- Oh my God,
that is a nice clutch of eggs right there.
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Hey good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog
and we're gonna start the day
with something extremely exciting,
and that's our first litter of skinks,
that's right blue-tongued skinks.
Of course, I've got Jessica with me,
Kelsey's over here,
Of course Jessica did all the breeding
so she should certainly be here for it.
And this is actually a Coffee Northern female.
This is the first time we've ever produced little coffee's.
Oh my God - Oh my God, look at you!
- I think I see one little baby,
I don't know if there's anymore,
but oh my gosh. - Oh, they're all over here.
- Oh, look at that, oh they're so amazing!
- Oh, there's one over here. - Look at this, look at 'em,
and oh my God are they gorgeous.
Holy cow!
Do you see the color on these things?
Oh my gosh. - Is there any more over here?
Oh, there's another one. - Oh there's some more.
There's some more,
oh okay, oh there's more,
oh my gosh, there's a whole bunch more!
- We're gonna need a box. - Oh my gosh, we need a box,
and they are unbelievable.
Take a look at these cute little monkey's right there.
Oh my God, I'm freakin' out right now.
All right, we got one, two,
we got, see three over here,
four right here,
- Here's another. - Five.
- [Jessica] Here's another one.
- [Brian] Six little babies.
Oh my gosh momma, you did so good.
Seven babies, eight babies, oh!
My gosh, that is crazy.
- [Jessica] This one maybe didn't make it, but.
- [Brian] Awe, that one,
there's always a lot of stillborn's
when it comes to these things,
but there's nine babies so far, good babies.
So is that it?
Is that the end? - I think that might be it.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, momma,
you did so good. - We should always check
under the paper
and stuff, too, though. - Yeah, should definitely
check under the paper,
but take a look at these things,
look at that little guys mouth right there,
stickin' his tongue out.
Oh my God, this is crazy, guys.
Oh my gosh, we're gonna take a real quick look to see,
but oh my gosh, look at this!
What do you think?
I mean are they incredible or what?
- Oh, they're so cute!
So what did we pair her with? - Oh my gosh.
- So we paired her with an Austin Orange Caramel.
- An Austin Orange Caramel.
Oh my gosh, the colors on these things are ridiculous.
- Oh, hi! - So we've got two, four,
six, seven, eight good babies, and one stillborn.
That's a great way to start the year,
- Yes it is. - especially, I wasn't even
sure if this female was gravid,
- I looked at her - I know!
- the other day, she looked a little thin,
so I didn't even know if she was gonna go!
- So we did breed her last year it looks like,
and we didn't get anything,
so this is really cool. - No babies.
Oh my God, the first time we've ever produced
any of this coffee line,
and it's basically just a polygenic line
that has kind of got a real coffee color to it,
and again we bred it to a really nice orange animal.
And I mean, just take a look at that.
Wow, these things, when these things shed out,
holy cow, and actually,
Kelsey said that she caught the female
eating a couple of the ova,
which they actually will do, so that is really cool.
And also, baby skinks are born
with a little bit of a yolk sac
and they'll actually eat their yolk sac,
that's like their first meal,
and that's what makes them look so chunky like this.
Oh my gosh.
- Awe they're so adorable! - I tell ya what,
these are going to be stunning here in another month or two.
- This ones feisty. - Oh my gosh,
look at how feisty that little monkey is!
Oh my God, I am just so excited, wow!
- Awesome,
- What a way, - good way to start the day.
- Oh my God, a great way to start the day!
It's gonna be an awesome day,
I'm so excited.
I see Jessica is busy at work over here,
what do you got goin' on today?
- Well, I'm doing a few things.
I'm cleaning and collecting eggs,
and also setting up a couple test things.
- That's right, we had talked about
how we wanna change our way
of keeping leopard geckos from a paper ground
to a more substrate type of thing,
with a little bit more enrichment
and stuff like that with them.
So you're settin' up a couple test ones?
- Yep, so here we've got our soil here.
