- Take a look at this beautiful snake right here.
This is actually a Super Enchi Bumblebee ball python.
And I hope that you're having an amazing day today.
Welcome to the vlog.
I'm gonna show you some baby ball pythons
that have shed and had a few meals now,
and they certainly look really good
because 2020 has been an amazing production year from us,
and we have so many amazing ball pythons.
Again, this is just one of 'em,
but wow, I tell you what,
that Super Enchi and the Pastel and the Spider
mixed together, hoo doggy, that's a beautiful snake.
Speaking of beautiful snakes,
just the right combinations of genes sometimes
just can really be stunning.
This is actually a Pastel, it's a Calico,
and it's a Yellowbelly,
and those three genes together,
oh my goodness gracious.
And as this gets older all of this coloring
in the side, this kinda pink,
turns really white and unbelievable.
I tell you what, I love ball pythons.
It's amazing how far we've come
just in the last 20 years
from really normal ball pythons
to some just absolutely works of art.
And you guys know that pieds are always
one of my absolute favorites,
and this is actually a double recessive albino pied.
So that's right, it's an albino and it's a pied.
And I tell you what, I love all mutations of pieds,
but the albino pied is just cool
I guess because of the mastalgia of it, right?
Because albinos and pieds were a couple
of the first recessive mutations
that were ever produced in the ball python world,
so the fact that you can combine them together
into such a stunning snake is pretty awesome.
And speaking of a pretty amazing recessive mutation,
this is actually a Clown ball python here,
but then it's actually paired up
with an incomplete dominant,
which of course is the Enchi Clown.
And wow, I tell you what, look at the head pattern,
the reduction of pattern,
just that pop with that Enchi coloration in it.
That thing is a ripper.
And you know that I produce a lot of Banana stuff
because Banana stuff is ridiculous,
and this is actually a really cool combination here.
This is actually a Banana, it's a Chocolate,
and it's a Spinner, so it's a Spider and it's a Pinstripe.
That is just a really cool subtle interesting looking snake.
I love the softness of the pattern and the palette there.
I just think it's absolutely incredible.
And again, this was the kinda key component
into the Barney ball python.
The dad was actually a Banana Chocolate Pinstripe.
Then going from something that was
kinda almost patternless looking
to something that's super busy right here.
This is actually a Pastel Russo Sucker is what it is.
So basically there's a het Russo,
which is in the blue eyed leucistic complex,
there's the hidden gene Woma,
and when you breed the hidden gene Woma
and the Russo together it's allelic
and you produce basically a Sucker.
Now, it started with the Lesser,
it was called a Soul Sucker,
but when the Russo came out like it
they called it the Russo Sucker.
And then it has the Pastel gene in it,
and that's just a really busy snake
and some absolutely beautiful coloration.
You guys might remember that mystery ball python clutch
where we hatched out six world firsts
crazy wild looking animals.
Well, here's a couple of 'em right here.
This one's starting with definitely ...
I don't know, it's definitely a Red Stripe,
it's a Pin Stripe, it's a Pastel.
Beyond that, don't have any clue what it is.
But now that it's gotten a few meals in it,
wow, is that thing just starting to pop
with all that freckling on it and the colors.
I love this animal.
And this is another one from that clutch,
but this one is like silver
with all this granting spotting on it.
I don't know what the deal is with this animal.
Again, I cannot wait over the next three, four, five years
to unravel the mystery behind this genetics.
I mean, what makes that animal look like that
or any of the six animals that were produced in that clutch?
I have no idea.
But wow, I was so excited about it.
I can't wait.
I'm gonna raise 'em all up and breed 'em.
Again, probably two years from now
we'll be able to breed some of the males
to normals to really start to figure out
what the genetics are behind it,
but the future is gonna be awesome
no matter what it is.
Another cool kinda speckle-y animal
that we do know the genetics behind
is actually this one here, which is a Mahogany,
it's a Pinstripe, and it's a Specter.
Now, the Specter is that allelic for Super Stripe, right?
And then Mahogany is an incomplete dominant
that has that really dark color
that we produced the Suma,
that I'll show you guys in a little bit,
that black snake right there.
But for whatever reason,
it causes a really speckle-y animal that is super cool.
And again, we can breed this into some sort of Yellowbelly,
maybe Enchi Yellowbelly or something like that
next year and produce some Super Stripes
that come from his genetics.
Hoo doggy, that's gonna be amazing.
And speaking of allelic animals,
there's actually the Crystal ball python
that is actually bred to a Special.
Well, this happens to be the Super Special.
So the Special part is bred to a Mojave
and produces the Crystal.
This doesn't have any Mojave in it,
it just has two genes of the Special,
causing it to be caused a Super Special
and has that kinda really cool orange blotching pattern
cream look to it.
