- There's certainly no better way to start the day
than having a box like this
because that's a box of snakes
but do you know what is better, actually?
Having two boxes of snakes to unbox.
What do you say we unbox these things?
Oh, and by the way, welcome to the vlog,
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
You guys know that I'm always looking
for very unusual snakes,
so my buddy, Warren Klein,
from Bushveld Reptiles reached out to me.
We did a little bit of a trade.
He likes the vori ball project,
I liked a couple of the things he has.
By the way, I'm getting a couple more things from him
that are gonna be cool,
including the other box that we'll unbox later on today,
but nevertheless, I'm excited about this.
I have never seen these in person ever
and I think maybe these are the only ones in the country,
I don't know.
Like I said, never seen them before
so I am excited to actually see them
for the very first time.
There is a pair in here and let's see.
Hoo!
Hoo, wow!
I tell ya, these things are so wild-looking.
Look at that snake right there.
Hoo, I tell you what.
This is actually what they call a mole snake.
That's right, and this is the female right here
that has a nice reddish kind of rust color right here.
Absolutely incredible.
Believe it or not, these guys can get up to
six to seven feet in length.
That's right, six to seven foot.
This is crazy!
And they have live young.
This female right here, if she gets full-grown,
could have up to 50 live babies
and there's been records of up to 95 babies born.
Is that crazy?
It's almost like, if you think about in a little bit of way,
it's almost like a garter snake of South Africa,
which is really bizarre, but again, really cool snakes.
I have never seen them before and I am blown away
and they can be pretty dimorphic when it comes to color.
So I think the male looks quite different,
which is gonna be really cool to see.
Look at that little pointed nose right there.
And again, they call these guys mole snakes,
'cause they obviously eat rodents like moles,
but you know what else is really crazy?
Believe it or not, you know what one of the predators are
what eats them often is the honey badger.
That's right, honey badger don't care,
he's gonna eat a mole snake, that's right.
So that's pretty interesting.
So this is the girl here,
she is absolutely fantastic.
Gonna get her back in here.
And I think these are gonna be really cool display animals
after quarantine here at the reptarium,
'cause they're just so unusual.
Again, kind of like an indigoish type of snake,
really cool animals.
Haven't seen 'em at all,
so I think they're gonna be really cool
and they're pretty active.
They're diurnal, which means they move around
during the daytime,
so when people are here at the reptarium,
they're getting an opportunity to really see these things
move around and take them out.
Hoo dog it!
I tell you what, let's see this boy.
Oh my gosh!
Wow!
This thing is a ripper!
Oh my God, I thought the female was beautiful.
Look at this male right here.
Oh my gosh.
And look at how long that tail is compared to the female.
Holy moly.
With these dark colors; kind of grays,
a little bit of yellow coming through.
His face has got some white on it.
My goodness gracious, this thing is cool.
This is so much cooler than I even expected it to be.
And again, in the wild, these guys can be pretty ferocious.
I mean, they're not venomous
so you don't have to worry about that
but they do pack quite the punch when it comes to a bite.
But thankfully, Warren really made these docile
and he did a wonderful job and I am so grateful
that he was willing to let me take these guys on
and show people.
This animal, the male in particular,
is a lot more chilled than the female
and he's gonna be an absolute great animal ambassador here.
Now, hey, listen, they're mole snakes.
This guy is dark, the other one's a reddish one.
I need some names.
Down in the description,
what should I name these guys?
'Cause these are definitely gonna be animal ambassadors
and you're gonna see him here at the reptarium quite a bit.
I tell you what, I am beyond excited about this one
and we still have another box to unpack.
- Well, I have some exciting news for some people
who have been bugging for a while.
I finally had time to package up
some of the jewelry that we made.
So I spent some time yesterday and while the crew
has spent a long time making it,
I just had to figure the packaging.
So we've got all kinds of different necklaces;
there's key chains,
they all have who the animal is labeled on it.
