so when you're breeding snakes specifically like pythons and boas like subtropical animals
their natural habitat is much different from people who live in the northern hemisphere
above those things i.e the united states or the uk for you guys in the uk which
i think there's a couple of you out there but with that being said so because we have to kind
of recreate their natural environment here that means we can kind of dictate when there's breeding
season will be for most of the time for ball pythons because let's be honest that's most of
what is down here and what a lot of people breed most people start pairing them off in the uh as
early as the fall usually around the winter that's a cool down period and then they start to warm the
temps back up you pump them full of food and then you start introducing males and stuff like that
so what basically happens with the ball pythons is we'll start to pair them off in the winter and
the fall and then they'll start you know actual locking and doing their stuff with follicle growth
and ovulations in the spring and early summer and then usually by mid-summer you have a lot
of baby ball pythons with a couple of the late bloomers still in the incubator like us we have
two ball python clutches still in the incubator and we still have a couple gravid females
but now that it's you know late summer early fall it's september now we are gonna start thinking
about the pairings that we're gonna do for boas and ball pythons because we're going to get going
into the next season so ie we're going to start picking the females that are at size or will be
to size in the next few months and we're going to start really pounding them with food to get
them up to size and say hey the conditions are right the food the temperature the heat it's all
good time for me to make babies right so we're going to talk about some of our gravid females
and the ones that we're going to pair off in fun little projects that we're going to work for
for this coming 2022 season so yay project time so we're going to start over here we're going to work
our way this way so a little bit of a teaser for the full snake room video i guess because you're
going to see a good chunk of it so starting off over here this is bj she is brandy junior
under here so she is our very first holdback she is brandy's daughter i just really like her busy
pattern she's only a normal she might not go this year but if not she might be what we use to maybe
prove out some things or maybe to work with a couple jeans that i really want to work with
and i'll talk about the males in just a second so i'm mostly just going to go through females
right now and i'll talk about the males that i'll pair with them and themselves so with you know
if bj in fact goes it'll either be like north who is the weird calico that we'll get to in a second
or maybe just other fun like uh like maybe we'll work in bamboo or cinnamon or leopard or something
like that that just has really fun stuff or one of the super animals that at least that way we
don't get normals so right down below this is utah so utah is she is gravid right now she had
her ovulation so she's going to start building follicles and then in the next few weeks she will
have her her prelay shed and she's going to really balloon out and then a month after that she'll lay
her eggs fingers crossed pretty sure we caught the ovulation so hopefully she actually goes
fun fact about utah is we actually picked her up from a just like a craigslist buy and
from a breeder like he was just like a useless male breeder like i will give it a shot right and
for several years we thought he was the world's most useless breeder uh turns out um turns out
utah's a girl we put another albino head pied in with that one to see if our hepad female would
maybe decide to lock up and uh yeah griff locked up with utah so so we might be getting some pied
het albino babies fingers crossed um moving down the line that's really it for this one over here
salem okay so over here salem pull her out uh she is definitely gravid she is a mystic potion you
can see she is just nice and chunky she'll be laying in about two and a half three weeks i'm
assuming i caught the ovulation correctly because i'll be honest with you guys i'm really bad at it
so she's a mystic potion and she was pear in possible hat pied um but we couldn't get a pie
to pair with her for to save her lives so instead what we did is we put a banana mojave to her
so because she is a super it's the allelic super every single baby will either be a mystic or a
mojave period so when we put a banana mojave to her we'll either get super mojaves which are a
bell with the blue eye leucistic that will also be banana or we will get banana mystic
potions which will look super cool and also you know just regular mystic potions regular bells
regular mojaves and regular uh mystics and things like that so that's mostly what we have over here
this is mostly our males and our grow outs so they're all pretty small um like here we'll use
my little thing here so if you guys saw me at the show's movies hide because i still put hides in a
lot of these guys um this is north he is our male calico the one who there might be something weird
going on with although as i've done more research i'm finding that more more calicos do kind of
weird stuff but it's not a consistent thing so there might be more to him than just a regular
calico that's really high white but we'll see but you know putting him to one of the normal girls
might do it to where maybe we'll find out exactly what he is so we'll just put this back sorry bud
um
you know we have the banana ivory that we might pair up with uh some different ones that i'll
talk about in a second we also have another pastel ivory that might be possible orange cream
and pinstripe little fun stuff like that um we have denali who is just a blue eyed loose cystic
so he is a leopard bell i believe he is a lesser russo combo um he was a super leopard uh mojave
