- Good morning everybody.
And welcome to the blog, Reptile army.
Guess what guys?
Our last baby snakes of the year hatched,
and we had some bangers.
Including this clutch right here.
Look at these things. Un-fricking believable.
I mean, I don't even know where to start
to be honest with you.
I mean, I'll start right here with just
a pinstripe Cypress ball python.
So again, just the two gene animal,
nothing too crazy right there.
This is actually kind of an interesting animal here.
This is actually an Enchi pinstripe Cyprus ball python.
That has a pretty reduced pattern.
Looks like there might be some Woma ball in this as well.
So that might be a Woma. We have just a black
Pewter Cypress here, which is a pastel, a black pastel.
And a Cypress right there. Absolute beauty.
And then we get into, silver madness over here,
we might as well go ahead and start,
with this one right here. This is actually what
they would call a silver streak,
vanilla, Cypress ball python.
So, the silver streak is actually
a super pastel, black pastel.
Then it's a vanilla, and then it's a Cypress
and oh, my gosh. That snake is incredible.
And then you look at this one right here.
This is another silver streak. It's another vanilla.
And then this is actually a pinstripe Cypress as well.
So, wow. That is incredible.
And then this little monkey right here,
I'm going to be honest with ya.
I'm not sure why it's patternless.
This again is a silver streak, Cyprus pinstripe, vanilla.
But why is it patternless,
and the other one had some pattern?
I'm not a hundred percent sure,
but that snake is an absolute ripper.
And then of course we have a couple other
just, really beautiful animals here.
This would just be a black pewter,
which is a pastel and a black pastel.
It's a vanilla and it's a Cyprus.
And then finally, we have, again,
a black pewter pastel, black pastel.
A pinstripe and a Cyprus ball python. But oh my gosh,
we actually had the last three clutches hatch today.
And this one was an absolute ripper.
So yesterday I actually rearranged all of the
female ball pythons, you see all the new orange tags
that are my breeding plans, and stuff like that.
Now, today, I actually have to arrange all the males
to uh, basically coordinate the females, right?
So, basically male number one right here.
Which is a pastel leopard clown.
He's not number one in the breeding scheme, this year,
as a matter of fact, a sunset ball Python is number one.
So what I have to do is go, number one to number one,
number two to number two and so on and so forth.
So it makes it really easy when I'm actually putting males
in or taking males out, where I know like, all right
if I'm group three, it's the third male.
I don't have to look for it and search where it's at
and stuff like that.
So, now all I have to do is just really rearrange
all my males. And then the breeding plans are done.
I mean, we're ready to go.
We're going to feed tomorrow.
And then after they get done feeding in the next day or
two, I'll let 'em settle for a day or two.
Males will go in. So, within the next
three, four days, tops.
We're going to have male ball pythons in with females,
but for now, one last task.
Rearrange all these males.
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And that's a wrap. Males are all organized,
females are all organized.
So, we are ready to go with the breeding season.
Again, I'm going to feed tomorrow,
let 'em rest for a day or so.
And then Sinny Sunset,
the first time he's ever been in with a female,
will be in group run at the end and go down the list.
So, it's going to be an absolute banger of a year.
I mean, I hope so anyways.
We're going to work our butts off to
make some amazing animals.
Like I said,
huge upgrade in quality of males,
and a bunch of females this year.
So, we should have some really pretty amazing clutches.
This is a huge thing off my plate.
So happy, that now it's the fun part.
You know you guys need your daily dose of anacondas right?
You know, I, I always have to show my anacondas every day
because I love them so much.
But the fact is, is that, Jazzy here, my male.
That by the way, seems to never climb out of the water
Ariana's over here, Ivy is over here.
But jazz is always in the water.
He finally shed out.
So now, all three of my anacondas have shed
just within the last few days.
Which means, that we're going to go ahead and feed 'em.
So in the next couple of days, we'll throw out food.
Now, Ivy is going to get a giant pig this time,
'Cause it's been a while since she's ate a big meal,
Arianna will get a nice sized pig.
Jazzy will get some food,
so, all three anacondas are going to get fed.
But, pretty darn cool, that all of the
anacondas are shed out and ready to get fed.
I hope you guys are excited about it.
This was that interesting clutch that we caught here
recently, that was actually dual fathered.
But more importantly, was dual fathered from
sperm retention, from a year before.
'Cause actually bred to a bamboo vanilla Woma.
And this has happens to be a little
bamboo vanilla Woma here.
which is just absolutely gorgeous.
