- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I know I'm going to make the best day I can.
Why don't we do that together?
My girl, Ivy, as always, going back into shed.
It seems like she eats, she sheds, she eats, she sheds.
And again, snakes shed because they're growing.
She is growing. She is unbelievably growing.
She went from six foot, 35 pounds,
to now over 10 foot and over 70 pounds, (chuckling)
in just nine or 9 1/2 months.
I tell ya, anacondas are truly amazing.
Gonna be a banger of a day.
We got eggs to collect, we've got all kinds of stuff.
So let's just go ahead and jump into it.
Down in the dungeon, guess what time it is.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
♪ Egg time ♪
And this first one
is just a big-old hetfer-albino ball python
that's bred to an albino ball python.
This girl is actually 46 days after lay.
Remember, they usually do 30 days.
So people panic when they're in the upper 30s, lower 40s.
This girl went almost 16 days longer than she should.
And she has a beautiful clutch of eggs.
That just goes to show, you can't panic.
Things always seem to work out, and they always do.
And so we're just gonna remove these eggs.
And I've had this het-albino female
for literally like 15 years.
She's been around a long, long time.
And she always produces a pretty good clutch
of ball pythons.
Every now and then she'll take a year off,
but for the most part, she's been a really solid producer.
So we have two, four, six, eight, nine, beautiful eggs.
Again, on average, half of these are gonna be albino,
the other half will be hetfer-albino.
We have one more clutch to pull.
This next clutch is actually just a pinstripe female.
And it looks like she's wrapped around
a really nice clutch of eggs right there.
Oop, it looks like there's a little infertile in here.
But I want to show you the male
that it was actually bred to,
which was this little monkey here,
which is actually a banana-fire spinner blast.
So there's a lot of genes going on here.
So let's go ahead and see how many eggs she has.
And again, I could see
that there was one little slugger on the end there,
a couple, oh, there's, oh, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop.
That is a ton of eggs,
but there's also some bad eggs in there.
This may be the most slugs that we've had in any clutch.
But, sometimes you get into that kinda stretch
where you have some infertiles,
but then tomorrow they're all fertile.
So I'm not gonna read too much into it,
but wow, that would've been a huge clutch of eggs
if they were all fertile.
I'm gonna go ahead and just remove the good eggs first,
and then we'll see how many bad eggs there are.
Oh my goodness. That was a monster clutch of eggs.
Holy, this may be the most eggs that we've had all year,
but unfortunately, they're not all fertile.
Let's go ahead and see what we have.
We have two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16.
Are you kidding me? 16 eggs?
Granted there's only six good ones, but there was 10 slugs.
16, our biggest clutch was 12 eggs, and she had 16 eggs.
Oh my goodness.
I'm gonna really make sure to mark this girl,
really pay a lot of attention to her next year,
and hopefully she will lay a banger clutch
of 16 good eggs next year.
That is the largest clutch of ball pythons
I've ever, ever seen.
That's crazy. That's the most in my career.
That was insane. And Mama, you did good.
(upbeat music)
- Well we've got some crested gecko babies today.
They're pretty crazy. No! (laughs)
- [Man] (laughing) Chaos!
- I'm just gonna leave 'em in here
because they keep jumping all over the place.
But, (chuckles) it's really interesting.
One is more kind of like a brownish-colored,
and one, it has more red.
So it's cool to see the difference between the siblings.
I know this parent's specific honey and riffraff
have thrown some really cool Halloweens and stuff
in the past, which I think that reddish one
is gonna turn more into that.
A Halloween is like what you think of, black and orange.
So, it fires up on the,
the background color is really dark, almost black.
It's pretty rare to get a really black black,
but it gets really dark brown.
And then the crests and everything is orange.
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Got a couple of clutches of baby colubrids that hatched out.
So, again, like I'd mentioned,
things are definitely getting going.
Now, interestingly enough, you may look at these and say,
"Well Brian, why do these have so many patterns
when they're supposed to be Mexican black king snakes?"
Now, most of 'em hatch out solid, glossy, jet black,
but sometimes they'll hatch out
with a little bit of pattern like this.
Now 99.9% of the time, within a couple sheds,
all of that pattern turns jet black.
Now, I'm not sure why that is.
Just certain clutches will hatch out that way.
This is actually a lot of pattern. (chuckling)
I'm not gonna lie to you.
Usually you don't have this much pattern to 'em,
but it is pretty interesting.
But I would imagine,
here in the next, probably month, month and a half,
these guys will be jet black, glossy black.
Every now and then you'll see just a little bit
of speckling on animals that hatch out like this.
