- This happens to be a het for albino ball python
and she's bred to an albino ball python,
and my concern is that she should have laid
about 10 days ago.
Just so that you know,
an animal like this will actually go through
what they call a pre-lay shed, and about 30 days later,
they will typically lay their eggs.
Now, that's plus or minus a few days.
she's actually 40 days after shed.
You can see how distended she is right now.
Now, to be honest with you, am I worried?
Not that much, because typically they don't egg bind
without laying at least one egg,
and then maybe have a problem with the oviduct.
The fact that she hasn't even laid a slug or an egg,
I think we're okay, but 40 days is definitely pushing it.
The longest I've ever had them go is 45 days,
but I tell you what, that's not a good situation at all.
You definitely want them to be anywhere from 27 to 33 days.
Even at 40 days,
there's a chance that she could lay a clutch
and the eggs could actually go bad,
because she's kept them in too long.
I don't know what's gonna happen.
I'm not that freaked out by it,
but the fact is I wanted to talk to you about the situation,
because a lot of people have actually asked me,
"Brian it's been 37, 38 days, since my ball python shed.
"She hasn't laid eggs.
"Should I be concerned?"
The fact is, yeah,
something to be a little bit concerned about,
but truth be told, most likely this girl is gonna lay eggs
within the next couple of days,
so let's hope it all works out.
I'll keep you guys updated, but, hey, listen,
we actually have another ball python
that just laid a clutch of eggs,
and that ball python is actually this girl here,
who has some eggs out,
but she's actually an albino ball python,
that is actually het for clown,
and she was bred to this albino clown male,
meaning that all of the babies are gonna be albino,
and on average, half of them are gonna be albino clowns.
That's pretty, absolutely epic, isn't it?
Let's go head up and set up a couple of egg boxes
and see how many eggs mama has.
(upbeat music)
All right, let's see what mama has.
Like I said, we definitely have a couple eggs
that had got rolled out here.
We'll candle these guys up for sure,
and like I had mentioned earlier,
I'm not overly concerned about that girl being egg bound.
If she laid one or two eggs and then stopped laying,
then I'd be tremendously concerned,
but I'll keep you guys posted.
Hopefully, maybe by tomorrow, she'll actually lay.
Who knows, even later on today, but look at this girl.
She is just so incredible.
Oh, gosh, I didn't see those slugs down there.
That's not good at all, but we do have a bunch of good eggs,
so I'm not gonna be too upset about it, but wow,
I tell you what, that stinks, and again,
she rolled these eggs all over the place.
Oh, there's another one in her coil right here.
Look at that.
So all in all, she actually had a really nice clutch,
'cause she had four bad eggs,
but she still ended up having five beautiful eggs
and one boob egg, so six good eggs, four slugs.
That would have been a 10 egg clutch.
That is a giant clutch for that particular girl,
but in the meantime, we have six eggs here.
On average, hopefully,
there'll be three albino clowns and three albinos.
Regardless, when these eggs hatch,
we know they're gonna be bangers.
My guy, Drogo's, out, just cruising a little bit,
and actually, a couple months ago, we ordered a perch,
so that that way sometimes we can actually take Drogo out
and set him up out in the open,
when maybe they're open to the public
or when we're doing photo opportunities
or something like that.
Well, it's been a couple months, and today,
that perch is supposed to come in.
He's supposed to be here anytime,
so I'm pretty excited about it.
I can't wait to see how Drogo likes it,
because it will be really cool to be able to take him out
and not have to hold him all the time.
We could take him out and just put them up there,
and he'll crawl around and something.
That's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Are you excited, buddy?
Drogo's getting a new toy today.
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Just checking out this little boa right here.
This is actually what they would call a ghost boa.
It's actually het for albino
and also possibly het for blood red,
so there's some cool genetics going on,
and now, the ghost is actually anerythristic
and hypomelanistic, and then you get it into the albino,
that's like a moon glow,
and then if you get it into the blood, holy cow,
there could be some really cool things going on,
but the ghosts are actually really cool in their own right.
They're just kind of that more silvery look to 'em,
the real beautiful pattern on the tails.
I absolutely love boas.
Something I've got to get back into more.
We have a handful of really cool boas, but I tell you what,
seeing these guys makes me want more,
and speaking about boas, take a look at this.
This is actually one of our Suriname true red-tailed boas.
So everyone always asks like,
"What's the difference between a true red-tail boa
"and a boa?"
It seems like everyone that gets Colombians,
which are really common boas,
always say they have a red-tailed boa, but in actuality,
the Colombians are a common boa,
that's a boa constrictor imperator,
whereas these guys are boa constrictor constrictor,
which is the true red-tailed boas,
and you can just see the color on that tail.
Unbelievable.
I love the Surinames.
We have some Guyanas and Peruvians as well.
They're just amazing animals.
So one day, these will be up to size
and hopefully we'll breed 'em, but for now,
I'm just enjoying them,
and they will definitely be in the new expansion
for the reptarium.
All right, so the perch is here for Drogo.
Actually, we've got two of them coming.
I don't know why we have two, but nevertheless,
excited to see what these guys look like.
You excited, Jay?
- Yeah, wow.
- What we got?
- Hi, guys, these are it. - Those are your two perches.
Jay, what do you think?
- I've gotta get two of them.
- (laughs) Yeah, two of 'em, huh?
All right, that's awesome.
- Who are they for?
- They're for Drogo the sloth.
- They like being stationary.
I did more of a simple level.
What do you guys think?
- Yeah, I like it.
I hope he likes it, but yeah, I like it a lot.
Looks good. - Do you wanna put him on,
try it out, and if there's anything he's not liking,
we can edit it out.
