- Look at this amazing animal!
It is a Giant Leaf-Tail gecko from Madagascar.
And this is a Lion Leaf-Tail gecko from Madagascar as well.
This happens to be a female,
and she's been laying eggs, Ooh!
But we don't have a male.
So my buddy Mason Barns just recently posted one;
I'm gonna see if it's still available.
Hey Mason, how are you, it's Brian Barczyk.
- [Mason] Doing good man.
- Would you happen to still have that Lion Leaf-Tail gecko
available, the male?
- [Mason] Yeah, yeah, yeah!
- You do, can you send it my way?
- [Mason] Absolutely.
- Thanks dude, I appreciate it man.
- [Mason] No worries.
- [Narrator] Two hours later.
- Today we got something really, really special going on.
We're sending Brian a really cool gecko.
- What, a gecko!? - What, a gecko!?
- It's gonna be a Lion Leaf-Tail gecko from Madagascar,
a really big male.
He's super, super pretty, he's got a lot of orange on him.
He's a really, really cool gecko.
Black tongue, let's see if I can get him to,
(slurping sound) oop, there's a little.
(slurping sound) There we go!
Standing up super tall, oop he's ready to jump.
Like I said we're gonna go and send this guy to Brian.
He's got a couple females ready for this guy.
I'm gonna show you how I pack him up.
(video game whirring) - Did someone say pack?
Ah my guy!
- You messing me up Mike with all that talking.
- [Cameraman] Guys we're good, we can go onto the.
- Oh there's a cherry, cherry!
- [Cameraman] No we can go onto the,
- Ooh 100 points! - Move, move, move!
Go, go, go! - [Cameraman] the next piece.
- Ah ghosties! - [Cameraman] The next one.
- Go go! - [Cameraman] We can,
we can start it anytime.
- Oh what did you say?
- We got the box right here.
I got a deli cup to put him in.
And then I got, oop,
some stuffing right here to put in the box.
We got a Cryo pack this is super important.
This is a relatively cool species.
(hype rock music)
- That is pretty cool.
- And for temperature purposes we wanna use one of these
so it regulates the temperature inside the box.
Then we got our shipping label, paper towels.
(explosion)
Oop there he goes.
And mist bottle.
So we're gonna go ahead
and let him do what he's doing I guess.
Gonna go ahead and get the deli cup ready first.
Put some paper towels in there, then we're gonna moist,
- Did you see that? - Where'd he go?
- There he goes, okay.
We're gonna go ahead and put some paper towels
inside the deli cup and get some water in there.
Moisten it down, come on bud.
Oop he's being jumpy.
Come on let's go!
You're going to a new home,
new home. (laughs)
Okay let's go, alright he can just chill there for a second.
So I got some paper towels inside the deli cup,
and we're gonna go ahead and mist it down, relatively wet.
(laughs) - You hear that Mike?
- Make sure the paper towel's moist
and see if there's a couple water droplets on there.
Oh he's gonna try to bit me, huh?
Come on bud, hey, why are you doing?
- You're real sassy. - I know.
- You just come up and stare at me
like I'm an animal, you know?
- You are an animal, what the hell is your problem?
- Got Fiona here,
she was kinda beating up Shrek a little bit,
so I took her out like a couple weeks ago,
gave her a little bit of a break.
We're gonna go ahead and put her in here with this guy now.
He's pretty, he's got a lot of white blotching on him.
He's a (mumbles).
It'll be a mixed locale babies
if they actually do get along.
We try to put 'em together in the daytime
when they're less active,
and like right after they've been fed.
I fed them last night, gave 'em a big old meal.
It's morning right now so hopefully by tonight
they are cool with each other.
- He's a little feisty Brian.
Okay so, (high-pitched scream)
he did the work for us, that's great.
So we're gonna go ahead and put him inside the deli cup.
This is just gonna be an overnight trip,
he'll be in here for maybe eight hours or so.
And then once Brian receives him in the morning,
can go and set him up in his new enclosure.
Come on bud, alright, inside the,
I know you don't like this, it's okay.
You'll be in here for a very short amount of time.
- Wow. - First time packing a gecko?
- Gotta be!
- Let's go.
Oh! (loud scream)
Why are you biting me?
That's not nice.
Ow, he just bit me again! (laughs)
Time to go in your cup dude.
- Nope!
- He is not having a good time right now.
Everything will be fine.
There we go, okay, now just gotta get his tail in.
Nope, come on, go and put your tail in bud.
There we go.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Get your tail in there, alright there we go!
(audience cheering)
Let's go ahead and put the stuffing inside the box.
Making sure the gecko doesn't move around a whole lot
in the box during shipping.
All that stuff straight into the box!
We got our gecko.
