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- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
What do you say we check out
my new albino Savannah Monitor baby.
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It's kinda funny, this happens
every time I get a new animal.
I get it, I'm super excited, I open it up,
I'm like oh my god it's so cool!
And then the nervousness happens.
Same thing that happened with salt and pepper,
you're like oh wow I hope it does well.
This is definitely a little fragile baby.
There's no doubt about it.
But the truth is is that Monitor lizards are pretty good,
and Savannahs in particular are typically are
pretty good animals.
It's definitely small, smaller than I expected,
but so far it looks pretty good.
It's alert, it's tongue is coming out,
so fingers crossed.
I mean, I kinda took a big risk on this one
to get it this young, but I think it's gonna do okay.
We're gonna do everything we possibly can,
so I'm pretty excited about it.
And as for today, I mean it's kinda just a normal day here,
we've got a lot of maintenance to do,
we've got some feeding to do,
and I definitely have to collect some snake eggs.
So, even a normal mundane day here is pretty darn exciting.
- Okay, it's Wednesday, you guys know what that means.
Every Wednesday, we get over 150,000 mealworms.
We get them in, locally funny enough.
We unload them, put them in tubs, separate them,
and get ready to feed them off.
So we do this every single Wednesday.
They come in boxes just like this, nice and breathable.
Got 'em in these mesh bags here.
You can see there's quite a lot,
so it's a little bit of a process.
We're gonna open them up here.
And then all we do is we just dump these things out,
and they come in this, you know, packing paper if you will.
So we're gonna come through and try not get too many
out of the pocket.
We're gonna unpack this just like that.
Throw away, get 'em in, and just keep going
over and over again until we get them all unloaded.
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- Just wrapped the kid presentation.
That's always a lot of fun.
Gonna check with Andria and see what's going on.
What do you got going on today, Andria?
- Hey, so right now I'm just feeding toothless,
and doing some maintenance around here, not much going on.
- [Brian] Okay, so just like your normal feed,
all that type of stuff.
- Yup, feed, clean, all that.
- Okay, good.
I'm actually gonna be feeding rodents later on today,
so while you are working on this stuff,
I'll go next door and thaw out some rodents,
and then we'll feed some snakes and stuff like that.
You feed lizards, I'll feed snakes.
Okay, good.
- Okay guys, so normal day at the Reptarium.
I'm here cleaning, changing waters,
getting fruits and veggies for all of the lizards and stuff.
Then we do feeding the alligators and the baby chameleons,
all the other chameleons, everything like that.
- Ready to start thawing for the Reptarium.
I've got my little thaw list,
I've gotta get the rodents in thaw
and get them ready to feed.
And importantly, this is kinda one
of the little dirty secrets
of keeping reptiles I suppose is that
it's not something that like most people share,
but yes I have a freezer full of rodents
that we go through.
We feed so many animals.
It's important to get frozen mice and rats
as often as possible and keep fresh stock.
This entire freezer including a couple others
that we have we cycle through every four or five weeks.
Just to give you an idea, but regardless,
we keep them as organized as possible.
Large rats, medium rats, mice, small rats,
so on like that.
So, it's not something that I necessarily share often,
but maybe you guys would like to take a look.
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And you might notice that I have
actually color coded buckets.
We have green buckets, we have blue buckets,
and we have orange buckets.
You obviously don't wanna use the same bucket
when you're dumping dirty water
into a bucket like this and then thaw.
So we wanna make sure we have the right color bucket.
These are just for thawing rodents.
They never get any waters in them, any dirty waters,
anything else, just for thawing rodents.
That's a way to just kinda make sure you're not spreading
any kind of bacteria around
when you're servicing your animals.
Back down in the dungeon with Kelsie.
What do we got today, Kelsie?
- Today we have a Banana Spider that was bred to
a Banana Lemon Blast.
- Oh my god, that's awesome!
Well let's see what we got.
Of course, banana you can get supers
'cause it's a co-dominant,
and there's a whole bunch other genes in there.
So that's incredible
This is the first time I've ever had a female banana
ever produce eggs.
It doesn't look like she's the best mom in the world though.
