- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start to your day is amazing.
I always start my day with my girl Ivy, just 'cause,
I don't know, I love my girl Ivy.
And you know,
there were two things that as a career, I wanted.
I wanted a huge, tame anaconda.
Guess what?
Ivy, I've got it.
You know, Verde's great too,
and one day Verde's gonna be really big.
The other thing is,
I want to one day produce green anacondas.
And I've talked to you guys about this.
Should I get a male?
Shouldn't I get a male?
I don't know.
Well, someone reached out to me and said that they had
a male that's about seven or eight foot long.
They've had it since it was a baby.
Dog tame, was his pet,
and he just can't take care of it any more,
and he sent me a bunch of videos and pictures.
Well, guess what?
He's coming up today, so Ivy is about to get a boyfriend,
and he's gonna be here any minute.
(air whooshing)
It's always nice to start your day
with some beautiful babies.
Of course, this is a rough-scaled sand boa.
Now, there's a whole bunch of different sand boas.
The most common sand boa is kind of the Kenyan sand boas,
when it comes to the pet trade,
but rough-scales are really cool.
And this is about as big as they get,
they're just absolutely beautiful, and I tell you what,
I see a little baby head poking up over here.
Yup, these guys have live young.
Let's go ahead and see what she's got.
This little baby, and look at how I love the fact
that the little babies look just like the adult.
Just a little more.
Oh, look at this little baby head right there!
Look at its head!
Oh my gosh, its little nose poking out.
These guys are amazing.
So we've got one little baby now,
and I'm just gonna put Mom over here
so that she's not mad at me.
And I'm just gonna kind of go searching around.
These guys don't have huge litters like Kenyan sand boas.
They typically have anywhere from four to 10 babies.
So we have two out so far.
Here's a number three right here.
And Mama doesn't look like she's too deflated,
that's for sure.
So it doesn't look like she has that many.
Oh, here's a couple more.
Here's number four, and number five.
And look at how awesome those little baby sand boas are.
Oh my God, I love little baby sand boas.
Let's see if there's any more in here
without Mama biting us, of course.
Let's see. Oh, there's one right here!
Yup.
There's number six, so this is actually
a pretty good-sized litter.
Six, is there any more?
Looks like six might be the end.
So what we'll do is we'll get her you can see
there's a couple little infertile masses here.
We'll get this cage all cleaned up, get Mama all set up.
She should go back onto food literally
within a day or two.
And sand boas only have one litter per year, so that's it.
But look at these six cute little babies right here.
Oh my God!
It's so absolutely adorable.
And I've been working with these conicus,
or rough-scaled sand boas, since I was like 18 years old.
So I have always fallen in love with them.
It is so cool, and so awesome to get the day started
with a bunch of live baby snakes.
(air whooshing)
Even though clutches have been going crazy,
right, guess what?
We still are getting ovulations.
This is actually a ghost ball python that spread
to a champagne ghost or what they call a mimosa.
And that's a beautiful ovulation,
so we're still 50 days away from this girl laying,
and we still have one or two more females still
yet to ovulate, so we're gonna be getting clutches
for another probably two, two and a half months.
Even though there's not many left,
it's still the season's gonna go
on for quite some time.
And guess what, guys?
They are here!
I am so excited about this.
Hey guys, what's going on?
Come on in!
Oh my God, I'm trying not to even look
at it because I wanna see it.
I'm like, oh my gosh.
This is so good.
Thank you guys for coming. - Yeah, no problem.
- You said you're from the Columbus, Ohio area?
- Yes. - Well, thank you guys.
I appreciate you so, so much.
So, oh by the way, I like the tattoos, man, looking good.
- Oh, yeah, it's of him.
- Oh, it's really? - Yeah.
- Oh my God, oh, that is awesome, man.
So let's go ahead and let's just take a look.
I mean, I can't wait any longer.
Let's see what this monkey looks like.
Oh my, he's beautiful!
Oh my gosh.
Now, how long have you had him?
- About four years. - About four years.
- Yeah. - And he's like
your baby, yeah? - Oh, yeah.
Yeah. - Oh my gosh.
I know he was kind of a little bit bummed out.
Like, I can't believe I'm gonna, but I know he is
gonna have an amazing life here.
Look at this animal!
Unbelievable.
And he's chill, huh?
- Yeah, he's pretty chill. - He's pretty chill. (laughs)
Yeah, pretty chill.
- I've gotten nipped before, but I mean,
usually it's when like food is around.
- Yeah, yeah, no, he seems to be really good.
He seems to be a good animal right now,
we'll see what happens.
Worst case is we'll get him situated for sure,
but you know, Ivy needs a boyfriend.
And I tell you what, I am so excited about this.
Oh my gosh!
Oh my gosh, look at this, guys.
It is gorgeous.
