- I love starting my day with these types of snakes.
Of course, you guys know I have an obsession
with purple snakes.
And here we go, the first baby purple colubrids of the year.
What these are are Lavender Snow California Kingsnakes.
So these are California Kingsnakes that have a T+ albino
that they call lavender.
And then they're bred to chocolate,
which is melanocytic that produces double hets
and then ultimately come back.
Look at this one's head right here, just sticking out.
That thing is so purple it's absolutely amazing.
And we have a couple of purple and sometimes they'll even be
purple without the bands on them,
which is solid purple snakes.
But still look at the purple snakes with that black eyes.
And interestingly enough,
this is what they would call a Snow Cal.
So it's like a solid pink snake.
So we have purple snakes and we have pink snakes.
And this is actually an albino and a melanistic cross.
Just like the purple it's the other albino though, right?
So these were actually triple hetters, I guess,
for both normal albino, T+ albino called lavenders.
And then, of course, the melanistics
which we call the Chocolate Cal Kings.
So there's a whole bunch of really cool things in here
from purple ones to snow ones.
Doesn't look like we have any normal albinos,
just the snow albinos.
And then of course these beautiful purple snakes right here.
Ooh, doggie, I tell you what, I love it.
I could have never imagined years ago
that there would be purple snakes, but there certainly are.
And these guys are absolutely wonderful.
So, hey, that's a great way to start the day.
And this little monkey here is the last one in the egg,
should be hatching out anytime soon.
They'll shed out in about a week,
start eating and good to go.
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And of course, baby snakes oftentimes go through
a bunch of color changes as they get to adult.
And there's no doubt that Lavender Cal Kings
and even the Lavender Cal Kings themself
actually will doll out a little bit.
I wanted to give you an example of what one looks like
at about six months old and this one peed on me, of course.
Cal Kings have a tendency to do that,
but you could see it's definitely not as purple as a baby,
but it still retains a lot of that purple color.
You can still see the bands on these.
Again, I talked about the fact that sometimes we get them
that don't have any bands that are completely patternless
and purple.
And those are the ones
that are probably the most ridiculous ones.
But you can see it even at six months old,
it's definitely retaining a lot of that purple color.
Now exactly where that purple is, I mean,
it's gotta be some form of melanin, right?
Probably tyrosine, to be honest with you,
that's causing that purple look.
But nevertheless,
definitely still looking pretty good even after six months.
And then just for reference,
this is actually an adult male Lavender Cal King.
As a matter of fact,
this is the dad to the clutch that we just had hatch out.
So you can kind of see how he's gotten away
from that really dark purple to kind of maybe a little bit
of a purplish hue, right?
And that just happens.
I mean, most snakes go through color changes
as they get older.
And a lot of times, you know, the blacks turn more brown,
right?
So when you get a baby ball python,
it's almost black pattern.
Then as it gets adult, it turns brown.
It's almost like when people get gray hair,
not that I have gray hair, you know that, but you know,
it's kind of what happens with snakes.
They actually gray out a sense.
In this case, the black actually turns
a little bit more brownish.
And I think because the tyrosine
is a type of melanin black pigment,
that's probably what happens here
is you literally have kind of that black,
dark purpley animal,
turning a little bit more of a brownish animal.
But in this case, the brown turns more to a soft lavender,
rather than that really deep purple.
Regardless, it's definitely still
an absolutely gorgeous snake,
but they definitely do go through some color changes.
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Bugatti's been cruising around
which means that it's probably very hungry.
Come on, Bugatti.
Come on.
There she goes.
Whew!
Got to tease him just a little bit,
but he's starting to take out of my hand
really, really well.
Look at that animal, it's getting to that
dull black and yellow coloration
with all that iridescent stuff.
Woo, doggy, that thing is crazy.
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- This is the female Puebland.
This looks like a good one, too.
She's still in there with them.
Let's just get her out.
And it's a really nice clutch.
They're all stuck together.
Oh, I got one rolling, but this is good.
Again, this time of year,
pretty much everything's going to be a second clutch
and this is another beautiful one.