But nevertheless, super cool.
Love the fact that we have some nigritas,
or Mexican black kings hatching out.
I was super excited about these ones,
and they just started hatching out.
There's literally just one little baby
out of the egg right now, right here.
And of course, this is our first
scaleless Texas rat snake clutch,
and who-doggy, this is a pretty little monkey.
This was a really nice pair of snakes
that actually bred really beautiful,
so I'm expecting some killer babies, for sure.
But unfortunately, there's just one little baby hatched out.
We see one little egg right here
that's got a head popped out,
and all the rest of the eggs haven't even pipped yet.
So, this is the first baby scaleless Texas rat,
but there's about 20 eggs in this clutch.
So, in the next day or two,
we're gonna have 20 little babies
that look just as beautiful as this little monkey.
- What is going on guys?
So, today is another wonderful, wonderful day in our journey
of working with the beautiful croc-monitors.
And we already done our couple of feedings
during the weekends while you guys have been coming out
and saying hi to us and everything
during our Reptarium hours.
So, this something we want to do a little bit more
on a regular basis,
as long as we can maintain a safe environment.
My wonderful cameraman behind the camera over here.
Thanks bro. - Yeah, no problem.
- He had pointed out a really, really cool, cool thought.
You notice something? Or, you notice these?
- [Cameraman] Well, it looks like a red ball.
- Yeah. This is something I don't want him feeding.
(chuckles)
(upbeat music)
- So obviously, it was awesome what Bruce had going on.
That's it's exactly how we want this training to go.
We want to make sure that baby Kush understands,
"Hey, I'm getting food.
You can just be cool and chill in my cage,
and then ultimately go away, right?"
It doesn't ever think that we are food.
And then we'll start to build that bond.
And this is the experience that we want to add.
Again, I keep saying I want to add experiences
to the Reptarium hours, now that we have limited numbers.
This is one of the experiences.
Let me know in the comments if you guys would dig coming
and seeing this interaction,
and kind of bringing you along
on the entire training process.
I'm telling you what, in six months,
we're gonna have this animal out, holding it,
everyone can be playing with it.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing.
You guys know I want to always take you continuously
on the journey of my mental health and stuff like that.
And I want to kinda just continue to inspire you guys,
like I'd been mentioning.
The last few days have been a lot better.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I mean, it was a really, really, really tough 2 1/2 months.
And I'm not gonna say it's over.
I'm just gonna tell you
that I've been feeling a little bit better.
And that's kinda the journey, right?
Is that, you start to feel a little bit better.
It's a kinda up and down ebb and flow.
The good times are here and there.
And then the good times become more,
and then the bad times get less and less,
and eventually you realize, "Oh my gosh,
the bad times haven't happened for the last few days."
So, it's been a good couple days.
But I want to encourage you guys,
if you're dealing with any kind of mental health,
depression, anxiety, you have to be active,
and you have to do things.
Hey, Perdita, my baby girl.
Of course, these guys distract me all the time.
I absolutely love, what are you doing, silly monkey?
She is such a cute snake. (chuckling)
But the animals distract me,
and I don't just sit back and do anything.
I go to therapy. I do all kinds of, I do meditation.
I do all kinds of things, and that's the way you get better.
You can't feel like you have anxiety or depression
and just hope it goes away.
You've gotta really charge it the best you can.
And, it's not easy.
Listen, there are days I don't want to get out of bed,
but I still come to work, and I still work all day,
and that's part of getting better.
And I wanted to encourage you guys to keep moving forward,
and you will be okay, we will be okay.
It's been a good few days,
and I hope that the next few days will be even better.
And I hope that here in several weeks,
we'll be saying that we got completely past this.
But again, every now and then I just want to encourage you,
go out there, believe in yourself,
keep working towards your goals, and you can get better too.
We are going to get better,
and we're going to inspire people
to continue to get better, right?
And again, surround yourself with things that you love,
like animals and stuff like that, it's really amazing.
But, wanted just to continue to tell you that,
hey, we're working on it, we're working hard on it,
we're getting better,
and we're gonna be 100% before we know it.
I just brought over that one normal ball python
that was bred to a banana-fire spider,
and most of 'em are hatched out.
So I just brought 'em over so we'll set 'em up today.
And a couple of 'em were just normal bananas.
I'll be honest with you, sometimes when you mix pastel,
and fire, and stuff like that,
bananas lose a little bit of their kinda pop, right?
So we've got two normal banana ball pythons right here
that both look absolutely incredible.
And as far as a single-gene animal,
bananas may be the best, maybe behind pieds,
or, I'm not sure, I mean, I love 'em all, right?
