- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope to start of your day is amazing.
Look who actually shed my guy, Ben and Jerry,
a perfect shed by the way,
and I always love to see
what the head looks like on these guys.
Just 'cause I think it's so interesting, right,
that there's actually two heads.
And look at that,
that's about as close as you can get to a good one.
Again, you've got Ben's shed right here.
Jerry's gets ripped off because again,
they do have that kind of Y,
so they have no choice but to rip it.
But nevertheless, a really beautiful shed
for my two headed snake, Ben and Jerry.
They're doing absolutely incredible.
And I could not be more excited to tell you this.
Guess what?
The Reptile Zoo, The Reptarium is about to open.
That's right, this coming Friday,
we can actually open The Reptarium.
Now I'm going to be honest with you,
it's not like we're going back to things of old
because hey, it's a little bit of a different world.
There are restrictions that go on.
I'm going to tell you what I think is going to happen
and I want to hear from you guys
what you think I should do
and so on like that.
So I've been thinking about this nonstop
since the word came down
that the governor said we could open up.
It's going to be amazing.
But before we dive really deep into this topic,
let's go ahead and check on some snake eggs.
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Clutches are getting so exciting right now.
This is actually a head Russo
and it's bred to a pastel Hidden Gene Woma,
which means that I could produce some Russo Soul Suckers,
which are really cool.
And here's that male again,
a super pastel Hidden Gene Woma
and the Hidden Gene Woma to Lesser and head Russo
is Allelic producing that Soul Sucker stuff
which is so cool.
I see how many eggs this mama has.
Looks like she has piled up again.
I always talk about the fact
that I love it when it feels like females
can't even wrap the eggs, there are so many of them.
So mama, you did so good.
What a beautiful clutch.
What a good mama, that's for sure.
That is beautiful.
And again, everything in here is gonna be pastel,
then we can have some pastel Hidden Gene Woma stuff,
we could have some pastel head Russo stuff,
we also have some pastel Soul Sucker Russo stuff.
So it's gonna be really cool clutch to cut.
Two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
And as always, 57 days from now,
you guys are going to see what's inside these eggs.
Another unbelievable clutch right here.
This of course is a Fire Ghost Ball Python
and it was bred to this Champagne Lori Ball Python
that's head for Ghosts.
So we could produce Champagne Lori Ghost Fires,
all kinds of combinations there.
This is a beautiful male,
but the offspring should be amazing.
So let's see how many eggs this girl has.
Again, it looks like a gorgeous clutch of eggs.
I am getting so excited about production this year.
Good job, mama.
You did so good.
Just get these eggs off really quick.
Mama took a little pop shot at me there, that's okay.
Of course, you got to just get this paper off here
and we can a look.
Wow, look at that clutch of eggs right there.
And again, the combinations could be so amazing.
We've got two four, six, eight, nine eggs.
Oh my gosh.
And just like that guys,
we have 45 clutches of Ball Pythons in the incubator.
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Look at Almachino, just shed,
I've got to clean his cage up.
But wow, does he look absolutely gorgeous.
This is a snake that is just stunning in person.
And when we were open that one weekend,
for the grand opening weekend,
there was no doubt that Al was one of the big hits over here
at The Reptarium 2.0.
People love this guy and I cannot wait 'til people
can start to play with him again.
That's for sure.
Now let's get into what that may actually look like.
The truth is is that the governor said,
we can only have 10 people here at The Reptarium
during open hours, at one time.
Now that's 10 customers.
So we can have however many workers we need,
but we can only have 10 patrons at a time.
This is how I think that's going to work.
I think that we are going to sell time slots
from four to five, five to six, six to seven,
seven to eight, eight to nine
and so I like that.
We're open five hours.
So there'll be 50 slots per day,
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Coming this Friday,
there will be 50 slots available
and unfortunately we have to sell an hour at a time.
Now you could buy five hours if you want,
but that's the only way that we can actually operate, right?
Because if we only had 10 people come in at four
and stay 'til nine,
we couldn't even pay the payroll that way.
So we want to try to have 50 people a night.
And again, that doesn't mean
it has to be 50 different people.
It's just 50 time slots.
So again, if you want to spend two hours here,
you could buy two time slots,
so on and so forth like that.
And what we'll probably do is have wristbands.
So say green four to five,
yellow, five to six,
at the end of that first hour,
the green bands have to leave
and the yellow bands get to come in.
If you buy more, you get more wristbands.
Does that make sense?