So I think these are kind of fun,
I think people are really gonna like it.
People like the sheds a lot,
but this is actually a piece of jewelry and, or a key chain.
I think I have a couple of bracelets too
where you could wear your favorite
reptarium animal ambassador.
So these should be available this weekend
at the gift shop and possibly online,
I just gotta figure that way out.
But yeah, finally another thing
checked off of my list of things to do.
- So this is Khalifa, our resident mangrove snake
here at the reptarium.
Just gonna get him out today so we can clean his cage
and maybe revamp it up a little bit.
Let's go ahead and get started.
(playful upbeat jazz music)
(they laugh)
Little feisty!
So we put some new plants in here;
hopefully he doesn't destroy them this time.
I got some hardier plants like the snake plant here
and the pothos up there,
which they should all do really good at low light.
So yeah, we put some new ABG in there too,
so it's got some fresh, fresh substrate.
Go in, buddy.
He's all in shed right now,
so probably very unhappy with us.
- Tell you what, Jessica did an absolutely amazing job.
We're really fortunate to have Jessica here
that takes her own initiatives to make sure
we're always upgrading our enclosures.
Now Khalifa, the mangrove snake, looks absolutely beautiful.
So there it is, Lori's always doing cool stuff.
The jewelry is looking really cool.
As a matter of fact, I ended up getting reptilebling.com.
It's not a website yet
but we actually have reptilebling.com.
Should I launch all these websites?
I wanna do the snakesheds.com, reptileeggs.com,
reptilebling.com.
I don't know, but that's pretty cool,
you know what I mean?
Actual sheds of our animal ambassadors in jewelry.
I like it.
Definitely if you guys wanna make a comment
and I'll see if I can get this to where you guys can buy it.
- We are gonna be feeding some monitors, all right?
We're starting off with our girl, Optimus Prime
And we're gonna go into Beetlejuice
and finish off with the big finale, baby Kush.
- [Brian] There's nothing that makes a father more proud
than to see his son take interest in what he loves
and it's super cool to see Noah
start to take a tremendous amount of interest
in these monitor lizards.
- She's very blue ball sensitive.
Come on, girl.
Ooh, yeah, she hit it, she hit it.
It's probably not the best,
Whoa!
Watch out, girl.
Better hide your pigtails.
Come on, come on, right here.
Oh my God.
When I go to the show,
I'm just gonna be smelling like rodents.
We're gonna put her back and get on to the next one.
- Whoa! (laughs)
Woo!
Let's do this!
- [Noah] What are we doing?
- Bathing the sloth, I think.
- Oh no, definitely.
This nasty thing pooped last night
and sat in it and literally has chunks stuck on his butt.
- So it's gonna be fun.
Probably the best one yet.
I got another poop stain on my shirt!
Man!
- We're definitely bathing you after. (laughs)
So what are we doing, spraying him?
He was already a little smelly
and then he went poop and pee
and then drug himself through it last night,
which normally he doesn't do.
Hey, buddy.
You'll be happier at the end for sure, we all will.
You guys are a good team.
Make sure to get the little poop.
- That's five years of dog grooming right there.
Who are you pulling, me or him?
- I'm trying to get him but you're attached to it.
There we go.
I'm just trying to deflect.
- [Young Man] Okay, condition?
- [Lori] Right here.
I got it.
- [Young Man] Got it.
- [Lori] There we go.
- [Young Man] That's better.
Good job.
- [Lori] You can get on the floor for dry time.
(they laugh)
- [Young Man] I forgot, I'm the deflector.
- [Lori] Yeah, exactly, you're not doing your job.
I did mine, you did not do yours.
- [Young Man] What are you doing? (Lori laughs)
- Well, you got to be kinda over it, bud.
You're not even over the top, remotely.
(upbeat jazz music)
- [Young Man] What do you think?
- [Lori] I think he did so good.
