- It's certainly been a while
since we fed the zoo on camera.
We feed it every single week,
but today I am excited
that we're going to do a feeding the entire zoo video
something that I really love.
We're going to start with Night Fury.
And of course, Night Fury is-
(shouting)
He's always crazy.
When he goes after this ball...
Come on this ball,
come on.
Follow me,
follow me.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
All right.
Nah, we'll give him this.
Oh yeah.
Tell you what
It feels good to be back feeding again.
Isn't it.
It's absolutely incredible.
And of course Night Fury is amazing,
but we're feeding everything here today at the Zoo.
(bass music playing)
It looks like my buddy Al knows that it's food time,
and what happens a lot of times
when you're feeding rodents and I talk about this,
if you want to really get your snakes to eat
if you actually let them sit in the room for awhile
it's kind of scenting the room
and then they all get that scent and go like
"give me some food"
and hell yeah, he, he wants to eat.
So let's go ahead and open this door
very cautiously.
Woo. Look at him.
I don't know how to do this,
I don't know what I'm going to do here guys.
What, what, ow.
Oh, I tell you what that is.
That's a even got my heart going a little bit.
When you're at it's face with a food item.
Holy cow.
I tell you what, Al was ready to eat.
There's no doubt about that.
It looks like Altura the bull snake
is definitely ready to eat today.
Come on buddy.
There he goes.
He is such a good animal.
I love this snake so much.
Bull snakes are definitely very underrated
because they are awesome.
Next up is my big girl cupcake.
That giant boa constrictor.
Let's see if she wants to eat.
Come on girl.
Come on, come on, sweetie.
There you go.
I tell you what, she's a good girl.
I love that animal.
What a absolute ripper.
(bass music continues)
I don't know if you guys remember the other day
when we had actually a normal ball python
then that was bred to what we call the mystery ball python.
Then the normal it's a complete normal.
The mystery was like a banana pinstripe
a bunch of other things that were really cool.
Well then we had a really bizarre animal
in the egg when we cut it.
And I was like, "what in the world?
This makes no sense".
Well, it crawled out
of the egg today and it's actually a Carmel albino.
That's right.
It's a caramel albino which is a recessive mutation, meaning
that both the male that wasn't supposed to be had
and the female that was supposed to be just
a normal actually were both had for Carmel albino.
How weird is that?
Absolutely cute baby.
There was only two eggs in this clutch.
One egg went bad
and the one egg that hatch was a complete surprise.
The caramel albino.
I mean, that is absolutely wild.
That's what I love about breeding reptiles
is you really never know what's going to potentially happen,
every egg that hatches
could be a surprise.
And this one certainly was a big surprise.
I'm going to feed the tortoises.
Let's get the cut.
Looks like my girl Perdita is just sitting here waiting.
Hey girl, you want to eat food?
Here you go.
Ah, look at how absolutely gorgeous that is.
I mean, what an absolutely incredible animal.
Now, the cow reticulated pythons typically
stay a little bit smaller
than say the mainland reticulated pythons,
the head goes stripe or go stripe
in the phantom are typically a little bit smaller retics
from like insular islands.
And they just don't seem to get much bigger
than maybe 12 to 13 foot
maybe a big one being 14 foot, I've mentioned before
that Moomoo has actually
got a little bit more mainland in her.
So she's probably going to get a little bit bigger
but nevertheless, absolutely incredible animals.
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Always loved beating my black head snap and pop.
Let's go ahead and see if they want to eat today.
Both their heads are close to one another.
So I have to make sure I can get them apart a little bit.
Come on.
Which one are you going to come this way?
Can't have you both that way.
Come on.
There we go.
Now that they're separated a little bit.
I can feed them.
All right, there's one.
Pull him way, way over here.
Come on, pop.
Come on, bud.
Come on.
There. It goes perfect.
And now they're far enough
away from one another where they can eat
and they won't get into each other's way.
Because again, if these guys finished eating, go
over to the other rat, they could potentially
try to eat the same rat and then eventually eat each other.
So we'll definitely keep an eye on him as well.
This is kind of interesting.
Sunfire is just starting to go opaque.
