- Guys, you know that when you hold your ear to a seashell,
and you hear the sound of the ocean?
Well, guess what I hear right now?
(chanting egg time)
That's right, it's egg time!
And this is an absolute ripper.
This is actually an, Enchi Past abi.
Which is a pastel Mojave and an Eanchi.
And it's bred to a beautiful banana clown male
and take a look at this ripper right here.
As a matter of fact
this exact pairing actually produced babies last year.
And there was some crazy results.
And this happens to be one of my whole backs
from that clutch last year, this is actually a banana
Enchi, Mojave clown ball Python.
I mean, that thing is ridiculous as well.
So let's hope this girl has some good eggs
so that we can go ahead and get them in the incubator
and hatch some more beauties, just like this.
(Laid back music)
I tell you what, mama,
she doesn't have as big of a clutch as I thought
like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa, calm down.
Calm down.
All right, I'm going to go ahead.
Start getting these eggs out.
Ow she Got me in the arm, darn it.
Whoop tell you what.
Look at that.
That little mama.
Mama, you're just protecting your eggs.
I know, sweetheart.
I know, baby girl.
All right.
I'm going to go ahead and get her across over here.
Just take these eggs out of here to get her kind of relaxed
got one little Slugger here, which is okay.
Other than that, she looks pretty good.
We'll go ahead and get her set back up.
Get her cleaned up and let's go ahead
and take a look at these eggs.
All right.
Now, actually a relatively small clutch.
Last year she laid like six eggs.
So she only has two, four, five eggs this year.
She did have one little Slugger.
So I guess it's six eggs, but nevertheless
really good combination.
I'm going to candle these just to make sure
that the embryos are on top, just
because they were a little bit loose, not stuck together.
And then we're good to go.
57 days from now.
We'll be cutting this clutch
and hopefully we get some bangers.
(music plays)
So I heard we have a really cool surprise that I'm about to
share with you guys, but first we have to find Lori and
by the way, welcome to the blog reptile army.
I hope to start your day is absolutely incredible.
So Lori, there's some good news down here, I hear.
- Yes.
- It's that makes sense here, I hear, anyway.
Doesn't matter.
- (laughs) Yes doctor suss
- What's the good news.
I know I am.
I am, Sam.
I am.
What do we got?
- We got our first clutch
- first clutch in the colubrid room.
That's right.
And it was it the girl that white, high white girl.
- Yes.
- All right.
So now the big question is, am I pulling the eggs
or are you pulling the eggs?
Because I think that it way better.
If I pull the eggs
- Today, I will let you do it today.
- Today
- But very day. It just depends.
- We have to negotiate every day.
- Yes
- That seems silly.
- No, not at all.
- I think we should just make an agreement right now
- No
- because I've been pulling eggs for 30 years.
And I think that
- That's a lie
I've pulled plenty of eggs.
- That's. I don't remember one time you ever pulled an egg.
- Just because you didn't film
it doesn't mean it didn't happen.
- That's exactly what it means.
- No, that's not at all
- That's it, So, all right, so this is the girl here.
And let's see this clutch of eggs
Oo. pearly whites, look at those eggs right there.
Oh my God.
That's a beautiful clutch too.
All right, cool.
So I, do we have vermiculite and everything?
- Yes. It just came in
- Okay, cool. Perfect
So, all right, so I'm going to set up some egg boxes
and pull our first colubrid clutch of the year.
(Singing Egg time)
So there's a bunch
of different ways you can incubate colubrid eggs.
You guys see that with a Python eggs
we usually use hatchwright?
Which is a pre kind of mixed perlite with a water isomer.
And then I use vermiculite when it comes
to colubrid eggs, just because we go
through so much and the other stuff is a lot more expensive.
So we go through many bags of this right.
Now you can also even get egg trays that have like water
on the bottom and the eggs actually sound.
So there's a bunch of different ways.
I'm not saying any way is better.
I'm just saying that I prefer hatch wright
When it comes to pythons.
