- Guess what guys I am in Diddy and Dixie's cage.
Dixie certainly looks a little bit thinner
than she did yesterday.
By that I mean I know she laid some eggs.
So let's go ahead and see what we've got.
I've got a little egg box over here
and I can actually see eggs in this box.
So we're going on a little bit of an egg hunt right now.
Oh my gosh look at this guys.
We've got Rhino Iguana eggs.
I don't know how many there are here.
Looks like some of 'em are a little bit deflated.
I'll go ahead and set 'em up here.
These ones look really good.
These ones look really really good.
And I was worried about the fertility of these guys
so this is amazing that the fertility looks good.
These ones are a little bit crumpled up,
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
We'll go ahead and candle all these eggs in a minute.
Get these in here.
I can see a little bit of albumin outta here.
So when she was burying them
she probably trampled on them a little bit
and punctured that one but it does look fertile.
These ones,
I still think they look fertile
but they're definitely a little bit desiccated.
Let's see what we got here.
Got one more here.
Again a little desiccation but we'll be okay there.
And it looks like one last one here.
I'll just go ahead and look through the rest of this
just to make sure there's nothing else in here.
'Cause she could bury anywhere in here.
Looks like that's it right now guys.
So look at that guys.
Whew doggy. We got some Rhino Iguana eggs.
Diddy and Dixie are going to be parents.
I'm so excited about it.
Looks like we've got 2, 4,
6, 8 beautiful eggs.
Dixie you did so good girl.
Oh my God. This is so exciting.
What a great way to start the day.
I mean oh my gosh.
So I'll go ahead count these up.
Just make sure that there's good veins in 'em.
Hopefully the ones that are
desiccated up a little bit will pop out.
Again I'm not sure why they're wrinkled like that.
She might've punctured 'em who knows,
but they might still be good.
So super exciting. Baby Rhino Iguanas.
I tell you what-
hardly anyone breeds 'em up north.
I mean it is rare
and I'm sure this is the first Rhino eggs in Michigan ever,
as far as I know so that is a great accomplishment.
I am so excited about it
and that means that they love their enclosure
and they love everything about it.
Enough to produce little baby eggs.
So let's go ahead and candle 'em and see what we have.
First egg. Looks like there's some red in here.
There's definitely some network of veins.
Got another one there.
This one's got network of veins.
That one's got networks of veins.
Here's network of veins.
Can't really see inside that one yet.
This one's pretty deflated.
But there's definitely fertility there.
So we'll see if that comes back.
Same here. Okay.
So there's definitely eight fertile eggs here.
I'm going to be honest with you,
a couple of them look like they got punctured by her claws
when she was probably digging or something like that.
So it definitely looks like
we've got three or four solid ones for sure.
And then I think there's two or three that I'm pretty sure
are going to make it,
one or two are kind of doubtful to be honest with you.
But even if we hashed out three of them,
I would be absolutely over the moon.
So regardless we'll see how things go.
These guys go at about 84 degrees temperature.
And they incubate for about three months
so we have a long wait ahead of us
but we have Rhino eggs and that is fricking awesome.
Good morning Reptile Army!
I hope to start of your day is amazing.
You guys know that we've had Ben and Jerry
the two-headed snake for well over two years now.
And he's been in a lot of videos,
both on YouTube and Instagram and all over the place.
Well just the other day
we posted a video and it went viral.
And sure enough,
all kinds of news agency all over the planet
started doing stories on him.
Newspapers over in the UK,
newspapers in Germany,
and a ton of newspapers here in the U.S.
actually did a story on Ben and Jerry.
It's so cool because I love them so much.
And they're so incredible.
And it's kind of funny that how I can have something
for so long and then all of a sudden it goes viral
and all kinds of people like
"look at the, two-headed snake".
So it was kind of cool that Ben and Jerry got his due.
And a lot of people now know about this little monkey.
I can't wait for the future.
See all those people come and meet him in person.
You guys know already the movement
is sweeping the reptile world. Reptile Army.
That's right. And guess what.
We're about to drop all the old merchandise
like the Bella Bananas and all the other stuff
that we did over at www.reptilearmy.com.
So make sure you see all the new collections
that we've already dropped
and then we're going to drop an old collection
as well as some new stuff here in the next month too
so go to www.reptilearmy.com,
support the movement, be our soldiers.
