- Oh my gosh.
Look at that.
Oh my gosh.
Holy moly.
(laughs)
That is one spectacular snake right there.
Hey, good morning, everybody.
Welcome to the Vlog.
Is this absolutely gorgeous out here?
It's gonna be an absolutely amazing day.
What do you say that we have an absolutely
amazing day together?
Before we get over to the shop and the reptarium,
I'm gonna do a quick egg cutting.
I only have two clutches.
I'm gonna cut really quick.
Both of these clutches are already hatching,
so we're just gonna see what's in the eggs.
But this first clutch was really exciting.
It's actually a red stripe fire yellow belly
bred to a super vanilla pastel.
So everything is gonna be vanilla,
some is gonna be pastel, red stripe yellow belly, fire,
all kinds of stuff.
So let's go ahead and check it out.
The thing that's really cool is, of course,
fire and vanilla mixed together gets vanilla cream
We could potentially get a vanilla cream red striped
yellow belly for instance.
Let's go ahead and just see what's in this egg.
You can see they're all pip, so it's gonna be pretty easy
to just cut these guys open, and look inside.
Ooh, look at that right there.
That is absolutely gorgeous right there.
That is definitely a vanilla red stripe yellow belly.
Unfortunately, we didn't hit on the vanilla cream part,
but still an absolutely gorgeous snake.
Move onto this next one.
Again, you can see its pip,
but I don't know what's inside, so come on.
Be something amazing.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Ooh, another gorgeous animal right there.
Again, that's another vanilla red stripe yellow belly.
Okay, so hey, we're still hitting some really cool stuff.
The red stripe is what I really wanted to hit, and,
of course, that vanilla is gonna make 'em
look really amazing.
Moving on to this next egg, we will see what is in here.
Oh my gosh, it would be so amazing
if we hit a vanilla cream.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
What do we have here?
Oh my gosh.
Another beautiful vanilla red stripe yellow belly.
That is really interesting.
You know, it's really cool that we're hitting
the vanilla red stripe yellow belly,
because they're amazing animals.
I'm hoping for that vanilla cream though,
but nevertheless, I'm still super excited that we're getting
really beautiful babies.
Okay, what do we have here?
Oh my gosh, actually when they're all pipped out,
it actually makes it a little bit harder to cut,
to be honest with you.
Because the snakes are all over the place.
Ooh, this looks pretty, whatever it is.
Oh my gosh, look at that.
That's a vanilla pastel, I don't know,
maybe it's a red stripe.
I don't know, that's a beautiful snake.
It's definitely pastel and vanilla.
But it looks really cool, so I don't really know.
Okay, we only have one more egg left.
Come on, give me a vanilla cream please.
Here we go.
Come on, baby.
Give me something crazy.
Let's see, let's see, let's see.
Oh, it looks pretty, whatever it is in the egg.
What?
Oh my gosh.
Holy moly, did you take a look at that right there?
Oh doggie, my gosh.
I think we hit it guys.
I think that is a pastel vanilla cream red stripe.
Oh my gosh, holy moly.
That is one spectacular snake right there.
Oh yes, we hit it.
When this clutch was laying, I dreamed that
I would hit that animal, and here we are, we hit it.
And it is absolutely stunning.
Oh my gosh, I am super excited.
I almost just wanna end the egg cutting right here.
We have one more clutch to cut.
But I am over the top happy.
Oh my god 'til that snake climbs out of the egg.
So this next clutch is actually a pastel crystal,
which is a pastel special Mojave,
and it is bred to a pin special.
So we can get a bunch of crystal stuff,
or who knows what we can possibly get.
After that last clutch, it's gonna be hard to beat,
but this is still an absolutely amazing clutch.
Let's go ahead and see what we got.
You could see all these little heads are already poking out,
so let's see what's in here.
I'm gonna go ahead and cut this first one,
because this one is poking out.
And see what we have here.
Just gonna rip that egg right there.
Oh, interesting.
Okay.
So that is definitely a lemon blast special.
Okay, a lemon blast special.
Let's keep movin' on.
See what we have here.
Ooh, this is a pretty baby, whatever it is.
What in the world is that, huh?
You know what, I don't know.
This is weird.
That's a pin stripe and a special maybe,
but maybe there's yellow, I don't--
That doesn't make any sense.
I have a feeling this is another one of those situations
where Kelsey might've thrown a male in at the last minute
just as a back-up to the pastel crystal,
because that doesn't make sense.
That looks like it's got another gene in it.
I'm not sure which gene though, but something in there.
So let's just keep on cutting the clutch.
Alright, we'll see what is in this egg right here,
and see if we can start to figure out what the breeding is.
Huh, well that didn't help me at all.
That looks, again, like a lemon blast special.
Okay, so we're getting somewhere.
Let's keep moving on.
Boy, this egg is shredded.
Look at that, whew.
Geesh, that's gonna be hard to even get inside this egg
'cause it's so shredded.
Okay, what's interesting here is, this is the same snake
as the second egg that we cut.
