- Hey good morning everybody,
welcome to the vlog Reptile Army!
Kinda old school intro there,
and hey, listen,
this is gonna be a little bit of an old school vlog too,
because we are baby snake crazy today.
And look at the stack of all of the baby colubrids
that hatched out just since yesterday.
So it is gonna be amazing.
I figure, you know what?
I am excited about baby snakes,
I want you to be excited about baby snakes,
what'd you say we just go through
and see what actually hatched out on these.
I mean, it's always amazing, right?
So let's jump right into the first one.
This is actually just a brooks kingsnake clutch, right?
So these are south Florida brooks kingsnakes,
and look at the swatch of these guys right here,
hoo doggy!
That is a lot of baby snakes, isn't it?
I mean, that is absolutely incredible.
And again, brooks kings are a great baby snake
in the sense that they eat really well,
they're usually really tame,
when they're babies they can get a little bit cranky,
but the truth is as they get bigger,
they're amazing snakes and they turn even more beautiful
as they get bigger, this nice yellow color.
So hey, always awesome to hatch out some brooks kings.
And you always know when Lori marks nice on a lid,
which that was her writing, not my writing,
it's a good clutch.
This is actually coral snow cornsnakes, right?
So these are snow cornsnakes,
but these are the coral snows,
those are the ones that are like super pink.
And this is the nicest pairing
that we actually bred this year.
We actually bred a couple
that were really beautiful as well,
but this is the best pairing.
So these are gonna get more and more pink as they get older.
And look at all these babies.
I tell you what, that is absolutely incredible guys.
Like I said, I am always so excited to see babies
and all of these just hatched.
Now this clutch is bizarre to me,
I'm gonna to be honest with you,
the whole Jelly Brooks thing,
I still don't have my head wrapped around it,
I'm gonna be totally honest with you.
I know there's like some allelic stuff to it,
there's some incomplete dominance,
so I don't even know what's going on,
but the first clutch of albino jelly brooks,
or what we thought was albino jelly brooks,
hatched out they were all albinos.
We hatched out a couple of really crazy ones.
This was the same pairing,
just with a different animal, right?
Two albino jelly brooks, and they all hatched out normal,
no jelly brooks, nothing else,
all normal brooks kingsnakes.
Now don't get me wrong. They're beautiful.
But I don't even know what the genetics are,
I have to give a call to a couple of people
and really talk through this thing.
But ooh there's a baby snake going on the ground.
(laughs)
Because I am confused, you know, listen,
I understand ball python genetics,
I understand corn snake genetics, leopard gecko genetics,
but this jelly brooks thing blows me away
because it seems to be having like
two or three different effects,
and I don't know why it produced
a bunch of normals from two albinos, who knows?
It seems like we've got a lot of brooks kings
hatching out today.
Well brooks kings do hatch at about 52 days,
whereas most colubrids hatch at 60, 62 days,
so they're a little bit quicker,
but these are actually anerythristic brooks kingsnakes,
Look at these beauties here,
they got that bluish kind of white look to them
with a pattern and then that solid black,
I mean just unbelievably striking animals
and just like the other brooks when these get bigger
that white comes through a little bit more
and it actually makes it even more incredible,
but a whole clutch of brooks,
I think that's it for brooks now,
but we still have a bunch of babies to go.
Now we're moving on to some California kingsnake clutches.
There's only two eggs in this whole clutch,
but this is actually a mosaic Cal king,
and that right there,
we used to call tire track mosaic Cal kings,
because of course it looks like they have a big tire track
right down their middle.
That is a beautiful one.
One of the nicest ones I probably have ever produced.
And then right a sibling,
look at how different they can look.
I mean, that's what's interesting about the siblings
of the mosaic Cals, you have so many variability with them.
As a matter of fact, I think we have one more
clutch of these somewhere in this stack,
so we'll get to that in a minute.
