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- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
Ben and Jerry just literally shed out today,
and look absolutely amazing.
And you guys know that I have an obsession
with two-headed animals.
And obviously I know that a lot of you guys
have been asking about the update on the turtles.
Listen, the problem with two-headed animals
is the fact that it can be a tough journey.
We all know what happened
with our two-headed snakes in the past.
Finally, we got Ben and Jerry,
and they're absolutely thriving.
And we ended up having that two-headed snapping turtle,
and it honestly just didn't work out
when it came to a display,
so we ended up moving that one on,
and then we ended up getting a two-headed turtle
and that one conjoined twin.
Well unfortunately, the conjoined twin didn't make it,
but these guys here, again,
came from our friends down in Mississippi,
named Chopsticks, are doing amazing.
They're at that size where we can finally start
to bring 'em over here to the Reptarium.
How crazy is it to have a two-headed snake,
and a two-headed turtle,
and who knows what else is coming down the pike?
The fact is, why do I want two-headed animals?
So first off, I've just always loved two-headed animals.
I just think they're so bizarre and so crazy.
But the truth is, here at the Reptarium,
the reason behind it is curiosity, right?
We can actually get people that come in
that are so curious about Ben and Jerry,
or pretty soon, Chopsticks,
and they're gonna just want to ask a lot of questions.
And the more questions we can get people to ask,
the more we can teach them,
and the more we can unlock their love of these animals.
So listen, where else can you go
to see a two-headed snake, or a two-headed turtle,
or some crazy animals like that?
And it draws a lot of people in.
And by drawing them in,
it gives us an opportunity to educate.
And that is what it's all about.
So the next issue is, where are these turtles gonna go
now that they're kinda at that size
where we feel comfortable to bring 'em over?
The truth is, we're gonna actually replace these here
and these up here.
Now, it doesn't look like there's very big room here,
but the truth is is that these go back
about twice as far this way,
and I can go up all the way up to here.
So I can make a relatively large enclosure
that's about twice this deep,
that has some nice shelves, some water area.
The same thing down here.
Although I can't go up very high,
I can come down to like here,
and I can make that deeper too.
That way, we can have some aquatic here,
and we can have some aquatic enclosures up there.
What I'll do is actually use universal rocks
to actually do this.
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So I'm gonna have them build us
some custom enclosures that go there,
cool backdrops, rocks, all that type of stuff,
and then we'll get them in here.
So, hopefully, with any luck,
here in the next, say, two to three weeks,
we'll have these enclosures cleared out,
these enclosures cleared out, new enclosures in,
and then we'll actually build a new rack
for these guys to go in somewhere up front
that are gonna still be on display.
So we're not getting rid of these guys.
We're just moving them to a new place,
just so that they have more room for the turtles.
So, that's the idea.
I cannot wait to get the turtles on display
because everyone asks all the time,
"Where's the two-headed turtle?"
Well now you guys know,
they're gonna be on display at the Reptarium pretty soon.
Baltimore is a cute little
caramel snow red-eared slider as well.
It's got a little algae on it,
but this has been living with Chopsticks for awhile now,
and will come over to the Reptarium
as we have these new enclosures too,
and he'll be his kinda roommate.
And, who knows, maybe we'll add one more aquatic thing
as well to the tank that we're gonna be setting here.
Not sure what it's gonna be yet.
But this guy is unbelievably adorable,
and has so much personality.
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And this clutch of eggs is actually kinda the same pairing
that we had with those silvery-purple-ish babies.
And this is actually the mom, who's a pastel.
And she was actually bred to this beautiful male right here,
which is a pewter lesser.
So it's a pastel, it's a cinnamon, and it's a lesser.
So with any luck, we'll get some more
of those kinda purple-ish babies, right?
We can get, it's basically a super-pastel cinnamon lesser.
It's basically the all-gene animal.
So let's just go ahead, cut egg number one,
and hopefully I will get this day started the right way.
And like I always mention,
I really just love to hatch baby snakes,
no matter what they are.
And it looks like we have
just a little bit of a cinnamon here,
just a single-gene animal cinny, which is cool.
The cinnies are a really beautiful animal anyways,
to be honest with you.
