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- Yeah, I'd say I have a lot of snakes.
But I could always use more.
- Definitely not, you don't need any more snakes.
- So I just got off the phone with my buddy Jeff.
And he's sending some more snakes right now.
Go ahead, send 'em, that'd be great.
- Let me guess, more ball pythons?
- Yep, you can never have too many ball pythons.
- Let me guess, another challenge?
- Nope, we're just gonna unbox like normal this time.
Even though I've dealt with hundreds of thousands,
maybe even millions of snakes,
I still get excited every time I get new ones.
And it's here.
I have no idea what's inside this box,
other than the fact that there's some ball pythons.
And setting up for filming unboxing
isn't as easy as you think.
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And let's see what's in the box.
Oh my gosh, that is a beautiful snake!
Why am I getting snakes like this all the time?
Obviously, every bin in this aisle has a baby snake in it.
And of course, the vast majority of the snakes
that we have here we actually produce here at BHB.
This happens to be a lesser leopard blade clown ball python.
Absolutely a ripper!
And speaking of that, Black Friday is coming up.
And for the last 10 years we had a Black Friday sale.
Every single snake is on sale including this pie.
And there's just literally one snake in this bag.
But it is an absolute ripper here.
This looks like a highway ball python.
Let me see what the breeding is right here.
This is actually a Mardi Gras, which is an enchi highway.
Now, the highway ball pythons are actually
allelic yellow belly, what they call gravel.
When you breed a gravel and a yellow belly together,
on average, one in four are allelic and come out highway.
But then it's also bred to a pastel ivory.
So it's interesting
because everything has to be yellow belly.
So anything that's gravel in the clutch
is gonna be a highway.
Anything that's not gravel in the clutch
is gonna be an ivory, which is really cool.
But look at how incredible that animal.
And still, all these years later,
they are absolutely spectacular.
- Mr. Brian, Mr. Brian, looky, looky!
- What you got?
- I got a Lucy toothy.
- Oh my God, that is cool, you know what?
I think this is the first tooth
I've ever seen from Lucy, to be honest with ya.
Have you guys ever seen a 20 foot snake's tooth?
Just give an idea, there's 200 teeth, two rows of teeth
in that mouth that have teeth like that big.
If she bites you, that's going in.
Of course, if she rips back, it's ripping your skin.
So if you ever do get bit by something,
which thankfully I haven't been bit by Lucy
for about the last five years.
Last time I did get a bite, she bit me right in the stomach.
But she just hit me and let go.
And I just had a bunch of perforations.
But this is the size tooth that a giant snake has.
And it's a reticulated python, that's pretty out.
- Now I'm gonna risk not getting bit by the teeth.
'Cause there's some purees behind here,
and her face is right there.
Please don't wake up or move.
Oh, I see the tongue.
This is so sketchy.
Don't try this at home, unless you're a professional,
which I am, we are, we all are.
- I love this snake right here, and guess what?
It's gonna be on sale.
It is a chocolate banana pin stripe, ooh-ooh doggie!
And this cinny lesser bongo.
And of course, this soul sucker.
And yes, this ultra male pin, that's right.
Every snake, not just down here,
but in the entire place, including geckos,
every animal that we have at BHB Reptile will be on sale.
So you can go to bhbreptiles.com.
Black Friday from midnight to midnight.
You could save up to 50% on your animal if you wanted that.
But enough of that.
We actually don't produce enough animals
to meet the demand typically.
So basically we buy animals from trusted breeders like Jeff.
We deal with a very select number of people
that we'll buy animals from,
because it's important for us to have the quality.
Because after all, BHB's name's gonna be on these animals.
And our customer service follows them along.
- If you're buying that many snakes,
why don't we just buy a giraffe?
Come on, people love giraffes.
- Mike, don't be stupid!
Now penguins, see, that's what we need, eh?
And we got room for penguins.
- Where?
- Well, we'll make room. (laughs)
- Make room for a giraffe, Noah.
(gentle music)
- Bag number two.
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Oh, these are beautiful here.
Ooh, it's a little nippy monkey right there.
And remember when I was talking about the fact
that everything has to be ivory, if it's a yellow belly?
Well, it could also be a pastel ivory too.
And that's what we have going on here.
