- Hey, good morning, everybody,
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start your day is amazing.
I know mine is because I get to spend some time
with my girl Lucy.
We have a busy day, some egg cutting,
a whole bunch of other stuff going on later in the vlog,
but right now, Lucy actually did the reverse
what she normally does.
Normally she poops in the water,
today she pooped on the land and all over the place,
and only shed in the water.
So she just shed out, looks absolutely wonderful.
It looks like a complete shed.
I don't see any stuck shed on there.
So what I'm going to do is actually go in,
get her out, get her on the ground.
We'll mess around with her a little bit.
'Cause you know, I love my girl, Lucy, you know what I mean?
And then we'll have to clean up her cage
to get the day started.
It's all part of keeping giant snakes.
Remember if you want a giant snake,
this is what you're going to have to deal with.
Let's see what she looks like right now.
She seems to be in a really,
I think she seems to be in a good mood.
She looks beautiful, come on big girl.
Come on, sweetie.
Oh, there she goes.
Just let her run for a second,
get her completely out of her cage.
Hey, where are you going? Where are you going?
Come on, come on baby.
Oh,
there's nothing like a little aerobic workout with a 20 foot
couple hundred pound snake.
Oh my, whoa!
Oh my gosh, she's getting into all kinds of trouble here.
I think I'm just going to play with her just for a few
minutes and just kind of admire how amazing she is.
And then ultimately I'm gonna have to put her
into a tub to keep her occupied
so I can get in there and clean her cage.
I tell you what,
it's not until you get a snake out this long
that you realize just how absolutely big she is.
I mean, that is one giant snake right there.
And she hasn't eaten for the last 10 days.
So she's going to be even bigger when we feed her
here in a couple days.
Oh doggie, come on, Lucy.
Come on big girl.
Now the good news is,
is because she just peed and pooped in her cage.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh my gosh she's hard to handle.
It's a good chance I'm not going to get peed on.
Again, when she comes out of her cage
and she's in a good mood, I'm not going to lie to you,
she's actually a really fun animal to work with.
Although, very, oh my gosh she is heavy.
But, where's she going?
Okay.
The part I don't like is right down here,
which is the butt end.
That thing, a lot of pee comes out of that end
and Lucy loves to pee on people.
Uh oh, hang on a second.
Come on, girl.
Don't get in trouble. Don't get in trouble.
Okay. There she goes.
Now she's coming, good girl.
Woo.
Tell you what, that can get your heart rate up for sure.
She is such a good animal, but she's so strong.
She's so motivated when she's moving in a direction.
She wants to just move in that direction and nothing else.
Now she seems to have calmed down for a second.
Let's go ahead and she's got just
a little piece of shed on her head.
Let's see if I can get that. Come on, girl.
Come on, come on, sweetheart.
Come on, (grunts) come on, come on baby, come on.
Looks like she's just got a little shed
right here on her head.
Okay, whoo.
All right, I might have to deal with that at a later date,
what I think I'm gonna do is
get her in this container and clean her cage.
(techno music)
Excited, I got a buddy of mine in the house,
His name is Trevor--
- Tyler.
- Yeah, Tito is going to actually help me out.
Get this snake over here.
Tommy, have you ever handled a big snake like this?
- No.
- Okay, let's do, come on Tyler.
We're going to do this, let's go.
All right, so Lucy is looking good.
You go first.
- [Tyler] You want me to go first?
- You're not going first?
- You go first.
- Alright, I'm going to start,
but you've got to help me out.
All right, Tim, let's go.
- Tyler.
Oh my God.
- [Camera Man] Pick it up, Tino.
- I'm trying.
- Come on Artis!
(laughing)
- [Tyler] Oh my God.
He's bringing the bucket (laughs).
- You're like a pro man, you did a great job.
I'll tell you what man, that is some good work right there.
Toddy, you did good, man, let's go.
Let's go.
All right, so Lucy's back in her cage.
Let's get onto the rest of our day.
(techno music)
This is actually a pretty cool clutch,
and there's actually one baby even hatched out.
The mom is this beautiful enchi that's het for albino.
And it was bred to this double recessive
albino clown ball python.
Now you may remember if you were watching the vlog last year
that this is the exact same breeding we had,
where we had seven eggs, but we had seven albinos.
And the deal is, is we already have an enchi het clown
that's double for albino clown too, right here.
