- [Brian Barczyk] Oh no; no no no, another stillborn baby.
Hey guys, that would have been seventeen good babies.
What a bummer.
Whoa! Geez, so Pete's mama.
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Hey, good morning everybody. Welcome to the VLOG.
We are at The Reptarium.
We're gonna have an amazing day, what do you say
we have a great day together.
One of the things I am gonna do today is try to
finish up these displays over here.
For the last few weeks, we've had a hard time
kinda getting the time to actually finish these up,
so I want animals in if you come to the Reptarium
this weekend, I want you to see some really cool stuff.
I've got most of the cages done, but I've got the
bottom two cages over here, a few cages on the other side.
We definitely have to get to this aligator tank,
and get this finished up today, so we have our work
cut out for us, but it is going to be absolutely incredible.
Just downstairs and seeing this, which does not look too
promising, but maybe it won't be that bad.
Of course, this is a Colombian Rainbow Boa, and she
has some babies, but you see what these guys are here?
I told you about these before. These are what they call
infertile ova, which means that they're infertilized
live babies essentially is what it is, but we do have
a couple animals here. I don't know what's going on.
It looks like this one right here has some pre - ooh,
it's a feisty little monkey, even though it has a
big yolk sack, I think this one's actually gonna be okay.
Again, this one right here looks like it has a big
yolk sack too, but it looks like it's gonna be okay.
I do see a few babies over here, and a whole bunch of
infertile ova as well, so pretty much not looking like
a really good litter of babies, but this one is gonna
be okay. Really gently lift this guy up here as well;
get him in here, so that's two good babies.
Again, lots of infertile ova, oh my gosh!
Let's see if there's any good babies in here besides
a couple over here - watch out mamma, okay I'm sorry girl,
okay definitely looks like there's a baby here.
This one looks really good, no problems.
Here's four babies right here.
See, okay mamma, don't bite me mamma, don't bite me mamma,
I'm okay, okay, let's just look through here real quick.
Look at all these infertile eggs, uh, geez.
Ooh, and I just squished one in my fingers; that's
really gross.
Uh, it looks like that's it guys.
Four babies; what in the world mamma?
You definitely didn't do good, and then there's one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
eleven, twelve, thirteen infertile ova.
My gosh, that would have been seventeen good babies.
What a bummer, and I'm not really sure why, what happened
with the fertility. Could have been a heat issue,
could have been a female issue, who knows what happened.
Regardless, that's a lot of potential babies, but
hey, we got four good babies. It could be worse, right?
These little monkeys look pretty awesome.
Ooh, they're feisty too. It's okay little guys, you're
alright. So, hey, what can you do? That's part of the
ups and downs of breeding snakes.
In the meantime, we'll get this female cleaned up,
and we'll get her some food; you did okay mamma, I'm sorry.
Going through - Op, there's a little baby here.
Looks like a, lookit, does it look good, whoa!
It's okay, well, it looks like there's five babies,
not just four babies.
Whoa! Geez-so-Pete's mamma! Relax.
Oh, and there's a whole bunch more infertile eggs over, whoa
Geez! That's okay, relax, relax ... okay.
Alright, so she woulda had a really big litter; that was
seventeen infertile, and five good babies.
Oh, I wish they were good, but hey, still five good babies.
Again, I'm not gonna complain.
Back to the reptarium and I just gotta keep on
pressing forward and getting stuff done.
This is what I'm kinda thinking when it comes to these
cages. I'm thinking this backdrop right here, so all I
have to do is kinda push this in here.
I think I'm gonna just glue this in silicone, and I'm
thinking this rock here will look pretty cool right in
this area here. Just kind of a finish.
A lot of these have the entire wrap around from side
to side, but I think this one will be kinda cool to
leave it just kinda this way somehow fill it up right here.
We can put some kinda cool substrate down, something
like that, some plants, and I think that that cage is
gonna look pretty good.
When it comes to this one, what I was thinking is something
similar. Rather than having a wraparound all the way
around, maybe have this big rock formation that goes
right in there that's just pushed right to the edge
like this, so that there's this big rock formation.
Then I can actually kinda glue this to the side here
maybe and just have a really good kinda cool terracing
crack; again, some plants and so on like that, kinda get
things going. Then I have to fixture out these ones here.
I haven't even really thought a whole lot about that yet,
but that gives you an idea of what I'm thinking about
for those cages at least.
Mary came to me again with another live birth, but this
time, a Kenyan Sand Boa. Hopefully this litter will be
better than that Colombian Rainbow Boa.
We'll see what's going on. She's a big ol' mamma.
You're okay mamma? Alright girl, that's goo - oh my gosh,
lookit there is a lot of babies in here, whoo-doggy.
That's a lot of babies. I think I'm gonna go ahead and
move this mamma out, so I can get to these babies.
You okay sweetheart? Let's go find you a place to
sit for just a minute, you did so good mamma - oh my gosh!
Looks like there's a bunch of babies.
