- This is actually what they call an Antaresia stimsoni;
or is it?
This one here is actually an Antaresia childreni.
Now these are pygmy pythons that come from Australia.
The reason I'm talking about it is,
believe it or not, the childreni and the stimsoni
may actually have more in common than you actually think.
And I've worked with three of the four species of Anteresia.
This happens to be the Maculosa
or what they call spotted pythons.
And you can certainly see these guys are much darker
and have more spots,
hence the name spotted pythons.
Now I don't work with the anthill pythons
which are the smallest of the species
but the children's and stimsoni,
well, guess what?
They just became the same snake.
That's right.
There's something in taxonomy where sometimes
they just lump things into one big old species.
And then there's some taxonomists that will actually
separate into children's and stimsoni.
Well, it just so happens
that these were reclassified, and they say
that basically, a Stimson's Python is basically
just the polymorphism within the children's Python species.
So there are no longer Antaresia stimsoni.
That's right.
They're all Anteresia childreni.
Of course the spotted Pythons
in the maculosa are still their own species.
I always said that the stimsoni
kind of looked like a cross between
a spotted Python and a children's Python.
Cause you could certainly see the difference.
Look at how much more muted the children's
Python is compared to the Stimson's Python.
But apparently taxonomists have decided
that they're the exact same species
and there's no sense of having two species.
So although stimsoni were probably my favorite
of the Anteresia, guess what?
Stimsoni are no longer a thing.
So certainly, I'm no taxonomist
but I will say the thing that does make me a little sad
about the fact that there's no more stimsons Pythons
is that I obviously the stimson's look
a little bit different than the children's Python.
They have that beautiful pattern
to them where children's pythons as they get older fade out.
So now when we go to sell them,
I'm not actually sure what we're going to do.
Are we going to say like highly patterned children's Pythons
and then normally pattern children's Pythons?
I'm not exactly sure.
So it does have a little disadvantage, unfortunately
when it comes to actually marketing them
or you wanting to buy them, right?
Maybe you like the stimsoni, right?
But now that they're not stimsoni, you may not
be able to get that highly patterned animal when
you're buying a children's Python.
Because the fact that his baby children's and
baby Stimsons look almost identical.
The differences is when children's pythons get older
they fade out and lose all of the pattern,
whereas the stimsons keep these absolutely
beautiful patterns.
So, hey listen, again,
It's not me to decide
but it is going to make it a little bit tough down the road.
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♪ Egg time egg time egg time egg time ♪
I always love to get Mexican black king snake clutches.
And it looks like this girl
is actually a pretty decent sized girl.
She's actually out of her nest box already.
Meaning that basically she's completely done.
So I'll go ahead and get her set up.
Just clean her up.
Get her shed out of here, get some water in her.
Get her back up here
and let's see how many eggs she actually has.
Oh yeah, I like what I see there for sure.
Take a look at how beautiful pearly whites tell you
that I get excited
about every clutch of eggs that we produce.
So it's absolutely amazing.
Just going to get this, get these eggs all
out of the Sphagmum Moss here, get them in an egg box.
Get this out of here.
We got one little egg hiding underneath over here.
So absolutely amazing.
Again, Mexican black kings, definitely one
of the more popular Colubrid snakes.
I mean they have blown up in popularity
in the last few years and I love producing 'em.
So we've got two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
These guys take about 60 days to hatch.
(upbeat music plays)
Night Fury is always so active.
I mean, he's always like all over the place.
Its one of the reasons I really love him.
And by the way, I know a lot
of you guys have been asking about Bruce.
Obviously you guys haven't seen Bruce
for the last couple months.
He broke his ankle doing a tik toc video of all things.
But nevertheless had surgery.
Hopefully he will be back here in a couple of weeks.
I know a bunch of people have been asking where's Bruce.
Well, he is just been out with a broken ankle.
So hopefully within a couple of weeks
he'll be back working with the monitors.
♪ In the dungeon the mighty ♪
Okay. Let's just get to this right now.
I tell you what I am excited about this clutch right here.
This is actually a Mahogany heifer clown.
And it's bred to a pastel leopard clown.
Could you imagine that?
Oh my gosh, there's going to be some amazing babies.
Let me show you daddy.
And daddy is actually a pastel leopard clown ball Python.
I mean, hoo doggy, can you imagine that?
And then you get that Mahogany in there.
Ooh, man, I've been waiting for this clutch.
Let's see how many eggs she's got.
And like I mentioned
I have been so excited about this clutch
because the Mahogany clown stuff is so amazing.
And then you mix it in with pastel,
you mix it in with leopard.
I mean, there is some really beautiful potential here
but look at this and look at how cool, you can see
the Mahoganyhas that really dark head.
And the patterning is really kind of more rich
and more dark.
And then of course the super mahogany
is the black ball Python.
We wouldn't want that in this
because of course it's clown in there.
You want to see that pattern and stuff like that.
But I was so happy
that it looks like she's got a good clutch.
It looks like one little slugger right here.
No big deal.
I mean, that's going to happen and then not a big clutch
of eggs, but still a beautiful clutch eggs.
So I'm going to just slowly, gently take these
out of here and I'll get these over in here.
So again, not a huge clutch of eggs.
We've got two, four, five giant eggs and then
one little Slugger to feed off to something like that.
But listen guys, that is a great, great clutch.
I cannot wait until these hatch 57 days from
now cuttings coming.
And we actually have one more clutch to pool today as well.
- So who do we feed?
- I want it feed Salt.
- I want to feed Pepper.
Don't bust it.
Get out Pepper.
- No, no.
