- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
I'm gonna start my day
spending some time with Salt and Pepper,
the albino and black alligator.
When I mean spending time,
I think I'm actually gonna jump in with them because the
whole idea is in the future is to have a swim area where you
can actually swim with Salt and Pepper,
or at least Salt.
Not sure Pepper is gonna be good enough.
Not sure,
but I'm gonna go ahead get some trunks on
and get in the water.
What do you say we just push our problems aside
to have a great time and get wet.
What do you think?
(upbeat music)
Let's get ready and jump in!
(cartoon falling sound)
(water running)
(quiet music)
Come on, Salty.
Come on.
What are you thinking?
What are you doing, sweetheart?
Hi Salty.
Hi baby girl.
Good girl.
So I tell you what guys,
this is absolutely cool.
The water is kind of perfect.
Salt is such a good animal.
She's just swimming around with me like nothing.
Pepper actually even did pretty good
to be totally honest with you, so this is cool.
Again, I want to do this at least once a week or so.
I'm gonna get in,
I'm not gonna film it and stuff like that,
but I want to get in with them at least once a week
so they can continue to grow.
Look at this girl.
She's coming right over to me.
Hey baby girl, look at that.
She just swam right up to me.
She's not afraid at all, look at her.
How awesome was that?
I mean, she just literally like swam right up to me.
That's what I want.
I want her to be able to just come right up to me,
just like this, look at her.
Here she comes again. Here she comes again.
Here she comes again.
I tell you what I want to go ahead and see if I can maybe
feed her in here too.
I think that might be pretty cool.
So again I'm thinking all these experiences
that I can actually create
if we're actually swimming with them, right?
If you're swimming with them, what is it gonna be like?
I mean, that would be absolutely.
Oh! Pepper just got me.
Pepper just nibbled my leg.
Oh! Now Salt is coming over.
Ah! Ah!
Oh, things are going bad here guys.
I turned around,
it went from being good to being bad.
Ha ha, Salty, what are you doing?
She's coming over and she's trying to bite at me.
Salty! Stop it, you silly monkey.
Oh gosh.
(laughing)
Oh my gosh,
I think she finally said like,
"Hey dad, this is my turf over here."
Look at her.
She's coming over.
No, no, she's got me.
She's got me.
Ow! Ow!
Now Pepper got me.
Oh my gosh.
Guys, all right,
so I'm going to have to work on this a lot.
This is no joke.
Come on, Salty.
Come on here baby.
Oh my god.
All right, so I'm gonna show her how to feed her
and I'm gonna get the heck out of here before she gets me.
And I think that these guys just got to the point
where it was like,
"all right, dad, you swam.
Put this up. Let's get the heck out of my place."
Alright. Woo.
Alright, let me get some chicken and see what happens.
(popping sounds)
Oh my gosh, look at that. Woo!
She is definitely ready to eat.
She's not worried about me being in here with her,
that's for sure.
(popping sounds)
Okay.
Come on, come on.
(popping sounds)
Oh! Come here girl, come here.
There you go girl, woo!
Come here. Come here.
There you go, baby girl. Woo!
I'll tell you what.
One more baby.
Oh!
Alright guys, I'm gonna get out of here.
It was pretty successful,
other than the fact that Salt bit me,
I think it went okay.
This is a good first starting thing.
We'll get in here with her,
but she'll get more habituated.
This is gonna be an amazing experience
and I promise by time we get to a point a year from now,
when you're getting in with her,
she's not gonna fight like that,
but that was absolutely incredible.
So as you can see,
we are on a journey to get these guys to the point
where you can swim with them.
But the truth is you guys know I'm on a journey, right?
And my journey is to try to get over anxiety
and to be happy.
Well, the fact is when I'm in that moment there,
no matter how anxious I am, everything goes away
and all I do is focus on that moment.
Focus on Salt. Focus on Pepper.
I forget all the other things.
You know, when I'm on the end of a deadly snake,
all I'm thinking about is that snake.
I'm not thinking about anything else.
That's my personal journey
is to get to that moment all the time.
Together, we need to go on two journeys.
One journey to get to that moment,
and the other journey,
to get these guys to the point
where I can have people swim with them.
Just a little corn snake clutch that hatched out.
These are actually possible had
scale as creamsicle bred to a head scale as creamsicle.
Turns out we only had a few babies,
but they were definitely not skinless.
But look at how interesting they look.
They're really interesting animals.
I mean really, almost like anerythristic
like they don't seem to have any yellow in them at all,
which is a little interesting.
Now again, sometimes with some of the creamsicle stuff,
it does have some muted
because it has Emory rat snake in it.
