(dramatic music)
- You're okay! You're okay! You're okay, you're okay.
Whoa!
Ugh, definitely a little bit puffy.
Oh my gosh, that is so awesome.
Look at him! Woo hoo hoo!
You're so good to me. I'm so happy I have you.
- Aw, you're so sweet.
- Oh my god, okay, I'm leaving now.
(dramatic music)
And as always, this is the Bob Builder part of the vlog.
I've got a key, that's right,
and do you have any idea what that key is for?
Uh, it is for--
(dramatic music)
(uptempo music)
- Hey good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
Bruce actually came to me earlier
and said that Chicken Strip, the albino Nile Monitor
seemed to have a little bit of a
maybe swollen eye or something like that.
So I have to get it out and just inspect it,
that's just part of keeping animals.
You never know if maybe he bumped it on some rocks
or something like that.
The downside is, this guys is not fun
getting out of the cage.
You kinda gotta wear him out,
little bit crazy.
We've been working on him so
let's go ahead, get Chicken Strip out
and hopefully that eye isn't a big issue.
So, come on, Chicken Strip.
You're okay, you're okay. You're okay, you're okay.
Whoa!
Chicken Strip, come on.
Come on, Chicken Strip.
Whoa! Whoa!
And what we can normally do with this guy,
he is absolutely crazy,
is we just kinda want to keep him like this,
let him calm down for a minute.
You're okay buddy, you're all right.
You're okay. You're okay.
And again, he's working much better.
And I can definitely see, even from the top here,
I've got to kind of continue to keep him a little calm,
but I can tell from the top that
that eye is just a little swollen.
Doesn't look terrible,
but again he's not quite in the position
where I can really get a good look yet.
But again, very calmed down once he's out of the cage.
Compared to when he used to be,
when you used to take him out and he'd try to bite you up.
Getting him out of the cage,
he was definitely freaking out a little bit.
But I just want to take a quick close look at that.
You can just see his eye is just a little bit out
and just a little bit puffy,
but I don't see anything that's really bad here.
Good chance maybe he just kind of scraped himself
and it's a little swollen.
I don't see an infection.
I don't see anything to be terribly concerned about.
But you know, with an animal like Chicken Strip here
we definitely want to make sure
we always keep him kind of in top shape.
And if it starts getting any worse
we'll definitely call our vet in to take a look
and see what we can do.
You know, again, that's part of keeping animals.
You're gonna have times where an animal gets injured,
an animal has an infection,
things happen.
And I want to take you guys along on that journey.
But for now I'm not terribly concerned about Chicken Strip.
When Bruce came to me,
I'm glad he did by the way,
I was worried about it being something much more serious.
But this guy looks good.
Looks like his eye is working, he's looking.
His pupil is dilated and everything like that,
which tells me that it can see.
I don't see anything that really has me terribly concerned,
but nevertheless,
that's just part of it, guys.
So Chicken Strip,
I mean, wow,
unbelievable once you get him out,
how tame he's got compared to what he used to be.
Again, he gave me a little bit of a run for my money
when he was in his cage,
but Chicken Strip the albino Nile Monitor
is one absolutely incredible animal.
Love this guy to death, I'll tell you what.
So, I'm glad that he doesn't have anything too bad
but we'll definitely keep an on on this,
this eye,
and tell you how this thing is going to go in the future.
Ugh, definitely a little bit puffy,
but I think he's going to be okay.
We'll just have to keep a close eye on it.
As I'm walking around, I tell you,
it warms my heart to see Salt out here,
Pepper out here.
You know it's been close to a year
since we've been working on
trying to get them out here full time.
They're finally doing really well.
Pepper, by the way,
ate the other day for Andrea off of tongs.
So that's great.
Now we can start the training process.
But wow, I tell you what,
they look so absolutely incredible.
And again, they're only going to be in here
for maybe another six or eight months.
And then we're going to have to do
even a bigger enclosure for them.
But for now I'm just loving walking by
and seeing these guys every day.
Bowser is looking so good right now.
I absolutely love this animal.
And a few minutes ago he had his mouth open,
meaning that he was kind of hunting with that lure.
So we vary a lot of foods, you know.
We feed him crocodile chow,
we feed him chicken,
we feed him fish.
Sometimes we'll even feed him rodents.
So I have a frozen, thawed rodent right now.
I'm going to see if he's going to take it.
(sounds of a water fountain)
- Oh! Well, he bit it!
You want to try to eat it, buddy?
Not sure if Bowser's going to take it or not.
He used to eat rodents all the time.
It's been a while since we've fed him a rodent,
but it would good for him.
Oh, yeah, he's sucking it down now.
He loves it!
Oh my gosh, that is so awesome.
Look at him! Hoo hoo hoo!
I tell you what, how awesome is that.
It is so incredible.
I mean, these guys are prehistoric,
I mean they're absolutely amazing.
And it's crazy to think that a medium frozen rat like that
could just get, like, in two seconds,
just like, woo! It's done.
Oh my gosh.
It's so incredible.
And to think that Bowser, being 41 years old now,
is going to live maybe another 150 plus years.
