- I just have to see if I can't
get that egg out of here somehow.
You can see right here, see?
Right there, alright that's the egg.
I busted that one too which is good, not a problem.
Oh my God, that is a nice bunch of eggs right there.
(cool percussion beat)
Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
We are back here at Lucy's cage once again peering in
and I tell you what I don't like what I'm seeing right now.
See that big bulge right there?
That is probably not something that I really wanted to see.
That a lot of times is indicative of
something that's bound up and starting to
swell up because the eggs are kind
of getting pushed into one area, right?
So right where that bend is, there's a huge huge bulge.
Oftentimes that means that she's pushed all her eggs
to one spot and that there's a blockage in there.
This could not be worse news for me right now.
I don't know what to do, I think the best thing to do right
now is to still kind of leave her alone for a couple days.
She's certainly well within the window of potentially able
to be laying but right now I'm definitely stressing out.
I mean I'll tell you what, I don't know
what's gonna happen if something happens to Lucy.
I mean she means so much to me, I don't know what to do.
This is kinda the risk that you take when you breed snakes.
Its one of the reasons why I kinda didn't want
to breed Daisy and I'll probably never breed Perdida
because you are taking a risk.
Now most of the time things work out fine
and hey even with this, it may work out fine
but right now I am definitely stressed out.
There's no doubt that there could potentially be
an egg binding problem, man I'll tell you what.
I'm gonna need all the positive
vibes sent my way right now, guys.
So please in the comments, send me
something inspirational, make me feel better.
I don't want anything to happen to Lucy.
I promise everyday I'll keep you guys updated.
I guess its gonna be one of those kinda days because
remember my blacktail cribo was laying yesterday
and sure enough, you can tell she's egg bound.
I don't know really if there is anything I can do or not,
you can see the last egg is actually
a couple soft caudal scales from the vent
which could mean a number of things.
It could mean that she's pushed up the oviduct
and actually crinkled it up where basically,
the egg adheres to the oviduct and as she's pushing,
the oviduct basically curls up in it
and now you can't get it out or she might just have
ran out of energy and I can get the egg out.
The idea is going to be that hopefully going with the probe
and seeing if I can't express that one egg
because sometimes if you relieve the pressure
of that one egg, she might pass the rest of the eggs.
I'll be honest with you, it looks like she's got probably
three eggs in her so I'm going to do my very best
to first go in the anal vent here with this probe
and see if I can just feel the egg.
And I, I think I can feel it so that's a good sign
so what I'm going to so is I'm going to gently
massage aspirate like this, pushing the egg down this way.
I'm going to go ahead, oh you can see I burst the egg
is what happened, which isn't a bad thing.
This isn't a bad thing at all.
Now I just have to see if I can't
get that egg out of here somehow.
You can see right here, see right there
alright that's the egg that I wanted to get out right there.
Now she still has a couple more eggs in her.
I'm going to slowly massage aspirate those eggs down.
Now the thing is is that I don't want to push too hard
because again, I can fold that oviduct
and that's something I don't want to have happen
so I'm just going to really gently kinda push down
and see if that next egg will get
down to the vent or not, okay?
So I'm pushing down just very gently.
It is absolutely moving so that's a good thing.
So again I'm going to go in the vent.
I'm going to see if I can't find that egg, I can feel,
oh I busted that one too which is good, not a problem.
I can get that egg out like this
and I've got the second egg going.
Now there's one more egg, its quite a bit further up here
so I don't know if I'm going to be able
to get it out or not so I'm going to try,
again I don't want to fold that oviduct.
I'm just going to slowly press
and see if I can't get it down.
Its seems to be moving really well so this is a good thing.
Again I'm going to do the same thing I've been doing,
same thing, I think I popped that egg.
See if I can't get that egg to come in here.
(surprised groan)
- [Cameraman] Whoa!
- Did you see that, just popped out the last two eggs.
Alright, so that is fantastic.
That's exactly what we were hoping for.
I'm going to just feel her to see if there's any eggs
left in her and she's completely void of eggs right now
so there was actually four eggs that were bound up in her
and in this case she probably just ran out of energy
and wasn't able to push them out
because there was no kind of blocks there was nothing else.
Lets hope that's the case with Lucy.
Lets hope that she passes the eggs.
Obviously you see I can't do what I did with this girl
to Lucy because she would kill me, obviously.
So actually probe or massage aspirating isn't
an option with her so anyways great news with this girl.
Stinks that she dint have a good clutch and you can tell,
there's no fertility in these eggs right now.
You see no red veins or any blood spots whatsoever
but regardless, we did save this girl's life
because this could actually have killed her so
even though I'm bummed that we didn't get
a good clutch of eggs, I'm very happy that she's going
to live and do fine in the future.
