- This is a Mojave GHI,
and this is the female that laid eggs 57 days ago.
You know what that means, we're about to cut the clutch.
And she was bred to a banana GHI,
which means that there's allelic stuff going on.
Now, I'm going to talk about what allelic means
after we cut this clutch, but I tell you what,
it's a banger and I cannot wait to see
what babies are in here.
Wish me luck.
Let's go cut some eggs.
All right, so on to the egg cutting.
Now again, because it's an allelic animal, you have,
everything is gonna either be a GHI
or it's gonna be a Mojave.
There can't be any normal stuff in there.
And anything that lines up with that GHI,
on the banana side, we'll either get a super GHI
or another GHI Mojave.
We could also get banana Mojaves, banana GHIs,
or a combination thereof.
We have seven eggs.
This egg looks goofy as can be.
It's a longer egg that kind of fuzzed out.
I think there's still gonna be a baby in it.
Let's start with that egg.
And I'll be honest with you, I'm hoping for
is either a banana super GHI or a banana GHI Mojave.
That's what I'm really shooting for it.
But hey, we've got seven eggs.
Let's see what we've got.
Jumping in to egg number one.
All right, and guys, down in the comments,
you can comment each egg what you think is gonna be inside
before we cut it, and then we'll see
if you're right about that, right?
Let's go ahead and just keep on cutting, keep on cutting.
Ooh, right off the rip, what we've got.
Okay, so we've got a banana GHI in here.
Again, it's a very small animal
because of the egg being wonky, right?
But it's definitely, again, it's gotta be a GHI,
it's gotta be a Mojave, it is a banana.
It's not a banana Mojave, so it has to be a banana GHI
or a combination thereof.
It looks like just a normal banana GHI.
Little tiny little monkey.
Now we get into the bigger eggs and let's see what we have.
Again, six eggs to go.
Please let me get a couple of combos
that are absolutely amazing.
This clutch I've been waiting for
for literally the last two months
and really months before that when we were breeding it,
so I'm pretty excited about it.
Let's go ahead and do this one.
Again, in the comments, let me know
what you think we're gonna hit with this egg.
And again, in those comments, it's bragging rights, right?
If you call it, you can brag about it.
All right, egg number two.
What do we have?
Ooh, what do we have?
What do we have?
Let's see, it's a little bit flipped upside down right now,
so it's a little hard to tell.
I'm gonna try to just see
if I can't see the top side of this.
We hit the GHI Mojave banana.
That's right, that was the one we want.
I wanted the banana GHI Mojave or the banana super GHI
and we hit the banana GHI Mojave.
Again, it's flipped upside down,
so you can't see it really well,
but I could definitely see as I was going.
That is absolutely amazing.
I am so excited.
And we still have five eggs ago.
That is incredible.
Let's just keep going.
Guess down below what the next egg will be.
Here we go.
Oh my gosh, that was so fricking awesome, man.
I am so excited.
This one, again, is flipped upside down a little bit,
kind of hard to see, but we're gonna go ahead and do it.
And that happens sometimes with these things.
They'll just kind of flip upside down a little bit.
It looks like another one.
It looks like another banana GHI Mojave.
It looks like we had two of 'em, guys.
That is absolutely incredible.
Wow.
Oh my God.
We got, you guys were commenting down below
and you got that twice in a row.
You're doing pretty good.
We've got four eggs.
I'm gonna say the next egg's gonna be a banana GHI Mojave.
I doubt that's gonna happen,
but let's go ahead and see what it is. Here we go.
What do we have, what do we have, what do we have?
Get the heck outta here.
This is a banana GHI Mojave.
That's three in a row, people.
Oh my gosh.
What a trip.
Three banana GHI Mojaves.
That is outrageous.
And we have three eggs to go.
Let's, I don't even know what to do now.
Let's just keep cutting.
Again, down in the comments, guys, let's go.
If a person says GHI Mojave banana,
you're probably gonna get it right again
because maybe the whole clutch'll be this way.
Let's see right, oh, we've got a darker animal.
We didn't hit the banana in this one.
And it looks like we have just a Mojave in this one.
No Mojave GHI, anything like that.
But again, everything has to be Mojave,
everything has to be GHI.
It's just a normal Mojave.
