- Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
We're gonna get the day started with an unboxing.
But first off, I have to actually go get my box.
I got the box.
And I'm back.
I got stuck in Texas really quick,
but I did get my box.
So I am excited about this.
And like I said the other day, a week or so ago, that
there's really not a lot of animals available out there.
And I'll be honest with you,
sales have been so crazy at BHB.
That last shipment we got, we sold a lot of it,
the vast majority of it.
And we still have some amazing snakes available
that we produced, some of the ones
left from that last shipment.
But the fact is, is that we decided
we're gonna just buy what we could get
because, again, you know, hatching isn't still
for another couple months.
So we wanted to make sure we don't
completely run out of stuff,
and this is some pretty cool animals.
So the selection wasn't quite as much as normal.
(comically loud crashing)
But we did get some pretty cool stuff, at least Lori did.
I don't know what she bought.
I mean, she always just said,
she said, "Hey, I got what they had left."
So let's just go ahead and take a look
and see what she's got going on here.
And I tell you what, let's see the first bag.
Okay, oh, there's some pretty snakes in there,
that's for sure.
Wow, these are very nice snakes.
Let's see if I can take a guess really quick.
Wow, that one is cool.
This is definitely a super Enchi pinstripe something.
And then these look like banana spinner blast,
maybe calicoes.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the bag right here.
So what did we have?
We had banana spinner and a super Enchi lemon blast.
So yeah, this was a super Enchi pincher,
but it also is pastel.
I missed on the pastel part.
And then this says banana spinners.
Wow, those are incredible.
They almost look like spinner blast,
which would be the pastel added to it.
But nevertheless, beautiful snakes.
So I'll tell you what, first bag was pretty impressive.
Laurie did a good job so far.
But we have two boxes full of snakes to open up.
So we still have a ways to go.
And again, these guys are looking amazing.
That's one nice thing about getting snakes
from my friend this time of the year
is I know they're gonna be really well-started
and look absolutely incredible.
That last shipment we had, literally,
they were set up a couple days later,
and they ate their first meal,
and they just crushed it right after that.
So they look really good.
And again, I always love trying to guess on these, right?
So I try not to look at what's in the bag
just so I can kind of pull 'em out and see
if my skills are any good, if you know what I mean.
So what we have here, oh, this is nice.
This looks like, gosh, I almost think that
that's like a queen bee calico.
Or, if not, a killer bee calico there.
This is definitely looks like a candino right here,
and then maybe a lemon blast banana.
So let's go see what we got.
First thing we have is a killer bee calico.
So it wasn't a queen bee, but a killer bee calico.
A banana lemon blast, which is what I said there,
and a candino.
Moving on to the next bag here.
This is a ripper, whatever it is.
This looks like maybe a banana super Enchi,
maybe something else, I don't know.
That's amazing.
This looks like another probably
killer be calico, I would think.
Maybe there's something else in it, not sure.
This one's a little bit tough.
I don't know what this one is.
This is definitely a banana.
Oh, my gosh, I don't know what that is.
That's banana woma?
I honestly don't even ... I've gotta take a look
'cause I am completely befuddled by that one.
All right, so we've got a killer bee Enchi.
That would be this one here.
So instead of a killer bee calico,
there's a killer bee Enchi.
Oh, no, it's a killer bee Enchi calico.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense.
Of course, we had that banana super Enchi.
That's what I said.
This is the one that I was confused about, had no idea.
This is a banana lesser pewter bee.
Wow, that's amazing.
So that's a pastel.
It's a cinnamon.
It's a lesser.
It's a spider.
Oh, my gosh, that's a lot of genes in there.
That's a really cool snake.
I had no idea.
There was just no way I was gonna
guess all those genes, to be honest with you.
But nevertheless, still super, super cool.
One bag to go in this box, and then one more box to go.
Let's go ahead and take a look and see what we have here
without looking at the bag.
Okay, so right off the rip,
I can definitely see that we have
a beautiful pastel clown right here.
