- I am so excited about this guys.
I know it's just silly, but it's, you know,
it's been a while, you know, I bred big snakes
when I was young, I mean, that was what I did, right?
I mean, that was the majority of my production,
was gigantic snakes
and then I took like 10 years off
where I didn't produce any big snake, not even one
and then of course we had that Lucy clutch
like four years ago or something like that
and then we haven't had a good clutch of big snakes
because I haven't bred them.
Not because I can't,
but I just have chose not to, right?
And then of course, Gemma, of course,
I didn't really think about breeding her,
but because she was going through an ovulation,
I was like, you know, I might as well go ahead
and breed her tonight here.
You guys know the whole situation.
Well, unfortunately she didn't shed very well,
but this shed is the important shed
and, of course, this is what they would call
the pre-lay shed.
So we're going to get her into a soak,
but of course now she's full-blown gravid, right?
So I've gotta be very gentle with her.
I'm not going to manhandle her at all.
Getting her into this water
is just going to be a kind of a slow methodical thing
but believe it or not,
within 30 days, we are going to get a clutch of eggs.
We don't know if they're going to be fertile.
We don't know if they're not going to be fertile,
we have no real clue.
We do know that Night Fury did breed her a handful of times
before she actually ovulated.
So that's a great, great sign
and I'm so glad that Gemma went back to being the sweetheart
that she used to be before.
So we're just going to kind of slowly let her get
in the water. Help her out just a little bit.
Again, because she's gravid,
I want to be extra gentle with her.
Come on girl, you're okay.
But guys, we're literally going to be pulling
a clutch of eggs here in the next three and a half,
maybe four weeks tops, something on that line
and the interesting thing is, is we've all seen
kind of videos of giant snakes on eggs
and how super protective of the eggs.
Certainly when we pulled Lucy last time,
she literally almost killed me.
She was so crazy.
I don't know how Gemma's going to be.
Again, she's such a beautiful tome snake.
She may just let me take her eggs, no problem
or we might be in for a really big battle,
but I'm telling you what, I couldn't be more excited
and it's probably one of the things that I'm most excited
about all year when it comes to production
and I didn't even plan on this production.
This was just kind of an unplanned thing.
So we're just going to soak her for the next maybe 20,
30 minutes.
Get that last shed off of her looking really good
and again, now we can mark that calendar for 30 days
from now. Again, they'll lay anywhere from 21 days,
sometimes even up to 40 days, to be honest with you,
but it's going to be in about that 30 day range.
So going to clean her cage up, get her all spiffy and guys,
we are about to get a clutch of reticulated pythons,
hopefully fertile but even if they're not fertile,
it's going to be this ton of fun, but boy oh boy,
do I hope they're going to be fertile
because we could produce some Night Furies,
some Black Motley Golden Childs that are (inaudible).
Whoo hoo doggy. That's going to be some amazing babies.
So let's go ahead and get her case cleaned up,
get her soaked up and we'll get her back in here
and tick tock, the time is ticking.
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You know, it's been kind of crazy.
Jessica's had a really good year with leopard geckos,
but we really haven't talked about leopard geckos,
so there's a ton of leopard geckos that have had shots,
but you have some babies now.
- Yeah.
- You know these are last there or there's still some more?
- We have just about five more to go.
- Five more? So that's pretty much it.
So let's see what we have here. They're cool.
These look like,
Let me take a guess. Let's see, Tremper Albinos?
- Yep.
- Tremper Albinos.
- So these are probably Tremper white and yellows.
- Tremper white and yellows.
This may be a white and yellow or maybe not.
- Yeah, I think this one's a white and yellow
and then it's got a really cool head pattern.
- It does have a cool head pattern
and then what's this? just like a jungle-ly---
- This one's actually a, it looks like a Snow Raptor.
- Snow Raptor.
- So you look at the eyes, it's got it's little red eyes.
- Tells you how good I am.
But I'm going to take a guess on this next one.
I think I've got this next one down. I really do.
I think this is a Bell Bold Stripe White and Yellow.
- Yes.
- Is it really?
- Correct.
