- Hoo hoo, talkie.
Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.
Just got me too.
Oh my god.
I'm dripping blood right here.
By the way, I'm getting blood all over the snake.
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Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I'm pretty excited today
because I have a package coming any minute
that I cannot wait to un-box.
I have been waiting for this
for the last few weeks, so I am super excited.
I cannot wait to share it with you guys.
Let's go ahead and head over to BHB
and hopefully it's already there.
Guess what guys?
The package arrived.
I am so excited and I hope the start of your day
is absolutely amazing too.
Oh my god, this is so exciting.
It's like I am a kid on Christmas.
This is such a cool snake.
Okay, what do you say we just get right in to it
and see what is in this box?
And this actually came from my buddy Kevin McCurley
over at New England Reptile Distributors
where I get all kinds of really cool stuff.
Here's his card right here.
I will put a link in the description.
He actually puts out some really great videos
on Instagram as well as on YouTube.
I mean, he's kind of a guru
when it comes to animal behavior
and really figuring things out.
One of my dearest friends,
so please go show him some love.
And by the way, he sent me this.
This is actually a retake called Snarfles.
I absolutely love Snarfles.
I'm gonna put this on my computer, Kevin.
Thank you so much.
Regardless, let's just go ahead
and get right into the snake
Uh, okay, oh gosh there's all kinds of stuff in here.
Let's see what we got.
Alright guys, so there is only one bag,
but it is a pretty special bag.
This is honestly probably one of my favorite snakes.
Now, and just to tell you,
you know I already have one of these
but I absolutely love it
and certainly, probably the most popular snake
at The Reptarium and oh my, oh my gosh, wow.
I'm just, I don't even know what to say,
I mean this snake is unbelievable.
Hoo oo, talkie.
Ow, ow, ow, ow.
It just got me too.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh.
It just absolutely railed me.
Whoa, it's crazy!
Oh it's okay, look at this guys.
I didn't expect that at all.
It's okay buddy.
I think it's just stressed out from the trip.
But look at how beautiful it is.
Hoo hoo, my gosh, it definitely got my fingers good.
Look at, I am dripping blood right here.
It's okay, I don't wanna get you upset little one.
Of course this is another cow reticulated python!
I mean, just take a look at the color on this one!
But this one has actually got a lot of yellow on it
instead of all white, and that's what makes it
completely unusual is the fact
that it has all of that yellow color.
It's a bunch of different genes in it,
and this is one of Kevin's hold back animals.
He said he had never produced one
that looked quite like this before
and he thought that it would be a great addition
to the zoo, and thanks Kevin by the way for this.
I really do appreciate it.
Again, the animal was just a little bit stressed out
from probably shipping and stuff like that.
It is completely fine
and it just kind of took me off guard too
because when I went in the bag,
it just grabbed my fingers, you know what I mean.
But what an incredible snake!
And because Kevin had never produced one
that has all this beautiful yellow in it,
you can see some of the blotching
is starting to come through,
we have no idea what this animal's gonna look like
when it gets bigger.
But just take a look at how absolutely incredible it is.
And again guys, it was a defensive bite
because obviously it had been shipped,
it's probably a little stressed.
You can see, look at how puppy dog tame it is.
And by the way, I'm getting blood all over this snake.
It might be time to get a little clean-up
before I show Laurie 'cause I don't wanna show Laurie
'cause she'll be like oh my god,
that snake is mean!
It was really my fault,
I went in like,
I take all the blame.
So let me get cleaned up,
do a little bit of repairs,
get the snake cleaned up so it doesn't look so bad
and I'll be back with you guys in a minute.
Okay, I got the crime scene cleaned up and stuff like that.
Everything looks good.
So what do you think, Laurie?
We got another cow.
Isn't that thing gorgeous?
- What did you do?
- Oh my gosh, what do you mean?
It's so cool.
It's totally different than Perdita,
and of course you guys following along,
this is the same type of snake as Perdita.
But of course Perdita was pure white.
This one's got like a yellowish on it.
Isn't that thing cool?
- So will it stay yellow, or?
- I'm not sure.
