- [Brian] Lucy it's okay, okay girl?
Whoa, come on girl!
("All Mine" by Cushy)
Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Lucy is stretched out for the very first time
and I'm gonna be totally honest with you,
when she was coiled up, she looked really huge,
full of eggs, and now that she's stretched out
she looks a little bit thinner.
And that sometimes can mean infertile eggs.
So I think I'm gonna go inside with her
and just get a feel, and just see what
she's actually like.
She's definitely big towards the end,
but not so much in the middle.
So I'm gonna very gently try to go in here,
'cause look it, she is right in the spot right here.
Definitely not in a good spot.
There you go sweetheart, just go ahead baby.
It's okay, I'm not gonna do anything to you, I promise.
It's okay honey, it's okay.
This may not have been a good idea,
I'm not gonna lie to you,
because I'm in a really, really sketchy spot right now.
I just really wanna get an idea
of what she looks like back here.
Oh my gosh, holy cow.
Okay girl, girl, girl.
I'm telling you what, I am freakin',
just the way she's moving is just, whoa!
You can just tell she is really sketched out right now.
Oh my gosh.
And I wanted to just get in, oh my gosh.
I'm tellin' you what guys, I read snakes really well,
she is absolutely out of her mind right now.
If I get close at all, I'm gonna be in trouble.
But again, she doesn't look really big right through here.
You can see this is about midway down her body,
where the end of that snake hook is right there,
and she doesn't, she almost looks flat right there.
Towards the back end she's looking really swollen,
but the other way, I tell you what guys,
I'm not gonna lie to you,
I have a feeling there might be a lot
of infertile eggs, maybe entirely, whoa!
She just struck at me, oh my gosh.
C'mon Lucy, I swear to gosh, I told you
she is not in a good mood at all.
But there's a chance that there might not be
any fertile eggs in this clutch.
We did see Titan breed here, but who knows?
Maybe it was infertile, I don't know what's gonna happen.
Definitely a little bit bummed, I was really excited
about a clutch from Lucy like we had last year,
doesn't look that good to me.
Now listen, she's about 2 1/2 weeks away from laying,
so sometimes they can really swell up at the end.
But Lucy, it's okay, okay girl?
Whoa, come on girl!
It's okay, it's okay.
All right, I'm gonna leave, I'm gonna leave.
Okay, I know when I should get out of here.
She is definitely, whoa, there she goes again!
Lucy, relax girl.
Oh my gosh, again, I don't want to stress her out
anymore than I need to, so I'm gonna step out.
I don't know guys, might not be good news.
I'm not 100% sure.
We still have a couple weeks to do it,
but I wanted to give her a little quick check-up
and man, just, my intuition says it may
not be a good clutch, but hey, we'll wait to see.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely
amazing, by the way.
Back in the dungeon, back with Kelsey,
which means only one thing, of course, which is?
- Python eggs!
Looks like if we were just producing Children's pythons
this year, we'd be having the best year ever,
because another clutch of Children's pythons,
but we have tons of other stuff that's
getting really close, right?
- Oh yeah.
- [Brian] Ball pythons are getting close now?
- We're like a couple weeks away.
- A couple weeks away, that's awesome.
Well anyways, we have a beautiful Children's python
that is, again, wrapped around an amazingly good clutch.
You know what's crazy about this one,
is these eggs are so much bigger, aren't they?
- [Kelsey] Oh yeah, they're huge!
- They're huge compared to the last clutches.
Like the last clutch I think we had 17 or 18
from the last clutch, and then
12 or 13 from the first clutch,
but these eggs are like twice the size.
I'm assuming they'll be less eggs,
but the babies will hatch out bigger.
So let's go ahead and see what this mama has.
All right, here we go.
Still a really beautiful clutch.
Look at that, whoa.
Here, I'll give you a hand, you got it? All right, good job.
Wow look at mama, again, looks really good.
I can't believe how these guys can lay.
Look at how many eggs, that animal
fit those eggs in her and she still
looks absolutely incredible.
