- You know, we've been opened up
at the Reptarian now
for three years in September.
As a matter of fact, this September,
if everything goes well with the world
and the COVID thing
and stuff like that.
We're going to actually have
like a barbecue get together
the second or third weekend
to celebrate our third anniversary.
Because last year we weren't able to celebrate.
So we're really excited about that.
I'll keep you guys updated
on the progress of that if whatever happens.
But the fact is,
is that this has been an amazing experience
to be here for three years.
Work with so many animals, you know?
Add a bunch of animals I had never worked with.
And the truth is, is that,
you know, I'm pretty content
with what we have right now,
as far as animals were.
I don't even know
that there's really that big of a list of things
that I want to continue to get.
With the exception of, you know,
a couple things like Bismarck Ringed Python,
Olive Python.
I'd like to get Albino Olive Python.
Daisy is a pretty incredible animal.
Obviously she's a Lavender Albino Reticulated Python.
And the other day I told you a little history
about the Albino Burmese Python.
Well, ironically enough the same guy,
Bob Clark, actually pioneered
the Albino Reticulated Python.
Now I have a feeling the same guy
that got the Albino Burmese was Anson Wong,
had maybe got the Albino Reticulated Python.
I could be wrong about that.
But the interesting thing is that,
Bob ended up importing a male
Lavender Albino Reticulated Python,
but when it came in,
it actually had a broken back
and was almost paralyzed on the backside.
Now we all thought like, wow
what an amazingly beautiful snake,
but obviously you can't breed a male
if it doesn't have function of its back end
to actually be able to breed.
Well over the course of a year or so,
it gained some of that function back.
And it did actually copulate a female.
Bob ended up producing a clutch
of what he thought was heterozygous.
And a lot of people-
I'm going to be honest with you,
including myself thought
probably retained sperm
from another male or something like that.
But actually when he raised those up and bred them
he produced the first Albino Reticulated Pythons.
And I'll never forget the ad he posted
right after he produced those
Lavender Albino Reticulated Pythons.
It says:
Have you ever seen a living Picasso?
Yes, that is living art.
So Bob has been responsible for some pretty
big hitters when it comes to the animal world.
There's no doubt about it.
And there wouldn't be Lavender Albino retics,
if it wasn't for this story.
Hypo Bull snakes,
Florida blue garter snakes,
Angolan Pythons.
You know I take you guys on
the journey of the breeding
the egg laying,
the egg cutting,
the hatching world.
Now they've actually started to shed
and I wanted to show you
cause that's when they really start looking cool.
This was actually a
pastel female that was bred
to a Black Pewter Cypress.
And this just happens to be a
Black Pastel Cypress Ball Python right here.
And I just love the way the colors pop on this one.
And then this one is basically the same snake
just with pastel added.
So this will be
a Black Pewter Cypress,
and it is an absolute gorgeous animal.
I mean, I'll tell you what,
that thing looks incredible.
The Cypress gene
just adding the cleanliness to it
and just making kind of cool colors.
I mean, it's definitely a lot different
than just a normal black pewter for sure.
And it turned out really well,
since it shed.
And then this one is really
that cool silvery purple one
that we started to hatch out.
And it looks great now that it shed.
So this is basically a super pastel,
black pastel
Cypress ball Python,
or what they would call a silver streak
Cypress ball Python.
I mean that thing
is an absolute ripper.
Loving it.
Then you guys know
that I love piebald ball Pythons
and finally a couple of them have shed out
and they look absolutely incredible.
The thing that's great about piebs-
and again not only the fact
that they have that
stark white beautiful contrast to them,
but actually the pattern
has got more orange to it,
than a normal ball Python.
So, they just look absolutely incredible.
Especially once they first shed.
And there was that genetic stripe
to the banana pastel G stripe.
So they came out really good.
And I tell you
once this one shed out,
this is just a pastel G Stripe.
Ooh doggy,
I tell you what.
That is one gorgeous snake.
Then this one is actually a
pastel banana G Stripe.
So it's the same mutation as the dad was.
And it's really cool.
The pastel with the G stripe and banana
makes this really faded kind of
soft looking snake.
It looks absolutely ridiculous.
But in all honesty.
I actually like the banana G Stripe
without the pastel even more.
Don't get me wrong.
I love the pastel banana G stripes,
but when you actually
don't have the pastel in it,
it's just a little bit more vibrant.
That bright orange with almost that
flaming orange Stripe down it.
That thing it's an absolute ripper.
I'll keep updating you as the ball Pythons shed.
I cannot wait for that.
Pumpkin clutch, will shed here in the next couple days.