I mean, wow, that thing is incredible.
I love that animal.
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So that's going to be a really good meal for him.
Again, it's been a while since he's eaten a rodent.
But that's a lot of good protein for this little monkey.
- Ya'll, what's up?
- You going to the movies today?
- The movies?
- Dr. Sleep! You like the scary movies?
- Oh, Dr. Sleep. Not really.
- You don't like scary movies.
- You know, I like a soft comedy.
- Soft comedy, a little romantic comedy?
- Yup. Romantic comedy.
- What's your favorite movie then?
- My favorite movie? Is probably Saw.
No, I'm just kidding.
- (laughs)
- It's probably...
That's a really tough one, I don't know.
Probably Commando.
- Commando?!
- That's a good one.
- Commando?
- Commando's great, cause he saves that little girl
and then he like, throws that pipe through his chest
and he's like, "Let off some steam, Bennett."
- So no Dr. Sleep tonight?
- I'll probably,
I'm gonna have to check it out really soon though.
I need to get on my movie game,
I'm not a big new movie guy.
I need to get on that.
- What are you doing, bud? What do you got going on?
- He's going to see it. I'll probably take him.
- I have to sex a couple big ball pythons.
A local guy that is a good customer of ours,
a patron of ours,
just asked if I could help him sex these.
So just real quick I'll show you guys how to sex
some big ball pythons.
All right, let's see what we have here.
So this is a nice lemon blast here.
Of course this is a pastel and a pinstripe.
And it looks really good. Looks really healthy.
Probably 1200 grams or something like that.
I'm going to guess a male off the bat,
but I could be completely wrong.
You see those sperm plugs right there?
That's what those white things are right there.
That's called actually a sperm plug.
And that, of course, is a male.
Next up, let's see what we have here.
Okay, this is actually,
just looks like a pastel ball python right here.
And basically what I'm doing is that,
obviously this is the cloaca or the anal vent right here.
And the sex genes are right down here.
And I'm just trying to roll and invert them out, right.
So we're going to see what we have here.
And you can see right here that nothing comes out.
Basically what I'm going is, I'm rolling this way,
and I'm applying a little back pressure.
This is a female.
Looks like she's almost ready to breed,
maybe another few months of feeding,
and she should be good to go.
Now the interesting thing is,
you can see these little spurs right here
that I've got right on the side of the vent right there.
Those are called vestigial spurs,
and those are actually like remnants of legs,
believe it or not.
And a lot of times people think that big spurs
mean a male,
because that's the case in boas,
but with ball pythons you can see
that is a big spur for a snake and it's a female.
So with ball pythons, spurs have nothing to do with it
and sometimes that can really confuse people
because again they hear,
oh, the bigger the spur, the fact that it's a male,
and females will have little tiny spurs.
In some boas' case,
the females won't have any spurs
and only males will.
But in ball pythons, it doesn't matter at all.
They can be big or they can be small,
they can be male or they can be female.
And then the last ball python,
we're going to take a look real quick,
is another pastel.
This is a really pretty animal though.
Really good.
So let's see if this is a male or a female.
It'd be a pretty big male, to be totally honest with you.
But it can certainly happen.
And sure enough, another female,
with some relatively sizable spurs on this one, too.
So all in all, it turned out pretty well.
Two females and a male lemon blast.
What are you going, Laurie?
(smacking sounds)
- One of the five things I always do.
- [Brian] You only do five things?
- Yes, but constantly.
- Over and over? Just five things over and over.
You're like Groundhog's Day?
- I literally was going to say,
I feel Like I'm Bill Murray in Groundhog's Day.
Like, here we go again.
- So you're making?
- Feedings.
- You're cutting the meat?
- Cutting the meat for the feedings at the Reptarium.
- You're so good in the kitchen.
I'm so happy that I have you.
- Aw, you're so sweet.
- Oh my god. Okay, I'm leaving now.
- Hoo-wa!
- [Brian] What the hell's going on here?
- I'm just getting a little pumped!
What?
- It's starting to feel like chameleon central here.
We've just been getting been getting
more and more chameleons.
This is actually our veil chameleon
that used to be over at the Reptarium,
but he wasn't very friendly
so we replaced him with Raul
and he made his way over to BHB.
And you know, we love chameleons over here.
And of course we've got Karma, my boy over here.
Karma, what's up, buddy?
He's going good. He's loving his retirement.
And then, of course, lastly we have this female
veil chameleon that we got in
that we're still not 100% sure
if she's gravid or not.
She definitely looks really puffy
and she's just coming out of a shed as well,
so definitely looking puffy but
she's one of those translucents.
You can see the white on her and stuff like that.
Again, we have a nice little area down here
if she wants to lay.
So as we go here, again,
BHB turns out to be chameleon BHB central.
But we love these guys,
especially my guy Karma.
And as always,
this is the Bob Builder part of the vlog,
I know you guys are probably bored of me building stuff
but this is kind of my little workshop here.
I've gotta build some shelves up.
Just trying to organize things.