- Alright, let's just squeeze it and whoever
lets go first, you have feed the other one.
- Wait, wait, what do you mean?
- Okay. I'm done.
I guess Salt wins.
- Yes. All right.
Do you want to get her out?
- No, you will.
- She knows there's food.
This is just like yesterday.
- Come on, come on baby.
Get her out.
- Get out of my way.
Why are you peering now because of that.
- [Jay] You're a professional, right?
- Taught me everything I know.
(running water)
(popping sounds)
Shhhh, Shhhh.
(laughing)
- Alright, we're just gonna, okay guys.
- No, We're not going to play
- So, this is Mike,
and this is salt.
Actually this is a poo bag,
and we are going to try to toss this into Salt's mouth.
- No, I hope we don't hit the floor and break it.
- Okay. That didn't work.
We're going to try it again.
It will be, it will be good.
She's got it.
(popping sounds)
(yells)
She's ready now, she's ready now.
(yells)
Okay, hold on.
- I'm putting her down.
- Give it to me.
(laughing)
Wow. That's because I know how to bowl a 300.
Oh my god dude, you just almost got your foot bit off.
- Oh, this three foot alligator.
- So here you go.
You got Crikey Mikey and Jazzy Jay.
And that's salty salt.
- Alright, so we have a package here
that someone sent us that says time sensitive, please ASAP.
What do you think that means?
- Means its time sensitive
- Oh yeah? So we should open it then.
- [Lori] Is it a bomb?
- You never know, honestly. Alright
what do we have here?
Let's see.
What is this?
What is it?
What do you think it is?
Lemon merengue blast.
This is like slime or something or this is Bella banana.
This is uh,
- I can't read it.
- Oh, in the note.
Okay. So it says, thank you for all you do.
My husband and I watch the blog daily for years.
Thanks for the encouragement
from family who have opened our own business:
Smart exotic.
We learned so much about keeping,
and training, and breeding from you,
so we truly thank you.
And we even booked a virtual tour last year
for our high school class.
That's awesome.
Thank you so much.
And students were fine with the zoom calls,
it went well,
Oh, it smells really good.
Let's see.
What I sent are actually reptile
and amphibian themed slimes, mostly for kids
but I find teens and adults really enjoy them well too.
This might be more Lori, since it seems
that they have great ideas for the gift shop.
So like slimes that are kind of,
that's actually a good idea.
There are two that we made just
for you guys based on two of the rept arian stars.
Those are not the ones we sell.
Each one is different texture and scent.
So all in all.
Thank you so much.
This has been Sarah and Mark, so that's awesome.
Smart exotics.
So that's cool.
A bunch of really cool slime.
I like the bella banana.
Oh, look at that is has bananas in it.
And it smells good too, so that's awesome.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate you guys.
This is a beautiful snake right here.
I was so excited.
This is a first year female she's never produced before.
And she's one that Polygenic
coral snows that we raised up.
Take a look at oh, you guys are going to love this
look at this, woo hoo.
I tell you that pink around white eggs.
That is absolutely incredible.
And again, this is the first time female.
This is one of our
maybe fourth or fifth generation of the pink.
One of the pinkest coral snows that we've ever
had laid eggs so far.
So I am super, super chuffed about that.
That's for sure.
So let's go ahead and just get these eggs out of here.
So mamma doesn't roll them around at all.
It looks like we've got one little slugger in here.
This one looks like a pretty decent egg right here.
This one little slugger.
Hey, I'll take that any day.
That's for sure.
We'll go ahead and get mamma back in her enclosure
get her all cleaned up.
Get her some fresh water and she'll be ready to go.
In the meantime, let's take a look
and see how many eggs we've got this clutch.
That's a beautiful clutch right there.
We actually have two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve,
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen
beautiful eggs in one slug.
These ones are going to be really good.
Cause these are another generation
of breeding the pinkest of the pinkest.
So when these guys come out, boo-doggy
are they going to be amazing?
And the next clutch
that we're going to pull today is this girl right here.
And it looks like she definitely has some eggs kicked out.
You see all these eggs over here
but she was bred to a banger male.
And that's this pastel vanilla bamboo spider ball Python.
I mean, hoo-doggy.
That thing is incredible.
And then you add pinstripe into it.
Can you say spinner vanilla, bamboo,
can you say pastels?
Spit? Can you say, can you say killer blast vanilla bamboo
because that's potentially where we're going to get
let's see how many eggs she's got.
So the first thing of course I'm going to do is pull
out these eggs right here that are on the ground
that she didn't coil.
And of course I'll candle these guys just
because we want to make sure that the embryos are facing up
I always talk about that and get all these eggs right here.
Come on.
And momma's coiled around something.
I'm not sure how many, because there's five eggs right here.
That's quite a bunch of eggs and she's still coiled.
So let's see what she is coiled around.
We're just going to go ahead
and remove these eggs right here.
Oh, there's a bunch more in here.
This is actually a really beautiful clutch.
I didn't expect that many eggs.
Miss girl, you could see these eggs are loose as well.
So even though she had them coiled
we're going to go ahead and candle them because
you never know what's going to happen with these guys.
I'm just going to rearrange these eggs a little bit more
cause there's more eggs and I expected,
and they don't fit in here so we can get these eggs
and we'll candle these all up in a minute here.
Let's see what we got.
Alright, wow. What a beautiful clutch from this girl.
This is two, four, six, eight, nine, beautiful eggs.
And again, that male is a absolute ripper.
So the combinations here are going to be incredible.
57 days from now, when we're cutting this clutch, trust me
I'm going to be hootin' and howlin' a whole bunch.
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