- [Brian] Alright brother, how are ya man?
- Good to see ya, man. How are you?
So let's just take a closer look here,
and see what's going on.
(sigh)
(hip hop music)
Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the VLOG.
I am just going to give you just a quick little
tree watch here, because it's gettin' a little outta hand.
Of course, this is tree number one.
Doesn't have ornaments on it yet.
We're doing that later on tonight.
That's a big real tree that just came in.
This tree was over here. I'm not even sure
what's going on with this.
We apparently have a tree in the middle
of one of my living rooms.
I think it's gonna go somewhere.
I don't know where it's gonna go.
We got a tree over there. And guess what?
Now Lori even added this tree ...
... over here.
I'm not sure what's going on.
And, I'm assuming it's not gonna stay there, either.
That puts us up to six trees on the main level.
And then, we've got a tree upstairs.
And then there's a tree out front.
So, regardless, Lori is as crazy about Christmas
as I am about animals.
Let's go ahead and head over to the building.
Remember the other day when I said like,
How does a two-headed snake shed?
Well listen, that gives you the answer right there.
It looks like we have a really nice shed.
And, I'm looking here, and sure enough,
right by the head, it seems like it broke off.
You can kinda see right here, where that webbing
definitely caught the shed. And it didn't have a
really good option of shedding out.
Huh! That is really bizarre.
So let's just take a closer look here,
and see what's going on. And sure enough, it looks like
what happened is that Ben shed it's head 100%,
but Jerry really didn't have an opportunity
because that webbing caught it.
So what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna try to
just slowly peel this off the best I possibly can.
Let's see if we can't get Jerry kinda freed up here.
It's really bizarre, how it kinda broke right here.
(sigh)
And it literally was just right by that webbing
where it wouldn't come off. So we're just literally
gonna peel that last little bit off right here
And, there you go. It's all shed out.
Well, there answers the question I was asking.
How does a two-headed snake shed when it's got
that webbing in between it. Well, apparently
they don't do it very well.
Again, I was thinking like it would have to somehow
split it, but in this case, it really got stuck.
But in the end we were able to get the shed off.
How friggin' awesome is that?!
Ben & Jerry looks beautiful now.
And speaking of shedding, it looks like Lucy
did her normal, explode her shed all over her cage.
Whoa doggie, that is quite the mess.
And it looks like she's got just a little bit
of stuff shed on her, too. And I just hate the fact.
I mean, we do everything we can do to keep
the humidity up in here. We've got a big water base
and we've got all that type of stuff. And still,
she seems to have a hard time shedding, so-
But regardless, I think I'm gonna pull her out
get her into a soak,
and then I'll clean this entire cage up.
Oh, and by the way, you guys may have heard
of PetTube. It happens to be like a group
of YouTuber's that have a lot of pets,
that really educate people
about their care of their pets.
Some of them have a handful of pets.
Some have like, 100 pets. It's an interesting
community that, again, does a lot of educating
people, if they're interested in getting really
cool, exotic pets. Or even normal pets for that matter.
I'm excited to say that a bunch of them are actually
coming to visit The Reptarium today.
So, if you guys are into the PetTube thing,
you're gonna get a chance to see them come hang out
with us and our animals here at The Reptarium.
All right, Lucy, are you in an okay mood today, girl?
Hi, sweetheart. You look beautiful. Oh my gosh,
you look so incredible, girl.
Oof! There we go, sweetheart. Just gotta get her
in the soak real quick. Get that last shed off of her.
The good news is, is that Lucy loves water,
so usually, that's not a hard thing to get her
to go in the water. Which is good.
And you can see, she's just got some stuck shed
on her, here and there. No big deal. (grunts)
See if she'll go in here nice and good.
There you go, sweetheart. There you are.
She loves the water. C'mon sweetie. You stay in there.
(grunt) There you go, sweetheart.
She gets to stay in this new-
(grunt)
Guys, that's a lot of snake. It just keeps on comin',
but again, that's one of the nice things, is that
when you're puttin' Lucy in a thing without water,
it's a pain, but she loves water. So, usually
it's pretty easy to kinda get her to settle down.
Once I get her in here, I can clean the rest
of her cage. Get all the shed off here. (laughs)
'Have to clean the water out and stuff like that
but again, went completely smooth. She seems to be
in a really good mood right after she sheds,
and she always loves water.
So, alright let's get this mess cleaned up.
I'll let her soak for about a half an hour
and then we'll get the rest of that shed up
and get her back in her cage.
And get this day started.
