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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I'm down here in the dungeon and guess what today is?
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
But this is a pretty special egg time
because this is our hundredth clutch.
And it's a pretty special hundredth clutch too.
This is actually a Killer Bee Bamboo and it's bred
to a Lemon Blast extreme gene Enchi.
Oh my gosh, i'm so excited.
I couldn't be happier that this is my hundredth clutch.
I mean, what a combination.
Let's see if mama has some good eggs.
I hope she does, looks good.
They look good.
So far it looks really good.
I always like to have the significant numbers like a hundred
or 200 or whatever.
They have really good clutches.
So this is absolutely amazing.
Look at this female right here.
She is so absolutely adorable.
I mean the mutations in her and bred
to that Lemon Blast extreme gene Enchi.
Oh my Gosh, I cannot imagine what these eggs
are gonna be when they hatch out.
So let's just go ahead and try to see
if we can get these eggs in the egg box really quick.
And then we could take a closer look.
And last couple and mama's being really well behaved.
So let's go ahead and see how many eggs there are.
Two, four, six, seven eggs.
So seven eggs isn't a huge clutch.
It's a beautiful clutch, no slugs for the hundredth clutch,
I'm gonna take it probably top five. top six best clutches
of the year as far as genetics go, so that is awesome.
And guess what guys, we now have a hundred clutches
of Ball Pythons on the ground.
Next up, we actually have an Enchi female.
And a lot of times I've mentioned Enchis
don't typically have a lot of good eggs for whatever reason.
Let's hope this one is.
Let's just take a little bit of a peek.
Oh my gosh! she has a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Are you kidding me!
I ate my words on that one.
Definitely a nice clutch and she was actually bred
to an extreme gene Lemon Blast Enchi.
So we could get some Lemon Blast Super Enchi Extremes,
all kinds of different stuff.
This is a beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
So I'm just gonna go ahead, get mama off her eggs.
Well actually, we'll pull these eggs
that are on the side first to see.
Are these all set?
She is not happy she, is hissing at me,
She is not happy today for sure.
Get her, she's got one egg in her, put that aside.
Look at all these beautiful eggs right there.
Hold doggy, tell you what, just get these off.
Mama's definitely not gonna be happy in a second.
Get all these eggs aside right here.
We'll put mama back, we'll get her cage all cleaned up
and stuff like that ready to go.
Look at this clutch right here.
Two four six eight 10 beautiful eggs.
I tell you what, that's a pretty darn good day of eggs.
Right, wow, I tell you what,
a lot of really cool Ball Python eggs
to start the day.
But we have alot left in this vlog.
So let's just get on to the next thing.
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Not gonna lie to you.
You know I've got so many things on my plate.
I don't get a chance to really look through
our razor colubrids that often.
And Lori's doing an amazing job of raising these things up.
So I'm just gonna run through a few
that are pretty dope that's for sure.
Of course this is a Licorice Stick
or what they call a white sided black Ratsnake.
The reason they call them Licorice Sticks at first,
is a guy out Maryland found one in the wild.
And you can see it almost looks like Black Licorice
that's down its back.
These guys are super cool at recessive mutation,
absolutely wonderful.
And you guys know I love Corn Snakes.
I mean really the first clutch of snakes I actually bred
was a corn snake believe it or not.
This is actually a Hypo Sun-kissed Okeetee.
So it's the Okeetee locality, the Sun-kissed
is actually recessive and the Hypo is recessive.
And this one's got a very interesting
kinda almost like pumpkiny orange look to it.
They don't normally look this cool, this one is a riper.
- Today I actually am gonna start working
a little bit further with our Rhino Iguanas.
I wanted to show you guys a little bit
of what we're gonna to try and do, at least the attempt.
What we're actually wanting out of our Iguanas,
is we wanna be able to come and see everybody.
However they love to do that, they don't necessarily
like to go right back in, like too easily.
So what we've actually thought was like Okay,
so we need some sort of signal.
So they know like, hey if we run into that
well run back home,
we're gonna get a treat, everything's gonna be great.
And it's a positive thing for them to like,
really wanna go back home.
