- [Brian] Look at this! Woohoo!
Oh there's more eggs than it even looked like in there!
- [Kelsey] Wow!
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- Hey everyone and welcome to the blog,
just got back to BHB after a very long trip,
but absolutely amazing one,
Noah immediately said, "Come in here,
I gotta show you somethin'".
What are you showin' me?
- I don't think you're gonna expect this, take a look.
- [Brian] What the heck is she doing?
- [Noah] She's up in the tree!
- Lucy is up in the tree!
What in the world are you doing up there, girl?
What is going on? I mean--
- I don't know, I don't know.
- [Brian] She just went up there this morning?
- I just came in and Beth was like,
"Hey, Lucy's in the tree,"
and she's just in the tree, I don't know.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh this is crazy!
I mean she's gravid, she's s'posed
to be layin' a clutch of eggs,
I have no idea what she's doin' up in a tree!
What in the heck is going on?
Oh look, look! She's cocked and ready to go over there.
Wow, what a crazy way to start the day, y'all,
it's good to be back here at BHB,
but wow, that was definitely a surprise to me.
So I don't know what that means,
I told you that I was a little bit concerned
about her laying good eggs,
now I'm really confused because I wouldn't expect
a gravid female to climb up in a tree.
I've been excited about this box that just showed up,
I can't wait to show you guys.
It came from my friend, Ryan,
the guy that came that dressed up like Deadpool.
He has a cool company that does some cool electronic things.
We came up with an idea together, he made a prototype,
so I'm gonna show you guys what's in this box.
But first, I'm gonna check in with Kelsey.
Well I am super excited that we are about to pull a clutch
of snakes that isn't a Children's Python
(all laughing)
so we get our first clutch of Ball Pythons for the year,
and we don't just have one clutch.
- We have two!
- Two clutches! So there it is guys,
we are started, game on!
What do we have here, obviously it's a pinstripe.
- [Kelsey] Yup, she was bred
to a Pastel Mojave Orange Dream
so I'm really excited about this.
- Oh my gosh, Pastel Mojave Orange Dream,
that is going to be absolutely incredible.
Should be some really cool babies,
looks like she has some good eggs,
way to start the season!
Look at this! Woohoo!
Oh there's more eggs than it even looked like in there!
- [Kelsey] Wow!
- [Brian] Wow that's actually a lot.
I thought there was gonna be four or five eggs,
that's awesome!
There's two-four-six-seven good eggs!
Woo doggie! And all fertile!
I mean, I love starting the year out like that,
because I'll be honest with you,
a lot of times when we start the year,
the first clutch or two often times
are infertile or have some kind of fertility issues,
so wow, that's a great way to start the year!
Ooh! That's beat--
look at those beautiful little things!
Oh my gosh, I'm super excited about this.
So for those of you guys that love to see me
cut ball python eggs,
mark on your calendar 57 days from now,
you're gonna see what's in this clutch,
and hopefully we'll get some
Pastel Jigsaw Orange Dreams.
- Yes.
- That would be amazing.
And clutch number two!
This is a really pretty animal right here, woo doggie!
And of course she's got one little egg out right here
and you can see where the egg actually
adhered to the bottom of the paper,
so I'm assuming this is right side up,
but we'll go ahead and candle this egg
just to make sure the embryo's up like that.
But for now, we'll jut go ahead,
put that egg in there, and see what else.
Looks like she's piled up on a good clutch, so--
- [Kelsey] Oh yeah!
- [Brian] I'm gonna let you have--
and who is this bred to?
- She was bred to a Woma Lesser Pinstripe.
- [Brian] A Woma Lesser Pinstripe,
so there's a whole bunch of really cool stuff there.
Again, looks like a beautiful clutch!
A little bit bigger eggs than the last clutch,
but how many do we have here?
- [Kelsey] We have one-two-three-four-five-six-seven!
- Seven eggs! Hey, lucky seven!
Got two clutches of seven eggs.
Absolutely amazing.
So, of course these are a little bit higher,
so Kelsey might have to take that egg off
just to fit in the egg box,
but that is absolutely incredible.
So she'll pop that egg off the top here,
we'll candle that egg,
get these in the incubator back at my house,
of course incubate 'em at 88 to 89 degrees.
They take about 60 days, and you guys know
I typically cut clutches about 57, 58 days.
So, again, a little less than two months
and you guys are gonna get the first
egg cutting videos of the year.
Kelsey is certainly a genius when it comes to
getting these eggs apart,
you have to have a very steady hand
so that you don't rip that egg,
'cause that egg is leathery!