And here we go, take a look at all of these babies right
here. Oh my gosh, oh no, no, no, no. Another stillborn
baby. Oh my gosh. Please let there ... another stillborn
baby; what is going on? Oh, and it looks like there's,
this one too. Three stillborn babies in this litter.
Oh my gosh, I hope the rest are okay.
The rest look like they're going really good.
Oh my gosh, it's just one of those days, and I've always
told you guys, I share the good, the bad, the ugly with
you guys. I'm not just gonna share you all the triumphs.
When you're working with animals, these things happen when
you're breeding snakes. Sometimes you get amazing litters,
sometimes you get bad litters, sometimes you get great
hatches, sometimes you get bad hatches.
It's all part of it. Fortunately, we got three little
stillborns here; they look perfectly formed, and I always
wonder, like what happened? You have a perfectly formed
baby, and then when she delivers them, they are stillborn.
What went wrong? I have no idea, but let's go ahead and
try to end this as positive as we can.
We have a bunch of live, little spunky babies we want
to pull out, and here we go, here's this little feisty
monkey here. Look at how cute it is.
Oh my gosh, that's one, two, three, oh my gosh I love
little baby Sand Boas, four, five ... look at these guys.
Okay, here we go, six, and here's a little infertile ova
here, too. There's only one of these so far, little
infertile ova. Okay, so far we've got six, we got seven,
eight babies so far, not too bad.
Oh no, another little stillborn, oh no.
Okay, we got nine babies. These all look really good
so far; nine babies, oh, there's something else moving
over here; ten babies, oh there's two more, there's
eleven babies. Eleven babies.
Come on, get in there monkey. Oh look at this,
twelve, thirteen. Thirteen so far, oh my gosh, get in there
sweetheart, stay in there buddy.
Thirteen. Let's see, that might be it. Nope, looky look,
there's another one, there's a fourteenth baby.
Fourteen babies, oh my gosh, fourteen, fourteen!
Looks like that's it guys. Fourteen beautiful babies.
Again, yeah we had a handful of stillborn; the Colombian
Rainbows had some stillborns, but hey, we still got
fourteen live baby Sand Boas.
Oh my gosh, that means she actually had eighteen babies
total and infertile. Nineteen babies, that is a huge
litter for some Kenyan Sand Boas.
Oh my god, these guys are so beaut - I couldn't
be more happy that there's fourteen live babies.
Again, that's part of breeding.
You're not gonna always have 100% perfect litters or
clutches, but in the end, we got fourteen beautiful, live
baby Sand Boas. So this is what I have so far.
I cut this piece right here to kinda go in here.
We'll just have to silicone that in.
I kinda like the big ledged terracing thing over here.
This is actually just cork back here, but I figure if I
kinda attach this piece here and this piece below it,
it's gonna have kinda again a nice rocky, terracing the cork
bark. We'll do some vines and some tree work, and then
lastly, I'm gonna try to put this and actually wrap this
around this whole thing. Ah, we'll see how it goes.
Definitely not going to be easy, but hopefully, it'll
look really good. It looks a little crazy right now, cuz
I have all these braces in here, but this is basically
exactly what I was hoping for.
Kinda of a cool, contoured look like this.
I think it worked out really good.
Basically what I did was I spray foamed behind all that
you can see. All the little spray foam right here, all the
little cracks and crevasses; now it just has to dry,
and then I can go in and kinda fixture out a little more,
but I like it, I think it turned out exactly the way I
was hoping. I think these are turning out really good.
I really like this one here. You can see the great foam
expansion, and what happens is if you can actually push
the great foam, that expansional foam, onto something like
that, it will literally adhere when it dries.
I mean, this will be like a rock, you could not get it
off there, so I'm just getting so excited.
This cage is looking awesome too, definitely making a lot
of progress here. I just can not wait to get animals
back in these things. We should have all of these set
up today, so we are doing really well.
Laurie is over working on the aligator tank.
She is almost done. This side's completely done.
Laurie is still working on this side here.
Just kinda patching up, it's looking so, so good.
With any luck, tomorrow or the next day, we get the sump
pump for the filter for the gator tank, we are on track!
Again, I just want this weekend to kinda have more animals
than last weekend, so we're getting there.
I suppose one of the perks of the job working at BHB is that
you guys get to get picks of what you want.
What happens is that, when we hatch certain things that
Eric and Mary are excited about, they immediately put
this on there. I used to think that that was like put
that, get that on the website real quick, so these guys
are actually taking, what, four snakes today?
- [Eric] Four snakes today
- [Brian] What are you guys getting?
- [Mary] This is a female Banana Pewter. She's my favorite.
- [Eric] Look at that thing!
- [Brian] That thing is beautiful.
- [Eric] Had to have it.
(laughing)
- It's like Coldstone. Gotta have it.
- [Eric] Gotta have it, and you can't just have one.
- [Brian] Okay, so what else ya got?
- [Eric] Dude, this thing here is insane.
- [Brian] Ooh, doggy, that one is a beauty.
- [Eric] It's a Banana Anche. Look at that.
- [Brian] Oh my god, that's a good one. I might have to
keep that one.
