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- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the blog
from beautiful Yucatan, Mexico.
And I hope the start of your day is absolutely amazing.
Obviously, we're taking a little break down here in Mexico,
but I promise we'll be back at the rep terrium tomorrow.
And I've mentioned in the past,
that I'd rather spend money on experiences,
rather than material things.
Well, I like to spend money on snakes,
but we're having an absolutely beautiful excursion.
We're gonna be back at the rep terrium 12 don't you worry.
Today, we're going on adventure
meeting up with a friend of mine, Victor who's a guy,
he's gonna take us on a crazy adventure.
What do you say, we meet up with Victor and get on the road.
And of course, the way we typically do things
I'm hooking up with our friend Victor
who's a tour guide down here in the Yucatan Peninsula.
Have no idea what we're gonna do.
I told him just to take us out on a day trip
to have an adventure.
So have no idea where we're going,
but it's gonna be fun, right? - Oh, yeah,
- What can possibly go wrong right?
So (laughing)
Let's go meet up with Victor and get it on the road.
And how are you? How is it goin men?
- How are you Good to see you.
- It's beautiful out here. - Good to see you again.
- How you guys doing?
- Has it been two years?
- I spent a couple years. - Me too.
- I'm looking forward to the adventure.
- Oh my god it's gonna be awesome.
- All right
All right well, let's go. - Let's do it.
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- What's up dude?
- The hell are you doing here?
- I thought I was coming to hang out
What are doing here?
- How did you get pass the trip wire?
Mary. (upbeat music)
Was I supposed talk I'm so sorry.
(laughing)
It's weird when you are at home you just to relax.
All right, we'll start over here we go.
We're starting over hopefully
Down here in my basement of course,
you've seen the models,
you've seen all the craziness down here.
With my beautiful wife Mary,
Just wanna update you guys on a few animals Reven.
Jan, Murray over for a nice little Sunday hangout session,
so why not show you guys some stuff.
Just actually pick this thing up.
I haven't even posted this on Instagram yet,
but it is one of those iconic reptiles.
I think every person that owns snakes and reptiles
wants to own one day.
That's the green, the emerald green tree boa.
This thing is awesome.
He was not that he was rough when we got him,
but they're definitely a more advanced animal to keep.
It did have a small burn on the top of his head
but I think this guy's can do just fine.
It's healing up great.
I love the sound.
You guys might remember,
it was quite a while ago now that I think about it.
But Brian surprised me with this snake here.
This is a Texas het scaleless ratsnake,
and I named this little guy Texas Walker.
Maybe remember if you're a longtime fan,
I guess you could say but he's doing really good.
He's definitely a lot bigger
than he was when we first got him.
This guy's crushing food,
he's doing really well.
Still keeping a lot of that really dark color.
I really liked him for this jet black tail.
I mean, usually don't really see that
on a lot of the other rat snakes, but definitely cool.
Maybe we'll use them one day for breeding project,
other than that he's just kind of a pet ratsnake.
- We have two of our dracula lined females.
This one here is Mina and I've got bloodbath right here.
And we actually had a baby hatch from bloodbath last week.
So I'm gonna show you that one
but we also were waiting on these two eggs to hatch.
They're so big.
- Oh my God, look at the size of those
compared to the other one.
- So the eggs will actually grow
as they're getting closer to hatch day.
So you can see we've got one and two
are obviously the first one she laid
and the third one down there was from last month.
- They are beautiful Jessica.
- I cannot wait till those guys hatch out.
All right, let's see if I can pull little baby.
I'm so excited about these guys.
They're looking nice.
- This is our first stop.
It's absolutely gorgeous, take a look at this.
All right, what are you doing over here?
- Just chillin, come on in.
- Oh my gosh. (laughing)
- You can't even walk maybe not.
- Just having fun at this cenote.
It's absolutely so beautiful
and what a way to spend the day.
I gonna have a lot more adventures ahead though.
- There you go. (laughing)
- Oh it's so great. - Relax
- Jerkin off the ball pythons.
We have a breeding in this year.
We did bring these guys in and ultrasound them.
This enchi albeit female is pretty close
to building some eggs here.
She had pretty big follicles.
What were they like 20.
- They were over 20 so
- That's when that was found out in the woods.
- It's gonna be a mommy and this is her lovely boyfriend.
