- If you had $30,000, what would you buy?
- Finish paying off my car.
- I'd put a down payment on a house.
- Gold grills.
- Not me. I'm buying snakes.
And today I have a shipment
of about $30,000 worth of snakes
and it should be here within the hour.
It all started with the phone call with a buddy of mine
that had a bunch of really cool snakes
that asked me if I was interested,
and I couldn't say no.
I'll send you the money
and then just ship 'em as soon as you can.
All right, I'll look forward to it, man.
I'm happy to tell you that Miguel's snake
actually is doing great.
This, of course, is that super GHI Mojave,
yellow belly het pied, possible het DG.
Boy, say that 10 times in a row.
Obviously guys, you know, I spend a lot of money on snakes.
You see me spending $5,000 on this, a shipment of $30,000
but you gotta remember, this is my business.
BHB does reptiles, Reptarium is a reptile place.
So listen, I don't buy fancy things for myself,
I spend my money on reptiles
because that's what I absolutely love.
So when I go out and spend a hundred dollars on dinner,
I have kinda buyers remorse.
But when I spend $30,000 on snakes, I'm really happy.
- You know what else?
You know, I could definitely use brand new,
sparkly, shiny cowboy boots.
- We ship thousands of boxes of snakes every single year,
but every box we ship, I always get nervous
until they actually receive.
I'm just always so worried about the animals arriving alive.
But when we're getting a shipment, I get even more stressed.
It is wintertime here, but thankfully it's a warm day,
so we should be okay.
Hey Beth, can you clean this up for me?
- Oh, my boxes!
- That's like, 13,000 Lunchables.
So maybe I'll do 12,000 Lunchables at fridge.
- You know, a lot of people always say
that Lori doesn't let me get things,
but the fact is that she let me get
this box of snakes that just arrived
that's worth $30,000.
- What?
- That's worth $30,000.
- What the heck did you get?
- Well, you said I could get 'em.
- I don't remember.
What is this?
I don't remember that.
Not that much.
- Okay.
- I got a lot of work to do in the new Caledonia room today.
- What else is new? - Right?
So this wall is almost finished.
I've got a lot of the hardscaping done in these four cages,
so my goal today is to get
all the siliconing done in these four.
Tomorrow I'm gonna do this last one.
Just so I can kinda show you
from start to finish, the process.
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- Elvis is probably one of the raddest animals out here.
In fact, I actually wanna see how rad he really is,
so let's see if we can get him on a skateboard.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn.
Go on it. Go on it!
Oh, nope, nope, nope, nope.
There you go, there you go.
Good job buddy.
Been on the skateboard here buddy.
There you go.
All right dude.
Gnarly dude, manual, manual.
Oh man, with no balance.
Go, go, come on, come on, come on, come on, go on for Elvis.
Good job, buddy, good job.
Good job, good job, good job.
Good job.
All right, all right. Eat it, get it, boy.
That's Awesome.
- $30,000.
I could also put a down payment on a house
but, the other hand, that's a whole lot of Lunchables.
- The box is here.
I am so excited.
This is gonna be absolutely amazing.
What do you say we unbox 'em?
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And I am so excited about this in a deli cup
in a bag, which hey, I think is actually pretty cool
because if for whatever reason they got out of the bag
they would then be in the deli cup, which is interesting.
But let's go ahead and show you
what these monkeys really are.
Oh, come on.
I can never get these bags open.
Let me tell you what, it's drives me crazy
when I can't get a bag open.
I just wanna see the snake and this knot is so tight
that I can't get it open.
Well, I can tell you one thing.
There's no way that these snakes were escaping.
So let's go ahead and see what we have in the first bag.
Wait a second, more tied.
Okay, these are tied too.
So what he, okay. I'm done.
Yeah, he was serious about bagging these things up.
Whoa. Wow.
These things are absolutely ridiculous.
Here we go, guys.
You ready?
Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, bam!
Take a look at these.
Oh my goodness.
They are absolutely wonderful.
These are what they would call
lavender pieds or dreamsicle snakes.
So these are a lavender and a piebald ball python.
And look at the contrast, the color there.
My goodness, these things are absolutely wonderful.
That lavender is so much more bright
than say an albino pied
which is also a double recessive mutation,
but take a look at that right there.
And each one of these animals that I got
can go up to $3,000 a piece.
And what you have to remember
is that each one of these animals
is gonna look radically different, right?
