- So we're actually heading to Chicago later today,
we're just gonna be there for one day for a meeting,
but I've got to go talk to Lori.
It's gonna be serious.
(door creaking open)
Lori, do you have time to talk a serious talk?
Huh?
I don't have all day.
- Well, I don't have all day either.
The hell are you doing?
- What are you talking about?
This is a serious conversation I need to have with you.
- [Lori] About what?
- Okay, so we're leaving for Chicago
and I want to know like,
what the best thing about traveling with me is.
Like, what do you love about it,
and what do you hate about traveling with me?
- You don't, you don't want to know this.
- Why? What do you hate about it?
Is there anything you like about traveling with me?
- I mean, you're the one with the camera on my face
trying to get truth, or wait, no.
You want me to tell them what you want me to tell them.
- Yeah, that I'm wonderful. Tell me something good.
By the way, I can save you 15% on car insurance,
if you're interested.
- That's a lie.
- So, here, let's start with the great.
What's so, what's amazing about traveling with me?
(Lori sighing)
- You're so unpredictable.
- So unpredictable. That's great.
All right. And what's the worst thing?
- There is no worst thing?
- Oh okay, good.
All right, so that's good.
You did good Lori.
All right thank you, see you later.
All right, so we're gonna go to Chicago in just a few hours.
So, Mango is actually a year old,
and I'm not gonna lie to you,
he is definitely not the size
I'd like him to be at a year old.
If you remember, we actually broke his tail off
when he got behind the backdrop about a year ago,
and then he really stunted
and it seemed like all of his energy
went into the actual regeneration of the tail.
And the tail actually looks relatively good,
to be totally honest with you.
But after he even regenerated the tail,
for some reason, he just always looked thin,
he just didn't seem to quite be
thriving the way we want him to.
He would eat and stuff like that,
but he didn't look like, chunky like that, right?
And we're like, what is going on?
And this just goes to show you that
no matter how much experience you have,
you still learn things, right?
Hey, I'm not the smartest guy around.
I need to learn things.
So I started asking a bunch of my friends,
and to be totally honest with you,
I think we had him a little bit too warm.
You can see his enclosure's a lot of water,
he's got lots of places to go and he can climb on things,
get away from the water, all that type of stuff.
But the truth was, the basking light was probably about
105, 110 degrees.
We thought that that would be good for him.
But the truth is,
is that since we dropped the temperature down,
into let's say low nineties, he's plumped up a bunch,
looks completely good and has even started to grow.
So again, I think we may have solved the riddle
of what was going on with Mango.
And again, it just goes to show you no matter how long
you've been doing things, you can still make mistakes.
And thankfully, we rectified that mistake
before it was too dangerous for Mango.
Now I think that we have a pretty good opportunity
to get Mango big.
He's gonna be absolutely wonderful,
and I've told you where he's gonna go next.
And of course that place would be
Salt and Pepper's enclosure right here.
Now I'd really like to have a pair of them
to be totally honest with you.
And of course we would do more foliage and more climbing,
so that they could get around, you know,
obviously alligators don't climb trees, right?
Or at least they don't normally climb trees.
Whereas Mango would climb trees.
So we'll put some more branches and stuff like that.
So when Salt and Pepper gets
their new enclosures in the expansion,
Mango, and hopefully a girlfriend for him,
can come here and live in this enclosure.
'Cause I think it would be an absolutely wonderful display
and they could live their whole life in it.
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- You got it Jay, you got it. Why would you...
I figured that it was gonna break.
- So today, guys, we're gonna get our buddy Scotch,
we're gonna clean her up.
- What else are we doing?
- Okay, so we're gonna- - Look at this.
- I don't. Mike, I don't know.
- Why don't you just keep it on shower?
(water spraying)
- Okay, so we're gonna let this fill up
and we're getting out Butterscotch.
Misty Mike's favorite.
- We're not there yet.
- Blam, I'm just doing it! Mike, are you ready?
Mike I'm doing it.
- [Mike] Taking off the hose. - Mike I'm doing it.
- [Mike] Get it, Jay, get it.
- Should probably get like a snake hook or something,
Mike, a freaking ladder, do something, please.
Who got this guy hired here?
- You have no power over me.
- Ew, I was like, what is this hard thing?
And it was just a big thing of poop.
(Jay grunting)
- [Mike] Don't you dare.
- Oh my god, okay.
Don't throw a fake rabbit,
she's looking at me too. (Jay clapping)
(Mike exclaiming)
Mike, Mike, Mike, I love you.
