- She is getting so big, I tell you what.
A lot of people have asked, like,
"How big is she now? Is she caught up to Pepper?"
Okey dokey, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
there's a bunch, bunch, bunch, bunch, bunch, bunch, bunch!
Have a clutch here,
hatched out that I want to share with you
which is kinda interesting
because when I cut this, this was actually a--
- Oww!
Oh my god!
That came outta nowhere!
- That is not what you wanna see when you open up a cage
with a gravid animal.
(music crescendos)
- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Calm down, Salty.
Calm down, girl.
Calm down.
Of course, I've got my girl, Salty,
and she is getting so big.
I tell you what.
A lot of people have asked, like,
"How big is she now? Is she caught up to Pepper?"
The truth is I think she's getting close.
It's been about three months since I've weighed her.
She was just over 400 grams at the time.
So we're gonna weigh Salt and Pepper.
And keep in mind I haven't fed Salt today
so she's probably gonna eat
at least 20 or 30 grams worth of food today.
So she's on an empty stomach,
but she is absolutely getting beautiful!
So let's just go ahead and see what kind of weight she is.
There you go, Salt.
Look at that!
She's 766 grams!
Oh my god!
She has almost doubled her weight!
She's coming up on 1,000 grams, people!
Salty, you're looking absolutely amazing.
So let's go ahead and see what Pepper has going on.
Oh and by the way, Mary said that there's actually
a litter of Brazilian Rainbow Boas
potentially being born,
but she said the first ones didn't look so good.
So, fingers crossed that later in the vlog
we're gonna find some baby rainbows,
but we'll tackle that in a little bit.
And of course, Pepper is getting big, too.
But again, Salt is really gaining on him.
I gotta be honest with you.
He was 428 grams.
Again, it's been a few months so
I'm assuming he's definitely gonna be over 766,
but let's see how close Salt is now.
Okay Pepper, come on, buddy.
And Pepper is 947 grams.
946 grams.
So he definitely is bigger.
About 150 grams or so bigger.
Definitely got some size on him.
But Pepper is looking amazing.
Salt is definitely gaining, though,
because from a percentage standpoint,
Salt is getting pretty close to it.
But, good to see that both Pepper and Salt
are doing really well.
I just thought I'd get the vlog started
with a little update on my beautiful alligators.
Quick check in on baby colubrids for the day!
Just a few little babies and this one here,
this is actually a really
beautiful snake right here, though.
This is actually a hypo motley corn snake.
The hypo and the motley, which is the pattern right here,
it actually used to be called motley mutant corn snake,
are both recessive mutations.
But together, they're really beautiful,
and then it looks like we've just got
a little anerythristic corn right here,
and then a normal corn right there.
So, just a small clutch.
And, what happens is,
remember at the end of the year
as we're getting to that last clutches,
a lot of times the clutches are smaller
because they're second clutches.
Ooh, look at that!
A whole, big ol' swatch
of Mexican black king snakes right there.
Ooh! Come on!
Where are you goin'?
Oh my god.
You guys know that I always get in trouble
every time I open up a box.
Think after all these years I would figure out
how to do this but I never do.
Whoa!
There goes another one.
Okey dokey, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
there's a bunch, bunch, bunch, bunch, bunch, bunch, bunch!
(soft music)
And, we're back.
So let's just make sure there's no heads.
So again, Mexican black kings,
you guys know that they're absolutely amazing.
Everyone seems to love those guys for sure,
'cause they're just absolutely so beautiful.
What do we have here?
Okay we just have another few eggs again,
which are just albino Nelson's milk snake.
This was actually bred to a really beautiful female
that had what they call bull's eyes,
which, instead of the bands like these guys have,
it actually had circles on it.
Whew! It's a feisty little monkey!
Aagh!
What are you doin'?
They're so funny.
Unfortunately the little circles
didn't pass down to these guys,
and they are absolutely crazy!
My gosh, I tell you.
These guys are actually really cool
when they get a little bit of size to 'em.
Gonna set my camera down.
Again, as always, make sure there's no heads
caught in there and stuff like that.
Just a couple more clutches.
Ooh, look at that!
This is awesome!
This is actually a scaleless diffused corn
and again, I'm gonna put it in the water like I always do,
just because scaleless corns don't look that neat
with all that vermiculite all over 'em.
But look at how incredible that animal is.
Again, a scaleless corn, and then a diffused corn.
So it's gonna be really beautiful.
There's two eggs in here.
Still have one little baby in the egg right there,
so it doesn't look like that's a scaleless animal.
So that should be out here in the next day or two.
Something on that.
And then lastly, we have these guys here.
What do we have here?
Oh my gosh, there's a couple
really gorgeous scaleless animals over here.
Of course, this little monkey's trying to get away, too.
We'll just get this in the water a little bit.
