- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Mine is gonna actually start with my girl Salt
the albino alligator, come here little girl.
Look at this incredible animal here,
and I've said this a billion times,
never in my wildest dreams did I think
that one day I would own an albino alligator,
let alone one like Salt that is so incredible,
But I do wanna give you a little update, you know,
we're now 2 weeks into opening up The Reptarium again
after almost 3 months of being closed.
And you guys know I had her so trained
where literally she would stay
like a rock in someone's hands.
Well, there's no doubt that that 3 months off,
even though I was working with her every day,
it's a little bit of a different animal, you know.
She's just a little bit more wiley.
And one of the things I'm having an issue with, too,
is the fact that I'm wearing a mask, obviously
and, you know, my voice is a little different,
so I think she is a little bit confused.
But I wanted to tell you that she is
absolutely starting to turn around.
Well, it seems like Friday, the first day of the weekend
she gets a little bet wonky,
by Saturday she's a little bit better,
by Sunday she's got it down,
and she's being held by a ton of people every weekend
and I know she's gonna get back to it.
And the whole porpoise -
(dolphin noises)
- And the whole purpose is is to make sure
that when she's bigger -
you see how she's scratching me right now?
Well that's gonna hurt a lot when she's 7 or 8 foot, right,
so we're trying to keep her to where that doesn't happen.
And I love this animal, I think it's probably
one of the coolest animals I've ever worked with
in my entire life, certainly probably top 5.
But nevertheless, I love her so much.
She's doing well, I just thought I would
start the day with a little update
to see how this animal is doing with the new open
as well as everything else, you know.
Everything else is slowly getting back to normal,
all the animals have kinda gotten
more used to being handled again, which is really good,
'cause I was a little bit worried about it.
I know some people have asked about Verde
over the last little bit and actually kinda said, like,
"Now we don't see Verde much when you have Ivy,
seems like all you do is love Ivy."
The fact is I still love Verde just as much as ever
and we still mess with her all the time,
it's just kinda one of those situations like
what's cooler to watch, a huge anaconda eating a pig
or a little anaconda that's just gonna be little,
you know what I mean,
it's not that she's not cool 'cause she is certainly cool
and one day she's gonna get as big as Ivy
and she's gonna be absolutely impressive.
So I didn't want you guys to think
that we're like ignoring Verde now
and somehow we don't like her anymore,
because that couldn't be further from the truth.
She's still my first anaconda, and she will always have
a super soft spot in my heart
because I absolutely love her to death,
but let's just face it, I mean,
a big anaconda like Ivy is darn impressive,
but I can assure you I still love my girl Verde.
And obviously now that things are kind of
slowly getting back to normal
I had mentioned that we have these alligators
that need to go into that enclosure,
but Gatorland was closed, Gatorland is now open,
so we can send these alligators back, which I'm gonna miss,
because they are so absolutely incredible,
but obviously they've just gotten too big.
When we built this enclosure
we built it for alligators for only a year,
not a year and 5 months,
So we can get those guys back,
obviously we an get these little monkeys
right here into there.
Then we can again build Verde's enclosure out to here,
which is pretty cool.
And then one thing that I am super excited about obviously,
is the fact that we can make a trip down to Indianapolis
within the next maybe week or 2, something like that,
we can go visit Desiree, Lars, Steve,
and we can get the croc monitor for this enclosure.
So that is gonna be one incredible animal,
not only as a display,
but something for us to work on behaviorally,
'cause they're so smart, they're so incredible,
I mean they are like the closest thing to a raptor
that you'll ever see dinosaurs.
So things are starting to get back to normal,
and it's really given us the motivation
to get the kinda last things wrapped up here
and then hey, then maybe we can start thinking about 3.0.
Egg time, egg time, egg time.
This next clutch is actually the first
second clutch of the year, that's right,
colubrids actually clutch twice, right.
So they'll lay a clutch of eggs,
this one was actually laid on April 21st,
now here we are and it's actually the second clutch.
And this is that beautiful Mexican Black King Snake.
I think is one of the very first clutches we had all year,
so again, first clutch and first second clutch,
which is awesome.
They're always gonna have a smaller amount of eggs
the second time around,
as you can see with this girl right here,
she only has got 4 eggs.
And real quick I'm gonna check to see
what she laid the first time.
And yep, just like I mentioned,
she actually laid 7 eggs the first time,
so 7 eggs, only 4 eggs this time,
but that's pretty cool that she in total
laid 11 good eggs this year.
And interestingly enough,
this is another second clutch that we have.
If I'm not mistaken, this girl laid a huge first clutch,
I'm almost positive, so let's see
what she has this time.
Okay, I'm not sure what she has -
oh, yeah there's a lot of good eggs in there,
there's a couple sluggers, which is pretty typical
of second clutches as well,
usually the fertility isn't quite as good.
