- Look at this.
(toy slaps switch) Oh.
(group laughing)
(funky R&B music)
- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
Did you guys get your Bella plush yet?
Because these things are absolutely adorable.
I truly love these and I'll put
a link down in the description.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I know mine's gonna be incredible
for a whole host of reasons,
but one of the things I am really excited about,
I don't show this girl off nearly enough.
Of course, she is my beautiful emerald tree boa.
Guess what?
A guy named Matt reached out to me
and actually has another female emerald tree boa.
Apparently, it's tame,
although I really doubt I'll be handling it much,
but regardless, he is actually traveling up from,
I believe it's like Mississippi or something like that.
Down South, anyways, and he is actually bringing me
that animal today.
I cannot wait to see it
because eventually it can go
in the cage with this girl here.
Now, the thing with emerald tree boas
is that they do need to be quarantined
for at least a few months,
maybe even up to six months, to be totally honest with you,
because even though these are both captive-born animals,
we gotta make sure that there's no digestive issues.
Emerald tree boas actually suffer
from a regurgitation issue,
so we've gotta be extra cautious,
so when we get it, we're gonna check it out.
It's gonna be awesome,
and then I'll have to set it up
in quarantine for the next, probably, six months.
Regardless, it's gonna be amazing.
And speaking of amazing,
take a look at how big Toothless is getting.
Woo, doggie.
He is just absolutely exploding in size.
Remember when he was just so tiny
and I had to assist-feed him because he wouldn't even eat?
Now look at this chunky monkey right here.
Oh my God.
I just had to show you guys this animal
'cause it's getting so big.
And you know, we have a bunch of really good stuff coming up
this next few days, so.
We're actually traveling down to visit my buddy Forrest,
see what kind of Monitor lizards
just like Toothless that he has.
A bunch of his other cool animals.
Not to mention, we're actually picking up some snakes.
Cannot wait to share with you guys
what we're picking up.
Oh my God, I tell you what.
Toothless is absolutely breathtaking.
You know, it's been kind of an Internet sensation lately
that when you throw Vans up
in the air they always land on the heel.
Well, guess what?
Same thing happens with the Bella plushie.
(toy clicks)
(gentle music)
Let's try it again.
See!
The new Internet sensation.
My company is here.
Matt is here with his family.
You drove 1,100 miles.
- Yep. - Oh my God,
you guys are awesome.
And then like I'd mentioned, he actually brought me a gift,
which I'm pretty excited about.
You know, this was one of my dream snakes when I was young.
Of course, I showed you I own an emerald tree boa now,
but when I was younger,
I was absolutely in love with Emerald Tree Boas,
so I'm super excited.
Let's go ahead and take a look at this little monkey, right?
See what we got.
Look at her.
Oh my gosh.
She is so pretty.
Oh my gosh. - Very tame.
- And this one's tame,
you said, huh? - Very tame.
Very tame. - Oh my gosh, wow.
Look at how pretty she is.
She definitely is a beautiful, beautiful snake.
And Emerald Tree Boas, again,
are really not so much a handling snake.
This one seems to be super docile,
but typically you don't handle them all that much
just because they're not really meant to be handled.
You know, they basically sit on a tree just like this
and that's what it is.
So, like I had mentioned, she is absolutely gorgeous.
Thank you so much for this. - No problem.
- This is awesome.
I had mentioned I'm gonna put her in a quarantine thing,
to be honest with you,
probably about six months we'll quarantine her
before she would end up back here at The Reptarium.
But I think having two in the display
will be pretty awesome,
and I couldn't be more excited about it.
And the thing that's neat about Emerald Tree Boas
is that every one is really different.
Some have super high white.
Some have a little bit of white.
You can see this one has quite a bit of yellow
in the sides and over here on the tail.
But definitely a very beautiful snake.
And they all have that really big beefy head,
and that's why you don't want to get bit by those guys.
It's because they have huge, huge teeth.
This one is definitely very receptive.
Seems to be really keyed in on heat
and everything else right now,
so that's a really good sign, so.
I'm gonna go ahead and show these guys
around The Reptarium and BHB.
And then I will get this girl set up,
and like I said, we'll kind of keep monitoring her,
and I'll keep you guys posted over the next six months,
and hopefully, maybe by the end of summer or so,
she'll be here at The Reptarium.
Hey Lori, guess what?
- What? - Have you ever heard
of the Vans thing with Van shoes
that if you throw a Vans shoe up in the air,
it always lands on its sole?
