Hey! Good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope to start your day is amazing.
I'm going to put my kind of experience to the test today.
We're going to be ultrasounding.
But not just a normal ultrasound, I'm going to be guessing
before I ultrasound to see if I'm right.
So stay tuned for that.
And then later on, we're open at the reptarium.
We're going to feed Ivy and a few of the other big snakes
here, should be a banger of a day.
What do you say we push our problem aside
have a great day together?
Back to ultrasounding, and we actually have a handful
of females that we haven't ultrasounded yet this year.
I just haven't got around to it.
You know, I always do ultrasound, so I figured
we're going to play a little game today
and see how good I am.
First I'm going to do like six females where
I palp them, actually feel for follicles,
and then guess the follicle size ultrasound
see how close I am.
Then I'm going to do like six females where
I just look at them.
I don't even palp them.
And let's see how close I am to just
just by looking and seeing what I think they feel like.
So what do you say we just play a little game and ultrasound
a couple of female ball pythons.
So this is actually a Cinny Het Paint.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to put it up
and I'm going to just put my finger in here
and see if I can feel any follicles.
I feel really small follicles in there.
So I'm going to guess like 12, maybe 13 millimeters tops.
So let's go see what we've got here.
Let's see.
Right there are the follicles.
And let's go ahead and measure 'em up and see
how close I am.
Right there to right there.
12 millimeters, not bad for the first try.
Next up is actually a Het for albino
just bred to an albino to produce albino.
She looks pretty nice.
If I'm going to see if I can feel anything in her.
I don't feel anything in her.
She looks beautiful but I don't feel much, but I tell you
she just has that kind of look to her.
That makes me think she's a little bit over 13.
So if I'm going to guess;
I'm going to guess 14 or 15 millimeters, even
though I honestly didn't feel 14 or 15 millimeter follicles.
I'm hoping that she just has them
and I just kind missed them a little bit.
But it looks like we're probably going to be more
like 12 or 13 millimeters, to be totally honest with you.
Let's go ahead and see.
So I am going to say,
Yep, we've got 13 millimeters here.
So I was a little bit off on that one.
Again, I couldn't feel them
but I just looked at her and said, God,
it looks like she's got something going on.
But hey, 13 millimeters.
I was at least close, within a millimeter.
This is actually a stinger bee, which is an Enchi Spider.
And we're going to see what happens here.
Just give a little feel.
Oh yeah, I feel a little bit something in there.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I'm going to guess at
15 to 16 millimeters is what I'm going to guess
on this girl right here.
So let's go ahead and see
if my prediction of palpation is right.
Let's see here.
Oh, I think I'm going to be just a little bit off.
I think it's going to probably be more
like 14 millimeters here.
That's pretty close.
It's right on the cups of 15, literally
it's 1450 millimeters.
So again, pretty close, but didn't get it right on the nose.
This happens to be a Super Enchi Spinner
which is a beautiful snake by the way.
And she is looking really good.
So I'm going to go ahead palp her up a little bit.
Yeah, these are looking pretty decent here.
I'm going to say maybe 24 millimeters
is what I'm going to say and that just, you know
pretty decent size follicles.
Oh crap.
- What happened?
- Forgot I gotta actually ultrasound her.
So I'm going to say 24 millimeters is what I kind of think.
Just judging by kind of her glow a little bit, as well
as, the fact that she's an
Oh yeah, look at that.
Yep, looking good.
So I said 24.
I might be a little bit off to be honest with you.
Yeah, she's at 28.
So yeah, so I was off.
I actually under did that one but 28 that's not bad.
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- They're just such a pain in the butt to get him
get him to be still in my hands with this.
Cause I just don't have really good, good grip.
So that's why the one hand I actually kept the glove off.
But, as you can see,
he is doing everything he can to pee, bite.
Alright. That's a little better.
Ahhhh.
You done? You done? Hey.
Hey.
Ooh.
You're all right.
See, he even let me touch him before he bites my finger.
The biggest key here to know
that he's starting to calm down is those tongue flicks.
I want to see those long, long processing this
the thoughts to go in his head.
I may not necessarily be good thoughts.
It might be saying some mean cursed hurtful things
to me in his brain, but it's still a brain going rather
than just constantly defend, defend, defend, defend.
But getting them used to being touched is definitely
going to be a big, big, big challenge.
All right, so I'm actually going to try an experiment here.
I'm going to, I'm going to actually like very loose loosely.
Let him go and see a, see what he does.
He may just jump off and take a
take a run for it, but it's, it's worth, it's worth.
It's worth experimenting.
Slowly.
There you go.
Don't bite me!
So that's really good.
So he's climbing up.
He's definitely wanting to get higher.
So he's able to feel safer.
He's definitely not happy with me right now
especially now I'm talking too.
