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- Hey, good morning, everybody.
Welcome to the blog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
And I think that we're actually gonna start our day
with a cobra.
Not this cobra here.
Well, I mean, we're starting it with this cobra,
but believe it or not, we get the opportunity to play
with one of my favorite snakes of all time,
and that is a king cobra.
It's a little king cobra,
but a friend of mine is bringing a king cobra
so we can sex it,
so we can tell whether it's a male or a female.
Oh my gosh, we get to play with a king cobra today.
It's gonna be amazing, so push your problems aside
cause we're about to have a great day.
All right, so like I mentioned, Devin is here.
He's brought a beautiful Indo king.
- Yeah.
So this is like a red face.
- So that, the parents are nice and red.
- This thing is gorgeous, dude. So how long have you had it?
- I've had it for over a month now.
- All right!
- And it's been calming down a lot since I've had it
- Yeah.
- In my possession, so
- Well, this thing cool.
I mean, you guys know, kings are like the pinnacle.
These guys are a little wily,
especially when they're young.
You gotta be a little careful
'cause they can get pretty whippy and you gotta be careful.
No one wants to get tagged by this little monkey, for sure.
So what we're gonna do is,
we're just gonna try to get it, we're gonna tube it
and then we'll find out if it's a boy or a girl.
And just the first thing we want to do
is make sure that it doesn't get away from us
because we don't want that to happen, that's for sure.
And, gosh, that thing is gorgeous.
And it's actually kind of a little bit strange
that it's not hooding up because normally kings
at this size are gonna hood like crazy.
And so off the hook,
it should be pretty easy to just kind of slowly get it just
to crawl into this tube when we get a chance,
go like that, and look at how he,
oh, didn't go.
Kings are super, super smart.
So as we get going,
now you gotta be careful cause it will back up.
So give it a second.
We'll get it to the point where we just slowly get it
to where it's in this tube.
Come on, little monkey.
See, they're so smart. It already knows the gig, right?
It's like, "I'm not going in that tube!"
And if we just tickle it a little bit,
tickle it a little bit, tickle a little bit.
Once it's in this far,
it's really not going to be able to back up on us,
which makes it really easy for us here
to do basically whatever we want with it, right?
So we're just gonna get it far enough
up in this tube right here.
And you got to remember, kings are gonna get huge.
I mean, Indo ones, you're talking 12,
sometimes up to 15 foot, you know,
which is just absolutely insane.
Now, one thing we wanna remember,
this is a clear tube, so it's nice,
we can see it's, it's up here, right?
We don't want it to crawl over here and accidentally
have the head over here.
And so we want to definitely keep a good eye on it.
I'm gonna let you hold the tube for me real quick, Devin.
And then we're just gonna kind of just slowly do this
and I'm gonna (indistinct) really quick.
And guess what, man?
Dude, that's a girl.
- Yeah
- I'm gonna check one more time
just to give a good, good thing here.
That is a female. A hundred percent.
That's a girl right there.
So, so that's awesome.
I mean, female kings are absolutely incredible.
Well, look, it just kinda back up on us here.
And we'll just go ahead and put her right down here
on the table in a second here
and just admire how absolutely incredible.
Now, the thing about kings is,
is that they're actually probably only 23rd, 24th
most venomous potent snakes,
but the problem is that they pump you with juice, right?
That's why, yeah, the largest yield.
The largest venom, and you could see it starting to,
very reactive animals.
I mean, you can start to see it's popping up, and
Devin, dude, this thing is fricking insane, man.
The colors on that thing are ridiculous.
I mean, but look at how reactive that animal is.
I mean, once it starts to, to really key on my hand,
it's just going to be all over the place.
And, I mean, that's just, it's, this is
this is like the pinnacle right here.
I love this snake dude.
And you're gonna keep it it's whole life?
- Yeah.
- Oh my gosh.
- I got to, once he get, as she gets bigger,
well, I keep saying he, but no, she
- It's a she
- As she gets bigger,
we gonna be moving her and hopefully get her into a huge
walk in enclosure.
- That way we can go and do maintenance
and things like that.
- My gosh! She gotta come, bring her,
bring her by us every now and then man, bring her,
you know, let us,
let us see her growth because she's amazing. And you know,
listen, sometimes we have stillborn.
So if you ever need, you know,
we usually fried the stillborn. So if you need, you know,
King corporates are typically reptile eaters.
Every now and then you get them on rodents.
But even the ones that are on rodents,
oftentimes you want to feed reptiles too,
cause that's their diet. Right?
Look at that thing right there.
Unbelievable!
Oh my gosh.
That is just incredible.
Woo!
Come on buddy. Come on.
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
Wow. I tell you what I know.