One day I'll tell you the story,
because we actually brought in the very first cinnamon.
I'll tell you how that thing went.
It was actually a pretty crazy story.
Nevertheless, that's for a different day.
Egg number two.
And I guess that's the thing, right?
It's like Christmas.
Every egg you cut, you never know what you're gonna get.
So this is just a pastel lesser.
Again, you can have a super-pastel,
so it's missing one of the genes, as well as the cinny,
to get that all-gene animal.
Egg number three.
And I hope that you guys don't get bored of cutting eggs
because we have a lot of eggs to cut this year.
Another pastel lesser. Interesting.
We've got two pastel lessers.
And I know that every egg is different.
So I hope that you guys are gonna enjoy the entire journey
of the 175 clutches that we have to cut this year.
That means that there's probably,
I don't know, 1500 eggs to cut.
So it's gonna be pretty exciting.
Egg number four.
And there is no doubt that in those 1500 eggs,
we're gonna have some surprises,
and we're gonna have some pretty amazing animals.
Again, another cinny.
That's weird. We've got two cinnies and two pastel lessers.
Not exactly what I would've expected from the clutch,
but we've got three eggs left.
Let's just keep on cutting.
And again, odds are just the odds.
You go one way or the other way.
And here we go, we got a little bit something here.
This is actually the pewter lesser.
So this is just like the daddy.
So this is the pewter lesser.
The only thing that I'm missing from the all-gene animal
is the pastel gene, the second pastel gene.
That would've made it a super-pastel lesser,
and that's what gives it that
kind of purpley, pinkish-lavender look to it.
So, but we still have two eggs to go. We can still hit it.
And what do we have here?
Right off the rip, I can tell we didn't hit it,
'cause I can see the color in this.
But we have another pastel lesser.
(chuckles) So three pastel lessers.
Interestingly enough, I think that first clutch that we had,
we didn't even have one pastel lesser,
and now we hit three pastel lessers.
So what do you know?
Last egg, this is gonna be the all-gene animal.
I just know it.
Let's all, let's end it on a good note, right?
Positive vibes hopefully get positive results.
Let's do it.
And let's see if I'm gonna be right about my positive vibes.
Woo-hoo, woo-hoo! And you know what?
I think we might've actually hit it!
I think my positive vibes worked, guys!
I think this is absolutely a super-pastel,
it's absolutely a cinny, and it looks to be like a lesser.
So I think we hit the actual all-gene animal
on the last egg.
This one isn't quite as purpley
and kinda in that beautiful color as the first one,
but I think genetically, it's the same thing.
So all in all, hey, it's great.
I love cutting eggs. I hope you guys love cutting eggs.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
And I hope that as you're following along,
you're maybe guessing the genes as we're cutting 'em,
so that you can be a part of it, it's really cool.
So, all right, that's the only egg cutting for the day.
Let's move on.
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Guess what time it is.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
♪ Colubrid egg time ♪
And we actually have a granite,
which is actually a diffused corn and a black corn snake.
And it's actually hetfer-scaleless.
It was bred to another diffused het-scaleless.
This is her second clutch. I love this female so much.
She is so beautiful, because again, she's that anery corn,
but she's real charcoaly-looking,
and that kinda diffusing in the side,
that's why they call 'em diffused corns.
Of course, they also call 'em blood-red corns
because in the normal corns, that diffusion turns into red,
and makes 'em kinda this blood-red-looking animal.
But nevertheless, she looks like she has
a pretty good clutch of eggs right here.
We'll just go ahead, do this.
This is great for her second clutch.
Once again, fertility has been very, very good
with second clutches.
These eggs are loose.
So I'm gonna go ahead and candle them here in a second,
just to make sure all the embryos are up
and stuff like that.
But she's got two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
Not bad. One more clutch to go.
Interestingly enough, I actually looked into the records,
and that girl right there
that we just pulled her clutch of eggs,
actually had slugs the first clutch.
And that just tells you how important is
to stay diligent, right?
So Lori ended up breeding a different male
for the second clutch, and then got a bunch of fertiles.
And guess what.
This girl laid slugs as well, the first clutch.
So let's see, with Lori switching the male up on this one,
if we have fertility issues with this,
or if this is gonna be good as well.
