- [Brian] Oh, there it is.
- They might be slugs which-- - Oh no!
- That's kind of, you know,
it happens first time of the year.
- Maybe we'll make new type of these jags,
oh what the (airhorn blaring) am I even talking about?
(all laughing)
- Just walk away.
No, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
(whooshing)
("Midnight Breaks 2" by Da Tooby)
- Hey, good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog,
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
You can see that we have Toothless's old cage here,
and Night Fury's old cage here,
but what I'm gonna be doing
is actually moving the D'Albert's Python
into Night Fury's old cage.
I think it's gonna be a lot better.
I know some people have said
they think it's too small of a cage,
the truth is if he climbs a lot that's part of it.
An exhibit doesn't have to always just be on the ground
it can also be vertical.
And that's how a lot of these animals live is vertically,
not so much horizontally.
With that being said, I hear you
and I say that's no problem, I completely agree.
We can move him up, I think that's a really good idea.
So the D'Albert's Python is gonna go in here
and today we are supposed to be getting the animals
that are gonna go in Toothless' cage.
But unfortunately they are supposed to be here already,
and the shipment is delayed.
I'm freakin' out a little bit,
because now I know how people feel
when you get something shipped in and it's not here.
With any luck, within the next hour or so it'll show up,
I cannot wait to share it with you guys.
Eric and Mary actually wanted to get rid of a couple animals
because you guys are getting some new cages,
- Yep, some new cages, those big snake cages,
just think before you get a big snake or big retics,
Berms, whatever, really expensive.
Hate to do it but we're gonna sell this guy,
but at least selling it to you I know it's in good hands.
- [Brian] Well you guys are gonna see it more here than--
- We'll see it, yeah than probably at home, so.
- Oh my gosh,
this thing is ridiculous, man! - Pretty cool, huh?
- [Noah] Yeah I like the greens on it
it's really cool. - Holy moly!
- [Eric] Yeah, as you can tell,
I'm sure you've already showed off Jessica's Chahoua Gecko,
they really, it's the same-- - He fires up really dark.
- The same locality but you can tell
there's a lot of variants, the color and pattern on him, so.
- That is crazy.
So of course this is a Chahoua Gecko, which is, again,
you've got basically your Crested geckos, your Chahoua
geckos, your Gargoyle geckos and your Leachianus.
So, these are the ones
that we've been talking about getting into.
And the one that Jessica has over here is actually a female,
this is a male so they'll be really good together.
- Here we go.
- The male looks like he's big enough to breed.
- Yes.
- The female is a little bit small,
so probably next year we'll get a chance to breed these guys
but now, - Yeah he's definitely
ready to breed, he's about 50 grams,
which is about, they say, full size
for a male Mainland Chahoua.
- [Noah] Look at those 'nads on him, too.
- Yeah, oh no. - Definitely ready to breed.
- He's got a big set on him.
- He's ready to breed. - Tell you what.
- [Brian] Guys, that's so--
(laughing)
- [Brian] This this is beautiful, man, oh my gosh.
- We'll miss him, but we know he's in good hands.
At least, you guys can breed him.
- [Brian] You also brought me one other thing.
- Yes, pretty sweet, little bit of an impulse buy.
I figured you'd like it.
Just, again, we got to get some big snake cages.
PVC's expensive, it's just plastic.
Let's grab it, let's grab it.
- And then, this is the other little monkey
that they brought in.
- [Noah] Dude, bam.
- [Brian] An Albino Carpet Python.
Really beautiful.
- Looks a lot different than the one we have.
It's a lot lighter up here.
- No, I know, I don't know if they get more pattern
as they get bigger up on the neck like that.
- The one that we have over at the Reptarium
is a pure Darwin, so it has the most contrast
out of all of them. - Okay.
- This one is probably integrated.
The majority of them are integrated.
This is a boy or girl?
- It's a male.
- It's a boy, too.
Okay, so we actually have two boys,
which are completely fine. - Oh.
- Because we have a couple female Darwins
that are het for Albino that we can breed stuff to.
So, it's completely cool.
Definitely a very beautiful snake, so.
So there it is.
A couple new additions to the BHB family
from the BHB family.
So it's about 11 o'clock now,
the shipment should have been here about 10:30, it's not.
We went online, entered in the tracking number,
said that it's supposed to be delivered today.
But obviously it's delayed
'cause it was supposed to be here by 10:30.
I'm gonna continue to track it and maybe have to call FedEx
and just find out kinda what the update is.
It's bum, because I was so excited.
I mean, I could hardly sleep last night
waiting for these animals.
So, hopefully they'll be here pretty soon.
The good news is, the weather is pretty good.
