- Hey, good morning Reptile Army,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope to start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I have a box here, another box of really awesome snakes.
I used to work with this type of snake,
years and years and years ago, literally like 15 years ago,
haven't worked with them since,
and it's been kind of my dream to get them back.
Absolutely incredible for The Reptarium
it's gonna to be amazing, there's no doubt about it.
Let's go ahead and unbox 'em.
(knife ripping)
And again, you guys have noticed
I've been getting a lot of animals lately
and again, that's kind of gearing up
for the expansion, right.
So these animals won't go directly over here,
but they will come over to The Reptarium,
obviously when they get a little bit of size to 'em
and get going and they are just absolutely incredible.
I tell you what, this is another one of those snakes.
And I say it all the time, but seriously,
this another one of those snakes that were dream animals
for me when I was a kid, right?
When I was young, I used to just think like
one day I hope that I have these animals.
And you guys know that I'm obsessed with Australia stuff
One of my sleeves and my whole arm here
is Australia animals.
Been to Australia nine times.
Been to every opportunity to catch all kinds of
incredible snakes, have a lot of friends over there.
Well, these are some Australian pythons,
but not just any Australian pythons.
What, something I think is one of the coolest
of the Australian pythons out there.
And let's just go ahead and take a peek.
Oh my goodness.
They are beautiful!
So, this here is the male
and take a look at that right there.
Of course, we have carpet pythons, you guys know that.
We have jungle carpets, jags.
We have a binal carpet python,
So these of course are the diamond pythons
which are spilota spilota and absolutely incredible.
Now you see a lot of carpet pythons,
you don't see a lot of diamond pythons out there.
Again, this is the boy.
And the difference between carpet pythons
and diamond pythons,
obviously it's just all those diamond marks
all over the place.
And what is this cheeky monkey doing?
He's just climbing like a (indistinct)
Now, interestingly enough,
I've been over my friend, Peter Burchess
in new south Wales.
And actually you can catch diamond pythons
when it's about 40 degrees outside.
So, unlike most of the other carpet pythons
that stay much warmer.
If they even drop below 60 degrees, that's really cool.
These guys can almost be in areas where it ices over.
And that's one of the reasons
why there's got more black on 'em too
to absorb more of that sun.
But what absolute rippers these are, that is incredible.
This is the boy, let's check out the girl.
And here we go with the female.
Oh, she is a beauty too.
She's got a little bit more yellow her,
but oh, absolute rippers.
I tell you what,
these are absolutely beautiful diamond pythons.
And again, I used to work with diamond pythons,
like 20 years ago,
Never bred 'em.
Never had the opportunity to actually
have success breeding 'em.
But I had 'em and then I got rid of 'em
and I always wanted...
But again, you got to remember,
things have changed, now.
I've got the zoo.
I want to do display animals.
And these are going to be incredible display animals
they like to perch up in trees.
They're really great climbers.
So this is going to be amazing
to eventually have this pair on display.
Probably when we do the expansion.
Don't know if we're going to get an opportunity
to put them over here before then,
'cause we're kind of out of space.
And we might move some things around
and actually get them over here 'cause I tell you what.
People love 'em.
And the thing that's great about diamonds
is typically, not only are they beautiful animals,
but again, every now and then carpet pythons,
can be a little touchy.
Whereas diamond pythons are known for being really placid
and really just great to handle.
You could see these guys just came out of the box
and they're absolutely wonderful.
Not striking, no defensive, nothing at all.
That's incredible.
So there it is guys,
some more animals for The Reptarium expansion,
I tell ya we are going to have some banging exhibits here
when we do this expansion, I cannot wait for that for sure.
So hey, there it is, diamond python unbrickin' believable.
Like, what do you think, Mike?
- They're awesome.
I've never thought we'd ever have diamond pythons.
- [Mike] Isn't it cool man,
I saw it right there, definitely one of the pinnacles
of the Australian pythons for sure.
Absolutely amazing, right.
- [Mike] She's awesome.
- [Brian] I know we need names for these guys.
- I don't know, that's a tough one.
I mean diamond,
anything that has to do with jewels, diamonds,
stuff like that.
- Oh, I see where you're goin'.
Let me go over this again,
pair of diamond pythons,
what name should we have for these guys?
Oh my God.
I am so excited to have these.
And I think Mike's more excited then any of us.
