- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I am holding an unbelievable animal right now.
I'm at New England Reptile Distributors,
absolutely amazing place,
as you guys know by now.
And this is a Boelen's python.
Boelen's pythons are literally one of my dream snakes,
one of almost every reptile keepers dream snakes for sure.
Kevin has an amazing group of 'em
and I'm sure he's going to produce 'em.
Today we're gonna go around
and just look at some really kind of eclectic animals,
things that you don't normally see around.
And I am excited about it,
starting with this Boelen's pythons here.
The plan is, in the future,
to add Boelen's pythons to The Reptarium.
And you can see why.
These guys are unbelievable.
Obviously, they're born kind of a reddish color,
turn black and yellow as they get bigger.
Oh my gosh, dream snake here guys.
I could stay here all day and just play with this snake,
but we have a lot of other animals to look at.
So let's get to it.
And hey, let's go ahead and just look
at some young Boelen's pythons,
like I had mentioned,
they've got this rusty red color.
These are what, like several months old?
- [Kevin] About a year.
- About a year old, yep, that makes sense.
So when they're babies they're much,
obviously much smaller and even more red and rust colored.
- They're the size of carpet pythons,
almost like a big baby carpet.
- Yeah, big baby carpet.
But wow, you can see the color change starting,
freaking ridiculous.
All right, guys, we are on to blood pythons
and short-tailed pythons with Rob here.
I've known Rob for, gosh, 15, 20 years,
whatever it is. - Yeah, long time.
- Great guy, starting with a really beautiful,
I mean is this a normal?
- [Rob] This is technically a normal,
this not a morph,
this just a nice, striped, red blood python.
- [Brian] That stripe is amazing.
- Really beautiful, selectively bred.
- Exactly, and Rob told me he's gonna prove to me
that blood pythons and short-tail pythons are tame.
- That's right, that's right here, how about this.
We'll hand you this guy. - I'm gonna hold this one.
Right here, he's really great.
And let me pull out a different blood python right here.
- So a lot of cool mutations
when it comes to red blood pythons in particular,
also some short-tail pythons as well.
So I love blood pythons, you guys know that.
Sweety, my big blood python is super docile.
So I'm really coming around,
it's something I'd like to work with more.
Oh, my god.
I tell you what dude-- - Check this out.
This is a Batik Blood Python. (snake hisses)
- Whoa, oh yeah, they're tame! - Look at you, being grumpy!
- Yeah, they're tame, guys, yes, absolutely.
Thanks, Rob, you really got that one down, bud.
These are, these are one of the blood pythons I love
'cause it's almost like a granite Burmese python
in a blood python so,
(snake hissing) wow.
- They have a great cool patterning on them,
(laughs) really great.
And the more that you mix this
into some of the other mutations
you can produce some really cool stuff.
So let's check out some other stuff.
- That's awesome,
and, yeah, a little bit of a close call
there so I've always trusted Rob in the past
but now I'm starting to question my sanity
when it comes to that
- But did ya get-- - but he never lets--
- No, hey, we didn't get--
it was a close call, it was perfect, no problem.
He knew exactly what he was doing,
he knew that he was right within range
but not close enough so it's good.
Oh, she's so great!
Oh my god, another beauty!
- So this is another red blood python,
this one's called a Pixel.
so this is a mix between the Batik
that I just showed you guys and a Goldeneye blood python.
- [Brian] Yeah, and the Goldeneye is what, the super
- super reduced - and the magpie, right?
- [Rob] Look at you being grumpy!
- [Brian] What're you being grumpy for?
- [Rob] Everybody's scared of you today.
I think it's a, it's just, (laughing)
me and blood pythons don't mix for some reason
but still nevertheless,
beautiful snake. - Really, really
beautiful. - And the thing about bloods
is when they do bite
you can see how they, I mean, they have a lot of
power, so... - Muscle.
- So nevertheless, that is gorgeous, dude, I love it, man.
The first albino blood pythons that we're out there
were T-positive bloods and then several years later
there's T-negative bloods now and that's what this is,
so the true albino blood pythons.