I think you guys are gonna love it.
- I know we had some milk frogs recently go into amplexus,
which means that the male and the female
were attached for a few days for a little while.
And that doesn't mean that necessarily
they were successful in breeding,
but it does mean that they're trying,
which is really really cool.
It means that we're getting something right at least.
That they feel confident to do that.
Today I actually walked in
I had to go grab my boy Anthony,
this to really show you guys this.
And it's actually our milk frogs,
and they're actually sitting in the water
and I'm pretty sure that female
is actually about to start laying eggs.
I don't know exactly the process here
because I'm not really a frog guy.
But I do know, few little minor things about milk frogs
and that one of the big things
is that they lay eggs in the water.
Inside the water versus our mossy frogs.
When we had them lay eggs,
they had done it all over that one tree branch.
It's a little different with that species.
They go in the water.
So I'm hoping eventually another one day,
two, three days,
that we'll actually see her actually out of the water,
but a little lighter and a few more eggs inside that water.
That'll be really really cool.
- Come on guys.
Let's go come on.
Dixie. Come on.
Dixie. Come on. Come on.
There you go baby.
There you go.
Come on Dixie.
You're such a good girl. You're over here.
It's such a good girl- okay.
I'm gonna just give you a bunch of treats.
A bunch of treats. Here.
Here. Here. Here.
It's so cool.
Of course I'm just trying to treat these guys
for being such great breeders.
Look at Dixie.
Of course she's gonna need
to get fattened up a little bit too.
Now you don't want to give them too much protein
to be totally honest with you.
So a little bit here just as a kind of treat for them.
And like I said it's really good to see that she's eating.
The one thing I did notice is that
she's kind of very dominant over Diddy now.
Which is weird because Diddy for the last couple of months
has been dominant but you can kind of see
how she's even acting.
Almost like she's bossing him around a little bit.
And I don't know if it's she's mad that I took her eggs
and she's blaming him or something like that.
Definitely still a little bit cage-aggressive right now.
Even going inside when we actually cleaned out the nest box,
she was kinda almost attacking our legs and stuff like that.
So now we have it completely cleaned out.
Trying to get it disinfected so the egg smell is kinda gone.
Don't bite my fingers guys. They are crazy.
So hopefully she can kind of go back to her normal self.
I mean don't get me wrong.
She's still absolutely beautiful.
There's no doubt about it here you go girl.
There you go, baby. There you go.
So she's still super tame. She likes pets.
She's everything like that.
But again this is her first time ever laying eggs.
And it's the first time
I've ever had eggs from Rhino Iguanas
so I don't really know what to expect
to be totally honest with you.
But she seems to be at least eating good
which means she's going to beef up.
Now these guys only lay one clutch per year.
So she's got all the way till next year.
Another 12 months before she's going to lay.
But I am so excited about the potential of hatching.
I mean, can you believe that we have Rhino eggs?
I mean again we have three months to go guys
so we don't know what's going to happen
but let's hope we get some baby Rhinos.
I mean, it's absolutely incredible.
I love these guys so much.
I just wanted to get 'em out.
Make sure they're okay
and give them some treats so that they're really happy
and stuff like that here Dixie come on.
Come on girl. Come on.
There you go baby.
Such amazing animals.
Can you believe we have Rhino eggs.
Our baby snakes always hatch in here,
which is always exciting.
And then obviously we'll be showing you guys
lots of baby snakes on the vlog.
But we'll also show some on the Patreon page
just so you guys don't get overloaded.
So link in the description to Patreon
if you want to see the extra content.
'Cause again,
if I show you guys every baby snake that we hatch
you guys are gonna be like
"all right Brian, we've seen enough up baby snakes".
You know what I mean?
But this clutch is actually pretty cool.
It's actually a head scale. It's creamsicle.
And so we have some creamsicle corns right here.
Which are really beautiful animals.
I mean they're just this kind of
really nice orange corn snake.
Then we have a whole host of other stuff.
Look at this little guy. Biting me like crazy.
It's got a really interesting pattern though.
It's really reduced and stuff like that.
And then take a look at this one right here.
This one's head's actually sticking out.
It's just a scaleless corn snake.
