- In this box,
I've got the weirdest turtle I've ever bought.
Does it have two heads?
Yes, it does.
But it gets a lot more bizarre than that.
But before we unbox this,
I finally get to set up this awesome bowl for the turtle
for my friends over at Zen Aqua.
But for the short term,
I think this is gonna be awesome.
So I'm gonna go ahead and head to the pet shop
to get some supplies.
And for you snake lovers out there,
later in the vlog
we're gonna cut a clutch of cool snake eggs.
So stay tuned for that.
But let's go ahead and hit the pet shop.
And I'm off to one of my favorite pet shops in the area.
It's called Kee's Aquarium.
They'll definitely have everything I need
to set this turtle up.
Always love this place.
It's just so cool.
It takes me back to my early days, keeping animals.
First thing I need is some gravel for the bottom.
I think that this stuff is gonna be really good.
I'm gonna wanna probably go with something bigger,
something natural, kind of cool.
Don't need a lot.
I'm think I'm gonna use two bags.
And then I'm gonna look for maybe something floaty.
Maybe some plants.
These plants are pretty cool right here.
It could be cool just to add a little bit of color to it.
And then the last thing I need,
if I could find something that's floaty.
If not, I can make it back at the shop.
And then secondly, a filter.
- This! - That's perfect, huh?
- It would do up to a 12 gallon, too.
- That's perfect.
- Yeah, they probably have extra carbon,
given how stinky turtles can be.
- Yeah, yeah.
All good with the filter.
This would actually be perfect,
but I don't know if it floats or sinks.
Of course, you always know
I'm gonna look at some fish here, while I'm here.
Gosh, I get so pumped about fish it's crazy.
Look at how cool these African cichlids are here.
This is amazing.
Gosh, look at how cool.
Look at the arowana.
This is like a predator tank, a freshwater predator tank.
You've got iridescent shark here, arowana here,
redtail catfish, pleco down there.
All right, got everything we need.
Back to the shop and let's set this turtle up.
All right, first thing we need to do
is actually just pour these rocks in here.
(rocks clattering)
They're actually pretty good
when they come in packages like this,
but we still wanna just run some water through 'em,
get any dust or any debris out.
And then these will go in the bottom of that bowl.
(rocks clattering)
And we got some water in there.
We got some conditioner
that'll take the chlorine out for the turtle.
Then we can open that turtle up, find out how cool it is.
(water running and splashing)
(upbeat music)
(water running and splashing)
(rocks clattering)
Now I gotta figure out this filter.
Hopefully, it's easy to put together.
I'm never good at these things.
Oh, it looks like it's already put together.
That makes it easy.
(upbeat music)
All right, so now all I need to do is put a floaty thing
on top of this so it can get out of the water.
This is, again, may not be the end set up here.
It's the start, anyway.
So let's go ahead and unbox that turtle.
Or should I say turtles.
Now that we have it all set up,
it's time to see how bizarre this turtle is.
I saw pictures of it,
and I was like, "Oh my gosh."
You guys know I love weird stuff,
and I can't help myself
when things like this come available.
So let's see what's inside.
Oh, it's like Christmas morning, as always.
Like I said, you guys are gonna trip.
I've bought some weird animals in the past,
but holy cow, this one--
Ooh, doggy!
Just I'm getting a glimpse of it,
and it looks so weird.
Oh my gosh.
Okay, here we go.
I'm gonna open up and show you guys.
This is a weird one.
Take a look at this, guys.
Yes, it has two heads.
This is actually a yellow-bellied slider,
which is one of the more common turtles
in the Southeast part of America.
They get about nine to 12 inches long,
depending on male and female.
Well, look at, these guys have two heads,
but this is what's interesting about 'em.
1, 2, 3, 4 legs up front, 2 legs in the back.
And they're conjoined shells, too.
They would call it a conjoined twin.
Now polycephaly, a two-headed turtle,
is actually a conjoined twin as well.
But these guys have conjoined shells,
and it's gonna be really interesting to see how they do.
Number one, I can't wait to see how they swim
when we put 'em in this bowl and just see what's going on.
And they look really good.
I mean, they look super healthy.
They're super energetic.
They're all moving around.
I mean, is that the weirdest turtle you've ever seen
in your entire life?
Definitely the weirdest turtle I've ever owned,
there's no doubt about that.
This is gonna be awesome,
and I can't wait till it gets bigger.
We can actually get it on display.
For now, we're gonna keep it in the podcast room
and baby it for the next, maybe six months
and let it get some size to it.
Oh my gosh.
That thing is awesome.
All right, I'm excited about this.
I don't know how they're gonna swim.
I don't know what they're gonna do.
This is pretty amazing.
Well, they float, that's for sure.
That's interesting.
Oh, and look it, they're starting to cruise around now.
They're in the plants, they like that.
So, wow. This is cool.
We'll just let this guys chill for a little bit.
We'll check back on 'em,
see how they're settling in.
Like I said, I'll get a floaty thing
for them to climb up onto.
This is gonna be perfect.
And it's awesome here in the podcast room
while I'm doing a podcast.
Which, by the way, go over to "checking in" podcast,
link in the description.
You can check that out every Saturday night.
That's cool.
How fricking awesome is that?
Need names for these guys.
Down in the comments, let me know the names.
Let's go cut some snake eggs.
And as promised, we're getting into some egg cutting.
This clutch only has 2, 4, 5 eggs in it,
but it's actually a cinnamon female
bred to a pastel vanilla bamboo spider.
I just think that that bamboo and cinny
and all the other stuff mixed together
could be really interesting.
There's actually some pips in some of these eggs already.
So they are definitely ready to go.
