hey everybody hope you enjoyed the first part now from for part two of our awesome reptile tour
at wildfire retics where we start seeing the big snakes and we really get into some questions about
genetics starting with this guy a classic purple to me when done correctly i don't think there's
much that beats it and this is my girl i did not produce her again that credit goes to my boy
called lucas retic keeper paul has a purple female this girl's mom named sunshine and this girl is
aptly named solei because she is just as bright as her mom and her head just glows yeah it's
so that is that is part of what i believe you have to have to have a real purple retic
without that super bright yellow head and the yellow underbelly like that
you're just not really dealing with a real purple in my opinion again i'm not not talking smack on
anybody else's program or their snakes but this is what a purple should look like and
you know i got her from paul um because of sunshine because of how incredible she was
and i actually so that is her half sister there that purple gc um and then i actually have her
half brother over here in this rack um that is a purple phantom so i have a uh offspring from
every one of sunshine's clutches wow so and that is because i she just throws the best purples
so you know and the other thing so this girl's three years old she just turned three in march
so you know you can kind of see the progression we went from over there with the babies yep to you
know 40 quart racks this is a six foot cage and she's she's probably good in this cage for about
another eight eight maybe nine months and then she's she's gonna need to move up these are only
six by thirties so if it was a six by three she'd be good in it for at least another year or so but
you know that's one thing it's not just the length that retics need it's the depth and that three
foot you wouldn't think the difference that's six inches between 30 inches and uh 36 inches is that
big of a deal but it makes a big difference hi sweetheart don't you just love it with your face
yeah she's one of the few i'll let do that and there's most of them i'm not
not as comfortable with them but right you know when you have and that that's the other thing i
always tell people when people ask about retakes it's a whole different story when you just get one
like say this size versus when you get one as a baby and it fits in your hands and you can raise
it and you can grow with it your your knowledge grows with it your experience grows with it and
you learn the snake's behavior you know there's quite a few snakes in this collection um that
i would not be nearly as comfortable doing this with or letting them come up that close to my face
uh either because i didn't raise them from a baby or i did and i just i know their attitude right
they're just not they're not like uh they're not they're not a snake i want that this is
actually a great example of the difference between a purple and a mochino so this is my girl penelope
oh are you hungry and that right there is why you never just stick your hand in the retic cage
that is correct everybody always wonders why i'm always using a hook that's why i like my hands
yep so this is penelope this is my uh three year old female mochino so she's
another one that will uh we'll give another year to before we try to get her on eggs
she was produced by jay gonzalez and to me she's pretty much perfect in terms of what
you're looking for for her mochino she could be a little bit darker on you know in her t-plus
coloring on her purple but other than that i mean just what what i'm going to make with her
and i've already got it in mine i'm not going to say it but what i'm going to make with her i've
got the right mail for it and i'll get exactly the coloring i want cool hi for kids out there what is
the difference or the the distinction between the purple the purple albino because there's a couple
of albinos out there yup and then the mochino so i mean you can see right there next to each other
so one the saddle coloring hers is like a berry like almost a cranberry versus that
being a true purple it also her solei's yellow is a true yellow where this it's almost a blend
of like a mustard color a little bit um it's not that true just like bright sunshine yellow it also
again my opinion a purple should have a bright yellow head like that
a mochino should have a white head okay and that's you know again not all breeders will
agree because there's lots of mochinos out there with yellow heads um how it should look and if
you again if you look at the original wild caught mocha male bright white head like that bone white
white albino this was the re-tip i originally wanted as my first retake
this girl was also produced by paul lucas she's four so there's another you can see the difference
what an extra year makes and this girl will breed this year so you saw they're not sisters but you
saw solei you saw penelope now this is aspen and you can see just the girth difference between them
um that extra year it just gives them what they need especially for breeding so i have a couple of
very large females here um this girl down here her name is queen bee she is my ball of yellow head
uh she's about this glass he's gonna mess with me again she's uh she's about eight eight years old
and she's uh right about 17 17 and a half feet somewhere in the hundred pound range
i don't totally know and there we go so and as you can see classic ball the yellow head
she's actually the snake many of you guys have sid james's book retics she is the bali yellow head
that's featured in the book nice so and she has been a project for me not necessarily in terms of
attitude but in terms of getting her to breed i've been trying to get her on eggs for the past three
seasons and it just hasn't worked so we're going to give it a go again this season i actually have
my oldest male over there is a 15 year old bali yellow head male that was produced by nota hoe
nota hasn't been in the game for quite a while um he was known for uh for his balis though
and i'm gonna try to get try to get these two bread this season that's that's my goal bring
bring some some locality to the uh to the game but search all the way out
so people always ask like are they fast well yeah when they want to be fast even in this size
they're not small they can move for sure come on it's not a racer but they can move yeah
no they can have this girl people often ask me what my favorite snake is and i i try not to
place favorites but as you can see i just opened her cage i don't have a hook um this is diamond
and i i tell people all the time she's the jewel in my collection and that's for a multitude of
reasons one is her attitude and her temperament number two so this is two faces mom okay so you
can see the paradoxing on her yeah so she's a platinum motley which she should look like that
but she's completely silver okay again produced by my good buddy paul lucas if you haven't figured it
out by now uh i have quite a few snakes from paul um you know he and i share a lot of similarities
and what we like and what we look for in in our animals that's why i've gotten so many from him
but this girl as i said she's a platinum motley she's het white albino and we are both pretty
positive she's also annery which would make her pet snow okay that is a big reason why
we both believe she basically is a silver snake um she basically looks like an anery snake
she's not a visual energy that's 100 fact but we are very very
i don't want to say certain but confident that she is heavy in her hand i will prove that out
this season i tried to prove it out last season unfortunately the mail i used was a
first season breeder i used them on too many females and she's and diamonds slugged out
just because i know someone's gonna question you because you know everybody does balls so
i notice you do aspen in almost every single one of your cages i do so i do it for multiple reasons
um and there are some snakes that i still use paper on sometimes it depends on the
time of year so normally in the summertime i will use paper more often because my temps
are running hotter and their digestive systems are running quicker and they poop and pee more
i haven't been since i've been here in utah for a couple of reasons one and it's it seems crazy
here in park city it's a lot more humid than it was where i where i had my last facility in
castlerock colorado and the humidity that these cages hold on their own is very very good with
the paper what i'm finding is that they're almost holding too much humidity interesting and again
it's a balance right right these these are jungle animals they need really high humidity but they
can't be sitting in water they're not an aquatic species and so what i've found since i've been
here is that one the aspen keeps it to where it's manageable um when i measure humidity in these
cages it's staying somewhere between 65 and 75 percent at the same time if these guys spill their
water which they do all the time yeah and since i've been here in utah i've been much busier with
my primary businesses it's much easier for that to get spilled in aspen and for that to dry up in
two or three days then it'd be paper substrate and the whole cage is literally an ocean and they're
lit in their way in the water there's just so much stuff going on there wildfire everybody so we had
to break this into three full separate parts so hopefully you enjoyed just seeing the really cool
thing going on with that this one we got to see the really big snakes and everything that's cool
and stuff like that this next one it's gonna see essentially it's a little sneak peek into what
wildfire is getting into next time as well as some stuff with if you guys follow wildfire you know
a couple names that are gonna pop up here in this next part three video stay tuned hope you enjoy it