- Eleven.
- Eleven! - That's right
- That's our biggest clutch of the year.
Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
You know that movie Groundhogs Day?
Well, yeah, kinda feels like I'm living the same day again.
But this time, it's actually pretty good.
What I mean by that is that, again,
the morning starts off with some baby stinks.
I've got Jessica here.
Let's go ahead and just see what we got.
I mean, I love the fact that we're in baby skink season.
You never know what you're gonna get.
Actually, I remember this female
when we started to raise her up.
So, she's a really pretty one.
Aw!
Look at these and look at that cute little monkey.
These are more like the kind of classic northern.
The coffee ones that we got yesterday
were definitely a little bit different.
And these were some big babies.
- Oh yeah!
They're nice and healthy looking.
- Nice and healthy looking.
They're like almost twice the size of the other ones.
Don't know how many there are.
We just see two, so far.
Oh my god!
Look at how cute!
Oh my god.
That is so adorable.
It is crazy.
They're so feisty right out of the rut.
I do see a little stillborn over there,
which is really a bummer.
You can see it's kind of got a little egg sack.
It didn't make it.
What a bummer.
And that's so common.
Oh my gosh.
She is definitely protecting her babies today.
It's okay.
Hopefully there'll be some more in here, too.
Let's see what else we have.
Be careful, mom.
All right, we only have two so far.
That's definitely a small litter.
See what we got.
Looks like there's only two so far.
That's crazy.
- [Jessica] Some hiding under the paper, maybe.
- [Brian] It's okay, mom.
See if we, there's another!
There's a third little one.
And look at how cute this one is, right here.
Oh my god, these are all so amazing.
Really pretty animals.
You can see mom over there is a beautiful animal.
What was this one bred to.
- Ahh!
Don't bite me.
So, she was bred to our red male, sunrise.
So, it's a red sunrise male.
- [Brian] Red sunrise male.
- So, these'll be interesting. - So, these babies should be
incredible.
- [Jessica] See how--
- [Brian] She's literally running after your hand.
- [Jessica] She's got a nice bold pattern,
but you can see that the orange is coming through,
right there.
- Oh my god, the reds.
These are gonna be so incredible.
So far the first two litters are unbelievable.
Do you think that's all we have, is three.
- [Jessica] I don't know, maybe she's not done.
- [Brian] She might not be done.
Maybe that's right.
You know what?
Let's go ahead and just check back in on her later.
- Leave her alone for the rest of the day.
- Yeah, I think we're just gonna leave her alone
for the rest of the day,
because it's hard to believe that a girl that big
would only have three live babies and one stillborn.
So, we'll update you later in the day, but how incredible.
Again, great way to start the day.
- Yeah, awesome.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
And by the way, a little update.
Remember yesterday we started out, I think,
with seven or eight live babies and it turned into nine.
Then, ultimately at the end of the day it was 11 babies.
Well guess what, we found another little baby this morning.
So, yesterday's litter was 12.
That's why I think this girl is gonna continue
to lay babies throughout the day.
So, we're just gonna leave her alone,
and we'll go at the end of the day
and see if she has any more babies.
But look at yesterday's litter,
how unbelievable they are.
And they perk up so much, just in a day.
After that first day they become little monkeys,
right there.
Oh my god.
So again, yesterday's litter,
12 babies instead of eight or nine we originally thought it.
So, fingers crossed, we'll have
a whole bunch more babies from this girl here later today.
Take a look at Ben and Jerry's shed.
This may be the very first time that they've ever shed
where they didn't need assistance to get their head off.
They look absolutely gorgeous.
It does look like the end of the shed
is a little bit messed up, and stuff like that.
I'm gonna take a quick look
and see what the actual heads look like.
I don't know.
But that's really cool, because again,
usually it sheds 100%,
but then there's usually stuck shed on the head
that we have to help get up.
We're gonna actually feed them a little bit later,
because they look absolutely beautiful
and they'll definitely be ready to go.
And look who else shed today.
It must be just one of those days
where some cool things are shedding.
Of course that's Verde, my girl here.
Oh my god, she looks so good.
I tell you what.
I don't have any food for her today, because again,
she typically's only eaten chicks
and then choo-choo training rats.
So, I'll have to go to the store and get her a chick,
maybe tomorrow, because after she shed
she's definitely ready to go.
But it looks like she's got a really beautiful,
perfect shed, too.
Look at that.
Absolutely perfect.
That's good.
And one of the things I'm seeing
with a little bit better sheds, is the fact that
in the winter time, of course,
the furnace is on a lot, because we're in Michigan
and it's cold outside.
And that dries the air out, even with all the water dishes,
and water falls, and all the things in here.
We definitely have some dryness in the air,
and now that is getting to be spring time,
that furnace isn't on much
and we're getting much better sheds, which is really good.
Once again, that time of day, and guess what,
we have two clutches of colubrids, again.
I think the last three times I've collect colubrid eggs,
there's been two clutches.
Really weird, because all these red tags here
are females that are due.
I guess we're just gonna have an explosion here
in another week or two, where we're gonna get tons of eggs.
