- If it looks like I'm sweating to death,
it's 'cause I am.
The air conditioning's not working.
I'm wearing a hoodie, Stan is loving it,
it's 83 degrees in this house right now.
And by the way, Stan's been upgraded to office position,
so you get to see him once again.
If you don't see an animal for three days
you automatically assumed they died,
so I don't know why, but...
I'm losing my snake.
So, as you may know,
we have a lot of animals come in and out here.
Third most common species would be, ball pythons.
And there's some pretty cool ones,
So I picked out my 10 favorites that I own right now.
And I just wanted to talk about 'em, show 'em off,
talk about their morphs, and we can get into it.
First off this is a Ringer Head Piebald ball python.
It's a female.
This is the grumpiest out of the bunch.
But even she's doing fine.
She already struck a few times while filming,
but no biggie.
Ball python bites aren't too bad,
as long as it's not a feeding response bite.
These are in no particular order,
but this is one out of 10.
So I picked her out
because I am kind of obsessed with orange colors on animals.
And there's a really nice brownish orange
going down her side.
So Ringer is simply a ball python morph
that I really know nothing about.
I think this is the only Ringer we've ever gotten,
but the Head Pied,
it means it carries the trait of a Piebald ball python,
which is the type that has those like splotchy spots
with the rest of the animal being white.
So although she does not show those characteristics,
there's a chance that her offspring,
if she were to be bred,
would actually ended up showing pied.
For a female she's average size, nothing totally massive,
but still pretty big.
And all of our animals just get fed frozen-thawed.
If an animal comes in, only eats live,
we can't get it to eat frozen-thawed.
We start with live and then we slowly get it on to frozen
and she's enjoying frozen with no problem.
Number two, this is one that's pretty common,
not too hard to find if you're looking for one,
but I still like them.
It's a Cinnamon ball python.
Cinnamons very simply look kind of like cinnamon.
Whoever produces the morph first gets to name it, I guess.
I wouldn't name them Cinnamon.
I'd name it like Chocolate,
but I think there's already a Chocolate.
So I guess you can't do that.
Anyway, this is a male ball python.
This one actually has a pretty decent little the scar
on the bottom of its tummy.
We've seen scars like this really often
with snakes that come in.
I don't know what exactly they're from,
but it looks like a cut.
It doesn't look like a burn
or a bite from a rodent or something,
but it really looks like there was something sharp
in the enclosure and he just kind of slid over it.
Probably my favorite thing about Cinnamons
is their pitch black eyes.
Sunny, my Yellow Belly ball python,
who is not actually in the lineup,
sorry, Sunny.
He has very dark eyes and it's very hard to see his pupils,
but Cinnamons like this one have pitched black eyes
where you can't differentiate the pupil at all.
This is probably one of the cheapest morphs,
if you're looking for something that is not a normal...
Personally, I wouldn't buy one.
And speaking of availability,
most of these snakes are actually available,
at EmeraldScales.com
As of filming this obviously they might've already sold.
Anyway this is the Cinnamon.
Not much to say about them.
I do think he looks kind of cool.
To make things easy for the video,
I actually put the snakes in snake bags
so I can just quickly grab them and then put them back.
So it's a little surprise at which one will get here.
It's almost like an unboxing, not really just reaching.
Most of these are very docile.
Okay.
The next type we've got a Blue-Eyed Leucistic ball python.
Also called a BEL or B-E-L,
they're all white for the most part.
There's many different combinations
that create Blue-Eyed Leucistic ball pythons.
Basically, if you breed this one to this one,
then you have a chance of getting a completely white snake.
You can sometimes tell based on how much yellow there is
or just how pure the white is,
as to which mix created the snake.
Personally, I'm not sure about this one.
I don't believe the person we got it from actually told us,
this one is an adult female.
And the first thing you'll notice obviously
is that it's white.
And then the second thing you'll probably notice
is that it's eyes are generally blue,
but this one's got some wonky eyes.
Unfortunately Blue-Eyed Leucistics are known
to occasionally have really weird eyeballs,
where basically they become deformed.
They grow too large and they just look super wonky,
including this Blue-Eyed Leucistic,
who the left eye is looking up
and then the right eye is looking straight,
but like out.
And you can just see they're just these bulbous balls
sticking out of this poor snake's head.
So we have noticed that it has some issues with vision,
thankfully ball pythons don't rely on vision too much
when it comes to feeding, but it still does become an issue.
But yeah, thankfully it's very healthy.
As you can see, great weight eating frozen-thawed.
