- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I'm starting my day with my guy Elvis here.
And I hope the start to your day is amazing too.
I always talk about mental enrichment
things we can do different.
One of the things you can do
is just give these guys a choice for different meals.
I've done it before with Elvis
where I actually get several different types of things
and then let him choose what he wants eat.
And I think not only does it make his mind start thinking
but also it's really kind of cool to see what he likes.
And then maybe we can tailor the future
if he's like, oh, he really loves this particular food.
We can give a little bit of more of that as a treat.
So the first thing we have to do
is actually go hit the store, buy some treats for this guy,
and then we'll come back
and see what my boy Elvis wants to eat.
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So what I ended up picking up is some sausage
that has no extra additives whatsoever.
Of course, chicken drumsticks really quick
which he usually typically loves.
Good with calcium because of the bone and stuff like that.
Not to mention the cartilage.
We've got some ahi tuna
that looks absolutely scrumptious.
I'm not gonna lie, I'd like to eat that myself.
And then we've got a couple eggs
because Elvis actually usually likes the egg.
So let's go ahead and get Elvis over
and just let him choose what he actually wants to eat.
That long tongue is gonna start sensing some food.
You can see he's on it.
Right now he's like, oh, wait a second.
There's a smorgasbord going on.
And let's just see he's using his brain right now.
Sniffing the eggs,
then oh, he looks like he's gonna go for the egg
right off the bat.
Oh, they're rolling around.
Oh my goodness.
And sometimes he'll just swallow the egg whole
like he is seeming right now,
and sometimes he'll actually bust it.
'Cause I think he likes the yolk.
He knows these eggs and he's kinda playing with it
in his mouth right now because I think he wants to break it.
But then he ended up just swallowing it.
Again there's one more egg.
There's still that beautiful ahi tuna
of course the chicken, and then the sausage.
See, it looks like he's gonna go for the second egg.
Yep, oh my gosh.
That means he must like the eggs the most
which is pretty cool.
And again, you can see he's playing with it.
He wants to break it that's what he wants,
'cause he likes that yolk and stuff like that.
But right now he's just kind of, oh, there it is.
There you go.
There you go Elvis.
There it goes that broke.
Ah, yeah that's what he wanted.
I knew he wanted to do that.
So eggs are definitely a favorite of his.
We'd give it to them every now and then
but we're gonna have to probably give it to him as a treat
a little bit more often.
So let's see what he chooses next.
Right now he's just looking around and going oh,
what's going on?
There's more food for your buddy.
What's he gonna get?
What's he gonna do?
Oh, looks like he went for the chicken leg.
And again that chicken leg is gonna be really good for him.
Lots of calcium and all that stuff
and just swallows it down like nothing.
This is so cool man.
I tell you, I love seeing this.
What's the next two.
Oh, he's gonna go for the sausage.
This is actually the very first time
I've ever fed him a sausage to be honest with you
and he's gulped it down like a Pelican.
I mean just like nothing, last one's ahi tuna
let's see if he even wants it.
Usually he loves fish.
Oh yeah, he's not gonna be picky.
As it turned out Elvis really pretty much ate everything.
Liked the eggs first, which is interesting.
And ultimately I think this was really good.
You can see, he was kind of thinking about it.
It's mentally stimulating
plus it's good for his nutrition
to give a lot of variety and stuff like that.
So that worked out really well.
Always a cool way to start my day like that.
Good job Elvis, you're such a good boy.
Good job buddy.
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It looks like (indistinct) is definitely ready to eat.
She's out just looking.
Hey girl you wanna get some food girl.
Come on, there you go baby.
There it is.
And again, when we do the expansion next door,
we're gonna definitely start
to make her a larger enclosure.
So she has a nice water basin and stuff like that as well.
So she's doing really good over here.
Obviously eating really good
but I know she's gonna get big like Ivy one day.
So she's gonna need a pretty special enclosure
just like Ivy's
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Continuing to see if Pickles the green tree python
that will keep eating.
Like I said, she's growing some follicles right now.
They've been breeding.
