gonna need to dig at least a foot or so deep.
We'll just do some dirt
and a cup of like peat moss and stuff like that,
that she can get in there and dig and actually lay her eggs.
Oh my gosh! Dixie and Diddy. They ended up doin' it, guys.
And we're gonna have some baby Rhino Iguanas, maybe.
That is absolutely incredible.
So when we originally made the Egg Eater enclosure,
we actually put this little nest up here
because we were hoping that the Egg Eater would climb up
and actually eat the eggs out of the nest.
Turns out, that it hasn't ever done that.
We ended up just putting eggs in here
and they crawl up and eat it. But today it's pretty cool.
The girl is up in the nest. She must be searching for eggs.
So that is pretty amazing.
So the next meal we do, I think I'm gonna go ahead
and just put the egg up there
and see if she'll climb up and eat it,
'cause that was the whole idea of it in the first place.
But that is absolutely incredible.
So we actually had someone come in yesterday
and said that they went fishing
so they brought us a bunch of fish
that we could feed our animals.
I've actually never fed Elvis at giant fish before, right?
So I fed 'em fish cut up and even small fish,
but this is a pretty big fish.
Let's see what he wants to do. Come on. Come on.
(Elvis growling and lunging) (Brian shouting)
- Okay, here we go. Up, up, up. Oh!
That's a big fish.
I don't even know if he can eat it.
That's a big fish right there. Oh, look at him.
He's like, "I've got a prize I'm runnin' away
and goin' hidin' with it." Oh my gosh, is he excited.
(chuckles) Elvis! Unbelievable.
Oh yeah, look at him.
Oh yeah, he's just gonna gobble it down now.
Oh, crunchin' on the head.
(chuckles) Look at that. That is absolutely incredible.
This'll be a nice big meal for him,
and again, fish is a great thing.
These guys are water-mongers, right?
So they eat a lot of fish in the wild.
So that is pretty amazing. Look at him.
But he just doesn't know what to do with it.
He's just runnin' around with it like,
"I'm just going to rub it on the ground,"
and stuff like that,
but hopefully he'll eat the whole thing.
He might rip it apart, to be totally honest with you.
That seems what he's trying to do right now
is rip the head off, to be honest.
So this is pretty interesting.
I figured he would just gobble it down,
but he's almost got the head completely ripped off
and look at, he's usin' his claws to kind of hold it.
Oh my God. This is amazing.
It's definitely nasty though,
because he's rubbing it all over the ground.
It's gonna smell like fish.
Gonna have to mop the place up.
But look at him, he's almost got-- Oh! Oh! There he goes.
Oh, is he gonna take the whole fish down?
I think he is gonna take the whole fish down now.
Look at that. He's got it all the way down.
Whoa, this is crazy.
Oh, look at it just slide in his mouth like that.
Oh my gosh, that worked out so much better
than I thought it was. There you go, Elvis.
He's gonna be a happy boy. Elvis, did you like that, buddy?
Did you like that? Oh my gosh. That was epic.
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Super excited about this actually.
This is actually an Enchi female.
And guess what it's bred too?
That's right. The Pumpkin male, right?
So it's a Cinny-Pumpkin male bred to an Enchi female.
Don't know what were gonna get. I'm excited about it.
So let's go ahead and cut egg number one.
And again, this Pumpkin gene is the brand new thing.
This is only the second clutch
that we are cutting this year.
So I have no idea what to expect. Right after--
Ooh, look at how again, how reduced it is, right?
This is definitely not a Cinny.
It's just an Enchi-Pumpkin, right? And look at how reduced.
So the Enchi would be way more patterned than that,
it's really interesting how it is. So that is cool.
Again, not super orange, but still really reduction.
That's what I find interesting,
'cause I thought everything was going to be super orange,
which some stuff is, but the reduction of pattern
is what's really surprised me.
Let's see what egg number two has.
All right, here we go. Egg number two.
What are we gonna get? Bum-bum-bum.
Another one another. Another Enchi-Pumpkin.
This one has a little bit more pattern
than the last one though.
It's similar to the one that we produced
from the first clutch, to be honest with you.
It has lots of flushing and stuff like that.
So, so far we've had a couple Enchis, right?
So let's keep goin'.
I can't wait to see, you know,
I wanted to at least get one or two animals I'm like,
"Oh my gosh, what are they?"