That's for sure.
This looks like maybe ... I don't know, banana pastel,
maybe banana green pastel, not sure.
This one's a beaut right here.
Oh, my, oh, my gosh, look at that snake right there.
That's gonna be a pied cinny, I'm imagining.
Oh, my gosh, that thing is cool.
So let's go see if I'm close on this last one.
We had a pastel clown, right.
Banana pastel, I said banana pastel.
And a cinny pied, so there you go.
Looked like I nailed on that.
So one more box to go.
And box number two.
(comically loud crashing)
All right, here we go.
I feel like this is cool.
I didn't expect to get as much as we did,
to be totally honest with you.
Like I said, just with the off-season
and with sales being as good as they've been lately,
you know, you guys are buying snakes.
Wow, that's really cool.
This is definitely, I'm gonna say,
a lesser super Enchi, I'm not sure.
But that looks like a lesser super Enchi.
I think this is actually maybe the same animal,
just not as extreme.
So I think there might be two of these guys.
And then this looks like just a banana something,
just looks like kind of a normal
banana slash banana pastel, something like that.
Let's see what we got here.
All right, and what do we have?
We have a pastel candino, what?
Oh, so this is a pastel candino, not a banana.
Wow, that's a cool animal.
And these are queen bee super Enchis.
So this is a pastel.
It's an Enchi.
It's a lesser, and it's a spider.
That's what those are.
Wow, those are really beautiful snakes.
All right, last bag, woo.
Okay, that's a banana pastel Enchi
lesser butter-ish thing.
Looks like this is maybe just a queen bee, maybe.
And is that it for this bag?
Yeah, that's it.
So we just have one queen bee Enchi.
So this is a queen bee Enchi.
And then one banana butter Enchi.
So yep, there you go.
So there it is, guys.
Beautiful shipment of snakes, blew me away.
Was not expecting this many cool animals.
So I hope that you guys enjoyed this unboxing,
and I'm heading back to Texas.
Where's my hat?
(Western music)
What is up, guys?
So I was doing my regular route,
walking around to make sure I get
everything cleaned up around here,
checking on certain cages and stuff like that.
And man, I just can't even tell you.
I saw this adorable, cute, little face.
And as always, just like with Brian
and Bella and me and Eddy,
you see him do cute, little things like that,
you just can't help but say hello.
God, he's so freaking cute.
Come on.
Oh, he's such a good boy, aww.
You just want nothing but attention, do you, buddy?
I can't wait 'til you guys get a chance to come back
and see the Reptarium
and really get a chance to really get to get to see him,
just like we did Bella,
'cause now, for sure, I have nothing but confidence
that he's gonna be great to say hi to anybody and everybody.
We've been sort of speculating
what we could potentially do with this guy,
and maybe even do some really cool agility sort of stuff,
kind of like I like a doggy course thing.
But one of the things that I had actually seen
on Crutchfield, shout out to Tom,
he had actually did, with his Rhino iguana,
he has this little almost like a cat lure
with a little tassel at the end of it.
And his iguanas would chase after it.
He'd bite it, then spit it out,
like it was just a game to him.
And I think this guy would definitely love that game.
I could see him running around this place all over,
just like this, blepping every little thing,
just like he does my face.
We're gonna take you guys along this journey,
sort of figure out what we're doing,
just like with all the other animals,
just see how we do it step by step.
We're gonna also take you guys along with all the failures.
Oh, you found the food, did you?
Oh, you're a little booger.
You're a little butt.
Yeah, he found out where the food was at.
Come here, buddy.
(upbeat music)
Looks like we got a little Children's python
that just laid a clutch of eggs.
Let's go ahead, pull her down.
Oh, yeah, it looks like a nice clutch of egg right there.
Woo, I tell you what, that is amazing.
I love Children's pythons.
Come on, mama.
You're such a good mom.
I tell you what, she was a good mom,
laid a beautiful clutch of eggs right there.
