- This happens to be a slug snake egg.
That's right.
You may remember, we've been checking up
on our female piebald ball python, hoping for good eggs.
Well, this is a slug,
and it has taken us a little while to get any eggs from her.
You might wanna remember that, right?
Go ahead and roll.
Nope, not today.
Not today.
Let's hope for the best. No.
Darn it! No egg!
I got the plastic bag! You know.
So today is the day that the female pied laid
and let's see what she has to offer us here.
Just pull back this paper,
Look at that beautiful clutch of eggs!
That's right.
She did have one little slug in there,
but look at those pearly whites and oh, mama,
it looks like she's wanting to protect.
Go down, mama.
That's all right.
Let's go ahead...
Whoa, mama!
It's all right.
Good mama.
I tell you what.
I'm gonna go ahead and cover her up,
get her a little bit relaxed there,
and let's go ahead and set up an egg box.
(upbeat music)
Just out of nostalgia, let's hit that egg time song.
♪ Egg time ♪
And now the moment of truth,
I tell you what I am beyond excited about this clutch,
and I've thought the piebald ball python
has always been one of my favorites, for sure.
You can kind of see,
I'm just gonna move this out over here
and we can get a chance to see her.
Wow. Is that absolutely.
I tell you what,
that is a site that I needed to see.
Cause you got to remember, Martha is not happy right now.
It's okay, momma
I promise I'm gonna take care of your eggs.
You remember we started kind of sketchy right?
Where we had a bad clutch egg
and then we had that surprise clutch of pastels.
I didn't even know his grabbing
but this was the girl I was waiting for and I am so happy.
Mama. It's okay.
It's okay.
Wow. She got the right on the hand.
I tell you what, sometimes you try to steal cookie,
out of a cookie jar and you get bit if you know what I mean?
So let's go ahead and just see
if we can get her
(mumbles) she is really keyed up.
That's okay. Mama. It's all right.
You're really good.
Okay. We'll just get her aside really quick.
And then we can go ahead and get these eggs out of here.
Nice. Fresh eggs.
It looks like she just laid them.
Cause they're definitely still very, very pliable.
Go ahead. Just get these out.
Put these over here.
Three more eggs right here.
Come on, mama.
You did okay.
Oh my God. That's so good.
And she looks pretty good all in all.
We'll get her cleaned up.
We'll go ahead and get her a meal here
in the next couple of days
and she's gonna be back on the rebound
but how awesome is that?
We got a clutch of eggs from a pieball to pieball
meaning that the entire clutch is gonna be pie.
Go ahead, put mama back really quick.
And like I said, I'll go ahead
and get her all cleaned up.
Oftentimes what we'll do also is wash
the actual animal itself just to get
the egg kind of scent off,
so she goes back onto food
and that's one of the benefits
of taking the eggs away like this,
and artificial incubating is that if they maternally bait
they wrap around those eggs.
They won't eat or drink for two whole months.
So this way we can get her back onto food
and get her beefed up, ready to breed next year.
So all in all, we got two, four, six beautiful eggs.
We did get one slugger,
you guys know what we're gonna do that.
We're gonna go ahead and feed that off
to something here in a minute.
But how awesome is that?
We are on our way guys, two good clutches in a row.
And we still have a bunch
of females that are about to lay here pretty soon.
The egg season in the ball python world is starting
and it's gonna be a banger of a year.
Cannot wait to bring you along on all of them.
(bright upbeat music)
Gonna get these eggs in an incubator
and go feed off the slug egg.
Hey Jay, do you want to eat the slug egg?
- I don't actually.
I really don't.
- Okay. So I guess Jay doesn't want it
so let's go ahead and feed it to Ubusuku.
All right, here we go.
I think that Ubusuku knows what's going on.
Come on, girl.
Slow down, slow down, slow drag over here.
Let me go drop.
There you go little monkey.
What are you doing silly girl?
Oh my God.
Yeah, she likes it again.
We're gonna try to do this all year long.
Hopefully we won't have that many slug eggs this year
but when we do have slugs
we're gonna put them to use and have our monitor lizards
or whatever around here wants to eat them. Eat.
It's gonna be good nutrition for them,
but again, let's hope we don't have many.
Last year was a great year.
We started the year, a little bit rocky
with only one slug in this clutch.
I'm pretty thankful.
And I'm pretty hopeful that
the rest of them is gonna be amazing.
What are you guys doing over?
It looks like you set up a murder scene over here
or something like that.
- Well you know.
- He's just trying to get ...
You're trying to get (mumbles) to get upset
with Nightfury.
- Murderscenes.com.
- Okay. Got it. Yeah.
Okay, so we actually do have something
I'll be talking about soon.
Why we're taking these pictures.
You guys are gonna love it, but still about a week
or two away from letting you know about this one.
Let's go find Lori really quick.
Hey Lori.
All right. So we're gonna unbox this.
This says Brian and Laurie Barczyk.
So if it's something for her,
I'm going to keep it.
Here she comes.
See, I knew it.
I knew she was gonna come as soon as she saw
that it was something maybe for her.
- Is it chocolate?
I think you'd be better off with camomile tea.
(mumbles)
I think this is yours and this is mine.
(Laurie laughs)
Classy, sassy and a little (mumbles)
(Brian laughs)
- I actually needed a tank top to this so perfect.
