- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Today we're taking a break
from Universal Rocks and building,
but trust me we're gonna be back (laughs) to that tomorrow.
Maybe even later on this afternoon,
but I wanted to come visit my buddy Chase.
Has an amazing Boa and ball Python collection
and a few other snakes.
I needed to see some animals, you know how it goes.
You know I can't just build cages all the time.
So we're just gonna go around, meet up with Chase.
Show you guys some amazing snakes.
I could not be more excited about this.
This is just what I need to kind of perk myself up.
So what do you say we sit back and have a great time
the next 12, 15 minutes and look at some amazing snakes.
(deep whooshing) All right man
I'm with my buddy here, Chase how you doin' man?
Thank you so much for having us man--
I appreciate ya. - Yeah of course.
- And I'm gonna put all the links in the description
to all his stuff so go show him some love.
Definitely has some amazing animals.
So, what do ya got for us today?
You got anything in particular
or we just gonna look around and see everything?
- I think we'll just kinda go through
and see a little bit of everything.
Some of my favorites that I made for the year,
some of my favorite older stuff
that I'm still raising up, or breeding or whatever,
and we'll jus go through that way.
See how she goes. - All right I'm excited,
let's just jump right in.
(loud whooshing) What, in the...
So, obviously a true Red Tail Boa.
What's the locality on this one?
- This girl here's a Suriname.
- (whispering) Suriname... - She's a big girl,
that was wild-caught in like '06--
- What! - I think it was,
and she's just always hung around here.
She's never bred or anything.
I actually finally got a male for her
so I'll try probably this year or next.
- Oh my gosh, and turn around and let me see this tail.
Look at this tail guys!
The babies-- - Just insane.
- We have just recently got, which were Peruvian,
are obviously a different locality,
but they're this similar tail as they get bigger.
That is why I love true Red Tail Boas.
That is ridiculous dude--
I love it! - And they get their true,
you know so many people think the Columbians
get huge and the Columbians can get just as big as this,
but it's not as common.
Now the BCCs I mean they just get--
- Yeah, and look at the size of the head
of the BCCs-- - Just pure muscle.
- Are just, oh my gosh.
- That's the thing, I love these guys.
This thing is just pure muscle and you can see
how she has that real nice square look to her.
- Yeah. - Doesn't really
have any roundness.
That's the shape you want to keep your Boas
when they're getting big.
- Exactly you don't want that round look to 'em
where they're overfed.
Yeah. - Right.
- Now that's beautiful dude, wow.
She has-- - This is definitely
one of my favorite--
- [Camera Man] I know I'm flipping out--
- And Chase, yeah yeah I know Chase.
- This is a really awesome girl.
Let's see, this is a Blood Arabesque female--
- Oh my gosh! - I just...
her colors really held.
Sometimes you see some of the Bloods
that they just fade and they get really dark.
I mean I have one over there that's just really dark.
- Oh my gosh!
That did get super dark didn't it?
- So this just shows you the quality difference in Blood.
This one wasn't bred as well
and this one was just bred and really kept the color
and held it a lot better. - Wow!
- So this one here that's darker, is the Motley.
- Right, okay so that's a Blood Motley?
- Yeah.
- Blood Motley and then pure Arabesque.
- It's really darkened so-- - So yeah,
the Arabesque is, gosh it was Steve Hammond
was the guy that originated-- - Think so yeah.
- This way back in the day,
so it's kind of like a pattern.
Slightly a color mutation as well
and then of course the Blood is that nice red color,
and some of these guys get amazing.
So this is a powerhouse genetically you know what I mean?
- Yeah. - Both of them are actually.
- And she's had Albino to top it off.
- Oh yeah, saw you talkin' about it.
What do they call those, dragons?
- Yeah Sun Dragons-- - Sun Dragons yeah.
Oh my gosh those things are great.
Oh my gosh that's gorgeous dude!