So, I'm not that terribly concerned, but
fingers crossed, they'll be any time.
I am pretty excited, guys, 'cause guess what.
For the very first time ever,
I have someone that came from New Zealand to visit us.
Welcome, guys, you are absolutely amazing.
It's crazy, right.
And what part of New Zealand
are you guys from? - I just wanted--
- We're from Wellington. - From Wellington.
- Which is in the capitol city.
- Exactly. - So the bottom
of the North Island.
- And they brought us some amazing gifts
that were incredible.
This actual beautiful art piece of a tuatara.
How great is that?
Of course, we got our Reptiles and Amphibians
of New Zealand and whole bunch of treats
that we'll be trying over on Noah's channel.
And Lori's gonna love the New Zealand chocolate, huh?
- [Boy] Are you nearly done?
- Of course, I am.
(laughing)
- [Brian] Feeding Matilda?
- Yep. - That's awesome.
But we're gonna have a good time, guys.
I'm so excited to have these guys in.
But I do have to ask you guys, because obviously
there are zero snakes in New Zealand.
Not even in zoos, right?
So, have you guys ever held a snake?
- [Mom And Dad] No.
- You've never held a snake?
You guys have never held a snake?
All right, well we're gonna start small.
We're gonna start with Honey, they Piebald Ball Python.
Ready?
- He said he's gonna go first.
- [Dad] I'll go first.
- [Boy] I wanna hold her.
- [Brian] And there's your first snake, what do you think?
- Very rubbery.
- [Brian] Very rubbery.
(laughing)
It's not what you expect, right?
- No.
- [Boy] I don't want anyone to get a Ball Python.
- Oh wow.
- Might as well keep the theme going.
Of course, there are no tarantulas in New Zealand, either.
This is actually Zombie, the Rose-Haired Tarantula.
Look at that, see isn't it amazing?
- Well.
- Isn't that cool?
Oh my gosh.
We've been chatting about Tuataras and the Giant Wetas
that look like huge crickets.
I gotta get to New Zealand.
Now these guys got me all fired up about going.
I'm gonna go to Australia in September,
I think I'm gonna definitely pop over to New Zealand.
On that trip to see some of their amazing animals.
I mean, they definitely have
some of the most amazing animals on the planet.
Been a while since we fed Bella a banana.
So, we're gonna give her the target.
Come on, girl, come on down.
Target, come on.
Come on.
That's a girl.
All right, target. - Now I do it?
- [Brian And Mom] Now, you can feed her the banana.
- [Mom] Come on, whoo.
- [Brian] There you go, Bells.
It's been a while since you had a banana.
- Look at you.
- [Brian] Aw, she's so happy.
- I think she's really, really, really hungry.
(laughs)
- [Brian] She loves bananas.
That's her favorite food. - Yes, she does.
- But we only give her bananas once in a while.
- I'll put one in there, darling,
because I don't want to get my fingers bit.
Here you go, good girl.
- There you go, sweetheart.
So as you can see,
she's definitely got the target training down.
She knows that blue ball means food or attention.
Surprised Noah with some shoes.
- Oh yeah?
- Let's see if he'll like them, yeah.
Well, I buy them for me, but Noah takes any cool ones.
So if I'm wearing them, that means Noah didn't like them.
- That's not true.
That's not always true.
- It's not always true, but sometimes true.
So hopefully he'll like them.
- Like these one.
Like I stole but you got my Prestos.
- Oh yeah, Air Prestos.
- But they fit my foot so perfect.
- Oh yeah, exactly, all right.
- So okay, they're some adidas.
- [Brian] Adidas.
- They're the adidas.
Oh there's some.
I actually don't.
- [Brian] Oh, Bathing Ape, Neighborhood.
- I'm not gonna lie, guys.
I've been working a lot and
I don't even know any new shoes
that have been coming out, so.
Oh these are sweet, I actually, wait.
I don't know if I've even seen these before.
- [Brian] What do you think, man?
- [Noah] I think they're dope.
- [Brian] I know, they're icy, right?
You got two sides.
- [Noah] You got black filling the white.
Let's pull out the other one real quick.
Ooh.
That's that swagger.
- [Brian] Right.
Hey Lori.
- She's gonna hate them.
- [Brian] Lori, we got some new shoes, Lori.
- Mom's gonna hate these.
- Jeez.
(laughing)
Who comes up with these?
Seriously.
It's a Bape and Neighborhood.
- The worst designs ever.
- [Brian] No these are awesome.
- These are pretty cool.
They got a shark. - You know what,
I actually need to start a shoe line.
- They got a shark. - Of ones that aren't hideous.
- [Brian] I know, that's got the Neighborhood shark thing.
- Little shark. - Yeah, nice.
