- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is truly amazing.
I'm going to start my day with a little book.
This is actually a ball python book and you may ask
yourself 'Brian why are you reading a ball python book?'
Well it's not that I am reading a Ball Python book.
It's that I've got a picture right here of a snake
that is really going to talk about what we are doing today.
Remember 57 days ago when I actually had a clutch of eggs
where I said 'Wow I've been working this project for
seven years and this is the first het that I've ever bred.'?
Well guess what I didn't tell you the animal.
This is the animal right here it was called
a white sprinkle it came from a friend from mine
Stephen Broadhammer who got it over in Africa.
It made it into a ball python book.
It was hatched this way and its not a pied
its an animal that had white kind of blotching on it.
Very interesting, very different.
I bred that animal produced some heterozygous
unfortunately the adult male passed away
so I don't have him anymore so I was only
able to breed het to het and I've been fortunate
enough to produce a bunch of first base morph animals.
Pinstripes, scaleless hets, sunsets just to name a few.
This is the next one that I'm hoping is going to happen.
Seven years in the making we have a clutch of eggs
that we can cut today only five eggs if it is het to het
which it is, it's a one in four shot
to produce this thing so its a long shot.
The good news is I do have another clutch
that we're going to be able to cut
that's another six eggs that's about five days from now.
So with that many eggs, eleven eggs, we should tell
if this animal right here is recessive or if
I just whiff and spent a lot of money on an animal
and a lot of years on an animal that didn't do anything.
I'm nervous, I'm excited, I've got butterflies.
I tell you today is going to be absolutely an incredible
day or it's going to be a little bit of a stressful day.
Again if we miss today it doesn't mean
that its not going to happen, it just means
we just have to wait another four or five days.
So what do you guys say I want to bring you on
the emotional journey because you are about
to witness either the first time someone has
ever produced a new mutation a base morph mutation
which is rare to see that or you're going to see
me go 'oh my gosh it didn't work out' and we have
to wait another four or five days to find out
if we completely whiffed and maybe just wasted
all this time and money so what don't you say that
we jump into this, cut this clutch
of eggs and send the positive energy guys.
I think its going to prove out.
I think we're going to hit something pretty amazing.
(upbeat music)
(air swishing)
All right so lets just jump into this
again Stephen named this the white sprinkle
in the book so we always kept it named the white sprinkle.
And you've got to remember that this is
a little bit different than a pied in this.
That the pieds' have these white blotches that are
completely defined where this almost looks
like someone took an eraser and erased kind
of pattern all over the animal almost like
cotton buffs on the animal and I'm assuming
if it is recessive, fingers crossed, it will probably
be like a pied in the sense that it is
more white or less white don't know what's going to happen.
Guys I'm not even kidding you I am kind of
stressed out right now I am like the anticipation
the nervousness and the excitement all together
is a crazy emotion in my career this is probably
only the fourth or fifth time that I've ever
cut a clutch that can potentially produce
a base morph world first brand new project
that no one else can have so oh please let this work out.
Lets go ahead and jump in guys wish me luck lets go.
Ah it would just be so nice to get it right off the bat.
The first egg just get it over with
and be like oh my god there it is.
What do we have first egg, okay first egg
is a normal ball python defiantly no white blotching.
I've got to take a breath I'm serious I'm getting okay.
The second egg lets do it, lets do it, lets do it.
All right okay come on guys, come on, come on.
Again if we miss it doesn't mean that there's no
possibility for something else but guys second egg.
So a normal ball python, its a normal ball python.
We've got three eggs left to go.
Again we've got another clutch, wow this is crazy man.
I haven't had this emotion in a long time since again
I produced a scaleless ball python which was the last
base morph that I ever produced like this.
So this wild three eggs lets go ahead and do it.
By the way with the scaleless ball python I think
I hit it on the third egg so lets hope we get it lets do it.
Guys I'm not even kidding you man
this is like my insides are about to explode.
Come on ah its another normal ball python.
Oh I was hoping that we would crush it right off the rip.
Get something and be like yes we hit it.