Wow, I tell you what, what an absolutely amazing animal
and this one's a little bit tricky too.
Whoo, come on little monkey, that's okay.
Unbelievable, dude, they're crazy cool.
- [Rob] Look at the color, this is why it's so amazing.
- Oh my gosh, I tell you, blood pythons really are amazing.
I could see myself going down the rabbit hole again
when it comes to blood pythons,
'cause, I mean, look at just how cool and impressive,
big thick bodies they are and I tell you what,
I love it, man this is so cool, dude.
- [Rob] It's like having a big snake in a smaller package,
you know? - Exactly, it's crazy,
so I'll give you
that one back. - Sweet.
- And speaking of the T-positive,
this is actually the first albino blood pythons
that were actually produced which are the T-positive
but this is a really wild one.
I mean, all that kind of greens and browns and grays in it.
Usually I don't see 'em with this much
kind of crazy coloration,
but these were the first ones that were produced
and we actually even produced some of these
T-positive bloods way back in the day
when I had a bunch of blood pythons as well.
I haven't worked with a lot of these other mutations
so again, something that hopefully this next year
when these guys breed a bunch of this stuff
maybe I can add it to my collection,
right? - Yeah.
- And then these guys are magpies.
This is the super version of the Goldeneye and, Rob dude.
- Wow, yeah, these'll take the breath right out of you.
These are just like so amazing
and these came from VPI down in Texas
and it's a super form of the Goldeneye,
it takes out all that (woosh)
patterning. - Woo!
(laughs)
Look at these monkeys! - Scared each other there.
So it takes out all the pattern
but leave some of that nice black coloration on the face.
And as these guys get older they get a little bit of
pink on them, - Yep.
- like you can see this one on the neck
is getting a little bit of that pink color coming in
so they do change a bit as they grow
and we're just super excited
to have hatched these out last season.
- Aw, you hatched 'em? - Yeah.
- Oh my gosh. - Kevin was geeking out,
he was sitting over the incubator like, oh my god,
I've been waiting for one of
these snakes forever! - Oh my gosh.
- And just, he's still always excited.
Every time he opens up the bin he's like,
man, these things are just amazing.
- They are, they're breathtaking, breathtaking.
And of course they're called magpies
for those you guys that don't know
there's a bird down in Australia called the magpie,
that's why they named 'em magpie blood pythons, wow.
What'd you think of my?
- See, his makes proper sense for grammar.
Kevin was like, do a nice to someone today.
(laughing) I was like.
- What does that entail?
(laughing)
- You have to do a nice to someone today.
But Brian's is like, be nice to someone today,
and it's like, yes, proper grammar.
(laughing) (woosh)
- [Brian] I know that this is a Barneck Scrub Python,
- Yes. - but could you
do a quick Snarfles for me?
You're, you know, come on.
- But he's in the next room!
- [Brian] I want you to just channel your
Snarfles. - Okay, all right, hold on.
(embarrassed laughing)
- Three, two, one.
- Hey, I am Snarfles and I am the most dynamic
and most crazy looking Barneck Scrub Python.
But I'm now in the other room
and I'm too fat to be on camera,
'cause I'm embarrassed and I don't even have googly eyes!
(nervous laughing)
- [Jared] Hi, my name is Amanda.
- [Brian] What's the problem, I mean
you don't want to be on camera?
Why? - Makes me really nervous,
I don't know why. - Aw, you'll be fine.
- Hi, Amanda! - No!
- You'll be fine. - No!
- All you have to do is. - Come back, Amanda.
- [Brian] What's your name?
- [Jared] My name's Amanda.
- [Brian] And what do you do here?
- [Jared] I take care of all the ball pythons
'cause that's all I can do.
- [Brian] Jared, - What?
what are you doing back there? (laughing)
- I'm not doing anything. (woosh)
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Moving on to short-tail pythons which is,
you know, very similar to a blood python,
but they're actually a different species.
What do we have here?
