- Guys, we have a huge announcement
and it's about this.
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And we're gonna be doing some unboxing that my friend
sent me some ball pythons.
And you know, it's that time of year again,
we're hatching ball that people, my friends,
are sending me ball pythons.
It's really cool, I love this time of year.
I know you guys do too.
Got a little bit of a knot here.
We're gonna have to cut out, that's so dangerous.
And here we go first.
So oh gosh, these are cool.
I tell you what, I love it.
First ones of the year, guys,
albino black pastel ball python.
So again, these are albinos and they're black pastel.
To be honest with you, there's a couple of normal albinos.
These are normal albinos here.
These are the albino black pastels here.
So again, the incomplete dominant black pastel
bred to a recessive albino.
And so you have the difference.
This is what they look like with the black pastel.
This is what they look like as a normal albino.
Absolutely beautiful, so, hey, guess what?
We're gonna have so many ball pythons
on the website soon, you guys are gonna love it.
I still have a couple more bags to go here.
And to be honest with you, like as always,
I very rarely know what he sends me.
I just say, send me whatever you want.
Ah ha, let's see what, Ooh, wow!
These are beautiful babies.
Oh my God, I love it it's such a surprise.
I always just say send me stuff and then when I get it,
I can be super excited about it.
But look at these monkeys right here.
So we have normal pastel ball pythons
that are would be have a genetic stripe.
And then we have a bunch of pastel genetic stripes.
I mean take a look at how beautiful these guys are.
I mean, these genetic stripes are crazy.
Again, they're pastel genetic stripes.
We've actually produced some genetic stripes
in that clutch that we cut a couple of weeks back.
These are the pastel ones and wow.
Look at this one here with all the dots
and dashes and stuff like that, that's so cool.
And then on the other side,
we have one that has a really beautiful
dorsal striking like this.
I love G stripes, I love it.
They're a recessive mutation.
Again, you put that little bit of
incomplete dominant in there,
make the pastels and, oh doggy, one more bag time box.
All right. Last bag
It looks like, let's see, what do we have in here?
I'm not sure even what they are yet.
I'm gonna have to get them out and see, okay.
I see one little clown ball Python in here.
So these must be head clown balls.
We've got one little clown ball python.
Look at that little clown head.
As a matter of fact, that's why they're called clown.
Actually Dave and Tracy Parker from VPI
produced the very first ones.
And they said that they looked like
they had clown makeup on their heads.
So they call them clown ball pythons.
I'll actually explain a little bit about
the clown history for you here in a minute.
But in the meantime, I think that the other
animals here in our just head clowns.
So we have head clowns and one little clown ball python.
So, hey, pretty awesome.
The first ball python shipment of the year
has landed and these guys will get eating
and get on the website soon.
I'm pretty excited.
So Lori, we are gonna have a baby.
- I know it's so exciting!
- So, that's not exactly true.
We are gonna have a baby,
but it's not gonna be our baby.
Whose baby is it?
- It's gonna be our grand baby.
- Our grand baby!
We are gonna be grandparents.
Can you believe this?
And no, it's not Noah, Noah is not, yeah.
Noah is not, not the one.
Our daughter Jade
- Yes - Is due
- January 1st
- January 1st, new year's baby.
I mean, we don't know when it's gonna be,
but that's right.
It's exciting, we are-
Can you believe we're going to be grandparents?
- Yes and no, it's about time.
- It's about time and it's pretty exciting and I love kids.
So it's gonna be absolutely amazing,
but oh my gosh you know we're are we that old?
- Well - Yeah. Getting a little bit
- You are
- Those are blonde streaks.
Those aren't gray streaks, no, no, no, but that's it.
I just wanted to share with you guys,
our daughter Jade is graphid.
She's got a baby in her.
(Both laughing)
And it's gonna be amazing.
I can't wait until our little granddaughter
- Or son
- Or son, but it's going to be a granddaughter.
I can't wait until she could come in here
when she's running around and I'm playing with snakes
and lizards with her.
She's gonna love it.
So I just wanted to share the news guys.
I am overjoyed with what's gonna happen.
Can't wait till we actually have it.
Well, I guess we're not gonna have it.
- Well, we'll have it sometimes,
but that's the beauty of grandparents.
You get to give it back.
- I think we're gonna spoil this one.
That's for sure.
So anyways, there it is, our little grand baby.