You guys may notice that carpet pythons
look pretty similar to the diamond pythons
and they really are.
They're in the same genus and really species
for the majority of them.
And this is actually a Darwin's carpet python,
or now binal Darwin's python.
So the diamond pythons are a morelia spilota spilota.
This is actually a morelia spilota varia Ghada.
And these are just an amazing animal
that come from the Northern Territory of Australia.
And of course the albinos originated there as well,
which is absolutely incredible.
I've said this a million times,
but when I was working with diamond pythons,
when I was really young,
the dream was to one day have albinos.
And not only do we have a handful of albinos,
but we even produced albinos a couple of years ago,
which was a absolute treat.
So, the carpet pythons are really cool
and the entire morelia genus is absolutely amazing as well.
With the diamond pythons maybe being my favorite
of the morelia spilota
the truth is my second favorite would be these guys here,
which are jungle carpet pythons.
These are actually from the Atherton Tablelands
and these are morelia spilota cheynai.
Now these are a little bit of a smaller species
of carpet python or subspecies I should say.
When you get the actual true Atherton Tablelands,
they typically don't get much bigger than four and a half,
maybe five foot, in all honesty a lot of the animals
here in America usually get like seven or eight foot.
And that's because they've been bred into other things.
A lot of times,
believe it or not people in America bred the jungles
into diamonds to actually produce
even more beautiful animals.
But of course the diamond python
can get seven or eight foot.
So the true Atherton Tablelands stay pretty small,
but most of the ones in America that everyone calls jungles,
including this little guy here,
this'll probably get seven or eight foot.
So it's not a pure jungle carpet python.
And unfortunately there's no way to really track it
'cause you can't import animals from Australia.
So you can't say, "Hey, I know the locality on it."
You just know that it hatched in an incubator
somewhere in America.
And it just depends on what spread,
but nevertheless, they are absolutely stunning.
And like I mentioned, with the crossing,
it seems to be a little bit more tolerated
in the carpet python community, right?
There are certainly animals
that when you hybridize different species or in this case,
subspecies people really get bent out of shape.
But with carpet pythons,
it's pretty common to be totally honest with you.
And the carpet python people seem to be okay with it.
This particular one is one of those hybrids,
basically with subspecies it's a jaguar carpet python,
that's bred to a jungle carpet python.
Now the jags were typically like a brown,
more coastal type of an animal.
And of course the jungles are that black and yellow,
but when you breed the black and yellow jungles
into the jag, you get this beautiful animal here.
Now the jag is actually an incomplete dominant mutation
that just reduces pattern makes that really cool head stamp.
And just a really interesting animal to say the least.
But nevertheless,
I love the way the jungle jags look
and we have a few of them that are absolute rippers.
Then I'll be honest,
one of my favorites and I say that all the time,
but it really is true,
are the Bredl's carpet python.
These guys are from central Australia
and actually a buddy of mine
Casey Lazic out in Washington
is the first person to produce
these many, many years ago.
When they first came out, they were $15,000 a pair.
And I bought a few pair of 'em from Casey.
It was absolutely crazy,
but I just love that kind of really rich rust color
that they have of them.
Now they're actually relatively affordable
and they're relatively large species
when it comes to carpets.
They'll literally get up to 10 foot sometimes
and they're really, really placid.
That's the thing that's interesting about the centralians
as well, is that for whatever reason...
I've never met a mean one.
They're always super, super nice.
This one I've had for probably 12 years or so.
And it is such an amazing animal.
It's so cool that we're rounding out
our morelia spilota collection of animals.
We have all kinds of cool stuff.
And just like the buaga
I hope one day to have all of these species
or subspecies, I should say, on display at The Reptarium.
I mentioned the other day
that we actually have a planning meeting
with the City so that's basically the planning commission
that votes either yay or nay on the expansion.
We have two meetings.
One is right now in about 15 minutes
and the next one is five days from now.
So, basically if we get a no on either one of these things,
the expansions off, so fingers crossed.
We did have a Planning Commissioner
come in earlier today, just to tour the place.
He was super excited about it.
And he said he thought we'd be fine, but I'm nervous.
I'm not gonna lie to you
because everything is on the line right now.
if something goes wrong
in the next 20 minutes with this meeting,
there's no expansion on The Reptarium.
So, deep breaths.
Let's go check this place out.
