- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the blog today.
I'm excited because we're gonna get right started
into some unboxing,
an animal that I told you guys a while ago.
Remember when I told you the list of things
that I wanted to get for the Reptarium.
Well, guess what?
One of them showed up today, but we actually have
two shipments that we're gonna be unboxing today.
So what do you say, we just push our problems side
having an amazing day together and get this day started
with opening up one of my dream animals for the Reptarium.
(upbeat music)
And like I had mentioned,
I am excited about this shipment right now.
It's been something that I have been dying for
for quite some time.
To be totally honest with you.
I may get another one of these that is larger.
And I'm about to show you what I mean by that.
Basically a ton of monitor lizards are really cool
but there's one monitor lizard,
besides like the water monitor
that I think is just a great educational ambassador
because they're typically really big.
They're very, very docile and they're super cool.
The problem is they stopped importing them a while ago
and you hardly ever see them anymore.
So they're very hard to get.
And this is little baby.
Oh, my God let's take a look and see,
Oh, my gosh, he is so cute.
Oh, here we go, here we go.
Come on little monkey.
Oh, my gosh.
I am excited about this.
Oh,
my,
goodness,
gracious.
Look at that.
Guys I am freaking out because I've actually never
actually handled a baby black throated monitor before.
Now there's white throated monitors
and there's black throated monitors.
The black throated monitors
are from the East side of Africa like Tanzania.
And they get much larger than the white throat.
So white throats are typically more South
like into South Africa and stuff like that.
Still amazing animals.
I love white throated monitors for sure.
The thing is, is that the black throats
can get up to seven feet long.
That's right, so these guys
can get as large as a water monitor
sometimes even larger up to 60 plus pounds
and you hardly ever see captive babies.
So the opportunity to get a captive baby,
I jumped all over it.
And you remember a while ago
when I went through my dream animals
black throat monitors were one of them.
Now like I'd mentioned, I actually might be getting
a larger one here pretty soon too,
because it would be great for educational shows now.
And this guy's probably gonna take a couple of years,
but look at how cute he is.
I mean, that is the cutest little thing in the world.
It's so hard to believe that this animal
is one day gonna be seven foot long.
And this is a boy by the way
the boys get larger than the females.
I definitely wanted a little boy, but look at the pattern
and the color on that animal right there,
unbelievable.
And again, they look a lot like a Savannah monitor, right?
A lot of people would be like,
Oh, that's just Savannah monitor.
They have longer neck.
They have that black throat obviously.
And they are unbelievable.
They also get much larger than Savannah monitor.
And this guy's got a little bit of an attitude
or he's puffing up a little bit,
but the truth is, is that they tame out super good.
So the fact that we got him this size
we're gonna start target training him,
we're gonna feed him a lot of really nutritious things
like bugs as babies,
but as adults they typically eat whole prey animals,
they'll eat you know rodents,
they'll chicken, they'll eat beef, they'll eat birds
they'll even eat snakes and lizards in the wild.
But in captivity,
we'll certainly give them a really very diet
and get him really amazingly tame.
I am blown away, guys.
I tell you what, I wanted a black throat monitor
for a long, long time.
And so as soon as I saw this one available,
I was like, I've gotta grab it, I've gotta have it.
Unbelievable.
Now I do have another shipment
that I'm gonna be unboxing, but it's not here yet.
So it'll be here maybe in the next hour or so
but I'll be honest with you.
It's not gonna be as exciting as this one right here.
Unbelievable guy.
So we need a name for this little mascot right here.
Again, a male black throated monitor comment down below.
Let me know what you think I should name this little monkey.
He is absolutely adorable.
We ended up getting a little monkey
set up here in this enclosure.
Now what's important with these monitors
of course is to have a really good hotspot.
And we have something for him to climb up here.
Also some back rock area and stuff like that
where he can get close.
So we want that to be about 110 hundred and 15 degrees
but we want the cool side to be about 82 to 84 degrees
so he can get away from the heat if he wants.
He's been set up in here for the last couple of hours.
So I think I'm gonna go ahead
and see if he wants to eat a little cockroach.
He is such a cutie and he's hiding in the back right there.
So let's see what we can do.
Here he comes.
Yeah he took it.
Oh, that is such good news.
Again, as he's this size
we're probably gonna feed him a lot of bugs,
to be honest with you, the occasional pinky
and stuff like that.
