- Hey good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
Today is a little bit better for me,
if you guys are interested,
and it's starting out really cool because of course
we have our first litter of baby albino garter snakes.
This is always so exciting,
and look at mama, how beautiful she is!
So I'm gonna just kind of just set her aside
for a second, then I'm gonna start to actually collect
these babies, and there's actually albino checkereds,
and then this is an albino granite, whoo,
I tell you what, these things are gorgeous.
Course this is an albino checkered that's het for granite,
bred to an albino granite.
So there's gonna be albinos,
there's gonna be albino granites,
and you can tell the difference.
This is just a normal albino here,
and then you can see all the increased granitey in this.
This is an albino granite here.
I tell you what, these are so absolutely adorable.
So I'm gonna just keep on pulling these aside,
and then we'll go back and count 'em, to be honest with you.
We've got a handful of other female garters
just exploding with babies right now,
and it's just always so cool to find baby garter snakes
because, again, I've told this a million times,
really, garter snakes are what kind of founded
my passion and love for snakes when I was a kid.
When I used to run around in the woods and just
collect garter snakes, I mean it's cool,
and then the albinos are gorgeous.
As a matter of fact, I'm not gonna lie to you,
I wanna get a bunch more different types of garter snakes.
That's one of the things that's on my list this year,
is to kind of acquire some more garter snakes,
'cause there are so many beautiful ones out there,
and I tell you what, look at how absolutely
adorable those things are.
And if you guys are looking for a really cool pet snake,
I tell you what, garter snakes are incredible,
and now that they come in a lot of different colors
and there's a lot of captive breeding going on,
it can be amazing.
So mama looks really good, and the thing that's interesting
is that these will have a second litter,
so we'll go ahead and breed her again,
'cause she looks so absolutely perfect right now,
and here in literally a couple months,
she'll have another litter of babies.
I'm just gonna look around,
just to make sure there's no babies hidden anywhere,
stuff like that, looks like that is it,
and then we'll go ahead and count up
these babies really quick.
So here we go, we've got one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven,
eight, nine, 10, 11 baby albino garters.
And it looks like there's three or four of them
are albino granite garter snakes.
So the ratio is a little weird,
'cause you'd expect to have a little bit
more albino granites, but I'm not complaining,
'cause I am just excited to produce some more garter snakes.
The first babies of the year, I tell you what,
that always puts me into a good mood
and right now I need that to keep
the energy up for the rest of the day.
So let's just go ahead and you and me both push our problems
aside and try to have an amazing day together.
I know I talk about Ivy my green anaconda way too much,
it's just because I'm so obsessed with her.
But she is so weird about everything.
Even now with the shedding thing,
I mean, in normal snakes, clear up,
and then like, the next day shed.
She's been clear for like, three days now.
Same thing happened last time, it's so bizarre.
She's just starting to have a couple little breaks
in her skin where you can see she's shedding.
So I am sure by tomorrow she will have shed
and we are going to get in with her like I had mentioned.
I am super excited, but Ivy,
you just are such a weird snake.
Hey guys, guess what time it is?
Egg time.
That's right, it's colubrid egg time.
This is actually a pretty cool little animal here.
This is actually a het for plasma corn snake,
oh my God, beautiful clutch of eggs,
and it's a really pretty animal too.
I mean, just look at the silvers in that.
For a corn snake, that's a beautiful snake for sure.
And it was bred to this plasma corn snake right here,
which is of course a diffused lavender corn,
so it's got that purple look to it,
so these babies could come out really cool.
We can again get lavenders, we can get het lavenders,
we can get plasmas, diffused het lavender,
all that type of stuff.
So we've got two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14, 15 good eggs.
I cannot wait til these babies hatch.
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like I mentioned, we are so excited that we're back
opened up here at the Reptarium, it's been so amazing,
I mean, it seems like it was forever that we were closed.
And of course I'd mentioned before that we're gonna be
able to increase to 25 people per hour,
and I wanna explain why that is.
In theory, we could have up to 80 people,
about half of what we normally get in here,
per the governor's rule, but,
they say you have to have social distancing,
and I'm just not gonna lie to you,
I wanna keep you guys safe, I wanna keep my crew safe,
I wanna keep the animals safe,
and 80 people in here, we just can't social distance.
So we decided again through the end of June
we'll stay at 25 people per hour.
