(upbeat music) - Guys, I am so excited!
That's right.
What's in this box is a dream of mine.
Honestly, a couple animals that I didn't know
that I would ever keep.
It's crazy what the Reptarium has done.
You know, our ability to actually get animals
that were dream animals of mine
that I never had an opportunity to do,
I am now gonna do.
Remember the enclosure we built a couple of weeks ago?
Well, I now have inhabitants for that.
That's right, these guys are going to go into that enclosure
which I am so excited about.
Let's go ahead and roll that unboxing reel.
(upbeat music plays)
And here we go.
You guys are gonna love these things.
I am excited.
I've been kind of on the hunt for these
for the last probably two or three weeks.
And finally, my buddy found a pair of them
and she sent me pictures and I said,
we got to get them.
So I am stoked on it.
There's a chance I'm going to lose a little bit
of blood while I'm doing this,
so bear with me here and not necessarily
from a bite standpoint,
although that's always possible too.
And here we go. The first little peek.
Oh my goodness. It's crazy!
These are like little di-
Oh, I can't even believe this guys.
I'm gonna just make you guys wait
because I'm freaking out right now.
This thing is gorgeous.
Okay, here we go.
Hand in.
Oh my gosh.
It is a little dinosaur people I'm telling you
Ah, come on little buddy, come on out, come on this way.
This way, this way, this way, this way
Look at that.
And when I say I'm going to lose some blood
it's not because they really are biters,
but they are so sharp
Whoa.
(upbeat music plays)
(nervous laugh)
They have such sharp little claws.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
And they are unbelievable.
I'm telling you what
So of course these are green tree monitor lizards.
That's right.
These are prasina
And I tell you what they are absolutely stunning.
And oh my gosh
these nails are ripping me apart, like crazy.
But this is a unbelievable, beautiful specimen.
One of the prettier ones that I've ever seen.
And that was the reason I was really looking
for some amazing examples.
This I'm almost positive is the boy.
We'll take a look
at the female here in a second,
but oh my goodness.
Take a look at that.
I mean, does that look
like a little raptor, something like that?
That green color,
now tree monitors actually come
in a few different colors.
There's yellows, there's greens, there's blues
there's even black tree monitors.
And there's even a couple of other species.
These are their most common,
to be totally honest with you.
but the thing is they're also the most brazen
mean they come out a lot, right?
A lot of little like blues
that are absolutely beautiful that occur.
they actually hide all the time.
So we wanted to get a pair that people could actually see.
Right. Cause as cool as an animal is
if you can't see it in the enclosure, I mean
people aren't going to be that excited about it.
And I tell you what,
that is one exciting lizard right there.
I cannot believe it.
Whoo doggy.
Let's go ahead and look at the female.
And like I mentioned, I believe this is the female.
Let's go ahead and get her out now.
Now you can tell she's got a little bit different
body structure and she's a little bit fatter
down that mid section,
which is kind of typical, of a female,
a little bit smaller as well.
Absolutely stunning.
That male was ridiculous
but the female is absolutely gorgeous as well.
So I am so excited to get these guys set up later on.
Oh gosh.
They have nails.
It's just,
if you guys could feel, I mean
my hands are all just little miniature, little rips
you know, little tears in my hand
and that's because they have those nails to climb trees.
They also have this little prehensile tail.
That's absolutely wonderful.
So, wow!
Is this going to be a great new addition to the repterium?
I am going to freak out.
People are going to love these.
Now, unfortunately,
probably not going to come out,
because they have such sharp tail
but you'll be able to look
at them and then we can start working
with training them.
These guys will eat meat.
They'll also eat bugs, they'll eat fish
They'll eat all kinds of different things.
So I am so excited.
I have loved these ever since I used to go
visit forest now, Dez and Steve's place.
They had the beautiful tree monitors.
I was always like I one day wanna own one.
But when you know ,they didn't have a place.
But now that we have the reptarium
where we could do stuff like this.
That is absolutely incredible.
So what do you say we get with Jessica?
Have her set up that enclosure so
that these guys can go in here,
in just the next hour or so?
Oh my gosh.
I am so excited.
As always, Jessica is going to soup
up the cage for the green tree monitors.
I know you've got a vision.
- Yeah, I've got a plan.
- All right, let's go ahead.
Let her do her magic.
And then we'll put them in.
There's always that fine line
about making an amazingly beautiful enclosure
but also being able to see the animal.
But you have to also know the species you're working with.
When it comes to green tree monitors
they like to hide sometimes too.
They need that security.
They actually will come out quite a bit
but they also need places where they feel secure.
So we have to make sure
that we're putting areas in here where they can get away
from the kind of eyesight of people.
And Jessica is doing a great job
of not only building a beautiful enclosure
but also building an enclosure that is practical
and also very healthy for the animals herself.
They're going to be able to be seen
but also get plenty of room to get away from people.
And here we go again, they got some hiding spots in here
which is really important for tree monitors to have spots
that they can actually hide
and kind of get away from one another.
But at the same time
they have all this climbing area and all this cool stuff.
I mean
I think these guys are going to love this new enclosure
and you could just see, look at how effortlessly they climb.
That is absolutely incredible!
Look at how good they look coming.
Can you imagine just coming around the corner, seeing it
see how they curl their tails and stuff like that
that prehensile tail is so cool.
I tell you what
I am so stoked on this right now.
They look absolutely incredible in this enclosure and wow.
I'm on cloud nine, guys
getting new animals is always exciting
but getting animals that are this stunning
and this beautiful ho, my goodness.
That is absolutely incredible.
Oh, I, I'm, I don't even know what to say.
