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- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day
is absolutely incredible,
my day has started out great
because I get to spend time
with my beautiful Night Nile Monitor,
named Abasucu.
I tell you, it is so crazy
that this animal has become
this unbelievably socialized.
You know, just like dogs and cats
there are certain animals that are
just known for being a little
bit more temperamental.
Well, Nile Monitors in particular,
are definitely one of those Monitor lizards
that seem to be just a little bit
more cantankerous;
so they have a bigger attitude,
they definitely kinda stand their ground
if you know what I mean.
And you guys remember Abasucu,
just six months back,
she was crazy
[laughing]
she was a beast,
I mean if I was anywhere close
to her like this,
she would be chompin' on my finger right now.
So it's pretty amazing that this is kinda,
in my eyes,
like the holy grail of kinda socialization.
Getting an animal from a point where she's
thinking like food all the time,
to thinking that she's absolutely docile
and can mess with her like nothing,
and never have to worry about her at all.
Although, every now and then when you
make a fast move just like I did a minute ago
she like looks just
"Oh, is that something to eat?"
But you know the fact that we have
ball trained her, target trained her,
really took away that food aggression, right?
'Cause she knows
"I'm not gettin' food unless I see a blue ball"
and as long as there's not a blue ball,
she knows there's no food.
She's amazing.
And we're gonna try to do the same thing
with a Croc Monitor over at the new Reptarium.
My buddy, Forrest, is actually giving us one
that's a captive born year and a half old animal
that is crazy and very, very defensive
and food aggressive.
And we're gonna try to work the exact same way
that we did with Abasucu here,
with that animal.
It's gonna be so exciting.
If we can achieve that, woo doggy,
I tell ya what, that's gonna be amazing.
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- Ya know we've actually tamed out
all of our Monitor lizards to the point
where they can all be handled,
but Argumus Prime is still been
a little bit cantankerous here.
Ya know, we've definitely ball trained him,
it's calmed him down a lot.
But the truth is, sometimes it's kinda cool
to have one kind of insane Monitor
that just will go absolutely nuts.
Come on bud, come on, come on.
Come on, woo!
Come on, buddy.
[Laughing]
I always say, he's kinda like my dolphin show
if you know what I mean.
He loves to just kinda fly around,
and he is an animal that will get ya
if you're not careful for sure.
Come on Ar, Ar climb on.
Come on [whooping]
Okay, there we go!
Whoa!
Whoa, come on little buddy!
It's kinda fun, right?
Because ya know having all these super socialized
Monitor lizards, I don't wanna say it's boring
'cause it's not.
'Cause it's cool to have an animal like that.
But to have an animal like Argumus here,
is pretty awesome.
Woo, come on buddy!
There you go, there you go!
[exasperated sigh]
He is just so absolutely amazing.
I love him to death.
So, although we want him to be
somewhat socialized,
and he's definitely way better
than he used to be,
we kinda still want to have him
a little bit of energy, right?
Because after all this is what
they're gonna be like in the wild.
So, we can show all these socialized
Monitor lizards like Abasucu and Toothless
and Elvis, and then we have the other side here
with Argumus that kinda shows
what Monitor lizards really are like.
So I love the kind of variance
when it comes to keeping these guys.
So I don't know if I'll ever want Argumus
to be the tamest of animals
because then we're kinda taking away
what makes him so special.
And trust me, he is special.
We're gonna let him finish this last mouse
and we'll give him one more mouse
to try to get him back in his cage.
But I'll be honest with you,
we could pick him up right now
because he's actually gotten pretty good about it
but let's go ahead and see
if we can get him back in.
Come on bud, there you go, there you go
back in your cage, back in your cage,
back in your cage!
There you go bud, there it goes.
There you go sweetheart.
[Laughing]
So again, we could probably get him
much more socialized,
but I think he's great just the way he is.
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With Jessica, which means that we must
be getting some gecko eggs.
What do we have today?
- Yeah, we've got Cave Gecko eggs.
- [Brian] Cave Gecko eggs, nice!
- [Jessica] Yeah, the Chinese caves.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh
- [Jessica] These are some of our females
that we actually raised up from last year.
- [Brian] Oh really?
So these are first year females?
Oh my gosh.
- [Jessica] And both of them laid, so
- [Brian] Oh wow, is this the first clutch
this year?
