- Hey good morning, everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Today, we are gonna do a baby snake update.
We have some incredible baby snakes
and a little bit feisty ones, too,
that have now shed out and eaten.
And they are absolutely incredible.
We have a busy day ahead of us
but I wanted to kinda start it off
with a baby snake update.
And the thing is, guys, is that snakes change
so much from that first shed to a few meals.
I wanted to update you on some ball pythons
and some colubrids and other things, as well,
and just see how amazing they are looking.
Look at this bumblebee bamboo ball python right here.
Oh my god, that bamboo just really changes
the looks of things.
Absolutely incredible.
So again, lots of really cool snakes
and trust me, I'm only gonna be showing you guys
a little bit because there are thousands of snakes
down here that are unbelievable.
It has definitely been a banger of a year.
I produce a lot of banana stuff
because they are so absolutely gorgeous.
Some of my favorite stuff this year
was the banana chocolate stuff and this is a
banana chocolate pinstripe, hoohoo doggy.
I'm tellin' you what, look at the purples coming through
in that animal, absolutely a ripper.
Lots of cool baby colubrids hatching this year, too.
Look at this little T+ albino Nelson's milk snake
that pooped all over me.
Of course that T+ gives it that purplish look
and stuff like that.
Oh my god, that's incredible.
And again, these are allelic so when you breed these
to a normal albino, half the babies come out like this.
A little dirty monkey, peeing all over me.
Time to go wash my hands.
(laughing) If we're gonna stick with banana chocolate stuff,
hoohoo doggy, I tell you what, this is
the super chocolate banana, my gosh, that turned out good.
You guys know that I wanted to produce
the super chocolate banana pinstripe, the camo banana,
haven't hit that yet but I did hit some
camo banana pastels, I'll show you guys in a little bit
right here, but the purple in this guy is breathtaking.
And like I mentioned, I'm gonna show you guys
a lot of banana stuff because I just love it,
I just think it's amazing.
This happens to be a banana woma pin enchi het russo!
That's a lot of genes.
And it just makes it look really weird,
I've never seen this before.
I think this is a world's first,
I've never seen anyone else produce it
so I am blown away at how beautiful it is.
I wanna hit you guys with a couple scaleless corn snakes
because they're crazy.
This happens to be snow scaleless corn snake right here.
Now interesting with the snow scaleless,
sometimes they have no pattern at all.
This one has a little bit of cool patterning
down his back, which I think kinda adds
a little character to it.
So it's really cool, but good year for scaleless.
And we have some pretty incredible ones, hoohoo doggy.
I tell you what, this is actually
an anery diffused scaleless corn snake right here.
I tell you what, that is a ripper!
I tell you, that is insane.
The anery and diffused go together so well
and then you get that into scaleless and wow!
Doesn't get much better than that.
This one turned out really beautiful,
this is actually an enchi chocolate spinner,
so it's enchi, it's chocolate, it's spider,
and it's pinstripe and I tell you what,
I wouldn't have expected it to look that way.
It look freakin' awesome.
This is definitely one of my favorite snakes
that I've produced this year.
I mean this kinda all purple snake
and it's the result that I didn't expect
it to look this way.
This is actually a silver streak cypress pinstripe.
So it's a super pastel, it is a black pastel,
it's a pinstripe, and it's a cypress.
And I mean, holy moly.
- Holy moly.
- Not in my wildest dreams did I think it was gonna
turn out this way.
This happens to be an albino scaleless corn snake.
So again, the albinos are recessive mutation,
scaleless is a recessive mutation,
so this is just a double recessive animal.
And little corn snakes are definitely the
wiggliest babies but they mellow out as they get bigger.
And the albino scaleless, hoo, that's a beautiful snake.
This one turned out really good, too.
This is actually a super x-treme spinnerblast.
The spinnerblast is a pastel, it's a pinstripe,
it's a spider and then that super x-treme gene
actually reduces the pattern and just makes it look
absolutely ridiculous.
I was absolutely blown away at this one here.
This is actually a chocolate, it's a mahogany,
and it's a pinstripe.
Now this super chocolate pinstripe is camo ball python,
looks very similar to this, but when you mix the chocolate
and the mahogany, they're obviously on the same alleles
so they make, it's basically a super version
but the difference is the camo is more brown,
like really dark brown.
This one is bordering on black.
So you guys know I want banana camo,
now even more I want the chocolate mahogany banana pin,
that's what I really want.
'Cause this one is gonna be much darker than
a camo banana but I tell you what,
these guys turned out ridiculous.
People always ask "What's your favorite snake, Brian?"
