- And it looks like, see right there,
this is the first example of the year
where we have an egg way up high.
You can see it right there, that is definitely bad
when you see that with a colubrid.
[Intro Music]
- Hey good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog!
Woo doggie, take a look at that beautiful girl right there,
she is a creamsicle corn snake,
and that is a gorgeous clutch of eggs.
I'm going to be collecting some
snake eggs here in a bit.
I think we got some Python eggs, colubrid eggs,
it's going to be amazing!
But first, I've got to actually feed Daisy,
my giant snake, as well as Butterscotch,
so I'm going to head over to the reptarium
feed those guys really quick,
then ill come back and collect some eggs.
So the first girl I'm going to feed is Daisy.
Let's see if she's going to eat
'cause she definitely looks like she is ready.
Come on girl, you want some food?
Come on girl, come on girl.
Here you go girl, here you go.
Here you go, all right, there it is.
Good girl, way to go little girl.
I'll tell you what, she's definitely turned on to food.
Over the winter she would eat maybe
once every two, two and a half weeks.
Now she's been eating every single week.
She is definitely all over it, which is good
'cause we can beef her up during the summer time.
She is absolutely adorable.
Not just feeding big snakes today.
Eric you've got to feed colubrids today as well.
- Oh yeah, yup, colubrid room feeding day.
It's a blast, it's a blast.
It's kind of weird though, I don't know
if I've mentioned this before, with everything,
you know, going into breeding mode or laying eggs
or going off of food.
Every week I've got to go through and recount
and see whose eating and see whose not eating.
So that's kind of interesting but, you know,
just got to get everything fed today
and get them checked tomorrow.
- Yeah and that's the thing you know, literally,
these red tags for instance, these females aren't eating
'cause when snakes get gravid, they don't eat
and even before they have the red tags
they'll swell up and they kind of go off of food
so if we thawed out the same amount of food
we'd be throwing away - Yeah.
about twenty or twenty five percent
so Eric has to adjust
and then, of course, as a female lays
he's got to add that back to the rotation
so it's always a little bit of a process
but that's what makes a successful breeding season.
So have fun, I'll check back with you in a little bit.
- Got it.
- Next up is trying to feed Butterscotch
you can see I'm up on a ladder, iv got a rabbit,
she is right at the front of the cage.
This should be pretty interesting
we'll see how it goes.
Hopefully she can't strike this far
'cause I might be in trouble.
Let's go ahead and see what she's got.
Come on girl, oh this is going to be so sketchy.
Somehow I have to literally open this cage
get the rabbit and get it in front of her face
before she gets me.
I don't know how till is going to work.
Whoa!
Yeah that happened quick, but she did good.
Heart rate always goes up a little bit by now
I think she got it pretty good.
I'm just going to get her back in her cage
and let her eat this rabbit.
Butterscotch is about half way done with the rabbit.
You know each big snake feeds a little bit differently.
Lucy's really fast with her food,
Daisy takes quite a bit of time.
Daisy typically takes about twenty minutes
to eat a rabbit.
Butterscotch is also pretty quick
so usually within about ten or fifteen minutes
she'll crush the first rabbit.
Often times I'll give her a second one
so I'll go ahead and let her finish,
we'll check back on her and see when she finishes up.
- All right that's a wrap, last little snake done,
I'm going to close this tub up.
I'll be back tomorrow and we got to go through,
check the charge, check for mice,
hopefully I don't miss one
that could be pretty stinky in a couple days
but that's about it guys, that does it.
- I'm pretty excited Danny, on of our new employees,
went to a reptile show a couple days ago
and brought us these crested geckos
that go in our new display.
The only downside is, is that they hide so well,
you can barely see them.
I mean this is a little female right here
this is another female here
and then the male is all the way back over here.
You can see he's just coming out.
There he is! Wup wup wup wup wup.
And here he is, he's absolutely gorgeous.
I'm just going to go ahead and gently
set him down there, he seems to like it right back there.
Definitely a lot of really great places
for these guys to hide
so this terrarium's going to look really good
the only challenging thing is finding them that's for sure.
But I want people to be able to
enjoy this naturalistic habitat,
but I also I want them to be able to see them so.
Excited to finally have some
crested geckos at the Reptarium.
And that's a wrap for feeding the big snakes
all I was going to feed was Daisy and Butterscotch today
'cause obviously Lucy isn't eating
and then the rest of the big snakes really eat rats
so regardless we'll feed those guys tomorrow.
Hope you guys enjoyed feeding the big snakes
and as I always say, I don't get any pleasure
out of feeding rabbits or whatever,
any animal for that matter.
But this is just part of the gig
and we do only feed frozen, thawed
because listen, I love rabbits too
I used to have a pet rabbit,
they're absolutely amazing animals.
