- It's been since I was about 15 years old,
since I've been to a reptile wholesaler.
So I happened to be in the area of my buddy, Rian,
from Underground Reptiles' place.
Never been to this place.
It looks absolutely incredible.
We've gotten animals from him before.
So, excited to see what's going on.
By the way, good morning, Reptile Army,
welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
What do you say we go inside
and just see a bunch of cool animals?
And I tell you what, my first impressions,
just walking into the office area, it's ridiculous.
This is like a high end loft area
in like some cool cabin in Colorado.
Absolutely beautiful and look what we have here.
We have some little kinkajous.
Oh my God, you guys are so adorable!
Look at this.
Oh my gosh, are you gonna have some too, buddy?
You guys could both have some.
Oh my gosh, that is the cutest thing in the,
oh, he's just pushing, he's like, no way.
So this entire room is nothing but arachnids.
I mean, just slings and slings and slings,
of little tarantulas, scorpions.
I mean, there are thousands,
I mean this would definitely be a nightmare for most people.
I actually think it's absolutely amazing.
Take a look
at all the Goliath bird-eating tarantulas down here,
we got pinktoes.
Oh my gosh, we got centipedes,
we've got stripe knees,
We've got just forest scorpions, Egyptian greens,
unbelievable, it's cool, man.
I'm actually in heaven.
I would have been probably crawling out of my skin
10 years ago.
Now I think it's the coolest thing in the world.
Take a look at all these Pacman frogs right here.
This whole rack here is Pacman frogs,
different types of Pacman frogs,
then we've got some bigger Pacman frogs here.
Look at how beautiful that one is, that's amazing.
And I think the system they have is so cool, right,
because when you're doing the wholesale like this,
you're kind of moving a lot of animals.
You've gotta keep the care up really well, right?
So what they do with these
is they actually have holes in the top and the bottom,
so they can just take it over to the sink
and basically run water through,
cleans everything out, keeps everything humid
and keeps the animals happy and healthy,
until they actually get shipped out.
But I've never seen so many Pacman frogs in my life.
And the thing is, is that once they hit this size,
they're really hardy.
It's when they're really tiny,
that it's kind of hard to keep them.
But it's cool.
I mean, there are again a thousand Pacman frogs here.
That is crazy.
One of my favorite snakes, you guys know
that I like the Drymarchon or like the cribos
but this is actually an indigo snake.
Look at the color on that animal,
the red coming through and just unbelievable.
I mean, I'm in heaven, this place is so cool.
I mean, it's a wholesaler, but it is kept so well,
and the animals are so clean and the caging is amazing.
I mean, I didn't know what to expect
to be totally honest with you.
Like I said, I've gotten a lot of stuff
from these guys in the past,
and it's always come in really, really well,
but to see the place, and look at the indigos here,
it's just so cool, this is amazing.
I mean, and we have just started, guys,
there's so much more to see.
This room is a bunch of frogs.
I mean, you've got all the little dendrobates.
We've got little bumblebees right here.
We got dendrobates auratus right here.
We've got just tons of little babies,
all kinds of clown tree frogs up here.
Again, it looks like we've got some azureus right here,
which are really cool.
Look at these, ho my goodness gracious.
They are so incredible.
Again, just hundreds and hundreds
of little poison dart frogs.
Over here we've got the red eye tree frogs.
I mean, tons of them.
Wow, I tell you, there's a lot of frogs in this room.
This is a little venomous breeding area here.
We got a bunch of eyelash vipers,
a bunch of different venomous stuff that's pretty cool
that is just, it's neat.
And again, eyelash vipers over here,
we've got bush vipers in this cage,
bush viper in the back over there.
There's a bunch of really cool,
lots of different bush vipers for sure.
So definitely working a bunch of those,
again, very popular animals.
So it looks like they're working with a lot of the,
again, the eyelash and bush stuff that is really popular,
easy to breed, have live young, so on, like that.
So it's cool, definitely lots of layers in this place.
I didn't realize there was so much stuff going on.
This is really crazy here.
These of course are African millipedes here,
and you know, they actually stopped importing them.
So this is one of the only facilities,
if not the only facility that actually has the ability
to import and actually breed these guys.
So you can buy captive babies of the African millipedes,
which are amazing because they're the giant ones
that are so impressive,
and it kind of stinks that we couldn't buy them for so long.
So it's cool that these guys are breeding them now.
And wow, that is wild, isn't it?
Take a look at this right here.
This is a beautiful, absolutely incredible leachianus.
So what locale did you say this one was?
- That's a Grand Terre cross with a Yate.
