- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
Ivy is lookin' good, she's gonna need
a little water change today, but that's pretty typical.
Obviously check out the croc' monitor over here,
just posting up right like that, looking at me.
And you know, you guys know that I'm struggling a little bit
with some things, but I'm getting through things
and I'm feeling positive and I'm feeling hopeful.
And there's so many days that I'm so thankful
for everything, but every now and then a day really hits me
where I'm like, on my gosh, I have an amazing anaconda,
I have a croc monitor, I have salt and pepper, an albino
and black aligator, I have, you know, Tiana.
Every enclosure I look at, I am blown away
and every now and then it just hits me like,
oh my gosh, these are our animals.
We get to enjoy them, I mean, look at how beautiful
the blood pythons are looking today.
I mean, you know, I'm just very thankful, even if I feel
a little anxious and stuff like that, I'm just so thankful.
I'm thankful for this place, it's an amazing day
and we're gonna have a great day together
so push our problems aside and by the way,
I'm grateful for each and one of you guys.
You guys are amazing.
We're gonna get through things, things are gonna be good,
push it aside.
We've got a kind of crazy day today,
so let's just go ahead and jump into it
because this is gonna be a good one, I think.
Like I mentioned yesterday, I was excited about this.
Literally egg-cited about this.
This is actually a really cool pairing.
Mama's actually a lori and a Pinstripe mix.
So a two gene animal.
And the dad is actually just
a single gene, lori ball python.
So, hey guys, we could actually get super lori ball pythons,
super lori pins, I tell you what, this is gonna be exciting.
And nine eggs, so we have a lot of eggs to cut here.
So hopefully our odds are good
and we get some super lori stuff because you guys know
how absolutely amazing that is so, let's just jump in,
first egg, let's see how our odds go.
There we go, come on please, please, please.
I hope this is just one of those clutches
that would just crush the odds.
Let's see.
Right off the rip, okay, this isn't bad.
We actually have a lori pinstripe right off the rip.
So that's still a cool combination.
It's not a super lori.
And again, on odds, we're looking at one in four
being super lori, so theoretically,
hopefully we'll get two super loris or super lori pins
in this clutch, but right off the rip you get a lori pin,
I'm not complaining.
Not a bad way to start.
Egg number two.
And with this many eggs, you feel really comfortable
about hitting the odds because typically
things work out pretty good the more eggs you have.
And let's see, right off the rip here.
Oh, yeah.
Look at that guys.
We hit the super lori pinstripe.
So this is basically the all gene animal.
I'm not gonna lie to you, the super loris
are actually a little prettier
than the super lori pinstriped, but this is a super lori
and it is a super lori pinstripe.
So, this is as good of an animal as I could produce
from this clutch as far as genetically.
Wow, that is second egg, we already hit one.
Let's hope we get at least one or two more.
Now I'm getting greedy, but hey, I can't help it.
We still have seven eggs to go and we could still get
a couple more super loris.
I wanna get at least one normal super lori
because they are rippers.
Let's go ahead and jump in.
All right, let's go, see what we got.
All right, there we go.
What do we have here?
Oh, gosh it's going good, this is another lori pinstripe.
So the lori and the pin
kinda make this axanthic-y looking animal
and that's really what the lori is, is a reduction
of yellow pigment, and then the super obviously has
that silver and blue, beautiful-ness to it.
So, let's jump in to egg four.
Come on, super lori ball python.
Super lori ball python.
Another lori pin.
Now what's interesting about this, again,
when you're breeding lori to lori,
on average three out of four should be loris,
but right now we're four eggs in, we've got all loris.
This is another lori pinstripe.
But we still haven't hit the super lori normal.
So I'm still hoping for that one, and this is just
a lori ball python so.
Again, we're still on the good path of loris
but now we're down to four eggs.
Doesn't feel like the odds are quite as good as I thought
but we had the super lori pin,
we still have four eggs to go, let's keep jumping in.
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on, little blue baby, little blue baby.
Oh nope.
Looks like another, interesting, another lori pinstripe.
So we haven't missed on the lori gene yet,
we just haven't hit on the super lori normal.
We've only hit the super lori pin,
so we've got three eggs to go.
Come on, come on.
