- Careful, careful.
Stay inside.
Uh-oh!
- [Aaron] I'm just gonna ease my hand--
(shouting) - Oh my God, please!
Put it back.
(upbeat music)
- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Another amazing gorgeous incredible day here
at The Reptarium and over at BHB.
We're gonna have a great time together.
Let me know what your day is like down in the comments
and what do you say we push our problems aside
for the next 12 or 15 minutes, however long the vlog is
and have a great time together?
And I think I'm gonna go ahead and get my day started
with something that never gets old and that's of course
feeding my two-headed snake, Ben and Jerry.
There it goes.
That didn't take long.
(upbeat music)
And like I've mentioned in the past, it never gets old.
I absolutely love this snake.
You know, now that the new year is a few days in,
I think it's time to continue to think and set goals.
I have so many things that I wanna achieve in 2019.
2018 was absolutely incredible, but 2019,
I think is gonna be even more amazing.
(upbeat music)
I always talk about how switching up meals
for monitor lizards and really almost all animals
is really good.
The variation of food is awesome for them.
So, today, we have some venison for my guy, Elvis, here.
Come on, buddy.
Yes, you like the venison, huh bud?
Oh yeah, you love that.
Whoo doggy, he sure does.
Again, I talked about 2019.
One of my big things is to work even harder this year
than I did last year.
I mean, don't get me wrong.
I know a lot of people are like, Brian, it is impossible
for you to work harder than you already did,
but the truth is there is always harder work.
But also, to enjoy life even more than I did last year.
2018 was one of the best years of my life.
I certainly enjoyed so many things that I did,
but the truth is I wanna enjoy even more in 2019.
I have some venison for Abu Suku, as well.
I've been putting her on a little bit of a diet
because she's just a little bit fatter than what I'd like
her to be, but she absolutely loves venison, for sure.
Come on, lil girl.
There you go.
There you go, sweetheart.
Oh my God, it is such a cool lizard, isn't it?
Oh my gosh, I absolutely love this food.
Where are you going, Abu Suku?
(laughs)
She's just running away.
She's like, look at what I got.
I got this big piece of meat.
It's absolutely incredible.
So, I'll feed her a few more strips of meat, but going back
to the to-dos in 2019, I definitely wanna make sure
we launch Reptile Prime, the cages, the backdrops,
all that type of stuff, not to mention,
we have a couple other products maybe some food products,
looking at a few other things
that I think could be really good for Reptile Prime.
So, stay tuned for that.
Again, always set goals and I think when you set those goals
and then adhere to those goals, it really pushes you
to achieve those goals.
Whoa, careful.
Careful, careful.
There it goes, stay inside, girl.
Uh-oh!
No, nope.
Oh, whoa!
Whoo!
That was sketchy as all heck.
Whoo dog, she almost came out three times on me.
Whoo-whoo doggy!
That was fun.
Abu Suku, you're a maniac, girl.
Don't you whip me with that tail.
(tail slapping)
She's not happy with me, either.
You're gonna take my meat away,
I'm gonna jump right out at you.
I tell you what, that was a close call.
I was bending down to pick the meat up, she came right out
of the cage.
I had to catch her literally.
And if she would've turned around and got me,
that would have been bad.
He is still an amazing animal.
One more piece of meat for her and I'm gonna move on
to Argumus Prime.
(upbeat music)
We're gonna go ahead and get him started with one mouse
and then we'll give him venison after that.
Argumus, you ready, bud?
Come on, come on.
There you go, bud.
There you go.
Ohh, you are such a maniac.
Stay in there.
Argumus is such a maniac.
I love him to death.
He eats so quick.
(upbeat music)
Noah's taking a bunch of pictures for which site is this,
The Reptarium site?
- Honestly, I'm not really too sure.
- [Brian] We've got the mangrove out.
- But Steph told me to take pictures of everybody
with their favorite animal or one of their favorites--
- [Brian] And Aaron chose the mangrove.
- Dude, this thing is beautiful, man.
I love these things.
- [Brian] Oh, be careful.
- I love these things.
- [Noah] Dude!
- [Aaron] I'm just gonna ease my hand--
(yelling)
- Oh my God, please!
Put it back.
- [Brian] I don't like it anymore.
(yelling)
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- Put it back. (whimpering)
Oh my God. (yelling)
- See, what you gotta do is you gotta trick him.
- Oh, close it!
Oh my God! - Geez guys, I'm sorry.
He almost died.
You almost died.
- True professionals.
- He almost got killed.
(laughing)
- Just a really quick update on the monkey-tail skinks.
You can see they're all the way in the back of the cage,
both the male and the female are back there.
