- Brian what do you do when your animals get old?
I mean what's going on with that?
Well guess what?
Karma is retiring.
Oh doggy! Woo this thing is gorgeous!
Jerry finally took it.
He finally took it.
Yes Jerry!
Jerry's finally eating!
Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I'm with my guy here Karma,
and I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys,
a buncha people have asked like
Brian what do you do when your animals get old?
I mean what's goin' on with that?
Well guess what Karma is retiring today.
That's right. Karma is an amazing animal,
but he is definitely getting older,
and we just thought that it's probably time
for him to retire.
Basically he just starts getting a little bit thinner
even though he's eating really well
that I've talked with a hand full of my chameleon friends
and at his age he's probably only got maybe a year left
and I just thought to myself you know
over here at the Reptarium he gets handled an awful lot
and I think that is might be better
to move him over to the BHB
and let him have his last year or so just with us
and not the stress of having so many people
so today Karma goes over to BHB
and today my friends over at Kammerflage Chameleons
sent us another Nosey Be Panther chameleon just like Karma
so it's a little guy
but it's gonna take Karma's place over here
and Karma is gonna be treated like he always was
before the Reptarium's open.
He's gonna be our pet at BHB
and he's gonna have a nice mellow retirement.
Just your daily check-in on some baby Colubrids
that are hatching.
This is a beautiful clutch of
Brooks King snakes right here that hatched out.
I love the Brooks Kings,
and these are actually from an Albino Jelly breeding
absolutely incredible animals.
And it's so weird with that Albino Jelly stuff,
because that gene is such a bizarre gene.
I would've expected to get some Albino Jellies
or Jellies out of this
'cause this was supposed to be
an Albino Jelly to a Jelly clutch
but it turns out they're all normals and hatching.
Look at that little feisty little dude right there.
These guys hatch out with such crazy attitude.
Come on little monkeys. Whoo!
(laughing) Oh my gosh!
And again these get pretty large.
I mean you can get a Brooks King
that can get like seven foot long at times.
Really strong feeders as you can see right here
got some pretty intense attitude.
But to be honest with you,
really super tame once you actually put some time into 'em.
I love Brooks Kings.
I mean, they're definitely
one of my favorite Colubrid snakes for sure.
And then we just have
what do we have here?
A Hypo Plamsa Scaleless
Oh these are some neat little animals here.
That Plasma is actually Lavender and Diffused Corn.
So it looks like we finally hit some Lavender stuff here.
This is just a little Lavender Corn snake here.
Weirdly enough I don't see anything Diffused
or Blood Red in here,
but I do see a little Scaleless Corn snake.
Unfortunately it's not a Lavender Scaleless.
I really want to hit a Lavender Scaleless this year,
but I didn't hit it.
And it looks like we just have some other Lavenders
and some normals and stuff like that,
but that Lavender gene is absolutely incredible.
I mean look at how beautiful that is.
And again the Diffused Lavender stuff is even more awesome,
so that's it just a little update
on baby Colubrids for the day.
I suppose the reality of keeping animals
is that they eventually get old.
I mean most animals with the exception of my tortoises
or maybe my gators
you know I'm gonna probably out live
or at least I hope I do in that case
in the sense that ya know most of the time
the longevity is 20 maybe 30 years right.
Take for instance this Pinstripe Ball python here
she's coming up on 20 years.
She's one of my first original Pinstripes I ever produced.
And you can start to see she just doesn't have
the body weight that she used to have.
She's just gettin' old ya know,
and as reptiles get old they start to lose
a little bit of their body weight
even when they have the same amount of food consumption
they just don't look as beefy
and that's just kinda the way it goes.
And again people ask me all the time
what happens when that goes down
and the truth is we just try to give 'em
the best life they possibly can.
We love 'em now just as much as we loved them before
and even if they don't produce
we still absolutely adore them.
And this girl and me,
I tell you we have a history.
She's produced a ton of eggs,
a ton of cold babies,
and I love her to death
and hopefully she'll be around for another five
or seven years
but chances are pretty good her production days are over.
Alright so here's the deal guys
over on Noah's channel
Noah came up for a prank for Eric.
We know that he's afraid of tarantulas.
We kinda spooked him a couple of times with tarantula sheds.
So we're tryin' to just up the ante right.
So what we're gonna do
We're gonna have Bruce take out the pink toe right now
And then we're gonna kinda set it up to where
we say he got loose right
and then Noah's gonna be in pretty soon
and Noah's gonna set up a little more
and then eventually we've got an idea.
Anyways I just wanted to tell you why
I've got the pink toe out right now.
It's gonna be funny.
I'll put a link in the description for Noah's video
'cause it's gonna be absolutely hilarious
and it should go pretty well.
Beautiful. Beautiful animal by the way.
