- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I'm emotionally crazy right now because of what I just saw.
And that is this right here.
Don't worry, guys, it is good news,
and I am so excited about this,
but I'm also kinda freaking out
because I was so, so worried.
But guess what. My boy, Elvis here.
Hey Elvis, come out. Look what's in his water.
That's right. The ball is in his water.
Literally, he just passed the ball that he ate.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I'm gonna put this over here,
'cause I don't want him to see it,
but I was a lot more concerned than I even led on to.
I didn't know what was gonna happen.
Come on, buddy. Come on out, sweetheart.
I thought, "Was there a chance
that this thing could get stuck in him,
and it could potentially have to have surgery?"
And whenever you put an animal like Elvis to sleep,
there's always a chance that something bad could go on.
So, (sighs) guys, he passed the ball.
He's gonna be okay.
I am so, so, so beyond excited right now and happy.
And I literally want to cry right now
because I know my boy's gonna be okay.
I was flipping out.
I thought, "What if something terrible happened to him?"
I don't know what I would do.
I mean, the relationship we have,
and the amount of people that he touches on a daily basis,
of just being such an incredible animal,
that pet dinosaur, that unbelievable relationship
that people think there's no way
that a lizard can be as cool as Elvis.
I thought, "Is there a chance that we could lose him?"
Could never replace him.
I mean, he's just only 3 1/2 years old.
He's still gonna live for a long, long time.
So I just, I was freaking out, guys.
And now, (sighs) my heart's beating and pounding,
and my boy, Elvis here is gonna be okay.
Look at him. He looks great!
He's walking around. His legs are working great.
I cannot believe it. It happened.
(sighs) I don't know how he passed that ball right there,
but he did pass it.
I can't, it's a little stinky.
I'm not gonna lie to you,
but, I'm just over-the-top excited.
So what a great way to start the day, right?
No matter what problems we have today, let's push 'em aside
because something amazing happened today.
And that's my boy, Elvis is gonna be okay.
I know you guys were worried about him.
I was worried about him.
So, let's just have an amazing day together.
I couldn't have asked for a better way to start mine.
This was a pretty interesting clutch.
This was actually a Okeetee-hetfer scaleless
bred to an Abbott's-Okeetee scaleless.
Now, I gotta tell you, yesterday,
I saw all these normal babies right here,
all these normal Okeetees right here,
and there were no scaleless, and I was bummed.
I was like, "Oh my gosh, I bought a het scaleless
that turned out to not be a het."
And I was a little bit bummed out about it.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
And I was like, "Oh my gosh."
There was 20 eggs in this clutch.
So I was expecting maybe eight
or 10 scaleless Abbott's Okeetees.
And to have all these normals,
I was really like, "Oh my gosh."
Well guess what, this morning I woke up,
and there are some scaleless Abbott's Okeetees right here.
As a matter of fact, let me get some water
and dip 'em in, so we can get the vermiculite out,
so you can see how beautiful they are.
And these guys are so absolutely adorable.
But again, when they get all that vermiculite on 'em,
you can't really see their beauty.
So I'll just kinda just go like this,
and we'll get these all set up.
What we normally do is soak 'em a little bit,
and then we'll set 'em up on aspen,
and of course it won't get all stuck over 'em like that.
But look at the difference that that animal is right there.
That's an Abbott's-scaleless Okeetee. Hoo doggy.
So, the odds weren't very good.
So it looks like we have three or four
of the Abbott's Okeetees,
as opposed to maybe eight or 10 that I expected.
But hey, nonetheless, it proved out, and it is a het.
These guys are ridiculous.
The new Rainbow Jackson's chameleons
are settling in really well.
Here's the female right here.
And I actually did a little research.
There's a handful of species of these guys.
And I thought the rainbows were the only ones
with females with horns, but it turns out
that there's actually a couple of 'em that have that.
So the male is down here. He has some really big horns.
Females will have shorter horns with the Rainbow Jackson's,
but they also will with some other species as well.
It's just the most common ones that we typically see,
females won't have the horns, and I didn't know.
So hey, we're learning together.
Nevertheless, they are settling in great.
They are absolutely gorgeous.
(upbeat music)
In the dungeon, which means,
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
♪ Egg time ♪
And we actually have another one
of those possible het sunsets.
So, those long-shot animals.
But hey, listen, I'm still continuing to hold out hope.
And this girl has a nice little beautiful clutch of eggs.
She is a smaller girl, for sure.
She's probably only about 1300 grams when she's full on.
And it looks like she had three good eggs right here,
and a couple sluggers.
So we'll go ahead, get these eggs out here.
We'll get them put away right here.