Regardless, this is actually a blizzard sunkiss
that's bred to a blizzard corn.
Lori was super excited about this one.
Oh, that's not all that good though, is it.
Ugh, let's see, is she done?
Yep, she is definitely done.
Wasn't sure because, she looked
a little bit swollen, but she's done.
But boy that isn't a good clutch at all.
Lori's gonna be so sad, because this was
the one clutch that she was probably,
almost, the most excited about.
We'll take a look at those eggs in a second here again.
I just wanted to make sure the female looks good.
Again, yep no problem at all.
She looks great.
We'll pull this shed, we'll get some water in
with her here in a second, but let's go ahead
and take a look at this clutch.
And again now, blizzard corn is actually a
muted albino corn snake.
Which, basically, is lacking the iridophore,
which is the red pigment, as well as the yellow pigment.
That's why they call it a muted charcoal corn.
Because it's lacking the yellow pigment.
So, essentially get a predominately white corn snake,
which is really cool.
And the of course the sunkiss is recessive.
It adds a little bit of flavor to it.
But regardless, we do have a few eggs in here.
That's okay.
I mean, hey, hatching some is gonna be better
than hatching none, right.
It looks like we have four good eggs, right here.
And again, you can really tell the difference.
Look at how nice and kind of round the sides are.
They're kind of a whitish color.
And then these sloggers are just mushy,
and nasty, and stuff like that.
We'll go ahead and feed these slugs off
to a bunch of our monitors and stuff like that,
over next door.
We try not to put them to waste if at all possible.
If we can use them, we can use them.
That's for sure.
But hey, in the meantime we have to set up these four eggs.
They look like they're really good, so hey,
we'll have four little blizzard corns.
And we do have some more coming up next year
that'll hopefully be ready to breed, so.
Gonna break Lori's heart a little bit on this clutch,
but we still have one more clutch to pull.
And the last clutch is this pueblan milk snake, right here.
And this is the first pueblan of the year,
so it's really exciting.
Let's see what she has going on in here.
Ooh doggy!
Look at those eggs right there.
Oh my god, she is a gorgeous snake, too.
Looks like a bunch of eggs.
Now, pueblans are actually a pretty high production animal,
so they can have quite a few eggs.
And again, she looks good.
We'll take the shed out, get some water in here,
like we always do.
And they'll actually lay two clutches,
sometimes even three clutches a year,
so they're really good animals.
Let's see what we have here.
Two, four, six, eight good eggs!
That is absolutely incredible, and I always say
that pueblan milks snakes are like
the best starter milk snake.
If you're into milk snakes.
Because they do really well, they're easy to breed,
they eat really readily when they hatch out.
So, they're really just that kind of perfect snake.
Never the less, super excited to get
our first pueblan milk snakes,
because we've really just been pulling corn snakes so far,
as far as colubrids go.
So, it's pretty awesome to put
a pueblan milk snake clutch in the incubator box.
Back to Ben and Jerry.
Let's see if we can get these guys to eat again.
So Ben always takes it easy,
the question is will Jerry take it?
There he goes!
Yes!
Yes, they're both eating again!
How awesome is that?
So it's interesting that Ben is done with his first one,
but Jerry is still working on it.
So, I'm gonna see if I can't give Ben another one.
Yep.
And he seems to eat too.
Oh my God, this is crazy.
While Jerry is still kind of working on
getting that head in the right position,
Ben took a second one.
Take a look at that.
So neither one of them really has it in a spot
where it's right at the head.
When Ben reached out and grabbed it,
he grabbed it midbody, and then when Jerry grabbed it,
it was a little bit off center, too.
I think Jerry almost has its head in its mouth.
Almost there, and then it'll start crushing that fuzzy.
Whereas Ben's still struggling.
I'll tell you what guys, I just want these guys to eat.
So, I'm gonna go ahead, walk away.
Just leave them alone.
We'll come back and check on them later.
But that was absolutely bonkers.
Back down in the dungeon again,
to meet up with Kelsey to get a ball python clutch.
All right, what do we have here, today?
- This is a pastel bred to a pastel scaleless head.
- Okay, good, so we can have super pastel scaleless heads,
pastel scaleless heads, and even
potentially some normal scaleless heads.
Although that's a little bit of a longshot.
Looks like she has a massive clutch.
Obviously we've got little egg out over here on the edge.
I'll pull that real quick.
We'll have to candle this egg, right here.
But the rest look, ooh doggy!
That is a big clutch.
Is that gonna be the biggest clutch of the year, so far?
- [Kelsey] I think so.
- [Brian] It looks like it might be.
Let's see, what do we have here?
I'm gonna pull this egg, too.
Just because it needs to be candled, as well.
So these two eggs we can candle.
These eggs are stuck together really nicely,
so we'll just go ahead and pull those out,
get those in the box.
And yeah, they might not fit in the box.
It's definitely going to be a tight thing.
We just have to peel that one egg off,
which doesn't look like it's on there too tight,
which is good.
There we go.
And again, you just don't wanna tear those eggs.
So, what's the final count?
- [Kelsey] One, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
- [Brian] Eleven!