- I got one while you were out of town sometime,
- [Brian] Oh, okay
- So this will be the second and third.
- [Brian] Oh my god that's awesome!
- So with these guys,
they dig pretty much all the way to the bottom
so I can just check.
- [Brian] Oh okay
- Oh, they didn't this time.
- [Brian] Okay, so you just gotta find them
- [Jessica] Yep!
Oh there's one.
- [Brian] There's one egg right there,
looks good too!
- [Jessica] Another one
- [Brian] Oh there's two,
and of course, most geckos,
if they're doing everything right,
lay two eggs at a time.
So, we've got one clutch there
and you said you think both of them laid?
- [Jessica] Mhm,
well I know for sure they did
because I caught the other one laying
- [Brian] Oh okay, gotcha
- And I knew these ones were in there.
- [Brian] Okay, good.
So we've got two more in there somewhere.
- [Jessica] I think she was around this area.
Yep, they're there.
- [Brian] Oh they're there?
Oh my god, that's gecko mastery over here, jeeze.
- They look nice and good, both sets,
all of them.
- They look good too, so that's awesome!
- So we should have a bunch of Cave Geckos
this year.
- That's awesome, that's super cool.
More gecko eggs!
Oh, snap.
- Yeah, we got Crested Gecko eggs today.
- [Brian] Crested Gecko eggs, alright!
Awesome, that's cool.
Is this the same girl that the one baby
hatched the other day?
- No. Different female.
- [Brian] Oh, this is a different girl.
Different female, okay.
- This is Columbia.
- [Brian] Columbia.
- [Jessica] These guys don't mess up their dirt
as much as the other geckos I've noticed.
It doesn't even look like they lay eggs.
- [Brian] Oh, there's one egg!
- [Jessica] I don't think there's another one
just 'cause they're usually right
next to each other.
Yeah, just one!
- And like I mentioned earlier,
normally geckos lay two eggs when they're firing
but sometimes an oviduct just won't fire.
In this case, it was point proven
that there's only one egg in the Crested Gecko.
And look at this guys!
- [Jessica] Yeah!
- [Brian] We've got a little Gargoyle Gecko!
Oh my gosh.
- It looks so cool!
Like it's all gray right now,
but I think it's gonna have some orange blotching
when it sheds out.
- [Brian] Orange blotching?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Oh my god that is so adorable
look at you little monkey
Whoa!
- We're finally starting to get a lot of eggs
with the new Caledonians and stuff
which is really exciting.
- [Brian] That is super exciting
I love these guys, they are so adorable!
And as excited as I am about all the geckos,
the one that I'm the most excited about
is Tiki's Geckos Deadpool line.
And the girl is in her nest box right now,
looks like she's loaded up with eggs too!
- [Jessica] Yeah!
- [Brian] So she should, you think she'll lay
pretty soon, right?
- I think so, yeah.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- So usually they'll dig for a couple days
I think this will be her first time laying for us
- [Brian] Oh my gosh
- So it might be more like a week or two.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, holy cow.
- I can't wait though,
hers I'm really excited for.
- I am so excited for those babies!
Oh my gosh!
I'll keep you guys posted as soon as she lays.
[kids chatting]
- Taking a quick break for the day
for a tour that is in the house.
A bunch of kids that are just on kinda
holiday break right now, come in.
Gonna show them some cool animals
and have a good time,
and then we'll get back to work.
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[♪ Five, Four, Three, Two]
- Obviously the wall is opened up over here
we just have it kinda temporarily closed up.
For those of you guys that missed that,
I'll actually put a link in the description
of when we open up.
It's actually incredible,
so the Reptarium expansion is coming along
and guess what guys?
We now have a kind of set date
when we need help with the installation.
I know a lot of you guys have reached out to me
and said "Hey Brian, how can I help?"
Well February 3rd, Monday February 3rd
hopefully about 8 o'clock in the morning,
we're gonna have the truck show up
and we're gonna need to load the enclosures in.
So, if you want to help out, you can hit me up
at info@bhbreptiles.
Send me your information, I'll get back to you.
We need probably 20 to 25 people
to come in to help install,
get this done, probably just one day.
I mean a few days we could use some help,
but not by 25 people.
A few people, to do little things here and there
possibly, if it's something that
you're interested in doing,
hanging out with me during the day,
but we're gonna be working our butts off people
info@bhbreptiles again, February 3rd.
