- Welcome to the vlog everybody.
I hope the start of your day is incredible, reptile army.
Remember a couple of days ago,
we unboxed that extremely rare albino water monitor.
Oh my gosh!
Look at this thing!
Here it is guys.
A snow blind albino water monitor.
Well, my second shipment from Indonesia actually came in
and believe it or not, this one is more rare.
I mean, you can't get more rare than one of a kind.
No other in the world that we know of,
at least not in captivity,
could be running around in the wild.
It's not as incredible an animal as a water monitor,
but I'm pretty excited about it.
And, this is a pretty big box for this.
So, let's go ahead and see what we got here.
'Cause I think that this is just a little tiny baby
and I was really excited about getting this animal.
And, here it is in this box here,
but I don't see where it is.
Oh, it's little teeny tiny.
I mean, this is a giant box for this little tiny animal,
but it's gonna be amazing!
Again, I just figured, you know what,
let's go ahead and get the rarest
and coolest stuff that we can.
And, I actually love this thing.
When I again, saw this on Instagram, I was like,
"Oh my gosh, that thing is cool!
"Is there any way that I could get it?"
'Cause again, down the road,
I think this'll be a really cool display animal
for The Reptarium.
So, let's go ahead and see if we can get this
little monkey out of here.
Oh, it is so tiny!
So tiny!
Where are you at buddy?
There you are.
(laughs) Oh my gosh!
It is so wild!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, it is so fast!
So fast, so fast, so fast!
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
Okay, okay, okay, okay, don't run!
Don't run, no, no, no, no!
No, don't run!
Oh my gosh!
I'm so afraid to even touch this thing.
Okay, there it is.
It's in my hand now.
Okay, so this is actually an albino skink.
You know, the fire sided skinks that so many people see,
this is basically the Indonesian version of this,
but it's an albino!
And, it's the only albino ever in the world!
How crazy is that?
It's just a little tiny baby right now.
It'll eventually get about four to five inches.
So, it's not a big animal at all,
but I am so excited to be working with this one.
And, you can see literally,
because it's kind of translucent,
I can see right through its tail
that this is a female, right?
So, we're gonna have to get a normal male
of the same species, raise it up,
and breed it and produce some heterozygous.
These are live bearing animals.
So, it'll be really cool to have a bunch of little baby hets
when this girl is big enough to produce
and then we'll have to raise those up
and breed them back and produce the first albinos.
So, this is gonna be a, probably four or five year project,
to be honest with you, but hey, I love it.
And, it doesn't get more rare than one of a kind, right?
So, look at how cute this little monkey is!
Yeah, I was so excited to get it!
I don't know, I just had to have it,
'cause I thought it was absolutely adorable!
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You might ask why I get animals
like the albino skink that we got,
or you know, obviously Tyson, the albino eastern box turtle.
The fact is is that I just think it brings curiosity
and I'd be lying if I didn't say that, it's just, you know,
I'm an animal nut and I want rare stuff
and I want really cool stuff.
But, it also gives me an opportunity
to work with some really cool stuff, right?
And, it also gives me opportunity to talk to kids
and other people to educate them, right?
When I can say, "Oh my gosh,
"there's only two or three of these in the world."
Or, in the case of that skink, one in the world.
I mean, it's a really great opportunity to talk to people
and say like, "Oh my gosh!"
And, it catches their attention.
Like, "What?
"I'm looking at maybe the only one in the world
"or only two or three in the world?"
It's just absolutely amazing!
And, look at how absolutely cute Tyson is.
I mean, doing so well.
And, I was excited when we had Chris and Casey
from Garden State Tortoise.
They gave us the thumbs up on how
we've been caring for Tyson,
which is really amazing, 'cause hey,
I don't have a lot of box turtle experience.
So, the fact that he's doing so well
and they said that he looks so well,
that was absolutely incredible!
So, we have a long way to go before this guy's an adult,
but we're doing pretty good with him so far.
Obviously, when you have an animal like Ben and Jerry,
it does really create a conversation, right?
Don't get me wrong,
some of the most common animals that we keep
are some of the most popular animals here at the Reptarium.
Or, animals that aren't that unusual at all.
But, the fact is, is that it's about
catching the people that don't have as much interest
in reptiles attention, right?
When someone comes here and loves reptiles,
every reptile we pull out, they're like,
"Oh my god, it's so amazing!"
And, we love them.
And, I love all the most common things as well.
But, when you have a two headed snake,
it really does catch the attention of people
that might not be that interested.
I can't even count how many times that I have a tour
or an event where, you know,
there's a bunch of reptile lovers
and then there's one or two people that are like,
"Yeah, this isn't that cool." or whatever.
They're just not into it.
And then, we get to Ben and Jerry,
or we get to a really rare animal.
And, they're just like, "What?"
And, all of a sudden, now I have their attention.
Now they're like, "I'll hold that snake,
"'cause there's only a few of those in the world.
"Yeah, I'm gonna get a picture of that!"
And, that gives me an opportunity to start to
open up the doors, to create that kind of
curiosity that could potentially change their mind.
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It's gonna be a really festive day.
So, if you're in the Orlando area,
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But, there's absolutely zero doubt
when there's only one of something in the world
like Chicken Strip or this little skink that we have.
That's a, it really creates an amount of attention, right?
Because, now you can say, "This is it.
"There's only one of these in the world."
Now listen, there might be some other albino water monitors
running around that we don't know about in the wild
or something like that.
I mean, they could happen,
although it's kind of a little bit doubtful.
