- Well, we're back on the road with the compadres here.
We're actually heading down to Tennessee to go visit
my buddy, Matt from O'Malley's Morphs, who got
some amazing animals, a quick short eight hour drive,
and we'll be there.
And we're here with Matt from O'Malley's Morphs.
I'm going to put all the links in the description to his
YouTube, Instagram, everything go show him some love.
We've got some amazing animals.
We're just going to kind of pile through this,
going to be an absolutely amazing time.
And I'm going to learn a lot about short-tailed pythons
because you are an expert at it. So what do we have first?
- A Sumatran short-tailed,
one of the three species of short-tailed pythons.
We'll start with my favorite,
which is the Sumatran and this being the orange head.
- [Speaker 1] That is amazing.
- Anybody that knows me knows that
I'm 110% an orange head guy.
- It's amazing. I mean, that is just ridiculous.
How beautiful that thing is?
- Well, everybody really likes the head
and everybody overlooks these because
the only way to get to the T positive version
of this is through these.
- [Speaker 1] Right.
- So everybody overlooks these as a heterozygous,
like a hippie, you know,
it's nothing but a hippie to get to the pie.
But in the meantime,
people are totally not paying attention to
that beautiful stripe.
- [Speaker 1] That Stripe is amazing.
- And so while I have her out,
let me show you what we just hatched out.
Now we just got back from Finley
and we talked too obviously.
- [Speaker 1] Wow. That thing is crazy.
Boom boom. Oh my gosh, that thing is ridiculous.
- This is the first fully striped Curtis.
Now I have Curtis with breaks in them,
but this is the first fully striped Curtis that
anyone's really ever seen.
- [Speaker 1] Oh my God. That's absolutely amazing.
I had never seen. One of those.
- This is all from the same pairing.
- [Speaker 1] Right?
- Okay.
This being the mother
- [Speaker 1] you can certainly see that
you can strive.
- [Speaker 2] You can see the strive, right?
- [Speaker 1] Beautiful.
- Now. She's 10 - 12 years old.
So she's not going to get any bigger than that.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- And this is huge for a Curtis.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah that's actually, that looks really big.
Yeah
- Before we get too far into it,
that Ridge so important because
- [Speaker 1] if you don't see that Ridge
they're too fat. Yeah.
- You're messing up.
- Yes. He had too much.
You know all the short-tailed pythons will
eat and eat and eat and eat.
And if you overfeed them, then you're,
you've got an issue.
- You're going to end up with egg bound animals,
possibly dead animals. One that doesn't have the stripe.
- [Speaker 1] Okay, so this is the Curtis
just without the Stripe, but still has the orange head.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah. So all of these are orange head Curtis,
as you see it doesn't have that.
- [Speaker 1] So beautiful.
I mean, the patterning is incredible.
- [Speaker 2] Besides,
- [Speaker 1] Wow.
- [Speaker 2] they're not normal Curtis.
- [Speaker 1] No, not at all.
- [Speaker 2] Also I'm just going to show you this
just because
she's absolutely beautiful.
- [Speaker 1] Wow look at the contrast on that head
- [Speaker 2] but this is a different line.
- [Speaker 1] Okay. So this is a different line,
but still has some striping on it.
- Yes. And that's what makes me think
people have just overlooked them
- [Speaker 1] Right.
- Now, this is why everybody overlooks
the beauty of just the plain orange head.
Right here.
- [Speaker 1] It's because of the caramels.
- [Speaker 2] It's because of the caramel.
- [Speaker 1] Oh gosh. It's so beautiful though.
I started to overlook that though. I mean, that is,
that is beautiful, dude.
So this is a recessive mutation that comes from the orange
head line.
- Yeah. It's a T positive Sumatran, right?
- [Speaker 1] That is gorgeous though.
I mean, my goodness gracious.
That is absolute beautiful.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah.
- I got into bloods and short-tailed pythons
when I was young, always have loved them, but you know,
I keep some but nothing like this and they are incredible.
So a lot of these animals I'm seeing in person
for the first time,
I've been admiring pictures online for years,
but to see them in person, that animal is ridiculous.