Oh my gosh guys! We are on our way
with Ball Python production season,
I can't believe it's here, I really can't, that is awesome.
Great job, as always, Kelsey.
Thank you so much - Thank you!
- Mary just came and got me and kinda wanted to show me
because she's working on breeding the rainbow boas
and all the stuff over on this side.
Definitely our first ovulation of the year
when it comes to Brazilian Rainbows,
I mean look at how big that animal is right there,
that is an absolutely huge ovulation!
So that means we're about 105 days
away from babies from that girl,
and you said there's a few more, too, right?
- Oh yeah.
- Oh my gosh, this is awesome, you know?
'Cause last year, we didn't have
a really great Brazilian Rainbow year,
we had a really good Columbian year,
but again, look at this girl, it's just--
I would say, is pre-ovulation,
not quite ovulation, but probably gonna ovulate
within the next week or so.
So for those of you guys that have been kinda
opining for baby Brazilians, they're on the way.
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Okay, so listen.
It may not look like much,
this is just a complete prototype of a cage, okay,
that my buddy Ryan sent me.
Now it actually has nothing to do
with the actual cage itself,
I applaud him for the nice backdrop that he put in there,
the picture in there. (laughs)
But the truth is, is that he just sent this to me
not because of the cage,
but because of this right here, and this right here.
So the deal is, is that
we're trying to come up with interesting ideas
for kind of advanced husbandry with reptiles.
And one of the things that kinda happens,
is that let's say you have a reptile room
and you wanna keep it 84 degrees
'cause you keep a bunch of pythons.
But then you wanna keep some animals,
let's say Leachie Geckos or Crested Geckos,
that 84 is just too hot.
Well that can become a problem right now,
and there's no solution for that problem.
And I probably shouldn't be sharing this
because this is literally our prototype
that we're talking about trying to do for Reptile Prime
and I'm giving away our secrets.
But listen, I wanna take you guys along on a journey,
plus I wanna see what you guys think.
So this unit here, that's plugged here, actually--
and this is the whole unit on the side here,
and this is kinda the modular thing that you can plug in
and actually control a bunch of stuff,
it's basically like a heater and a cooler.
So basically what happens is,
let's say you have a lizard that needs to be 78 degrees,
but again, your room is 84 degrees.
What happens, you set this to 78 degrees,
and it actually cools the cage down to 78 degrees.
Now let's say, for some reason things get cold in the room,
and it goes down to 60 degrees.
The same exact unit here will actually
warm the cage to 78 degrees.
So basically what happens, you set this unit to 78 degrees,
and if it's hot, it's gonna cool,
if it's cool, it's gonna heat, one unit.
You don't need multiple units anything like that.
Now you can still have a basking light over here,
you can still have a basking light over here,
that's why he kinda mocked this up
so that we can really test it out.
We've got ventilation over here, all that type of stuff,
so I don't know if this is gonna work,
but at least we're gonna try.
I'm excited about it, let me know in the comments
if you guys are excited about it.
So we're gonna go ahead, plug this in,
kinda play with it for the next couple weeks.
Then we can actually start looking at like,
the practicality of how this goes together,
how we can get it into a naturalistic backdrop,
so on like that.
So, there you go guys.
Let me know what you think,
I've been excited about it, I hope you guys are.
One more surprise for the day,
my buddy Ben over at R&B Reptiles
sent us a surprise tarantula, Bruce!
- Yeah!
- So you guys know that we had a Mexican Redknee
that was not really the best handling animal.
We'd never took it out 'cause it was super fast,
I don't know if it would bite, so we didn't ever try,
so they sent us a new one, a small one!
But we haven't messed with it yet.
- No, not yet, I haven't even touched it.
The only person that's actually even
seen it or done anything with it is Jessica.
- [Brian] Okay.
- So here's the first time we handle it today, yeah.
- Let's see what's gonna happen!
It's definitely a little bit smaller, it's so cute!
It's really a pretty one,
its got a lot of color and pattern to it.
So let's just see what happens,
I mean I have no idea what's gonna happen.
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Ooh it's kinda fast!
Okay...
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Oh, it seems to be pretty chill.
You know, I mean, it's not runnin' right now at least.
- [Bruce] It wasn't kickin' hairs or anything,
I do think that it might actually be molting here soon,
you see that patch right there, Brian?
- [Brian] Mhm.
- [Bruce] Yeah that might be actually
a sign of her actually getting ready to molt here soon,
she has a nice swollen abdomen right there.