And a couple more little California kingsnakes,
we actually have an albino black and white
California kingsnake here.
And then we actually have
an arabic black and white kingsnake here
again, interesting that some
of our arabic California kingsnakes,
we didn't realize were het for albino,
and we've been producing some albinos out of them,
which is cool, cause I love
the albino black and white Cal kings,
or sometimes they would call them desert phase Cal kings,
regardless, they're beauties.
Next up we have some little Pueblan milksnakes
and these guys are absolutely amazing.
Now I'm gonna be honest with you,
up until now I've been surprised that usually
I'm chasing baby snakes around like crazy,
but these guys are pretty hyper,
so if I mess with them too much,
they will start springing out of this box
and I'm gonna be chasing them all over the ground.
So I'm gonna try not to do it, but look at that,
isn't that amazing?
I mean that is a beautiful clutch of snakes, right there.
A bunch of little baby Pueblan milksnakes.
I mean, that is absolutely adorable.
And then like I mentioned,
we have another mosaic California.
As a matter of fact, look at this one's
head's poking out right now. Just one last egg to hatch.
Look at him. Hi, buddy.
But you could see the variability in these animals, right?
You've got like ones that are like dot dashes, like this,
which are really cool.
We've got some that are almost banded,
almost little circles down their side.
And then of course we have some
that are more like tire track-y.
So that's the variability to it.
Ooh, there goes to the one snake,
like I said, once they start popping, I can get in trouble.
So like I said, lots of variability with these guys.
I'm gonna have to set my camera down for a second.
(plastic lid clicking into place)
Getting those baby snakes in there,
we always gotta check for heads
to make sure nothing gets crushed,
but I tell you what, yeah, that's pretty cool.
And again, the variability of mosaic Cal kings is amazing.
And like I mentioned before,
some of our high white or arabic black and white Cal kings
are proving out to be het albinos.
So we have a couple albino high white
black and white Cal kings.
We've got a couple albino banded black and white Cal kings.
A nice, beautiful, almost 50/50 banded
black and white Cal king.
And then we have a bunch of aberrant high white ones
and stuff like that. So again,
lot of variability with Cal kings
and it's pretty cool that some of them were het for albino.
And then the last babies for the day,
at least when it comes to colubrids are these guys here,
which are some snow California kingsnakes,
look at that little monkey right there.
That of course, is just a snow,
which is an albino and a chocolate,
basically double recessive mutation,
it's all pink with no patterning on it.
Absolutely incredible.
Then we have a little albino here,
albino banded,
and then we have a couple really dark animals here.
They're not tropic Cal kings,
but they're really dark Cal kings,
almost like anerythristic,
which is really interesting to me
because I've never had an anerythristic Cal king before.
So I'm gonna wait for these to shed and see what they are.
But there goes the babies for the day.
I mean, this was a crazy baby day.
Let me know in the comments, which ones you like best.
And if you like me showing off the baby colubrids,
because I sure am excited about it. (water bubbling)
Salt and pepper are certainly looking good,
and after the start of the babies of the day,
I hope that you guys are having
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It's ball python feeding day here today,
which means that I'm gonna be feeding a lot of snakes,
some of them eat frozen, some of them eat live,
and you guys know I don't ever show feeding live
on the video.
That being said let's go ahead and just roll the time lapse.
(energetic music)
Since we're talking about a lot of babies today,
I'm gonna update you guys on some of the baby ball pythons
that have shed and they're looking really good.
This is actually what they would call
the silver streak cypress ball python.
So it's a super pastel,
it's a black pastel and it's a cypress ball python,
it's the ones that hatch out kind of silver and purple-y,
and after it's shed it's looking absolutely gorgeous.
And then of course we had our pie clutch that shed out.
This was the first pie clutch that we produced this year,
they were all pies, it was actually a pie to a pastel pie,
and some of them look beautiful.
I tell you what, pies are just absolutely amazing,
no matter what.
So just always awesome to see.