- Yeah. I've got something that
I had to literally pry out of the hands of the owner.
You know, a lot of people call them black bloods.
They're not black bloods.
- [Speaker 1] Okay, yeah.
- They're just black Sumatran short-tailed pythons
- Black Curtis.
It's almost like the IMG boa of, of the Curtis line.
Wow.
- No, let me pull her out.
Her name's Nina because I'm a Nina Simone fan.
- [Speaker 1] Gosh that's because a lot of times
you'll have the dark like that,
but with the kind of chrome head.
- Yeah.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah. That black head is ridiculous.
- [Speaker 2] So this is produced by Nick Patine
at coldblooded earth.
- [Speaker 1] Absolutely. Yeah.
- [Speaker 2] She's a sweetheart.
- [Speaker 1] Oh my gosh. That thing is.
- [Speaker 2] All this in here is going to be gone.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- All that will be black and she has that reverse stripe,
So technically that little bit of brown,
it's so hard to get the true colors of these animals in a
camera, but there's a little bit of brown.
- Yeah. I can see a little bit of brown and coming through.
So now it's the black Curtis like a locality issue.
- [Speaker 2] They all are a locality issue.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- If you can breed two of the most perfect black heads
together and getting nothing but a clutch of crumbs.
- [Speaker 1] Really?
- Oh dude, I have.
- [Speaker 1] So how do you get the black heads then?
I mean, how is that done.
- Randomly generic.
- [Speaker 1] So do you have getting Chrome heads?
- I do. She's not necessarily fired up as normal.
- [Speaker 1] Right, yeah.
- But normally that head is just literally like gray.
- [Speaker 1] Right.
- I want to show you know,
I've cleaned her tub last night and this morning.
So I'm sure she's demolished to begin
- Yeah. And that's,
that's what that's that's what short tails do.
that's pretty though.
Ooh
And it's clean. Look at that.
It's beautiful.
- She did good. Now this is what we call a sideswipe.
- Okay. Because of this reduction,
blushing through the sides.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah.
- [Speaker 1] Wow.
- [Speaker 2] And even as big as you think she is,
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- what's important.
- [Speaker 1] Yep. It's looking at that, that spine. Yeah
- You have to have that.
- [Speaker 1] That's a beautiful animal also.
So these are the borders.
Are there also Sumatrans these are born
- These are born. Yes.
When I started getting into it and she's a sweetheart.
She's always been a sweetheart.
When I started getting into it, I had a couple barriers,
you know, everybody likes it because it's like, oh,
you never know what you're going to get.
- [Speaker 1] Right.
- [Speaker 2] And to me that makes
my OCD go absolutely crazy.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah because you never know
what you're going to get.. yeah
- Never know what you're going to get at. You know?
But this guy, I love the caramel on this guy.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- These are all old Keith Brady line.
- [Speaker 1] Okay.
- Oh, are we?
- [Speaker 1] Let's go. Let's go,
Let's go. Let's go look at blood right.
- Alright, let's do it
This dude, literally just shed.
And he's the coolest guy ever.
- [Speaker 1] Oh, look at the red on him.
That's the difference between these guys, which are,
you know, they're going to be the more red,
the real typical blood pythony type of thing.
And of course the Curtis and the malignant borders are
going to be more tannish and stuff like that.
These guys have this beautiful red
and he has a beautiful stripe
- [Speaker 2] Yeah. That's that's a VPI Stripe,
Head T-positive.
And then this is Bea.
We named her after Bea Arthur.
- [Speaker 1] Oh my goodness.
- [Speaker 2] We're golden girls fans in this house
- [Speaker 1] So ,this one just laid.
- They lose so much.
- [Speaker 1] They put so much energy into reproduction.
- Oh my God.
18 Eggs, man. You know
- [Speaker 1] Yeah that's a lot of eggs
and big eggs. Yeah so
- [Speaker 2] Big, big eggs.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- Every one of them ate.
Every one of them lay, there hasn't been one
that's missed a meal.
Now her baby's on the other hand,
I'm still assist feeding too.
Of course the two that I wanted to hold back.
You want to hold it ?