Two eggs to go.
Again, keep those comments coming.
Let's see what you got
and see how smart your genetics are down there.
Let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see, let's see.
Okay.
Ooh, oh, wait a second.
I think this might be the banana super GHI.
This looks like the banana super GHI,
which is exactly what we were hoping for.
My gosh, we have crushed it.
Three banana GHI Mojaves, one banana super GHI,
one egg to go.
I mean, at this point,
we don't even have to cut this last egg
'cause I'm so happy, right? But let's go ahead and do it.
Comment down below what you think it is and let's do it.
All right, last egg.
I'd like to end on a bang, but man,
it's gonna be hard after all the stuff
that we've done already.
All right, what do we have here?
Looks like it's either a GHI or a super GHI.
It's hard to say to be totally honest with you
until it hatches out, I know, but it's not a banana.
I tell you what, guys, that was a ripper, man.
I am so excited.
My God.
That was incredible.
Thank you.
And let me know how you did down the comments.
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- I'm feeding Salt and Pepper. And they look ready.
Let's do this.
Salty, you're not supposed to come up yet.
Ooh.
Ooh, Salt, relax.
Gzz, there you go, Pepper.
One for you, and Salty.
Pepper, no, that's (indistinct).
Salty.
Crazy crazy gators.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Relax, relax. Give me those back, give me those back.
Oh no, you dropped the chicken.
Oh, you gotta get it, look, you gotta get it.
Salt!
I don't wanna wait on that one. (laughs)
Go that way.
And... (indistinct), ooh, got it.
(indistinct) It's amazing.
Don't feed gators as pets.
Salty.
Okay, Pepper.
Pepper, that is not nice.
That's not nice-y.
(indistinct) Done.
Hey.
Perfect.
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At five o'clock tonight,
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or go in the link in the description.
Back to the GHI Mojave.
And I'm gonna do my best I can do to explain to you guys
what it means to be allelic, right?
We know that the incomplete dominant stuff
makes super forms.
We know that homozygous and heterozygous animals
like albinos and pys work.
But we wanna talk about allelic animals
because they're a little bit special.
The GHI Mojave are, of course,
made up by a Mojave and a GHI, right?
The super Mojave is a blue-eyed leucistic complex.
Of course, the super version of a GHI is a super GHI.
But when you breed the GHI and the Mojave together,
basically what happens is that they share the same protein
on an allele and they make an allelic-looking animal, right?
Now, the super versions are basically
like double copies of one gene.
When you get into a blue-eyed leucistic,
say a Mojave Mojave,
you have two copies of the Mojave gene.
And the same thing goes with the GHI, right?
But in this case, when the Mojave and the GHI react,
it basically acts like a super version,
but makes an animal that looks completely different.
And what I mean by that is that this
is just like a super Mojave
when you breed it to say, a normal,
every baby is gonna be a Mojave.
Same thing with the GHI.
If you breed a super GHI to a normal, you get all GHIs.
In this case, when you breed this to a normal,
you're gonna get either Mojaves or GHIs.
You'll never produce normal.
It basically acts kind of like a super gene
with Mojave and GHI.
It's a really interesting complex
and it can be pretty awesome.
And GHI Mojaves aren't the only one.
Really, the first major allelic animal that came out
was a super stripe, which is a specter and a yellow belly.
Again, the specter can get super specters.
The yellow belly gets the ivory, which is a super,
the double copy of that gene.
Well, this happens to be all kinds of things.
This is a super stripe, but it's also a red stripe,
a pinstripe, and a spider ball python.
Now, interesting enough, because this is an allelic animal
of the specter and the yellow belly,
everything that comes out in this breeding
is gonna have yellow belly or specter.
It can't have normal.
But then, of course, the different genes,
like the red stripe, the pinstripe, and the spider
can get mixed in.
You're gonna have all kinds of interesting combinations,
but all of them have to either be specter or yellow belly,
and then combinations there
of the red stripe, pinstripe, and spider.
The same exact thing goes for the Puma ball Python.
Absolutely spectacular looking snake.
I mean, absolutely wonderful.
It is actually a yellow belly, just like the super stripe,
but then, there's actually a spark gene too, right?
You can get a super spark, you can get a super yellow belly,
which is the ivory, and if you breed those together,
they're allelic and you produce the Puma.