That's right!
- That's our biggest clutch of the year so far.
- That's our biggest clutch of the year.
We had ten before that.
Last year, we had, what, 13?
- Yes.
- So 13.
So, we still haven't reached last year's watermark,
but 11 eggs is absolutely incredible.
So, good job, as always Kelsey.
I'll tell you what, you're killing it.
And we have a ton more gravid females.
So, it's gonna be an exciting couple months
where we're pulling eggs, and hey,
I think that we're about, maybe,
four weeks away from the first eggs that are,
kind of, due to hatch, where I'll be able to cut them.
So, for you guys that are pining for egg cutting videos,
we're four, maybe five weeks out at the most, so.
Anyways, awesome, good job mama.
Good job Kelsey.
I'll catch up with you later.
Just a little bit of an update, guys,
for those of you that are following along,
we're on vlog 987, so we are 13 vlogs away
from the big one thousand.
We're trying to do, kind of, a special vlog for that.
Working on it.
A lot of work actually, but it's gonna be
absolutely incredible.
But, for those of you guys that have been interested, 987.
Might remember a couple of days ago,
we started working on a new crested gecko enclosure.
Well, you are back to finish up, which is cool.
You can start to see that this foam right here
is gonna start looking like this, so that's the next step.
To lay down that.
And then you brought a bunch of plants and a bunch of stuff.
So, you're gonna have a good time, huh?
- I'm gonna have a great time.
I'm excited.
- All right cool, I'll check back later.
We'll see what this thing looks like
when it's completely done.
So, definitely excited about it.
We have a pretty interesting situation right now.
We're actually re-homing our tokay geckos.
- Really?
- I'm gonna take them and breed them, hopefully.
- That's right.
And if you get babies, I would definitely,
like I'll buy some babies back,
Because I want to raise up some babies
so that their really docile.
- So that they're nice, yeah.
- Because the ones we have, well, they're not so nice.
But the thing, I've got a surprise for you guys.
- What?
There's a surprise?
- [Brian] So Jessica's taking them home,
and you guys get a chance to go get them for her,
and put them in a box.
- Yeah, you get to say goodbye to them.
- No, that's okay.
We're fine.
- [Brian] It's awesome.
So yeah--
- I think we'll just leave them here.
- So guys, I'll tell you what,
I think I'm just gonna let Noah film this on his channel.
So, I'll put a link in the description.
Go show Noah some love.
And we'll see if you can actually catch it.
Are you guys excited?
- I'm so excited. - Not at all.
- Do you guys wanna get the big male out for me, too,
and put him in, like, a smaller thing to take home?
- Not a small, I mean, we need like a trash can.
Goes in, you spin the top.
- I agree.
- Good to go.
- Yep.
- All right, so this ought to be fun.
We're gonna go do this.
Again, it'll be over on Noah's channel.
It is an absolutely gorgeous day,
so I think I'm gonna take advantage of this.
Go out for a little bike ride with Lori.
Again, we work so hard, even if I can take an hour off
to just kind of get away, get on the bike
or something like that, it's good for me.
It's good for my kind of pep, you know what I mean?
Let's go ahead and hit the park
and just do a little bike ride.
Just back from our bike ride.
Lori said, "let's go for a little bike ride."
And then I think it was was like seven miles.
- It wasn't that bad.
It was seven miles.
- But you're on a bike, though, so it's like one.
- Oh my gosh, I'm tired guys.
- Exactly, it was a lot of coasting.
- I'm tired, let's get back to work.
Just circling back to check on Ben and Jerry.
Yep, absolutely, they crushed those fuzzies no problem.
So I knew they would, I just figured
if I was bothering them a lot,
that maybe they would spit one out.
I wanted them to get a good meal, so.
They both look fantastic.
And it's so crazy that they both eat now.
I'm gonna do a real quick check of that female
now that it's been a handful of hours.
See if she has any more babies out at all.
See, I don't see anything yet.
She's in the back.
I don't see any more babies.
That's weird that she would literally only have ...
She only had three babies and one slugger.
So that's it for that female.
Definitely a small little, but hey,
still, those babies are gorgeous.
Last thing for today is to give you guys
the update on the finished terrarium,
for what we're gonna probably try at least crested geckos.
We're gonna put them in there, see how they do,
and stuff like that, but I think it's absolutely amazing.
You did great, dude.
- Thanks a lot.
- [Brian] This thing's crazy man.
- Its an honor.
- It's absolutely beautiful.
And like he was mentioning,
once all this stuff starts growing,
it's gonna get even more interesting and stuff like that.
That's kind of the direction we want to go
with some of our habitats, here at the Reptarium.
We've been wanting to do it since we opened up.
We're finally getting a chance to get around and do it.
So, there it is.
One down.
I'll tell you what guys, that was a pretty eventful day.
Pretty action-packed.
Hoped you guys enjoyed it.
Thanks as always for all your support.
Really, you guys are amazing, and I love you guys so much.
Have an absolutely wonderful day.
Do me a favor and be kind to someone today.
Now promise, I'll see you tomorrow.