I don't wanna get down to the last egg
'cause I'll be stressin' out.
Here we go.
Oh, a lori ball python.
Just a normal lori ball python.
All right guys, we're down to two eggs.
Take a little breath.
That's the way this is.
This is the way the odds go, you know,
I mean we hit the super lori pin on the second egg,
haven't hit one again,
two eggs to go, fingers crossed, let's do this.
All right, here we go, here we go.
What do we have?
Oh, it's just a normal pinstripe.
So this is the first non-lori ball python in the clutch,
in the eighth egg, but just a pinstripe, not a lori
or anything else like that.
Now we're down to one egg, and I think we only have
two other clutches this year that can produce super loris,
so we have one egg to go in this clutch and then
one or two more clutches for the super lori.
And of course, we have that super lori leopard clutch
that's coming up in a couple weeks and I think there was
11 eggs in that clutch.
So we got some good chances in there.
But let's just go ahead, one last egg.
Come on, please be a super lori, let's do this.
Come on, super lori, super lori, super lori.
Oh, nope.
No super lori.
Believe it or not, another normal pinstripe so.
Hey listen, all in all, I'm always happy
with whatever we've produced, right?
Obviously I wanted to produce that silver and blue
super lori blue python.
We did hit a super lori pinstripe, so I shouldn't complain
and then a bunch of other cool lori stuff,
so maybe we missed as far as the odds,
I said two super loris in this clutch
and we only got one, but hey,
we did hit the all gene animal
and that's not a bad thing, right?
So there it is.
The only clutch of the day, and all in all,
I'm relatively happy with it.
You guys know that I absolutely love
the company I'm about to tell you about.
I don't do a lot of brand deals, so you know
that I have to really believe in that company
and use that company in order to tell you about 'em
and of course, that is Raycon.
I like everything about 'em to be honest with you.
I love the fact that they're comfortable,
they sound as awesome as all the other
top end audio earbud companies,
and they're about half the price, guys.
I literally use these everyday.
You guys know I do tons of virtual tours
and as I'm walking around here, I am literally using
the Raycon Everday E25s, every single day.
But it's not just when I'm doing virtual tours.
I mean, showing off amazing animals
like this albino blood python or Al Mochino,
the amazing mochino reticulated python.
The truth is guys, it is great because
I can hear so well with these guys.
They come in a compact carrying case that charge earbuds
four times with one single charge of the carrying case.
And, there's no wires, so I'm not getting tied up on things
while I'm going through and doing my virtual tours.
But it's not just the virtual tours.
I use them when I'm cleaning, I use them when I'm at home,
I use them when I'm at the gym working out,
I mean Everyday E25s, for me, have been absolutely amazing
and the fact that they're such great deals,
is really good for you.
And right now, you can actually get them,
if you go to buyraycon.com/brianb,
you'll actually save 15%.
And guess what, now they actually have
a bunch of cool stylistic colors too
so you can chose your color, definitely check them out.
They're amazing.
You can go to buyraycon.com/brianb, save 15%.
And I'm telling you guys, you will not be disappointed
because I've actually had a bunch of my friends get them
and every single person has been like,
"Brian, these are the best earbuds I've ever gotten."
So, please do me a favor, go to buyraycon.com/brianb,
save 15%, show them some love, because they support us
and we cannot thank them enough.
- Today is actually a bit of a, to some of you
may be a little bit boring, but I really wanted
to take you guys along on about every sort of step
and every bit of my process on how I'm going about
working with our crocodile monitor here.
And one of those things that I really wanted to do
was actually, I wanted to get in the cage, inside with him,
and essentially observe.
I wanna stay out of his space and I don't really
wanna go approaching him at all 'cause I don't wanna
freak him out and I don't him to sit there and
associate me getting in the cage as something
that's gonna be stressful for him.
So I'm hoping by sitting in there
and sort of being un-intimidating,
it might actually be a positive interaction
potentially out of that.
Now, I don't know what's gonna happen.
I'm not going to predict what's gonna happen,
because that's not what I'm in there for.
I'm in there to watch what's going to happen.
And let's go ahead and get started,
so it's gonna be a few minutes guys
so we're gonna put you guys on the time lapse,
let you guys watch sort of how things go.
