- She definitely looks like she is thin.
She was pretty fat yesterday, which means that she had,
Verde actually didn't take a frozen rat the last two weeks,
so we're gonna go ahead and offer her a fresh one,
and see if she's interested.
These guys are so tricky.
I mean I'm trying to figure 'em out, and again,
if I can get Jerry to stab first and take it,
we're good to go.
But, these guys are frustrating.
- Every time I pull babies out, I go upstairs
and they got more babies for me to put away.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
- Hey good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I'm gonna get the day started with somethin' pretty awesome.
I'm not gonna lie to you, this little girl,
oh my God, she definitely looks like she is thin.
She was pretty fat yesterday, which means that she had
a bunch of babies, and this is just a small little girl.
This would definitely be on the small side of what
we would normally breed.
I cannot believe how much energy she put into production.
She is definitely super thin, but I can see a baby
crawling around over here.
It looks really good.
Oh it's a little anerythristic too.
So she must've been a head anerythristic.
I know we bred her to a anerythristic male.
I wasn't sure if she was a head or not,
so that's definitely proven now.
Got one little baby anery here.
Ooh, and mama, don't bite me, mama, don't bite me.
It's okay, sweetheart, it's all right.
I know I see one little baby cruisin' around right here.
What do we got?
There's another baby, here's two.
Look at it, he just disappear like that.
It's so crazy.
So two normal babies right there, one anerythristic.
Let's see if we have a lot more.
I'm not expecting a real large litter, because she is such
a small girl, but we do have another normal here.
So that puts us up at four.
I can see some more movin' around over here.
Oh, another anerythristic over here, that's five babies.
Oh, got another one over here.
Look at that.
All right, another little one there, that's six babies.
Hey, where you goin', you little monkey.
You stay in there.
Let's see, got six babies so far, which is really quite good
for a girl this size to be totally honest with you.
I'm gonna see if there's any, oh, there's another one,
another anery, that's seven babies.
This is really a lot better litter than I was expecting
from such a small girl like this.
Seven babies, we'll see if there's,
I can see some movement over here.
Seven, eight babies, this is another little normal.
And these little monkeys are tryin' to get out.
Eight babies, I think that that might be it, guys.
I think eight babies is the number.
Just do a real quick look, get her cleaned up.
But that was a really good litter.
Let's just take a really quick look and see.
We have one, two, three anerythristics,
and one, two, three, four, five normals.
So not bad, eight babies in all.
That is a really good litter, and a great way
to start the day.
What do you say we have a great day together.
You guys know that I love feedin' the frogs,
so let's go ahead and start with our azureus,
these absolutely beautiful electric blues.
(deep bass music)
Laurie, what'd you do to Phoebe?
- I got her a sweater.
Look at how pretty she looks.
- It is fall, and I'm gonna be honest with you.
It's supposed to be like 42 degrees.
Did you guys hear that?
It's supposed to be like 42 degrees this weekend as a low.
So she's definitely gonna need a little bit of sweater.
She's got, look at that.
- That's a new baby, yeah.
- New baby hedgehog, oh my gosh.
Laurie's actually goin' out of town tomorrow.
She's goin' down to Florida with my daughter to Disney,
so you got her a present.
So did you get me somethin'?
- Yeah, I got you some hand soap.
- [Brian] You're so nice, thank you.
- You're welcome. - Does that mean
I've got dirty hands? - Yeah.
Go wash your hands.
- Verde actually didn't take a frozen rat the last
two weeks, so we're gonna go ahead and offer her a fresh one
and see if she's interested.
Certainly looks like she's interested right off the rip.
Totally different reaction than in the frozen, for sure.
Yep, there she goes.
So that's what it is.
Sometimes animals want frozen, sometimes they want fresh,
sometimes you gotta find the right thing for 'em.
Regardless, Verde took that like a champ.
And it's amazing how different she is.
As soon as she smelled that fresh one, she was right up
on it for sure.
So she should have a nice, good meal in her now.
That is always awesome.
(slow bass music)
I know I've mentioned this before,
but see that white camera over there?
Or say this white camera that is up in the corner you can
barely see over there?
We finally have the live cams going.
I know we've had Bella cam, we had the hatch cam that didn't
work out the way we actually wanted it to, but regardless
now we have five cameras throughout.
We got the tortoise cam, we've got Lucy cam,
we have Bella cam, we have Perdita cam,
and we have Nova cam, but we're about to have
an alligator cam, and you can actually watch those at
Live Reptile Cams, I'm gonna put a link in the description.
