- I am super excited.
These are ackie monitors in here.
This is a cage that we've been using for a while now,
but they're starting to get a little bit big
and you can see it's not very deep as far as it's shallow,
so I needed to add some room because they're getting big.
So, guess what?
We've got a new enclosure here
that is twice as deep that is gonna go here.
It's got similar rocks in the background, which is cool.
As a matter of fact, it's the exact same rocks,
so it's not gonna feel very foreign to them.
Gonna be really cool.
Gonna have an opportunity, to not only get them set up
in there, but if you notice, this is a front entry
where there'll be sliding glass here
and the whole idea for that
is that way we can get to 'em from the front.
Right now we have to get to 'em from the back.
So we'll be able to access 'em more.
It'll be easier for us, not only,
but then we can start taking them out
and start to kinda tame 'em.
The other thing I'm super excited about is actually,
we have, these came in too!
Take a look at this.
This is absolutely awesome.
This is actually gonna be Salt and Peppers'
new enclosures too.
Again, front-loading so we can get to 'em now.
They've got some ridges that they can climb up
for basking and stuff like that.
Big, nice enclosure so we can keep 'em out all the time.
We have one for Salt and one for Pepper because, again,
you can see right here we have these tanks,
but they're not front access,
so it's a pain in the butt to keep 'em
out here all the time.
So we're gonna go ahead and switch these guys out
in the next day or so and then we're gonna be able
to get Salt here, Pepper here full time.
It's absolutely gonna be amazing.
I love when we get new stuff.
We also have a new enclosure for the woolen python,
so it's front access.
The whole idea was we wanted to get as much front access
as possible so we can take even more animals out.
So super excited about this,
but for now we're just gonna go ahead
and set up the ackie case, get those guys in there.
Oh, and by the way, welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day's absolutely amazing.
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I absolutely love it.
I mean, look at these guys.
They have so much more room and they're getting so big.
So it's super cool.
I don't know, it's probably one of the coolest things
that I do to be totally honest with you.
Is when we actually can upgrade things to bigger enclosures.
It just makes me so happy.
Now they've got so much more room to run around
and stuff like that.
It's so cool.
I mean, they're one of the coolest lil' dudes.
Now we can, again, go in there
and actually interact with them just like this.
So it's easy to catch 'em now.
You can see they're relatively good,
but they definitely need a little bit more work for sure.
But now that we can access them easily from the front,
that's gonna be a huge difference in the way
that these guys actually calm down and habituate
and we can start taking them out
and kids can actually handle them and stuff like that.
And the same principle goes for Salt and Pepper.
Like I said, it'll probably be a couple days
before we actually get to the actual transfer there.
But again, we can go in from the front,
which will make the whole experience just that much better
for us and for the animals.
These are so absolutely adorable.
These are actually fraternal twins, that's right.
These ball pythons hatched out of the same eggs.
Now, what's really crazy is that you guys know
that I caught the vast majority
of the clutches this year on the vlog.
This was a clutch that I actually didn't cut
or I would've been able to cut twins.
But the fact was there was nine babies
and there was only eight eggs.
A lotta times when you do get twins,
when it comes to snakes,
you'll have basically fraternal twins.
They'll look exactly the same and stuff like that.
But in this case, believe it or not,
they're two different mutation.
This one over here is actually a fireball python
and the other one is a fire pinball python.
But you can certainly see they're
about half the size of a normal ball python.
Typically, a ball python would hatch out
at about 55 to 75 grams.
These guys are under 30 grams.
So they shared an egg and it's just crazy
to think that all year that I've been cutting 'em
and thinking like, I hope I caught
a clutch that has twins in it
and then one clutch that I don't cut actually has twins.
What are the chances of that happening, literally.
Oh, you're feisty little monkey too.
I don't think there was more than five clutches
I didn't cut this year and I didn't see any twins.
But guess what, we did get some twins.
I absolutely love, look at that cute little monkey.
It is so adorable.
I also think that the fact that these guys
are fraternal twins and are two different morphs,
I wonder if they're the same sex or not.
So I think I'm gonna go ahead and sex 'em
and see if we've got two males, two females,
or a male and a female.
Regardless, they are absolutely adorable.