Get this little snake back in the tub, hopefully.
Okay, okay.
Uh-oh.
Alright, I'm gonna go ahead,
just keep the two scaleless corns out
'cause I really wanna take a look and see
what these guys are really quick.
It looks like this is just a really beautiful scaleless,
and this one definitely looks
like a crimson scaleless corn snake right here.
So that's really cool, too.
Crimsons are just basically a Miami phase hypo corn snake,
and then, of course, a scaleless.
So really beautiful,
so not too many more clutches to hatch.
I mean, we've got a couple more weeks left
and then we're gonna be done for the year
hatching baby snakes.
So I hope you enjoyed this update.
Have a clutch here,
hatched out that I want to share with you
which is kinda interesting
because when I cut this,
this was actually a lesser bred to a pastel crystal.
Now, the pastel crystal is allelic
when it comes to a special bred to a Mojave.
Remember, when lesser and Mojave are bred together
they produce blue-eyed leucistic!
But if a special and lesser goes together,
they're like blue-eyed leucistics
but they have a little pattern.
I remember cutting this clutch
and thinking that I had three or four
blue-eyed leucistics in the clutch.
Well, guess what?
This is the Mojave and the lesser,
and it is the blue-eyed leucistic
that is definitely pure white with blue eyes.
So this is the animal that I thought all of them were.
Now, there's a very, very fine difference
between this one and all of the rest of 'em
in this clutch right here.
That's right, there's four of these.
So, there were five white snakes out of six eggs.
And, the fact is they all look
like blue-eyed leucistics in the eggs,
but if you can tell here very faintly,
you can see just a little bit of patterning in this.
Now, that patterning is actually what comes
from the special and lesser,
not the Mojave and lesser.
And you could pick up each one of 'em,
and again, it's very, very faint,
but you can see a little bit of pattern
just kind of creeping through.
So really, four of the five white ones
were actually special lessers, not Mojave lessers.
So they are still a blue-eyed leucistic in a way,
but a completely different blue-eyed leucistic
than the Mojave and the lesser.
Regardless, very awesome.
And then we produced just one little
special ball python that is absolutely incredible.
This is one of the prettiest specials
that I've ever produced, to be honest with you.
Again, the special ball python is really allelic
to Mojave to produce crystals,
and they're just a little different.
I mean they look like a really pretty normal ball python.
A guy named Tom Baker out in California
was the first one to bring in an import.
He bred it out, and surprisingly,
he produced the crystal ball python,
and the rest is history.
- I touched it!
- Woo!
Whoa!
Oh my god!
That came out of nowhere!
Woo!
Oh!
- Okay, can I forfeit?
- No, dude!
- I trust you.
- You gotta hold it for at least ten seconds.
You made me hold the black-headed python
for ten seconds, dude.
- Alright, don't bite me, don't bite me, don't bite me.
- [camera man] Alright, I have a quick question, guys.
- Yeah?
- [camera man] What the heck's going on over here,
and why do you have a blindfold on?
- Oh.
Um, you know, we're just doing a little,
a little game.
- We're working.
Basically this, uh,
like, for conservation studying.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're just, you know,
shout out, wild life.
We're just making a little challenge,
you know, blindfolded search and handle.
- Dude.
- [camera man] Cool, very cool.
- I'm literally shaking right now.
- Basically--
- That was scary.
- You put a blindfold on,
you spin around the reptarium,
and you walk aimlessly through the reptarium
and, uh, whatever cage you stop in front of,
you gotta handle it blindfolded.
- [camera man] When is this coming out?
- Comin' out on Wednesday, okay?
Wednesday the fourth.
So if you're not already subscribed,
subscribe to BadChoiceNoah.
We're on that 200K grind, okay?
- [camera man] Alright, cool, cool.
- Let's get it.
- [camera man] Y'all, thank you, guys.
- 'B', hold on, what's the gang sign for B-C-N?
Not gang-affiliated.
Alligator!
- I love the results of this clutch right here.
This is actually a cinna-winter bred to a pewter-banana!
This would be the cinna-winter here
which is a cinnamon, a pinstripe,
and a woma ball python.
So, the mom looked just like this one
and the dad was a pewter banana.
So regardless, lots of cinnamon stuff,
lots of banana stuff,
and absolutely incredible.
These two little monkeys right here
are just cinni-bananas.
And I love the way that is.
You guys know that I always talk
about cinnamon and black pastel.
I love it when they're mixed with banana 'cause whew!
They are just absolutely gorgeous animals.
But then you start mixing 'em into all other stuff, and wow!
It's crazy!
This just happens to be a banana-cinni-woma.
So it's just like this animal here,
which is a cinni-woma, this is addition of the banana.
And you can see how different those two look
as soon as you add the banana gene.
Again, that banana gene does so many amazing things
when it comes to that.