- [Young Man] I think that this was the best time
out of all the best that we have ever done.
- I think so.
I think we're figuring it out,
I think he is enjoying it and yeah.
Look at that.
You know what, dude, you can't wait
to get back and just sleep.
Like nothing's better than like right after
a shower or a bath, like getting into that nice clean bed
and that's what Drogo's gonna feel like.
- Let's not forget, we have one more box to unbox today
and I'm excited about this.
What a great day, right?
Let's go ahead and see what we got in this box.
(upbeat jazz music)
So one of my most viral videos I've ever posted on Instagram
was actually of this particular snake
and oh my God, these guys are so,
oh my, they are,
I have dreamt of owning these snakes for so long
and I actually was able to film them in South Africa
last time I was there
and that was the video that went really viral,
got like a hundred million views or something like that.
It was really cool.
These are actually egg-eating snakes
or what they call dasypeltis scabra
and they're just such a unique animal.
I've never actually handled one of these guys.
I filmed it just because it was in its cage
and these are the ones that kind of mimic saw-scaled vipers.
So they spin around like this,
making kind of a hissing sound
that sounds like a saw-scaled.
Now, saw-scaled vipers are very, very deadly,
very, very dangerous.
One of the worst bites you can ever imagine.
These guys are not venomous
but they certainly do look like it.
Again, I don't know how they handle.
I have no clue 'cause I've never handled them before.
I know they can be pretty feisty, for sure.
What's interesting is that they basically
don't have hardly any teeth at all.
They are so cool.
And again, these are egg eaters,
so basically, these guys are gonna eat quail eggs.
It is so cool.
You guys are gonna get some really cool video footage
in the near future with these guys
because we're gonna actually set up
an arboreal type of cage with a nest in it.
Then we're gonna put quail eggs in
and they'll crawl up there, they'll go into that nest.
You can see how it's got that inflated gullet right here
that actually an egg is gonna go into.
It's gonna compress its muscles, bust the egg,
eat the yolk and then spit out the shell.
What crazy animals!
So we have a little pair here.
This happens to be the girl and it's kind of good
that the girl is a little bit bigger, for sure.
And the babies of these guys hatch out pretty small.
This adult pair right here,
could potentially breed this year.
That is cool.
But take a look at this boy right here.
Again, he's a little smaller,
but my gosh, if you saw these in the wild,
you would think they were absolutely
like little saw-scaled vipers
or some venomous snake, for sure.
Look at that right there.
Oh my goodness.
That is an absolutely beautiful snake
and those eyes are so unique with that kind of tan,
got the vertical pupil.
Wow, these things are so cool.
So definitely awesome to get a pair of these as well.
Again, some really cool South African snakes
from my buddy Warren.
Hoo dog it!
You just wait for the heat coming with this.
This is gonna be some amazing video.
So that's it guys, our pretty cool unboxings for today.
- And lick it.
I count that as a win, like him just paying attention
to the ball is a win for me.
And then there you go.
'Cause he acts very aggressive towards the food
but with the ball, he's just really chilled
for some reason which is fine, it's better that way.
Honestly, you don't want him to go crazy against the ball.
You kind of get his attention,
paying attention to it and then boom,
get out another rodent.
Bingo.
I'm gonna actually try to touch him real quick.
Let me try to give him a little breaststroke
He's doing good.
And I freaked him out.
That's not what you want to do, but hey, whatever.
You gotta start somewhere.
All right, we're about to feed baby Kush right now
and you know the drill.
Whoa, Holy.
Got my khaki, I'm ready to go.
Every single time, just so nerve wracking.
You're gonna have to move for this one.
Come on, Billy.
It's not easy.
You're gonna have to play for it.
Woo!
Just the adrenaline,
it's like riding a roller coaster when you're in there.
You know he can just do big damage to you
and there's something about getting hurt
that's just a little fun.
- I tell you what, I am so excited about those new snakes.
It's absolutely incredible.
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