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Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
It's been a while
since I showed up one of my favorite snakes,
of course Rico the Blacktail cribo.
I was certainly disappointed this year
that he wasn't a daddy and even though he bred
we didn't get any fertile eggs from him,
but you know, hey, you gotta keep on going.
Persistence is everything.
And I tell you what, when working with reptiles
and animals in particular,
sometimes when it takes several years to produce
it's almost that much more amazing
when you finally accomplish it.
So hey, I have high hopes for next year
and Rico is just amazing.
And of course cribo are the largest cribos in Central
and North America.
You just look at this beast right here.
Regardless we do have a busy day at work.
We got a lot going on.
I've got a couple tours today.
Got some clutches to pull, the usual stuffs
It's gonna be an absolutely amazing day.
What do you say we push our promise aside together
and make today awesome.
Excited to be back down in the Dungeon with Kelsey,
what do you have for us today?
- First up, I have an itchy head albino female
bred to an albino clown.
- And that is super cool
because again, we could get itchy albinos
that are headed for clown
that will be absolutely incredible.
And then itchy double head albino clowns
and all that kind of stuff.
So let's see what we have going on.
And by the way, I love this female.
This is like I remember hatching this girl.
I've loved her since she was a baby.
So she is absolutely amazing.
She looks like she's got a gorgeous clutch of eggs.
Oh my god.
Yeah, that's a beautiful clutch eggs.
And if memory serves me correctly,
this animal hasn't had the best clutches.
The last couple years,
we've had a lot of fertility issues
and have hardly hatched anything.
So to get a beautiful coach like this.
Oh my god, those are like perfect eggs.
- These are gouges.
- They are unbelievable.
I mean, they're small enough
to where there's a bunch of them.
They're not too small
or the babies are going to be too small.
How many eggs are there
- One ,two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
- Eight eggs.
That's amazing, because like I said,
I think two years ago, she had no good eggs.
And last year she only had two or three good eggs.
So it had eight eggs.
Wow, that is absolutely incredible.
So we'll get these ones up.
And how many questions do we have today?
- We have four total.
- Okay, cool well,
I'll let Kelsey get these eggs separated out.
And we'll be back a little bit later
to pull the next clutch.
- Someone in the comments section the other day
mentioned that I hadn't updated
the black milk snake in a while.
These are actually, black mountain milk snake.
which it called Garter
But of course, they're not black when they're young.
They're actually born almost like Honduran milk snake,
and this one hasn't changed that much.
But I'm going to show you three examples
of how that actually progress.
It's pretty amazing to be honest with you,
and I'm not 100% sure why they progress.
Unlike green tree pythons that are say red
or yellow that are down in like the flowers
and then eventually climb up into the canopy and turn green.
These guys absolutely are in the mountains.
So there's no doubt that black coloration
helps them absorb the sunlight,
which keeps them warmer.
But as babies, I'm not really sure
why they're born like tricolors.
Regardless, this one looks a little bit more steady
but relatively still a tricolor.
And then you could tell this next one here
you could still see it's a tricolor,
but it's certain almost look like it's going into shed
or something like that.
But this one just shut out.
That's what they look,
they start getting all this black tipping
and really start getting opaque looking
as they start to get
more and more melanin as they get older.
And then this next one,
you could hardly see the triads or the bands anymore,
because they're completely fading out.
Within the next several months
this one's gonna turn jet black,
just like the Mexican Black King snake,
black and glossy, absolutely incredible.
But you could certainly see the progression
all the way from kind of the red, yellow and black
to the kind of little bit more ....
to where it's almost all black.
And again, this is only gonna get more black
as it gets older.
And there's your update on the Black Milk snakes.
Our first tour is here.
So let's go ahead and let them in.
And see if I can keep up the energy today
'cause it's gonna be a long day
still on the med form filling bad,
but it's going to be a good time.
Hey, my first tours here,
thank you guys so much for coming.
And you said you came all the way from
- Illinois. - Illinois,
what part of Illinois you guys from?
- I'm from the Peoria area. - okay
- And she's from Chicago. - And am in Chicago.
- (mumbles) Thank you guys for coming.
Let's try to have a great time alright.
- Absolutely. - Yes.
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- Well, thank you guys so much for coming.
- Oh my Gosh. - By the way.
- Awesome. - it was great.
- I was pretty impressed, you held a snake.
- I held a snake I did. - Oh my God you did.
- Cause I didn't think you gonna do it.
So you did amazing - I was good yeah.