This is amazing.
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Let's go ahead and get this clutch of eggs right here.
This is actually a pinstripe head for ghost.
Tonight's pretty female,
but I do see a Slugger too in there.
I hope that there's some good eggs that's for sure.
She was bred to a pretty cool male
which was the silver streak, bamboo walma.
So again, it's a pastel, it's a black pastel.
It's a bamboo and it's a walma, absolute ripper.
Put that pinstripe in there.
Now you've got that gene going on in there.
Whoo doggy,
We can get some good stuff.
Let's hope for some good eggs.
(funky music plays)
- Come on, mama.
Don't disappoint me.
Come on girl.
Yeah.
It's a mixed bag.
There's no doubt about that.
Definitely not a great clutch, but you know
not a terrible clutch either.
I mean, there's definitely some good eggs
and I can really even see some
of the discoloration in this egg right here.
Just basically telling me
that there actually is a network of veins.
So there is some fertility.
Cause sometimes when you get a clutch like this
where there's fertility and infertility
the actual good looking eggs
aren't always good and don't make it to term.
But in this case it looks
like the eggs look like they're pretty good.
And it does look like we have two,
four good eggs.
And unfortunately I have two, four, five slugs.
It's actually not the best thing for sure.
But you know, at the same time, that's the way it goes.
Ups and downs of the year.
Overall, the fertility has been really great this year
but we're going to have some downsides guys.
That's the way it is.
And I'm sharing it all with you, right?
So four eggs going to the incubator.
I'm going to cut these guys in 57 days,
going to be some bangers.
I always talk about the fact that I'm learning all the time.
And one of the things I've learned,
is that you see all these marks here,
chuckwallas are the same as iguanas,
where they store sodium and then sneeze it out.
So of course we had no idea of that, and I came in a couple
of times,, I look, why is this enclosure all snotted up
and stuff like that?
Well, sure enough.
That's the case.
You know, chuckwallas actually, can't metabolize sodium
as well.
So just like the iguanas,
we have to clean this enclosure like crazy.
milk frogs have been here for the last
maybe two or three weeks.
And they're doing really well,
now they're becoming much more brazen.
They're coming out, sometimes hanging out
on the log right there.
I mean, it's definitely a huge hit at the reptarium.
People love frogs.
I love frogs, but it is so cool to see how the milk
frogs have kind of adapted here.
And people are just loving them.
Out in the caluber drum,
which only can mean one thing,
Hey ma, ma, ma,
egg time.
- That's right.
And oh look at that.
That is a Mexican black King snake right there.
And I love those guys.
They are really amazing.
Now she's a relatively small girl.
There's no doubt about that.
So I'm not imagining there's going to be a giant clutch
of eggs here, but we'll get her cage cleaned up
get her some fresh water and fingers crossed.
There'll be some nice eggs in here.
- And yes, there are.
not again.
Not a big clutch.
I wasn't expecting a big clutch cause she's a
first year female and she's a little bit small
but she is definitely got a beautiful clutch
And really overall the fertility has been really
amazing down here.
I always say that and it always jinxes me.
The next clutch I cull will probably be all slugs.
But the point is, is I've been very happy
with the production down here
two, four, five eggs.
That is absolutely beautiful.
We do have one more clutch to pull down here today.
I tell you what egg season is pretty amazing.
Let me know in the comments
if you guys are enjoying it
and what you're looking forward
to the most hatching,
and then the next clutch is actually
an Oreo pluckling.
And like I said, let's hope I
didn't jinx myself by saying that I'm getting all good eggs
and then end up with a slug clutch here.
The Oreo problems of course are these monkeys here
which just have a little bit less red and thankfully
mostly good eggs.
I do see one potential little Slugger in here
but this is an interesting clutch too.
And again, this is kind of a low expression Oreo, right?
So it's not like really good.
It still has a lot of red on it.
The ones you really want are the ones without red
and the male that we bred to didn't have hardly red.
So half these babies will probably come out black
and white and some of them will have a little bit of red
very weird clutch though
because you got this little Slugger egg right here.
This is definitely a bad egg, but look
at the size of these eggs here
and then the size of this egg and the same goes here.
I mean, I always find it weird when it happens.
It's almost like there was one egg that got split
into two little eggs right there, really bizarre.
I don't know what happens when that happens.
We've seen it quite a bit this year, but we have two, four
six beautiful eggs, one little tiny Slugger there.
So all in all it turned out to be a pretty good day.
Fertility is still good down here in the clear room
and baby season is right around the corner.
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- All right.
- That time of the day at lunch.
- Yeah
- I'm hungry
I just look forward to Panda express.
- Oh nice.
- Okay. Anyways.
So we got Tamale
It's up to me and crikey Mikey,
are you misty Mikey right now?
- Misty Mike
We're missing my lizards.
He's missed him.
Okay. So me and Misty, Mike here, we're going to
we're going to get this feller tamed down.
Come in, come here.
Actually, just feed it like a cat.
You're good.
Mike. You're good.
Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, help me.
You're doing great ,
Professionals
Boom. Fantastic.
Pet his face.
I think he's doing good.
Ooh, Whoa, Whoa.
I didn't even know they hissed.
Did you hear that?
Let's let this baby go.
Woo.
(making instrument sounds)
That was good.
What are we doing with them now?
So we've never had the really tamed down a tape.
Ours. We have just been pretty tamed by nature.
Give me one second guys.
Door dash is here
my man.
We appreciate it.
All right.
So I'm going to go eat this Panda
and Mike's going to take care of tamale
- You better get your royal heinie back here.
- Thank you.
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