- Hey! Good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
You may be asking why I'm carrying
these two snakes around, well the fact is
today is the big day!
This is a pastel leopard clown,
this is a pastel lesser clown.
These two got together a few months back,
and had some eggs. So for the last couple
of months I have been waiting for this day.
I'm hoping with any luck that we're
going to produce a super pastel lesser leopard clown.
This gorgeous male here is the
pastel leopard clown ball python.
Now clown ball python's are a recessive
mutation, super cool, they have that
like dorsal striping, really crazy head pattern
and they're on of the more popular animals
in the ball python trade, and then the leopard
is actually a co-dominant mutation along with the pastel.
Making for just an absolutely gorgeous snake,
but it's a really great building block
for something bigger and better.
In similarly this is the pastel lesser clown ball python.
Again pastel lesser are co-dominant,
and the clown are a recessive ball python.
When you can start mixing these animals,
and getting different genes and layering genes
they can really make for some stunning animals.
I really do think that clown mutations are some
of the most stunning and unbelievable mutations
of all ball pythons, and today we get to see
if the magic is right.
You gotta remember when you start mixing and layering
there's a lot of odds right?
Yeah, we know that because they're both recessive clowns
everything is gonna be clown,
but we got the pastel in there, we got the
lesser, we got the leopard, are they gonna
layer or are we gonna miss the odds,
are they gonna be normals, are they
gonna be super pastel's, are they gonna be crazy?
We don't know! It's definitely been something,
that for the last two months has been on my mind.
I've been dying for this day,
and I cannot wait to get into some egg cutting,
and seeing if those odds goshs are in our favor.
To kinda break things down, this is a
clown ball python, and this is a pastel ball python.
Now, with this particular pairing we could get
clowns, we could get pastel clowns,
we could get the super pastel clowns,
which is the (mumbles) clowns,
we could get lesser clowns,
we could get pastel lesser clowns,
super pastel lesser clowns,
super pastel leopard clowns,
we could even get
the super pastel lesser leopard clown,
which is what we're really searching for.
But this guy is fired up!
I mean, what is wrong with you?
Someone woke up on the wrong side of the tub this morning,
but regardless, it's definitely a long shot
to hit that all gene animal, but with any
luck, at least with eight eggs.
We'll get at least one of the
super pastel lesser leopard clown ball pythons.
It's gonna be amazing, but first I actually have
to do a quick tour, it's a busy day
we got three tours today, gonna hit that tour,
and then we're gonna go ahead
and cut this ball python clutch.
My tour is in the house.
How ya doin'? What's your names?
- Raphael - [Brian] Raphael!
- Alina
- [Brian] It's so good to meet you,
where you guys from?
- Massachusetts
- [Brian] Massachusetts! Oh my gosh,
well thank you so much for comin'
we're gonna have a good time
lookin' at a whole bunch of animals right?
Ready? Let's get it going!
(upbeat music)
The thing that's so nice about this clutch
is that the worst animal I can possibly
produce, is a clown ball python,
and of course with all the combinations,
we should have some really cool stuff.
I was definitely excited from the day
this clutch was laid so let's just jump into it.
Hopefully, I'll be able to make sense
of what's going on here.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible,
so first egg here, what do we have
it's already a very light animal,
I can see that for sure.
Ouh,
wow, that's crazy light.
Oh my gosh, just gonna move this around
just a little tiny bit, so this is definitely,
oh my gosh that thing is beautiful,
this is definitely a super pastel,
so a killer clown, it's definitely a lesser clown,
so it's a super pastel lesser clown,
possibly
a leopard.
It's gonna be really hard to see what
the leopard is to be honest with you,
cause in the egg, you have to really
look at the pattern.
Leopard's gonna make more of a striping
and a little bit of dotting on the side,
and you can't tell completely, but I think there's
a good chance that right off the rip,
we might have hit the all gene animal.
Nevertheless we know that these eggs
are gonna be ridiculous, wow I can't
even believe that.
All right I'm going to jump into egg number two,
I'm not sure we can top that one guys.
I don't know again, but you never know
what we're gonna be producing here,
so every egg is gonna be a complete
and utter surprise.
Ouh, again, are you kidding me right now?
Now this one I am almost positive,
is the super pastel leopard lesser clown.