No slugs in this clutch, but as I had mentioned,
definitely a lot less eggs, but that's okay,
'cause again, the babies will hatch out really big.
Will be that much easier to get to eat.
So how many eggs did we end up with here?
Two, four, six, eight, nine.
So still not bad, nine eggs.
That's pretty good, so good job this year
with the Children's spot, I cannot wait
'til we brood Stimson's.
It's gonna be amazing.
- Oh yeah, we're gonna get a couple of those.
- All right, cool, so there it is guys,
another Children's python clutch
in the books for 2019.
And speaking of ball python production,
some of these girls are absolutely
loaded up with eggs.
This happens to be a banana spider ball python right here
and look how loaded she is.
She's just a couple weeks from laying
and again, we have a lot of females
that are right around the corner,
so ball python clutches are on the way.
And I know you guys love the egg cutting videos
so we're not far away from that too.
But again, look at how distended she is.
She is just full of eggs, and that's why
I'm supporting her the way I am,
I don't want to give any stress on those eggs
or on her, for that matter either.
I am so excited for this year's ball python
breeding season, we have a lot of really cool
combinations, so it should be really awesome.
Speaking of awesome, I actually have
this ball python project that I've been working on
for, I don't know, seven or eight years?
It's really gotten very close to nowhere,
to be totally honest with you.
This is an animal we imported, like I said,
probably seven, eight years ago, maybe even nine years ago,
and we called it a white sprinkle.
You can see some of the white
that kind of sprinkles through
and it's all over up here, all the way down here,
all the way down here, and basically this was a baby
with this exact same pattern.
So it didn't develop the white spots,
cause we've seen some of that stuff with like
high MGs with dark pigment, and even some light pigment
that kind of, as an animal gets older,
it loses pigment or gains pigment.
This animal was born exactly like this,
and I do think that it's probably something genetic.
Now we had perused, had white sprinkles,
if it is a recessive mutation,
it's definitely not a co-down because there were
no babies that came out looking anything like it,
they were all normal.
So we're hoping that next we'll actually have
some of the head sprinkle females
up to size to breed back to dad and hopefully
we'll prove this genetic mutation.
Now, it's one of things that I'm sure
once it proves out, maybe it'll be really cool,
and I'll think, how did it take me eight or nine years
to finally work on this one?
I know Miguel from Always Evolving Pythons
really liked it, and he's hoping that it proves out,
so we'll see what happens, I've really never
really talked about this animal before,
so wish me luck.
And hopefully with any luck next year
we'll produce more white sprinkle ball pythons.
Gotta do a real quick feeding and of course,
I always start with my girl Sunrise.
(electronic music)
And I always talk about getting to know your snakes.
The jungle carpet python here that's
an absolute gorgeous animal, she just takes
it off the ground, so I just have to leave
it right in there.
And what I do is I try to dry the rat off really good
so none of the bedding sticks on it,
because she's gonna climb up.
And if she ingests a little bedding, it's not a big deal,
but that's just getting to know
how your animals like to eat.
There you go girl.
I absolutely love Peaches
the hypo Honduran milk snake,
and she's always really good about eating.
Here you go Peaches, there it is.
There you go girl.
- You guys just missed this,
I didn't hit the record button,
but Casper came flying out, literally came
over by the tree, what in the world?
Casper, oh, whoa!
Casper was fired up, I wish I was recording,
'cause that was as close as it gets.
I was literally sliding the glass
and he came flying out here.
Oh my gosh, that was a close call.
You guys remember, I've been bit by Casper before.
I love when Sunfire's up close because
I don't have to go in the cage and go after her.
Come on girl, you're a good girl.
Whoa, she struck that up quick, that's for sure.
High energy today, so we're gonna go ahead
and get Ricky over here, Ricky.
Things are heating up here.
I think the spring weather is really firing these snakes up.
There you go sweetheart.
You know it never gets old feeding snakes.
I've been feeding snakes for three decades,
and still I love feeding every single time.
