- Oh my Gosh, do you see the size
of that clutch right there?
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Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
It's gonna be amazing day,
you know why I say that, is because of this,
because we have our very first hognose clutch of the year!
This is mama, and here right now,
she's actually just a het albino that is bred to an albino
but you know I love hognose snakes
and we have a handful of females
that are coming up to lay eggs any day,
but this is the very first girl right here,
and you can see they had a really weird,
of course, they are diggers.
They use that little snout right there to dig a lil bit.
So what happens is when you have a box
like this with a bunch of eggs in it,
by the way you can see an egg right there!
What they'll do is they'll kinda dig this out,
and they push it all over the place
so the only downside of breeding hognose, for me anyways,
is the fact that every time we have a hognose
that lays a clutch of eggs, we have to redo the whole cage.
But listen, that is not a big deal at all.
It is certainly worth getting amazing eggs.
Let's see what's going on here.
These are absolutely big eggs,
and you might notice I have a box here with Hatchrite,
which is the same incubation material I use for pythons
because I just like to incubate hognose eggs on that,
because I feel like vermiculite
might get a little bit too wet for 'em.
Regardless, look at that.
Look at that beautiful egg right there.
There's one egg.
Let's see what else we have here.
Oh yeah, oh look at like it looks a whole bunch of eggs!
All right, we've got two eggs, three,
I love the way this day is starting, we got four eggs.
They look all good, too.
Got five eggs right here.
Got six eggs right here.
And I'll candle all of these, just to make sure.
Seven, eight eggs!
It looks like nine, and maybe even a 10th egg.
Woo doggie, that is a beautiful clutch of eggs.
We've got 10 beautiful eggs right there.
Oh, look at there, there's 11th egg!
All right, and absolutely no slugs.
That is absolutely a great way to start the day!
Just gonna check just to make sure.
So like I said, it is gonna be amazing day.
I hope that you guys have an amazing day.
What do you say we look and see
if we have any more colubrid eggs.
Before I checked on any other eggs
or any baby skinks or anything like that,
I did wanna come over and see Lucy really quick.
She is definitely getting ready to shed anytime.
I thought she might actually shed this morning
and she might actually push out some eggs.
I definitely think that she's ready.
You could see a couple little flakes flaking off right here,
so she's definitely in path,
but my hopes are is that as she sheds,
maybe she will get herself moving and push out some eggs.
If she even passes one egg,
that'll tell me she'll pass her entire clutch
and I shouldn't be worried.
If she doesn't pass any eggs,
then we have to get the vet back out
in about a week to do that oxytocin shot.
So regardless, today is probably the day
that we're gonna see if Lucy sheds,
whether it's earlier or later tonight or whatever,
but for sure by tomorrow, I'll give you guys an update.
And this first clutch is actually
one of those older het scaleless.
This is actually a het striped scaleless.
So it's a possible double het,
and it was bred to a whole bunch of scaleless stuff,
Lori just kinda did a hodgepodge.
So it's gonna be kinda like a mystery clutch,
but let's hope there's good eggs.
You know that sometimes we have fertility issues
with that older group, so.
Oh, yeah!
That is beautiful!
Not even, oh yep, there is one slugger in there.
I was gonna say, there's not even one slug!
Mom looks really good, looks like she's in good shape.
No problems there, a shed out,
water in as always, you guys know the routine.
Let's see what we have here,
we have two, four, six, eight, nine good eggs.
Not bad, and of course there was one little slugger there.
And again, it's kinda cool to do these mystery clutches,
sometimes where you're not even
really sure what the male is.
We know that it's a scaleless,
so there was like, snow scaleless, okate scaleless,
all kinds of different, so.
But until they hatch you never know.
And again, because she's only a possible het for scaleless,
we don't even know if there'll be
any scaleless in the clutch.
Sometimes it's just really fun
to hatch a mystery clutch like that.
So 60 days from now, we're gonna find out who the daddy is
to these beautiful eggs, or maybe we'll find out.