And I prefer vermiculite when it comes to colubrid.
So basically what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to go ahead and pour some vermiculite in here.
Basically what we want is the consistency
of water that is going to clump
but when you squeeze it, no water actually drips out.
Right? So it's kind of, clumps into a ball
like a meatball, a meatball of vermiculite.
But at the same time
you don't want to have like any excess water.
Cause if the eggs are shedding on dampness
you can actually kill the eggs right.
It's actually if you want it to,
you can measure out weight to volume ratio.
One cup to one cup is basically the ratio.
But I do it just by feel
because I've been doing it for so long.
So again, I want lukewarm water.
You want these to be about 82 degrees, right?
So I want about 82 degree water.
And again, it's just the feel
and I'll just basically dump enough water in here
and start to mix it
to where I feel like the consistency is right.
Again, for me doing literally thousands and thousands
of thousands of boxes over the year,
I have a pretty good idea
of what the actual consistency is, weight to volume ratio.
And I just kind of go
through things like this and I'll mix them in.
Till I feel it's good.
And then I'll kind of show you what I mean
by the consistency where it's like clumping
but not over wet, right?
So I can clump like this.
It basically stays in a ball
but when I squeeze it, no water comes out.
That's the exact consistency we want it.
So I'm going to just go ahead and do this
fill up these egg boxes
and then we're going to go over and pull that clutch.
All right, boxes are made up.
Let's go collect the first eggs of the year over in
the new place and come to think of it.
These are the very first eggs ever in this basement.
I mean, how cool is that?
Of course, this is the new colubrid room
and these are the very first colubrid eggs or any eggs
in this basement that's been produced.
So that is pretty exciting.
Again, an absolutely beautiful black and white high white
a Barret California King snake.
And it's actually bred to a really beautiful male as well.
So should have some really pretty babies.
Where are you going Mama, don't get out of there.
I'm going to go ahead.
Just take your eggs away from you here, girl.
And again, just like always we clean these cages
up and get them all set
because these will double clutch, right?
So unlike pythons that lay one clutch of eggs a year
these guys will actually lay another clutch.
So what will happen is literally today we'll feed her
up and probably within the next couple of days
we'll put a mail back in
with her and about four to five weeks.
Now she should have a, another clutch of eggs.
Now, some snakes like Cal Kings, typically don't shed
after they lay their eggs.
So the next shed is a next pre lay shed for the next clutch.
Corn snakes will actually lay their eggs and then shed
about a week later.
That's when you start breeding them and then
they'll shed one more time.
But with Cal kings, it's usually just one shed
between clutches.
So that's pretty cool.
So let's go ahead and see how many eggs are in here.
And they look absolutely pearly white.
Once again, Lori does a great job breeding these colubrids.
So I can't take any credit.
I'm not going to lie to you.
It's all really Lori.
I just get the glory, pulling the clutches, right?
So we've got two, four, six, seven, beautiful eggs
seven eggs to start the year.
Oh my gosh.
That egg time song is going to get used a lot this year.
I hope that you guys are ready for it
(peaceful music)
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It's really important to rearrange the sloth room every now
and then for mental enrichment, right?
Because if he has the same thing, he's going to get bored.
We always want him to be using his head.
So as you move the ropes around and get it all cleaned up
he actually can start thinking like, well
I don't remember this being here.
And it makes him use his brain a bunch
and find all the new areas he can climb to
which is really good for him because we don't
want him to get mentally bored by any means.
And we like to do this every couple of weeks.
And as soon as you put the new ropes up
he is all over the place exploring.
And that's really good for his mental health.
- Alright guys, today, we're doing a little tour
of Drogo's crib, follow me.
So I just changed all the ropes
around just to give them a little bit more enrichment.
We had the ropes up almost for like four weeks like that.
And we could tell he was starting to get bored
and stuff like that.
So I took everything down, deep cleaned everything.
So yeah, we've got, still his food bowls over here.
We can't really move those.
