- This happens to be a
Silver Streak Mojave Bongo Ball Python,
which basically means it's a Super Pastel,
it's a Black Pastel, it's a Mojave and it's a Bongo.
And although she was a small girl,
she laid four eggs this year.
And she was bred to the Stinger Bee Fire Orange Dream,
which is a Pastel, it's a Spider, it's a Fire,
and it's an Orange Dream.
And that is an absolutely amazing pairing.
Unfortunately, only two of the four eggs made it,
but guess what?
Today is day 57,
which means we can cut that clutch of eggs.
So with two eggs, who knows what's going to be in there?
What do you say we find out?
So again, we only have two eggs that made it in this clutch
but it's definitely one of the most anticipated clutches.
Don't know, we can produce something
absolutely out of the mind.
A Silver Streak Bongo Mojave to a Stinger Bee Fire Orange.
I mean, there are so many potential combinations.
What is that?
That's a super Pastel,
Black Pastel, Bongo, Mojave,
Pastel, Spider, Fire, Orange Dream.
That is eight potential genes together.
That is a lot.
So who knows what's gonna happen?
Let's jump into egg number one.
I don't know, we could hatch stuff
that I know what's going on.
I could hatch some stuff that's like,
I have no idea what the heck this is,
or we could just whip all together.
What do we got here?
Oh, it's something really pretty.
Don't know what it is.
That-- oh, this is really pretty though.
So-- oh gosh, what the heck is it?
(man laughs)
I really don't know, I mean,
that's the problem when you have so many genes together.
I would say it's definitely Black Pastel.
It definitely looks like it's a Bongo.
Definitely has some Spider in it, possibly an Orange Dream.
That could be reducing that pattern a little bit.
Doesn't have Mojave, it's definitely a Pastel
because those guys are Super Pastel.
Yeah, we're gonna have to wait till this one hatches out,
but it is really interesting.
I didn't expect that like black and silver
looking snake like that.
But I absolutely love it,
I think it looks good
and that Bongo makes that racing stripe,
so it's really cool.
Let's see what's in egg number two
and see if we can try and decipher what the heck this is.
And again, when you start talking eight genes,
it's a little bit of a guessing game.
I'm not going to lie to ya,
you really don't know 100% what is going on.
But let's see what this one is here.
Now this is the opposite, this is super white.
Oh!
Now I see the pattern on it.
Oh doggy!
That thing is beautiful, man.
Holy moly!
All right, guys.
I-- okay.
I'm gonna do my best.
This is definitely a Pastel,
it's definitely a Spider.
It definitely looks like it's Orange Dream.
Definitely looks like it's Mojave,
definitely not Black Pastel.
Probably Fire, maybe that's it, I don't know.
So that's the thing, guys,
What basically happens when we hatch out stuff like this,
which by the way, both animals were bangers.
I mean, with eight genes, we were hope we're gonna produce
some really cool stuff.
Looks like both animals are.
But what ends up happening is when
and if I decide to sell them,
I sell them on the least genes
that I know is the fact, right?
We know it's a Pastel, we know it's this, we know it's that,
and we know it's this.
And then maybe you might get an extra gene or two
that I'm not sure.
So when I don't know for sure if it's a particular gene,
I don't put that gene in there.
So I think both of these are at least five,
maybe six gene animals,
but they might be seven or eight gene animals.
I don't really know.
Point is, really crazy.
We still have one more clutch to hatch.
Let's go look at the parents.
I certainly cannot wait until those babies crawl out
and so we can maybe sorta ID them.
Two eggs, but hey, they were two banger of an animals.
We actually have one more clutch to cut today.
It was actually bred to this female Pastel
that laid six eggs.
And it was bred to this Mojave Bumblebee Calico animal.
So again, it's a Mojave, it's a Pastel, it's a Spider,
and it's a Calico.
Again, mixing it with another Pastel gene
means we could get super Pastels of all of that
type of stuff.
So with six eggs, let's hope we get some bangers.
What do you say we cut the next clutch?
So let's show up into this egg cutting.
I hope that you guys are enjoying the start of the vlog.
Some of you guys love egg cutting
and are like, "I cannot get enough of it!"
We haven't done as much this year.
Some of it is over on Patreon, link in the description.
But hey, we got just a handful of clutches left
to be totally honest with you.
Maybe about 20 clutches to cut or something like that.
Maybe 25.
So we're about done.
So every now and then I want to do an egg cutting vlog
if you don't mind with that.
So let's go ahead and jump in.
Again, this is a Pastel and it's a Mojave Bee Calico,
so could be some pretty cool combinations.
