- Hey good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
Today I'm excited, 'cause this is the day
I have been waiting for.
Of course, Ivy, my girl that's sitting over here,
that's been in the water for the last week, shed!
And you know what that means,
I'm just gonna pull this shed out really quick
and take a close look at it.
Again, looks like another perfectly beautiful, long shed.
But more importantly, not the fact that she
shed is exciting, I mean, that's exciting itself,
but the fact is I said once she was done shedding,
I was gonna get in the water with her,
and just kinda chill out, and see what she's gonna do,
how she's gonna interact with me.
Not, again, like kinda making her do anything,
but seeing what she wants to do.
But unfortunately, she's up on the land right now.
So I think what I'm gonna do is just,
literally, just kinda put her into the water,
let her settle in for a few minutes here,
and kinda settle down, that way when I get in she's like,
kinda chilled out, and just see what she is.
She's such a curious animal that I have a feeling
she's just gonna be swimming all over me.
I'm not sure yet what's gonna happen,
but for now I've gotta just get her from back there
which is not gonna be an easy task,
and just get her back in the water.
We'll probably feed her tomorrow.
As a matter of fact, I'm thinking tomorrow I might feed her
the largest pig I've ever fed her.
I'm not sure, I have a giant, 20 pound pig,
I may try to feed her tomorrow.
So fingers crossed that goes well.
But in the meantime, let's go in there and get her,
get her in the water,
and let's go for a little swim.
Just trying to tickle her a little bit
to see if I can't get her moving away.
'Cause she's wedged in this tree right here right now,
and it's gonna be impossible, she's such a strong animal,
there's no way I'm gonna get her out of here
without her moving on her own.
Like I said, I'll let her settle in the water for,
you know, a good half hour or so, something like that,
so she's really chill, so that when I go in there
she is like, curious, right?
And here she comes, there you go, girl, there's my Ivy.
And to be totally honest with you,
I'm just, like I said, tickling her back here right now,
she might go in the water by herself.
I mean, it looks like she's just kind of heading
in that direction by herself.
So this is even better.
Because I really don't wanna kind of, you know,
force her into the water, I want it to be her decision.
I think that way we're gonna get a more
genuine experience, right?
So I'm just gonna let her crawl into the water by herself.
Go Ivy, go ahead girl.
There you go, girl, there you go.
Oh, she's so amazing.
And she's just sitting there,
kind of with her head in the waterfall.
She's such a goofy animal, I love this thing so much.
I'm excited, like I said,
I've been thinking about this for the last couple weeks,
how cool it's gonna be to just get in there,
chill out, experience what she's gonna do.
I mean, you know, you guys have seen me when I'm in there
cleaning the enclosure, and she's just kinda like,
all over me, like, what's going on, dad?
So this should be pretty cool with me completely
in the water with her, just chilling with her.
So I'm gonna let her just finish getting in the water,
let her settle in, I'm gonna go ahead,
change into some swim shorts,
and we'll jump in and have some fun.
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all right, I got my swim stuff on, and I am going in.
Now again, I might be in here for half hour, an hour,
I'm not sure, because the idea is is that I don't wanna
necessarily make her interact with me.
I just wanna sit down in the water here,
and just wait for her to come to me,
see what she does, you know?
And she's such a curious animal,
so let's just go ahead and get in.
And again, I'm gonna try to not even touch her,
just gonna kinda jump in here like this,
and I'm just gonna literally sit down in the water
and wait for her to come to me.
Again, Ivy is just a very curious animal.
Right now she's just over on the other side.
I'm not gonna touch her, I'm not gonna do anything.
I want her to recognize me, and then come over to me.
Right now she's just chilling out over in that side,
which is fine, again, I'm gonna be really patient with this,
even if it takes me a half an hour for her to finally
come over and see me, that's fine,
and then once she sees me,
I just wanna see what she's gonna do.
You know, how is she gonna interact with me
being in the water with her?
I think it's gonna be pretty interesting
and I have no idea how this is gonna turn out,
but I'm excited about it, see?
She's turned around, she's kinda noticed me now,
she's very visual, so she knows I'm here,
and she's kinda going like, what's going on dad?
What are you doing in my water?
