- Hey good morning Reptile Army,
welcome to the vlog!
Hope the start of your day is amazing!
We have something pretty incredible
that just happened.
And that would be that we got
kind of a cool surprise here
with this little mama here.
Of course, this is a Colombian rainbow boa.
Now I've got to start by
saying that I kind of put the
rainbow boas together this year,
and I didn't even think anything much of it.
We didn't work really hard.
I'll explain a little bit more about that later,
but guess what we found this morning
right here.
Whew.
There's some babies!
So she's a mama.
I'm just go ahead and
grab this container right here.
And we're going to see how many babies mama has
and typically mamas get pretty upset
when they're just having babies.
Now she's a small girl.
Interesting thing is, is that I wasn't expecting any babies.
This is a complete surprise.
So we have one little baby here, two little babies here,
and I'm just going to kind of look around and see if we have
any more little babies ope yep.
There's some more babies over here.
I just got to open this cage up a little bit more
and go ahead and look back here.
Look at how striking they are when they're babies.
They're so much, this is three little babies,
three little babies. Oh God, come on little monkey bite me.
Bite me 4 little babies here. Oh my gosh.
They're so beautiful in a five little babies.
I don't know if that's it.
Again, she's a pretty small animal,
but I'm going to just kind of look around here and see if
there's any other babies in this enclosure.
Kind of move mom around. Got some Gump in here.
Obviously we've got clean the cage all up
because if they have babies,
they have all kinds of nasty gunk and stuff like that.
But look at these. Oh my gosh.
They are so cool. We have five little baby rainbow boas.
And again,
I wasn't expecting any babies this year because we really
didn't put the energy into breeding them this year,
which was my fault a hundred percent.
But we did get a surprise litter of babies and they are
absolutely incredible.
Look at the pattern and color on those guys.
Absolutely wonderful. I mean,
that is a great kind of way to start the day when you don't
expect babies and you get little babies. Now,
the thing that's interesting is I want to go through the
rest of the females and see if possibly some of the other
ones are going to have babies. Now I will say this.
Typically they have babies like July or August.
So these are really late babies.
Don't know why mama here hung onto her babies for so long,
but she looks pretty good.
We'll get her back on the food here,
get her beefed up and stuff like that because typically
you're going to breed these guys really in like January,
February. And again,
they're going to have babies in July or somewhere in that
range. So this is really off season,
but I didn't think we're going to get any.
So I am over the moon excited to get baby rainbow boas.
How awesome is that?
And just kind of going through all of the other rainbow
boas, I'll be honest with you.
You could see how much larger these girls have.
Now, this girl would probably have solar like 20, 25 babies.
Cause she's so big,
but all of these are on food right now is which tells me
that they're probably not grabbing unfortunate.
It looks like we just had one female that was off of food
for the last little bit.
And that was the girl that actually had babies.
So the fact is,
is that I just kind of put them together this year and you
have to really work projects in order to be successful.
Right? And I'll be totally honest with you.
I was just kind of overwhelmed with, you know,
breeding ball pythons and all the other things going on.
And I was doing all the breeding down here in the dungeon
and the rainbow boas just kind of slipped through.
I just did not do a good job of yes,
males and females were together,
but I wasn't switching them out like I should.
Wasn't beefing females up like I should,
because you really want to put lots of food into females
during the breeding season in order to be successful. Right.
And I wasn't doing that.
So this year we're going to really refocus.
Jessica is going to be doing a lot of the breeding down
here. I'm going to still work on all of the ball pythons,
but Jessica can do all the other boas and pythons down here
because listen, we have carpet pythons, woolen pythons,
all kinds of different stuff that we just didn't even breed
this last year.
So we're going to really focus hard on it this year.
And hopefully this year we can have a ton of rainbows cause
we probably have between Colombians and Brazilians,
probably about 15 or 20 females that are nice big,
just like this girl right here.
So that's a lot of babies that
we didn't produce this last year.
And I think this year we will because Jessica is really good
at breeding stuff.
And so we're going to work together and work really hard to
make all of our production good, this coming up season.
So, Hey, it's awesome that we got a surprise litter,
but certainly my fault that we didn't get a bunch of other
rainbows as well as a bunch of other pythons and boas.
So this year coming up,
I think we're going to have a banger year now that Jessica
is involved,
certainly one of my favorite animals to feed every week is
Bugatti. You want to eat?
You want to eat?
(airplane noises)
Aah!
Took it right like that.
And it's actually unusual for Bugatti to be down here.
Normally it's up here in the corner over here.
So we get a chance to see it eat a little bit better here.
Absolutely beautiful as it's getting older and getting that
adult coloring it's an absolutely ripper of an animal.
These guys will actually get like seven to nine foot long.
So they're going to get pretty good. As a matter of fact,
if you guys didn't see the podcast,
we actually had Ari Flagle on.
Who's actually an expert in Bowlin's python.
So I'll put a link in the description. Guys,
definitely check that podcast out because he knows more
about Bowlin's pythons than probably anyone in the country.
And it was absolutely epic.
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Another snake I always love feeding
is actually my girl Verde here
and she is definitely ready to go as well.
Oh.
Anacondas strike so fast. You know,
they go from like just sniffing, sniffing, sieving, to
wham. I mean, they hit it so fast.
I mean,
I've never actually been bitten by them while they're being
fed, but I tell you it,
I don't want to cause they hit with such force,
but she is looking absolutely incredible.
And like I mentioned that this size
she's going to start to explode,
definitely going to need a much larger enclosure here
probably in the next six months,
(blues)
Still haven't named the albino box turtle all though
You guys have come up with a lot of great names.
So continue down the comments. Let me know what you think.
The albino box turtle's name should be.
We'll make a decision here pretty soon.