They're such amazing animals.
I had a handful of people asking about
Chicken Strip, and it was kind of like
why haven't we seen Chicken Strip,
is there something wrong?
And I hear it all the time.
Guys, if I don't update you on a certain animal,
it doesn't mean that anything's wrong.
You can see that Chicken Strip
is doing absolutely incredible.
Taming out pretty good, still has some really strong nails,
but I just wanted to show
you that Chicken Strip is fine.
People have also been asking about
Jade the chameleon and kind of like demanding
that I give an update on things,
and you know she's not here,
I can't update her 'cause she's not here.
Certainly didn't do well at the zoo,
and I think there was two problems with it.
Number one, I think of the stress of maybe a lot of people.
Number two, we did have her in a non-screen cage
and chameleons typically do best in screened cages,
so I don't think that's gonna be a
practical display animal back at the zoo.
But I don't know why everyone just wants
to look for controversy, I mean,
guys, I can't update every animal all the time.
Just because something doesn't get in doesn't mean
that there's something wrong
with the animal or it's dead.
As you can see, Chicken Strip is absolutely incredible,
and hey, maybe one day we'll have a Parson's
back on display here, but until I get
a big screened cage, like the Meller's chameleon
with Guacamole, I don't think that it's a practical
thing to have a big chameleon
in a non-screened in cage.
She just went from doing really well
to doing really bad really quickly, so we pulled her.
And now she's no longer at the zoo, but being cared for.
So again, try not to find controversy.
It's just kind of crazy to me, it's like,
just enjoy the fact that we have a lot of cool animals.
And I'm not gonna have the opportunity to show
every animal every day, but again,
because so many people were asking
about Chicken Strip, I decided to show you
he's absolutely looking beautiful.
So there you have it, quick update for you guys.
Really exciting guys, this is so cool,
Our Uroplatus phantasticus, the giant leaf-tailed geckos,
actually laid an egg, but she attached it right
to this little thing right here.
Look at that, what do you think?
- It looks like it might be good.
It's like, hard and stuff.
It's not quite as round as the other one
we found that's good, but I'm gonna take this out,
'cause I don't wanna pull it off.
- I mean, it sure looks like it probably could be good.
So the idea is that if we pull it off, we could actually
rupture the egg, and that's no good.
So what we might have to do is,
I don't even know. - A box?
I don't even know, we could maybe cut part of this off?
- We cut this from here and here
and put it in an incubator box?
I'm not sure, the first egg that we got,
again, these guys typically lay two eggs,
but for some reason she's only been laying one egg.
Not really sure why, so anyways,
the first egg is still doing really well.
Jessica's just gonna look around to see
if there's a chance that there could be another egg in here,
but I have no idea, it's really crazy.
Now a lot of times, I showed the last time
that when they lay their eggs they'll take
their back legs and roll them around into a ball.
So the fact that she laid it on here
is a little bit unusual, but this egg looks good to me.
So I think that's what we're gonna have to do,
is probably actually saw this off here and here
and then put this in an incubator cup.
I don't know, but it's still exciting
that she laid a clutch.
- A little plump, so maybe she'll lay another one tonight.
And sometimes, with geckos, you'll get one infertile
and one fertile, so like, who knows,
maybe we'll get another one
and it'll be perfect down at the bottom.
- Exactly, totally interesting.
So we're gonna do the best we can do
to figure a way to salvage this egg right here.
But that is pretty awesome,
that is egg number two of the Uroplatus phantasticus.
So basically this is how we're gonna incubate this,
we're obviously gonna get a taller cup,
but I just went ahead and cut this branch like this,
which is kind of good, right,
because you don't want it to be
touching the humidity anyways.
I don't know, we'll keep you posted
and hopefully we'll have this egg go,
and in the next couple days we'll know either way.
I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog,
I wish you guys an amazing day.
Thank you as always for being so amazing.
Do me a favor and be kind to someone today.
And I promise, I'll see you guys tomorrow.
("All Mine" by Cushy)