He's already backing up, I can feel it.
But I'd much rather him concentrate on my face
than concentrated concentrate on my hand or my ears.
Very sweet little baby.
You're not as bad.
I know I'd be, I'd be terrified too.
I'm not going to lie if I was
if I had a big giant man trying to manhandle me
and tell me what to do with my life
I'd probably be pretty upset myself.
Yeah, I definitely think this is some
really positive stuff here.
It, it, it's never, it never goes the way you always plan it
but you always got to kind of adapt
and move along with, with, with everything.
So I'm going to actually do is, hopefully,
if I can actually move slowly, not to where he's too
too scared and walk up to that thing and let him
let him, let him off my shoulder
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- This just is an Enchi female, but I'm going to go ahead
and palp her, see if I can get her.
And basically the idea is
for her to crawl through my fingers
so that I can feel if there's anything there.
And I really don't feel much.
Ah, yeah, I don't.
That's disappointing.
Cause I thought she might look okay
but I'm still going to say 13 millimeters.
I'm going to still say it even
though I'll be honest with you, I didn't see it.
Now, I will say this if I was just looking at this girl
I would say she was 15 to 18 millimeters
but by palping her and not feeling something
I'm going to say 13 millimeters.
Oh wait a second, I was wrong.
I didn't palp this one good.
So like I said, remember just by looking at her
I thought that she looked like she had bigger follicles.
And again, I said about 18 millimeters, 15 to 18
she's at 19 millimeters.
So it turns out my eyes were better
than my feel on this one.
Let's go ahead and try to do that
on the next few where I just look at 'em.
I don't even touch 'em and see if I can get it right.
So this is a beautiful chocolate pinstripe
bred to a banana chocolate spinner.
Just judging by the way she looks: her color,
the way her kind of distention is, and stuff like that.
I'm going to say 13 millimeters.
I don't think that she's got a tremendous amount
of stuff going on to be totally honest with you.
So let's see what I've got here and see if I'm right.
Let's see.
Yep, I'm pretty close.
Yeah. You can just kind of tell by the way
their color is, the way that they lay,
the way that they move.
So she's at 12 millimeters.
So I was pretty close on that one.
So let's keep going.
So this is an interesting one here guys, right?
So it looks like it's kind of fat, but I'm not sure
that the fat is about follicles as much as it's about
she's been feeding really well.
So, but I do think she's got some follicles going on.
I'm going to go out on a limb here
and say 18 millimeter follicles.
I think there's a chance she could be like 13 to 15
but I'm going to say 18 just
because she does look pretty good.
Her color is still dark.
So she's not in that 20 plus millimeter range
but she could be 18.
What? Wait a second.
I was wrong.
Look at that.
Again, I told you that it looked
like there had some stuff going on in here, but yup.
She's at 25 millimeters.
So she definitely was bigger than I thought, again,
I was going out on a limb
saying 18 figuring there was some follicle growth
but she definitely surprised me.
She had more follicle growth than I thought.
And then here's a Pastel Crystal.
Again been feeding a lot so she's really chunky.
She has bred a few times, So I think there's going to be
some follicle growth for sure.
I'm going to say 20 millimeters.
I think that that's probably where she's gonna be.
So let's go ahead and give it a shot.
Oh, she's going to be a little lower than 20.
Well, maybe not.
Let's see here.
We're going to be close guys.
We're going to be really close.
Let's see, here we go
on this end over to this side, 19 millimeters.
So I missed it by a millimeter.
Nevertheless, you get an idea that I'm looking
at stuff like just the way that they look,
their distension, their color, the way they're laying
inside the cage, and you get a feel for it over the years.
Right? So I'm just a little fun not to just ultrasound
but to do some guessing.
Let me know in the comments, how you thought I did.
And if you think you would have done as well.
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- As you see, we got soak the ready
which only means one thing, which is that one of our
snakes started to shed out, blew up the cage.
Of course that's always Daisy.
I tell it, I've had Daisy for 12 years now.
We hatched her as a baby and I don't care
how the the humidity is she always sheds weird.
I don't know what it is about her.
So she blew her cage up pretty good,
so we have to get her out and get her soaked up
get this all cleaned up and stuff like that
so that looks nice and beautiful later on today
She did some poop.
Ooh, she did some big poops over here too.
So yeah, she's going to be a good one.
And later on, we're actually going to give her a meal.
So she's definitely ready to go shed, poop,
yeah, yeah, she's gonna want to eat.
Come on, big girl. Come on sweetie.
Arr you go, up you go.
Yep you can see she's definitely got some stuck shed on her
which is again, very typical for her when she sheds
and what you have to do when you're home
you're moving a big snake cause you never want them to fold
up on each, on their shelf.
So you have to be kind of gentle with the way you do it.
