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- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
I'm actually gonna start my day because
I was just admiring Moo Moo the cow reticulated python.
She is absolutely incredible and again this is that one
when I got was just hyper as heck and bit me
right out of the bag and just was a monster right from
the beginning.
Well as you can see, she's calmed down tremendously,
and what's interesting of course is that she's
more of a kind of off yellow with these bronze
and brown spots all over, and again her spots are just
coming, for you guys that don't know,
these guys are born without spots,
just like a dalmatian dog, and then grow into them.
But the thing about the cow reticulated python
that's pretty interesting is that typically,
they're not a big reticulated python.
You know, most cows get maybe 13, 14 foot absolute max.
Take for instance my girl Perdita,
she's actually almost 3 years old,
and she's probably about maybe,
eight and a half or nine foot.
Of course she's gonna get some more size on her,
but Moo Moo she's only a year old,
and she's almost as large as Perdita.
And, uh, you might want to know why that is.
What we have to understand is that we're all
made up of our heritage, right?
Take for instance Lucy,
she's a tiger reticulated python,
and over twenty feet long, and an absolutely
gorgeous animal, but she's from the mainland
of Indonesia right, so these are the giant.
The cow retics are actually made up of
phantom and ghost stripe, which are just basically
more of a Insular Island animal
that stays a little bit smaller right?
So if Lucy came from heritage that was, uh,
a fifteen foot snake, she wouldn't get 20 foot right.
Think about it, if two 5'2" people have a baby,
they typically don't have a 6'5" person.
It can happen, but it is rare.
So the fact is, that the more genes of the mainland
like Lucy here, that are actually involved,
the larger the snake is.
It goes the other way with dwarves right.
That's why you get dwarf retics,
that stay like five and a half or six foot.
As opposed to something like twenty foot
here like Lucy here.
Now the deal is, is that Perdita is a pure cow retic.
She is a phantom, and she's a ghost stripe.
Where as Moo Moo actually has ghost stripe
and phantom, but then has like 4 or 5 other
mainland genes in it.
SO the fact is, most cows get thirteen or fourteen foot,
but in the case of Moo Moo, will she get the size of Lucy?
I'm not sure she's gonna get that big,
but I have a feeling she's definitely gonna eclipse
Perdita for sure, and maybe get 16, 17 maybe even 18 foot.
Regardless my silly girl here that's trying to act
like she's a green tree python, always runs up in the tree
when she wants to get away.
But what progress we've made with Lucy right,
I can get in her cage and mess with her
and she's not coming at me right.
That is huge progress, she is such a beautiful snake,
and I'm glad that she's a mainland because
I love the fact she's over twenty foot.
Down in the dungeon, which means
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egg time!
This is actually a pastel het clown female,
and it looks like she has an absolutely gorgeous
clutch of eggs,
for whatever reason,
she seems to have come off her eggs,
which is fine, but she was actually bred to
an albino clown. `
Meaning I can get clowns, I can get pastel clowns,
and of course I can get het for stuff like that,
that would all be het for albino.
This is an absolutely gorgeous dad, for sure.
Lets see how many eggs she has.
And again, she's almost all the way off her eggs,
so I can easily just kind of remove her
without having any issues at all.
And I'm gonna candle these eggs,
obviously it looks like they've been rolled
just a little bit.
I'll just get them all in the incubator box really quick,
the egg box, and then we'll go ahead
and candle this clutch up.
Just to make sure they're okay, but it looks like
a really nice clutch.
Just gonna pull this last egg off here,
because its barely attached,
and then the other ones I think I can pull off all together.
Alright, here we go,
looks like we have
2, 4, 6, 8, 10 beautiful eggs.
Again, on average, half of these are gonna be
clown or pastel clown, so that's gonna be a really
exciting clutch, and I hope you guys are enjoying.
I think we have one more clutch to pull.
Its been an amazing year so far,
so let me know in the comments how you guys have been
enjoying it.
I tell you what guys, Didi, and Dixie, are ridiculous.
Come on guys
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come on, come on out here.
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Come on, lets go.
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come on, out here, come on,
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lets go
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come on, come on out.
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This experience with these guys has just been, crazy.
Its one of the things that the reptarium 2.0
that I think is really extremely special.
And the fact that this is an experience that we can now
kind of offer to everyone that comes in.
Where Didi, and Dixie just come out,
and hang out with us.
I mean it is crazy, obviously, we love Bella, you know?
Bella is amazing.
Come on guys, lets go, come on.
Come on, up here, come on, there you guys go.
Here you go Didi, here you go.