Very little damage.
The thing about Blue-Eyes is it's very easy to see damage
on their scales because it's white.
And it just shows up really easily.
So any little scars are pretty obvious.
Also, if you hear a bunch of rumbling,
there's currently a thunderstorm happening,
but I wanted to show this one off
because the eyes are just super weird.
And it's the worst case of wonky eyes that I've seen.
Next one I've got here is probably the cutest of the bunch.
This is a Banana Pinstripe.
This has two genes that are prevalent in it.
First banana,
which is generally causes snakes to be pretty yellow
and have little black polka dots all over them
or little black spots.
Although you can find Bananas without spots.
Generally they do have them.
And I get tons of pictures of people asking
if their snake has mites and how to get rid of the mites.
And I ask for a picture
and it's just a Banana with normal black spots.
So just because your snake has spots,
doesn't mean it's mites.
Also mites move around and you can squish them,
but you can't squish patterning on a snake.
The second part, Pinstripe,
is what gives the snake this pinstripe pattern,
all the little lines down its back and down the sides,
and its face is just a super soft,
super cuddly looking kind of ball python,
something about it, It just looks very pure,
very just like soft and innocent.
Just see for yourself. I think it's very cool.
This is one that we've never gotten before.
It's a really beautiful individual and this one is a male.
You can tell for one, because it is an adult
and pretty small.
Generally males are smaller
and it's just such a calm snake and such a healthy one.
Like there's nothing wrong with its pattern.
It's white belly is perfect.
There's not a single sign of anything.
Actually there's one little tiny black spot.
I thought it was dirt, but it's just a little spot.
And that's the only thing on it's super white tummy.
I'd say this is possibly my favorite out of the bunch,
but there's a few others
that are really high up there as well.
Personally, I don't find Pinstripes...
Just to Pinstripes that interesting,
and Bananas are cool, but I wouldn't necessarily get one.
My favorite used to be Banana Pastel.
I used to really want one.
I'm not looking for one now,
but it's cool to be able to see them come in
and just get to spend some time with them.
Next up a Single Dream ball python.
This is a female and it's a Butter,
just a Butter. Nothing else.
It's yellow. I like yellow animals.
What do I have to say about it?
(thunder growls)
What do I have to say about it?
Not much,
I really like the contrast of the very dark brown
and the very light yellow, just barely yellow,
just kind of an off white on the face.
And it has a very cool eyes.
I didn't actually notice until just now.
It has like a gradient in its eyes,
from like a yellowish green
to like a darker yellowish green.
Even it's nose is just a little bit pink
and then it has that tiny line down the top of its head.
So... It's head, her head.
So this one is still small and likely still growing.
I don't know her age.
Based on her health and how well she eats.
She's likely still growing and not a stunted animal.
Occasionally we do have stunted ball pythons.
We had one adult male who is like less than 12 inches long.
I don't know why, but he never grew.
And we got him as an adult.
So I don't know what actually caused that,
but this one is probably a sub-adult almost there.
And I just like Butters,
so I wanted to show you some Butter.
We've got Butter, number two,
but this one also has Pastel.
Pastel is probably one of the most common morphs
you see in ball pythons.
And it's a trait that people often mix with other traits
and see you mix Pastel with these other traits
in these other morphs
and you get even cooler animals like this...
Wait, what is it?
Like this Butter Pastel, I don't know how I forgot.
This one is a male.
So he's going to stay smaller most likely,
but just same deal.
Super soft white tummy, very yellow,
extra yellow on the back basically.
So yeah, it's just like the previous one I showed,
but he's even more yellow
and I wanted to show that comparison.
The rain has now begun,
so you get some ASMR, if you can hear, behind me.
The next one might come as a bit of a surprise
that I'm including it.
But it's a Spider ball python.
Oh gosh. Why am I including the Spider ball python?
Well, if you are new to the channel
or don't know much about Spiders,
it's another trait that is extremely common in ball pythons.
It's plastered everywhere.
So many animals have spider in them.
If you Google Spider ball python, you might see my video.
It's called "Why Spider ball pythons are terrible"
And a very short rundown,
'cause I don't wanna bore you if you already know.
A Spider ball python very often have a neurological issue
that is connected to the chromosome.
So it's impossible to separate it from the spider gene.
This neurological issue tends to cause
what's called wobbling on their head.
Where their head shakes around or wobbles.
There's also something called corkscrewing
and it gets so bad
that some snakes can't even keep their balance.
Don't know which way is up
and causes a ton of other issues.