Well, you know, I can never pick a favorite,
just like I can never pick a favorite
of what we hatched each year.
But I gotta be honest with you,
this is definitely pretty crazy.
This is actually an albino diffused,
or an albino bloodred, scaleless corn snake.
I mean, come on now, that doesn't even look real.
I mean, that literally looks like a kid's toy
that you'd find in a toy store.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I can't even imagine what this thing is gonna look like
in six months or a year from now.
This one came out wild, this is actually
a chocolate banana pin, just like I showed you before,
but then it has pastel in it.
And it's amazing how that pastel really changes
the color palette unbelievably.
Unfortunately, when it comes to the camo part,
I'm gonna show you guys in a minute,
it kinda dulls it out.
So in some cases, having that pastel gene is awesome,
in other cases it's maybe not as good.
But in this one, I absolutely love it.
And by the way, down in the comments,
let me know if you could have like
any dream ball python, or any snake for that matter,
what would that dream be?
Whether it's a combination, or maybe even
a combination that hasn't happened
or something that you really want to see in a snake.
I mean just (toy squeak) just swing for fences, guys.
Go down in the comments, let me know
what animal you would love to see produced,
what color and pattern and so on like that.
I'm anxious to hear what you guys have to say.
And this is the first time I've actually
showed these guys other than in the egg.
This is the pastel banana camo.
Again, this is the snake that I wanted
to produce so bad but I wanted it to be without pastel.
We actually produced three of these little guys
and again, you can tell the difference between that
pastel chocolate pin banana and the actual
chocolate pin banana how different it actually looks.
So that's how these guys look a lot more blown out.
When you take the pastel out of this,
this should be dark purple and absolutely amazing.
But from a genetic standpoint, this
is an absolutely great snake.
We have a creamsicle scaleless here, really cool animal.
Now the creamsicle is much like an albino corn snake
but it was actually mixed with Emory rat
many many years ago, about 25 years ago.
And that gave it the more orange looks to it for sure.
And so it definitely changes things
and then you take it into scaleless and
it's pretty interesting.
I wanna know from you guys, what scaleless snake
do you like best?
Is it corn snakes, is it rat snakes, ball pythons?
You know, give me some specifics.
What do you like the best about scaleless animals?
Are you in the camp that you don't like scaleless at all?
This is a project that's near and dear to my heart for sure.
This is a coral ghost corn snake.
The coral comes from all that pink
in that animal right there.
It's polygenic, just meaning that every time
we breed, we breed the most pink animals together
and each generation, they get more and more pink.
And this generation is gonna be the best by far.
When this animal gets another six months old,
it is gonna be fluorescent pink.
This thing is a beauty.
We produced a bunch of anerys, coral ghosts,
and coral snows this year, all of which are amazing.
I know I'm bombarding you guys with banana stuff
but again, it's like I said, they're just
absolutely beautiful.
This is actually a banana cinna-winner.
- (yelling) I'm a banana!
- Which is just a banana cinnamon, a pinstripe,
and a spider ball python.
But that combination together,
(laughing) that makes for an awesome snake.
This was definitely one of the cooler snakes
that I hatched this year, this is
the super Lori leopard ball python.
And it's doing really well, eating like crazy.
It looks so cute, that white is really coming up its side.
Again, it was a lot more blue when
it was an absolute baby.
It's kinda turned more of a silvery color
but absolutely incredible.
I mean, I tell you what, I can't get enough of this snake.
We have a bunch of black and white cal kings
just like this guy right here.
This is actually a 50/50 aberrant
black and white cal king.
And the aberrant just means kind of a
jumbled pattern, basically.
These guys come in banded, they come in striped,
almost all white, and again the aberrant
like these guys with different levels of layers
of the percentage of white.
I've been saying this for a while.
I think that the black and white cal king project
is like the next colubrid project to really blow up.
Kind of like the Mexican black kings.
'Cause look at the contrast in these guys,
they're absolutely incredible.
I love 'em and we have a bunch of 'em
and I can't wait for the future.
I've told this a million times
but my passion for snakes really started
with garter snakes when I was a little kid
when I walked around the woods catching 'em.
So this is a little granite checkered garter snake.
And we produce a bunch of normals, checkereds,
albinos, albino checkereds, all of the garter snake
projects we work with are absolutely amazing.
Just such cool pet snakes, super cool dispositions.
Super easy to care for.
And if you're ever in a position where like
you want a snake but your significant other
or your parent says "No mice in my house!"
Well garter snakes are great 'cause
they don't have to eat mice.
So this is a great example of an animal.