She's kinda got so many eggs, they're all over the place.
So obviously we're gonna have to candle those for sure,
but wow, they look good.
Let's see what we have.
All right, so obviously we've got the one here
that will be candled.
Two that will be candled.
Although they both look like they're probably upright.
You can see a little discoloration in here,
which is typically what the embryo is.
And then let's see what else she has under here.
She's not a big girl, and she had a really beautiful clutch.
Good god, mom!
All right, there we go.
So not bad at all.
We've got two, four, six good eggs.
And again, that was a banana spider to a--
- Banana Lemon Blast.
- Banana Lemon Blast
So there can be, you know, Banana Spinner Blast,
Super Banana, all kinds of different stuff,
so that is awesome.
So I wanna let Kelsie just candle these two eggs.
And that's all the pythons today, right?
- Yup
- All right, good. All right, tomorrow, we'll meet again.
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And it's that time of the day to collect eggs.
Really, my favorite time to be totally honest with you.
There's something about seeing a beautiful clutch of eggs
that just makes me happy, and it's so cool to be
in the season where almost every single day
we're gonna be getting eggs.
This is actually an Abbotts Okeetee
that's half her scale is bred to Scaleless Abbotts Okeetee.
These guys are incredible, and of course they are
just a line-bred Okeetee corn snake
that has got beautiful black barring on them,
and the scale and stuff is whoo-whoo doggy.
It's absolutely incredible,
as a matter of fact I'll show you one right now.
Here's the actual scaleless, Abbotts Okeetee right there.
Oh my god, and that is the papa
of this beautiful clutch here.
And I talked about how fertility was a little bit weak
last year with my scaleless group.
This is the out-bred stuff that is either raised up by us
or bought by Forest, and man
the fertility has been so much better.
Let's take a look at how many eggs we've got.
Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16, 17 eggs, oh my god.
17 good eggs, and again half those animals
should be scaleless, they'll all be Abbotts Okeetees.
Oh my god, I'm so happy with this clutch.
Next up we've got the exact same breeding,
which is an Abbotts Okeetee Het Scaleless
bred to a scaleless Abbotts Oketee.
And let's see, another beautiful clutch!
Again, I had talked about this yesterday
how sometimes when a male starts having
really good clutches, of course that entire batch
of females he bred, is typically good.
And this again is a good one.
And this one is even a prettier Abbott.
But that heavier black around the saddles for sure
does look like we've got one little stunt in there.
And oh, don't don't don't, be careful Karl.
Got to be so careful not to roll those eggs around.
We'll go ahead and pull all the sheds out of here.
And like I always mention we'll get water in with them
and get these all set up.
But let's look at this clutch really quick again.
These eggs rolled just a little bit,
so I'm probably gonna candle these ones right here.
I'll put these aside really quick.
Yeah, looks like these two rolled.
This is the one slug, but we have
two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 13 good eggs and one slug.
Again, on a roll, doing really well.
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Next up we actually have a Gospel Blood Red.
It looks like it definitely has some of the influence
of Blood Red or diffused,
but it's not really so much.
But it's a Het Scaleless,
but I'm gonna be honest with you guys.
I was just talking about how amazing
the fertility was on our clutches.
Well, this one, uh, not so much.
And the thing that always gets you
a little bit scared is that this male bred
all these females with the red tags,
meaning they're coming up to lay.
We don't know if the female was at fault for these bad eggs
or if this male is because if the male is,
then all these clutches are gonna be bad too.
So, we just have to wait to see what's going on.
But regardless, take the shed out,
get some water in with her,
but literally this entire clutch is just no god.
We've got two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 13 bad eggs.
Not even one good eggs in there.
So, can't win them all, still having a great year
but definitely this clutch was a disappointment.
I've said it a million times, you know,
any successful business is really only as good as its crew.
And I am so lucky to have such amazing people
that work for us.
We actually have a new crew member.
She's been volunteering for a while,
and she's now on the crew.
So we have to just make sure that she kinda fits right
in with the rest of them.
- Hey, Debbie.
- What's up?
- Oh, I've got some grunt work for you do to today.
- What's going on?
- I need you to move the tubs from downstairs.
