- Now this is the part that absolutely smoked me.
I had no idea that this was gonna happen.
Once you add the other pastel gene
making it a super pastel, they become.
It is amazing that we finally, after all these years,
produced this crazy little monkey right here
and it's a brand new gene.
And hey, unless you've been living under a rock,
you know probably what I'm about to talk about.
Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
And I am gonna start out with something
that I am absolutely excited about.
Of course, remember those purple snakes
that I cut in the egg?
Well, guess what?
They have hatched out and woo doggy,
they exceeded my expectations.
Really amazing clutch here, again, this was a lemon blast.
That was bred to a black pewter cypress.
Now the black pewter cypress is actually a pastel,
a black pastel and then a cypress.
Some amazing things in here, I'm gonna go ahead
and get started with this one right here,
which is just a lemon blast cypress.
Now that cypress gene cleaned stuff up,
makes some kind of dorsal striping, so this is a pastel,
it's a pinstripe and it's a cypress, absolutely gorgeous.
And this is just one step further than that,
this actually a super blast cypress,
so, again, it's a super pastel
because the pewter was a pastel
and of course the lemon blast has pastel in it.
I don't wanna confuse you guys too much,
but the fact is just one more layer
of pastel compared to that first one.
Now this one here is actually a black pastel,
so it is the black pastel that's in the black pewter.
Gosh, I feel like I'm talkin' circles here,
and it is a cypress, and that's got
that super, uber clean dorsal stripe on it.
This thing is absolutely ridiculous,
so I was super excited to produce this one.
Then we have actually a couple black pastels here.
This one looks like it's a black pastel cypress,
and this one just looks like a normal black pastel.
So that gives you the idea of what normal black pastels,
which are just the building blocks
for the pewter black pastel cypress animal.
So this is like the founder stock genes of that one.
Then, we've got a couple, woo, doogies for sure.
This is crazy!
These are actually lemon blast black pastel cypresses.
Okay, now I've produced the black pastel lemon blast before,
which would be called really a pewter blast, actually,
and they don't look anything like this.
That cypress gene turns them purple like that!
That's what gets you these amazing purple snakes,
oh my gosh, but again, these ones have some pattern to 'em.
Now this is the part that absolutely smoked me,
I had no idea that this was gonna happen.
Once you add the other pastel gene making it a super pastel,
they become patternless purple snakes, or lavender snakes.
I mean, again, you can tell the difference
between the one that is a super pastel that has no pattern,
and the pastel that has some pattern in it.
I am blown away by this.
Again, theoretically, genetically,
this shouldn't have happened.
This is somethin' that just when you mix
the right genes together, they start canceling
each other out, and by the way, I'm gonna talk
about some crazy genes in a minute here,
but I wanted to share with you this clutch first.
Unbelievable, true world's first purple snakes like this,
I couldn't be more excited.
What a great clutch.
I mean, it is beyond my wildest dreams
that I would have hatched somethin' out this
when I got these eggs two months ago.
But, now let's move on to somethin'
that is truly mind bending.
Now this is not only an adorable little,
tiny ball python that I absolutely love,
but this has an amazing story behind it.
This is actually a brand new morph, too,
but the difference is is with the other purple snakes,
we actually bred for that type of mutation.
We didn't know the outcome was gonna be the way it was,
but this snake popped up, it's a genetic thing on it's own,
but there is a little bit of a back history to it, too.
This thing is the first one that has ever hatched out
and has lived, and I am beyond excited about it.
I can't wait to see what this turns into
when it gets bigger, but let's go ahead
and jump about 15 years ago into the past.
And way back then it was really about producing animals
that were pretty simple like pinstripes.
Pinstripes were a newer morph so people were loving it.
So I literally bred a pinstripe to a normal,
with some pretty surprising results.
I remember cutting the eggs, much like I do now,
and there was a couple bright orange animals
with purple stripes in it!
And I was like, "Oh my gosh, that is absolutely incredible!"
Had no idea what was going on
with the breeding to be honest with you,
but unfortunately with those two babies,
they were really frail, real small, and they never made it
out of the egg and died, and I thought that maybe
there was a chance I could reproduce it down the road.