Oh my gosh two eggs to go guys.
I'm not giving up hope and even if we miss
it in this clutch we have one more clutch.
Lets do it, lets go, oh my gosh I didn't expect
to be on the fourth egg and not hit already.
Oh my goodness guys another normal
ball python, another normal ball python.
We're down to one egg guys again
could hit it in the second clutch.
There's also a chance, I've told this story before
about the viper ball python paid $70,000
for the snake raised it up bred it every way to Sunday.
It was such an interesting animal never was genetic.
So just because we had this really interesting
white sprinkle animal it doesn't mean that it
was genetic but we have one egg to prove in this clutch.
And then we have one more clutch in four or five days
and then it will be it, it will be over.
I'll probably still breed them a couple more times
just to make sure because you can always miss.
All right lets go last egg, lets go, lets go, lets go.
Wish me luck, last egg, come on please
please, please, please, please, please.
Ah it's a normal ball python and okay again
because that animal was born with the white spots
I know these aren't going to develop into white spots
like some calicos like calico retics.
Which can be born normal and then
develop the calico as they got older.
These would go right up the riff
so guys we missed we whiffed.
Its okay, its already we've got one more clutch to go.
Yes I'm disappointed but you know we've got another
clutch here in another four or five days.
I was hoping that we were all going
to be celebrating today.
Last night as I was going to bed and
this morning when I woke up I thought
today was going to be a day we were
going to be celebrating a new base morph for ball pythons.
Didn't happen today, lets hope
it happens later in another four or five days.
Had to just take a second to kind of compose myself.
You know obviously I was really
hoping for something amazing.
You know I really believe that this project
was going to prove out and again I'm not giving up
on it we still have nother clutch it was het to het
the odds could easily whiff five eggs and we
could have missed the recessive that's completely possible.
If we get past the next clutch and it doesn't hatch
then the hopes are pretty diminished
whether or not this is going to work out.
But never the less I want to take you guys on the journey.
I mean I wanted to kind of have you guys experience
what it was like to produce something that maybe
10 years from now you would see in a pet shop
and go I saw when that animal was produced.
Its just something I was hoping for.
It didn't happen that's part of doing what we do.
Is we take risks we work projects for a long time
sometimes they work out sometimes they don't.
Like you guys know I don't breed snakes
for a living anymore that's not what I do.
So this is fun so its not like I'm that disappointed.
I'm disappointed because I wanted to achieve this
thing that I've been looking at
for years and years and years.
I'm not bummed because financially
it would have been a rewarding thing.
Because although it would have been
that wasn't the motivation at all about this.
So listen we still have one more crack at it.
We're going to be okay it was still a crazy rollercoaster
this morning there's no doubt about it.
My emotions are still crazy I still
high hopes that this next clutch is going to produce it.
So buckle up guys cause in another four five days max
we're going to cut this next clutch
and fingers crossed that thing proves out.
That would be absolutely incredible something that
is brand new that could add so much to so many
different mutations so there it is guys.
Lets move on with our day its still okay
don't feel bad for me trust me.
I'm going to be okay so lets just keep
moving on and have a great rest of our day.
Certainly been minute since I have updated you
on Ace the D'Albertis python right here.
And oh my gosh it is coming out
and I don't know that it's happy right now at me.
What are you going to do buddy?
This is it's new enclosure I mean look at
the upgrade that it has right now.
But oh my gosh yah it is definitely not
seeming like it is happy with me.
So I'm just going to slowly try to
touch it and see if I can not get bit.
Its okay buddy its okay oh ow come on now.
Come on now, its okay, its okay, oh my gosh.
This snake used to be tame I don't
know what is going on with it come on buddy, its okay.
Come on, come on, no food, no food.
Geeesh I don't know what I'm going to do.
holy cow this is a he definitely has changed his personality
a little bit since we moved him into this cage.
Come on buddy, come on, okay there we go.
Wow ho I tell you what, okay now he's starting to calm down.
I'll be honest with you I think he was just
in massive food mode like he just thought I was
going to feed him and I couldn't get him to break.
