- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
You know I'm gonna start right off the rip
and come clean about something.
I've been noticing a lot of people have been
commenting down below about Lucy.
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So guys, I'm gonna just go ahead and be honest with you
and tell you what's going on with Lucy
and just come out and tell you.
But before I do that,
I do have to collect a few ball python clutches.
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And like I mentioned,
we actually have a few ball python clutches today.
This girl is an absolute ripper.
This is a Stinger Bee, which is an Enchi Pinstripe,
and she's actually bred
to have Pastel Enchi Yellow Belly,
so should be some pretty cool babies.
And it looks like mom has one little egg out right here.
You can actually see the embryo through the egg right there.
So that must be a pretty fresh egg,
laid probably within the last couple hours.
But nevertheless, look at this.
Woo-hoo!
Nice, looks like one little slugger there,
but a beautiful clutch.
One little infertile egg, which is weird.
That's been happening a lot this year,
I'm not exactly sure why, but that's just weird
that most of the clutch is fertile
but then there is one little infertile egg.
We actually have a little boob egg here too.
So I'm just gonna kind of get these eggs
off the paper really quick.
You can see they're stuck really nice.
Not stuck together so much,
as much as a lot of clutches,
but that's completely fine.
There's no doubt that none of these eggs have rolled,
so I really don't have to candle anything which is nice.
Just kinda slowly pull these off.
These three eggs will come off right here,
this egg here, and then last egg right here.
Good job, Mom, I tell you what, she did so well.
And she's a really beautiful snake.
She's got two, four, six, seven good eggs, one slug.
Not bad at all, and again,
we can have Super Enchi Pastel Spider Yellow Bellies,
ridiculous, they're gonna be absolutely incredible.
I was excited about this girl laying
and she laid a beautiful clutch.
This next girl is actually just a beautiful Pastel.
See what she's got going on in here.
Come on, Mom, where you at?
There you are.
Looks like she's wrapped around a really nice,
beautiful clutch of eggs and she was actually bred
to a Calico Pin Yellow Belly,
and he's an absolutely gorgeous snake.
Again, it's a Pinstripe, it's a Calico, it's a Yellow Belly,
and I tell you what,
producing Lemon Blast Calico Yellow Bellies,
I produced a handful of them in the past,
oh my gosh they are beautiful.
Let's see how many eggs she has.
Here we go, Mama, let me see
what you got going on over here.
It is really weird, we have a few infertiles
popping up here and there.
Not really sure what that's about.
We got two little sluggers here.
No big deal, but it's definitely something
that I wonder will go away.
Sometimes you have periods of the season
where you have some infertiles,
then they get fertile, then they get infertile,
usually the end of the year fertility isn't as good
to be honest with you, so the beginning of the year
usually is really banging.
We've had 28, 29 clutches
and they've all been pretty good so far,
but it is a little interesting.
And Mama looks like she wants to take a shot at me,
so I'm gonna be a little bit careful.
Just gonna put these eggs right in over here,
nestle them down really good.
Looks like she's got two, four, five good eggs,
one little boob egg and a couple slugs,
so that's the way it goes.
Not really that bad of a clutch,
and hopefully we'll hit that Lemon Blast Calico Pinstripe.
Then this last ball python clutch is a banger.
This girl is amazing.
She's actually, oh looks like she's not quite done yet.
I'm gonna go ahead and put her back,
I don't wanna mess her up.
She's actually a Super Enchi Spinner
and she's bred to an Extreme Lemon Blast, unbelievable,
but she looks like she's got an egg or two left,
so we'll come back later in the vlog
and we'll pull this clutch.
- So I was doing some research last night
and I found a cool chart by Dubia Roaches
that shows a bunch of different nutritional content
for the insects that you might be feeding to your reptiles.
You guys know I love talking about
varying our animals' diets here at The Reptarium,
and this chart is a great visual
for what I've been talking about the whole time.
You might be feeding your animal something
with too high of protein versus not enough fat, vice versa,
a whole different combination of all those,
and we like to offer varieties,
and we make sure we're covering all of our bases,
and then we also have our vitamin and calcium powder
to make sure that we're not missing anything
in our animals' diets.