So unfortunately, there's only three good eggs,
and there's a couple slugs, but no big deal.
Again, it's a long shot
when you're breeding possible hets to possible hets.
One day I'll probably break down and buy a sunset,
or some proven hets, or whatever the case may be.
But it's kind of fun, to be honest with you,
to kinda hopefully hit it myself.
And I think I will one day. So, it's good stuff.
So, that's the only clutch of ball pythons
we have for the day.
Three eggs go into the incubator.
(upbeat music)
(blade whooshing)
And we actually have a really cool clutch of eggs here.
I've been pretty excited about this
since the time it was hatched.
The pairing was pretty awesome.
And the female was this Super-Enchi Spinner. Hoo doggy.
I mean, she hardly has any pattern to her, and she was bred
to this ridiculous, Lemon Blast-Enchi extreme gene.
So again, there could be a bunch
of really cool combinations there.
I'm excited to see what it is.
That Super-Enchi, the extreme gene works well, the pastel.
I mean, it's just got everything
that you really want, right?
So let's just jump into egg number one.
And, let's go ahead and see what we get
right off the rip here.
This is, again, this could be some really beautiful babies.
Let's see, oh, we have, interestingly enough,
it looks like a Super-Pastel Enchi.
Again, everything should be Enchi
because it was a Super-Enchi Spinner.
So I'm assuming everything should be Enchi.
This looks like a pastel Enchi super, and I'm not 100% sure.
Let's jump into egg number two.
Hopefully we'll get some of that
extreme Lemon Blast stuff in here.
That's what I'm really looking for.
All right, what do we got in egg number two here?
All right, what do we have?
Okay, all right, all right.
It looks like we have something pretty cool here.
Looks like we have, oh gosh,
this is gonna be a beautiful animal.
So this is a Lemon Blast extreme-gene Enchi.
So that is basically the same thing as the dad.
We just didn't hit the Super-Enchi part of it.
But it could be a Super-Enchi.
I'm just assuming the Super-Enchi
would be a little bit less reduced.
But nevertheless, that is a ripper right there.
That's a beautiful egg.
That's almost exactly what I was hoping for.
So, let's just go ahead and cut the next egg.
And again, there could be
some beautiful, beautiful, beautiful babies in this clutch.
So I am so excited about it.
Again, interestingly enough,
we kinda hit kinda the lowest rung here.
This is actually a pastel Super-Enchi right here.
So, again, not the pinstripe, not the spider,
not some of the other stuff.
That's okay though, we still have three more eggs to go.
And I'm really hoping that we hit that all-gene animal,
at least in one of these eggs.
Again! Oh my gosh, another pastel Super Enchi.
Kinda whipping on my odds a little bit here, guys,
I'm not gonna lie, but we got the one really cool animal.
Two eggs to go.
Let's hope there's something awesome in these last two eggs.
And you guys know how odds go.
Sometimes you miss, sometimes you hit,
sometimes the last egg is the best egg in the clutch.
You just never know what's gonna happen.
Okay, so now we have, this is really a beautiful snake,
to be totally honest with you.
This is actually a Super-Enchi Bumblebee,
essentially, is what it is.
So it's a pastel, it's a spider, and it's a Super-Enchi.
And that thing is gonna be a ripper.
So the only thing we missed here was the pinstripe.
If we would've hit the pinstripe in this,
it would have been all-gene animal.
So we have one egg left. Let's hope we hit it.
But that one, that one's gonna be amazing.
Come on, let me just hit that one.
I've been dreaming about this
ever since this clutch was laid.
I was hoping to hit that one animal
that was just gonna blow me away, and, no, ugh.
For a second there, I thought we hit it, a second there.
Again, we had a Super-Enchi Lemon Blast,
looks like extreme gene.
By the way, that previous one with the spider,
it looks like that's an extreme gene too.
So, this is gonna be a really beautiful, reduced animal.
So we didn't hit the all-gene animal,
but we hit a handful of really cool Super-Enchi things,
extreme-gene things, pastel, Lemon Blast, spider.
I mean, so nevertheless,
might not hit the creme de la creme,
but we definitely hit some pretty cool animals
in this clutch.
- So I got lots of leopard gecko babies today. (chuckles)
These ones I'm super excited about.
I'm gonna open it up,
but they're probably gonna go everywhere.
So, this one here is really cool. Look at that pattern.
It's got a lot of black on it already, too.
So we'll see how that develops.
Hopefully it stays nice and dark.
- [Man] All of these
are really dark, huh? - Yeah.
Yeah, they're really cool to see the variations we have too.
So we've got a bold stripe here,
and then a reverse stripe right here.
This is from our melanistic, or dark line,
that is, we have a couple of 'em.