Lots of debate around it, tons of people love them,
tons of people hate them.
Many people breed them,
many people think they should be just completely banned.
And there's lots of opinions.
You can hear my opinions in that other video,
but the reason I'm including him
is because I am told that I'm never showing off
Spider ball pythons that aren't that bad.
And I'm always showing the worst examples.
In my personal experience,
I've worked with maybe one or two dozen
that have actually come in
and that I've actually gotten to see hands on
and almost every single one is super bad,
but this one just has the least of those issues.
His head simply wobbles around and shakes just a little bit.
And he does actually eat.
You will notice he's probably the most thin of the snakes
'cause he does eat the least.
And so even with this example, that is not as bad,
it doesn't sway my opinion on the subject.
And I still don't see them as a good thing to breed.
And I still don't support people who breed them.
I also never buy from people
or work with people who support breeding them.
So it is a bit harder for us to get rid of Spiders
because we don't want...
We generally don't post them on the site.
We just try and seek out people that might be interested
'cause we don't want them to get bred.
And we also don't want to profit off of them.
So yeah, the first reason I'm including them
is to show a less bad example of a Spider ball python.
And although there is a likelihood
that the more you breed Spiders that aren't as bad,
the less likely they will have severe wobbles.
There are those very common flukes
that are still super bad with the offspring.
And like I said, you can never disconnect the issue
from the trait.
The issue is the trait does make cool looking snakes.
This is simply a normal Spider ball python.
And I like it, it's just a general brown,
very white tummy
and really cool yellow speckles on the side.
It's like the brown is just falling down to the tummy
and these little yellow spots.
I think it's cool looking,
but I don't think that at all justifies breeding them,
selling them
or buying them at all.
So, no, I would not have bought this snake.
This was simply sent in to us like the rest.
And whether you think it's super cool looking or super ugly,
hopefully you won't deny that there are issues with them,
but I just wanted to throw them in the bunch
and show him off.
Because honestly, he's really not that bad.
If all spiders were like this,
wouldn't really be that big of a deal,
but sadly that's not the case.
Next up is another adult male ball python.
Very cool looking, but I don't exactly know what he is.
It's a Pastel something,
It's very similar to a Pastel.
Maybe it's a Super Pastel.
I'll try and figure it out before I post on the site.
If you do know, feel free to let me know in the comments,
'cause I'm having trouble with this one
and I don't have previous info on it.
But it's a Pastel with just some super bold brownish areas.
And I think that's really cool how thick those spots are.
His face also, he's got a pretty chunky face
and his pupils are super prevalent.
Normally in Pastels, it's very easy to see their eyes.
And I think it's cool to see that contrast
from those like the Cinnamon that I've pitched black eyes.
And knowing that there are pupils under there,
but it's also cool to actually be able to see their eyes
and their pupils sometimes.
This is a very unique pick
and although I'm sure it's not rare,
I don't get to see it every day.
And I think it's a cool one.
All the snakes today are super calm, super chill.
Whenever we sell ball pythons,
we try to make sure they're comfortable with people.
'Cause they're one of the most easy snakes to tame down,
it still takes work.
If it's your first time taming an animal down,
I don't expect it to go perfectly right on your first try,
but because they can be worked with really easily
and because their bites, aren't the end of the world.
As long as it's not a feeding response,
a feeding response bite is where they think your food
and they try to swallow you,
while a defensive bite is they simply strike
and then let go.
But a feeding response,
I've gotten that from Sunny, they hold on and they squeeze.
And my finger turned purple just from this little snake.
So you can imagine what a massive reticulated python bite
would feel like or something.
Yeah, defensive bites aren't too bad,
but try not to get bit in general.
It's not great, it's not fun for you or the snake.
So Pastel something maybe, Super Pastel maybe.
I still have some work to do when it comes to morphs,
but I'm getting better.
Okay, we've got two more to go.
The next one, I think I unboxed in an unboxing video,
which you can check out that series if you want.
I'll try and remember to link it in the description,
where I open all the animals that have come in.
And a lot of you have found me through those videos.
This one really kind of blew me away,
I don't find ball pythons super interesting,
and I don't plan on keeping more ball pythons.
I don't wanna breed ball pythons,
but it's still really cool. (thunder growls)
It's still really cool when something comes in
that really catches my eye,
it keeps me kind of entertained
and it keeps things interesting.
And this is a Calico ball python.
This one is a female.
We actually have three right now.
I think two males and a female.
I think one of the males already sold.
And then we stopped to put two up on the site.
They are not the cheapest morphs.
