- What do you say we go on and get in
with my 20 foot snake, Lucy and give her a little food?
Lucy, you ready to eat, girl?
Come on, eat!
Come on, come on, come on, sweetie.
Let's go.
There you go. She's ready.
Come on baby girl.
There you go, sweetie.
There you are!
Aw, she took it so light and gentle.
I mean, my God!
Normally Lucy's a beast mode,
but today she's just like, "Oh, I'll take that, dad."
Good job, Lucy.
What an absolutely wonderful snake.
(upbeat music)
Lori said she needed to talk to me about something.
What is it that you need to talk to me about?
- So I wanted to have a discussion about,
if you're doing a job, you have to do it well.
- Okay. - Okay?
- What job am I doin'? - And like I said,
you're not just gonna peek in and look for eggs
and walk away because guess what?
- What? - By not doing the full job,
you missed something.
- I missed somethin'? What'd I miss?
(Brian gasps) Well, you!
- And if you would've done the job completely,
you would've found that.
- Look it guys, we've got more eggs!
An anerythristic Brooks king.
But you didn't have it marked,
you didn't have it marked in the box.
- 'Cause nobody went through it yet.
If you're gonna start the job, finish the job.
- I don't know.
My job was going through and checking lay tags
- No, no. - with nest boxes.
- See, again. You're half-assin' the job.
That's not the job.
- I like the way I like my job. My job.
- No. No.
- Okay. - No, things are changing.
- [Brian] Things are change, what?
- Yeah. - They're changin'?
- I'm sick of this halfway stuff.
- Oh my gosh. - It's all or nothin'.
- Okay. - You either get it all,
or you leave it alone
and do nothing. - Okay, all right.
I'll get an egg box ready and I'll pull these, okay?
Do I have to check anything else?
- Well, no, I'm done now. - Okay, good.
- But tomorrow. - Keep doin' what you're-
- No! - Keep doin'
what you're doin'.
You're doin' good. - No, tomorrow,
if you're gonna do it, you do it all.
Otherwise you leave it alone.
- Okay, I guess I'll do it all.
All right, let's get an egg box.
♪ Egg time, egg time ♪
So now that I got reprimanded by Lori,
it's time to pull this beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
And it really does look like a great clutch.
And I think what happened
was Lori just didn't realize this girl had shed
and was gonna lay eggs.
So she didn't put a nest box in.
And I do agree with Lori,
and I'm just gonna set them right in it.
It looks like one little weird egg right there.
But I do agree with Lori is that it is important
to check every single animal like I have with ball pythons.
Every now and then you miss a shed
and all of a sudden there's a clutch of eggs.
If you don't check every single day, you might miss it.
And with this case, those eggs would dry up
'cause they weren't in a nest box
with some damp sphagnum moss, right?
So my bad.
I guess now I have to check
every single snake every day down here as well.
And again, this is actually
an anerytheristic female here, Brooks King snake,
that is bred to an anerytheristic Brooks male.
So all these babies being that they're recessive,
are gonna be anerytheristic.
Again, this one little egg just doesn't look very good.
This looks like a little slugger right here.
Other than that, we've got two, four,
six, eight, ten beautiful eggs.
I mean, that's amazing.
And Brooks Kings actually hatch in about 50 days.
Most snakes go 60 plus days,
so these guys should be hatching here in the next 50 days.
- So I'm just sitting here misting some cages down.
These are our Gastropholis prasina,
or I think they're called
green belly keeled skinks or something.
I don't know too much about 'em.
I know that they're really, really cool lookin',
they got lots of cool color, so we're gonna try to handle
one or two of 'em because why not?
Hi buddy!
Ah, ah, ah!
Ow! He bites!
Ow!
That one hurt, ow.
Stop, ow! No, ow!
He's got the taste for my blood.
Ow! He's got my knuckle. (laughs)
We good? Are we friends now?
Let's be friends.
No, no, no, no.
Ah!
Ow, he twist.
It's just like Mr. Brian when he unboxed, he won't let go.
I don't know what to do.