Absolutely wonderful,
and genetically this is a powerhouse.
So we actually have a tour in the house
from Pennsylvania right now,
and believe it or not, they're surprising the one kid
with a ghost corn snake.
He doesn't know.
He has no idea.
So I'm gonna go over there and surprise him.
I'm gonna mask up and see what kind of reaction he has.
What do you say?
This is the part I love it.
I mean, the tours are great,
but being able to surprise someone with a new pet,
that is awesome.
Let's go see what he does.
All right, this should be a lot of fun.
Hey guys!
Someone told me that there was something special
that I had to give to you.
- Thank you.
- [Brian] This is yours.
You can open it up.
What do you think it is?
It's a huge tarantula!
Ah!
- It's all right, we got six of those.
- [Brian] (chuckles) Okay, cool.
- Yay, Ghost corn!
- [Brian] Yeah, Ghost corn.
Take it out, check it out.
What do you think buddy?
- [Kid] He's great.
- [Mom] That's what you wanted, right?
- [Kid] Yep.
- [Brian] That's awesome.
Well, good job guys.
I wanted to make sure to get you--
- Thanks so much, Brian.
- [Brian] That's awesome.
Well, you guys having a good time so far?
- Absolutely. - Absolutely.
- [Brian] Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Well, anything you need with that Ghost corn
you let us know, all right?
- All right. - All right, good job.
We produced the first Lemon Blast Calico Yellowbelly
probably about eight or nine years ago,
and ever since I have absolutely loved it.
Again, the right combination of genes can be amazing.
And although this has been around for eight or nine years,
still every time we hatch one I'm like, "Holy cow."
And this is cool because it has a little black
kinda paradoxing on its back as well, this black blotch.
I mean what an absolute ripper.
And again, that Calico gene gets better and better with age.
And then the white elephant, the Barney ball python.
Again, not exactly the purple ball python I was expecting,
but still a pretty darn awesome looking animal.
This, of course, is the Banana Camo ball python,
which is the Super Chocolate Pinstripe.
And I actually love the animal.
I think it turned out really good.
I love these purple stripes on it.
Its head pattern is kinda interesting.
Again, now that we can breed it
into maybe Black Pastel or something like that
we can really produce something really crazy.
Maybe even Mahogany.
Who knows, this is the start of what's gonna be
a better ball python.
Hopefully this one won't take me
five or six years like the first one did.
And then like I mentioned earlier,
this is the Suma ball python.
It is absolutely incredible.
Of course, this is the Super Mahogany ball python
that's het for pied.
Absolutely beautiful, wonderful dark black snake.
Not quite like Night Fury next door at The Reptarium,
but still, pretty iridescent and pretty amazing.
This was one of my favorite ball pythons
we've produced so far this year.
This is actually a Killer Bee Mojave Calico.
So again, it's a Super Pastel, it's a Spider,
then it's Mojave and Calico together.
So soft.
So absolutely beautiful.
I mean that is insane.
Like I said, definitely in the top
three or four animal we've produced so far this year
in my opinion.
This is one of those kinda purple-y animals
that we produced earlier this year.
This is actually a Super Pastel Cinnie Lesser Pinstripe,
and that combination for whatever reason
just has this more silver purple-y look to it.
Very little pattern on it.
We had some that actually didn't have the Pinstripe
that had a lot more pattern to 'em
that were kinda purple lavender as well,
which is really cool.
But nevertheless, really cool.
Again, putting the right combination of animals together
can sometimes yield you things
that you didn't think you were gonna get,
and this is definitely one of 'em.
Genetic stripes were actually one of
the early recessive mutations.
Believe it or not, Bob Clark brought in
the first albino ball python way back in the day,
and with that snake he brought in a genetic stripe.
He didn't even want the genetic stripe.
They made him buy it just as a part.
He wanted the albino.
Turns out the genetic stripes were recessive,
and for a while were more expensive than the albinos
believe it or not.
So this is actually a Super Pastel genetic stripe.
So again, it's the super version of Pastel,
but then the recessive genetic stripe.
An absolutely wonderful looking snake.
Back to Bananas,
and I like this combination.
It's a pretty simple combination.
It's just a Champagne and it's a Banana,
so both super easy animals to produce
but it's just got a really cool color palette to it.
I love the way that they came out.
We produced some Banana Champins as well
that are even more kinda smooth looking
and stuff like that,
but I like the Champagne kinda orange pattern
coming through on this one.
It's again, a very simple combination,
but one I really like a lot.
And then we cut this clutch not too long ago.
This is a Super Cinnie Black Pastel Lesser.
So it's a Cinnie and a Black Pastel, the super version,
and then it's a Lesser ball python,
making it that silver instead of jet back.
And woo doggy, I tell you what,
that is one ripper of an animal.
