- I wonder if has ever produced this snake
this may be a world's first guys,
I'm not sure but this is definitely a--
Hey good morning everybody and welcome
to the vlog what an amazing snake.
I'll be totally honest with when it comes
to Ball Pythons and I say this a lot
but I truly do mean this
I think this is one of my favorite snakes, you know.
A Blue-Eyed Leucistic Ball Python.
That was like the pinnacle for a long time
when it came to the coolest Ball Pythons you could
possibly get and guess what?
Today in the vlog we're gonna cut her clutch,
that's right, she laid eight beautiful eggs
and we're gonna see what's in those amazing eggs later on.
What an absolute ripper!
But before we get into cutting those snake eggs
and see what kind of beautiful babies are in there,
I'm gonna take a little bit about white snakes.
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Again since the dawn of time I think that white snakes
have had kind of a mystic lore to em, right?
And I'll talk a little bit about the
history about that later on
but these guys were really the first
white snakes that were offered in the reptile trade.
Of course these are Leucistic Texas Rat snakes
and they were produced I think in the 80's
if I'm not mistaken by a guy named Bern Bechtel,
when I was like fifteen years old.
This was like the pinnacle snake,
I mean I was like I've gotta have that
White Leucistic Texas Rat snake
but they were like three hundred bucks
and I was like a fifteen year old kid
so it took a while to come up with the money to buy one,
but once I did ooh doggy I've loved them
and I've been keeping them ever since.
And honestly ever since there's been this like
huge demand every time a new white snake
in a species is produced,
take for instance this White Rainbow Boa,
unbelievably gorgeous.
There was a guy named Joe Robson from Rare Earth,
I don't know, back in the 90's,
bought the original White Rainbow.
I'm not sure exactly where it came from
but unfortunately he had to sell it years later
because of some health issues
and a buddy of mine, Ian from Outback Reptile,
bought the original White Rainbow Boa
for $120,000. Now I get to work with him,
and their not nearly as costly now
I think they're about five hundred, six hundred bucks
something like that.
But Rainbow Boa's are incredible
and kinda having that one that everyone wanted
the Leucistic Black-Eyed White snake
it's been pretty awesome.
But really I'm gonna be honest with you guys
the White Ball Python was still kinda the holy grail,
- Now stand aside worthy adversary.
- 'Tis but a scratch.
At least back in the 90s.
Everyone that was working with Ball Pythons
including me wanted to have a white snake
and actually the snake keepers TSK produced
the first yellow belly to yellow belly
which is the Ivory Ball Pythons,
the super version which was the white snake
with the black eye but,
they still had a little bit of pattern on them
so some people were still kinda striving for
that pure white snake.
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And that's really when the magic started to happen,
that's right that's when the Blue-Eyed
Leucistic Ball Python happened.
Now weirdly enough, there was a bunch of ways
to produce this and it all happened
within a couple years.
This of course is the mom to the clutch that we're
about to cut and she is actually a lesser bred
to Hat Russo but there's a bunch of different
ways to do it.
Take for instance, the Lesser Ball pythons.
This was kinda the first ones that were
really being produced readily
which was lesser to Lesser the super version
which means about one in four on average
was gonna be the white snake.
Now the Hat Russo's were actually the other one
a guy named Vin Russo, named after the Russo of course,
was the one that produced them
and he called them Hat Russo's because
of course the super version is a
Blue-Eyed Leucistic Ball Python.
I actually love the Hat Russo's and
I love the Lesser's
because they're the whitest of the Blue-Eyed
Leucistics and if you breed Lesser to Hat Russo,
of course you produce the Leucistic
just like the mom of the clutch that we're about to cut.
And then wouldn't you know it there was even
another Blue-Eyed Leucistic producer
and of course that was the Mojave Ball Python.
Now when you bred Mojave to Mojave
you actually did produce a Blue-eyed Leucistic
but it had a little bit of a head pattern
a little bit similar to the Ivory Ball Python,
but weirdly enough when you bred Mojave
to Lesser, you would still produce a pretty much
a solid white blue-eyed snake.
Not to confuse you guys too much
but there's actually something that's called
a Black-Eyed Leucistic
which is not in the Blue-Eyed Leucistic
complex and that's actually the Super Fire
so when you breed Fire to Fire
you can produce the Black-eyed Leucistic Ball Python.
