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- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
How's your day starting?
Go down in the comments and let me know
something awesome about you guys.
In the meantime I've got two really quick clutches,
some Ball Pythons I've gotta hatch,
ironically enough, the exact same pairing.
It was kind of a little bit of a weird pairing,
not necessarily overly exciting,
but they were both Het Ghost females.
So just normal looking Ball Pythons
that are Het for Ghost.
And for some reason we just bred them to a Calico,
because Calicos are awesome and we thought,
"let's just pre some more Calicos."
Regardless, let's just jump into it.
The first one is this little boob-egg here,
which of course is just
a slightly un-calcified egg that
has a weird appendage.
So we're gonna go ahead and see if we can tell
if there's a Calico,
or if there is a normal.
Now, the Calico is a codominant trait,
and right off the rip, yup,
right there we can see a Calico.
And basically that Calico has got kinda
of a lotta orange and pink in it,
and as they get a little size that
orange and pink turn to white.
So the first one we hit is gonna probably
be small 'cause it came from a boob-egg,
but it was a Calico,
so that's a good way to start.
Let's go ahead and cut this last egg in this clutch,
and then we'll go over and cut this next clutch.
I think there's five or six eggs in that one,
so we'll see what we have.
Again, I wouldn't expect that I would
get anything other than normals that are possible Het Ghost
and Calicos that are possible Het Ghost.
But ah, we will see what happens
'cause you never know!
Could be a surprise.
Let's see what we have here.
Okay, This one is just absolutely normal Ball Python.
You don't see that high pick of orange on the side.
So, we got one Calico for sure, and one normal.
That's it for this clutch,
let's move on to the next.
And I actually lied, there's seven eggs in this clutch.
Again, I wouldn't assume that we're gonna get anything
more than Calicos and normals.
All possible hets but once again,
you can always be hopeful, right?
Never know what's gonna happen.
First egg, and a Calico!
Alight, again its kinda a little bit hard
to tell inside the egg, but with that orange, pink
and reduction of pattern 100%, that's a Calico.
And they're absolutely beautiful.
And again, that Calico just is that white on the side.
Mixed with other morphs they can be incredible
but I am excited that we got a couple
really beautiful Calicos too.
So I'm really happy about that.
Let's move on to this next egg.
Yeah, just looks like a normal Ball Python
that's probably a possible Het Ghost.
doesn't look like anything special there.
Let's move on.
Another egg.
Let's hope we get a bunch of Calicos,
because I love Calico's, there's no doubt about.
Yep!
Another Calico right there.
Again you can just see that bright orange
and pinks in 'em.
These are gonna be really, really nice Calicos.
And they can be really polymorphic too.
Some Calicos have a little bit of white,
some have a lot of white.
And again, all that orange and pink
are gonna eventually turn white as they get older.
Let's see if we get some more Calicos.
All right, what to we got here.
Ah, no that's just a normal Ball Python.
Possible het for ghost.
Egg number 5.
See what we got.
Gosh I love cuttin'.
I hope you guys aren't getting bored
with me cutting snake eggs
cause we got a lot of eggs to still cut this year.
And it's just exciting time of the year for sure.
Again, another normal Ball Python here
that's possible het for ghost.
So we've got a couple good Calicos
and then a few pos het ghost.
Let's hope our odds kinda work out on the backside,
because I should get about half the animals in this clutch
should be Calico.
Yeah!
That's another Calico right there.
All right so, now we're evened up.
Three a piece.
What're we gonna do with this last egg?
We're gonna get a Calico or a normal.
Let's hope it's a Calico, right?
I always like to beat the odds whenever possible.
We'll see what we've got.
Last egg of the day,
and yes a beautiful Calico.
Woo doggie, so we beat the odds!
We end up with four Calicos three
possible hets in this clutch.
And a calico and a possible het in the other clutch.
All in all the odds were exactly perfect.
A little bit leaning towards Calicos so,
what a way to start the day.
Let's get the rest of the day going.
Back in the dungeon once again so Kelsey,
What to we have today?
- We have a yellow belly bred to a pastel kingspin.
- Oh!
Not that bad, that's gonna be a pretty good clutch.
Let's go ahead and pull it and see what we've got here.
Nice yellow belly, oh one little boob-egg
hanging out there.
Let's see what's going on.
Momma looks like she's curled around some nice eggs
right now so that's pretty good.
Let's see what she's got.
- She's a small lady.
- Another little boob-egg there.
Ah, yeah look at her she's got a small clutch.
That's a pretty tiny little clutch
but still not too bad.
- No, these are all good.
We'll take that.
- Yeah, we'll take fertile eggs no problem.
So, looks like we have five total eggs,
we've got a couple little boob-eggs here.
Un-calcified nugs right there,
but it looks good.
And again, the fact that yellow belly is co dominant,
no to mention the pastel kingspin has all kinds
of mutations in it,
a pastel kingspin yellow belly
is gonna be absolutely ridicules
if we get lucky.
With five eggs, not a lot of odds there but,
fingers crossed, who knows maybe we'll get
five pastel kingspin yellow bellies.