Bella's camera's right up here as well.
And they're actually cycling through, so 30 seconds
they switch to the next one, to the next one,
to the next one.
Our hope is eventually, you guys can choose which camera
you want to watch, and maybe we can add
another 10 or 12 cameras then.
I don't know.
Anyway, Live Reptile Cams, link in the description.
Go show it some love.
It's pretty cool 'cause you can actually
get in the chat room.
I pop in there at least once or twice a day.
Look at the animals and see what's going on here
at the Reptarium.
And, again, if it's a success, we'll go ahead and start
adding more cameras, and eventually figure out how you
can actually choose which camera you wanna watch.
I'm pretty excited about it.
I'm gonna go ahead and feed Ben and Jerry, but the trick
kinda is to get 'em to both eat, or at least I think it is.
If I can get Jerry to take it first, because Ben and Jerry
are both really excited in the beginning.
If Ben takes it first,
sometimes Jerry doesn't seem to wanna go.
So the trick here is to hopefully get Jerry to strike first,
and then I can feed Ben.
One got it, who got it?
Oh, I think they both got it.
Wait a second here, that's not good.
Jerry let go, Ben took it.
So we'll just see if we can get Jerry to go.
Come on, buddy, come on, come on.
See that's the thing.
As soon as Ben takes it, Jerry doesn't seem
to be interested.
So Jerry lunged for it, but unfortunately, Ben got it first.
Now he won't eat it.
Sometimes when Ben is actually getting going, Jerry'll take,
so I'll try again.
Gonna probably have to wait a couple minutes,
just until Ben is eating this guy.
These guys are so tricky.
I mean, I'm trying to figure 'em out, and again,
if I can get Jerry to stab first and take it,
we're good to go, but, these guys are frustrating.
All right, and there he goes.
Again, that happens every time.
Once Ben is eating, it seems, there's gotta be
some symbiosis in their brains, right?
When Ben is eating, Jerry's afraid to eat,
but then once Ben is eating for awhile, it's almost like
Jerry realizes that he can now eat.
Really weird, I don't know how things work on this,
but it is crazy.
I'm just glad they're both eating.
(slow bass music)
- This time of year is super busy.
It's really crazy down here in the dungeon.
Babies are coming in, babies are goin'.
I can't keep it straight anymore.
There's so much goin' on down here.
Every time I pull the babies out, I go upstairs,
and they got more babies for me to put away.
I don't know what I'm gonna do. (laughs)
- [Cameraman] Sorry, you seem so disheveled.
- I need help. (laughs)
I'm the one that's in charge of keeping all these babies
fed and healthy and ready to go to their new homes,
so I gotta get to work, you guys.
(slow bass music)
- I was anxiously awaiting this clutch to hatch out.
This was a super lorie pinstripe bred to a lorie
ball python, and there's some beauties in here.
These three right here, believe it or not,
are all just lorie pinstripes, and it really gives you
an idea of how the lorie gene kind of interacts
with other genes like pinstripes.
Now this is actually just a lorie ball python.
This is just a straightforward lorie ball python.
To give you an idea, it looks a little bit cinnamon,
looks a little bit azanthicky,
but it's kind of it's own gene, right.
So this is the base gene of lorie.
And then, of course, if you remember how we hatch,
this is the super lorie pinstripe right here.
Of course, the super lorie leopard actually had those
crazy blues and stuff like this.
This one's more of a silver with a really faint pattering
down the back.
I mean, this thing is absolutely gorgeous.
I think it looks a little different than the mom
that actually produced one, but it's kinda hard to tell.
Nevertheless, I was excited to see these little buggers
crawl out of the egg.
I want to kind of show you this, 'cause you don't wanna
discount breeding even the normal ball python.
Oftentimes a lot of people are thinking like,
I gotta have this crazy two-gene animal over here
to this three-gene animal over here.
This is actually a normal female ball python,
but it's bred to a pastabi orange gene.
So the pastabi orange gene is pastel, it's mojave,
and it is orange gene.
And the results are absolutely amazing.
Again, this is the only normal ball python that we got
out of the entire clutch.
Just a normal ball python, nothing crazy there, that's okay.
Then we got some cool stuff, even like a pastel.
Listen, pastels are still beautiful, even though they're
not crazy whatever, but then I wanna show you the difference
between a normal pastel and a pastel orange gene.