But let's go ahead and get mama back in there,
you did such a good job, mom.
We'll get her cleaned up,
get her some water, all that stuff.
And then we'll go ahead and just we'll take out
these slug eggs first just to get rid of them.
Looks like we got 3 little slugs,
but the rest look really beautiful.
And again, this is a Scaleless Texas Rat
to a Scaleless Texas Rat, so that is pretty awesome.
We'll just go ahead get these eggs out,
put 'em right here, here, look at that,
beautiful clutch of eggs right there, woo doggy.
I tell you what that is amazing.
Might have to candle a few of these
just to make sure they're right side up,
but we got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11 good eggs,
and I remember she laid 19 good eggs the first time.
So I tell you what guys, that's amazing,
she laid 30 eggs scaleless to scaleless this year,
so that is awesome.
And that wraps up colubrid eggs for the day.
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- Just doing a little checkup on Toothless,
of course my Black Dragon in here,
just seeing if he can come out and play.
he's really getting used to his new environment here,
he's all over the place,
a lot of times he's right over by the hot spot,
but today he's in the cold side.
And I'm just kind of tapping on him to get him used to me.
He's definitely curious, as soon as I tap
he's like up, he's looking, his tongue is going,
he knows that I'm here,
but I'm not gonna force him to come out.
I wanna get to a point where I can get him to where
he'll just come out with some tapping much like Elvis.
Come on, buddy, come on.
And you can see he's definitely curious
with all that tongue flickering and stuff like that,
but he's not really sure yet if he wants to come out.
And that's fine, like I said, this is little baby progress.
We're gonna mess with him for a little bit,
if he doesn't wanna come out we'll just leave him alone.
Knowing that he has the choice
kinda gains his confidence, right,
not gonna force him to do anything.
And in no time, tapping like this just like with Elvis
he'll come right out I have no doubt about it.
Come on, Toothless, you wanna come over?
And he's just chilling back there,
so I'm gonna leave him alone,
again, you know, you gotta take these slow,
slow progress with these type of things
to make sure that they train well.
So I'll leave him alone, I'll see if he wants
to come out and play a little bit later.
And just a little bit of an unboxing time.
My buddy Mike over in Boston actually sent me some boas.
He's always really good at breeding boas,
and always has really good success each year,
so we always get a few of 'em from him,
so I'm pretty excited about what he has in here,
let's see what it is.
They're actually Nicaraguan Boas.
So, we have Columbians, we have of course the True Red Tails
that we recently just unboxed, and these are the Nics,
which are kinda the smaller ones.
And oh my gosh, these things are beautiful, oh my gosh.
And again, if you want a smaller boa
this is a great option right here
because these guys typically get maybe 5, 6 foot long,
they're not gonna get 7, 8, 9 foot long.
And these are actually Hypo Nics right here.
And I tell you what, for Hypo Nics,
these guys are beautiful.
So Mike, you did a great job with these guys,
look at how incredible they are.
And again that hypo is just lacking
some of the melanin in it,
making it kinda look a little orange, not as dark.
Because that's the one thing about Nics,
Nics are typically darker than the Colombians, you know.
Much more kind of blacks and dark grays,
as opposed to tans and beautiful browns.
So, let's go ahead and put these guys back
and see what's in the next bag.
All right let's see what we got in these last two bags here.
Okay, some more little Hypo Nics,
tell you what, these are so beautiful.
So it looks like we have a total of 8 Hypo Nics right here
which are really absolutely gorgeous.
Again, really cool animals.
The original Hypos that now are in Colombians
weren't Nicaraguan, but they were Central American.
I think think they were Panamanian or something like that,
if I'm not mistaken.
And now they've been bred into Colombians so much
that it's pretty much Colombian line,
whereas this is something separate.
These aren't like that Hypo line bred into Nicaraguans,
these actually come from Nicaragua,
the actual Hypos themself.
We got one more bag that -
we got one more bag that's a little bit different,
this one's a little angry.
And then this last bag is a little bit different,
and oh my gosh, these things are so dope, oh my goodness.
You guys saw that I just recently unboxed
some Colombian Motley Boas,
well these are Nicaraguan Motley Boas,
and holy moley, these are some good ones.
I mean they are dark, they are beautiful,
the motley pattern on 'em is exemplary.
This is as good as a Motley Nicaraguan Boa can get,
oh my goodness.
And there's 4 little babies here.
Not really sure what the sex is,
we didn't have them sexed before he sent them,
so we'll have to set these up, get 'em all sexed.
These are all eating already,
so we'll probably feed 'em one or two times here,
get 'em going, and then they'll get up on the website, so.
A bunch of boas lately, right,
we got some Colombians, we got Red Tail Boas,
now we got Nic Boas, I mean holy cow,
it's awesome to have boas.