So interestingly enough it doesn't look like we've got any
creamsicle scaleless
but we do have another little scaleless right here.
And of course these are all head for scales
and head for creamsicle.
And we definitely have another little scaleless.
Why are you biting me little monkey.
And then we have a few more eggs left to hatch.
So we might have some creamsicle scaleless in the eggs.
Not sure. But nevertheless,
this clutch has probably about 90% hatched out.
So I cannot wait to see what they actually come up with
when they hatch out and those scaleless
are always absolutely beautiful.
Speaking of beautiful.
We have some beautiful Pueblan Milk Snakes.
Of course Pueblans are always just,
I don't know,
I always talk about 'em.
Milk snakes are amazing.
That black,
red, yellow.
And then Pueblan just happen to be really great animals.
Whoa. Come on now.
Oh boy. They are springy though.
They are springy.
Okay okay. Look at these guys.
Uh oh. I'm in trouble.
Hang on a second here. Hang on a second here.
Come on. Come on,
stay in there. Stay in there.
Whew. Oh!
Okay. Phew.
Okay. All the heads are in there.
Whew doggy. I tell you what.
Pueblans are just great.
They're good,
easy animals to work with.
Babies eat really well. They produce really well.
I recommend them when it comes to cool milk snake.
See what we have here.
This is another good clutch there.
Let's see.
We actually had a Crimson scaleless
bred to a Het-Albino Crimson scaleless.
So look at all these cool animals here.
This looks like a little hypo.
Whoa whoa whoa. Oh boy.
This is an interesting animal here too.
Oh my gosh this is actually a scaleless corn snake,
but it's got a lot of scales.
So at first I thought it was just a normal corn snake
and I thought
" Oh. What the heck did you just do".
Oh my gosh. So we have some hypo scaleless.
We don't have any Crimson scaleless,
which is just basically be a hypo Miami phase.
But we have a little snow corn in there.
And a bunch of other stuff oh my goodness.
These babies are all over the place today.
But again, nice scaleless corns which is always cool.
Then I like this clutch right here.
This is actually just Anerythristic Texas Rat Snakes.
This is a snake that we actually popped out maybe-
he just bit me. Do you believe that.
So these snakes we popped out about 10 years ago,
just spontaneously.
The first Anerythristics ever.
And we've been working with 'em ever since.
I don't know they're just cool.
They're a silver snake.
They're kind of interesting.
And I like them a lot.
So again lots of baby snakes hatching,
and more over on my Patreon.
- He caught you looking at us.
I don't even have it for Mike and Bruce.
- I have to bring Bugatti the Boelen's Python
outside in the natural sunlight
because his iridescence is absolutely incredible.
I think that actually Boelen's Pythons
have the most incredible iridescence out of any snake.
Even though Night Fury is an amazing iridescent snake.
You still don't see the same colors.
The purples,
the yellows and blues that come through.
I mean there's something about Boelen's Pythons.
I mean they are truly one of the most incredible animals.
So I had to bring him out in the sun and show him off.
And I tell you what. This animal is incredible.
Now these guys will get much larger.
He's only a little over a year old right now,
and already he's doing really good.
Can you imagine when this is a seven or eight foot snake,
as thick around as a softball or something like that.
Even more iridescence is gonna to come out for sure
but wow this thing out in the sun is absolutely ridiculous.
I love this snake. It is absolutely incredible.
And I can't believe I actually own a Boelen's Python.
In my whole life I never thought I'd own one.
And to actually have one now is unbelievably incredible.
But wow.
Just take a look at the way
this thing glimmers and shimmers in the sunlight.
- Another first to hatch this year.
Are some Granite Mex Mex.
So it looks like we've got some really nice ones in here.
The granite pattern is just basically a really
diffusing of the pattern.
So it can vary to extreme like this guy here,
which is very extreme.
And then not so much where it looks a lot normal,
but then you'll get a little bit of it.
So you never know what you're going to get with these guys.
The ones that we have are all different
varying amounts of granite.
So the babies vary as well.
But this is another really nice clutch
with a lot of cute little babies.
And these guys are great. Most people love them.
They stay nice small size for a King Snake.
- Crazy to think that we have Rhino eggs.
How absolutely amazing is that.
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