- Guys, check this out. Come with me.
Shh. He got away.
(slide whistle)
Missed him.
It's on the other side of the fence.
Failure.
(slide whistle)
Oh!
(leaves rustling)
Oh, it's got me!
So, guys, you see these all around Florida, and, you know,
a lot of people think that they're just kind of
a crazy little garbage lizard that runs around,
but the truth is they're absolutely amazing.
And we're about to go to a place
that has an incredible collection of this particular genus,
plus a ton of other lizards.
So, like I mentioned, those anoles are pretty darn awesome.
And of course we're with Ron St. Pierre.
I've known you for 30 years or so.
- Yep.
- He's done so many amazing things in the hobby,
but right now you're really specializing in lizards
that a lot of people don't work with.
- Yeah. Yeah.
We do a lot, mostly giant anoles, some rare monitors.
- We're just gonna jump in, guys.
Let's see what we got.
- Here's a giant blue beauty anole.
- Oh, my gosh.
Is this the ones you guys got?
- [Man] Yeah, yeah.
That's our (indistinct). - Oh, my God.
- Yeah, these are raised outside, so they're not friendly,
but when you raise 'em indoors, they're really tame.
- [Brian] Tell me, what are these again?
- These are giant blue beauty anoles,
Anolis Equestris Potior.
- [Brian] Where are these from?
- Cuba.
- [Brian] Cuba. Oh, my gosh.
So, are all the giant anoles from Cuba?
- The largest of them is found in Cuba,
but all of the other Caribbean islands have a giant,
they're called crown giant anoles.
So they all have their own type, but most, very few...
Actually I don't think any of 'em are as large
as the Equestris complexes.
- Are you kidding me right now?
And you guys thought anoles were boring.
So these are the albino anoles.
- Yep. - Oh, my gosh.
Have you produced any of these yet?
- [Ron] Oh, yeah. We've been producing for a few years now.
- Really? - Yeah.
This is the first year we're starting to release them.
- [Brian] Okay. What do they go for now?
- They're five grand a pop.
- [Brian] Five grand a pop for an awesome anole.
And you have a few different bloodlines, right?
- Yeah. This is actually the T-negative albino,
so, like the traditional A male.
- [Brian] Right.
- And then we also have T-positive albinos.
- Really? - Three different types.
We have something that we think might be, honestly,
I was just showing them, I don't know what the hell it is.
- Really?
And what the cool thing is is that when you're talking about
kind of an interesting lizard,
like I'd say a Cuban anole or something like that,
for a long period of time, really,
you know, Ron is buying all the cool stuff
because a lot of people aren't even that interested in it.
So he's creating a market that wasn't even there.
That's the innovation, right?
It's like the early days of ball pythons.
When people were buying ball pythons
when no one really wanted them,
and then all of a sudden, everyone realized,
oh, my gosh, these things are amazing.
So, Ron's doing the exact same thing with these things.
And trust me, guys, don't sleep on these.
These are going to be huge in the future.
- These are actually extremely rare.
And we have one of the only producing groups
in the U.S. right now.
- [Brian] Okay. So these are again a Cuban animal?
- Another Cuban anole.
So it's Anolis Luteogularis.
This is a joint project with Philippe de Vosjoli,
the founding father of Herpetoculture.
- [Brian] Absolutely.
- He had some animals, we had a couple animals,
and he puts them on loan.
Once we got 'em outdoors in the south Florida,
central Florida climate,
they started breeding like crazy.
- [Brian] Oh, my gosh, that's so cool.
- So we produce quite a few.
- [Brian] So how many eggs do these have?
- So all of these giant anoles
lay one egg a week-- - One egg a week?
- For about seven months.
- Whoa! - Like a chicken.
- [Brian] Holy cow. What's the incubation on them?
- About 50 to 60 days, depending on.
- [Brian] Fifty to sixty days.
And they hatch out large enough where they're pretty,
pretty hardy?
- Yeah, they're a big baby, which is great.
They're big enough to eat, like,
a half-grown cricket right out of the egg.