- Jay, I have an issue.
- What's the issue.
- [Brian] I'm a little bit upset at you.
- Why?
- [Brian] Because-
- You're normally upset at me.
- Drogo loves you and he doesn't love me like he loves you.
How do I make Drogo love me?
- Time.
- [Brian] Time?
- Mhmm. No, no, no. Don't pet him.
(off-camera laughter) - I don't get to pet him?
Aw come on.
I'm so sad. You know, he's like-
- Give him a kiss, that's why. Kiss him.
- [Brian] No, he'll bite my face off
- He probably will
(both laughing)
- [Brian] You're just teaching him to hate me.
- Yes.
- That's what it is. I think every day,
he goes in there with a picture of me and he-
- With a video actually.
- [Brian] Yeah and you just like poke at him.
- Yep.
- [Brian] Yeah, exactly.
- "Don't like this guy."
- Alright, whatever.
I'll get him to love me one day, one day.
And then here is the banana genetic stripe.
It's one of my favorite of the banana mutations
to be honest with you.
I just love the way that it's super orange and got that cool
little striping that goes down its dorsal.
I mean, that thing is an absolute ripper.
Now, I don't know if you remember,
we had that one egg clutch that was actually just
a normal ball python that was bred to a banana fire spider,
and then this hatched out,
I'm pretty sure this is a caramel albino or an ultramel,
you really can't tell them apart when they're babies,
they're very similar.
But nevertheless, you know,
it's a cool animal and a total surprise
because genetically I didn't think either one
of them was het for anything,
so it's pretty cool that we produced one of these guys
and time will tell if it's an ultramel
or if it's a caramel.
And then of course,
this is one of the new pumpkin line genes right here.
This is just an enchi pumpkin, right?
It's not a super enchi. It's nothing like that.
It's just a normal enchi, and then a pumpkin gene
and it looks nothing like a normal enchi to me,
and it's definitely really cool.
Now this one doesn't have the orange that some have,
but nevertheless, I love the color and pattern to this one.
The other day someone asked me to show off
the uroplatus phantasticus,
the giant leaf-tailed gecko from Madagascar.
So you know what I'm going to
because they're absolutely wonderful animals.
Again, these guys are one
of the largest of the uroplatus species.
And as you can see, they can certainly climb
and their camouflage is absolutely incredible
that we get this little monkey right here.
Come on monkey.
Look at the eyes on this thing right here.
These guys have such sensitive eyes
that they can see 350 times better than humans
and actually can see full color in the dark.
Imagine that, in the dark they can see full color
because these are heavily nocturnal animals obviously.
And these guys again are called uroplatus phantasticus.
The uro actually means flat, the platus means tail,
and the phantasticus means frill.
So that's where their actual technical
or scientific name comes from.
These guys come from the eastern part of Madagascar
and they are absolutely wonderful animals.
So like always, I'm always reading your comments
and whenever you guys want me to show something,
I'll do my absolute best to do it.
And these guys are wonderful.
Then here's another one of the pumpkin enchis,
is this is actually just an enchi spider,
what they call a stinger bee and a pumpkin,
look at the reduction of pattern that that pumpkin makes on,
because again, the enchi spider stuff sometimes is cool,
but this isn't a super enchi either,
it's just a normal enchi spider.
It is so reduced and so beautiful.
Definitely super excited about
the future of the pumpkin gene.
This is a ripper right here.
This is actually just a banana enchi Mojave
and it's het for clown.
But look at the color on this monkey right here.
I mean the vibrance of this animal is absolutely ridiculous.
Definitely gonna keep this one back,
even though I have actually other animals
that are genetically more powerful,
I don't know, I love this animal,
It's one of my favorite ones I've produced so far this year,
so this is going in the keeper rack. Most likely.
Then this is actually from that same clutch,
this is actually a banana pastel Mojave clown ball python,
It doesn't have the enchi in it
and that enchi would make it pop even more.