She's definitely very curious.
You can definitely see that she is turned all the way to me,
her tongue is coming out in that kind of,
intelligence mode, where she's thinking like,
what is he doing in here?
She's never seen me before when I'm just
totally submerged in here, where I'm not working, right?
So she's probably really thinking like, what is going on?
I don't know, so again, she's definitely,
she's inching her way over to me,
and I know she's gonna get over to me pretty soon.
So, I'm pretty excited about this.
And definitely like thinking what is going on with this?
Why is my dad in here?
Now she's just kind of climbing all over me.
(laughs)
This is such a cool experience.
Oh my gosh, to be inside the water
with a big green anaconda.
So she kinda climbed up to me,
climbed kinda over me, and is now on the other side.
I think she is a little bit confused.
'Cause again, she's used to me coming in here
when I'm cleaning and stuff like that,
and she's really curious, now to be just sitting in here,
it's almost like she's like, what is going on, dad?
So now she's over on the other side under the waterfall,
so I might just go ahead and start playing with her now
after kind of seeing and witnessing her natural behavior
of the kind of curiosity and being over it,
now I think I'll just interact with her
a little bit and swim around, 'cause why not, right?
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What an experience with Ivy.
I tell you what, what a good girl.
This has been awesome!
Just what I expected, she was definitely a little bit,
as you can see, she's running away now, going on land,
she's like, I'm out of here, dad.
She had enough.
She was curious in the beginning,
we had some fun swimming around,
and now she's like, all right, you can leave my territory.
But this was the first time that we've done this.
I'm gonna continue doing this over the next,
you know, couple months to get her more habituated
to people being in the water,
because eventually I'd love for people to be able
to get in, 'cause what an absolutely amazing experience.
I mean, this was way cooler than I even expected.
I love it in here, so I'll just let my girl chill out
for a while, get ready for a big meal tomorrow,
and I'll dry off and get back to work.
Guess what time it is?
Colubrid egg time.
And we got just one clutch of colubrids today.
But it's actually a pretty cool clutch.
It's actually a hypo corn snake
that is actually het for terrazzo.
Terrazzo is actually a pattern mutation
in corn snakes, and it's recessive.
And it's bred to another hypo terrazzo,
so we should have all hypo corns
that come out of these eggs here,
and of course, some will be terrazzos.
Now we haven't produced any terrazzos in quite some time,
so it's pretty cool to finally get some eggs
on the ground here, and I'm just kinda weeding through here,
looks like a little slugger right here,
this egg looks like it's actually good,
probably candle that for sure.
We've got a little slug right here,
looks like a couple to be honest with you,
so it's not a tremendously great clutch,
but there's a bunch of good eggs in here
which look really good, and it's gonna be cool.
Again, hypo terrazzos are really cool.
We've produced ghosts in the past,
so it's cool to be working with them again.
We've got two, four, six, seven good eggs,
and three little sluggers, but not too bad.
Mama's just gonna go back in here,
we'll clean her up, get her shed out of here,
put a bunch of water back in with her,
and get her back onto food within the next couple weeks,
and again guys, we've only produced a couple
second clutches so far,
so a lot of the females that have already laid
will lay again, we're not gonna breed all of them,
but a good majority of these females
will have a second clutch.
So we're really, theoretically about halfway
through the breeding season when it comes to colubrids.
Just noticed that Tiana seems to be
a little bit defensive of her nest area,
which is right under this ledge right here,
and she doesn't look quite as fat as she did before,
so I'm wondering if she laid another clutch of slugs.
So I'm just gonna kinda poke around.
Tiana, I'm sorry baby, I know girl, you're a good girl.
Let's just move you over here.
It's hard to say, she's still pretty fat.
She may not have laid yet.
But she's definitely starting to nest over here.
So I'm just gonna take a quick look and see
if there's anything under here yet.
Doesn't look like anything yet,
but Tiana is definitely gearing up,
and again, like I'm mentioning,
this fall we can put a male in with her
for next year and hopefully get some fertile eggs.
That would be so cool.
But Tiana, you're a good girl.
She's gotten so good, I mean,
just look at how different she is from the time
that we got her, when she was so afraid of things.