Ooh, doggy, I tell you what, that is pretty impressive.
Let's go ahead and get these off here.
I might be able to get 'em.
Whoop, just rolled one little one.
We'll just know that's right there.
We'll probably candle that, just to make sure,
throw these over here.
The interesting thing about Children's pythons,
and of course you can see mom is just beautiful.
Again, a little dwarf python from Australia.
But you know, I think I produced my first Children's python
back when I was maybe like 17, 18 years old.
I hate to say that, but that was a long time ago.
And you know, some snakes get more valuable.
Some snakes get less valuable.
Just depends, you know, they become more common, whatever.
Baby Children's pythons go for about 100 bucks.
Back then, they went for about 100 bucks.
So it's just weird that, 30 years later,
this animal is still as cool as ever,
still being produced in pretty good numbers,
is basically the exact same price.
Hasn't went up, hasn't went down.
So it's pretty cool to be working with them
for all these decades, that's for sure.
So regardless, she had a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Looks like we've got two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 13 eggs,
and that is the last Children's python of the year.
I think we still have a few more spotted pythons to produce,
including granite spotteds,
but I think that that's the last Children's for the year.
You guys ready for some colubrid eggs?
Let's go ahead and jump right in.
Of course, this is a het snow corn
and a het scaleless corn snake.
And it's actually bred to a scaleless snow corn snake.
Pretty small clutch of eggs for a corn snake here,
to be totally honest with you.
But nevertheless, they all look really good.
Just good job, mom.
And I've mentioned before that, sometimes,
this scaleless stuff is a little bit smaller clutches.
Just depends on how much corn snake influence is in it
because there's some Emory rat in that bloodline.
So the Emory rat has smaller amount of eggs.
So we'll go ahead and set these eggs up really quick.
It looks like they're 100% fertile, Which is really good.
Two, four, five eggs, not bad.
And that male, that scaleless snow male,
which I'll show you right now,
has just been a really good stud animal.
I mean, he's fathered a handful of clutches
already this year, and they've all been fertile.
It's just such a goofy-looking snake.
That snow, that white animal without scales,
definitely looks bizarre, but he's been a good snake so far.
Another corn snake clutch right here.
This girl is actually a het strawberry sunkissed.
Now, the strawberry, I've mentioned before,
is almost like a recessive hypo gene
that's kind of strawberry-colored.
The sunkissed is kind of a pattern mutation.
Looks like this girl might have
a couple retained eggs in her right here.
I can see it right at the top right here.
See that bump, right down there?
That is actually a retained egg.
She is definitely done laying her clutch.
So what we'll do is, we'll just go ahead,
leave this girl in her enclosure for the next couple days,
see if she actually passes that egg.
If not, we'll just try to move that down
and see if we can't express that egg out.
Unfortunately, that happened.
That's the first egg bounding we've seen this year.
And it's kind of higher up.
But if it's right down by the vent,
we can usually just go and what they call needle aspirate
or massage aspirate out the egg.
Being that far up, we don't know what's gonna happen.
We'll give it a few days.
I'll keep you guys posted.
Nevertheless, she did lay a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Let's tell you that much.
We'll candle a couple of these right here,
just 'cause they rolled around a little bit,
in particular these two right here that are on their own.
But wow, look at this clutch.
Two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14, 16, 18 eggs.
18 eggs, one egg stuck inside her still.
Fingers crossed she passes that egg
or we can get it out of there within the next couple days.
So I'll keep you guys posted.
Remember yesterday when I fed RJ that big fish?
He seemed to love it.
Well, guess what.
He didn't obviously love it nearly as much as I thought
because it's sitting right there.
So he seemed to kind of juice it
by squeezing it, getting the guts out.
But then, he left it, and it's kind of all messy in there.
So now I have no choice but to go in and get it.
And I'm gonna have to somehow skim up all this nastiness.
I'm not even sure exactly what I'm gonna do,
to be honest with you.
Hey, you calm down, you calm down.