I'm gonna sit there for a few,
for as long as I possibly can, basically can stand it
before my back starts giving out or anything like that.
So let's just get started.
(modern funk music)
- Down in the dungeon, guess what time it is?
Egg time, egg time, egg time.
Egg time.
And we have actually a yellow bellied female here
that's actually just bread to a super stripe
and let's just go ahead and see how many eggs this girl has.
Looks like we got a couple little sluggers
but overall, a really nice beautiful clutch.
This egg was actually rolled out so we'll go ahead
and candle that one.
This egg is definitely weird because look at the underside
is uncalcified, but the top looks pretty good
so I think that egg will be fine.
And then the rest of the eggs
besides that one little slugger look pretty good.
So all in all, a pretty nice pluck
so we're gonna go ahead and get these over here.
Get these last two eggs over here,
go ahead put this little slugger aside.
We got two, four, six, eight, 10 good eggs,
one bad egg, and again a super stripe to a yellow belly
means that they could produce ivories,
they could produce more super stripes,
all that type of stuff so.
Nice clutch, can't wait till they hatch.
Next up is actually this double het albino clown.
It's bread to an albino clown, so on average,
one in four babies in this clutch should be albino clowns.
And then we'll get albinos that are het clown,
we'll get clowns het albino, so on like that
and even some potential double hets.
It looks like this girl's got a lot of eggs,
but she's not, oops, one rolled out here.
So again, we're just gonna have to candle these eggs
just to make sure because they aren't stuck together
and I've talked about that before how sometimes
it's weird how some eggs just aren't stuck together.
They're just kind of rolling around.
You can see like these two are stuck together here,
but then all the other eggs over here are just loose.
And we'll just get these over here, get them set up.
But it's definitely a really beautiful clutch of eggs.
We've got two, four, six, eight, 10 perfect eggs.
Again, that should be some albino clowns,
clowns het albino, albinos het clown,
all kinds of good stuff so that should be
really an awesome, awesome clutch.
(modern funk music)
Ever since we opened up the new part of The Reptarium,
I really wanted to get Champ,
the T-negative albino blood python, and of course Sweetie,
back at The Reptarium 'cause they're just such amazing,
I mean, look at how beautiful they are.
So we decided to actually move
the centralian carpet python off
and redo this enclosure here.
I think they're going to look absolutely amazing.
Blood pythons are just such amazing animals
and the fact that we have
two really radically different looking animals too,
it's gonna be really cool for this display.
I'm just gonna set them in there.
You guys aren't climbers you silly monkeys, you.
These guys are definitely ground dwellers
so they're probably not gonna use a lot of the height
of the cage, but just look at how beautiful they are.
With the extra foliage in here now, and just everything.
Oh my gosh, I am so happy to have these guys on.
And again, it's just another animal that people can take out
because often times, you can't really hold a lot
of blood pythons because they can be
a little bit cantankerous, but these guys
are super chill, so it's gonna be really cool.
Another animal ambassidor that people can take out
and have an amazing experience with.
Guess what time it is?
Egg time.
Not a whole lot of colubrids left
to be totally honest with you
so I'm going to definitely miss the colubrids egg time thing
but we also have plenty of pythons left to lay so.
This is actually a mosaic California king snake
and of course this is her second clutch.
And it looks like it's a nice clutch of eggs.
We got one little egg way over here,
I'm not sure what that's doing,
definitely gonna candle that one.
And then the rest of them are all coiled up right here.
Looks like we've got one little slugger,
that is not uncommon for second clutches.
Like I said, I would say we have
maybe about 15, 20 more clutches of colubrids
and then we are done for the year.
I'm always sad, but hey listen, we've got a lot of eggs
up here that are getting ready to hatch.
So what's better than egg season?
Baby snake season, that's for sure.
We've got two, four, six good eggs in this one.
Like I said, I'll candle this egg right quick
and that's pretty good so.
Again, just been an absolutely amazing year.
(modern funk music)
- Wow.
Holy moly, that was actually pretty cool.
So, I noticed that honestly, it didn't seem like there was
a lot of movement going on initially
when I first walked in to this.