They all need to go in the basement next door.
The clean ones, not the dirty ones.
And then, I'm gonna need you
to cut some tapered for me.
- [Right] Let's get her done. - [Left] Yup.
- And then I'm probably gonna have to have you
clean some tubs too.
Yup.
- All right.
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- Let's hope this next clutch is a little better
than the last clutch.
Ironically enough, it's basically the same type
of female, but it happens to be a different male.
And sure enough, looks like, oh yeah,
that's more like it.
That is absolutely beautiful.
And again, this one was actually
marked a possible Diffused Blood Red.
Again, some traits, but probably not.
Really it's probably just a really pretty
corn snake that is Het for Scaleless.
And it was actually bred to this male right here,
which is unbelievably beautiful, oh my gosh.
And this is his first clutch, so the fact that he has
a bunch of fertile eggs is a great sign.
Let's go ahead and take this girl off,
see what she's got going on, real gently.
Good job, mommy did so good.
Okay, girl, come on, come on girl.
Come on, girl.
All right, she can get in here,
again we'll get all this shed out,
we'll get some water in with her like always.
And then let's go ahead and count how many eggs we've got.
We've got two, four, six, eight, 10, 12 good eggs.
Hey, I'll tell you what,
after that last clutch, I'll take it.
Last clutch of the day for colubrids happens
to be a Het Silver Queen, which is really just a
line-bred Ghost Corn Snake.
And she's actually bred to an Anery Scaleless Corn Snake.
And again, a beautiful clutch of eggs right there.
Take a look at that mountain of whites right there.
That's two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14 good eggs.
Mom looks absolutely incredible.
I'll tell ya, that's the other thing I'm super happy about.
Not only are the animals looking really healthy,
but we haven't had any egg binding yet this year,
which is really something that does happen with colubrids.
But she is not a happy mom at all right now,
so I'm trying to get her out,
not to stress her out too much.
Come on girl, let go.
There you go, honey.
We'll get your shed out,
get you some water here and all set.
So, there it is, wraps up the colubrid eggs for today,
definitely an absolutely incredible day.
Yeah, we had one slow clutch, but a lot of really good eggs.
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Just from a sanity standpoint, things are so busy.
We're trying to take some time whenever we can
to enjoy life, so me and Laura are gonna get out of here,
go walk Phoebe in the park for a little bit
before coming back and feeding the snakes
over at the Reptarium.
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All right, so I am back from my little nature walk.
I'm definitely energized, ready to feed some snakes.
I think we're gonna get started with my girl Perdida,
what do you guys think about that?
Come on, girl, whoa, someone's ready.
Oh, you're okay girl, look at you, you're so sweet.
Oh my gosh, what an absolute sweetheart.
I mean, she just took it like a little baby.
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So it's time to feed the rest
of the snakes at the Reptarium.
Next up, my energetic boy Ricky.
Come on, buddy.
Over here, bud, oh shoot.
Let's try that again.
Whoa!
Ah, that was fine!
Whew.
Next up, my boy Night Fury.
Come on buddy.
There it goes.
Good job, bud.
He's always willing to eat.
And of course, every time Sunrise smells food,
she does one of these numbers
where she climbs up right on to the glass.
Remember, last time she knocked the glass right out,
so I've gotta be a little bit more careful this time.
There you go girl.
There it is, sweetheart.
Whew.
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Last week, the D'Albertis python
just completely crushed a rat.
I have no idea if it's gonna do it again this time.
Oh, seems like it's ready.
Oh yeah, definitely crushed it.
And again, it kinda changes mentality.
It used to never strike and coil.
As soon as I moved it into this cage,
it's just completely become a monster.
Honey continues to grow, and so does the size
of food that I'm feeding her now.
She is just becoming a beast,
can not wait 'til she gets bigger.
Next up, we have Casper.
You guys know that he is like a spring.
As soon as you put a rat in front of him,
he bounces about five or six foot.
Last time, he almost got me in the face, so wish me luck.
And that concludes the feeding portion of this vlog
and the vlog itself.
You guys be kind to someone, and I promise
I'll see you guys tomorrow!
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