And typically, although you have to feed these guys
slightly smaller meals and stuff like that,
they'll typically do just as good.
And what I've noticed in the past,
is when you have a small ball python or twin ball pythons,
typically within the first year,
they'll actually catch up to other animals
that were hatched twice their size.
So they are absolutely adorable.
And as it turns out, we did hatch
at least one set of twins this year.
And again, I'm just killed with cuteness on these things.
They're just so small.
They're so absolutely adorable.
I think I'll go ahead and sex the fire one first.
and as you can see, there's actually two little heme peens
on this one, so that is a boy.
Next up, we'll go ahead and do the fire pinstripe
and see if we've got two boys or two girls.
And as it works out, yep, another boy right there.
Turns out that these guys are brothers which is kinda weird,
but I don't think that that had anything to do with it
because they could've both been females
or they could've been a male and female.
It doesn't really matter.
But nevertheless, super cute little animals.
I'm so happy we hatched these guys.
I'll probably keep a hold of these guys
for an extra couple months
just to get some size on 'em
before they'll probably be offered up
for sale on the website.
But nevertheless, pretty awesome
that we hatched some twin ball pythons.
I bought you a present.
- Lemme guess what it is.
- [Brian] It's kinda like a present for you too, Eric.
- Oh yay.
- What is it? - What do you think it is?
- Is it this big wheel right here?
- We're gonna host bingo at the OPC.
- [Brian] No, not bingo.
This is gonna be his like, Eric gets bit by
argemis, Eric gets bit
by a burmese python. - Exactly.
This is gonna take our, wait let me just say that
to everyone of you, this is gonna take our challenges
to the next level, Eric.
- It really will, I'm excited.
This one's gotta be a $10 gift card to McDonald's.
- Dude.
- 'Cause it's yellow.
- It could be.
I mean, I don't know what these things are,
but you could literally write anything you guys want.
- Eric wins a bird.
- Yeah!
- Like, you know what I mean?
Just stuff like that.
- [Brian] Or, Eric has to go in the pond with RJ.
- There we go, I like it.
You gotta weigh it out.
You gotta weigh out the pros and the cons.
- [Brian] Seriously, I've been thinking
about this for a while,
so I bought it for you as a surprise.
I think it's pretty dope.
- Yeah!
- I have a little laser pointer and you can just be like,
oh there you go, Eric.
- [Brian] So spin the wheel.
And you can change it, like spin the wheel of death.
- Agh!
It shocked me too.
Dude, did it shock you too?
- A little bit.
Not me as much.
- Dude, I was holding it.
I was holding it.
- [Brian] It backfired on you.
This is, Noah got me the other day.
This is one of those laser pointers
that also shocks you if you push both buttons.
- Sheesh man, that was brutal.
- I don't like it!
- [Brian] You deserve it
'cause you got me good the other day.
- I know.
I got Eric good too though.
I got Eric good too.
- [Brian] All right, all right, well enjoy this.
We'll see this on your channel.
- Yeah, we'll be spinning this wheel.
Wait, what should we say?
We'll be spinning this wheel 'til we find the right deal.
- Wow!
Host of a 2020 game show right here.
- All right, so we might even use it on our channel.
If you guys have some ideas for Noah, or for me,
in the comments, let me know what you want us
to do with our new spinny wheel.
Back with Jessica, which only means one thing,
we've got some eggs.
- Yeah!
- What do we got? - Gargoyle eggs this time.
So this is mom.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, which one is this one?
- [Jessica] This one is Wednesday.
- [Brian] Oh that's Wednesday.
She's always a good producer.
It's cool, again, we have a lot of new gargoyles that are up
and we had kind of a late start to the year egg-wise.
- Yeah!
I've seen a lot of 'em digging around though,
so we should have a pretty good.
And honestly, I've heard that babies
that hatch in the winter do better.
- [Brian] Oh, they do better.
- Like they're bigger.
- [Brian] Oh cool, well let's see what we got here.
She obviously excavated all of that bedding to one side,
which definitely tells you she's got some eggs in there.
- [Jessica] Somewhere down here.
- [Brian] Where they at?
- There they are. - Oh there they are, cool.
Is that the only eggs for the day?
- No, I've got another set.
