- Today I'm gonna do something
I said I was never gonna do again.
Let me explain.
11 years ago I actually imported
a snake just like this that was missing
some scales on its head.
Of course, it's scaleless head Ball Python.
When I bred that animal half the babies
came out missing scales on their head,
leading me to believe that maybe
if I bred scaleless head to scaleless head
I'd produce a solid scaleless animal.
Then in 2013 it happened.
- I gotta be honest, when Brian cut that second egg
and there was a scaleless animal in there,
I mean, I almost can't describe what I felt.
I know I was yelling really loud.
I kinda don't even remember, I just kinda
like blacked out a little bit.
- I've been breeding reptiles for 25 years
and I've produced so many incredible animals,
but I can honestly say that moment
was the most exciting moment
in the reptile business that I've ever
been involved in.
Now, I've been working with scaleless
Texas Rat Snakes and scaleless Corn Snakes
for a long time, and these guys
literally do amazing.
There's really not a lotta difference
between a scaleless Rat Snake and a normal Rat Snake
to be totally honest with you.
The only difference is we don't feed
live food, because of course, those scales
are actually the armor that protect them.
Other than that, they do absolutely fine.
Unfortunately, when it came to the Ball Python,
after about a year of working with them
we found out that they weren't as easy
as the Rat Snakes or Corn Snakes and they did
desire more work, and we decided
to not breed 'em again in the future,
until this year.
I decided I was gonna try to breed 'em
one last time just to see what's happening.
If I produce a scaleless, it would be
outta nostalgia and I would do
the best I could do to keep it alive.
Basically, I know people that have had
scaleless Ball Pythons that have lived
multiple years, it's just that they do require
a little additional care, much like
the Silkie Beared Dragon.
- We have a leak and when it comes to water,
usually every second that passes it only gets worse.
We're the only people that know how to fix it.
- Me and Noah, problem solvers.
- I tried to fix it and I just made it worse.
- So, what you're gonna wanna do is you're
gonna wanna, see that red thing right there?
- So, it's closed.
- No, it's coming from the top.
- I cleaned it.
- Do you have a flashlight?
- Yep.
Here you go.
What do you see, Noah?
Water.
- I feel like yeah, it's coming
from that seam right there.
- Let's go get Papa Dodo.
- All right, daddyo.
- So, that wasn't that good.
- 57 days ago we got a clutch of eggs,
scaleless to scaleless, and right now
we're gonna go ahead and cut the clutch
and see if we get a scaleless Ball Python.
We have eight eggs and from what I see
there's actually two babies out here.
This is just a normal baby right here.
And then, you can see the top of this one's head,
that is a scaleless head.
There's two out, there's a couple of heads
sticking out that do not look scaleless.
I'm gonna go ahead and cut this egg first,
just to see what's inside there.
Again, doesn't look scaleless, but we'll
go ahead and just take a look
and I'll just kinda cut a little bit
of a circle in here so we can take
a really close look.
It's gonna be hard to tell if there's
actually scaleless head unless the head
is poppin' up, but again, another scaleless animal.
Right here, this head is already sticking out.
We can see it's a scaleless head right here,
actually a pretty decent scaleless head, too.
It's interesting how this whole project started, right.
I got the animal I'm after, that is the goal
is just like this, crazy.
But so far, we may have rid of the scaleless
one last time, and this probably
will be the last time I ever
try to breed scaleless.
So, if we whip out this clutch guys,
there will never be another scaleless
probably produced by me, which is a bummer,
'cause I just thought I'd have one, work with it.
Again, another normal Ball Python.
We know this is obviously a normal Ball Python.
We've got an egg here that has babies in it.
It's the last egg, so there's a chance
that this one could be scaleless.
I don't know 'cause I can't see inside of it.
Once again, that exhilaration that I felt
the first time we produced a scaleless
was so absolutely incredible.
Ah, look at that, we definitely have
a normal Ball Python here,
could be a scaleless head.
I can already see in this egg right here
that there is scales, so I don't think
that this is gonna be a scaleless animal here.
To be sure, yeah, no, just a normal animal.
Let's go ahead and just cut and see
what we got inside this.
We're either gonna produce scaleless Ball Python or not.
That's basically, wait a second.
What, holy crap, that's it guys.
Unbelievable.
This is a scaleless Ball Python.
Frickin' believable.
It has been years since we produced
the very first scaleless Ball Python.
The last egg that we cut is actually
a scaleless Ball Python.
Unbelievable.
Now these guys do take some extra work
and I'm willing to put in that extra work
and try to keep this guy alive.
Finally we're successful on the last egg.
Here in a minute you're gonna see
that Ball Python outta the egg
and you're gonna see how amazing
a scaleless snake is.
- We should probably drain the water
out of that tank, right?