(hip hop music)
Cage is all clean. That's the way you do it.
Just filling up Lucy's water with some clean water.
Again, I'm gonna let her soak just a little while longer,
get that shed off, and then we'll get her back
in her cage.
All right, so they have aaaarrriiivvved!
What's goin' on, man.
How are you brother? - What's up?
How are ya' man. Good to see ya' man. How are ya?
Hi, how are you? Hi, I'm Brian - Hey ... man!
Hey, what's goin' on? - Hello!
How are you? - Hi!
Hi, how are you? I know all your faces so well (laughs)
Hi, how are ya?
Hi guys, how are ya? - Hi.
How are ya. Welcome! Welcome, welcome!
- [Brian] He cleaned it with my guy Casper here.
- Yeah. (laughs)
- [Brian] I love this guy, he's so cool.
- And when he's done shedding, he's just so white
and so beautiful, you know?
(hip hop music)
- So Ricardo's holding her, and I'm just like (rubs snake)
(sexy music riff)
- I tell you what, guys, I had an absolute pleasure
hanging out. Of course, I've hung out with
you guys before, but getting to know you guys
has been amazing. I've watched 'em. I can't, uh,
thank them enough for all the hard work they're doing
trying to inspire people to love animals.
I'm gonna put the link in the description to
each and every one of their channels.
Please do me a favor, go over there.
Show them some love. Subscribe. Tell'em Brian sent you.
And, for now, thank you guys so much.
You guys are awesome.
- Thank you. - Thank you so much.
And, just a little wrap-up before I head over
to The Reptarium and kinda spend the evening with
all the people that are gonna come and hang out.
'Cause you know I love doing that.
I wanted to tell you that, I really was happy that
all the PetTuber's came to visit me.
I know we have, like different styles.
And certainly, I don't fit into the PetTube category
from the standpoint that, you know, I've been in
business for 30 years. And now I have a zoo,
and all that other stuff.
But I really appreciate anyone that is trying to
kinda further the awesomeness of all the animals.
And the PetTuber's don't just do reptiles,
they do all kinds of different things.
And listen, their message is really amazing.
They work really hard to reach people
with a positive message about keeping animals.
So, I was so happy to kinda join forces a little bit.
Have them over. Welcome them into my world.
They were extremely gracious. They were hanging out.
They really love the animals. And really we had
a really good time. So like I mentioned when they
first showed up, you know, I follow a lot of them
on social media. So it's really nice to kinda
finally get a chance to meet them and
just kinda get that personal feel with them.
So we had a really good time. So we're gonna-
I'm gonna go ahead and head over to The Reptarium
and enjoy this evening.
Got Daisy out (laughs) a little photo opportunity, you know?
Where else can you go to take a picture with
a big old snake?
They asked and we decided, "Yeah sure, why not?"
Daisy is a really good mood today. Unlike the other day.
You're such a beauty. What do ya think?
- I think she's nervous. She wants a little ...
- Okay. (excited kids talking)
Okay! So, we have Daisy out, and, uh-
You actually held Helen, and you were like,
"Alright, that's probably a big enough snake."
And now you're saying you wanna hold Daisy?
- Yeah. - [Brian] Are you kidding me?
Alright, jump in here. Jump in here. Jump in.
- [Woman] Go ahead!
(laughing)
- [Woman] I'm gonna go around here and take a picture.
- [Little Girl] Whoa, she's heavy.
- [Brian] She's heavy, huh?
= [Little Boy] Yeah.
(background chatter & laughter)
- (laughing) I love- I love The Reptarium. Its, its-
Every day is like, the best day ever.
Taking a little break from The Reptarium.
Because I had a few animals over at BHB that
I was thinking about, that I haven't seen
in a little while. And this is one of them here.
This is actually a little Jungle Jag Carpet Python.
Look at this cute little monkey right here.
It's just so amazing. And the jungle will
make this animal get even brighter and brighter,
and more yellow as it gets older.
That thing is turning out gorgeous!
Then the other animals I was really thinking about
that I haven't seen in a few weeks are these bull snakes.
Remember we gotta handful of bull snakes and
I wanted to raise'em up. Well this is one of the ones
that we ended-up keeping as a future breeder.
I absolutely adore all of the bull snakes and
pituophis type stuff. They're a really big
colubridae snake. I mean, this animal one day is gonna
be seven, sometimes even eight foot in length.
And pretty wide-bodied as well. But they make
unbelievably placid pets. They do really good.
And they hatch
absolutely ... enormous.
