- Hey good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
We're gonna start the day
showing you that awesome clown clutch
that we cut a couple days ago.
They've all climbed out of the egg
and they look spectacular.
Take a look at these monkeys right here.
Oh my gosh.
Now I will tell you right off the rip
that this is a banana clown right here
and it's not looking good.
There's a little bit of a stomach issue.
I'm gonna get this one set up immediately,
put it on some damp paper towel and hopefully
it'll cheer up, but the truth is that
that happens, you know?
You just kind of sometimes get animals that are weak,
they hatch out and that one doesn't have
a really good chance, I'm not gonna lie.
But I don't wanna start the day in a bummer
because the rest of the clutch is absolutely amazing.
Again, that's part of it.
I'm gonna start with this one right here.
Look at that right there.
That is just an enchi clown.
Oh my gosh is that amazing.
Again, that enchi is an incomplete dominant.
The clown of course is a recessive mutation,
but that head pattern and that reduction?
Hoo doggy, that thing is gorgeous.
And then really the kind of most normal animal
in the clutch was this just pastel banana,
but this of course is a het for clown
so it's a pastel banana het for clown.
Nothing too major.
And then we hit this pastel clown right here
that is an absolute ripper.
I mean, I'll tell you what, that is amazing
and we actually purchased the first pastel clowns ever
way back in the day so it was kind of a treat
to see more of these hatch out.
I always love them, they're always absolutely incredible
and again, starting the day looking at
some beautiful snakes and new life like this,
it is so absolutely incredible.
Look at this one right here.
Oh my gosh.
I love the darker animals
and this is a beautiful chocolatey looking animal.
This is a Mojave clown ball python.
Oh my goodness, that thing is unbelievable.
It's probably my second favorite in the clutch to be,
well okay, maybe third favorite.
I'm not sure, I love them all to be totally honest with you,
but then this was it.
The one that we were looking for right there.
That is actually an enchi pastel Mojave clown ball python.
This was the all gene animal.
It has every possible gene.
I'm not gonna lie, if it didn't have pastel in it,
it would actually be a little brighter
to be totally honest with you but nevertheless
a powerhouse animal.
It's a boy.
I'm gonna definitely raise it up
'cause this will be a breeder in the future
that is gonna make some beautiful beautiful offspring.
So I couldn't be more happier with the way
this whole clutch turned out
but this particular animal as a whole.
Even though we have the one kind of weak baby,
hey, that's the way it goes,
but the rest of this clutch is absolutely breathtaking,
so hey, what do you say we push our problems aside
for the rest of this vlog
and just have a great day together?
Check that out, guys,
Zombie just molted but I'll tell you what,
you cannot imagine the level of relief
that I have right now because last night
we were opening up the reptarium
and we took Zombie out and she was like
not able to move her legs well
and I saw some fluid that was built up right here
much like if you drop a tarantula
and they break their abdomen.
They'll actually kind of this fluid,
that pneumatic type fluid that actually
helps them move around
leaks out and oftentimes they die.
I literally had a sleepless night last night
because I love Zombie so much
and I thought that somehow she had been injured
and that she may not make it,
so I was freaking out.
So the first thing I did as soon as I came in this morning
is come here and check out this cage and guess what?
She molted, that is the greatest news ever
because that molt means that she wasn't injured at all,
she was just in molt and we didn't realize it.
So when we took her out, of course she was like in pre molt.
Thank goodness she actually molted
because taking her out in that state
could have been really bad for her
but we just didn't know and she looks absolutely gorgeous.
I'll tell you what, what a relief.
- Always working on all the finishing touches
here at the reptarium.
I got a few more labels.
I know a lot of people were offering to do them for us.
I really appreciate that, but we were able to do it
through our regular guy and so this is one of my projects
is trying to get some of these on
before we open today.
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- Down in the dungeon which can only mean one thing.
Egg time, egg time, egg time.
Egg time.
And we're gonna get started with this little monkey
right here which I'm pretty excited about
because it continues on my quest for the barney ball python.
Of course, this is a chocolate pin female
bred to a banana chocolate spinner
so we could get all kinds of super chocolate stuff,
banana stuff, so on like that.
Looks like a pretty good clutch.
