- Gonna start the day off with a pretty cool egg cutting;
a VPI axanthic ball python that was bred to a dragonfly
Het for VPI axanthic ball python.
So we just get all kinds of combinations of axanthic,
axanthic ball python are just really cool.
Something that I really like a recessive mutation.
We have 2, 4, 6 eggs in this clutch.
We actually have another clutch
from the same type of breeding,
but a different combo.
I think it was a lemon blast Het VPI if I'm not mistaken.
We'll cut that later in the day.
But what do you say? We just jump into things.
Start the day off with some egg cutting,
because I know some of you guys really enjoy this.
Let's go ahead. Egg number one.
Alright, let's see what we got here.
Hoping for some good axanthic stuff.
Obviously right off the rip,
Just literally a Het axanthic.
Because again, because it was recessive,
everything's going to be at least Het axanthic,
but literally just a normal--
That's probably the worst thing we could get
out of this clutch
There's no doubt about that.
Let's go ahead to egg number two.
And you guys know,
sometimes you crush odds on eggs,
and sometimes you whiff on odds,
So you never really know what's going to happen
Right up to--
Okay. We've got an axanthic now.
So we had a Het axanthic,
and axanthic, it's got that black and silver
almost newsprint type of thing. Right?
Cause the axanthic's actually lacking xanthophores,
which is yellow pigment. Right?
So we have an axanthic. There you go.
Now let's get into some combos of axanthics.
We still have four eggs to go.
And again, I'd love to see
what a dragonfly axanthic would look like.
I mean, that would be really the key animal.
And what do we have here? Interesting.
Well, this is a really interesting looking animal.
Not axanthic,
but it's very unique looking like I don't--
That's weird.
It's definitely pinstripe-y,
but I don't know what else it is.
This is really bizarre guys.
I mean, cause it doesn't have a normal pattern to it.
That's almost looks like almost like Desert Ghost-y.
Which wouldn't make any sense,
cause there was no desert ghost stuff in here.
So we'll see when it hatches out,
we'll see what's going on
Again, always lots of surprises
when it comes to cutting.
:et's jump into egg number four.
All right.
Number four. Come on, axanthic stuff.
We know there's axanthic in here,
cause we've already proved one.
Oh, it looks like we have a little dragonfly here,
which is a fire, a pastel, and a pinstripe.
Again, no axanthic,
which only leaves us to eggs to go.
We've yet to hit a combo-axanthic animal,
which is just crazy,
because half the clutch should be axanthic.
We've already cut four eggs, and only one's axanthic.
So, hopefully the last two egg's will axanthic.
It'd be some cool stuff.
Here we go. Come on. Let's go.
Come on. Just give me something crazy.
Oh my goodness!
I'm telling you what guys,
we're getting crushed on the odds here.
We've have some clutches that have been amazing.
We have other clutches that have been kinda tough.
So, we get a normal Het axanthic,
So two Het axanthics in this clutch, last egg,
and it's a small little egg, too.
So this is going to be interesting.
Let's see what we got. Come on.
Let's end this with like a dragonfly axanthic.
That would make my day.
I can't believe we've only had one axanthic
in this whole clutch.
And guess what guys? We whiffed again,
This one does look like a firefly Het axanthic though.
So we only have one example--
So we have another clutch we're going to cut
a little bit later.
Hopefully the odds will go the other way with that one.
But wow.
I tell you, definitely a little disappointed in that,
but we still got some really cool babies
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The other day, I did a show about the Wagga,
all the mangrove snakes and stuff like that.
And here we have our chameleons
kind of like a female nosy be.
We've got a nosy faly, we've got an ambilobe,
Of course we have Karma, the nosy be panther
And it's kind of in a row.
I kind of love the idea of like you look through
and you see the different localities, the different colors.
Well, that's the same thing I'm thinking with the boiga.
This is actually the multicinta here,
which is obviously one of the boiga,
But I'm kind of thinking the same type of setup
on the expansion as the chameleons.
Where maybe I'd have four or five or six cages,
whatever it is.
And each one of those enclosures
would have a different species of the boiga.
I kind of think that would be really cool again.
I mean that is a stunning, stunning snake.
Just like these chameleons are absolutely stunning.
And we have a lot of people come in
and they love seeing the four different,
really radically different animals
that are the same exact species. In the case of the boiga,
they would all be different species or sub-species.
Just think it would be really cool
to see that kind of difference in color.
