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- Hey, good morning everybody!
And welcome to the blog.
I am excited, 'cause it's been a couple weeks
since we've had some baby skinks.
I don't know what kind of a litter this is gonna be
but when we opened up the tub,
there was a little baby running around in here
and of course this is the mama here.
Oh, there's a baby over there!
Look at how absolutely cute!
But this is the mama here.
She is a Turner white
and she's bred to another Turner white
and what that basically means is that
as it gets older, it will definitely fade out
to a more whitish looking thing.
Looks like she definitely expended a lot of energy
so hopefully they'll be a bunch of babies,
but I don't know.
So I'm just gonna kind of pull back this
and start to look for the babies.
Here's one right here for sure.
Look at the cute, oh come on little baby!
Come on little baby!
Aw, look at that cute little monkey right there.
Oh my god.
Again the Turner white's look completely normal
like a Northern blue-tongued skink,
but as they get older they start to fade out.
So that's one baby for sure.
It looks like I have another baby over here.
Oh no, this is actually a still born.
This one didn't make it.
It happens.
I tell you what that stinks though.
I'll set that aside.
Aw, do we have another good one?
Aw, nice good, chunky baby here!
Oh, come on little monkey.
Oh my god that is awesome!
So at least we got a couple babies.
I hope there's gonna be a bunch more
but I have no idea.
I don't see any more running around
so I'm not sure what's going on.
Oh, there's another one under here!
There it is.
(laughs)
Oh look at that one!
Gosh, that thing is gorgeous isn't it?
These are cute little babies
and nice and big too!
Look at these guys right here.
Oh my gosh, what are you doing?
They're so crazy.
All right so three babies.
Come on, there's gotta be more.
It looked like she had a ton of babies.
What?
It can't be only three babies.
Is that it?
Ah.
I tell ya we've had some really big litters
and we've had some really disappointing litters.
Oh no, another little stillborn right here.
Aw!
So there's two stillborns and three good babies, so,
oh there's at least one more right here!
This looks like another good baby!
Thank goodness!
All right, I am so happy!
Again, four babies isn't amazing
but it's better than three babies that's for sure.
So let's see if there's any more hiding in here.
Come on babies, come on.
Aw, aw it looks like that might be it.
I could just look under all the papers here
and stuff like that, make sure there's nothing else hiding.
Aw, and it looked like she was real,
oh there's another baby!
Oh ho ho!
Look at, she's hiding in back there.
Come on little monkey.
You are so adorable.
All right that puts us up to five babies now.
All right I think that might actually be it guys.
I think five babies is the number right there
but that's amazing.
I tell you what an incredible way to start the day.
Five little babies.
Unfortunately there's a couple stillborns
but five beautiful babies so I hope that you enjoy the start
of this day, it's gonna be an amazing one.
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Back in the dungeon with Kelsey.
Kelsey what do we have today?
- We have a het Russo female
that was bred to a Pastel Crystal.
- Okay cool, oh wait a second,
this Pastel Crystal has been bad.
Two bad clutches.
- I know, I know.
It's not a very promising start for him.
- Okay well let's see what we've got.
I'm a little worried about this one.
God please be some good eggs.
She's piled nice though.
Look at that, there's good eggs!
What?
Oh my gosh, that is crazy.
And of course that het Russo is
in the blue-eyed leucistic complex
which is allelic to the crystal,
so I'm very interested to see
what these are gonna look like.
Should be really cool.
That is awesome.
We'll go ahead and get those in the egg box.
We'll count 'em up.
We've got two, four, six, seven eggs.
And again that pastel crystal is actually an allelic animal
that is with Mojave that's
in the blue-eyed leucistic complex and then with something
that's called the special ball python.
So the fact that we're putting it in with this,
we could get some pretty interesting results.
I'm excited about it.
Seven eggs and that is the first good eggs really
that that pastel crystal did,
so that is insane.
We have another clutch?
- Yes, we do.
- Let's get it.
Next up, what do we have?
- Next up is a cinnamon female
bred to a Woma Lesser pinstripe
and a enchi pin banana.
- Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
We'll I'm hoping the enchi pin banana got it,
because I like the banana cinny stuff.
And I know this girl.
This girl actually laid a slug
- Yes.
- [Brian] a few days ago.
So let's open up, see if there's any good eggs.
I think there will be, 'cause she looked really good.
