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- Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
As a matter of fact,
let me know how your day is in the comments.
I'd like to read about it!
You know it is an amazing experience to spend
every single day just working with these amazing animals
like Perdita.
I mean who wouldn't love to have the opportunity to
spend time with a beautiful girl like this?
But I'm not gonna lie to you guys.
You know it's not always the best and most incredible
experience when you're working with animals.
Okay guys so I'm in a little bit of a
precarious position here.
Believe it or not of all creatures, Perdita got me.
Come on girl let go come on girl it's okay baby.
I'm not food I'm not food baby
And yes she's got really big teeth,
so it definitely is not fun.
The good news is she's not really getting around too much
but she doesn't want to let go.
Oh ow ow ow ow ow ow ow! Okay okay okay come on let go.
Hey Bruce are you there?
Yeah, do you have any mouthwash or anything over here yet?
All right, so we're just gonna put some mouthwash and
hopefully usually the menthol kind of alcohol thing
and mouthwash will make a release.
You know it was completely a food bite
I just reached in there she thought I was food and
she grabbed me like I was a rat.
I mean she is the tamest snake ever but I can tell you to
death she's got her teeth pretty good in there.
So uh just really gently just a little bit of mouthwash
usually will let him go and
it doesn't hurt the snake at all.
Here you go yep yep go ahead just a little bit.
Oh she just decided to clamp down bar!
Okay whew alright so she's not happy about the mouthwash.
There you go first time I've ever been bitten by Perdita.
It's okay baby I know you didn't mean it.
You can see she is super docile
I mean it was completely just a food bite.
She didn't mean it at all so that's okay baby girl.
You're alright baby.
You can see I mean literally you can't pet something's mouth
right after it bites you if it's mean right?
It was just a food bite and
yeah she did get me a little bit.
And there's no doubt to a person here at BHB
and the rep terrarium,
our crew loves their time with the animals.
The Mavericks I always tell people that really what makes
things go here is the crew.
The fact that they're as passionate
as I am about these animals
and as passionate about having people
that come into the rep terrarium
have the most incredible experience as possible.
And by the way just as a little side note,
Nova here is doing amazing.
The eggs are in the incubator
and doing great and the girl is swelling up
so I think we're gonna get a second clutch.
But you know a lot of people always ask me like
I want to work at the Rep Terrarium. I want to work at BHB.
And don't get me wrong
it is a dream come true to work every single day
with these animals.
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And again like I said the crew feels the same way
but the truth is is
that it's not always just playing with animals.
I mean people think that we come in
and just play with animals all day.
It's really all the mundane stuff that is
really important to keep this place up the way it is.
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But even though there is a lot of work,
and quite frankly a lot of it isn't all that fun.
Especially when you're just cleaning up really nasty poops
and all that type of stuff.
The truth is, is that it is so worth it
because the end result is the fact that every morning
we get to wake up and spend our life
around these truly breathtaking animals.
We're gonna take a look at this bluebird clutch right here.
This is actually a strawberry diffused corn
that's bred to this
absolutely gorgeous coral ghost corn right here.
Look at that monkey right there, that thing is incredible.
Let's see what she ended up laying
the second clutch and oh doggy that's a nice second clutch.
Looks like fertility is absolutely wonderful.
We'll go ahead and set this over here it.
Does look like we got caught the little sluggers
in there but overwhelmingly incredible.
And you know I wanted to tell you guys something.
You know a lot of times you guys may not notice
but I changed shirts a lot in the blog
and I'm always kind of like surprised that you guys don't
mention more of it.
So today I'm gonna make you guys pay attention.
I'm gonna wear a bunch of different shirts
throughout this vlog
and for those you that get the number right in the comments,
I'm gonna pick like 10 people
and send them some stickers if that's okay with you?
So let's go get back to this colubrid clutch right here.
We're gonna take away these two little sluggers right here.
This one right here and one down
at the bottom right here is definitely a slugger.
Let's see if we can get this off. Let's see.
All right there we go
and it looks like we have
two four six eight good eggs and a couple slugs.
That's absolutely incredible.
Someone coming?
I am super excited about this clutch of eggs right now.
I think it's the most exciting clutch that we've cut so far
this year.
Not that the other clutches weren't awesome
but this is actually a pinstriped female
spread to a past oak vanilla bamboo warm up pinstripe
I mean there is a lot of genes in there and that bamboo gene
is awesome and I love the way it mixes with the Pinstripe.
