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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
How's the start of your day?
I hope it is absolutely incredible.
Today we're gonna have a whole bunch of stuff going on,
but I think that we, together,
would like to get the day started with some egg cutting.
What do you say we do that?
Let's go ahead, jump right in to it.
And now to the egg cutting portion of this vlog.
We actually have two clutches we have to cut really quick.
The first one is actually just a normal ball python,
but it's bred to a Cinni-Cypress.
The Cinni-Cypress, of course, is a double codominant
where it is Cinnamon, that is codominant,
and then of course the Cypress is.
So really cool, I can't wait to see what we have in here,
and we're gonna jump right in to the first egg.
Ooh, what do we have in the first egg?
Okay, right off the rip it-- ahh, no,
it just looks like a normal ball python.
Originally, I thought I saw a little striping on it
and that's kind of indicating
that it would have been a Cypress ball python.
The Cypress has a lot of striping and really clean,
lots of yellow, really beautiful.
But the first egg, just a normal ball python.
Let's go to the second egg and see what we have.
Come on, I sure hope we've produced some Cypress stuff
on this clutch.
That would be amazing.
Oh my gosh, not off to exactly a booming start,
I've gotta tell you.
It's just another normal ball python.
But, again, we've got plenty of eggs so hey,
we might get there, right?
So third egg, I think third egg is the charm.
I'm gonna stay positive and upbeat.
Okay, this one actually looks
like it is a Cypress ball python.
You can start to see the dots,
dashes in it and stuff like that.
'Til it comes out the egg I'm not 100% sure,
but I'm like 95% sure that
that's gonna be a Cypress ball python there.
So that's cool.
Still no Cinnis which is kind of a little weird,
but we'll keep on moving on and see what we have here.
What do we have in this egg?
Oh, here we go.
This looks like a Cinni-Cypress right here.
So again, the Cinni is gonna be kinda
that like darker browns and really beautiful.
And then the Cypress
actually kind of brightens it up a little bit,
and it gets really big dorsal striping.
So definitely looks like a Cinni-Cypress there,
so hey, we hit the double codom,
which is absolutely incredible.
Three eggs to go.
Still don't think I've had like one of those
really crazy looking Cypress yet.
Oh, this one looks like that might be it.
Yeah, oh this is it, yep.
This is definitely
a really nice looking Cypress ball python, here.
And what's interesting is,
I'm gonna take a little closer look here, guys.
It is a small egg, okay.
At first I thought there was a chance.
I'm still gonna open up just a little bit more,
'cause I thought there was a chance
that there might be two animals in this egg.
There's just a lot of snake in this egg.
Nah, it looks like just one nice, really nice,
Cypress ball python.
And that's a really typical,
beautiful example of a Cypress ball python.
So it looks like we got a couple of Cypresses,
a Cinni-Cypress, and two eggs to go.
What do we have here?
All right little guy.
Looks like another Cypress ball python, so hey,
we're doing pretty good.
Started off pretty slow, and that's how things work, right?
Sometimes you start you got two normal like, "Oh my gosh."
And now the last four eggs we've actually pipped,
all look really good.
So let's go ahead, get this last egg and see if we end
on a good note on this one,
then we'll move on to our next clutch.
What do we have here?
Well, it's hard to say.
I'm gonna just kinda move it around just a little bit.
Looks like it's probably, oh gosh, it's hard to say.
It's either a really light Cinni
or it's a normal ball python.
I'm thinking it's a normal ball python.
So all in all, still a really good clutch of eggs,
and by the way, we'll cut this next clutch
and then I wanna answer, a lot of you guys have asked,
"Why do we cut eggs?"
So after I cut this last clutch,
we will explain why I do this,
and hopefully you guys enjoy it.
And this next clutch is actually a female Pastel.
It's bred to a Dragonfly.
The Dragonfly is actually a Pastel Fire Pinstripe,
so it could be pretty cool animals.
We could get Superfly, Super Dragonfly,
so all kinds of combinations, regardless.
We got five eggs, and let's go ahead and see what we got.
All right.
What do we have here?
Ooh, right off the rip we got a beautiful...
This looks like it's probably a Super Pastel Dragonfly,
which is really the best
we should probably get from this one.
Wow, that thing looks gorgeous.
Woo doggy, I love that one.
We got started good, let's keep it going, guys.
Got four more eggs, really quick.
Come on, guys.
I tell you, that was a beautiful snake.