Usually once you touch them once or twice
they'll calm down but he was just in full
food mode every time I touched him he was
trying to grab me but what a beautiful
animal this is I mean absolutely incredible.
Love D'Albertis pythons and I love this new environment
for him and as a matter of fact I keep on
saying him because his name is Ace
but the truth is that this is actually a girl.
And we actually have a friend of mine that has
a boy so I think I'm going to bring the
boy over and they can live in this
enclosure together and hopefully
maybe this winter they'll actually breed.
I bred D'Albertis python when I was probably
like 18, 19 years old for probably four or five years.
So I would love to give it another go.
Ace is definitely looking like she is ready to roll.
And I tell you what that was, that was a little bit tricky.
And she's coming back again, she's coming back again.
I'm going to close the cage now
because I've already pushed my luck too much.
Super excited about this I tell you what.
I love this species of animal and
I'm excited to be getting some more of them.
It's something that we really wanted to grow.
We talked about New Caledonian geckos.
That would be crested geckos, chahoua geckos,
leachi geckos all those geckos we ant to grow our group.
And guess what our group just grew.
That's right we have six little baby leachi geckos.
We got two males and four females in this shipment.
Which is great because we didn't have quite
as many females as we wanted so this adds to our group
and oh my gosh these things are absolutely adorable.
Now these are what they would call
Grande Terino or GT variety now New Caledonia
is an island chain right there's lots of islands.
The main big island is called Grande Terino GT.
And of course just like reticulated pythons
the mainland GT in this case is
actually larger animals typically.
When you get into the more insular islands
you start to get into smaller animals.
Obviously because there's less food and
all the other stuff so the animals aren't as big.
On the main island, oh my gosh this one is so dope.
On the main island they just get much much larger.
So this is the larger version the GT version of
the leachianus and again the largest gecko species
on the planet oh wow look at that little monkey jump.
Oh my god this one has so much beautiful color and pattern.
And again these guys just shipped so they are
going to be firing up and firing down.
So once we set these guys up and give them a few days.
We'll really start to see their actually color.
But never the less I am super excited to have.
Oh my god it's actually crazy to think that this
little tiny gecko here is one day
and they are little acrobats for sure.
Is one day going to be a giant gecko.
Just like our big Bertha and some
of our other Leachi geckos.
This year we'll be able to breed our
leachis for the very first time but
look at how gorgeous these guys are.
Again adding two males and a few females
to the group is really going to help us a lot.
Now there's a chance and I'm not going
to make any promises here, there is a
chance we may sell one of the males.
Just because of the bloodline I had to
buy the entire group like this and
we really only wanted to get one male
So there's a chance, wow geesh these guys are crazy.
So there's a chance one of these
might be available I'm not sure.
So if your looking for a Leachi
you can reach out to us we might sell a male off.
Again a GT Grande Terino oh my gosh
these guys are absolutely incredible.
And I tell you who's going to be excited
is Jessica because of course Jessica
love, love, loves leachi geckos and
all the New Caledonia stuff and this
is the last little girl right here.
Unbelievable I am super excited to add these.
I know its going to be amazing
and I know Jessica is going to fall in love with them too.
So what do you say we go show Jessica.
We have to show Jessica, what do you think?
- Yay oh.
- Aren't they cool?
- Well oh my god their so small.
- Did you forget how small they are?
- I know cause all the ones we have now
are pretty big we haven't shown them
recently but they're huge now.
- I know but if you think about gargoyle geckos
they're just about a quarter of that size so these guys
are just a week or so old so its pretty cool.
- Its awesome yeah so I was thinking about it.
Our ratio actually works out perfectly now.
Because this is 2.4 and we already have a 4.2.
- So there you go that's perfect.
- We'll just be a couple of years for these
or about three years for these guys.
- But hey it's patience its absolutely
worth it but that's awesome so we'll
keep you updated on the progress.
Well obviously I'm disappointed in that clutch
but again we have another clutch coming here
in just a few days hopefully we'll get those odds.
Hey if we do it'll even be a better story right.
So positive vibes I think things are going to work out.
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