Basically, what I'm gonna do
is I'm gonna have to get a dog clicker,
I'm gonna to try and show them the fear
of them having to come up on me,
play with them a little bit,
get them distracted a little bit, and then use that food
to sort of manipulate them to go by using the dog clicker.
In the same way we do the alligators,
but we're doing it with the Rhino Iguanas this time.
And it's gonna be something completely different.
We're gonna try it, just like with everything
we've ever done here.
We don't necessarily go into it saying it's going happen.
We just kinda go with the flow, move as we go.
So let's do this man, It's gonna be fun.
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Well now that I got them out
and we got a little distracted with food
and stuff like that,
I'm gonna play with him a little bit
and then at some point I'm gonna try and get
as close as I can to the cage
and make this very simple for him, like click sound,
food's here, go get it.
That's basically what we're gonna try and make it
as simple as possible.
You don't wanna do quite like how we do the alligators.
We do a constant click.
We want a very clear click, click,.
and that's it, that's all I want.
So I want them to be able to hear that click, click,
go in.
And that's all we're sort of looking for
out of these guys.
I know buddy, I love you too.
It's gonna be kinda interesting to see how they do.
I think they're gonna do pretty well though.
I mean, like, look at them.
They really...
When they see food, they really wanna go after it.
So let's try it.
(water burbling) (soft music)
(clicking)
Here we go, this girl.
(clicking)
Good job guys, good job, good job.
They're just like with dogs guys,
who want a heavy, heavy treat
when you do a good thing.
It doesn't matter
even if seems like a really small one.
I said once these guy (mumbles)
if your honey you gotta go in the cup.
Once you guys see these guys go
like really, really excited over the food like this,
and they come in here and they're gonna really be like,
"Whoa, I got so much food when I did this last time."
And so hopefully this reinforces that
over and over and over again and it really gets them
to really wanna be like okay.
Like I know when I hear that dog click
that means go back in here.
- Of course they're raising up some rhino ratsnakes.
and this one is a feisty little monkey right here.
And these guys go through an ontogenetic color change.
Where they are gray as babies and then turn
this beautiful green color with the crazy whites.
And my gosh, I've never seen a rhino ratsnake
so absolutely upset before.
So I'm gonna go ahead and set this one down.
Doggy, but we got some coming up
that (chuckles) are looking great.
Back to a corn snake and these guys are ridiculous.
I have to get more of these this year.
These are called palmetto corn snakes.
It's kind of like a miniature cow reticulated python, right?
It looks kinda (chuckles) like a cow.
The difference is this is a recessive mutation,
and they're born with these spots.
So they don't get them when they get older.
This is how she's gonna look her whole life.
I love this snake so much.
So I'm definitely gonna adding
a bunch more palmetto corns this year,
because they are crazy cool.
I'm here with Jessica.
What do we have - A Crested Gecko today.
- Oh my gosh!
Look at that.
Whoa, little monkey
That's crazy, it's so beautiful.
I tell you, crested geckos are some
of the most beautiful little geckos.
It's just crazy.
I guess it's because...
Whoa! (laughing)
We better put that lid on before it goes out.
It's just crazy because there's so calm
and that people are breeding them.
Now that so many people breed them.
It seems like they're common,
but the Fact is they're just so amazing, right?
- They all look different too
even within a more flight, there is so much variation,
which is really cool.
- I know that's so cool.
So lets go irk another crested gecko.
Guys don't forget that we have the new merch drop out.
Of course, we've got Ivy with hugs and without hugs.
We also have Lucy with hogs and without hugs.
You can go down the link in description.
They are only gonna be available for a limited time.
I think they are amazing cause they wrap
completely around you super, super coupled.
Definitely the best quality shirts we've ever had before.
There's no doubt about it.
So if you guys are interested, for a limited time
you can get your merch.
Again link down in the description.
And I hope that you guys enjoy them.
Just got a package in from Tanya Lang.
From Arizona Sunlakes ah priority overnight.
So it looks like it might be something special.
"I live in a state of grateful and joyful embrace.
"Each new day and I'm grateful for this moment."
So this is obviously some essential oils,
I believe it is so thank you so much.
And then there is a little memory stick here
that I obviously have to watch,
which I really appreciate it.
"In the past year I've created a line of oil
"and crystal blends.
"Each oil carries a fragrances and energy
"of an oil theme."
