- Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I'm starting my day with my girl, Perdita here,
of course, the cow reticulated python.
Now, she is an amazing animal,
but not everyone can keep reticulated pythons,
'cause, so could you imagine a reticulated python
that was in a pint size?
Let's say a corn snake size.
Well, guess what.
I have to unbox a shipment right now
that has that exact same thing.
It has an animal as beautiful as Perdita,
looks very similar, but is a corn snake.
What do you say we just go ahead and unbox this?
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Well Lori came at me with a kind of a surprise.
Had no idea she ordered a little box here,
and I was pretty shocked when she told me what was in it.
And I said, "You know what? Let me unbox these."
Because I'm sure you guys would like
to see what's inside them as much as I will.
And, here we go!
(glass shattering)
And by the way,
I don't know even where she bought these. So, I'm sorry.
I would love to shout out the company that sent them to us.
Thank you, whoever you are.
I don't have any information, so I don't know who it is,
but regardless, Lori just ordered these,
and they showed up, and I love these guys.
You guys know that love
the little cow reticulated pythons, right?
Well, these aren't cow reticulated pythons,
but they sure look a lot like the cow reticulated pythons.
These are what they call palmetto corn snakes,
and hoo doggy, look at how gorgeous they are.
And unlike the cows,
they're born with the same amount of spots
they're gonna keep their whole life.
So they look like miniature cows,
but again, they're not born white and then get the spots,
they're actually born with the spots.
But of course, as they get bigger,
the spots become a little bit more pronounced
and stuff like that.
But absolutely incredible palmetto corns.
I'm gonna go ahead and take a look at the other ones,
'cause again, much like the cows,
each one is completely different, right?
They're all gonna have a little bit different colors,
a little bit of different patterns,
all that type of stuff, which is pretty cool.
And look at this one right here. Look at this!
It's got a really cool marking right on top of its head.
(chuckles) That thing is gorgeous!
And again, these will turn pure white, just like Perdita,
but again, just have different spots,
and they won't get more spots as they get older.
And it looks like we actually got two pair of these guys.
Again, I didn't even know they were coming in,
but I was super excited about it,
'cause I told Lori, maybe like a month ago,
that I thought that we should add some,
'cause we only have one female palmetto corn right now.
It's a yearling.
As a matter of fact,
I want to go ahead and take a look at her in a second,
just to show you what these guys are gonna look like
in a year, because I tell you what,
they're absolutely stunning.
So, that's two of 'em.
We'll take a look at the last one,
just to see what that one looks like,
and then we'll go look at that yearling.
And take a look at this last one. Oh my goodness gracious!
That's definitely my favorite of the bunch
'cause it has really dark markings.
These guys can sometimes have red,
orange markings, yellow markings.
This one looks like it's got the brown markings on it,
which just makes it look really cool,
much more like a cow reticulated python.
So I'm super excited
that we got some more palmetto corn snakes.
And I probably need to add some more,
to be totally honest with you,
'cause these things are unbelievably amazing.
So let's go ahead, take a look at that older one,
just to show you what these things are gonna look like
here in a year.
And this is what those babies are gonna look like
in a year from now.
It is stunning, isn't it?
I mean, literally it is very similar to a cow retic.
And like I'd mentioned, this one has a lot of orange in it,
just a little bit of grays in it, but that one
looks like it's got a lot of kinda grays and browns in it,
so it's gonna even look more like a cow reticulated python.
But the good news is is that this is pretty much 90% grown.
So palmetto corns have been around
for, say, I don't know, maybe 10 or 12 years.
They used to be like $2500.
Now they're actually relatively inexpensive,
like maybe two, 300 bucks, something like that.
But the fact is they're very hard to get,
because people like me want to buy 'em all up,
if you know what I mean.
But they are amazing,
and that's why we wanted to raise up a nice group of these.
Because I think when these guys are like 75, 100 bucks,
man, these are gonna be one of the most popular corn snakes
in the world because they are absolutely stunning.
And again, it's a recessive mutation,
so it's not allelic like the cows.
I mean, if you breed a palmetto corn to a palmetto corn,
you get 100% palmetto corns.
It's just a single mutation, which is just absolutely crazy
to think that this animal literally came out of the wild
like 10 years ago, and is now being reproduced.
