- The inside is probably going to be
just as nasty as the outside.
I can tell you what, it feels weird, it smells weird.
Lets see what this-- (disgusted groaning).
(tropical music)
Hey good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog!
I hope the start of your day is really great.
You know I'm always cutting good eggs right,
and then early this morning I looked at
this clutch right here, and of course there are
four beautiful eggs,
but there is this little monkey right here
that doesn't smell too good.
I'm going to be totally honest with you.
I thought to myself rather than just discarding this
which is what I would normally do.
You don't want to feed a rotten egg off
to an animal or anything like that.
I thought, lets see what's inside this.
You know, why is it?
Is there a little embryo in it?
Was it completely infertile?
What happened?
So I figured lets just go ahead, cut into
this little monkey right here and it is gross.
I'm assuming the inside is probably going to be
just as nasty as the outside.
I can tell you what, it feels weird, it smells weird.
Lets see what this-- (disgusted groaning)
Oh my gosh. Look what's inside that egg!
It is so gross, I can't tell if there is
anything else good in here.
(grunts) Look at that,
its like a big gelatinized egg right here.
That's gross.
Well I don't really see anything in here
that would make me think that there's a snake,
but lets just go ahead and cut it
and see if we can see what's in the middle here.
(grunts) Its really,
its the most goopy, custardy type of texture.
(makes sound of surprise)
Wow that doesn't smell good guys.
I tell you what.
So for those of you guys that wondered
when a snake egg doesn't get fertilized
what happens to it.
Now you have your answer.
So I'm going to get rid of this.
(grunts) That is so gross
and maybe I'll wash my hands real quick,
I'll be back in a second.
(upbeat music)
The rest of these four eggs actually look good.
And this is a pretty awesome clutch.
It's a chocolate spinner bred to an enchi pin banana.
That's some crazy stuff going on there.
I have no idea what might be in these eggs
but I knew it was going to be an exciting clutch to cut,
and that's why I couldn't wait to share it with you guys
and see what's going on here.
Okay.
All right well right off this rip,
this first one is actually just a chocolate spinner.
So it's the same thing as the mom.
It's a chocolate, it's a pinstripe and it's a spider.
So that basically is a little duplicate of the mom.
I'm hoping to get some combos of the dad and mom of course.
So we'll see what this next egg has got going on.
Okay, well definitely interesting.
Okay, interesting.
This is actually looks like it's probably--
This actually looks like the all-gene animal I think.
This looks like a banana chocolate spinner.
Oh my gosh that thing is awesome!
(exclaims)
I'll tell you what, that is amazing!
Wow I'm almost positive we hit the all-gene animal
in the second egg.
I'm not sure, let's keep cutting and see.
There's always a chance that I could be wrong
until it crawls out and we really get a chance
to look at it, you never know.
But I have a feeling we crushed it
on that second egg right there.
And then again we've got another--
Let's see if we got right here--
Looks like we got another chocolate spinner right here
just like the mom, so no banana in that one.
And then last egg.
I tell you what, this is a cool clutch though.
All right, last egg.
You know what guys, this is crazy!
It looks like we hit another banana chocolate spinner!
So we hit two chocolate spinners
and two banana chocolate spinners.
Oh my gosh, you couldn't get much better odds than that,
that is absolutely incredible!
(stutters in excitement)
That concludes the egg cutting for the day.
A little species spotlight
with the giant Madagascan leaf-tailed gecko,
or a Uroplatus fimbriatus.
And the name Uroplatus actually derives
from the Greek word uro for tail and platus for flat
and then frimbriatus is actually Latin for fringe.
Of course, a flat tailed fringe gecko is essentially
is what it is.
And these guys are from Eastern Madagascar
and are one of the biggest of the leaf-tailed geckos.
Absolutely incredible!
But one of the things that really stands out
is those huge amazing eyes.
Of course these guys are nocturnal
and these eyes are actually 350 times the sensitivity
of a human eyeball.
Meaning that they're so sensitive
that they can still see color in the pitch black.
Which is pretty amazing.
And again, because they're nocturnal,
these guys are gonna pretty much stay dormant during the day
just hiding in some tree roots
or maybe a tree branch, or something like that.
And one of the things that I love
about pretty much most gecko species
is that they will vocalize,
so one of their defense mechanisms is to open their mouth
and just screech really loud.
Now these guys you need to keep a little cooler
than a lot of reptiles.
You want it to be in the upper 70s at the best,
really 75 is probably the perfect ambient temperature,
with maybe a hotspot of 80, 82 degrees at the very most.
(exclaims)
This guys a jumper too!
They absolutely will jump.