So let's see, we've got one,
two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight
and one little tiny slug on top, which I will take any day.
She's not a huge girl.
So to give me eight good eggs out of a second clutch,
I'm super happy with that.
And yeah, now it's time to fatten her up
and get her ready for hibernation.
- [Male] There we go.
- All right, so today we are actually going to be
handling our boy Cheech and Chong.
Let's just jump in there.
Let's see what we got, let's see what we're working with.
Oh, we got our big boy, Chong.
He is inside.
Oh, nice, not too bad.
I got him right away.
Mike, do you want to grab Cheech?
Cheech is back there, he's behind the leaves
in the back right corner, right there.
As you guys know, my dad, he got us these
and look how big Chong, oh, oh, oh, they're fast, man.
They're quick, man.
And they like to poop and pee on you.
I do a little shoulder trick.
Check this out.
All right, you ready?
Oh, the shoulder trick works great.
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It works great, the shoulder trick, it works every time.
One more.
Alright buddy.
Chong, listen, listen.
You're going to have to use my shoulder.
- [Male] Oh, he pooped on you.
- It's okay.
I got a lot, I got some urate on me.
Check this out.
Whoa, whoa, cut, cut.
Check this out.
Whoa, whoa.
- [Male] He's going to bite your ear lobe.
- Oh, he's shitting on my fucking arm.
Oh my God, it's so warm.
It's so, it's so warm.
- Man, you and Jake, you get pooped on
by the lizards, I don't understand it.
Hey, at least he's eating.
He's getting hydrated. - Yeah.
He's doing good.
- You can see the raisins.
And now that he's got the poop out,
he's doing the shoulder trick guys.
This shoulder trick works great.
- Works fantastic.
- All right.
- Holy cave geckos, Batman.
We've got a bunch of cave geckos.
- Yeah.
- [Brian] What do we have here?
- [Female] They exploded out over the weekend.
- [Brian] Oh, my gosh.
- [Female] These are our typical cave geckos,
the Chinese cave geckos right here.
So we've got two cups of those.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
That's a bunch of babies, huh?
- [Jessica] I know.
It looks like there's two more eggs in there.
- [Brian] There's two, four, six.
- [Jessica] To even hatch out, too.
- [Brian] Oh, gosh, so you got six of those guys
and then we had some from the other.
- Yeah, so these are the bawangling cave geckos,
I guess you'd call them.
- [Brian] Yeah, okay, cool.
And you can see,
they definitely have the more orange heads
and stuff like that.
- [Jessica] Yeah, they come out
with a little bit more orange coloring.
- [Brian] And these are the ones
that kind of get like a lot lighter when they get bigger.
- Yep.
So they'll be more orange and black.
These guys will be black and orange or black and yellow.
- Yeah, more banded, exactly.
Gotcha, cool.
So lots of cave geckos so that's awesome.
And you know, Jessica's always hatching out
tons of gargoyles, crested geckos, leopard geckos,
but it's also cool to see the little cave geckos.
So it's always amazing when you see colors
that you don't expect on snakes, right?
I mean, obviously purple is a color
you don't expect to see a snake.
You know, obviously blue with the blue insularis
or maybe the super lori leopard ball pythons
you get that bluish color.
Those aren't things that you really expect.
But to be honest with you,
there's a lot of colors that are in nature
are really quite amazing.
I mean, this is one of the most striking snakes
I think that I work with.
Of course, this is what they call a porphyraceus coxi.
Sometimes they'll just call them bamboo racer rat snakes
or bamboo rat snakes.
These guys are from Southeast Asia.
And just look at how crazy the pattern is
and that kind of marking right through the eyes.
And that's the other thing that I always find interesting
with snakes, right?
Is oftentimes the pattern will go right through their eyes,
even with like a boa constrictor,
that stripe goes right through their eyes.
It's just kind of interesting.
So again, that really is living art.
You know, whether it's naturally occurring
like this porphyraceus coxi,
or if it's manmade like a Lavender Snow Cal.
The truth is is that snakes are absolutely incredible
and the color palettes are continuing to blow my mind.
- All right, you guys, there's an event
going on across the street.