Oh yeah.
And you could see this girl actually got scarred up
when she was a baby by a live mouse.
That was probably like seven or eight years ago.
She's obviously done really well
and I've always loved her ever since.
So we'll go ahead and see what she's got.
She's a big girl too huh?
- [Kelsey] She's a good girl.
- [Brian] Look at that, look at that.
There is one little slugger over there.
So that's two slugs in this clutch.
But the other eggs look absolutely great.
We'll go ahead and get this little slugger out here.
Mama does not look happy right now.
It's okay mama.
We'll get you all taken care of.
So go ahead and uh.
- [Kelsey] Look at how beautiful these are,
like they're all like good shape and size.
- [Brian] They are perfect.
- Oh my god, I love a beautiful clutch like this.
- (laughs) I love when Kelsey gets excited about it.
And she should, 'cause she's worked very hard
to get those clutches of eggs, so she deserves
to enjoy it for sure.
So how many eggs do we have in this clutch?
- [Kelsey] One, two, three, four, five, six, seven!
- [Brian] Seven eggs!
- [Kelsey] Seven's a lucky number!
- Seven is the lucky number.
We did have two little slugs in there too
but we'll find out in 56, 57 days
who the sire of that clutch is.
As always, Kelsey, great job.
- Thank you.
- [Brian] Eric, what is going on man?
- Yo, what's happenin'?
- [Brian] Another busy day?
Let me guess, you've gotta feed and clean.
- Yep, every day.
Well, we don't feed every day.
But yep, cleaning, every day.
And today we're gonna feed, so we're going through,
just triple check everything,
making sure they're ready for some mice
or rat pups or whatever we got for 'em.
- [Brian] All right and by the way,
just think about this for a while.
I've got a bone of contention to pick with you later.
- Oh no, what did I do?
- [Brian] I'm upset about something.
You feed and I'll get back to you.
- Dude listen, it's your boy Eric, come on!
- [Brian] You just think about that.
Just remember I'm gonna come back.
- Oh that's gonna kill me.
- I know, right?
I'll be back.
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I always talk about how I love to give variety
to all our animals.
So today I'm gonna try to feed some cockroaches.
These are actually Dubia roaches.
We're gonna start with my guy Nova here.
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I just love how his little ears move when he crunches.
And he loves cockroaches,
I mean it's one of his favorite things,
he goes crazy for 'em.
Nova is amazing but hey, let's go ahead
and feed everything else.
Next up is my boy Andy here.
See if he wants to get a cockroach.
Oh yeah, he sure did.
(laughs) He is an amazing forest dragon.
I love that guy to death.
I mean just look at how cool he is!
I always talk about how with our frogs
that rodents should be a very small part of their diet
so things like roaches and crickets
and things like that are a large part of their diet,
we feed them that 90% of the time,
so I'll go ahead,
this girl loves cockroaches,
and so do a bunch of the other frogs and toads.
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Sometimes it's really fun to take Betty out of the cage.
He goes bonkers for hornworms and roaches.
So, I'll a lot of the times just take him out,
put him on the floor, and then he can chase after 'em.
It's a little bit of an enrichment for him.
And I think it's really funny.
Right Betty, you a good boy?
Let's go buddy.
Let's go.
Let's see if you want some roaches today.
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(laughs) How awesome is that?
I love this dude.
I'll give him a couple more roaches
then we'll move on to some chameleons.
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And I tell you what,
feeding chameleons is one of the most rewarding things.
Not all of them take it off the tongs.
Karma almost ate, so I'm just gonna throw some roaches
in there, and then of course the veiled was the same way,
so we're trying to continue to train 'em
to take it off the tongs,
but when they finally do, just like this Jackson,
holy cow how awesome is that?
Oh I couldn't feed Betty
without giving my boy Flamin' Hot Cheeto a little bit too,
so like I said, I love it just going around
and offering stuff like the roaches to the animals.
It's just so much fun.
They love it because it's enrichment,
it's nourishment for them,
so I love it because it's just fun.
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Been a couple weeks since we got those Savannah monitors,
remember, and oh my god, are they doing good.
Look at that chubby monkey over there.
This thing is, look it's a feisty little dude.
It's okay buddy, ow, ow, ow, ow,
don't bite, don't bite, don't bite.
It's okay.