You guys know that I wanted to spruce up a lot
of the habitats here at the reptarium
well my buddy is back into town!
Some will remember I brought the red tailed green rats
or the gonyosoma, well he does a lot
of cool terrarium builds, I mean,
some of your stuff is just ridiculous, dude.
- Thank you. - I love it, I always love it
and by the way I'm going to put a link in the description
to all of his stuff because he actually does this
so if you want a cool terrarium,
you'll see what kind of stuff we're gonna do today
with the crested gecko display.
You can reach out to him if you'd like
but the first thing we need to do is
put a backdrop in here which is basically,
this is a universal rock backdrop
that looks kinda like a banyan tree
and we need to foam it in the back so that obviously
the crested geckos don't get behind it.
Then he's gonna start to kinda
fixture it out, make it look really cool.
And then eventually add plants
but that's gonna take a couple of days, right?
- That's gonna take a couple of days.
Got to wait for everything to cure
and the once you get foam the cure,
you silicone the cure, then you can start planting.
- [Brian] And that's when it really turns into fun.
- That's the fun part, yeah.
- Exactly, but for now we just gotta get this in,
secure this in and then keep on moving to the next thing.
Again, I need something fun for today because its
definitely been a little bit of a challenging day.
(cool percussive beat)
So basically once that backdrop is in with the foam,
we're gonna hold this up here.
Then we're gonna take shims and we're just gonna basically
push those shims in here to secure it like that.
So basically that's gonna push this all the way to the edge
and we'll do the exact same thing on the bottom here
with the piece that secures this to the bottom.
Just so when that foam cures its kind of like cemented
to the back and you can see there's foam all the way around
that way no animals actually get behind it
because trust me we made that mistake
the first night we opened up the reptarium.
We had all kinds of animals getting behind.
We learned that you have to foam it
really really good or you're gonna be in trouble
so we'll put one more brace along the bottom and then
I'm gonna let you do your magistery and start designing.
- Sounds good.
- Down in the dungeon with Kelsey which means
we have some python eggs, what do we have?
- Spotted pythons. - [Brian] Spotted pythons.
We're now in the spotted python room,
remember we had children's python, children's python,
children's pythons, now we're onto spotted.
So lets go ahead and see what we've got here, alright.
So at the last two clutches were like 18 eggs
which is pretty impressive so,
it is super cool and look at that female is bustin up,
oh my God, that is a nice clutch of eggs right there.
- [Kelsey] Wow. - [Brian] Whoa, doggy!
- [Kelsey] She looks like she wants a bite of me.
- [Brian] She doesn't look happy, Kelsey.
Oh my God what a beautiful clutch of eggs all,
it looks like one little loose egg right here
that I'm gonna just pick out there.
I think the rest of the clutch looks pretty good.
(Brian and Kelsey surprised)
- [Brian] Couple of little poppers, no problem at all.
Alright so we'll go ahead and put those eggs in there.
This egg actually you can see because he's
a little translucent, you can actually see its on top
and it looks like these other eggs might be the same way.
Well yeah, you don't even need to candle them.
I mean you can actually see exactly what they are.
That is a beautiful clutch lets see how many eggs there are.
- One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15? - [Brian] 15?
Okay, well I was thinking there was gonna be another 17
or 18 clutch but still 15 eggs is absolutely incredible.
Tell you what, Kelsey you're killing it this year, man.
You are doing such a good job,
thank you so much for all your hard work.
All that efforts she's put in is really paying off
because we're gettin some beautiful clutches.
So spotted clutch number three, good job.
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Couple of colubrid clutches to pull today.
You know I always love this, this is actually
an anery stripe that is het for scaleless.
Looks like she has a really beautiful clutch,
a couple sluggers in there but still pretty good
and she was breed to this beautiful anur right there.
Oh my God that thing is absolutely stunning,
I've always said that the anurtheristic, the ghosts,
and stuff like that is my favorite of the scaleless stuff.
Nevertheless, I was excited about this particular clutch
because this girl is just so beautiful.
I mean take a look at her, she's that motley anery
that is also got a little bit of stripping in her as well
and again it looks like we got a couple bad eggs in here
but overall the clutch is really good so we'll go ahead
and get Milo back in here like we always do.
We'll take her shed out, we'll get her some water,
and get her all settled in and then we'll
take a closer look at this clutch here.
Again it looks like we have one, two, three, four, five?
Okay there's five bag eggs in there but,
that's not all that good overall
but the truth is is that it still looks
like a pretty darn good clutch.
We'll just remove these slug eggs really quick.