I'm really excited about his one.
Okay, so this one looks like we're doing pretty good.
This one looks like probably a Superfly,
which be a Super Pastel Fire.
That's what it looks like right now.
So again, a really pretty animal.
This egg is a little small egg here,
so we'll see what's inside of it.
Cut it open.
Ooh, that's pretty.
Oh yeah, oh my gosh.
That thing is gorgeous.
That is absolutely a Super Pastel Dragonfly, wow.
And this one's way nicer than the first one.
I think the first one definitely is,
but it's like I always talk to people.
There's polymorphism so you can produce three
of the same type of animal genetically,
and they all look a little bit different.
That one is ridiculous.
Two more eggs to go.
Let's see what we got here.
All right, okay, we're doing really good, guys.
This is a, oh my gosh, that thing is crazy.
That is actually a Superfly as well.
So a Super Pastel Fire, but woo, that thing is screaming.
What a ripper.
All right, one last egg.
This has been a great clutch, I tell you what.
This has been amazing.
I hope we end on a good note
because this is the last egg we're gonna cut today,
and weirdly enough,
we get kind of the least interesting animal out of it,
which is completely fine.
This is a Fire and it's a Pinstripe,
so just a Fire Pinstripe.
So that's it for snake egg cutting,
but let's talk about why I cut these snake eggs.
Basically, you know, there's no doubt
that when you're breeding stuff,
there's a chance that there could be a weak animal
that might not pip out of the egg
or might not have an egg tooth.
So there's no doubt that if you cut a 1000 eggs,
that maybe there'd be a few animals that hatch
that wouldn't have hatched if I didn't pip them out.
100% the case.
Is that why we do it?
I'm going to be totally honest with you guys,
no it's not.
Not for me anyways.
It's because I'm just interested to see what's gonna happen.
It doesn't really harm it.
In all the years I've been cutting snake eggs, which is,
I don't know, 25 years or something like that,
I've never lost a snake to cutting snake eggs.
So I've never had one die because of it,
but the benefits are really just
because we're curious, right?
It's a couple days before they're gonna hatch
and we're like, "What's in those eggs?
"Oh my God, we gotta see," and it's kinda fun, right?
You see what's in there, you're excited.
Now we can see.
And now that we have the egg hatching cam,
I can put these eggs in the egg hatching cam.
You guys can watch these eggs actually hatch,
(mumbles) think it's amazing.
But in complete honesty and transparency,
if I told you there was some real benefit
to me cutting eggs, I'd probably be lying.
It's just because we're excited about it,
and that's why we cut python eggs,
'cause they're big enough to see what's inside.
Colubrid eggs you can't really tell,
so I don't cut Colubrid eggs.
I hope that kind of answered all of your questions and,
again, I wanted to be completely honest with you guys.
- You see all the stuff that's hatching out
that Brian's showing you.
Now, I've got stacks of all these animals
that need to get set up.
So that's what I'm doing today, putting all these babies
in their little homes.
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- I'm not gonna lie, I was just looking
through the baby snakes that we set up
over the last couple days,
and I pull every single baby that hatches,
yet I didn't ever see
that we hatched out Snow Scaleless corn snakes.
So I remember there was that big Snow corn clutch
that had a bunch of Snow corns in it,
but apparently, there was a bunch
of Snow Scaleless corn snakes in it.
Look at these cute little things.
And this one is actually a Snow Blizzard corn snake.
Again, I don't even know where these things came from.
I'm like, "What is going on?"
This is the normal Snow corns here, with scales.
So again, I was just totally blown away.
Absolutely incredible.
I mean look at how cute these little monkeys are.
It's a trip.
He must have hid amongst all the other Snow corns
and I just missed him.
So it's pretty cool when you open up a tub and like, "What?
"I didn't even know we had that."
Those things are adorable.
I want to give you guys a little update
on the Blue-Tongued skinks that we had born earlier.
I'm just gonna pick a few animals out
that are doing so well, and are absolutely beautiful.
Take a look at this one, right here.
Woo doggy.
This is actually pretty much just a classic Northern
that was really nicely colored,
bred to a Turner White animal.
And as you can see,
they're starting to get some size on them now.
I mean, they're definitely getting big.
But as this gets older, it's only gonna get better
'cause that Turner White actually fades
to a more white color, as it gets some size.
But this one has some really classic banding,
really beautiful.
And this is one of the smallest ones
because they grow so quick, you're gonna be blown away
about some of the ones that are literally,
only like five or six weeks old and how big they are.