It looks like we have a little pastel ivory here,
another little pastel ivory,
and then a couple little ivories right here.
Now, there's a chance that
they could have some enchi in 'em.
But I don't really see any enchi.
It usually changes a little bit.
It's a little bit hard to tell with ivory.
The thing that's interesting is that
ivories were the very first white ball python
that came into the country years and years ago.
It was before blue-eyed leucistics, black-eyed leucistics.
It was ivory ball pythons.
And as these get older,
they lose a lot of that yellow and patterning.
It turned kinda solid white.
And sure enough, we thought it was a leucistic.
It came into the country, sold for $125,000.
The next year, someone actually
bred yellow belly to yellow belly
and produced ivories in captivity.
And that was the whole story of ivories.
And all these years later,
they're still a super sought-after morph.
So it makes me wonder, why do I breed and sell snakes?
Beyond popular belief, I don't actually make
very much money when it comes to breeding snakes.
So why do I do it?
My hope is, is that every snake that I breed, produce, sell
will go to someone that is gonna not only love that snake,
but fall in love with snakes even more.
Oh Mike!
- Oh!
It looked so good five minutes ago.
- Yep, but there's poop in there now, job security.
Not to mention, I'm hoping that when someone has a snake,
they're showing it to their friends,
their family, acquaintances.
And those acquaintances and family members
and friends are gonna say, wow, that snake is really cool.
Get an opportunity to actually get hands on with snake.
Like this absolutely ripping albino wolf snake.
One of only two in the country.
And I have both of 'em, they are absolutely incredible.
I hope here in the next year or two
I'll be able to produce these, send 'em along
and then maybe someone will get it,
and the cycle continues on and on.
Bag number three.
Wow, these things are amazing!
Now, while, this certainly wasn't a big shipment,
it looks like there was only about eight or nine snakes,
the last two are definitely crown jewels of this shipment.
Absolutely wonderful.
Remember I told you about Mardi gras ball pythons?
Those are the enchi highways, right?
So we got an enchi, got a gravel,
and you got a yellow belly mixed together.
That's when you produce something like this,
which is called a Mardi gras ball python, unbelievable.
The enchi really does a lot of crazy things for mutations.
So having one like this is absolutely ridiculous.
Look at the color in that animal.
I tell you what, I never could have imagined
25, 30 years ago that we'd be
looking at ball pythons like this,
and really, ball pythons that aren't unaffordable.
Most of the ball pythons we work with now are cheap enough
where people could buy 'em as pets, which is really cool.
And then look at this one, a little bit more faded here.
This is actually a pastel Mardi Gras.
So basically, you have a pastel, you have an enchi,
you have a gravel and you have a yellow belly.
And you can look at the difference of what
happens when you just add one pastel gene to it.
Check this out, guys.
Right up here is a female Nosy Be panther chameleon.
Now, she's never been in with a male before.
But look at what we found on the bottom.
I didn't realize she was even (indistinct)
Now I happen to think that these eggs are gonna be no good.
They do look really nice.
So I'm gonna can 'em just in case,
there's Mary Par Genesis or something like that.
But there's a whole bunch of eggs in this case.
Now, thankfully, a lot of times
when a female lays infertile eggs like this,
they can actually egg bound and potentially even parrot.
So I'm very, very happy that she did lay their eggs.
And she kinda laid 'em all over the place, which is weird.
Three eggs so far.
And these guys can literally have tons of eggs.
Normally the duds don't look so good.
These actually look really good, to be honest with you.
You'll see what happens.
And she may have buried a bunch down here, I'm not sure.
So far we just have five.
She's not a really big female.
Like I said, I had no idea she was even carrying eggs.
So that's crazy.
We have six so far.
And then we just kinda dig around a little bit.
There's another one right there, there's seven.
Oh, and look right over here, right up on the top ledge.
That is very unusual that she'd lay one up there.
So it looks like we've got two, four, six, eight eggs,
which would be a pretty small clutch.
But again, she's a pretty small female.
I'm just glad that she passed her eggs.
She'll start eating and beef up.
Who knows, maybe we'll throw a male in
with her on her next cycle.
What an absolutely incredible shipment.
I always love unboxing everything.
Let me know in the comments how you guys feel about it.
So now this vlog is over.
Laurie, look it, I got some more ball pythons.
- Are you serious?
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