- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
You are not gonna believe what I'm gonna show you today.
And I have literally been working on this project
for over six years.
I am ...
Oh my God, this is so exciting.
I'm gonna need a couple things before I tell you.
First off, I'm gonna need this.
Gonna need this right here.
And let's see, I'm gonna need
one of these over here for sure.
Gonna need these two things.
And oh, one more thing.
And I'm actually gonna need,
let's see right here,
oh yeah, right here.
This is exactly what I need.
Mm.
Yeah, that's good.
Truth is I didn't actually need this.
Let's go show you what I need.
And I tell you what,
I am going to definitely need this right here.
(mellow upbeat music)
And now I can actually show you.
But I'll be honest with you,
I'm probably not gonna tell you as much as you think.
And it has to do with this snake right here.
That's right, it may look like a normal ball python
but actually there was a ball python
I imported from West Africa about seven years ago.
I raised it up, I bred it, produced heterozygous,
potentially heterozygous,
I'm hoping it's recessive,
and this is the first clutch of eggs
I've ever gotten from the heterozygous animals.
I have one other clutch to be laid,
so I have two potentials for this
for it to be recessive.
If this works out, it is going to be game changer.
It's gonna be one of the coolest ball pythons.
If it doesn't work out,
I'm gonna hatch a bunch of normal ball pythons.
You're gonna look back and say,
"That vlog you did a while ago,
"that was a bunch of hustle and bustle."
But the truth is, I have high hopes.
And I am not gonna tell you much more than that,
other than the fact that
she laid a beautiful clutch of eggs!
I was so nervous that she was gonna potentially slug out.
Again, working on this for like six, seven years.
I thought, "Would she lay good eggs?"
And she did.
So I'm gonna go ahead, take these out,
and I am absolutely gonna candle these eggs
I guarantee you, 'cause I want to make sure
that these eggs are fertile and I cannot wait.
57 days from now, you're gonna know all about this.
As a matter of fact,
I'll do a little flashback on this vlog
so that you know.
I don't want momma to bite me here.
Don't bite me momma.
Last egg over here.
We'll put it over here.
Again, like I said, I am going to candle these for sure.
Two, four, six, seven eggs.
Again, it's a heterozygous,
so we should get one, two, three, four
of this potential recessive mutation if it is genetic.
Oh my gosh, this was it guys.
I am beyond ecstatic to take you along on it.
But even though I didn't show you anything,
trust me, it's gonna be amazing if this proves out.
So 57 days, mark it on your calendar right now.
We are gonna either be the happiest people
on the face of the earth, or maybe not.
But either way, it's gonna be an amazing journey.
Fingers crossed this works out.
(mellow upbeat music)
Heinz and Frenches are doing so good,
the albino iguanas, the crimson albino iguanas.
I am so glad that I took out Sriracha and Tabasco,
the red iguanas,
'cause now these guys are thriving like crazy.
And Bruce has an interesting training technique
that he's gonna start working on with these albino iguanas
to get them a little chill,
'cause they can't see really well,
so when you touch them they kind of freak out a little bit.
So we have some ideas how we're gonna train those guys,
but look at how big Tabasco is getting.
And Sriracha is actually in the back as well.
They are monsters.
If they were in there now,
the albinos would be getting beat up so bad,
so definitely the right decision
to get these guys out of there.
Not sure what I'm gonna do with these guys yet.
They are super cool and people love to look at 'em.
I don't know if I'm gonna keep 'em or not,
but definitely the right decision
to separate these guys out.
I have some more baby colubrids hatched out.
I tell you what, I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys,
I'm somehow a little bit stumped
on this Jelly Brooks thing, right?
So, basically, earlier we had a clutch
of Albino Jelly Brooks to Albino Jelly Brooks,
or at least what we thought they were,
and they all hatched out albino.
Well, guess what?
This is the exact same breeding,
Albino Jelly Brooks to Albino Jelly Brooks,
and they're all normal.
There's not one albino.
It's weird.
The Jelly thing is kind of an allelic thing,
but I usually can wrap my head around
the genetics behind something.
This one has got me stumped.
I'm not 100% sure what the deal is with these guys,
but the one thing I know is that these aren't
normal Brooks kings,
so basically what ends up happening
is as these get older
they get this kinda purplish look to them.
That's ultimately why they call them Jelly Brooks, right?
But the thing I don't understand is
why when you breed it to an albino to an albino
you don't produce albinos?
