- Dude, I've put them in this tub,
I've already named them all.
- You've named them all?
Of course you're talking about the babies.
And by the way, I'm looking at getting
a whole bunch of other house snakes.
I wanna go ahead and check her again,
because she does look a little bit fuller
than she did.
Maybe she'd building for another clutch.
- And hit them right in the face.
I'm pissed. - What'd she do?
- I never had adults I could take out
and actually play with, because they always wanted
to bite me.
- I'm very confused on all fronts.
- [Brian] About the going out of town part or my concern?
- Both, both. - Both?
- So you just decide to go out of town?
- Hey!
- [Brian] What is going on, man?
- What's up, man? - Did you see them?
- Oh, they're so cool, oh my gosh!
- [Brian] Where are they at, where'd they go?
- Dude, I put them in this tub, I've already
named them all.
- You've named them all?
Of course we're talking about the baby frill dragons.
I put them on Eric's cart so he could see them
as soon as he walked in in the morning.
Oh my-- - You don't realize
how big the other ones are!
- [Brian] I know!
They've got so big, right?
- These are so tiny, but look at, they're perfect.
They're absolutely perfect.
- [Brian] Aren't they incredible, dude?
- Oh, we're so excited.
- [Brian] I knew you guys were excited.
- So excited, yeah!
- It was up all night like, oh, they weren't working,
they had a couple days off, so I were like
they are gonna die to see these eggs, so!
Oh my God, I just knew you,
I had to get your exuberance.
- Super excited.
I just can't, it's still so weird that we read
all this stuff online and all the stuff you have to do
to get them to breed, put them together, and here we are.
- Oh, and by the way, someone actually told me
on the live cams, by the way,
reptile live cam, link in the description,
you can watch cages, know what's in the cages,
and they said they were breeding last night.
- Oh, no way!
Sweet! - So, who knows?
Maybe we'll get another clutch.
I have no idea.
Regardless, welcome to the vlog.
I hope this started your day amazing.
It's always a good day when Eric is happy
and he's got-- - Yes!
- I've got some new, pretty cool little snakes
here I wanted to show you guys.
These are absolutely amazing.
Actually, a friend of mine dropped them by
as kind of a surprise to me.
I didn't expect them to be here.
And he said he was gonna drop off some house snakes.
Now, there's African house snakes,
we've worked with them for a long time.
They're a cool little colubrid snake.
Those ones are typically brown, they almost kinda look like
a little python, to be honest with ya,
but these guys are actually what they call
black house snakes, so again, there's a bunch
of different African house snakes.
You can get them green with the auroras,
you can get them brown, and of course,
the black ones.
Now, the black ones almost look like miniature
Mexican black king snakes.
They're absolutely incredible, and these ones here
are rippers, I mean, these ones
are really black animals.
I've never seen them quite this black.
That's awesome.
These are typically more from West Africa
as opposed to a lot of the ones you see
from Namibia or South Africa that are brown,
so they're really cool.
A lot of these come out of a country called Benin
in West Africa, but cool little colubrid snakes.
Again, these guys don't hibernate or brumate,
they stay up all the time.
They're little babies but they usually do pretty well.
They maybe get two and a half to three foot length.
They produce a lot.
I mean, I've had females lay up to seven clutches in a year,
so it's pretty cool.
So, it's pretty awesome to have a little black house snakes.
And by the way, I'm looking at getting
a whole bunch of other house snakes.
I'll fill you guys more on that
in a little bit.
Nevertheless, I wanted to show you these
cute little monkeys that a friend of mine dropped off.
I couldn't be more happy.
Like I mentioned earlier, we actually have
someone tell us that this camera right up here,
on the live reptile cams, they actually saw Nova
trying to breed Lilith, and we actually saw it
a couple times a week ago, or so.
And again, this last clutch is hatched,
she laid about six weeks later.
This time, it's already been about ten weeks
since she's laid, so I'm not sure
she's gonna lay another clutch,
but I wanna go ahead and check her again,
because she does look a little bit fuller
than she did, like, maybe she's building
for another clutch, so, I'm just gonna go ahead
and try to wrangle Lilith
and see if I can feel some eggs.