We do have a couple little sluggers in here
so I'm just gonna remove these eggs really quick,
get them over here.
Gonna have to candle these ones up
to be totally honest with you 'cause they are definitely
rolled around a little bit.
We'll get these over here
and then of course we have two little sluggers here.
You did really good mom, thank you so much.
We'll get her all nice and cleaned up
and ready to go and we'll take a look
and see how many eggs we have here.
We have two, four, six good eggs with this,
two little sluggers so we have one more clutch
in this complex for the barney ball,
so I think that puts us up to five clutches so far
with one to go.
We have some pretty good odds I'm producing it
or not producing it depending on what it looks like.
This girl's actually a pastel ghost
or what they would call a pastel hypo.
She was bred to a champagne hypo
so we could get pastel mimosas, mimosas,
all that type of stuff.
Let's see what she has.
Good job, mama.
There we go, let's just come on, there we go.
Okay, for the most part, a good clutch of eggs right here.
We do have one little slugger.
We'll go ahead and get these over here.
We'll put them down right over here, nestle them in.
Again, one little slugger right here.
Got two, four, five good eggs,
so everything in this clutch should be
het for ghost or ghost and then like I said,
there'll be champagne ghost, champagne het for ghost,
pastel champagne, all kinds of different combinations,
so really cool stuff.
I love the mimosa stuff which is the hypo champagnes
and I love the pastel mimosas as well,
so this should be a pretty cool clutch.
And in 57 days, we're gonna cut it.
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I told you guys that every now and then
I'll update you on just how my mental health is doing.
I'm not gonna bore you with it a lot
because I don't want this vlog to be about down things,
I want it to be about good things.
But the truth is that I'm continuing to struggle with things
but I'm working through it and the reason I wanna
keep talking to you guys about this
is because I wanna inspire you guys.
It's not easy, there's times I feel absolutely horrible.
Almost all the time, I feel at least something.
It's not like a feel great and then bad.
I always feel like kind of crappy or really crappy,
but there's little glimmers of hope
and the reason I'm talking to you about this
is a wanna inspire you guys if you're dealing with
mental illness, anxiety, depression,
whatever the case may be.
I wanna be there,
someone that tells you that you can keep pushing through.
We will get through this, we will get better,
there will be another side to this
and we're at that other side,
we're gonna be in such great spirits
and things are gonna be so amazing
and we're gonna appreciate life even more than ever.
So I wanted to let you know that I'm hanging in there,
I'm doing okay.
Today is a so so day, yesterday was not such a great day.
The day before was actually a pretty good day,
so it's a mixed bag and it's always gonna be that way
and it's okay if you feel that way too,
but let's try to take the glimmer of hope that we have
and continue to build on that hope
and do the best we can do,
so I'll continue to update you guys
from time to time, but also not make this vlog
completely about that.
I just wanna inspire you guys to know that
we're gonna be okay and we're gonna do better
and I'm gonna make the best day I possibly can out of this.
Hey, come look at this, guys.
The Amazon Basin Emerald just shed out.
Look at this perfect shed right here.
Holy moly, that thing is unbelievable.
Of course, the Amazon Basin's just have
a lot more white kind of dorsal striping
and stuff like that and I've told this story before.
Literally when I was young,
I remember seeing an emerald tree boa in a book
and it just blew me away.
I stared at that picture for I bet you six months.
(laughing) I'm not even kidding you,
probably at least an hour a day,
I would stare at that picture just to
kind of calm down and I have been obsessed
with emerald tree boas ever since
and the Amazon Basins?
Holy cow, that is absolutely a ripper
and I just realized, we do not have a name
for this Amazon Basin.
It's a female.
Let me know in the comments what you think
I should name this Amazon Basin emerald tree boa.
Oh gosh, she's absolutely gorgeous.
- I'm here to show you this guy.
This is my buddy, my little red Ackie monitor,
one of our little animals here,
our little animal ambassadors here at the reptarium, guys,
and man, I can't tell you how much I love
working with these little dudes.
Like seriously, one of the coolest little little monitors.
If you're looking for a monitor
and you don't really quite have the space
for an Asian water monitor or anything
really really large like that,
dude, oh my gosh, these guys are amazing creatures.