If you wanna get a pet snake but you don't wanna
feed it mice, garter snakes are always a great option
and this one is an absolute beauty.
I showed you guys the bumblebee ba-
Earlier, I showed you guys the bumblebee ban-
Earlier, I showed you guys the bumblebee bam-
Oh my gosh.
Earlier, I showed you guys the bumblebee bamboo.
This is actually a bumblebee bamboo vanilla.
So it's got one more gene in it.
And that vanilla gene just really cleans it up
and just makes it incredible.
I definitely need to raise up some more bamboo stuff.
I don't know, for whatever reason,
it's one of my favorite ball python morphs.
It's a co-dominant morph, it's in the
blue-eyed leucistic complex, meaning if you
breed two bamboos together, you do get a
super form that is blue-eyed.
And you can do the same thing by breeding it
to lesser and mojave, and stuff like that.
But absolutely incredible.
There's probably nothing that I'm more excited about
that we produced this year than this animal here.
This is actually a cinny enchi new gene
that we were gonna name mango but turns out
there's another mango ball python.
So I still don't have a name for this new gene project
but it turns things so orange!
It's absolutely incredible, I mean
what an incredible incredible snake.
The blushing and the orange, I don't know what this is
but this project is gonna be absolutely awesome
and it's gonna be cool that we produced a few more
of these this year.
So now we can raise some stuff up and
see what the genetics are, probably co-dominant.
Maybe there's a super form that's even
more orange than this.
So it's exciting times ahead.
(laughing) Oh my gosh, as I'm goin' through guys,
I didn't even know we produced this.
I look at all the baby snakes as they're hatching
but this one must have been like hidden out
or something like that.
I cannot believe Lori didn't tell me
that we produced a scaleless tessera corn snake.
This is unbelievable!
That's one of the coolest corn snakes I've ever
seen in my entire life.
I am so excited!
'Cause I knew we had a chance to produce them
but I thought we missed our odds.
Lori didn't even tell me, it looks like
this guy's at least a couple weeks old.
I gotta go find Lori later on today
and yell at her for not telling me.
This thing is ridiculous!
Another scaleless corn here, but this is
actually an Abbott's okeetee scaleless corn snake.
That's incredible, I tell you what.
So scaleless corn snakes on their own are
absolutely beautiful and the okeetee stuff
is really bred for absolute beautiful pattern
and color and the Abbott's okeetee
is really the best of the okeetees when it comes to
the color and patterns.
So this guy is gonna be an absolute ripper
when it gets older.
Can't wait to see it grow up.
Man, it's so cool seeing these snakes.
I'm havin' such a good time.
This is literally just a one gene animal.
This is a calico, which is a co-dominant mutation
Remember that clutch, I don't know,
maybe a month or so ago that we hatched out
that had like four or five really beautiful ones?
This is what they start to look like,
remember I told you that orange and pink
starts to turn white?
Well this one's just starting to turn white
and, oh my gosh, even though it's a single gene animal,
it's definitely right up there as one of my favorite
ball pythons we've produced this year.
Another bamboo for you here, this is actually
a bamboo lemonblast woma vanilla that has a cool
little paradox splotching on it
that I think is absolutely great.
That's just so cool, I love that bamboo gene,
does some amazing things.
I tell you what, I hope you guys are enjoying this
because I'm excited just to look through these snakes
and show them off.
Just going through and seeing these, it makes me happy.
I mean, they are unbelievable.
I mean, this is living art, people.
This is a pretty cool little corn snake here.
This is a diffused or bloodred corn
like we've talked about before
but the pied sided is what's interesting.
For whatever reason, there's another gene that
floats around the diffused corn that's called pied side
which has that big white sides on him.
Which is absolutely incredible.
You can kinda see it right here, how cool it is.
And there's varying amounts, sometimes you can have
tons of white, not as much as a ball python, per se.
But still pretty cool to have that kind of hidden
in the diffused gene.
So we didn't even know we were gonna produce any of these
and they kinda popped out, absolutely cool.
This one's another crazy banana right here.
This is actually a banana enchi kingpin black pastel.
(laughing) That's a lot of genes.
That black pastel and banana mix really well together
and then you get the lesser and you get the enchi
and oh my gosh, that is an absolute ripper for sure.
I love the way that busy pattern turned out.
What a gorgeous snake!
Again, a lot of bananas this year,
but I love the banana cinnys, oh my gosh.
They are, I mean that's one of the coolest mutations
for sure together, I mean, just a two gene animal.
Two co-dominant animals, I mean wow is that thing
ridiculous or what?
I mean you can't get much better than that.