I bred that female several years after
and never reproduced 'em again out of that female.
Several years later, you know, there was a lot
of production going on with all kinds
of different mutations, even stuff like lemon blast here,
pastel, pinstripe, so no longer was I looking
to produce normal pinstripes as a really major player,
but, sure enough, three more babies were in the egg again
from a pinstripe to I'm not even sure what the breeding was.
But those three babies looked the same.
They were bright orange, they had purple flecking on 'em,
they were incredible and sadly enough,
they didn't make it out of the eggs either,
so once again, that elusive project
just kinda disappeared right from underneath me.
Lucky, the Amazon Tree Boa is such an amazing animal.
I tell ya what, it is so awesome, I love this thing.
Of course, it's a tiger Amazon,
which is actually a color and pattern mutation,
and he is definitely a feisty monkey.
But you might be asking, "Why do I have
"Lucky the Amazon Tree Boa out right now?"
And I'm just kinda making movement with my hand over here
so he doesn't key on my face, if you know what I mean.
The truth is, I wanna talk to you guys
about something relatively serious.
And hey, unless you've been living under a rock,
you know probably what I'm about to talk about
and that is course, is the Amazon fires.
This is a really serious thing.
I mean, you think about an animal like Lucky here,
and the fact that that's the habitat
that this guy actually is in.
And right now this is burning like crazy.
As a matter of fact, it is twice the size
of the record burn ever.
Wildfires are part of nature, as a matter of fact
they can be a really good thing, it brings life, you know?
That's absolutely the case, but when you start seeing
record wildfires all around the world,
then you start havin' to ask yourself a question,
what is going on?
This is actually Tigerlily the Brazilian Rainbow Boa,
and another animal that this species
is going to be affected by these wildfires.
And again, you know, I'm gonna be totally
honest with you here.
It's gonna get a little deep as I'm talking about this topic
because it's a little bit confusing,
but the truth is, yes, tragedy.
100% tragedy, but, I always look at this
as a little bit of a positive, and the reason I say,
it's not a positive in the fact
that I want the rainforest to burn down,
what I'm tryin' to say is that this brings awareness
to a problem that we definitely have,
and awareness is probably the best thing that can happen,
and often times it takes a huge tragedy
for the world to start to pay attention.
Little update on colubrid babies
that are hatching, what do we have here?
This was actually a het creamsicle scaleless
bred to a het creamsicle scaleless.
You can see the little creamsicle babies right here
which are absolutely beautiful, of course.
But weirdly enough, doesn't look like
we have any creamsicle scaleless, but we do have
a couple scaleless that I'm gonna put in the water here
and see what they look like.
Look at that, how stunning that is!
Absolutely gorgeous, and it looks like
we've got a few scaleless as well, all right.
You guys know, you know the drill
what's about to happen, right?
It's about to become a crazy mess of worms
flyin' all over the place, but take a look
at that scaleless corn snake right there.
Woo doggy, uh-oh, come on little bugger, don't go.
See this is what happens, it's like a bad apple, right?
As soon as one starts to cruise around,
they all just decide to go, "All right,
"make a break for it!"
So I'm gonna do my best I could do,
get, get ya, get, get, get, get, get in there.
Stop biting me!
Okay, I'm gonna do that best I could do,
make sure there's no heads in there.
Okay, so that's number one, guys.
Next one is actually a het ghost scaleless
bred to a ghost scaleless and it looks like
we have one little scaleless baby in here that is an anery,
as a matter of fact we could just go ahead,
plop him in the water real quick,
and we'll see what he looks like.
Now this one does still have some scaleash on it,
what changes it just a little tiny bit,
but still really cool.
So that is an anery scaleless,
that would actually be het for ghost,
and then we just have some anery corn, some normal corns,
and some other type of stuff
that of course are all het for scaleless.
And then the last clutch I wanna take a look at
real quick are these.
Look at how gorgeous they are!
Of course, this is a Pueblan milk snake.
Ooh, I tell ya what, they are crazy
little dudes right now, too.
Oh, look at it tryin' to bite my finger!