Sometimes things hatch out and it's still a mystery.
There's so many ball pythons that are due to lay.
I mean, take a look at this huge yellow belly
that is just absolutely blooming.
And of course, yesterday I showed you guys
the leopard Lori ball python that is again,
startin' to look like she's gonna lay any day.
Got this big girl here,
I mean there's just so many
that are coming up, it's absolutely incredible.
Let's take a look, oh yeah!
Oh man, oh my God, I am so excited about this.
Yesterday I noticed that this girl just looked huge
and oh my gosh, do you see the size
of that clutch right there?
Oh my God.
Now this is actually what they call
a super paint ball python.
So it's absolutely really cool, I mean,
I love these guys and I'm gonna be totally honest with you,
I'm not as up on the ball python world as I was say,
three or four years ago, but nevertheless,
I am super excited to see this girl around a clutch of eggs!
Oh my God, and a huge clutch of eggs, too.
She was actually bred to a woma lesser pinstripe,
meaning that all of them are gonna be paint,
and they're all gonna be different combinations
of woma lesser and pinstripe.
So down the road we can hopefully produce
some really cool combinations with the super paint.
Again, I don't know that there's been a lot done
with this project over the last four or five years,
because I haven't really seen much about it,
so it's pretty exciting to have this.
Let's go ahead and see what this girl has.
Oh my God, mama, you look amazing!
And up until now, our biggest clutch was 11 eggs,
and last year we had a 13 egg clutch.
I have a feeling this is gonna break the record.
Oh my gosh, that is a lot of eggs.
There's a couple eggs rollin' around in the back over here,
so I'm gonna pull these guys out real quick.
Just set these down really quick,
just so they don't get rolled around too much, get mama up.
Mama, you did so good honey.
Oh, man, what a clutch of eggs!
We'll just go ahead, get these right in the incubator box.
We'll just settle 'em right down
in the hatch right like that.
Get this right here, see if these are all stuck together,
which I think they are.
Get these over here and we'll take a look real quick.
I wanna just make sure mama looks good,
make sure that everything looks good, wow, I tell ya what.
And again, that's super paint stuff is really cool
and I can't wait to see what it does with other stuff.
Again, maybe eight, nine years ago it was kinda all the rage
and people were doing some stuff with it,
and then it kinda disappeared,
or at least from my radar, I don't know.
It might be happening out there.
So it's kinda cool to actually get that going,
and we actually have a sinney het paint as well
that is bread to a couple things,
so that clutch is coming any day now, too.
So let's go ahead and see how many eggs we have.
We're gonna candle this little egg right here on the side,
but we have two, four, six, eight, 10, 11, oh my gosh,
I thought for sure this was gonna be more than 11 eggs.
I thought this would be
the biggest clutch of the year, but that's okay.
11 eggs is amazing, and again,
every single one of those eggs is gonna be a paint
because it's a super paint, and the fact is the paints,
or the het super paints, whatever you wanna call it,
they're not really extremely visual,
so the fact that we have a super female
really makes it good 'cause we know
the entire clutch is gonna be paint
and then all the other mutations that go with it
will raise those guys up and breed 'em,
and hopefully produce some insane stuff.
So let's go see if we have any other ball python eggs.
But it's gonna be really hard to top this,
'cause I was really anticipating this one.
I couldn't be happier with the results.
I actually have a birthday party to do today
and we're opening up The Reptarium later on tonight.
And the birthday party is actually for Beth,
the one that answers the phone at BHB's, son,
so it's gonna be really fun.
Then we'll get back to collect some colubrid eggs
and then open up for The Reptarium later on tonight,
but as for now, let's just have some fun
with this birthday party.
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Again, Ian over here, he comes and hangs out
at The Reptarium all the time,
but his friends and family have never been here,
so we're just gonna take 'em around,
kinda introduce them to some animals,
do the normal birthday type of thing,
and then get back to collecting some colubrid eggs.
