- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
You may notice I'm holding a box right now,
that is because we're gonna do a pretty cool unboxing,
and I hope the start of your day is amazing.
So what do you say we push our problems aside
and check out what's in this box.
So our friends down at Tiki's Geckos,
by the way I'll put a link in the description
to all their stuff,
amazing people down their, great geckos,
all kinds of good stuff, sent us a package.
Of course, we love chameleons here,
and Jessica was like, she saw this on Instagram, was like,
"You better get us some."
So guess, what, I called up my friends down there
at Tiki's Geckos, and we have a box to unbox
and show you what it's all about.
And here we go, I am excited about this.
It's actually a pair, so I don't know
if this is the male or the female,
but these guys are absolutely ridiculous,
so let's go ahead see what's going on.
They're better at tying than I am untying, obviously.
So we are going to get this unraveled here
and again, these things are awesome,
let's go ahead and see what we got here.
I got the male! And he's the gorgeous one!
Oh my gosh, this thing is ridiculous.
Come on, buddy, come on out.
And we already have an enclosure
set up and ready for these guys,
take a look at that right there.
These, of course, are Jackson's Chameleons,
but these are the Rainbow Jackson's Chameleons,
so these are the ones that have that beautiful color.
Of course the males are the ones that have that
triceratops type horns on them, females won't, but wow,
I cannot wait to see what the female looks like,
'cause they're really absolutely gorgeous as well.
Of course these are live bearers,
a lot of chameleons are egg layers,
but these are live bearers,
and these look like young adults.
This particular animal doesn't look like a full grown male,
but oh my gosh, he looks like in perfect shape.
Big, beefy animal, super alert,
I cannot wait to get this guy set up in an enclosure,
get the female in there,
and who knows, maybe in the next year or so,
we're gonna have little baby Jackson's Chameleons,
little rainbows.
But I tell you what, these guys are born, like,
literally teeny tiny, they eat like fruit flies.
Jessica's gonna freak out when she sees this
because that thing is cool as heck.
Let's go ahead and check the female out.
And now onto the female, oh my gosh, wow,
these things are so much cooler than
the normal Jackson's females,
they still have the little horns like this,
and look at that!
Oh my gosh, this thing is chunky as heck.
You almost wonder if this thing is gravid
or something like that,
because look at how fat she is.
Now, again, they will get a little bit bigger than this,
but they can have babies this size,
but oh my gosh, as cool as that male is,
I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I love this thing.
This thing looks like Godzilla or something like that.
This is unbelievable, wow.
Now, again, they're gonna change color,
you can actually see her lightening up
right now as we speak,
she went from a darker to that lighter.
And those are chromatophores, right,
it's just basically the way
they deflect the sun and the light
to kind of change, and look at her.
Already the kinda lime green coming through there,
you can start to see that rainbow stripe.
Wow, what an amazing animal, this thing is crazy.
Look at the green eyes now, oh my,
I mean, it looks like a completely different animal
just in the last 10 seconds, that is truly fascinating.
But I love this animal, unbelievable.
It's one of those things where typically male chameleons
are so much prettier than females, but in this case, guys,
I tell you what, this female is unbelievably a ripper.
So we'll go ahead, get these guys set up,
get 'em kinda settled in and stuff like that.
Cannot wait to see what Jessica has to say,
'cause she's the one that kinda
prompted me to get these guys,
she is gonna freak out.
(upbeat music)
- Guess what time it is?
Egg time, egg time, egg -
Stop the jingle, all right, that's it.
We've only got a couple more clutches, no -
all right, go back to the jingle, I kinda like it.
Egg time, egg time, egg time!
All right, so what we have here,
I hope that you guys are enjoying the jingle, too.
Again, we are down to the last few clutches
of the year for Colubrids, which is awesome
and not awesome at the same time.
Part of me loves the fact that we're almost done,
because we're excited about babies hatching
and all that type of stuff.
The other part is I'm gonna really miss it,
I love collecting eggs.
So this is actually this beautiful albino
het for lavender Snow Cal King,
she's bred to those purple Lavender Snow Cal Kings.
This is her second clutch,
her first clutch was very successful,
so let's see what we have going on here.
Again, really good fertility with second clutches this year,
probably one of the best fertility years,
I'm gonna be honest with you,
that I can remember in a long, long, long time,
probably 10 or 12 years to be honest with you.
We've got 2, 4, 6 eggs here.
Again probably maybe 5, 6 clutches
completely done for the year with these guys,
but again, Laurie killed it this year breeding Colubrids.
(upbeat music)
- Check this out, guys, it's pretty cool.
I didn't even know you were
getting these, these are awesome.
- I know.
It took forever to ship, but they finally just showed up,
and I'm super excited, just in time for tonight.
- That's awesome, yeah, we're opening tonight.
And guys, we always have people come
and hold their first snake here, so now we have,
"I held a snake for the first time at The Reptarium!"