So, I'm gonna keep positive on this one.
As always, Kelsey, thank you so much.
- Thank you.
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Oh my gosh.
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Gotta couple quick Coluber clutches to pull.
This is actually a double het
Leucistic scale is rat.
It has a few good eggs
and it looks like a couple.
And it's actually bred to this crazy monkey right here,
which is of course a leucistic scale Texas rat snake,
that I've always loved.
But let's go ahead and see what this girl
has going on here.
She's a really pretty animal,
I mean look at all the high reds in there,
Oo don't you bite me momma!
It's okay.
Looks like we have a hand full of good eggs.
And some slug eggs too.
Which is a little bit of a bummer.
Bu hey, you know what?
Sacking clutches go that route.
So, definitely looks like this is a good egg here,
this is a good egg here,
Looks like we got too good eggs over here,
which we will candle real quick.
And then the rest of the clutch looks like
it's all infertile.
A whole bunch of tow, four, six, eight infertile eggs.
So, we have four fertile, eight infertile.
And Again, it's a double het, leucistic scale
red-tailed leucistic scaled, meaning that
half will be leucistic.
On average, one in four will be leucistic scales.
And then the other will be double het.
So, regardless, of the odds let's go ahead
and gets theses the incubator, pull the next clutch.
Next up is actually a Ghost Everglades Ratsnake.
It's actually bred to this beautiful ghost right here.
Which is really a white sided,
and again, I've said this before that
they are originally were called Ghost
but most people will call them 'White-sided Everglades'.
Now, we work with the Albino White-sided's
which are really cool too.
Oh yeah, looks like it's a good clutch of eggs
for a second clutch.
Oh, nah, there's some sluggers in there.
Let's go ahead get momma outta here
without getting bitten.
It's okay momma.
And again just that second clutch
and I find that later in the year
the worse the fertility gets, right?
And I talked about that whole thing
with like the spermatogenesis
and how the longer it goes the sperm actually
gets worse.
So obviously later in the year I don't
expect these last clutches to be very good,
to be totally honest with you.
And this one definitely is not a good clutch.
We got one egg here, we've got another egg right here
that looks like it's fertile.
Oh, these guys look like they're pretty good right here.
Definitely looks like one egg here,
and I tell you what I think the rest of these,
yep, all the rest of these are sluggers
so, ah, not exactly a home run when it comes
to eggs so far.
That might be it for Colubers.
There is one more clutch I thought
was getting laid,
so I'll check on that.
If not, that wraps up the Coluber eggs.
Oh my gosh guys!
I am so excited!
I don't, I can't even believe I'm as excited
as I am.
We all know that I have kinda struggled
with Verde from the beginning, right?
When I first got her she was like a week old,
she wouldn't eat anything!
I mean I tried everything she wouldn't eat,
she wouldn't eat.
Finally, she started eating live chicks
and then she ate live chicks for awhile.
But it was kinda hard to get live chicks
so she didn't eat as much
but she was still getting going a little bit
but slow, slow growing,
and then finally we started doing the live chicks
in the rat choo-choo trains,
but still it's kinda slow going.
Well guess what guys!
Today, she ate her first rat on her own!
No chick, no choo-choo train or anything like that.
She actually ate a little rat by herself.
I could not be more excited.
Now, I can start putting some size on this girl.
So that's right guys, I mean I tell you what,
it's been a journey and she still has a long
way to go, but the fact that
she finally switched over to rodents,
it's just incredible.
It's gonna mean she's gonna start to really
grow in size.
It's not long that I'll have a huge Anaconda.
Well, it's gonna take awhile,
but the fact is that were on the right path.
I just wanted to share with you guys
how absolutely incredible this is.
Got my first tour of the day in guys,
Welcome here!
So great to meet you guys.
Where did you say you were from?
- Fort Lane, Indiana.
- Fort Lane, Indiana, all right.
So, anything in particular you'd like to see?
- I love Lucy!
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- Lucy, oh my god, all right
well, we'll do the best we can do.
I don't if we can take her off.
But we'll do the best we can do, all right.
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- How you guys doing?
We are going through today and check our list,
checking it twice, seeing whose eaten some mice.
That was hot fire right there.
But all seriousness aside,
we're going through.
We're gonna check out, see who ate,
who didn't eat, and we just gotta
kinda go through the cage here.
See this little guy here, male,
so didn't eat, I'm gonna go on my chart,
and I'm gonna mark that he didn't eat.
Now some of the stuff we'll keep
an eye on, but most of the time
this of the year, sorry,
the males won't be eating,
they'll be trying to breed, breed, breed, breed
and then won't really have food on their minds.
So, like I said just going through,
getting the dirty mice outta here,
getting some fresh bedding and things like that.
Checking waters, I have to check these lay boxes
to see if there's any eggs and let Lori or Brian know.
And that's about it.
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Super excited to finally be doing the egg hatching camp.
It's gonna launch today,
so I will put a link in the description
and you can literally, for the next few months anyways,
watch eggs hatching live.
24 hours a day.