But these are really interesting looking,
not at all what I expected.
Again, just a few babies,
nothing too crazy, but definitely pretty cool.
I was super excited about this clutch of
baby (indistinct) that hatched out.
These are Arizona mountain kingsnakes
and hoo doggie, these things are beautiful ones, too.
These have all those triads.
That's the little bands that are called.
And a lot of times these Arizona mountain kings
have quite a bit of black tipping is what they'll call
where the bands actually come together with black tipping.
And it just doesn't make them quite as beautiful,
that clean, beautiful look.
And these guys came out gorgeous,
and these are (indistinct) for albinos too,
so the dad was an albino Arizona mountain kingsnake.
I tell you what these things are ridiculous
and I'm so happy that we produced
I think there was six little babies
in here and they're all little rippers.
We've got my buddy Nova, just chilling out here.
He's like, "what are you doing, dad?"
Well, of course Lilith is up here
and she is definitely gearing up
for another clutch of eggs.
So we have our nest box that we use.
And basically I just said, what are you doing?
You inspecting the nest box, little buddy?
It's okay.
So we basically mixed some reptile prime coconut fiber,
with some peat moss,
dampen it up.
We obviously put a hole in here that way she can dig down
and bury her eggs,
like she did last time.
I'm expecting her to lay eggs in the next week or so.
I don't think it's gonna be any day,
but I think within the next seven to 10 days,
she's gonna lay.
So I'm just gonna go ahead,
put this nest box in there
if Nova doesn't mind, that is.
So let's just go ahead,
do that and then
hopefully we'll get some nice pearly eggs.
By the way, the first clutch should be hatching
literally within the next week or so.
How awesome is that?
All right Nova, we're going for a ride buddy.
Ooh, this is fun.
All the way back here.
We'll just leave that right there, like I said,
Lilith is definitely swollen up with some marbles in there,
looking pretty good.
Nova, he's like to the point, where like, oh,
he's probably thinking,
"oh, she's gonna lay some eggs
and I'm gonan try to eat 'em".
You better not, Nova,
but I'll keep you guys posted.
We'll check on the eggs pretty much every day
from now until she lays.
This was actually a normal ball python
that was bred to a banana spinner
and we had quite a bit of interesting things happening here.
Kind of had ran the gamut to be totally honest with you.
We got a couple normal banana ball pythons here,
which are unbelievably good.
I mean, look how pretty this one is right here.
Hoo I tell it, that is a pretty banana ball python.
And that's the thing that's so neat, you know,
banana ball pythons I've mentioned in the past
were so expensive at one point.
Now they're relatively cheap,
so almost anyone can really own 'em, which is cool.
Of course, we got a banana spider here,
another banana spider right here,
and then of course we have a banana spinner,
which is what the dad looked like here,
which is the pinstripe, the spider and the banana.
And then we just have a little spider down here.
A couple normals.
The only thing we didn't hit in this entire clutch was a
banana pinstripe,
which of course is one of the ingredients
to have banana spinners.
Nevertheless, a bunch of really beautiful
banana ball pythons hatched out,
I couldn't be happier.
Wanted to give you guys a little update
on those tri-color hognose that we got a while back.
Remember they were teeny tiny babies.
Look at how awesome they are.
This is actually just one of those ones that they would call
a jag that has kind of the weird triadic.
And again, these are a type of hognose,
but not related to Western hognose at all.
These guys come from Central and South America.
Really cool, prolific animals looking amazing.
And here's actually another one
that's even brighter than that one's got really nice red.
It's got some of that jaguaring as well.
This is awesome.
I can't wait 'til next year.
These guys should be big enough to breed.
So hopefully in 2021,
we'll produce some little baby tri-color hognose.
(air whooshing)
And are you guys ready for the next egg cutting?
'cause I know I am
and I am excited about this clutch,
the parents were.
The mom that laid those eggs
is this beautiful big Mojave female
and she was bred to two males,
this black pewter lesser cypress.
Remember, this is the boy that had bred
several females already
and fathered none of 'em.
Unfortunately we did do another male.
So let's hope that this time, this is the dad.
But like I mentioned,
there was one other male in with her too.
And then there was this mocha male.
Now this mocha only bred the Mojave one time,
whereas the black cypress did a bunch.
So let's go ahead and cut these eggs
and see who the dad is.
So obviously that Mojave,
the black pewter lesser cypress, hopefully as the dad,
but like I had mentioned,
the mocha male was in one time,
only one time,
but we've been wanting to get this
black pewter lesser cypress to father or something
and the Mojave and cypress stuff mixes so well together.
I'm hoping.