Look at how amazing they are, I mean,
I absolutely love Savannah monitors,
and the thing is, they really do tame out
as they get older.
So that's the one.
The other one is over here in the corner.
Let's go take a look at this guy here.
So this one is definitely much smaller.
But still doing really well.
The other one is really exploding in size.
This is actually the hypomelanistic there
and then the axanthic or anerythristic is over here,
and he is such a chubby little dude.
But both of 'em are doing really good.
I just wanted to update you guys in case you were wondering
how the Savannah monitors were doing.
All right Eric,
remember when I said I had a bone to pick with you?
- Yeah what's wrong man?
- [Brian] And I'm glad you're here too
because you're on my list too.
- Oh god.
What happened?
- So today, later today,
these guys have the second Brian and Eric tour,
which is great, right?
- Noah and Eric tour.
- [Brian] Oh, Noah and, wait I'm sorry, what'd I just say?
- You said Brian and Eric.
- Okay, sorry, yeah,
well obviously it would be a lot better tour
if it was Brian and Eric.
(laughing)
No, I'm just joking.
But this is why I'm upset with you guys.
- What happened?
- This tour, originally, was going to be a Brian tour.
- Oh.
- [Brian] And they booked you guys instead.
- But they booked a better tour. Oh!
- I'm really sorry
I'm sorry.
- You, literally, took bread off my table.
- You know what they say,
"The best man always wins."
- That's true.
- That's horrible. I'm just kidding.
- [Brian] You guys better do it,
'cause now you've got high standards.
Brian tour up here.
Noah and Eric tour--
- I think you have it a little reversed.
I think the Noah and Eric tour's up here.
- Okay.
Well, listen, do me a favor guys.
Stop stealing my tours, all right?
- Oh, book a Noah and Eric.
- I can't believe that.
I feel terrible!
That's kind of messed up.
- [Brian] You guys gotta do good.
You better do good.
- We'll do good.
- [Brian] Make it worth it for them.
All right, guys.
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- Just one Colubridae clutch today
and actually is a het strawberry scaleless corn snake
that's bred to a salmon snow that is a het scaleless.
So, this should be some pretty cool babies
when they hatch out and mama did so good.
I mean, look a that clutch of eggs right there.
Hoo doggy!
I'm just going to pull these clutch out right here.
I'm going to put it in here.
We'll pull mom out, make sure she looks really good,
which she absolutely does.
She looks amazing.
Doesn't look like she's got any problems at all.
I always check.
Pull the shed out, just kind of straighten her up.
We'll get her cleaned up, get some water in her
and all that type of stuff.
And this is the male that she's bred to right now.
Look at that animal right there.
I mean, gosh that thing is so absolutely incredible.
Can you imagine that in a scaleless version?
I mean, take away the scales
and that thing is just going to be unbelievable.
Maybe we'll call that one the Pink Panther.
I'm not sure.
That's just an idea.
Anyways, we've got two, four, six, eight, ten,
twelve good eggs.
And by the way, this is her second clutch, too.
Remember, we got our first second clutch yesterday?
So, this is the second clutch.
So, we're starting to get second clutches.
That's it for Colubridaes today but how amazing.
This clutch is going to be insane.
Another clutch of Children's pythons just hatched.
These guys are out again.
Look at how absolutely cool they are.
And again, I think we've got two more clutches
of Children's pythons to hatch.
And then we have Stimson's pythons after that.
But these guys are so absolutely adorable.
I love them to death.
I think there are nine more babies in this litter.
And by the way, two days from now
guess what's going to happen?
That's right.
I'll be standing probably right here.
And I'm going to cut the first clutch of ball python eggs.
So, I'm pretty excited about it.
I'll be honest with you.
I can't remember what the pairing is
but maybe I'll tell you tomorrow
and then you guys can get excited 'cause
I know a lot of people have been like,
"I can't wait 'til you start cutting eggs though."
A couple more days and you're gonna get that.
As for now, these guys are all out.
They're going to shed probably in a week or so.
Probably start eating.
The first ones are already feeding
and I think will get on the website any day now.
So, regardless, a bunch more Children's python hatch
and I couldn't be happier.
All right guys, I hope that you guys enjoyed today's blog.
I think that we'll go ahead and just call it a day,
and with you guys an absolutely amazing day,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
I love you guys so much.
Be kind to someone and I promise,
I will see you guys tomorrow.
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