But basically you saw that we fed at worms the other day,
well we basically are going to do it's back and forth
between worms and aquatic turtle food.
And what I want to do is just put some aquatic, turtle,
food and water to actually soak right?
Because this is kind of hard. The aquatic turtles.
love it. They'll eat it.
No problem.
But what we want to do is soften it up and make it almost
into a Goo ball
and then actually it should eat it right out of our hands.
That's at least what the owner said was happening.
So we're going to let this soak for about 10 minutes or so,
make it nice and soft and then make a little bit of a
goo ball turtle, soupy type of thing,
and then see if he'll eat.
So hopefully today he'll eat as well as it did yesterday.
- We'll be fine.
They made a mess more specifically Night Fury.
He made a mess.
Now he's all the way in the top corner and I'm freaking out,
definitely left shed on him.
So we got to pull him out,
shed him, and clean the cage while Jim is still in there.
Is this long enough?
You think we can like,
attach two of them together.
This is either going to go really,
really good or really really terrible.
Hi Night Fury.
It's so hard. It's so black.
I can't even see where he is in the roofs.
They're not in the mood.
I hope she's in a good mood today.
No.
Okay. Night Fury's in there lock secure.
And i'll give them a little bit to shed out.
I got to clean the cage
(tropical saxophone)
- So I basically just poured the water out
and of course,
all these pellets now are kind of real soft and mushy.
What I'm going to do is just kind of take them in my hand
like this and just try to make a little ball of them, right?
Because obviously it's gotta be really nice and soft for
him, for him to be able to eat.
But it's not the easiest thing to do to be totally honest
with you here.
I'm going to try to make it into a little pace ball here.
Okay. So that's as good as I'm going to get.
So let's go ahead and see if we can get this guy to eat
(maracas and guitar)
So it was a no-go with the turtle food.
Maybe he just doesn't like this.
So I think I'm going to go ahead and try to give him worms
again, like we did yesterday.
I just want him to eat every day so that I know that he's
doing well.
I tell you this guy he's so small and so fragile.
I'm going to be totally honest with you.
If I would've known he was this small,
I probably would have held off.
I thought he was going to be about twice the size and,
and it's just, it's really frightening.
You know,
I always get really stressed out when we get new animals,
especially when he gets something.
That's this rare as well as the fact that it's so fragile at
this size. Right.
So as long as he continued to eat, I'm feeling good,
but he didn't like the turtle food.
So we'll go ahead and try a worm.
Okay. So I'm going to try a worm now.
(saxophone)
Definitely interested in the worm, so that's good.
So he doesn't seem to really like the fish food,
but he at least is eating some worms.
So that's actually good.
So as long as I can keep them eating those that's really
good. We're going to want to give them some variety.
There's no doubt about it,
but we just have to figure out
what he wants to actually eat.
(blues)
All right. So basically at least he's eating right.
You know, I'm definitely freaking out about it.
I know. I always get this way.
I get nervous when we get new animals,
especially something so fragile like this and so rare.
I don't want anything to happen to it.
So at least it's taking some food. That's really good.
We're going to have to just keep on trying to figure out
different things.
These guys will eat a little bit of fruit as well.
So I can try a little bit of that. You know,
the worm seems to be working.
It didn't like the turtle food that we tried.
So maybe we'll try a different type of turtle food.
Once this guy gets like twice his size,
I'm going to feel so much better.
So the truth is, is that I was just
as stressed out when we got Salty,
the albino alligator, when she was just a baby,
remember we got her when she was only seven, eight days old.
And she was really tiny and I was freaking out,
I mean the first week or so I could hardly sleep.
Cause I was just like, what did I do?
Why did I buy this albino alligator?
She's not going to do well here and stuff like that.
So I just always have that kind of little bit of fear.
You know, I want the animals that we get to do well,
you know, no matter what,
how rare they are or how expensive they are,
the fact is I just want them to do well.
So obviously it's going to take me a week or two to kind of
get the anxiety out when it comes to this little baby,
albino box turtle.
And obviously Salty did absolutely amazing.
Look at how big she is now.
I'm sure this box turtle will do the same,
but it's definitely gonna make me lose a couple of Z's
tonight. There's no doubt about it,
but as long as it's continuing to eat, I have,
I have faith that we'll get it going.
And if you remember, we got Heinz
and French's when they were really tiny as
well. And the thing is,
is I've talked about the fact that we like to get animals
were really young here at the red terror because when the
young we can kind of socialize them,
habituate them to being handled and stuff like that and kind
of get them in. Not to mention,
we want to have them live a long time. You know,
some like a box turtle is going to live, you know,
30 to 50 years, right?
So this one being so young,
if we can get them past that fragile stage and get them used
to people, he's going to be a great animal ambassador,
just like Heinz, the albino iguana has been right.
So getting animals young is kind of what we like to do here.
I will be honest with you this box turtles a little bit
younger than what I feel comfortable with,
but I think we're going to be okay.
We have to just really work hard to make sure we're giving
it everything that it needs. At least it's eating.
As long as it's eating, that makes me feel good.
And I'm sure here in a week or two,
I'll feel a lot more comfortable and I'll stop complaining
to you guys about how stressed out I am.
- I gotta go ask a final question.
Hey Mr. Barczyk.
Roadblock
All right so we're putting Night Fury back home,
I have to put them all in one bag in there and have to get
it back out. He is gorgeous.
Absolutely gorgeous. Don't go in the tree and that's it.
Make sure the tip of his tail is good, getting Night Fury,
a shed out
looking fantastic
that went way better than I thought it would.
Jim basically stayed still the whole time.
Night fury didn't try to kill me.
I shouldn't have spoke too soon. Go that way.
Don't come back up.
Done!
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