So you basically have, you know,
enchis double het albino clown,
so we know we aren't going to have all albinos
or enchi albinos this year.
As a matter of fact,
I could see a couple other eggs pipped
that look like they're dark as well.
So let's see if we'll get any albinos this year.
Remember, we had all albinos last year,
we crushed the odds.
This year we may go the other way.
Maybe we'll get all normals.
Who knows what it is?
But of course that is an enchi double het for albino clown
that's out, let's jump into egg number one
and see what we have.
Here we go.
Let's see what we got.
Well it'll be interesting to see if there's a chance that we
won't get albinos this year.
You know how that works out.
I mean, odds work out that way sometimes, but nevertheless,
it looked like just a normal double het
albino clown, to be honest with you,
let's move on to egg number two.
Egg number two.
Let's see, it looks like we got an albino at least.
Hold on one second here guys.
Hold on one second here.
I could see there's one little snake right here.
And there's two.
These are actually twin albinos, oh my gosh!
There's actually two babies in this egg.
I tell you what, it doesn't happen often to have twins.
And it certainly doesn't happen often that we can cut and
find twins, and they're both albinos too.
Sometimes you'll get albinos and normals in the same egg
if there's a twin, but these are actually two albino twins.
How freaking awesome is that?
I can't believe we actually had twins.
I mean, gosh, it's been a couple of years
since I've had twin ball pythons, so it's awesome.
Not only to have twins,
but to have albino het for clown twins,
how cool is that?
Let's go ahead, I mean, this is awesome guys.
Let's go ahead and cut the rest of this clutch
and see what else we have.
Maybe we'll have some more twins.
Egg number three.
So it looks like we've got another albino here, same thing.
And this definitely looks like an albino enchi,
you could just tell with the orange
right off the rip with this.
So this is an albino enchi that is het for clown,
which is going to be cool.
'Cause those albino enchi clowns
are going to be absolute rippers.
All right, this one's got the egg all cut up.
So we're going to go ahead and just kind of
take a look and see what's in here.
And this one definitely looks like an enchi
that would be double het for albino clown.
So a normal enchi double het, albino clown.
And I love enchi stuff, the enchi clown stuff is ridiculous.
The albino enchi clowns, even more ridiculous.
So we've got four more eggs.
Here we go.
It looks like there's a dark animal
in here right off the rip,
so I know it's not albino, and it is just a normal.
So this would be a normal again, double het albino clown.
The enchi gene is incomplete dominant,
so you can't get het for it.
So when you produce a normal,
it has nothing to do with the enchi.
Three eggs to go, and the next one is pipped out.
So it looks like it's a normal-ish animal.
Let's see if it's an enchi.
Here we go, is it an enchi or is it
a normal double het albino clown?
Hard to say.
Oh, it's definitely an enchi.
So this is another enchi het for albino clown.
So that's pretty awesome.
Two eggs to go, let's see if we get any more albinos.
Here we go, yep.
It looks like maybe another albino here.
Let's see if we can see if it's an albino enchi,
and it does look like an albino enchi.
So it looks like another albino enchi het for clown.
Again, those are great animals to keep
and raise up and breed back and produce more
albino enchi clowns.
One last egg, let's make it a banger.
There we go.
All right, all right.
Looks good, looks good.
It looks like an albino for sure.
Do we have an albino enchi?
Let's see, I would say yes.
I'm pretty sure that's an albino enchi het for clown.
Hard to say until it climbs out.
So as it worked out guys, I mean,
it's pretty crazy because we had nine eggs,
and on average, half of them should be albino.
And we actually had four eggs that had albinos in it
and five eggs that had normals,
but because of the twins,
we actually had five albinos and five normals,
or enchis double het for albino clown.
Regardless, that was crazy.
Twin albino ball pythons in the egg, how cool is that?
Of course Ben and Jerry the two headed snake
were supposed to be twins too, actually.
When they were in the egg, a little zygote,
they were supposed to be twins
and they actually form into one snake.
So in a way, these guys are twins,
they are conjoined twins, right?
And it's pretty cool because the truth is I haven't had that
many twins, so it's pretty awesome.
Not only to hatch them, but to actually cut them this time.
It's really cool.
But nevertheless, Ben and Jerry, amazing,
doing well, absolutely incredible.