- This is called a marbled Borneo Short-tail Python
and so this is a type of mutation
that is really, really desirable,
they have this nice light color down the back,
they got all these speckling down the sides.
Kind of similar to a granite burm but a little bit different
and then this one right here,
this is a girl that I'm raising up to breed
and she is just like absolutely stunning.
- That's crazy.
Now is this a incomplete dominant that's recessive?
- There is some debate on that, for Borneo genetics
it's kind of a little bit all over the place
so it's not a simple--
- Yeah, and I know a lot is polygenic as well.
- That's right. - So...
exactly, it's just like that.
'Cause this one right here popped out
between two normal-looking parents,
so the parents didn't have any of this speckling
on them at all. - And then it came in--
- And then this girl popped out.
- [Brian] It's great look at the head on that thing, woo.
- She's a big baby, she's great,
she's one that I raised up from a little one
and she's just like, super. - Now this one I trust.
- She's a big baby. - This one I trust. (laughing)
But dude, Rob, that's awesome, man.
Wow, this, what is this, that's crazy.
- This is ridiculous. So this is kind of the pinnacle
of Borneo Short-tail Python morphs right now.
This is called an ocelot Borneo Short-tail Python.
- Wow. - Yeah.
- And so how do you produce that, I mean what do you...
- So this is produced from Matt from Philly Herp,
he produced these from some really dark Ghost Line animals
that he was breeding together to some Striped Line animals.
And so he produces a couple different looks
with the ocelots,
he's produced these ones that kind of have
like the white down the tail
and the silver striping reduced pattern
and then he's producing what are called White Wall ones
where there are like bright white stripes down the sides.
- Wow. - And they are really amazing.
- That is crazy cool, I love 'em.
- So this Borneo right here is one that I hatched out
in a project with one of my buddies Dan,
and this is from our ocelots breeding together
and no one's produced one that looks quite like this before.
So this thing's got a crazy stripe,
it's got all the speckling kind of like a Marbled Borneo
but I've never seen one like this Borneo before.
- I bet and I haven't either so that's pretty amazing, dude.
- It's incredible. - That's crazy.
- Ready? - Yep.
(laughing)
Okay.
All right, so now we're getting into
some arboreal stuff here.
This is an Amazon Basin?
- Yeah, it's an Amazon Basin.
- Now, did you produce this or is
this one captured? - This is actually, no.
- This is some stock that I got,
this is not one that I produced.
Actually I'm trying to amass different genetic stock
and a lot of it comes from Europe.
- Mm-hmm. - And as you can see
there's a lot of basins here. - You've got a lot of basins
and they're not importing them at all anymore,
right? - No, no not at all,
so this is all captive bred stuff.
So I'm getting stuff from zoos and whatnot
and building my gene pool.
- Yeah, yeah, well that's gonna be good
because Amazon basins of course are, you know,
like the typical emerald you'd see
but just a lot more white, you know,
a lot of times they'll have like dorsal striping,
very beautiful animals, often times--
- And expensive. - And very expensive,
often times much more tame.
Just really a pretty, pretty stunning animal.
- So what's nice about Amazon basins
is that they're larger growing,
tend to be more attractable like you were just saying.
They're little bit more fantastic looking
than a normal emerald and they have huge teeth.
So it's this animal with monster mega teeth
that's not biting you that you can actually handle.
That's kind of nice. Here's an animal, this is like
two and a half to three years old,
and I mean, this is a really nice example of a basin.
I'm just watching the way he's behaving,
when the tongue starts curling down towards your finger
it means maybe you're gonna get bit.
- Right.
- And we don't like these guys to bite,
so sometimes people don't realize
but if you take an animal like this and you're handling it
and I'm not reading the signs
and you make the animal bite you,
it's actually a traumatic experience
for the snake. - Sure, sure.
- They don't just do it in just like,
hey, that was great. - Right.
- They're usually in kind of freakout mode
and they are very prehensile,
so even the tip of the tails prehensile.