- You guys are absolutely wonderful.
Thank you for spending time with me.
You guys are always welcome.
We stay in touch and by the way...
You're amazing I really think so.
(laughing) - Thank you
- Thank you guys.
Thanks for having us. - Thank you.
- It was great.
- This next clutch is a ripper for sure.
What do we have here?
- This is a pastel chocolate brand
to a banana chocolate spinner.
- Oh my gosh,
I don't even know what to say about that.
You guys know I've been trying to hit that
super chocolate banana, spinner, pinstripe,
whatever the case may be.
This even has pastel in it.
Let's see what we have.
I mean and by the way,
I remember this girl she's a really good girl
when it comes to laying eggs.
So hopefully she's going to have a beautiful clutch.
What do we have here?
We unveil ooh its nice. - Wahoo.
- This one little slugger there
but other than that another beautiful clutch
a nice perfect size eggs.
That is incredible guys.
Oh my gosh.
And if this year I don't hit that
super chocolate spinner banana or there combination.
I'm going to go nuts
because we already have a few really good clutches down.
And this clutches looks like it's absolutely incredible.
I'll help you get this off here.
There we go all right,
in the egg box we go.
Good job mama you did amazing.
How many eggs?
Oh my god, that is amazing.
How many eggs ... - One , two ,
three, four, five, six ,seven eight, nine.
- Nine eggs again.
Oh my god,
we've been getting a lot of nine clutches.
So that's absolutely amazing.
We got two more clutches to go.
I'm going to do a couple things really quick
and I'll be back to pull the next clutch.
Alright, so I have a package
from a Mr. Alberto Vila from Hong Kong.
No idea what this is.
Noah thinks that it might boom.
- I don't think that's politically correct to say.
- Okay, I'm sorry.
Okay so the point is, I don't know what this is.
And it is always a little concerning
when you get a package, especially something like this.
It's kind of heavy.
So you don't know what's in here.
You know, I don't know.
I mean, I always always wonder like,
what is someone sent me something really horrible,
but I think it's probably going to be something pretty cool
cause look at how it's packaged.
I mean, looks like it's pretty dope.
whatever's in here, I'm hoping maybe a diamond ring,
or maybe it's a Rolex watch.
Or maybe it's a extension tube.
(laughing)
All right, so we actually needed this.
So this wasn't a surprise at all.
As a matter of fact, we ordered this
but I can't believe that it came in from Hong Kong,
because I thought it was coming from a local camera place.
So there you go.
Nothing too unusual about that extension tube.
So you can get a little closer with your lenses
in order to shoot a tighter shot.
So Noah, it's okay.
We're still alive.
- No boom, guys, we're good.
(laughing)
- You guys know that I've kind of become
a little bit of a spider fanatic.
Well, I wouldn't say I'm a fanatic,
but I definitely do love them.
One of the bugs that I probably don't show nearly enough
is of course my red knee tarantulas.
It's a little bit fast
compared to some of the other tarantulas,
but it's really a beautiful, beautiful animal.
And so I've been trying to work with it a little bit more.
And again, it'll kind of run around just a little bit,
but not too bad.
Once I get it settled in.
It's actually pretty good.
And what an absolutely spectacular spider.
I mean, wow, that thing is gorgeous.
And you guys remember
I used to have a transfer called Queen Elizabeth
that I wish I still had long story
not a good end to that story.
But nevertheless, it's cool to have one again,
when I was looking for another one.
I wanted one that was kind of big again,
but a friend of mine actually sent me this one for free
and just said, I think you'll really like it.
And I tell you what,
it's fast becoming one of my favorite spiders.
I mean, just look at that thing.
It is so absolutely adorable.
So I'll try to do my best to kind of update
you not only on this one,
but my other favorite spiders as well.
Because for those you guys that like tarantulas,
I think you need to get updated
for those of you that don't well I apologize in advance.
So we've actually been talking about
doing an arachnid night here at the reptilian.
Let me know down the comments what you think about that.
Would it be cool to have like
someone come in with a whole bunch of different arachnids
that they can show off at the end of the night?
Give a little talk about it
would be something you'd be interested in.
Let me know what you think.
And if you guys like it, I'll go ahead and do it.
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Another incredible ,i mean today has been an incredible day
for not only Ball Pythons but the combos are amazing.
This happens to be a sinner a winner
what was it bred to
- choose right to two males actually
it passed on to banana and a banana pewter.
- Oh, wow, that is a lot of really cool things.
