- This is Chopstix, my two-headed turtle.
And as you can see, it's in perfect health.
But the two two-headed turtles that I recently purchased
you could see this white around their mouth, right there.
That's actually overgrown beak.
Basically that can inhibit them from eating
the way that they really want to eat.
Now, the reason that that happens is
typically either bad nutrition
or not enough hard stuff for them to eat.
You gotta make sure that they're really grinding
down that beak.
So when they get to this point,
you really have to take care of 'em.
So we have no choice, but to try to grind that beak down
to make sure that they're healthy.
Now you should really take 'em to a vet if you
ever have this problem, because they'll sometimes
either anesthetize 'em, but
we've been doing this for long enough that we're okay.
You just have to be really careful.
What you do is you just kind of keep their head in one spot,
and it's a little bit harder with two heads
because I have to obviously be aware of the fact that
(Dremel whirring)
there's another head I don't wanna Dremel either, Right?
And I just basically wanna just really gently
(gentle music)
just sand down that beak.
(Gentle music)
(Dremel whirring)
And that's that?
It's one beak good. Now I just have three more to go.
And this one wants to bite me now.
- The angry boy.
- He's mad at me now.
I understand, buddy.
I understand don't bite me.
Come on, buddy.
Okay. I got the second one.
(Dremel whirring)
So that's two heads down, one turtle down, one to go.
Now another good trick is to actually put a cuddle
bone that is for birds in with them.
And they've been nibbling on this a little bit
and their beaks have been kind of coming down a little bit.
We just wanna take that little bit of edge off.
That, and the harder food, and the variety of food
that we're giving 'em should be really good.
But if I can trim 'em down now, never have a problem again
- Says you gotta get your face wet before you
apply the mask.
(Water splashes lightly)
- Done.
(Horn plays)
- That's how you're supposed to do it Mike
- I just pat dry.
Foot skin on my face.
- What'd you say?
- I said I hate nail files.
This is gross.
- So gross.
- Wait, how did you open it so quick?
- You gotta do the droppy drop technique.
- How about droppy drop?
I don't want to drop it.
- Can someone get my hair?
- Why do I get the stupid cat?
Put your feet in the fish.
- Shut up for one second please.
- Feel like
- That's the nicest anybody's ever told me to shut up.
- Gah, I feel like I'm one of those guys in the purge movie.
- Oh, it tastes bad.
- You're not supposed to eat it.
- It's just in my mouth.
(Giggling)
You look the most.
(Laughing)
- While the boys are taking care of their beauty products
I'm actually gonna go collect some snake clutches .
I have a house snake clutch which is really cool.
I love these little house snakes.
This egg looks a little bit Desiccated.
They're dented in basically.
So we'll have to take a look,
but look at how beautiful this girl is right here.
Oh my gosh.
Whoa!
Good job, mom. I'll get you back in here.
Get her some food.
Get her all going.
We'll check out these eggs.
Okay. It looks like all the eggs are a little bit dented
but we can pop them up just by
putting a little bit of moisture in 'em.
Looks like we got 2, 4, 6, good egg
(Dremel whirring)
(Cowbell plays)
- Mmmm. Burning Keratin.
(Dremel whirring)
(Cowbell plays)
- And that should be good enough
to get these guys going again.
With the cuddle bone, the variety of food,
These guys should be wore down a hundred percent in no time.
This will definitely help out.
And this little monkey right here is not happy with it.
I was excited about this female here.
This is actually Tessera Corn Snake.
That is Het Tessera.
And last year she proved some
really beautiful Tessera scales.
Looks like we got a little Slugger there.
We got 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, beautiful eggs.
Here's a Het Snow Corn,
which basically just Het Anery and Het Albino.
It's actually bred to a scale. A snow corn thing.
2, 4, 6, 8 wonderful eggs.
- It Looks so scary actually.
- You look like Jim Carrey.
- Yeah. In the mask.
No closeups of the feet. Oh.
- Smells like bubbles.
- I was like, bubbles.
(Laughing)
- You See that?
(Groans)
Where's the files.
This is so gross.
- So relaxing.
- Oh, I think it's dripping into my eye. Oh no.
Tickles so bad.
Hoo. It's between my pinkie toe.
(Giggling)
Golly.
- What you doing?
- Where Brian.
- Who?
- Brian.
- I'm Brian.
- Mr. Brian?
