- So you wanna get a reptile,
but your parent or significant other won't allow it.
Today I'm gonna give you five full proof steps
so that you can get your dream reptile.
You guys know that I have houses of reptiles.
But believe it or not, the first 15 years of my life
I begged my parents to get a reptile
and they wouldn't allow it.
It wasn't until my 15th birthday
before I bought my very first snake.
So if you're a parent or a significant other
that's not interested in having a reptile,
this video is not for you.
Do me a favor, click off this video right now.
But if you're a person that is trying to get your parent
or significant other to actually let you have a reptile,
make sure you watch this video
at least two or three times
because this is gonna work for you.
By the way, while you're at it,
you should share with your friend
because when they find that it worked for you,
they're gonna wanna know about this video, too.
And Lori is not always on board for me
getting reptiles either.
Lori, can I get a Komodo dragon?
- No. - Lori, do you mind
if I get another giant anaconda?
- No. - Lori, can I get
a king cobra? - Absolutely not.
- Hey, Lori, what do you think about me getting-
- No! - Lori, I wanna get
a pied Burmese python.
- Come on, (deep voice) no!
- Okay, here goes.
Step number one, do not ask for a reptile yet.
Find a friend that has a cool reptile,
let's say, a Dumeril's boa.
My friend, his name is Bob.
And you're gonna wanna actually ask
if you can babysit that animal.
So you're not getting an animal yet.
What you're doing is babysitting Bob's animal
'cause Bob is going on vacation
and he needs your help as a friend
to actually watch after his Dumeril's boa.
Lori, I've got a question to ask you.
I know you don't want me to get a snake.
You know Bob?
My friend, Bob.
He's going out of town and he's got a boa.
He just asked me to watch his boa just for three days
to help my friend Bob out.
Would that be okay?
- I guess that's fine.
(bell dings)
- So you got the approval to watch Bob's boa.
Now this gives you the opportunity
to get that snake into your house,
but also it gives you the opportunity
to kick the tires a little bit
and make sure that a reptile is right for you as well.
While I'm teaching you guys about how to get a reptile,
there's one thing that these guys wanna get
and that's a day off.
But, they have to tell me a fact about each animal.
- It's got got keys around his neck.
- I don't know any facts about Bearded Dragons.
- What are you talking about, it's the easiest thing?
- Not really a dragon fact.
- They can't breathe fire, fact.
This here is a Bearded Dragon.
It's a Hypo Citrus, I think, right?
- I don't know.
- I don't know them words, anywho,
they got spice for protection.
They live in Australia.
They can run about 11 miles per hour.
- I've always heard that.
I don't think that's real.
I've never seen a Bearded Dragon run.
- Well okay, there's that video
of Steve Irwin river chasing one.
And then it turns around and
bites and run on the nose.
You ever see that video, Jake?
You know.
Did you ever see that?
All right, moving on.
- We're never getting this day off.
- So we woke up zombie like, she's an alligator.
- Do we have to get her out?
- [Jake] Yeah.
- What's a good fact about these.
Oh, I got the back right there.
See the back right there.
- All right, I'll get her out. - [Noah] No.
On the back right there, all those things.
- Ha ha!
Oh she's getting heavy.
So what were you saying about the Osteoderms, Darren?
- Look at this, right here.
These are all bones, all right.
It looks like we put 'em on and glued 'em on or something.
But- - We did.
- What? - Osteoderms, okay.
Bone skin, osteo-bone, derm-skin.
- Like a dermatologist.
- Something on your derm.
- What is it? - [Jake] It's a beetle.
- It's a fact boy, got bones on their back.
That's a matter fact, got bone on their back,
bones their back.
- [Jake] Snapping pops.
- What, Jake? Just clean it.
- Step number two, research.
It's so important that you research your animal.
Not only for the one you have
but also the one that you're gonna be babysitting.
So you wanna go and read as much you can about reptiles,
so that you have as much knowledge as you can.
The other thing you do is watch a ton of videos.
There's so much information out there.
We have a ton of videos.
You can watch to actually know how to care
for these animals.
So that you're the best suited
for everything that you possibly, for instance,
what temperature do they need?
What's the humidity?
How often do they feed?
Make sure you do your research
so that you know exactly what's going on.
Next thing you wanna do is make a care sheet
that way you're significant other
or parents actually sees that you're very serious about it.
And you're prepared to take care
of this animal.
- [Brian] Feed snake, clean poop.
I think we're all good.
When you take this to your significant other or parent
they're gonna see that you're serious about it.
And you've done your research.