And this one's cool. This one's cool.
Look at the-- Oh, that's-- Oh my gosh.
Look at the orange in that one.
This of course is a Cinny-Pumpkin,
possibly a Cinny-Enchi-Pumpkin.
So this could be that all gene animal.
I can't really tell yet a hundred percent
if it's got Enchi in it,
but that's the orange I'm talkin' about.
Look at the orange at that animal.
That's that Pumpkin gene at its best. Hoo-doggy.
All right, let's keep goin'. We got three more eggs.
Here we go. Three more eggs. Let's see what we got.
Another one. Another Cinny-Pumpkin, possible Enchi
Another one. Another Cinny-Pumpkin, possible Enchi,
that is super, super duper orange.
And that orange makes no makes sense.
That is absolutely incredible. Two more eggs.
I'm just jacked that we got these ones already.
Well, I'll tell you what
those were some rippers right there.
So again, I am excited about the future
of that Pumpkin gene, for sure.
Another Enchi. Looks like another reduced pattern Enchi.
This really super reduced Pumpkin gene.
Doesn't have the orange that the Cinny has,
so some reason when the Cinny is mixed
the orange really pops out, which is really cool.
Last egg to cut.
And again, I still don't really know
if that was the all gene animal,
which would be the Cinny-Pumpkin-Enchi or not.
Until they hatch out, I really won't know,
but they are absolutely ridiculous.
And then another really reduced beautiful Enchi-Pumpkin.
So everything in the clutch
had something to do with the Pumpkin,
which was really interesting. Wasn't expecting that.
I tell you what, this is amazing.
I just can't believe the orange in a couple of those babies.
Hoo-doggy! That is amazing.
We're definitely gonna be missing egg cutting
when we're gone for the next thirteen days.
There's gonna be a bunch of stuff that hatches
I'm not going to be able to cut.
So when I come back, we're gonna have amazing things,
but Lori will be keeping us posted on what's hatching.
You know we're headed to Gatorland.
Well, actually I gotta tell you,
this video was filmed before--
We've already been to Gatorland,
so we're heading to Gatorland, but we've been to Gatorland.
I'm here now, even though I'm in Florida,
but we film a couple of days out when we're traveling.
That way, if we don't have wifi
or something doesn't work, we can do it.
But RJ is gonna get a little bit of food,
because hey, we're headin' to Gatorland,
we might as well eat our alligator.
Come on.
(alligator striking, splashes water)
(alligator splashes water) Oh, he got it.
Whoo! Fish is so slippery.
But yeah, so we're in Gator-- Well, we were in Gatorland.
We probably fed a bunch of gators like this.
Look at it! Ah, he loves the fish.
Oh, that is awesome.
And that's gonna be a really good meal for him,
so that is absolutely amazing.
What do you say we give him a couple more?
I'm sure Gatorland was a ton of fun
or going to be ton of fun. Whichever.
So that's Super-Lori-Leopard clutch hatched out there,
and there's some really interesting animals in here.
To be honest with you,
there was a couple Leopard Ball Pythons
that I thought were maybe Leopard-Lorries in the egg,
but you can see that Leopard patterning
is really an incomplete dominant
and really jumbles up the patterning.
That looks really cool.
This is actually a little tiny Leopard-Lori.
This came out of the little Boo Bag
that is obviously a lot smaller
because you can certainly see the difference
in these two animals here. There's no doubt about that.
And then of course,
this is just a normal Lori Ball Python here.
So you can see a little bit Axanthic-y looking, right?
And then we had these two Monkeys here,
which of course are the crème de la crème right here.
These are the Super-Lori-Leopard Ball Pythons.
Just take a look at that right there.
That is absolutely ridiculous, isn't it?
So again, we got two Super-Lori-Leopards that look great.
I mean, they're absolutely wonderful animals.
And then some Lori stuff and some Lori-Leopard stuff.
Even this is actually a little Lori-Leopard as well here.
I didn't see this one before.
So this is a little bit bigger Lori-Leopard here.
So a couple Leopards.
Let me see, actually, this is a Lori-Leopard too.
So we actually produced three Lori-Leopards out of that
and then two Super-Lori-Leopards.
So wow, I tell you what, I don't know
that you can get much striking an animal than that.
I mean just like silver, bluish black.