Come on baby, there you go.
And again its just wild because their more like dogs
than they are anything else, I mean you can just
sit here and play with them all the time.
And a lot of times, I'm not gonna lie to you,
like Bruce and Jessica, often eat their lunch right here
in front of Didi and Dixie, they'll just come out,
they'll have their lunch, and Didi and Dixie
are just hanging out with them, just doing their thing.
I mean, it is ridiculous, I mean I'm not gonna even lie
to you, two years ago, even with having Bella,
I never thought that I was gonna have lizards
that were like this, to where you could just interact
with them on this level.
Bella has always been amazing, she is definitely
always gonna be my baby.
I love bella more than anything, that is for sure.
But Didi and Dixie, the experience of just playing
with these guys is ridiculous.
Again, its one of the few attractions
of the new reptarium 2.0, that we didn't have before,
that I think just makes the experience of coming here
that much better, because listen,
it is just insane.
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These guys make me laugh, I love them so much.
You guys are such beautiful animals,
I love you two monkeys for sure.
And speaking of the new reptarium experiences,
we did add 15 more slots per hour,
for the rest of the month of June,
so if you were like,
aw man, they're sold out, there's only 10 people,
we're actually gonna be able to have 25 people
per hour now, here at the reptarium.
You can go to the reptarium.com,
you can book your slots through the rest of June,
and hopefully by July we'll be completely open.
I mean that's our hopes anyways,
but nevertheless, we did add some more slots,
so you guys can come out and hang out with Didi and Dixie.
Just like we do every single day.
- Its feeding day which,
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- I ruined it, I ruined it all, I just-
- Its feeding day, it feels like everyday is feeding day.
But uh, almost everyday is here.
Because right now, this time of year,
its super important to really get the food
to the animals that are breeding,
um, so they can put that size on.
Right now, we're starting to get double clutches,
so those don't happen unless
they have enough weight on them.
So here we are, giving them the meals,
getting them fat, so we can get more eggs.
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And I'm always excited to be unboxing,
its weird I've been unboxing a lot of snakes lately.
And didn't even expect it,
unfortunately, guess what, zip ties.
You know hat zip ties mean right?
I'll be right back.
Of course I need my handy snippers here so,
these are actually cool,
its all just one type of animal,
but we got some more of these earlier in the year,
and they were so beautiful,
and I tell you, I love these animals.
Oh my gosh are they incredible.
Of course these are little Guyana red tail boas.
Little baby, Guyana red tail boas,
remember we got like guyanas, we got syrians,
we got peruvians.
Guyanas are really cool because,
they're kind of the more like lavenderish
color of these animals.
When these get bigger, this tail just turns
bright beautiful, almost like a maroon, reddish look.
Absolutely incredible.
So I'm just gonna look through here,
because each bag has about 5 or 6 of them in here.
I think we got a total of 14 of these little monkeys here.
And oh my gosh, they are all perfect.
I mean, they're so,
look at the color on this one right here.
Just that kind of already, you see that kind of pinks
and kind of lavenders coming through.
And look at the tail, I mean, oh doggy that is just
absolutely a ripper so, I tell you what, more baby boas man,
I tell you, tis the season,
and typically, guyana red tail boas are normally
born in like January, so this is a little bit of an off
season litter, and that's why I wanted to jump on them.
Cause again, you don't see them very often this time of year
so it was absolutely pretty cool to actually get some.
Lets just take a look at the other couple bags
and see if there's something cool in there.
And again, other than just some variation
of a normal, I don't expect anything too crazy,
but I mean just, beautiful, oh my god.
Look at that tail on that one right there.
Oh my goodness!
I'm telling you what, when this thing is 5 foot,
its gonna be,
you're gonna need sunglasses to look at that thing,
its gonna be so beautiful.
Just take a look at a few other ones in here.
Goodness gracious.
Take, aw sheesh, I tell you what.
That is incredible!
I know that Bruce and Jess are gonna be excited too
cause they love little red tail boas,
and these guys are absolutely incredible.
Got a couple here with widows peaks on them,
and stuff like that.
That is beautiful.
One more bag, just gonna take a quick look,
and then we'll go ahead and get these things set up
and get them ready to go.
Typically what we'll do is again,
we always treat things like they might have mites,
just to be preventive.
And then of course we'll set them up,
we'll give them like 3, 4 meals,
and then they'll get on the website of course.
Because these guys are looking really good,
looks like they've already eaten a little bit,
which is always a little bit of a bonus so we don't have
to get them started.