So that'll be sweet to see her molt.
- [Brian] Well it seems like she's pretty good,
I mean do you wanna see if like
when you go hand-to-hand if she--
- [Bruce] Yeah, sure. - [Brian] she'll freak out?
Oh my gosh it's like, really cool!
Are you kidding me!
- [Bruce] Yeah she is nothing like that other guy!
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, this is awesome! This is cool.
And what's really cool about it
is the fact that it's not really big,
so it's even cooler for kids, right?
- He'll be a whole lot better to handle
for a lot of little kids,
he'll be smaller, just better overall,
just my nice little easy-movin' guy.
- This is it, remember I had Queen Elizabeth
that ended up being kinda taken away from me
over in California, so I miss her so much.
So now, it's like I've got Queen Elizabeth back!
Maybe that should be Queen Elizabeth II, I'm not sure,
but nevertheless, that is awesome,
a little Mexican Redknee Tarantula.
I'm so excited to have this guy. This thing is awesome!
- [Bruce] Cute as can be, too.
Oh my god, look at it. - Oh my gosh, that is so cool.
So thank you, Ben, that was really kind of you,
I absolutely love it.
So as always it's always nice to be back
here at BHB in The Reptarium
after being gone for a couple days,
but that trip was absolutely incredible.
I hope you guys enjoyed it.
If you didn't, please go ahead and watch the vlogs
with us unpacking a little baby
Croc Monitor at my buddy Forrest's,
and then heading over to Jeff Ronne's,
one of the coolest Boa collections I've ever seen,
probably one of the coolest ones in the world,
I would imagine.
Regardless, I am excited, because now that I'm back,
we are going to The Avengers tonight!
That's right, Lori and myself are gonna go
check out the movie tonight!
Been super, excited about this.
So here in a couple hours, this evening,
we're gonna be heading out to the movies
and checking that one out.
We have Bowser's tank all cleaned up looking good,
actually the water level is much higher now.
I think there's probably about
700, 800 gallons, something like that, in here now,
because we are, hopefully this weekend,
gonna be getting some big fish from Ohio Fish Rescue,
they're gonna bring some catfish and a few other things,
so I think it's all set,
I think it looks really really good.
I can't wait to just be able to walk in here
and see fish around here,
hopefully Bowser will be okay again.
Actually there's been fish in here before,
it doesn't seem to really affect him,
so I don't really know,
I don't wanna see any fish get hurt, that's for sure,
but I'd really like to add fish to this display
because I think it'll really bring a lot.
And then I'm tryin' to think,
how could I incorporate a piranha tank right over here.
I would love to have an opportunity to have like
a piranha tank over here where people
could maybe even feed the piranha, I'm not 100% sure.
So, food for thought,
when the Ohio Fish Rescue guys get here,
I think I'm gonna talk to them about what they think,
and seeing if there's any opportunity for me
to add a fish tank somewhere on this wall.
I think I'm gonna wrap up here over at The Reptarium,
hit BHP really quick, and then hit the road
and get ready for this awesome movie night.
I tell you, I have been so excited about this
since I saw the last Avengers, you know.
So tonight we're gonna finally get to see--
I can't believe it! It's gonna be awesome.
Of course, I'll bring you guys along on it,
there won't be any spoilers about the movie,
but I'll let you know what I think about it.
("Walk Slowly" by Ballpoint)
So we're at Emagine theaters, excited about it,
the only downside is that it's like 10:00 at night
and this is like a 3 1/2 hour movie,
so we're not gonna be home til pretty late,
but definitely excited to see this movie.
You need popcorn?
- Yes.
- I'll get the popcorn.
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- Find this recording, don't feel bad about this.
(dramatic orchestral music)
- [Natasha] Thanos did
exactly what he said he was gonna do.
He wiped out 50% of all living creatures.
(dramatic music)
- Hi, is anyone home? This is Scott Lang!
We met a few years ago?
At the airport? In Germany?
I got really big.
- Is this an old message?
- [Scott] Ant Man? Ant Man, I know you know--
I know you know that!
- [Natasha] That's the front door.
- That's me, can you buzz me in?
- There it is, I tell you what,
that was pretty incredible. I mean that was--
- It was. I actually stayed awake, so.
(laughs)
- Yeah, that's pretty good,
and it's about 2:00 in the morning.
So it was definitely well worth it,
I'm not gonna give you any spoilers,
but an amazing movie.
So that is it for the night, be kind to someone,
I promise I'll see you tomorrow.
("Walk Slowly" by Ballpoint)