Looks like we have a delivery guy here at the door
what does he got?
[Knocking]
- Hello special delivery.
[Laughing]
I got something.
- [Brian] What is that?
- It says floor mat
- [Brain] Floor mat, do you have any idea what that...
Did you order something Laurie?
- I did not order a floor mat no.
- Lets see what we got.
- What is that?
- Okay it is a floor mat.
- [Brian] It is a floor mat, what kind,
just a normal floor mat?
- It's a big pretty green one.
You want to help?
- [Brian] Get outta here, there is no way!
Did you order that Laurie?
- I did not order this.
- Oh my, we were just talking about this
Reptarium floor mat baby.
- [Brian] Oh that is sick.
It's huge too!
- It is big.
- [Brian] Oh my god that is awesome.
Phoebe likes it
[Laughing]
Phoebe loves it
Do you have any idea who this is from?
- I don't know, no.
- Let's see on the package
Rick Cockerham.
- [Brian] And where's he from?
- He is from...
- The UPS store
[Laughing]
- Yep the UPS store.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh Rick I love this dude!
Is there any note?
- Maybe.
- Oh it looks like there might be
there it is.
- Okay so there is a note, what does it say?
- It says "Brian and Laurie,
as an avid reptile keeper since my early childhood
I've really enjoyed watching the vlogs,
seeing the incredible animals, all you do"
They want to applaud and support what we're doing
this is no nice!
"In your vlogs, I have noticed
you do not have a custom logo mat
for the repterium, my company provides product
with purpose to many industries"
and thought that he would send a nice front door greeter
- [Brian] Oh my gosh!
- That is awesome
- [Brian] Floormat.com is that?
- Yeah
- All right so floormat.com
Rick this is awesome, thank you so much
I mean literally we were just talking about this
a few days ago
and I didn't even know where we would buy one.
Oh my god I love it. - [Laurie] Now we know.
- [Brian] Let's put it next door all right?
- This is sweet.
- Boom.
- [Brian] Look at that, that is snazzy.
Woohoo!
I love it, I'm so excited about it
that's just awesome.
Again Rick, thank you so much.
Floormat.com you guys need anything,
by the way, it wasn't a brand deal
we didn't get paid, I didn't even know this was coming
so, there you go, awesome.
We're going to head downstairs
and see if we have any python eggs with Kalsey
I think she said we have at least one clutch
so we'll go ahead
and see what she's got going on over here.
Kalsey where you at? Where'd she go?
[Kalsey Shouting From A Distance]
Oh she's over here, okay.
- So out first clutch we've got a pastel
that was bred to a walmer lesser pinstripe.
- [Brian] Okay good looks like she's got a nice clutch
what do we got here girl?
Lets see honey, oh yeah nice!
Got one little slugger over there on the end.
Big eggs, not a whole lot of eggs
but they're definitely big, there's no doubt about that.
She's a pretty girl too.
- A very nice pastel.
- [Brian] All right lets get this
little slugger out over here.
Gosh I cannot believe that.
That's a small clutch right there
we only have four good eggs right there and one slug.
So five eggs, again a little bit
of a small clutch but it's still okay
because there's a lot of combinations.
Again walmer lesser pinstripe,
there's a bunch of co-dominance there
of course the pastel is co-dominate
so it could be some really beautiful babies, so not bad.
Is this the only clutch or we have more?
- We have more.
- [Brian] All right lets do it.
- Next up is a normal bred to a calico.
- [Brian] So its just calico, so we're just looking
at calico's here obviously.
So calico is a co-dominate clutch.
Again, another small little clutch!
It's so weird, what the heck is going on?
That's a big girl to only have four little eggs.
That's crazy.
No slugs or anything that is unusual
because she's gotta be, when she's full on,
she's gotta be 1700, 1800 grams
I would expect six or eight eggs from a girl like that
because they're not even that big eggs
but four eggs, what can you do.
And again that calico is actually
a co-dominant mutation, so theoretically
half these babies should be calico.
What a trip, that's crazy.
Look at how big she is
and doesn't even really look like she laid eggs.
But that's still good,
hey I'll tell you what, I'll take four eggs
any day over anything else so that wraps up it down here?
- Yup.
- And you said we had one more girl
that's laying that'll be good for tomorrow?
- Yes.
- All right, good and I'm sure we'll have
some other eggs too so good job as always Kalsey.
I'll let you set those up
and we'll get them in the incubator.
Back to collecting that colubrid clutch
that I started out with
we have a few clutches today so lets go ahead
and see what they look like.
You know this first girl,
which is a creamsicle heiferscale,
it has spread to the same thing,
just a creamsicle heiferscale it's had some good eggs
they are absolutely huge eggs too!