I've always loved them and it is just cool,
but these guys are smoking.
So, great Hypos and great Motleys,
and that's basically it for unboxing.
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- Guess what time it is, guys?
Egg time, Egg time!
Egg time, man.
And this clutch is actually pretty cool,
I've been excited about this one.
This is actually a Mahogany that is het for pied,
and it's bred to another Mahogany het for pied,
so we can produce some suma pieds potentially,
black and white pied.
The odds are a little bit long on it,
but nevertheless, I mean,
she doesn't have a ton of eggs in here,
but it's just a really cool thing.
Again that Mahogany is kind of a dark mutation like this
that is an incomplete dominant.
And again the super is what they call a suma,
which is an all black Ball Python.
It's not shiny black like Night Fury,
but it is definitely black,
and then put it into that pied.
I tell you what, this is a shot here, we have 4 eggs,
the odds of producing a suma pied is about 1 in 8,
so let's hope the odds gods are in our favor,
'cause we have 4 good eggs, but that is awesome.
I was so excited about this clutch,
so to have these on the ground 57 days from now,
oh my gosh, egg cutting is gonna be amazing.
Then this next clutch is actually just a Pastel female,
looks like she's wrapped around a nice clutch of eggs.
And she was bred to this Black Pewter Lesser Cypress,
and he's been a stud, I mean,
this is like his 4th or 5th clutch
and they've all been so good.
This is a beautiful, beautiful snake.
And again, mixing another Pastel gene in there
can get supers of everything that's in this mutation,
so it should be pretty cool,
let's go ahead and pull the eggs.
Okay mama, let me get these eggs out real quick.
Again, a nice clutch of eggs,
it looks like a lot more eggs than I expected
to be honest with you, which is pretty cool.
So I'm gonna go ahead and just start pulling,
get all these eggs over here.
This one certainly isn't gonna be a 12 egg clutch,
but it's gonna be close, I tell you what,
that is still an absolutely gorgeous clutch of eggs.
You got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10,11 eggs, so not bad.
Now an 11 egg clutch, I tell you what,
that is pretty awesome, and no infertile eggs,
so that's cool.
And again, babies hatching from these clutches
are gonna be incredible.
There's some pretty cool kinda mid-range to high-end stuff
that could come out of this clutch.
Some really good Ball Pythons
gonna be hatching out this year.
Like I mentioned before,
it's good to get back to in-person tours.
So we have some people in I think from Missouri.
So we're gonna go ahead, let 'em in and have some fun.
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- Some more unboxing!
This one is actually from Spurgeons Customs LLC.
- Wonder what it is.
- What do you think that would be?
- I don't - you know what
- And these guys are from Missouri.
- Okay, this is what size,
(shaking noises)
- Oh no, nevermind.
- Ooh, something jingles.
- I thought it was shoes but it's not.
- No it's not.
- That was gonna be my guess,
it's about the size of a shoebox, so.
- No, that's definitely not shoes.
"Really enjoy watching your vlogs on YouTube,
it's been interesting seeing all the different animals
that you gotta have.
I do not have any reptiles, but I would like to get
a Piebald Ball Python one of these days.
Please show us some of your Piebald Ball Pythons."
I will do that for you.
I laser engraved these cups for you guys.
If you're interested in having some more made,
please let me know.
Oh these are dope!
- This is awesome, because we have gotten these before
and I was trying to figure out
where we could get them done, so...
- Oh my gosh.
- Love it, and we will definitely be in contact.
- Oh my gosh, yeah, 'cause these are so dope.
- These are awesome.
- Remember to be kind to somebody today,
Laura you need this cup more than anybody.
- This is mine, and mine says
'Remember to smack Brian every day.'
- What are you doin' to me?
No, that's not true, that's not true,
But it does, it has my name Brian Barczyk.
But I think you should be kind to me in particular, so.
- It doesn't say to you.
- Awesome, love it, thank you.
These are great, thank you so much.
- Oh, very excited.
- Tatum Kelly, and it might be Tatum.
Who obviously came to The Reptarium,
why don't you open that.
Watch and comment on your videos every day,
I love your content and just recently
got to meet you at The Reptarium, thank you,
on the Grand Opening weekend you were here, yay.
The Reptarium was so much fun and I had an amazing time.
I wanted to send you a special key chain.
Aw, it's my buddy Forest.
Oh my gosh, you guys make me tear up, man, I tell ya.
- That is so sweet.
- Thank you, seriously.
That's amazing, thank you, seriously.
You guys are amazing, I appreciate you,
and I can't wait 'til you come back to hang out with us
and I'll cherish this, I promise you, I will,
thank you so much.
Just a couple more days and we'll have our next egg cutting.
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Remember, be kind to someone,
and I promise I'll see you tomorrow.