There's got to be something else going on
that I don't quite understand.
But nevertheless, a clutch of beautiful
Jelly Brooks right here.
We'll get these guys eating.
Absolutely wonderful.
One day I can figure the genetics out
so I feel like I know what I'm talking about.
Don't forget guys,
we have tickets on sale for The Reptarium.
We are maxing out small groups.
You can buy tickets really now
all the way through the end of the year.
Slots are selling out, so if you want,
you can go to thereptarium.com,
book your slot from now, like I said,
all the way till the end of 2020.
We're gonna keep limited groups,
that way you get a real intimate experience
here at The Reptarium.
So good ahead, thereptarium.com, and book your slot.
Guess what time it is?
♪ Egg time ♪
♪ Egg time ♪ (popping)
And we actually have a hypo Okeetee Abbott
that is het for scaleless corn snake,
and it's actually bred to an Abbots Okeetee scaleless
that is a ripper.
Just take a look at that monkey right there.
Hoo-hoo doggy.
I tell you what, what is a beautiful snake.
And let's see what momma has going on.
Oh my gosh, she is a pretty snake
and that is a beautiful clutch of eggs for a second clutch.
Oh my goodness.
And again, half of these are going to be Abbott's Okeetees
and the other half are gonna be scaleless Abbott's Okeetees.
They're all gonna be het for hypo,
just like momma there.
Oh my goodness, that's a beautiful big clutch of eggs.
Beautiful size eggs too.
These guys are not small at all for second clutches,
so oh my gosh, cannot believe some of the second clutches
we got this year.
They have just been killing it.
We've got two, four, six, eight, 10,
12, 13 good eggs.
I tell you what, that is absolutely amazing.
Only colubrid clutch for the day,
but man was it a banger.
- Like I told you guys before
I'm working a little bit trying to push boundaries
and things like that,
and it's really important to me
that I also do that with out croc monitor.
As you guys know, we just got him.
He's still really, really fresh in this area
so I still don't want to necessarily push anything too far,
but I'd rather things happen now
and we have time in the future to be able to fix that
then something happen in the future
and then we don't have time to be able to fix it.
I'm not trying to get myself hurt, bit,
or anything like that.
That's not my intention here,
but if that were to happen it is what it is, guys.
So we're gonna try and crush this out as safely
and as best as we possibly can.
As you guys know, I got to pop these bad boys out.
Don't want him thinkin' that I got some food for him
or anything like that,
especially with my ears, I need 'em.
So let's get started.
(mellow upbeat music)
- Remember that really cool pied clutch that we cut?
Well, guess what?
The babies hatched out!
And they are absolutely adorable.
Remember there was just one normal.
That's just a het for albino right there.
And then it looks like this one actually has ...
It's got a crazy pattern to it.
It's a little bit difficult.
I thought this was a Pastel Enchi Pied.
It still very well may be,
but the head pattern doesn't look as Enchi on it.
But look at the pattern all over it.
That tells me something's going on,
so that might be a Pastel Enchi Pied.
And then I'm 99% sure this is a Pastel Enchi Pied here.
You can just see, again,
the way it jumbles the pattern up a little bit.
The head pattern is kind of Enchi-like.
It's kind of a reduction of pattern.
But oh my goodness,
these guys are absolute rippers.
You know, every time I hatch a Pied,
and I've hatched a lot of Pieds for the last,
I don't know, 20 years or so,
I still get unbelievable goosebumps
because they are so unbelievably beautiful.
And the hatch Pastel Enchi Pieds
makes it even one step closer.
They're just so cool, right?
I love the fact that these guys came out
and they look so unbelievably healthy and amazing.
In case you guys didn't know,
we now have this face mask.
If you want to be a crocodile,
you can go ahead and follow the link in the description.
Obviously all the merch is available right now,
but I'm pretty excited about these new face masks.
We wear 'em here at The Reptarium,
and quite frankly everywhere I go I wear this mask.
So go to the link in the description
and you can get that,
as well as the Ivy and Lucy.
They're only gonna be available for about another week,
so you better go check it out.
(mellow upbeat music)
- Wow.
Holy cow, guys.
Not gonna lie, that was a little bit unnerving.
He walked up to me.
He was so interested.
And you could tell this animal knew
that I wasn't a tree.
He doesn't stand there looking at a piece of stick
and sniff it, and smell, and smell for that long.
He just doesn't do that.