I have a feeling this one is gonna be ridiculous.
This is actually a Coffee female that was bred
to a really nice Blaze Red male.
Unbelievable, the color already.
And these guys get much more color as they get size to them.
So the fact that this one is already coloring up
and has all that orange and just rich colors coming through,
this thing in another three, four months is going
to be breathtaking.
What a beautiful animal.
Now this one here is actually the Caramel to Caramel,
so these guys are pure Caramels or Hypos.
And you can see how faded this one looks
compared to the other two that I showed you.
I mean, the other two are real bright and beautiful.
This guy fades out, but that's the actual mutation itself,
is the Caramel or Hypo animal.
I love 'em to death, and as they get older
they just get better to better.
This one's gonna be a ripper.
Woo, woo, doggy.
That thing is ridiculous.
Oh my gosh.
Again, this is kind of a higher orange animal
that was bred to that same Blaze Red male.
And oh my gosh, is that thing getting ridiculous.
Again, this is just a little guy,
but isn't it crazy how big they got?
This thing is literally like five weeks old
and was born like 10% (mumbles) it seems.
I'll tell you what, Blue-Tongued skinks have
this like unbelievable ability to just explode in size,
but this one, wow.
That blows my mind.
This one is actually from the exact same breeding,
so the last one I showed you is actually a sibling to it.
But you can see how absolutely different this one.
That other one looks like it's getting
really red and beautiful,
whereas this one's staying much more orange.
But I still think this one is gonna
be an absolutely beautiful animal
when it gets some size on it.
That litter a unbelievable litter
and I love the outcome, so far.
These last two are actually
from the first litter we had this year,
which of course was that beautiful Coffee female
to a nice orange male, and man, it didn't disappoint.
I mean, look at the color and pattern
on that animal right there.
And that's what's so neat
about Northern Blue-Tongued skinks,
is every one is just so different--this is so cute.
But again, this is the first litter
and look at how big they've gotten.
And speaking about big, I think this is the biggest one
from that first litter,
and an absolutely gorgeous animal to boot.
Look at the size of that animal already.
I tell you what, that is incredible.
I can't even believe an animal can grow that much
in just five weeks.
But isn't the color and pattern on that animal incredible?
Again, that was that Coffee to a nice orange male.
This thing is incredible.
All right, I'm gonna go ahead and get him back,
and I hope you guys enjoyed the update
on how amazing the baby Blue-Tongued skinks are doing.
- Very busy today.
Very, just busy all week to tell you the truth.
All these babies hatching, and with babies hatching,
we have our hold backs that we're actually moving up
into larger tubs.
So as you can see here they're in the shoe boxes,
getting a little bit bigger, we're gonna put them in here.
So I'm just gonna go through today,
get these guys switched over and hopefully by next year,
the year after, I'll have some really nice stuff
to raise up and start breeding.
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- Been a while since I've really talked about Helen,
a no-eyed Albino ball python.
For those you guys that don't remember,
she is an Albino ball python that was hatched last year,
and she was born without eyes.
But she is absolutely incredible.
And this was actually an Albino Clown ball python
bred to an Albino Het Clown ball python,
and sometimes when you breed Albino to Albino,
in certain snakes, not all snakes,
but in Albino ball pythons as well as Albino boas,
you can sometimes have some issues
like no eyes or one eye or sometimes kinks,
that's why a majority of the time,
and this year in particular,
we didn't breed any Albino to Albino.
With that being said, some Albino to Albino lines,
even in ball pythons, can actually be fine.
It just is a matter of how outbred they are.
With that being said, Helen is really cool,
and the thing that I love about her,
not only does she do amazing, she makes it
around her cage without a problem,
she eats without a problem, everything like that.
But you know what happens
is that when people are a little fearful
when they come into the reptarium, they see Helen
and for some reason because she doesn't have eyes,
they feel less afraid of her.
You were pretty like, you didn't even want
to walk in the door.
- I was going to drop him off and go down the street.
- And here we are on day number two
and you're holding a snake.
- I'm holding the snake.
- Oh my God,
I'm so proud of you, - I'm kind of emotional.
- Oh my God, isn't it awesome?
- 'Cause she has no eyes.
- So oftentimes, Helen is the first snake
that I'll hand somebody,
when they're a little tentative or fearful of snakes.
So there you are guys, a little update on Helen.
She is a wonderful snake.
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