Ya know it's been so busy this time of year
that we're showing like babies, and hatchlings ,
and cutting eyes, and all that stuff,
but you know we're still having to do
all our daily maintenance on all of our snakes over here,
so the crew is still fast at it,
workin' their way around you know cleaning, feeding,
watering, all of the that type of stuff,
so ya know even when it's cool that we're hatching stuff
the work doesn't stop.
- What's up everyone!
Glad you're checkin' in with old Eric here.
Just spot cleaning today.
Ya know there's always something to do every single day.
The Colubrids are pretty messy li'l animals,
especially with us ya know feeding 'em
and getting them bulked back up for hibernation.
They're poopin' all the time,
so I'm going through
I have to add bedding, take bedding out,
change water, stuff like that.
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- I'm going through today and feeding all of these.
This is probably the most geckos we've ever had
at one time.
So I've got a pretty big job today.
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- Here's another animal that's getting
a little bit geriatric,
but to be honest with you she looks really good.
She's one of my older animals at 21 years,
coming up on 22 years this fall,
so she looks really in great shape for her age
and Brazilian Rainbow boas can live 30 plus years
so I wouldn't say she's retired at all.
I haven't bred her,
but I think she could even produce babies
to be honest with ya
but I love her to death
and it's kinda cool to think of the fact
that I remember when we actually got this animal
and I remember her being a baby
and all these years later still staying with her
and that's one of the things that I always talk about
with reptiles in particular
things are gonna live 20 or 30 thousand years
(record scratching) Oh my gosh
In particular animals that are gonna live 20 or 30 years
or sometimes a lot more
is the responsibility that goes along with that right.
If you're gonna get an animal like this
there's a chance that you may have to be caring
for this animal 20 or 25 or maybe even 30 years later.
I tell ya I love the fact that most reptiles
live a long time.
Because it does suck when they finally get old like Karma
getting to the end it's a bummer.
I love that animal so much,
but I'm gonna give him the best life I possibly can
for however long he still sticks around.
And we've got the box in from my friends
over at Kammerflage Chameleons
I tell ya what I'm excited about this
and again we're gonna treat Karma just as good as ever.
As a matter of fact he'll probably get even more attention
but just from us and not the whole commotion.
Let's face it guys, even though we take all the precautions
in the world there certainly is an amount of stress
that goes into the fact that
tons of people are coming through
and especially with an animal like Karma
that really spent the first seven years
of his life just with us right,
so this animal will get raised here
and hopefully will be little bit more used to the handle
and the hustle and bustle and all that type of stuff.
Karma has done amazing here
I just don't wanna have the last part of his life that way
when I can start kinda with something fresh.
By the way this is a really good pack job.
You guys did amazing there over at Kammerflage
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And I've known those guys for quite some time.
They have a beautiful amount of stuff.
And look at this,
"Hey Brian, what a surprise.
Welcome to the Kammerflage family.
Nosey Be male.
Dazzy Vance son
Arwen Evenstar."
And it has the date it hatched and stuff.
And oh doggy! Woo hoo hoo!
This thing is gorgeous!
Oh my gosh! Oh!
Holy cow guys take a look at this thing!
It is absolutely stunning!
Oh my gosh!
Again has a little bit different look than Karma did,
and I think it's gonna be really good to start
with an animal this size
and really get it habituated to handling.
Now don't get me wrong,
it's probably not gonna get handled
for at least a couple two or three weeks 'til it settles in
and then we'll take it really low.
We don't want to cause this thing any undo stress
that's for sure,
but it's gonna be amazing.
It's gonna have a beautiful big habitat
where it can grow
and kinda grow up to be an amazing ambassador here.
And don't worry, Karma's not going anywhere.
Again, I'll keep him in the vlog
and I'll give you guys updates and stuff like that,
but I think he's gonna be happier back at BHB
where he grew up.
And we'll get a new Nosey Be for the Reptarium.
This thing is gorgeous!
And again if you guys are looking for a chameleon
I'll put a link in the description to Kammerflage.
Like I said, I really have always been super impressed
with their professionalism,
as well as the quality of their animals.
So there guys go.
The new addition to the Reptarium.
What an absolute ripper!
So I'm gonna go ahead and put him in his new home.
It's a big home, so we're gonna have to keep an eye on him.
See if we'll have to downsize at some point,
but he might do really well in here.
Go ahead buddy.
There ya go sweetheart.
Oh my God he's gonna be so good.
Look at it he's just cruisin' around like crazy.
What an awesome animal.
And again ya know having a lot of space
might be really good for him.
We're just gonna have to make sure he stays hydrated
and fed really well,
but this is one the things we wanna do
is really get him habituated to handling number one,
once he gets settled in of course,
and then also make sure that he feeds off of tongs
so we'll be working with him over the next several weeks
and stuff like that
but there it is Karma gets a retirement.
He's gone fishing.
And this guy gets a new home.
Always improving the Reptarium.
Lori actually asked me to get this tree put up
when we walk in the door,
so what do you think?
- I love it. I'm so happy.
- Did well. And it's secure too.
- I see that, perfect.