Hopefully that doesn't change,
but that's what we're hoping for.
Couldn't be more excited,
we have our work cut out for us.
There's still a lot to do here,
but we're on track and I think
that's the date that it's gonna all happen.
And if you guys are wondering why February 3rd
is so important to me,
basically I have my buddy Ed from Aquascape
is gonna be coming in.
He's an expert on filtration.
Now, the anaconda tank, the gator tank,
and the turtle tank are all gonna have
Aquascape filters on them.
And we're actually gonna punch
right through the floor, right here
and that's gonna be the actual drain.
So I really would like to have Ed here
because he's the mastermind behind all of our
filtration, and that's the only day
that he can make it in February,
we don't wanna push it off 'til March.
So that's why February 3rd is so important.
So we are gonna be diligently working
our butts off to make that happen.
Kind of an interesting looking Ball Python here.
This is what a lot of people refer to as IMG.
Basically you can see how crazy that pattern
and colors right there.
Basically what happens is that for some reason,
some Ball Pythons, very few,
at a certain stage will shed out the pigment
for some reason.
Now interestingly enough, Mary and Eric
ended up getting a pinstripe that did the exact
same thing from the same blood line from us
last year, where it got to about this size,
went through a shed cycle.
Wasn't a rough shed, wasn't a hard shed,
shed completely fine, but then just all
of a sudden looks, like it's crazy,
like a bunch of the pigment is gone.
Now ultimately usually this ends up turning
like a blackish color, or darker color
as they get older.
But never the less, I don't know
that it's genetic, I mean people
have been working on it for a long time.
And I don't know that anyone's ever proved out.
It is interesting though, that the same bloodline
of pinstripe would happen two years in a row.
- Glad you're joining me in the Colubrid Room
today, we're gonna be doing some feeding
but I kinda wanted to show you
what gets fed when, okay?
So from about here over,
you see all these tanks here.
These are all of our breeder snakes.
We're raising them up to breed,
we specifically have groups
and, ya know, our technical little stuff in here.
And these other guys,
we're not necessarily breeding them yet
or we don't have them on the breeding plan
so we feed them about once a week.
So these guys twice a week,
these guys once a week.
Today I'm going through,
I'm feeding everything today.
And, lets take you through the process.
Ya gotta count up some stuff,
we're constantly moving these guys.
So these guys we're moving into the half tubs
we call them.
The smaller guys and the take a longs
we're moving into here.
Just a busy process today.
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[♪Five, Four, Three, Two]
- If everything goes well,
and there's still some things
that have to go well.
We're actually going to do our first podcast
this coming Wednesday, the 6th, at 6 o'clock pm
Eastern Standard Time.
Now it's just gonna be a introductory podcast
to let you know guys know what the deal is,
I'm gonna put a link in the description
pin it, comment, go sub it, check it out.
Again, this Wednesday coming up 6 pm
Eastern Standard Time,
come join us over on the Checking In
Podcast Channel.
Hopefully, all the equipment will be working well
and we'll be online, we'll have a good time
for an hour or so, we'll just kinda talk
about some things.
And then we'll really start up after that.
But I really would love you to join us
for our first introductory podcast.
Time to feed my girl, Salty.
Ready, Salt?
[popping Sounds]
Here you go girl, here you go.
[popping Sounds]
Oh, went crazy on me.
Here you go, girl.
[popping sounds]
There you go, girl.
And you can see that sound,
she's keen on that sound now.
[popping sounds]
As soon as I make the sound,
she starts to thrash around,
she knows foods coming, which is amazing.
[popping sounds]
There you go, girl.
And again, because Salt and Pepper
are gonna go back in,
they've got two different sounds.
That way I can call Salt over with that sound
and Pepper with another sound.
[popping sound]
There you go, girl.
Alright, Pepper isn't quite as good as Salt
so we'll give her a try,
and hopefully she'll eat a little bit.
[clicking noises]
There we go, buddy.
[clicking noises]
There ya go!
[clicking noises]
There ya go!
And you can see, she's starting to key
on that sound as well.
So again, two different sounds,
they're both really doing well and that's
gonna work out really good when they're in
the same cage that way they're not fighting
for food as well as the fact I can get them
to come over and stage in certain areas
when I want them to.
So, what amazing animals.
Alright guys, I gotta go head another tour
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