- This girl here she is-- - Is it a Labyrinth or--
- Yeah, so this here is a Hypo Labyrinth Fire.
- Oh my gosh-- - Pretty sure she's
a jungle as well but her colors and everything
they're just insane.
- Oh my gosh that's amazing.
That Labyrinth stuff is crazy too!
I mean that's another gene that is like everyone wants.
- It does, and it has so much potential
because it's like the Super forms of Blue-Eyed Lucy,
like we see in Ball Pythons like a Crystal so--
- Yeah almost looks like a Crystal Ball Python.
So it's yeah, though it's nice that you have
obviously like the Princess Diamond,
which is the super Fire stuff or whatever,
and then you have the Super Labyrinth
which is more like a Crystal.
So this is a Blue-Eyed Lucy,
but it's got a bunch of pattern which makes it really cool.
So that has a lot of really amazing genes in it.
So that has both genes in it?
- Yeah that has both the Black-Eyed Lucy producing,
and what I would consider the Blue-Eyed.
Of course Jeff Ronne over at Boaphile did originate,
he calls them the Crystals.
- Yeah.
- Technically they are Crystals
like you exactly see in Ball Pythons too though.
- But yeah, but they're Blue-Eyed, yeah I agree.
So that's amazing.
And you were king of one of the early guys
in the Fire gene right?
- I was yeah.
I got into it real early.
Unfortunately I didn't set the goal out
to make a bunch of Fire combos in my time,
or necessarily make a lot of Lucys.
I just wanted to make the Fires to raise up
to be able to make more Lucys down the road.
So hopefully this year will be
one of my most producing years for Lucys so--
- Okay cool. - Should get quite a bit
of them out this year.
- Remember when we did the blacklight at BHB?
Well you said this one is crazy right,
under a blacklight?
- Yeah this guy here, this is a Mojave Special
Spotnose Leopard-- - Wow!
- And the pattern underneath there is pretty unique.
Whenever the blacklight hits it.
So-- - All right well,
let's take a look, let's see what's going on.
(light clicks on) - Let's see here--
- Oh my gosh!
Look at the pattern on that thing!
- [Chase] My light kind of stinks here.
- No that's good-- - But look at that dude.
- [Brian] Holy, oh my gosh.
That is crazy!
That's probably one of the best ones I've seen.
- [Chase] That's definitely one of my favorites.
This is actually the first snake
that I've ever black-lighted.
- [Brian] And you were like,
(laughs) "Oh everyone's gonna look like this!"
- [Chase] Yeah.
- [Brian] Oh that's awesome.
- [Chase] I've never got to blacklight
any other that actually showed pattern for me.
- [Brian] Now that is ridiculous.
So that was impressive!
That was kind of what I was thinking
some of the animals I showed you guys last time,
was gonna look like that.
This one, that's a ripper man, unbelievable.
- Yeah that's one of my favorite 2019 snakes.
Just because of pattern and also...
So this guy here, it came out and man,
it is just an awesome, awesome animal.
- And that's-- - Spotnose Special Leopard.
- Oh wow, Spotnose Special Leopard.
- So to me it looked like a Blood Python almost
whenever it came about-- - Yeah.
Nah that thing is ridiculous too,
wow! (deep whooshing)
(incredulous laugh)
What in the world?
This doesn't even look real dude!
It looks like it's painted!
- Look how clean, just crazy it is.
This one is a Hypo Fire Laby.
I don't think this one carries the jungle
like the other one did.
So that's probably what made the difference
in the color there.
- Oh my gosh that is...
I mean that is breathtaking dude!
That is ridiculous.
- I don't know if you're able to see
the specks there that are on her tongue
like she has little bit of black.
- Oh yeah.
Now is that something that you see with...
And it is crazy, it's like modeled.
- Yeah.
- So is that something you see
with either the Labyrinth or the Fire
or is that just random?
- I definitely noticed it with,
you know whenever I've combined this combo together.
I've seen a lot more of them now.