This is the first time that Kevin's produced something
similar to this, I'm really not sure
what it's gonna turn out.
But look it, it's already got some freckles.
It looks like it's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Kevin actually said that this was like one
he was gonna raise up, it was a hold back for him.
So pretty awesome, huh?
(laughing)
You're not excited about it?
- I'm speechless.
Is it a boy?
- [Brian] It's a girl actually.
- It's a girl.
- Another girl, yeah.
I don't really wanna breed 'em at all.
I just wanna have really cool--
- Why?
- This is just a cool thing that can eventually
add to the zoo, I mean, look at how frickin' awesome
that snake is.
I tell you guys.
I am so excited to have this snake.
It is so incredible.
- Well.
Okay, I'm gonna process this,
that I did not know about.
But actually I do have something that I did know about.
- [Brian] What?
- What?
That came in today.
- Really? - As a surprise for you.
- For me?
You got me a surprise?
- Yeah, but now I wish I didn't.
- What? (laughing)
Can I, can I, what, is it an animal?
Or is it shoes?
- I don't know, you'll find out.
- Well let's open it! - I'll go get it.
- Okay.
That's awesome.
Alright, I'm gonna go ahead and get this little girl
set up, she is so absolutely gorgeous.
And now I got a surprise to open up.
- Andy didn't talk to you about this?
- [Noah] No, not really--
- Well Andy reached out to me
because he wanted to send a special animal for Dad.
- Oh really? - Yeah.
He was smart enough to okay it with me first.
So I looked into it,
I, behind the scenes, kinda made sure
it was something he wanted.
And so yeah.
This showed up, he doesn't know what it is,
so we're gonna surprise him. - I don't either,
so let's go!
See what's going on.
- About time, you kept me waiting!
I'm like freaking out.
So it is an animal?
- I guess so! - Maybe, it doesn't look
like shoes to me! - That doesn't look like
a pair of shoes.
Can I shake it?
- No, don't shake it. - Well you probably
don't want to.
- This box contains a heat pack.
Doesn't say what else it contains.
- I don't think shoes have heat packs,
so that's marked out. - Sometimes,
they got those little sensitive ones.
- Okay, so I'm excited.
- [Laurie] Don't cut Phoebe.
- What would you buy me?
- No, I didn't buy it, Andy sent it for you.
- Andy?
- Yes. - Oh Andy Gabbs?
- [Both] Yes.
- Oh Andy! - This is a surprise
from Andy, he checked with me first
to make sure it was okay.
- Oh my gosh, well thank you Andy.
I don't know what it is.
I'm either gonna be really happy
or really mad at you.
I'm not 100% sure.
But either way, I will put a link
in the description to Andy's YouTube channel
because he's a good friend of mine
out in San Diego.
He produces some great content.
Him and Noah do a bunch of stuff together as well.
Ah, I'm not gonna read that
because I wanna be surprised.
Let's see here, okay it's,
okay so it's a bag.
Is it a snake?
Doesn't feel like, no, it's definitely not a snake.
It's definitely a lizard.
- [Noah] Oo, I like lizards.
- [Laurie] Open it up!
- It's definitely a lizard.
Oh, it's moving around a lot.
Is it gonna bite me?
- [Noah] Uh, probably.
- Its it a monitor, or is it?
- [Noah] Knowing your luck today,
you're gonna probably get bit.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Well, I think this is a great way
to see what it is and whether it's tame or not.
- Well that's not good.
- What are you talking about? - I like that too.
- Okay, what do we have?
Holy moly!
- [Noah] What?
- These things are freakin' awesome!
- These things? - Whoa!
Oh my gosh!
- [Noah] What is that?
- Whoa, come on!
- [Noah] It's like Nova's cousin or something.
- Calm down, calm down, calm down.
- [Noah] Oh my goodness!
- Holy cow, this is, this is. - That is awesome!
- I remember seeing,
this is one of those New Guinea forest dragons.
Oh my gosh!
So the deal is guys that these ones
are just like the Australian version
of the Boyd's forest dragon,
but these are the ones from New Guinea.
They look really similar,
but these ones actually get even bigger.
I saw that Andy actually posted him holding this animal.
