- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Happy Easter, by the way.
I hope that you have an incredible holiday.
I know that it's a little bit different holiday,
but let's just have a great time today
and enjoy this holiday the best we can.
As a matter of fact, my girl Ivy, the green anaconda,
needs to eat today,
and I am not going to feed a rabbit off on Easter.
But that doesn't mean that I'm gonna feed a pig off,
because you know, everyone likes ham for Easter, right?
So I'm gonna go ahead, get in here,
and see if I can get Ivy to eat for me.
Come on, girl!
Come on, whoa!
Yes, she took it.
(cheering) Happy Easter, Ivy!
Oh my gosh, did you see?
She was definitely pretty enthusiastic about that for sure.
I'm gonna go ahead and just kinda get her
a little bit over here,
just so that we can see her a little bit better.
There you go, girl.
I tell you what, that is an impressive animal.
And she was definitely hungry,
I mean there is just something amazing
about a green anaconda,
and I can't think of a better way to spend Easter
than seeing a beautiful, majestic, big anaconda eating.
This gonna be a big meal for here, about 15 pounds.
I mean that is a large meal, but she was definitely hungry.
Like I said, I had noticed over the last several days
she was out here hunting,
and that's why she was out of the water.
She was kind of searching for food,
so this was pretty awesome.
So hopefully this is distracting to you during this holiday.
So hey, we got a lot more stuff to do today,
including checking for Easter eggs.
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There's no doubt when you think of Easter
you think of kinda pink and just beautiful colors like this.
Of course, this is actually a salmon or a coral snow corn.
That's just a polygenically-bred animal that each generation
you breed the pinkest animal to the pinkest animal,
and eventually after several generations,
you get these ridiculous pink snow corn snakes.
I mean, that thing is absolutely ridiculous
and I can't think of another snake
that I can think of Easter any more, that's for sure.
Here's another example of a salmon snow,
but this is actually a motley,
and for whatever reason that motley
has those circles down the center.
They used to call them either motley mutants
or hurricane corns and stuff like that with those little
kinda circles that look almost like a hurricane.
And for whatever reason, when you breed it into the corals,
it almost turns a green tinge,
so that makes it even more Easter-like.
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Well it wouldn't be Easter without two things.
Number one, my Easter bunny,
the creepiest Easter bunny thing you've ever seen.
I've gotta wear that every year,
you know. (crashing loudly)
And then the other thing is without Easter eggs,
that's right, Easter eggs.
Let me pull this girl down.
And here we go!
Easter eggs from another ball python, super cool.
This is actually a pastel, what they used to call Sahara
because there was a gene that was kind of a lightning gene.
It never really got worked on much,
but this was a pastel Sahara,
so we'll see if maybe something is going on.
And she was actually bred to a Super Enchi Pinstripe.
Let me show you that male real quick.
And that's the male right here.
So this is Poppa right here,
again, it's a Super Enchi Pinstripe.
The fact that it's a Super Enchi means everything
in the clutch will be an Enchi.
Some can be pinstriped, and of course, some can be pastel,
and then that Sahara gene is kind of like a,
just a lottery thing.
Maybe there'll be something cool in the future there,
but nevertheless, this is Daddy,
so let's go ahead and pull these eggs.
And interestingly enough, I tell it I don't think I've been
in Easter in the last probably 15 years or so
without eggs, without snake eggs, so it's always amazing.
I've for this one egg that's starting to fall off here,
so I'm gonna take this off.
You can see the pink in the top here,
so I know the embryo's here.
It didn't roll.
I was able to save it before it rolled.
Just don't wanna get bit by mama.
It's okay, mama, you did so good.
Look at what a beautiful clutch of eggs you have, mom.
Way to go, and again, just a really beautiful animal.
And that Sahara just did a lot of that harlequinning
right here, and just kinda changed the overall look of it.
No doubt, look a little bit different.
As a matter of fact,
even the belly looks a little different.
Almost like yellow belly-ish,
so I'm really not sure what's gonna happen,
but that should definitely have some influence there,
so it's pretty cool.