But we do make sure that he has access to it.
He actually can use this rope and hang
by his back legs and still reach the food there.
It's got his little heat lamps.
He's got his boy Pierre hanging out over here.
And then we went ahead and put his hammock in the back.
So right here is where the bed used to,
the swinging bed used to be.
But we went ahead and moved the hammock to the back.
Give him a little bit more privacy
make for better pictures, stuff like that.
We put his bed was super close to the window.
So when you guys come and visit us, you actually, hopefully
if he's laying in the bed, you'll be able to
see him super nice up close when he takes a little nap here.
So yeah, other than that, that's what we got.
So I don't know where you guys are going
but you got to get the heck out of here.
- I always talk about that you want
to give a couple days a week
off of your males from breeding females, right?
We're down to that last bit of breeding.
So some of our males are already done for the entire year
but I'm going to go ahead and separate these males out.
Give them a couple of days off.
We'll give them some food, kind of get them rested
up and back in with females here in a couple of days.
So let's go ahead.
Roll the time lapse.
(calm music)
And that's a wrap.
The males are resting
and getting a good little feed a little bit later today.
- All right guys.
So we're down here with the new Argus monitors.
We still don't have them named yet and no
you don't get to name them.
Oh, he jumped right out on me,
but I got good cat-like reflexes.
So I caught them.
No problem.
And look at, I'm not, I'm not holding them hard at all.
He is literally just chilling.
He's just chilling.
He was running a lot yesterday.
When I grabbed him out
after he warmed up out of the package
I've been just trying to hold him continuously
keep breaking that boundary, petting his chin.
Just try to pet him in places where he feels uncomfortable.
And doesn't like to be touched because honestly
I don't know if that's how you do it
but that's the way I think to do it.
One of the things I want to start doing, Whoa is to
teach him not to do that.
One of the things I want to do is get him to
be a shoulder pad and just, oh.
Oh, I got him.
I got him.
It was working out great earlier today.
Oh yeah.
This is where he went.
When it went well, I just want him to be up on my shoulder
like a little parrot and I'm pirate,
but it's like a reptile pirate.
I don't know, maybe one day
like I can have a certain color ball
or something and I show him
and then he can just like attack whatever I want.
I don't know
- Kind of a bummer.
It looks like Ben
and Jerry did a little injury again in between their heads.
It's so weird how they would do that.
Right? I mean
I'm sure they feel when there's something going on
but what happens is they start to spread their self apart
and sometimes rub against rocks and stuff like that.
It doesn't look too bad again.
We'll put a little cream out
and stuff like that should feel completely fine.
But you know, after it just healed just completely
after a few months back it's re-injured itself a little bit
but again, it doesn't look too bad.
I'm not worried about it or anything like that
but it's just such a weird thing.
Isn't it?
I tell you what colubrid season is so exciting for me.
I hope that you guys are enjoying it, are going to enjoy it.
Cause I just love pulling eggs.
And this girl just shout.
This is actually a lavender calking.
So remember how we hatched those purple baby snakes.
This is actually a normal lavender that has
the bands that is hat for snow.
And it's bred to a lavender snow.
So half the clutch is going to be lavender snow
that solid purple snake
and half the clutch is going to be purple
with yellow bands like this one
I tell you what so many amazing snakes happening down here.
It's I just can't believe I am brimming with happiness
that we are in the colubrid egg season.
So obviously Jay actually rearranged the Drogo.
the entire area.
And he is such a weird animal.
I tell you what?
So we ended up putting of course the big hammock up
here where he usually goes.
And now look at him.
He's got his little stuffed animal
over the hair and he's sitting at his little dog bed.
How cute hi Drogo.
Hi baby Boy, what are you doing?
You silly little monkey dog.
You, isn't he amazing.
I've never seen him sit over here ever.
But again, we just put this rope here.
So he must like it.
So Drogo, you like your new place?
You haven't fun, buddy.
That is too cute.
Hope you enjoy today's video with all the snakes eggs.
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