(upbeat music)
- Of course, this is my girl, Lucy.
My 20-foot reticulated python.
And this, of course, is Lucy's baby,
a beautiful citron tiger reticulated python.
You may remember, her dad, that makes her a citron,
is what they call a titanium,
and his name is Titan and he is a bunch of energy.
This should be fun. We've got to clean his cage.
Let's just jump into it.
Whoa.
So I've got Titan out right now
and we're just kind of doing a little bit of cleanup.
Gonna get him a little soap too
because he's got a little bit of stuck shed on him.
And Titan used to be quite a amazing animal
and used to be able to handle him a lot.
But boy, he has really changed his attitude
a tremendous amount, there's no doubt about that.
Titan, what is going on, buddy?
I'm trying to work with this guy
to kind of calm him down just a little bit
but I tell you what, he is definitely a feisty dude,
there's no doubt about that.
You could see, I mean, literally,
even getting close to him like this,
like he's coming right at me.
I mean, if I get close, he's going to try to bite me.
What is going on, Titan?
Look at this thing, man, it is crazy!
(sighing)
I can't even get close to him.
I wanna take him out and play with him a little bit
but I know I'm gonna get in trouble.
And he's got a pretty good lunge, right?
So I'm just out of bite range right now.
I mean, literally, if I get any closer,
I'm gonna get bit for sure.
Gosh, I can't get to him.
I'm literally, it's rare that I get into a position
where I can't actually do something with a snake.
Okay, here we go. Ooh.
That was unbelievably sketchy.
And again, you just gotta be really careful
but as he's going, if I just get him thinking...
Oh, nope, not under there!
(yelling)
Whoa. Jeez!
Whew.
Jesus.
Whew, Titan!
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
How do I get this guy?
Tell you what, this is one sketchy snake (yells).
This puts all my handling skills to the test
'cause he's wanting to swing back around on me right now.
So, we're just gonna get this guy a soak,
get this shed off him and then get him back home.
He is definitely a handful.
He used to be really nice, what a trip.
Okay, Titan, into a soak.
(upbeat music)
It's been a minute since we fed some snakes on the vlog,
so let's go ahead and see a Verde wants to eat.
You want to eat girl?
Come on, baby.
Oh yeah, she's ready.
Here she goes. Here you go, baby girl.
Ooh, I love it.
Again, Ivy's in shed so we're not feeding the big Anaconda,
so hey, we've got to feed the little Anaconda.
(upbeat music)
Been a minute since I've been in the Anaconda cage.
To be honest with you, with just so many eggs
and so busy with so many different things,
I still want to come in every now
and then of course, my girl Ivy is in the water right now.
She's about ready to shed.
So she probably won't come and say hi to me, unfortunately
cause she's just in that shed state.
But I did find it interesting
that Aries was right here on this rock,
right underneath the heat lamp for about a week.
Just chilling out.
But guess what? He moved,
and where he moved was right up here
in top of the tree right there.
Now that is weird.
I love when he does that. He does it every now and then.
It's probably a second or third favorite place
in the enclosure.
And people often say like, "Where's Aries?"
And I would say, "Oh, it's uh, find and seek
Go ahead and see if you can find them."
And it always takes people a long time, but that's right.
He's hanging out right up here
at the top of the tree, chilling out.
It feels great to be back in my Anaconda cage.
Even if I can't interact with my girl Ivy,
I still love it in here.
It's definitely one of my tranquil places.
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- All right, guys. Back at it.
Crikey Mikey, Dancing Jay.
- [Speaker 3] Junior.
- [Mike] Junior.
- Let's do it.
Junior, would you like to come out and play bo-boy?
(screams)
Tag him.
I tagged him, man.
- All right.
- Good job, Mikey. Good job.
- Ow.
- Just get in there, Mike.
- I'm going!
- Here.
(grunts)
Okay, good job.
- What's the matter? She's just not waying.
- Yeah, well, it's like the size of my whole body.
Wow, Mike.
Wow.
Good job. Good job.
(Mike yells)
Turn him around the other way so I can get him.
- I got him.
- No, I, yeah you got him now it's my turn-
- His mouth's white.
- I got him.
- It's all you. - Yup.
(keys jangling)
- [Mike] He don't like you.
- Yeah, what the flip happened?
Hey, Junior. Use your brain. Use your brain.
- [Speaker 3] Mr. Brian says-
- Use your brain.
- Think! Think!
- Oh my God, my hands getting cut up.
(Mike shushes)
- What's wrong with him?
- Yeah honestly, he don't like Jay.
- Here we go, here we go. It's fine.
Kevin McCurley, stay. Always works.
We really want to get junior here,
just like Taz, just to be able to walk around, kids pet him,
when he's done with it, walk back in his enclosure.
So we just got to start to take-
- We want to do this without getting bit.
- Without that. So yeah, we just
have to keep working with them.
And honestly, as you see, really not even holding him like,
he really has calmed down just from even five minutes ago
when I take him out.
Stop touching him!
From five minutes ago when I took him out.
So yeah, we're just going to keep doing this every day.
- We gotta desensitize him. - Kiss him. Kiss him.
- Oh, absolutely not.
- Woah, absolutely. I would not recommend it at all.
- I'll get a kiss from his tongue.
- [Speaker 3] Watch your toes.
Don't let him climb.
- [Jay] Woah! This was a bad idea. Bad idea, bad idea.
It's okay! It's okay. He's using his brain.
Good job, Junior.
So I think what I'm going to do now is
I'm going to try to pick them up and put them back
and just end on a good note here.
- [Brian] This next bunch of Python eggs, of course, is a-
The head Caramel and mama does not look happy with me.
(yelps)
Yep. She's definitely not happy with me.
And she's actually bred to one of the cleanest
of all of my banana projects,
which is actually a Banana Fire Pinstripe.