Back to the history of clown ball pythons.
I mentioned, when we got that shipment in
that VPI or Vida Preciosa International
which is Dave and Tracy Barker actually named
clown ball pythons.
It just so happened that they brought in a couple
baby clown ball pythons that was hatched in west Africa
by a guy named Emmanuel Noah.
Well that same year I brought
an adult female in that's, right.
I had an adult female the same year that Tracy and Dave had
their little babies that they brought in.
Now, the next year, I actually bred that
adult female believe it or not, to an albino
to produce double F for albino clowns.
And later on, we were the first people
to ever produce albino clowns.
But in the meantime,
they actually had a pair of clown ball pythons that were
babies that they were able to raise up.
And they were the ones that market them
as clown ball pythons.
And again, it was because they thought that,
that pattern on the head almost
looked like clown makeup, right?
But the truth was is that they produced the very first clown
ball pythons when they bred their babies together,
when they got large enough.
And I ended up, the same, year producing
albino clown ball pythons, which was an absolute treat.
There's no doubt about it.
So clown ball pythons are really amazing animals
and that's the history of where they came from.
Guess what guys, you guys have been waiting for?
Reptile army, we have some new swag.
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Some people have been asking for cut-off tees
not the tank top, but the cutoff tees.
So we have those available.
Of course, this is a poker design
of a bunch of reptiles playing poker.
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You know, I love this one because
it's based off my girl, Bella
It says "Don't just stand there, pet me!"
I mean, come on. What else could you possibly want, right?
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And you guys know that everyday I'm hustling.
This is a pretty good one.
And we don't just have cutoffs.
Now we actually have V-necks. Right?
So that's gonna be a thing that
a bunch of people asked for as well.
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And yeah, life is like a box of crickets.
If you know what I mean? That's a little Forrest Gump thing.
You know, you guys know that.
And of course, brumation got me all, like,
this last year has kind of gotten to that point where it
does feel kind of like brumation got me.
So I love this design. And then lastly
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For you space junkies out there,
we got snake invaders. That's right.
So go to reptilearmy.com,
check out all of the new designs.
Of course the old designs are still available.
We're going to be dropping a special
4th of July design as well.
So keep an eye for that reptile army.
Be our soldiers out there join the movement.
reptilearmy.com.
So Jay hasn't seen these turtles yet, so
- Oh my God, look at these things.
What!
- [Instructor] Aren't they cool!
- I guess I realized I've never seen one in real life.
- [Instructor] Isn't that wild?
- Yeah
- [Instructor] Of course the darker ones over here.
So this one will turn darker as it gets older
and stuff like that.
It's a lot about food and age and stuff like that.
And then this is the,
a little bit more of the color that they'll turn into
when they get a little bit bigger.
It's got a little bit of a boo-boo
on his back from the shipping, but
it'll heal up pretty quick.
- It kind of looks like a platypus.
(laughing) - It does.
- We should name him Perry.
- [Instructor] What do you want to name him?
- Perry. - Perry the platypus?
- Yeah, okay.
- It's crazy, it's awesome. How old are they?
- They're about a year old.
- One of the things I've really trying to do
is take little breaks and try to enjoy myself.
And you can see Anthony's out here skating around.
Noah's lacing it up. I've got some new skates.
So we're gonna just do a little hockey.
It's been a while since I've been on roller blades,
done some ice recently,
but roller blades has probably been like four years.
So, let's hope I don't kill myself.
Let's go have some fun.
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- All right, you're okay.
You're all right.
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This is definitely an animal you don't mess with but
ooh,
it's cool that he's actually chilling
in my hands like this.
That is definitely a long way coming with this guy.
I'm really happy. I'm actually able to lift him up.
He's a little, like I said before
he's always gonna be a little anxious, but as you can see,
as long as not too many sudden movements, stuff like that.
And he is, he's come so long. It's insane.
But I really like getting him out into the open like this
because honestly it keeps him completely thinking about me
and also makes him think about everything around him.
And I really want him to not only concentrate on me,
but to concentrate on the things around him,
get his brain moving
rather than being defensive the whole time.
So the more we get to do this, man.
The more he'll get a lot better.
- Whoa! I tell you what you'll...
A lot of times, baby ball pythons
can be a little bit snappy, but they actually calm down.
And I get asked all the time, why do snakes bite?
And this is a perfect example right now,
to be totally honest with you.