But regardless, this is actually
the banana-fire spider here.
You can just see it's kinda faded,
looks absolutely beautiful, has that spider pattern to it.
And if you notice, it doesn't have a wobble, right?
I always say this, the wobble is definitely, it's overblown.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
And I'm not trying to pick fights with anyone.
I'm just telling you that if you hatch 100 spiders,
at least my stock, maybe one has a slight wobble,
and 99 are perfect.
So regardless, I don't want to get into the debate there.
I'm just saying that this banana-fire spider
is absolutely incredible.
And then we just have a little fire spider here.
So this is a two-gene animal, fire incomplete dominant,
and then the spider.
And again, you can see the wobble isn't there.
With the wobble, you'll see, it'll come out,
and they'll start to flip around and stuff like that.
That's not the case with these guys.
Another little spider in the egg here.
And then just another normal ball python.
Might be a fire in the egg there.
They should be hatched out later on today.
But regardless, baby snakes, had to bring 'em over.
Had to share 'em with you guys.
So I'm gonna go ahead and set these guys up,
and they should shed in about a week or so, get feeding,
and they'll be ready to go.
Got a couple things to open up here from the PO box.
You guys are always spoiling me.
These notes tell me who it's from?
Let's see, enjoy your gift,
because Lori keeps getting scared of you cutting your hands.
(Lori laughs)
Oh, Jesus. - Perfect!
- Yeah. - Somebody listens!
You're not supposed to use the knife to cut it.
- No? - No, there's a,
- How do you- - Yeah, exactly.
- How does it open? - Exactly.
Just like that, it slides. - I don't know how to open it.
I don't know how to open it. - Oh my God.
Don't cut what's in there.
You have trouble- - So what is this?
This is like, ooh, these are-
- They're cut-resistant gloves! (laughs)
- Oh my God, these are awesome. I wonder if we could-
- Remember the last time that you cut yourself? (laughs)
- I wonder if this would protect us from alligator bites.
- [Cameraman] (gasps) Let's go try it.
- Put your hand in- - Maybe.
Can I try to see if it works from cutting? (laughs)
I mean, how confident are you in this?
- Just take that finger.
Ow! No, just kidding. - (laughing) You liar.
- Yeah, it actually, well thank you. We appreciate you.
I think we can- - I appreciate it.
- I think we can put these
to the test. - No, keep it on.
Keep it on. - Okay.
- If you're gonna open another-
- [Cameraman] I think that's a good idea though.
Let's put 'em to the test one day.
- I should put 'em to the test one day.
All right, this one comes from-
- Well, wait a second.
You, having the knife in the hand with that makes no sense.
- Yeah, if the knife slips, like, oh!
- I mean- - But anyways,
this is from Tebow, I think this is from Tim Tebow.
- (gasps) Really?
- It says Tebow, but I don't know if it's from Tim Tebow,
but, the heck, what is this?
What in the world?
What the heck? - Oh my God. (laughs)
- [Brian] Okay. (chuckles)
- There's a note.
- There's the note. - So, let's see.
- Ooh, a puzzle! - A puzzle.
- Oh, we're totally into puzzles.
- I did just finish
my last puzzle. - Oh yeah.
- Noah will be happy. - And this is a cool one.
This one's a dope one!
- Brian, not sure how I started watching your vlog,
but now I watch every day.
Grew to love the snakes laying eggs,
egg cutting, and snake combinations.
Love the Reptarium, everything you added.
I got you the shirt
'cause you are such a source of optimism and motivation.
- That's a cool shirt. - The puzzle-
- I actually like that shirt too.
- Oh yeah.
- It is cool. - The puzzle is for Lori.
It glows in the dark.
- Oh, - Can't wait for the day
- it glows in the dark. - when I can visit, Jen Tebow.
- Oh my gosh.
- Well thank you so much, Jen! - So, thank you!
- Like I said, perfect.
I just finished my last one, so.
- And she also sent the gift that I love so much.
- Yes. - Thank you.
Bounty is the good stuff, too.
This is the quicker picker-upper.
So, I appreciate it. Thank you guys so much.
And I'm safe to do anything now, with this glove.
- (laughing) Yeah.
- I have never had a clutch of 16 eggs
from a ball python, not even close.
I think my record before was 13. Unbelievable.
Hopefully next year we can breed her
and have 16 fertile eggs.
That is pretty amazing.
If you enjoyed this video,
here's a playlist of snake eggs you can roll through,
and just see all the snake eggs that we get for years.
I tell you what, it's insane.
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