I think that that's kind of the best way to go about it.
I would love to hear your thoughts
about is that a good idea?
I mean, again, we certainly aren't gonna be making
anywhere near the kind of money that we would normally make.
But I am just excited to get people in here again,
playing with these animals,
getting these animals out
and start getting the attention that they deserve so much.
And then I'll talk a little bit more in a few minutes
about the other things we're thinking as far as safety.
With Jessica, which means what do we have?
- We've got eggs today.
Awesome, what do we have? - Gargoyle eggs.
- [Brian] Oh, that's a pretty one too.
Which one's this one?
- This is our Dracula line female.
- Oh, this is a Dracula female.
Oh my gosh, that is so dope.
Of course, we had that Dracula baby hatch,
not too long ago, which is cool.
So this is exciting.
- [Jessica] We've got three babies from her so far.
- We got three babies already.
Oh my God.
Oh, and they look good too.
Look at that.
Two beautiful little good eggs.
Oh my gosh.
That is so cool.
Of course, that Dracula line comes from Tikis Geckos,
some amazing geckos they have down there for sure.
So that is cool, to put a couple more eggs in the incubator.
Oh my God, that is dope.
- [Jessica] Got one sitting in there incubating already.
- Awesome.
Sweet, I can't wait 'til those.
How long these take?
- They can take up to 90 days.
- Up to 90 days.
That's hard, that's hard for me to wait that long,
but it'll be. - It is a long wait.
- It'll be worth it.
Those babies are gonna be awesome.
Guess what time it is everyone,
if you guess that we're gonna knit
a really cool stuffed animal, you're right,
no, it's Couleuvre egg take time.
Let's go ahead and just jump right into it.
This is actually a Hypo Head for Blood Red or Diffuse Corn
and she's bred to that beautiful plasma male,
which is a Diffused Lavender Corn.
Just take a look at that one.
I tell you what, that thing is gorgeous.
Now I'm going to be honest with you,
the last clutch and the first clutch that he produced
was about 50% fertility,
so I don't know what's gonna happen here.
Oh, look it's fertile, they're all fertile.
Not a really big clutch by any stretch,
but still a fertile clutch, which is awesome.
But again, this is a first time female, not very big,
definitely not a big clutch
by any stretch of the imagination,
but still absolutely fertile,
which is what we want.
And we could get some really cool combos here.
This is two, four, five eggs.
That is it for that clutch.
But we do have a few more clutches to pull.
Next up we have another Corn snake
that has all kinds of genetics in it.
Let's just go ahead and pull this box out.
It's actually an Albino Motley
that is also head for Amber and Opal Stripe.
So there's all kinds of stuff.
And it looks like a good clutch.
One little slugger on the bottom there,
but look at how beautiful that snake is right there.
Of course, that Motley pattern
is that kind of cool like dotting pattern down it,
connecting the saddles all down the middle.
It's really cool, it's a recessive mutation
and again it's head for Amber,
which of course is Hypo Carmel.
It's head for Opal Stripe,
which is Lavender Albino Stripe,
there's like six or seven different combinations in here
that we could produce.
So that is pretty cool.
And again, like I said, one little slugger right here,
the rest of the eggs look really good.
Put these in here,
put these in here
and we've got two, four, six good eggs.
One little slugger, still pretty cool.
And when this clutch hatches,
there could be some bangers.
Well obviously we got to keep,
not only our own health in mind,
but also our patrons, we want everyone to be safe.
So this is a tough thing,
but I think everyone's going to have to wear a mask.
I mean our employees,
we're going to probably even be wearing gloves,
I don't know a hundred percent.
But I think people coming through will have to wear masks.
I hope that you guys don't mind.
I wish we didn't have to.
But to be honest with you,
I think there's no choice in it.
Now the good news is that the CDC,
literally just released something saying that
it's hard to catch COVID from surfaces.
Now we're going to still have hand sanitizer,
every single person,
so if you want to hold Salt,
you're gonna have to hand sanitize,
then you can hold Salt
and then the next person's gonna have to hand sanitize.
But the fact is, as they said,
it's almost impossible to catch it
through that type of transmission.
So we're pretty safe there,
but we're going to play it completely safe,
just to make sure everyone is okay.
It's pretty cool that now we don't have to worry
about the fact that what if we hand a snake to somebody
and then they get some kind of virus on it
and then we hand it to someone else.
'Cause basically the CDC said
that it's very rare to catch it that way.
The other thing they said is that animals can't transmit it.
