- Hey good morning, everybody and welcome
to the vlog.
I hope the start your day is amazing.
Today is gonna be awesome because I get to play
with some deadly snakes.
You guys know that I love venomous snakes
and Bruce actually brought in
a bunch of cool stuff, so fingers crossed
everything goes well lets jump into it
of course we're gonna be safe but you guys are in
for a treat and gonna see some beautiful snakes.
Mad man Bruce over here, brought us a couple
of goodies.
You seen a few of his animals before
and we're gonna revisit, what do we have?
- This is the Gadsden animal
the timber rattle snake.
- Yeah, its legendary.
- Oh yeah, so I named him Robert Reynold's
because he's a mountain locality
so you'll notice he's super, super dark.
- Oh my God, its so dark.
It is such a beautiful snake man
oh and the buttons on this thing are ridiculous.
- Right?
- Look at that.
Man that thing is absolutely terrific.
Wow, now you gotta really give rattlesnakes
a tremendous amount of birth because believe
it or not it may seem like we're kind of far back
but his got such a spring loaded strike
that he could probably strike close to here.
So I don't want to... and his definitely
threatening right now, right?
- Oh yeah, he like can lift his whole entire body
and launch it at you.
- So we wanna always be careful
look at the buttons on that little monkey.
How many are their?
- So I believe they might be about fifteen
I never gotten... I choose them a couple of times
but I always forget to actually count the buttons
every time I do it.
- Oh my God.
- I mean obviously you got a rattlesnake
in your hands, you're not really thinking
about counting the buttons
you're more thinking about...
I need to put you back.
- Well that's amazing I mean he's amazing.
Now, these guys would get darker
in certain seasons and lighten up?
- So I know they actually have like a firing
on firing down pay period.
The reason, from my understanding.
The reason why they're so dark
at least in the mountain localities
the closer you are in the sun, more sun
the more you need to absorb especially at colder
climates, so these guys they wanna get out
get the sun and get back in soon as they sit back
into their dens as quickly as possible.
- That thing is ridiculous.
These guys are live bearing pit vipers
which are absolutely incredible.
You can see those big pits.
Trust me, right now you can just look at him
he's just like staring at me
the fact that those big pits are just firing up
right now he knows how close.
If I got into a range... he's gonna hit me.
And you don't wanna get it, he's got some dirty
venom, he's got a lot of necrosis
its gonna definitely hurt
definitely gonna probably lose a finger
or something like that, nevertheless
we're gonna give its first and just...
Admire how beautiful that snake is.
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- One of my all-time favorite, little snakes.
And oh my God, this thing.
Bruce its grown quite a bit, I remember when
you first got it, it was quite a bit smaller.
- Oh my God, he was a baby last time you saw him.
- Oh my gosh, he's so beautiful
I mean just look at that cryptic patterning
on there.
So here in a minute we're gonna show you
Gabon vipers as well which are both biggest
but their in similar looking but would you say
that Rhinos and Gabon's
are difficult to work with?
- A hundred percent.
- Really?
- Absolutely, with a Rhino viper I've always
got a little bit more caution with them
just because like they just fly off of the handle
for no reason and they don't really hook
all great either, its just like theirs so many
reasons why its just an animal its beautiful
to look at but for the most part
you just leave it alone.
But like as far as the Gabby I mean there is
some days where its like man you're a baby
its a sweetheart.
- I was about to say it I was just looking at it
I wanna pick it up so bad but I'm gonna
leave that to my friends Tyler and Chandler
absolutely stunning I mean that things pattern
is... cryptic as it gets and that almost seems
unreal that mother nature can make that.
- You know that every time I show this to people
you know honestly I get the same questions
all the time like you know.
What did you do to get this animal to look
like this and all sorts of other questions
and I was just like this how God made it man.
- Its mother nature right there, that is truly
living art.
- This is buffy the puffy.
Bruce where did you get that name from?
(laughs)
Of course we got the bump adder I mean dude
these things are ridiculous man, their so cool.
Its interesting how you got like the Gab-Gabon
the Rhinos the Puffs all from the same region
kind of and their also similar but very different.
- Almost, like you said
I mean their some very basic
things that are somewhat
but their like extracanonical differences
in so many different ways.
Like, oh my God.
I mean like right away you can already
tell especially in her way of being defensive
she'll shield her head up and bow it down
towards you.
And like with the Rhino you kinda notice
it kinda pokes its head up a little bit
almost like he's hold himself up.
And its just simply interesting.
- They're just crazy cool animals and of course
the reason they got that name puff adder
is because they'll make those huge puffs
that are just sound like a demon coming out
I mean its absolutely incredible and these guys
literally, like the record literally
like a hundred or something.