You can go to thereptarium.com if you wanna book a slot,
and you get pretty hands on at only 25 people in here.
Hopefully by July we'll all feel better
and be able to just open the doors
and people can come in and hang out as long as they want.
But it's been a pretty interesting
and kind of special situation,
where there's such a small number of people in here
with a lot of people working.
Again, we'll have six people working
while there's 25 people, I mean,
that's about as individual amount of care
you're ever gonna get here at the Reptarium
without booking a tour, which by the way,
we are doing tours and birthday parties
and everything like that now too.
So again, if you wanna join us in June
there will be some spots available
through the end of the month.
You can go to thereptarium.com.
I hope I'll see you, and again,
in July, just come and hang out with us,
and hopefully things will kind of be back to normal.
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Down in the dungeon, which can only mean one thing,
egg time, that's right, it's egg time.
And this is actually pretty exciting.
It's actually the second clutch
that I bred the same pairing together.
This is actually, let's go see what she's got going on.
This is actually a fire yellow belly girl,
so again, the fire and the yellow belly
both incomplete dominant, ironically enough,
both white snake producers,
one being a black eyed Lucy, the other one being an ivory,
and she was bred to a red striped male,
so I wanna get that fire red striped yellow belly,
that's what I'm really looking for.
And like I had mentioned,
the first clutch was just laid a few days ago,
it was 11 eggs, so let's just see what mama has
in store for us today.
And mama is not happy, whoo, come on little monkey.
Come on, it's okay.
We'll just go ahead, just kinda take her off here.
Again, we, every time we do this,
we get the cage all cleaned up and stuff like that.
We'll take this egg out here,
and then we'll get the rest of her off,
let's see what she's got going on.
Nice little clutch.
Not a ton of eggs, but again, she's not a really big female.
But ho doggie, that's a beautiful
clutch of eggs right there.
I'm gonna just peel this one egg off.
These are really, really fresh.
As a matter of fact, when I first came in this morning
I check and I saw that she was laying,
so literally, these have been laid just in the last hour
or so, and she's completely done.
We have two, four, six, seven good eggs.
That means we have 18 eggs from that breeding.
We've gotta hit the odds and hit that
fire red stripe yellow belly.
That would be an incredibly beautiful snake.
So that's one clutch, one more to go.
This next clutch is actually just
a really pretty normal female that had this interesting,
like, Harlequin pattern, that's what they used to call it,
and it's actually bred to a banana spinner,
and a banana lemon blast.
So it's just banana stuff that we can make from here,
'cause it's just so popular.
Banana stuff is always, always, always so popular,
and we wanna produce a bunch of them.
So we're gonna take mom off, you did good mom,
I see you have one little slugger in here.
Oh, looks like maybe two slugs,
and a couple boob eggs, too, look at these guys.
We'll take these two little sluggers out first,
get them out of here,
and then we'll look at the rest of the clutch.
We'll go ahead and pull these out.
We've got, whoa, mama, calm down girl.
Whoa, calm down girl, what are you thinking, girl?
Again, she's just being a good mama,
trying to protect her eggs.
I totally understand, mom, you did real, whoa!
Whoo, that was a close call right there.
I was paying attention to the egg,
not paying attention to mom and she almost got me.
She's almost like, "You're gonna take my eggs,
"I'm gonna go ahead and hit you".
So we got two, four, six, seven eggs.
So ironically enough, seven eggs in both the clutches.
Two little sluggers in this one,
but listen, things have been going great this year,
and lots, and lots, and lots of babies coming this year.
It's gonna be so exciting.
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- I insist on being here when they're born.
- Guess what time it is?
I don't have a funny jingle for egg cutting time,
but maybe we'll make something like that
if you guys like it.
Let me know in the comments if you do.
This is actually a pretty cool clutch,
and here's the mom which is just a normal pinstripe.
Well she's actually a really pretty pinstripe,
and as you can see, after two months after she laid
her eggs, she's starting to look a little bit chunky again,
she's put all that body weight back on.
And she was actually bred to two males,
this being one of them,
which is a banana fire spinner blast.
So again, it's a banana, it's a pastel,
it's a fire, it's a spider, and it's a spinner.