To me, it almost looks like a king pin thing,
so I think there might be a lesser in here.
We haven't seen any crystals yet,
so I'm starting to think that the crystal probably
wasn't the father of this clutch.
We still have three eggs to go.
I think we'll start to get some answers as we cut.
Go ahead and hit this little one right here that is
already sticking out.
And again, what I'll do is I'll just cut as close as I can,
and then I'll just kind of rip the egg.
I don't wanna get too close to that animal
right there, of course.
Then we can kinda see inside the egg.
Okay, so, interesting.
That is really a freakin' cool snake.
Oh my gosh, that is awesome.
But I'm gonna be honest with you, I have no idea what it is.
It's definitely a pastel, it's a pin stripe,
but there's something else going on with this.
I'm not 100% sure what it is.
You know, it almost looks like the cypress male
was the father of this clutch, because that looks like
a cypress gene to me.
Okay, two more eggs.
Alright, let's see what we've got.
Be nice to almost get something more normal-ish
so I could actually see what is going on here.
Okay, so here we go.
This is really weird, again, it looks like a pastel
something, I don't know.
So what I'm gonna have to do, I've got one more egg here,
but I've gotta ask Kelsey what she put in.
We keep breeding records and everything.
I can go back to the cage, see what males have been
in with this female, and then I can figure out who
the father is of this clutch.
But before I do that, I'm gonna cut this last egg
and see if this will help me kind of figure out who
the father of this clutch is.
And nope, it doesn't help at all. (laughs)
It looks like just like a pin stripey-type of weird thing,
something like that.
Again, when things like this happen, it's pretty easy
for us to figure out, because, again,
with the breeding records on the cage,
we always know what males have been in.
And then I'll start to go, oh that makes a lot of sense.
Regardless, we had some amazing snakes today,
that incredible vanilla cream pastel
red stripe is incredible.
I cannot wait to share it with you guys when it hatches out.
What do you say we get over to the shop.
We could work on some BHB stuff,
and we'll give you some updates on the reptarium.
As a matter of fact, if everything goes well today,
I think I'm gonna move Lucy into the big cage, possibly.
I don't wanna make any promises.
If everything goes really well, we're gonna give it a shot.
Back at BHB, I'm gonna go ahead and grab the crew,
go next door and show them this waterfall
that I did yesterday.
I'm kinda proud of it.
I rounded up the crew, gotta show them the waterfall.
I'm thinkin' that we might move Lucy
over later today, possibly.
So what do you guys think?
- Wow. - Wow.
- It looks so natural.
I like the way it's dripping.
- I know, it's like--
and you see it's actually dripping in the middle,
and on the edge over there too.
So it's pretty cool.
Eric, get in there man.
(cross talk)
Get in there.
Get the lock quick.
Lock him up.
- [Girl] I think it's in there.
(laughs)
- Feeding day today.
(laughs)
Kind of makes you have to go to the bathroom a little bit.
(laughs)
- Alright, so with any luck, we get everything set,
we're gonna bring Lucy over and let her loose in there
and see how she likes it.
So the time has come, I am gonna move Lucy over here
in a second.
I am so excited because this cage is completely done.
We've cleaned up the pond here.
Everything is ready to go.
But before that, I did wanna tell you guys something.
You guys may have seen on some YouTube channels,
there's now a membership tab.
Well, we also have a patrion, but we went ahead
and launched that membership tab.
Basically for like five bucks, you can get some badges.
I guess the first month you get an egg.
The second month the egg hatches.
The next month there's actually a snake.
Every month after that the snake gets bigger,
and ultimately turns into a red snake.
You'll get that as well as in the community tab,
you're gonna get a little bit of extra exclusivity,
and if you wanna do that, that would be absolutely great,
because you supporting me helps me continue to do
all these things, and if you want more than just those
few perks, you can head over to patrion.
The link is in the description,
and you can get more perks there.
Regardless, we're gonna get ready and get Lucy over here
into her new digs.
It's pretty exciting to finally have the first bedding
going in the cages.
Of course, reptile prime coconut bedding.
What else would I use?
But it's pretty exciting to finally start to see it coming.
But we also realize how much bedding we're gonna use
in these cages.
I mean, look at--
that's a whole tub full, and it just literally does
this one little corner here.
Oh my god, so we're gonna go ahead and fill this up
right here, and then we're gonna bring Lucy over
and see how she acts.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing.
Here's all the bedding inside her cage now.
Of course, we'll do some more like plants and foliage
and stuff like that, but I wanna just kind of see how
Lucy's gonna react in here before I go crazy with
that type of decoration.
I wanna see basically where she's gonna hang out so
I don't put plants in the way that's gonna kind of mess up.
So what do you say, Eric, you wanna get Lucy?
- Yes, I'm so ready, man.
- I could not be more excited about this very moment.
Lucy is getting a cage upgrade.
She is gonna look so small in that huge cage.
I can't wait to get her--
And she looks like she's a little cranky today.