I remember the first time that we produced
bull snakes and the eggs were like "this big"
I was like, "What?! From a colubridae?" I mean,
it's almost like a ball python size baby, but in
a little snake. And these guys are
absolutely ridiculous ...
I've been having an absolutely fun night here at
The Reptarium. But I have to stop because,
look at Lucy right here.
I absolutely love it.
And the fact is, although I've seen her
draped on this ledge a couple times,
I've never actually seen her completely on this
ledge. And it was kind of a bummer to me,
because when we designed this cage,
specifically when we put that ledge on there,
I thought, "She's gonna spend a lot of time on
that ledge." So we wanted to make sure that ledge
was really good. We put rocks, building it up so
it could certainly support her and everything like that.
And then she never went up there.
And today, she finally is up here. How awesome is that.
I hope that now that she's kinda found that spot,
she spends more time here. Because it's a
nice warm spot, too. It's like I mentioned before,
this is the hottest spot in the cage
at almost 100 degrees, but it's about upper 80's
right there, which is really good for them
from a hot spot stand point. So-
Super cool to see Lucy up here.
And of course, here's Lori, doing what Lori does.
Putting leopard geckos on the site. I mean,
how long does it take to put leopard gecko on the site?
- [Lori] It takes a year.
- [Brian] A year?
- Yeah, by the time I'm done, new babies are hatching.
It never ends. (laughing)
- I literally think that Lori puts like 30 hours a week
just putting leopard geckos on the site.
- Oh my gosh. It is ridiculous.
- The crazy thing is, realistically you have, what,
maybe 20% of the leopard geckos we have on the site?
Or is it more than that.
- (Sigh) No, it's probably that.
Yeah, the 2018- I've got most of the 2017s (laughs)
But I've only got a little bit of the 2018s.
- So what happens is that, now we're basically
selling what would be really ready to breed
2017 animals. And then the 2018s that are now
just a few months old, they haven't even started
making it onto site. And there are some
crazy cool animals in there, so-
- There are.
- [Brian] So, maybe work a little harder.
- Oh my God, I am so gonna smack you!
(face being slapped)
(laughing) (body hitting the floor)
- Probably the highlight of my night, tonight
here at The Reptarium, was this gentleman
right here. You came in. You were terrified
of snakes and spiders. And the first thing
that you did was hold a spider.
- Yeah.
- And you did- you were- you were definitely
- I was shakin' [Brian] freakin' a little bit
But you were doin' good.
- But then we actually got you to hold
a pastel high ball python. (- Mm-hm. Yep)
- You did great with that. And then I walk around
the corner and what were you holding?
- Uh, an anaconda verde.
- [Brian] (laughing) So, he literally went from
being afraid, to holding a ball python,
to holding an anaconda, and holding a spider.
You're a trooper. I am- You did-
This guy's awesome. (- Thank you)
I'm so glad. And this is what I love about The Reptarium.
And now my man here comes to me and says,
- I'd like to hold a big snake, please.
- He wants to hold a big snake now. Man, I-
This is- Yeah. And I'm gonna say, "Yes, we're
gonna get a big snake." I'll get Sunrise out
for you, all right?
- Awesome! - [Brian] And here we go!
- Oh, all right. (grunts)
Holy mackerel!
- [Brian] Look at that, dude!
- Oh my goodness.
- [Brian] Woo hoo!
- She's so heavy! (laughing)
- [Brian] Are you okay, sweetheart? Ah ha!
That is awesome! Is that awesome, Bruce, or what?
- Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's the best.
- [Brian] I wasn't sure that he was gonna even
hold a snake when he came in. And here he is.
This is awesome.
- He was holding the anaconda out like this,
and he looked so nervous. And then like,
ten minutes later we put this on him. And
he's just like, "Bam! No problem."
- [Brian] That is so awesome. - [Woman] That's awesome.
- I think Noah started saying that, "You know,
here at The Reptarium, we make dreams happen."
I like that thing. I like it a lot.
And there it is, guys, another day in the books.
And it was really an amazing day.
Had a good time here with the reptiles.
Got a chance to bring all the PetTuber's in
and kinda show'em my passion and love.
And hopefully really have a relationship
in the future. Just continue to try to
work together, to try to educate people
about amazing animals. And in particular
how awesome reptiles are. But with that said,
I think I will end the VLOG.
I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys,
I don't think I did a great job of VLOGGING today.
I didn't think I captured what I really wanted
to capture. And I do apologize for that.
I'll do better tomorrow, I promise you that.
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