- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to The Blog.
I hope this Saturday is amazing.
My girl Ivy is looking amazing.
She's such a good snake.
And of course she's my beautiful anaconda,
but today's not about anacondas.
It's actually about iguanas,
at least to start of my day.
And the fact is is that I actually have to do something
with my iguanas here.
As you can see, we got Heinz down here looking good
and stuff like that.
But look at the other red iguanas
as in how big they are compared to my albinos.
Now you might remember, I didn't even really want
the red iguanas.
My friend, Tom Crutchfield,
just sent them to me as kind of a gift.
I really just wanted the albinos,
but the fact is they were all the same size when I got them.
And now the red iguanas are like twice
the size the albinos.
And that brings me to my point.
The truth is I've been seeing them bullying
my albinos a little bit
and the albinos aren't thriving
as much as I really want them to.
So my solution to that is actually gonna be
to work on this enclosure here
that the bass list will eventually go into,
but I'm gonna move the red iguanas into here
for the time being before the bass lists get in there
and I can keep em in here for a couple of months.
I'll be totally honest with you.
I may, rehome the red iguanas,
find a good place for them
and make sure that they live a great life
because the truth is I really just wanted the albinos.
I didn't want four iguanas I wanted two iguanas.
So we'll set this enclosure up, get the reds here.
They'll thrive here for a while .
We'll probably rehome them at some point.
And then hopefully the albinos won't get bullied.
They'll eat a little bit more
and grow a little bit faster.
So one of my big projects today
is just getting this set up
for the iguanas and getting them moved over.
I'm still gonna be doing some bio active in here, right?
Soils and live plants and stuff like that.
So this is just temporary for the red iguanas.
We will redo this cage for the bachelors
where it's completely natural and bioactive,
but for now, I'm just gonna find some spots
for all these plants to make it look good,
make the iguanas happy,
and then we can move them in here.
And hopefully the albinos will thrive a little bit better.
Not that they're doing terrible.
It's just that they aren't growing at the same rate
as the red ones.
And I'm kind of seeing a little bullying going on.
So let's just go ahead and get creative.
(bright music)
- Again far from done,
but this is just a starting point.
We'll put them in there, see how they are.
Definitely gonna need some more foliage,
but again, we'll start adding some light plants
and stuff like that.
Now this is just temporary.
So I think this will work.
Let's go get these red ones,
throw them in here and hopefully they'll settle in.
Well over here and the albinos will do better over there.
Not expecting catching these to be easy or fun.
To be honest with you, the albinos are chill,
but the red ones, they don't like people at all.
So let's see what we can do.
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Oh, okay, whoa, they got sharp hands.
They've got sharp nails.
Okay, buddy, okay We're just moving your one page over.
Come on, we're gonna let you go up there.
There you go, alright.
They actually look pretty cool in here.
To be honest with you, let's get the other one.
I don't even know where it's at.
Oh, it's way up top there. So let's go find it.
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This one is actually pretty chill, to be honest with you.
And these really are beautiful animals.
I mean, look at the green on the belly.
Absolutely wonderful.
So again, I'll do the same thing.
Just leave these in here.
Let them kind of settle in
and then hopefully the albinos will thrive
a little bit better without that food competition.
Cause again, the albinos don't have great eyesight.
So these guys are thriving,
pushing the albinos away from the food.
So I think this was the right move.
And like I said, I could see myself probably rehoming it.
So if anyone's interested and you have the ability,
huge cage, experience with the iguanas let me know.
And maybe I'll send one to you. I don't know.
Let me know in the comments or reach out to us.
I just want them to go to good homes
if we're gonna rehome them.
Cause iguanas get big, they're not for everybody.
So I wanna make sure if we do that,
that they're going somewhere
where they're gonna be really loved
for the rest of their lives.
Let's do a quick check up on
the little baby mangroves.
Oh my gosh, what do we have out?
We have one, two, three, four, five.
It looks like we've got
these two eggs here left to hatch still,
but look at how absolute
whoa come on little monkey, it's okay.
Look at how incredible these guys are.
Again, baby mangroves are so cool.
And again, breeding them
isn't very common for whatever reason.
Captive hatched mangroves steaks are pretty rare.
This is I think our fourth year in a row producing.
So we're really excited about it.
I mean, looking at the red in the size again,
all that red turns to yellow
and these guys are going to be black and yellow
when they get older,
but oh my gosh! They are so adorable.
Look at how the pattern is really diminished in this one.
Wow, that's crazy, it's gonna be super thin yellow band.
So awesome that five out of seven are already hatched.
Hopefully the other two will climb out
and we can get these guys set up
and get them feeding within the next week or two.
And hey, maybe I'll just raise up another seven mangroves
cause so far every time I breed them,
I just keep them all.
Guess what time it is?
Kluber deg time.