Oh my goodness gracious.
So what we'll do is we'll definitely, you know,
give it a little quarantine time, stuff like that.
Probably keep it at BHB for about a month or so.
Just number one, get its mannerisms,
understand the animal, make sure it settles
in without the stress of things here at the reptarium.
And then hey, guess what,
we'll have about a month from now,
we're gonna have a little escape party in Ivy's tank.
I don't know what she's gonna do.
I don't know if she's gonna be like all into it or not.
I'm not sure what's gonna happen,
but I tell you what,
this is a dream come true because again,
I've always wanted that huge anaconda,
and I've always wanted to try to breed anacondas.
And this gives us the opportunity to do so,
so I cannot thank you guys enough for doing this.
This is so amazing.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I'm gonna show these guys around the reptarium
and give them a little bit of a tour and stuff like that,
and we're gonna hang out with Mike.
Has he got a name, by the way?
- Aries. - Aries!
All right.
So guys, I want you to meet Aries,
the beautiful male green anaconda.
Although my obsession with green anacondas started
when I was really young because obviously,
I mean, they're iconic.
Green anacondas.
Verde was my first green anaconda that I ever had,
and it's, you know, she's a little girl, still.
I mean, she's a couple years old,
but they grow slow in the beginning and then
they really start to explode.
So it's crazy to think that Verde started kind
of the whole thing.
Then, of course, Ivy came along,
and now we have Aries, the boy.
So we now have a trio of green anacondas,
how absolutely amazing.
And I think it's really cool,
because we can take Verde out for kids.
You know, small kids that just can't hold a bigger snake,
and now we can take Aries out for kids and adults
that can handle something that's you know,
six, seven foot.
And then of course,
we've got Ivy reserved for the coolest things,
where you pull her out.
So I love the fact that we have all three of 'em.
And like I said,
I cannot wait to get Aries past his quarantine,
get him in with Ivy.
Can you imagine?
What is she gonna do?
How are they gonna react together?
That's gonna be cool.
So here in about another month, we're gonna find out.
We've got a little clutch of all pythons
that actually hatched out that we cut a few days ago,
and they are really, absolutely beautiful.
It was actually just a yellow belly female bred
to a Mojave calico B, and the interesting thing is,
we didn't really hit any calico stuff.
Looks like this is just a normal spider.
Doesn't look like a yellow belly or anything.
But then both of these animals are actually Mojave
spider yellow bellies.
We just missed on the calico part.
These guys would be so amazing if they had calico in them,
but nevertheless, they're pretty cool.
Now, this one could potentially have calico
because the Mojave and the calico actually don't mix
as well as say,
pastel calico or spider calico or something like that.
So that kind of reduces the amount of pink.
So, as this one actually has a shed or two,
it may actually be the Mojave calico yellow belly
that I was really searching for.
But nevertheless, they're definitely Mojave spiders
that are calico, so that's pretty cool.
Absolutely beautiful little rippers.
And today we're actually gonna be cutting a clutch of,
I think there's two, four, six, eight, nine eggs.
These are kind of building block animals
for future projects, right?
So obviously we could have mahogany pinstripes,
we could have mahogany chocolate pinstripes,
we could have chocolate pinstripes.
All stuff towards that kind of really dark animal,
and eventually, maybe then producing a sumo pinstripe,
which is a really dark animal that could even be
more interesting with the pinstripe gene.
So let's just go ahead, jump in to egg number one.
And again, I love the darker gene animals.
It's something I've always been really kind
of involved with.
And we've produced the very first chocolate pins way
back in the day, and weirdly enough,
the first egg is a normal.
How is that?
That is really interesting.
You would normally not get a normal ball python
if you bred this many genes together.
But doesn't matter, we're gonna keep on moving on.
We've got eight more eggs.
And let's just start that way.
Let's see what we have here.
Okay, oh wait a second here.
Well, we have something that has thrown a monkey
wrench in stuff here, guys.
We have a spinner right now.
And what I'll have to do is,
let's go ahead keep cutting this clutch.
Because that tells me that the dad can't be a mahogany.
Possible chocolate because obviously
we wouldn't have a spinner.
Meaning at some point, a male got in there.
Now, there could be a chance
that Mary, when she first was breeding this season,
had a male in.
Hopefully she marked it down.
I know when I was breeding this,
I never put any other male in.
So now we have a mystery we have to unfold.
I'll go back and look at that cart to make sure
there's not a note on it that I missed.
But chances are that a male got in here
before I started breeding.
Okay, no big deal.
Looks interesting.
Possibly even a chocolate spinner.
Not 100% sure.
So maybe the banana chocolate spinner was in here.
I don't know, guys.
Let's just go ahead and keep cutting.
All right, let's see if we can unravel this mystery.
And you know, I don't mind this stuff
because I think it's kind of fun, right?