So we're just gonna go ahead and cut the best we can here
and see what's inside these eggs.
I think the combos could be really something special.
Right off the rip, it looks like we have
maybe just like a cinny to be honest with you.
Nothing too exciting there.
Possibly a vanilla.
That was definitely not what I wanted to start with,
but hey, it's not about how you start,
it's where you end, right?
We still have four eggs left to go.
I think the cinnamon vanilla bamboo together,
maybe the spider in there, there's a pastel in there.
There could be some really cool animals.
So let's go ahead and cut egg number two
that didn't pip so far,
so we can see what's inside here and see what we've got.
Nothing too crazy here.
Looks like maybe just a vanilla, to be honest with you.
It doesn't even look like there's any combos,
which is weird
because the one animal has four genetic mutations,
the other animal has one, so that's five mutations.
To produce just one single gene is kinda weird.
That's the way the odds go.
We still have a few eggs to go.
So let's hope for the best.
This one's pipped as well.
Can't really see what's inside it,
so I'm just gonna kind of cut around a little bit
and just see what we can see in here.
- You see that, guys? - Mm-mm. (negative)
- Wow.
- Two heads. - Mm-mm. (negative)
- Two, four legs. - Six legs.
- Six legs?
- How hard do you think it is to live life that way?
- Can't be easy.
- I've got an idea.
- Where's your head at?
- Tingle. - Oh!
- It's not gonna work. - Pull, pull, pull, go!
Push.
(yelling and grunting)
- Just pull through.
- Come up. - Just jump up.
- And stop being ridiculous.
- There it is. - See?
- All right.
Shirt's coming down. (Noah gagging)
- Getting in that t-shirt really made me hungry.
You guys want a Lunchable?
- I always want a Lunchable.
- Do we have to share one? - Yep.
- I just realized, if we fall down there...
(all laughing)
(feet shuffling)
- Okay. So we have ham and cheddar, and turkey and American.
I would like to vote turkey and American.
- Turkey?
All right, we'll do that then.
- No, just one man. - Just one?
We have three heads.
(cashier laughing)
- Hey, guys!
- [Cashier] I like that.
How are you doing?
- I am good, Noah, how are you?
- Who's paying for this?
- Hi, Jay. Hi, Mike. - Mike. I think.
Mike doesn't even have arms.
- [Cashier] $6.27.
- Mike.
- I don't have arms!
- (laughs) You have arms.
- Wait, we gotta get a picture.
Everyone smile.
- You never pay for anything.
- Never.
- You're the worst head I've ever had, Mike.
(Mike laughing)
- [Cashier] Oh my goodness.
That's a good one, Noah.
- Okay, bye! - Thank you.
- Oh, this is not gonna work.
(all laughing)
(packages crunching)
- Mike, you can't move.
You don't have arms. (chair clatters)
- Just sit down and just hope that--
- Okay, Noah, you need to move your chair closer to us.
What are you doing, man?
That's Mike's lap.
I'm in Mike's lap.
- And what do we have?
Unbelievable, guys.
This looks like another, maybe just vanilla ball python.
So two single-gene animals.
How about that.
That is crazy.
And you guys know we've had some crazy good odds this year,
and we've had some odds
that have been a little bit not-so-good.
You know what I mean?
That one was definitely a bummer.
Let's go ahead.
We've got two eggs left to go.
I really wanna see the all-gene animal.
I mean, that would be incredible.
Be a pewter vanilla spider bamboo.
That would be ridiculous.
Let's see if it's in this egg.
You never know, every egg there's possibilities.
And what do we have here?
Crazy. A vanilla spider.
So we have definitely not been hitting really great odds
on this clutch,
but we still have one egg to go,
and I can see inside this egg 'cause it's already pipped,
and it's definitely a bamboo of sorts.
Now let's see if we get lucky and get the cinnamon in there,
and some of the other genes in there.
That would be absolutely incredible.
It looks really cool, whatever it is.
Ooh, it's a really pretty snake.
But unfortunately, I don't think the cinnamon made it in.
So I think what happened, actually,
is that there's every other gene.
It looks like it's a pastel, it's a vanilla,
it's a bamboo, it's a spider.
We have the bumblebee vanilla bamboo,
which is really beautiful.
But unfortunately, we missed with the cinnamon,
which is kind of a bummer.
So that's the way it goes, guys.
Sometimes you hit and sometimes you miss.
It still produced this really beautiful snake.
And hey, even the other snakes are really amazing.
Wait till they hatch out, and maybe I'll be surprised
and it'll be more than just one gene.
- Rub your hands together really good.
Get in between the fingers. - No, no, no.
We're not doing that.
Don't do that. Okay.
- Turkey. - Really get in there, guys.
All right. Perfect. Perfect.
- Now feed Mike.
- Thank you.
(Jay giggling) - Welcome.
- Cheese.
- Feed it to Noah.
(Noah slurping)
- You like double cheese?
- I do like extra cheese, please.
- Extra cheese. Okay. - Yeah.
Always extra cheese on everything.
Do we have one stomach?
I don't know, we haven't got an x-ray.
- That was good. (chair clattering)
- What is this?
What are we?
- What's the definition of it?
- Polycephaly?
(all exclaim)
- You're the first one.
- You're the first one to do it.
- And what exactly are you doing?
Why is my shirt ripped?
- Polycephaly. - Polycephaly.
- Polycephylus. - I go away for one second.
and this what happens.
- You scared me.
What are you doing?
- What is this ?
- What's the definition of this?
- Dummies?
(Mike laughs)
- You think you're so freaking funny.
- Wow. (glass squeaks)
Whoa whoa, we're growing hands!
We're growing hands!
Ahh my shell!
Ahh!
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(singing to bird)