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- Hey, good morning, everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I'm over here at the reptarium, of course,
and I have this absolutely beautiful,
gorgeous little monkey right here.
This is actually an albino Darwin's carpet python
and you might be asking yourself,
"Why are you holding albino Darwin's carpet python, Brian?"
The fact is, later today,
I am gonna be cutting a clutch of albino carpet pythons.
Well, actually het albino pythons, and I tell you,
I have never produced albino carpet pythons before,
but these were like a dream animal of mine for years,
like 15 years ago, and the back story of that
is that an albino actually showed up
in northern territory Australia many, many years ago,
and I saw a picture and I was blown away.
In one way or another, albinos ended up popping up
over in South Africa, and then ultimately in America,
and I actually purchased this guy a couple years ago,
so this is the first time I could ever produce one,
so it's kinda cool to go from that dream of seeing
that animal 15 years ago in a picture from Australia,
to now having one and then now,
actually potentially being able to produce 'em,
so we'll cut those eggs later in the vlog,
and by the way, let's have an amazing day together.
Take a lookit, guys. Oh my gosh, Ben and Jerry just shed.
Now you remember, Ben and Jerry injured theirself
a couple weeks ago, so this shed was very important.
I can actually take them out really quick
and inspect how that wound is actually healing,
and basically snakes use shed cycles
to actually heal theirself, right?
So right after Ben and Jerry injured theirself,
they ate once and then they went right back into shed,
which is kinda a healing process,
and you can see there's a little bit of a raw area
between there, but it looks really really good.
I tell you what, I couldn't be more happy
with the way they look right now,
and I think I'm gonna go ahead
and feed them later today as well.
So I'm not gonna handle these guys too much.
I just wanted to inspect that little area right there,
and again, looks amazing,
I mean, healed really, really well.
There was a little swelling before it went into shed
so that swelling is completely gone.
I have a feeling they're gonna eat
and do completely fine today.
Remember, Jerry didn't eat last time,
Ben did, so let's hope that Jerry eats this time,
and we'll go ahead, get these guys set back up.
Later on the day, we'll go ahead and feed them,
but I do want to take a look at
this actual shed itself, right here.
So this is the two heads right here.
That is so absolutely weird, and again,
you can almost feel right here
where there's kinda like hard,
where they were actually almost scabbed up, right?
And that scab coming off looks really good,
so Ben and Jerry looks great, and again,
we'll give them some food later on
and hopefully they'll both eat.
Remember a couple weeks ago when I told you that
Verde finally ate her first rodent on her own?
Well, it was a little live rat fuzzy,
because she hadn't taken frozen,
and of course she was only eatin' live chicks before that.
Well, guess what, I've got even more incredible news,
and that is that she took her first frozen rat last night.
That's right, Verde took her first frozen rat.
Frozen anything, to be honest with you,
she wouldn't even eat frozen chicks before,
so this is great news.
The fact that Verde is actually eating frozen means
that I can increase the food size now,
and really start to put some size on her.
I tell you, she is just such an amazing animal,
I love green anacondas, I've always said
that it's like one of the kings of snakes, right?
One of the most iconic snakes
in the world is a green anaconda,
and the fact that she's finally, after over a year,
eating frozen rats, it's absolutely amazing.
C'mon, all the way.
- [Bruce] It's too heavy.
- Come here. Here sweetie. C'mon.
So we're gonna do some manicuring today.
Bella's nails are well overdue. They grow so fast.
About 6-7 weeks go, we cut 'em, but I tell you,
they are way too long, so Bruce is gonna go ahead
and nip these off, and then, later on,
we're gonna try Abusuku. You guy may remember,
I don't know, a few months ago we did Abusuku
where we had to, like, cover it with a towel
and all that type of stuff.
Well, Bruce has been working with Abusuku really good
so we're gonna do the first time
where we're gonna try not to restrain her
and see what happens, but, first, Bella.
So lets go ahead and just slowly do it
and what I'm doing is just trying to keep her calm,
while Bruce is cutting her nails.
I'm just going to pat her and kinda keep her happy.
She's such a good animal, I mean,
she really is and basically this is just, like,
cutting a dog's nails, right? I mean they have
that little vein in there just like they have,
so it's a little hard with some of these lizards
because, of course, their nails are dark
much like nails that are dark on a dog.
So you have to just kinda see what it is
and Bruce actually used to groom dogs,
so he's the right person for the job
because he's cut many dog's nails and stuff like that.
Just kinda repositioned her really quick 'cause
she was getting a little agitated with all the clipping,
and again, just whatever she wants to do.
I wanna keep her not stressed out and stuff like that
and she loves pets and, so I just had to get her
on my lap where I think she feels a little more comfortable
than being on that rock down below.