But nevertheless, what a gorgeous snake,
clown stuff is so cool and definitely cool
to have a lot of clown stuff hatching this year
as a matter of fact we still have
two or three more banger clutches
to be laid with clown stuff,
so it's gonna be a really good year for us.
This is actually a super chocolate pinstripe,
what we call a camel ball python,
and we produced the very first ones,
probably like 12 years ago, but still all these years later,
there's just absolute, really ripping animals.
Of course, this is what I thought
was gonna be the keystone to the barney ball project,
turned out that didn't work out too well,
but I think when we get in like blackhead
or maybe some other mutations into it,
we can bring that purple out with a banana,
but nevertheless, just the camels alone,
absolutely ridiculous.
And speaking of the barney ball project,
this is actually a pastel banana super chocolate pinstripe.
So this is what I would have thought would have been
a pastel barney ball python,
but you can see it's got some purple hue to it,
but it definitely, isn't a really purple snake.
Like I said, we definitely need another
dark morph combo to get in here to really pop that purple.
- All right guys, I don't know if you know,
but we've got the fish spa here at The Reptarium,
of course these guys love to eat your dead skin,
but we wanna try something a little different today,
let's check it out.
Here goes nothing,
(laughs) I don't wanna do it.
My whole face or just this part?
- [Brian] Yeah, yeah just do that part.
- Just this?
- [Brian] Yeah.
(energetic music)
(water trickling)
- Yeah, come enjoy the fish spa.
- We're doing quite a bit of red stripe stuff,
which is an incomplete dominate mutation,
and this happens to be a pastel red stripe yellow belly
and the blushing and color
that that red stripe and yellow belly mix together,
of course you add the pastel to it,
that's a really cool snake.
So it's just a three gene animal,
and I love the genetics behind this one.
Again, mixing into a lot of different things.
This is going to be a great cornerstone for future projects.
Then this animal was one I was so excited to hatch out,
and now that it's shed, oh my gosh!
This thing is absolutely ripping,
this is a banana GHI Mojave,
oh my goodness,
I love the way this one turned out,
with some age on it this is gonna be amazing,
and this one is definitely going in the keeper rack.
And then the last one that actually shed out,
we have tons more babies,
they just haven't shed yet,
so I'll update you when they shed out in the future.
We're hatching like crazy here
but this is actually a pastel pinstripe bamboo
vanilla ball python
and wow!
What a soft color palette this one has,
absolutely love it.
So you can really tell that from when they hatch out
to when they shed, they change a lot.
And then when they get to about 300 grams, holy cow,
all the snakes I just showed you are going to be amazing.
So I'll definitely keep updating on things shedding
as well as, as these little monkeys start to grow.
Love it. We have a Texas rat snake,
a scaleless Texas rat snake,
that actually laid a clutch of eggs.
So let's go ahead and see what mama has going on here.
And she's an absolute beauty,
I mean, look at that snake right there.
And it looks like some pretty darn good eggs.
Just look at the amazing color of that animal right there.
Wow. I tell you what, that is a beauty.
We'll get mama's cage all cleaned up.
Come on mama, get in there.
We'll get her all cleaned up, get her some fresh water,
get her all set. She'll get feeding,
this is her second clutch
so then after this she actually goes
into brumation in a couple months,
so we're just gonna get her ready to go,
but let's go ahead and see how many eggs she has.
Got one egg here,
looks like a whole bunch of eggs here,
looks like an absolutely gorgeous clutch of eggs,
there's no doubt about that.
These are all gonna be scaleless
because it's scaleless Texas rat,
the scaleless Texas rat,
of course it's a recessive mutation,
that's lacking keratin that makes up scales,
and so all these babies should be good.
And with that color that she had whoa doggy,
these babies should be rocking.
So let's see if we have just any more eggs in here.
It looks like that's it.
Got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, absolutely gorgeous eggs.
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