This girl right here
is actually a HEC plasma girl,
which is actually a beautiful snake.
I'm gonna get her out really quick.
Ooh, she looks like she's a motley too.
It doesn't say that she was a motley,
but she's actually a motley HEC plasma.
And I'll show you the plasma, ridiculous.
This is what a plasma looks like.
This is actually a lavender diffused
or what some people call blood red corn, unbelievable.
And of course this is a hat for that
looks like there's not that many good eggs
unfortunately, but there's a handful.
Let's see, we've got, looks like three good eggs
and three sluggers right there, which is too bad.
Interestingly enough, this is the first clutch of the year
from that plasma male.
And he's bred a handful of females.
So hopefully 50% fertility is somewhere we're gonna go.
But hey listen, we could still produce some plasma corns
out of this, which would be ridiculous.
There's a little Kluber breeding hack.
And this doesn't happen very often,
but if you have a snake that you just miss
the fact that she was gravid like this
head strawberry sunk is right here.
She started to lay on the bed
and she didn't have a nest box.
Now I didn't want to interrupt her
because if you interrupt her laying,
there's a chance she could egg bound.
As a matter of fact, I see there's a chance
there might be an egg still stuck in the bottom right here
that I may have to try to see if I can get out.
And that was probably
cause I did disturb her a little bit.
But what you can do is you could
just take some dump sphagnum
and put it right on top of them.
That way the eggs don't go bad
because the problem is if you don't get the eggs away,
they'll dry up and actually go bad.
So I just took some dump sphagnum,
put it on top of her.
And she laid the rest of the eggs.
When I first saw her, she only had two or three eggs out.
You can see she's laid all these eggs right here
and they all look perfect.
Now we can actually get them out
and put them in an aid box.
Then we'll go back and take a look
at the fact that she's definitely retained
at least an egg up in here.
And we'll see if we can maybe express that egg out.
And that was probably again,
maybe the stress of me putting Sphagnum on her,
but I wanted to save the (mumbles), right?
So we'll deal with her in a minute.
For now let's go ahead and pull these eggs.
And again, because of that stagnant,
we're able to save all this whole clutch right here.
And it's just a miss,
maybe Lauren thinks she was grabbing.
Maybe she just even missed the shed,
thinking that she was going to lay in a week or two.
And we were surprised by a clutch and the bedding.
Again, doesn't happen often,
but happens once or twice a year.
And instead of losing the clutch
or really disturbing the female,
we just puts sphagnum on top.
We've got two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14, 16, 18 good eggs.
That is a really good clutch.
Let's go ahead and just see
if we can manipulate that egg out.
Might have to just leave her alone
and try to have her pass it on her own,
but I'll try to just slowly massage,
see what I can do and see
if I can get that egg out.
So interestingly enough, I don't think
that there's actually an egg in here.
I think this might be gas,
but I'm trying to just kind of express
just really slowly down just to see
if there's anything in there or not.
You can see it's kind of swollen right there, right?
So again, I just want to find out
what's going on very, very gently doing this,
just to see what is up here.
It might be an egg, I'm not a hundred percent sure
to be honest with you.
It feels like yeah possibly,
but it's a little bit hard to get that egg.
I'm going to continue to try to just slowly push down,
again you don't want to do too much
because that could potentially hurt the animal.
And I'm going to probably just go
in this side with the probe
and just kind of feel my way around a little bit,
kind of get through the, the oviduct here
and see if I can't express something down here.
And if not,
you can just see
that was just literally, it's not an egg.
It was a gas build off
probably maybe even a little blockage,
but I was able to kind of express that all out,
right like that, and the snake is completely fine.
You can see there's a little urate right there
that I'll just kind of push out here into the garbage
and a snake is completely fine.
You can see she's completely deflated now.
No more look of vague binding.
So in this case, it wasn't an egg binding.
It was just a buildup of gas,
which is really good.
Snake looks a hundred percent perfect.
So no worries at all.
(bright music)
I was so excited about this potential
clutch of eggs right now.
And this girl is definitely weird.
She's a chocolate lesser spinner.
So she's chocolate, she's lesser, she's pinstriped.
And she spider and she's laying on the eggs.
So bizarre, i've never quite seen a girl.
She's almost got a figure eight going on here
rather than a circle, which is really bizarre.
I've never seen that before.
And interesting enough, beautiful clutch eggs.
I mean, it's not a big clutch of eggs,
but it's really beautiful.
And you'll notice these eggs look a little different.
I'll tell you about that in the second,
but for now, I'm just going to get these in an egg box.
I'm going to put them over here.
Definitely going to have to candle these eggs
because she definitely rolled these all over the place,
but she was brand to a banana chocolate spinner.
So this could be, I mean, crazy stuff.
I mean all kinds of really cool stuff.