So, a lot of times I think that,
because she doesn't really like coming out of her cage much,
and people ask me that all the time, like,
Elvis loves coming around and cruising around
and Abusuku's actually been out all morning
which is the first time we really let her kinda cruise
around the shop.
We're gonna start doing that quite a bit, too,
but Bella actually likes to stay in her cage,
she doesn't like to be out.
When she's out, she gets a little stressed.
So, what I'm doing is actually just letting her sit on me
where she feels the most comfortable, of course,
and we'll get these nails cut
and she'll be much better off for it.
So, we got one last little leg over here.
- There we go. All done.
- Okay, we're all done with Bella.
We'll get her back in her cage.
We'll give her some super worms as a treat,
just to kind of tell her that she did such a good job,
and then we'll move on to Abusuku.
So we've been soaking Abusuku for a little bit
for two reasons. Number one, she likes soaks.
Number two, it does soften her nails up a little bit.
So what we're gonna try to do is,
get her out of the water, set her on top of this tub
so that we can hopefully cut her nails
without her biting us.
So, my job is gonna be protecting Bruce
and hopefully she's gonna be good.
She has been so good today, it's unbelievable.
So, let's go ahead and get her out of the water.
We'll put her up here. Here we go, girl.
You're all right. I'll shut this for you.
There we go.
We'll try to set her right up on top of here,
and then I'm gonna kind of just do the best
I can do to control her a little bit,
while Bruce is cutting her nails.
There you go, girl. You're all right. You're okay.
Okay, and again, we're gonna try not to restrain her at all.
I'm gonna keep like this so that,
if she comes around, I'm the one that she goes after first.
See how good she is.
I mean, what a difference this makes.
I mean, I tell you what, Bruce has just been working
with her like crazy, habituate her to people,
to being out, to understanding that we're not food,
so and I tell you what,
It is unbelievable the difference,
just, in a couple months with this animal has done.
I mean again, a couple months ago,
she would of tore us apart by now
and you can see she's just being absolutely wonderful.
Course, she's probably wondering, like,
what are you guys doing to me right now?
And again, last time we had to literally put a towel
over her head and restrain her,
which is something that you never really wanna do
with monitor lizards 'cause you lose the trust, right?
So, if we can build this trust like this
where she understands that we're not hurting her.
We're actually doing the best we can do to keep her healthy.
I mean, she doesn't understand the nail clipping part,
but she's gonna feel better with those nails
a little bit smaller 'cause her fingers
will actually even work a little bit better,
and, again, without restraining her,
this is gonna be great positive reinforcement with her.
So, she is doing really well right now,
just got a few more nails on the back side,
and then this last side over here,
and then she's good to go, and again, like I mentioned,
we're gonna try and go around to her
to where she doesn't get too freaked out.
There we go. That's okay, Abusuku.
You're doing so good, girl. So good.
Again, its almost hard for me to imagine
that this animal just a couple months ago was such a beast,
you know? And it tells you that,
if you can gain trust, positive reinforcement with animals,
you can tame almost anything.
I mean this animal I thought was untameble
and it's amazing and it all started really
with target training so that she understood
what food was and what food wasn't. You all done?
- Yep. All done.
- All right, so Bruce has it all done. Abusuku was great.
I think what we're gonna do is just go ahead,
set Abusuku on the ground,
and let her run around a little bit more
just as a reward for kind of being a good girl,
and look at this, it is crazy.
Abusuku, you are amazing, girl!
That was pretty awesome, I mean it's...
I'm even blown away bout how awesome that was.
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- [Brian] Eric!
- Yo, what's up man?
- [Brian] Dude, I saw you're Instagram.
Your mountain bike--
- Oh, yeah!
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- [Voiceover] Liquid Cool!
- [Brian] Excursion. Yeah So--
- Just over some rocks.
Y'know what? You always do it
and you're like, "Oh that was hardcore."
and then you watch the video and you're like,
"It really doesn't look like anything."
Y'know what I--
- [Brian] When are you taking me out, man?
- Dude, anytime you want man, seriously.
We can go after work. I'll go anytime.
We can probably just play hooky tomorrow.
We'll go out--
- We actually were at Slick Rock, at Moab.
Unbelievable. Now that looks crazy.
I don't think you'd make it. It's like a 12 mile trail
and I saw so many people get like
a quarter mile in and turn around.
- Oh, I believe it. I believe it.
Those you have to have some serious bikes.
Full suspensions. You gotta be crazy, man.
I'm not that crazy. I like going
through the little turns, through the trees,
maybe down some roots. That's it.