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Just wrappin' up over here at the birthday party,
an absolutely great time again.
They're part of our family,
so it was really cool to enjoy this together.
Let's head over and get those colubrid clutches.
It looks like the last clutch of colubrids for the day
is actually a het strawberry scaleless
bred to the exact same thing,
so the strawberry is like a recessive hypomelanistic
and of course the scaleless is a scaleless,
as you guys know.
Let's see what's goin' on here, oh!
This is actually really good.
Number one, it's a good clutch of eggs,
but I think it's really interesting
to kinda show you guys the differences in eggs.
As you guys have seen,
the majority of the eggs are really soft and smooth looking,
yet these eggs right here are really textured.
I mean, look at all of those ripples on those, right?
And the one thing is,
when you have a rippled clutch like this,
they often times don't stick together either.
You can see how they're just kinda falling apart.
It's almost like whatever causes them
to adhere to each other isn't there,
and I don't really know why.
And when you have a clutch like this,
it's really important to candle 'em because again,
because they're not stuck together,
they kinda go all over the place.
It's a relatively small clutch.
We've got two, four, five good eggs,
and we got two little slugs,
but that's okay, still a pretty good clutch.
I'm gonna go ahead, candle these,
put these in the incubator box, do all the stuff like that,
and that wraps up the colubrid egg part of the day,
but I did wanna go ahead and check some of the eggs,
because once you get colubrid eggs,
it's not like you can just leave 'em alone
and they hatch 60 days later,
you still have to kinda keep up on 'em,
and I really don't know if I've shared this with you,
so let's go ahead and do that.
So, listen, once you get eggs,
you don't just leave 'em on the shelf
and not have to go through 'em.
So I go through 'em a few times a week
and just kinda look at 'em, see what's goin on.
You could see here we've got a little fungus there,
a little fungus there,
but nothin' that I'm really concerned about, you know,
if you wanna dry something out and get rid of the fungus
you could actually leave the lid cracked just a little bit
and that'll dry the eggs out.
If you need to add more water as you're going through,
you can add more water.
You can either put damp sphagnum or paper towel
and basically I'm just going through.
You can see this egg is a little desiccated right here,
so I'm gonna go ahead and just put
a little bit of damp sphagnum on it
and see if it pops out at all.
It might just be going bad.
Literally in a clutch this size,
there's a chance that one egg goes bad.
It is a little discolored, too,
which tells me there's a good chance it's gonna go bad,
but in the meantime I'll just take
a little bit of sphagnum moss, take it a little damp,
I'll put it right on the top of that egg,
and hopefully that egg will pop out
and we'll see what happens.
Now the one thing you have to understand is
that eggs will absorb moisture
the first 30 or 40 days of incubation,
but then they expel moisture the last little bit.
So if you start to see dimpling on your eggs
in the last two or three weeks, that's a normal thing.
And there's a handful of clutches I'm really excited about,
what am I talkin' about, I'm excited about all the clutches,
but this one is really cool.
This is actually still two, four, six, eight eggs.
This is actually from a mangrove snake,
so I'm pretty excited about that.
Last year we hatched out some,
this year we have some more eggs.
I absolutely love 'em.
As a matter of fact,
take a look at one of these little babies from last year
that we ended up raising up.
Look at how cute that little monkey is right there.
I told you I love mangrove snakes, and with any luck,
my buddy Kevin over at NERD has got some divergents,
which is a subspecies of mangroves,
that I'm hoping he hatches this year so I can buy some.
And here's a perfect example.
I had put in some sphagnum moss that were damp on these eggs
'cause they were a little bit dimpled about a week ago,
and look at, they're all popped out
and look absolutely perfect.
That's just egg maintenance.
So if you wanna have the most optimal amount of hatch,
you have to be able to maintain your eggs,
whatever that means.
Whether it's increasing the humidity,
decreasing the humidity, maybe removing a bad egg.