Gonna put the Cryo pack underneath the gecko.
We don't want it on top,
because if for whatever reason this leaks,
we don't want it leaking on top of the gecko.
This piece right here this is gonna be the top.
And now it's all good, this is an insulated box,
temperatures on the inside should be good,
weather is fine for shipping.
So we're gonna go ahead and close this all up,
and get over to Brian's place.
(calm music)
- And the box is finally here.
Just really excited about this.
I've never produced Uroplaties,
or any Leaf-tailed gecko,
so it'd be really cool to finally do it.
Like I mentioned the female is laying eggs,
and fertile eggs, of course.
Now we'll have a male, and Mason is just awesome,
I mean he definitely is a great guy,
has good, oh my gosh, has great animals!
Definitely sent me a beauty here.
Though all of the Uroplatus are absolutely amazing animals.
But I've always loved the lineatus.
I mean just take a look at how wonderful that animal is.
And it's in great shape,
which means it's really gonna do well.
I hope it breeds really good for us.
And hopefully we get some babies.
Could you imagine hatching little babies?
I mean they're like little aliens!
Look at the eyes and the way they are,
they're just so frail-looking.
But they are incredible.
Posturing where it wants to jump.
We'll see if it does, oop there it is!
Oop, not onto the camera little buddy!
Oh my god that dude is, oop! (high pitched scream)
Oh my goodness gracious, that thing is awesome.
Regardless we're gonna go ahead and, whoa!
Come on little dude!
He's a jumper there's no doubt about that.
(roar)
Whoa, what you gonna bite me too little buddy?
We're gonna go ahead get him in with the female,
and see how they do together.
(mellow music)
- Let me take a second to show you guys some animals
that I work with that you maybe haven't seen before.
This is my girl Bindi,
she is a Giant Galapagos Tortoise.
And she doesn't like me very much.
The largest tortoise species in the world,
almost 1000 pounds.
And they're also one of the
longest lived animals in the world.
And can actually live up to almost 200 years.
What's up Bindi?
I'm not that bad.
Okay, I'll leave you alone.
Don't run. (loud scream)
Okay! - Dude that thing is so quick!
It's gotta be around here.
You see it Mike?
Probably under that carpet.
No, no. - There he goes.
Hey buddy, chill out.
- Oh, nice catch Mason.
- And this little guy is what's called
a Chinese Crocodile Lizard.
They're one of the rarest lizards in the world,
You can kinda see how they get their name,
they've got that crocodile looking tail,
if he won't run away from me again.
They've got a really, really cool little cute face.
And they don't get very big,
maybe about a foot and a half or so.
These guys come from China and some parts of Vietnam,
and are very endangered in the wild.
Luckily there's a couple captive populations
here in the US and other countries,
that we can continue to breed these guys,
and enjoy them in captivity.
- Reach right there.
- Ah, what the (beep) is wrong with you?
- Grab it man.
- Dude I'm not just grabbing it,
I don't wanna break the bond that we have.
- Yeah your bond is garbage.
Did you see what it just did to me?
That's no bond.
- She's just bluffing.
I don't wanna grab Mango.
- Get your other one.
- Why Mango's meaner?
- That's why we don't pull him out.
- You guys are such liars.
- The most friendly lizard!
- We have a few Crocodile Lizards too.
- Caiman Lizard.
- Yeah Caiman Crocodile, Crocodile Caiman,
Crocodile, Caiman, Caiman.
- Just Caiman. - Crocodile.
- Caiman. - They're not that rare Mason.
Oh no girls allowed.
- Alyssa. - Hi.
- What are you doing here anyways?
- Working!?
- Literally standing in the doorway.
- I'm about to, (laughing)
- Much better. (laughing)
- Ow, okay.
And this is actually our female Lineatus right here.
She's not exactly the happiest camper,
I'll be honest with ya.
She loves to bite if you give her the opportunity.
But you can see the difference between 'em
is pretty amazing.
What do you think Jessica?
- Oh my god, he's beautiful guys.
- He is so cool. - He's so pretty.
I can't wait to see him like,
I think he's fired down right now.
- Right. - I wanna see him fired up,
and be really cool.
- We'll go ahead and put the female back in her enclosure.
And then there goes the boy.
- Then I'm gonna go ahead and mist 'em down too.
- So we'll keep an eye on them for the next, you know,
half hour, hour, really through the course of the day,
just to make sure they get along.
But with any luck they'll get along,
and they'll have some eggs,
and maybe we'll have some baby Uroplatus in the future.
- I'm sure you guys may have seen
one of these on Brian's channel,
because he's got one over there named Bugatti,
but this is my baby Boelen's Python.
- Bugatti!
- And this is a dream snake for me.
And I was finally able to get one.