It's relatively subtle, but you can certainly see
more blushing, a little more orange coming out in it,
and again, the super orange gene is ridiculous.
So you gotta start with the orange gene to get
to the super orange gene.
Then we have a whole series of like mojave and stuff here.
This looks like probably just a normal mojave here.
This looks like a normal pastabi here.
But what I wanted to really show you is that the difference
between a normal pastabi ball python, which is the pastel,
and the mojave and the pastabi orange gene.
Again, you can really see the heavy blushing in it.
You can see more orange coming through and stuff like that.
This is an absolutely beautiful animal for sure.
And this is what the actual dad was right there.
And it looks like we've got another
little pastabi orange gene here.
Again, really light, beautiful oranges and blushings
and stuff like that.
So again, a beautiful clutch
from a relatively simple breeding.
Oftentimes, you don't have to start with crazy stuff
to still produce beautiful animals.
So I was excited and super happy to share this with you.
These babies really are so fun.
I love feeding 'em.
Basically what I'll do oftentimes, I'll just take these
little roaches, and I'll just kinda toss one up there
and hopefully he goes after it.
And I'll just kinda do that until they find it.
And look, they're already down there.
Oh, they're fightin' each other.
I'll throw another one up there.
This one'll crush it.
Oh yeah, he's crushin' it.
These guys are just little monsters, I tell you what.
Once they see somethin', see, they're both goin' after it,
like, I was gonna get that first.
Oh my God, these guys are so much fun.
I'll throw some more over there.
You can see this guy down below over here.
Look it, they're all just runnin' at it.
We'll throw a couple down here.
Here, we'll throw a couple more.
Now they'll really all come out.
Look at 'em just crushin' it. (laughs)
They are so absolutely adorable.
I mean, just take a look at these little monkeys right here.
It's a far cry from when they were babies when they
hardly even hunted.
Now you throw stuff in there and they just like
go runnin' around like crazy.
These little baby pearlies are awesome.
And our next pearlies are due to hatch
in only a week or two.
It's gonna be epic.
And hey, if we're gonna feed the babies, we might as well
go ahead and feed Nova.
Nova, what's up, buddy?
What's up, bud?
You want it?
There you go, buddy.
I love the way his little flaps go when he's eating.
They're so absolutely adorable.
I'll feed him a couple roaches and go on.
Listen, feeding stuff is still one of the highlights
of my day, whether it's snakes or lizards,
it's just awesome.
It's a fun time.
It's somethin' I look forward to every time I get a chance.
Gonna see if I can get Diddy down here.
Come on, Diddy.
That's a boy.
That's a boy, good job, bud.
He's still a little bit shy, there's no doubt about that.
Here, Diddy, come on, come on, up here.
Here you go, Did.
There you go, buddy, can I pet you?
Can I pet you?
No, he's still not ready for that.
But he will come down for food, which is good.
Bruce is doing a good job of habituating him.
Come on, bud, come on.
He sees the ones, oh, I gotta take that off.
Can I pet you?
No, okay.
Well, I"ll leave him go.
Again, slow process.
He's not afraid to come take food from us, that's good.
We'll get him to the point where he's good,
and he's really a lot better for Bruce 'cause Bruce works
with him almost every day.
I always love my boy, Flamin' Hot here,
absolutely gorgeous bearded dragon, and I Love the fact
that usually he'll chase roaches,
which is usually pretty fun.
But first, the weird thing about bearded dragons is that
they have to kind of see it, which by the way,
I want to do a video soon and the fact that bearded dragons
and a handful of other lizards actually through studies
they have REM sleep.
I'll get back to that in another vlog here coming soon.
For now, we're gonna go ahead and see if my guy, Flamin' Hot
wants to eat some roaches.
(slow bass music)
Next up is my axanthic savanna monitor.
This dude is a monster.
What are you doin', buddy.
He loves the roaches.
This dude has grown so quick, and he is really
an amazing animal, absolutely love it.
This is like a little T-Rex.
Here you go, buddy.
Here you go, come on, up up up up up.
There ya go.
Savannah monitors are really a great pet lizard,
I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
You want a bigger monitor lizard, but you don't want
something that's huge, or you don't have the ability
to take care of something huge.
Savannah's are often that kind of first starting point
to the giant monitors, 'cause they don't get huge.
They don't need as much room, but they definitely need
a lot of room and they're really easy to care for.
Absolutely amazing animals.
What an absolutely amazing litter of sambos.
I always love it when I have baby snakes.
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