- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope your the start of you day is absolutely incredible.
For me, I'm gonna start it with my guy Toothless here.
Hey, Toothless, hey, what's going on, buddy?
Come on sweetheart.
Ugh, he's such a good animal.
Of course, my Black Asian water monitor.
And today my guy here, that is getting so big,
and he's absolutely incredible, is gonna get a cage upgrade.
I am excited about this, been waiting for this
for a while now and I think he's gonna absolutely love it.
That's for sure.
But before I get Toothless into his new digs,
I actually have a shipment that I have to go unbox.
And let's just jump right in to this unboxing.
That was weird.
(warbling)
Okay, it's fixed now.
So my buddy Jeff.
- My name is Jeff.
- Sends me some cool Ball pythons,
he produces of really awesome Ball pythons,
but he's just a hobbyist and he sells the babies to us.
So every time he hatches some cool animals,
he says, hey, are you interested?
Of course, I always say, I'm interested,
because he always sends amazing quality.
I've been dealing with him
for the last four or five years, so I'm excited.
And the truth be told, I don't remember exactly
what he said he had.
He just said, hey I've got two clutches out,
would you like 'em?
I said, of course, send them to me.
And, so let's just go ahead and jump in.
I think there's 14 Ball pythons total,
at least that's what the packing list said.
So it's not like I remembered,
it's just that I saw that on the packing list.
Let's go ahead and take out my handy dandy knife again.
Oh, okay, good.
All right, let's get in to this.
The first one, what do we have?
Oh, yeah, oh these are pretty.
I remember what he said these were.
These are cool, these are actually
a bunch of Blue Eyed Leucistic Ball pythons
and these are fresh.
He asked me if he wanted to wait till they shed out
and get eating and stuff like that,
but the truth is sometimes is actually better
to get the animals as soon as I can,
that way they get adjusted to our environment,
they can shed out, we can get them feeding within
two or three weeks, something like that.
But, oh my gosh, a whole swath of Blue Eyed Leucistics
and then of course we have a little Pastel Lesser, here.
Another little Pastel Lesser, right here.
So there's a chance that these Blue Eyed Lucys
can also be Pastel Blue Eyed Lucys.
There's just no way to really tell
when you have the pastel gene in it,
but nevertheless a bunch of Blue Eyed Lucys.
You know, it's crazy, you guys may not know this but
the very first Blue Eyed Leucistic sold for over $100,000.
So think of that, I'm holding like six or seven
Blue Eyed Leucistics right now.
Just 12 or 15 years ago, this would have been
like a half million plus dollars in my hand.
Now they've become pretty affordable,
which I think is amazing.
People ask me this all the time,
like are you bummed that prices have come down?
The truth is I'm not, I think it's amazing
that people now have the opportunity to buy
things like Blue Eyed Leucistics and Albinos and py's
and all those amazing animals
that before just were out of your price range.
I mean, let's face it, who was buying a pet snake
for a hundred grand, right?
So those were investment animals.
Now fortunately, they've come down to the point
where they can a really cool beautiful animal
as a pet like that.
So that's pretty cool.
So, oh, this is, I'm gonna just transition
right into the next one.
I talked about Albino Ball pythons
and I told you guys before that I bought
my very first female Albino Ball python,
it's one of the first Albino Ball pythons ever sold,
from a guy named Jaime Quick and it was $15,000.
Now, they're a couple hundred bucks.
So these are actually a bunch of little Albinos right here.
Absolutely gorgeous by the way.
But they are actually carrying a gene which is,
this cute little monkey right there.
Of course this is an Albino Piebald.
So these are Albinos that are het for Piebald,
this is a double recessive mutation.
Look at how absolutely cute that snake is.
That thing is adorable.
So there it is.
Some of the fresh snakes of my friend Jeff
that sent them to me.
So I'm super excited.
Looks like these ones have shed,
so they'll probably eat in the next couple of days.
The other ones, it'll probably be about week
before they shed and eat.
So, there it is, for you guys that are interested in these,
it's gonna be a few weeks, take a deep breath,
but a few weeks from now,
you guys will see these guys on the website.
Back, to my buddy Toothless here
and getting him into the new enclosure.
I'm actually gonna to put him in this one.
This used to be Ivy's cage right here,
and I think he's gonna absolutely love it.
And the whole idea is to get him into a cage
that's on the ground, much like Elvis,
so that we can just open the door
and let him climb out as he's getting bigger,
we can interact with him that way.
