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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
That's right, we're gonna be cutting a clutch of eggs
here in a minute.
But this clutch of eggs
has a little bit of a special story behind it.
Not exactly a really great story,
but it's story,
and every story kinda makes up who you are.
So I wanna start with that.
Then we'll come back and actually cut this clutch of eggs
and hopefully see some amazing babies.
As most of you know
that the majority of my first 28 years working with reptiles
was breeding snakes.
And thankfully, I was kind of on the forefront
of a lot of things,
in particular ball pythons.
Well this particular clutch that we're about to cut
is one of those ball pythons that we pioneered,
and that is the sunset ball python.
Now again, it was a crazy store.
It was a ball python that came out of West Africa.
I paid $70,000 for this little tiny baby male
way back in the day
and I was really high hopes.
Back then ball pythons were like the rage.
They still are the rage,
but back then they were huge money
and that's what I did for a living.
So we bought this kinda speculative snake,
hoping that it was gonna prove out.
Well thankfully, after a number of years
of working with the project,
we actually produced the very first sunset.
Course it's the sunset ball.
And this was probably the biggest animal
that I produced this year
and I was just so excited.
It's kinda of a game changer for me
because again, can you imagine this animal
bred into albino, pinstripe, clown, pied,
you name the mutation,
it's gonna be ridiculous.
Over the next several years
we were the only people in the world
that were producing sunset ball pythons.
And the ball python kinda world
was exploding at the time like I have mentioned.
So they were selling for like $70,000,
which is crazy.
And I had people lined up to buy 'em
and it was really a great time to be producing
such an amazing animal.
And it's really cool that even after all these years,
now probably 10 years later,
there's still five, $6,000.
So they're still really sought after
as a recessive mutation.
What made 'em unique is that fact
that they're was like this orange almost reddish snake.
It's a color that you don't see in ball pythons
so that gave us an opportunity
to mix 'em into different color pallets.
So I raised up a handful,
the heterozygous that we had produced
so that we could continue producing
a bunch of sunsets over the coming years.
So this is the actual female that laid the clutch.
This is actually a possible het.
Now you make ask yourself,
why am I breeding possible hets.
Well, unfortunately I brought this up once before
and I don't wanna get into it
because I believe in kinda leaving the past in the past.
But what happened was,
I had someone that I entrusted in the crew
that basically stole all my heterozygous animals.
That's right, all of the adult heterozygous animals
that were producing sunsets for me disappeared.
And unfortunately, the following year my adult males sunset
that came out of the wild past away.
So I basically was dead in the water with the project
'cause I didn't have my adult hets I produced
and I didn't have the adult sunset male anymore.
So all I had was some het males
and I was able to produce these animals
which are 50% possible heterozygous.
Now, you know obviously it's a bad thing.
It's a horrible thing
and it cost me literally hundreds of thousands of dollars,
I'm not gonna lie.
But you know, I've left that in the past,
I'm not gonna lie.
And we've changed a lot of things like for instance,
again, we didn't have cameras before
so we couldn't prove anything.
Now we have cameras.
As well as we have a crew that we really trust.
But I made the mistake in the past and life goes on.
I don't wanna throw anyone under the bus.
I don't wanna talk about it.
I don't wanna mention names.
It's just happened and that's the way it is,
and I've moved on.
So now, we have these possible hets.
And hopefully, one of 'em will prove out
and we can produce some sunsets again.
I've mentioned it before that every event in life
brings you to where you're gonna go in the future.
To be honest with you,
if I would of still been producing sunsets
and all the other things,
there's a chance
that maybe I wouldn't of fulfilled my dream,
which is this the final dream,
of educating people and opening up the Reptarium.
So in a way, yes, it was a bummer
but at the same time it kinda pushed me in another direction
along with many other things.
I remember once talkin' to a friend of mine
that was really successful,
multi, multi millionaire.
And he told me once,
"You know Brian in my career,
"I've lost millions and millions of dollars.
"And you know what I've done when I've done that?
"I thought about how I could make
"millions and millions more.
"I don't dwell on the past.
"I don't dwell on what I've lost.
"I only look towards the future."
And that's kinda the way that I've really looked at
at that whole situation.
And now there's an opportunity
to maybe start to write a really bad wrong
and maybe I'll be able to produce one.
Again, it's a long shot.
It may take me two or three more years
to get to my final goal.
But today at least we have a shot at it
and I'm pretty excited just to see what it is.
I'm not gonna be overly disappointed if we miss
but I am pretty excited about the possibility.
So what do you say we just go ahead and cut that clutch?
So here it is guys, the moment of truth.
Like I had mentioned,
I don't have high expectations for this clutch.