So, this is the male that fathered from this year in 2021.
Well, the year before I actually bred a super Enchi
pinstripe to this female.
Now I didn't do it this year, I did it last year.
And sure enough, he ended up fathering
a bunch of animals as well.
So this is actually a Enchi, pinstripe here,
meaning that, of course the super Enchi pin
father from the year before.
Everything is going to be Enchi,
and some are going to be pin.
So we had that one, and we had another one too,
which again was just an Enchi pin stripe as well.
Then it gets a little bit more interesting,
where we got just a normal Enchi ball python, again,
fathered by the super Enchi pinstripe, obviously.
But then, we ended up having a pastel ball python right.
Now, this is really interesting because again,
the female and the male from the year before
it didn't have pastel in it.
And I didn't think the male from this year had pastel in it.
So where this pastel came from,
I'm not sure.
There's a chance that that vanilla bamboo Woma,
actually is a pastel vanilla bamboo Woma.
So my guess is, is that two of these animals
were fathered by the pastel vanilla bamboo Woma.
And then the other two, were fathered by
the previous year's father.
So ball pythons can be absolutely incredible.
Again, these guys just hatched out,
we've got two more clutches to hatch out.
And then, uh, it is done for the year.
So, we'll get these guys set up, and get them feeding here.
They'll be up on the website in probably
two or three weeks.
So we're breeding the mangroves,
And we actually have Khalifa here,
which is a mangrove that I believe is a male.
I'm almost positive, it's a male.
And we're going to need all the males we can get,
'cause we actually have quite a few females
to be honest with ya. So I'm going to just try to
get him out without him biting me.
Come on little buddy, where you at?
And I'm just going to really quick, look at the tail length.
And this is actually a pretty docile one
to be totally honest with ya.
I can look at the tail length right here
and you can see that long slow taper.
That's where the hemipene pockets are, right there.
So this, of course is a boy.
We only have two other boys, that are
breeding like 10 females.
So it's going to be really good to get him over to BHB,
and have him part of the rotation.
It's going to be a bummer to actually
take him off of display, 'cause he's such a cool animal.
But the truth is, because it's rear fang venomous,
we don't take them out for the public anyways.
So we're going to,
whoa!
And that's why we don't take them out for the public.
Is because sometimes these guys can get
a little bit cheeky.
And we're going to actually move the multi-syncta
into this enclosure because it's getting bigger.
And it's going to look absolutely incredible,
but for now, Khalifa's going over and being part of BHB,
and hopefully making some babies.
- Today, We're going to be fixing up Khalifa's cage.
Khalifa, the mangrove snake we took off,
just so we could add it to our breeding program.
Um, so we're gonna move the multi-syncta into this cage.
So let's get started.
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It looks great. Doesn't it?
I can't wait to see this guy in there.
You want to go into your little thing?
He looks so good in there with all the green.
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I always talk about how, when you feared things,
it's usually the lack of knowledge, you know,
and I'll be honest with you.
I've been saying, for a long time that I really was freaked
out by legless lizards. And, by getting Vlad,
it's really been kind of a changing thing,
because I gained a lot of knowledge.
You know, I learned about the actual animals their self,
you know, where they're from, their husbandry,
all kinds of stuff.
But then on top of it, I kind of learned the mannerisms,
which is interesting because, these guys
will do things like where their defense is
to kind of roll and twist.
It's just interesting when you're holding it a certain way,
you see how it kind of twists like that?
It's really an interesting animal.
And when you get to kind of know it,
it's not nearly as scary.
And I've actually kind of gotten to a point,
where I really love them to be honest with you.
And I'd actually like to get a mate for Vlad,
to be honest with you.
'Cause I think it'd be interesting,
to maybe breed these guys one day.
and see that whole experience because, the majority
of the animals that you see when it comes to
legless', are actually imported wild animals.
Not a lot of people are breeding them.
And I think some captive babies would be really,
really cool. But again, it just continues to show you
I did it with arachnids, where I was terrified of arachnids,
and now I love them.
And then I was kind of freaked out by legless lizards,
like Vlad. And now I think that they're absolutely amazing.
You see that little twist there?
It's so bizarre that they do that,
but I definitely have kind of fallen
in love with these guys, and we definitely
want to work with more of 'em.
And there's other species of legless lizards too,
that are really cool that maybe we'll get into as well
when we do the expansion.
But nevertheless, when you're freaked out by something,
I'm telling you, if you learn as much as you can
about it and create knowledge,
you will actually start to love it.