- No. - It's true.
Well, check this out.
(toy clicks against floor)
Go ahead, pick it up and throw it down.
Toss it.
- This is what you're doing?
You're just up front,
like throwing-- - Pick it up and throw it.
- I'm gonna throw it at you.
- [Brian] Pick it up and throw it.
- I have work I have to do. - This is amazing.
- Number one, you shouldn't be throwing them.
- [Brian] Okay, just toss it.
It'll be fun.
(toy clicks against floor)
(laughing)
Isn't that awesome?
- Oh, my God, would you just go work?
- You know what I was thinking would be kind of funny?
Of course, I have all these amazing ambassador animals,
like my girl Bella here, but you know,
animals don't really have a voice.
So, I was thinking maybe I would go 'round today
and just take a few of my animals, starting with Bella here,
and see if I could maybe find some funny clips
of what I think they would be saying if they could talk.
What do you think, Bella?
Do you wanna give that a shot?
What would you say if you could talk?
- I'm not interested in your little ideas.
I'm interested in something much larger.
- Well, honestly, I'm not 100% sure.
Like I said, I'll go around, do it to a couple of animals.
Go 'head and do me a favor.
Go down in the comments.
Tell me what animals you'd like me
to feature in something like this
if you want to do something fun,
and then tell me what clip
that you think they would be saying.
So, go 'head, pick an animal
and then pick a clip, and I'll try to highlight that.
It may be in the next few days.
I just think it'll be really fun.
So, here's the deal.
Even though this is an absolutely gorgeous animal,
we do see that it has a couple of blisters on it
that probably is just a little bit high humidity,
which is completely fine because we can get
the right humidity, probably is gonna shed off really good.
I like the fact that it's really responsive,
but what I'm gonna do is keep this
kind of like how my buddy Forrest keeps his emeralds
and green tree pythons,
or at least when he keeps them in tubs.
I'm gonna actually remove the towel from this
and just keep it bare-bottomed
so I can really disinfect it almost every single day.
So, we'll go ahead.
We'll keep some branches in here.
Make sure it has heat spot.
We'll make sure that the humidity is up enough
to where it has the right humidity,
but don't we want it to be too humid, because, again,
you can see on its head and on its back,
it just has a little bit of blistering and stuff like that.
And again, I think that within one shed,
it'll totally be fine.
It's supposedly eating really good,
but we'll keep the meals pretty small
to make sure that it doesn't have any regurgitation problems
because, again, that's what really happens
with emerald tree boas.
Because we don't know the origin of this animal,
I don't know 100% where it came from,
who bred it, if it is captive-bred.
We think that it's probably captive-bred,
but we don't know for sure,
so I'm not gonna assume anything.
The last thing I want to do
is put an animal like this
in with the one that I have that I know is captive
and potentially kill that.
So, again, what we're gonna do
is we're gonna keep this down here in the dungeon
kinda isolated from everything else
for probably six months in all honesty.
At least four months, at least four months.
If there's no problems after four months,
I can maybe start to make a decision.
In the meantime, we're just gonna go ahead
and leave it alone.
Again, I'll take the towel out,
disinfect this cage, and kind of just leave it alone.
Probably in four or five days we'll try to feed it,
and then we can start to catalog everything
that we're seeing.
How does its stools look?
How is it eating, how is it moving?
Is it drinking?
All of those other things.
Regardless, I'm super happy because I love emerald tree boas
and I'm excited to have another one,
and we have our work cut out for us to make sure
that it will eventually get over to The Reptarium,
but nevertheless, this animal is gorgeous.
And speaking of gorgeous,
this is actually a Lori leopard ball python,
and it's being bred to a super Lori backed up
with just a normal Lori male.
Regardless, she is at 30 millimeter follicles right now.
So, it looks like we are gonna get a clutch from this girl.
If the super Lori is the father,
we're gonna have half the babies
are gonna be super Loris,
and have the babies will be Loris, essentially.
But on average, one in three
are gonna be super Lori leopards.
No idea what that's gonna look like,
but it is so cool that she's getting closer
and closer to ovulation.
And we have a bunch of ball pythons
that are getting that 30, 35 millimeter mark,
which means that probably within the next week and a half,
two weeks, we'll start to see some ovulations.
Then what you have is about 50 days from there,
you'll have eggs, and then, of course,
two months from there, you'll have babies.
So, oh my God, I am so excited for babies this season.
