- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the blog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
And I'm gonna start my day by checking out some eggs,
down in the dungeon in particular,
this children's python is due to lay any day now.
I don't see any eggs in here,
but she should be going pretty soon.
Ow, jeez!
I was just checking on her to see...
You can see she looks like she's full of eggs,
and then she just grabbed onto my hand.
What are you doing, you crazy snake?
Oh my God, oh gosh!
For a little snake, they sure do have
some pretty powerful little teeth.
Oh, she's got me hard too, and it's really weird
because this is like a food bite,
and being grabbed, you shouldn't wouldn't think she
would wanna bite me like this.
Oh my...
Ow!
Little girl, what are you doing you silly monkey?
And she's squeezin' me pretty hard too,
this is not the way I wanted to start my day.
So obviously I didn't get eggs yet,
and I'm getting a little bit of a snake bite,
so that is part of working with animals, guys.
And listen, it's nothing to panic about,
I'm not gonna die, it's not venomous, nothing like that.
But it does hurt a little bit,
and she's got me in kind of a spot
that is a little bit tender,
right in the actual thumb for sure.
But nevertheless, we're gonna try
to get this girl off really quick,
and then move on, and maybe I can find some other eggs.
Oof, let's see if we can just un-twine,
ugh, the worst part about getting snakes like this
off your hand is that as you're un-twining 'em
they're twisting and turning, and their teeth
are just kind of pressed, and she is definitely committed
to trying to eat me, ow!
Come on, girl, oh my god.
I hate getting bit in the hands,
and in particular in the fingers, it's the worst, ow!
She's just keepin' on sinkin' in.
Come on, girl, let go.
Come on, come on.
Okay, there she is.
I'm just gonna go ahead and put her back,
obviously no eggs from her today,
so we'll just keep checkin' for eggs, I tell ya what.
That's what it's like to get bit by a snake.
Honestly, no big deal, but what a way to start the day.
Let's have a better day as we keep goin', all right?
Well we didn't have Kalubrid eggs today,
but we did have some ball python eggs,
which can only mean one thing.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
And this is actually a ghost,
or what they would call a hypo-recessive mutation,
but it's het for clown, and it's actually bred
to a clown that's het for ghost,
so we could produce some ghost-clowns from this clutch,
and mama looks like she is wrapped around
a beautiful clutch of eggs for such a small girl, woo!
I tell you what, those are some beautiful eggs right there.
And again, we're gonna be able to get some ghosts,
some clowns, some ghost-het-clowns,
all kinds of stuff like that,
so it's gonna be a really nice clutch.
Let's just go ahead and get these off the paper real quick,
get these eggs over here, and then we'll count 'em up
and see what we got goin' on.
I tell you what, not a bad way to start the day.
I mean, let's face it, getting bit by a snake
is never the best thing, but it does make it a lot better
when you find a beautiful clutch of eggs like this.
So we have two, four, six, seven eggs,
and again, all kinds of cool combinations, that is awesome.
One more clutch of ball pythons to pull here in a bit.
(laughs) I hope that guys enjoy the little egg thing,
the kinda Blue's Clues thing.
My body Joshua over at My Diverse Life Logs
actually hooked me up on that,
I'm gonna put a link in the description,
he does it on all social media, My Diverse Life Logs,
definitely go pay him some love for makin' that,
let me know in the comments if you guys like it.
I think it's absolutely incredible.
I absolutely love this new addition to the reptarium,
of course, this is a false water cobra,
and it kinda does remind you of a cobra, right?
Not only does it kinda look like a cobra
with its body structure, but of course,
it will puff its neck up, and kinda blow up
and hood up like a cobra, not as extreme as a cobra,
but it definitely will,
and these guys do have a real mild venom,
but they're typically pretty chill.
When you first take 'em out, they're a little bit puffy,
but I'm not really that worried about getting bitten
by this guy, number one, I have been bitten before,
didn't have any reaction at all, but again,
they're rear fangs, so they have to really sink into you,
and number two, typically people have
a pretty mild reaction in all honesty.
Nevertheless, this guy is actually pretty chill
once it's actually out and hanging out,
and they can get pretty big, you know,
like six foot or something like that,
so it's really cool to have a little false water cobra here
at the reptarium that people can check out.
Now I love this little monkey.
I have some great news, guys,
you know the first couple weekends that we're open
here at the reptarium, per the governor's orders,
we can only have 10 people in the place at a time.
Of course, we've been selling 10 spots per hour,
well, guess what, we can actually increase.