I know one person that's gonna
probably get excited about this.
It's gonna be Bruce because Bruce loves cobras and Kings
are just gonna go, dude.
So, now you eventually hoping to get a male to breed?
- Yeah.
- Oh my gosh, dude.
Now King's gonna have really large clutches of eggs.
And man, I tell you what, there would be.
No doubt that one day I'll own a King Cobra
and I just have to get Lori to let me do that.
- My wife was against it at first
until she seen the pictures of her
and fell in love with her and then just sees how I worked
with her day in and day out constantly.
- Yeah.
Well you can see how calm it is.
This is one calm animal.
I mean most little Kings are like maniacs. I mean,
this is like one of the best things I've ever worked with
that is this size.
You know what I mean?
Cause usually at this size they are just pistols.
They're flying up, they be flying up the hook.
I'd be like, ah, you know, this thing is just so chill.
I mean, it feels like you could just pick it up
like a corn snake,
but, but again,
- You definitely gotta watch out.
You don't wanna get cut (indistinct).
- And like you said, Devin,
they will pump you with a volume of venom
even at this size,
the volume of venom they're gonna hit you with
is something you don't wanna get.
You know? So you gotta always be careful
but dude, this is so cool.
I can't thank you enough for bringing that along. I mean,
and like I said,
you have to stay in touch with us as we go here.
Cause I want to see this girl grow up and I want to see what
she looks like a year from now.
And anytime we can ever have y'all just hang out and have
fun.
Please come hang out with us.
- (indistinct)
Anything like a month, we will be here.
- Oh! I love that snake.
I'm gonna put a picture right here of her mom.
Unbelievable. I mean the red in that animal is ridiculous.
So dude, this is so sick.
What do you think? Can we show Bruce?
- Yeah, we can show Bruce.
- All right, let's go have some fun with Bruce.
What'd he say?
- Bruce what do you think man?
- Oh my God, dude.
Look at this little guy. He's so freaking cute, dude.
I've never really thought I'd ever say this about a
King Cobra,
but this is probably the prettiest one I've ever seen.
Like Holy cow man. Like I thought,
I thought like just regular Indos and Malaysians were
pretty, but man was with this girl.
She's so gorgeous. You know, what really,
really shocks me is like, just like it's, it's weird.
And it reminds me of a lot of like almost kind of like cool
calculating monocled cobra.
But it's like,
but a monocled wants to go for you all the, all the time.
But this guy right here is just waiting for you.
He's just waiting for you to get waiting for that chance.
Waiting for the opportunity.
You could tell.
Look at his eyes though, man.
Look he's thinking, he's calculating,
he's figuring it all out.
- Yeah, and again, man.
Thank you guys for bringing (indistinct)
I appreciate it guys.
And like I've mentioned like I'm on cloud nine right now
with this animal because it's so absolutely incredible.
And like Bruce said, these guys are,
are just very thoughtful animals, right?
They're not reactive animals.
Like he talked about with the monocles.
If I was like this with a manacle,
it'd be charging me, right?
Now, as a King gets older,
oftentimes they'll do what they call mock charges where
they've just kind of come at you for two or three feet.
Kind of like, Hey, back up.
Right. You know, this is my area.
But when they're young, they're usually pretty good.
But these guys are just gonna think,
and they're not gonna react, right?
There, again much like
the difference between a crocodile monitor
and a water monitor.
Water monitor is gonna come out,
he's gonna remove his tongue coming out.
It's gonna think then it's gonna do something.
Whereas a croc monitor is gonna jump and then think later,
right? Well, King cobras are thinkers for sure.
I mean that animal is ridiculous. Look at that, woo!
Tell you what.
- Man you really see why they call it a King Cobra,
but not just that,
but why they put it in it's a class only on its own.
Like it's the only other species, the OP opegas.
Like there is no other.
Like, this is incredible.
Just seeing like, even as a baby,
this animal has millions of years of evolution that has just
created a super, super animal.
Like Jesus,
like it's like the superhero of the cobra community.
You know what I mean? Like this is Superman, right?
- This is absolutely incredible. And again, and again,
it's like, I've said, this is the King of all snakes.
Absolutely no doubt about it.
Holy molly guys.
These are actually a Motley scaleless is bred
from Motley scaleless
And like so many corn snakes.
These are all gonna be Motley's and all gonna be scaleless
But what popped out some of these right here?
These are actually what looked like either
Anery Motley scaleless,
or this is definitely an Anery Motley scaleless,
but it has an interesting pattern,
but some almost look like maybe their ghosts,
which is hypo as well.
As a matter of fact,
this here looks to me like a little hypo as well.
So what we have here, our hypos, we have scaleless,
we have Motleys, we have ghosts,
we have Aneries an unbelievable clutch right here.
