- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Today is gonna be a fun filled day,
I'm not gonna lie to you,
and it's gonna be a lot about feeding snakes.
And I'm gonna start with my girl Daisy here.
Are you ready to eat girl?
You want some food?
Come on girl.
You want some food?
Oh yeah, she's ready to go.
Come on girl, let's go.
Whoa!
Woo!
I tell you what, yeah, she's ready to go.
So obviously we're feeding Daisy,
but the truth is later on tonight
we're actually open at The Reptarium
and we're gonna be feeding Ivy, the huge anaconda.
We're gonna be feeding Lucy.
We're gonna be feeding Butterscotch,
the crazy acrobatic snake.
It's gonna be an absolutely amazing day.
(people gasping) - [Kid] Oh my God!
(grunting)
- [Visitor] Oh, there we go.
- Just took it right now.
She's pulled it into the water.
But before we're open,
we got to feed a bunch of other snakes too.
So let's just go ahead and have a great day together,
push our problems aside.
Trust me guys, if you like snakes feeding
you're gonna love this video.
And again, tonight is all about experimenting
with those experiences that we want
to actually have people do here
when they're at The Reptarium.
But of course Sunfire here,
she is not gonna get fed tonight.
She is getting fed right now.
Ah, what a monster.
And again, it's gonna be kind of cool.
The hourly thing that we're gonna do,
like every hour Ivy gets fed, Lucy gets fed,
Butterscotch gets fed, maybe Elvis, Diddy, and Dixie,
all those types of things.
So tonight we're doing that kinda test, right?
Will it go well feeding animals in front of the audiences?
We've done it with Lucy forever,
but tonight we're gonna try to do it
a little bit more and see if we can start
making that a weekly event.
I'm excited about it
and I know people will be really excited about it.
And now that we only have a small number of people
everyone can see, because before when we used to feed Lucy
there'd be 150 people.
People in the back couldn't even see it.
So now I think those experiences
are gonna be even cooler.
All right, next up is Mr. Nubbins,
the Dominican mountain boa.
Such a beautiful snake.
Incredible iridescence.
And this guy is always hungry.
I think Pickles looks pretty hungry.
Oh yeah, there she goes.
Good job, Pickles.
Look at the teeth on that monkey right there.
That snake is gorgeous.
Look at those teeth.
Hoo, I tell you what,
you would not want to get bit by those.
Let's go ahead and see if Snowflake wants to eat.
Here you go girl.
Yes!
She took it, that's awesome.
And you guys may notice through this video
that we're doing some new kind of techniques
when it comes to filming some of the feeding.
We're just kinda testing it out.
Let me know in the comments if you like these shots,
'cause if you do we'll try to do it even more so,
so this is the first experiment with it.
So far hopefully it's turning out okay.
Continue training with Night Fury with the ball.
This time I'm literally gonna hide the pig.
I don't even want it to know that there's a pig.
I'm gonna see what it does with just the blue ball
and see if I can't get it to trace the blue ball.
Yep, you can see it's totally keying in on it.
Let's go back this way.
You can see it's totally following the blue ball.
It knows the blue ball is food.
We'll go up like this.
Look at this.
There's no food smell.
Now I'll go ahead and give it a rat.
Now I'll go ahead and give it that pig as a treat.
Now, how amazing is that right there, right?
Didn't even have the smell, behind my back,
and it just followed the blue ball.
That tells you how smart that snake is
and how easily these animals can be trained.
R.J., what are you doing down there?
He's literally got his head in the waterfall over there.
Haven't really showed you guys R.J. in a while.
He's doing great.
He's amazing.
Still a little bit cantankerous,
but all in all pretty amazing.
Hoping I can get that energy up
to bring him back over to The Reptarium sometime
'cause he's amazing.
But boy, I tell you, he's gotten heavy
and it's hard to carry for sure.
But I guess he's just having a little waterfall massage.
Down in the dungeon, which means one thing.
♪ Egg time ♪
And this is an absolutely banger of a clutch.
I was so excited about this girl
when she was ready to lay.
This of course an Albino Cinny,
and she was born to this Albino Piebald ball python,
meaning that the entire clutch is gonna be albino,
could be Albino Cinny,
and they're all gonna be het for Pied.
So let's go ahead and see how many eggs this girl has.
One.
She's got a couple eggs that are outside her coils here
so I'll go ahead and do this.
Nice sized eggs.
Nice kinda small eggs,
which means that she should have a pretty good number.