Unbelievable, I couldn't be happier
that we've got a couple more pair of these on the shelf now.
Like I said, now I'm in the hunt for some more of 'em
because they are so incredible.
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Let's go ahead and see if Jerry wants to eat right now.
Again, usually Jerry starts to eat
when Ben is almost done with the food.
So we'll just go ahead and offer,
and see if there's any interest.
Come on, Jerry. Let's do it, let's take it.
Aw, it doesn't seem like there's any interest at all here.
I'm gonna keep trying,
but it just doesn't show any interest.
But I tell you what, guys,
this time, I don't think Jerry's gonna eat.
So let's just go ahead and offer Ben another meal.
And again, because these guys
really are sharing the same nutrition,
Jerry doesn't have to eat.
Ben can do all the eating,
but I just like to see 'em both eat at the same time.
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So Lori called me and said
that she actually bought these poles, these dowels,
and she wanted me to do something with them.
I don't know if she wants to make some balance beams
for some gymnastics in here.
Not sure what we're doing with these,
but I'm going to go find Lori,
and find out what she needs me to do.
So Lori, what is, what's up with these beams?
- Believe it or not, I wanted to do gymnastics
at the Reptarium. - Really?
Are you serious? I think that's a great idea.
We could probably do it over a gator pond or something.
- Exactly. No, that's not what I was thinking.
- [Brian] What are you thinking about?
What are you seriously thinking about?
I don't know what you're doing.
- I'm always trying to update
and see what can work out good for the gift shop area.
- Okay. - So I have an idea
for one of my displays.
- [Brian] What are you thinking?
- Well, I got this bottom part
that really just doesn't get used, 'cause I got nothing
that fits. - Okay, so these are our crazy
snakes over here. - Yeah.
- These things are so cool. - And this more
for smaller things - Look at that.
- that I don't have. - Okay.
- So, my thoughts are to cut these poles
to where it'll go from here to the ground.
- Okay. - Just screw 'em in each side.
And then we've got these little guys.
- [Brian] And they'll go on the poles.
- Yes.
- [Brian] And then the poles will go over to here.
- [Lori] Yes, so then I can display 'em.
- [Brian] And this spins, or no, this can't spin.
- No, it's not supposed to, so it won't spin
once you screw it. - So they'll just have,
people will walk around.
- Exactly, yeah. - Okay.
So how many of these do you want? You want all of 'em?
- Yes. - Really?
- Yes, I bought enough to do 10.
- [Brian] To do 10?
- There's 10 of 'em.
- [Brian] Okay, and do you want 'em at this height
or do you want 'em at a different height?
- No, I figure about that height.
It might go a little bit lower,
'cause I think this was a little higher than 30 inches.
- Okay. - If you just want to cut 'em
to 30 to make it easy.
- And adjust that down. - And then this
can go down a little bit.
- Okay. - But I figure
it should be super easy if we just chop 'em,
one screw in the top, one screw in the bottom, right?
- Super easy.
That's what she always says
when she's telling me to do something.
Okay, I'll get to it. - Just do it.
- Okay, I'll get to it.
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(saw buzzing)
(dowel clatters)
(drill whirring)
So what do you think, Lori? It's done.
- Oh my gosh. Look at that.
It's perfect, and it didn't even take you that long.
- [Brian] Yep, it's, yep, that's-
- Or did you allude that this took like four days?
- No, this was, it's perfect. - Okay. (laughs)
- Let's try it. Put one on.
I wanna see how it looks. - All right, yes.
- I wanna see how it looks. - I am excited, let's see.
- It was really a good idea though,
because, again, when they're up on the shelf,
they're not as cool.
And then now you can just put 'em like this. That's perfect.
- [Lori] It is. I love it!
- [Brian] Right at kid level too.
- Yes, exactly. - Perfect.
- Yeah. - That's a great,
it was a great idea for you, I mean, that's,
I think it worked out good. - Super happy.
Love it. - Awesome.
Awesome. - Turned out great.
- Sweet! (Lori chuckles)
One more project done.
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(blade whooshing)
We have a pretty good size clutch here.