Okay. Come on.
Give her head to me. Come on.
Let's go, right now. Mike, come on.
- Wait, wait wait stop talking. Wham!
- Is that what's gonna happen?
- Maybe.
Don't look at the fear in your eyes.
- [Jay] Oh my god...
(Jay shouting)
No no no, not yet, not yet
no she can't go in yet,
her body's not even in there. Michael.
- [Mike] You're good.
- Okay.
And then, I'm gonna leave Mike to clean this.
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I have a kind of interesting clutch
because it's cool, genetically, to explain to you guys,
it's actually a woma lesser pin bred to a pastel crystal.
Now, the pastel crystal is pastel,
it's special, it's Mojave.
'Course then we have a woma lesser pin.
Interesting enough,
we already have a little white baby crawling out of the egg.
Now that white baby actually comes
from the special and lesser.
So when there's a special Mojave,
you can actually get a crystal snake.
When it's a special and a lesser, you get a white snake.
Now, to make things even more complicated.
The Mojave is also bred to a lesser
and can produce a blue eyed leucistic.
So we don't know if this is actually
a special lesser or a Mojave lesser.
I know I confuse you guys,
but let's jump in and see what else is in this clutch.
And almost every egg in this clutch is cut
so it's definitely ready to come out of the egg.
And interestingly enough, we have a little,
it's actually a jigsaw ball Python in this first egg.
Let's move on to egg number two.
See what we got here.
I don't know if we're gonna get
anything really crazy or not.
I'm just not really sure.
And what we have here is actually a lemon blast special.
Now, what you got to remember is the ileocolic nature
of the Mojave and the special for the crystal
means that everything is either Mojave or special, right?
So we know that this is a lemon blast
and we know that it's not a Mojave,
so it has to be a special, right?
So let's just keep on moving on.
And that's the way the allelic stuff works.
Is it actually, is that it'll always come out.
This is another one here.
Again, another little jigsaw,
it looks like it's something else.
It looks like a jigsaw,
but it's a really reduced pattern one.
So I don't know.
It's still a really beautiful animal.
We already know this is a white snake.
We actually know that this one right here
is also a white snake
because I actually could see in it, again,
don't know if this is gonna be
a special lesser or a Mojave lesser.
Typically the special lessers will have a little bit
of pattern to it.
So these are both patternless.
I'm pretty sure these are Mojave lessers.
At least I'm kind of sure.
Anyways, two more eggs to go.
Alright, what do we have here?
Another white snake.
It looks, again, like a Mojave and a lesser
to be totally honest with you.
one last egg to go.
Let's see what we have here.
Okay, it looks like just probably
a pastel special to wrap it up.
Definitely some really cool little babies.
I can't wait until they hatch out and kind of see for sure
if they're a lesser Mojave or
if they're a lesser special.
And just like learning with Mango,
we have to learn about fish too, right?
We've had the fish spot by for like a year and a half now
and they were doing great.
And then about a month or so ago,
we lost all of our fish, all of the gira fish,
the gira riffa fish actually died,
and we didn't know why.
Well, sure enough we found out that the ammonia
spiked really high and nothing will kill fish
quicker than ammonia spikes, right?
And so we lost all those animals
and it's taken us a month
to get the water quality back to where we wanted it to.
So I'm excited that today we've got some more
and we've got 200 gira in right now.
So we have them floating right now,
acclimating, you want to acclimate those fish for,
you know, a good half hour, 45 minutes,
so that the temperature of the water in here
and the temperature in the bag are the same.
So you don't shock the fish, then we can let them go.
And then let's, hopefully,
we can get back to doing some fish spots.
'Cause I sure miss them.
- Mike cleaned it. My main man, Misty Mike here, good job.
So, Mikey cleaned it.
We're gonna go ahead and put Butterscotch back in here
and yeah, here we go.
- [Mike] Just gotta make sure all the shed's off of her.
- Oh, excuse me. I'm being told what to do, sorry.
You got to sure all the shed's off of her,
but I thought Mikey already did that part.
- I thought I did too.
Yeah. We're good.
- He thinks I'm not professional.
- Oh my god.
It's not really that I'm weak. I'm just really scared.
Oh God. Mike, Mike, get her face in there.
Mike, get her face in there, Mike, get her face in there.
- My shoulders are sore,
I did shoulders at the gym yesterday.
- Mike, stop talking and just put it in there.
- She's wet.
- Oh my God.
Will somebody call the professionals?