Let's see what else she's got going on.
Hoo doggy.
I tell you what, that's a beautiful clutch of eggs!
Momma, you did so, so good!
I tell you what, this is gonna be
such an exciting clutch to hatch for sure.
We'll go ahead, pull these eggs,
get them over here.
Get these last few eggs, put them inside here.
Wow, I tell you, what a clutch of eggs.
I tell you what, I love this girl.
We raised her up from a baby.
This is the first time she's ever bred,
and to breed her to an Albino Pied
is gonna be amazing results.
So we have two, four, six, eight,
10 wonderful, beautiful eggs.
Oh my gosh, I'm so excited.
Again, I'll probably keep a bunch of these animals
back for future breeders and stuff like that,
but that was an awesome clutch.
Only one today, but I tell you what,
it was absolutely incredible.
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Look at Perdida.
Look at how amazing she's looking,
and she is definitely ready for food
so I'm just gonna to position this food the right way.
Whoa!
That's unusual.
She doesn't normally do that.
She doesn't normally lung out like that.
She kinda took me off guard.
She's normally so gentle,
but she was definitely fired up and ready to eat today,
so that's always awesome.
I tell you what, Perdida is amazing,
and again, you see the different between Moo Moo and Perdida
in that couple years.
You wonder what Perdida's gonna look like in two years,
and then you wonder what Moo Moo is gonna look like.
Is she gonna look like her?
I tell you what, Cow Retics are just so cool.
Now I kinda feel like I want to get another Cow Retic,
but it just probably doesn't make sense, does it?
Moo Moo the Cow Reticulated python is doing so well.
She's getting so big.
I tell you what, I've said this before,
I think she's gonna pass Perdida here
in the next year or so
because Perdida was nowhere near her size at a year old.
Looks like she's ready to eat too.
We're gonna go ahead and give it a shot.
And she took it, that's for sure.
She's definitely a monster.
Love that snake.
And again, I can't wait to see what she looks like
as she's getting all her cool spots in
and stuff like that,
continuing to change just like Perdida.
Cow Retics are amazing.
Looks like my boy Al Machino here is ready for sure.
Ooh, he's ready.
Soon as I open up the thing he's like,
"Give me food!"
Oh!
There he is.
Perfect hit right there.
What a gorgeous snake, I tell you what.
Oh, it's okay Al.
I love that animal so much.
Just really, like I've been mentioning,
probably the most popular snake
here on this side of the expansion.
Everyone wants to hold Al, and I understand why
'cause it's just absolutely gorgeous.
Let's see if my girl Sunrise wants to take a meal.
Sometimes she'll actually strike at it
and sometimes she honestly just crawls up to it and eats it,
so we'll see what kind of a day she's having today.
She certainly seems interested.
You can see that tongue response.
That's the tongue response that you're really looking for
with a snake that is interested.
That is where she's gonna go,
so let's see what happens.
I don't know if ...
She's not showing me a lot of interest
as far as the strike goes,
but if I lay it down here I have no doubt
that she is gonna eat it for sure.
So let's just go ahead and just keep on ...
I'll always give her a little bit of a chance,
and if she doesn't take it then I'll just go ahead
and lay it in the cage and let her crawl up to it.
Oh!
There she is.
Kind of unpredictable, right?
She seemed like she wasn't gonna take it
and then all of a sudden she's like, "Wham!"
She takes it.
She's such a cool animal.
Next up is actually feeding Jeffrey,
and I want to know down in the comments
if you guys are enjoying the feeding videos.
I know we do a lot of feeding videos and stuff like that.
So as a matter of fact,
I'm gonna put a card right up here.
You guys can see a playlist of feeding videos
if you so choose.
But the fact is that we're always trying
to bring you a different immersive experience
and trying to change it up.
Jeffrey is definitely ready to roll right here,
that is for sure.
There he goes, bam!
He sure is.
I never want you gets to get bored with it,
so let me know if you guys enjoy the feeding videos.
And the fact that we're always trying to
take a different wrinkle on it and stuff like that.
But Jeffrey, he's pretty cool.
(upbeat music)
Guess what time it is guys?
♪ Egg time ♪
♪ Egg time ♪ (popping)
Colubrid egg time.
And remember yesterday we actually had
a Pueblan milk snake that was laying eggs
but she was not done?
Well, it appears she is now done.
I would hope so because it's the next morning
and that gave her plenty of time.