And these really cool kind of tricked out cages.
Just kind of like this, because boiga do love to climb
and stuff like that.
So you could have a bunch of heavily foliage enclosures
with a bunch of branches.
And if they would be hanging out there,
it'd be so cool.
Where else can you go
and see four or five different species of boiga?
I think that's one of the reasons
why I've been getting all these guys.
And I tell her, I can't wait to show some of them off.
- Butterscotch left me a couple of presents in the cage.
Me and Bruce are actually going to get her out,
put her into the tubs. And as you can see,
of course, she's ready for food.
Because she's Butterscotch. All right.
So let's just go ahead and get right into this.
We all see.
- Out we go!
- I'll be like Jacob, "Go Bruce!"
- She's so much easier for her size.
She's just, she's so quick. It was like nothing.
You could give Lucy some lessons from that one.
- That's how we like it. Simple, fast, easy.
Let's clean some poop. Get her back in the cage.
- You're all good, man.
- Cage all cleaned, no more poops, no more urine.
She's is ready to go back
She's got so much bigger. All them rabbits.
Look at that. No stress, no nothing.
- No stress, no mess.
- Yeah, well don't say that yet. Her butt's so out.
- Knock on fake wood.
She's not, she's not as bad as the rest of them
when it comes to pooping on ya.
She just likes to bite.
- I don't know which one's worse.
Either stink all day or bleed a little bit.
- I think I'd rather bleed a little bit.
- Back to the second clutch to egg cut today.
Again, the first clutch was definitely
a little disappointing.
This again is a lemon blast,
which is a pastel pinstripe, Het VPI axanthic,
But it was bred to a dragonfly Het for VPI axanthic.
So it is Het to Het. The dragonfly is a fire.
It's a pastel and it's a pinstripe.
So hopefully we'll get some good stuff.
We'll see what happens.
So let's just go ahead and jump into egg number one.
And like I said,
that first clutch was definitely disappointing.
Let's see if the second clutch is going to be any better
And right off the rip, we've got a dragonfly,
which again is the pastel.
It's a fire and it's the pinstripe.
And it's a possible Het because it's Het to Het.
That means that it's actually a 66% possible Het, right?
Meaning just two out of three are going to be Het,
but you can't tell.
So you got to call them 66% possible Het.
So let's jump into egg number two.
Let's hope for some axanthics guys. Like I said,
it's been really weird. I mean,
so far nothing really crazy--
Whoa, what's this now? This is a, what the heck is that?
What in the world is going on here? Okay.
So I mean, I'm not really sure.
I would say this is a super pastel fire pinstripe,
but it's got no pattern. None at all.
Almost looks more like a champagne
to be totally honest with you, which would make no sense.
Cause we definitely don't have champagne in there, but wow.
That is absolutely a trip,
but I'm pretty sure it's a super pastel dragon fly,
but I don't know what they would call it.
A super dragon fly I believe is what they call it.
Regardless. Looks different than one, every one I've ever
breached before. So it wasn't axanthic,
but it was still pretty cool.
We still have 2, 4, 6 eggs to go!
And again, that's wild that we catch that. I mean,
I don't know what that is all about.
All right. All right.
All right guys, we hit something good here.
This looks like,
I think this is actually the axanthic dragonfly.
It's an axanthic, it's a fire,
It's a pinstripe and it looks like it's a pastel.
So I think we hit the all gene amble. Finally!
My goodness gracious. I was starting to get nervous guys.
I was like, "What is going on?!"
This is the animal I dreamt up when I started doing all
these combinations with that dragonfly Het VPI male,
because I wanted to see what this was going to look like.
So super cool, super excited that we finally hit it.
We still have five eggs to go.
So who knows what else we're going to hit? I tell you what,
that is just a load off my mind that we actually hit that.
I'm so happy. And now see, this is what's interesting.
This is the super pastel dragonfly, right?
And you could see the pattern on this one, right?
So it's a super pastel.
It's a fire and it's a pinstripe to see all the pattern.
Why can you not see any pattern on this other one?
Completely patternless.
No clue what's going on with that one.
So we've got a couple of pretty gems in this one. So,
and we still have four eggs to go.
That's just see what else we got.
Wow. What a trip, man.
Tell you what these are just wild clutches.
And it looks like we just have a lemon blast
possible Het VPI. And this one,
nothing too crazy. That's for sure.