I think its close to a hundred babies
could you imagine a hundred baby puffs adders?
- Yeah I didn't even know the hundred
I just heard that sixty to eighty...
- I seriously think I could be completely wrong
but I think the record was like
a hundred and eight babies.
- That's incredible.
- Just ridiculous.
The thing that I love about these guys too
in Gabby's and Rhinos will do too
so they have that kinda caterpillar local motion
you can start to see it right
in the neck right there
where he just kinda caterpillar.
There it goes, oh my God.
Its just so absolutely amazing.
- You every morning Brain, when I wake up
and I go to my snake room and I sort of check
on things like that's probably one of the coolest
things because before the lights turn on these
guys are super active and their all around
their cages moving around and that motion
just constantly searching around and stuff
its just like wow dude.
Something that I told when I was a kid
it was so solitary man they love to move
they love to get moving.
- Its unbelievable, and I have the pleasure
of seeing a handful of these over in South Africa
and wow what an experience to these in the wild
we were actually at a bosh camp in a place called
Thembe and right outside of our tents
there is a little baby we found
just a little tiny baby it was so cute
and it was just really something
that made our evening, cause yore like oh my God
a little baby Pit, you know its just so beautiful
I tell you I love these guys.
Oh my goodness and then there is the Gabon viper
again the Rhinos are amazing but for whatever
reason Gabon for me are the top you know I mean
its like...
They are absolutely amazing and of course
I almost flew all the way to Cape Town
when I was in Durban just to see the baby albino
because I was in South Africa just a little bit
after they bought.
So there's an Albino Gabon vipers over there
they're ridiculous but Gabon vipers
are something its just something about
that giant head and when these guys get huge
I mean their heads are like that big
and of course the longest fangs of any venomous
snake, oh my goodness gracious
this thing is beautiful, dude.
- There's not a lot of words for it
there's a reason why this animal
has the notoriety it does
its just such an incredible animal.
- And I've been in the areas where these guys
are from and when you're in like the leaf litter
of an area with this type they literally blend
right in where there's just no way
if there's just a bunch of leaves on the ground
right here, you would never see it
just absolutely amazing camouflage even though
outside when you're looking at like at like this
you're like oh my God, that pattern
is so ridiculous and vibrant the truth is
in the leaf litter it just disappears
and these are ambushed hunters
so their just gonna sit there just like that
still as they could be and when something
comes close because of those pits those heat pits
they gonna see it come there
and their just gonna crush it I mean what amazing
predators I mean this is, this is it man
this is...
I mean top 2 venomous snakes for me
Gabon vipers, king Cobras and this is amazing.
- I'm not a big Viperina guys you know
I love my Lepids I'm a big nausea guy but man
I had to get me Gabby
you always gotta get you a Gabby
- Oh my God, now we just gotta talk more
into letting us have a venomous section
and then we'll be good to go.
Got a few cool babies you guys know I love
cutting eggs but I love seeing baby snakes
I mean and this clutch is pretty cool
this is actually a Lemon Blast to a Pewter Lesser
so we have a bunch of really cool stuff
that's combo nations.
This is actually a super Pastel Lesser cinnamon
so the cinnamon lessers
they call them lithium this is a super pastel
version I just love that kind of silvery
kind of almost a purplish tone to it
and then the other two babies from this clutch
are both the same genetically and they are super
cool, these are super pastel they are pin stipe
and they are cinnamon and lesser.
So these are basically the all gene animals
so we have two of them in this clutch
when these guys set out and have that kind
of purple lavender to them and stuff like that
absolutely wonderful I'm not really sure
I kind of like the one with pattern more
as you can see and with this one you can see
a little bit of pattern on the neck area
that's kinda cool too nevertheless
that was some great eyes for three eggs
we crushed it and these babies are
absolutely amazing.
Have another clutch of Abbott's Okatee
corn snakes again straight Abbott's Oaktee
nothing else.
That's one thing that you know
corn snakes are kind of like a box of chocolates
you never know what you're gonna get
but when it comes to the pure Abbott's Oaktees
you know exactly what you're gonna get
you're gonna get normal Abbott's Oaktees.
They not head for albino they're not head
for Sunkist they're not head for anything else
just pure Abbott's Oaktees.
So its always nice knowing that when you open
up that box you're gonna get a bunch of really
beautiful classic Abbott's oak tees
and those are great building box because
sometimes you don't want there to be
hidden genetics so if you're working
on a particular Phenotype type of color phase
or whatever you wanna call it, you don't their
to be hidden genes so Abbott's oak trees
are great way to really be able to know
what you're working with genetically.