And they eat a lot of Repashy diets and stuff like that,
so they're super easy to take care of.
- [Brian] Just amazing.
Gosh, this thing is cool.
- See, these guys can turn black,
and they get this orange mottling.
They're pretty cool.
- Guys, I love these lizards.
They aren't anoles, but they are amazing.
This is, of course,
the largest chameleon species on the planet,
from Madagascar,
and these are Parson's chameleons,
and wow, they are incredible.
Just look at the size of that male Parson's right there.
Wow. That is just...
It doesn't even make sense.
That is a beautiful animal.
Have you had any success with these yet?
- No, this is a fairly new project for us.
Something that Heather and I
have wanted to work with for a while.
- [Brian] Well, that's amazing. How many do you have?
- We have five.
- [Brian] Five total? Oh, my gosh.
I know there's, like, different ones, like giant yellows.
- [Ron] These are orange eyes.
- [Brian] These are orange eyes, gotcha.
- [Ron] And then we have a pair of Christopher's.
- Okay. Gotcha. That's amazing.
So I'm actually inside a pair
of bell's phase lace monitors' cages.
You can see this one right here, this monkey.
This is actually the boy right here.
Absolutely wonderful lizards from Australia
and the bell's phase are just, they're just,
you guys know I have Beetle Juice bell's phase lace monitor.
I just love 'em to death.
And I've been fortunate enough
to see one bell's phase lace monitor in Australia
when I was actually traveling down the road
in a place called Beerwah,
which of course is where the Australia Zoo is.
It was a treat.
I saw it.
I jumped outta the car, and it disappeared.
Never was able to find it again.
But I tell you what:
it's always been a dream of mine to have one.
Now that we have one, it's really cool,
but this is an absolutely beautiful animal.
Super clean, super amazing.
A little bit standoffish, but hey, I understand.
He doesn't know me, and I don't know him.
- Actually, see this thing's not colored up right now
but when this thing colors up,
it's bright yellow and bright green.
I don't know what the hell this is.
This was caught last year in Miami.
- [Brian] Okay,
so this is probably-- - Something new.
- [Brian] A normal Cuban with a morph, you think?
- It's a morph, yeah. I'm certain it's a morph.
- [Brian] Oh, it's definitely a morph,
if it's just a normal Cuban.
That's incredible. - Yeah. They caught this.
And then we picked it up from a friend of ours.
- [Brian] Wow. What do you think that is?
So have you bred it yet?
- No, it's just now getting to be about big enough to breed,
so hopefully this year.
- [Brian] They've all got that posture, don't they?
- Oh, yeah, they're angry because it's late.
- [Brian] Yeah, it's late, yeah, but they're so beautiful.
- [Ron] Ian caught this in his backyard.
- [Brian] Oh, my gosh.
- And I don't even know what this is.
But we just got the first possible hits from that this year.
- [Brian] Okay, did they look any different or they just--
- No, they were all born normal.
We got seven babies.
He was paired with two females.
I'm not sure what this is.
It has some green, looks kind of like an albino.
It looks--
- [Brian] It's albino-ish but at the same time...
- [Ron] It's got a white belly,
which a lot of 'em don't have.
- [Brian] So how many projects are you working on morphs?
- Of anoles? - Yeah.
- Seven different.
- [Brian] Seven different anole projects.
- Morph projects.
- [Brian] Morph projects. And then how many species of--
- The Potior, Luteogularis, Smallwood eye,
Equestris, and Rykard eye.
- And then this is actually a baby
to that first anole that we saw there.
- [Ron] Of giant blue beauties.
- It almost looks like a miniature Fiji island iguana.
- Yeah. - It's amazing.
- It's too bad they don't retain this,
but eventually they turn into those bright yellow.
- [Brian] Ah, that's too bad that they turn into
those beautiful bright yellow. (laughs)
I mean, but they're amazing as babies too.
That's what's incredible about it.
Now, how much do these go for?
- We've only released a few,
but they've sold pretty much instantly for $2500 each.
- [Brian] Twenty-five hundred dollars each, yeah.
- Because it's a relatively new thing.