Of course if the banana pewter was the father
we could get super cinny bananas,
which are kind of an all purple ish snakes
with all kinds of different stuff
like pastel and all kinds of things.
Regardless, amazing.
Let's see what she has.
I hope she has good eggs,
please let there be good eggs.
Yeah, well, there's at least one good egg outside,
but right there, but the way she's laying,
I think she's got a beautiful clutch.
You could just tell by the way she's laying.
Oh my gosh - Oh yeah.
- Nice big eggs - it look not bad.
- Have a little desiccated egg there,
we'll probably just have to put
a little damp towel on that one.
Get these eggs off here.
There it is.
And you could see the difference in the size of these eggs,
compared to the last two clutches.
I mean, these are really big eggs
and we got two, four, six eight,
nine again (laughing)
nine eggs again, guys.
That's the number for the day
we had eight, nine and nine.
So we've got one more clutch.
Hopefully we'll have nine eggs in that one.
And the last ball python clutch of the day is
- A yellow bellied bred to pastel the library.
- Okay, that's awesome.
Now of course, that pastel library is a super Yellow Belly,
meaning that this clutch should be either
all yellow bellies are all Irish,
which are the white snake and of course there's pastel,
so half on average will be pastels.
Well, let's see what we have here.
And those white snakes are always so popular.
So it's always good to produce some.
So let's see what we got.
We have a good clutch where we go,
looking good so far.
- That's a boob eggs.
- That's a boob egg, there your are body.
I'll take them because they still look completely fine.
Nice small legs again.
So we got a lot of eggs for the size female,
and we'll see what we have here.
Oh my gosh, that clutches is wild up.
Oh my gosh yeah,
I mean they all look funalable,
even this one's fertile,
even though it's predominantly not calcified.
So how many days do we end up in this clutch.
- One two three four five six seven eight.
- Eight so we had two clutches of eight,
and two clutches of nine today, not bad.
We'll go ahead get these things in the incubator
again, 56 , 57 days well we should be able to record these
lots of amazing baby snakes on the way.
And that's all because Kelsey worked so hard.
So thank you very much.
- Well yeah no problem.
- I thought about some fish
that monitors absolutely love the treat of fish.
So I'm going to go ahead get Elvis out
who is very energetic right now.
He seems to be very excited.
There you go buddy.
Get it Oh, yeah.
There he goes.
He absolutely loves the fish.
Look at him.
He is so excited.
Here you go, buddy.
There you go.
Elvis is great.
And the ball training is going so well.
I mean, you can see how he's just responding to the ball,
I can just literally happen two circles.
There you go, buddy.
There you go.
He's loving it.
That's fish it's just a nice switch up from,
chicken or beef or rodents or anything like that.
And these guys will eat a lot of fish in the wild.
So it's very, very common for them to eat fish.
So this is really good for him as well.
We'll go ahead and run around and feed Ubusuku
and Argumus and all the other monitors as well,
because I know that love it too.
Well last one, Elvis, come on buddy,
getting up, up, up, up, up, up, up.
There you go, buddy.
There you go.
Again, the thing that I love about him is
as soon as he's done eating,
I can always just go on.
And this is something I do again,
every single time just so he understands that
he knows the difference between food
and actually being handled.
So every time at the end,
I always just go in and pet him a little bit,
just to make sure that he's habituated to it.
But that went really well.
Let's go ahead and do Ubusuku
We could see Ubusuku knows something is up for sure.
But she's doing really good with the ball training now.
So I'm just going to have her come over here.
There you go, girl.
Okay, okay.
Hey, stay inside stay inside stay inside,
stay inside.
Okay.
She has a tendency to want to jump out of her cage
for some reason she just gets so excited
when food is there but she's doing really good.
Again I don't feed her fish that often
but when I do she absolutely loves it
she's definitely making short work
but unlike Elvis that just kind of squash it down
like a pelican.
This girl always takes a little longer.
That's why I don't feed as big of food items to her
as I do Elvis but what a great animal
and again I talked about when I first got her
that she was a pretty overweight
and again I had her when she was a baby
center off and then for a year and a half or so
a friend of mine was caring
for probably overfeed a little bit much
so she's now slimmed down to a really great size.
I'm super happy with the way she's looking.
Become much more athletic the way she should be as well.
Back in the cage back in cage.
That's one of the advantages to the ball training
is that when I dropped the food
I could actually just put the ball out
and she'll go after the ball rather than before
when I dropped the food.
She was wanting to come out of the cage after the food,
but that's all she's gonna get right now.