- Yep, so this is our cinnamon male this,
I believe this was our first ball python
that we bought from DHP,
so pretty proud of that, you know,
but I never thought I'd be breeding wild caught snakes.
It was found in the woods.
- But it's pretty cool that this is a pretty sentimental
herring right here.
It's this girl who obviously means a lot to you guys,
- Yeah - And first you got from DHC.
That's really cool - Exactly.
- SO we're really excited..
We also have her going with another male
that's what is he just had. - He's het albino
so we could have possible albino.
- Definitely one of my favorite animals
but I don't know don't listen to me.
I say that about every animal.
Really had to push Mary to get this one.
I'm so happy we did.
A lot of the other ones I see are pretty aggressive
and they're very bitie
and people have to be really careful handling them,
but this girl is really sweet.
She always been really sweet.
I've never had any mishaps with her,
but they are rear fang sub venomous
so always be careful,
you know when handling something like this,
if you're allergic to bee stings you know,
you don't wanna be around that stuff,
just in case but just an awesome animal.
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- (foreign language)
Crikey, is a bloody anaconda.
Let's get close and personal with this animal.
First I gotta put on my safety equipment.
Hey guys, it's Steve Cruise here,
back again with a brand new episode.
Today am in the illusive, wondrous and sensual animal.
The queen anaconda.
Now as you can see it spends most of it's time in the water.
Let's get a taste. So good
Wow, it's tensing up a little bit.
It's something you gotta be careful about for sure.
It's just so beautiful in it.
- In it. (laughing)
- Now let's tell you some facts,
about these wonderful animals.
Look at this, guy's this is a freaking anaconda.
- We had fun at the cenote now we're in Copa.
Victor this is awesome dude.
This is what I was waiting for.
This is crazy cool, man.
- This is the real deal guys,
this is the real deal. - Look at this place.
- This was my in true power right here.
It's amazing though. - Look at this.
- You see the sallies of the great governors.
Right there and you know,
it's showing all of their bravado
and they're captured blaze underneath their feet,
monuments dedicated to their ancestors
and to their local deities.
You know, it's beautiful.
So this one here is called the Church.
- The Church - Church.
- Wow. - Still to this day come
to leave offerings, - Really?
- Yeah, yeah they'll burn tobacco,
they'll burn incense and stuff like that
for good luck and hunting and you know
good rainy seasons for their crops.
- Oh my gosh!
Take a look at this this is so crazy, I mean wow.
This is so cool you know, again,
needed the mental break but to come and see this
is gonna be it's a great way
to take a break for the day for sure.
It's another one the rubber ball courts,
they use an eight pound rubber ball
to get through here in LA Lori,
I always likes to tell the story that they use human heads,
but that's just not the case.
- For sure you were gonna make me ride the bike.
- I was trying to get Lori to peddle but she wouldn't
so we're actually in Cancoba
and we're just cruising around and gonna see some ruins.
I mean this place is dope, already saw spider monkey,
and maybe we'll see some snakes,
who knows what's gonna happen,
regardless it's gonna be a good time.
- [Male voice] A few moments later.
- Take a look guys. (laughing)
Oh my gosh one little monkey.
Look at us, that's so cool - So pretty.
- Oh my gosh look at this thing
We'll let it a cruiser, that was awesome.
- Whoa, what I was gonna say was
I usually don't take this animal out less am cleaning.
But this is our biak green tree Python.
I know what you're thinking it's not very green.
But when they're babies,
they're actually like a bright red,
they can be a bright yellow,
and they'll slowly transition to that
awesome like green tree Python color.
So you can start to see the color coming through.
This was another one of those animals that like
I feel like every reptile keeper eventually wants to have.
Really happy we got this one.
She is hopefully she is very shy.
And like I said, we don't handle her a lot
but when we do it's really cool to get to check her out.
Now if I can move around,
you have to see the tip of her tail.
So as you guys probably know
these snakes use it as a luer in the wild.
They'll sit there still wither that little luer
and then find something eat.
Let's see if I can just position her here without biting Jay
Whoa, hey, girl. It's okay.
Look at that little tail right there.
Oh, she's thinking that's
Lemme grab her I'm sorry there we go.
Can you see that tail? - There it goes?
- Isn't that something? - That's so cool.
- Looks like she's about to turn
so we better get her back in here.
- And why are you being so careful bringing this out?
- Oh gosh cause we're not at work.
I'm not on the clock can't be getting bitten by snakes.
You kidding me, no I'm just kidding.