Basically, let me give you the breakdown.
We have a tub here, but we want it to be insulated,
even though these eggs are at the end
of their hatch, they still need some temperature
and some humidity.
So we're gonna go ahead and sandwich them
with a little bit of styrofoam.
We'll put a heat pad on a thermostat
underneath here just to kinda keep the temperature
and stuff like that.
I have a lid here that is gonna
have lights on it so when I put it on
the actual thing will be lit up.
I'm gonna then cut a hole here
and put a piece of plexiglass on top of it.
The camera will shoot down through this,
you'll be able to see in here
but then when the babies crawl out of their thing,
they can't get out of this tub,
makes sense?
I'm pretty excited about it.
It's been something I've been thinking about
for, to be totally honest with you,
well over a year.
So, lets just go ahead and get into it.
Start getting the styrofoam wrapped around this
and get it going.
- Look at all these babies!
These guys I collected about 60 days ago,
takes about 60 days at the temperature
that we're incubating them for them to hatch.
We got a ton of them, I gotta set up today.
We can check back later.
I'll show you a cool one or two.
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And so that's basically it.
We just have kinda a make shift kinda cooler like this.
Again we'll put a heat source on the bottom
with the thermostat to keep this.
Hopefully, you know upper 80's.
Because again, in the last couple days
it can drop a little bit, as a matter of fact,
when pythons curl around eggs,
the last couple days they uncoil to let air get in.
Which drops the temperature,
Often times triggering the snake eggs to hatch.
So, I'm not worried about being 88 or 90
but as long as it's like 86 degrees
or something like that, it's really good.
Again, we have the top here.
I'm just gonna go ahead and cut a hole in the top right here
put a piece of plexiglass on.
This goes down here, like this.
We'll have the lights on and you can actually
see into the egg box right there
and watch these babies hatch.
So all right, that's about it.
Pretty simple huh?
Well kind of simple.
So again, I'm gonna put the link in the description
and the first egg cam will be live today.
And there actually was one more clutch.
This is actually het scaleless corn snake, female.
This is a second clutch.
Gonna go ahead and set her down right here.
And she was actually bred to
this particular male right here.
Absolutely beautiful
scaleless snowed corn snake right there.
So on average these would be half scaleless snows,
and half double het scaleless snows.
Looks like we've got four good eggs in here
much like most of the second clutches
this time of year.
A bunch of slugs, no big deal.
We've got four good eggs,
we've got four slugs, not too bad.
Momma looks like she's in pretty good shape
so she did really good.
We'll go ahead get her shed outta her,
get her all set up, cleaned up and
ready to go.
And like I mentioned before, she is done for the year.
She's just gonna go ahead and get settled in.
And get ready for brumation,
we'll feed her up, get her nice and fat
and then she'll be ready to sleep for the winter.
And that usually happens about November time.
So four good eggs, four slugs and
that does wrap up Coluber eggs for the day.
We had a pretty interesting thing happen,
what exactly went down here Jessica?
- So these are some of our gargoyle females
that we haven't paired yet with a male,
and one of them laid eggs.
- Oh my god.
- And the actually look like they have
little embryo's in them, so.
- There's something that's called parthenogenesis
and it happens often in reptiles,
you know, it's not common.
But it does happen.
You can see there's two little eggs right there.
- It's nice and pink in there.
- Yeah, I mean it looks like there's actually
little embryo's, which means that
these are fertilized without a dad.
That's what parthenogenesis is.
So basically they're like little clones
of their self, right?
And it doesn't happen super often,
but it's pretty cool.
We've only had it happen a couple times so
that's awesome!
- Yeah, I've heard of it happening a lot with Crestes,
but never with Gargoyles.
So that's pretty cool.
I will say they have a little bit of
a lower hatch rate.
Sometimes they don't always like
make it all the way through incubation,
but we'll see how it goes,
it'll be really cool if they do hatch out.
- Absolutely, that's really cool
I'll keep you guys updated.
And speaking about updating we already
are doing the Eric and Noah tours next door,
well we just launched Jessica and Bruce,
so if you guys wanna hang out with Jessica and Bruce
and they'll talk about gecko's and they'll
talk about cool animals,
stuff like that,
Link in the description.
If you wanna book a tour at the Reptarium
with Jessica and Bruce.
Please go check that out.
I'm sure it'll be absolutely fun.
And there'll be some new exciting stuff
coming up too, right?
- There's gonna be an awesome room in the basement.
- That's right.
- Exclusive to my tour.
- Exclusive to Jessica's tour,
the basement gecko room.
Link in the description.
(child cheering)
What's your name?
- Ben.
- It's good to meet you brother, how are you?
Good to meet you too how are you doing?
(child yelling)
(laughing)
- You're so kind.
- Okay we're here at the Reptarium
we just opened up, so I'm just gonna
hang out with the people.
Looks like we're having a good time here tonight.
I'll go ahead and shut it down.
Just kind of enjoy myself tonight
if you guys don't mind.
Have a wonderful day.
I love your beautiful faces.
Be kind to someone.
And I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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