What do you say we try Luci, of course, short of Lucifer?
What would she have to say
if she could tell me anything she wants to?
- Why didn't you just go home?
That's your home!
Are you too good for your home?
Answer me!
- You know, I'm not really sure why,
but when I think of tortoises,
I'm always thinking of kind of a derpy type of thing,
maybe not that intelligent.
I shouldn't feel that way
because I'm sure they're very intelligent.
They've been around forever
and they certainly are unbelievably cool animals.
And, of course, Savvy here is always cruising around BHB.
As a matter of fact,
I have something else I'll be sharing
with you guys pretty soon.
There's a chance that Savvy may be actually going
to live with Jessica and Bruce,
and we might be bringing Speedy over here
because we might be getting another tortoise.
I can't say much about it,
but that will be in the next week or so.
I'm pretty excited.
I cannot wait to share it with you guys.
Regardless, Savvy,
what would you say if you could say anything to me you want?
(high-pitched vocalizing)
(speaks gibberish)
Okay, guys, I'm gonna leave it at that
when it comes to animal voices,
but I do want to know from you guys
what animals you'd like me to do in the future
or you think it's just silly and I shouldn't do it anymore.
Again, if you think it's cool,
tell me the animal, tell me what clip,
and I'll try to find it and insert it into a vlog coming up.
Maybe I'll do an entire vlog.
Regardless, there are so many exciting things happening
here at BHB.
Obviously, colubrids are out of hibernation,
so we're gonna be feeding them.
Like I said, I'm heading down to Forrest,
gonna be picking up some animals.
I cannot wait to share with that.
I just kinda spilled the beans
about a tortoise that I'm working on.
I tell you what, things are so absolutely incredible.
By the way, we are getting close to launch the closed beta
when it comes to our reptile game,
and I am gonna tell you,
it's gonna be called Reptile Tycoon.
So, stay tuned for that.
I'm gonna need at least several hundred people
to be playing the closed beta
so that you can give us your feedback
of what we should add, what isn't working,
what we need to kinda do better,
and then we'll go to open beta,
and then, eventually, I'll launch the game.
So, what I think I'm gonna do
is actually put an email link in the description.
You guys go ahead and sign up for that email
if you want to be a part of the closed beta
and play my reptile breeding game,
and then we can kind of have fun together.
More on that in the next few days.
Let me just take a quick break about something.
Truth is, guys,
I see the stuff that happens on the inter-webs,
but I just prefer to kind of stay away
from the drama things, you know?
It's interesting because
that spider ball python video I did,
that was just kind of an emotional response to it.
And truth be told,
if I go back and think of some of the things I've said,
I'd probably change some of my opinions.
I mean, there's no doubt that all the people
that have made a wave of videos
that basically are using my name
to kind of attract attention,
and maybe rightfully so to an interesting topic,
I think that it does deserve some more conversation,
and I'm willing to listen.
I mean, there is no doubt that maybe I was emotional.
I kind of spewed a lot of my emotion into it.
That being said, I think a lot of the counterarguments
are really not all that great.
Some of them are, I don't want to get that wrong.
I just want to tell you that
a lot of them are based in lack of education.
I've talked a lot about this.
If you don't like the spider gene,
well, then, you better not like the woma gene.
You better not like the hidden gene woma,
and again, if you breed certain things together
like lesser to lesser or pied to lesser
or cinnamon to cinnamon, black pastel to black pastel,
and the list goes on and on.
There's a lot of things that go wrong with these animals,
and it seems like people are picking
on just the spider gene.
And that's okay.
If we wanna continue your conversation,
I think that's absolutely amazing.
With that being said,
it's kind of weird that so many people
have used my name in the title
like I'm the only one that ever breeds spiders
or works with spider ball pythons.
The truth is, guy, I didn't make the spider ball python.
I haven't really made money
on spider ball pythons in forever.
They're not like a very expensive animal.
I mean, I sell them for like 85 or $90.
It's not like I'm paying my bills
with selling spider ball pythons.
Certainly, my emotions behind it
is because of my love of the animals,
not because of the money beside it,
because I don't really make much money
on breeding snakes these days.
You guys may know that.
Some people may not even believe me,
but the truth is, BHB is kind of a hobby for me.
It's probably the least thing
that I do that actually makes money.
So, I don't have like a financial gain
by having spider ball pythons in my collection.
I just think they're really cool.
That being said, I'm open for conversation.