- I think we're gonna add,
yeah we've added some what, vermiculite into it?
- I added vermiculite,
I wanna say I did three parts peat moss
to one part vermiculite.
- Gotcha, and we'll probably put some
leaf litter in there, too.
Just a little bit of a different bedding,
we'll see how that works,
hopefully we can find a bedding
that kinda works for the leopard geckos,
that they're happier with,
as well as it kinda looks better.
Some different hides and stuff like that,
but you're also collecting eggs today?
- Yep, so I got some already collected right here.
It's gonna be a busy, busy day.
It's gonna take me like all day to do all this.
- Well I'll let you get back to work,
I'll check in with you on the final count
at the end of the day.
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All right, so we'll take another peek with Lucy,
definitely every day that goes by
I get a little bit more worried.
I'm not really sure what to do.
I'm actually gonna talk to my vet later today,
to just kinda decide what to do.
Again, she's well within the range
of laying a good clutch of eggs,
so I'm not gonna stress out about it yet,
because if she was a week or 10 days over,
then I would be very stressed.
But I'm gonna talk to my vet.
The biggest issue is,
my vet locally has never done
a surgery like this on a big snake,
and trying to anesthetize a snake like Lucy
is very difficult because what you do,
you would actually put something over their face,
and then when they breath in
they would go to sleep basically.
In order to do surgery if she was egg bound,
how do you get that onto Lucy?
I'm not 100% sure, so I'm gonna talk to my vet later today,
and I'll probably reach out to my other vets,
one in Texas and one in Virginia
and ask them what they think.
Again, I'm sure I'm overreacting right now
because again, she could lay any day,
but I'm definitely stressed that she hasn't laid yet.
So, anyways, I'll keep you guys updated,
that's it for today.
Down the dungeon again with Kelsey,
which means we have some python eggs.
What do we have?
- Spotted pythons.
- Spotted pythons, we're now in the spotted python row.
Remember we had Children's python,
Children's python Children's python,
now we're on to spotted,
so let's go ahead and see what we got here.
All right, tell you what,
the last two clutches were like 18 eggs,
which was pretty impressive,
so it is super cool,
and look at, that female's bustin' out,
oh my God, that is a nice clutch of eggs right there.
- Wow! - Oh, doggy.
- She looks like she wants a bite of me!
- She doesn't look happy, Kelsey.
Oh my God, what a beautiful clutch of eggs,
looks like one little loose egg right here
that I'm just gonna pick outta there,
I think the rest of the clutch looks pretty good.
Woop, - Whoop.
- Couple little probers,
no problem at all.
All right, so we'll go ahead, put those eggs in there.
This egg, actually, you can see,
because it's a little translucent,
you could actually see it's on top,
and it looks like these other eggs might be the same way.
Well yeah, you don't even need to candle 'em,
I mean you can actually see exactly what they are.
That is a beautiful clutch,
let's see how many eggs there are.
- [Kelsey] One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15.
- 15, okay, well I was thinkin' it was gonna be
another 17 or 18 clutch,
but, still 15 eggs is absolutely incredible,
wow, I tell ya what, Kelsey,
you're killing it this year man,
you're doing such a good job.
Thank you so much for all your hard work.
All that effort she's put in is really paying off
because we are gettin' some beautiful clutches.
So spotted clutch number three, good job.
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What do ya got goin' on today?
- Oh, not a whole lot,
just always gotta go through the colubrids now a days,
especially with us like feeding twice a week,
they're not breeding,
they're just really messy little creatures, so.
Changin' waters, change of bedding,
trying to keep everything clean around here.
- Yeah, definitely lookin' good.
I tell ya what,
usually by time you get into
the middle of the breeding season,
things are startin' to look like they're breakin' down,
- Yeah. - Just because there's so much
food and so much buckling,
so you're keeping up really good on that.
Oh, and by the way,
I have a tour here in a little bit
and I was thinkin' it might be a good opportunity
for you and Noah to do your test run
for the Noah and Eric tour.
