- Well, I've been in this enclosure of course,
Ivy's enclosure over here
and what used to be called Aries.
So many times I've been sitting in here
just kind of chilling out.
But this is the very first time
that I'm sitting here in here
with three anacondas.
That's right, we've got my girl Ivy over here,
chilling out.
We've got Aries, which, by the way,
definitely still need a name.
We're thinking about Ariana.
What do you think about that?
Let me know in the comments
if you've got a better name for Aries
or you like Ariana.
And then, of course, we've got their little baby, 12.
When I say "their,"
it's really just Ariana's or Aries'
or whatever we're gonna call this baby
because Ivy had nothing to do with this one.
This is obviously two females in here.
So this was, like I had mentioned before,
a virgin birth of an anaconda,
which is just absolutely incredible.
And we've been thinking about
the fact that this is called parthenogenesis.
We're thinking about calling this little girl Genesis.
I just think it's a cute name
and look at how absolutely adorable it is.
I mean, it's so crazy
now that I have Ivy and Ariana and I have Verde
and how they're all getting so big.
To see a little baby anaconda,
I still think this is one of the coolest things
that's ever happened to me
in all the time I've been keeping reptiles.
To have a virgin-birth anaconda,
and for it to be an anaconda,
a green anaconda, guys.
We have a baby green anaconda.
Again, I thought maybe Aries was a boy
and that he would breed Ivy
and we'd have a litter of 10 or 20 or 30 baby anacondas,
but that didn't happen.
But we did end up with one,
which is just absolutely crazy.
I'm still just over-the-moon happy about this.
Every day I look at this little monkey right here,
of course, Genesis,
and I am falling in love with her.
I know Lori's like,
"We don't need four female anacondas,"
but the truth is they are all so special to me.
There's no way I can get rid of any of them, right?
I mean, I have to keep them all,
I guess one day I'll just have to have a lot of big cages
of green anacondas, but absolutely wonderful.
And just wanted to let you know.
And remember when Genesis was born
and had a big, kinda, umbilicus still hanging up
and that's very common for a live birth.
Now that's all dropped off, all healed up,
all looking perfect and it looks perfectly fine.
Now the big question is gonna be,
will it eat for us here?
And what is it going to go?
Remember, Verde took us several months to eat
and then it would only eat live chicks.
So, it's gonna be a little bit of a challenge,
but I tell you what,
I'm ready for that challenge
because green anacondas are amazing.
And my little girl Genesis here is an absolute beauty.
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Onto the egg-cutting portion of the vlog.
This is actually a fire yellow belly female,
bred to a pastel vanilla spider bamboo.
So there should be some pretty interesting stuff in here.
Mixing that fire yellow belly with all those other genes
should be really cool.
Got 2, 4, 6, 7 eggs to cut.
So let's hope for some good odds here
and some crazy combinations.
Let's jump into egg number one.
And these guys are definitely ready to cut,
you can see they're desiccated.
And that's what happens,
is eggs actually blow it up in the beginning
and then start expelling water in the end.
And right off the rip, we got something neat.
Don't know what it is.
That's gonna be the problem with this clutch.
I'm not gonna lie to you,
it's gonna be really difficult
to figure out what it is.
Definitely a bamboo, definitely a spider.
I'm gonna to take guesses on some of this stuff, right?
So I'm pretty sure it's a fire.
It's a bamboo, it's a spider.
Oh, I didn't even think about this.
Fire and vanilla make vanilla cream stuff,
so we could produce vanilla cream stuff.
There's a chance that this could be
a vanilla cream spider bamboo
because the vanilla and the fire are allelic
that make vanilla cream.
I guess that's why I bred them together.
But I just realized that, if I didn't think about it before,
that was an awesome combination.
So we could produce some, wow, I tell you,
now I'm even more excited.
So let's jump into egg number two.
And again, until I actually see some other stuff,
I'm not gonna be 100% sure even what that is,
to be honest with you.
Looks like we have just a little pastel vanilla here.
Nothing too major here.
So again, not as exciting as that first egg.
Again, I'm still trying to think.
I'm pretty sure that's a vanilla cream bamboo spider,
to be honest with you guys,
but then again, we might cut another egg
and I might be wrong.
So let's go ahead and see what egg number three has.
This is exciting, man.
I tell you what, I am stoked on this.
Ooh, wow. Wow, okay, okay, okay, all right.
I'm going to try my best here.
This is definitely a vanilla cream, okay?
This is definitely a vanilla cream,
this is definitely a bamboo,
and it looks like it's a pastel
and it looks like it's probably a spider.
So this is probably the all-gene animal.
It's got pastel, it's got spider,
might not have yellow belly.
That's maybe the only all-gene.
I don't know.