I'll definitely be showing you those guys.
Red sided garter snakes.
Pied alligators.
Albino water monitors.
(upbeat music)
So butterscotch actually has
got a little bit of shed on it.
So, blew up it's cage, stuff like that.
Jay, it looks like
butterscotch is ready for you.
- I know, and I am not ready.
- What do you think is going to happen?
- Start back from (inaudible)
- Jay's just back from vacation.
First thing he's doing
since he's been back.
Butterscotch, great way to start.
And it looks like she's really happy.
- Yeah.
Is that what you call that?
- She missed you Jay.
- All right.
Oh my God.
She definitely thinks she's going to get fed.
Never done this by myself.
- What?
All right.
So the best thing to do
is probably open up that decade,
that side.
- Well yeah, but that's the feeding side
and my face is going to get hot.
- No, no.
- This is so amazing.
I love you so much.
- Now you just have to
just touch her face
- It's okay.
- She knows that there's no food out there.
- Can I go up there now?
- You can go up there now.
Now, just grab her there
and then just start reeling her out.
I'll keep her, keep her going out.
Just try and get her head out.
There you go.
She's not going to bite you.
She's not doing anything.
She's fine.
- Hey girl, hi.
- Okay. So you'll get up on a ladder.
It's gotta keep her moving now.
Yep. There you go.
There's your toes.
Don't let her go back, bring her down,
- Like this.
- keep her going.
And that's it.
CJ. Good job.
Welcome back.
There you go. Easy, right?
- Yup. That was nothing.
- Salt water crocodiles, scrub Pythons.
Angulated boas.
I absolutely love this Chuckwalla.
It is such an amazing animal.
I mean, I've always loved Chuckwallas, so that's awesome.
But the fact is is that this is it's favorite spot
you know, almost everyday when I come in
he's literally chilling right on that.
And I think the reason is
is that was actually a nice hot spot for him right there.
And he just loves it.
He's just, he's so crazy.
I mean, I don't know, but I think that's the way to get
to the top of that light and get really basking right there.
It's probably about 120 degrees, so he loves it up there
and he just thought it's so cute to see him show up there.
Maybe I have to put some other branches that are
a little bit bigger, especially as he gets larger
because he's not going to fit
on these twigs very much longer.
Madagascan ground boas, sun gazers, Madagascan tree boas.
As you guys know, I keep saying
that we're on step three, three and a half.
When it comes to the reptarian expansion,
actually going to head back over to my buddy
Steve Bashea at Bashea aquatics and give him the schematics
of the actual aquarium site to find
out really where the filtration is going to go
and stuff like that, because that's the big thing
we can have that beautiful Stingray thing.
But if we can have a filter on it, it doesn't work.
Right. So if we're going to head over there
and get his kind of impression
hopefully he'll give us some insight
and we can start to nail down the actual design.
So let's go ahead and head back to Bashea aquatics.
Satanic leaf tail geckos, sun gazers, indigo snakes.
[Upbeat Music]
All right.
We're back at my buddy Steve's place.
Bashea Aquatics put all the links in the description.
Go show him some love.
So listen.
Yeah, it's going to be, I don't know what he's going to say.
He's probably going to laugh, but first I'm going to
show you the good stuff that I think you will appreciate.
This obviously is the one elevation.
That's how the front of the building would look.
Right? I mean, that, that I knew you would like.
- Yeah.
- and then this is actually the next.
- This is my logo though but we can work on it.
- Yeah. We'll work on the logo.
Then this is actually the back of the building.
So just, you know, where there'll be the second stairway
we would have all the windows
with the logos and stuff like that.
So, so that's not that big of a deal.
I just wanted to show you this.
- I love this. This logo is killer.
- Yeah. And the whole thing is killer.
You know what I mean?
Just like I can imagine coming through
but this is the part that I'm nervous to even show you.
Cause you're going to laugh.
- I'm nervous to look at it.
- All right.
All right, here we go.
Keep in mind.
This is a very, very, very, very, very, very
very rudimentary thing.
But the filtration part is what I'm worried about
including this right here.
- It's a big part.
- That's a giant tank.
Where do we put filters on that?
- Do you have another building another
but we might need another building.
I think on the big stuff.
If we can do some, some creative plumbing and get it
down into the lower, the lower level would be the trick.
- So, so I think like these, do you think that you can do
we could do of.
- A lot of it depends on what, you know
what we're keeping in here and how many total gallons
and the elevation of the tanks themselves.
- Right.
- We might be able to get away with
- under tanks
- under Mount stuff or get real creative
with it and keep it condensed.