- Look at that. - All right.
- It's gonna get you.
- I'd rather not.
- Rather not what? - I'd rather not look at them.
- Let me know in the comments,
if you guys like our new shoes.
Or if you're with Lori and hate them.
- They were made in China. (laughs)
- Yeah, go figure.
Go figure.
Let me know if you guys like them.
And the egg season continues on.
Jessica, what do we have today?
- Well, we've got some Gargoyle eggs.
Our first planned breeding of this year.
- That's right, because we did get some eggs
over at the Reptarium that we didn't know.
But this is the male here.
- [Jessica] Yep, this is our boy.
- [Brian] Oh my God, he's so pretty.
- [Jessica] And then we've got Wednesday
and Bloody Mary here for his females.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, they look fantastic.
And let's see what did.
- I'm pretty sure she laid.
She's still looks like she's full.
- [Brian] Yeah, she does, yeah, it looks like she is.
But still, they look really good.
You can see just like with the Leopard geckos,
they excavate, push it all into the corner.
So let's see what we got here.
- [Jessica] I'm pretty sure it's right in the corner there.
- [Brian] All right, here we go.
- [Jessica] Here we are.
- [Brian] Aw, there it is.
- [Jessica] They might be slugs.
- [Brian] Oh no.
- Which, it's kind of you know,
that happens first time of the year.
- It doesn't look like those eggs are gonna be any good.
But that's okay, because like Jessica said,
a lot of times, first clutches are infertile
and then the next clutches get going, so.
- I am still gonna set them up,
because occasionally you'll have a weird thing that happens
where it's time-delayed for some reason.
And the embryo will start growing sometimes.
- There you go, not exactly the best results from eggs,
but still eggs, and we're gonna have a lot more.
These guys are absolutely stunning.
Everyone that follows Noah's channel, by the way,
link in the description, will know that he's been
putting a lot of energy into Argumus Prime.
Been doing not only the target training,
but also trying to tame it out as best he can.
He's on a mission to make Argumus his pet, right?
- I'm working on it.
I'm working on it, you know, I don't really know
if it's possible. - It's possible.
- Imma do it, Imma do it.
- It's absolutely possible, I'm sure.
So let's go ahead and see what you're gonna do today.
- All right, so I've got a couple pieces of raw chicken here
obviously once he touches the ball,
you give him the chicken.
He's super excited today, I can tell.
(sighs)
All right.
So, I'm just gonna show him the ball.
He already, ooh a little flip.
He already chases the ball.
There we go.
- [Brian] Whoa.
(nails clattering)
- [Noah] He touched that.
And you get a little chicken.
Let's see if he'll come down a little bit further.
Come here, bud.
Touch the ball, you just gotta touch it, come on.
- [Brian] He's looking at the snake.
- [Noah] He's like, Ricky, Ricky.
- [Brian] He's all mesmerized by Ricky.
- [Noah] Come on bud, you touch the ball, you get the food.
Whoa, there we go, man.
I'm telling you, it's so crazy how fast he learns.
I've only done this five-ish times,
maybe a couple more and he's just goes after the ball
until he gets the food, it's crazy.
Come on.
He's literally making eye contact with Ricky right now.
- Oh my gosh, he's like, yeah.
I don't know what he's thinking.
He's just like mesmerized by Ricky.
I mean, he's just like-- - Yeah.
- Mesmerized by Ricky.
He's not even thinking about food right now.
He's like what is going on with that?
That's crazy. - Hey, Argumus.
- [Brian] There he goes, now you got him attached to it.
- [Noah] Over here.
- [Brian] No, he still wants to see Ricky.
How crazy is that?
(laughing)
- It is really weird.
- [Brian] He's like mesmerized by him.
- It's not like he's puffing up or anything.
He's just looking.
- [Brian] I mean he's just really interested in him.
- [Noah] Yeah.
- That's crazy.
And of course, what we're trying to do with that ball
is the fact that, because Argumus Prime is so food driven,
if he knows that the only time he's gonna get fed
is when he goes after that ball, just like that.
Then, when we go in after him,
he's not going to think it's food
if he doesn't see the blue ball.
So that's just another kind of enrichment thing
that we're doing and also teaching him
that the ball equals food and that way Noah
will have a better time of Argumus actually taming out
because if he doesn't see that ball.
As soon as Noah hides that ball
he knows there's no more food coming.
It's just kind of a stimulus-response type situation.
So, we'll try another piece of food
and then we'll get Argumus back in his cage
and that will be a great training session.
- [Noah] He's so interested in the rest.
Here we go.
Come on.
You got to get it, you got to touch it.
There we go.
Ooh.
(nails clattering)
(laughs)
Okay, we might have to put him back in
with our hands but that's fine.