So what that means what I'm taking them off the perch is
I want to be extra careful about how I remove the animal
and being aware of the very tip of the tail because--
- Don't wanna damage the vertebrae in any way.
- Yeah, and you ever see
people that have popped green tree pythons to sex them.
- Yeah, and then we get rollercoaster down the road.
- Or you get that, ones with their tails up in the air,
it's kind of crazy. - Yep.
- So this is definitely not an animal you wanna,
they are very delicate and they are all spine
and we know spines are very delicate.
(record scratches)
- All right, let's just--
- You realize that we are filming, right?
(laughing)
- Okay, ready, start again.
Now we have one of the big girls here,
I mean, just look at the size of this thing's head.
It's ridiculous.
- They actually get bigger than this,
they actually can get a fair bit bigger than this.
- And this has got some weight to it.
I mean, it's crazy 'cause a lot of times
when you're handling tree boas they're kind of light.
This one's got some weight,
it's girthy, it's got some size.
- So look at the head muscles of that,
so when they bite they really
clamp down on whatever they're biting,
so if that happens to be your hand,
you kind of, you know what I'm talking about,
like when you get bit by a scrub python
or something like that and you get the sinking,
you feel the teeth sinking in,
like the whole bite slows down.
So you you get that exquisite pain
of those teeth penetrating.
- Yeah, it's like it actually it bruises the muscle
is what it is, it penetrates--
- These guys are your classic when you get bit
you'll get these hematomas so you're bleeding under the skin
so you start like getting lumps and bumps and stuff.
But this is a big adult female.
So the trick with basins,
you have to take your time.
You cannot rush these animals about their feeding.
They readily feed but sometimes if you keep
back logging all the food,
they're not incredibly active,
so you have to get the food to pass through them
so springing 'em out and keeping 'em properly hydrated,
managing the size of the meals,
sometimes we overdo it
and give them too big of a meal,
they gas up and they get...
it's very stressful on them
so you have to kind of really take it,
dial it back,
so even somebody who knows their stuff pretty well like me,
I have to sometimes put extra caution
and have my people put extra caution
in the size of the meals.
And you need to manage the temperatures properly
but definitely missing them down,
getting them to drink off the coils as well as having
always clean water is critical
and this is an animal you cannot rush the growth rate,
you have to...
it's literally like five years,
I think. - Five years, yeah.
This is absolutely incredible,
of course Tara is modeling our D'Albertis python today.
I'll put a link in the description to her Instagram
if you'd like to check out,
'cause you do a lot of cool animal stuff, right?
- I do.
- Awesome, good.
And tell me about this snake, dude,
this is ridiculous.
- Okay, so this is T-positive D'Albertis python.
This animal was actually in a shed,
so this animal, even when you saw yesterday,
it was a little bit more orange,
but this animal glows.
This is a nice-sized python
that you don't see a lot of people breeding.
I've bred the D'Albertis pythons before,
not the easiest species to breed,
they don't get too big. - The babies are tough too,
yeah, the babies are kind of tough.
- They're a little temperamental,
but Tara's kind of showing
that she can easily free handle it
and not have any problems. - Yeah, exactly.
And you guys know
that we have the non T-positive that is docile as could be,
super, super good,
but they are usually
a little bit of a hyper animal,
but this is crazy, dude.
I mean, this is, it's ridiculous,
this is beautiful.
- As I continue to try to get all those new things,
you know, in the future to get these into the hobby.
And be able to breed these kind of animals,
but you have to start somewhere
and usually I'm the sucker on the front as well
and spend all the money.
- Yeah and this is good,
this is a long-term project
because number one,
this is a male. - Yeah.
- So, you know, if he does breed it
you're gonna produce heterozygous animals.
They do take three, four years to get to size
because the babies are a little bit tricky.
This is, you know, you're looking at a seven or eight
year project for sure. - Yeah.
- But that's the type of investment
that guys like Kevin do to put into the future
not only monetarily but also through, you know,
the amount of time and energy,
blood, sweat and tears.
But when that little baby T-positive D'Albertis hatches,
it'll all be worth it.
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