You stay there, you stay there.
RJ, calm down, calm down.
Hey, hey, stop.
RJ, go, move.
Move it over there, buddy.
Keep you going.
Hey, get over there, get over there.
I don't need any hassle from you.
You stay.
Hey, you stay, stay.
That's what I'm talking about.
Get over in your corner.
He's punished now.
Oh, my god, this is gross as could be.
Like I said, I'm just gonna take this out.
I don't know what ... Oh, my gosh, look what he did to it.
Oh, my gosh, that gives you an idea what it would feel like
if you ever got chomped on by that guy.
I definitely don't wanna ever be in that position.
But that's pretty gross.
Like I said, I'm gonna have to somehow maybe
come in here with the skimmer
and just skim off all the nastiness on the top here.
But all in all, not too bad.
I don't know why he didn't eat.
Oh, this is so gross, ugh.
Oh, that's even grosser.
I don't even know how to get that out of there.
I'm gonna have to come in with a net
and just skim the top off.
So thanks a lot, RJ, to making my day more busy.
But nevertheless, I guess,
next time, I'm not gonna feed him fish.
Let's see if Bowser wants a big ol' fish right now.
He seems interested.
Come on, Bowser.
So Bowser took it, wasn't super aggressive.
But now I'm not sure exactly what he's gonna do,
if he's gonna try to rip it apart,
he's just gonna hang onto it in his mouth, I don't know.
It's something I've never tried to feed him,
a big fish like this before.
And there he goes, going away under things.
So we'll just have to check back and see if he ate it.
No idea what's gonna happen.
Pretty exciting clutch right here.
This is the very first time we've ever had a clutch
from this particular bloodline.
We bought these off my friend Forrest
that was actually working with
what he called a redline albino,
just a polygenetically bred animal
that just has more red in it, right?
That doesn't have that white.
So a lot of times, albino corn snakes like this
will have white around the saddles.
This guy actually doesn't.
So it's just, again, going the other way.
Sometimes you breed the candy cane corns,
where it has lots of white.
This is a polygenic phase that actually has less white
and going the other way.
And we've got a beautiful clutch of eggs here.
So this is the start of a new project
that probably is gonna, realistically,
take us another eight or 10 years
to really develop it to the point where maybe
you have an all-red kind of cool albino corn snake.
We'll see what happens.
Regardless, it's two, four, six, eight, nine eggs.
Nine eggs is a good way to start.
And again, the very first time
we produce from this bloodline,
so that's pretty exciting.
And the last colubrid clutch for the day
is actually this Pueblan milk snake.
We've had some pretty good Pueblan milk snake clutches,
and we've had some pretty small
Pueblan milk snake clutches this year.
So let's see what this one's gonna be right here.
Oh, yeah, woo doggy, I tell you what.
That is the clutch that you want from a Pueblan.
Wow, that is a big clutch.
And that's a really pretty animal.
It's got kind of wide white bands,
kind of heading towards that Oreo
with just a little bit more red and stuff like that.
But a really, really nice one.
They used to actually call those sock-headed Pueblans.
You just don't see very many
good sockhead Pueblans anymore, which is weird.
So hopefully we can work that project back in.
Regardless, we have two, four, six, eight, 10 eggs.
That is a good clutch of Pueblans
and a great way to end the colubrid eggs for the day.
(upbeat music)
That's pretty crazy.
Bowser crushed that big fish.
I mean, it's gone.
I didn't see it 'cause he was underneath the log there,
but I just searched around,
and there's definitely no fish there.
So good job, Bowser.
That's a nice, big meal.
Guys, I always love unboxing snakes, so it never gets old.
And by the way, remember I talked about
redoing the bathroom over at BHB?
My stuff came in the mail from Home Depot.
So I'm gonna get on to that project sometime soon.
I'm not exactly sure.
The only problem is, is I have some cracked tiles in here
that I don't know if I have enough tiles
'cause some of them came in cracked.
We'll have to see what I can do.
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