- Oh, okay, the Yates are actually the ones that are really,
(chuckles) oh my gosh,
the Yates are the ones that are the giant.
So obviously the GT stuff is amazing,
The Yates are absolutely beautiful,
and they get really, really big.
So this is, that's why this sucker is such a monster.
- [Keeper] This is a Grand Terre.
That's a pure Grand Terre right there.
- So basically this is the cool room, right?
And what's cool,
obviously you can keep
all of your New Caledonia stuff in here,
but I really love the fact
that they have some Trans-Pecos copperheads in here
that are ridiculous.
Take a look at that right there.
And again, the Trans-Pecos copperheads are just,
they're just so beautiful.
They're like the locality that everyone is looking for
because of that unbelievable contrast.
Again, it's an agkistrodon,
which is the genus of the pit viper,
but unbelievable animal, mildly venomous,
but still don't want to get bit by them obviously,
but that is an absolute ripper.
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Of course, some colubrids as well.
Just a lot of everything here.
I mean, I'm super, super impressed.
I'm not going to lie to you, kind of blown away.
I knew it was gonna be kind of cool,
but it's way cooler than I ever expected,
just everything's so organized and amazing.
This is actually a white-sided Brooks kingsnake,
it's a recessive mutation,
we are lucky enough to be some of the first people
to produce these guys way back in the day.
I think we paid $2,000
for our first white-sided Brooks kingsnakes.
Now they're affordable obviously,
and I don't have any.
So I think I gotta be get on the list to get some,
when these guys produce.
I'll tell you what, guys,
these have a soft spot in my heart.
These are actually Solomon Island ground boas.
And these are some smokers.
I mean, they typically are kind of a gray looking,
not that impressive, to be honest with you,
but I love the little shovel heads that they have.
and the reason they have a soft spot in my heart
is that this was the first actual live young
that I ever had when I was like 15 years old,
I bred a pair of Solomon Island boas and had 22 babies.
Again, they were nowhere near as pretty
as this one right here.
This is an absolute smoker.
And then take a look at this giant female right here,
unbelievable, she is gigantic.
And there's actually localities
that are called like Isabel island,
that's what it looks like, this particular one is
'cause it's like a real white phase,
really beautiful, unbelievable.
I mean, and that is a giant female too.
She's gonna have a ton of babies when she produces.
That is incredible.
The yellowtail cribos.
I love them to death.
These are one of the larger of the cribos.
I think these can get like nine foot long.
They're absolutely giant animals.
Again, they have that beautiful contrast between the head
that's kind of that grayish-black color,
all the way to the beautiful yellow tail, hence the name,
and just amazing animals, super cool.
Again, Drymarchon just like indigos, cribos,
all that stuff, intelligent snakes, definitely amazing.
Got some cute little western hognose snake.
This is actually a superconda right here.
Of course that's an incomplete dominant.
This is the super version of it that just has this pattern,
this absolute beautiful animal.
I love western hognose snakes, they're just so cool.
This happens to be a cool little one here.
This is actually an axanthic anaconda.
So this is just the single gene
or the single expression of the incomplete dominant,
but then it's got the recessive mutation
of axanthic bred to it
that just basically reduces the yellow pigment,
that's what xanthophore.
And then of course we have a little albino,
not so little, getting a little bit of size to it,
an albino anaconda that is absolutely gorgeous,
I mean really cool pattern, so some cool hognose too.
You guys know, I love these guys.
So this is actually Rex, the rhino iguana.
Believe it or not
it's Rian Gittman oldest animal here that he's got,
it's almost 30 years old,
and he's been doing reptiles his entire life,
and this is it, this is Rex.
Hey Rex, how are you doing, buddy?
You want some pets, hi Rex.
That is just cool.
I mean, I can't imagine when our rhinos are 30 years old.
So I mean, they're just such amazing animals,
but it's cool to see.
Again, outside, definitely the way to keep these guys
if you can, but we do the best we can do indoors,
but absolutely incredible to see a 30-year-old rhino iguana.
This is the tortoise breeding area.
Of course, we have a bunch of red-foots over here,
a whole slew of red foot tortoises
all just kind of hanging out, having a good time.
I mean, it's pretty cool.
And again, when you're down here,
these are almost like chickens, to be honest with you,
you know, you just kind of collect the eggs,
you leave them out there, you do whatever.
Of course we got yellow-foots over here,
got a ton of Greek tortoises over here,
just kind of all over the place.
You can see these little guys just kind of wandering around,
and stuff like that.
And when you have an area like this outdoors,
again, it's really cool
because you can just leave them alone.
You know, you throw food in them,
and then eventually collect eggs.