But three eggs to go. And to be honest with you,
once I hit that all gene animal, I don't get, like, greedy.
Sure. I would love hitting more of them.
That's for sure. And guess what?
I think we just did it another one right here. Yup.
We hit a nother one.
Just when I said I didn't want to get greedy.
We hit another one. That's an axanthic
I think it's a pastel. It's a fire and it's a pinstripe.
So that's cool. But the truth is once you hit one,
he's just got all right.
I finally hit one, and kind of breathe a sigh of relief,
but we hit two guys. So, and we still have two eggs to go.
So it's weird that this one we haven't hit
any kind of normally axanthic stuff.
Only the combo is axanthic stuff,
which is really interesting. That's for sure.
Let's see what we got here.
Come on, come on, come on, come on.
Okay. We've got another.
What looks like probably a super pastel dragonfly.
So the super pastel,
a fire in the pinstripe last egg to go for the day.
Here we go.
See what we got here. Bubbling up.
It means it's ready to hatch and
it looks like just a normal Het axanthic
Well, no, it's probably a pastel.
So it's a pastel, possible Het axanthic.
Not a Het axanthic possible. So listen,
first clutch was a disappointment.
Only hit one axanthic, second clutch,
We hit two of the all gene animals
and one patternless animal.
I have no idea what it was.
So as this says,
I'm pretty excited about the results of the clutch.
Definitely not at all what I was expecting,
but still pretty awesome.
- (whispers) We're pranking Mike!
- Okay guys, so Mike super, super hates spiders.
So I'm going to put his phone--
- NO!
She's going to call the cops!
- I hope he does.
- I don't want to get it.
This is stupid, please. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Don't!
- Get your phone, Mike.
Get your phone.
- I hope you remember this day.
- Mike here. He's so mad.
Oh wait, she's moving.
- Oh my God!
- Can I see your phone to call someone out?
- Absolutely not!
Remember when you said
you were going to push me in the anaconda thing?
- No.
- You finally made us staff shirts.
How long did it take, Lauren?
- Six months.
Well, let's see what he got when he got, we got yellow,
like a banana. Okay.
Hold on. You know that Bella is going to love this one.
- You're just wrecking everything. Like you always do.
Yellow is like a banana.
So Bella is going to want to eat it. Yeah.
- Actually, whoever's got the yellow is Bella.
- Yeah, exactly.
Gray. Okay.
Now,
are we going to make these colors available to people?
These are just only staff staff shirts, right?
- Staff needed shirts.
But you could sell them to them, too.
We could sell staff shirts.
I think that's actually even better
- You have the worst ideas.
What are you talking about? That's actually, I do like that.
I like the tie dye one.
That's pretty cool.
- We were to have it for all summer,
but I guess we can get a couple of weeks in.
- That's all right.
- Hey, better late than never.
- So that's good.
But that's kind of similar but it has staff on the back.
I think we should make staff shirts available.
- No.
- People like staff shirts.
Okay, so same thing with-- See? I like the yellow staff.
I think, let me know in the comments.
I think you guys should, we should sell staff shirts
- To who? The staff?
- No to people.
Because then people will be like, Hey, I'm reptilian staff.
- We should probably sell them the keys too
- No, no, no, no, no.
- Let's talk about that later.
- Oh, gosh. Okay.
I guess good job. Way to go. They look nice.
Little bit of a rhino egg update.
Now I'll be honest with you.
It's kind of a bummer of an update.
I'm not going to lie to you guys.
We are down to three eggs again. We had eight eggs,
but five of them looked like she had maybe pierced them
when she was digging.
And they were actually a little bit deflated
and within a couple of days,
they started to stink and go bad.
But we do have three eggs. They look pretty solid.
I would say to look really good. One looks okay.
They have three months of incubation at 84 degrees.
So they have a long way to go.
But it looks like two look really good.
One is still a little bit tricky, but man,
I hope we hatch at least a couple at rhino iguanas,
it would be absolutely incredible.
This is our first shot at it.
Next year. We'll try to do something a little bit different,
maybe a deeper nest box
so that she doesn't puncture the eggs.
Not a hundred percent sure we're learning guys,
you know, and again,
it's hard to breed rhinos up here in the north.
There's no doubt about that.
So you don't just have them outside where they can dig
outside and lay their eggs.
So regardless just wanted to give you a little update. Yeah,
it doesn't look like we'll have eight babies this year,
but hopefully we will have two,
maybe even three!
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