- Oh my gosh. I got it right.
I'm no leopard gecko guy at all, but the truth is,
is that Bells just look a little bit in shape.
You see there's one more egg left here, but yeah,
you can see there's some something in there
so there's going to be another baby, hopefully,
but that is a beautiful Bell White and Yellow.
I mean, that's amazing.
So that's 2, 4, 5 geckos hatched, five more to go
and we are done for the year
and geckos are about to brumation?
- Not quite yet.
We're like cleaning out their systems right now
so a couple of weeks they'll be completely down.
- Oh, that's a nice break. Nice break
and then we start all over again in a few months,
if you're looking to add a new addition to your family
and you want this cool Lavender Snow Cal King
or so many other Clovers,
and of course Ball Pythons, you know,
everything is going to be on sale for the Black Friday
over at bhbreptiles.com.
I mean, there's going to be some banging stuff.
Every single animal goes on sale to some percentage.
This happens to be a Motley Scaleless Corn Snake.
But of course, again,
geckos are going to be on sale,
Ball Pythons' going to be on sale,
Clovers are going to be on sale, every single thing.
So again, Friday starting at midnight,
going till midnight the next day.
So again, Black Friday at bhbreptiles.com.
Definitely going to need to check that one out,
especially if you're looking to add a new little critter
into your life.
I promise guys,
this is the last shipment of animals
before Black Friday sale.
I think I might've promised that last time,
but I really do believe that this is the last ship.
(knife and cutting sounds)
So what do you say we go ahead and unbox
and see what is going on in here?
I know there's going to be some bangers.
It's not a big shipment.
This is my buddy that I basically buy everything he produces
every year and he just had the last couple of clutches
and he was like, "Hey, do you mind if I send them?"
And I was like, "Of course",
now I'm not sure that Lori was all that happy
about it and nor were some of my crew,
they were saying like, Brian, we have enough, you know?
And I'm like, never have enough, right?
I mean, come on,
and I know I've done a lot of unboxing lately,
so thank you guys for putting up with me here
but like I said, this will be a pretty quick one
and this was actually, let me see what's going on here.
These are actually just a couple
of Albino Highball Ball Pythons here.
Just some beautiful Albino Pythons,
which are double recessive.
Obviously albinos recessive, high's recessive,
double recessive,
basically how you would get these,
you breed an albino to a py.
You get double (inaudible), albino py's.
Then you bring those together and you would get
a one in 16 odds of producing albino py.
In this case,
I believe he's actually breeding albino py
to albino py,
which means you get a hundred percent albino py's
Next bag, like I said,
there's only three bags in this entire--
Oh and I just got bit right in the bag,
but this is a beauty.
Ho ho doggy! Look at that right there.
One snake in the bag, but it is a banger.
This is actually a Pewter Clown Ball Python.
So it's a Pastel,
it's a Cinny and it's a Clown Ball Python,
oh my gosh.
That is an absolute ripper! I'm loving it.
So hey, even with just the one snake in the bag,
that was a dang good bag right there.
One bag to go and these are absolutely incredible animals.
I was super excited to see these.
Oh my God, they're going to be beautiful.
Oh yeah, these are great.
Oh my gosh, such beautiful animals
and again,
we had some of these earlier this year
and they sold super quick.
There's actually these guys here,
which are actually what they call Ultramel Pinstripes.
Of course, the pinstripe, incomplete dominant,
ultramel is recessive
and then these here are actually the Ultramel,
the normal ultramel. Just really cool.
So there's actually another mutation called Caramel Albino
that is similar to this.
It doesn't look quite as pretty, ultra-recessive mutation,
but along with the Caramel came some kinking issues.
So they say all recessive concentrate, right?
So when you're concentrating a phenotype or a color phase
like a Caramel per se or an Ultramel,
sometimes you're also actually getting a defect.
In the case of caramels, there was a lot of kinking.
So maybe one out of every two or three animals
were came out, but they'd be all kinks.
Well, the Ultramels look very, very similar,
but don't have the kinking issue.
So there's a whole bunch of pin Ultramels
and Ultramel's,
just absolutely amazing things
just in time for the Black Friday sale.