Back at you with another egg cutting
this is actually a ghost ball Python
which is a Hyprho ball Python bred through
champagne head ghost to potentially produce
mimosas its actually a possible Lori too
so we could produce some lorry stuff in here
I'm not sure the fact is the champagne is
with a possible Lori
because we didn't know what a champagne Loren
so we named it a possibility so if we produce
some Lori's in here we're gonna now know
that the possible is absolutely a Lori
if that makes any sense regardless
we have lets see 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 eggs
one egg is actually been peeked out
lets go jump into egg number one.
And again I'm expecting some mimosas
stuff in here some ghost stuff in here
and then if that Lori plays a role who knows
what that's gonna end up being
so right off the rip first egg is a normal
so not a Lori not a ghost not a mimosas
not a champagne, its okay.
Sometimes you gotta start off slowly
and then pick up pace as you go, right?
So egg number two.
Here we go lets see if we get something cool here
This is actually awesome so this is definitely a
mimosas and this is what we think is the mimosas
Lori ball python well we haven't produced
a mimosas Lori ball python but we have did
the champagne that we thought that were glorious
but it has kind of the big stripping on it
that a mimosas or champagne doesn't have
pretty sure that, I hope we produce normal Lori
I know that's weirdness but if we produce
a normal Lori that will give you
a better opportunity to understand
that this is absolutely Lori but I think
that this is a mimosis Lori, I think.
So lets just keep going and maybe
we'll find out for sure.
And again if that's the mimosis Lori
that was the all gene animal so lets hope
we figure out what's going on here.
Interestingly enough we have a little pastel
in here which is even more bizarre because
I don't know why is there a pastel in there?
I don't know why there would be a pastel in there
because the champagne potential Lori
which we know fathered some of these eggs
doesn't have pastel in it
and the adult is a ghost ball python
so their shouldn't been a pastel in here
I don't know what the true result is
but lets just keep cutting
I tell you what it is always an adventure
when you cutting snake eggs.
So it just shows a completely different wrinkle
and things here to try and figure out
what the daddy is here, again now we have a ghost
ball python looks like just a normal ghost ball
python, which again goes back to the champaign
head bred to the ghost which produced some ghost
doesn't look like a ghost Lori which by the way
I don't think anythings produced a ghost Lori
so we could produce goose ghost Lori
if it is a Lori ball python
so we have 2, 4, 5 eggs to go lets see
what else we produced.
All right like I said there's always those
interesting productions and things like that
what is this, you know?
So okay another mimosis awesome
let me just move this around just a little bit
can't tell this looks like just a normal mimosis
so the first one definitely looked like mimosis
with like dark stripping on it
which would make me think its a Lori
this one just looks like a normal mimosis
which is cool we haven't produced a Lori yet
so there's still kind of throws the kinda Lori
thing into the mix but we don't know for sure
if its a Lori, so four eggs to go.
And lets see what we got, lets see what we got.
Okay interesting another mimosis
really pretty mimosis too really nice purple
stripe on it possibly that Lori gene in there
man with three eggs left I just want one
Lori ball like just to prove what's going on
and then we still have this pastel ball python
that makes no sense its almost like and egg
from a different clutch threw in there
or something like that but alright three eggs
to go lets go in and check it out.
Alright lets see like I said I would love
to produce a Lori ball python in here just to see
what's going on here, lets get this right here.
What do we have here looks like another
ghost ball python doesn't look like a Lori
ghost, just a normal ghost which is cool
our odds on ghost pythons been really good
in this clutch so that's awesome
we've got three mimosis which is pretty darn
dope so 2 eggs to go lets check this one out.
Come just one Lori ball python or really
a ghost ball python is where I'd really
like to produce and just a normal ball python
so that's just a head ghost there's nothing
in there and then the last egg was already peeked
out but lets cut it and see what's in there
and maybe lets hope so and if not then we don't
know what's going on so lets go check it out.
Last egg is a ghost ball python gonna move along
gonna see if its a Lori
no just a ghost ball python.
So all-in-all I'm real happy with results
and the fact that we have three mimosis
we have a bunch of ghosts we have a bunch
of cool stuff the pastel I don't know
where that thing came from doesn't make any sense
but I still kind of got the mystery of whether
or not that possible Lori, champagne was a Lori
or not cause then it proves any Lori stuffs a all
I don't know what that means but nevertheless
still some beautiful babies I can't wait
to at least have.
I really truly do need to add a venomous section
here to the Reptarium if we do expand
I think it would be absolutely incredible
let me know if you guys like that idea
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