- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Remember this animal here?
This is what I call a mystery ball python,
because I have no idea what she is.
She hatched out and looks nothing like any of the genetics
of any of her parents.
And now I've raised her up
for the last two and a half years,
and she laid the clutch 57 days ago.
And guess what today is,
today is the day that we're able to find out what possibly.
She might have in her,
and see if we can start to unravel this mystery.
I am so excited to see what's in these eggs.
Let's go ahead and jump in and just cut these suckers.
And this is really a top five-
Mystery ball python,
I really don't even know what it is.
And again, because of the pins, red striped yellow belly,
there's gonna be some,
I have no clue what these eggs are gonna do.
You can see a couple eggs are already picked out.
So these are ready to go.
And legitimately I am excited because I have no clue what
we're gonna hit.
So let's see if we could just unravel this mystery.
We'll cut this first egg here,
that is actually,
the head's already tipped out a little bit.
And again, I don't know what to expect
out of this clutch at all.
I don't know if I'm gonna see anything that makes any
sense and right off the rib, that's a snake.
I have no clue, no idea.
I mean, the mom was wild,
this is even more wild,
because it's kind of like a purple-ish lavender.
It's got some pattern to it.
I have no idea what that is, so that didn't help me at all.
It's interesting enough.
The head has a little bit of pattern to it.
I don't know what that is.
I mean, I have no clue what the genetics are behind this,
which makes it frustrating because I can't really do
anything with it until I could figure out the genetics.
So I'm hoping that the next five eggs will at least give me
some clue what this mom was.
So let's just jump into egg number two.
All right, egg number two.
Oh, okay.
Now see that, oh wow.
Holy tamole.
Wow.
This at least starts to tell me that there's pinstripe
and there will be, we know the pinstripe yellow belly
red stripe is there,
but we also see that there's pastel in here and this is
crazy cool looking.
I mean the reduction of pattern.
I mean, again, I'm not sure what the genetics are,
but at least we know there's a pastel in there.
We know there's a pinstripe.
This is definitely a red stripe,
and something is reducing pattern guys.
I mean, something is causing some wild thing.
This is such a cool clutch.
I mean, you don't even understand how awesome this is,
and we still have four eggs to go.
And this, like I said guys,
this is one of those things where, I mean,
this is something brand new.
I have no idea.
And okay, well, this is interesting.
Interesting.
Okay, now we have, so this is wild, right?
Because this is a pastel, but it's a super, super,
super clean pastel,
which tells me that gene that's kind of reducing things
is some sort of enhancer gene that I don't even,
I didn't even have in my collection.
So this is like a,
now I have to figure out, unfortunately, back engineer,
what that gene is.
So we now know for sure that there is an enhancing gene
going on that I didn't breed purposely for,
that popped up in the clutch
and that it's actually reducing pattern,
cleaning things up.
This is just a normal pastel with whatever
that second gene is that's causing all the craziness.
That's pretty awesome.
Unfortunately, that means it's gonna take
me about five years to figure it out,
but that's okay because now at least I'm starting to
understand what potentially could be going on.
Three more eggs.
And who knows what these next three eggs are gonna bring.
I mean, I have no clue at all.
Okay.
So this is another one of those kind of,
not quite as interesting as the first lemon blast,
but definitely a lemon blast,
red Stripe, probably yellow belly.
It might not have the enhancer gene.
Maybe that's why it's not as reduced or something like that.
This might just be a lemon blast,
red Stripe, yellow belly.
I think that's what that probably is.
So at least that's the one animal I can identify.
Two eggs to go.
Let's see what we got here.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What the?
I don't know.
I have no clue.
It's a gray animal that has all kinds of crazy pattern to it
and it makes absolutely zero sense.
I am no clue what that is.
No idea.
No, I mean, literally I couldn't even begin
to gather a guess even what that is.
It's awesome.
That's all I know, it's awesome,
but no clue.
Don't know what that is.
So one last egg,
we definitely have some wild stuff going on.
This clutch exceeded my expectation.
Unfortunately, didn't answer too many questions, but wow.