So even if an animal did have it,
which reptiles haven't shown to have it yet,
but they can't transmit it.
So this is all really good news.
And I think that that's kind of basis
of what we think about the grand opening.
Again, it's going to be this Friday, four to nine,
Saturday four to nine
and Sunday three to eight.
You can go to thereptarium.com,
reserve your time slot,
if you so choose to be one of those 50 time slots per day.
And that's how this is going to have to run
for the next couple of weeks.
I am sure in a couple of weeks,
it's going to go from 10 to 25 to 50
and so on and so forth.
So we're going to get more and more people
and then hopefully not too much longer,
we won't even have to wear masks,
we'll just have to wait to see.
We want to follow all the state regulations
to make sure that we don't get shut down, obviously.
Not to mention we want you to be safe,
we want to be safe, we want our animals to be safe.
But it's gonna be so cool
that people can start to handle Salt again
and all of these animals.
I am so excited.
That's right guys.
The Reptarium is about to open up again this Friday.
We have another Abbotts Okeetee
that is head for Scaleless Corn.
This is a pretty big animal.
It was actually born in 2012
so it's an older animal for sure.
So hopefully there'll be a really good clutch.
And this was the boy that it was bred to,
that beautiful Scaleless Abbotts Okeetee.
Of course, it's in with another head female right now,
that's actually gearing up for a second clutch.
So Couleuvres will actually lay two clutches.
So basically what happens
is that after the first clutch,
they'll go through a shed,
they'll start eating,
and then you start breeding them again.
Usually six, seven weeks later,
they lay another clutch.
But let's go ahead and see what this girl has.
Oh my gosh.
Holy moly.
That is a dream clutch right there.
Now remember, half of these
are gonna be Scaleless Abbotts Okeetee
and half of 'em are gonna be Abbotts Okeetee
head for Scaleless,
So I tell you what, mama, you did so good.
And again, she's an older animal.
Again, eight years old, so she's been around.
The older they get, the bigger they get, the more eggs.
And these are nice, big, beautiful eggs
and a lot of 'em.
Oh my goodness gracious,
that is a clutch right there.
I hope I can even count these things,
there's so many of them.
I can't count past 10, you guys know that.
There is two, four, six eight, 10, 12, 14, 16,
18, 20, 22 eggs.
Ooh my gosh, ooh doggy,
that's a good clutch, 22 eggs.
Again on average 11 these
are gonna be Abbotts Okeetee Scaleless.
Oh my God, I cannot wait
'til these things hatch.
Last clutch of the day,
and this is a clutch that I absolutely love
because this is an Arizona Mountain King snake
that has head for Albino.
Now we had one other clutch
that was an Arizona Mountain King snake
that was a possible head Albino,
and of course it was bred to this beautiful male right here,
which of course is an Albino Arizona Mountain King snake.
I mean that thing is ridiculous.
So hopefully this clutch will be good too.
'Cause the first clutch was a good clutch of eggs.
But this one is a proven head female.
So fingers crossed,
there'll be good eggs in here.
Well there's one good egg in here.
Let's see, where are we?
Okay, here's a, here's another little tiny egg,
but it looks good.
Let's just get mama back out here
and see if there's any hidden,
that is really weird if she only had two eggs,
that would be unbelievable.
As a matter of fact,
there's one normal size egg and one half size egg.
So there's gotta be more in here, I would think.
But maybe not.
Wow, that's crazy.
So that 22 egg clutch from the Abbotts Okeetee
is the largest clutch that we've had this year.
The smallest clutch that we've had this year
is two eggs with no infertiles or anything else.
So hey, we had the most eggs and the least eggs,
all in the same day.
And I realized that people
are gonna wanna spend more than an hour, I get it,
but the thing you do have to remember
is normally when we're open,
there's hundreds of people in here.
You're going to only be with 10 people total.
So you're going to get a lot more attention
and get to see things a lot more
in the hour that you're here, right.
And again, if you wanna go longer,
you can always do that,
but I think that hour is gonna be pretty special
because there's only going to be 10 people
plus our crew in the entire Reptarium.
So although it's a downside
that you can only stay for an hour,
if you only pick one hour time slot,
but the truth is you're gonna see a lot in that hour.
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They obviously sent me another shirt.
I can't wait to see what this says.
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So the first one was kind of that supreme red logo
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And I saw them wearing this black one
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I tell you what, I love this.
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So how exciting is that?
The Reptarium opens up this coming Friday.
I am so, so happy.
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