Not till he gets larger while we feed him
a lot more meats and stuff like that,
this size he's gonna eat a lot of bugs there.
Look at it, he's just cutting down
that little bug right there.
That is amazing, that is super cool.
So we'll give him a few of these.
Give him kind of, you know, all beefed up.
We'll obviously start to train him in a few months.
Right now I'm just looking at health rise.
So let's see if he wants another one.
Here we go, buddy.
He got it.
This guy is on fire.
I mean, he is ready to go.
You want another one?
We'll just keep on feeding him.
Pick it off the tongs?
There he goes, took it right of the tongs.
That is a great sign that he's so kind of outgoing
that even just a few hours after getting them
he is taking food right off the tongs.
So this guy is amazing.
Again, down in the comments.
Let me know what you think his name should be
because he is absolutely phenomenal.
Well, this is definitely a first for me.
I'm not gonna lie.
I walked by and we've got champ,
the blood python just climbing up a tree.
Now blood pythons are extremely ground dwelling animals.
I have never seen them climb ever before.
Let alone all the way up to here.
He's just chilling out up on a branch.
That is crazy.
Of course, sweetie is over in the corner right here.
Champ is T negative albino Blood Python is a male.
And then sweetie, of course, is the girl down here.
Hopefully they'll breed this year.
We'll see what happens.
But nevertheless, he is on the move and that is crazy.
It just goes to show you
no matter how long you worked with animals sometimes,
and a lot of times, to be honest with you,
they surprise you with things like this.
And as, promised the second shipment came in.
So let's go ahead (indistinct)
This one, hey, listen.
I love all animals, right, I love unboxing everything.
Isn't as exciting as a black throat monitor
because these are things that are we've gotten before.
And these are basically just going on the website.
So these aren't razors, but oh, doggie, those are Prudy.
Let's see, what do we have here?
We actually have, oh my gosh.
These are, I didn't even know.
These are great.
So these are GHI half for lavender albino.
Can you imagine?
Again the lavender albino stuff that black turns purple.
So the GHI has an increased amount of melon.
And obviously it's so busy like this
all that black in there when this gets to a lavender albino.
Oh, my gosh.
I'm thinking GHI lavender albino black head maybe.
Oh, my goodness, so I'll be honest with you.
This is from my friend that sends me
a bunch of stuff that he produces.
I didn't even know he was sending me those.
So that is incredible.
I am super excited.
Definitely gonna hang on to these.
Maybe I'll sell one,
but I'm definitely gonna keep the other one
because I wanna work that project.
That was exciting, so let's see, there we go.
I said it wasn't that exciting.
It turned out that it was exciting.
And then lastly,
we'll see what we have in this bag right here
and oh, my gosh, some beautiful snakes for sure.
So this is the last snakes
that my buddy are hatching for the year.
So we're not gonna get any shipments from him
for the rest of the year, unfortunately.
But next year we'll get a bunch more stuff.
Of course, we got a little clown ball Python right here.
Looks like we have another clown ball Python right here.
You guys know that recessive clowns right now
have been the hottest thing on the market.
I mean, people love clown ball pythons,
and it looks like we have
just some heck clown ball python here.
And then finally we have some pastel clown ball pythons.
Now I tell Pastel clown ball pythons are amazing.
You can definitely see why clowns have become so
absolutely popular through a recessive mutation.
They just make everything so beautiful.
So there's all kinds of crazy calm combinations
but even something as simple as a incomplete dominant pastel
bread into the recessive clown
makes for these beautiful animals.
And we were lucky enough to be the first people
to ever produce pastel clowns.
So, they definitely have a very soft spot in my heart,
you know that.
So nevertheless,
awesome shipment of ball pythons
definitely surprised about those GHI head lavender albinos.
Like I said, one probably would be for sale.
The other one I'm gonna keep for sure.
So all in all,
it was an absolutely amazing day for unboxing animals.
Now that I'm back I can kind of start to update you
on salt and peppers thing.
They now lemme just start by saying,
I know that this has been leaking for like
over a month and stuff like that,
and we've already done a ton of things
to try to figure it out.
Well the one thing that I still had to make sure
was the fact that it wasn't any of the seams,
because if it's the seams,
that would be a massive breakdown, right.
And I did this once before
where I shut the waterfall off for a day
and I didn't see any leaks on the floor at all right.
So then I told me, all right it must be the waterfall.
Then we tried to seal the waterfall up
and ultimately it didn't seem to work.