So we just wanna put mass on her again
calories in, production out.
So let's see if she'll eat.
Let's just go ahead and give her a little offer
you wanna try girl.
There she goes.
There it goes.
That's great, again, more of those calories in
is gonna be better for her.
As far as production.
Again, she looks really good
but she could probably put on a little bit more weight.
That's gonna help those follicles grow really good.
So she looks amazing and I can't wait to hopefully see
if she produces babies this year.
Since I had some of those chicken legs
I figured I'd go ahead and see if RJ
is interested in eating.
You wanna eat bud? Come on over, come on over.
Come on, you want some?
Here you go bud.
There you go.
I tell you that's probably his favorite meal.
I mean, we feed them rodents.
We feed them other types of meat and stuff like that.
But for some reason he loves chicken legs.
That's like his favorite by far
you can see he's coming over for more.
He's like, dad can I have more?
Come on, bud.
There you go, buddy.
Love it.
Absolutely cool.
And I love the way that alligators his size
do that arch thing where his head's up
and his tail's up and they kind of arch through.
So let's see if we can get them do
a little bit more up here.
Come on all the way up all the way up, all the way up.
There you go.
Come on.
You're so lazy.
You hear that little crack of the bones with that teeth.
You can just imagine the kind of power that these guys have.
Just giving him a few little treats.
RJ is absolutely amazing.
Again, can't wait till he'd be on permanent display
here at the Reptarium.
So people can enjoy him
as much as we do every single day.
Things are moving along so quickly.
It's so exciting to finally see females
going off a food because they're getting close to ovulation
and stuff like that.
So this is when it kind of becomes really a lot of fun.
I actually fed yesterday.
So what's gonna happen is I'm going through what I fed
and the things that don't eat that had like maybe 17
18 millimeter follicles go to ultrasound.
If they're at like 22, 23, that tells me they're done.
And that means I don't have to feed 'em at all anymore.
You just have to breed them a few more times
and they're ready to go.
So over the next month or so we'll literally go
from maybe about 80% of the females feeding
to maybe 10% of the females feeding
because all the rest of them are (indistinct) hopefully.
So at least that's what we're hoping for.
So let's go ahead and go through, see who had ate,
and do some ultrasound and see where we're at
in the actual process of the breeding season.
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Now this girl actually did eat
but I'm very curious about her follicle growth
'cause I always talk about the three things.
Food, follicle growth, and copulation.
You can see this girl's been bred a bunch.
She's been bred one, two, three, four times
in the last month and a half or so.
She had 15 millimeter follicles
just about a week and a half ago.
And I'm just curious to see how she's gonna grow.
This is a pastel ghost by the way
that his head for clown that's being bred to a ghost clown.
And you could see
look at the follicles already, how big they've gotten.
And that's really what I wanna see.
I don't think that she's gonna be off of food yet
because 20 to 23 millimeters
is when they typically would go off the food.
But it's gonna be really close.
I bet you she's close to 20 millimeters for sure.
Let's see right there.
Actually 23 millimeters.
So she did eat one meal.
I'm gonna probably offer next week.
And if she doesn't eat, that's gonna get the check mark
the 23 millimeters that's well, on her way
I love seeing that growth in just less than two weeks.
Go to 15 to 23.
That's really a good sign.
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Now this is a really interesting one.
This is actually an (indistinct) py
bred to a pastel py.
She was at 20 millimeters, but she's not very big.
And she did produce last year,
but it doesn't look like she has a lot of
body weight on her.
Now she definitely refused food.
And I'm just curious.
Now I will tell you sometimes
there's something that's called phantomy.
Where an animal will grow to 20 25 millimeters,
and then phantom out, basically absorb the follicles.
So I'm not gonna be that surprised
if that happens with this girl, but I tell you what
they're nice big follicles
and they don't look phantomed out at all.
You just wouldn't think a girl of this size
that's probably only maybe 1,250 grams
would be going so well
but it looks like she's going to have a clutch.
These are really large follicles right here.
I'll go ahead and measure 'em up.
We're talking 36 millimeters.