No more kids climbing the tree, knocking it over.
Perfect. (laughing)
- Exactly, we actually had this up awhile ago
and we just had it leaned up with some fishing line.
Just had it attached,
and kids kept knocking it over,
so now it's cemented to the ground.
It's to this pole over here,
so ya know I like to make my wife happy ya know.
- Happy wife happy life. (laughs)
- Now breeding season is over I'm expecting no more clutches
so today what I'm gonna be busy doing
is I'm taking care of our baby skinks.
I'm spot cleaning them.
I'm preparing food for them.
And I'm giving them fresh water.
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- The last couple weeks since Ben and Jerry were injured
a li'l bit Jerry hasn't fed.
Remember Ben used to always eat
and then Jerry started eating,
The last couple weeks only Ben has eaten,
so I'm hoping today maybe things'll change.
I'm gonna go ahead and offer these guys food really quick.
Here you guys go.
You interested?
There goes Ben.
Now let's see if Jerry'll eat.
Jerry you wanna eat?
The weird thing is here is that ya know,
Ben is still in control of that body as well,
so when I touch the body Ben pulls back.
I'm just tryin' to if I can get Jerry alone.
See, as soon as I touch the body he pulls back.
Come on Jerry, come on.
Jerry just doesn't seem to be interested anymore.
Jerry finally took it!
He finally took it!
Yes! Jerry's finally eating guys!
I'm so excited about this
'cause again I just know that they were doing so much better
when both of them would eat,
so I'm super excited that Jerry finally took another rodent.
That is such great news.
Oh my God I'm so relieved.
I tell ya what, look at how cool that is.
They're both eating again.
So that means they are definitely all set.
Oh my gosh how awesome is that!
I want to show you a real quick collection
now I'm gonna be completely honest with you guys
and remember I caught a clutch
and there was a white snake in it.
The mother was a Blue-Eyed Leucistic
which is a Lesser and a Het Russo.
And the father was a Banana Enchi Pinstripe.
And the weird thing was there was a white snake in there
and it was really crazy
and I'll be honest with you I forgot to show you guys.
I just completely forgot to show you.
They hatched out and I wanted to show the results.
It was like last week,
so here we are, anyways,
regardless,
let me just show you right here.
This would be what would just be a Kingpin right,
so this is the Lesser and it's the Pinstripe
and because it's a Blue-Eyed Leucistic
everything either has to be Lesser
or has to be Het Russo and combinations there.
Think so this is a combination
of the Lesser and the Pinstripe
and then right here we actually have
a pretty interesting little faded animal here.
I'm pretty sure this is a Banana Enchi Pinstripe Het Russo
because it's really faded
and I've never seen one of these before
It's a pretty interesting animal,
but again the fading kinda takes away
from the kinda pop of the animal.
Really, absolutely gorgeous.
Now this would be the opposite.
This would be actually a Banana Enchi Kingpin.
So it's the Lesser and the Pinstripe
instead of the Het Russo and the Pinstripe.
And again, this is a really beautiful snake.
That Enchi really kinda makes it pop a li'l bit more.
When this sheds and gets a few meals in it.
Whoo doggy!
That Enchi brightens things up.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Again we have another little Kingpin here
just like the first animal we had.
This one again I think is actually a Banana Het Russo.
A Pinstripe without the Enchi in it.
Just a little bit different color palette to it,
but you can definitely see the Pinstripe
and Het Russo in there.
And then this is another one that actually is just shed out,
so it looks a little bit better.
This one is the Banana Enchi Kingpin,
which absolutely incredible.
I mean, the fact that you can really see
all those colors popping with it.
This is a beautiful snake.
And the other one I showed you
is gonna look just like it when it sheds,
but this is the first one that sheds out.
Then there's this li'l monkey here.
A white snake.
That has a little bit of patterning on it,
and I don't know what's going on with that
because there is legitimately,
theoretically if the mother was a Blue-Eye Leucistic
it would be again a Lesser and a Het Russo.
The father was a Banana Pinstripe Enchi.
There's no way you could produce a white snake.
It's literally impossible.
You can't produce a white snake from that,
so this is a complete mystery here.
I don't know what the genetics behind this is.
Have no idea.
Maybe it's one of those kinda pop out of nowhere
type animals that don't make any sense.
Regardless we have a little Blue-Eyed Leucistic here
that looks just like its mom,
but again the mom can't reproduce itself,
because it's not able to do that without having a Lesser
or a Het Russo or a Mojave on the male side,
which it didn't.
I know I'm probably confusing the heck outta you.
The point is this is a rare animal,
and it's pretty awesome that we kind of
spontaneously produced a Blue-Eyed Leucistic
that doesn't seem to somehow make sense.
And there it is guys.
The lost clutch I forgot to update you guys on.
I hope you enjoyed it.
Well if you guys were interested in what happens
when an animal gets a little bit too old and retires
yeah they just become our pet
and they live their life the best
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