- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
What do you say both you and me
push our problems aside right now.
I want to show you a clutch of snakes
that just hatched out to start the day.
And then I want to talk about something a little bit heavier
and a little bit weird.
So just hang in there with me.
This was actually a spider
that was bred to a Calico pin yellow belly,
and we got some pretty cool little babies in here.
This is actually a Calico yellow belly right here.
And then there's just a whole hodgepodge of pinstripes and
normals and stuff like that.
But I tell you what,
I love the way the Calico mixes with the spider.
They call them calendars actually,
and look at those white pink sides on this one.
And this one is absolutely incredible too.
I mean these two babies right here are hoo doggy.
I tell you what, those things are absolute rippers.
And we have so many amazing babies
that are hatching this year,
but the truth is, guys,
not every baby snake hatches.
You know, sometimes there's (indistinct) in the egg.
Sometimes there's umbilical twists,
sometimes things just don't happen.
And even with us cutting the eggs,
it does increase the odds of producing good snakes.
But when an animal is (indistinct)
it sometimes just doesn't survive.
What do we do when that happens?
We try to recycle 'em the best we can instead of just like,
you know, throwing them away or something like that.
We want to see can something else eat 'em.
And I had a couple babies early this morning that were
actually stillborn in the egg.
And I think I'm gonna go ahead and try to feed them to
something that is a little bit unusual.
What do you say we give it a shot?
We try to recycle as much as we can.
You guys have seen us feed off slug eggs
and stuff like that.
So sometimes frogs, believe it or not,
will eat snakes in the wild.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and try to feed a couple of our frogs some stillborns,
just so that we don't put 'em to waste.
Here we go.
Come on, snoop frog.
You interested?
You interested, buddy?
(frog sounds)
He's got it.
I'm not sure if he's gonna take it or not.
Oh yeah.
He looks like he's gonna take it.
That's gonna be a pretty big meal for him,
but he seems to be loving it right now.
What a trip,
I think this is the first time I've ever fed a little
ball python to a frog like this.
This is crazy.
I have no idea what's gonna happen here, but wow.
Again, I like the fact that we
just don't throw something like this away
that another animal can get nutrients from it.
And again, that very diet is really good
for frogs like this.
They're gonna eat lizards and other frogs and snakes
and bugs and everything in the wild.
So this is actually a really good,
(indistinct) diet for this guy.
So that's pretty epic.
Well, that went surprisingly well,
but the notorious,
our frog, the notorious,
she is always hungry.
So I have a feeling she'll put quick work to this other
stillborn baby as well.
Let's see what she does.
There you go, girl.
(frog sounds)
She took it right away.
Absolutely took it right away.
Again, this'll be a good meal.
And like I'd mentioned guys, it stinks.
I hate the fact that they were stillborn,
but what was I gonna do?
Was I gonna just throw 'em away?
Because they're really good for nothing else.
A couple weeks ago,
we fed them to a Cobra.
Now we get to feed them to frogs.
I mean, we're trying to make the best of a bad situation.
All in all.
(quiet music)
Just a little update on the rainbow obsession
that I have going on.
Of course, this is the T negative albino.
You got to remember that just a week ago,
I had kind of forgot that these even existed, right?
I knew that they were out there,
but I didn't even know anyone was working with them.
Now we have the T negatives,
and of course my obsession went past the T negative.
And of course I had to get the T positives as well.
The tyrosinase positive animals that have that kind of
grayish purplish look to 'em, which is really cool.
Again, I'm still obsessed with them.
And I started kind of working
with normal Colombian rainbow boas years ago.
And then the first mutation
that I ever worked with was actually leucistic.
And this is actually my original leucistic male.
The first one that I ever had.
He's actually fathered a bunch of leucistic babies,
and we have a whole bunch of hets
that we've raised up as well
that comes from his line that I'm super excited about.
So in the next couple years,
we should be producing a lot more white ones.
We should be producing a lot more T negatives
and T positives.
And now I'm gonna be on that obsessive lookout for what's
next in rainbow boas.
What else can I get into?
I remember there used to be pattern lists once years ago.
Don't know if they're still around
and I even heard about some anerythristic or axanthic,
don't know if they're around,
so I'm gonna be on the lookout for them, for sure.
But rainbow boas are definitely cool.
And I just wanted to give you the little update.