Then this is actually a banana-cinna-winter,
just like the mom, but with the banana
and possibly a pastel.
Not 100% sure.
And then, weirdly enough,
I have this one that is the same exact genetics.
Maybe this one's a pastel and this one isn't.
I'm not sure.
But look at how clean this one is compared to this one.
Absolutely stunning!
I mean I tell you what,
those are unbelievable rippers, for sure.
And then we've got this little guy here,
which is actually a pastel.
It's a cinnamon, it's a pinstripe,
and it's a woma ball python.
So it's got all the genes minus the banana gene,
and that thing is so cool, just that silver snake.
I tell you what,
when this clutch was hatching,
I was like, "Woo! That is absolutely incredible!"
And now that they're all out of the egg,
I am impressed.
They are absolute rippers!
- Alligator!
- Alright, we've got another tour now.
How are you guys doing?
It's so good to meet you guys.
And you guys are also from Canada.
- Yeah.
- [Brian] But which part?
- Ontario.
- [Brian] Ontario.
Well, thank you so much for coming.
I think we're all gonna have a great time, alright?
Okay, let's go.
Is there one thing that you really wanna see?
- A lizard.
- [Brian] Alright, we're gonna see a lizard.
Let's do it.
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- Alligator!
- Hoping for some babies,
and that is not what you wanna see
when you open up a cage with a gravid animal.
These guys are obviously live bearers.
This is a Brazilian rainbow.
Here you go, mama.
Oh, my god.
You did good, sweetheart.
It wasn't her fault that she had infertile babies.
This is what an infertile ova looks like.
These are supposed to be live babies, right here.
So, much like an egg,
the way it kinda works is they develop in their body,
almost like in a little egg sac type of thing.
And then, of course, she has live birth,
but unfortunately not even one good baby.
I mean just so disappointing.
This is part of breeding animals and certainly reptiles,
is that sometimes you work all year.
Literally 12 months,
you're putting weight on the animal,
you're conditioning'em,
you're doing all that stuff.
And you breed 'em, and everything is going great,
you cycle, you do all your work.
The males are breeding, everything happens.
And then guess what?
This happens on occasion.
And it is a heartbreaker.
I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you
and tell you, "Oh, it's okay. It's all right"
I'm bummed out.
We have a bunch of other females
but this isn't the way you wanna start the year.
This is the first rainbow litter of the year
and we have, let's see,
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen, nineteen,
and kind of a half.
Nineteen and a half, what would've been babies.
Oh, my gosh.
Well, let's hope that these other girls go better.
Again, I try not to let myself get up or down.
When we have a great litter, I try not to get over-excited.
When we have a terrible litter,
I try not to get myself too down on it.
It's just the way it goes, you know.
In the end, it all works out,
but that is not the way you wanna start
because that tells me that that male was infertile
for this particular female,
and he was the same on that bred the other females.
So, fingers crossed we'll get some babies this year.
But that is definitely not the way we go.
So anyways, let's move on to happier things.
- Alligator!
- You guys know I love producing white snakes.
I mean, just white snakes,
I don't know what it is.
Whether it's a colubrid, or a ball python,
or a Burmese, or a retic,
I just think they're amazing.
This actually was a yellow-bellied bred to a pastel ivory.
Weirdly enough, it looks like we've got a few little
yellow bellies that are absolutely beautiful,
but the weird thing in this entire clutch,
it doesn't look like the pastel yellow belly
passed any pastel genes to anything.
So these are two just beautiful yellow bellies,
and again, when you breed these two together
one in four, on average, would be the super version,
which is gonna be the ivory ball python.
And I think I've told you guys the story before,
that really the ivory ball pythons
were the first white snake that were ever
brought into the country out of Africa
and it sold for like $125,000, believe it or not.
And then a few years later,
remember we were at the Sutherlands in Utah
TSK, they actually produce these for my breeding
yellow belly to yellow belly.
And they're absolutely incredible.
These three here are just ivories.
Again, doesn't look like any of them are pastel ivories.
When I cut the clutch, I wasn't 100% sure,
it looked like a couple might possibly be,
but you can tell they have a lot of pattern,
a lot of gray on the head.
The pastels will typically have
very little gray on the head.
And all of these actually have the gray on the head,
so they look like just ivories.
But you can see a little bit of purple
and yellow patterning.
As these get older, they pretty much just turn pure white.
And even after all these years of people producing 'em,
but now they've become pretty affordable for a pet.
You can have a white snake pet.
Probably the cheapest of the white snake pets,
to be honest with you.
I still think they're absolutely fantastic.
- Alligator!
- It's always a bummer when it's clutch,
or a litter,
or something like that doesn't work out,
but that's just kinda part of it.
There's ups and downs,
and hey, listen,
we have some other females.
Hopefully we'll get some good babies regardless.
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