In actuality, we could have as much as 70 people in,
but we have to have social distancing,
so for the rest of the month, starting the 12th, 13th,
and 14th, and every weekend thereafter,
we've decided that 25 is the number that actually works.
So we're gonna be selling 15 additional tickets
throughout the month of June for a total of 25 per hour.
We're actually gonna bring on two more employees.
So for those of you that really wanted to have
that super personalized thing with only 10 people,
hey, 25 people is still gonna feel
like there's hardly anyone in here,
and we're gonna have six people total,
myself, Laurie, and four other crew members
just kind of doing whatever you guys want,
so the good news is you can go to thereptarium.com,
and there's gonna a bunch of new slots available,
again, starting the 12th, 13th, and 14th
going through the end of the month of June,
and with any luck, by July, maybe we can be back to normal
where we just open up and let people in,
we'll have to see what happens.
Again, we want to always be safe,
we wanna keep ourselves safe, we wanna keep you safe,
we wanna keep the animals safe,
and we wanna definitely abide by the governor's orders,
but that is great news, we're gonna be able
to have 25 people in here at the reptarium.
So again, if you wanna book your slot in June,
just go to thereptarium.com, I hope I'll see you guys then.
So Ivy is definitely blue and deep in shed right now.
I told you guys the other day
that I want to just kinda sit in her water,
spend some time, let her kinda crawl around me,
maybe even swim around a little bit with her.
I'm gonna wait for her to shed first,
just because I'm sure she's not comfortable.
Plus just even her curiosity isn't gonna be the same
when she can't see really well, when she's opaque.
So we'll give it four, five, six days,
however long it takes her to shed,
and then we'll get in the water with her.
So maybe some time next week,
you guys will enjoy that video.
I know I'm gonna enjoy it, like I said,
the plan is just to go in there,
and kinda sit still for a while,
let her crawl up to me, do whatever she wants to do,
and then maybe I'll interact with her,
swim around a little bit, it's gonna be so much fun.
And like I've been mentioning before,
maybe I'll offer that as an opportunity
for people to come in and do it,
I don't know, we'll see what happens.
Excited that the first baby ball pythons
crawled out of the eggs, this is that clutch
that we caught the other day,
we still have one or two eggs that are due to hatch still,
so I just wanted to pull these ones out,
'cause we can get 'em set up,
and it's a really good diversity
to show you what actually hatched out, which is pretty cool.
Of course, this is just the genetic stripe,
that's a perfect example of a genetic stripe,
this is what the mom looked right here,
and then of course this would be
a banana g-stripe right here,
so this is just the banana and the g-stripe.
And then of course this is the pastel banana g-stripe.
You can see the difference between the two here,
with the banana, and then the pastel banana,
just fading out a lot more.
And then of course this is the pastel g-stripe,
without the banana in it, so it's kinda all four
potential mutations could have happened.
G-stripe, pastel g-stripe banana,
pastel g-strip, and banana g-stripe right there,
so it's pretty cool that out of four eggs
that hatched so far, they all been different genetically.
And that's what's so exciting about breeding ball pythons,
the fact that you can get all kinds
of color phases from the same clutch,
I mean, I love this little pastel g-stripe here,
it is so cool with that kind of ziggedy pattern here,
and then this normal g-stripe,
I tell you what, that's incredible.
As you guys know, we've got a lot
of clutches comin' this year,
so there's gonna be a lot of baby ball pythons.
Let me know in the comments if you guys want me to update
every clutch that hatches, I'm happy to do so.
This next clutch is actually just
a nice beautiful banded normal
that was bred to a banana extreme spider.
Now the extreme gene reduces pattern,
and of course this is a reduced pattern animal
to start with, so it could be
some really cool offspring here.
I'm gonna get mama off the eggs
without her biting me hopefully,
come on, mama, and look at that clutch of eggs right there!
Hoo, doggy, and she is not happy at all.
That's okay, mama, that's all right.
She's just bein' a really good protective mama,
you did so good, I'll see if I can get these eggs
really quick, before she gets upset with me,
and take a look at this clutch of eggs.
Ooh, doggy, mama did such a good job with this one,
that is for sure, just gonna take this one off,
I might be able to leave the rest of the eggs in.
Nah, I'm gonna have to take a few more out.
Regardless, there's two, four, six,
eight, ten beautiful eggs.
So a couple of really banger clutches today,
that is really cool, and again,
thanks for my buddy Joshua over at My Diverse Life Logs,
go pay his some love on any social media
for coming up with that cool egg song for sure.