So let's go ahead and just see where she's at really quick.
Oh my God, well, there's the clutch of eggs.
Where's the momma at?
We're just gonna make sure,
we'll take her out and just make sure
that she did actually pass all her eggs.
It certainly looks like it,
and you can tell there's no eggs left in her
so that's amazing.
She did great.
She's not a very big snake to be totally honest with you,
but that was a big clutch of eggs,
especially for a second clutch.
That's crazy how many eggs there are.
She did so good.
So we have two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
I mean, eight eggs from a second clutch
from a Pueblan that size, that's ridiculous guys.
Again, kind of wrapping up the colubrid season here.
The last maybe 10 clutches or so.
It's been probably one of the best percentage
Colubrid years we've ever had.
Not surprisingly the fact that Laurie
that's breeding colubrid snakes with me
for the last 30 years, she helmed this entire thing.
She did amazing this year.
So there's gonna be so many incredible babies
that are hatching as we speak.
I told you how many times I love
the black headed python cage,
and the fact that Snap is down here
means I should be able to feed him pretty easily like this.
He grabbed it right there.
So I'm gonna let him just go ahead and eat down there,
and then of course Pop is up here.
Hopefully we can get her to eat up here.
We'll go ahead and see what she's gonna do.
There she goes, right there.
There, bam!
Perfect, right?
So it's pretty cool.
She's up here, he's down there.
They seem to be one happy couple,
so it's perfect.
Of course I'll keep an eye on them and stuff like that.
Even after they're done eating
I'll keep an eye on 'em for a little while
'cause they have that smell of rodent on 'em.
The fact that they can eat snakes
we don't want them to eat each other, right?
So we'll keep an eye out for the next little bit
and I'm sure they'll be fine.
This has been like the 10th time we fed them together,
so I'm sure it will work out just fine.
So this is the first time I've ever fed Ivy
while people were around,
so hopefully everything will go good.
She's probably gonna eat in the water
'cause she's in the water right now,
so I'm just gonna let her take it and do her thing.
But let's go ahead and see what she has to offer.
Here we go.
Ivy.
(suspenseful music)
Uh-oh, she might not want to eat.
So Ivy didn't actually grab the pig,
but it certainly looks like she's interested.
So she might just crawl up to it and actually eat it.
You can see kind of what she's doing right now.
She's kind of just really, really checking it out
and we'll see what she does.
I'll just leave it there and see if she eats it.
Okay, it's that time again.
We are gonna feed Lucy with all these guys watching.
You guys excited?
- Yeah!
- All right, let's go do this.
All right, ready?
Lucy, ready?
(people gasping) - [Kid] Oh my God!
- So obviously that one just kind of ...
I'm actually trapped inside the cage right now,
but the truth is that all these kids are loving it.
It's super cool.
Obviously it's gonna take her a half hour or so to eat this
so they can kinda just watch it as they want.
Lucy's taken food really good
and it's always awesome to feed 'em.
I'm so happy that we get to do this again
during open hours.
Okay, Butterscotch is up and she is ready to go.
Come on, girl.
(suspenseful music)
(grunts)
Hoo!
(laughing)
She didn't catch it on there
just 'cause she was getting too close.
- Yeah, she was ready for that,
oh my God. - She didn't ...
But that was, yeah.
- That was crazy, bro!
- [Brian] What's your name?
- Corey.
- [Brian] Corey, did you get a two headed snake?
- Yeah!
- [Brian] Is that Ben and Jerry?
- Yeah!
- [Brian] What was your favorite thing today?
- The entire trip.
- All right, I love it.
I love it, it's awesome.
Good job, Corey.
And Ivy just took it right now.
She's pulled it into the water
just like I figured she would.
She grabbed it.
She's gonna eat it underneath water
when everyone else can watch.
This is an amazing experience,
because again, people can see her
take that breath and actually eat it underwater
and hold her breath for so long.
So this is gonna be pretty amazing.
(upbeat music)
It's really been an amazing evening
being able to feed some snakes in front of people.
The number of people we have now
is enough that makes it interesting
but not to where you can't social distance,
and keep everyone safe, and stuff like that.
Awesome to see Ivy eating in front of people,
that everyone can experience that as well as we do, right?
So this has been an amazing night.
As we're winding down the night here,
just have a handful of people in,
one of the cool things to not only
get to feed some snakes earlier,
but also to feed some snakes while we're open to the public.
It was absolutely an amazing time.
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