- [Eric] Oh yeah, that's why I didn't want to show you.
(laughing)
- [Brian] Put it in the bag, put it in the bag. What else?
- [Eric] Alright, the third one, is this.
I always, my whole life, I remember opening up a book, I had
a normal Ball Python years ago, and I seen a picture of a
Clown Ball Python. Man, I gotta get one of those.
I can finally afford one man, ya know what I mean?
- [Brian] Oh my god, that's awesome. That's the boy?
- [Mary & Eric] Yes
- [Brian] And then you guys got a girl, too, right?
- [Eric] Yes, a little bit more reduced pattern on her.
I don't want you to get too good of a look at it man.
(laughs)
I'm surprised you didn't keep this one back.
- [Brian] I remember as soon as we hatched this one, these
guys are like, "Aw, I want this one!"
OK, so that's a female Clown.
- [Eric] I don't know if you'd consider this like a
Blade Clown, because of the reduced pattern, but
she is a stunner, man, we're so excited to raise
these guys up and work with them.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that's awesome. Well, I'm excited
for them too. I love it that the fact that my crew loves
animals as much as I do. Good for you guys.
I'm glad that you enjoyed it, and I figured you'd want
to know what these guys are taking home, so good job guys!
- [Eric & Mary] Thank You
- [Brian] So we're basically going to end the night at
The Reptarium with a special kind of offering.
It's kind of like a fear of snake handling type of class
that we're doing. Capping it at ten people, so we got
ten people coming tonight. We're just gonna kind of get
acquainted with handling snakes, some people that aren't
quite as comfortable with it, we're gonna try to make
them comfortable. We're gonna have a good time.
But again, keep an eye on the thereptarium.com because
we're having special events all the time, and it's really
a great thing; it's a great opportunity to get here and
just spend a little more one-on-one time; we're gonna have
a good time, and that's the way we're gonna end the day.
As we're getting things ready, we actually had Steve come in
you asked me a rather peculiar question.
What was it?
- [Steve] I asked you if you had another albino person come
in to check out any of your albino animals.
- [Brian] Uh, and the answer is, of course, no, so Steve is
the first albino that I've ever had in The Reptarium, and
you're albino, but you don't have the red eyes.
- [Steve] No, I was lucky enough to develop some
pigmentation in my retinas where it's a really cool gray
blue color, but I'm still super light sensitive. I have to
have special sunglasses to go outside. Light is a big
deal for me.
- [Brian] Wow, that is crazy. I mean to me its like awesome.
I mean, maybe I shouldn't have that reaction, I have no idea
what the proper etiquette is, but I think it's cool, I mean,
it makes you really unique. I mean, the hair is amazing.
- [Steve] I love it; it's fascinating.
- [Brian] So, welcome to The Reptarium, and thank you for
being the first albino.
- [Steve] Absolutely; it's my honor.
- [Brian] So this is the very first snake that you've held?
- [Boy] Yes
- [Brian] So you said you've had a Bearded Dragon, right?
- [Boy] Uh, yeah, I got him on Monday.
- [Brian] Oh, you just got your Bearded Dragon, oh my gosh,
so you're a fresh reptile person, and this is your first
snake. What were your thoughts?
- [Boy] Well, I don't know. I mean I know that Helen's
really friendly, cuz I watch you all the time on Youtube.
This is actually one of the snakes I was hoping to be
able to held.
- [Brian] That's awesome. You're doing a good job.
I'm so happy you got a chance to hold your first snake
here at The Reptarium. Alright, just wrapped up that little
course we spent about an hour, hour and a half or so just
hanging out, getting people that had never handled snakes,
maybe a little tentative about snakes.
I wouldn't say anyone that was here was fearful of snakes,
but there were definitely some people that weren't really
experienced; had never handled the snake, and they just
wanted to know, and that was absolutely amazing.
I love doing these small groups like this, because it's
super, super cool, and everyone that came was so absolutely
amazing, had a blast, so keep an eye on thereptarium.com
if you're interested in something like this, because we're
gonna continue to do this. I don't want to just be open
to the public and that's it. I want to do as many events
like this as I possibly can, so always keep an eye on it.
As for now, I'm going to go ahead and end the VLOG and wish
you guys an absolutely amazing day, evening, whenever you
happened to be watching, and as always I tell you guys
your support means the world to me, and I really, truly,
truly, truly love you guys to death. Can you do me a couple
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Be kind to someone, and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow
Oh, and uh, I might have went a little crazy with the foam.
Oh my god, there's supposed to be no foam showing at all.
Oops, take the expandable foam away from me next time.
(waterfalls)
Been awhile since I walked through The Reptarium just with
the lights out; figured I'd show you guys as always, I do
this every night by myself. The gator tank's finally looking
like a gator tank, these guys all looking done, which is
absolutely amazing. Around the corner, we have these
displays basically done. Oh my god, I love this place so
much. It's like a dream come true guys. Dead serious.
What's up girl? Looks like they're sleeping.
Alright, VLOG's over now.
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