Get rid of these eggs right here
and it looks like we got two, four,
six, seven, eight, nine, 10, still 10 good eggs.
So that's not a terrible clutch,
there's 10 good eggs, five slugs.
About 2/3 are good so which is really good
and again half of these will be scaleless anerys
and the other half will be anerys het for scaleless
and they're all both het for both motley and stripe
unless something happens to be carrying a hidden gene
in there which is often the type so who knows really
what we're gonna hatch until we hatch it.
Regardless, gonna get these eggs in here
and move on to the next clutch.
(cool percussion beat)
this next clutch is actually a het black motley,
het scaleless that is breed to the same
and oh that is not a good clutch of eggs at all.
Sometimes this happens, its the good and the bad.
Looks like there is one good egg and the rest of them
all look like little sluggers for sure.
Look at all these nasty eggs right
here and again this happens now,
ironically enough this is our older group.
Remember, how I told you that the animals that were
really close to the F1 generation,
which means that its really close to
the very first scaleless, had some fertility issues
and then the other groups we have are outbreed two
or three times and they have no fertility issues
so this is still one of the old animals here
and it definitely is right up the
alley of what is usually like.
Terrible clutch of eggs, one good egg and I don't even know.
I don't even want to count because it'll depress me
but that's it for colubrids, hopefully tomorrow
not only will we have more clutches but hopefully
we won't have so many bad eggs like this last clutch.
(cool percussion beat)
So we basically, I think our set as far as
the big foamy type stuff so what are you going to do next?
- So what we're going to do is we're going
to let the foam cure, then what you do with the foam
is take a razor blade and you kinda chip away at it.
Make the surfaces rough so the silicone can actually
adhere to the foam and then you lay
your substrate over the silicone.
It kind of gives it that natural cliffy kinda hill
look to it and then what I'm gonna do then
is tip this on each side and put some
more cork planters on the side.
Once that cures an we get the silicone
and the substrate on both sides,
then we can start planting and I got a lot more cool ideas
on what kind of plants we can put in here.
- Oh that's awesome, its definitely coming together
again this is kind of the raw thing and all those planters
again with all those plants and bromeliads
and all kinds of stuff are gonna look absolutely awesome.
So again, this is the rough part
of what its gonna look like but trust me,
when its done its gonna look absolutely incredible.
And as we're working on a new crested gecko habitat here,
Jessica's actually sprucing up the blue azureus
dart fog cage so its lookin really good, what's the plants?
- Well I, it was kinda lookin a little bare
so I want him to be able to move up the cage
and be able to utilize the top of the cage
so I'm trying to put some plants up there.
- [Brian] I love the bromeliad up top there.
- Yes.
- [Brian] That looks absolutely awesome.
And yeah that's a thing, these guys will climb
and really use the entire vertical part of the cage too.
Continue to just kind of work on habitats here
and we've been saying we were gonna do it for a long time
so its nice that we're finally doing it.
Definitely cool to continue to work on the displays,
its been something that we've been
talking about doing for quite some time.
Lori is actually doing some touch up
right now on this enclosure as well.
Its just one of those things that's really difficult to do
and again it just makes that side look much better.
Before we just had foam there which was fine
but it did have a little seam,
now that she's touching it up, it looks so much better.
Its little improvements like that that we're just excited
to finally get back to at the zoo.
You know its been so busy that its really
difficult to take the time to make
these improvements and again its small steps.
We've got a lot of enclosures and habitats that we want
to spruce up and just kind of redo to some extent
but its good to finally get started with them.
And here's the finished cage that Jessica was working on.
My beautiful blue dart frogs, I mean they seem
to absolutely love them and again now they have
all kinds of new area to climb, all kinds of things.
They can go all the way up to that bromeliad if they want.
This is an example of what we want all the habitats
to look like, like there's this fine line between making
it look really cool but also being able to see the animals.
So you can see these guys are staying
out right now which is really awesome.
You don't want to plant it so crazy
that hey no one can actually see the animals.
Speaking of which, what are you
doing up there you crazy monkey?
Again you can see these guys love to climb
and now that they have some plants right up the top there,
I think that's where making it to.
This is absolutely gorgeous.
And over here I have BHB that's definitely starting to
brighten up like a Christmas tree with all these red tags
and you know those red tags mean that those are clutches
on the way so definitely going to be an exciting year.
And with all that said, I don't know.
I think I'm just going to wrap it up
because me and Lori have to go to a zoo to you
where we take some animals and there is no sense of
bringing you guys along you know its a little bit boring
but in the future we'll bring you along maybe.
Regardless have an amazing day, I love you guys so much.
Be kind to someone and I promise,
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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