I really hope this continues to go in a positive direction
and I don't wanna push it too far beyond this,
but I think this will definitely sort of increase
and get better and better, especially with the feedings
as they start to keep coming in, coming in, coming in,
he starts to associate me being the person feeding him
all the time, he may actually turn around
and be a guy that just every time I'm in there,
goes like, what are you down here for bro?
Let's see what happens, you know.
It's gonna be fun.
It's gonna be enjoyable.
- Again, I don't quite understand this girl,
you know, sometimes she's in the water
for long stretches of time.
Lately now, the last couple days, she's been on land,
but she is looking absolutely incredible.
And it's really good because we're coming up
on being open tomorrow and that means
that we can take Ivy out, because she's good to go
and she's cleared herself out.
So we can actually have people interacting with her
this time when we're open at The Reptarium,
which will be pretty dope.
Geckos are definitely hatching now, huh Jessica?
- Yeah, we've got leopard geckos, cave geckos,
and a morning gecko.
- Oh my gosh, that's a lot of geckos.
Just off the rip, I can see a lot
of really beautiful animals here.
- Yeah, there's a lot of really cool stuff in here.
This one's super cool.
- [Brian] Yeah, I was just lookin' at that.
- [Jessica] So it's probably mack snow
tremper albino eclipse.
White and yellow.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, well that's a lot of things.
- [Jessica] Yeah. - [Brian] Sorry buddy.
That is a really cool lookin' gecko though.
- [Jessica] And then right next to it,
that's a dark line, and then an albino with it,
which is kinda cool.
This one's pretty cool too,
it's a snow Murphy's patternless.
- Oh, yeah.
It's real dark too, yeah?
Lookin' good.
I mean, these babies are cool and I know we get
a lot of pattern mutations, which I know is really popular
within the gecko world, so there's a lot of cool stuff.
Oh my gosh, that's a little bald bell albino?
- [Jessica] Yeah.
That one's a white and yellow I believe as well.
- [Brian] That a white and yellow too, yeah.
You can tell it's really beautiful.
Wow.
Bells are just so beautiful.
I mean, look at the colors on the two.
Really contrasting.
- [Jessica] Yeah.
- [Brian] But both kinda got cool striping
and stuff like that.
- It's cool to see the variation between siblings too.
- Yeah, that's really cool.
And of course, you can actually control the pigment
a little bit with temperature, but these are siblings
so they're incubated at the exact same temperature
so you don't have one that's lighter
because of lower temperatures and stuff like that.
It's pretty interesting.
- [Jessica] I'm gonna say that one's
probably white and yellow-- - [Brian] Yeah.
- [Jessica] and maybe head eclipse or something.
- [Brian] Yeah, exactly.
Causing a pigment change or something.
Yeah, that's awesome.
So that is incredible.
And then we have a couple little cave geckos.
- [Jessica] Yeah, these are the other kind.
- [Brian] Oh, yeah.
You can always tell they have more orange heads.
- Yeah, their head's pretty orange.
And the orange develops more as they get older too
so you'll see more orange on them.
- [Brian] Those are super cool
and then lastly you said we got,
I'm not even gonna open this up because, oh my god,
look at how small that is.
It's a little morning gecko.
I don't think we should try.
I've had bad track record with opening these up.
- You guys would have been laughing,
I had to catch it out of the adult enclosure.
- [Brian] Wow, look at even this.
We've got a couple--
- Oh, yeah, that's the,
so, I have this really weird leopard gecko
that, it would be really cool, but it's probably
too much to hope for, but it looks like
it's an increasing melanin gene.
So it's gotten darker over time.
- That's amazing.
Well cool, well geckos ahoy guys.
We'll get these things set up
and eventually they'll get on the website.
Definitely awesome to hatch out another super lori pin.
A little disappointed we didn't hatch more,
but that's okay, we have other clutches
and we're gonna do absolutely amazing.
If you enjoyed this video, here's a playlist
of me cutting snake eggs.
If you guys like it, there's a ton of them there.
You can roll through that.
If you don't mind, could you please support
my podcast channel, right up here.
It's called Checking In, you can subscribe to it.
On this side, you can actually subscribe
to this vlog channel.
Please turn your post notifications on
and have an absolutely wonderful day.
Remember, be kind to someone
and I promise I'll see you tomorrow.