I mean, hoo-doggy. That is pretty amazing.
Again, being gone for thirteen days is gonna be a bummer,
not to be able to see things hatching,
but when I get back, it's gonna be like Christmas
seeing all of the babies that clear out their eggs.
Both Colubrid wise and Python wise. It's gonna be amazing.
But I sure am gonna miss this place.
So usually I don't travel a whole during the baby season
and egg-laying season and stuff like that,
but this trip just kind of came up.
So for those you guys want to know,
what are we doing on this trip?
This is kind of the outline.
We're gonna go see Justin Kobylka,
amazing Ball Python collection in Atlanta, Georgia.
Then we're actually heading down to Florida.
We're gonna visit Gatorland,
like I'd mentioned a couple of days ago.
We actually probably already were in Gatorland.
Point is we're gonna do that.
Then we're going to head to Ty Park over at Iguanaland.
Check that out.
Hopefully hookup with Tyler Nolan, Will Nays,
Chandler's Wildlife, Blakes Exotic, Paul Cuffaro,
Primitive Predators, Kenan Harkin,
and then maybe mixing in a couple other things,
like Underground, ZWF Wildlife with Jacob Feder.
So we've got a busy trip ahead of us.
It's gonna be a lot of animal adventure.
Can't wait to take you guys along on it.
Let me know in the comments,
out of the ones that I just mentioned,
what are you the most excited about?
And is there something else
I should do when I'm down in Florida?
Got some baby Colubrids hatching, and again,
it stinks that we're gonna be gone.
There's gonna be all these baby Colubrids hatching,
but again, I'll keep Lori updating you guys
on what's going on here.
We may put it in the vlogs when we travel,
or as soon as we get back,
we might do a huge update on what happened when we're gone.
Not sure. Still filming every single day here.
Nevertheless, this is a Mosaic Cal-King clutch.
I love some of the variety.
You guys know Mosaic Cal-Kings are so polymorphic.
So we have almost a banded one here.
We've got really classic Mosaics there.
And then take a look at this one. I love this.
This is actually a stripe black and white Cal-King.
It almost looks like what they would call
"a scissors crossing" but it's not,
because this comes from the Mosaic Cal-King line.
So it's just wild, all of the different variety
that Mosaic Cal-Kings can have.
And I can't wait till these guys come out of the egg.
Got a couple more left there.
Coming up another clutch
that isn't a hundred percent hatched out.
That I'm always excited about,
of course, are the Mexican Black King snakes
or what they call "Negritas."
Absolutely stunning snakes.
Looks like we've got two little babies out,
got two little eggs.
You can see a little head pokin' out right here.
It's really cute.
So these guys aren't quite out,
they'll be out of the egg usually by tomorrow,
or something like that, these guys will be out.
And then there's a clutch
that I'll be totally honest with you guys
is kind of disappointing to me
because remember that beautiful Palmetto Corn Snake ,
that white and kind of beautiful freckled animal.
Well, we bred it to a het and they are recessive,
so half the babies should have been Palmetto,
but before we actually bred it to the het,
Lori bred one day, bred an Anerythristic, and guess what?
That one day, that was the father of the clutch.
So we have a bunch of double-het
Anerythristic-Palmetto Corns,
and yeah, they're about to get all over the place
because they are going crazy on me.
This is about to get crazy.
Now she did lay a second clutch
that was bred just to the het.
So when that clutch hatches,
half of them will be Palmetto Corns,
but this one was a little bit of a disappointment.
I thought I was gonna see
a bunch of white, beautiful babies, but unfortunately not.
And right now, I've got to try to somehow
get these back in their tub.
And as always, you check for heads,
makin' sure you don't close any heads in anything.
Everything looks good, but again,
a little bit of a disappointment,
but hey, we still have another clutch that's gonna hatch
that'll have little Palmettos in it.
And again, when we get back,
there's gonna be a ton of babies that hatched.
So Lori will kind of keep you updated.
We'll update you when we get back.
We'll do a giant kind of update video,
but hey, baby Colubrids are great
and I'm glad they're hatchin'.
I am so glad that this female laid when I was still here
because I knew she was due to lay anytime.
It's just an absolute banger.
This is actually a Silver-Streak-Bongo-Mojave.
So it's a Pastel, it's a Black Pastel.