There are Fire combos that tend to have it too.
I've found with the Hypo Fires,
that's where I seem to see it the most.
- Wow, that's ridiculous-- - Yeah this animal's
is just insane honestly, her colors are just crazy.
(loud whooshing) - Oo, is this got Blood in it?
- This doesn't have Blood in it--
- This doesn't have Blood in it??
- My buddy Jesse Hermanson unfortunately
got out of the industry,
but he made some phenomenal stuff
and man he selective bred this guy--
- So this is just a polymorphic--
- Yeah. - Selectively bred trait.
- Basically yeah, just got the best Hypo
that I've ever seen for myself.
- So this is just a Hypo?
- Yeah this is just a straight Hypo
with so much color packed into it.
The one thing-- - I have never--
- The only reason that I would not
think it was a Blood just because it doesn't
have the solid black eyes.
Otherwise I would be fooled
that it looks like a Blood too.
- It does, that is crazy!
So that's just again, generation after generation of,
you breed the highest Orange, the highest Red,
whatever the case is.
That is a practice in patience
because it could take many generations
to get something that amazing.
That is ridiculous dude-- - And that's one of the
big things with the Boa community.
The Boa community loves to try to be selective
on their breeding,
and you know we see a lot of people,
even in the Ball Python world.
I love Ball Pythons, but none of us necessarily care
about making the better looking one.
A lot of the time it's just about
getting the genetics into it
to go there. - Yeah, genetics exactly.
And even I'm guilty of that myself.
- Sure.
It's just something that I think will slowly change though.
You know just 'cause-- - Oh yeah well yeah
I think you're a 100% right,
but that is crazy. (loud whooshing)
Wow that thing is crazy dude!
- So this is just the single-gene base,
I believe-- - What!
- Of a new mutation that came out
of an import female.
What's crazy is mom doesn't look like anything drastic.
- Oh my gosh-- - Gonna try to give it
a little bit of a chance.
- Dude this thing...
Is it incomplete dominant, is it receptive?
- This is actually the first clutch of 'em
that I've ever made.
So I believe it might be incomplete dominant,
I got a handful of them in the clutch
that came out pretty nice-- - Dude I love...
Remember there used to be a Ball Python
they almost called like, Blurry gene
or something like that? - Yeah, yep.
- This is what reminds me of it,
but it's never been inherent so you finally figured it out.
- Hopefully.
- Oh my gosh dude,
this is amazing-- - We'll see.
So I'm gonna raise up, I think I got
two good males out of this litter
and then two females that are pretty decent.
So I'm gonna raise those up,
try to breed them out, see what comes out.
But hopefully I can get something.
The potential I think just between these two,
looking at them, is just insane so--
- It's just, theses are, wow!
These are like Orange Dreams on steroids!
- Yeah that was my thought whenever I first seen them
it almost reminded me of them,
but hopefully-- - Yeah,
could you imagine putting these into different morphs?
- Oh man-- - Oh my God.
- The colors should be insane. (loud whooshing)
- So hey man, I hear that you were recently,
someone thought that you were my son Noah
when you were out on,
I think-- - Yeah, a little bit.
- You kind of look like him man!
- I got the eyebrows just like him! (laughs)
- I know you guys look alike I tell you what.
You have to come up and visit us man.
We'll do a video-- - Oh for sure, my--
- On BadChoiceNoah's-- - My family's up there
in Wisconsin so,
not that far. - Oh perfect!
When you come up come visit me man!
- Will do!
- Keep up the good work here okay?
- Gotcha.
- All right brother, be good.
(laughs) (loud whooshing)
- And this one is-- - Oh my gosh,
that thing is beautiful!
- So I'm gonna try to really selectively breed
to really try to get this color into all of them.
- Yeah that is a rare color.
I don't know that I've ever seen one that yellow.
Wow!
- Sure is hard to beat that contrast compared to it,
isn't it? - Yeah.