This baby doesn't know me.
I haven't gained its trust yet.
So it's kind of scared, right?
So really snakes only bite for two reasons.
Number one, they're afraid and they're defensive.
And it's saying like, stay away from me.
I don't like you. We're going to become friends.
I promise you.
We will become friends as it gets a little bit of age to it.
The only other reason snakes really bite is
if they're hungry, right?
So if they think that there's food,
now this one doesn't think there's food
because it's a fresh baby and it's only eaten one meal
and it doesn't have that food drive. Right?
So really when you are getting a snake that
is striking like this, and you ask me,
what do I do about it?
I tell you one of two things.
Number one, make sure that it's fed well.
And it knows there's no food.
That's one of the things that
you can kind of work with that animal.
And number two, make sure the animal isn't afraid.
If it's not afraid, it's not defensively striking.
If it's not defensively striking,
then it won't actually bite you.
This guy is just defensive right now.
'Cause he doesn't know me.
We haven't built any bonds of trust.
Over the next couple of weeks, as we handle them,
he's gonna mellow out and stuff like that.
And that's why snakes bite.
Again, two reasons, defensive or food bites.
They don't bite for any other reasons.
So snakes aren't mean or aggressive.
They are just either afraid or hungry.
So I'm super excited.
Something I've been working on for a long time
and we've teamed up with my buddy MJ out in California.
We are launching a new show called The Plug
over on my animal bites TV channel link in the description.
It's gonna be a weekly update of
what's going on in the reptile hobby.
Anything that's going on in the reptile hobby,
you will get it in The Plug, that's right.
So go ahead, check the link in the description
for the first episode,
we're going to get better at this guys
it's gonna be awesome. Can not wait.
But that way, if you want to get up to date on
anything going on in the reptile hobby,
you're about to get it in one spot every single week.
Really nice clutch here.
This is actually a super pastel bamboo walma
that's a hepper clown that's bred to a pastel leopard clown.
I'll tell you what
I've been waiting for this clutch for sure.
And as you can see, she's got a couple eggs out right now.
Go right here and right here.
And by the way, I've been saying that we're not gonna
pull every single clutch that we have left on this vlog.
We're gonna do some stuff over on Patreon.
Link is below, but I don't want you guys to think
between any cutting and pulling them
I'm trying to get you off of YouTube.
The truth is, is I just don't want to bore you guys.
We're still going to pull like
a hundred clutches this year, right?
We're still gonna cut 80 or 90 clutches.
It's not like we're not gonna have any
cutting on this channel
and it's not like we're not gonna have a pulling
on this channel.
It's just that we don't want to bore you guys.
So some of the stuff that maybe isn't quite as exciting
we'll push over to patrons.
So you have some exclusive content over there, but again,
I don't want you guys to think that somehow I'm trying
to push you somewhere else.
That's not my intention at all.
I just don't want to bore you guys.
We want to give you fresh content all the time.
That being said,
we're gonna have lots and lots and lots of eggs.
Don't you worry about that.
So we'll go ahead and pull this girl off
the rest of these eggs
and get these going right here.
See, got her here,
got these eggs, the eggs aren't stuck together.
So they're pretty easy to get out here,
but of course that means we're gonna have to handle them.
Right? So again, down below,
let me know what you think that combination is
super pastel bamboo walma head clown
bread to a pastel leopard head clown.
What am I gonna produce this?
We've got 2, 4, 6, 7 eggs.
Tell you what, this is to be a banger clutch
when it hatches guys, I tell you what
definitely one of the top five top ten
clutches that I'm gonna have all year.
And again, like I said, we'll have
the majority of our clusters we're going to have here.
Just gonna have some exclusive content over on patreon,
not too much just some lives and some stuff like that
to give you guys value.
But again, I appreciate you guys on this platform
more than I can honestly say.
And I do appreciate everyone on Patreon too.
So I just wanted to explain that to you.
So excited to be a granddaddy.
I hope that you guys enjoyed this announcement
and the video.
I appreciate, I'm sure your comments
are gonna be amazing.
Thank you so much.
A lot of fun times ahead there is no doubt about that.
If you enjoy this video, here's a playlist.
Can you watch one, two of those?
It would mean a lot to me.
Also, if you subscribe right over here,
that would mean a lot to me
Have an absolutely wonderful day reptile army.
Remember be kind to somebody and I promise
I'll see you in the next one.