(quiet music)
You guys know we have the little baby chameleons
in here right now.
Well, we obviously just have 'em on the floor over here,
but I'm thinking we need to make a little stand for 'em,
so that way we can have 'em here on display
when we're opening up with the Reptarium.
People can actually see 'em and stuff like that,
don't think it's right to step on the ground.
So I'm going to go down
and see if I can bang out a really cool little custom stand
that will kind of fit the decor of the Reptarium.
So what do you say we go do that?
(quiet music)
(sawing)
(drilling)
Got the base all built,
this is basically the stand where
the actual screen cage gonna sit on,
and then now I'm just gonna wrap it in universe rocks.
I really just have to wrap the three sides
'cause the backside will actually
be against a wall or, you know, people won't see it.
So just have to cut that, secure that,
and it should be good to go.
(quiet music)
(drilling)
And just like that,
we have a little makeshift stand.
It's not perfect by any stretch,
but it's better than just putting it up on a table
or something like that.
Kind of fits with the core a little bit.
So hopefully these babies will do well for us.
23 babies in there.
We've definitely seen them eating and stuff like that,
but baby Jackson's can be a little tricky,
so I'm a little nervous about it,
but hey we're gonna keep an eye on,
do the best we possibly can do.
And now it looks pretty cool over here.
Down in the dungeon,
which can only mean one thing.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time. ♪
Egg time,
and today we have another note from Quinn here.
It says, "eggs!
Before opening, think!
What are eggs?
Vessels of life to come, maybe?
Or audio transmission devices placed by Alien Overlords
to listen into our spaghetti recipes?
Do you really know?"
I don't really know.
And I don't really know what Quinn is thinking,
but it gives you an idea of the insight into the people
taking care of our animals.
So, no, I'm just kidding.
Quinn's a great guy,
and I love his little notes because they cheer me up
and this is actually a really cool snake.
This is actually an enchi female right here.
And the thing is she is bred to
one of our kind of project animals.
We call it a new gene animal that is just really,
really gorgeous.
So this will be the first time that we have potential for
super enchi new genes.
This is the clutch I've been waiting for.
So I am pretty hyped on it.
Let's just go ahead and slowly get this girl off her eggs
really quick.
We can get this off right here,
pull these aside and see how many eggs we actually have.
So let's go ahead and get these in the egg box.
See what we've got going on here.
We've got two, four, six,
really beautiful, big eggs,
definitely gonna have to separate out these eggs,
'cause they will definitely not fit in here
with how huge and how piled they are up there.
But 57 days from now,
we're gonna cut this clutch and I am super excited.
Like I said, this new gene animal's really cool.
It's kind of got this orange, crazy look to it.
And the fact that it is actually an enchi as well.
Now we bred it to another enchi,
meaning we could get super enchis.
Oh my gosh.
It could be amazing if our odds are there.
So fingers crossed, 57 days,
we're gonna find out.
You guys know that I love sometimes
to just jump in with my girl Ivy here.
She's just chilling in the water right now.
And I'm just gonna kind of sit up here
and see what she has going on.
What up, little girl?
You want to come up and see me?
Come up and see me, baby girl.
I sometimes just like to just kind of hang in here
and just spend some time with her.
And the fact is is that,
we're not too far off from her
boyfriend coming in here, Aries.
I think it will be within the next four or five days.
It's been over a month since we got him
and he'll come in here and get a chance
to kind of interact with Ivy.
Now the big question.
Come on, girl.
Come on up here.
The big question is is that
if for some reason Ivy changes her temperament
or they don't get along,
we'll obviously separate 'em out.
I'm not gonna do anything to jeopardize
this relationship that I have.
Look at how curious she is.
I mean, if I sit here long enough,
I promise you she would come up and hang out with me.
And I may just do that. I don't know.
I may sit in here for the next half hour or so,
and just kind of chill with her,
but it's gonna be pretty cool to see how Aries does
in this and just imagine coming in
and seeing 'em float in the water,
maybe their heads together.
Yo, who knows.
I mean, who knows what's gonna happen?
And then maybe with any luck,
here in another 12 months or so,
my girl Ivy might be having a bunch of babies.
Now, how awesome would that be to have Ivy babies?
I don't think I'd want to get rid of any of 'em.
I think I'd keep 'em all.
But of course,
if she had 15 or 20 babies,
I think Lori would have a problem with me
keeping 15 or 20 Anacondas.