I don't know how you even tell if it has yellow belly,
but the vanilla cream for sure,
spider for sure, bamboo for sure, pastel for sure.
Wow!
That is one ripper of an animal.
And I'm going to go out on a limb here, guys.
I'm 99.9% sure that is a world's first.
I've never seen anything like that before.
I'm pretty sure
that we just hit a world's first right there.
That is ridiculous.
Now, the first one could still be
a vanilla cream spider bamboo without the pastel.
I'm not sure yet.
We still have four eggs to go.
Hoo, doggie.
All right, wow, I tell you what.
Man, some rippers right here.
All right, what do we got here?
We have another one that's ripping.
This one right here just looks like a bamboo spider,
probably a vanilla.
Could potentially be a fire,
but not a fire or vanilla, right,
because the fire and vanilla make the vanilla cream.
Wow, there's a lot to think about there.
But it's still a cool snake.
I'm loving it.
We had three bamboos out of four eggs.
Can't complain. Three eggs to go.
Wow, I tell you what, this has been a good clutch so far.
We got a little darker snake in here.
Now, it looks like just a bumblebee to be honest with you.
Could be a fire bumblebee or a vanilla bumblebee,
'cause it's definitely really clean,
a lot cleaner than a normal bumblebee.
So it's either a fire,
probably a vanilla, to be honest with you.
Two more eggs.
Wow, I'm still blown away about a couple of these snakes.
Absolute rippers, man.
Ooh, we got another one.
We got another one that's killer.
We've got another killer here.
Let me see what we got.
Ooh, ooh.
I tell you what, I don't, ooh,
I think this is another...
I think this is another vanilla cream pastel bamboo spider.
This one's even more faded than the last one,
but I'm pretty sure that's what we have.
So we have two of those animals.
This one might be yellow belly,
that's maybe why it's faded out.
And then that might be the all-gene animal.
The other one, not quite as faded,
might not have the yellow belly in it.
I'm telling you what,
this has been a banger of a clutch.
One egg to go.
We gotta finish it out with something awesome.
I don't know how we're going to beat what we've already got,
but let's try to finish it out good.
Wow oh wow.
Some clutches you cut,
and you're just over the moon about,
and this happens to just be a fire yellow belly right here.
So you have just a fire and a yellow belly,
like the female mama.
So, wow.
I tell you what, we had some world's first in here.
I'm super excited.
So it looks like Mike,
you have a little helper down here.
- Yeah, she's helping so much.
- [Brian] She's helping.
Be careful of Aries.
What are we gonna call Aries now?
- I don't know.
- Keep those name suggestions coming down for Aries.
Look, he got a big meal over here.
I love Ivy.
She's just always so curious, you know what I mean?
But Mike is doing a good job,
making their enclosures look beautiful.
- I have to squeeze in some training.
So what I'm gonna do,
and I'm actually crushing things out
a little early this morning.
So as you guys are gonna know in the background,
there's a lot of work,
especially Mike working as always.
Gotta pull Beetlejuice out,
play with him a little bit,
see where we can kinda get going
and try to find out where our progress is moving
and what is the direction we're moving with him.
Come on, come on, come on.
Oops, come on.
Oof. Not the face, not the face, not the face,
not the face, not the face.
It's okay, you're all right, buddy.
You're okay.
He got a good meal yesterday.
All right, let's get you some open space,
and that way he has a little less things to jump on.
- We actually fed yesterday, and it was interesting
'cause I thought that Cupcake looked like
she was maybe going into shed and wouldn't eat.
She ended up eating for us,
but guess what happened this morning?
This beautiful shed. Look at this.
The thing I love about boas, when they shed,
is that you can still see their pattern.
You know, you can see all their pattern.
Now, a lot of snakes,
you actually can see pattern and stuff like that.
But when it comes to boas in particular,
there's a really heavy pattern.
You can definitely see,
there is no doubt that this is Cupcake shed.
So this is an absolutely beautiful shed
and she looks amazing.
I was kind of a surprised she ate yesterday,
to be totally honest with you.
And speaking of sheds, this is pretty awesome.
Take a look at this shed right here.
This is definitely not a shed from The Reptarium.
This is actually Bruce's timber rattlesnake shed.
Look at that.
And again, just like the boa shed,
you can really see the patterning in that.
I mean, rattlesnakes are amazing.
Just think about that.
Look at that perfect shed right there.
You have those little teeth in the mouth right there.
You can see the eyes.
I mean, that is an absolutely spectacular shed.
Watch as the ball pythons are still coming,
we're not done yet.
We still have a bunch more to go.
This happens to be a yellow belly female,
and it was actually bred to this beautiful puma ball python
that's also a McKenzie ball python.
So we could get, again, a bunch of different combinations
of ivories, pumas, McKenzie stuff,
all that type of stuff.
Let's see how many eggs Mama has.