Lori, I made a care sheet for the animal that I'm gonna get
so that you know that I know what I'm doing.
- Well, I guess it's a good start.
I think you need a little bit more information than that.
- This is pretty much everything I need to know.
I get the snake.
I feed the snake.
I clean the poop.
- Maybe you need a little bit more research and information.
- So make sure you get detailed.
The more information on your care sheet
the better.
Let's take a break from this for one second,
'cause I gotta show you some amazing snakes
that we had stop today.
I just absolutely love genetic stripes.
It's actually recessive mutation that basically
looks like this, right?
This is a genetic stripe right here and there's
some polymorphism within them.
We actually had shot three of 'em and you can
see all three look pretty radically different.
Some have complete stripes, some have breaks in the stripes.
Some have really thin stripes.
Some have really wide stripes, just a really cool animal.
And then we actually had a pastel G-Stripe.
You can see how much they change with
that pastel color, really fades 'em out.
Makes them really beautiful.
Then take a look at this ripper right here.
This is actually a banana G-Stripe.
I love the way the banana and the G-Stripe mix together.
I mean just look at how incredible
that snake is right there.
And then we hatched out two pastel Genetic Stripe.
It's still a banana G Stripe,
but with that pastel added into it.
It really fades it out and makes it look super soft.
Now back to getting you your first reptile.
Step number three, I'm gonna tell you exactly what to say
to make sure that you can get your pet reptile.
You're gonna ask for a reptile
but not until after you babysit Bob's boa.
What you're gonna say to your mom, your dad
your significant other is exactly this.
I'm gonna ask you for a rep title soon
but not until after I actually show you
that I can babysit Bob's boa.
That way you can actually see the animal is not harmful.
It's an amazing animal.
You may even come to love the animal.
Also, you're gonna find out that I'm responsible
and able to actually care for that animal.
Now you're gonna wanna practice saying this a few times
before you do it so that you get the words exactly right?
That way, you know you're gonna have the best success.
And the cool thing about this is
that as you're actually babysitting Bob's boa
you're actually doing what they call exposure therapy.
That means that your parent
your significant other is actually getting an
opportunity to see this animal on the daily
and hopefully can touch it one time, hold it maybe.
And as they do it, their actual fear
of you getting that snake actually starts to diminish.
- Let's go, Mike, trying to get a break around here,
a day off.
This is Peva, she's a Western Hognose snake.
- Yes, yes, yes, what's the facts?
- They have three different kinds of defense mechanisms.
They rattled their tail to sound
like a rattlesnake if it hits a leaf.
Two, they played dead.
Three, they have rear fang venom, mostly for eatin' toads.
They also flatten their hood out like a Cobra.
Explosion! - [Mike] What do you think?
Come on, pick one.
- Alligator, Osteoderm.
- We already did that.
- [Jake] Spiders.
- We have to get 'em out.
I'm not getting 'em out.
- We're not gonna get the birder out?
- And we can't pull out the curly here
'cause she doesn't move.
- This is a blue snake.
- [Jake] We have to get it out,
but I honestly wouldn't suggest that.
- Me now?
- Your dad tried to get it out too, man.
- Did he got bitten?
This is a giant leaf-tailed gecko.
One of many on those one set of islands, Madagascar.
If you look at their eyes
you see that right there.
See that?
What are those?
Those are marbles.
We just put 'em in there today.
- Whoa.
- They have cool eyeballs.
- What he is saying about cool eyeballs
is they're nocturnal.
So that little black slit will actually cover that.
The whole eyeball.
When it's dialin', they can see full color
in the pitch black as the tonight.
- I don't know how we know that.
- Because, I'm really good at my job.
- Wow.
- Oh look who's out.
Hey RJ, hi buddy, good boys.
Back to your pond.
Back to your pond, bud.
Let's go, good boy.
(exhales sharply)
Man, it's getting too big.
This here is what they call,
Trachyephalus Residfi Trih, crushed it.
Ha ha!
This is an Amazonian milk frog.
Basically, what's really cool is you're, blue! Oh!
- [Jake] Is he good?
- They don't sit still.
(crew laughing)
They're really jumpy frogs, so it's cool.
Oh no. - [Jake] What?
- [Mike] He's peeing, he's peeing!
And then what's cool is-
- They secrete milk.
- Not lactate, but a secretion that looks like milk,
which hence the name milk frogs.
But it is technically a toxin
to predators when they're trying to eat.
- So I'm not supposed to drink that stuff.
- Let's make this day off a little bit more challenging.
One of them is gonna say a fact and the other one
is gonna have to guess what animal they're talking about.