This gorgeous monkey is another allelic animal,
but it was being called a soul sucker Rousseau, right?
Basically, the soul sucker Rousseau
was actually named by Kevin McCurley
and it's a hidden gene woma and a Rousseau.
This also has an incomplete dominant pastel gene in it,
and it makes it absolutely incredible.
But much like all the other allelic animals,
when you breed this,
everything is either gonna be have Rousseau,
which is in the blue-eyed leucistic complex,
or is gonna be hidden gene woma.
That gives you an idea of how allelics actually work.
And that's why we produced some pretty cool animals
in this clutch earlier today
is because we knew everything had to be either GHI
or everything had to be Mojave.
And the fact that the male was a banana GHI,
and because the male was a GHI banana,
that means there could be two copies of the GHI.
Hence the reason why we got some super GHIs in there.
Now, there couldn't be any super Mojaves
because there was only one copy of the Mojave
in the Mojave GHI.
Does that make sense or did I just confuse you?
Let me know in the comments if you enjoyed it
and if you learned something
and if I confused you, ask all the questions you want,
I'll try to answer 'em.
It's definitely been a minute since I've taken out Casper,
the black-eyed leucistic reticulated Python.
This was actually produced by Kevin McCurley
out at (indistinct).
And it's one of the very first black-eyed leucistics
that ever were produced.
I mean, to be honest with you,
the white snakes with blue eyes or black eyes
are kind of like the holy grail when it comes to reptiles,
whether it's the ball pythons,
the leucistic Texas rat snakes,
and of course, the leucistic reticulated Pythons.
Now, he's actually pretty old.
Now, retics, obviously, can get 20, 25 foot,
but the males, oftentimes, will stay a little bit lower.
And this guy is actually a super Phantom
and the Phantom gene actually stays a little bit smaller,
as well, typically.
Nevertheless, he is a beautiful snake
and it's been a long time since I've just had him out
and played with him a little bit.
And I tell you what, that is one spectacular animal.
A little update on the boiga cyanea.
These guys are amazing.
Of course, the green-headed cat-eyed snake.
Remember when this was a baby, number one,
it was super small compared to now,
but also, it was like an orange-ish red color
with that green head.
But what they go through, an ontogenic color change,
just basically meaning that they change from a baby color
to an adult color, and that adult color is all green.
This one isn't quite all the way there.
The green head still is a little bit more green
than the body, but eventually,
it's gonna be pretty much a solid green snake.
And they're just really cool.
And they go through that ontogenic color change
just so that as a baby,
they would be kind of in the more flowering area,
like the orange flowering and stuff like that.
And then as they get older, they'll climb up into the trees
where they're just gonna have a lot more greenage, right?
It's actually great adaptation when it comes to reptiles.
And you see a lot of animals having,
obviously green tree pythons, Emerald tree boas,
to mention a couple.
And it's just a change that helps them survive in the wild.
I don't know, let me know in the comments
if you guys liked when it was orange
or you like now that it's turning its adult color of green.
Either way, that head is absolutely phenomenal.
And it's so cool to be working with this guy.
- Ooh.
Come on.
This is actually one thing I didn't wanna actually show
our others that we're trying to feed
'cause this actually, we'll try and get him
to start getting a little more excited
when he sees the ball, is a quick look,
and you see, you notice how he's not,
he's not really coming and chasing after it.
I wanna take it away, keep showing him,
show him the ball, there we go.
And there's, and that bite is what I'm looking for.
I want him to really come after it
and getting him to be really, really excited about it
is really part of the key.
It's, sometimes you have to take the ball away from him
and he'll just sit there and be like,
no, food, no, food.
You gotta take it away.
They got, they can't see the ball all the time.
It's just, and sometimes being a little erratic
helps sort of solidify the training overall.
Good boy.
I want you to come running out though.
Yeah, let's see if we can actually get the...
He says, man, I'm so little still, man.
I'm trying to figure things out.
All right, all right, all right.
You know what, on the ledge, you'll take that.
You just wanted the ball.
You don't even care about the food, do you?
Ah, there you go.
Good one, good one.
- I can't wait 'til these babies
actually hatch out of the eggS.
It's gonna be an absolute banger.
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