Because we always want our animals
to have the decisions, right?
Instead of having to take him out,
I want him to have the ability to come out.
That gains confidence to him,
that keeps him mentally stimulated.
So this is gonna be his enclosure for the next
at least year or two, until we do something bigger.
Which by the way, Toothless, where you going, buddy?
Well, maybe he doesn't like his new enclosure,
but we're gonna go ahead, put him in here,
let him explore.
It's gonna be mentally very stimulating
because he's gonna want to know everything
that's going on in here.
So it's gonna be pretty cool.
And I think once he gets settled in,
he is gonna love his new digs, for sure.
So let's go ahead, 'round my buddy up
and put in and see what happens.
Here you go, Toothless.
Let's see what you got, buddy.
Look at him, as soon as he gets in there,
he's gonna start smelling, his mind is gonna start working.
He's gonna think like, what is going on?
This is a new place I can go around and explore
and you think of all these like, these rocks and crevices,
and all these places he can get up in
and he can get over into the corner and get really hot
on the heat spot, but then he can come over here
to the cool side, there's some hiding spots for him.
Lots and lots of terracing for him
to really get some energy.
He looks kind of small in here,
but he's gonna grow into this enclosure
and it's going to be absolutely amazing for him.
And like I always mention, you know,
like Ivy, when we moved her, sometimes it opens up
the animal to something different, right?
It becomes even better.
Because see right now, he's just looking around.
He's just curious.
Toothless, you can't come out, buddy.
This is your new enclosure.
You can have all the fun you want in it, buddy.
So he is gonna be amazing.
Like I said, I am so excited about this
because this is gonna be incredible to see
what kind of an animal he turns into
now that he has an enclosure like this.
So ... just so much better, I love it.
So, I'm just going to sit back
and watch this guy cruise around and explore his cage.
(upbeat music)
This is a pretty exciting ovulation right here.
You can see this from right here to right here
where it actually looks like it's blowing up
like a banana, it's ridiculous.
But this is actually a Super Lori Pinstripe,
so it's not exactly the most beautiful animal as an adult,
it was really cool as a baby.
But the fact that it's a Super Lori means all the babies
are going to come out potentially Lori's,
but it was bred to an extreme Banana,
which means that everything is gonna be Lori.
Half are gonna be Banana, some are gonna be extreme.
I wanted to see how that extreme gene in the Lori gene
mixed together, and the fact that it's a darker morph
with that Banana, should have a lot of purples in it.
So this is a pretty exciting ovulation.
Got a couple of really nice Ball python clutches.
And this is actually a Spinner, Special Ball python.
The Special is actually like het for Crystal
and she's bred to this absolutely gorgeous male
which is a Pastel Crystal.
So that means we can get anything from Pastel Crystal,
Spinner, Spider, Pinstripes, all the combinations thereof.
And this is an absolute gorgeous animal.
Let's see how many eggs this big girl has.
And she is definitely a beasty.
She's got one little egg out right over here.
We'll candle this one for sure.
And then we'll just kind of unravel here this way.
Oh, I can see one or two little sluggers.
Oh, it looks like three sluggers.
So she would have had a monster clutch
if these eggs would have been good.
But still a bunch are really good eggs, here.
So I'm just gonna slowly get these eggs out here.
Put them over here in the box
and then we can see how many eggs there are.
There are two, four, six, eight good eggs.
And then three slugs, so it would have been 11 in clutch.
Still eight eggs is a lot of eggs
and some potential for some really amazing animals.
You did a great job, momma.
And then the next clutch is actually a Lemon Blast
that is het for Ghost or Hypo
and it's actually bred to a Champagne Hypo.
That would be called Mimosa,
so we could get some Super Pastel Champagne Hypo Pinstripes.
And it looks like this girl
has a beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
She's wrapped around really nice.
Good job, mom, you did so amazing,
look at how beautiful she is.
Good, snake.
And a nice beautiful clutch, too.
We'll go ahead and get these over here,
get them in the egg box.
Looks like we have two, four, six eggs over here.
Again it's a Lemon Blast het for Ghost,
which is a Pinstripe, a Pastel.
It's het for Ghost and it's bred to a Champagne,
which is incomplete dominate.
And the recessive Hypo.
So could get some pretty cool little babies on there.
Again, 57 days we'll find out.
So obviously, yesterday we were open for the first time
and it was magical.
I mean, it was so cool to finally be back open a little bit.
Like I mentioned yesterday's blog,
if you didn't see it, I'll put a card right here,
you can watch it.
