(upbeat music) - Hey, good morning, everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely amazing.
Ivy's up on land, Ares is in the water.
I think tomorrow I'm actually gonna get in the water with
these guys and kind of interact with them.
See how their behavior is, right.
Get an idea is Ivy still the same Ivy?
Is Ares the same Ares?
Just make sure the behavior is the same, right?
So that'll be tomorrow, but as for today,
I'm going to actually unbox a massive shipment of some
really cool ball pythons so, what do you say,
we just push our problems aside
and just go ahead and do some unboxing.
(upbeat music)
That's right, another unboxing.
This is actually always fun
and I know it's this time of the year,
hatching season, when I start getting this shipment
in particular because you guys know
that I love piebald ball pythons,
that I'm obsessed with piebald ball pythons
and although we produce a bunch, we don't produce enough.
So my one body produces a whole bunch
and I get a-- (knife sputtering)
and I get a whole bunch from him
when he's producing so, we're going to go ahead.
By the way, remember when, last year,
you guys sent me the Clippers?
I don't know where those Clippers are
for zip ties so, regardless, oh.
I tell you what, it is so awesome.
Every single time I see a bag like this
it is incredible, unbelievable, okay,
yeah, do you guys want to see
or you want me to just look?
So, I'm going to show you guys, take a look at that.
That's right, piebald ball pythons,
but not just a few piebald ball pythons,
we have a lot of piebald ball pythons.
Believe it or not, in this shipment,
we have 44 piebald ball pythons,
that's right, 44 and of course,
not only do I want to look at the animals, theirself,
and just see how beautiful they are,
I wanna look and see if there's any
emoji smiley faces or anything like that,
as well as just everything else,
just make sure that everything looks really good
and then we'll get these guys set up.
We always quarantine anything
that comes in for a little bit,
preventatively treat for mites,
just to make 100% sure.
Although this guy is always great about it
and just kind of see what's going on.
So, let's go ahead, set these down a second
and just take a look at a few of these individuals.
Number one, look at that right there.
Is that absolutely crazy?
I love the ones that are like pattern,
white, pattern, white, pattern, white.
Then there's all kinds,
there's some high white ones,
there's some low white ones.
I mean, look at how high white this one is.
Just got one little blotch on it.
These guys are absolutely incredible
and like I mentioned,
even with us producing a bunch,
we can never get enough of them
and right off the rip, look at this,
we got our first little smiley pied
right there, so, there it is.
Well, you can always tell,
if you get 40 piebalds, 44 in this case,
you're going to have something
that has not only wacky patterns,
but some emoji of some sort.
So, this one kind of cool.
It's kind of interesting patterns all over,
but it's got the smiley in the middle there
and then it's got all kinds of weird stuff.
So, wow, that is cool.
So one smiley down
and let's see if there's anything else.
In the meantime, they're just absolutely ripper.
Look, there's a U.
So, for you Utah people out there,
there you go, there you go.
There it is. That is absolutely,
I mean, how crazy is that?
That is so cool, these things are incredible.
Again, I love pies.
I've been working with them forever
and I can never get enough of them,
that's for sure and listen, that's just one bag.
We've got plenty more to look at here too so,
(knife sputtering) I am doing bad with
my knife today so, alright,
we got this, alright, here we go.
Oh my, oh, look at this.
That's actually a little pastel pie.
These were all supposed to be pies,
but that is a pastel piebald right there.
That's just beautiful
and it's just that more bright-colored, right?
That is incredible for sure.
See what else we have here?
Oh my gosh, there's so many
beautiful piebald ball pythons here.
Look at these.
Gosh, look at this one, I see,
sometimes I like the lower white ones too,
cause look at the pattern on that.
It's still got the really cool white,
but it's got all kinds of interesting patterns to it
and that's the thing that's great about pies,
as I always say, you can hatch 100 pies
and there's going to be a hundred different animals, right?
You could literally never
reproduce the same pie over and over again.
cause they're always gonna look just slightly different
and, oh my gosh,
it's just like such an amazing,
and the thing that's so crazy about this, guys,
is that you gotta remember,
I've been doing this for so long
that literally, there was a time
the first piebald I ever produced
and sold was 25 grand.
So think about that, I mean,
oh, look, by the way,
look at how cool the pattern is on this,
a low white one, but wow,
is that pattern absolutely breathtaking,
but I just think about that,
you know, 44 piebald ball pythons,
you know, back just 20 years ago
would have been a million dollars.