There's just so much cleanliness in this.
It's amazing. No black dotting, super clean.
So I can't wait for these eggs to hatch.
Let's see what mama has.
I tell you what, like I said, mama is not happy.
I don't know how I'm going to go-
Oh, There you go.
See, I usually use the strike and then when they recoil
I have a chance to get to them, right?
So these are a nice small eggs right here.
It does look like there's one little infertile egg,
but the rest of them look pretty good.
I got to keep an eye on mama too.
So she doesn't come and get me.
So we'll go ahead and get these in the egg box.
It's amazing how small and how python eggs
can vary so much, right?
I mean, these are like half the size of a lot of other eggs,
but she only had six good eggs and one slug.
Which is kind of surprising
because when they're usually this size
there's a lot of eggs.
So it's kind of weird that she only had six eggs this size
but nevertheless, babies should hatch out fine.
It's going to be awesome to cut these in just 57 days.
This girl here, which is actually a
het lavender snow California King snake.
So basically, if you ever wonder what you'd find out
in the wild in California, this is what it would look like.
This is actually what they call a coastal phase.
There's also the black and white,
or what they call desert phase.
But this is the coastal phase
and it's actually het for purple, right?
That's right.
So lavender is purple and yellow band in one,
and then the lavender snows don't have the yellow band,
so this one will have both lavenders and (indistinguishable)
and Holy moly!
That's a lot of eggs for a little girl.
I was expecting maybe five eggs at the most,
but hoo, doggy, look at that!
That's two, four, six, eight, ten.
eleven eggs from that little girl, eleven eggs.
And those are nice sized eggs.
Hoo, doggy. She spent a lot of energy.
That is one thing, good snake mamma.
Every now and then I just come down and admire snakes.
And I think that's important, you know, cause we're working
with these animals so much, but every now and then
you've got to take the time to actually enjoy them too.
This happens to be just a pastel Champagne Ball python.
So a two gene animal,
not too difficult to make for sure, but absolutely stunning.
Another simple animal here, two gene animal,
this is a fire and it's a Cypress, but Ooh, doggy,
look at how beautiful that thing is.
As it's getting bigger, it's getting better and better.
And that's what that Cypress gene does, just cleans it up
to make that big stripe on the dorsal
and just makes that thing incredible.
This one happens to be a
super pastel lesser leopard Clown Ball python.
So again, it's the double gene
of pastel making it the super, it's the lesser
which is an incomplete dominant.
It's a leopard,
and then of course the recessive Clown Ball python.
But all together hoo, doggy, that's a good one.
It's a boy. And I should really raise this thing up
'cause it would be beautiful.
But the truth is, I actually have another male that would be
up to size this coming year.
So I don't really need it, but boy, I don't want to sell it.
It's too beautiful.
My guys Diddy and Dixie here, love them to death.
They're actually doing a little courting here
a little bit earlier.
So, I wonder if this'll be the year, you know
they're at that age where they could potentially have babies
and he's definitely doing courting.
Of course, Dixie is over here.
Just chilling out with me. I love these guys so much.
Would it be crazy to get eggs from these guys
and actually hatch little baby Diddy and Dixie's?
It would be absolutely amazing because again,
I love him to death.
Definitely some of the coolest animals I've ever worked
with my entire life.
I mean, look at this little doggo here.
I mean, this thing is just absolutely incredible.
Who could think that you could have a relationship
like that with a reptile?
You guys really have to let me know down in the comments
if you want to hear more of this.
(buoyant music plays)
Before you get sick of it,
I never get sick of egg time and, hey, to me,
the egg song is what it's all about.
Right? So let me know in the comments what you think.
And I'm excited about this particular clutch right now
because it's been a couple of years
since we've had a normal Leucistic Texas rat snake,
two Leucistic Texas rat snakes.
Most of the ones that we breed are actually scale
(indistinguishable)
so this is actually just a pure Leucistic Texas rat snake.
And where are you going, you little monkey?
Get over here. Get over here.
Come on, come on, come on little monkey.
Oh, wait. What's going on?
Alright, So look at how beautiful that is.
Just a white, pearly white snake.
Got those beautiful eyes.
Woah! Mama's not happy.
What in the world is wrong with you?
She's like, "You stealing my eggs? I'm going to bite you."
And sometimes Texas rat snakes can have a little bit
of an array attitude per day.
But hey, listen.
I'm going to love her nevertheless.
I don't care.
And let's go ahead,
and just pull these eggs aside real quick.
It looks like we've got one little slugger right here,
and actually another little Slugger here.
So we only have two, four, five good eggs, two sluggs.
Look everywhere else.
So not a very big clutch, but hey, I don't complain
because that's five beautiful white snakes are
going to be hatching pretty soon.
Look at this one here.
This is a crazy, just kind of non pattern animal.
It's actually a super pastel.
It's a spinner, which'll be the spider in the pinstripe.
It's an Enchi, an extreme gene.
I mean, wow, that's a lot of genes in there
and it just turns out to be almost a
patternless animal with a little bit of speckling on it.
That one turned out cool, man, I tow it.
I like this one a lot.
And talking about that Cypress gene that always
has that dorsal striping on it,
this happens to just be a Pewter Cypress.
So basically it's a pastel,
it's a cinnamon pastel, and it's a Cypress Ball python.
But it has that really cool Stripe that goes down his back.
And it's amazing how different snakes look
as they get a little bit of size to them.
This happens to be a banana pastel Enchi Clown.
And again, when it was a baby, it was really pretty,
but now that it's getting some size
and it's getting that glow to it, hoo, doggy,
that is absolutely gorgeous.
Again, another snake that I would love to just sneak
over to the keeper rack.
Cause that thing is just an absolute ripper.
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