That's good girl.
You're all set girl.
She's a minium but I love her to death.
Okay, so I think I'm going to do with Argumus
It's been a while
since we've done kind of running thing with him.
So I'm going to let them come out.
I'm going to run them down, kind of run back.
Just get him a little exercise a little enrichment
if you know what I mean.
So let's see how it goes.
Come on, buddy.
Soon as he sees that blue ball,
he's gonna know it's on.
Come on buddy.
Come on, come on out.
There you go.
Come on come on body.
What's up?
I don't know what he's doing.
He's being a little cheeky today.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on.
Come on, buddy, there you go come on.
He doesn't want to come out.
Come on.
That's weird.
Now he's out here,
I'll be honest, I don't think he likes the fish.
- [Man] I don't think so.
- Oh, he's just gonna go back in this cage,
but come back came back.
- [Man] Have you ever fed him this fish before?
- I've never fed him the fish before
maybe he doesn't like it.
I'm gonna try.
I know you're like it okay.
- [Man] Yah he is wearied.
Okay, so put this down
Argumus does not like fish.
I'll go ahead and feed him another thing if he wants it
but he doesn't like it very much
it's like he'll eat it
but he's not excited about it.
Which ruins he'd be running all the way down
like a madman with this thing.
He doesn't seem to be all that interested.
He likes the ball more and he likes the fish.
All right will give him one last big chunk up here.
Let's go back in your cage.
Come on back in your cage.
Back in your cage.
There you go.
By tell you what I thought I was going to be able
to run them all the way down
and kind of give them some exercise
but didn't work out that way.
Still ate a bunch of fish
but definitely I've realized I've just learned something.
If you want Argumus to get real energetic about food,
obviously not going to work with fish.
seeing this Toothless is a water monitor
and Elvis absolutely loves fish.
I have a feeling that Toothless is going to love it too.
So let's go ahead and see if he wants to eat.
You want some buddy?
Yeah, you like that, oh, yeah.
He loves that fish for sure.
Absolutely loves it.
Here you go buddy, my another piece.
Another piece.
There you go, buddy.
I love that he's finally
starting to take things off of tongs
cause for the longest time,
he wouldn't take things off the tongs,
he would only eat it off the ground or in a dish.
So this gives me an opportunity now that he's doing this,
I can start to train him a little bit more.
And then we can actually start target training
and stuff like that as well.
So that'll be a really good thing.
Here you go, buddy.
Oh my gosh, you're crushing this.
Yeah, I would say Toothless loves to fish for sure.
Come on buddy.
Want some more sweetie?
He's just using that neck to get the fish down.
You know, just like a snake.
They'll kind of put it all in that pouch of the neck
and then they'll just kind of sit down
just like a snake would.
You can see now it's clear so he should eat another piece.
There he goes, buddy.
There he go.
The last piece.
It's so cool to see that.
So absolutely amazing.
One last piece, buddy you want?
Again he's just pushing that fish down.
One last piece, you want it, buddy?
No, I think Toothless is full.
So that's it.
So he definitely a really good meal there.
So what an absolutely incredible animal.
I'm so fortunate to have something as cool as him.
And as he gets older,
do you want some, you still looking?
As he gets older, he's only gonna get more cool.
And although Argumus wasn't really into fish,
it's not that big of a surprise,
cause these are a sand monitors.
So they're probably not gonna see
nearly the amount of fish in the wild that
say a water monitor would.
So it's not that surprising.
Although I did think he loved the fish shot.
I'm gonna just have to stick with meats
and rodents for him, to keep him happy
and to keep him really energized.
I tell you, as I'm feeling better,
I really maybe realized how much I love this place.
Being away from it just for even a day in the hospital
day and a half in the hospital.
It's like I was so missing the rep terrarium
and the animals and of course PHP too
but it's so good to be back again,
not feeling unbelievably well
but still feeling much better every single day.
I know by tomorrow the next day I'll be 100%.
I did want to ask you guys something,
remember how did that Q and A a before?
Where you guys submit a video question and I answer,
I still want you guys to do some of that.
So if you want you can send it over
to @jaytomsky on Instagram,
you can send your video question.
I'll put it in the vlog,
I'll answer it and so I better would get the crew to answer
whatever the case is.
So make sure to do that for me.
But for now, I think I'm gonna go ahead and shut it down.
Get some rest feel better tomorrow.
I hope that you guys have a wonderful day.
I love you guys so much.
Do me a favor, be kind to someone
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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