Doesn't look like Mama's very happy with me.
Come on, don't bite me, don't bite me.
Come on, girl.
You did good, you did good.
All right, there you go.
Aah, get this off her.
She's laid right back on the back of the cage.
So go ahead and get these off the paper real quick.
And of course, once we get these set up,
we'll get her all cleaned up.
Fresh cage, fresh smells, all that type of stuff
so that she's nice and happy.
Got a couple boob eggs here, but that's okay.
Looks like 100% fertility.
We've got 2, 4, 6, 7 beautiful eggs.
I tell you what, we still have a handful of clutches to go.
I'm going to miss pulling eggs when this is over
because it's been an absolutely incredible year.
But you know what's the crazy thing is?
We're literally, like, 2 1/2 months away
from starting the breeding season all over again.
- All right, guys, so I actually had Beetlejuice out
for about an hour or so,
and it really was just actually to kind of see
what he was gonna actually do.
So I didn't want to mess with him too much,
and as you can see,
he's being pretty good right now.
So now we gotta give him a little bit of a confusion.
So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna place him on the ground
and I'm gonna try and keep it in an open area
and keep him close to me.
So the idea here
is that I want him to look to me as a sanctuary.
So if he does get scared,
I want him to run up on me
and not run off somewhere else.
So let's get him on the ground,
let's see how he goes.
Come on, big guy.
Yeah, so obviously these guys are an arboreal species
With the size these guys are,
I'd even argue to say
they're a little bit more on the level of semi-arboreal
because although enjoy the height,
similar to like Asian water monitors do,
they are often found on the ground as well.
If he gets enough confidence in himself,
that he can walk around on the ground,
any time he feels scared, he goes to me,
but anytime he feels fine,
he just walks around
and lets kids touch him and play with him all they want.
So if you guys notice
why I touch and mess with these guys the way I do,
I put my hands around their face and stuff like that.
Mainly because I don't really want kids poking these guys
around the face,
but to be honest with you,
there's not a lot you can stop a little two year old
from doing.
So the best thing to do
is actually treat them kind of like a two year old would.
And that's being a little rough with them,
but not manhandle them, not hurt them.
So I don't restrict his movement,
but I will touch him
and I will play with him.
He'll get used to it and he'll understand
that that's no longer something to be afraid of.
It's really just part of life.
Sometimes things, just like anybody else out there,
sometimes life can be a little annoying,
but if you just persevere and get on through it,
you'll be just fine.
And he'll figure that out himself.
- Had some baby snakes hatch out that are absolute rippers.
Of course, this is just a little vanilla bamboo ball python.
The bamboo ball python's in that lesser complex,
or the blue-eyed leucistic complex,
but I just love the bamboo stuff.
It's one of my favorite
incomplete dominant animals, for sure
So that's just one of those.
Then we have a combination of some vanilla spider,
some spider, some pastel,
stuff like that.
This is actually a really beautiful snake here too.
This is actually a super pastel spider,
what they would call a killer bee,
but it's also a vanilla.
So it's a vanilla killer bee, which is awesome.
Then we hatch these two monkeys out here
that are absolutely ridiculous.
These are actually super pastel spiders, the killer bees,
but then they're vanilla and bamboo.
So they are super pastel spider vanilla bamboos.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I was excited about these for sure.
This next clutch was some bangers.
Remember the other day we cut the silver baby clutch?
Well, these are the silver babies
and some of the other stuff here.
We have some just simple stuff like dragonflies,
which has pastel fire pinstripes,
which are absolutely beautiful.
These would be possible half or axanthic.
Then we ended up producing this little monkey here.
This is actually a fire pinstripe axanthic.
That's one of the silver babies.
In the egg, I wasn't sure if it was a pastel or not.
This one is definitely not a pastel,
but look at how gorgeous that thing is.
But this one here is actually the all-gene,
which is the firefly axanthic.
So it's a pastel, it's a fire, it's a pinstripe,
and it's a VPI axanthic.
So these two here are absolute rippers,
there's no doubt about it.
The silver snakes are what I was really shooting for.
But then, interestingly enough,
we hatch this one out right here.
This one is, interesting enough,
exactly like the female mystery ball python.
Remember that female mystery ball python?
This is what she looked like when she was a baby.
No clue what's going on with this.
Have no idea.
It shouldn't have hatched out something like this.
So there's obviously a gene that's floating around
in some of my pinstripe females
that are causing this kind of completely patternless animal.
So here we have another mystery ball python.
Now we have a bunch of those animals
that'll be up to size to breed this next year,
so we can start to kinda figure out
what the heck is going on, what's that hidden gene.
But in this case we hatched out another one.
So, hey, there's another one that goes on the shelf.
We'll eventually figure this one out
'cause it's absolutely ridiculous.
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