Are there some killer animals in this clutch?
Let's see what this last egg is.
All right, I mean,
what could possibly come from this last egg, right?
It would be probably be a normal ball python.
Oh my God.
What the heck?
Man, this is crazy.
No, almost looks like a Jaguar.
It's like, it's crazy again.
I mean, I don't know.
It's probably a lemon blasts, probably a red stripe,
probably a yellow belly and probably that enhancer gene.
The thing that's crazy is we literally had two, four,
six eggs, every single baby,
radically different, radically different.
And really with the exception of the pastel that has that
kind of enhancer type of gene,
that's the only thing that tells me something.
Other than that, no clue.
This is awesome.
This is exciting, but it is cool.
Even though I have no clue what's going on,
it's exciting to be working now with the project that I have
to figure out, right?
And it's gonna take years to figure it,
there might be two or three genes in here
that I have no idea.
This clutch was absolutely wild.
I'm here with Bruce and has been about a week since
Elvis passed the ball, which I know you were relieved about,
- Dude, not only relieved, but when you told me dude,
I'm not gonna lie.
I had a little intestinal distress myself. I was like,
oh my God, that poor man, that poor man.
- But weirdly enough, he's been acting a little weird.
I mean, I guess it's not that unusual
that he's acting a little weird about the blue ball now
following it as much.
So we're gonna get,
we gave him a little bit of time now we're gonna see how
he actually goes with the training with the ball.
And hopefully he'll come out,
eat kind of like the old Elvis,
because we know again it's might be a little trauma for him
of what he went through.
So let's go ahead and give it a shot.
(mellow music)
It looks like Elvis is back on for sure.
There you go, buddy.
Yeah, he definitely changed his tune up a lot
because last time he hardly even wanted to come after it.
- Oh Dude, I was for a second there,
I was like, don't eat that ball.
Don't eat that ball. - I know, it's like ball food.
So that's all.
Let's see what else we can get him to do.
Don't be lazy.
He's being lazy.
Come on, don't be lazy.
There you go Elvis.
There you go, buddy.
- Come on. - There he goes.
There you go buddy.
Way to go. - He was snapping at it.
- I know, It's good to see.
It's good to see Elvis back on, because like I said,
he was very much different here the last week or so.
So I'm super happy that he seems to be
back going the way I love him to be.
I had that Mojave clutch clutch that was bred to the mocha
that we caught a few days ago hatch out
and got some really beautiful little babies.
And it's interesting how,
like that Blue Eyed Leucistic is so similar, right?
This would be essentially a mocha ball python,
which doesn't look too terribly different than a Mojave
ball python when you put them together, I mean,
there's just really subtle differences, right?
You don't see a whole lot,
but there's definitely some differences.
So you can definitely see that
there's just a lot more white in the Mojave here.
Sometimes there's striping.
These guys are a little bit darker.
Again, there's another Mojave right here.
You'll see the similar things, white up in the side,
striping on it.
Lots and lots and lots of flushing.
And then you'll see another mocha right here
and then another mocha here.
So the three mochas and the two Mojaves,
you can see those slight differences, right?
And then we hatch the one
Blue Eyed Leucistic out of this clutch.
So we only had one out of it.
Not exactly the best odds, but still nevertheless,
Blue Eyed Leucistics are absolutely incredible.
And then weirdly enough,
we had two little normal ball pythons
then just to go along with things.
So nevertheless, pretty cool little clutch of eggs.
They all look good, healthy babies.
I'll get these guys set up.
They'll probably shed and get eating within a week or so.
Have a little Pueblan clutch here
that hatched out Pueblan milk snakes.
Now these are actually the Halloween male again,
but we really didn't get any Halloweens at all,
and this little guy's crazy little monkey.
Basically we have just a couple of pretty
normal Pueblan milk snakes right here.
And then one that has a little bit more black on it.
And these guys are feisty.
Oh my gosh, I'm in trouble.
These guys gonna be all over the place here,
but once they start rolling, they're is trouble.
I'm gonna just set my camera down
and get these guys back in.
All three are out now.