But you know, we got to worry
about maintenance and all that stuff.
So we have to be accessible no matter what,
- right exactly. That, that's my concern too.
- You know how many gallons any of this stuff is yet?
- I have no idea.
No idea.
Yeah. And I'm not even sure like about this, like this is
I want this feel of like roundness
and like kind of that type of thing.
- Kind of walking around.
- Right. But I don't necessarily, I mean, this is, I mean
it could be smaller tanks, bigger tanks.
- Each one of these different aquarium sharks have to
have a specific shape of a tank really can't have, you know
- They can't have corners, right?
- Yeah. Corners are tough unless it's a huge,
huge square tank.
- Right.
- And then it could, but you want cylinders, ovals.
You want that either because they don't stop swimming.
It might be easier to do a main shark tank
and the stingray tank evolve around that.
- I see what you're saying.
Instead of a stingray tank being
in the main shape let's shape the shark tank.
Right. And then, because we can do anything with stingray.
- Right, right. Yeah. Yeah.
All right.
So lots to think about, so I'm gonna
I'm going to leave it
with you just redesign this and then I'll get
- No sleep for me.
- Just get this done for me in the next week or so.
And I'll be back.
All right.
Merton's water monitors,
giant salamanders, radiated tortoises.
There's not really many more iconic reptiles
than the American alligator
certainly at least in this country.
And they really are truly amazing.
But did you know that in 1967, they were actually
on the threatened with extinction act, right?
Literally they were almost extinct.
There was hardly any population of them
and without the government actually placing them
on the endangered species list
there may not be alligators now, to be honest with you
the other thing that happened is not only protecting them
but also farming them.
And I realize farming animals can be a little bit
of a controversial topic
because you know, they're raising them
they're using their skin and teeth and bones.
And of course their tails
for meat to be able to eat and stuff like that.
But the truth is, is that farming
and the endangered species listing is what saved alligators.
That's right.
We wouldn't have the alligators we have now,
if it wasn't for that.
As of the current day they're actually considered
least concern which means that there's really no concern.
And anyone that's been to Florida
or Louisiana knows that there's plenty of alligators
maybe even opening up seasons for hunting them
now, as we all have seen
with some of the popular shows on TV
now, again, I don't like watching those shows
because I don't like seeing animals being killed.
But the fact is, is that
alligators are a truly amazing thing.
The only thing that really threatens them now
is habitat destruction, right?
The fact that we're kind of encroaching into their land
especially in places like Florida.
So many of the Everglades
and other areas that alligators live we're now building on
and actually developing, which is a problem.
But the fact is, is that alligators are
in pretty good shape as far as population now.
And I couldn't imagine life without them.
So it's definitely a really great success story.
Albino snapping turtles, albino speckled kings,
radiated rat snakes, Trans Pecos rats snakes,
Arizona green rats snakes, conant's milk snakes.
- Butterscotch right here.
She's in your grandma's pocket.
- I already know.
- What?
- all right, let's get it out.
It's touching the mid body.
It's trying to get the shed off.
- I don't need a play by play.
I need to help all.
- Whoa.
- What's she doing now?
- There she goes. She's quick off the jumps.
She's got nice acceleration.
Defense. Defense.
- Who's on offense?
Defense.
- This is a beautiful snake, man.
Look at her.
- She is absolutely gorgeous.
- Oh my God.
It's really hard to handle a wet snake.
Put it in there, man.
- Nice little massage to a reward our hard work.
- And there you have it.
Butterscotch has been cleaned, shed, and stroked.
- What are you doing?
- I'm washing off
- Elias frog, yellow spotted tree frog,
yellow Anaconda, albino green Anaconda,
pied spiny tailed iguanas,
Owen Pelly Pythons, Don Baja blue rock lizards
the blue collared lizards, the fly river turtles,
Jeweled lacertas.
I mean, I guess the fact is, is that I am not that content.
There's a lot of animals
I still want for the reptarian and over at BHP.
And the truth is, is that list is probably only
about half the animals that I really want.
I didn't even mention Komodo dragon, which, you know
that's a big plus.
Right. But it's a little bit harder to get.
The fact is, is that we definitely need to expand.
Right. So we got to expand
so I can fit all these new animals
because yeah, there's a lot on my wishlist.
Like I mentioned, it seems like I definitely
have a bigger wishlist and I'm not settled on the animals.
Let me know down in the comments, what your wishlist is.
I'd love to see what you would like to get in the future
what you'd like to work with.
And while you're at it, let me know what you want me to add
to the reptarian or aquarium in the future.
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