So I'm just gonna go ahead, take these eggs,
get them in the egg box again,
low enough to where I don't have to separate them.
Again, this is the egg that I pulled out here.
So we got two, four, six eggs, not a huge clutch.
Last year, most of our clutches were eight to 10 eggs,
but six eggs is about average for a ball python,
to be honest with you.
I still think the majority of our clutches are gonna be
north of eight eggs this year,
but hey, I'll take Easter snake eggs all day.
And I realize Easter is a little bit different this year,
but hey, it turns out that we still got snake eggs.
And one of the things that's interesting here
is that these are our breeding cards, right?
Obviously, she just laid, but look it,
she was bred on December 17th, and then January 27th,
and then hadn't bred since.
So, that just goes to show you that although we wanna get
breedings all the way up 'til ovulation,
in this case, she actually just retained sperm.
She wasn't bred for three months,
so a lot of times, people would think,
"Oh my God, she wasn't bred since January.
"She's gonna have infertile eggs."
That just goes to show you sometimes,
I've had females be bred one time, say in December,
and then lay eggs in May or June,
and still retained that sperm.
So, thankfully we got a good clutch of eggs.
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In typical Ivy fashion, she's finally starting to eat.
It's interesting, with both Verde and Ivy,
how they'll just kinda look around
for a half hour to find the right spot.
It's something that I found kinda unique to anacondas.
I mean, other snakes will do it for a little bit,
but anacondas are way more like that.
But she's now got the head, she's starting to eat it.
Again, this is a pretty big meal, I'm not gonna lie,
but I think she'll take this down in the next maybe,
half hour, 45 minutes, something like that,
'cause she is definitely working on it like crazy, that one.
It's crazy how she just keeps on rolling
to get the right grip, so that is just impressive.
Every time I see an anaconda eat something big,
like a pig like this, it's impressive.
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And I hope you guys are having an amazing Easter.
I realize that things are a little different this year.
It's the first year I haven't been able to see my mom
since I was a kid.
She's kind of sequestered in her place,
and they're not allowing anyone to see.
So, it's gonna be hard for us,
but we're gonna get through this together.
I keep saying I don't wanna talk about a lot of stuff,
'cause we're trying to distance ourself,
and distract ourselves, but I'm just telling you,
things will get better.
I hope that the people that are able to see your families
really embrace it and enjoy it,
because it's a amazing thing.
I'm gonna be able to obviously see my immediate family,
but I won't see my daughter, I won't see my mom,
so it's a little bit of a bummer.
But listen, we're gonna get through this, guys.
Let me know down in the comments
what you're doing this Easter,
and what you're gonna do to celebrate Easter,
maybe here in another month when things start
getting back to normal, if you guys are.
So again, we're in this together, guys.
I promise you it's gonna get better soon.
It wouldn't be Easter if we didn't have
Easter eggs hatching too,
so we have a little baby crested gecko, that's awesome.
So is there just the one egg in this one?
- [Woman] Yeah, I think the other one
hatched a week ago, actually. - Oh, so they were,
yeah that's weird.
This one took his time.
- [Woman] Just a little extra time.
- Exactly, he just wanted to hatch on Easter.
So this is a little Easter baby.
Absolutely adorable.
So it's cool we got Easter eggs,
and now we have Easter eggs hatch.
Another snake that really kinda reminds me of Easter,
just because it almost looks like something you would
paint on an Easter egg or something like that,
of course is Moo Moo the Cow reticulated python.
She is absolutely gorgeous
and starting to get a lot of freckles.
It's gonna be interesting to see how this girl
turns here in the next year.
And Easter's always been a holiday I've loved,
mainly because I love summertime,
and that's usually when in Michigan,
the weather is finally turning.
Typically, Easter is that time when it's like all right,
finally we start to get warm weather.
We're kinda getting closer to the summer,
and it's just always been a holiday that I've enjoyed,
mainly for that reason, quite frankly.
But Moo Moo definitely does remind me of Easter.