And holy cow, look at this one, how light it is, whoa!
Oh my goodness gracious!
That one is so much more pink and light
than the other ones.
And its got a really long red tail.
Man I tell you, these things are going to be rippers
when they get bigger.
I am so excited about it.
The only problem with getting red tail boas like this,
is I always want to keep a bunch of them, you know.
I mean every time, and I have kind of kept a bunch
back and we have some yearlings, and some 2 year olds now,
and they look incredible.
I mean how can you not love this,
I mean this is amazing.
When I was a kid working at a pet shop,
when I was like 15 years old,
I remember literally getting a big wild caught,
guyana red tail boa, cause that's all you got back then,
and I fell in love with that animal.
All these years later, I still love them to death.
So its so cool to get some little babies that are so
absolutely adorable.
So there it is guys, quick unboxing,
we'll get these guys set up and get them eating,
and then hopefully get them on the website
as quickly as we can.
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- Alright, well done feeding for the day,
so that's good.
Now I just have to come back tomorrow,
check everything, see what ate, what didn't,
monitor the progress because that's part of
how we tell weather something is gravid or not,
if its going off food or not,
so that's why I got sticky notes like crazy,
trying to keep track of who's where, and their cycles,
and what's going on, and uh yeah,
its definitely still exciting, lot of work to be done,
I feel like it really never ends.
- I wanted to do something I've been thinking about
for a while.
You know that Elvis every now and then wants to jump
up here and swim with the turtles,
well I would love to see just what toothless wants to do.
See if he likes the water or not.
I'm just gonna put him right here and just let him
have a little bit of fun, you know.
Eventually, I hope they have this type of water
features in all the water monitors enclosures.
But look at him man, oh.
He took off right away, he loved it, oh my gosh.
I was kinda surprised, I mean he swam so good,
we've had him in like water before,
soaking and stuff like that,
but this is the first time we had him in the pond,
so uh, I'm just gonna let him have a little bit of fun,
and we'll see how he goes.
I love the way they tuck their hands behind their head
and just kinda swim, I mean they are so adaptive to
swimming.
And actually, when I was in Indonesia,
I actually ran around one time,
we were out on a golf course, and saw some huge water
monitors, and there was this kind of ravine
that they, it was probably an 8 foot wall,
and every time you'd chase these guys,
they would run and jump, right into that ravine
and there was no way you could catch them.
These guys love water, and like I said,
my goal is, as we expand, to actually add water features
to all the big water monitors,
so that they can swim around like this all the time.
And this next clutch is actually just a pastel female.
Looks like she's laying on a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Yeah it looks really, really good.
And she was actually bred to, this extreme enchi
pinstripe, the extreme gene, the enchi, and the pinstripe,
mix together amazing, and then you add the pastel,
and you can get a lemon blast extreme enchi pinstripe,
which is absolutely ridiculous.
Lets see how many eggs she has.
Alright mama, lets see what you've got in here.
Lets see what we've got, oh we have an egg dropping
out over here.
Its kind of a mixed bag unfortuntely,
but we've got some good eggs, got some bad eggs
to be totally honest with you.
So I'm gonna pull the good eggs out, which look
really good, by the way, but there are some bad eggs in here
too, so I'm not sure exactly what that was about.
That was the first clutch that that particular male
had ever fathered.
so we have, 2, 4 good eggs.
3 bad eggs.
That's the way it goes.
Still not too bad.
Those lemon blast extreme enchi pins are incredible,
I can't wait to produce a lemon blast extreme
super enchi pin.
Oh my gosh, that's gonna be incredible.
Guess what time it is?
Egg time.
Its colubrid egg time.
That's right, its colubird egg time.
Of course this is our second scaleless
corn snake clutch of the year.
Maybe the third scaleless clutch,
I'm not exactly sure, I can't remember.
But nevertheless, its a scaleless to scaleless and
again another beautiful clutch!
Remember I told you guys,
that at the beginning of the year,
I was worried about the fact that we were breeding
scaleless to scaleless just cause I wasn't sure
what the fertility would be like.
Well so far we've had resounding success,
as a matter of fact, I hate to say it,
but I don't think we've had one slug yet,
from a scaleless to scaleless, which is just
absolutely incredible.
Look how many beautiful pearly whites there are.
We've got, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 beautiful eggs.
So again, all of these are gonna be scaleless,
that's incredible.
I always love it when lucy goes up in her tree,
I just think its absolutely amazing,
that a 20 foot snake can climb so well
and just seem to love it up in the tree.
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of me doing a bunch of big snakes like Lucy,
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