So you knew he knew what I was and why I was here,
so him crawling on me,
and I've never introduced him,
so I've never done anything like that.
You know the rips that I do with the lace monitor
going up my arm, I never do that with him.
So the fact that he just willingly crawled up my leg
and then hopped right off on his own without ...
Honestly, I think he got scared from me talking
'cause I was just getting excited.
I was like, "Wow, this is really cool."
When he said that he went right off.
That might have just been the vibration of my voice
just startled him a little bit,
and that was my fault.
But really, really cool.
I have full faith that if I wouldn't have talked
he would have came up all the way to my shoulders,
which then it might have been a little bit
of a hard time getting him off me,
so it's kind of best that it decided to get off when he did.
- The other day a scaleless Texas ratsnake clutch
started to hatch out.
Well, guess what?
They're almost all out now.
Maybe all of 'em are out.
But you can see that when they hatch out
they're a little bit sticky,
so they actually get vermiculite all over 'em,
so what I'm gonna do is just plop 'em in the water here
and it's amazing once they get a little bit wet
how beautiful they look.
You start to really see all of those beautiful ...
I mean, look at this one right here.
Hoo doggy, I tell you what,
that thing is gonna be a ripper
when it gets a little bit of size
and the color starts comin',
'cause these guys, their color gets going
a little bit later.
Uh-oh, I might be in trouble here guys.
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
Uh-oh, I've only got one lid
and I've got a whole bunch of snakes cruisin' around.
But you can just see,
look at the difference between these ones
that have the vermiculite on them,
and these ones that are in the water and cleaning up.
Oh my gosh, these things are incredible.
So what I'm gonna do is get these guys soaked up.
We'll get them set up into shoe boxes
before they all escape.
But that is the first scaleless Texas ratsnake clutch.
Look at this one right here.
Woo doggy, I tell you, that is beautiful.
We have so much mail, guys,
that we're not gonna open this all in this vlog.
This is gonna be spattered over the next couple weeks
to be honest with you, 'cause I don't want to bore you guys.
But I'm excited about this big box
because it says, "Fragily."
- (gasps) Do you think it's a leg lamp?
- Oh my gosh.
It could be the leg lamp.
But fragile is always ...
- You're cutting towards yourself.
- I always cut towards myself.
- Didn't somebody send us a safe knife or something?
- When I was in the Boy Scouts they taught me
to always cut towards yourself.
- You were not in the Boy Scouts.
- Oh, that's right, I was a Cub Scout.
I was a ...
I don't know what it is.
A Webelo?
- [Man] It's Webelo, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- I don't even know what it was.
Nevertheless, all right, so what do we have here?
(packing rustling)
- Almost there.
- Hoo, that's ...
Look at this.
Oh, the reveal.
Look at that, that is dope!
Are you kidding me? - Is that Matilda?
- Oh my gosh.
This is amazing.
So Zach sent it to me, but it's signed Sharon.
I don't know exactly, it was made in 2020.
Not sure exactly what the deal is with that
but thank you so much. - I love it.
- That is so awesome. - That is so cool.
- That's super cool.
Thank you so much Zach, that's awesome.
This is the Palmetto Wood Shop is where it comes from.
- You don't know how to open things.
- Oh, wait, is this--
- Is it another frickin' knife?
- Oh, if it's a knife I'm so happy.
Oh my gosh.
- Enjoy the gift, I know you love your ...
(box clicking)
- Oh, this is a good knife, man.
Look at this. - Your lollies?
I don't have my classes on.
What does that say? (laughs)
- Your knives.
Why would you say lollies?
- 'Cause I couldn't see it!
I don't have my glasses.
(laughing)
- So I got this.
Look at the action on that.
Man, that's nice.
That's a nice knife right there .
- Thanks. - That's a knife.
- Thanks a lot. - Thank you so much.
- That's a knife.
Thank you, I love it.
I can never have too many knives, right Laurie?
- No, you can.
You definitely can.
- [Man] I think you do actually.
- Exactly.
- So 57 days from now I'm gonna be able to
share with you guys either a triumph
or a complete failure that's taken me seven or eight years.
If this thing hatches out
and turns out to be something wild
like I think it's gonna be,
you guys are gonna be blown away.
And it's really gonna take
the ball python morph world by storm.
I think so anyway.
At least, I believe so.
Again, 57 days we'll find out.
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here's a playlist right here of egg cutting all the way.
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