If I can get him off,
I wanna try to handle another one, but he won't let go.
- Just feedin' a handful of big snakes today.
Next up is my girl, Daisy.
Hey girl, what's up girl?
She's ready.
Ah, yeah, there she goes.
She's such a beautiful snake.
I tell you what, and she's been crushin' food lately.
(upbeat music)
We've got a tortoise break.
Looks like Matilda's comin' out.
Steve is over here eyeballing.
Yup.
Matilda comes out whenever she wants to.
Heading down into dungeon.
You know what that means?
♪ Python eggs and python eggs ♪
♪ and python eggs and pythons eggs ♪
- That's right. Python eggs.
This happens to be a pinstripe ball python.
It looks like she's wrapped around
a beautiful clutch of eggs, and she was bred
to this black pewter Cypress ball python.
So this is a pastel, it's a black pastel,
and it's a Cypress ball python.
Then you add the pinstripe and hoo doggy,
that's where we got those purple snakes last year.
Looks like mama is on
a beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
So let's go ahead, set an egg box up
and see how many eggs she has.
(upbeat music)
All right, let's see what mama has here.
She is a really good animal.
Really a beautiful pinstripe ball python,
and again, that pastel, that black pastel,
and that Cypress mixed in with that,
that's the purpley animals.
Oh my God, they're incredible.
And you could see the fertility of the snake eggs
that we've been getting these last several bunches
have been absolutely perfect
which is just what I was hoping for.
'Cause again, when we started off the year
and had a few slugs, I was a little worried, you know?
'Cause you never know like, uh-oh her temperature's off
or what was goin' on right there?
But now we seem to have settled
into a pretty good rhythm here
with some beautiful clutches, which is really good.
So we'll just go ahead, get these last few eggs out here.
Mama, what are you doin' you silly monkey, right there.
So get these in here and look at that, beautiful.
Two, four, six, eight, nine,
and mama is upset all of a sudden!
Oh my gosh, nine beautiful eggs.
We'll get her cleaned up,
get this whole cage cleaned up and stuff like that.
She'll mellow out
after she doesn't have that egg smell on her.
But what are we?
I tell you what, egg season's here.
It's absolutely incredible.
You guys know that we want you to join the army, right?
Well, Matilda has now joined the army.
She actually likes the Monitor Lisa shirt
which is a good shirt for sure.
So definitely go to reptilearmy.com.
We need you to be
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We appreciate you.
We got a lot of cool things comin'.
Go to reptilearmy.com and get on and join the army.
And it looks like Steve wants to join the army as well.
- His teeth!
This is the worst spot to get bit
'cause it's just right on the knuckle.
These guys, it's the tiniest bit of skin.
What do I do?
Here, let me try this.
I'm gonna set him down here.
So let's try, oh God.
Here we go again.
Let's be friends. Yeah, see?
Ow! Beepity beep, he got the other knuckle!
Oh, ah, yes, stop! No, be friends!
Let's just be friends.
Oh, let's just be friends.
Stay cool. Be cool.
Like John Travolta cool, you know, old school cool.
Stop, stop!
Don't do it. Ow!
- My girl Butterscotch is always pretty fired up.
Come on, girl.
Do you want some food?
Come on girl.
Whoa, come on, girl.
There you go, ah, whoa!
Missed again.
Come on girl, get it.
Whoa! Ooh!
I tell you what, that girl is crazy.
Butterscotch is often really fun.
A lot of times she'll jump right out of the cage,
and of course catch that rabbit in there.
Today I was just gonna hand feed her,
but wow, I tell ya what, she definitely missed a few times,
got a little close to my hands.
- What are you doing?
- I'm goin' for an egg hunt.
- So you're doing everything?
You're spot cleaning, you're doing everything?
- I'm goin' for an egg hunt.
- No. - I'm goin' for an egg hunt.
- Get out. - Let's go!
Roll that egg time song!
♪ Egg time ♪
- Roll you down a freakin' hill!
Now leave, go! Let me do my job
and then I'll tell you if you can collect eggs.
- Okay. - Goodbye.