- That's the one, yup. - This is the actual animal.
Andy, thank you so much dude!
This is frickin' awesome!
I mean look at this thing!
Again, I've caught the Boyd's down in Australia
and they are so incredible.
I never thought that I would actually own
one of these guys.
Now I will say Laurie, I gotta ask you this question.
I actually, you know, I've caught 'em,
I've seen 'em in the wild,
but I don't know a lot about 'em.
I'm hoping you did some research
because to make sure we have a cage for this,
we have-- - I did.
Like I said, he checked with me first
to make sure it was okay.
So I did some research.
We have the perfect cage for it to go in.
And Jessica and I also was looking online
as far as temperatures, feeding,
as well as Andy gave us a little care sheet in here too.
So we're good to go. - Okay so we know
what's going on.
Alright and we have the back history
of the animal and stuff like that?
- Yeah. - Look at that thing!
Woo doggie.
Laurie, well I was gonna say thank you,
but Andy thank you!
And Laurie, thank you for letting me get it!
- Exactly, you're welcome.
- Oh my god, what do you guys think?
I mean, how frickin' cool is this?
- That is actually really cool.
- It is so awesome.
And again, I think that this is an animal,
it seems to be so habituated
that we'll probably be able to take out
maybe a little bit like Nova and stuff like that.
Like not maybe as much as a bearded dragon,
but holy cow, that thing is prehistoric looking.
Oh my god, it's a good day for The Reptarium.
What do you think, Noah?
- Whoa! - Do you like it?
- I do. - You gonna hold it or no?
- He's licking, his mouth's open
and you're putting it by me face.
I'm kinda worried.
- [Brian] You know, you could take it.
- I don't really trust myself.
I saw how active he was.
I don't wanna drop him and hurt him.
- Oh my god. - Maybe in a week.
- He's cool though right?
'Cause I know you like lizards.
- He is sweet, he looks like Nova's cousin or something.
I like the little spikes on the back.
It's like Jurassic Park.
- [Brian] No, it almost looks like straight from
the movie Godzilla or something like that.
- I really didn't realize,
look how long his tail is!
- [Brian] These are the longest species of the genus.
- That's crazy. - So these guys
can literally get almost four foot long.
He's pretty much full grown as far as body wise,
but these guys can get nearly four foot with the tail.
It's pretty awesome. - Mom, feel his body.
It's not what you expect.
It feels, what does it feel like?
It feels like another reptile.
It's like a chameleon.
It feels like a chameleon.
- Oh my gosh that's awesome. - It does,
but with this cool spike.
- I love this thing, man.
It is so cool.
So again, I just wanna make sure you guys are all set
on the care of this,
because I never wanna encourage people
to like surprise someone with an animal
without being ready for it.
So I realize we're usually pretty good,
so give me the rundown.
I have a general idea of what these guys are,
but what's the care for these?
- Well it's actually not too bad.
It's really similar to our care for Nova.
So, it's an insect eater
so we're gonna do dubia, super worm, stuff like that,
crickets, and apparently sometimes they even eat fruit,
which is kind of a surprise to me, but.
- [Brian] That's crazy.
Do we have a cage already picked out?
- We already got a cage picked out
and it's already hooked up to the misting system,
which this one also needs, so we're good to go.
- Alright, well I'm excited about it.
So I honestly am blown away.
I seriously didn't see this one coming at all.
- Yeah, I think you gotta give Andy a call.
- Yeah, I'm definitely gonna give my buddy Andy a call
'cause I did not see this coming.
- Maybe, actually, maybe we should name it Andy.
- Oh, I like the idea!
We should definitely name this Andy.
Andy, we're naming Andy Andy.
So there you go, so thank you again Andy.
Again, link's in the description to Andy's channel
and all his stuff, great friend of mine.
And thank you, I love it.
Now you gotta come out and visit him.
So let's go ahead and see the cage
that you guys have picked out
and get this thing set up.
This is what you guys came up with, huh?
Okay I was wondering the other day
when you were asking me about this cage.
You had some devious thoughts in mind.
You two are something else.
So obviously we have lots of branches.