This is the one that's hetfer-bell albino.
So this is another one out of that group,
another reverse stripe.
So I'm really excited to see if these guys are any darker
than they were last year.
And then, these ones are pretty cool too.
Right here we've got a
Albino Mack Snow Murphy's Patternless,
and a Super Snow Albino Murphy Patternless.
- Remember that clutch I cut the other day
was actually a bumblebee to a mahogany?
Well, they hatched out.
Interestingly enough, the bumblebee
is actually a pastel-spider,
and there was only one pastel in the entire clutch,
which is a little bit interesting,
but it was a pastel-mahogany.
Now that, a mahogany is a darker animal.
Of course, that's a pastel.
I'll give you an idea
of what an actual mahogany looks like right here.
This is the mahogany.
You can see that really dark head,
it's got kinda hardly even can see the arrows on it
that are typically more yellow.
The entire body is more sooty looking.
The thing that's nice
is this is an incomplete-dominant animal.
Meaning the super version is an all-black snake,
named a Suma ball python, which is pretty cool.
Then we actually have
a little pinstripe mahogany right here.
Again, just makes it a little bit darker,
a little bit more blushing
and wider patterns on the actual pinstripe.
And then, again, this is a spider-mahogany.
Now, interestingly enough,
what happens with the spider-mahogany
is that the head pattern changes quite a bit.
And then they always have pretty good striping on them,
with a really broad lateral band
that goes down that striping,
that I find pretty interesting.
So that's a spider-mahogany.
Then we just have
a couple normal spider ball pythons right here.
And these are just normals here.
So, all in all, a pretty interesting clutch,
and kinda cool building blocks for that solid-black snake
and other things buried into the bananas
and all kinds of stuff like that.
So, I was happy with the way these guys hatched out.
- Hey guys. What's up?
I know we haven't really done a lot
of Chicken Strip updates in a while,
so I figured I'd pull him out
and show you guys a little bit of him today.
I know a lot of you guys are thinking,
"Man, the way Bruce works with Uvisuku,
Chicken Strip's bound to be just like her
in no time," right?
And honestly, a little bit of my arrogance,
and I kinda thought the same thing.
But that being said,
this is another one of those situations,
where just like I've said 1,000 times before, guys,
we treat every animal like it's an individual.
And when it comes to the nature of this one,
he's not particularly fond of other folks.
And even me, he still has some reservations about.
You can sorta tell, he's still a little bit like,
"Hey, hey, I'm keeping my eye on you."
I have a lot of faith in Chicken Strip
to be a great animal for us.
He's still not tong-feeding off for me too well.
As often as I try, he doesn't seem too interested.
He just seems more fearful.
But I think, honestly,
this is about a size issue, for the most part.
I think once he gets a little bit larger,
a little bit more confident in himself,
he's gonna have a little bit more bravery on his part
to try and actually take that step on his own.
So I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing,
and I'm gonna keep working with him as best I can.
And I think, in no time at all, at the very least,
you're gonna be a really cool animal to show people.
- We literally have two or three more Antaresia,
which are the spotteds, the children's,
the Stimson's pythons,
those little Pygmy pythons from Australia.
We only have one or two more clutches to hatch,
but these guys hatch out pretty big.
These are actually spotted pythons.
A pretty small clutch, to be totally honest with you,
but they hatched out really huge. (chuckling)
And this one is pretty cool.
This one is, oh, look at that.
Look at that thing. It just grabbed me.
What the heck are you doing, you little monkey?
And it's literally coiling me right now.
Darn little monkey is coiling me.
Are you kidding me? Look at this!
Literally, he's trying to constrict me.
I've never had a little tiny python do that before.
That is absolutely ridiculous.
Oh my God. That is so cute.
(chuckles) That's so funny.
But this one's got a ton of graniting in it,
which is really cool.
And I'll tell you what,
it is literally trying to squeeze my finger
like it's trying to kill my finger right now.
This is hilarious.
Come on, little monkey. It's okay.
We'll just go ahead, get him off my hand. (chuckling)
That is the funniest thing.
Look at him. He is crazy.
This thing is ridiculous.
Look at him. Look at him.
That is, oh my gosh, that is one big attitude
for such a little tiny snake.
It's all right, buddy. (chuckling)
So we'll get these guys set up.
And they are really beautiful, silvery, gorgeous ones.
And they'll shed out, get 'em feeding here pretty soon.
But man, I tell you what, just a few more clutches,
and we are done for the year with Antaresia.
I tell you what, what a relief that Elvis passed that ball.
And I just am so, so grateful. I was freaking out.
I love that animal. It is amazing, and now he's good.
So, I knew you guys would love the good news on that one.
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