If I'm just yanking her out of here
her spine can actually twist up a little bit.
Now I don't want that to happen.
So you can see right here where she's kind of in a coil.
I just want to move that coil
to where she's not folding up on herself.
And Daisy certainly is a much different animal
than so many of my other retics.
She's pretty chill, she doesn't like water though.
So she'll probably fight me a little bit to get her in here
but she has no choice because I need to get her a good soak.
Come on, girl you're okay.
Unlike Lucy that as soon as I put her head
in the water, Lucy just goes right on in.
Daisy will always struggle.
She just definitely does not like to get soaked, but again,
it's important to get all that shed off,
get her hydrated up really good,
and it gives me an opportunity to keep her away
when I'm cleaning her cage.
Come on, baby it's okay.
But yeah, she always struggles with me
when I'm getting her in here.
Come on girl, It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
This is good for you.
That's okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay.
Whew.
What a girl.
So you see, I got quite the mess to clean up
but let's go ahead and get started.
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- So I had a nice helper today.
Well, I don't know if I'd call her a helper.
She was in my way quite a bit, but Matilda's just
cruising around.
She's helping out.
But the cage is all cleaned up.
It looks like we're good to go here.
Ready for the snake to go back in, but we're going to
leave Daisy in soak for another probably half hour or so
just so that she gets all that shed off and then
we'll go ahead, make sure she's a hundred percent clean,
get her back in her cage, and we're all set.
- "A few moments later."
- All right, so Daisy's been actually soaking now
for about an hour or so, should be good to go.
So let's go ahead and see what she looks like.
Like I said, should be able to get all the skin off.
You can see it's pretty good down here.
And I just kinda just slowly kind of peel that off,
make her look really good.
See how it can come off really good.
Just the more you soak 'em the easier that shed comes off.
So I'm just going to go ahead
and kind of spin her around this way,
get her going like this.
And then you could see there's still a little bit
of shed down here.
So I'm going to just peel that right off like this.
Perfect.
Look at how smooth that came off like that.
Really nice.
And wow, she looks beautiful.
Look at how gorgeous she looks.
That is amazing.
Look a little more there.
Here we go.
I think we're almost done.
And that looks good.
So I'll just let her crawling in on her own.
And it's all good, so her enclosure looks good.
She looks absolutely gorgeous after a shed.
So that's it one more project done for the day.
And I always love when Daisy looks this way.
Now, it's time to feed her.
- Is this the cutest thing?
Is that the cutest thing ever?
So obviously we're open to the public now.
We're going to feed Ivy here in a minute and then
we're going to feed Daisy,
and we're going to feed Butterscotch.
So I should be a fun night for sure.
And now hopefully people will love feeding Ivy.
Remember this is the first time that Ivy is being offered
food since she was a little sick.
So, hopefully, she's going to take it.
That will really tell me that she's 100% pushed past it.
So I'm excited as much as anyone to see
if she's going to eat a frozen rabbit.
(intense music)
- All right, it's time to feed the Anaconda.
Come on Ivy.
Ivy come.
Come on, girl. Come on, girl.
Here she comes.
- Whoa
- And there she goes.
How cool is that?
Ha ha Good job guys.
All right, so Ivy took it like a champ.
That's a great sign, again, because of that little sickness.
Now I know she's in really good shape.
I'm sure she's going to drag this
in the water most likely and then we'll see how she eats.
So that's pretty awesome.
- There you go.
She did it perfectly. There you go.
- That was good.
- All right good job.
- See I lived guys.
(people laughing)
- All right guys. Thank you so much
(intense music)
- Alright, next up is actually feeding Daisy.
Looks like we've got some people that are excited.
Looks like Daisy's excited too.
Come on girl.
There she goes.
So I'm going to put it right down here.
She'll probably take about a half hour or so to eat.
You guys can just cycle through if you want
and watch her a little bit
and she'll just eat this right down.
Like I said, it'll probably take her about 30 minutes or so.
So feel free to watch as much as you guys want.
- What do you think?
- We're so excited!
- What do you guys think? You guys have a good time tonight?
- Oh we had an amazing time.
- Oh my God, what was your favorite thing?
- Ben and Jerry
- Ben and Jerry, all right!
- Yeah I liked it all.
- Mrs. Kippling or what not Mrs. Kippling but the thing
- Oh yup, yup Elvis exactly. Yup Elvis.
- So it's absolutely been a really fun night for sure.
(intense music)
- Another super fun night here at the reptarium
I tell you what it just, it warms my heart to be here.
I love it so much.
And for people to be able to watch the snakes eat
that's incredible to see their reactions and then,
all in all, I did pretty good on the ultrasound thing.
You know, maybe not perfect.
But hey, not too bad.
Let me know if you guys think you could have done better.
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