So I'll be honest with you.
Sometimes they eat and sometimes they don't
it looks like she is going to eat for-
oh yeah, she's definitely going to eat.
And there's a really fine line where you don't
want to feed when they're totally in shed.
Because again, their skin is kind of stretched
to the point where they're like ready for new skin, right.
For growth.
So sometimes when they really get deep into blue, even
if they want to feed you kind of don't want to
feed them to be totally honest with you.
But her she's
in the very cusp where she's just starting to go blue.
So I think she's going to have enough time to
digest no problems with the shed,
it won't throw anything off.
So, and it certainly looked like she was interested.
Oftentimes snakes will tell you when they don't
want to eat when they go cloudy and stuff like that.
So she got a good meal.
She's looking beautiful.
Let's go ahead and feed Jean the woma python.
It is always a very
very interesting animal to feed, to say the least.
Come on.
Ooh,.
These guys have bite for us like crazy,
black heads and woma pythons
are probably like the strongest bite force.
Maybe second to like cribos and indigos,
But I tell you, when you get nailed by these guys
they hang on when they think it's food.
Break from feeding because we do have one clutch
of ball pythons to pull and it's a pretty exciting
collection of ball pythons.
This is actually a super enchi orange dream.
And you guys know, I love the orange dream stuff
and she was bred to, this stinger bee orange dream.
So basically what it is, it's a pastel, it's an enchi
it's a spider and it's an orange dream.
So down in the comments
let me know what you think that pairing is again
a stinger bee orange dream bred
to a super enchi orange dream.
I want to see if you guys are up on your genetics
let's see how many eggs mama has.
And speaking of how many eggs she has,
last year she actually had six eggs
but it was bred to a different male.
So this year we have so much more potential.
I think last year, the clutch wasn't that exciting.
But this year it is really exciting.
Again, six eggs last year,
let's see how many eggs she has this year, unbelievable.
It looks like she actually went backwards
one egg this year, which happens,
I mean, that's just kinda how it goes,
some years you see a huge jump in eggs,
some years you see the same eggs
and some years you'll see actually a slight decline in eggs.
In this case, we ended
up with five eggs and again, some pretty cool combos.
Can't wait to read your comments
and see which one of you guys are up on your genetics.
(bass music continues)
As time goes by
Jeffrey is fast becoming one of my favorite snakes,
there's no doubt about it.
Here you go, bud.
Here you go.
Eat, eat, eat.
What are you doing?
Silly monkey.
Come on.
He normally wants to crush food.
There he goes.
(laughing)
I tell you snakes are so bizarre.
Just personalities the way they do things
everything like that.
But there no doubt
that he's just become such a fan favorite here
at The Reptarium,
It's not even funny.
People come and they always love Jeffrey.
Again, he's that sizable snake.
That is cool and impressive
but not so hard that he can't handle them.
And just what a wonderfully beautiful animal he is.
Can see Sunrise just shed out.
Let's see if she's interested in taking, but take it girl.
Sometimes she doesn't like the smell of pig.
For some reason, like I said, with a rabbit
she just crushes it.
But with the pig, she's a little bit more
finicky to be totally honest with you.
And after a fresh shed she should be pretty hungry.
What will happen is basically if she doesn't take it
which oftentimes she doesn't, when it comes to pigs,
I just lay it in there
and she'll actually crawl right up to it
and eat it within about 10 minutes or something like that.
She's really interested for whatever reason,
she just doesn't like the smell of pigs.
And she often doesn't take them so,
up there she goes.
That was a cute little thing.
But like I said, she doesn't actually like them as much
but we just thawed out pigs today,
rabbits probably next week.
But again, as soon as she's done eating,
I'll clean all this shed up,
but a fresh shed definitely usually means a hungry snake.
Mr. Nubbins the Dominican mountain boa is a cool snake
and always really interested in feeding.
There he goes.
Definitely a little bit more
of a gentle take that time,
for sure.
Normally comes charging out.
But to be honest, it looks like it's starting to
go just a little bit opaque, which probably just tells me
that it's not quite as interested in food, but nevertheless
it's going to get a good meal and he'll shed out.