I mean, literally, a million dollars worth of snakes,
but I actually always say
that I love the fact
that the animals have come down
to a more reasonable price
because it opens it up for everybody
and I think everyone should be able
to afford a beautiful snake,
like a piebald ball python like this.
I mean, come on.
Can you honestly say
there's a much more beautiful animal than that?
I mean, that is stunning.
No matter if you're a snake person,
a person that hates nature,
still going to look at that
and go, wow, that is absolutely gorgeous.
So that is bag number two,
just wanna make sure there's nothing here.
Got a couple more bags to go
and we'll see, so far one smiley
and a bunch of really cool ball pythons.
Look at that, wow.
Just look at that.
Again, another little U, buy the way,
so you Utah fans out there,
you're gonna have some ball pythons to buy,
but this is cool, maybe got
a little bit of a cross right there.
That's, maybe I'm seeing too much in this stuff,
but I tell you what, I love it
and they are just so spectacular.
Let's see what else we got here.
Just take a look at that right there.
I mean, that is crazy.
I could never imagine 20 years ago
I'd be holding onto a batch of ball pythons like this.
Oh, and by the way, this is interesting.
It looks like a smiley here
and then maybe an alien head right there, right?
They almost looks like
two little eyes like an alien
or a hockey mask or something like that,
but a nice smiley pie there so,
that's two smiley pies so far
and again, when I really look at these a little bit closer,
I might find some more to it.
The truth is, is that,
you know, it's not reproducable,
you can't reproduce smilies,
but it is still kind of adds to the kind of allure
of just how cool they are, right?
They have an emoji on it.
Oh, and wait, we got something else here.
What? Well, it's not,
I don't know what that is,
it's not really a smiley,
it's just like four eyes,
but look at the difference in patches.
This is like a really dark patch here.
I mean, just so interesting.
Every piebald is so interesting
and so absolutely amazing.
I mean, take a look at that.
I know I keep saying this,
but it just blows me away, people.
This is amazing to see so many amazing animals.
We've got one more bag.
Let's see if there's anything
really spectacular in here
other than the spectacular pies
that they are anyways.
Oh, my goodness gracious.
Look at this.
Just take a look at this right here.
Just take a look at that.
- Would you look at this?
- I mean, come on people.
That is just crazy.
Look how beautiful that animal is right there.
I mean, this animal is incredible.
I mean just, wow.
You just look at the markings
and that's what's cool about pies too, right?
Is it's not just the fact
that the white is beautiful,
but the fact that the patterning is so different.
I mean, these certainly don't look like
normal ball pythons with the pattern,
the pies, their self actually really jumble up the pattern
and this is a good example, right,
because of a low pie,
you see the striping
and the orange coming up and
oh, my goodness gracious.
What absolute rippers these guys are.
I cannot believe it.
So, wow,
there it is, guys, at least a few pies
with smilies on them,
a little alien head,
a bunch of really cool high white ones,
mid white ones, low white ones.
This got everything.
So 44 pies unboxed.
These are gonna get set up.
I am super stoked about this.
(calm music)
Beetlejuice has done really, really great
and honestly, without the camera,
he's pretty much almost ready to be an animal
that I can start like
doing a little bit more with handling wise,
but honestly he gets a little nervous around the camera
so let's just see what he's going to do.
He's actually at a prime spot right here,
for him to feel comfortable
and know that that's a place
where he can get his food,
it's a good, good, good sign for him.
So, let's go ahead and get him a little bit of food
and let's see what we can do with them, alright?
(upbeat music)
Remember the other day
when I pulled out the huge urea
from Daisy's cake, by the way,
Daisy, you looking absolutely beautiful, honey.
Well, she decided to give
the rest of that here
and it looks like,
I mean, either Daisy poop
or an elephant snuck in here last night
and deposited this and then the elephant disappeared.
I'm not sure which one it is,
but, nevertheless, that's a lot of turds
and we have to get them all cleaned up.
I mean, think of, look at the size of that turd.
I mean, that's like, oh, it's stinky too.
Let me get rid of that.
I don't know what I'm thinking,
putting that right by my face.
It really does stink,
it's not horrible to be totally honest with you.
It doesn't smell probably as bad
as elephant turds, to be totally honest.
I mean, it's not overwhelming,
like, when I opened the cage,
I didn't smell the poop at all,
but when I put it up to my face, yeah.
Then I can smell the poop.