- So tell me again, what the genetics are behind this one.
- [Speaker 2] This is a VPI T positive matrix.
- Obviously the T positive is tyrosine and positive.
And then the matrix, is it?
It's the matrix also recessive or if that's a inflate that.
- Well, yeah, the super is, I'll show you here.
- Okay. Oh, you got the super matrix.
- I got, I got an ivory.
- Oh yeah. That's absolutely incredible.
So, okay.
- [Speaker 2] The babies will be hatching.
- This can be matrix.
That would be head for.
- But there's also going to be visuals because
he's had T-positive.
- [Speaker 1] Oh. So he's had T-positive
Ah, gotcha.
So now you got some T positives that are, can be matrix.
- That's that's what I'm saying.
My whole bag happens to be the all gene animal that
still hasn't had a meal on around.
- [Speaker 1] It will grow, it will grow
- Matrix is one of the hardest to identify because
it will throw stripes.
It looks almost like a normal,
but yet the key identifier in a matrix blood Python is the
pink tongue.
- [Speaker 1] right? Oh yeah, pink tongue.
- Yeah. Pink tongue.
And I'll show you that in one of the babies,
but first we're going to look at the super.
- [Speaker 1] Alright. Let's look at the super.
- So this is Armour rock. He is also a CVE animal.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah. That's beautiful, man.
- [Speaker 2] That is an ivory
- [Speaker 1] So this is the ivory, yeah
- [Speaker 2] So this is an ivory head T-positive
- [Speaker 1] Head T positive. And because he's had,
you're going to get some ivory T-positive.
Exactly. Yeah.
- Everything,
- [Speaker 1] Everything in the matrix
Yeah, exactly.
A hundred percent matrix
- [Speaker 2] that would be crazy.
- [Speaker 1] That's awesome.
He is a beauty.
- So you've seen the mom and the dad, I'll show you
one of their baby. And again, not a lot of blood pythons
are going to let you just reach in there.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- [Speaker 2] but this is what I would consider
a VPI Stripe matrix female.
Now she's also a hundred percent head T positive,
all this in here, this brown all that's going to be nice.
Deep, deep red.
- [Speaker 1] Right.
- [Speaker 2] So I mean, you can see.
- [Speaker 1] That'll be that color. Yeah.
- The head T positive is going to
add a little bit to that one.
- [Speaker 1] I got you
- [Speaker 2] You know the one we're about to see
is just a slack line. Then it goes to level one.
Then it goes to level two.
- [Speaker 1] Right.
- And then it's just a, a normal site.
Oh my absolute.
- [Speaker 1] Oh my Goodness gracious.
So this is a slack line.
- So this is a slack line. There's no levels to this.
This is top tier.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah that's beautiful.
side pattern is ridiculous on that.
- [Speaker 2] The absence of it is what I like.
Now what you're going to see on the level two,
this starting to meet.
- [Speaker 1] starting to meet. Yes
You don't have that pattern right on that side, yeah
- [Speaker 2] Right, right, right.
Their heads will do what we call fire up.
The same thing like a
- [Speaker 1] Like a Chrome pad. Yeah.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah.
That's all level two. If you look.
- [Speaker 1] You can see where the pattern.
- [Speaker 2] Coming up.
- [Speaker 1] Exactly.
- So that's giving you that level two.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah. She's, so this is a T also T positive.
- That's just a.
Different line line bred to pause.
- [Speaker 1] That thing is sharp.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah.
- [Speaker 1] Wow.
- This is a T negative.
- [Speaker 1] Ooh. Wow. It's amazing.
The difference between the T negative that you have right.
To go from almost like a caramel-look to the reddish-look,
this one has a really soft orange look.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah, yeah.
And you can tell in the T-negatives like this,
this guy here, he's super chill.
- [Speaker 1] To just look at the eyes and the shock. Yeah.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah. Yeah.
- [Speaker 1] I love them.
- [Speaker 2] The difference in a T-negative,
a T-negative by itself is amazing, dude.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- I mean, you don't even really have to mix in too much.
- [Speaker 1] Right.