Possible het stuff sometimes proves out sometimes doesn't.
But you never know,
is this the time that it actually work out.
So let's just go ahead and cut this first egg
and see if any special stuff comes up.
Here we go, what do we have?
Dun, dun, dun, the moment of truth!
And a normal ball python.
Just like I expected.
I think that we have what?
We have two, four, six, eight eggs in this clutch.
So I think once we get to probably five eggs,
if we haven't got a sunset yet,
probably not option then,
but you never know.
I've had clutches where I know they're hets
and you've gotten seven normal
or seven eggs have been cut and there's nothing
and then the eighth egg is.
So you never really know.
But hey listen, one day we're gonna hit this.
I promise you we're gonna hit this again.
Egg number two.
Boy, if saw a little red baby
I think I would actually faint to be honest with you.
Unfortunately, another normal baby.
Oh god.
Obviously, I didn't have high expectations
but I had high hopes.
So, let's just keep on movin' on.
No sense in wasting any time on this one
'cause there's nothing else exciting
other than potentially sunsets.
There shouldn't be any other mutations in this.
So we're gonna get either all normals
or potentially something really exciting.
Again, a normal ball python in this clutch.
Every egg that we cut there's less expectations.
Let's just go ahead.
We got five eggs left,
let's go ahead and just rip through 'em.
Here we go, come on.
Just one little red baby would make my life so happy.
All right, a normal baby ball python.
And again guys,
I don't want you to feel bad for what happened.
Like I have mentioned,
I moved on from things.
We'll get it back.
Every sunset that's produced out there
came from us one way or another.
So it's still cool to be the originator of that
and there's no doubt that we will produce 'em again.
And when we do it'll be even more special to me.
Here we go.
All right, this is the big one.
And a normal ball python.
So, we're five eggs in guys.
Three eggs to go.
Probably not good.
If I'm gonna give you a percentage,
I would say,
98% tells me the next three eggs are gonna be normal.
So let's see.
And that's not being pessimistic,
that's just being realistic.
So, let's just go ahead
and see if my odds get better or worse.
Wouldn't it be crazy
if one of these eggs was.
This one isn't it, that's for sure.
Huh.
It's a pretty little baby though, it's kinda neat.
Down to the final two.
Two eggs left.
And, what's in here?
Nope, just a normal ball python.
Now, wouldn't this be hilarious
if like I have mentioned,
seven eggs were normal
and then the eighth egg turns out to be a sunset.
That would be ridiculous.
So, let's just go ahead and get this over with real quick.
And what do we have?
What do we have?
Oh my gosh,
it's still exciting producing babies no matter what.
So yep, just a normal baby, guys.
Definitely no sunsets on this one.
Again, I could go out and buy a sunset right now
but I think I wanna produce it.
I wanna take that journey again
because I think it's gonna be more fulfilling for me.
And like I've been mentioning,
I don't really breed snakes as investment animals anymore.
So I'm not worried about producing sunsets
to make money on 'em.
I just wanna do it
because emotionally I'd like to produce one again.
We missed on this one,
we got a couple more clutches this year
that we could potentially produce
all from possibly hets just like this clutch.
Again, don't look at this as a sad story.
Look it as a story of opportunity
and we will get there.
And when we do together,
it'll be even that much more special.
Guys, don't forget that we have the new merch drop out.
Of course we've got Ivy with hugs and without hugs
and we also have Lucy with hugs and without hugs.
You can go down the link in the description.
They're only gonna be available for a limited time.
I think they're amazing
'cause they wrap completely around you.
Super, super comfortable.
Definitely the best quality shirts we've ever had before,
there's not doubt about it.
If you guys are interested,
for a limited time you can get your merch.
Again, link down in the description
and I hope that you guys enjoy 'em.
Down in the dungeon.
Which can only mean one thing.
Egg time.
Okay let's go ahead and see what we have going on.
This is actually an interesting animal.
This is actually what we calling
a cinnamon paint ball python.
But what happened is that originally there was an animal
called a paint ball python
that's kind of a cool looking animal.
This is cinnamon and that.
And then when you bred them together
you could produce a super paint.
Well, now we real realized
that it's a visual heterozygous,
now they're called recessive.
So this is actually Sydney het paint,
so obviously, some of it's babies
are gonna have visual het paint markings on it
along with that.
And it was bred to an unbelievable male.
Which was this male here,
which is an absolute beauty.
This of course a lemonblast, extreme gene enchi.
And just so you visually understand.
This is what they used to call a super paint.
Now they would just call paint
because this is the recessive mutation.
So that cinnamon is het for this mutation here,
there's no other mutations in this.