crossed to a just a bell and we got him so we know that they are in fact leopard and they double
check it with like the uvb lights um the the black lights not the uvb lights the black lights so we
might be pairing him up um we have wash who is our bamboo that we might put to somebody fun because i
really like bamboo when we have carlsbad or orange stream that we might work in the stuff because we
know that i really like the orange dream stuff so moving right down along the road we have our
new rack that we just built um the empty tubs now for salem and utah because that's where they'll
move once they lay their eggs and then we're gonna get into these ones so we have colorado
who is our pastel highway so she is more than good she's over 1600 grams she will be paired
to so there's a couple plans that i have for her i'll probably put both of our male ivories
to her to kind of get her going and then i might put nashville our pastel gravel to her
after we start to see some locks or at least attempted locks from the older boys
um because nashville is still a little small he can be duped he can be producing sperm plugs and
you know once we get a couple more meals in him we're gonna double check to make sure that he is
but if he is in fact sometimes you put the older males to them first to kind of get the girls going
and then you put the younger male in who kind of you know won and dones it with the girls which i
know sounds a little weird but that's in fact the case and then so that way hopefully we can
maybe get some super gravels and highways um over here we have because this is what evidently i'm
becoming famous for um sorry i have to pull the whole thing out because they're such long tubs
this is providence so providence was picked up from i'm going to be completely honest with
you guys it was a petsmart that they said they couldn't get her to eat it's been here for forever
just take her so we took her we don't exactly know what she is we're pretty sure she's either
a yellow belly or a spark or something else in the yellow belly complex so again this is something
what we would be putting either one of our ivories to or possibly one of our males that have yellow
belly in her to see what she proves out you know obviously if she's a spark it will get pumas out
of her with the yellow belly from the ivories or if she's just a really cool crazy looking yellow
belly we'll get more ivories or we don't know what we'll get we'll find out that this will be her
first season that we're at least going to attempt moving down the road we have reno who pooped
because poop happens sorry guys that's straight up what happened literally i cleaned him yesterday so
poop happens and i'll get that right now as we're talking so reno here is a pinstripe leopard mojave
which is a really cool combo i know reno you hate me so much they're all really huffy today um
which means that there's a lot of really fun combos we can put to that and it turns out i
actually have pinstripe and a lot of the different morphs and a lot of the snakes that i have
but with it being mojave so that's the bell complex so we can put
anything with lesser anything with bamboo anything with mojave to her and we'll get
really cool stuff or we can maybe put like ghi to her and then that will throw another really
cool crazy thing in there that will like to aberrate the pattern a little bit so i don't
know haven't fully decided yet we'll see what we got um continuing down the road sequoia here
is another one that is close and she may not go sequoia is an engi blade fire head clown so we
can put kc or super our pastel clown or indie our bamboo heck clown and maybe try to look out
for a head-to-head pairing and get bamboo fire inchi blades clowns which would be really really
come cool your butt come on you butt there we go and then holly just a female bamboo or
bamboo a female banana i forgot i pulled her hide out and i didn't replace it yesterday um so we'll
get another one there for her but so she's just a regular bamboo female so that means we can do
anything we want oh banana sorry yeah just getting correct again i keep doing that i'm not gonna lie
i'm sorry it's late it's been a long long couple weeks for us so i'm not sure what we'll put to
her anything with banana that sounds good we have a bamboo leopard that we might put not bamboo see
i keep doing it we have a bamboo cinnamon that i might put to her which looks really cool because
then that bamboo the bamboo on top of the banana cinnamon combo which always looks really good i
think will be really really cool um and then this girl she probably will not be able to go she's
still a little small but she was one of the next sizes that were moving up because she's a female
and i want to put my female ball pythons in bigger cages she is a orange dream fire possible blade so
i really like the orange dream and fire brightens everything up it makes things look really cool
but she's only sitting around like 1100 grams and i want to make sure that all of the females are
at least 1500 empty so and by empty i mean empty of food so that's pretty much it for all of our
up and comers um moving down the road we have um cali will probably go again this year she is our
cool pastel um georgia i'm gonna weigh her to see i like i don't like to go with the females every
single year i like to skip them because you know it's it's rough on it's rough on the girls right
so she went two years ago for the 2020 season if she has nice weight looks good then we'll probably
prepare her again with seattle again to make more banana pies um nola is grab it and actually
here let's see we'll just do this really quick because i haven't checked her today uh oh guys
nice guys guys guys i'm seriously this is a really cool journey right now so i'm super excited
because nola she was another just random craigslist pickup she was a black pastel
because i wanted to make like panda pies you got to start summer right well i'm an idiot you should
have gotten a head pied right but we've just been trying to pair stuff to her this whole time