Egg number one.
All right, here we go.
Here we go, here we go.
What do we have?
Oh, interesting.
So let me think about this really quick.
(man laughs)
All right.
So right after if we have a Pinstripe in here,
the problem with that is that there can't be a Pinstripe
with that particular breeding.
There might be some sperm retention from the year before
because Mojave Bee is a Mojave and a Spider and a Pastel
and a Calico and then a Pastel.
So no Pinstripe.
So now I don't know what's gonna happen guys.
So let's just move on to egg number two.
And that can happen guys.
You know, sometimes you have females
that retain sperm from the year before.
So when you breed a specific male, you're like, oh,
I really want to see this male be the father.
Sure enough, another Pinstripe.
We literally have two normal Pinstripes out of two eggs.
Now there's no way this was like normal Pinstripe
that I bred it.
As a matter of fact, last year,
if I bred a Pinstripe it would have probably been
a pink Calico yellow belly and a Pastel.
So to produce two normal pins is not very lucky.
We still have two, four eggs to go.
Let's see what we got.
Yeah that's just crazy.
And they can be dual father too.
Right?
We could still have that Mojave Calico be the father.
This is interesting here.
Okay.
So this is actually an Enchi Pinstripe in the first one.
Now that I look at, it looks like an Enchi Pinstripe.
So now I'm thinking, what did I breed last year
that was an Enchi Pinstripe?
Cause I did have a super Enchi Pinstripe Yellow Belly,
but then this one that's a normal Pinstripe would be,
I'm all confused guys.
Completely wild, three more eggs.
Let's see if we can figure this mystery out.
Here we go.
And again, like I said,
you could have a dual father clutch.
We can still have that Mojave in there.
Nope, another Enchi.
Oh but this is interesting.
This looks like--
You know what this might be?
It might have been the Lemon Blast,
X-treme Gene Enchi Pin because this definitely
looks like a Pastel X-treme Gene Enchi Pinstripe right here.
That's probably who the father was last year.
And so far four of the eggs have been retained sperm.
Again, we could have the other male could father.
So we still have a chance, so let's hit these
last two eggs and figure out what's going on.
It's always interesting cutting egg.
Even when you think you know what's gonna happen,
something throws you for a loop.
And this is really pretty here.
This is just a-- okay,
So yeah, this is definitely,
this is a super Pastel Pinstripe essentially.
So now I know for sure that the father had to be a Pastel,
an Enchi and a Pinstripe and the only male that I had last
year was actually the Lemon Blast X-treme Gene
Enchi Pinstripe.
So now I know for sure the retained sperm was that male.
So I figured that one out.
I wish that Mojave Bee Calico would have at least fathered
one egg cause I really wanted to see what that was gonna do,
but oh well last egg, here we go.
Let's see what we got here.
And another super Pastel Pinstripe.
This one looks like an Enchi and probably an X-treme Gene.
So this is probably the all gene animal
with the retained sperm.
So interestingly enough, this girl had two, four, six eggs,
all eggs went term and all eggs were fathered
by the male from last year and not even one egg
was fathered from the male this year.
Pretty interesting how that works and it's cool.
It's-- you know, I love reptiles
and I love the fact that you can have parthenogenesis,
you can have sperm retention,
you have all this type of stuff.
So I hope you guys enjoy not only the egg cutting,
but the kind of surprise that we found out today.
And welcome to the vlog, reptile army.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
For those of you that are asking by the way,
thank you so much for all the kind comments.
I was super sick yesterday, but I feel so much better today.
I'm not 100%, but I don't have any fever.
So I'm not contagious.
Again, tested negative so I don't have to worry
about quarantining, anything like that.
I'd say I'm 95%,
but I'm going to take it a little bit easy today.
And then tomorrow I'll be right as rain.
I can guarantee you that.
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- So today's a really, really busy day.
A lot going on today.
However, I still got to make sure animals get fed.
Salt and Pepper being the main, main ones.
So as you guys are moving along with me,
I'm actually gonna show you how I ended up feeding
Salt and Pepper recently because of their size.
It's important that we don't get them,
get them too riled up and scared or freaked out
when they're inside this cage.
So now I've got to move, remove Salt,
put her up front and feed her up there
and come back here and feed Pepper while she's back here.
So Mike, I may need your help here in a few minutes bro.
See if I can just reach in there
and grab her without a problem.
What a good girl.
Gosh.
I know, I got the tail.
I got the tail.
All right, let's go.
Let's get her up front.
Mike?
- [Mike] Yeah?
- I just need you to watch her when I go feed Pepper.
- I'm gator sitting.