Come on, sweetie, I know you don't like to be handled.
It's okay, it's okay, baby, it's okay.
It's alright.
She definitely doesn't like to get handled.
She's nothing like Nova.
But look at how chunky she is.
I mean, there is no doubt, she is full of eggs.
I mean, look at how fat she is.
Just in the last couple weeks, she went from being
kinda on the thin side, after having a few clutches
it always takes a lot of energy out of you,
so now she is just full of eggs.
Oh, it's okay, little girl!
It's okay, we'll let you go.
There you go, sweetheart.
You're doing good, but look at that,
you can just see, and, up, there she goes.
She's away, and she's off.
But she's definitely got some eggs in her,
so it looks like we're gonna produce
a third clutch of eggs!
Hopefully, they'll be good, and hopefully
we'll have some more little babies.
We're gonna definitely go ahead and set up
these other babies, and definitely hope
they'll thrive as good as the first ones have.
And in the spirit of setting up the new baby frills
and possibly getting another clutch, I think I'm gonna
go ahead and just feed
these baby frills that we have
that are a month and a half old.
I absolutely love this part of my day.
(downbeat music)
(intense music)
A little species spotlight for you guys.
You know I love to teach you guys about animals,
and I figure, although ball pythons
are kinda regularly common, and a lot of people
know a lot about them, I figure they're also
one of the best pet snakes, so I'm gonna tell you
a little bit about ball pythons
you may or may not know.
Obviously, these guys are a python,
regius is their technical name.
These guys are from West Africa.
Now, the range is pretty big
in West Africa.
It can go all the way into Nigeria
and something like that, but the three countries
that they are actually exported out of
are Ghana, Togo, and Benin.
That's where pretty much all the mutations,
as a matter of fact, this piebald ball python named Honey
comes from Accra, Ghana.
Now, they've been farming ball pythons in Africa.
What I mean by that is they collect eggs
and they actually hatch the eggs
and then ship the babies here, for the last 20 years.
And they have a relatively big quota.
They're an Appendix II endangered animal,
meaning they need what they call CITES paperwork
in order to export all over the world.
And those farms sending over captive babies
is what caused the ball python industry
to pop so much, because the wild-caught animals
don't typically do nearly as well as captive babies.
Now they're being captive-bred all over the world,
where there isn't as much demand
for the farmed animals in West Africa, but they're just
the perfect little animal because they get
roughly about four foot, sometimes rarely
they'll get five foot plus, and sometimes
they'll stay under four foot.
So, they're a big animal, but not too large.
They are kinda known for being picky
when it comes to feeding, but the truth is,
they're relatively good.
They'll typically always take mice or rats
or something on those lines.
Oftentimes we'll take throws and thawed rodents as well.
Now, the reason that people typically think they're picking
is they do what they call fasting,
where sometimes a ball python as an adult
can go two to four months each year
without eating, and basically what the reason for that is,
over in West Africa there's a rainy season
and there's a dry season.
During the dry season there's not nearly
the amount of food available,
so just from a natural standpoint, what they do is,
they eat a tremendous amount during the rainy season
and then they fast during the dry season,
and that just kinda has been built into these animals.
So I always tell people, if you have a ball python
that goes off of food, don't get stressed out,
as long as it looks healthy, it's acting healthy,
they typically go, again, two to four months,
losing less than 10% of their body weight,
and they typically always go back onto food,
no problem.
Other than that, they make amazingly good pets,
because again, not only can you get
a tremendous amount of color ways
and paint jobs that make it really awesome,
and most of them have become pretty affordable
into the pet industry, but they don't move a lot,
so with people who aren't as comfortable
handling a snake that's really active,
ball pythons are the perfect choice.
I've often said that the king of snakes
is ball pythons, and weirdly enough, these guys
are called royal pythons in a lot of parts
of the world.
And the reason they were called royal pythons
is it's said that Cleopatra used to wear
these as jewelry, hence the name royal pythons.
Noah!
- Oh, what's up? - Eric!
I know this is an important topic for you guys
that you're very, very passionate about.