These come in at closer to $1,000.
I think will still be out there for like $700 or something.
And I think they're worth the money,
if it's something that you're seeking out,
especially if you do wanna breed
because they are pretty valuable.
And I know it's weird to talk about snakes as a product,
but animals often do retain or appreciate in value.
I like finances,
I love talking about finances and money in general
and buying something like a car
is gonna depreciate a lot in value.
If you buy a $100,000 car,
in a year it's probably only gonna be worth like 70,
$50,000 maybe.
But if you buy something like a baby snake
for $1,000 and you keep it healthy and it grows,
it might be worth twice that when it's an adult.
So that basically means that it can be a good investment
where if something goes bad, you don't lose that money.
So yeah, I think generally people avoid talking
about snakes like this
because it makes it sound like
you only care about them as a product.
But I think most of you watching understand
what I'm trying to say,
where it can be a good idea to buy an expensive animal.
They're not cheap to own.
They can have expensive vet bills,
expensive enclosures, eat tons of food,
but I'm just saying it's not necessarily a dumb idea
to spend a lot on an animal.
Especially if you really want that morph,
or if you happen to profit off of it
by breeding it or something.
I really love this morph.
And it is the first time I'd ever seen it when it came in,
in that unboxing.
And then we've got two more, very quickly.
I'm not complaining,
it's side actually reminds me of the Spider a little bit,
because it's mostly white
and then it has those yellow speckles.
So you can always find something very similar
to other morphs.
And Calico's, if I were to get another ball python,
it'd probably be one of those.
Not today, but I really like them.
And we have the final snake right here.
I didn't actually go in any particular order.
I just grabbed them randomly.
But I think this is a cool one to finish off on.
It's super yellow and super white,
these really big splotchy spots
and it's simply, (thunder growls)
an Albino Ball python.
It is oddly rare for us to see simply an Albino
with nothing else.
Albino animals do simply exist sometimes.
Now you can very easily find them captive-bred,
but at the same time,
I don't just see a simple straight Albino very often.
This one is a female and I really like it honestly.
I think we've gotten three Albinos.
But the other two were very unhealthy.
One was a super thin, super struggling little one,
who I don't even know how it survived shipping.
And unfortunately that one did not survive
much longer after that.
I have a video about that snake, that you can watch.
I'll try and remember to link it below,
if I forget,
you can just search "Albino ball python" or something,
or "Skinny Ball python",
this Ball python, it's a super healthy weight,
but there's actually stuck shed on the top of the neck.
I decided to leave that shed on for the video,
because this is a problem area,
that they always come in with.
This snake did not come in with stuck shed.
It actually just had a poor shed.
Almost every snake here sheds perfectly every time,
but it still happens just with anyone in an enclosure.
It just so happened to not pull that shut off.
But a lot of people either don't notice right there
or don't think it really matters,
'cause it's just this little patch.
But the problem is if this builds up or get stuck over time,
it's gonna cause some pretty serious issues.
I think the reason it usually gets stuck
is because this is the floppiest part of the snake.
'Cause when it's eating a large meal,
that's the size-- (thunder growls)
'Cause when it's eating a large meal,
the size of its stomach, its neck is gonna stretch a lot.
And so it just shrinks and then there's all this flab.
So it doesn't come off quite as easily.
And it often builds up there.
Once it builds up, the scales can be permanently damaged.
And if the shed gets stuck over the eye cap,
that's a very common problem area.
It can cause eye issues and permanent blindness.
So I have videos also explaining how to get that off,
but I just wanted to show that it does happen to any snake.
Occasionally it can happen, but not a big deal,
not too hard to get rid of.
So just keep an eye on that.
And do your best to remove it as soon as you notice.
With snakes,
once they start shedding any part of their body,
you could just take it all off if you wanted.
But personally, we just let the snakes do it themselves.
With lizards, they shed in patches.
So it's not good to really pull it off early,
unless you have unique cases like we often do
with Emerald Scales.
Just a simple Albino, very pretty,
bright red eyes.
I think the only red-eyed snake that I'm showing off today.
And we're gonna finish it off with her.
Those are the 10 coolest ball pythons
that I own right now. (thunder growls)
Again, you can check out emeraldscales.com
and see what's available.
You can buy my hoodie that I...
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You can buy this design that I have not sweated all over,
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If you need info, that's also on goherping.com.
And you can check the description for some useful links
that might save you some money
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So I get some money every time you buy
and it helps support me and the animals.
That's it for this video.
So I'm Alex,
and thanks for watching.
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