- All right so down you go, baby.
(man smacks)
Catch it.
Thank you.
(man smacks)
Come on,
open, open.
There you go.
No?
(man smacks)
Eat it.
There you go.
- You guys know I walk around the zoo a tremendous amount.
I think that whenever you have animals,
your perception is so important, right?
Observation, you know,
walking around is what really shows you
like how are things doing, how they're acting.
But one animal that I always love is this guy right here.
He of course is the Egyptian Uromastyx.
Also our Ackie monitor up here.
Whenever I walk around,
they're always kind of looking out at me.
See, he's looking right now, he's looking, he's looking.
They're just absolutely incredible animals.
(light organ music)
And I tell you what, there is no doubt that these
guys are intelligent animals.
Reptiles are so much more intelligent than
people give them credit for.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
And again, they're looking at us, you know,
like what's going on?
He's always doing it.
And again, the Egyptian Uromastyx may not be the prettiest
of the Uromastyx but they're just so cool.
They're typically the chillest of the ones
and they get the largest too, up to three foot.
This guy is going to be such a good animal
ambassador when he gets bigger.
He already is.
We can take him out for kids and stuff like that.
It's just amazing.
I mean, I love that spiky tail
and that kinda almost frog-like face.
Uromastyx have always been one of my favorite animals.
No doubt about it.
And I say that way too much,
but it is really the truth.
But the Egyptian Uros when they're big
are absolutely stunning.
And speaking of Uromastyx,
this is actually Milton,
another Uromastyx.
Now he just got a new cage.
And let me tell you why.
And it's gonna tell you how smart reptiles are.
I said that they're smart,
but you're not gonna believe this.
So Milton used to actually be down here, right?
And the baby Argus monitors were right here.
Now Milton is hanging out up here and I can tell you why.
See this little thing right here?
That goes up and down like this, right?
Now what happens is when you close this enclosure like this
and you lock it like that,
you'll notice that the enclosure can still
open a little bit, right?
So if it's open like this, animals can get out.
That's why we have this little latch
that keeps the enclosure like this.
Well, we had an Argus monitor
actually get loose the other day.
We found it thankfully,
and we thought someone must not have locked the cage.
Well today, Mike actually saw the Argus monitors--
So smart-- that was coming up.
It realized there was a latch there
and it started to actually push the latch over,
open the latch and was able to get out.
So the animal literally learned how to escape from the cage.
So we ended up moving the Argus monitors
down here into this enclosure,
which is the same size.
It's not quite as tall as this.
And listen, the Argus monitors
are gonna outgrow this relatively quick.
Whereas Milton's gonna be able to stay
in an enclosure like this pretty much his whole life,
the Argus monitors are gonna get moved up
probably within the next month or two anyways.
But nevertheless, how smart is that?
They literally figured out how to get out of the cage.
I mean, you tell me reptiles aren't smart.
There's no way you can say that.
They are absolutely intelligent.
I wanted to show you you guys the latest animal ambassador
that we brought over to The Reptarium.
The truth is I've had this guy
for about eight or nine years
and I actually have showed it to you guys.
I've called it the poop emoji snake.
Of course, this is the Calabar burrowing python.
Just such an interesting snake.
You could see his head's way up here.
And it kinda almost looks like rounded, like,
you know, like a snake head,
but then the tail is rounded as well.
That's one of their defense mechanisms, right?
These guys actually curl up kinda like a poop emoji,
like I'd mentioned in the past.
And they tuck their head on inside
and a predator won't know the difference
between their head or their tail.
That's why they have the kind of rounded tail
and rounded head that look almost identical.
Just a really interesting snake and believe it or not,
Lori was the one that said,
"I think we should put this over at the Reptarium,"
Cause it's cool.
It's an emoji snake, right?
I mean, it's just really wild.
Been one of the cooler animals
I've worked with my whole life.
I'll be honest.
Just more interesting, right?
Like weird animals.
These guys come from west Africa.
Unfortunately a lot of them come in wild caught
and they don't do tremendously well.
This was actually captive patched over in Africa.
So I got it in is a baby.
And it has thrived for, like I said,
the last seven or eight years.
In the meantime, I've been trying to get more babies
to bring in but I just have not been able to find them.
And I don't know anyone that's ever bred them in captivity.
That's not to say that they haven't been bred in captivity,
I've just never seen any.
I certainly would like to pick up more because like I said,
this guy's already seven or eight years old
and he's getting a little bit older.
They'll live like 20 years and stuff like that,
but man I sure would like to breed these one day
cause they are so cool.
And now you can come to the Reptarium and see one.
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