This is actually nine eggs bred to a pinstripe
that's hetfer axanthic, bred to a double-het lavender snow.
So we hopefully can hit some pinstripes axanthics
that are hetfer lavender.
That would be pretty cool.
So, let's just go ahead and see what we have.
Let's see where our odds are,
and let's go into the first egg.
All right, we hit the one earlier.
We hit an axanthic from a similar breeding,
but it wasn't a pin axanthic.
And then right off the rip,
we just hit a, is it possible, double-het.
So, just a normal ball python, basically.
That's not the way I wanted to start off,
but hey, you guys know I want to end good, not start good.
Let's just go ahead and go into egg number two.
All right, even if I just get one axanthic,
it'd start to make me feel better.
So what we have here is just a pinstripe,
possible het lavender snow.
Not getting very far on this one.
Let's go to egg number three.
We're just gonna bang through these
'til we get something awesome.
And like I always mention, awesome is just hatching snakes,
to be honest with you.
So it doesn't really matter.
And this is definitely,
you can see right here, that's a pinstripe,
but you can see that axanthic expression, right?
It's kind of a visual het.
That's definitely axanthic, possible het lavender.
Still have two, four, six eggs to go.
And I hope you guys aren't getting bored of egg cutting yet
because we have a lot, lot, lot, lot, lot more to go here.
Although I guess we're about 55, 60% of the way there.
So we still have a lot more eggs to cut,
but this is another pinstripe.
No axanthics yet, guys.
So, let's hope we hit something here in the next five eggs.
Here we go.
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All right, nope, no axanthic.
Just a normal ball python double-hetfer lavender snow.
So, so far we've been wiffin' pretty hard, guys,
but that's okay.
We're still getting some beautiful babies.
And again, I might raise a few of these up
if they're females, to prove 'em out,
because you can always, you can never have enough females
that could potentially produce really cool stuff.
So, let's see what this next egg is.
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And like I always mention,
you're not gonna hit every single clutch as a banger,
you know what I mean?
You're gonna have some clutches where you're like,
"Ah, that's too bad."
And the fact that this is a het to het
gives my odds a little bit long.
But to be honest with you,
about one in four should be axanthic.
About one in six should be pin axanthic.
With nine eggs, I would have thought my odds
were good enough to hit at least one pin axanthic.
But so far we even, we haven't even hit one axanthic.
So, three eggs to go.
All right, here we go, guys.
Let's see, bup bup bup bup bup bup, another normal.
It starts to make you wonder,
is there a chance that something went awry?
I have no idea. Two eggs.
If we have one axanthic, then it was just bad odds.
If we have no axanthics, then it makes me wonder.
I know the male has already produced an axanthic,
so he's definitely proven.
The female was supposed to be a het VPI axanthic,
but there's always a chance
that something was wrong there too.
So, let's hope we hit in the next two eggs.
(upbeat chill music) (water rushing)
Another normal pinstripe.
So we're down to one egg, guys.
So again, what'll happen is
if we don't hit an axanthic here,
I'll probably change that female
from a pinstripe het VPI axanthic to a female possible het,
because that tells me that there's a chance
she may actually not be het.
Don't get me wrong.
With nine eggs, we could've just missed the odds,
but we do still have one egg to go,
so you never know what's gonna happen.
Let's see what's in there.
Okay, here we go. Will there be a axanthic or not?
Boop boop boop. Nope, there is not.
It looks like definitely just a pinstripe
that is possible het axanthic.
So, again, now what it is,
is the fact that sometimes you might have bought an animal
that's het that isn't a het, or even produced an animal
that may have retained sperm from the year before.
She may not be a het.
This is her first clutch, so I've never proved her out yet.
So, now I'm moving her to a probable het
instead of an absolute het.
And we'll try maybe one more year,
and if she doesn't produce an axanthic next year,
then we'll just stop breeding her to axanthic,
and start over, and use her for a different project.
But nevertheless, we still got a bunch of really cool babies
and that's how breeding snakes goes.
So how about that? A little tiny, Perdita.
For those of you guys that didn't know,
palmetto corns are really pretty amazing animals.
They stay small,
but they almost look like a cow reticulated python.
I absolutely love these guys,
and can't wait to grow a bigger group of 'em.
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