But nevertheless,
I'm going to just chill with my girl Ivy here
a little bit and just kind of relax a little bit
and just kind of dream of that day when
Aries gets to get in here.
I know he's gonna love this enclosure.
Holy moly, Lori, what in the world is this?
- What?
- What is this?
You didn't tell me about this.
Oh, there's oh my gosh.
It's a little sea turtle.
- Yeah.
- And it comes out of the egg.
- Yeah.
- Oh my God.
Are these all new stuff, or just--
- Well, some of it.
I've got more downstairs too.
- How much is that?
Can I keep this?
- Yeah, well we might.
So it was labeled giant,
which I thought it was gonna be bigger than this.
- You thought it was gonna be bigger?
That's pretty big.
- So at this point, I don't know.
It probably won't sell.
- How much is it?
- So it probably will be our pet.
- What is it?
- Retail is gonna be like 60 bucks.
- That's not bad. Well, yeah, we'll keep it.
(laughing)
That's awesome, though.
- Literally, that's what I thought.
- How much are these? - I'm like, I'm gonna try it.
Those guys are only like--
- Like 12 bucks?
(laughing) Oh my gosh.
I'm going to buy like six of these.
(laughing) These are so cute.
That is so awesome.
Lori's always adding to the gift shop. I like this, though.
That is awesome.
Let's see what we have here.
Some more little (indistinct) babies. Oh my gosh.
This is going to be a hornet's nest.
Oh my gosh,
this is gonna be trouble.
I'm not even started and I'm already in trouble.
Oh my goodness. I got to set this down.
I've got to go find a bucket because I am gonna be,
oh my gosh.
There's snakes everywhere.
Ah! Ah!
Snakes everywhere.
Oh my God. I've got a whole clutch just in my hand.
Okay.
So now I literally had to grab a bucket
because there's going to be snakes everywhere.
These are some scalar snakes that are absolutely beautiful.
Of course, corn snakes.
There's ghost corns in here.
There's a whole bunch of other stuff,
but let's go ahead and set this one snake down in here.
And we'll put these guys in the water just to see.
These are just normal scaleless corn snakes here,
but take a look at this one right here.
This is actually a scaleless silver queen
or a ghost corn snake that they call silver queen.
Wow.
That thing is a ripper.
Oh my God.
Can you believe that thing?
So again, now we have the problem of
what am I gonna do with these things?
I'm going to be honest with you.
I'm not gonna put 'em back in this box.
I think I'm just gonna leave 'em in this bucket
and have Lori just set them up right away.
Because if I try to put them back in here,
there's no way that's gonna happen.
As soon as I opened that box up, it was like, bam,
just a spring of snakes everywhere.
So Lori will have to deal with it from here.
Just a few eggs in this clutch right here.
They actually,
interestingly enough,
this was a het creamsicle bred to a creamsicle,
which is just kinda more orange corn snakes, right.
And now we hatched three babies.
All three of them happened to be creamsicle.
Now, the creamsicles started
from breeding an albino corn snake to an Emory rat snake.
That's what gave it that kind of more orange look.
Now, years later, they're predominantly corn snake.
There might be a little bit of creamsicle Emory
still left in 'em.
But the fact is is they still have that nice,
beautiful orange color.
And again, small clutch, only three animals.
One egg didn't make it right over here.
But nevertheless,
pretty good odds to hatch three creamsicles
out of a creamsicle to het clutch.
Another clutch ball pythons that hatched out,
this was actually a ghost
or what they would call a hypo ball python
that was bred to a champagne that was half a ghost.
So you can see what we have here is a bunch of mimosa stuff,
which is the ghost champagne. Absolutely gorgeous.
I mean, just look at that stuff.
Again, the hypo and the champagne mix together really well.
It's kind of cool that they call 'em mimosas.
Then these guys right here,
these little monkeys here are actually
the ghost ball pythons or hypos.
Just like the mom right here.
Absolutely incredible. I mean, I love these guys.
Look at the purple that's coming through 'em. Hoo doggy.
Those things are awesome.
Well, that was definitely crazy
that those frogs ate those snakes, I mean,
but again, I want to recycle stuff
because I think it's important to not waste it.
You know what I mean?
Those frogs got a lot of nutrition.
It's something that they would eat in the wild.
So I think it was really good.
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