They are doing so well.
I'll definitely get them out sometime in the next day or two
and show you guys how plump and just fat they are.
They are just crushing tons of food.
They use this whole cage.
Literally all times of the day, you come in
and they're either up there, sometimes they're down here,
sometimes they're here,
sometimes they're hiding under the leaf.
They use this cage so much and although sometimes when you
come to The Reptarium, you look
and you can hardly find them, I still love this habitat.
I think it's absolutely amazing because I know that they're
very happy and I know that in a year or so when they get big
enough to breed, there is no doubt in my mind that we'll
have babies because with a habitat like this where they're
so comfortable and doing so well,
I know they're gonna reproduce.
I cannot wait for that day to happen.
I always have a lot of goals each year and The Reptarium
in 2018 was such an amazing experience.
I am definitely gearing up to maybe do another Reptarium
in 2019, definitely thinking about Grand Rapids,
possibly Orlando, a couple other locations.
I'm not sure.
I'm probably only gonna do one of them this year.
Although, you never know what's gonna happen,
but I just love the way this place has turned out
and I wanna share it with other people in different regions
around this country and who knows,
maybe one day, around the world.
Well, apparently Christmas is over and RJ had enough
of the Christmas decoration.
He went up there and knocked his tree down.
RJ, what were you doing up there, buddy?
Why did you knock your tree down?
You're not a bah humbug are you?
(laughs)
Oh, RJ, you're crazy.
Alright, I'm gonna clean this up
and I guess Christmas is over for RJ.
Over here at BHB, just checking up
on my couple little Burmese that we're raising up.
Of course, this is that ivory Burmese python
that is just doing so well.
And one of the other things I wanna do in 2019
and not wanna do, I am absolutely doing
because I've already signed a contract
is I am writing a book and it's gonna be a little bit
of a fun book just going over some of my most
awesome adventures I've had over the last 30 years
traveling the world, the animals I've met,
the people I've met and stuff like that.
So, it should be pretty fun.
Chances are it's gonna take at least three to six months,
so it's way down the road, but by the end of 2019,
hopefully that will be available and let me know
in the comments if you guys wanna read it.
And of course, we have the hypo granite Burmese python.
Now, my buddy Miguel over at Always Evolving Python
said that it was just biting everyone, it was the meanest
snake ever and listen, it did have a little bit
of an attitude, especially when it first came in.
It bit me a little bit, but you could see,
it's really calming down
and it is an absolutely gorgeous snake.
I love this thing to death.
I can't wait till it gets really large like eight, 10, 12,
maybe even 15 foot one day, so it's pretty cool
to have this animal and let me know down in the comments,
what are your plans for 2019.
What are the goals, what are you excited about,
what are you excited about achieving,
what are you excited about doing this year?
Let me know down in the comments,
so we can share each other's excitement for 2019.
It's been a while since I've updated you
on my big boa constrictor that was over at The Reptarium
for a while, but she just didn't seem to really like it.
She wouldn't feed or anything and as soon as we brought her
back to BHB, she went right back to the food.
But look at what a beastie this animal is.
I mean, this is one of the biggest common boas
I've ever seen and I absolutely love her to death.
To continue my 2019, of course, I have a bunch of animals
I would love to get not only for BHB,
but also The Reptarium.
So, there'll be lots of awesome stuff coming for sure.
But I'll keep them a surprise because I do have one coming
relatively soon that's gonna be pretty awesome.
And of course, it goes without saying
that I am super excited to see how many animals we produce,
what kind of new stuff we produce, whether it's pythons
boas, colubrids, leopard geckos, crescent geckos,
whatever the case may be.
It's gonna be an absolutely amazing breeding year here
at BHB.
And the last things are is I definitely wanna travel a lot
in 2019 with my first trip over to Italy
where Lori and myself are gonna do Rome,
the reptile show in Milan, Italy.
I think it's the 19th or 20th, so definitely come see me
if you're in the Italy range.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing,
but there are a lot of trips coming in 2019.
And then I just wanna enjoy myself, have fun, stay positive
and live in the moment.
It's so easy with life to get tied up in things, what-ifs,
this and that.
I just want to live in the moment, have a great time
and just go with whatever happens to come along
and just keep a smile on my face.
With that said, I am gonna go ahead and end the vlog
and wish you guys an amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching because as always,
your support means the world to me
and I truly do love you guys so much.
Do me a couple favors before we get outta here.
Smash that like button, turn those post notifications on,
please, make a comment and let me know what you want
in 2019.
Be kind to someone and I promise
I will see you guys tomorrow.
(upbeat music)