I actually love essential oils by the way.
"One of the scents is called gratitude.
"It's meant to be used in conjunction with information
"I included."
Her Facebook page, by the way is The Art of Gratitude
with Tanya Lee essential vibration oil.
Thank you so much.
And by the way, I'm gonna take a look at this.
I'm gonna use it.
I really am a big fan of this type of treatment.
And I'm doing okay guys.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I always try to distract myself,
but you guys have been overwhelming with your support
and it really has lifted by spirits.
Thank you so much.
I'm not gonna lie and tell you that
every day isn't a struggle right now
but I'm looking at the positives.
I know I will get better.
I will share that journey with you.
I can't wait Tanya to see what you have here.
And thank you guys so much for everything.
We will get through this.
And I can't wait to be on the other side.
So clutch number three that we caught actually hatched out
and there's some really gorgeous babies here.
This was just that pinstripe female,
bred to a fire yellow belly.
And we just have a bunch of cool stuff.
As a matter of fact, it was interesting
that I thought the entire clutch was actually Fires
and a combination thereof.
But there actually turns out that there was
one little animal in here that wasn't a fire.
And it's this one right here,
which is actually a pinstripe yellow belly.
So this one didn't have fire in it.
But everything else in the clutch was actually fire,
which is weird.
These were just two normal fire all pythons.
So they didn't have the yellow belly, but the fire.
But then you can kinda see the difference
with this one right here,
in particular with the belly,
you'll kinda start to see as I untwine this here, is that
that is the yellow belly trait right there.
So this is a fire yellow belly.
And it's cool because it has what they call
flaming up the sides and stuff like that.
Just a really, absolutely gorgeous animal.
And then again, just another normal fire here.
And then this one here is actually a pinstripe fire.
So it didn't have the yellow belly in it.
So this is just pinstripe and fire.
Again, that fire gene was really strong in this but...
And then finally we got the three banger here which
is the fire, the pinstripe and the yellow belly.
You can really see the flaming in the sides.
You can see that kind of diffused pattern
where the pinstripe is that's that fire gene
and the yellow belly gene working together.
Firepin yellow bellies are absolutely incredible.
and again a really cool powerhouse animal to breed
to other things.
So that's it, that's the third clutch
that we caught hatched out all out of the egg.
Still working on the egg hatching cam.
I probably will get that up and running here
in the next couple weeks or something like that.
That way you guys could actually watch these things hatch.
Which I think would be pretty cool.
So we are working on it, Stay tuned.
I remember hatching this albino hunter and Milk Snake
and remember thinking it looked like
those Halloween candies
The candy corns or whatever.
It's just cool, I've never hatched one with this kind
of banding before with that big yellow kind of oranges band.
It's looking really good, now as a yearling.
Next year it should be upsize to breed.
Then of course there's gray banded ingsnake
like this Blair's Phase.
They actually have Alterna phase two,
that have like black and orange alternating bands and
some alternate actually don't have
any orange bands at all.
But these are a West Texas Kingsnake
that It's just absolutely incredible.
I'm working with these guys forever.
But we raised up a new group this year.
So next year, we should be able to produce all
these beautiful babies.
Gray banded and Kingsnakes have been
just one of those surreal,
unbelievably beautiful animals that I've loved
my entire life.
So as you can see, there's a lot of really cool stuff
that we have coming up.
And then last animal I'm gonna show you
and this is only a spattering of the animals
that we're actually raising up.
But look at this scaleless texas rastnake right here.
Huh it's a little bit feisty, there's no doubt about it.
But it's just like fire engine colored.
It's got those white splotches on its side.
We have a few of these that hatched
out of the same clutch, that have that kind
of white pied side going on.
Not sure if it's gonna be something genetic or not,
but these should be up to size to breed next year.
So and we have so many more animals and
this year we'll raise up even more.
And although I haven't had time to really look through
and see what Laura has been doing with them.
When I look through today I have to share
because I am over the top excited about these animals.
Can you believe that we have 100 clutches of ball pythons
on the ground right now that is absolutely incredible.
What a wild ride
As a matter of fact here's a playlist of a bunch
of eggs if you just wanna watch us collecting eggs
for a bunch of time. (chuckles)
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