We have a hot spot up here,
and the hot spot can literally be about 100 to 105 degrees
although you want the majority of the hot spot
to be maybe like 95 degrees.
Definitely a lot of cold spots,
lots of foliage because these guys definitely like to hide
and kind of get away from people
so that they don't stress out.
Although this one seems to be absolutely acclimated
to handling, so let's go ahead and just let him in there
and see what he does.
So go for it!
I don't know, maybe, I don't even know where to put him.
- [Laurie] On the big tree?
- [Brian] Or you can put him wherever!
There you go bud!
What do you think?
- [Jessica] He even hops away like Nova.
- Yeah, he does! - Oh my gosh,
look at him, he is absolutely,
he is so much like Nova.
You're gonna love this cage, buddy!
He's got all kinds of different options to climb
and all that type of stuff.
So I think this is gonna be absolutely cool.
So again, thank you guys for conniving against me
and knowing this is coming.
I mean, how awesome is that.
- It was all Andy, I just gave it the go ahead.
- Well again Andy, thank you so much.
I think this thing is absolutely spectacular!
How cool is that?
So again, another cool thing
that you can come see at The Reptile Zoo.
Oh my god, this is absolutely incredible.
And speaking of that, The Reptarium's opening
in just about an hour, so this'll be the first time
people will get a chance to see him.
Oh my god, the thing is cool.
Andy, you're awesome.
All changed into my Reptarium attire.
We've got the place all cleaned up,
the floor is mopped, we are ready to go.
We are opening for business here
in about five minutes or so.
Definitely gonna be an absolutely fun night.
Gonna get a chance to head over to BHB a couple times
'cause I got a few things to catch up there too,
but what do you say we get ready to open up the doors?
Let's do it, let's open up.
Hey guys, how are ya?
Hi, come on in, come on in, you're good, hi!
Welcome, welcome.
Hi, how are ya?
Come on in guys!
- [Man] Hello!
- [Brian] Guys, come on in, how are you?
- [Woman] Hi, good, hi, good.
- So these guys asked if they could be in the vlog.
So you guys wanna be in the vlog?
You enjoying Sunrise?
- [Kids] Yes.
- [Brian] Okay cool, you having a good time tonight?
- [Kids] Yes.
- Okay good, now you're in the vlog.
- [Kids] Yay!
- Having some fun here.
Obviously just getting going at The Reptarium.
Hi, how are ya?
It's always a fun night here.
We got all kinds of stuff out,
people are having a good time,
I'm certainly having a good time.
Got Perdita out, it's always,
you know Perdita's always
just kind of like the fan favorite.
That's why it was so cool to get another cow.
And Kevin actually told me it was a super tame animal,
so I'm sure it was just stressed out with the trip.
So hopefully we'll have another Perdita-like
cow reticulated python here at The Reptarium
coming up here in the next few months.
But this is absolutely incredible.
(excited exclamations)
- [Man] Monster coming through!
- He wants comes place.
- Tazzy's out of course,
getting some attention over here.
Definitely really interesting.
It was like a really kid-heavy night.
You know, lots of families with kids,
which I think is absolutely amazing.
A really busy night.
Didn't expect it, I thought tonight
was gonna be a mellow night.
But it was absolutely busy
and lots of families with lots of kids.
I think that is the thing I love most
about The Reptarium.
Don't get me wrong, I love everyone that comes.
But when we have a bunch of kids in,
it's so much fun.
We still have probably an hour or so to go,
but so far it's been awesome.
Little crowd forming for Casper over here.
Everyone wants to get their Casper time on.
- Hello.
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- [Girl] He's so sweet.
- Things are winding here at The Reptarium.
I think we got about 10, 15 minutes before closing.
Again, kind of an unexpected busy night.
I didn't expect it to be as busy as it was.
I don't know why, I just thought,
I thought today's gonna be a mellow day.
It was really great.
And like I've mentioned, tons of families.
So I love it!
I hope that that continues!
I hope that families keep coming in with their kids
because that would be absolutely epic.
Regardless, I am gonna go ahead
and shut the vlog down.
I'm gonna go ahead and shut the vlog down and let you guys
have an amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching,
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