- Didn't see him there. - Both you guys.
What's it like to be Detroit Lions fan?
- [Woman] They ask you how you are,
and you just have to say that you're fine,
and you're not really fine, but you--
- [Brian] I mean, how's that going for you?
- Oh, shut up.
- What? - Shut up!
I don't wanna talk about this.
- [Brian] You don't wanna talk about the Detroit Lions?
They're great.
- Yeah. - They suck!
- [Brian] Did you catch a game that--
- Eric doesn't even watch football.
- He threw the football and the guy, dude,
right past the scrimmage line, dude.
- That's true, anyways--
- I don't really follow sports.
I don't know anything about sports.
- Eric isn't a sports man. - Yeah.
- But-- - Noah is passionate
about the lions.
- Ugh, I hate them!
- Oh yeah, you went to the game!
How was it?
- I didn't go to the game.
- Oh.
- But, I watched it, and I wanna hit them, too,
right in the face.
I'm pissed. - Dude!
- I don't wanna say his name because it might
be a lawsuit, but.
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- But, ugh-- - Does he pass the ball
or does he coach the team?
- No!
He has the playbook.
That's all I'm gonna say.
- Oh! - I'm pissed.
I'm pissed. - Dude, I'll hold his arms
behind his back and you can just punch him
a couple times. - I'm pissed.
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- 'Cause we've been trash for more than a freaking,
it's almost been a century and we haven't even
done anything, ever! - Oh, I know.
- I'm gonna be 80 years old on my deathbed,
and I'll be like, oh, those damn Lions.
(Brian laughs)
I'll still be pissed! - Still not, probably.
- When am I gonna win, man?
We put all this money into the defense,
we can't even stop anybody.
There's running backs running on top of us.
- I'm glad that Noah didn't want to talk about it.
Because I knew as soon as he started,
he was gonna go crazy!
- This is dumb, guys, I'm mad.
- Because you're speakin' Japanese right now.
- I'm mad. - I don't know
what you're talking about, alright.
- [Brian] Have you ever watched a football game?
- Not really.
I think it was when I was younger
and my aunt and uncle would look after us
and they'd just have football on 24/7,
and I'd just sit there and I'm like,
I want ice cream!
- Alright, go Lions, go Lions.
Time for a little maintenance
with Mario and Luigi, the two-headed snapping turtle,
because we have them in a real simplistic setup.
We don't have filter on it, now,
which means we actually have to tear it down,
clean the gravel, put conditioner in,
put the water back in, and then ultimately,
put the animal back in there, so,
basically, every few days we're gonna have to do this
'till it gets a little bigger
and we can get a setup with a natural filter.
So, Andrew's gonna go ahead
and clean this guy up and get his new digs ready.
(downbeat music)
- Alright so we have Mario and Luigi's enclosure clean,
we've got the water conditioner in,
and I think they're ready to go back.
- You know what, I just want to take a quick moment
and thank you guys, to be honest with you.
No matter what, every morning, I wake up,
I upload the video, and I spend at least an hour or so
commenting back to you guys, and your comments
are so uplifting.
Even if I start the day and feel a little bit blah,
you're just so amazing.
I know that not all comment sections are great
on YouTube, and every now and then
there's a silly comment, I get it.
That's just part of life and stuff like that.
But overwhelmingly, you guys make me feel so good
and I cannot thank you enough for that support
and that dose of positivity every morning I wake up.
I mean, I can't imagine starting my day
any other way than sharing it with you guys.
Not only sharing my video but also
sharing your comments with me.
I really do love it, and even through the course of the day
I may not be commenting back as much,
I try to pop in and read all your comments
because they're so important to me,
so please, keep the comments coming,
because I love you guys.
Ace the D'Albertis python,
or what they sometimes call a white-lipped python,
just shout-out, and I just have to show you
how absolutely gorgeous this animal is.
I totally, I love the D'Albertis python,
because I've been working with them
on and off since I was a kid.
I used to actually produce them.
Unfortunately, we just have one now.
I'd love to get the opposite sex for Ace
so maybe we can one day breed them again,
because they are just absolutely, truly spectacular snakes.