I am like 99.9% sure that's what this one is.
Oh my gosh, I think we might've hit the first two eggs,
the all gene animal.
Wow! Now I can't wait til these guys hatch out,
I mean it's gonna be ridiculous.
Let's just keep on cuttin'.
Wow, I tell you what, this clutch is starting
to be one of the best clutches I could
have ever imagined, and guess what guys?
Are you kidding me right now?
This one is 100%, you can see with
the little dotting on it, and the way it is.
This one is 100% a super pastel lesser leopard clown.
I think we hit three of them out of three eggs.
Which is ridiculous, I mean that is crazy odds.
With this one you can really see the pattern,
and everything like that.
That is ridiculous, oh my gosh, I'm blown away guys.
I mean like legitimately I was excited about
this clutch and now I'm over the moon,
so again, you know, I knew there was gonna be
no bad animals in this clutch, but the fact
that we been hittin' some crazy stuff
is just ridiculous.
Okay, so what we have here, we have a killer clown,
a super pastel clown.
It's possibly, oh yeah looks like it's a leopard too.
So this is a super pastel leopard clown.
Wow!
Man!
I tell you what, bonkers!
This thing is bonkers for sure.
All right, we got three eggs to go.
I should stop now, cause I'll be honest with you
this has just been so absolutely incredible.
What do we have here?
Okay, so this on is actually a pastel clown,
possibly a leopard pastel clown.
So it's just the one pastel, this is
the first one that wasn't a super pastel, anything.
I'm pretty sure it's a leopard, so I think it's
a pastel leopard clown.
I tell you what, the odds have been ridiculous
in this clutch, so let's go ahead.
Two more eggs, let's finish this off strong.
I mean, gosh! This is crazy people, absolutely crazy.
Ouh, it looks like another really beautiful snake.
Oh my gosh, you kiddin' me right now?
Let's see if we can just get it to move around
a little bit, again it looks like a
super pastel lesser leopard clown.
It looks like we got four of those guys,
again until they hatch out we don't know for sure.
That's just in the egg, that's what it looks like.
Looks like we have four of them!
Then we have, oh my gosh this is crazy.
Last egg people, I'm freaking out,
because this is so absolutely amazing,
I couldn't in my wildest dreams, wish that
this clutch would turn out any differently.
Okay so what do we have here?
We have, let's see, looks like just a killer clown,
but it actually looks like there's a good chance
it's a super pastel leopard clown.
So a killer leopard clown.
Wow guys! I mean I hope that you guys
were as blown away at this clutch as I was,
because this may be one of the coolest clutches
that I have ever had, as far as every egg was
absolutely spectacular, absolutely amazing.
I knew it was gonna be great, but I didn't
think in a million years it was gonna be as good
as it turned out.
So wow! That was amazing, let me know in
the comments what you guys think, and what animal
you're the most excited on this clutch to see hatch out.
Just a real quick shout to Jay's Instagram channel,
remember when he actually gets to five thousand
we are going to be giving away a print of your choosing,
that is signed by me and Jay.
So go ahead and show him some love
over at JayTomsky, right down here. Link in the description.
- [Brian] Now my next tour in the house
how are you guys doing?
What's your names?
- I'm Alex - [Brian] Alex!
- I'm Kimmy
- [Brian] Kimmy, all right where you guys from?
- Southern Indiana
- [Brian] Southern Indiana all right,
well thank you for coming,
we're gonna see a bunch of cool stuff,
you ready to go? - Oh yeah!
- [Brian] Let's do it!
(upbeat music)
- We're actually getting ready to pull out chicken strip.
I know I told you guys I was gonna try
and work with him a little bit more often.
So I'm actually going to try a get him out now,
we all know he freaks out, he comes out
he just starts running, he really acts a fool.
I'm hoping that if what I'm gonna do,
I don't want to corner him, I don't wan to scare him
more than he's already scared.
I want to encourage him to come out,
maybe tire him out a little bit,
work with him a little bit,
I'm going to even pull on his tail a little bit,
to hold him where I need him to be,
but I'm going to try and keep to a minimum,
and eventually get him on my hands.
So let's go ahead and get right into it,
we're going to actually do that right now.
So he's up on the top there, which isn't always
the best, but because he likes to fly at me all the time.