That is absolutely dope, so if you ever come here,
haven't held a snake, you'll get a sticker.
(upbeat music)
So we actually have 6 eggs here,
it's actually a Bumblebee female, it was bred to 2 males.
But we can see that there's a couple little heads
poking out right here,
and one of the heads certainly looks
like a little Mahogany to me.
So although I really kinda wish that that
Pin Red Stripe Yellow Belly was the dad,
'cause mixing it with that other stuff,
with the pastel, the spider, I mean,
you could get some really cool stuff,
looks like the mahogany may have been the dad
to at least one of the eggs in this clutch.
So let's go ahead and cut that egg first,
because its head's already sticking out,
make sure it's Mahogany,
see if there's anything else going on,
and then we'll see what the rest of the other eggs have,
let's go.
And as always, when you have a head sticking out,
you've gotta be extra careful with what you do with it,
'cause you certainly don't want to ever cut the snake.
And this is just literally a Mahogany,
it's nothing else, it's not any other genetic behind it,
just a Mahogany Ball Python.
We do have one other head that's sticking out,
but we're gonna cut 2 eggs before that,
before we get there,
so let's go ahead cut egg number 2 and see what happens.
So if the Mahogany is the dad, we could potentially produce
a Pastel Spider Mahogany, so a Bumblebee Mahogany,
which would be the all gene animal if that's the case.
And what do we have here,
looks like just a Spider to be honest with you,
I don't even think it's a Mahogany,
I don't think it's a - it's certainly not a pastel, so,
I have a feeling we just hit a Spider,
but we still have a few more eggs.
The one head sticking out looks like it's a Pastel for sure,
but it might be a Pastel Mahogany.
Let's see what we have in egg number 3.
Boy, I would love to produce that Bumblebee Mahogany, now,
that's - whoa, this is, this is a good example
of not saying one male fathered a clutch,
because this is a Pinstripe,
and to me it looks like probably
a Red Stripe Pinstripe, not a Yellow Belly,
but a Red Stripe Pinstripe,
meaning there were 2 fathers in this clutch, that's right.
We've been talking about it,
well now we have the proof of it right here.
We have the Pinstripe Red Stripe,
and we certainly have the Mahogany,
so both fathers fathered different eggs.
Like I've said in the past,
one father can only father each egg,
but there can be dual fathers in the clutch.
So now we don't know what's gonna happen.
Let's move onto egg number 3 where I know it's a Pastel,
don't know what else it is, let's see what it is.
All right, so this oughta be interesting here.
And this looks like a Pastel Mahogany.
So this looks like a Pastel Mahogany, so now we have,
it looks like at least -
we don't know about the Spider who fathered that,
but we might have, who knows.
Got 2 more eggs, we're just gonna find out
who fathered what, right?
I hope that there's that -
it could either be the Mahogany Bumblebee,
or could it be a Red Stripe Spinner Blast,
Yellow Belly - oh my gosh,
let's just hope we have some cool,
let's just go ahead, jump in.
Come on baby, have something amazing in here.
This is a Spider Mahogany.
So now we know the Mahogany fathered this one, too,
last egg, guys.
It's kind of fun, right, because now we're not only seeing
what genetics are involved,
but now we don't even know what father
fathered each clutch, so, last egg, let's see what we get.
You know, I've been mentioning it all along
that this can happen,
just so far, every time we dual fathered something,
it's only been one dad for the clutch,
so this is the first time we've had the dual fathers,
and... looks like another really pretty Spider,
probable Mahogany.
So unfortunately it looks like at least we know we have
one of the Pinstripe Red Stripe
Yellow Belly fathered clutches,
which ended up just yielding a Pinstripe Red Stripe,
and then other than that Mahogany stuff.
So, there you go, pretty cool.
But awesome to finally see a dual father clutch
where both fathers were the father
of some of the eggs in the clutch.
- [Camera Man] Excited?
- Yes!
Oh my God.
It's so crazy how different he looks than a normal one,
oh my God.
- [Man] Look at the girl, though, girl has horns.
- [Girl] I know she's so pre-
Yeah, she does. That was one of my favorite things
about this locality, or this species.
- Is that they have horns, I didn't, I didn't know that.
- Yeah, the females have horns, yeah.
- That was what blew my mind,
I was sitting there going like,
"Did they ship us a male or something like that?"
- [Camera Man] Now is this the only species of Jackson's
that the females actually do have the horns?
- I believe so, but don't quote me on that.
- [Camera Man] Don't quote you, no worries.
- Man, awesome, awesome Tiki's, dude.
- [Camera Man] Oh that's awesome, perfect.
- That's so crazy, that's insane.
- Got a clutch of baby Colubrids that have hatched out,
it's a really small clutch, only 3 eggs,
actually it's 4 eggs, but one egg went bad here.