- Some of the coolest Australian monitors in the world
are Spencer's monitors, and we have one right here.
I mean, are you the only one with them or is there anyone?
I haven't seen 'em ever.
- [Ron] No, there's a few people.
- [Brian] There's a few people that have 'em.
So this is the first year he's trying to breed them, though.
- This will be our second year, but the first real year
where they've been here for long enough.
We got them about two and a half, three years ago.
- Yeah. And you can definitely see the similarity
between, like, Argus monitors and Spencer's monitors,
but these guys will have these cool bands
all the way down 'em.
Absolutely wonderful-looking animals.
Very similar body style to a lot of the,
again, the argus monitors and stuff like that,
that long neck.
But just look at this amazing banding down the back,
I mean, just absolutely wonderful.
And like I said, you know, there's not a lot of these around
'cause the last time I saw one
was when I was actually in Australia,
so it's so cool to see these guys out here
and absolutely amazing.
They're just waking up from their winter slumber,
so hopefully you'll have some babies this year, right?
- Hopefully.
- Hopefully. Well I'm wishing you best of luck, man.
And guess who we just ran into?
Of course, David and Manny from Tiki's Geckos, obviously.
They actually helped us come over here.
I've known Ron for a long time,
but I didn't have his contact info, so they hooked us up,
and they are getting some amazing giant blue...
- [Manny] Beauty anoles.
- [Brian] Beauty anoles. Oh, my gosh I hate you guys.
- Hey, you can't come up here and see that
and go home empty handed.
- [Brian] Oh, my goodness gracious, man.
These are unbelievable.
And these ones were hold-backs right?
- Yes, these are juveniles. - Don't remind them, please.
(everyone laughs)
So, rubbing it in.
- These are juveniles,
and they're already starting to develop color, so.
You'll notice the blues and the yellows starting to come in.
They initially, when they hatch, they're green.
- [Brian] Right, yeah.
- And then they develop color over time.
So, this is about the time it starts to develop.
- Oh, my gosh. I'm so jealous.
If you guys think
that I'm not gonna have these in my future, you're crazy.
I'm definitely gonna be adding these
because they are absolutely incredible.
You guys saw it here.
It's actually here before it's on their channel.
Maybe not, but we'll see what happens,
but congratulations, guys, seriously,
those are absolutely amazing.
- Thank you. We're excited. Very excited.
- By the way guys,
I'm gonna put a link down in the description
to their social media: Fairytale Dragons.
If you wanna get into cool anole projects,
this is the guy to talk to.
Tiki's Geckos will have them
obviously in the future as well.
(everyone laughs)
This is the one to talk to. - Heather's the one to talk to
- So Heather is the one to talk to, we know that,
if you wanna get into some amazing anoles.
I'm telling you, guys, don't sleep on these projects.
It's gonna be, it's sweeping the reptile world.
These are absolutely amazing. And I am so jealous right now.
So we're about done here,
but it's been amazing seeing these incredible animals.
- [Man] See that dude?
(train horn blows)
Dude, Brian's gonna be so upset.
- Is that a plane?
- [Man] No, dude.
- A plane, a train.
- So, Brian's literally next door trying to fall asleep,
and there's trains and planes and automobiles.
- He's so mad.
- Dude, he's gotta be so mad right now.
I hope he's getting some sleep.
- And we are on our way back heading up north.
Only 17 hours and two minutes to go, right, fellas?
(men groan)
Kids.
- Man, I miss him so much. It's been forever.
It's been like a week and a half.
I miss you, Brian!
(beeping)
- We miss you too, Mike. We'll be back in 12 hours.
This is crazy.
- [Employee] Hi, welcome to Bucky's.
- [Man] Hi. Thank you.
- You know, we ain't gonna go all the way home
without stopping at Bucky's,
and of course, the beef jerky counter.
- Here you go.
- Brian better get his butt back here soon,
'cause I'm sick and tired of doing all his work.
- Maybe we should go back to Florida.
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- (indistinct) smelled like that burp passed a fart
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- Well, I farted too.
- [Man] Oh, no!