and we've never gotten anyone to go with her every time i tried to make like an
eight ball or anything like that with cinnamon but we paired indy to her indy is the bamboo
that i see i keep doing it it's the banana blade head clown and he has been the only male to lock
with her two seasons in a row she finally went and she's on a clutch of eggs and it looks like
a really big clutch this is her first her first one i know she's pissed off i'm really sorry i'm
really excited this totally derailed the video but i'm totally okay with it this is so cool
so we're hopefully gonna get black pastel banana blade heck clowns ah she'll be fine
but yeah so we're just gonna we're just gonna set her aside and continue the video after we
take care of her so i can tell you the rest about the things and then stay tuned for like a short
or something else on instagram or tick tock for her and for updates on the amount of clutches
for her so we'll just come back to her really okay we're back so with that fun amazing little
surprise although we knew it was coming i just wasn't expecting to mess with it today so that's
her for this year noah so yeah but anyway so we had cali virginia might go again depending on
her weight she went again for the 2020 season and then that's pretty much it we have minnesota who
is gravid who is the pastel lesser possible hypo we paired her to uh tucson who is the
leopard mojave so hopefully some bells we'll see she keeps lying to me um we have kona and albany
who are the sisters that are blade head clown that we paired kc to um i've been fooled before again
because i don't have an ultraman sound machine and i am really bad at this or sonogram i guess not
ultrasound um because i'm still learning i'm still new at this so if they don't go this year we'll
pair them again with casey um because he sees our only male clown um but that's kind of okay we also
have brand new who's the hat but they're siblings so gigi we have juno who is our pastel lesser hypo
who we will be pairing uh rico the enchi hypo two um topeka went this last year austin who is
we're thinking she's gravid she just had a shed two days ago so we're gonna keep an eye out in
a month maybe we'll find out whether or not she's a yellow belly or gravel because that's been the
big mystery for a very long time because we keep pairing her and she won't do anything about it
chicago who's the orange dream that we will pair either our uh either we'll pair north to or we
will pair glacier again because i'm still not giving up on the ghi mojave orange dreams and then
north you got orange dream calico because i like both of those and i want they want to have that
sister we are going to be putting seattle to because sister is het for both albino and pied
so that way we will have hopefully some pie babies that are possible had albino um and then again
carolina she was looking a little underweight so we probably won't pair her the pastel calico and
then maryland are funky cool chocolatey looking um ghi female um nope she's all in back we'll just
pull it out really quick i'll do this really quickly guys i promise i'm gonna show you the
really cool stuff um although i think all this is pretty cool anyway so her she's in blue but
unfortunately so we'll just leave her alone so we talked about all the ball pythons now we're going
to talk about the boas we're not doing too many bows because i don't have that many boas at least
compared to what i used to so we're going to be pairing lily and james our doom rolls bows who for
the last over half a decade have done absolutely nothing for me but i haven't given up hope yet
um because it will be another little while until our little boy is ready to go and because then
maybe james the problem but we'll see but the big one is this little girl right here so this
last year we had our first boa litter it was the ghost to albino litter and we got some sunglasses
and all the cool head-energy stuff right well this year basically the same pairing only the genders
have swapped um we are going to pair ro who is our very pink coral albino male 2 andromeda here
andromeda is the weirdest snake evers um she comes from a line of call anari ghost boas um
because yeah i don't know if it's something to do with like which bloodline it is or which morph or
whatever it is of which one that does it that comes from a line of paradoxing it's never 100
been proved out but we're going to work on that so maybe she'll prove out paradox because she's
a ghost boa so we all know what a ghost ball looks like so it's the hypo annery
boa that you know so the hypomelanistic is the reduction of melanin and then the ghost uh well
the anari type one which is the annual heuristic so that lacks the red and genes when we put
them together you get the ghost and he was head albino this girl is basically his second cousin
so from the same grandpa but has diverged a little bit she's uh the sister of our possible super
moon glow male who we might be doing something with down the road i haven't quite decided yet
but she looks like like like liquid concrete or liquid like marble or something she looks really
really cool and this will be her first year she's six years old nice and slow grown and so she has
nice she's a nice little heck and chunker so we're gonna pair her this year and we're hopefully gonna
get a nice you know 10 to 15 litter but anyway that's 2021 season so far unless there's any other
updates or things that pop up while i'm thinking about it while i'm not thinking about it anyway so
hopefully you enjoyed the video and you got a fun little surprise like i did and you got to see some
real human emotion out of me again um again stay tuned for more updates about the baby bows that
we have available obviously the litters they're going to be coming out in the next couple months
uh versus the ones that we are going to start pairing in the next couple months um maybe vending
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