Let me know in the comments what animal do you think
looks the most like Easter.
What is it remind you,
as a matter of fact, I'll put a picture right up here
that was a cool Photoshop that was actually
a leucistic rattlesnake,
where someone put it all different colors,
pinks, and all kinds of stuff.
And that was kinda the Easter Instagram photo
that everyone used for a number of years,
but I just wonder what is it to you
that reminds you of Easter, as far as animals go?
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Weirdly enough, Ivy just got just part of the head down,
and then she just let go.
I don't know what she's doing, I mean,
she's still looking around.
Maybe she's gonna go back to it,
but I thought for sure she was gonna have a feast today,
and now she doesn't seem to be eating.
I don't know what's going on,
so that's weird, 'cause she's usually a great eater.
But we'll just have to wait to see what happens.
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While we're waiting on Ivy, I kinda did lie to you.
I am gonna feed one little bunny off today,
and that's of course to my girl, Perdita.
Hey girl, you want some food?
Here you go, there you go.
There she goes, she took it nice and good.
So I tell you what, that is a beautiful snake,
I mean, that would be what you'd wanna paint an Easter egg
right there, that's how beautiful she is.
But sorry, I said I wasn't gonna feed a rabbit off,
but my snakes need to eat, you know what I mean?
And it is a feast, so let's hope Ivy goes back
to feeding here, but nevertheless,
we're gonna have a good Easter no matter what.
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All right, good news, Ivy ended up taking it again,
so it's looks like she's going, I don't know,
she's just sometimes being weird,
but it looks like she's crushing it now.
Fingers crossed, she'll take the whole thing down
and have a good Easter feast.
Another very Eastery snake, of course,
is the pastel pink hognose snake.
Again, they have the pink, and they have kind of green hues.
Definitely very festive when it comes to Easter for sure.
Now, these are an albino, obviously,
but they're not compatible with the normal albino,
what they call orange albino hognose.
These guys were found completely different
than the other one,
and when you breed the pastel pink albinos
to the normal orange albinos,
you actually get normal babies
that are heterozygous for both.
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Ooh doggy, look at that lump in her.
That is a nice, big meal.
I mean, that is what it looks like when an anaconda
eats a 15-pound pig.
I mean, that is awesome.
I just love this animal so much.
I am just obsessed with her.
Out of all the snakes I've ever kept in my life,
Ivy is just something that I just am marveling at.
And the fact that an animal like that can eat
such a large meal is incredible,
I mean, look at how good she looks.
Now, the question is,
I'm continuing to figure this girl out.
Is she gonna continue to stay on the land under the heat?
This is the hottest spot here.
There's another hot spot on the other side,
but not as hot as this side,
'cause this has actually a Zoo Med PowerSun,
so this is a vapor bulb over here.
Over there, it's still pretty warm,
so is she gonna stay on land,
or is she gonna go back in the water with that big meal?
Only time will tell.
The last Easter snake for you guys,
this is actually kinda, I don't know,
it's supposed to be purple,
and you think of purple when you think of Easter.
I don't know if this is super purple,
but it definitely has some purple hues to it.
This is a super chocolate banana,
and of course, I was hoping when you added pinstripe,
you would get that solid purple barny ball python.
I'm still starting to doubt myself if that's gonna happen,
but nevertheless, it's still cool to think about,
and another ball python that kinda
looks like an Easter ball python for sure.
It's got some purple, it's got some yellow.
I mean, yeah, I think that's a pretty good example
of an Easter snake for sure.
Again, let me know in the comments what you guys think.
Well, it turns out that she ended up back in the water,
and look at that lump right there.
I tell ya, this girl always has been guessing.
I'm never sure what's going on,
but I am loving learning so much about such a absolutely
majestic and beautiful animal.
I hope you guys have an amazing Easter,
the best Easter you possibly can.
If you haven't got enough of me yet,
there's actually a playlist of a bunch of giant snakes
right here if you don't mind.
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I really do appreciate you guys.
Again, happy Easter.
Be kind to someone,
and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.