And when it sheds, it is a beautiful snake.
My girl Pickles here, she's looking like she's going to
want to eat again earlier this year, we thought we
were going to get eggs from Pickles
but unfortunately we didn't.
So now she's back on food and she's crushing it.
There she goes.
There she goes
Took a little enticing for her to eat for whatever reason,
she was a little bit finicky, but we finally got her to go.
And that is a ripper of an animal.
(bass music continues)
Next up is Tiger Lily, the beautiful Brazilian rainbow boa
but she's hiding under the rock,
so I just have to entice her out a little bit.
Oh geez.
I didn't realize her head was there
and she ended up getting my hand.
Oh my gosh.
I'm starting to leak a little bit.
That could have been really bad because that was a food bite
and she just barely nicked my finger
as she grabbed the rat over there.
I thought her head was over
on this side of the cage and it was right here.
So as soon as I touch her
she just came out and grabbed my finger
like that.
That was a close call.
I tell you what, that could have been bad.
'Cause if she would have grabbed me,
oh looks like she looks like she got both fingers actually.
I take that back.
So it looks like he just got a little bit of nip on me,
but if she would have grabbed me full on,
it would have been a painful bite
because Brazilian rainbow boas,
believe it or not have some really big teeth
and all in all
I came away with just a couple of little puncture wounds.
Moving on to rat number two for my girl Cupcake.
She crushed the first one,
that's for sure,
see if she wants another one and another one.
There she goes.
That is one big boa.
Last, I haven't fed Daisy.
I literally have to do a somersault audit the cage,
today she's right up front.
She's definitely not sleeping and she's ready to eat.
So we'll go ahead and play a little bit more cautious.
Whoa! Did I say cautious?
Oh yeah.
She's been fired up lately.
Hoo doggy.
I tell you what man, that girl is crazy,
Now I've got a smudgy on my camera, here.
Okay. Going to have to be careful with her in the future.
Maisy's out and about the corn snake.
Definitely ready to eat.
Ah, there it goes.
What an awesome snake.
I tell you, this is one of my favorite snakes
to take out during the weekend when we're open.
Cause you know, corn snakes are really great pets
and he's just a great example.
Been an educational animal since the day he was born,
so he is absolutely amazing,
and he's super good with kids.
Like I said, everything is fired up today.
Everything wants to eat and Snazzy is no different.
Come on bud.
Come on.
You're okay.
There he goes.
Snaz is such a good animal.
Of course, a normal,
what they would call the wild type Burmese Python.
My friend, Rhonda actually donated them to the zoo
before we even opened up the first Reptarium
So he's been here forever.
People love him super, super tame, a great animal.
And that wraps up the feeding for the day.
I mean, how cool was it?
It's been a while since we've done it probably two months
since we've had a feeding video.
I certainly enjoyed it.
Let me know in the comments.
If you guys enjoy it.
This is from Jessica in Connecticut.
And guess what?
I got a hatchet.
Like you guys always send me the coolest stuff.
- I feel like we just need some cheese.
It's a good choice.
- This is a good cheese, charcuterie.
Charcuterie thing.
What do we got?
Gosh, it's too late.
- I'm guessing it's breakable.
Does it make it?
- It looks like it made it.
Oh this is awesome.
Oh my God.
This is cool.
I think it's a stone that's painted with Ivy on it.
- I thought it was a wallet at first.
(laughing)
It doesn't look like a wallet.
- This is dope.
Look at this.
- Oh my goodness.
Isn't that cool?
- That is super cool.
Oh my God.
I love it.
We have so many stones and rocks at the Reptarium.
So we'll definitely find a good spot
for this at The Reptarium,
and "my son and I have been watching your vlog
for the past couple of years,
you have taught us so much and we appreciate it so much.
Thanks for being so positive and passionate.
I'm turning 40 in April..."
Well, congratulations.
"I'm also going to celebrate by coming to the Reptarium."
I sure hope you do.
And thank you so much seriously.
That is beautiful.
Definitely gonna find a cool spot for this at the Reptarium.
And when you come, you'll find it there.
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