- Oh, oh, sorry. My bad.
Yeah. I think he's pooping.
- So maintenance on all our animals are important.
Even nail clips.
Toothless here's gonna get a little manicure today.
And so are a couple of our other animals.
Now the important thing to understand is that these guys
are mainly ground dwellers.
You know, they climb a little bit, but not too much.
So you can actually clip 'em now a tree monitor.
We don't wanna clip their nails because we want 'em
to be allowed to be able to climb.
Knowing your animals and just taking that edge off.
Right? Because trust me, these guys are a little daggers.
So trimming lizard nails is just like trimming a dog's nail.
You wanna make sure that you're cutting the very tip off
- Hey buddy. What's going on?
- But you don't wanna go too deep because they do have
what's called a quick, which is that little vein.
If you go too deep, you're gonna have blood
but you can get that quick stop blood stuff
that you use for dogs.
Also make sure someone's helping you out
and just taking that edge off
just takes those little daggers off the claw.
Holding him now is so much better.
Those little daggers.
They really dig in.
Whoa! Woohoo! Mama, mama.
What is going on girl?
Doesn't look like she's happy at all.
What are you doing?
This is a Leucistic Texas Rat Snake around a bunch of eggs.
Oh my goodness.
She is mad.
Okay. Gotta get mama back in her enclosure.
Oh my God.
She is feisty.
And let's take a look and see what kind of eggs she has.
This is actually Leucistic too. Leucistic.
So all the babies are gonna be Leucistic.
We do have a couple sluggers in here.
Oh my gosh.
She look at there's a whole bunch more right here.
Oh yeah.
Beautiful. Right here.
2, 4, 6, 8, 10 eggs from an angry mama.
- Feel the mask just sliding down my
(laughs)
- take me out to dinner first, gah.
- I don't like it.
Hoo. It's so bad
- I'll let my beard get right.
This covers it up, you know?
- Oh my God.
There in between my toes so bad right now.
Oh!
- What do you got in between them suckers, dude?
- You don't want to know?
- Just help me hold them if you don't mind.
- We we're forgetting something.
- What?
- Face shields.
- Yeah.
Because you remember what happened to Mike with Elvis.
Of course, Elvis is a lot stronger than the other monitors
and he's definitely got a lot tougher claws.
There's no doubt about that.
I just wanna again, take that top off.
Ugh. It's a lot harder, but I tell you what
it's gonna be much easier to handle him
once his dagger are gone.
There's no doubt about that.
- Why didn't we do this before we went to bed?
- We should have.
- Or better yet?
We should make them do it.
They got a grooming salon.
Ouch, Elvis. He's got too many legs.
(eery music)
- Okay let's go.
- Let's see, Let's see. Flip.
Ow. Owie. Sit still.
- Please open.
- Ow.
- I think this was the nail that got you, Mike.
- Bah. I don't think that worked.
- Ow!
- Thanks Mike.
- Sorry. He's got too many legs.
You get it?
- Woo.
Okay. I'm gonna fix my hair up and move on to the next
- No blood.
- I don't even know where my.
(Claps)
- This thing's literally in my mouth.
Just dripping.
- I told you it's going for your eye too, dude.
How did you open these?
I don't even like nail file.
Putting your fingers on a concrete,
then you hit your nail, ugh.
- I do this every morning.
Put on my thigh.
- Touching you.
- Just gimme your hand.
Take this one, dude.
Wait a minute.
Yeah, this sits.
- Isn't that so relaxing Mike?
- Oh, I don't like that at all.
(giggles)
Not at all. My feet tickle. My face is sliding down my face.
(giggles)
bro. Get my nail.
Not just snake eggs today.
Let's check in with Jessica.
It sounds like she found a cool clutch of geckos.
- I got my first African fat tail geckos
of the eggs, or of the eggs? Of the year.
So we're gonna check them out.
I'm really excited because we've got an Oreo female
and she probably has some Hets that we don't know about.
Oh. So these guys were donated to us.
So I'm not a hundred percent sure about their genetics
but it'll be fun to breed them.
This is the male here.
He's just a Stripe.
Go ahead.
And there we go.
Nice. I'm gonna go ahead and set these guys up.
I'll probably put a little Moss on him.
It looks like they're a little desiccated.
- How long they take the hatch?
- A little bit longer than a leopard Gecko.
So maybe like 70 to 80 days.