Mike, put her in there.
(Jay chortling)
Here we go, this is how it always goes.
- Is she in? - Nope
(woman laughing)
- Mike, put her in there.
(woman laughing)
- Help, Jay.
(Mike laughing)
- I mean, obviously we're professionals, so, boom.
- Next time. - Yeah.
- I know it's been a minute
since we've given you an update on the new Caledonia room,
and it's basically in the same place it was
about a month and a half ago.
Basically, what we're doing is we're
waiting for universal rock backdrops.
They have just been slammed down there,
so they are shipping it,
it's supposed to be here literally any day,
within the next two or three days
we're supposed to have those.
But in the meantime,
Jessica is using the backdrops that we have
and starting to foam them in.
And she's actually gonna do the first enclosure today,
and actually plant it out and stuff like that.
So I can't wait to see what she does.
Eventually, this is all gonna be out here
and by the way, watch out Tanner at Serpent Design
and Will Nayes, Jessica's coming for you.
The truth is, to be totally honest with you,
we're hoping we get Tanner and Will here
to do some of these cool enclosures
for the new Caledonia room
and talk with them.
I can't wait till they come and actually do it.
It'll be really fun.
But in the meantime, Jessica's gonna go ahead
and get this one planted out, should look amazing.
(upbeat music)
Another one of those pumpkin male bred ball pythons
that has a clutch here,
this is actually an enshi woma ball python, again,
it's bred to the pumpkin male,
the pumpkin cinny male, I should say.
So we should have some pretty cool stuff here.
Let's see what mama has. Don't bite me mama, you're okay.
It looks like a pretty good clutch.
We have one little slugger on this side.
Ah, take that back.
Two little sluggers and mama looks like she's not happy.
That's okay, mom.
You're all right. You're all right.
You're okay, baby.
So would you go ahead and get these eggs really quick,
get this egg out of here, get this egg.
Looks like we're gonna have to candle this egg,
'cause it looks like it probably rolled a little bit.
Then we get these last eggs.
All right, get this eggs in here.
Again, a beautiful clutch,
that pumpkin gene is absolutely incredible.
So I'm super excited
about this one, again, an enshi and a woma mixed in,
could be doing some cool stuff,
you never know when you're working with a new gene,
how it's gonna interact, so I'm excited about that.
There's two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs,
couple sluggers, so these guys are just gonna add
to that pumpkin gene.
I think we have one more clutch
that's coming up to be cut any day too,
so pretty soon we'll be able to see
the second clutch of pumpkins, and that's pretty exciting.
How good did this enclosure turn out?
I mean, I'm telling you what,
that is amazing, again,
I definitely wanna get Tanner from Serpent Design,
'course I wanna get Will Nayes here
and have them do some enclosures,
but Jessica, I think she's got it, man.
She's doing really good.
Those guys are legends, don't get me wrong,
but she's doing a great job.
And when this entire room is built out
with enclosures like this, it is gonna be amazing,
and that's gonna happen
just in the next two to three weeks.
This entire room will be done.
Every enclosure is gonna look like this.
It's gonna be absolutely spectacular.
- Hold them.
- Hold them by the shell.
- You can hold them literally with one hand,
just pet him a little bit and he should just eat.
They do need their nails clipped often,
especially because it will be holding a,
Mike, I have to sit next to you.
- He makes the biggest mess.
- [Jay] Alrighty. - [Mike] How cute is this guy?
- [Jay] How cute is this right now, me and you?
- I'm not talking about you,
I'm talking about this little tongue,
look, he's going inside the hole.
- [Jay] Mikey.
- [Mike] Oh wait.
- Mike you have to put it closer to him
so he doesn't feel like he has to struggle.
- [Mike] I'm sorry, I've never fed a mammal before.
- A mammal? Oh well, yeah, I guess that is true.
You've only ever fed yourself?
- Yeah, but I eat like, burgers.
- You don't feed your girlfriend?
- I don't have a girlfriend.
- [Jay] That's really it.
We kind of got, oh, let me just get this last one.
- [Mike] Dude, these feel like...
- [Jay] Okay, so there you have it!
Alrighty. Okay, good job, Mike.
Now you put him on your shoulder and burp him.
- Wait, no he's got it all over his face.
- He does.
- [Mike] Look at him he's so cute.
- Let him, let him do the nose thing to you.
(Mike giggling)
- Oh my god! (Jay laughing)
He thought there was food on there,
let him do it again.
Oh my God. All right.
- It tickles.
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