I mean, that is amazing, I mean I could have
never imagined 20 years ago that I'd be looking
at a ball python that is like that.
I mean that is a dream come true for sure.
And that's why I work with a lot of bananas
and a lot of banana cinnys.
Switching up from a scaleless corn snake
to a scaleless Texas rat snake.
- Look, Patrick, I'm Texas!
Doi, howdy y'all!
- And this is really where the kind of scaleless
thing really started.
It was the first scaleless snake that really
was being produced, relatively, in decent numbers
before the corn snakes.
Certainly before the ball pythons.
And there's been a few other scaleless snakes
like rattle snakes and garter snakes and stuff like that.
But none of them have really been successful like
the scaleless Texas rat snakes were.
So it's always cool.
So they're polymorphic as can be, just meaning
they can look different.
You can hatch out 10 and all 10 will look
unbelievably different.
So this is one of our first clutches that hatched
out and shed and looking absolutely gorgeous.
With Halloween just around the corner,
I'd be remiss if I didn't show you one of our
Halloween Pueblen milk snakes.
Now Halloween Pueblan milk snakes is just kind of
an aberrant apricot Pueblan so it's got the orange
and it's basically bred to not have hardly any red
or no red at all so it's basically like
a black and orange snake.
This one has some red in it but it's still
pretty darn cool.
So this is awesome.
And again, that's a polygenic trait
that's spread over generations just to produce
a lot of orange, not a lot of red.
And they look pretty awesome.
Definitely the perfect snakes for Halloween.
Another two gene animal that I'm always in love with
is this GHI mojave.
Again, a super simple double co-dominant.
Not really hard to make but unbelievable results.
I mean that thing is crazy and that's kinda
what I do these days to be honest with you.
I'm looking at just producing the most stunning
snakes I possibly can rather than the most
complicated snakes.
I just want beautiful snakes and these guys
certainly fit that bill.
I love this project so much.
This is a snow Texas rat snake and I made mention
earlier about the fact that I bred a snow Texas
to a pink-eyed leucistic expecting to really produce
normal snakes that were het for all of the above
and surprisingly, we hatched out all snow Texas rat snakes.
Now the snow is lacking the red pigment and
it's lacking the black pigment and then
this one would actually be het for leucistic.
Which means that it would wipe out
all the other pigment when we breed 'em back.
Really wild, I didn't expect those to be
compatible animals and they were so I'm super happy.
I think we're just gonna raise up all the babies
we produced this year, raise 'em up and produce
a whole bunch more pink-eyed leucisitcs in the future.
Which are basically just a white snake with pink eyes.
(laughing) Take a look at this one, guys.
It's just crazy.
As I'm opening these drawers, I'm like blown away.
This is actually a black pastel ghost mojave ball python.
So black pastel is co-dominant, mojave is co-dominant,
and then of course the ghost is a recessive mutation.
Sometimes called a hypo ball python but nevertheless,
that thing is just insane.
And one of the thrills this year, certainly was
hatching out more mangrove snakes.
Look how absolutely amazing this little animal is.
And it's only gonna get better and more beautiful
as it gets some size.
I am so happy to have hatched out a clutch earlier
and we have another clutch that's due to hatch
here relatively soon.
Unbelievable.
It's been an amazing year, you know,
with pythons, with boas, with colubrids, stuff like that.
I could be here all day, literally,
we could have this vlog like five hours long
just going through babies but I wanted to highlight
some things that just really got me excited.
As I was just kinda opening up drawers going
"I gotta show this, I gotta show this!"
So if you guys want me to do another one of these,
I have a lot more to show you, I can guarantee you that.
So just let me know if you guys want me to.
And while you're at it, let me know which
one you like the best.
And this guy here is ridiculous as well.
This is an enchi calico bee so again
it's enchi, it's pastel, it's spider, and it's calico.
Hoo, doggy, I tell you what, I could stay here all day long
looking at ball pythons.
And like I mentioned earlier, I am just touching
the tip of the iceberg down here.
I mean there is tons of beautiful snakes
and I wanted to give you guys the overall update.
If you guys enjoyed this, first, let me know which one
you like the best.
Secondly, let me know and I'll do another update like this.
'Cause like I said, I've probably shown less than 1%
of the animals down here so.
(laughs)
I tell you what, this guy is gorgeous,
he looks like he's gonna take a pop at me any time, too.
It's okay, little buddy.
I tell you what, love it.
So let me know if you guys liked this update.
Well, I hope you guys enjoyed the update
on all of those babies.
It's been a while since I've done it
and I thought you would enjoy it.
Let me know in the comments if you did.
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