I love this little monkey.
There are some snakes that literally blow your mind.
I mean you look at 'em and you go like,
"That can't be a real snake,"
and this is one of 'em.
This is that Banana Pastel Enchi Mojave Clown.
And oh my gosh, as it's putting some size on it
it is just getting more and more insane.
This is definitely one of the snakes
I was dreaming about, and wow,
it is exceeding my expectations
as it's getting some more size.
That thing, I don't even know what to say.
That is ridiculous.
And you guys know I'm gonna finish off the ball python
segment of this vlog
with the Super Lori Leopard ball pythons.
We still have a male and two females.
Unbelievable.
They're doing great.
They're eating, they're growing.
They look absolutely fantastic and unbelievable.
I'm loving this guy.
So again, we have literally 1,000
baby ball pythons down here,
so I just picked out a handful.
So I could do this again sometime if you guys want,
but I wanted to start the vlog
with some absolutely gorgeous ball pythons.
So what do you say we just push our problems aside,
get right into the day,
and have an amazing day together?
The other day I had mentioned
that I was in the snake massage room
and that it was a room that just isn't being used right now,
and you guys came up with some great ideas.
I'm not gonna lie to you,
there was a ton of ideas that really were like,
"That's awesome.
"That would be super cool."
But at the same time,
the one thing that stood out,
and actually ironically enough Lisa Tomski, Jay's mom,
was the first person to say it,
but then tons of other people said it too,
which was cool, is to turn this into a sloth exhibit.
I honestly never thought of it.
And I've been thinking like,
"All right, if we get a sloth
"we'll do it next door if we expand."
Well, this would be perfect for it.
And this is the crazy news is that I brought it up to Laurie
and Laurie's response was, "Do your research,
"figure out everything we need to do
"that we do it 100% correct,
"including the care, the husbandry,
"USDA permits, all that stuff."
And she said, "If you can figure that all out
"I'll allow you to get a sloth."
So it sounds like, guys, it may take us a little while
but this room right here may actually be
converted into a sloth exhibit.
And the thing that's cool is that
you'll be able to book experiences,
come in here with the sloth.
We'll have blanches and it can climb all around.
But at the same time, there's a window like we made
for the massage room here
that people can look inside and see the sloth
or see people having their experiences.
So I think it's gonna be amazing.
Again, it's not gonna happen overnight.
It takes about three months just to get the permits,
then I have to find the right captive born animal
that's the right age, all this type of stuff.
So it might take me a year, I don't know,
or we might get lucky
in the next four or five months have something,
but it's pretty cool.
I'm excited.
This probably will turn into a sloth room at The Reptarium,
so now you have something else to come see us for.
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Super quick egg cutting here.
Just two eggs.
That's it guys, two eggs.
That's not gonna take us but two eggs.
Does that make sense?
Regardless, this is a Yellowbelly
bred to a Banana Fire Spinner Blast,
so it could be some pretty cool animals.
I like the combination there.
You have like about five or six genes that are popping,
it should make some really good stuff.
Let's cut into these two eggs
and just get it over with, all right?
Let's hope we have two bangers.
With only two eggs I've got to really crush the odds.
Right off the bat, come on.
Come on, come on.
Oh, what the heck?
(Brian gasping)
This is good and bad.
It's good and bad, guys.
So the deal is is that that is a Pastel Ivory ball python
right there, meaning that the Banana Fire Spinner Blast
was not the father.
Somehow a Pastel Yellowbelly got in here.
Like I've mentioned, it's a little bit weird year this year
'cause Mary started breeding some things,
I finished the breeding season.
I probably was on the last thee quarters
of the breeding season.
But some males did get in beforehand,
and if they weren't marked I didn't know.
So now we know we at least have an Ivory,
which isn't a bad thing.
I actually like Ivories, especially Pastel Ivories.
And look at it's little head's poking out.
Oh my God, how absolutely adorable it is.
That is unbelievably cute.
So one more egg,
let's see if both eggs were fathered by the Ivory
or if maybe the Fire Banana Spinner Blast fathered one.
Let's just go ahead and jump into it.
So let's hope for either a white baby
or a banger combination.
Let's go.
There's always surprises when you're cutting eggs.
And it looks like another white baby, yay.
Listen, I am not gonna complain about that at all.
Two white babies are amazing.
People love white baby snakes.
I love what baby snakes,
so I'm not gonna complain,
although I thought the pairing was a little different.
We got two eggs.
We've crushed the odds with two baby white snakes.
Hey, listen, I can't complain at all.
Eat that, David Coverdale.
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So there it is guys.
I hope you enjoyed it.
A little update with ball pythons.
I hope that you enjoyed the babies
and all the other stuff that happened here in this vlog.
I appreciate you guys so much.
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