I just wanted to express to you guys,
because so many people have asked
are you gonna respond to it?
The truth is, I don't respond to that kind of drama.
The majority of those videos,
especially the ones that are using my name in the title,
are doing it just to create clicks for theirselves.
They may have some very valid points about the spider gene,
and I will be happy to listen to them,
but they don't have to kind of exploit
kind of going against me to do it
That's kind of what happens.
In a way, I should probably be kind of honored by it, right?
Because they think that my name
is gonna gain them attention,
and the more attention they gain,
the more people are gonna wanna jump on the bandwagon
to continue to gain attention.
That's why you've seen this outpouring of videos
that have my name in the title.
And by the way, just for the record,
it's a violation of the terms of service
to YouTube to use my name in the video.
I could actually strike down all of those videos
without a problem within 24 hours.
Every video with my name in it could be taken down.
I'm not gonna do that because why should I?
Let them have their attention.
Let them have their fame for the minute,
and you can guys can decide
who is the genuine person or not.
But the fact is is that as you get more popular,
more people are gonna gun for you.
Right now, I get gunned for all the time
about all kinds of stuff,
and it doesn't really bother me anymore
because I know who I am.
You guys know who I am.
If people say that I don't love the animals
or I'm doing it just for the fame or the money,
then they don't know who I am
and it's a problem with them, not a problem with me.
I'm not gonna talk about this anymore,
because, again, I don't like to dwell on negatives.
I like to dwell on the positive,
and there are so many amazing things happening.
But I did want to address it just
so you guys know where I stand on it.
I don't know how many times I've said it.
I love this monkey-tail stinker Solomon Island skink here.
You can see the one way back in the corner over there.
They're so predictable.
I mean, they hide through the day.
About six or seven o'clock at night,
they always come down and they're always hiding
right underneath those leaves.
Look it, there's one underneath there right now.
Look at that li'l cute li'l monkey right there.
But the thing that I love about it is,
really, you don't see 'em a whole lot,
but I just love the cage because I know they're so happy.
They can climb and they can hide.
They've got all kinds of different options
with different temperatures, different,
you know, darkness and lightness
and all kinds of stuff like that.
I think it's amazing.
Now, what's interesting is that they come down every night,
again, around six or seven o'clock,
and they crush a bowl of food every single day.
Today is the first time when I've come
there's still food left, even though they ate about half it.
And I tell you why, okay?
We actually got pothos.
See this plant right here?
That's a live pothos plant.
Now, we got that from a nursery
that doesn't use any pesticides,
no chemicals as far as growth and stuff like that.
And they love eating the pothos.
I mean, look it, the entire plant is basically eaten.
There's just a couple leaves left.
As a matter of fact,
Bruce told me last night he came over here
and he saw one chomping down on the leaves.
I am so happy.
I don't know why I get so excited about that.
I just think it's cool because, again,
it's like such a naturalistic thing.
I love these guys, so,
even though we may not see them too often,
they still are absolutely incredible.
- Look at this.
(toy slaps switch) Oh.
(group laughing)
- [Man With Lanyard] Oh my God.
(door slams)
- Ow!
Ow!
(group laughing)
We actually were open today at The Reptarium.
It was a really good day,
but I didn't want to bore you guys.
I'm always thinking I don't want
to do the same thing over and over again,
and some of you guys are like, I like seeing The Reptarium.
Other ones are like, I fast-forward through it.
So, I just decided we're kinda glaze over it,
but nevertheless, we're just getting
to the end of the night.
There's maybe like 15, 20 people in,
so it's kind of chilling out.
Earlier was really awesome and really busy,
so we had a good time.
Regardless, I am gonna bounce,
shut down the vlog, here.
Gonna go check on BHB really quick,
and then we are gonna get out of here
in the next, maybe, half hour.
Like I said, just coming and checking out BHB.
I am so excited that we're gonna start feeding these guys
within the next couple of days.
I missed this one in particular.
Of course, this is my leucistic scaleless Texas rat snake.
It's just such a goofy-looking animal,
and I hope we produce a bunch more of these this year
because I think they're just really, really wild.
I mean, so bizarre-looking.
But nevertheless, you know,
things are definitely looking like
they're ready to get going.
And like I mentioned,
we're definitely gonna be feeding these guys
a lot over the next few months.
Start breeding in about a week, week and a half,
and it won't be long before we get eggs, so,
it's gonna be a really fun time.
But nevertheless,
good to see some of these beautiful animals again.
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