Not to mention, offering different food items
will keep your animals' predatory drive
healthy and stimulated so if you're having trouble
at home with your little critter,
try offering some different variety of food.
The different movement, the different taste
will keep them stimulated and hopefully help them
start eating better again.
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- Okay guys, I'm not gonna put this off anymore.
Let's get back to the Lucy thing
and just tell you the truth about what's going on with Lucy.
And the truth is, she's right there.
Nothing is going on with Lucy, she's completely fine.
I'm not sure why all of a sudden everyone
was so concerned about her, because she's doing good.
Yes, she did shed and destroy her cage like always,
so we're gonna go ahead and get her out, clean her cage up.
Sorry I click-baited you guys, I don't mean to do that,
but honestly guys I'm just having some fun with this,
but if you don't see an animal
for a few days or even a week,
it just means there's not a story
that I need to tell with it, right?
You know, I mean I'm kinda telling things that are happening
so when something's laying eggs or something is eating,
or something's doing this, I'm telling,
even when she sheds, I might tell that story,
but for the last week or so, she hasn't done anything.
She's just sitting there all opaque and shed,
so nothing's wrong with her,
and again I don't mean to make fun of the people
that were concerned, 'cause I appreciate the fact
that you were concerned about her,
but if something happened to her, I would tell you guys.
She is completely fine, she's amazing.
Let's go ahead and get her out, clean her cage up,
and again sorry for click-baiting you guys.
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Hopefully she's in a good mood.
(water gushing)
Hey girl, what's going on?
How are you?
Your cage needs a little bit of a rehab here, bud.
You're good, okay sweetie, come on let's go.
We'll get you in to soak,
we'll get your cage all cleaned up, and you'll be happy.
We'll feed her a nice big old meal here in a couple days.
She's gonna be loving life.
You ready, girl?
Come on, come on, let's go.
Tell you what, walking a 20 foot snake
isn't as easy as you think it is.
I've gotta get her out, all the way out.
Tell you what, a workout right here.
In the water, baby, in the water.
Didn't go the way I wanted it to go.
Let's go, let's get you a bath.
Yeah, it's just a little bit of stuck shed on her,
hardly nothing to be totally honest with ya,
but I'll still soak her, 'cause she usually likes the water.
Today she's being a little bit weird,
but this'll be good for her to get a little bit of a soak,
and it kinda gets her outta my hair
while I'm cleaning her cage.
Obviously I can't clean her cage when she's inside it.
Now she seems to be pretty set.
She'll be good, let's clean her cage.
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Lucy, you ready girl?
You're lookin' good.
I tell you what, I love this girl so much.
She's such an amazing snake for sure,
and I never mind you guys asking about an animal.
I mean certainly I want you guys
to love these animals as much as I do,
I just found it funny that it was like,
one video had like 30 or 40 comments all about,
"What happened to Lucy?"
It's almost like someone read a comment
and just assumed something happened to her,
and then everyone else just kinda
jumped on the bandwagon, like,
"Oh there must be something wrong with Lucy!"
But as you can see, she's doing very well.
She's slippery as can be.
Come on, girl, don't wreck the flowers.
Back in here, back in here girl.
As she's going in, I'm gonna try to just get
a little bit of the shed off.
If I can just get the shed off as she's going in
just so she doesn't have any left stuck shed on her.
Ooh, look at that.
Lookin' fresh, oh my gosh, that is awesome.
There you go, girl, you're looking good now.
Fresh as could be and again right up in the tree,
so anyway, sorry again that I had to click-bait you guys,
I wasn't trying to make fun of you,
it's just you gave me a softball,
I had to hit it outta the park, you know what I mean?
So Lucy is doing great.
Like I said, we'll get her all set up in here,
give her some food here in two or three days,
so there you have it, the update on Lucy.
My girl, Ivy, always a weird one.
This is day four for being on land.
Not in the water at all, not once,
at least not that I've seen.
I need to put a time lapse on her at night,
because I noticed the cage
is always moved around every evening,
so she must really be on the go,
and we just fed her, so she can't be hunting for food,
but this girl always keeps me guessing and I love it.
Guys, I am the luckiest guy on the planet,
'cause I live what I love,
but also I've got someone that supports me so much.
Lori, you have been an animal lately.