So we went from no white Ball Pythons
to a whole lot of white Ball Pythons
just within a matter of a few years.
Keeping in mind that this clutch of eggs
the mom was actually a Lesser to a Hat Russo
meaning every baby is gonna either be a Lesser
or a Hat Russo,
but it was bred to a Banana Enchi Pin.
So we should have some pretty interesting combo's.
Let's go ahead and cut these little suckers.
So let's stop stalling and jump
right into cutting these eggs.
And you can actually see there's one little
animal right here that is actually pipped out.
I can't see anything cause it's just a couple slices,
so these eggs are definitely ready to go.
We're gonna jump into this first egg
and again it should be all Lesser's or Hat Russo's,
but then a combination of all kinds of other stuff.
So sure enough we have it looks like,
weirdly enough, it looks like a Hat Russo Pinstripe.
Okay that makes sense actually.
Originally I was like what do we have here?
But yeah this is a Hat Russo Pinstripe.
It could've been a King Pin which was a Lesser Pinstripe,
but this is actually a Hat Russo Pinstripe,
so okay that made sense.
For one sec I was like uh oh,
did we have a different male in?
I think we're okay now I definitely hope
we'll get some banana stuff as well.
I'll tell you I just love hatching stuff like this
because it's so incredible and then--what the heck is this?
Huh, what is this?
Let's see I'm gonna try to see what the heck
is going on in this egg.
Come on little monkey, okay!
This is actually--oh this is actually really interesting.
Wow!
Wow.
I wonder if anyone has ever produced this snake.
This maybe a world's first, guys.
I'm not sure.
This is definitely an Enchi Banana Pinstripe Hat Russo!
And I've never seen one of these before so
I have a feeling that might be a world's first right there.
That's pretty-- I didn't even think we could produce that
when I was going through my head but it looks like we did.
That is awesome,
oh my gosh that is so absolutely incredible.
And again I just love leucistic animals so it's
really cool to be producing this stuff.
Another really weird one.
What the heck is this?
I don't know what that--this is so weird!
Okay so this looks like--I mean its definitely a Banana,
it's a Pinstripe, it looks like its an Enchi,
maybe it's a Lesser?
So maybe it's the same one as before but instead
of Hat Russo it's Lesser.
It looks much more white much more muted,
I don't really know!
Until that one crawls out it's a mystery.
Oh my gosh I didn't expect this clutch
to be as awesome as it is so this is pretty freaking cool.
I can't wait to cut the rest of these eggs right now,
oh my gosh how awesome is this?!
Okay, we have another really cool kinda--okay.
See this is what's so bizarre.
This is definitely a Banana Enchi King Pin
which is a Lesser and a Pinstripe.
So what is this one?
Because I was thinking maybe that was what this one is.
This one looks completely different than what we just
cut before, it's like really white and-- I don't know guys.
I'll tell you what that's the thing about
all reptiles and living animals for that matter.
Just when you think you know everything,
which I never think I know everything,
but just when you think you have a handle on things
it just blows up and it just goes crazy on you
so another mystery snake but this one is cool
because this is definitely a Banana Enchi King Pin
which is the Lesser and the Pinstripe, awesome!
So I'm gonna go ahead and cut the egg that's already
pipped out and see what's in this little monkey.
This one was definitely interested in--oop!
It just popped out just really quick,
what the heck is going on here?
All right so this one is again just a--again
everything in this clutch has to be a Lesser
or a Hat Russo remember because of the
Blue-Eyed Lucistic animal.
So what we have here is again--this one
looks like a Banana Pinstripe Hat Russo.
So no Enchi in that one at least it doesn't appear,
gosh I tell you guys this is way cooler
than I had anticipated when I started to cut this clutch.
And what do we have here?
Looks like actually the exact same animal probably,
this is actually probably a
Banana Hat Russo Pinstripe as well.
So okay, so we've got a couple of those.
But so far it's really cool cause
we've only gotten one non-banana animal
which is cool as can be, right?
We got two eggs left to cut really quick,
oh my gosh I cannot wait til that one mystery
animal crawls out so I can see what the heck
is actually going on with it.
It looks so absolutely incredible.
Okay so again remember I told you it's gotta be
either a Lesser or it's gotta be a Hat Russo.