If you can polymorphically breed that,
which you should be able to.
- Right.
- That is gonna be a line that everyone is gonna want.
(loud whooshing) - Definitely
ghosts Hypo, but also has VPIT positive in it,
so-- - Oh nice, nice!
- As in the VPI,
whenever this thing comes out just solid white,
this is kind of like a purple-y color,
this is how they age.
What's crazy about these animals though
is there's two different types
that seem to be out there though.
They're the same genetics and everything,
but it seems like some turn way more yellow
and some turn this really just crazy ghost look.
Almost like the best ghost you could ever imagine.
- Yeah this is like the perfect ghost.
That is a beautiful animal-- - That's what
I always told people was they're like the best
ghost there is out there,
and the tail on this thing, there's all the high wide
speckles right there-- - Gosh look at that, wow!
- it's just insane.
- Yeah that VPI stuff is amazing too I love it.
Makes everything look better.
Look at the eyes on that sucker, oh my gosh!
That is great. - Everyone always asks me,
if I have any pet Boas and this is truly the one
- That's it? that is just here as a pet.
Yeah. - This is it.
- This is just the one that I'll never risk
anything ever happening to her, like forever.
She'll be an animal that stays here.
- That's awesome.
(loud whooshing) Guys, check this out!
There's actually, this is the breeding courtship of a Boa.
These guys are actually called Sunglow Boas
which is Albino and Hypos,
and you can see the male is smaller
which is typically the case,
and he's just kind of courting right now.
He's not actually hooked up,
but that's what'll happen.
He'll actually take those little spurs,
those are the vestigial spurs,
and he'll start just scratching on the female's back
and then eventually she's gonna raise her tail
and they'll wrap around it.
This courtship could go on for hours
and sometimes even days.
(loud whooshing) - I'm not sure
how well you're able to see,
but all throughout this area here which is nice and thick,
that's just all babies that are developing
inside this girl.
So she's due in about March
and here in the next two months
she'll really start to balloon up,
and hopefully have, I'd say 15 to 16 babies inside of her.
I don't know if you guys can see,
but there's a whole bunch
of little smiley faces-- - Oh yeah yeah.
Oh my gosh yeah! - Going along the back,
multiple of them.
Different looks, there's a real good smiley.
- Kinda scary--
- Yeah. - Face there.
Like a little (laughs) Boo!
(Brian laughing)
- Everyone always enjoys that one.
- What is this?
- This is a Super Cinnamon.
They could be a Butter Fire Spider Pinstripe.
- Oh my gosh that looks
so good-- - It's in shed now
unfortunately, but usually it just is really crazy
gray and little black specks all over, it's really neat.
- Wow, yeah it's like a cement look.
Almost looks like you took a snake
and cast it in cement.
- Yeah a little gravel. - That is super cool.
That is super neat, and again,
I know you work with obviously
a lot of great Ball Pythons and stuff like that.
Boas have been, you kind of started as a Boa guy right?
Or were you kind of both?
- I definitely started as a Boa guy
and then got the Ball Pythons just because
I really enjoyed them honestly.
They were just something different,
eggs I like the fact of eggs
and then from there honestly
it spread off to a little bit of other stuff
too here. - Oh okay.
- Suns that you can appreciate here,
for sure. - Oh, Sunset ah!
Oh my gosh it's been a while sine I've seen one of those
you know what I mean?
(they both laugh)
- So this is, what is this, the Sunset?
- This is a Sunset Fire. - Fire!
Nice. - Yup.
And it just really helped the color out,
brightened it up-- - Gosh it's beautiful dude.
- I was lucky enough to get two of them
this year. - Oh my gosh look at this.
- So I got a pair, it's crazy how different
they can even look just between the two,
in my opinion. - Oh my gosh,
they're amazing yeah,
and of course that Sunset gene is a recessive mutation.
Just a really unique gene.
I've obviously loved it forever.