- Lori actually left, so I'm gonna go through this door
and I'm gonna see if I can find some eggs.
Shh!
(mysterious music)
She's over there, so just walk with me.
(mysterious music)
- What are you doing?
Are you kidding me? - Okay, okay,
okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay!
I'm leaving!
Ow, ow, ow!
Just doin' a quick check on the green basilisk.
I'm always kinda looking
to make sure that there's no eggs in here.
'Cause there's a lot of places
that they could actually lay in this
and they kinda look fat,
and then they look a little bit thinner,
then they look fat again.
It's so hard to say exactly what's goin' on,
so I just kinda poke around in here just to make sure.
The last thing I wanna do is miss a bunch of eggs, right?
Go over on this side.
And this is where they usually are kinda digging.
And I find 'em digging quite often, to be honest with you.
So I just wanna kinda push the bedding around,
see what's goin' on, see if we find any eggs.
I'm not expecting any eggs right now
to be totally honest with you.
But, there's one female that looks really loaded up.
That's the one that I think will probably lay first,
but for now, no eggs.
Like I said, just check maybe once a week
just to make sure what's goin' on, but no eggs.
But this girl that's sitting right up here at the top,
she looks like she's absolutely loaded with eggs.
Always exciting when Jessica has some babies.
What do we have today? - Yeah, we got
cave geckos today.
- [Brian] Okay, which ones are these?
- The Chinese cave geckos.
- [Brian] Okay. So these are the, yeah.
The more common ones?
- [Jessica] Yeah, the more common ones.
- Exactly. - So I also collected
eight eggs from these guys. - Oh my gosh, eight eggs?
- Yeah, which, I mean, it doesn't sound like a lot
in comparison to the leopard geckos and stuff,
but we only have four groups of cave geckos,
so it's pretty good.
- So that's awesome, that's cool.
Cave geckos are goin' good, and again,
we've got a couple of species, two species?
- Two species right now. - Two species
that we're workin' with. - There is those species
from TikisGeckos I want you to check out.
- Oh yeah?
All right, we'll have to reach out to them
and get some more cave geckos for sure.
But these guys are absolutely adorable.
- Oh, does it hurt bad when it bites?
- Stick your finger in there.
- [Man] It actually kinda hurts a little bit.
- Ow! (laughing)
Ow, it does hurt bad!
It's only right there, like the tip.
- Dude, he had me here.
- Well, this hurts!
How you gonna tell me that's not hurtin'?
It's on my finger.
Ow, okay, take it off.
- [Michael] No you can't.
They don't let go.
- Ow, Michael!
(both laughing)
Ow, Mike, stop moving him!
- You can't move because it'll go into a death roll.
He'll tear your finger off.
- Okay, well then stop moving him.
- All right, so grab him by his body
and then stick him on the leaf.
- I don't want to walk at all.
- [Michael] You gotta do it otherwise he won't let go.
Remember when Mr. Brian - He regrabs.
- unboxing? - Mr. Brian?
- Mr. Brian.
What do I stick 'em on?
- [Michael] Just set him on the leaf.
- I just got to work, I don't want to do this.
- [Michael] Just set him on the leaf.
- Ow!
- Of course Nova and Lilith are also on egg watch for sure.
And it should be any time.
I noticed Lilith is lookin',
maybe she's lookin' a little thin, it's so hard to tell.
So this year we have this nest box in here
that's really good that my friends made,
and now it'll be a lot easier to find 'em in here,
rather than all over the place.
So I'll just kinds poke around a little bit.
Again, don't think that she's gonna lay eggs yet,
but I think within the next, probably two, three weeks
we'll probably get our first clutch from her.
So yep, no eggs in here,
so struck out on both lizard cages, but that's okay.
Eggs are comin'
Rabbit number two for my girl, Lucy.
Come on, girl.
There you go, baby.
All right, she's gonna get a couple of little rabbits today.
Hey, it's always good for her,
she's crushin' food right now.
This is the summertime when they really start bangin' stuff,
but definitely get her beefed up for the summer.
She is looking good.
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