- This is a Mac pie. This is also a VPI and.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah, they started it, right?
- [Speaker 2] Oh Yeah.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah.
- This is technically by all rights, just the normal,
but it's a line bred normal.
- [Speaker 1] Okay and why did you line bred it for.
- [Speaker 2] Just.
- [Speaker 1] The color.
- [Speaker 2] And yeah. It's from a VPI animal
and a Kevin martyr.
You can see kind of like the red on the head.
- [Speaker 1] Yeah it's really, really red.
The color of the head is amazing.
- [Speaker 2] That's the martyr in it. And then these crazy,
like little weird banding thing, something about the eye.
Most of them have a breaking point before they hit the
pupil.
- Okay. And I see that little break.
Yeah. Just before. Yeah.
- [Speaker 2] Ooh. You saw the mag part
- [Speaker 1] Mag part. I was just
a super version of the gold night.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah. Yeah.
- [Speaker 1] Gosh, that's so pretty.
- Yeah, know I've got one over there in the hatchling rack.
That's in shed.
One of the females we produced this year from the same
pairing you saw as my old bag.
- [Speaker 1] Gotcha.
- But this one hasn't ever missed a meal. .
- [Speaker 1] Yeah. That's you can see that. You can
- [Speaker 2] Can tell. Yeah.
Yeah. She'll she's very reactive.
This is a CBE stripe. You see those long tongue flicks.
- [Speaker 1] Yes.
- [Speaker 2] Okay. So that's what you want technically,
but I know this animal. I know that with her back
pressed up against the back so she
- [Speaker 1] So that she can just spring.
- [Speaker 2] Yeah, so that she can just spring up
and nail whatever she wanted.
- Moving on from short-tailed pythons, blood pythons
into some ball pythons now, what do we got?
King vanilla lace fodder. That's beautiful.
You can see the vanilla cleans it up a lot, you know,
just kind of makes it kind of soft looking.
And then that lace is really a cool mutation.
- It's like a, it's a super enhancer.
So it's like a double enhanced.
- Yeah. Oh my gosh.
That thing is gorgeous. It's beautiful.
He's going to make some amazing babies again.
Everything's going to be spot nose. You've got,
everything's going to be NG.
- And it's just a simple Mojave.
- [Speaker 1] Oh, that's awesome.
That's going to be good stuff in the Mojave grads stretched
up mixes really well, obviously.
And she's gray. Ooh, she is cool.
She just she's beautiful.
Yeah. I love the pattern is much,
much more interesting on that, right?
- [Speaker 2] Yeah.
So that's amazing how that red stripe really changes the
color a lot too. That's really amazing.
Okay. So we definitely have sugar in there or Calico.
- Calico. The banana Calico
- [Speaker 1] Banana Calico only. That's a high expression.
Calico.
- Is it not?
- [Speaker 1] Wow.
- And what's crazy is he throws that high expression.
- [Speaker 1] Does it? Does it?`Wow.`
Yeah. That's beautiful, man.
- [Speaker 2] This is just a banana mocha.
- Yeah, that mocha chain is something
I definitely want to get back into it because again,
that darker genes going to make more purple snakes,
So this is the banana mocha Calico. Ooh, that is beautiful.
- But you can see the difference in,
the one that's had a meal
and the one that has not.
- Yeah exactly but still really, really nice looking animal.
Ooh.
Okay. That thing you get the head.
It's ridiculous
So the pollen is excessive.
So the pollen is excessive. Or is it?
- It is technically.
- [Speaker 1] So this is like hat for flower.
- It is. You can see she's pretty chill.
She's not crazy. But you can see like, okay.
So right here, there would be like a hole in that.
- [Speaker 1] Okay.
- [Speaker 2] All right. And then it would literally
be like a flower.
- [Speaker 1] A flower. Yeah
- It's insane. They look beautiful.
- [Speaker 1] That's awesome.
So she sent me that and then here's the boy
and the oranges on the sides of him.
He's 10 times more orange.
- Again. Thanks Matt dude.
You are absolutely amazing.
We learned a lot about short-tailed pythons
and blood pythons. More than I ever could have imagined.
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