But it was actually a Butter Tessera Corn
that was bred to a Butter,
so we knew that everything was gonna be Butter.
And look at right off the rip,
we have these cute little Butter Tessera Corns.
There's one here, there's one here,
and I'm assuming there's another baby in here somewhere,
yeah, there it is.
So we have just a normal Butter Corn Snake right here,
so this is basically what the Butters look like.
And then the Tesseras of course are that
cool racing stripe, cool side pattern, stuff like that,
so although this was a very small clutch of eggs,
we hit some pretty good odds
with the two Butter Tesseras and the one Butter,
that is absolutely awesome,
they are so absolutely adorable.
I was so excited about this clutch
of Colubrids to hatch out,
we hatched these out last year, too,
it was a Pink Eye Leucistic that was bred to
a Snow Texas Rat Snake.
I told the story before how we popped out the Snow stuff,
which was basically Anerythristic and Albino.
So when we bred the Snow to the Leucistic -
and you can see, one little head
is sticking out right there,
there's still a couple babies in the egg -
we weren't expecting what we got
results-wise last year,
and that was a whole clutch of Snow Texas Rat Snakes
that are het for Pink Eyed Leucistic.
I was pretty shocked with the results last year,
and sure enough I wanted to just make sure
that this year we'd have the same results,
and there it is, all Snow Texas Rats -
oh, look at this little feisty dude -
all Snow Texas Rats that are het for Leucistic.
I love Pink Eyed Leucistics,
I love the Snow Texas Rat Snakes,
and I love this little guy's attitude right here,
he is absolutely crazy, isn't he.
So that is really cool.
Something, again, that really no one else is working with,
so I'm really excited to be hatching these guys.
It's been a while since I've updated you
on some of my Emoji Pys right here,
of course this is Jack, like Jack-O-Lantern,
the Jack-O-Lantern Py Ball.
And then you guys know Drama, right?
I mean, I haven't showed Drama in a while,
but of course, Drama has the right side up smiley face,
and the upside down smiley face.
They're both getting big, they are both male.
So next year we'll breed 'em to something.
It's not something that will actually pass along,
it's not a genetic trait or something like that,
just every now and then you get a smiley emoji
or a cool emoji, and usually I end up keeping 'em.
Really quick I wanted to show you that clutch
that hatched the other day,
it was actually just a Pinstripe to a Super Enchi Pinstripe,
so everything had to be Enchi.
And of course we ended up with just 2 eggs,
but they both hatched out
beautiful little Enchi Pinstripes right here,
I mean, I tell you what, that Enchi and Pinstripe
go so well together, kinda brightens it up,
redoes his pattern,
the head patterns are super cool on these Pinstripe.
I like that combination a tremendous amount.
And even though we only had 2 eggs in this clutch,
they both hatched out and are absolute rippers.
(laughter)
- Got my bracelet on.
More unboxing, let's see what we got here.
I don't, I don't even know how to open this.
- They usually have a tab on these.
- I know.
- [Cameraman] Yeah, that's the way.
- This actually came from - let's see -
came from Pennsylvania.
Oh my gosh, there's all kinds of shirts.
Let's see, first off, this is dope, Jack's Wild Reptiles.
That's pretty cool, I like that, that's a cool thing.
These are all just Jack's Wild Reptiles shirts?
- Looks like it, yep.
- So we - apparently the whole crew will have
Jack's Wild Reptiles shirts,
so thank you, that's awesome, these are cool.
I like the logo and stuff like that, that looks cool.
"My family and I came to visit The Reptarium
and had a private tour back in February,
had an amazing time,
next time I think it'd be cool to see BHB."
We really don't do tours of BHB, but I appreciate it.
"My family started getting into breeding snakes last year,
love watching the vlog, as long as Brian, Laurie, and Noah
get a shirt that fits,
I tried to send one for everyone else as well."
So thank you so much, Jack, Stephanie,
Alex, and Brian, thank you guys.
- Thank you!
- All right, we got something else from Pennsylvania.
It's like Christmas, you guys,
you guys really do, really, really, really do spoil us.
Let's see what we have here, looks like another shirt.
"Hey Brian, just want to say love watching the vlog.
You inspired me to expand my reptile collection
and getting into snakes and species I never dreamed
I'd have a few years ago.
Looking forward to meeting you one day, Griz."
I appreciate you Griz.
- Oh, this is just in time!
- Just in time!
- Oh, shut the heck up.
- Yo! Fourth of July!
- [Camera Man] Whoo Doggy!
- Whoo Doggy, Fourth of July.
- That's hilarious.
- I am - I'll be sporting this,
I promise you on the Fourth of July I'll be sporting this.
That is awesome, thank you so much, man.
How absolutely incredible are those Jackson's Chameleons?
I'll be totally honest with you,
I didn't even know there were species
of female Jackson's that have horns,
so that is pretty awesome,
I'm learning a lot right with you guys, it's pretty cool.
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