I mean she's taking care of calubra,
you're working on geckos today,
you're taking care of ball pythons downstairs with babies,
you're puttin' stuff on the website, what, are you okay?
- (laughs) Just doin' what I gotta do.
- I tell you what, you never seen anyone work harder
than Lori has this last little bit,
so I promise as soon as this whole thing is over,
I'm gonna take you somewhere.
Where do you wanna go?
- I don't know (laughs),
I can't even think about that right now.
- Well I promise, guys, I'm gonna take her
on a trip or do something amazing
because she has taken over here
and I can't thank you enough, so thank you.
Guess what time it is?
Calubra egg collecting time.
One day I'm gonna have that "Blue's Clues" bumper,
I promise ya.
This girl is actually a pretty nice little corn snake here.
It's a Het Strawberry Scaleless
bred to this beautiful male right there.
Take a look at that, hoo doggie,
that is one gorgeous snake right there.
That is a Silver Queen Scaleless, oh my gosh,
that thing is amazing.
So let's see, oh she's got a beautiful clutch too, wow.
So we should get some really ripper babies from that.
We'll go ahead and get this girl in here,
we'll get some water in her,
clean her shed up and everything like that.
Again after we pull the eggs,
we always clean their cage as we give 'em fresh water.
I always say it because people always ask.
We pull the waters a day or two before
because sometimes calubras lay their eggs in the water,
all the eggs would go bad, so that's why we do that.
Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 13 beautiful eggs.
Wow, that's a great way to start collecting eggs up here.
Next up is another ripper of a scaleless clutch right here.
This is actually an Abbotts Okeetee Het for Scaleless,
but it's bred to one of my favorite scaleless corn snakes,
and of course it's this one right here,
which is an Abbotts Scaleless Okeetee.
I tell ya that male is a ripper
and there's actually another male that is just as good.
Let's hope she has good eggs here, let's go.
Oh yeah, look at that, hoo doggie!
That is a beautiful clutch right there
and a beautiful snake,
I mean that is just as good of a classic looking corn snake
as you'll ever see,
and that's why that Abbotts Okeetee stuff is so beautiful.
It's really just kind of the pinnacle
of a beautiful corn snake, right?
It's what you would see in the wild.
No mutations, no paint jobs,
just beautiful classic, and I tell you what,
that is a beautiful clutch.
Nice, big eggs and a lot of them.
We got two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 eggs.
Wow, 20 eggs!
Half of those should be Abbotts Okeetee Scaleless,
the other half Abbotts Okeetee Het for Scaleless.
Oh my god, what a great clutch.
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Let's see if this girl is done with her eggs, she should be.
It's been a few hours,
so let's just go ahead and get her down.
Yep, and she is all done.
I tell you what, that is a beautiful snake right there.
Of course that's a Super Enchi Spinner,
so it's a Spider, it's a Pinstripe, and it's a Super Enchi.
Wow look at, looks like great eggs,
and the male it was bred to is ridiculous.
It is this little monkey right here
which is a Enchi Lemon Blast Extreme Jean.
I tell you what, that's gonna be incredible
to get this Extreme Jean into that
along with Pastel Enchi Super Enchi, oh my gosh,
it's gonna be a wicked clutch.
Let's see how many eggs she has.
We'll just gently take Mama off her eggs
and literally she just laid,
so these are as fresh as they could get and wow,
what beautiful eggs right here, that's for sure.
There's one egg here, just slowly get these eggs outta here.
What a nice clutch too,
perfect eggs and not one slug in the clutch, that's awesome.
There's two, four, six beautiful eggs from that girl.
Mama, you did so good, way to go girl.
So that is awesome.
And just like that, guys,
we're up to 30 clutches of ball pythons.
Again, we have probably another 130, 140 to go,
but we're making some progress, and it's awesome.
And as Lucy always does,
she's gonna hang out up in the tree for a little while,
so again, Lucy is doing well.
Feel free to ask me anytime about animals,
but don't get concerned if you don't see something
for a few days (laughs).
I promise I'll keep you updated if something else goes on.
By the way, if you want,
you can actually see an entire playlist
of animals like Lucy right here,
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if you don't mind.
Have an absolutely wonderful day.
Don't hate me too much.
Remember to be kind.
I promise I'll see you tomorrow.