So let's just go ahead jump in and
hope for great odds here guys.
Man I want to prove some bamboo stuff 'cause I love it.
And with that vanilla and bamboo together,
Oh-hoo doggy that stuff is crazy.
Let's go see what we got first egg.
Okay it looks like we just have a vanilla pinstripe
and I can tell it's a vanilla because it almost looks
like a fire pinstripes.
So the fire in vanilla very similar
but of course the super fires are the black-eyed leucitics.
Whereas the super vanillas are a really faded,
kind of cool head pattern type of thing
Didn't get the bamboo in this one.
But let's go ahead and keep on going.
Egg number two right here.
Let's see if we got something awesome.
Come on please okay oh my gosh this is just,
this is just a normal pinstripe guys.
No other genes in this one.
With all those genes, I mean was there like five genes
to produce a normal pinstripe off.
Okay oh my gosh I thought now I start getting nervous
I just to let you in my head like
when I cut a couple eggs and don't hit something
I always start wondering like
I'm not gonna hit any odds or anything.
Let's move on to clutch number three.
Alright let's go alright come on guys
please give me a bamboo just
to make me feel better about myself.
Here once I get one bamboo,
I know that there's potential for a lot more
till I get that first one I always doubt
like what if that wasn't the father
or something else happened.
So let's see what we got here.
Oh yeah looks like we got a bamboo guys all right.
And this is a smoker oh man that thing is crazy!
That looks like maybe ologies.
It looks like it's a pastel.
Looks like it's a pinstripe.
It looks like it's a Woma.
Looks like it's a bamboo.
It's definitely a vanilla.
So that might be all the genes combined into one.
Oh my gosh I cannot wait till this hatches out
because that's beautiful.
Oh alright I'm feeling better.
I told you once you get that bamboo out of the way
now I know there's gonna potentially be more bamboos
in this clutch.
That animal is gonna be ridiculous.
Alright we're gonna move on to this one
and hope for some more ridiculous babies in this clutch.
Come on come on come on come on come on come on.
Oh weird weird weird weird.
Okay this looks like it's probably either a lemon blast,
which is a pastel pinstripe
or it could potentially be a vanilla too.
So a lemon blast vanilla hard to say.
It's not super, super light so it might not be a vanilla.
No bamboo that one time. Come on.
We got this middle egg here wait
he's stuck down in the middle so it's kind of hard
to cut these eggs to see what's going on here.
Oh my gosh this I'm tellin what guys.
I'm getting crushed on the odds with this one.
This looks like just a pastel possibly a pastel vanilla
so one egg was absolutely gorgeous.
The other ones not so good.
We got three eggs left
so come on odds let's get going here.
Alright here we go what do we got?
Oh my gosh all right guys. All right guys.
I'm starting to get a little freaked out here.
This is just a normal pin straight ball python.
You know what you gotta take the ups and downs right?
Some clutches you destroy it.
We had some great odds earlier in the year,
now we gotta got destroyed on a couple eggs
but I'm gonna go ahead and cut the last of the two eggs.
Come on please let it be something crazy.
Here we go what do we got? What do we got? What do we got?
Okay all right yeah that's not bad. That's not bad.
We definitely have a bamboo in here
and looks like probably a bamboo.
You know it might be everything minus the pastel.
So it might be bamboo, pinstripe, vanilla
and Wilma ball python.
So I think I'm only not hitting the pastel.
So that's not bad. So that's good.
We've got two really incredible Ripper animals there.
Last egg you guys know I always want
the last egg to be special.
So let's see what we got here.
Come on please just let's get something weird and nice.
Let's go let's go let's go!
Oh my gosh a normal pinstripe.
Maybe a vanilla pinstripe at best.
So uh you know I'll be honest with you guys,
I definitely can't sit here and tell you that I'm overly
happy with the odds on this clutch.
We got two really amazing animals
and we got a kind of a bunch of other offspring.
That wasn't really that spectacular.
On average with that bamboo gene
about half the egg should be bamboo
and then all the other stuff is about half.
So there should be combinations there up
we're only got two out of eight.
So that definitely is way less than the odds there.
And then it looks like we got lot size metrics.
I think every egg except for one was a pinstripe.
So we've way overdid it on the pinstripe anyways.