This one though, I've just recently paired,
so I don't know if these ones are gonna be good.
- Okay, and that happens sometimes with geckos.
Sometimes the first clutch will actually be infertile.
It just, for whatever reason, happens
and then the fertility increases,
so we'll see if these guys look good.
Is this a girl here?
- [Jessica] Yeah, she doesn't have a name.
- [Brian] She's cool though.
She's really chocolaty looking.
- She looks like Halloween almost.
- [Brian] Yeah, that's really cool.
Not a big girl either.
- [Jessica] No, she's still kinda small.
- [Brian] What do we have here?
- [Jessica] Oh, they're here.
- [Brian] What do you think?
They look a little yellowish.
- [Jessica] That one's got a little pink in it still though.
This one looks like it's probably a dud,
but this one might be okay.
- Okay, so it looks like we got one fertile egg
from that one.
Again, gargoyle season is late this year,
but better late than never.
And again, we got those teaky geckos
where the Dracula and Deadpool line
that are gonna be really cool, so that's cool.
- Super Excited for those. - It's awesome.
That's awesome.
Good job, keep it up, thanks.
I love the fact that you guys like the positivity
that I try to give out and I try that the best I can.
I try to be as positive as I can as a person,
but to be honest with you,
things aren't always like easy and peachy keen around here.
And what I mean by that is that we have plenty
of kinda obstacles that come in our way
really almost every single day.
It's about, you know, how do you overcome those obstacles.
It's really easy to kinda get down or really think like,
all right I have a plan, things are going in this direction,
it's gonna be amazing and then listen that's just life.
I mean, things come in the way, monkey wrenches happen.
And it's all about like trying to stay positive
and keep your eye on the prize
and being able to adjust your plan.
I mean, if things don't go the way you want,
don't just give up everything.
Maybe just adjust it to the way it actually is.
And I'm not gonna lie, today was kinda one of those days.
I had a lot of things I've been working on,
kinda moving towards the future
and a monkey wrench kinda got thrown in my plan today.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
And it did kinda rock me and that happens.
I don't want you guys to think
that I'm only sharing the best things.
I always say I take you on the good, the bad, the ugly.
You know, listen, there's ups and downs whether it's life,
personal life, business life, whatever it is.
Life just is never perfect, right.
The point is, is that even with today having
some kind of interesting news that kinda changed
some things for the future,
doesn't mean that I'm gonna stop.
It just means I have to adapt, you know.
And I know that some of you guys
might be in that same situation.
Maybe you're looking for that promotion at a job
or a new job or maybe you're looking to move
or you're looking to do something amazing
and then it just seems to always be roadblocks.
And that kinda is what it is.
It's about attitude, right.
You know, get the attitude of like, I'm gonna overcome
and I'm gonna make these things happen
even if they aren't exactly the way you want them to,
you can still kinda achieve the things
that you wanna do even if you have
to change your plans a little bit.
I'm just basically saying 'cause I wanna share
with you guys, today has been a little bit of an up
and down day for me, but I'm gonna still continue
to move forward and I encourage you guys to do the same.
I don't know, maybe someone out there needed to hear this.
Sorry for babbling on.
Hopefully you guys didn't mind too much.
Now that we have that out of our system,
a bunch of people were asking me
about the super lord leopard ball python
and just saying, "Hey can we get an update."
It definitely has changed a little bit,
not quite as blue as it was in the past,
but still a really beautiful animal.
There is no doubt about that.
Look at here guys, that beautiful clown clutch
is just starting to shed.
This one just has its head cap off right now.
Of course, this is a lesser leopard clown ball python.
Absolutely a ripper.
So hopefully tomorrow I can give you guys the update
with all of these guys shed out 'cause oh my gosh,
they are absolutely gorgeous.
And once these things shed, who who doggy,
that's gonna be some pretty amazing snakes.
Eric and Noah actually had two tours today,
so I'm gonna go out, check on them,
and make sure they're doing everything all right.
- [Brian] I'm checking up on you guys.
- Hey!
- [Brian] How you guys doing?
Are you guys doing all right?
- Oh yeah, great!
- [Brian] Are they all right or should I fire 'em?
- They're great! - You can't fire us.
- Just as advertised.
I drew you guys a picture up front.