- I'm up for whatever you think.
- Then, I got the one without the bubbles.
I gotta suck this?
- So how does that thing work?
- Here you can, give me the tip of that one.
- Whoa, that's insane.
- I actually have had this my whole life.
- Is it coming?
- No, it's flowin' now.
- If we really had a pond vac we would
probably be done already.
- Did somebody ask for a bad guy?
(vacuuming running)
- I got him.
Oh (beep) that freaked me out.
- So, this is kinda peculiar, a box
of snakes has showed up.
It's got Lori's name on it.
I don't know anything about this.
She always complains about me getting snakes
without asking her.
I've gotta find out what's goin' on.
Speak of the devil.
Lori, what exactly is this box of snakes right here?
You didn't approve this with me, right?
- It's none of your business.
- Well, no, I know, when I buy snakes
without asking you, you say it's all your business.
But, you can do it without me?
- Yeah, because it is all my business,
but that's my wheel house.
Do you check with me on what videos you film?
- We gonna open the box of snakes?
So Lori, did you buy me something?
Is this a gift for me?
- We'll see.
- I mean, is it cool?
Like, I really would like another
Bell's Phase Lace Monitor.
Is it a Bell's Phase Lace Monitor?
- Look at the box.
- It could be a baby Bell's Phase Lace Monitor.
I thought you said, maybe, we'll see.
- No, I got this for the people.
(laughing)
- An empty bag.
- Looks like I got screwed.
I thought they were Lavenders, these are
ultimate annures.
- Whoa, those are dope.
You've got some Snow Corns.
You've got some Ultimate Ghost Corns,
all true, Ghost Tessera Corn Snakes,
Annures Tessera Corn Snake.
That is amazing.
Why does my bag feel empty?
There's literally, there's one snake in this bag,
that's all there is.
But, it's a banger.
It's a Snow Tessera Corn Snake.
Is there something else to it?
Maybe it's a Tessera Motley.
- It's het for a bunch of things.
- Well, it's got its own bag, so that's cool.
How many Corn Snakes did you order?
These are all dope.
- I don't know.
- I'm excited.
- It's a person I know that I just
get everything she produces.
- Oh, so that's, it's like my Ball Python people.
- Yeah.
- We're gonna have to have a talk
about your spending habits.
- This is a yearling that, a Razor
that she decided to sell.
- And that looks like another Ghost Tessera Corn Snake.
And then, we have, ooh, these are really pretty.
Whew, we got a whole buncha stuff.
We've got let's see, Albino Motley,
we've got Albino striped ones.
We've got Snow Corns.
We've got Anerythristic Stripe Corn.
We've got Ghost Corns.
We've got normal Stripe Corn Snakes.
Wow, these are all cool.
- We've got the Strawberry Gene in there too.
- Oh, we've got the Strawberry Gene in there, too.
Can we keep these?
- Yeah.
- It's exciting.
I like when you buy snakes.
- It's the little things.
- Wow, I tell you what.
Whoever this connection you have here
produces some cool snakes, man.
- Why do you think I buy 'em?
- Oh my God, look, these are a buncha
Snow Stripe Corn Snakes and Anerythristic Stripe
Corn snakes, wow.
It's awesome, Lori.
- Like Christmas.
- Yeah, and I didn't even know
these snakes were comin'.
This is better than ever.
- You weren't supposed to know they were coming.
- Last bag, what do we have?
Looks like we have some Hypo Corn Snakes
and Ghost Corn Snakes, Anery Corn Snakes and.
- And your Bigina Gene, look at the head.
- Oh, Sunkissed.
- Yeah.
- So, what's this one?
This is Sunkissed Tessera.
- Anery Sunkissed Het Motley.
And obviously, there's a Tessera in there
that's not orange.
- Yeah, look at the Sunkissed Tessera.
- Well, I don't know, it could just be
one of the crazy Motley.
You know how Motleys kinda stripe out sometimes.
But, it does look Tessera.
- Yeah, it looks Tessera to me.
That's keeper rack.
Keeper rack.
- Shhh.
- Speaking of Corn snakes, Lori, I've got
a surprise for you, ready?
- Okay.
- Lori, what's your favorite corn snake mark?
- Probably Palmetto.
- Look what we got.
Baby Palmettos.
- Ooh.
- That's awesome, huh?
- Yeah, that is exciting,
especially 'cause this was Het to Palmetto,
so nice prove that male.
- I know, we definitely got more Hets
than Palmettos, but we also have
another clutch cooking, 20 something as well.
So maybe it'll go the other way.
Palmettos are so amazing.
And I'll show you an adult female
that's an absolute ripper.
This is a girl.
Her name is Dessi.
She's absolutely amazing.
So, she did good.
She laid two clutches for us this year.