I just wanna be very careful
these are just delicate little creatures.
If I remember Miguel gave me this one,
dude look at that.
I don't think it gets any better with
Amazon for country boas for that color.
So actually I wanna bring this out and talk to it.
We're gonna be bringing this one in pretty soon.
I wanna get the sex on this thing,
I know you have to probe sex some
and Jay has actually got one at home.
We have some at work.
We wanna breed these guys really bad.
So hopefully we can, I think that'd be absolutely sweet.
Especially to get some of this color.
I know it's not really like something
you could put two and two together
and get the same results out of.
Look at that thing right there oh my gosh!
- Alright guys, so as you could see here,
this girl has ovulated
with her belly turned up on the side like that.
All these pythons, these children pythons
and spotted pythons have already started ovulating.
And I'm just waiting for them to shed
to start counting down the days.
The ball pythons are still about,
three quarters of the way going,
most of them are gonna go off I think pretty soon.
So it's looking really good down here.
- It's on foot from here we're heading to
where are we heading to Victor?
- So we're heading to a group
within Kobach called group Macan jock.
So these are hearts monuments.
With the names and the dates,
important dates of in the life of these ancient kings,
and it's a form of dedication,
you know, to the memory of these ancient kings.
We're looking at something
that is unique to powerful families.
Okay, this form of artistic expression,
and the name of these governors is
I mean it was something
that was only accessible tO extremely powerful family,
which is the case of Coba.
Considering that Coba,
is one of the few Mayan independent states
that had a leader with a title of a Columpe,
which literally translates to King of kings.
His face, his staff power in his grip.
You see him here, even with his fancy cuffs around his arms,
you can see some of the wardrobe here.
You know, hanging down the side
the plumes coming from this hair dress,
and another little staff of power here
coming from the forehead.
- Guys remember, if you didn't see the first time
when Victor took us on a tour to Tunitsa,
Lori did a really good job of explaining
all of the architecture there.
So what was this again, Lori?
- Oh, god, you're putting me on the spot.
Well, I'm reading this
as this was definitely a powerful King
and the thing in his head,
I see a little bit of a hook on it.
So I think that was something that he used to maybe
just chop some heads off, - Or go fishing.
- I wouldn't say fishing,
I would say probably I think he ruled
with an iron fist. - Okay,
- And you know, that's what kept everybody in check.
- Good job. The thing that I love in Coba
is the fact that you can literally climb
a lot of the stairs and monuments
and that's what we're ultimately gonna try to do
is get a sunset on top of a temple.
So that should be pretty dope.
And we can actually climb to the top of this,
it looks a little treacherous but should be fun.
Ready for this, Lori? - Yeah, let's do it.
Good thing I have a good shoes on.
- Yeah, you can climbing shoes,
- They weren't for the great wall.
The were for this.
- Well, we made it to the top.
It's pretty amazing.
The view up here is incredible.
I mean, take a look at this, it' a long way down
(giggling) but it's worth it.
We're just gonna sit here and watch the sunset.
It's gonna be pretty awesome.
What an amazing day these guys gave us.
I'm gonna put a link in the description
if you ever come to the Yucatan, Cancun whatever,
definitely hit these guys up for an amazing adventure.
I'll put again all the links in the description,
reach out to me if you need anything.
These guys will have an excursion
that's absolutely incredible today was awesome.
Thank you guys.
Seriously before I go anywhere I google
what species of animals I'm gonna find there
and I just didn't just not thinking
we're gonna find anything here crazy.
Lori spotted the snake in a tree
and it turned out that it was a brand back parrot snake.
So it's a pretty common colubrid
that's a you know native to the Yucatan area,
completely harmless and stuff like that.
But it was a cute little bugger
and a cool little bonus for this trip.
What an amazing trip down to here to Mexico
and definitely needed this little break
to get re energized but,
but it's absolutely amazing
to be back here at the rep terrium
The next week is going to be bonkers, guys.
I mean we have animals coming.
We have kids that get that,
we are literally a week away from the grand opening,
of course the 13th of March.
Hopefully you guys can join us.
So, I, just buckle up.
The next week is gonna be bonkers but so absolutely amazing.
Starting with tomorrow
when we have amazing animals coming so that's it guys.
I'm back here I'm rejuvenated.
I'm excited and we are about
to launch the rep terrarium 2.0.
I hope that you guys enjoyed this.
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