The wild-caught animals unfortunately
don't do really well in captivity,
and that's one of the reasons why they're
Appendix II endangered.
It's because you're seeing a lot of the decline over there
with deforestation, with habitat destruction,
and the illegal pet trade quite frankly.
So I really suggest trying to get captive-bred animals
because they do so much better.
The wild animals are typically no longer than maybe three
or four years in captivity.
Where a captive-bred animal can live up to 10 plus years.
These guys, again, are really large
going to 10 to 12 inches in length.
And they mainly eat bugs.
They might occasionally eat some nectar stuff
but primarily these guys are going to eat roaches,
super worms, crickets, stuff like that.
And then when you're breeding them,
often times you you want to supplement the females
with something a little bit bigger like even pinky mice
believe it or not.
Nevertheless, Uroplatus fimbriatus
is one of the coolest animals I think that I keep
to be honest with you, and I hope one day
that we'll be able to produce these things
because they are so amazing.
You're daily update on what's hatched
as far as Colubrids go.
Let's see what we have here
A big ol' swatch of Brooks King Snakes here.
(exclaims)
This is actually a white side bred to an anerythristic,
so these are all double head, white sided anerythristic
Brooks King snakes.
They're such pretty snakes.
I tell you what, if you want a big snake
that is really a good eater,
and typically very docile,
other than the fact if you smell like a rodent
you're probably gonna get bit,
but other than that, these guys are absolutely incredible.
Typically they do hatch out a little bit quicker
than the other Colubrids.
Let's see what we have here.
(exclaims)
It's our first scaleless rat snakes of the year.
You guys have seen we've been hatching
some scaleless corn snakes,
but these are actually scaleless Texas rats.
Looks like we have three little babies out
and one or two more eggs left to hatch.
Look at how absolutely adorable those guys are.
And we have a bunch more scaleless Texas rats
that should be hatching this year.
A lot of polymorphism, which is a fancy word to say
that they are variable, right.
Let's see what we have here.
(exclaims)
Oh my gosh, these eggs are crazy cool!
We've got a scaleless albino corn snake right here.
That thing is absolutely adorable!
And then it looks like we have another
maybe albino scaleless here,
might be something else because it's really faded--
Where are you going buddy, you stay in there--
(thud)
(mutters in panic)
Oh my gosh, I'm so bad at this.
Now we've got snakes getting out.
Stay in there. Stay, stay, stay, stay, stay!
Okay, all right.
So, it looks like we have a couple other scaleless corns,
maybe some diffused corns over here.
This happens to me every time (laughs) so okay,
we're going to go ahead.
Definitely looks like a hypo corn there.
I'm gonna put my camera down just so that
I can get these guys back in their tub
without pinching anybody's heads.
There you go guys, there you go.
All right.
(laughs) All right so that was always sketchy
I tell you what.
All right, we've got just one egg.
It looks like we've got just one baby out right here.
I remember this clutch there was actually two fertile eggs
so there's still one baby left to hatch,
if that egg hatches, it looks a little bit cruddy
to be honest with you.
But of course, this is a little western hognose snake.
So cute.
Of course we've been hatching out a bunch
of really pretty western hognose snake.
A lot of people love those guys,
so they'll be up on the website here
in the next couple of weeks.
And then lastly, what do we have?
Look at this, another big old swatch of Brooks King snakes.
But these ones actually are anerythristic as well.
Look at this one right here, this is actually anerythristic
which, again, is lacking the red pigment.
In this case, it is also axanthic,
which is lacking the yellow pigment,
so it's just basically that black and blueish type of snake.
It looks like we've got about half and half.
A bunch of axanthic and a bunch of normals in here.
Look at these feisty monkeys right now.
What are you guys doing? It's okay.
They hatch out with some big attitude for sure.
So that wraps up the Colubrids hatching for the day,
everyday, let me know in the comments
if you guys are gonna get bored of this,
because everyday there's lots of Colubrids hatching.
I'd like to update you but I don't want to bore you.
I think it's pretty cool.
Got an awesome tour in the house from Maine.
And you guys do some crazy stuff with trucks,
what do you guys do exactly?
- We do mega truck racing.
- [Brian] Mega truck racing?
That sounds really dangerous and awesome.
I love it.
We're gonna have a good time showing you some stuff.
Wanna go? Let's do it.
- Let's do it.
(upbeat music)
- Just wrapping up the tour (laughs)
These guys do some amazing things.
Of course from New Hampshire and Maine,
and you guys do mega trucks right?
- Yeah, mega truck racing.
- [Brian] Oh my god, this is awesome.
And you have one too right?