- Super excited,
super excited. - So, maybe I'll pull
these guys over, and bring them along on the tour
and see what kind of a nightmare that's gonna be.
(Eric laughing)
No, we'll have fun.
All right, I'll catch back up with ya.
- Gotcha. - All right, cool.
That time of day again to collect to colubrid eggs.
Once again we have two clutches of eggs.
I don't know why that's been the case,
definitely slow and steady, maybe ruining the race this year
because we aren't having those days where we have eight
or 10 or 12 clutches like we usually do,
but I think that's still gonna be coming up the pike here.
So let's see what we have here.
Okay, this is kind of a mixed bag right here,
which is fine, but this is actually
a Het Black Motley Scaleless bred to the same,
so that's that old group and not,
the fertility isn't too bad on this,
to be totally honest with you,
again I've talked about how the old group
seems to have a lot more issues with fertility,
but that's about 50% fertility,
which is about where we were last year.
Again, that newer group that's been outbred
several times for a new gene pool
seems to be like 80 to 90 even sometimes 100% fertile,
so I can't complain though,
this is a really pretty girl
that should have some really beautiful babies.
Let's go ahead and see how many eggs
are good in this clutch.
That's two, four, six good eggs.
Two, four, six, eight, nine bad eggs.
So not quite 50%, but still, six good eggs.
And I just heard that they found
another little baby skink, that the momma hadn't been done.
So, how does this one look?
It looks really cute, too.
Look at you little monkey.
Oh, I think it's gonna be okay.
Sometimes when they're first born
they're a little bit less ambitious about movin' around.
It's belly looks pretty good.
You said when its umbilical it was bleeding a little bit?
- Yeah, it came off a little early.
- Yeah, yeah, and that's really common with baby skinks,
but I have a feeling this ones gonna be okay.
I mean, it looks like it'll rebound pretty quick.
I've seen a lot of skinks that are born
that are really, really listless like this,
but then within a couple hours they seem to really perk up,
so we'll keep an eye on this one,
but, so that takes our count from eight to nine.
And then the next clutch right here,
let's see what it is.
It's actually a Blood Rat Het Scaleless, oh yeah.
Now that's more like it for sure.
And it's actually bred to this beautiful male right here,
which is a Hypo Blood Scaleless.
Now again, I always say blood red,
but blood reds are actually diffused corns,
and the reason for that is,
you can see how red this animal would be if it had scales,
so the first animals were actually normal,
which were really red, so they called them blood reds,
but of course when you breed 'em say in to an anery corn,
or a butter corn or somethin' like that,
they no longer are red,
so then they started calling diffused corns,
if ya get my drift.
Regardless, what a gorgeous clutch,
we're gonna go ahead and really gently
remove this female right here, okay, awesome,
she looks good, no eggs in her.
So she looks absolutely incredible.
Look at that clutch of eggs right there.
That is absolutely beautiful,
there are two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14 good eggs, and no slugs.
Again, you see that that newer, outbred line of scaleless
doesn't seem to have the fertility issues,
so we're just gonna go ahead
and take these 14 beautiful eggs right here,
put 'em in the egg box and they are all set.
I'll go ahead, get the shed out of this cage,
I'll put some water in with her,
get her all set up.
And momma, you did an amazing job.
Not a bad day,
only a couple clutches,
but I'll take it every day of the week.
What the heck did you bring me, dude?
- Dude, look at that little fish tail!
- [Brian] What the heck, what is that all about?
- I have no idea, Jessica's like,
oh I'm doin' a time lapse,
run over and show this to Brian.
I couldn't believe it, couldn't believe it.
- It is crazy, now we've actually had it
where a tail breaks off and two tails will grow out,
but this is a perfect tail.
It's not a regen tail or anything.
I've never seen that before.
Wow, that's crazy.
- Fish tail line, coming soon!
- Fish tail line, yep.
That's new, new line.