Because scaleless are recessive and bolt for scaleless,
everything's gonna be scaleless.
And because of the Motley is also recessive.
Everything is going to be Motley.
We didn't know that they were half the ghost
and half Anery, so wow.
I tell you what, that was pretty amazing.
What a great, great surprise to get out of this clutch.
This is an awesome clutch right here.
This was actually a T positive albino bred to an albino
Nelson's milksnake.
Now, the thing is that the surreal meaning
that when you breed a T positive,
it has that kind of purplish brownish bands
to a normal albino.
That is just really white in that area.
You should get half and half. I've never had this before.
We've had a hundred percent of the babies have ended up
being T positive.
What's more interesting is that these two little monkeys
right here, came out of the same egg.
That's why they're half the size of the other ones
is that these guys are twins.
Again, look at the size difference
between these two right here.
Unbelievable.
And it's crazy not only to have produced all T positives,
which is crazy odds,
but then to produce some twins on top of it.
I tell you, this one right here is the cutest most adorable
little thing in the world.
Definitely going to be a little bit challenging to get the
little twins to eat,
but hopefully they thrive and stuff like that.
I love T positive that that clutch was amazing.
I was excited to see these babies hatch out right here.
This was that fire yellow belly, red to a pin red strike,
yellow belly. And we ended up just getting a pinstripe here.
It looks like a little, really pretty just yellow belly,
to be honest with you. Nothing else going on here.
But these were the two animals I was super excited about.
These are actually red Stripe fire, yellow belly.
So it's just a three gene animal, but boy,
they sure did came out good.
But look at this one right here too.
Not only did it come out beautiful,
but it has a little pied ringer on it, too.
That little white ringer. Now that's again,
what they'll call a ringer ballpark time. It's not genetic.
It's not a pie. It just sometimes come out.
But nevertheless,
the fire and the red strike team mixed was really well
together and they have a yellow belly
and that too is an extra bonus.
So I was happy to see the way these guys turned out.
Look at this swatch of baby ballpark guns right here that
just catch out.
There was just actually a normal bread
to a banana xtreme gene spider,
and definitely produced some really cool stuff.
This is actually just an extreme gene spider
without the banana,
but you can see how the reduction of pattern
really comes out.
Then you have basically
just a normal banana spider right here.
Then we ended up patching a few bananas here.
It looks like a couple of them are banana xtreme genes.
Another look, gosh, there's a lot of babies in here.
Another beautiful little baby right here,
which is just a spider extreme gene.
I love the way the extreme Jean stuff
really mixes with the spider.
And then of course we have this little monkey right here,
which is the banana extreme gene spider.
Who, doggy that thing is beautiful.
So, nevertheless, a bunch of really cool baby snakes
and really gonna be amazing.
Once they shed out, get a few meals in them,
go up on the website. I love these guys.
They turned out really well.
You guys are always killing us with kindness
by sending us things, so thank you so much.
- Were are you're gloves?
No gloves today.
Wait a second.
- Oh my God. Those are gloves.
That would be so funny.
Did you order something I forget
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- Woo! What is this? Is this for me?
- This is great, this is for Jay
- Oh no.
- [Jay] With sexy cups?
- Yeah, with sexy cups.
- [Jay] Great, I always wanted them.
- There you go Jay.
- Next time put Jay in one of them.
All right.
- Thank you guys for chatting (indistinct)
All right
- Did you order appendectomy,
cause you're about to give yourself one.
- Listen. Don't you worry about it.
- What is this? Brett Smith.
- Clutch here. I'm gonna, you open up
and I am gonna read real quick.
This says, Hey Brian.
Hi there. My name is Brad Smith.
I would like to start by saying,
I hope that you liked the shirts.
I've been a fan of your videos for quite some time.
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- What does it say?
- This one says, I break for critters.
- I like that. They don't mind that.
- That's awesome. As of May 8th,
I started a fiber on one C three
nonprofit red scout with reptile rescue.
We're dedicated to ensuring that
the animals that were poorly cared for and
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That's great thing. I really appreciate the organization.
I started goes by the name of Snore Reptile.
So there you go with base in Arizona, obviously.
So good luck with that. Thank you for your positivity,
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Go show them some love.
I appreciate the shirts. What does this one say?
- I can't bring my alligator, I'm not going.
- I like that one.
- And then this is just a cool one with the big tortoise.
- Oh my God. That's nice. Well, thank you.
I appreciate you so much, Brett.
Thank you so much.
All I got to tell you what, king cobras
are definitely an amazing snake.
I love them.
And one day I promise you I've got to own one
if Lori will ever let me,
but nevertheless, that was amazing.
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