- This little monkey just will not eat!
Look at the head on this monkey right here.
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Hey, good morning everybody!
Welcome to the vlog!
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible!
And I'm going to start my day playing
with this amazing snake right here.
I don't show her nearly enough.
You guys know that I think retics are amazing snakes.
This happens to be a sunfire super tiger.
And just look at how gorgeous she is.
I tell you what, coming up in the future
as she gets bigger, I definitely want her
to be one of those animal ambassadors
I take out a lot.
Because she is absolutely stunning.
And I have a feeling she's gonna be
a really good snake. Very docile.
She's a little bit of a runner, so we have to just
get her habituated to handling a little bit.
I tell you what, reticulated pythons like
this girl here are unbelievable.
And what the heck, if I'm talking about retics
I might as well go ahead and show off Night Fury.
Because every excuse I get to handle this thing
I'm gonna take.
Unbelievable how beautiful it is.
But I tell you that all the time.
What an incredible, incredible snake. Isn't it?
And today I have a lot going on, including some boring
stuff like I've gotta put some shelves
up in the utility room. Hey but that's all part of it.
I'm also gonna revisit kinda the breeding outline
that I've done. And I'm gonna talk about leopard geckos.
So for you guys that wanna breed leopard geckos,
I'll give you a little bit of a rundown on that.
And then as for anything else, I don't know.
It's always busy around here at The Reptarium
and over at BHB. So we're gonna have a great day together.
Let's just go ahead and push all our problems aside
and have an amazing 12 or 15 minutes together.
It's been a minute since you guys
have seen Flaming Hot Cheeto. Doing extremely well.
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I wanted to take a quick break.
Get back to my kind of breeding tutorials.
I've already done ball pythons,
I did colubrids, blue tongue skinks.
Let's talk about leopard geckos.
By the way, look at how crazy these geckos are.
These are just some of the ones that are coming up,
that are future breeders that'll be
hopefully breeding for us next year.
Take a look at this super snow eclipse here pied.
So basically, these are again a
little bit more like a colubrid.
We do hibernate these guys.
I mentioned a couple days ago.
You can go back and look at those videos
if you're interested in the breeding kinda
tutorials on the other animals that I talked about.
We basically take these guys off of food
for a few weeks, keep them at normal temperatures.
Which is about 82-84 degrees, with like
a 90 degree hotspot or something like that.
And we want them to just completely clear their system out.
Because again, when these guys go dormant
or brumation, they're gonna not be able to digest things.
So it's really important that they don't
have any matter in them.
I've talked about that before.
So basically with the colubrids
we actually cool them down to about 55 degrees or so.
With these guys we want them to be about 65
because they don't get quite as cold.
And then colubrids we do about 3 months,
with leopard geckos we only do a 2 month brumation.
Now you may ask "can I breed my leopard geckos
without a brumation?". Yes you can.
Some people have great success.
We just have better success with actually
giving them that dormant period.
And I've talked about triggers with breeding,
and one of the triggers with leopard geckos
of course is a dormant period.
So once we have them down for a couple months,
we do the reverse. We bring them up.
We warm them up over a week, week and a half period.
Back to 82-84 degrees with a 90 degree hotspot.
We start feeding them up really, really good.
And then put the males in almost immediately thereafter.
We'll breed one male, to usually up to
twelve to fourteen females. Believe it or not.
So it doesn't take much. And they will retain sperm.
Some people breed a female only one time,
and then she'll lay eggs almost the entire season.
We do cycle males pretty much throughout the
entire season, until we're ready to stop breeding them.
But these guys produce eggs pretty quick.
Literally within 4 or 5 weeks out of
hibernation you start getting clutches.
And of course they have two eggs per clutch.
So really pretty simple. It's all in all simplified.
That is the way that you breed leopard geckos.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it.
If you have any questions let me know in the comments.
And honestly, the best way you can breed
leopard geckos is just get Jessica.
Because she is the best in the business when
it comes to breeding leopard geckos.
Trust me, our success is only because she's so awesome.
Being so busy here at The Reptarium
with so many different projects,
we're finally getting around to fixing up this room.
Lori's got some shelves that we're putting up right now.
What do we have?
We've got shelves that we're gonna put here.
And then shelves where else.
- Paper towel holder. And a little...
- [Brian] I like these.
- Yep.
- [Brian] These are gonna be cool
because we can actually hang our brooms.
But also we can hang our snake hooks here.
So the snake hooks will be hanging right here.
That way if you ever need to get a snake
in a real hurry you can just run and grab the snake hook.
But again, just the mundane things.
But it's nice to kinda get things really organized
over here. This is long overdue.
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You guys know how much I love Verde, my green anaconda.
What an absolutely incredible animal.
But this little monkey just will not eat.
I tell you what, the only thing she eats is live chickens.
That's right.
I can't get her to eat anything else,
and it's so frustrating.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that she's eating.
And hey, she is growing and actually doing really well.
With that being said, I want a big green anaconda.