- This one is super cool.
This one is super cool. So yeah.
- Thank you. Who is it from?
- Yeah. I should read this real quick
says," Dear Brian and Lori, you won't remember me
but we painted the reptarium in July.
It was amazing.
I've been meaning to send these guys forever.
Thank you Shauna from upstate New York."
Thank you, Shauna. - Thanks.
- (indistinct) Mike is feeding bugs off today.
You know, it's always funny.
Let's just go ahead, roll a little montage about that.
Right now.
(bright upbeat music)
Pretty excited to let you guys know
that we hired the architectural firm to start working
on the expansion of the reptarium aquarium.
That's right. We hired them.
It's gonna be a process.
It's gonna take us a few months
just even going through all the drawings,
but hopefully here in the next maybe few weeks,
month, whatever it is
I'll be able to share with you the conceptual drawing
of what this place might look like.
I figured you guys would be interested.
It's on its way.
Again, lots of boxes would still be checked.
I am 99% sure that we're gonna go through with it.
But at least we got the first step started.
It looks like our female egg eater actually shed out.
Look at this right here.
It's always cool.
You know, these sheds like this, remind me
of what I used to see in the woods,
when I was a kid, when I was garter snake hunting
you'd see the sheds
and you knew snakes are around,
which is pretty cool.
I honestly didn't realize that egg eaters hide as much
as they do, but they certainly do
because you can't even see where she is in here.
And I promise you guys here
in the next week or so,
we're gonna try to get an entire video,
her eating an egg and then crushing it
and spitting it back out.
It's really an amazing thing to see.
But in the meantime
it's good to see that she has a beautiful shed.
What are you doing?
- Just seeing if he wants to drink water.
- It's an alligator.
- So they still drink water.
- They spend their whole life in the water.
- They still drink water.
- How do you know? Have you ever seen one drink?
- No, have you ? - No.
- Have you seen one not not drink water.
(mumbles)
(bright upbeat music)
- It's crazy to see the monkey-tailed skinks
are always hanging out up front now.
They used to hide all the time.
And this is a pair, remember I've been waiting
for like over a year to have some babies.
These have live young
and they are absolutely incredible.
Cause they're little carbon copies of these guys
but unfortunately I just don't know what's going on
and look at this little guy.
What's the matter buddy?
What's the matter?
They have a pretty nasty bite too.
So I definitely wanna stay away from this one.
This is the boy here.
I think the girl is a little bit more docile.
She's actually pretty good.
You can pet her and everything like that.
But that boy, he is definitely territorial
and that's all about it, right?
He's protecting his girl, which is really good.
They're absolutely incredible.
And hopefully we'll have a little baby here soon.
Of course for you guys don't know
the coloring book is amazing
and I'm starting to see some
of your artwork getting sent to me on Instagram.
You guys are killing the coloring books.
You can go to thereptarium.com and get them.
They are only 10 bucks.
Go ahead, color them, when you do color
tag me in it and I'll share some of my favorites.
You guys are killing it.
I absolutely love this thing.
One of the things that I love
the fact that weather is starting to warm up
and in the seventies is the fact
that we can take our animals outside
and Ubusuku actually will love going outside.
Give her a little spray down and scrub.
Cause she's got a little bit of stuck shed on her.
So what do you say?
We get her, take her outside
and see if we can manicure up a little bit.
- Outside?
- Ubusuku definitely thinks she's gonna get fed.
So I always use this as just the kind of
you have to touch her to let her know,
"Hey, listen, we're not feeding you today."
It's okay.
And you know, she'll probably when at first
get her still feel a little bit, whatever
but she calms down really quickly.
As you can see, good girl
as soon as she knows, there's no food,
but you can see that there's just a lot
of stuck shed on her
which is really typical for monitors to be honest with you
let's take her outside and wash her up.
- Outside?
- There you go, girl.
I'll be right back.
No, that's good.
That probably feels good. Doesn't it?
Get some of that shed off.
It's still not gonna come all off.
Pretty cool enrichment for her
to walk around out here.
Again, she's got a lot of shed still on there.
But we've got the little pieces off
and I'm sure she had a great time out here.
I love the fact that
we can start bringing our animals outside.
- Outside?
- Really hoping that we get some eggs
from our Leachies this year.
If you remember, this was my very first Leachie
I ever got. This is big (indistinct)
It's just a GT or Grande Terre and I love her to death.
And this is the first year we're actually gonna
be trying to breed these guys.
So with any luck we are gonna get some babies.
And that would be absolutely amazing just in time
for the new Caledonia room that we've been working on,
building out.
We're just waiting on all the materials,
maybe another month or so
and the new Caledonia room will be ready to rock.
(bright upbeat music)
- Yeah butterscotch.
- Yeah (mumbles)
- Butterscotch did we already knew it.
- Yeah.
(bright upbeat music)
- You gotta just do it.
(bright upbeat music)
- It is hard to believe that in less than 60 days
we're gonna see some of these little beauties right here.
Little baby piebald ball pythons.
I mean, how awesome is that?
It took a while, but it finally happened.
And trust me guys, within a matter of a few weeks
we were gonna be getting eggs every single day.
So I am excited. If you enjoyed this,
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Remember be kind to someone
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