Because the amount of white on 'em.
With piebaldism, it's just completely random.
You can have 90% white, you can have 10% white,
and each one is incredible.
And oh my goodness gracious.
It's ridiculous.
Take a look at that.
I mean, the contrast of these things,
there is no doubt in my mind
why these things are so absolutely sought after
because they are ridiculous.
I mean, just look at the color on these little monkeys
and every single animal is completely incredible.
So, we still have a bunch more to unpack
and every one is gonna be like unpacking a different snake
even though they're the same genetics
they're gonna look completely different.
Okay. This is a great example of a low white one.
That is still absolutely amazing, right?
The first two that we unboxed
probably had about 70 or 80% white,
this one is probably maybe 20 or 30% white
but I actually love the contrast and the color of this.
And as lavenders get older, a lot of this white right here
will actually turn purple.
Next little monkey comin' right at you.
Oh my God, look at that.
This one already has quite a bit of purple
in its head in particular.
That's what happens, as they get older
they develop that kind of tyrosine,
that type of black pigment,
and it turns this purpley color.
Wow, I tell ya what, each one of these
is like opening up a Christmas gift.
Hoo hoo, this one has some incredible contrast.
And just so you guys understand,
it's the white in the pattern
that will actually turn purple.
Now the pied white will stay stark white.
So you have that contrast, right?
You have that stark white,
you have this beautiful bright orange,
and then you get lavender hues that come through.
Absolutely wonderful.
Look at that little monkey.
This one's a little chunker too, look at that.
Wow, I tell you, every one is different.
Again, this one's probably 15, 20% white
but I like it just as much as the high white ones.
In this case it's almost kinda cooler
to have lower white ones
because that way you get more of the pattern,
that contrast, and that purple coming through.
This thing is gonna be an absolute ripper when it gets old.
Now I'm just gonna show you one more,
but look at that one right there.
That's a beauty.
I love it when pied's have these kinda breaks
where there's pattern, white, pattern, white,
just absolutely incredible.
And that purple starts to come through
usually at about eight to 10 months.
And about a year old is when they get the most purple
and stay that way, the rest of their life.
But wow, what an amazing shipment,
and to me, money well spent.
What do you think we talk a little bit
about a history lesson.
Just have to put my teaching coat on,
if you know what I mean.
Let's go back in history.
But by the way, do history teachers wear a lab coat?
- No, that's science teachers.
- Okay. So let's go ahead, take this off,
get this outta here.
So basically back in the early 2000s,
a guy named Ralph Davis from RDR Reptiles
actually bred a lavender, which is a recessive mutation,
to a pied, which is a recessive mutation,
that ended up producing double heterozygous.
Now I'm getting into science.
So back with the science coat here.
So basically what happens is a double heterozygous animal
is carrying the recessive trait from the homozygous pied
and the homozygous lavender.
Basically, when you breed those together,
which you have to raise 'em up for about two to three years,
you'll get a one in 16 odd
which will be the double recessive animal.
It's what they call Mendelian genetics.
It's a 9:3:3:1 ratio, meaning on average,
over the course of millions of animals,
about one will be a normal, three will be het for albino,
three will be het for lavender,
and one will actually carrying
both the homozygous of lavender and pied,
which is actually called a lavender pied,
RDR called a dreamsicle.
Ever since then, all these years later,
still dreamsicles are considered
one of the most sought after
double recessive mutations in the market.
Science lessons done, but the test will be next Friday.
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Trust me, I'm gonna do the best I can do
to keep all of these, so let's hope Lori forgets about 'em.
- Trust me, I won't forget.
- Nice jugs, Mike. - Thank you.
- This is the last one I'm working on today.
I did something a little different with this one.
So we have the universal rock background in here,
but I did this on the side,
and you can actually do this one really easily at home
with just some cork bark and the expanding foam.
It's called a cork mosaic background.
You'll get little pieces of cork
and just kinda put 'em all together however you want.
I left a little space in a couple places to put plants.
I've got this kinda screwed into place.
So you've got a branch comin' out of it.
Now I'm gonna just cover it with silicone and moss
to make it look naturalistic.
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- Hey, I don't want you to tell Lori,
but can you do me a favor?
- Yeah. - Can you set these up
but don't let her know where they're set up
'cause she'll try
to sell 'em on me, okay? - Okay.
- So just find a spot that she doesn't know, all right?
- Okay. - Cool, thanks.
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