I love the chocolate and the banana stuff,
potentially the Barney ball,
even this one could potentially have
the Barney ball plus Lasser.
That would be even crazier to be totally honest with you,
but she had two, four, five good eggs.
You can see this one egg is really small,
which is a little unusual, should be fine though,
to be honest with you.
But again, you see that inside the smooth surface,
it has kind of these craters and dimples that happens.
And I'm not exactly sure why that is.
Sometimes you'll even have a perfect egg
with little light kind of dots all over it
and stuff like that kinda just happens.
I don't know if it's the way
that they actually develop in the oviduct
or whatever the case is.
Doesn't mean anything hatch rate is the same
and everything like that.
The only thing we're going to have to do
is definitely candle these eggs
because there's no doubt
these have been rolled around a ton.
So, but I tell you what, I wasn't sure
if she was going to lay a good clutch eggs.
So I am so excited that there's five beautiful eggs
in 57 days from now that's gonna be a banger clutch to cut.
This is actually just a nice big normal female looks like
she's got one egg out of the clutch right here.
So we'll set this aside real quick
and we'll see what she's got going on.
She was actually bred to a banana extreme pinstripe,
so should be some pretty cool babies.
And again, I don't breed a lot of normal females,
but these are ones that I've just had for so many years.
And you don't have to be honest with you.
A lot of people get rid of their normal females.
Oh, I just, number one, I'm kind of been attached to them.
I've had them for so long
and they're good producers
and they can prove some really amazing babies.
Again, fresh eggs so I can able
to tear that off really good, beautiful clutch
two, four, six, eight, really nice eggs.
Again, eight days from a normal female bred
to a really cool male can really yield you
some amazing animals.
Not to mention, I'm not gonna lie to you.
I don't mind producing some normals
because sometimes that's like an entry level pet.
And I want people that be able to buy an entry level pet
and then eventually get something cooler down the road
if they so choose.
But the truth is a normal ball plate
that could be just as awesome
as one of the coolest more subtle pythons.
So regardless eight eggs, I'm happy about it.
(bright music)
Hey Nova, what's going on?
still no eggs with Lilith here.
She's up on the rocks.
Looking like she's got a bunch of marble filler.
So, we continued to watch maybe tomorrow,
look at all these stuff that you guys sent us.
We just got in so we're just going to unbox a few things.
Maybe everyday we'll do this.
Just unbox a few things.
This is all Amazon fulfillment.
Did you order something Laurie?
- Probably not.
- Alright, what did we have?
Oh Wait, what, what is this?
Oh, this looks like a wine thing for,
oh with an L, look at that.
(laughs)
Look at this, The Little Book of Slop Philosophy,
how to live your best slop life.
- Nice this is perfect for you.
You could use a little that.
- Thank you.
- This is going to be our new segment, deep thoughts
- Deep thoughts with slop.
- This is from Michigan by the way.
Oh my God.
- You just almost gave yourself.
- I get super excited. This is the way I was [Inaudible]
Oh, this is Lucy!
Lucy shirt what?
How cool is that?
My girl Lucy...
Oh my God thank you let's see.
- Oh geez, there's nothing else.
- Let me see what else is in here.
That's a wicked knife too.
- It's ridiculous,
- I'm feeling strong now.
- Please read the note because holy crap.
Dear Brian, my wife
and I came to visit the reptarium last August
for our five year wedding anniversary.
Thank you guys, I hope you had a good time.
We had an amazing time salts in your lazy,
out of the best part of a trip so far
was you letting us feed Lucy
the second rabbit.
I remember you guys.
That was so awesome.
So they decided to make the sherbet Lucy.
So thank you so much.
Can't wait to come see the 2.0
and hopefully one day, 3.0, so thank you.
And let's go ahead and open up my next box.
You hold it.
- I am going to keep track of everyone
who sends the knives
and I'm going to send the hospital bills to all of you.
This is by the way, from Fong in Manhattan, Kansas,
Whenever you're doing like,
Oh, wait a second, what's this coffee candles?
- I knew I liked it.
Especially love watching Noah
and Laurie eat the hot chocolate.
(laughs)
All that shot. I noticed you said
on Noah's 24 hour challenge
or salt and pepper, you had never had an MRE.
And we were an army family station
and thought it would be fun to send you some to try.
- You got spaghetti with beef
- And then this is a homemade candle.
- Spaghetti and we got pork sausage Patty with maple flavor.
And then we got chicken burrito bowl.
We're going to do this on Noah's council, thank you guys.
This is awesome, oh my God.
This is like a gift that keeps giving.
Thank you guys, seriously it's awesome, thank you so much.
You guys are amazing
- From the family.
Thank you guys from the family.
You guys are amazing
Always love the backdrop of my girl, Ivy,
because she's amazing.
And listen, today was the first day
that I ever got farted on by a snake like that.
So, but I'm glad that that girl is good.
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