Just like I have this guy.
Just a couple of weeks away from Gemma,
potentially laying eggs.
But I wanted to explain something that
I think is pretty cool, something you'll notice
if you ever breed snakes,
is that know, since we got Gemma,
she always spent time on this side of the cage.
Well, every enclosure here at The Reptarium,
has a hotspot and a cold side, right?
So we want the ambient on the cold side to be about
80, 82 degrees.
But then we want the hotspot, to be 90 to 95 degrees.
Now again, she liked it on the cool side of the cage
and spent every single day there.
Well sure, sure enough, after she shed
and she's getting ready to kind of lay pretty soon,
she moved over to the hot side of the cage and has not moved
from this coil, for the last three or four days.
So that's kind of what happens, right?
They Thermo regulate to kind of grow their eggs, right?
So you can definitely see a lot of distension in her.
You can see she's coming up.
Now, I'm going to be totally honest with you.
I still don't know if they're going to be fertile or not.
We won't know until she actually lays eggs.
And unfortunately, we're going on a trip to Florida
here, pretty soon we're going to be at Gatorland
on the 11th for CrocFest.
So if you want to come meet us and hang out with us
at CrocFest. great conservation for crocodilians,
people from all over the world come for this CrocFest,
it's going to be really amazing.
So, uh, I'm hoping that we aren't in Florida
when Gemma lays, 'cause no one here can pull the clutch.
And of course I want to be here, so,
I hope she either lays before we leave for Florida,
or after we get back from Florida.
Either way, it's going to be exciting.
But praying for good eggs, There's no doubt about it.
But I wanted to share with you, that interesting thing where
she went from the cool side of the cage, to the hot side of
the cage for that thermal regulation to kind of
help her eggs develop. So, fingers crossed we're
going to have some good eggs, before I leave for Florida.
And then the last baby ball pythons,
baby snakes at all that are going to be born this year
are right here. And they are some rippers.
That got just actually, a normal Enchi pinstripe.
Actually, two of them here, right here,
again just two gene animals, Enchi incomplete dominant
and pinstripe incomplete dominant.
Then you start getting into some really beautiful
stuff like this. This is actually, a spinner blast,
Enchi extreme gene. So it's a pastel, it's a pinstripe,
it's a spider, it's an Enchi and it is extreme gene.
And then you really start reducing the pattern
with this one, which is actually a super
Enchi pinstripe, extreme gene.
Just look at the little dotting on it.
Absolutely incredible.
And then to take it one step further, we hatched out
two of these, which is just like that last one,
but adding the spider gene into it.
So again, it is a spider, it's a pinstripe,
it's a super Enchi.
And they are both extreme genes.
Wow!
These things turned out incredible.
And the last baby snakes to crawl out of the egg, for the
year, and you guys know we're just starting breeding again.
So the cycle begins once again, and it won't be long
before we're getting eggs, and getting more babies.
So it's that time of year again.
And people are sending us gifts, which I appreciate.
I love you guys, the PO box down below.
It's always, we always love your stuff.
So, what do you think we've got?
- I think we have candy bars.
- Oh yeah, it says candy bars.
Oh wait, it says, what is it?
150.
It's 150 candy bars?
No, I don't know what that is.
- Maybe that's the money.
Wash your hand.
- I'm a maniac when it comes to knives, you guys know that.
You guys send us stuff from different countries.
We do these mukbangs over on Noah's channel.
So go check that out. I'll link it in the description,
You can go check out what,
Oh my gosh! I've never seen Swedish candy before.
- Wait, you're just gonna throw the card to the side?
- I got so excited.
- Oh, there's a scoreboard.
- Oh wow, he even did a
- A scoreboard, what? Got Brian, Lori, Noah.
Oh my gosh, I don't even know how to pronounce these.
Marabou, Majack Kallak.
- That sounds about right.
- We can Google translate that, it's really Swedish.
- So what do we got?
- Hi Brian, we love all that you do at The Reptarium,
and wanted to give a extra, thank you for the daily
inspiration and positive vibes you give on the blog.
Laurie, said on the podcast while testing beef jerky
that you and Noah, and Brian will do something
on the podcast, such as food reviews.
So we're sending you this box from our country Sweden,
their most popular candy and fika.
- Ooh, I like it, but we'll definitely,
should we do it on the podcast or
do it on Noah's channel?
- It says on the podcast.