We wanna have the best yield possible,
and part of that is going through the eggs
at least a few times a week.
Now here's one that people have differing opinions on.
Look at this clutch right here.
This egg looks good, these other two eggs
look a little bit not so good,
this one in particular already has
green and nastiness on it.
This one might be okay, it's really hard to tell.
Now some people really feel, myself included,
that you wanna take that egg away.
That a bad egg could potentially infiltrate a good egg
and make that egg go bad.
Now, some people leave those eggs in there
and they don't think you have to remove them at all.
I'm a person that believes when you see a bad egg,
try to get it out of there,
because not only could it potentially affect the good eggs,
but also there's these little fruit flies that sometimes,
you don't really see 'em here,
sometimes those fruit flies
will actually get on the bad eggs,
you can kinda see one right there that just went in there.
They'll get on a bad egg
and they can actually kill good eggs, too.
So I try to always get those bad guys
out of the incubator boxes if at all possible.
Went through the rest of the ball pythons
and sadly no other clutches, but hey,
I am super excited about this one for sure.
And by the way, I checked the egg book,
the first clutch is due June 25th,
which is means we'll be able to cut
around June 20th, June 22nd, somethin' like that,
so we're just a few weeks away
from the first egg cutting video.
Oh boy, it's gonna be a good one.
Not sure if I'm excited or very nervous,
but Lori said she had to tell me sometin'.
So you guys are gonna find out right along with me.
What is it that you need to tell me?
Are you pregnant?
- (laughs) Oh, jeesh.
- What, what is it?
- Uh, no, definitely not that. (laughs)
So, okay, normally you're the one
who's always coming to me - Oh no.
- With like, "Uh, I gotta talk to you about something,
"what do you think about, uh, something I did or I got."
- [Brian] This have to do with an animal
or does this have to do with like a couch
or a refrigerator or what?
- Living, yes, it is alive. - Oh, okay interesting.
- But I don't wanna ruin the surprise.
Supposed to be here in a couple days,
it's actually the day I have jury duty,
so you better not open it before I get here.
- Wait a second, well if it's alive I can't not open it.
- Yes you can, you can wait for me to get here.
- [Brian] Oh, you don't mean like a day or two,
you mean just like--
- No, do you think I'm gonna be stuck in jury duty for days?
Like not being able to leave?
- You said it was a murder trial
- Well, even if that happens it's not immediate. (laughs)
- [Brian] Are you gonna tell me or do I have to wait?
- Well, you're gonna have to wait.
- Holy crap, this better not be another great dane.
(both laughing)
- Well, I'm excited about it, so that is maybe a hint?
- I have no idea.
I literally have no idea what this could possibly,
so when did you say, how many days?
- Three days from now.
- Okay, well I thought that we had some news
to share with you guys,
but apparently I'm just gonna be stuck in limbo
for the next three days.
- It is news, it's exciting news that you have
something to look forward to. - I don't know
if it's exciting, because I don't know what it is!
- Oh, come on. - Give me a hint.
- It's alive. (laughs)
- Oh my gosh.
All right guys, so you better be tuning in
three days from now, you guys are gonna get,
we're gonna get a surprise together, so I don't know.
I have no idea what it is, but it's apparently alive,
so, there you go.
We'll see what it is.
So I've actually been open at The Reptarium
for the last several hours,
but you know I always am weird
about filming the same thing over and over.
I don't want you guys to get bored,
but we've had an absolutely amazing night here,
and you guys came all the way from Missouri
just to hang out with us here.
What do ya think, was it worth the drive?
- Yes, it definitely was.
- [Brian] What was your favorite thing?
- The big snake. - The big snake, Snazzy, here.
It's absolutely incredible, we've had a great night.
Now I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog here,
just wish you guys an amazing day.
I love you guys so much.
Do me a couple favors before I get outta here.
Smash that like button, turn those post notifications on.
I went old school on you guys.
Be kind to someone, and I promise I'll see ya tomorrow.
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