And then you start adding
all those other genes with that male,
oh my goodness we can get a lot of cool animals.
And to make matters a little bit even more confusing,
there's actually a something that's called a sentinel
that looks basically the same thing.
And the paint and sentinel looks almost identical.
Let's just go ahead and pull this collection
and hopefully these babies are gonna ripper.
So hope now you can see why we're so excited
about this particular clutch.
So we're just gonna go ahead remove mama.
She seems be being very, very well behaved.
Nice, beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
We'll go ahead get them right in here.
We might have to remove the top ones.
Nah, I think we're actually gonna be okay.
So we have two, four, six, seven beautiful eggs.
And again, the combinations there are gonna be incredible.
And then when we produce the supers of that farm,
or now what is called the recessive mutation,
oh my goodness.
Could you imagine that paint ball python
with a enchi, extreme gene, lemonblast, cinnamon,
oh my gosh the future is gonna be so amazing.
I can't wait till this clutch hatches.
Remember I told you yesterday
how Ivy didn't even look that big
but I thought that after a couple of days
she would kind of bloat.
You know, that animal gas is start going off.
This happened last time too
and that's why she floating as well.
She's got all that gas in her
but look at that huge lump right now.
And what's interesting is that earlier
she was underneath the waterfall,
she did this last time too,
where her belly's under the waterfall
just kinda getting a hit on it
and I think it kinda helps her out.
But being in the water probably is really good for her
because all the weight of that animal
isn't kinda weighing her down,
she's able to float and stuff like this.
And again, this is just typical anaconda stuff.
You see this in the wild
when people come across and anaconda
and they're kinda floating on the top like this,
so it's pretty cool to see it.
Definitely that 20 pound pig was a big one.
As you guys know Reptarium is now open,
it's pretty awesome.
But we are limiting the amount of people, 25 people.
For the rest of June,
25 people is what we're doing
so we're selling tickets.
There's just a handful of tickets left
and then well unfortunately we're sold out
for the whole month of June.
But you can go on TheReptarium.com
Check your time slots if you wanna come visit us
throughout the rest of June.
Please come check us out.
It's cool, it's an interesting opportunity
where they'll only be 25 people in here.
If everything goes well,
in July we're gonna be able to increase number quite a bit.
So this an interesting rare opportunity.
Get on it if you want to, TheReptarium.com
And if not,
hopefully I see you in July just as a regular open.
This next clutch is actually an pinstripe female.
Woo, momma's not happy so I'm gonna have to be careful.
But she was bred to this silver streak,
bamboo, woma male.
That thing is a stud and he looks so cool.
Let's see how many eggs she has.
And momma does not look happy.
All right, we're gonna get momma off the eggs right now.
Come on lil' girl.
Oh, and that's like a bunch of eggs.
Definitely one of the bigger clutches of eggs
that we've had this year.
And these are so fresh.
I wanna show you what I mean by that.
See how these eggs are relatively,
they're very soft and kinda pliable right now
but they're still pretty formed.
Look at this egg right here.
It's not even pliable yet.
Which means that she literally just laid that
probably within the last 15 minutes or so.
Now, it looked like she was completely done.
That's why she wasn't wrapped around.
Makes complete sense.
So we caught her literally
within minutes of laying the last eggs.
Which is gonna be good for the eggs
'cause that way I can kinda move 'em around.
We'll get momma all cleaned up.
Get her cage cleaned up.
Get her to forget about these eggs and move on.
But let's just pull the rest of this clutch
'cause I'm tell you what guys,
this might be the biggest clutch of the year.
Or at least tie it
because that is a lot of eggs right there.
We're just gonna keep on pulling these eggs
'cause there's definitely no doubt
that these got rolled around a little bit.
But the truth is, is that when eggs are just laid,
they aren't really adhered to the top yet.
Usually that takes several hours.
So the chances are that even if these were rolled,
they'd be okay
because that embryo can kind of freely roll around
for a little bit.
But just think of the combinations there
with that pinstripe, the bamboo,
the silverstreak, the woma.
Oh my goodness this is gonna be an amazing clutch
to cut in 57 days.
Okay, let's see how many eggs we've got.
Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 13 eggs!
We did guys!
The biggest clutch of the year, 13 eggs.
That is a monster clutch for a ball python.
I couldn't be more excited.
Again, 57 days from now we'll be cuttin' this clutch.
We have so many egg cutting clutches coming this year.
It's gonna be so, so exciting.
So obviously it was a bummer
that we missed on the sunset stuff
but we have a couple more clutches.
And I promise you we'll eventually produce again.
It'll be really exciting when it actually happens.
And I'm not stressed out at all about it.
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