I mean, they're not mean, they're very,
they don't come in the biggest size
and the coolest thing at least in my opinion
is they're social.
You can keep a male with a couple females together
in a big group and honestly, they do well like that.
Most of the time with these types of monitors,
they typically in the wild will stick together
in large groups just like a fish, a group of fish.
You would essentially have a large group of animals
and now like that one predator is thinking
a little differently about trying to tackle
all of them at once.
I really love these guys.
Red Ackie monitors, yellow Ackie monitors,
they're both very similar,
it's just a color difference really,
but this guy, look at that color, oh my god.
A big reason why they look like this,
the big red color is more often than not
they're found in areas like the center of Australia
in the Red Centre.
They blend really really well with that
red red sand and everything like that.
I mean, I personally can't wait for the day
I actually get to see one of these guys in the wild.
What a cool experience that's gonna ever be
just because I've gotten so many
cool opportunities to work with them
for so many years and gosh, they're so cute, man.
Look at that cute little face.
If you guys are looking for a monitor like Elvis
or like Ubusuku over there,
I'm telling you right now,
in a small package, this guy is where it's at.
This is the monitor to get, man.
I mean, these are some of the coolest ones out there.
You've got to get one if you're definitely
in the market for a monitor.
They're really really cool.
- And this is absolutely crazy.
The Brazilian black actually molted last night too.
I didn't even notice 'cause I was so concerned
about Zombie and I walked by and I was like,
what's going on with the Brazilian black?
And it molted.
Now you got to remember, I mean,
these things molt maybe two times,
maybe even three times a year
so the fact that both of these guys molted
the same night is just incredible, it's wild,
but wow, I'll tell you what,
they both look amazing.
Guess what time it is?
Egg time, egg time.
Lurid egg time.
And this is actually another lavender Cal king
that's bred to that lavender snow
so we could produce some pure purple snakes
from these guys.
They are so cool.
Again, it's a type of albino Cal king,
but instead of being pink,
it actually has a purple hue.
And as babies, the purple can be absolutely
as purple as you can think of, to be honest with you.
Absolutely incredible, and again,
the lavender snows don't have the banding
like this girl here.
This is the second clutch and oh my gosh,
that is a beautiful second clutch.
Typically you don't have that.
We've had a lot of really good second clutches.
Let's just go ahead and get these in the egg box
and count them up here, two, four, six, eight eggs.
Oh my gosh, eight eggs from a girl that size
in a second clutch, that's absolutely wonderful.
Again, hopefully we're gonna produce some solid
purple snakes here just in less than two months.
For some season, every time this girl lays,
I'm just super excited.
This is a pink eyed leucistic Texas rat.
This is obviously again her second clutch.
The first clutch was really good
and I'm hopefully that this one will be too.
Yeah, pretty much pretty good.
And this was bred to a snow Texas rat snake,
so basically the offspring, oh my god,
that is a lot of good eggs.
Looks like one little slugger here.
We'll get mama in there, good job mom.
We'll get you all cleaned up, get her some water.
Check these eggs out, looks like one little tiny slugger,
but the rest of them look really good.
Oh my gosh and again, all of these babies
are gonna hatch out snow and they're all gonna be
het for leucistic, so that's absolutely just incredible.
I love this mutation a tremendous amount.
I've mentioned it before that really black eyed
leucistic Texas rats were the first leucistic snake
that was ever really bred to be honest with you
and out of nowhere, pink eyes popped out of that
just years later and they weren't even albinos
and then ultimately albinos and snows popped out
and stuff like that, so these are gonna be snows
that are het for leucistic, which is pretty cool.
We've got two, four, six eight, ten, twelve eggs.
I mean, that is amazing.
I think she laid 18 to 20 the first time.
That is incredible.
I don't know why I love that girl so much.
I'm so excited that she laid two beautiful clutches.
That's a lot of babies on the way.
So how absolutely crazy is that clown clutch?
Oh my gosh.
Those babies are to die for.
I'm so excited, I hope that you enjoyed it.
If you did, here's a playlist you can roll through
an entire playlist of a bunch of baby snakes
that hatched over the last couple years.
I think you'll enjoy that.
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