For a cornsnake these are really, really large eggs
and again, because that creamsicle
has emory rat influence it
that's why they have bigger eggs.
Emory rats actually have much larger eggs
in a smaller amount.
Cornsnakes have smaller eggs and a lot more,
so this is kind of a mix of both
and man I tell you what, these are big eggs
and a really big clutch right there.
Again we'll just check mama out real quick
make sure she's in good shape,
she sure looks like it,
she sure is full of energy right now, isn't she?
I'll take this shed out, get some water in here,
and lets go ahead and count the eggs
we got two, four, six, eight, ten, eleven beautiful eggs
and one little tiny slugger right there.
So not bad way to start the day,
Lets collect the next few clutches.
This is pretty exciting, the next clutch
is actually what they call a
halloween pueblan milk snake,
which is this really beautiful, kinda orangey snake
that has kind of wackey patterns.
Absolutely incredible milk snake right there,
and she looks really good,
definitely can tell she laid a clutch of eggs.
It doesn't look like she's too beat up
so I'm going to pull that shed out,
you know the routine,
go and get some water in there and all that stuff.
Let's see what kind of eggs she has,
oh my gosh, that is a beautiful, huge clutch for a pueblan.
Oh my god, I am so excited because
that halloween gene is so cool and pueblan milk snakes
when you see these babies hatch
you are going to be like
"oh my gosh, those things are incredible!".
Can't wait, then again,
that's only about 60 days away
so we're going to be seeing some
really beautiful babies pretty soon.
What a gorgeous clutch of eggs.
That's two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve eggs!
Oh my gosh, remember I told you guys last time
that it's rare to get more than
about eight eggs from a pueblan clutch.
So twelve eggs, i'll take that,
that's for sure that's amazing.
Last clutch of colubrids for the day
and it's actually our first clutch
of scaleless rat snakes.
We had that double-heifer-leucistic scaleless
but this is the first scaleless female to lay an egg
and you can see this is one of those
crazy scaleless sheds right here.
This one must have a little bit of scales on it
because that shed has quite a bit of scales.
Oh yeah you can definitely see
she's about 50 percent scale,
so it's not one of those really uber pretty ones.
Oh and it looks like, see right there,
this is the first example of the year
where we have an egg way up high.
You can see it right there, that is definitely bad
when you see that with a colubrid.
Again egg binding happens, its the way it goes
I'm just going to go ahead, put her in,
and just see if I can feel if that'll move at all.
I don't know, I think she's going to end up
being able to push that out to be totally honest with you.
So the proto call with this is typically
leave them for a couple days, lets see what happens
before we get concerned about it.
But again, unlike Lucy and a lot of these other snakes
I'm able to aspirate those eggs out
because they're right by the vent.
This one is way up top
so I don't really know what's going on.
Hopefully she just kind of ran out of energy
and she'll pass those eggs over the next couple days
we'll have to wait to see.
And again, doesn't look like she passed
too many eggs at all.
Looks like we got two good fertile ones here
another two here, making it four,
and is there any more eggs in here?
Wow, no kidding, that is a really small clutch.
Only looks like she had one, maybe two eggs stuck in her
so to have six eggs for a rat snake
is pretty unusual, but hey, we got four good eggs
we're going to go ahead and get them in an incubox
and that wraps up colubrid eggs for the day.
And I hate to have that little slug egg
that, that ball python go to waste
so we've been feeding them off
to monitors and stuff like that.
I haven't tried with Tazzy yet,
but Tazzy has been doing really good
on the ball training with the target,
so lets just see if he'd like an egg like this.
I have a feeling he really will.
Here you go Tazzy, okay we're feeding.
Feeding time, do you want to eat?
Come on, come on, come on.
Do you want to come up?
Come on buddy.
Interesting, it doesn't look like Taz
likes slug eggs which is a bummer
because I thought that he'd be another animal
that we could feed off eggs to,
but he's interested in it.
Maybe he's going to go, oh, there he goes!
I think he is going to eat it.
There it is, there it is Tazzers, there you go buddy.
He's so gentle.
You're so silly.
You're so silly, you're going to go bye with that?
Okay bye bye Tazzy.
He's going to take it over, he always does that
he takes it over to the dark spot and he eats it.
What a silly monkey, so that weird,
I thought for sure he wasn't going to eat it
and it turns out that he likes it
so here's another animal that we can feed
some of the slug eggs to as we have them.
Hopefully we won't have too many slugs,
but hey, I want to put them to use.
I don't know about you guys,
but I'd say that was a pretty eventful day.
And its about that time
to wish you guys an amazing day
and tell you how much I love all of your support.
You guys are truly amazing.
Do me a favor and be kind to someone
and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.