Regardless I'm not gonna commiserate with you guys.
I'm still happy for what I got.
So I'm sure none of you are gonna be sad for me
that I got a couple amazing bamboos
and a bunch of other cool babies 'cause that's all that
really matters. I love hatching everything.
And uh I'm putting my razor blade down for the day.
Eric you are you doing yoga or what?
- You know I might mess up my workout plan.
- Training regimen.
- So yeah I don't know if I could
bend like that you know you gotta
put your foot over your head or something.
I can't do it.
It's something you got a cheese something with cheese.
I'm gonna tell you all right
- No cheese in yoga.
- Oh then I I can't do it. I can't do.
Yeah the cheese oh yeah okay.
- Next month we're doing the yoga with reptiles
and today we're gonna go ahead and
have a practice day.
We just wrapped up this session
and I tell you what people are gonna love this
- And like I mentioned the other day,
I'm gonna continue to show you the snakes that
we actually cut a few days ago.
Once they actually crawl out
and then we'll try to even do a little update
after they shed because of course when they come out
of the egg we can see what they actually are
and then when they shed they really become more beautiful.
This was actually a pastel -
A pastel, scaleless head clutch.
This first one here is a really beautiful,
super pastel. But you can see on the top of its head,
there's no missing scales no jumbled scales
anything like that.
So this animal is just a normal, super pastel right here.
So we missed on that one,
and then we've got a couple of normal pastels here.
This one's really beautiful, really light head
and you can see right at the tip of its thing,
you could see some missing scales.
So this one here is a pastel scale-less head then we hit a
normal right here.
This one has a really cool amount of missing scales on it.
Looks really cool sometimes they'll just have a handful
of missing scales or jumbled scales
and then other times almost the entire head
will be scaleless.
So this is a mid-range one.
Wouldn't call it a high-end one but still a pretty cool one.
And then lastly we hatched another pass down right here
and this one too has some missing scales on its head.
So definitely a pastel scale as head so in the end,
we hit one super pastel that was normal.
We had two pastels that were scale-less head
and then we hit one normal that's the scale-less head and
of course these guys when you breed them together,
you can get purely scale-less animals
or all scale-less animals.
So pretty cool not bad again just want to continue
to update you on what's hatching on the incubator.
I just want to show you one Kluber clutch that's hatching
today because whoo-hoo dog I am so excited about this.
Look at these animals right here.
Of course these are some scale as cars right there.
Oh oh oh whoa.
And then of course we have some anyuri.
Unbelievable I'm gonna just dip it in water so I can get
some that vermiculite off and you guys can see,
there are some stunners here
and oh oh I think I'm in trouble already.
I tell you give me one second.
I'm gonna get a bucket so I don't
lose a bunch of animals here.
With this many babies,
there's no way that I'm not gonna have babies all over the
place but look at this every scale is guard.
Woo hoo! I love it. That's my favorite.
I'm just gonna put these right in the bucket here
and then we'll go ahead and set these guys up.
Not even try to get them back in,
but look at this one right here again.
I'm just gonna dip him in the water
to get some of that vermiculite off.
But look at that one right there.
Oh my god not only is it an an Reese callus
but look at the pattern on that one.
Oh my gosh and like I mentioned I love Andrew scales
and we have a whole bunch of them in here and there's some
scaleless as well.
Wow what a clutch look at these guys.
Where are you going buddy? Where are you going?
Okay now we got snakes all over the place
but just take a look at these things.
Wow this is definitely I think the coolest
Cobra clutch that we've had so far
and this little monkey's trying to get away.
Come on over here another anyuri scale-less corn.
Oh my gosh I tell you what guys I am so excited about this.
We're gonna set these guys in here.
We could take a look and see what up.
This was trying to get away these guys are gonna be all over
the place soon.
Look at these scale-less corns right here.
Wow these are some cookies I'm gonna dip this one
just to get some of that bedding off of it again.
Just take oh look at that! Wow! I can't.
I am blown away by this clutch.
Like I said absolutely the best clutch so far.
So just want to share that with you guys in the meantime
I'll go ahead and get these guys set up
but I am over the moon happy about this clutch.
There it is guys the end of the vlog.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it.
Let me know comments what you guys think
and have an absolutely, wonderful day as I always say,
I love your beautiful faces. Be kind to someone today
and I promise, I'll see you tomorrow.
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