- Oh you have to see it.
You have to see it,
it's really cool. - Oh yeah, go look at it.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Brian] Oh my God, this is so dope, man.
Look at that!
That is killer.
You drew that?
- Last night, for you guys.
- [Brian] Get out of here.
- Last night, I penned that.
- [Brian] Are you an artist or I mean what?
- I'm a tattoo artist
from Kansas. - Oh, you're a tattoo artist.
- [Brian] Oh my God, this is awesome dude.
- We've been dying to see you guys, celebrities.
We just run your videos nonstop at my tattoo shop.
I've seen Eric at the Quick Shop
so I'm shadow boxing with him.
I forgot he doesn't know me as well as I know him, you know.
Hey, Eric!
Oh yeah, my name's Jacob, by the way.
- [Brian] That's awesome.
Well welcome, guys.
You have a good time.
I love this.
This is definitely going up on the wall.
That is awesome.
- I have more to draw for you, but I just, ya know,
time is just, I can't.
It doesn't matter how much money you got,
you can't buy more of it, man.
- [Brian] No, you can't buy time.
It's an invaluable thing for sure.
All right, cool.
You guys have fun.
I'll hang out with you guys for a little bit,
but have a good time. all right?
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- Laurie, you just, what are you doing?
- [Laurie] I'm putting the new stickers out.
- [Brian] I think we need a bigger place.
I think we're getting full up with stuff here.
- I totally agree.
- [Brian] We've got stickers, patches,
more stickers, stickers.
We've got bellas, we've got salts, cups, everything else.
We definitely need like a gift shop area.
- Yes, that's the game plan for sure
is to get some kind of gift shop area, we'll see.
- I know, there's so many things when people come in,
we wish we could put in here, but it is what it is.
So did you think this was cool or what?
Isn't that awesome?
- Yeah, that's really neat.
So one of the tours made that?
- [Brian] Yeah, one of Eric and Noah's tour, yep.
They brought that in.
He's a tattoo artist.
- Oh okay, that makes sense.
- [Brian] That looks like a,
that would be
a cool tattoo, right. - It does look like
a cool tattoo, yeah.
That's awesome.
- I know, right?
As you guys can see, we're really getting
ready for Halloween.
We're excited about it.
We got a couple of events here at the Reptarium
including Halloween night if you didn't know.
If you show up as a kid, well, even an adult,
in a costume, free to get in for a couple,
I think 5:00 to 7:00 on Halloween.
We're gonna give away goody bags of candy
and all kinds of other stuff.
So feel free to come pay us a visit,
but regardless I'm hoping to do a special Halloween episode,
either the day before or the day of.
About Bowser to be honest with you.
Have you ever heard that if you stick your hand
in a snapping turtle, in particular
an alligator snapping turtle's mouth,
that it can literally chomp your fingers off?
I'm not sure if that's true.
I have no idea.
I don't wanna spill the beans,
but I'm gonna see if I can put that to the test
and see if you really do lose a finger
if an alligator snapping turtle actually bites you.
That's hopefully gonna be for the episode on Halloween
or the day before, I don't know, more on that soon.
Another one a bunch of people asked about
was this new gene animal.
This is that cinny new gene that just is crazy,
just makes all that orange and that crazy blushing.
Still haven't come up with a name for these guys,
but I promise, at some point we will rename these things.
But wow, I tell you what, they are looking
better and better with age.
I cannot wait to get these guys up to size
and find out if there's a super gene.
We know it's co-dominant because about half the babies
came out looking like this,
but we don't know if there's a super version yet.
So here in another couple years we'll find out.
And that's the thing guys,
breeding snakes or whatever, takes patience.
sometimes projects can take five, six,
seven, eight years plus.
So I have patience and I know one day
I'm gonna be looking at potentially an amazing super animal.
I cannot wait 'til that day happens.
There's so many amazing ball pythons down here.
This is definitely one of my favorites from this year.
This is actually a banana cinny enchi pinstripe.
I don't know, the color in this thing
is just absolutely ridiculous.
I'll try to do like a ball python update video
in the next week or two,
just show you all the cool hatchlings
and how they kinda are progressing
now that they're a little bit older
because they are looking absolutely incredible.
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