We'll see what happens.
Hey bud!
You notice I'm smacking the walls and stuff,
I'm trying to announce my presence to him,
so he knows I'm coming in.
(hitting wood)
Comin' in buddy.
(thrashing)
The key really is honestly to be really calm
with him, you can tell he's already freaking out a lot.
(hissing)
Easy, easy, easy.
Well he's always gonna get this way,
he's always going to freak out,
and stress out and try to go for me like that.
I don't want him too though, so
as much fun it is to see me get bit.
The more minimum I can keep this the better.
I'm trying to provide that surface for him.
See there he goes.
Now look, it didn't take that much,
you just tire him out like this.
So like basically what I want to do at this point,
is you see how he's puffing up,
see the neck going, his mouth's going,
the tongues comin' out real fast,
there's no rolling of that tongue.
So what I want to do is I wanna hold him,
and eventually I want, starts to calm down,
he starts to roll that tongue a little slower,
the puffing doesn't happen as often,
as soon as that starts going I believe
I'm going to actually put him right back up.
I don't hold him for very long after that,
because what to do is I want to keep
that positive interaction.
Always, always, always leave it that way.
I never want to hold him long enough to where
he's just going to flip out again.
All right guys, so we actually got chicken strip
nice and calm, you actually see him now
he's not quite so puffy and stuff.
So he's a little bit more calm, he's looking
around, he's a lot more curious
that's for sure, and he's actually
letting me put my hand under his chin
without him taking a bite out of me, and stuff.
So like, clearly he's not too terribly afraid anymore,
he's just calmed down, like all right
how do I get away from this guy?
Well chicken strip, your wish is my command,
imma let you go ahead and go back in buddy.
So like I really wanna let him in,
and let him sort of go off my hand on his own.
So like he could very well turn around,
and run right back out if he wants too,
and if that's what happens, then so be it,
and we're gonna continue to work with him,
and he's gonna continue to sort of be like this.
There you go, good boy.
Notice I don't encourage him to move
or anything like that, like he's just
in there hanging out, he's just gonna
go hide back there and get puffy and scared of everything.
He's a sweetheart.
- Last tour of the day is in the house,
how are you guys doing?
It's so great to meet you guys,
where you from?
- Boston
- [Brian] Boston! We had someone from
Massachusetts earlier today!
That's crazy, how wild is that?
Well that's awesome, well thank you so much for being here.
We're gonna have a good time right?
- Yeah! Thank you!
(upbeat music)
- All three tours today were absolutely
incredible, had a really good time,
I love that part of my job, there's no doubt
about that, but now we actually have to open up
for the reptarium for the night, to the public.
We're havin' a great time here at the reptarium,
what's your name?
- Lizzy - [Brian] What's your name?
- Kylie - [Brian] What's your name?
- Danielle
- [Brian] And I heard you skipped
the birthday party
- Yes! - [Brian] To come here, that's a good choice yeah?
- Yes!
- [Brian] All right you guys are awesome,
all right thank you guys for coming all right?
Okay so it's that time where we're gonna
go ahead and feed the big snakes for everybody
let's hope this works out well, okay so wish me luck.
(crowd muttering)
- [Brian] Come on girl
Oh-oh
Where you going? Where you going?
What's she doin? Oh-oh!
- [Crowd Member] Wow!
- [Brian] So that's one!
We're gonna do the next one, is gonna be one
where we toss a rabbit to a snake, right over there.
Then we're gonna feed two others okay?
(crowd muttering)
(crowd excitement)
- [Brian] This one is a little more energetic right (laughs)
Okay, you guys can stay right here,
cause I'm gonna feed this one down here okay?
And finally Daisy, while actually not finally,
we're gonna try and feed Ivy as well.
So Daisy is up right now.
Come on Daisy, come on girl.
There you go baby, see she's pretty gentle.
Now the last one's gonna be harder
for people to see, but I'm gonna try
to feed this anaconda that's tucked up in the corner.
There you go!
(upbeat music)
I tell you what, that was one insane clutch
of clown ball pythons, I cannot wait til they hatch out.
I will certainly share it with you guys,
if you guys enjoyed that egg cutting,
there's a video with another clutch of eggs
I cut earlier in the year,
there's an entire playlist of me egg cutting.
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