Again, not quite Diddy and Dixie or Bella yet,
but still, huge progress.
- Gotta give you guys my wonderful
update with our tarantulas, and as you guys know,
that red knee molted the first time here in the Reptarium.
Now it's time to feed him.
I've got some super worms, mmm,
nice fatty, it's a good amount of caloric value
for these guys, especially right after they molt.
They lose a lot of calories when they molt, guys,
so it's always really, really good to,
once you get them feeding, get them feeding pretty heavy
on some good, good high calorie food.
Let's get at it, I'm telling you guys,
I know he's gonna be crushing food,
'cause it's really fun to watch him eat.
He's always a feisty little guy, so let's do this.
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Holy moly that was cool!
Man, that dude's lightning, lightning fast.
For just a little, little spider, man,
he can really take down a large, large prey.
Really, really thinking about trying to get
into getting more bugs, like arthropods,
any sort of millipede, centipedes, amblypigids,
any sort of thing like that.
Like, those are definitely stuff that we want here,
because to be honest with you,
that's the stuff people wanna see.
I'm even considering potentially getting
some six eyed sand spiders, some camel spiders,
things like that, just some variations of these sort of
animals that if, even if it's not something
we necessarily pull out,
it will be at least interesting to
show people and let people see.
Let us know what you guys think.
I think it'd be a great idea,
put 'em down in the comments down below,
and I will see you guys, keep you guys updated soon.
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- Down in the dungeon and you know what time
that means it is.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
And right now we actually have this girl,
oops, she has one little egg out,
she kind of messed her whole cage up.
But this is actually a pastel yellow belly.
Now, she was actually bred to two males,
one was actually a pin red stripe,
where we could produce lemon blast
red stripe yellow bellies,
the other one was actually a cinni cypress.
So we could produce pewter cypress yellow bellies,
which, either way would be really good.
Don't know who the father is,
but we're gonna go ahead and get mom off,
she's definitely not happy right now.
We'll just kind of slowly get her away from here
real quick, and we'll get these eggs out of here.
Let's see, let's go ahead and see if we can get this egg,
we'll put this egg over here,
whoop, mama, whoo, that's all right mama,
you're all right, girl.
Whoa, there she goes, she's just protecting her eggs.
That's okay, mama, there you go.
In you go, and one last egg, oh,
just planning those strikes, you know what I mean?
So you figure, when she strikes and then she rebounds,
I got a second to grab the eggs, you know what I mean?
That just comes from years of experience
of dodging snake bites.
But we've got two, four, six, eight good eggs.
That's pretty good, like I said,
whether the male is the pin red stripe
or the cinni cypress doesn't really matter,
to be honest with you,
because either one is gonna be really equally as cool.
So we'll find out in 57 days what
actually was fathering this clutch,
and what kind of beautiful babies we'll have.
I had to kind of share this story with you,
because, you know, even after all the years I've been
doing this, sometimes I get completely blown away
and shocked by things.
This is actually a woma lesser pinstripe,
she shed out just about four days ago.
Now typically a ball python is gonna lay
anywhere, around 30 days after shed.
So, you know, sometimes it's 24 days,
sometimes it's 40 days, but it's gonna be around 30 days.
Well she's only shed a few days ago,
and I noticed she was laying a little bit weird.
And I just looked underneath,
and there's actually one slug,
and then actually one good egg.
That's it, just two eggs from this huge girl here.
I can feel her, she doesn't have anything in her,
and she laid a few days after shed.
I have never had that happen in all the years
I've been breeding ball pythons.
I mean, the earliest clutch has been 21, 22 days after shed.
This girl did a few days after shed.
Completely wild, but it just kind of goes to show you
that even when you think you have it all dialed in,
there's still things that are gonna
throw you curve balls, you know?
So as it works out, this big, you know,
1,700 gram female literally has one slug, one egg,
and it's bred to a pastel crystal by the way,
so hey, hopefully this lone ranger egg here
will be something really awesome.
We'll just have to wait and see.
But I had to share with you guys, 'cause my mind is blown.
What an amazing experience swimming with Ivy,
and remember, tomorrow we're gonna feed her a 20 pound pig.
So you gotta tune in to that,
that's gonna be absolutely incredible.
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