The second male was actually a fire yellow belly,
so again, this could be the dad, that could be the dad,
or in some cases you can actually have dual father clutches,
where this'll actually sire part of the clutch
and the other one will sire the other part.
Let's just go ahead, jump in, and cut some eggs.
So we really don't know who the father is.
It could be the fire yellow belly,
it could be the banana fire spinner blast.
We're gonna find out pretty soon,
there's no doubt about that.
So let's just go ahead and jump into it
and cut this first egg.
And let's see, I think the first egg could potentially
tell us right off the rip potentially who the daddy is,
and, nope, it doesn't tell us who the daddy is.
Well, actually, it does tell us who the daddy is.
Nope, no, I take that back,
it doesn't tell us who the daddy is.
'Cause it's a fire, and it may be a fire yellow belly,
but unfortunately fire's in both the males
so we don't know who the dad is.
So that looks like a fire,
it's possibly a fire yellow belly,
so let's just go ahead, jump into egg number two,
and maybe we can start unraveling the mystery.
There's gonna be a lot of this this season,
so I think that you guys are gonna enjoy it
because we're gonna be finding out,
'cause we did do a lot of multiple male breeding.
So let's just go ahead, egg number two.
And let's see what we got.
What do we got, what do we got, what do we got?
And, okay so, now I think we pretty much have
solved the mystery at least partially,
and this is definitely a fire yellow belly.
Now the banana fire spinner blast obviously
doesn't have yellow belly in it,
so the fact that there's a yellow belly
means that at least the fire yellow belly fathered
a couple eggs, potentially.
Now don't forget that you can actually have
dual fathered clutches.
Now, one father needs to father each egg,
but you can have multiple fathers per clutch,
if that makes sense.
Let's go into the egg number three and see what happens.
All right, here we go.
So far we haven't had any combinations of anything,
which is a little bit strange,
but we have another fire ball python.
So it looks like we've had two fires
and a fire yellow belly.
So I tell you what, this is only the third clutch we've cut
this year, and our odds have been a little bit stinky.
So fingers crossed for this next egg.
All right, come on, give me something cool.
I hope it is a dual fathered clutch,
'cause that would be really cool,
and, well actually, this is cool though.
It still is the fire yellow belly daddy,
but it did hit all the potential genes.
There's that pinstripe, it's a fire,
and it's a yellow belly,
that's at least cool that we hit that.
The banana fire spinner blast doesn't seem to have
fathered any eggs yet, but that's okay.
At least we did hit the triple gene animal,
which is awesome, three more eggs to go.
Like I said, I would love to see something
with that banana fire spinner blast,
because it's just such a beautiful daddy.
Again, look at that, right off the rip, two in a row.
Another pinstripe fire yellow belly.
And this one is a ripper!
I mean, look at the reduced pattern in that
and that flaming that that yellow belly throws into it.
That is a beautiful snake, two eggs to go,
looks like the fire yellow belly did most
of the breeding on this one.
All right, let's see what happens.
You never know, that's the thing that's so
fun about cutting eggs is the surprises keep coming,
over and over and over again,
and you just never know what's gonna happen.
Let's see what we have here, okay,
this actually looks like probably just a fire pinstripe.
I don't see any yellow belly traits in it, but fire.
Interestingly enough we have cut two, four, five eggs,
every one of them has been a fire.
That's weird, you know, fire combination,
so one more egg to go, let's see if this last one's a fire,
and that would be really unusual.
Last egg, I always like to end the clutches
on a good animal, so what do we have here?
Don't really know.
(laughs)
Listen guys, I think, remember what I said,
I wanted to end on a good egg?
And you never know, you just don't know what's gonna happen,
but I actually think honestly, that's a normal ball python.
I don't think we hit anything in that,
which could happen with the fire yellow belly
to a pinstripe, odds are pretty long that you produce
a normal, but I think it's a normal ball python.
So there it is, still some pretty cool animals.
Two pinstripe fire yellow bellies,
a bunch of fire stuff, so I probably jinxed myself
on that last egg, didn't I?
But anyways, regardless, lots of eggs cuttings
coming here guys, so let me know in the comments
if you're excited about it and if you play along
with what the mutations are down here.
Those baby garter snakes are so absolutely adorable
and like I mentioned, I mean,
garter snakes are what started my passion for animals,
so it's always exciting, and we have a few more litters
that should be popping any time, so that is incredible.
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