- Remember when frosty first came in
he had a really bad nose rub and a couple other little marks
on his head and but.
Oh and he liked to poop.
There you go.
Thanks frosty.
I appreciate you.
Get your tail out there, bud.
Oh.
Splatted on me.
Great.
- I will get some paper towel.
- I think he's gonna need a bath too.
So we're not gonna clip his nail today
cuz we don't wanna stress him out.
But we're really seeing that you can barely see the rub
on his nose now and all those other little marks
on him look really healed up.
He's in a little bit of a shed right now.
We're gonna continue to soak him
once he comes outta this next shed
he's gonna be pure white.
Absolutely stunning.
When you identify an injury or something like that
as long as you're treating it,
typically it heals really quick.
Reptiles are super quick healers.
So frosty is looking absolutely amazing.
Love you boy.
- Oh goodness.
I stink and I smell better than that.
Oh God.
It is so warm.
- Look at Ben and Jerry.
They're actually starting to shed right now.
And the interesting thing about it of course is when
they shed, they have that little Y so they can't roll out.
They have to break that shed.
Now of course he had that injury right here.
You can see it on this side.
Once it shuts out, it's gonna probably look a little bit raw
because it's gonna rip that layer of skin off.
So we're gonna have to put some more medicine on it.
It's definitely healing really well.
And this shed is going to really help it get on.
Again, we always keep track of all the animals
when they have little issues
so that we can make sure we're staying
on top of it so that they heal perfectly.
What in the heck are you guys doing?
- Spa day
- Since when is it a spa day?
It's.
- How about work day?
- Found it in Laurie's office.
- Oh
Laurie's gonna love this.
- You got a duck lip.
You gotta hold it on your mustache and just keep it there.
Yeah, there you go.
- Look, Look. That.
- Or that?
Just golden.
- Cute.
- Relaxing
Sure. Sure, sure. Relaxing.
(smacking sound)
- Ah!
(laughing)
- Take a look and see what we got here.
We have a Children's Python
wrapped around a beautiful clutch eggs.
And I always love this.
Look at this.
You can literally pick this up like this and look at this.
How awesome is that?
So let's see how many eggs she has.
It's so interesting when they do this.
I wanna get over the egg box
because they're not actually
together a hundred percent and they will fall off.
So I'm gonna just slowly take her eggs away from her.
Mom won't be a totally happy, but it'll be okay.
She'll forget about these within a day
or two and be back on the food
which is way better for her and way better for the eggs.
We've got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, beautiful eggs.
Of course.
Drogo is one of those situations where you have to
really keep an eye on him.
As far as his weight, amount of food
he's eating and stuff like that
because we do our health checks on our animals all the time.
As a matter of fact, if you didn't see
we did a cage by cage health check,
I'm gonna put a card up here.
You guys can go back and watch that video.
They actually don't show stress.
They don't show any kind of sickness.
So you have to really keep an eye on them to make sure
that they're super healthy, but Drogo is doing great.
He eats good.
He's gaining weight.
He looks absolutely amazing.
Buddy, I love you so much.
One of the issues that you have with tortoise you really see
with these two is what they call pyramiding.
Now, Franklin, over here has lots of pyramiding like this.
Steve isn't too terribly bad.
Now when I got these animals
they actually were 20 something years old
and they already had all this pyramiding.
Now pyramiding is caused, depending on the type of tortoise
with too much protein, for instance, or lack of humidity.
So you wanna let them absorb a lot of water to
help that shell stay really nice and well as an animal
like Leopard Tortoise or a Delbert tortoise,
they don't need protein.
So you don't wanna add protein to their diet
or you'll end up getting pyramiding in the shell
because basically they grow too fast with that protein
and that's what causes the pyramiding.
Now where Red Foot Tortoises need a little bit more protein.
So you just have to know your species of tortoise,
but once they have the pyramiding like this, it really
doesn't necessarily affect them as far as their health
but you can never really reverse the cause of pyramiding.
So Franklin will always be pyramided.
Steve actually looks pretty decent.
- You smart, how you gonna look
at his thing and go, Ugh, and then fart at the same time.
- So it's great to get all the checkups on all the animals
and get all our maintenance done.
Everything is looking good and checking out.
Great. As a matter of fact, speaking of checking out.
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- It wasn't me, my back cracked.
- Did you have lasagna last night?
- Dude, How'd you know?