This is just a Kingpin so this was just
like that Banana Enchi Kingpin but this just a normal
Kingpin which is just a Lesser and a Pinstripe.
So that's kinda the most normal animal we've gotten so far.
And then last egg let's see what happens with this,
what a crazy clutch, I tell you what this has been
absolutely incredible, and guess what,
we ended kinda on a little bit of a low note
cause again it's just another Kingpin,
a Lesser Pinstripe but oh my gosh!
There is some crazy animals in this clutch
and I think maybe two world's first If I'm not mistaken.
Definitely that Banana Hat Russo Enchi Pinstripe
I think is a world's first,
and then this one here that's really white and faded,
hardly any pattern at all,
that's gotta be a world's first if I could ever
figure out the genetics but who knows.
Regardless, that is it.
I hope that you guys enjoyed the white snake egg cutting
as much as I had.
Just a quick check in see what kind of colubrid's
we hatched out today.
I like these guys.
These are actually Greenish Rat Snakes.
I just think that they're really cool.
They're kinda a really common snake
they're not really expensive,
but I think they're absolutely amazing
I think that they're super cool.
These guys will lose all of their pattern
or most of their pattern sometimes they'll
have a little striping down their back
but they lose those saddles right there
and they turn this greenish color when they get bigger and--
look at that feisty--ow, what is going on little buddy?
A feisty little monkey right there.
But I think they're absolutely incredible
and it's cool that we hatched some out.
Look at all these little monkey's right there
And again look at how feisty they are, oh my gosh!
You guys are so silly, oh my gosh.
Such big attitudes for such a little snake
that's for sure.
Oh and look at this, this is actually really cool.
Oh look it there's a little head!
Oh it just popped back right in.
Of course these are high white black and white
California King snakes and I absolutely
love em!
They're so cool I mean look at this kinda crazy
cool pattern right there with this one.
I tell you what these are absolutely incredible.
Just have a couple babies out right now
we have a bunch more eggs that are due to hatch right here.
So, but it's cool these are the first
California King snakes hatch of the year
and I am super excited about it.
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And again that fascination with white snakes
I go back to the first ever reptile expo
in Florida which was the International Reptile Expo
and I've talked about it before.
I saw this big white Burmese Python that Bob Clark had.
Unfortunately it was never able to be reproduced
but in the mean time they produced
Black-Eyed Leucistic Reticulated Pythons
like Casper here.
And I'm not gonna lie to you
I was really inspired by J O Rap Prehistoric.
He had a big white Reticulated Python
and then a jet black Python.
And then I thought at the Reptarium we've gotta have
a white Retic and a black Retic.
So Casper has been amazing
I mean it's getting big, becoming way better at handling,
and just look at how stunning that is!
There's just something amazing about a snake like Casper.
And again I realize I'm going the polar opposite
talking all about white snakes today,
but I did mention Night Fury the black Reticulated Python
of course this is a Motley Golden Child,
unbelievable I mean look at how big he's getting
and the camera never picks up that
iridescence that he'd really like to.
Everyone that comes to the Reptarium
sees this animal and goes oh my God,
it's so much more impressive than I see on film.
But regardless I have to throw this in
but for now, let's get back to white snakes.
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Throughout history white snakes have always
been sought after as a kinda spiritual animal.
They're known for energy, transformation, long life.
As a matter of fact there's a Chinese legend
called The Madam of the White Snake
that actually helps transform and actually is
said to be immortal.
When dreaming about white snakes
it's said that it's for good luck or good fortune.
In Japan it's actually a God of Fertility.
And throughout history, typically a white snake
is in a positive way.
There has never been any legends of negativity
when it comes to white snakes
and they've been a fascination
since the dawn of time.
And of course then there's Perdita
who is the black and white snake.
And it's interesting, since we actually
opened up the Reptarium,
the one thing that we found is that
people seem to fear white snakes a little less than
darker snakes, not exactly sure what that is,
but almost everyone that comes in
actually is more willing to hold
Perdita or Casper or a white snake
and they're a little bit more afraid
of seeing Night Fury,
which is pretty interesting.
Regardless it's a great way to actually
learn about how we can get people over their fears.
And the fact that you have this absolutely
gorgeous animal like Perdita here seems
to work here at the Reptarium.
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