- All right, so as you can see,
it's starting to really come together,
but go ahead. - All right.
- And Noah's just gonna, again.
Get him kinda slightly back in his cage.
- Usually, yeah.
Well, I didn't even have to touch him this time.
There we go.
- That's awesome.
So there it is.
I think the training thing is running good.
We know that Elvis is doing well with it.
Bella's doing well with it.
So, I think we're gonna get Argumus to the point
where he can be handled at some point.
I sure hope so.
- I hope so, too.
- Just got off the phone with FedEx.
Unfortunately, I'm completely bummed out,
but the package actually is stuck in California, right now.
Turns out it wasn't gonna get delivered today.
It was some kind of equipment malfunction
and the animals are actually in LA
which is definitely something that concerns me.
With that being said, you get it from a known shipper
like my buddy, Jeff,
they're a guy I'm getting these animals from.
We know how to pack things.
As a matter of fact, I was going to show you what we use.
We actually use this called Cryopak.
Really bizarre.
I don't even understand the technology behind this
but basically what happens is,
it stay about 78 degrees.
And basically, if it's hot, it cools down.
If it's cold, it heats up.
Really weird.
So, we actually in the winter time, ship with a Cryopak
and a heat pack and it really regulates the temperatures.
That way if we're shipping from a cold weather climate,
like Michigan, and let's say it's going to California
where it's warm weather, it'll actually do the opposite
so the box doesn't heat up
because that's the biggest problem.
We're shipping in colder weather.
Although today is actually not that bad
and even tomorrow's not gonna be that bad.
So I'm not terribly concerned.
It's not ideal.
I don't want any animal to have to spend
an extra day in a box, it's not a good thing,
but what am I gonna do?
I am very confident that they're gonna end up
showing up tomorrow and be really good.
And I'm just bummed out because all day
all I wanted to do was share with you guys
these new animals that came in
and be so excited about it.
I was so ready for them.
But we're gonna have to wait till tomorrow guys.
So, I promise as soon as they get in,
I will unbox them, I will open them.
Make sure they're healthy, happy, get them in their cage.
Get them destressed as quickly as I possibly can.
Because again, it is an extra day of transit
which is a bummer.
But again, with the thousands of packages
we ship out a year, it happens to us too.
And typically when you pack right
with Cryopaks, heat packs, of course, insulated boxes,
all that type of stuff, the animals can really go
days without it, I mean.
I've even has couple of times,
I hate to even share the fact that
snakes have gotten lost in transit with FedEx
where it takes three or four days
and they still arrive alive.
So, I don't want that to happen, it stinks.
99.999% of the time when you ship an animal
it arrives 10 hours after you ship it.
This is what happens when it doesn't.
I'm bringing you guys along on the journey.
So, fingers crossed tomorrow
we're gonna be able to share some really cool animals.
Really quick update, guys, before I get out of here, guys.
Remember I wanted to do that panel, or town hall,
sort to speak, about rack systems
and maybe some alternatives coming together.
We definitely have Kevin McCurley from NERD
Miguel, myself, kind of on the commercial side of things.
I've actually talked to Emily from Snake Discovery.
She said she would come and be part of it
and talk about how she likes the more enrichment side.
And how we can kinda bridge that gap
between the ways of thinking.
I need a couple more people.
I'm thinking about maybe reaching out to Tyler Rugge
and maybe Taylor and Nicole Dean.
I'm not 100% sure.
Let me know in the comments who else should be here.
I also wanna have a moderator.
Someone that can actually keep the whole thing on track,
as well as the fact, that maybe we can have a live stream
where you guys are asking questions,
that moderator can be asking
us questions that you're asking.
And the last thing I want to know your opinion on is,
should I have this in a venue
where maybe some people can come and attend?
And they're attending
and they can actually ask questions as well.
And I wanna do this stream.
Maybe it might be an hour and half or two hour stream.
A conversation between people that are very passionate
about animals in general.
And so that we can maybe start to bridge that gap.
Again, between commercial breeding
and people that keep animals.
Because if we can set a standard
and hey, I'm willing to kinda lead that way, you know.
I'm not gonna sit here and tell you that I can't change.
If it's better for the animals and we can find a way,
we can do it, make the animals happy
without increasing the cost of people
that are buying reptiles as pets,
I am all for it.
So, I think this is a really good way
to start the conversation and who knows,
maybe we can set a new standard of commercial breeding
as well as keeping animals.
So, let me know what you guys think.
As for now, I'm shutting down the vlog.
Gonna wish you a good day.
Tell you I love you guys so much.
Make sure you're kind to someone
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
("Midnight Breaks 2" by Da Tooby)