- Yeah. My truck has 700 horse,
and my other truck has 400 horse.
- Oh my god, these guys are crazy.
Look at this thing over here.
This thing is so ridiculous.
What do you guys--
do you just jump over and roll over stuff?
- Mud race, obstacle course race, jump stuff.
- Oh my gosh, I tell you what,
I am lucky because I not only get to work
with the coolest animals on the planet,
but meet the coolest people.
These guys have some big-boy toys.
Look at how cute these little monkeys are!
This one's actually just starting to shed,
just as the top of its head sheds off.
And, again, these are live bearers.
Now canyon sand boas have much bigger litters,
like 20 sometimes even 30 babies.
There's only four little babies in this clutch here.
Let's see what else we have.
Where you at little monkey?
Oh my god they are so-- (exclaims)
It bit me too!
Look at these guys. They're crazy!
(laughs) They have little attitudes even as little babies.
Unbelievable.
Look at this little thing.
So again, four little baby rough-scale sand boas.
Absolutely incredible.
Wow that thing is adorable!
And we have a whole bunch of these guys too.
So we've got canyons and rough-scales.
We've got a bunch of rainbows
and a whole bunch of other stuff coming.
So that's pretty exciting.
It's a little bummer I didn't get a chance
to find it myself,
but nevertheless super cool little animals.
This is actually the mama rough-scaled sand boa right here.
Hopefully we can pick her up without getting bit.
She's probably really hungry and definitely deflated
because she had those babies.
She's looking really good.
And again, these are a smaller sand boa for sure.
This is as big as they get.
I've seen a couple just slightly bigger,
but not a whole lot so that's about it.
But I wanna give you an idea what these guys look like
when they're full grown.
Look at this mama right here
with those big ol' bulge in her right here.
Or this one too look at this
(exclaims in excitement)
I tell you what, these guys are loaded up with babies
and I have a feeling that a couple of these
are gonna have a lot more than four babies,
probably six or eight babies.
I absolutely love these to death and again,
canyon sand boas aren't too far off either.
Oh my god, I'm definitely gonna be looking forward
to hopefully being here
when these guys have babies this time.
A quick mail time.
Let's see what we have. What do we have here?
We've got the Bartrick family.
- From Massachusetts.
- Open ASAP on the vlog! From France?
- From France?
- Says, "Love from France."
- All right, well this say from Massachusetts.
So, I don't know what to believe.
- And it says open ASAP, so I don't know if that means
it's going to be rotten.
- That means as soon as possible.
Well we just got this.
- Yeah we just got it, okay cool.
There's a bag and then there's a bag.
What if this is all just bags?
- That's something I would do.
I do this at Christmas sometimes.
- Okay so here we go.
You read that.
(exclaims)
Look at that, macaroons from France.
- Dear Brian and family,
I've been following you for a few years now.
I watch everyday.
Love following the grind with Eric, Mary,
Jessica, Bruce, great team!
Enjoy these treats from my hometown,
we are famous from them.
Love from France.
- I love it. I tell you they look good.
Macaroons, I love it.
- Yes.
- I'm gonna keep these.
- Well we're gonna take these over to the shop
and share them with the crew.
- What?
- (laughs) It was for everybody!
- I think we're gonna take those home,
and I'm gonna eat them all myself.
- I hate-- I'm not patient enough to open--
- You're not safe either.
- This may be a shirt.
There's something in it.
- To Brian.
- There's a letter.
Oh my gosh, a bit letter.
Hey Brian, Laurie and the team,
my name is Michelle I'm from a city called Selkirk
in Manitoba, Canada.
Manitoba, I wanna go there for the garter snakes
in Manitoba.
It's like a dreamcatcher.
- Yes, it is a dreamcatcher.
- That's awesome.
Be honest I thought you were crazy,
but I realized that you reminded me of the one and only
Steve Irwin,
thank you so much no one can fill those shoes.
I watched him wrestle crocodile tails everything like that,
but you're enthusiasm like his is addictive.
Thank you so much, and there's so much.
I'm gonna read this off, thank you so much.
- Oh, that's cute.
- What does it say?
- Our paths crossed at Narcisse, probably wrong, Snake Dens.
- That's the dens I was talking about in Manitoba!
I wanna go next year.
I got to get down to the snake dens there
because it is absolutely incredible.
- Well apparently we have a connection, Michelle.
- Michelle, let's definitely talk
because you can maybe go take me
to the Manitoba snake dens.
I really wanna go check it out.
And thank you for-- This is awesome, I love this shirt,
because that's--
Thank you so much, that's awesome!
Thank you for the dreamcatcher.
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