It still leaked.
So last time I actually turned the waterfall
after I sealed it for a day, it didn't leak.
So what I was thinking is,
what if it is actually the seams that are leaking
and it just takes a day or so
to build up enough to actually leak out.
So now I've had the waterfall off for two and a half days
and there is zero water on the ground.
This is great news because it tells me
that there is no seam.
I don't have to tear the entire thing down.
Now, the only thing I have to figure out is,
where exactly in the waterfall is this leaking?
Again, I've already showed you guys
that I've got this open here
and I can look underneath the waterfall
and I don't see anything.
There is no seals.
There's no tubes that are leaking, nothing like that.
Somehow there is a crack somewhere in here, either here
or inside here that is unfortunately leaking somewhere
and I can't even tell where it's leaking out
to be honest with you.
So, I have my work cut out for me.
I can do one of two things.
I can just start sealing everything
and just hope for the best.
Or I can actually peel away this part here
and cut out some of the wood that's behind here
and actually see if I can look and see
where it's actually leaking.
So anyways, just wanted to update you guys.
I know some people have been concerned now
with that being said, the tank is leaking.
The care of the animals doesn't matter.
They don't care if it's leaking.
So they don't really care and it's leaking
so minute, it's not a big deal.
So I'm gonna turn the waterfall back on,
clean this up a little bit.
And then in the next day or two
have to try to tackle the waterfall again.
So anyways, we'll get it.
I promise I will figure this out.
And actually it turns out that it's pretty good news.
I know I promised you guys that this won't turn into
a sloths blog and it won't,
hey I'm a reptile guy, but I'm an animal lover
but I've got to get my daily dose of this Cutie right here.
This is Drogo.
I mean how absolutely amazing he is, he is something else
and he spends a lot of time up in this hammock
during the daytime.
And then usually about mid-afternoon
he crews around the entire enclosure.
And then at night, he's just, we showed you the footage.
The other day of him cruising around at night.
He is out of control all over the place so
nevertheless Drogo,
there's your little daily dose of the slot.
You know it's been a minute since I updated you guys
on Ben and Jerry, they're doing absolutely amazing.
As a matter of fact,
chops it's a two headed turtle needs to get over here soon.
We're just working on an enclosure for that.
So hopefully here pretty soon we'll have Ben and Jerry
the two edit snakes and again, Chopstick two headed turtle
that is growing extremely well.
So it will be over here too. So I can't wait for it.
And you know, it's not always
about just getting new animals.
Don't get me wrong as an animal guy.
You love getting new stuff.
It's exciting, but it's also exciting
just to kind of figure something out.
You know, now that we have that black throat monitor,
I can kind of figure out how to actually take care of them
what he's gonna like.
And so on like that,
just like I have with all of these animals,
you know no different than Drogo,
you know getting a slot was probably
the biggest change for us is trying to figure out
how to take care of a mammal
after my whole life taking care of reptiles.
I've always said continuously that any reptile
you throw at me, I'm gonna feel pretty comfortable with,
the sloths was a different situation.
But now it's been a few weeks,
and we're pretty much in control of that situation.
We're feeling pretty confident and stuff like that.
Nevertheless, definitely Ben and Jared doing good.
Chopsticks we'll be over here soon
and getting new animals is cool,
but I don't want you to think
that I'm getting new animals just to get them.
There's always a purpose for it.
You know, an educational purpose,
a hole in the zoo that I think we need
or maybe even a breeding project for BHB, you know.
So I'm just buying animals to buy animals.
I do it because there's a reason for it.
What the heck?
Dude, you just ruined a tree,
not Matilda.
You knocked your tree down.
I mean, literally she was trying to climb the tree,
and I came over and it was just timbering onto the ground.
- The great example of having a tortoise.
- Yes.
- Oh my gosh, look at you Matilda.
What did you do?
Oh, my gosh.
You guys don't understand, that's a huge fix.
I mean, that is a huge fix,
because that was bolted to the ground.
I cannot believe you did that Matilda.
Add one more thing to my list of things to do
there you have it.
I am excited to have the black throat.
Like I mentioned, we're probably
gonna get a larger black throat as well.
So we can do some educational stuff with that too.
And then have this one coming up.
How amazing is that?
Not to mention those ball python were dope, right.
I always love unboxing things.
If you guys enjoyed this video as a matter of fact,
right over here, there is a playlist of unboxing
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