And that's how you produce them, it's really quite simple,
a lot simpler in Florida than it is in Michigan,
I can tell you that much.
This is pretty cool.
You guys may not know,
but Rian has always been into mixed martial arts.
So he actually built a gym on his property
where they can actually grapple and stuff like that.
You've got the Underground Grappling Club.
I mean, how cool is that
to have your own gym in your backyard?
I mean, that is, it's pretty cool.
I better get outta here before he challenges me.
This is pretty amazing.
This may actually be
the first and only T positive Greek tortoise.
You see it has kind of reddish eyes,
it's definitely hypo, right?
So it looks like it's lacking melanin,
it's probably lacking everything, but the tyrosine
making it T positive, so it's amazing.
So they're going to raise this up.
Obviously, hopefully breed it out,
and maybe produce some more babies.
Again, it'll probably be a recessive mutation,
but that's pretty cool to be holding
a one of a kind tortoise.
You wanna see a weird turtle right here.
This is a sideneck turtle from New Guinea, absolutely crazy.
You've got that crazy long neck
and they love to snap at you.
So you gotta be really careful
because they will try to bite.
Ooh, you can see that thing, just whipping his head, whoa,
whipping his head around, that thing is absolutely wild.
- This is Calumma nasutum. - Oh my gosh.
- [Keeper] And it's a nose-horned chameleon
from Madagascar.
- [Brian] They stay super small, right?
- [Keeper] Yeah, that's an adult right there.
- That's an adult, oh my gosh, that's amazing.
I've always loved these guys.
You guys know I love skinks,
and Peter's banded skinks are just so beautiful,
just such an interesting animal.
Again, they look kind of like a pink-tongue, a blue-tongue,
all that type of stuff,
but they've got the interesting pattern to them.
Just a really cool animal, but still being imported a lot.
So be interesting if someone
ever sets up a big breeding group
and actually starts captive breeding
because I think they'd be really popular captive bred,
but I haven't seen too many people do it.
Some have, but not nearly as much
as some of the other skink species.
- [Keeper] Good energy here,
so please don't startle anybody.
- [Brian] Of course not.
- Here's three Egyptian cobras, no venom, all live.
- [Brian] It's amazing, how long
have you been working with venomous?
- Pretty much my whole life in and out, you know?
So now, you know, big project, cobras.
Always venomous, working with the venomous here underground,
setting a really high standard,
but a lot of handling, a lot of care, a lot of respect.
There's an energy here that there's a lot of work
where nobody sees, you know,
a lot of care for these animals
and a lot of discipline day in, day out.
All these animals have the power here,
they all have the power,
but we all on a really good energy line,
and a lot of compassion, and a lot of fresh water.
(Brian laughs)
- Well, you're doing a great job, man.
It's amazing, dude.
- Yeah, here's three Egyptian cobra
straight from the motherland.
Then lots of love, lots of attention,
took a lot of work to get to that.
They don't come out of the box like that.
- I don't think so, no, that's pretty amazing,
it's astounding.
Monkey-tail and Solomon Island skinks
are some of the most beautiful and incredible animals
for a bunch of different reasons.
Number one, they live in like kind of a social group setting
where they actually protect each other's babies.
They'll only have one, maybe sometimes two babies a year,
sometimes every other year, to be honest with you,
they have live young,
and they come out about this size when they're born.
And again, not only will the parents protect them,
but the entire social group will protect them.
But what's interesting about this pair here,
it's the only known axanthic monkey-tail skinks
in the world, I mean, how incredible is that?
To be holding not only one of the rare skinks in the world,
but also the fact that it's a color mutation on top of it.
That is incredible, and both of these are so beautiful,
but you can see this one
is a little bit protective of even the other one.
So gotta be a little bit careful,
but wow, that is a sight to see,
and I'm so happy I got a chance to check them out.
Sometimes you need a helping hand.
And today I've got a little bit of a helping hand.
Thank you by the way.
This of course is a Caiman.
Caiman are so high energy, that's the problem.
I mean, between an alligator and a Caiman,
we're talking like a hundred fold the power and energy.
You don't want to get hit,
look at those sharp teeth right there,
much more kind of pointed than a alligator as well.
So these guys are absolutely chiseled, beautiful,
I mean, dinosaur as you could possibly get,
but again, you could just see this monkey
is not happy right now at all,
but it's still an absolute pleasure
to get a chance to hold him.
So it's been an absolutely amazing day here at Underground.
I hope that you guys enjoyed.
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That way you can show them some love.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day, Reptile Army.
Remember, be kind to someone,
and I promise, I'll see you in the next one.