It's fun to kind of not know what to expect,
and you kind of figure it out as you're cutting eggs.
It's like even more exciting.
And so, okay, so now we definitely have what looks
to be a spider ball python,
possibly a spider chocolate ball python.
I think this might be a spider chocolate ball python,
which is weird in itself,
because now I've got to figure out if the male has
maybe chocolate pinstripe and spider in it.
I'm not 100% sure.
We've got enough eggs where we hopefully will unravel.
If we produce a banana in any of these,
then I know who the dad is for sure.
It will be that banana chocolate spinner.
But we'll see what's going on.
Let's cut the next egg.
And what do we have in this egg, here?
Another spinner.
This is getting so weird, guys.
And the spinners are really kind of interesting looking.
Not like a normal spinner.
A spinner is a spider and a pinstripe.
These look like really reduced.
Guys, I wish I knew what these were.
I mean, this is driving me crazy.
Okay, now I'm gonna cover up this bunch.
And I got to go check the cart to see
if there was another male in here.
Let's go ahead and just keep going.
Even if I just add one thing that was really definitive,
it would tell me what's going on, but unfortunately,
it's a pinstripe.
Just a normal pinstripe.
So, so far we've had two, four, five eggs.
Still don't know what the heck is going on.
So nevertheless, I mean, they're beautiful babies.
Just not what I expected.
I was hoping for these dark, you know, mahogany,
chocolate pinstripes and we haven't hit anything
like that at all.
So let's go ahead and keep going.
We've got four more eggs.
Four eggs, I hope that we'll figure out what the heck
is going on here.
Nope, we're not gonna find out much
with this one either.
Again, another weird-looking spider ball python.
Again, definitely another gene in there,
not just a spider, but with three eggs left to go,
we'll either know or not,
and we'll go right down to the dungeon and see
if we can't unravel what the heck is going on here.
So let's just go ahead and jump onto the next one.
It's not often that I get baffled, you know?
Every now and then,
an animal can be in there that I'm like, oh okay,
now I get it.
This one, I am pretty baffled on,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
And again, a really weird-looking spiderish animal.
But it doesn't look like the normal spider at all.
At all.
That is not a normal spider ball python.
Maybe it's a spider chocolate.
But if it was a spider chocolate,
it would have to be the banana chocolate spinner.
It's the only one that I would have that would
produce this, and we haven't hit a banana yet.
So I don't know what's going on, guys.
No clue, two more eggs.
I would feel so much better if we hit a banana,
just because I would know who the dad was.
But we did not.
Again, a weird-looking spider ish animal,
not a normal spider.
Something unusual.
No clue, guys.
Last egg.
We're either gonna figure it out now.
And like I said, as soon as I'm done here,
running to the dungeon, go and look.
If there is nothing on that cart,
I don't know what's gonna happen.
We're gonna let these guys hatch
and we'll maybe hopefully figure it out.
But that is weird.
I can't even fathom in my head what the father
could potentially be.
Because I can't think of anything I've bred
this year that would have these results.
Not one male.
So I don't know what's going on.
Last egg.
And another weird spider!
What in the heck is going on here?
What is that?
Well, there you go, guys.
I didn't expect the results of this clutch,
I can honestly tell you that.
So I'm gonna go ahead,
just close this up and we're gonna go downstairs
and we're gonna investigate together.
(upbeat music)
So I know exactly which female this is,
so I'm gonna come over here and take a look and see
if we can start to unravel things here.
It is actually this pinstripe female, so again,
nothing too unusual here.
Just looks like a standard pinstripe.
So that part is all good.
Obviously, we have our tag right here, what got bred.
I'm looking through.
Mahogany, mahogany, mahogany, mahogany.
Not one breeding with anything else.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the male and see
if he looks a little bit different too.
And here's the culprit that did all
the breeding this year.
I mean, again, this is definitely a mahogany chocolate.
Nothing more to it.
It's not got spider in it, it's not got anything in it.
So that's the thing.
There's no spider in the male or the female,
yet we've produced spinners and spiders.
The only thing I could say is there must have
been retention of sperm from the year before.
I'll have to go back in my egg data book and find
out what bred her last year.
And then when these guys crawl out,
maybe we'll finally figure it out.
Doesn't happen much.
I mean, literally, maybe once a year,
once every other year I'm gonna have a clutch
like this where I am completely just baffled
by the results.
So there it is, Ivy got her boyfriend Aries.
I mean, how absolutely incredible is that?
Again, we'll give him a month or so quarantine.
Get him in, gonna see what she does.
It's gonna be pretty absolutely amazing.
Cannot wait to just see the interaction, it's gonna be cool.
And then who knows,
maybe next year we're gonna have some baby anacondas.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
We'll just have to play it by ear.
But that's pretty awesome, isn't it?
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