- Yeah, we'll probably do it, let's, let's do it over
on Noah's channel.
It'd just be so much fun, that way we can do it over there.
So, yeah, let's do that.
But uh.
- Are we going to look real quick? Just real quick.
- Look at this stuff.
- There's the Marabou.
- This is delicita bowl.
- Pumpkin pie for my dad.
- It's not pumpkin.
- No, no no no no.
This looks like sugar. This looks like sugar.
I like sugar.
We've, we've tested candy,
candy from so many different countries,
but never from Sweden. So,
- I like it.
- That's great, so again we'll uh, we'll do
a mukbang over on Noah's channel.
by the way, guess what we have.
Another box that says
bad choice Noah.
- Bad choice Noah.
- And this one is from where?
Columbus, Ohio.
- Ugh. No it was a joke.
(laughter)
- Go Buckeyes.
Okay, So what do we have?
- Noah, Brian and Lori, enjoy the snacks
with original CD of when I was young.
Wait a minute. They gave us some music?
- This is like music, man.
- So we've got to play the CD.
- only children three years it says.
- While we taste, is that how this goes?
- This is a little sketch. especially for you.
- It's a Drogo.
- It's a little Drogo, love it.
So we've got salted caramel cookies.
Those look absolutely fantastic.
Peanut butter I love.
- Peanut butter pretzels.
- Are you kidding me right now?
Ghost pepper Cashews. And I did hot noodles last night.
It was a mistake.
- Well, that night in the bathroom.
- Blueberry blaze trail mix.
That actually looks good.
So again, we'll do this over on Noah's channel.
Maybe we'll do the two together,
I don't even know what it is. but we'll do that.
So this is Australia. Are these all for us?
- I sure hope so.
- I've been so good this whole November,
I didn't eat junk.
- Good thing It's over.
- Oh, wait a second, We've got a book.
- Oh yeah.
- I got a book first to Brian.
Oh my gosh, Check this out.
The Emerald saga, book two of the Emerald saga.
It looks cool, whatever it is I like it.
- Sent his meds.
- I hope this finds you well, my name is Alex Gordon,
an actor and author. Wow.
Here in Victoria, Australia, we have the longest lockdown
in the world for over a year. I'm sorry about that.
For the past two years, when I started the path
to become an actor, the virus hit. All work is gone.
In spite of this, I was able to continue
my full-time job until lockdown, number seven I think.
I came across your YouTube channel, spent a little bit
of time watching, Even the older videos.
When I saw the hardship you had gone through and documented,
it was uh, the point where I thought
that I could fight back.
I started my own YouTube channel. And once a week,
I give weekly updates on my life as an actor and author.
I will make it to the USA next year,
and you will be the first port of call,
and you may get a story out of me.
I love it. Thank you so much.
So what do we have?
- You know, he's Australian because in the second sentence
of the book, there's the word mate.
- She takes her mates head off her paw,
and lays it on his left paw.
- This is, that's it, I mean, this guy wrote his book.
That's incredible. I can't wait.
So I, I, I don't know why I got book two.
Why didn't I get book one?
- We have your favorite
- Oh, got your Tim Tam's.
- Oh! Tim Tam's, Tim Tam's.
- And guess what? There's six of 'em.
- Oh my God
- Oh, my gosh, you have no idea.
- Six Tim Tam's.
Double coated.
Can we open one of them right now?
I'm running low on blood sugar.
- Go ahead.
- Let's do a double coat.
- Okay. Let's do a double coat.
- Super bad for you.
Dude, I'm so hungry.
I just like
- Yeah, this is good when you're hungry to eat chocolate.
- Mom.
- I'm good.
as he chokes.
- Ooh, that's good.
- So thank you guys for setting this up.
We'll definitely be doing mukbangs over on
Noah's channel. Again, link in the description.
Um, let's have some fun with it.
I appreciate you guys. Again, PO box is
down there too. So, happy holidays.
- That's very good.
- You're, you're now officially Australian.
- Oh really, mate.
- So that's it guys, no more baby snakes for the year.
But hey, we're getting into the breeding season
in a couple of days. So, if the cycle starts over,
I hope that you enjoyed watching all
the babies that we hatched. I certainly did.
As a matter of fact, if you enjoyed baby snakes,
here's a playlist with tons of baby snakes in it.
Could you do me a favor?
Could you subscribe to this channel right over here?
It would mean the world to me.
have an absolutely amazing day reptile army.
Remember, be kind to someone and I promise,
I'll see you in the next one.