So I'm going to take a little Dwayne over there
and I'm going to hand out some flyers.
Let's go show them Dwayne.
Look both ways.
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- [Male] Oh he's, look at what he's looking at.
- [Male] Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum.
- [Male] He eats things.
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- What do we have here?
This is an albino bred to a het snow.
So we've got a few albinos
and then looks like an anery.
And then some normals that would be double het.
So yeah, it looks like a good clutch.
They look nice, big and healthy.
And yeah, I do love corn snakes.
So it's exciting for these first ones to be hatching.
- Some more living art for you guys.
This clutch actually just hatched out.
It was a pastel female bred to a lemon blast enchi
extreme gene.
So lemon blast is a pastel, it's a pinstripe.
It's, of course, extreme gene.
And, of course, it's an enchi.
I'll be honest with you,
I was a little surprised we didn't hatch out
any super pastel because pastels on both sides,
the male and the female, we could have had a super,
but we didn't.
But we still got some really cool animals.
I mean, this just happens to be a normal pinstripe
extreme gene.
You can see that extreme gene will just make more striping,
a little bit reduction of pattern.
Then we have this little guy here,
which is actually an enchi extreme gene pinstripe.
So that's pretty cool.
Then we have a couple lemon blast extreme genes
without the enchi in them.
Again, you can see that reduction of pattern striping,
really cool.
And then, of course,
we got the really beautiful animal here,
which is the enchi extreme gene lemon blast.
So it's a pastel, it's a pinstripe, it's an enchi
and an extreme gene.
That's basically what the dad was.
The downside is we missed the super pastel.
That would have been the all gene animal, but nevertheless,
a bunch of really cool little baby living arts, for sure.
And I couldn't be happier to see little babies
crawling out of the egg.
- Say goodbye, Sven.
Bye, Sven.
- [Female] Bye.
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- Drogo, who did we find at St. Vincent DePaul?
Matilda.
- [Male] Is that crazy?
- That is crazy.
- [Male] How is it?
- What?
And it's 99 cents.
- We got a clutch of eggs right now.
This is actually a double het albino clown.
And it's a big female right here
and it looks like she's got a lot, whoop, look at her.
Whoa!
Momma's not happy.
Yeah, this is going to be a fun one to pull.
And guess what she's bred to?
This beautiful albino clown ball python.
That's right, she's a double het albino clown.
This is an albino clown.
So down in the comments, you know the game,
what can I produce out of this clutch?
It looks like momma's unhappy
so let's go ahead and pull it.
Down in the comments, the link to the Patreon page,
you guys can see the other clutches,
but for now we're actually, oh my goodness gracious.
I don't think I've ever seen a female ball python
act this way.
I mean, how am I going to get these eggs?
Okay, she moved away for a second.
All right, I might have a quick second to get her.
I've got to pull it out just a little bit further.
Whew.
Tell momma, come back around.
Oh, she's mad, she's mad, she's mad.
And they're fresh eggs.
These guys just were laid.
Oh, look at her, she is striking.
She's saying do not take my eggs.
I'm going to have to go ahead and candle these, too,
and hopefully get the rest of the eggs out.
Oh my goodness gracious.
Whoop, got another roller.
Well, we can't, look at her!
Woo!
My goodness gracious, girl.
It's okay.
Come on girl, come on.
You're all right, you're all right.
Okay, just get these eggs as quick as we can
without her going crazy.
Ahh!
Whoa!
Yeah, these eggs are all over the place.
Like I said, definitely going to have to,
whoa, come on, whoa, come on.
Come on, momma.
Woo.
Whew!
Stop!
This is the hardest clutch of ball pythons
I think I've ever pulled my entire life.
Okay, like I said, eggs kind of all over the place.
So we're going to go ahead and let her go.
She had two, four, six, eight, nine.
Good job, momma.
I love you, I love you.
She doesn't love me at all, but if I get her cleaned up,
wash her up a little bit, she'll get that egg smell off,
hopefully she'll tame down, but I tell you what,
that's a beautiful clutch.
Down the comments, let me know what I'm going to produce,
all right?
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