(loud whooshing) - This is just a Hypo Aztec,
and you can see it's just absolutely insane
all over it's body with color, it just packed in.
- Oh my gosh!
- Most people would just mistake it for a Blood for sure.
- That's why I thought as soon as I saw it.
That's even better than most Bloods that I've seen,
so wow. - It truly is.
- That's gonna be amazing.
And these are centrals then?
- No these are pure Columbian,
well I guess technically they can't be
because of the Hypo, but it's been so out-crossed
for so long obviously-- - Yeah,
the Hypos have been yeah, for so long.
Yeah for 20-something years they've been out-crossed.
- Yeah they might as well be pure
because that's about as pure as an outside mutation
I guess you can get.
- Yeah exactly, wow. (loud whooshing)
- So these are T positive,
Aztecs, that's a T positive Aztec Poss Het Anery.
This is a T positive Aztec Motley Poss Het Anery.
It's just crazy how
the Motley-- - And the Motley
changes the colors so much. - Just completely.
And I do think the Het Anery definitely played effect.
I don't know if this guy's had Anery,
could be, I could be wrong,
but this one's just so faded and washed out.
It makes me really think that it is.
- Yeah I think you're right,
but wow. - What's crazy,
is look at all those little peach-y scales
that you get inside that you can barely see.
- It's amazing, that's gorgeous.
Tell ya, for all you guys that always are saying,
"More Boas, show me more Boas!"
Hope you guys are enjoying it
because I know I sure am! (loud whooshing)
- I haven't seen a lot of Cali Kings.
I'm sure this is pretty common one honestly.
- Not really I mean,
really the most common are banded or striped.
This one is kind of in between which makes it interesting,
and then you typically will see
higher white ones with this type.
So they have that...
It's not very common to be honest with you.
- I really just, my thought was
if I could just make this thing in Albino form,
it would just make an amazing animal honestly.
- I think that in itself, and I've been saying
black and white Cali Kings for the last two years,
are the next big thing. - Right.
- You know how Mexican Black Kings
became super popular? - Yeah.
- I think Black and White Cal-Kings because the contrast!
Black and white is so amazing
and like you said, you can get in
those crazy patterns and colors.
Yeah here you go a nice high white-banded animal.
Yeah this little baby I mean
look how crazy contrast that is!
So beautiful. - It's crazy how tiny
they start out though.
- Oh my gosh yeah,
but they always do well, they're always monsters.
- They're great eaters.
That's the one thing that I can about them.
Day ago and I'm gonna get a couple of them,
just round it up just to have a nice little group
of them honestly. - Oh look at this one,
chewing on your finger!
- Yeah he's trying to, he can't quite get it.
(they both laugh)
That's the fun part about Cali Kings.
They like to eat everything. - They love to eat!
That's a good thing right?
Makes it easy so that's awesome.
(loud whooshing) This is amazing!
This is actually a pretty large Scaleless.
- Yeah this guy's a 2017.
So he's going on three years old this July,
so he's doing phenomenal for me honestly.
Like I say they have just a little bit of cad
that needs to come in,
and truly I wouldn't even consider
necessarily caring a lot of times,
but you can see they tend to pull off
just a little bit on their belly here,
and just that little bit on their belly comes off.
As long as you don't get inside here and start picking at it
and trying to do anything to it,
just let them sit their course.
I would say 90% of the time he sheds on his own.
The only downside to my animal that,
talked with a couple other people with scaleless,
that I've noticed is mine has really big scales
right here around the nostrils.
- Oh okay! - So sometimes
that tends to get stuck.
That might be the only part
that I really have to help him on.
Once he rolls that nostril,
tend to go down all the rest of the way
and shed off on his own.
The only thing is, is that belly tends to come off
a couple days before.
- Well that certainly disproves the fact
that Scaleless Ball Pythons don't live.
If you've got a three year old animal,
looks completely healthy, looks fantastic.
Chase I can't thank you enough for letting us here.
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