Eric's gonna be sellin' over at his page, so,
the real Eric Chambers.
(Eric laughing) - That is awesome.
Bring it over, man.
So we're about to do a little test run.
We have a tour coming,
we're gonna have Eric and Noah
kinda hang out with us a little bit,
have some fun so they get the feel of that tour,
so that way when people book the Eric and Noah tour,
they have a little bit of experience.
Should be pretty fun.
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We have Jennifer here from Washington state,
and her family local.
Of course, Noah's back there hangin' out with Perdida
just havin' a good time,
and a super fun family,
definitely gonna be a good tour.
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We're wrapping up the tour.
What'd you guys think?
- I thought it was a lot easier than I expected.
It felt more natural.
- It did. - I got a little amped up
before, I was a little nervous.
But, it turned out really good.
- [Brian] Well you guys did good.
- Yeah, it was awesome,
'cause you work at The Reptarium,
and it's just one person after another,
- Yeah - and you get to talk to
so many people, and you feel like you're repeating yourself.
It's nice with one group,
you tell 'em all the info,
you're not repeating yourself, - Yeah.
- It was cool, I thought it was cool.
- But, please, if you do this Noah Eric tour,
bring some food for us,
'cause I'm hungry now.
- That's not part of it, - What?
- You don't get food.
But they did really good.
It was a lot easier for me to sit back
and just let these guys do the work.
We had an absolutely wonderful time.
Good job guys. - Thanks.
- So weirdly enough,
as the day went on,
more and more baby skinks were kinda born.
Well, not more and more,
but the final count,
instead of being eight live,
was 11 live, so there are 11 beautiful
live little baby blue-tongued skinks, that, I tell ya what,
these are some of the prettiest ones I've ever produced.
I cannot wait 'til these get some size on 'em,
and then there was the one stillborn.
So, 11 cute little babies just like that, and one stillborn.
Wow, what a way to start the year.
Hopefully we'll have tons more blue-tongued skinks
born over the next few weeks.
All right Jessica, so what'd we end up with today?
- Somewhere around 500.
- 500 today? - Yes, yeah.
- Holy moly!
About 500 eggs, okay,
well that means there's gonna be about 500 babies
hatching in a few days. - About two months, yeah.
- Oh my gosh, it's gonna be crazy.
And we already have well over 1,000 eggs,
so, it's heatin' up over here.
Good job.
- Good thing I have Danny now.
- Yeah, at least we have Danny to help a little bit,
but it's still gonna be really hectic, so wow.
That is a lot of gecko eggs.
As I'm ending out the day,
I did want to share something with you guys.
Remember my buddy Jay Tomsky that came up
and shot all those really cool vlogs that,
we were just kind of experimenting on?
Well, he is gonna come on with us here
in the next couple weeks,
so he'll be a part of the vlog,
but we listen to so many of your guys' kind of input
and constructive criticism,
and kinda the ups and downs,
and we definitely are gonna have
a lot more energy put into first person, number one.
We're gonna fix audio issues,
and we're also gonna work on the music selection
and volume a little bit.
But we listed to you guys.
The majority of people loved it, I loved it.
I think we can take the vlog
and so many other projects to the next level.
Jay is a great guy, he's a talented guy,
and the most important thing,
he's a super positive guy,
that I can't wait to be part of the team.
So, a couple weeks from now,
you guys will start to see that.
I will have a little bit more time
and energy to put some more time into the vlog,
because I won't be so bogged down filming
and editing every single little piece.
So I definitely need it,
so please bear with me
while I kinda of get a little bit of my life back.
But with that said,
a lot of that time is gonna be spent
doing a lot of the projects
that I've been super excited to get going.
So let me know in the comments if you guys are excited
about that or what you think about it.
And I wanna continue to hear all of your kinda thoughts
and processes so that we can make this
the best possible vlog as we absolutely can.
As for now, have an absolutely amazing day,
I love you guys so much.
Be kinda to someone, and I promise,
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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