It won't be much of a vlog,
but I'm just gonna build a shelf really quick,
so that the back room looks a little bit more
like it should.
(instrumental music)
I know it's not much,
but just organization is good.
We'll just put some plywood here,
then we can put stuff on the shelf here, here and here.
And it keeps Laurie happy
because now we don't have to keep moving
our refrigerator around.
We've got our little spot here,
we can put our vacuums over here.
Little things like this
just make life a little bit easier.
(instrumental music)
Pretty excited to kind of share with you guys
something that I've been working on for a while now.
You guys might have known what was going on,
but I've got a key.
That's right.
And do you have any idea what that key is for?
It is for the future of the Repatarium, here.
I've talked about expanding and,
it's about to happen.
So over the next few months we're going to
take you guys on a journey of doubling the Reptarium,
adding all kinds of new animals,
new experiences.
I am excited. I'm nervous.
This is what I've been waiting for.
And it's a really long story that I don't want to go into,
but nevertheless,
we have space.
I'm going to take you guys over there
in the next coming weeks.
And show you what I'm thinking.
It's pretty amazing.
I'm terrified, because not only is it
going to cost a lot of money,
it's going to take a lot of my time and energy.
And I hope that you guys are going to like it.
For those of you that have been to the Reptarium,
you're going to have something to come back and see.
For those of you that haven't been to the Reptarium,
we're going to have twice as much stuff.
So guys, today is a really special day for me.
Again, scared, but excited.
And I can't wait to kind of bring you guys
along on this journey.
It's going to be pretty amazing.
- [Man Off Camera] Yes!
- Oh I thought it was Laurie and it's just Cruz, dude!
What are you going?
(rap music plays)
(record scratch)
- [Brian] You know what all the kids
are doing these days, right?
- Uhhhh. - Yeah, they're doping!
- Yeah.
- [Brian] The TikTok.
- They're tik-tacking.
- Tik-tacking.
- Well guess what, we are all tik-tackers as well, right.
- Oh yeah.
- No but seriously, TikTok is like,
there's this thing going around.
BHB and the Reptarium, where everyone.
Bruce has a TikTok that's like,
40-something thousand.
- Yeah yeah, 47,000.
- [Brian] Noah's just getting going,
he just filmed a banger.
You've said you're, Mary's manager?
- I'm managing an account right now.
(laughter)
- I'm sorry, it just sounds fucking insane!
- If you guys don't follow us over on TikTok...
- Do it!
- You should follow Brian Barczyk.
I wouldn't follow...
- @scalesandthings.
- Yeah! BarczykNoah!
- I definitely wouldn't follow hey_yo_lizard_lady.
- Wow, don't follow that one.
- Yeah, don't follow that one, seriously.
That's no good.
So all right, the TikTok game is getting strong
here at the BHB.
Guys, it is getting so cold out here.
I mean, no snow on the ground today,
because it all melted because it's
an absolutely beautiful sunny day today.
But next week, literally the highs are supposed to be
low 30's, upper 20's as far as Fahrenheit.
Winter is here,
but hey, that means snake breeding season's here too.
I show you guys a lot of scaleless corn snakes
as babies and stuff like that,
this year that we've hatched.
But this is basically what they look like
when they get a little bit bigger.
This is a yearling,
just normal scaleless corn snake.
And it's just wild, again,
when you strip those scales away
how crazy they look.
And then this one is actually
just an albino, or amelanistic,
scaleless corn snake.
But it has a really cool pattern to it.
That's one of the things that's really cool
about scaleless corns, is that again
you just get a completely different looking snake
when you strip those scales away.
I absolutely love them to death.
And these are all just yearlings that we're raising up.
We just have a handful of stuff that we're raising up.
This year we're going to definitely hang out here
some more cause we've produced some really cool ones.
And then, ooh doggy, take a look at this.
This is actually a snow motley scale.
But all those pinks and greens that are coming through.
Oh, my god!
That thing just is crazy,
I mean, I tell you what.
I think that with a little bit of selective breeding
we could just get a fluorescent, yellowish-green snake.
We could call that the highlighter corn.
And then take a look at this one here,
this is actually an ultramel scaleless.
That ultramel is almost like a T positive
type of thing in a way.
And it actually is allelic to albino.
But it's just got all those purple hues to it.
Absolutely incredible animals.
And again, it's one of those animals
that's just like the T positive Nelson's,
is allelic to albino.
Wow!
So Lucy is looking great.
Things over here at the Reptarium
are definitely looking good.
I know Casper just shed out,
looks absolutely beautiful.
I've got Ivy is coming up pretty soon.
Pickles, oh my god, absolutely looking amazing today.
And it's just kinda cool.
Right now it's just like,
everything seems to have just shed,
looking absolutely incredible.
Beautiful down here.
Of course, Ivy's over in the corner there.
She's definitely going to get ready to shed.
But look at Abasuku up there on the basking light right now.
That thing is absolutely incredible.
And I love when the Reptarium is looking good.
We have some big plans this winter, guys,
so buckle up, it's going to be a great thing.
I'll share more with that pretty soon.
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