What are you doin'?
Hey, that doesn't feel good!
What the heck is this little dude doin'?
Stop it!
Oh my gosh, and again, you know, all these eggs
looks like they hatched, so guess what,
I'm just gonna go like this, start goin' around
and it's gonna be like the movies "Tremors."
All these snakes are gonna start poppin' up.
Come on little guys, woo.
I've got snakes all over the place
but you could see there's a whole bunch,
okay I'm in trouble, guys.
All right, I gotta set,
I gotta do somethin' here, give me one second.
Oh my gosh, get out of here!
Holy moly!
Snakes are everywhere, I can't keep 'em in.
Oh my gosh, oh, oh, ow, it's biting me!
Ahh!
Okay, you guys know that I'm not gonna get through
an entire showing off of baby colubrids
without baby snakes all over the place,
so, that's all that hatched for today.
Okay, back to the present, and that's right,
this little monkey hatched out,
and it's the exact same thing that happened
all those years ago, but now there are some more
genetics going on because it was a pastel crystal
bred to a female pinstripe.
But the genes that are in here have nothing to do
with that other than the fact that
because it's a crystal it has to be
either a Mojave or a special.
So this little girl is actually a pinstripe
and either a Mojave or a special.
My kind of feelings would be it's probably a special
because a pinstripe and a Mojave look very different,
obviously, even though this is a kind of new mutation,
but what mutation is it really?
So now it's gonna get a little bit complicated,
and to start I think I'm gonna
go grab an Albino ball python.
So I'm gonna do the best I can do to try to explain this,
or at least what I believe is going on.
So when you have an Albino, it's a recessive mutation.
If you were to say breed that to a normal or a het,
on that protein where the Albino is not producing melanin,
basically the other animal is producing
the same type of protein saying to produce melanin, right?
That's why when you breed an Albino to a normal
you don't get Albinos, because the other animal
is producing melanin on the same allele.
So basically what happens, there's somethin'
that's called a null gene, and the null gene
is basically just the opposite animal saying
don't produce melanin or allow that other animal
to produce the Albinism or whatever
that recessive mutation is.
You guys might be startin'
to ask yourself, "But Brian, it's not an Albino,
"and pinstripes aren't a recessive mutation."
What I'm trying to say is that there's a chance
that some pinstripes in the case of the at least three
that I've had over the last 15, 18 years,
were carrying a trait that was potentially recessive,
but not in the way that a normal recessive gene works,
and for whatever reason, those three opportunities
were bred to males that had the gene that basically said,
"Go ahead and let it produce that weird orange snake."
It's kinda like parthenogenesis.
If you guys don't know what that means,
it's basically when a female can reproduce itself
like little clones without a male.
Now a lot of times parthenogenetic babies
often times don't survive 'cause they might have kinks,
they might be weak, whatever.
Much like what's going on with the gene
that I just produced.
It's been a little bit since I've updated you on these guys.
Of course these are my Gargoyle geckos from Tikis Geckos.
This is actually a Deadpool line and a Dracula line,
really red animals, absolutely amazing.
I think that Tiki's Geckos red animals
are some of the best in the business for sure.
And again, Dracula and Deadpool line.
I'm definitely gonna be gettin' some more of these,
but we're raising up a ton of gargoyles
and stuff like that again.
You guys know that I'm building out that new Caledonia,
or really just gecko room, 'cause we'll probably
have some Uroplatty's in there as well,
so, I'm super excited to have a bunch of new animals
of this size, but I just had to update you on these ones
'cause they are absolutely rippers.
This such snake that I rarely show and I absolutely love it.
Of course, this is called a sunbeam snake
from Southeast Asia, or a xenopeltis unicolor,
absolutely weird animal.
Definitely one of the most iridescent snakes
that you'll ever see.
I mean that rainbow with these guys
are unbelievable when you look at it.
Such a glossy, beautiful snake.
Again, they're wild and they definitely live in the mud
and rice patties down in Southeast Asia,
Philippines, Indonesia, all over Southeast Asia.
So these guys are really unusual
and I actually got this animal 'cause I thought it would be
really great over at The Reptarium,
then I fastly realized that they just
basically hide all the time, so I didn't think
it would be that cool.