But boy, I can get people's attention with that.
You know, they're like, "What?
"The only one in the world?
"And, it's residing here in Utica, Michigan,
"at the Reptarium?
"That's amazing!"
And again, it's not like some ego trip.
It's not narcissism.
It's nothing like that.
What it is is just really cool.
It's a great opportunity.
And, I take a lot of responsibility in that as well, right?
Because, I wanna make sure that I can potentially
one day breed Chicken Strip
and maybe produce some more albino,
so that he's not the only one in the world.
But for now, I'm super excited about that.
And, this little skink, listen,
I don't know a whole lot about him.
I know a lot about fire skinks,
but this particular species, I don't know a lot about.
I'm assuming it's just like anything else.
It's a little girl.
So now, we have to raise up some boys as well
and eventually produce heterozygous,
raise those up, and then eventually
hopefully produce some albino.
So, it's a long term project.
In the meantime, it's gonna create a lot of curiosity
and opportunity for me to really get people
to get interested in reptiles.
And, it's just darn cool, right?
It's just amazing.
And, I think it's the cutest little thing in the world.
So, today is the day we actually get to start
breeding ball pythons.
So officially, the 2022 season starts today,
even though it's still 2021.
And, I'm excited, 'cause you guys know
I have this cinni sunset.
It's the first time I'll be breeding sunsets
since we proved them out several years ago,
bred them a couple years.
And then, a tragedy, whatever the case is.
The point is is that this is my number one male.
This tag goes along with him everywhere he goes.
And, he's gonna go into this rack system right over here
with a bunch of hets and possible hets.
So, I'm pretty excited about it.
It's gonna be amazing.
So, what I'll do is actually put this male in
and then I'll start going through group two, three, four,
all the way down the row.
So basically, all the males will be in today.
And, the main reason I wanted to do that
is 'cause we rearranged animals,
we fed the animals a couple days ago
and then a storm front is coming in, right?
So, we wanna always keep an eye on barometric pressures.
When you have a barometric pressure drop
with the winter storm front or a summer storm front,
whatever it is,
that's usually when you have the best
types of breeding, right?
So, today is imperative to get these males in.
And hopefully, young males that have never been in
with females will actually breed.
So, let's get this process started.
(cheerful music)
So many animals I'm excited about, but like I had mentioned,
we have like 30 or 40 new males up to size.
They'll be breeding with some of the older males
and stuff like that as well.
So, lots of combination.
This is actually a Pastel Enchi Lesser Bongo het
for clown ball python.
So, it'd be really cool to get that Bongo into clowns
and get, obviously, you've got all kinds
of different mutations there.
So hopefully, this little boy here,
he's 18 months old, about 657 (mumbles).
Hopefully he's gonna do his job.
(cheerful music)
I literally think this is one of the most stunning animals
I ever produced, to be honest with you.
This is actually a banana cinni lori ball python.
And gees, I mean, the color on this is crazy
and it's going to a bunch of lori stuff this year
to hopefully produce a bunch more super stuff
with these jeans.
I mean, it's gonna be crazy.
So, I've got two of these.
Hopefully, they're gonna breed for me
and we're gonna get some crazy babies.
(cheerful music)
When you're breeding snakes, I'm not kidding you,
it's literally blood, sweat, and tears.
I'm not gonna lie to you here.
You know, sometimes you just open up a cage
and they decide to grab your hand
instead of realizing that they're going
to get breeding, right?
But nevertheless, this is the beginning of a long journey.
I mean, day one, that could be the next
six or eight months of switching these males around
until we get done with the breeding season.
So, it's exciting, but also it's a little daunting,
'cause you think, "My gosh, the next six plus months,
"I'm gonna be doing this every single day."
And, that's the commitment that it takes.
It literally does take blood, sweat, and tears
to be successful, but it's exciting.
And hopefully, we'll have a bunch of lax tomorrow
with this cold weather front coming through.
Again, the low pressure's gonna be there.
So, it's just crazy, right?
But yeah, literally, sometimes you leak
when you breed ball pythons.
Last male going in with females.
So, that's pretty exciting.
So again, we have a bunch of new stuff up,
like I had mentioned, some old stuff,
so definitely the coolest breeding season.
Every year is better, right?
You always kind of upgrade and stuff like that.
So, it's exciting.
Again, it's the start of a long, long process.
Probably gonna see a lot of breeding
over the next month or so
and then we'll start ultrasounding for follicles
and the fun begins, guys.
So, wow, I can't believe we're already here,
ready to start breeding for another year.
I mean, we just literally hatched the last
snakes of the year, a couple days ago, so wow.
Let's get going.
It's gonna be exciting.
And, I can't wait to take you guys along on the journey.
This is pretty amazing guys.
Again, the anacondas are continuing to try to breed.
I'm telling you, I'm excited.
Jazzy is definitely interested in Ivy.
I know we're gonna get babies here, this coming up year.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible.
He is continuously trying to breed her
and that is a great sign.
I'm so excited!
I mean, can you imagine walking in here one day
and there just being like 50 baby little anacondas in here
or a 25, or how ever many there are, doesn't matter.
If there was two, I'd be excited about it.
But definitely, I think we're well on our way.
Hope you enjoyed today's video and enjoyed
that little skink as much as I am.
I can't wait to keep you updated on how it does
over the next coming years.
It's gonna be an amazing experience.
If you enjoy the unboxing type of stuff,
there's actually a playlist right here.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day reptile army.
Remember, be kind to someone and I promise,
I'll see you in the next one.