So, really for those of you people
that don't keep snakes,
does snake poops really smell?
The truth is, is that it's not that bad.
It's not as bad as a lot of animals,
to be honest with you,
because they really do a pretty
amazing job using all of the nutrients from that animal
and there's really not a tremendous amount of waste left.
So, regardless, just wanted
to get that poop out of there,
Daisy, you're all good.
We'll still have to do
a little bit of a cleanup of her cage,
but I at least wanted to get
the big turds out as quickly as I could.
So, that gives you the idea.
If you have a big snake,
expect some big poops.
Down in the dungeon,
you know what that means
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
and of course we don't have
that many more ball python clutches,
but this is just, literally,
a half albino that was bred
to an albino clown ball python.
So, these will all be double half for albino clowns
and albinos that are half for clown.
Looks like we've got one little egg out here.
So I'm goona just pull this aside
before we even see what mama has going on over here
and then the rest, we're gonna go,
come on, mama.
There you go and, to be honest with you,
although we're get in a couple
little infertils towards the end of the year,
a lot of times your fertility
definitely falls off at the end
and overall, although we have two little slugs,
really the clutches have been
really solid towards the end here.
The same thing happened with colubrids
and I'm not sure exactly why
that is because again, usually towards the end,
just the fertility for males
isn't quite as good.
They've of course been breeding
for a lot longer and all that other stuff.
So, the fertility goes down.
Basically in most cases,
males will have only so many fertile sperms per year.
So, as it gets later in the season
that male has just kind of run out of fertility,
but in this case, again, couple slugs,
but we have two, four, six, seven beautiful eggs.
So things are still working out well
and I think that brings us down
to nine more clutches of ball pythons
and that's a wrap on year 2020,
when it comes to ball pythons.
Whoo-hoo, this is a banger
of a clutch right here. Look at this.
This is actually some diffused scaleless stuff
that is amazing, again, you always know,
once you put it in the water,
they look so much better.
They get that vermiculite kind of stuck on them
because they don't have the sheds,
but then we have, actually,
a little anery scaleless right here,
which is a black corn snake scaleless
that is one of the cooler scaleless for sure
and then this one is a banger right here.
This is actually an anery, or a black corn,
but a diffused one,
which is the blood red, or diffused.
So we have a couple diffused scaleless,
we have an anery
and then anery diffuse scaleless.
Take a look at that thing right there.
Oh my gosh.
Once you get it cleaned up like that,
the reduction of pattern, oh doggy.
I tell you what, those things are rippers,
Baby, baby, baby calubrids
and this is pretty cool here.
This actually a half creamsicle scaleless cutch.
So we have some half creamsicle corns
and then we have some scaless creamsicle corns here,
which are really, really cool
once you get them in the water.
Of course, that little monkey wanted to bite me,
but look at this one right here.
I don't even know what that one is.
I mean, that's crazy.
It's got this like crazy green head to it.
Absolutely wonderful looking animal
and again, I don't know if it's that Emory influence
that is in the creamsicle corns
that's causing that green head like that,
but I haven't seen one like that.
That thing is absolutely ridiculous.
So it's pretty cool.
Getting some pretty cool creamsicles scaleless stuff
and then that crazy green headed scaleless corn
that have no idea what it is,
but it's awesome.
The Barney ball Python hatched out.
You guys know I cut the clutch
the other day where we had some,
well, this is the actual animal here.
I'm not gonna lie to you,
it's definitely not purple.
It's definitely not what I would consider
a purple, purple snake by any chance,
but it is cool and I am happy and I am excited
and genetically it's an amazing animal.
I think that with a little bit of work,
I'm thinking maybe if we mix this
now, into black pastel
and we try to produce the cammo black
pastel banana, maybe we're
gonna get even a more purple snake.
Nevertheless, still super happy.
We have a little chocolate banana spinner here.
That's pretty cool.
Another little chocolate banana spinner right here.
We have a course, the camel ball pythons right here.
There's actually this one and then a chocolate pinstripe.
That's really, really cool right here.
So all in all the Barney ball
may not have been that purple purple snake,
but, hey, after this many years of trying for it,
I'm just ecstatic that we finally hatched one.
So, how awesome is that?
Unboxing 44 piebald ball pythons,
again, in the past that would have been close
to a million dollars worth of snakes.
It is just amazing to see those
and it's amazing that now people can afford them as pets.
I think it's incredible. They are beautiful.
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