And look at that.
Looks like pretty much a relatively decent clutch.
Definitely a couple bad eggs,
but she 100% slugged out the first time.
So that just tells you that when you're breeding snakes,
you have to be willing to kinda pivot
and change if you need to.
And in this case, with both clutches,
we ended up getting some fertile eggs,
whereas the first clutches were 100% infertile.
So if we would've continued breeding the same male,
we wouldn't have had any production.
Now we got eight eggs from that girl earlier,
and we've got two, four good eggs from this girl.
Now, again, not a big clutch,
but hey, that's four more babies we're gonna produce
because Lori had the foresight,
and the knowledge, and the experience,
to go, "Hey, I need to breed a different male
to this female, in order to get good clutches."
And here we go. We got some good clutches.
So, still a handful of colubrid eggs to go for the year,
but we're definitely getting down to the nitty gritty.
- What is going on everybody?
So, as you guys always know,
I've got a lot of work to do today,
but I get a little bit of time
and show you guys a little bit of fun.
I get to feed today.
I got a lot of bug-feeders today, a lot to do, for sure.
So I definitely gotta get started.
Gotta show you guys at least a couple of 'em,
some of the cuter ones.
Let's get started. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
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- Yum.
Yum.
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- What? What'd you expect?
- Super excited to finally be taking the next steps
in things over here at BHB.
I've talked about the fact that my whole mentality
has changed about animals since the Reptarium,
about behavior, enrichment, stuff like that.
And the truth is, is that we have finally switched over
to just the Reptile Prime coconut bedding on these guys,
rather than just the paper.
Give him a little more enrichment.
And then, the next thing we're doing
is actually making up something like this,
just to where we can put this in here.
And they can actually crawl in here,
get a little bit more hiding.
They've got a little bit more enrichment
and stuff like that.
And we'll be able to put these in each of the cages here,
just for a little bit more, kinda,
I don't know, just feel better about it, right?
Do they need it? I'm not sure.
And again, I'm not calling anyone out that's not doing it.
I'm just saying that I kinda felt a little hypocritical
in the sense that I have these beautiful displays
over at the Reptarium, with all this enrichment,
and then I have
kinda really barren, commercially-grade type way
of keeping things here at BHB.
So slowly, we're going to adapt to this,
the bedding, the actual high-type things
with planting on it.
I think it's gonna look better.
I think the animals are gonna be happy,
and to be truthful, it's just gonna make me happier,
if that's okay.
So this is the first step,
and we're gonna kinda slowly do this
throughout the entire collection at BHB,
with colubrids, geckos, everything.
Kinda make some sort of system like this.
So, just super excited
to finally start to implement the things
that I've wanted to do for the last few months.
And today we got it started.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
This next clutch is actually
a double-het ghost-clown ball python
that's bred to a clown ball python that's hetfer-ghost.
So we can produce some ghost-clown ball pythons,
which would be really cool, and look at this.
Whoa! Come on, Mama, it's okay.
Whoop! Nope, Nope, Nope.
Don't, don't, don't, don't bite me, don't bite me.
Ugh, just try to get her off without getting bit.
Looks like she's got a really beautiful clutch of eggs.
Again, not a big girl.
This is gonna be exciting.
I have never produced a ghost-clown ball python.
It's not like they're super rare or anything like that,
but it is a double recessive,
and it would just be really cool to actually produce it.
We just gotta be careful with Mama,
'cause she is definitely still very, very upset with me.
Go! Come on, Mom, it's okay.
I'm just stealing your eggs, girl. It's all right.
Okay, get these last eggs.
Got one more egg to pull over here.
Woo! Mama, calm down, calm down.
That's actually a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Two, four, six, eight, nine, beautiful eggs.
So a nine-clutch is not too bad today.
No slugs. That is absolutely incredible.
Again, 57 days from now, we're gonna find out
if we have a ghost-clown ball python,
which would be absolutely epic.
I know how many people wanted an update
on the two-headed turtles.
Hopefully you enjoyed Chopsticks,
and hopefully you can come visit them,
and Ben and Jerry, and who knows what else
is coming in the future, absolutely incredible.
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