So I'm just gonna pull these eggs apart,
get 'em in the egg box, and move on with my day.
(chill electronic music)
Take a look at this, guys, Pickles just shed out,
and looks absolutely wonderful.
Look at that perfect shed, I mean it's cool
how these pythons shed like that, right?
I mean they're just gonna shed right up in the trees
and just kinda danglin' on,
I mean that's a perfect shed right there,
and she looks absolutely gorgeous!
A little Salt and Pepper time, come on.
(chill electronic music)
(laughing)
She's bein' silly today.
Normally they come up and station right here,
but today they're bein' goofy.
(chill electronic music)
They're gettin' so good, I tell ya,
Pepper still is really weird.
For some reason, Pepper eats a lot better for Bruce,
doesn't eat as well for me some,
but he got a little bit, but Salty,
she loves eating, she's a great girl,
so just a little bit of Salt and Pepper time.
Love my alligators.
Next unboxing really quick, I appreciate you guys
always settin' us up, man, you guys have been treatin' us
so good lately, thank you so, so much for everything.
All right, we got a shirt here,
what do we got, ooh, I see a sloth!
- Luanne.
- Oh, my gosh, it's like a pocket.
- Aw, how cute!
(laughing)
- That is super cute.
I'll read the letter real quick.
Wanted to send Brian a shirt in appreciation
for your YouTube video vlogs,
I look forward to watching every day.
I know that I'll never be able to visit the reptarium,
but I'm here in spirit, well, thank you so much,
and I hope that some day you can visit,
because, you know, who knows,
or we do virtual tours, you can always hang out
with me for an hour virtually.
- That is true, now this box had a rough ride.
- Yeah this box, uh, hopefully there was nothing...
- (laughs) So, yeah.
- We can just open it up.
- Yeah, exactly, it's already been opened.
- Oh, my gosh.
Hello, my name is Caleb, I've been a subscriber
to the YouTube channel for three to four years now,
well thank you, I love watching your videos
and making trips out to the reptarium.
I made you these and call them lithophones.
What are they?
- It says please hold up to the light.
- Oh, so you have to...
Oh, what the heck!
- Whoa, that's Forest!
- Oh, my gosh, that's Forest!
With the green tree python!
- Oh, these are all Forest.
Is that Forest and...
It's you and Forest!
- Oh, my god.
- Is that a cheetah?
- Oh, it's me, Forest, and Cheetah
when we're in South Africa!
Oh, my god, these are so dope!
And you made these, really, oh, my gosh.
- I'm so glad they weren't broken!
- Gosh, wow, thank you so much, these are amazing.
I'm so glad they made it with the box being so beat up.
So thank you so much, I mean, I love these.
- Yeah, that is such a cool idea, too.
- Oh, my god, I'm gonna figure out something cool
to do with them, so thank you.
It must be a 3-D print, which is super cool.
So thank you, that is...
- That is very cool, and unique.
- Yeah, super cool, thank you.
I was actually excited when this came,
this is the Langwood, what is that?
- Tanglewood.
(laughing)
- This is the Tanglewood soap company.
I get so excited, I have a hard time even thinking
when I get stuff.
- Yeah, and you don't even shower that often,
so it's funny you--
- I know, hardly ever, I mean once a month.
(laughing)
This is from Tanglewood Soap Company,
it's just got their cards,
it says Brian, thanks for the daily videos
during a crappy time, made some moo-moo bars for you,
hand sanitizer, and a ben-bar for the dogs.
Thanks again for keeping the spirits up.
PS, there is no snake shed in the soap,
but I still wanna do it, that's a great idea by the way.
So these are ben-bars.
- [Cameraman] Is it like a perdida?
- It's like the Calritech moo-moo, it's a moo-moo bar!
How absolute...
What an incredible idea.
(laughing)
Oh, my gosh.
- Such a cute idea.
And it smells really good.
- It does actually, gosh.
- Thank you so much.
- When I take a shower in April, or in May of next year,
I'll use it.
- Yeah, when it comes around the calendar,
you definitely gotta use it.
- Yeah, thank you, seriously.
(laughing)
I appreciate you guys at Tanglewood, that's awesome.
- This is amazing.
- Yo, gettin' bit by snakes is never really fun,
but it's okay because it's all part of what we do,
and it's really not that big of a deal.
As a matter of fact, if you guys like gettin' snake bites,
here's a playlist of a bunch of snake bites
you guys can roll through if you don't mind.
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if you don't mind, have an absolutely wonderful day.
Remember, be kind to someone,
and I promise, I'll see ya tomorrow.