The other thing that happens, and trust me,
if you had smellovision right now,
you would know is that these guys love to musk.
Woo, I tell ya what, it's stinky.
It's almost like garlic.
As a matter of fact I think Eric
actually calls this animal Garlic
'cause it smells like a garlic clove.
I mean, what an awesome, cool animal though,
absolutely love it.
Just thought I'd share it with you guys.
But the truth is guys, this is a global problem.
This isn't just about the Amazon,
although it's great that that's brought all this awareness,
you know, Siberia we have a huge issue there.
There's been 21,000 miles burned.
We've got Greece, 46,000 miles.
Bolivia itself has 1.6 million acres burned.
I mean, even here in America,
Alaska has record wildfires this year,
and of course we know that California last year
had the worst wildfires on record as well.
What I'm tryin' to say is that this is a global issue.
And certainly the problem is the way
we're taking care of the environment, right people?
I mean, climate change is real
for those of you that don't believe it, you guys are crazy.
And I'm sorry to be so harsh,
but the fact is is that this climate change
is causing these types of issues,
and that's the awareness that I wanna
kinda start a conversation.
I don't have the answers,
I wish that I did have the answers,
but I wanna start a conversation with you guys right now.
Down in the comments, tell me
what your thoughts are about this.
What can we do?
What is the solution to this problem?
And when it comes to the Amazon,
of course that's the major issue right now,
and I love the fact that now it's finally being picked up
by major media and stuff like that
and we're all thinking about it but,
there's a lot of donate to this, donate to that,
the truth is that I'm thinkin' to myself,
I would love to do that, I would love to donate money
to this cause, but there's a couple things I wanna know.
Number one, I'm not sure who to donate to
because a lot of these places where you donate,
maybe the money's not actually going where you want,
and the other things is, even if they had the money,
what are they gonna do?
Do they have an actual plan
for that money to save the rainforest?
I don't know, I'm not saying they don't, maybe they do,
maybe there's some great organizations out there.
Let me know in the comments what you guys know
about those organizations, who we should donate to,
and I'll put links in the description to wherever we should.
But as of now, I'm not exactly sure what to do about this.
But I do think that the positive to take out of this
is that we can start the conversation,
not just about the Amazon, but we can start the conversation
about this global epidemic that is going on right now.
Which is our treatment of the planet
that is causing these historic temperatures,
tsunamis, hurricanes, wildfires,
these are things we've gotta talk about people.
And again, I'm not tryin' to be a Debbie Downer,
because the truth is, sometimes these type of situations
are great from the stand point that it starts us
really starting to actually make a difference in the future.
And if we start making the difference now,
maybe there will be a future for us planets.
So let me know in the comments what you guys think,
what you're gonna do about it, what we can do together,
and how we can continue beyond the wildfires
in the Amazon to continue to have the lot of focus
on this topic of climate change
and how it's affecting the future of our planet.
Now obviously this guys about half the size
of a normal baby, but seems to be very strong,
great tongue response, moving around really good,
so I have high hopes for it.
Now my thoughts would be, if my theory is right,
which I hope it is, that this will probably be
a recessive mutation that is separate
from the pinstripe gene or possibly
even being carrying come pinstripes, I'm not 100% sure.
Regardless, it is amazing that we finally,
after all these years, produced this crazy little monkey
right here and it's a brand new gene.
Again, this isn't a combo animal,
yes it has a couple different genes in it,
but it's not bred for stuff.
I mean, it's kind of the first one of its kind,
and I'm not the only one that's produced it,
there's actually at least two more people,
Kevin over at NERD and a guy named Ted Lascola
had the exact same experience with pinstripes
producing these bright orange animals
with some purple markings on 'em
and unfortunately they had the same results that I had,
none of 'em actually hatched and lived,
so this is the very first baby of it's kind,
and let's hope that it survives
and eventually we can prove it out
and see what the heck is goin' on with it.
I tell ya what, that was incredible
that we finally hit that animal!
I've been wantin' to produce that snake
for the last 18 years!
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