Unfortunately, you just don't see these
captive born often, and usually,
they're certainty not as tame as Ace.
Even when I used to breed them I never had adults
I could take out and actually play with
because they always wanted to bite me.
So, it's really cool that we have an animal like this
at the Reptarium that is not only
as gorgeous as Ace is, but can also come out
and play, that's for sure.
And again, unbelievable iridescence.
I just had to show you guys
after a fresh shed.
- Packing some geckos.
- Packing some geckos? - Mhm.
- [Brian] More adults going out?
- Yep, and the last ones were almost sold out
of all the ones we wanted to. - Almost sold out?
- So, yes, both Jessica and I are very happy about that.
- [Brian] That's good.
Well, I might be going out of town tomorrow
so I'm a little concerned
about you being able to handle things
without me here, so--
- I'm very confused on all fronts.
- [Brian] What, the going out of town part,
or my concern?
- Both, both, so you just decided to go out of town?
- [Brian] I gotta go do this, like, shoot
with a snake in Columbus, Ohio, so.
- Oh, okay, well that's--
- [Brian] So, are you gonna be able to,
do you need me to have-- - That's nice.
- [Brian] People come in and help for you?
- Yeah, yeah, if we could get, call in the reserves,
that would be awesome, because I don't think
I can handle you not being here.
- [Brian] Okay. (laughs)
No, it's, seriously, I know you'll be fine,
but I'll let you know if I'm going.
I think I'm gonna be going tomorrow, okay?
- Alright then, have fun.
- [Brian] Will you miss me?
- You know I always miss you so much when you're gone.
- Oh, my, goodbye.
You know we're winding down here when it comes
to production with ball pythons,
but the weird thing is that we're actually
gearing up to start breeding
in a couple weeks.
We're actually gonna be breeding these guys again,
and I have a bunch of projects
that I'm super excited about.
I mean, I could go on forever,
but I just wanna show you a couple things
that are gonna be awesome.
This male pastel cinna bee lesser bongo
is definitely gonna be a stud this year.
We're gonna take him to a bunch of different things,
for sure, just to kind of get that bongo gene
into some new stuff.
It's a really cool mutation, and I love the way
this combination actually comes out, and he's just
gonna breed for the first time this year,
so like I mentioned here in a couple weeks,
we'll start putting males
and females together.
I'll take you guys along on the journey,
but it's gonna be super exciting.
This is another one that I'm super excited
to breed this year.
It's really kind of a simple thing.
This is just a calico and a spider.
Sometimes they call them calendars,
and they're just amazing.
I mean, the spider gene
and the calico gene mixed together,
it almost looks like a pied, almost,
with all that insane white on it, I mean,
what an absolute ripper too.
I can't imagine if we get this thing
into some enchi, some pastel, all kinds of different stuff.
Orange dream, woo!
So, this has got a nice future for sure.
And I know I've mentioned to you guys in the past
that I'm not always looking to breed
the most rare stuff.
I'm just looking to breed stuff
that is amazingly beautiful.
This is actually a banana clown ball python, so again,
it's just a code-dominant banana
with a recessive clown, so it's just a two-bang mutation,
but a really cool one, and I've got a female
I cannot wait to breed it to.
And of course, he's probably going to go
to some other females, as well, but this is actually
an enchi pastave het clown, right here,
so I can potentially get banana, enchi,
pastave, clowns, that's gonna be ridiculous!
And this is a nice, big girl, for sure.
She should have a good clutch next year,
with any luck.
This last year we had a tremendous year.
Kelsey worked really hard on it, so hopefully,
this year will be even better.
I am super excited to just get the breeding season started.
And don't forget, although we did produce
these little monkeys here, the pastel banana camos,
next year I hope that on the third year,
that we'll actually produce
some camo bananas, next year.
I haven't given up on that project.
We're gonna go ahead and give it a shot.
This year, there was five clutches.
Last year there was four or five clutches,
so hopefully this next year we'll get four or five
clutches again, and then finally crack that one
and get my Barney ball python.
It was definitely cool to get those black house snakes.
I love those animals!
They're so absolutely adorable!
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