And I've brought it up a handful of times,
and every time I get offered a big female
or a pair or something like that.
Within a day or two they say "oh sorry, the deal
fell through and I can't get them for you".
So I've been bumming.
I've had like three pairs offered to me
and none of them actually came through.
So if anyone knows anyone with a big female
tame green anaconda, please let me know.
Cause no matter how much I love Verde,
I'd like to have a big old female anaconda
to show off here at The Reptarium.
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Look at that. Perfect.
Now whenever I need a snake hook
not only do I know where it is,
but it's super easy to get to.
Eric is a proud daddy. Tell me what you've produced.
- Just the cutest little babies you've ever seen.
Not human, but...
- [Brian] Oh, I thought you had a baby. An actual baby.
Oh okay, it's a reptilian baby.
- Reptilian baby. Yeah we've just been hatching out.
We've been waiting for this one specific
female to hatch her eggs out, and she did.
I mean, I don't know if the camera's gonna pick it up.
Just the detail and color already as a baby.
Crested geckos change so much as they get older
and older with their pattern and colors.
So we're really excited to see this.
Right now it just looks like an extreme harlequin.
Who knows what'll happen. Tri-color.
You know, it's hard to say.
- [Brian] And you hatched two of them?
- Yeah, two at a time.
So just like leopard geckos, they lay two at a time.
Here's the first baby here. There it is.
Look at that. Oh wow, that one's even fired up.
You can kinda tell the dark color.
Man I love these guys. They're so cool.
- [Brian] Are you gonna hang onto these ones then?
- I'll probably hang onto these ones.
But we have a lot of nice ones raising up.
So don't you worry, there should you know
be some back on the site if you decide to go that route.
(Brian laughing)
- [Brian] Well good job. These guys are beautiful.
Slowly getting organized.
We've got our cord hanging up here.
We've got our snake hook.
This snake hook has seen better days,
but it's still useful. We got our tongs here so.
Getting there. Got our shelves over here.
Got our paper towel holder.
Now we just have to add some shelves here and where else?
- Right here.
- [Brian] And some over here. Okay.
And that should get everything off the ground.
Everything should have a place to go.
It should be absolutely perfect.
Oh my gosh. Take a look at these monkey tail skinks.
They are doing so good.
The other day I showed you the enclosure
but I couldn't get to them.
So today one was down, and oh my gosh.
This is the female and she is so chunky.
These guys just are destroying food
and just doing so well here.
It is absolutely such a pleasure
to work with such a unique animal.
And I'm so happy that they're doing as well as they were.
I'm gonna be honest with you,
I had never cared for them before.
And when you get a new animal that you've never had
you always worry like "am I gonna do good with it?".
Well it turns out that both of them are doing unbelievable.
Look at how chunky this little monkey is.
I absolutely love these prehensile-tailed skinks.
And this room is all settled.
We have shelves up here, we have shelves over here,
we have shelves with all our stuff over here.
We got all our feeding tongs.
We've got everything set up. We've got our hooks over here.
Brooms over here. Lori, are you happy?
- I'm very happy.
(Lori laughing)
- [Brian] Good. I know this is bugging you for a long time.
- It does.
It makes me happy because it bugs the
heck out of me to not be organized.
- And this is very nice and organized.
I bet you Andrea's gonna like it too.
Cause she's like Lori, she's super organized.
You know it's little things like that
that just kinda make me happy too.
I realize that no one that comes to Reptarium
will ever see the nice and tidy utility room.
But when you have things kind of organized
everything around it keeps organized.
So we're continuing to kinda just keep that thought process.
That the cages are clean, the glass is clean,
the utility room is clean, the floor is mopped.
All that type of stuff.
And that just makes a place like this
just a lot happier for everyone that works here.
Woo-hoo doggy. What a snake.
And the other day I mentioned that a bunch of
people were asking me how Daisy was doing.
And they were just like "we haven't seen her
in the vlog too much".
But she was in shed so I didn't take her out.
Well she just freshly shed and what a gorgeous snake it is.
Oh my god. Look at the head on this monkey right here.
She is so absolutely gorgeous.
And it's so cool because earlier today
I actually had some kids over and we were able
to take her out and just play with her.
It's so awesome to have an 18 foot retic
that you can trust around kids.
And just trust around everyone.
She is truly a great snake.
And it's really crazy to think that
she's actually Lucy's sister.
It just goes to show you that each
snake is an individual, right?
Daisy is this beautifully tame, amazing snake.
And Lucy, well... Lucy is Lucy.
You all guys all know what Lucy is.
She's definitely a handful.
But for those of you that were concerned
that you hadn't seen Daisy in a while,
I can assure you that she's doing very well.
She is just an absolutely gorgeous, big snake.
Tell you what guys, it is getting late.
As you can see it is dark outside.
Although it gets dark pretty early,
it's actually about 9 o'clock.
I've been working since 6 this morning,
so it's about time to shut it down and have a good evening.
And I wish you guys an amazing day/evening.
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