It was not what we want, I mean, you know,
we have masks, we only have 10 people.
But it was still something, you know, and it was awesome.
It almost felt like we had never opened
to be honest with you and it was like the first time ever.
And it was so great to see people so excited.
You know, had an opportunity to spend
a lot of really personal time with people.
Because again we could only have
10 people per hour in the place.
By the way, if you're interested,
we have slots through June, 10 per hour.
We're sold out I think next weekend,
but then we have a few slots and then hopefully,
keep an eye on thereptarium.com
where you can buy your tickets
because when we get increased to say 25 per hour,
we're gonna add those tickets.
So if it says sold out now,
maybe it won't be sold out, who knows?
Maybe even this coming weekend, we might be able
to have more than 10 people.
We're just waiting on the governor.
When she says we can do something, we're gonna do it,
we're gonna have as many people as we can.
But it was absolutely incredible,
and it's just cool to finally be on that path again.
And again, these animals were loving it.
I had never seen them kind of change their behavior so much.
As soon as people started coming,
things were just alive, they were moving.
It's like they knew and maybe I'm reading too much into it,
but boy it seemed to me like they knew something
had changed and I think it's incredible
and it went fantastic and I can't wait
because we're open again tonight.
Looks like Tiana is gearing up
for another clutch right over here for sure.
It's a bummer that we don't have a male.
And unfortunately, I talked to my friend Ty Parks
at Iguana land and he said if I put a male in now,
when she's in cycle, the male will actually kill her.
So he said, you gotta wait till the fall
to introduce a male.
So we'll definitely get a male in here,
maybe September, October.
Hopefully get them habituated and then maybe next year,
she can lay fertile eggs.
But that's crazy, this is her second clutch
she's gearing up to lay any day now that is just infertile.
No, she's never been with a male.
Originally, I was hoping there'd be parthenogenesis,
which means there could be some fertile eggs without a male.
But unfortunate, they were infertile.
So, I'm assuming these are going to be infertile, too.
But that gives me something
to really look forward to next year.
Not to mention, I wouldn't be surprised
if Adiddy and Dixie are laying eggs next year, too.
- One ball, two ball, red ball, blue ball.
Hey guys, what's going on?
So today is the day, I'm going to try
and make my attempt to try and do my stop and go technique.
And I don't really have a lot of expectations, again.
Just like every animal I've done here in the past,
I try not to go in with any expectations.
I simply just try to take notes, improve on my technique
and get better and better ever time.
I try and utilize both these colors and the hope is,
is that he will actually recognize each ball
as meaning one thing and the other.
And I figure while we're going ahead and doing this,
I want to also accompany this with a voice command.
So I want to also go, stop and go.
So every time he sees these things,
I can eventually maybe even just take the balls away.
(crashing)
And then I can just say, stop and go.
And then he'll do exactly what I want him to do.
That is the long run, I mean, that maybe another year or so
or maybe in a couple years,
you can potentially get him to get to that point.
So why don't we get started
on this super, super long journey.
Let's pull Elvis out and let's have some fun.
(upbeat rock music)
Go, go, stop, good boy.
Go, go, good boy.
(upbeat rock music)
Go, go, stop, good boy, good boy.
Go, go, go, good.
Go, go, go, stop, stop, stop, stop, good boy.
(upbeat rock music)
Go, go, go, stop, stop, stop, stop, good, good.
(upbeat rock music)
Go, go, stop.
(upbeat rock music)
Oh my gosh, I notice you guys that that was exhausting.
I'm so, so, so glad that he actually seems to be.
It seems to be coming along pretty good.
But I honestly think, yo, I was just saying
that it might be a year or so.
I might be wrong there.
He may actually pick this up
a little quicker than I thought.
I think it'll be no time at all before he'll definitely
be responding to the voice commands and everything.
So I hope you guys are enjoying this journey
that we're gonna go along and man,
I can't wait to see what he's gonna look like
in a few months.
- Jeffery just came out of shed
and looks absolutely adorable.
Now the downside is he thinks he's gonna get fed.
So I have to be a little bit careful
but as soon as he knows he's not getting fed,
he is perfect, but look at that, perfect shed right there.
Oh my god, that is absolutely wonderful.
And he looks so good.
Of course he's a Hypo Granite Burmese Python.
And I tell you that animal just gets more
and more spectacular the bigger it gets.
It's awesome to see Toothless enjoying his new habitat.
It's gonna be great to see him grow up.
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