And by the way, Chopsticks the two headed turtle
will be coming over here to the Reptarium here
within the next, hopefully two weeks.
(upbeat techno music)
In the dungeon, you know what time it is.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time. ♪
Egg time, and there's not that many
ball python clutches left.
I mean, we're probably about 15 more.
This one is pretty cool.
This is a stinger bee, which is an enchi and a spider.
And I love that combination because
it just really reduces things.
It was bred to a pastel enchi yellow belly.
So we could get like, you know, super enchi spiders,
super enchi bumblebee, yellow bellies.
I mean all kinds of cool stuff.
Let's see how many eggs she has.
Mama does not look happy.
It's okay, mama, tt's all right. Woo.
That's all right.
Oh, it looks like she's got a nice clutch of eggs here too.
It looks like, oh she's hanging onto
one little egg over here, come on.
Ah, let's see what we got.
It looks like one little slugger over here.
I'll pull these eggs out, get this one egg here.
That's definitely a little boob egg right here,
but you can see there's some red in there.
We'll get her all cleaned up.
Good job, mom, you did so good.
And again, that red right there just tells me
there's a network of veins in there,
meaning it's a good egg for sure.
So we have two, four, five eggs from her.
One little slugger.
We have one more clutch to pull.
And this next clutch is a banger.
This is actually a super Lori pinstripe ball python.
I know it's kind of weird cause it kinda turns like
gray and kind of dark,
but it has a super Lori actually bred to
a banana extreme gene male,
meaning that everything is going to be Lori,
and there's going to be a bunch of banana stuff.
I've been saying I want to get that banana
into super Lori so badly,
and I am super excited that she laid
a beautiful clutch of eggs.
This was a girl that, to be honest with you,
for the most of the season,
didn't think she was going to produce.
Her follicles kind of stuck at like 20 millimeters,
wasn't growing, I thought,
"Oh, she's just going to go backwards"
and then all of a sudden she popped and she ended up having
a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Let's go ahead and pull these eggs out.
They're not stuck together very well,
so we'll go ahead candle these
just to make sure they're okay.
But looks like a gorgeous clutch of eggs right here.
Oh my gosh, really beautiful clutch.
And again, just kind of get these last couple eggs
out right here, put them over here.
Mama, you did such a good job.
Again, we'll just kind of clean her up,
get that egg smell off her, and stuff like that,
and get her back onto food very quickly.
She had two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
Again, this is that first step
to that banana super Lori ball python.
Again, I don't know how that extreme gene
is going to mix with the Lori as well.
So there could be some really cool babies in here.
We'll find out in 57 days.
More baby colubrids are hatching, let's see what we've got.
This is actually, see a really beautiful male.
This was that male scaleless motley,
but was actually just bred to a het albino.
So looks like we have a bunch of albinos.
We have a bunch of normals, nothing else really going on,
but these guys are all het for motley
and het for scaleless.
So I was kind of hoping that maybe we would have some
motley's maybe even some scaleless stuff, but nonetheless,
still a bunch of beautiful little corn snakes here
that are carrying the genetics
for the motley and the scaleless.
Just definitely not producing as many scaleless
animals as I expected this year,
but we still have a lot more eggs to hatch.
So nevertheless, a bunch of really cool baby corn snakes.
Another corn clutch hatched.
This is actually a het strawberry sunkissed.
It definitely looks like we have
a couple strawberry sunkissed.
This is a strawberry sunkissed here,
and a bunch of other really cool stuff too.
We've got, what is it down here?
Okay, okay, albinos.
This looks like a little albino sunkissed right here.
Some other sunkissed,
looks like there's even maybe a little bit
of diffused stuff going on in here?
Again with corn snakes,
a lot of times when you breed them
there's a lot of other genetics going on, right?
Because there's so many mutations in corn snakes,
typically things are het, possible het, all this stuff.
So a bunch of cool things hatch out, like for instance,
this a snow corn snake right here,
and the parents weren't supposed to be het for snow.
But obviously we got a snow,
and that's kind of how corn snakes go.
You produce a bunch of wild stuff.
Definitely a bunch of cool little babies that have again,
a lot of cool genetics in them.
So how crazy is that, twin snakes?
That is absolutely epic.
I hope that you enjoyed this video.
If you did, here's a playlist of me cutting
a bunch of other eggs,
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