They ovulate at about 40.
So she's probably gonna ovulate
within the next probably seven to 10 days.
So I was expecting maybe some reverse some phantoming
in this case it was a good sign.
Once again, I'm looking at the fact that this animal
was eating good.
It's been bred a handful of times,
21 millimeters a couple of weeks ago.
I'm assuming this girl is gonna probably be
upper twenties, maybe even lower thirties
to be honest with you.
And that means she's definitely done.
She refused meal from me this time
for the very first time in the last little bit.
So we'll go ahead and yeah, you can see
really nice big follicles that are definitely
well up in there.
We'll see how close we got to go here.
Let's see we've got probably 30.
33 millimeters.
So yeah, she's done feeding.
She'll probably have to eat in the next two weeks or so.
So again, things are really progressing fast down here.
I think that we'll see the first real eggs
in the next month.
And then we're gonna start really seeing in about
two, two and a half months.
We're gonna see tons of eggs.
So this is really really working out well.
This is actually a mahogany hat py girl
that produced the summa last year
but it didn't produce the a summa py.
So hopefully we'll get lucky and we'll produce a Summa py.
She was at 16 millimeters, and again she refused meals.
So I'm wondering if she's now past 20.
It sure looks like it.
A hundred percent, she's definitely big right now.
And this just means that she's probably gonna be off food
for the year.
I'll go ahead and put her back really quickly.
And then we'll measure these guys up.
It looks like we're over 20 for sure.
Probably more like 25, 26.
Yep 25 millimeters.
So that's pretty good.
So now she's done for the year.
You can see how quickly things are advancing.
Again, as they hit that off food
that's a great sign.
You want the 20 to 25 millimeters off of food
then you wanna breed them for another
probably three to four weeks.
Then hopefully an ovulation.
So from 25 to 40 goes relatively quick
like I said, two, three, four weeks tops.
Whereas from 10 to 25 can sometimes take three months.
I love this animal.
This is actually a Mojave GHI.
Still one of my favorite mutations.
The Ghost Mojave GHI, all that stuff is really good.
This actually being bred to a banana GHI
so we could produce some really cool stuff with that too.
And you can see that glow.
She was at 18 millimeters,
she refused food for the first time.
This thing I just can't imagine
she's not gonna be in her mid
to upper twenties right now
just 'cause she's got that glow about her.
Looking nice big follicles right there.
And that tells me that she's gonna go.
This is exciting 'cause last year this girl didn't produce.
She grew some follicles to maybe like 15 millimeters
and then went backwards.
This year it looks like she's definitely gonna ovulate,
which is super exciting.
It goes all the way up to 29 millimeters.
That's gonna be such a banger of a clutch.
I cannot wait, doing this it's exciting.
So now every time I feed this is how I go.
Instead of just checking to see what ate
I'm going through and checking to see follicles
for animals that didn't eat,
to see if they actually can go off of food
and start checking them off.
Well, I tell you what guys
this is gonna be another great year.
This girl is actually the Lori Leopard
that was actually bred to produce
those Super Lori Leopards that are so amazing.
And it's looking like she's getting going again.
She was 16 millimeters.
She did refuse food.
So let's just see where she's at right now.
Not quite huge, but definitely growing a little bit.
So let's just get a measurement.
I think they're gonna be close to 20.
22 millimeters.
Again, if she doesn't eat next week
we'll put a check mark on her she's done.
That means Super Lori Leopards are on their way again,
fingers crossed.
I tell you what guys.
That was a really good thing.
I wasn't expecting as many females
to be over 20 25 millimeters as there were.
So we're probably actually ahead of the game
where we were last year.
Again, I always tell you guys
if you're gonna breed snakes
you wanna look at different triggers.
We want to trigger of food, we want the trigger of breeding.
And then of course the trigger of follicles.
But nevertheless definitely heading good.
And if we keep this path
it's gonna be another banger year.
Last year was crazy good.
This year, it looks like it's gonna be just as good.
If not better.
There it is some cool mental enrichment for Elvis
and a lot of other cool stuff today.
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