So these guys will also be on the BHB reptile site here
for Black Friday and even before black Friday
for that matter.
So awesome. That was a quick unboxing.
Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Let me know in the comments which one you liked best.
All right. She's been soaking for 20,
30 minutes and it looks like it's done the job.
Hi baby girl. How are you doing sweetheart?
You're doing good.
So let's just make sure all the skin is off of her.
As we slowly, gently, again,
get her back in her enclosure.
You see all the skin will just
kind of come right off her.
Come on, baby girl, come on, big girl. (grunts)
I'm going to want her to really just kind of (inaudible)
on her own as best as possible so that I'm not,
again, disrupting any of that egg stuff.
Now, the good news is is that she won't shed again, right?
This is her last shed before laying eggs.
So I don't have to worry about it.
So she really probably won't go to the bathroom
or really pretty much anything.
So we might have to spot clean the enclosure,
maybe a couple of times just with urates
or something like that but again,
because she hasn't been eating cause she's gravid,
she's got no poop in her and again,
the only thing she could do is some urates
and stuff like that.
Other than that, she's in good shape
and I'm just going to, again,
just make sure all this shed is off her so she looks good
and again, we will not take her out again
until we're actually taking her off the eggs,
which is just crazy to think about,
to be honest with you, that here in another three,
four weeks tops,
we're going to actually be removing a clutch of eggs,
hopefully fertile, from this girl.
She's looking thick,
but she doesn't look giant, right?
So what's going to happen is over the next month,
she's going to swell, swell, swell, swell, swell
and hopefully she's going to look like she's going
to explode here in another month, at least, fingers crossed.
You know what I mean? Again, I'm not like the best retic.
I've only had one good clutch of Retic eggs my whole time.
I really bred Burmese Pythons for many years.
So I know them much better than I do these guys
to be totally honest with you
but I'm pretty sure that that's the pace that we're on
is that we're going to see a nice,
beautiful clutch of eggs here in another three or four
weeks and so Gemma looks great.
The cage looks great.
She's pretty much done now for the next three to four weeks.
Now it's just the waiting game.
It's that time of year.
Pickles has been crushing food.
Of course, she's a Biak Green Tree Python
and of course we have the male from last year that we bred
and I think we just put them in too late
and stuff like that.
We didn't even get them in until like the end of January.
Typically these guys are kind of aseasonal breeders
to be totally honest with you but a lot of times,
if you start breeding around the November era,
you have the highest percentage of chance
that they're going to lay eggs.
Usually like, you know,
anywhere from May til June,
somewhere in that range, right?
So I think this year we've got her conditioning really good.
I'm sure she's going to start to grow follicles
and if we get a male in with her and have some breeding
and some copulation now she's probably going to
even grow follicles more.
We're keeping the male over at BHB.
So what do you say we go get him,
bring him over and introduce them to Pickles?
So this is actually the male here who just had a nice meal.
He's absolutely beautiful.
Of course, this is where he presides when he's not in
this enclosure with Pickles, of course.
So we're just going to slowly
kind of get him off his branch here. Don't bite me.
Don't bite me. Okay.
It's all right. He's using me like a train.
There you go, bud. There you go
and the thing about getting Green Tree Pythons
off their branches is you've got to let them
kind of climb off.
You don't want to actually pull them off
because you can injure them
and now I'm going to do the exact same thing.
I'm going to have him climb on by himself
and look at how beautiful those two look together
and he's sniffing around right now like,
wait a second, I remember this enclosure.
I remember this girl so hopefully he'll breed her
here in the next couple of days
and you could already see she's changing her color,
which is kind of what happens when they start to get
into an ovulation.
Females can sometimes go completely blue even
to this really strange oxygenic change with hormones, right?
Well, she looks completely different.
She almost looks like she's in shed,
but she's not in shed because you can see her eyes
are completely normal.
So I know she started to go into her cycle.
So fingers crossed, we actually get some eggs this year.
That would be amazing.
With any luck, it's going to be awesome
to be pulling a clutch of eggs pretty soon.
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