They are just so, so, so cool.
- Yeah Bugatti's cool,
but there ain't nothing like a Ford Fusion!
(explosion)
- These two are some of my Bell's Phase Lace Monitors.
We got a little one over here,
and one that is wanting to hide.
These are two of my little ones
that I'm growing out right now.
One of my absolute favorite lizards.
They get about five to seven feet long
depending if they're male or female.
And they're just absolutely stunning.
Brian's got one of these over at the Reptarium,
obviously, as well, but they're some of my favorites.
Apollo was actually my fist big lizard.
He's a yellow-headed Asian Water Monitor,
and he just ate a little earlier,
so he's a little grumpy, but he's absolutely stunning.
They come from the Philippines and they're called
Yellow-headed Asian Water Monitors, obviously,
'cause they've got a completely yellow body
and a yellow head.
They're absolutely beautiful,
one of my favorite water monitors.
- Shhhh don't listen to him.
You're beautiful just the way you are.
- Just beautiful.
- You don't need no dang yellow head.
- Look at his water, dude! - You just cleaned.
- I just cleaned the glass too.
- It doesn't look clean to me.
- We've been working with Brillo
with this puzzle board for the last
two and a half months.
See how fast he does it, he's been getting better.
- Geez Mike with the loud trash can bro!
- What, can't hear you!
- There you go!
He gets it pretty quickly, as you can see.
Other way bud, there you go.
Come on, you did so good yesterday.
Good job!
It reminds me so much of my dogs at home.
We have the same puzzle board,
and they get it in like no time flat.
These are foraging animals so this is great
mental stimulation of behaviors
that he would naturally have in the wild.
You're missing all the good stuff.
(laughs)
You missed it completely, there you go bud.
I love starting my day off like this.
How could you not? (laughs)
- So obviously we're shipping Brian
a really cool Leaf-Tail Gecko.
This is another species that I keep, Uroplatus fimbriatus,
Or the common flat-tailed gecko.
And they're called that
'cause they've got a flat, leaf-like tail.
This is one of my females, she's absolutely stunning.
They get pretty big.
This is about full grown, I got really big hands,
but she is absolutely beautiful.
Look at those eyes!
- You're right, the eyes are beautiful on this one.
(laughs)
- Wow I can't get over how pretty she is.
- Yeah me neither. (slaps)
- Alright let's put you back.
Make some babies please.
(laughs) - You hear that Mike?
When's that drumstick due anyway?
I can hear it kicking already.
- Really?
- Now this is another absolutely awesome species
of Leaf-tail gecko that I work with.
This is called the Satanic Leaf-tail.
Uroplatus phantasticus.
- Uroplatus phantasticus! (electricity buzzes)
- I didn't know you went to Hogwarts.
- She's about to jump.
This is one of my females,
she has laid a lot of eggs for me,
and she's really, really cool.
She's got the super dark coloration.
They come in browns, purples, pinks, reds, oop!
I really, really love this girl.
She's just a really cool gecko.
Plus they got those crazy red eyes, look at her.
Where you think you're going?
Now if you guys can see all the way in the back there
that is called an Electric Blue Day Gecko.
- It's electric, boogie, woogie, woogie!
- That way!
- These guys come from Tanzania, Africa.
One of the prettiest animals in my opinion in the world.
They're bright, bright electric blue.
One of the biggest things that I work with.
I've bred quite a few of these,
and wow, they're just really, really cool.
(upbeat jazzy music)
- So hopefully we get some babies!
They're trying to breed right now.
Can kinda hear the male just like
making little clicks and stuff.
This is a pair we put together like
just a few hours ago basically.
And it looks like they're doing well.
The female's not trying to attack the male.
When I had Shrek and Fiona together she was not letting him,
so hopefully we get some good, good news with these guys.
It's gonna be about a month before she lays eggs,
maybe a little bit longer.
But this is a (inaudible) too,
so I know she's laid eggs already in the past.
- Oh that's awesome!
- He's wiggling around.
I don't know if he's, - He's getting there.
(mellow piano music)
- Three, two,
- Okay wait I'm not ready I lied, I was laughing.
- We have to do straight faces?
- Yes, yes, like super serious.
- Just think you're staring into the girl
that your cousin won't give you ever the number for.
(laughs) - Too soon?
- Three, two, (laughs)
- You can't! - I can't smile!
- He was like this!
- I am not ready, I'm really not.
- Two, - You can't smile!
- I know!
(laughs)
- He sucked it in.
- I'm really struggling.
- This is one of the hardest things I've ever done.
- I really couldn't (inaudible).
- I'd rather get back in with Lucy than do this again.
(laughs)
- And that's what it takes to get a beautiful gecko
from California over to Michigan!
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