- Is this the one, you think,
is going to be the one we'd use?
But we can bring it in.
We can give it a shot.
- Yeah, let's do it. - Wanna do it?
- Yeah. - All right, let's go.
- Why don't you bring him out?
- So the idea is just so that we can bring out Drogo
when we're open to the public, maybe we're doing an event,
maybe when there's an encounter,
and we can actually put Drogo on one of these
and we'll find out which one he likes the best,
and then he'll be able to hang out here
and just have some fun, and that way,
we don't have to take people always inside,
where there's a lot more stuff to navigate.
At the same time, when we bring him out,
we only can hold him,
so this is going to be way better for him,
and I think some encounters.
As a matter of fact,
we're about to launch some virtual sloth encounters.
You can check that at thereptarium.com.
If you want to do a virtual sloth encounter,
we'll be able to do that.
He'll be hanging out on the perch
and we'll be talking about stuff, so hey,
if you want to do it,
I think it's going to be a 15 minute long encounter.
Again, reptarium.com.
- We're launching virtual sloth encounters?
- That's what I just said.
(group laughing)
(energetic music)
See what he does.
See if he likes it.
- He doesn't normally leave me that fast,
so I guess he likes it. - Oh, no way.
- [Brian] He likes the smell of it.
I always think it's interesting how he smells wood.
I think he likes the smell of it, see?
Isn't that bizarre?
- [Jay] He doesn't know yet.
He's like, "I'm not sure where I can go."
- He just wants to smell for now.
He's intrigued by it, for sure.
As a matter of fact,
we have a special tour in the house today.
We've got a seven year old birthday.
What's your name?
- Charlotte.
- Charlotte, come on over and meet Drogo.
He's right over here.
See, he's right on the ground.
You can pet right down there if you want.
There you go.
So I think it worked out really good.
Drogo seems to be super happy.
It's going to be amazing.
We'll be able to add that to just the way we do things here
at the reptarium.
Again, maybe we'll have special hours when he comes out
and people can come and visit him.
Again, those virtual tours will be launching,
and I think Drogo, it's going to be an awesome,
just a different thing, so that when Jay takes him out,
he doesn't have to always be holding them all the time.
He can put them up here.
It's probably less stress even for Drogo,
so I think he's absolutely gonna love this.
Feeling like going a little nostalgic on this one.
Let's go ahead and just hit that "Egg Time" song.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
♪ Egg time ♪
That's right,
and this happens to be a scaleless albino okeetee.
So the okeetee and albino is what they would call
a reversal okeetee, and then, of course, they're scaleless.
So we have a beautiful little clutch here.
Let's go ahead and get these eggs outta here.
We've got two.
We've got these ones right over here,
and look at how beautiful that female is right there.
She is just an absolute ripper.
So we've got those last two eggs.
We'll go ahead and get mama all cleaned up, get her set.
In the meantime, we've got two, four, six, eight, nine eggs.
All of these are going to be
scaleless albino reverse okeetees,
so that is absolutely amazing.
By the way, guys, this clutch marks 100 clutches
for the year with colubrids.
We still have a long way to go,
but that's 100 colubrid clutches so far.
That's pretty exciting.
Next up, we actually have an apricot Pueblan milk snake,
and she is actually bred to a Halloween.
She's a beautiful girl here.
So again, this is a pretty classic apricot Pueblan here.
The Halloween would have less of the red,
so it's black and orange basically.
Let's see what mama had here.
We'll get her all cleaned up and stuff like that.
Oh, a relatively small clutch of eggs right here.
We only have four eggs, no slugs.
I'm going to just look around
and make sure there's no eggs in here.
So a small clutch of eggs, but still really nice,
beautiful eggs and look at how big they are.
These babies are definitely going to hatch out really big.
Hopefully, we'll have some beautiful Halloweens in there.
It's been a few days since our Egyptian Uromastyx
have actually got here, and they're really settling in.
You can see, they're so brazen.
They're so different than some of our other Uromastyx
that we've work with,
because they don't seem to be concerned.
I can be right up here, messing with them
and stuff like that, and they just hang out,
and that's what makes them so incredible.
Again, they're just babies now.
These guys are going to get big, three foot or so,
and really chunky,
so I am so happy with the way they're doing.
They're eating.
They're doing well.
They look amazing, and again,
they don't seem to be freaked out, which is awesome,
meaning that they're not stressed at all.
I love it.
Love this enclosure, but eventually,
they're going to move into a giant enclosure,
because these guys will get big one day.
This next clutch is actually a normal ball python female,
just a really pretty normal ball python,
and she was bred to this banana fire pinstripe.
Now, he's fathered a couple of clutches already this year,
and I've mentioned how I just loved the cleanliness
of this animal.
Again, it's a banana, it's a fire and it's a pinstripe.
So with this particular animal being bred to a normal,
that means we can get a combination
of those three incomplete dominant mutations, so hey,
it's going to be a nice clutch again.
Entry-level ball pythons, love him.
Let's see what mama has.
Again, she is definitely a really pretty snake.
I mean the normal ball pythons that we do have,
and we don't have that many of them,
they're all really beautiful animals,
and that's why we raised them up,
was 'cause they were just really pretty normal ball pythons
from a long time...
Oh, mama, what is going on, girl?
She's mad at me for sure.
So let's go ahead and get these eggs out of here.
We'll put them over here.
We'll get mama all cleaned up.
Get her ready to get feeding
and getting ready to breed again next year.
We've got two, four, six, eight wonderfully beautiful eggs.
We have about a third of the ball pythons laid so far,
meaning that we still have two-thirds
of the clutches still coming.
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