Please let it go well,
I probably won't be able to film
in the actual building itself,
but I will let you know, as soon as the meeting is done.
All right guys, we're here.
This is the City Hall right here.
So, heading into the meeting,
definitely nerves are a little bit up,
But hey, you know what?
I know on the other side of this
we're either gonna have a yes or no.
So, let's just go and check it out.
- So I'm just filming a TikTok
with our boy (indistinct) here because you know,
I haven't showed off his beautiful sheen in a while,
but look at how crazy he's acting today.
I don't know if he's hungry, as usual,
but he's going full hand berserk today.
Oop oop oop, we got him.
He's just acting a little bit weird.
hopefully we don't get bit.
You know, I'm the Snake King.
There making that documentary about me.
- [Brian] About you?
- It's about me if you didn't know.
He's a bucker - Bucker all right.
- We're gonna take him out,
we're going not get bit in the face.
There we go.
If you want to handle a snake,
that's a little bit aggressive
just try to stay away from his face.
Well look at,
we have the Snake King here.
- [Man] Snake King.
- If you don't follow my dad on TikTok yet, go do that now.
Brian Barczyk, TikTok.
I always forget how sheeny he is,
how the rainbow until we actually get him outside
'cause he's already so majestic inside.
But when you get him out here, holy sh... it's amazing.
- And this is why I love the city of Utica.
The meeting went absolutely amazing.
The planning commission was actually excited about it.
They were like...
You know, they had questions
and we answered them really quickly,
but they were like, we can't wait for this to happen.
When are you going to actually do it?
The one commissioner actually said that they are fans
of The Reptarium and their kids have been there.
So, they were a hundred percent pump.
There was not one person that was concerned about it.
There were no complaints from the City.
And that's why sometimes people are like,
why are you going to do this in Utica?
Utica is the place I love because I love the City
and I love the support they give us.
So, that is amazing.
I mean, we pass the Planning Commission.
Now we just have one more meeting
in five days with the Council.
And if that goes well,
which I think it really will
because the mayor's on that Council
and the mayor's already told me he's super excited about it.
He was in the meeting actually.
So I think we're in good shape guys,
but we do have one more meeting.
I am, wow, what a relief.
That is absolutely incredible.
One more step closer to this expansion happening.
Just love walking around the place, looking at Salt here,
looking absolutely beautiful.
I noticed that Perdita is in an amazing spot, right?
Look at this snake right now.
It's so fricking amazing.
And I need your advice guys, not advice
I need your opinion I should say.
I've done this a couple years.
This year I'm a little bit more committed to it.
You know, we had Dan C, the beard guy,
on the podcast, great guy.
He was in the vlog and everything like that.
Had an majestic beard, I don't really ever want a beard,
but we are in November.
Of course there's No Shave November or Movember's as well.
And that's basically where you grow
your beard out for the month.
You don't shave for the month.
And it's really about men's health.
You guys may not know.
I don't talk about this that much,
but I've been kind of out again, off again,
sick for the last two months with all kinds of things.
Respiratory issues,
just not feeling good and stuff like that.
And so I'm really committed to health right now.
I've actually just recently lost about eight pounds.
I want to lose about another 15
to be totally honest with you.
but I'm kind of thinking,
do I not shave my beard for November again?
See how long it grows.
I'm not a big beard guy,
to be honest with you, but let me know in the comments,
If you do want to do that.
I'm actually going for a physical.
I want to get healthy.
I want to get past all this sickness.
I want to get healthy.
I want to be vibrant.
I got so much energy,
but when I'm not feeling good, it's hard to feel that way.
And I want maybe if me and you together can do this, right?
We can not, maybe you don't have to not shave,
let's try to get healthy together.
You know, again, I'm going to lose some weight.
I definitely want to encourage everyone to get checked out.
Those health wellness checks are so important.
And by the way I said this in October,
I started about two weeks since in October.
No pizza, because I'm a pizza addict, no pizza for November.
So we can maybe do that together.
But let me know in the comments,
if you're on board number one and number two,
if I should just grow this scraggly beard
out for the next month,
again, with the symbolic means of staying healthy.
And hopefully by the end of November,
I'm going to be trimmer, I'm going to be healthier.
Can get over this sickness and keep going.
And who knows, maybe I'll look like a homeless person
at the end of the month.
So, let me know what you guys think.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day Reptile Army.
Remember be kind to someone and I promise,
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