It's a Mojave and it's a Bongo
and it's bred to the Stinger-Bee-Fire-Orange-Dream.
That's right.
So it's a Pastel, it's a Spider, it's a Fire,
and it's an Orange Dream.
That's gonna make for some crazy potential combos.
Let's go and see how much mama has.
And again, down below, tell me what you think
could potentially come from this.
The eggs are a little bit loose,
so I'm just gonna go ahead and pull them like this.
We'll handle these, for sure. But she's a very small girl.
I didn't even think she was gonna go this year,
but because she has advanced follicles, I thought,
"What the heck? I'll go ahead and just put 'em in there
and see what happens."
And sure enough, she ovulated
and she only produced four eggs,
but listen, this is a relatively small girl here
and I love this female. I just love the combination.
And then you mix in all that stuff with the male.
Oh my goodness. Again, down in the comments,
what do you think we could potentially produce?
Four eggs, I want to hear your predictions.
I tell you what, I am so happy we got this one
before we left.
So we're havin' a great time here at the Reptarium.
It's so great to have just things feel
a lot more normal here.
Of course, my friends come every single year.
You guys are awesome.
Once a year, they come and hang out with me.
And you're feeding Lucy here in a little bit.
I'm gonna feed Lucy the first meal,
but she's gonna feed the second one. So that should be good.
But everyone's havin' a good time.
Got Jeffrey out over here. We've got the albino iguana.
French is over here.
So what do you say we go ahead and feed Lucy
and have an awesome time?
[Brian] She ready for me to feed?
(crowd cheering)
He's filming like, "This guy's getting killed."
(crowd laughing)
She's hopin' that, right? Okay.
So good to see all these people in here.
It's gonna be amazing. Let's see what Lucy wants to do.
Come on, girl.
(snake strikes) (crowd shouting and gasping)
(crowd shouting and gasping)
All right, guys, so the deal is,
if everything goes really well,
and I'm praying it goes well,
is that she will come out. She will strike at me,
and when she goes back, I'll toss the rabbit in the air
and she will actually catch it out of the air.
(indistinct chatter)
(snake strikes)
[Brian] Whoa!
(crowd shouting and gasping)
Ah, she didn't get up!
Usually she'll grab it out of the air,
but this time she was too quick.
[Brian] You want to help me get her back in?
No, I'm kidding.
(crowd laughing)
- [Audience Member] She was ready!
- [Brian] You're awesome though.
I love you. You're great.
Got some alligator feedings goin' on over here.
Definitely gonna miss the place on this trip,
but, you know, it's only a couple of weekends
I won't be here and then I'll be back to enjoy it.
But look at these guys over here.
(clickers popping)
(child chattering)
- You're good, you're good.
- (chuckles) Absolutely love it.
Gonna get pooped on?
- I already did.
- [Brian] You already got pooped on? Yeah, it happens.
At least it was you and not someone else.
- Yeah. I brought an extra shirt tonight.
- [Brian] Okay. - We're good.
- Excellent. Good job, Mike.
Like I mentioned, Bella is gonna feed number two.
You ready? What's the worst that can happen, right?
- Nothing. Absolutely nothin'.
- [Brian] I'm a trained professional.
- [Audience Member] This is me trying to get dessert.
- [Brian] Just wiggle it a little bit. There is it.
(crowd shouts and gasps) (Brian chuckles)
[Brian] Good job.
[Brian] Jay? How do you think
that butterscotch feeding went?
- I quit.
(Brian chuckling)
I quit. That was so bad. That was--
- (Brian) It was not even close.
- I don't want to talk. - It was entertaining for me.
- I don't want to talk to you anymore.
- [Brian] Oh God.
- I quit.
- [Brian] You think it was good, right?
- Oh yeah. I like watching him suffer.
- [Brian] Yeah, perfect.
- So as we're wrapping down,
I'm definitely gonna be missin' this place
for the next couple of weeks, but I will be back.
Had an absolutely amazing night.
I hope you enjoyed a little peek
into what things are like over here.
What are you guys doin'?
(Brian chuckles)
- Hangin' out.
(Brian chuckles)
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- I don't know but he doesn't want it-- Oh my god.
- [Female Employee] He doesn't like it. He's biting it.
(female employee chuckling)
- [Brian] What are you doin'? Drogo?
Jay, do you know what you're doin' with this thing?
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