- Wow, I'm totally crushing Noah.
I'm totally getting that day off.
Can you see over here?
- [Camera Man] Go ahead.
- Hi, guys, so this is the Dumeril boa.
This is the law-
(computer whirring)
The largest reptile and Madagascar and get up
to 10 feet long.
And I think if I just say the largest reptile,
I don't he'll get it.
- [Jake] I'm the largest reptile in Madagascar.
- Dumeril boa, easy.
- [Camera Man] You got it.
- [Mike] Dang it. (upbeat music)
- [Brian] Every reptile's different.
So you have to do your research
to make sure you have the right enclosure,
the right temperature , the right humidity.
Make sure you have the right food for 'em,
you have to do a lot of research so
that you know exactly what you need for each
individual reptile.
- They secrete. (crickets chirring)
They secrete a milky poison from their skin.
(door banging)
- [Mike] I'm coming.
- [Jake] We got a fact for ya.
- [Mike] Oh, okay. (door banging)
- [Jake] It secretes a Milky poison from its skin.
- [Mike] Oh, poison dart frog.
- [Jake] He said poison dart frog.
- Did I get it?
- Hi Guys, so this is a Baron's racer,
endemic to South America.
They come in all different colors.
- You're a little cheater, get away!
- Hey, you cheated!
Look, now he's running fast.
I don't even know where he went, man.
- Oh, there you guys are.
- [Jake] Right, so we got a fact for you, bro.
- What?
- [Jake] I'm endemic to South America
and I come in all kinds of colors.
- Poison dart frog.
- [Jake] Nope. Baren's racer
- All types of different colors.
- Blues, yellows, greens.
- Wait, sliders.
White Castle made a burger named after these guys.
- [Jake] White Castle made a burger named after these guys.
- What? I never go to White Castle.
There's actually something named after a reptile?
- [Noah] What does White Castle make dude?
- Burgers.
- What kind of burgers?
- Cheese burgers.
(Jake laughing)
- [Noah] What are the burgers called?
- Oh, sliders!
(audience cheering)
- We're out here to slide.
- And hey, if you're thinking about getting a pet snake
I can't think of a better pet snake than a ball python.
And of course we breed a lot of ball pythons.
There's a ton of people that do.
And this is a beautiful clutch right here.
It's actually an entry Woma ball python that spread
to this banana entry, pastel, lesser bongo pet for clown.
And this is definitely a nice big clutch of eggs.
Now these eggs are gonna take about 57 days
before we actually cut them.
And they'll hatch out at about 60 days.
And this is a big clutch in the egg box.
They can barely fit in the egg box.
We got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, wonderful eggs.
Now these guys will hatch out.
They'll have to shed, they'll have to eat.
We always feed 'em two to three times.
So really they're about four to six weeks old
before we even offer 'em for sale.
Now you're out to step five, which is the final step.
And that's basically that you can budget the money
for the care, the husbandry, the caging, everything,
'cause you're wanna show your significant other or
your parents that you're able to actually do that.
So make sure you make a very detailed budget,
to not only get the animal, but to care for the animals.
Once you show that to your parent or significant other
there is zero chance
that you aren't gonna be able to get your first reptile.
- They'll never guess these.
These are garra rufas.
They have PhDs in eating skin.
- [Jake] They have PhDs in skin eating.
- The garra fish.
You're the smartest guy I know Mike.
- Thank you.
- These frogs come from Indo-Vietnam, Vietnam.
- [Jake] I'm a frog from Vietnam.
- Monster tree frog.
- Ah.
- That was easy.
- You're easy.
- So this is an albino boxster.
One of three in the world that we know of.
When he gets scared.
Well, when he gets bigger, it hasn't quite developed yet.
But when he gets scared,
his shell will woop and it'll close.
- [Jake] When I get scared
I can actually close my flap and close my shell up.
- Box turtle?
- You suck.
- I'm a tortoise that can grow to become hundreds of pounds.
- [Jake] My tortoise that can grow to be a hundreds
and hundreds of pounds.
- Aldabra tortoise, wait tell them,
I get the day off, right?
I'm going home.
I got the day off.
Bye, cool.
- So, Lori, I've been taking care of Bob's boa here
for the last few days and I think
that we've done a really good job.
I showed you the care sheets.
I've showed you the budget that I have, get a snake.
Is there any chance that I could get a boa like this?
'Cause I think you even like it a little bit now, don't you?
- It's a very nice boa.
I guess you have done a good job, so yes.
- That's good because that's actually not Bob's boa.
I bought that from a shop and I can't take it back.
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