Now you can see that there's actually two eggs
here that have already slit.
I can't see what's in 'em
but that means this clutch is ready to go for sure.
So let's just go ahead and jump into the first egg.
And hopefully that black pewter lesser cypress will
actually have fathered the clutch.
If not, we might get some white babies
because the mocha and the Mojave
are both from the blue eyed leucistic complex,
so let's see what we get.
We're gonna go ahead and just cut right into this first
one that is already slit and see what we got here.
Hmm.
Okay. So I have a feeling
this is kind of what I was hoping didn't happen
and that this is a mocha.
(laughing) Right.
So, nothing more than a single gene mocha.
He only bred one time,
that black pewter lesser cypress bred like six times.
That male just must not be throwing good sperm
because he hasn't bothered anything yet.
But so we still have what, two, four, six more eggs to go.
So you never know.
If the mocha is the dad,
we may get blue eyed Lucy's here.
So let's see what we get.
Egg number two.
Again, I'm not gonna be disappointed either way.
And guess what we got right off the rip here,
we got a blue eyed leucistic,
an all white snake with blue eyes.
That is definitely the mocha Mojave.
Again, folding the blue eyed leucistic complex,
so we know the mocha has bothered the couple clutches,
which is cool.
Listen, I want that black pewter lesser cypress
to prove some stuff 'cause it's such a beautiful animal,
but I also love producing blue eyed leucistic
because they are so popular.
If I produce 500 blue eyed leucistics this year,
I wouldn't have enough because you guys love 'em so much.
So let's go into egg number three.
This egg had the littlest little slit,
but you could barely see what do we have here?
Let's see, just trying to look and see,
looks like another mocha actually. Yep.
Just a mocha.
And, you know, Mojaves are really cool.
Mochas and Mojaves are similar, right?
The mochas are just a little bit more chocolaty,
which makes sense with the name mocha, right?
Let's go ahead and jump into this next egg
that's really cut up and see what's in here.
And I saw that there definitely wasn't
a leucistic in here,
so I don't know what it is.
Let's see what's going on.
And look at this,
this little monkey with that egg too, just went crazy.
He started ripping this whole thing up
and what do we have here?
Interestingly enough,
looks like we have a normal ball python.
(laughing)
So we missed that Mojave,
we missed on the mocha
and we didn't get blue eyed leucistic
we saw three eggs ago.
So hey, I have a feeling.
Oh, look at this little monkey,
he's sticking his head up right now.
That's the blue eyed Lucy sticking his head up right now.
He took his first breath right now, right in front of us.
How absolutely incredible is this.
And these babies will all climb out of the eggs here in the
next two or three days.
Oh my god.
That is what gets me excited, guys.
I love seeing what's in the eggs,
but when I see that first breath
and that animal is looking around,
listen, he's seeing me for the very first time.
That's the first image he has or her, of course.
So that is just absolutely incredible.
Let's go to egg number five.
Here we go, egg number five,
I see it's not a leucistic right off the bat,
but what do we have here.
Oh! Our first Mojave ball python.
So this is the normal Mojave.
Just a little bit more blushing than the mocha.
I love Mojave stuff.
The Mojave stuff has been around for a long, long time.
The snake keepers out in Utah
are the first ones that ever produced it.
And it is such a popular morph for the last 15, 18 years,
whatever it is.
Two more eggs to go.
Let's hope we can get one more blue eyed leucistic,
at least.
That would really make this clutch beautiful.
Another Mojave. Okay.
So we hit two Mojaves in here and again,
they're really nice entry level animals, incomplete,
dominant to super Mojaves.
Will have a little bit more head pattern than the
blue eyed leucistics that are from the mocha.
Mojaves to be honest with you.
You could see this blue eyed leucistic here
has just a tank pattern.
The super Mojave will have a much heavier pattern
on its head.
Last egg, come on white snake.
(rock music)
And I don't mean David Coverdale
and we didn't get a white snake, no.
It looks like we've got another Mocha.
So we've got Mochas, we've got Mojaves,
we've got one blue eyed leucistic.
All in all, pretty good.
Still missing on that black pewter lesser cypress.
I think I've only got one more clutch of eggs that he
potentially bothered,
what a bummer thought.
That's a cool snake and he just completely whipped.
But nevertheless, still absolutely gorgeous babies.
I really can't wait 'til Salt and Pepper get five,
six foot long and you guys
can actually get in and swim with them.
It's gonna be an amazing, amazing experience
'cause even at their size,
it was absolutely fantastic.
If you guys liked this video,
you can actually look at this playlist right here.
While I'm boxing actually is when I am boxed,
Salt and Pepper is in that playlist.
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