So we're gonna go ahead and get her out.
We're gonna put her in this holding tub,
and then Eric, myself,
- And Noah.
- Are actually gonna carry her up the stairs in this.
That way, you know--
As a matter of fact, Noah asked me,
are we just gonna carry her over? (laughs)
And I was like, no, we're not just gonna carry her over.
We'll put her in the tub and then we'll let her loose.
You can see she definitely looks a little cranky today.
Wow, no drama at all.
I swear to God, guys, I am freakin' out right now.
I mean, I think this very moment, it kind of became real
to me that animals are going in these cages.
Up until now, it's just kind of been cages, you know.
So let's go ahead and let Lucy go and see what she does.
Hi sweetie, guess what?
Guess what, sweetie.
Be brave, be brave.
I'm just gonna let her go do her thing.
There you go, sweetheart.
Go ahead, no, don't go that way.
Of all ways--
You've got this huge cage and you're gonna
go back the other way?
Don't go back.
You silly, monkey, you.
There she goes. - There she goes.
- There you go, girl.
Look at how small she looks.
Look at her, she's exploring.
The thing is, we were concerned about could she curl up
here in this spot.
There's plenty of space for her right there, right?
I mean, seriously.
Look at her, look at her.
Oh yeah, oh my gosh, she's lovin' it.
And again, guys, these bubbles are literally just
bubbles from the waterfall.
We cleaned this up super.
I mean, I drained it like three of four times.
She is exploring, oh my gosh.
Look at that.
Look at her go right straight up.
Oh my gosh.
Holy moly.
Straight up there.
Oh my gosh.
I didn't expect her to immediately climb right to the top.
Oh my gosh.
Look at that.
Holy moly.
Look at how she's all the way at the top.
Guys, that's like an almost eight foot cage,
and she is literally at the very top.
Oh my gosh, wow.
She is lovin' it.
I literally feel like a little kid right now.
I mean, I never expected in a million years for her
to immediately find the tree and find probably
what's gonna be her favorite spot.
You know, when we built this cage, I thought she'd
probably hang out here, in the water for sure,
over here, never really thinking she was gonna be up
in a tree like that.
This goes to show you how much reticulated pythons
like to climb.
And I'm gonna be completely honest and transparent here,
this really does make me kind of think a lot about
keeping reticulated pythons in cages where they can't climb.
Because, I mean within 30 seconds, the first thing she did
was find the highest spot in the cage.
Wow.
I am just brimming.
This is amazing.
Just spent the last hour or so shooting
Reptiles in the News, which, by the way,
if you haven't seen it, you've gotta go over
to my other channel, Animal Bites TV,
link in the description.
Definitely check it out every Friday, we put out a
Reptiles in the News.
Go check that out after you watch this, but regardless,
Lucy update, she's hanging out right up there.
You can see her head right there.
But she just loves it.
I tell you what, I just didn't expect this.
I mean, I really thought she'd hang out down here,
maybe get up to there at some point.
The fact that she climbed up there is ridiculous,
and it just warms my heart like you cannot believe.
I could sit here all night long and just watch that.
But I can't because I still have to work
on these racks over here.
Just wrapping up a bunch of stuff I've been working on
for the last few hours.
It's about 10 o'clock at night, so again, it's typical
I'm getting home maybe 11 o'clock,
starting at like five, six in the morning,
but it is all worth it.
The one thing that I did do is really work
on this front view right here.
I want, when you walk into the reptarium,
to be kinda wowed, you know.
This is actually gonna be Guacamole's cage right here.
But I know you see all these two by fours,
and you think, oh, Brian, whatever.
Trust me, you won't see any wood on this at all.
So when you walk in,
Bowser's tank's gonna be going waterfalls.
You're gonna see Guac's cage here.
Same type of look you're seeing over here is gonna carry
all the way through the middle cages.
So all the middle cages are now set.
They're in place.
Basically, all we have to do now is put the face on.
By the way, Lucy over here is still in the same spot.
Things are absolutely incredible.
I'm having a great time, and I'm really looking forward
to the fact that it's looking like the 21st
is gonna actually happen.
I just feel like we have enough time to make that happen.
So, again, I'm not gonna make any promises, but right now,
if you guys are planning to come visit us,
the weekend of the 21st is probably gonna be the weekend
that we're gonna open up, so there you have it.
I will continue to keep you updated,
but I think we're on pace.
As a matter of fact, I can't share with you yet,
but I might have someone coming to help me
with this pond right here, but I don't wanna say anymore
because it's not confirmed yet.
Fingers crossed that works out.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible if they show up.
With that being said, I'm gonna go ahead
and shut down the Vlog.
I wish you guys an amazing day, evening, night,
whenever you happen to do that.
Let me know if you've been enjoying this journey.
Let me know in the comments what you feel about it,
what you're thinking, what you wanna see more of.
We'll continue to update you and we are getting
closer and closer.
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You guys are amazing, and I couldn't do all of this
without you, and I love you guys for it.
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