- [Brian] All right. All right, so let me know
if you guys want us to vlog this.
I'll wait til Noah gets back. Me, you and Noah,
we're going mountain biking. We'll vlog it
and we'll see who reigns supreme on the trail.
I have a feeling that I'm gonna die.
- (laughs and claps) It would be so cool man.
- Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it.
And on to the clutch.
I am actually really excited about this because, again,
I saw the first albino carpet python
back in Australia, like, I don't know, 12, 15 years ago.
Never thought that I'd even own one.
Of course now we do own one, but I've never hatched one,
and whenever you hatch the first thing
that you've ever hatched, especially
when it's something that's so special
like an albino carpet, it's super exciting.
I don't know what's going to happen,
because it's het to het,
again a Darwin het albino to a Jaguar het albino
so hopefully we get lucky and get some albinos.
Let's just jump into it and start cutting
these little carpet python eggs
and see what we have in here.
Woo, okay, first egg is actually,
it looks just like a normal carpet python.
Possibly a Jaguar, and the Jaguar is actually
like kinda a pattern mutation, so I like that.
Let's see what this second egg is.
Man, I hope we get at least one albino.
I'll be so disappointed if I cut this whole clutch
and there's no albino carpet pythons.
Oh my gosh, oh! Guess what? Oh my gosh!
An albino carpet python! Oh my!
I dreamed of this day so many years ago
that one day I would hatch albino carpet pythons,
and here we are, second egg,
and there's an albino carpet python.
I cannot wait till these little monkeys crawl out the egg,
and these actually hatch, it's usually 52 to 54 days,
where as most ball pythons
and other pythons will be more like 60 days.
So, let's just keep going here,
and see if we get more albinos.
Oh my gosh, and it's hard to see if
that's a jag albino or if that's just a normal albino.
It's just kinda impossible to see. This one,
I can see really clearly is just a normal carpet python.
Again, that would be possible het for albino.
A few of these eggs are a little bit buried in here, guys,
so it's a little bit hard for me to cut them,
but I'm gonna do the best I can do
to see what we have going on.
Can't believe we can hit an albino.
Okay, here's another normal carpet python.
Not anything other than that, just a possible het.
Going on to this egg, come on.
Even if I don't hit another albino,
I'm super excited. I'll be honest with ya,
I couldn't believe that we actually did.
I keep on thinking like, "What if they're not het,
and I never produce one?", stuff like that.
So, again, this one definitely looks
like a jag carpet right here.
Let's see what we have going on.
We're gonna keep on cutting. So far,
odds have not been that great.
We hit the one albino and then nothing since.
Another jag carpet possible het.
There's an egg down here.
there's no way I'll ever be able to cut that one,
because it's way too deep in there.
- That's what she said (laughs).
- But so far just one albino. Ah!
Another albino! There it is. Awesome.
So we got two albinos, and, again,
it's impossible to tell if they're jag albinos
or normal albinos yet, because, y'know,
they're in the egg, and the pattern,
you can't really tell. So, we got two albinos so far.
That is awesome. Let's keep going.
We got a handful of other eggs,
and this was a really beautiful clutch of eggs.
Oh look it there. All right, that's just a normal.
Looks like it's actually a jag as well,
and the jag will have more striping,
wider bands, and so on like that.
So, we'll keep going here, couple more.
I think there's four more eggs.
Another jag carpet for sure right here, possible het albino.
Three more eggs. Now I'm getting greedy.
I just want to get one more albino.
Come on, one more albino. Nope.
Not an albino in this one. Looks like another jag.
So, getting a lot of the jags, though,
which is interesting. Gonna get this egg right over here.
Oh gosh, these are so much harder to cut
than a ball python egg.
I gotta be honest with ya here.
Okay, what do we got? Come on one more albino.
One more albino. Nope.
Looks like another either carpet or jag carpet.
Not sure. One last egg, guys.
You guys know, I love to end egg cutting on a high note.
Please let there be an albino, please.
And again, there's one egg that I wasn't able to cut
that could always be an albino too,
but we actually have two albinos.
Nope, another normal, so it looks like we two albinos
out of this whole clutch, which isn't the greatest odds,
but again, I am not complaining.
Again, there's one little egg in there
that I didn't get to cut,
so maybe there'll be three albinos in this clutch.
I am just over the moon happy that we produced
albino carpet pythons. How awesome is that.
And there it is, guys. I'm gonna go ahead
and shut the vlog down.
Wish you guys an absolutely amazing day.
Tell me something beautiful about you guys,
because I love you so much.
Remember you had better be kind to someone.
If you're not kind to someone, I'm gonna come punch you
in the face. No, seriously, be kind to someone,
and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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