Oh yeah, they're all over the place.
Holy tamole.
Ow and now it's biting me.
Oh, come on.
I cannot get these guys back in.
Whoo.
I tell you what those things are feisty little monkeys.
I'm not kidding ya.
So again, just 112 Pueblan milk and eggs that hatched out.
All the cloopers that are hatching
are so absolutely incredible.
I love this time of the year,
when we can see all these cool little baby snakes.
Looks like I see a little egg here or really what's an
infertile egg from my chameleon here.
Remember she laid like 52 eggs, not too long ago.
They were all infertile.
Put a male in Raul.
I didn't see them breed while it looks like possibly
she could have laid and a I'm gonna just kind of search
around here and see if I can't find her nest.
See if there's anything in here.
I don't see anything yet.
There's always a chance she could have laid a slug
or two first.
I don't see anything else in here.
And she still looks kind of a little bit chubby,
to be honest with you.
So I have a feeling she hasn't laid.
I just saw the one egg and I thought maybe there might be
other eggs in there.
Now I was hoping we'd see some fertile eggs, but hey,
she still might've just laid a slug or two,
and maybe we'll get some fertile eggs, no idea.
One day we'll definitely breed these guys,
but for now it looks like we don't have any eggs.
That flame to spider mahogany hatched out.
And it actually has some pretty cool animals in it.
This is just a normal ball python.
And then this is a little spider.
So I'll start off with the kind of
most normal type of things.
But then these are the animals I was kind of shooting for,
to be honest with you. These are flame,
which is really similar to the fire.
It does basically the same thing.
Black eyed leucistic producer, incomplete dominant,
but this is the flame and the mahogany together.
And they turned out super cool.
I just thought that that was gonna
be really something interesting.
And then this was kind of a little bit of a bonus here.
This is actually a flame spider mahogany.
So it's the all gene animal that has everything in it.
So they actually turned out pretty cool.
I always liked the dark more stuff,
that's like one of the things that always kind of,
I like a lot.
So the fact that these guys hatched out the way they did
is really cool.
And I just start thinking about the things I can do with
them in the future.
Again, breeding them into banana, all kinds of other stuff's
gonna make some really cool building blocks.
So nevertheless, super happy with the results
of this clutch.
Got a quick box here from a Right Reptiles in California,
so we'll ahead, open it up and see what the heck is in here.
Feels kind of heavy.
So usually heavy.
Cool.
I'm not sure if that's the case, but nevertheless,
let's see if we can get this thing opened up.
What do we go, what do we got?
What do we got?
Interesting.
What is in this?
All right.
It is a, oh, it's a candle in a wine bottle.
Let's see.
It smells pretty good.
It got a little bit waxy on the way over.
So I'm assuming that's maybe for Lori,
let's see recipes for the busy household
with the white reptiles.
So this is like a book.
That's interesting.
It's like actually a cookbook.
That's awesome, so thank you.
Got a cookbook and really quick,
got a nice letter here.
About two or three years ago
my husband and I saw one of your vlogs with one of your
lab albino retics.
I told my husband,
I wanted one since I was like 10 years old.
I now have a lavender albino retic, got him in 2018.
That's awesome.
His name is Gaspe absolutely amazing.
I wrote and published a cookbook.
I know one of your vlogs a while ago,
you mentioned that you liked to cook, so yes.
Thank you so much.
I hope you also enjoy the fact that we made Lori
a honeysuckle and pine scented candle out of a wine bottle.
I hope she likes this is from Nikki,
Right From Right Reptiles.
Thank you so much.
That is awesome.
It really does smell really, really well.
I think you got a little bit hot on the way over.
Once it settles in, it'll be absolutely perfect.
And I'll check your cookbook out.
Thank you so much.
I tell you what guys that clutch was absolutely crazy.
I still don't know what's going on with that.
Can't wait until they hatch out and share
with you what they look like.
I am so excited,
but it's going to be a long time before I unraveled that
kind of mystery of what genes are going on in there.
'Cause it doesn't make any sense.
I don't know what they are,
but they are absolutely incredible.
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