Now she's just beefin' up for brumation.
- I'm excited 'cause I've got a gorgeous male
that she's gonna get bred to next year.
- Nice, speaking about boxing, I think
that we had a couple things in the P.O. Box.
You wanna open them up?
- Sure.
- Let's go.
- Can I have?
- You can have whatever you like.
- [Guys] Whatever you like.
♪ We can pop bottles all night baby ♪
♪ You can have whatever you like ♪
(vacuum running)
- Okay, black light.
Oh no, I see a puddle of greeno.
Let's see what we're workin' with here.
Yep, it's leakin'.
I don't know whether to screw that thing
or do that thing.
- What do you need to do?
- I don't know.
Do you wanna open an aquarium?
- Yeah.
- Before we open up those boxes
from the P.O. Box, I wanted to excite you with this.
Are you excited?
Look at this.
- You wanted to excite me?
- Yeah, a buncha Mangrove Snake babies hatched.
- Why is this exciting to me?
- Because I know you love Mangrove Snakes.
- Do you know that?
- I know Lori, you love.
- You love Mangroves.
- Once again, you wanna keep 'em all
this year, don't you?
- Hmmm, that's not true at all.
- I think we should keep 'em all.
So, we got another beautiful clutch.
There's what, two, four, six, seven more baby
Melanona, or Mangrove Snakes hatches here.
So, we're havin' a pretty good Mangrove Snake year.
I'm gonna try to talk Lori into me keeping them all.
One more year.
- No, no.
- One more year.
- We're definitely selling them and you need
to get on the waitlist, so go to the website,
get on the waitlist, these could be yours.
- Speaking of waitlists, you guys
don't wanna wait any longer for Animal Con USA.
You go to animalconusa.com and get your tickets now,
link in the description, I'll pin a comment as well.
It's all your favorite creators
and all kind of cool stuff.
It's gonna be in Orlando, Florida,
startin' the 26th of this month.
You definitely don't wanna miss Animal Con USA.
All right, so the first one says
from the Marquis family.
- Wait.
- Towards me, like this.
This knife is very sharp, by the way.
I cut myself last time.
Okay, what have we got?
There's a whole buncha stuff.
- Oh, it looks like a whole buncha rock.
- Like healing stuff.
(laughing)
- I'm gonna be so healthy after this.
This is, oh, you don't open this.
Just keep the pouch of rocks in your pocket.
Is that a box of rocks in your pocket
or is he happy to see me?
- Oh God.
- Ooh, that's, oh man, that's labradorite.
That's cool, nice.
What's the deal?
They do rocks.
- You would think you're the one who's
drinking all the coffee.
- Whew, look at this.
- After you were mentioning crystals
we thought of a way to lend you a hand.
- I think it's Harvest to Heal.
- The little baggie with a few so that you
can carry on the go.
So yes, this is a box of rocks.
- I told you.
I need these healing rocks.
I'm gonna be cuttin' my fingers off.
- Then you stop eating.
- Check this out.
This reminds me of Superman.
This is kryptonite is what this is.
- You wear that?
- Gonna look like Johnnie Depp.
Check this out.
I don't know what it is, but it's cool.
Whoa, is that jade?
- How would I know?
Why do you keep sayin' all this stuff.
- I don't know, but it's cool.
Well listen, thank you guys so much, amazing.
Again Harvest to Heal.
There's some cool stuff and I'm
gonna be wearin' this.
This is awesome.
I'm takin' this with me.
- Oh no, I like that one.
- No, no, don't take that.
- Use this.
- No uh huh.
- What?
- The whole thing's fizzing up here.
- This is fun.
Do you know anything about filters?
- Filter, I hardly know her.
- I'm gonna just pour some water in there
so you can see it.
Stacks on deck, salt on ice.
Can you add a little more?
Resisting the masculine urge
to take my shirt off.
This is what being a man is, problem solver.
I think we're good gents and ladies.
Ha ha ha ha, just another day.
- Make sure the little fishy makes
it back in there.
- All right team, excellent work today
on that battlefield.
I'm proud of every one of you, great job,
and you as well out there.
- It's been a couple days and sure enough
the scaleless actually climbed
out of its egg.
Look at this animal.
I remember so well that first time
I saw a scaleless how blown away I was.
You take away the scales and the pattern
and the color changes so much on these guys.
Absolutely amazing.
Look at that little tongue flickering.
It's unbelievable.
I cannot wait to see how this thing
turns out in time.
Now I will say, they do take more work
than a normal Ball Python.
You have to kinda work with 'em.
It's much like the Silkie Beared Dragons,
the same type of way.
But, we're gonna do our best to keep
this guy alive, because I just think
it's a really nostalgic thing.
How incredible could this guy climb
outta the egg.
It looks so absolutely amazing.
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