- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog
Reptile Army, I actually have two clutches
of snake eggs to cut today.
You know that it's getting slim pickings.
We probably only have about five other clutches,
so not many more egg cuttings up, but I am excited.
This first clutch was actually a pinstripe female
bred to a silver streak bamboo woma.
So that's a super pastel, it's a black pastel,
it's a woma and it's a bamboo ball python.
And then you had the pinstripe,
who knows what we're going to get.
I'm assuming we could get some purply looking snakes.
I don't know. Five eggs. Let's jump in.
Egg number one.
What do we have?
Who knows what we could get, every egg is cool.
Oh, this is a really pretty animal.
So wow.
What the heck is going on here?
So this is definitely a lemon blast.
So it's a pastel and theoretically,
everything should be pastel if it's a silver streak,
and it's definitely a pinstripe,
but it's got a really wonky, wonky pattern,
which makes me believe there's something else.
Almost looks leopard pattern to be honest with you.
But there's no leopard in it.
So we'll have to wait for that one to hatch
or maybe there's some other (indistinct).
You got to remember what that silver street bamboo woma,
it's really hard to tell if there's any other
hidden genes in there.
So there might be something else.
So as we're cutting, we might find some more genes in here.
Let's jump into egg number two.
Here we go. It's always cool when you get kind of surprises.
I think yellow belly was actually proven out in that male
before too.
So what we have here is we have just a black pewter.
So it's a pastel, a black pastel.
So we haven't had any bamboo stuff which is something
I really hope we hit in this next three eggs.
But nevertheless, a cool animal. They're all cool.
And actually, in the very beginning when I got into
ball pythons where we produced the black pewters
really early on, they were really a gem.
So I still love him to death.
Three eggs. Let's hit a bamboo.
Here we go.
(man sings)
What do we have here?
Oh, it looks like an interesting snake.
Again. Really?
What is going on here?
So I don't really know what's going on.
Another really weird.
So this is definitely a pastel.
It's definitely a pinstripe.
It's definitely a woma ball python.
And I'm assuming it's a black pastel is well,
but it's got a really, really interesting pattern to it.
So there's definitely another gene kind of in play here.
I just don't know what it is to be honest with you.
And that's the mystery.
And as we get more complicated with breeding ball pythons,
that's what happens, things just get weird.
And that's kind of exciting about it.
We've got two weeks left, let's see what else
crazy we're going to hatch.
All right. Let's see what we got here.
All right.
Get around here. Trying to get not have a snake.
Okay. So this is a pretty interesting looking animal.
Okay, so this is my point.
So this is the pastel, black pastel, pinstripe woma.
This is what it would look like.
This is exactly what it would look like.
So essentially, that's what this is
but you look at the other one,
looks nothing like it.
Not even a resemblance of it.
So I don't know what that other animal is.
There's obviously a gene in there
that's throwing in some weird thing.
We still haven't had a bamboo, by the way.
We have one egg to go.
And let's see what happens with this last egg.
I'm going to miss egg cutting so much.
So what do we have here?
Again, a pastel because it has to be a pastel.
I'm trying to get this animal to kind of roll over on me
a little bit so I can see what else is going on here,
cause this looks again, like a pinstripe
that has a bizarre pattern to it.
So again, it's a lemon blast, but really bizarre.
So guys, I don't know.
I'm kind of at a place where I really don't even know
what's going on here.
There's definitely a gene.
You guys have been hearing that from me a lot this year.
It's kind of cool. But that's what makes it so exciting.
Now entering up, we do have one more clutch to cut.
And this clutch actually only has one egg in it.
The good news is, they're both clowns.
There's actually a pastel lesser clown ball python, female,
bred to a banana clown, male.
So who knows where we're getting.
Definitely going to get a clown.
Now we're into some cool stuff.
We could get a banana pastel lessor leopard clown.
I have no idea.
So let's go ahead and cut our one egg
and see what's going to happen.
Again, because they're both recessive,
we know it's going to be clown, let's do it.
You know, one and clutches are the most exciting
cause you could either be so happy
or so disappointed just depending on what ends up hatching.
And this is a beautiful snake.
You've got to be kidding me right now.
Guys, I'm not even kidding you.
We hit the all gene animal in one egg.
That's right.
So this is a pastel, it's a banana, it's a lessor,
and it's a clown ball python.
So that's the all gene animal and it's our ripper
on top of it.
Hey, I tell you what, not many more egg cuttings.
I know you guys love them.
Hey, we're almost in the breeding season again.
Like I said, maybe four or five more clutches
to cut this year and then kaputs, we are done for the year.
And I tell you what, that's a pretty cool way to end
today's egg cutting.
And speaking of the breeding season that's coming up,
obviously over at BHB, things are breeding here
at the Reptarium as well.
I want to give you a little update on Gemma and Night Fury.
Now last time we had Night Fury in, he did not breed.
We just put Night Fury in again
and he's back up in the corner again.
So he doesn't seem to be interested.
That tells me that maybe she's already gravid,
which is honestly something I was hoping didn't happen.
You could certainly see right here, she's got a huge bulge
in this area right here.
And I don't know if we had Night Fury in early enough
to actually fertilize this clutch.
I'm not sure. It was right on the cusp.
Right when I started to see her swell, I threw him in,
he bred her and then she went through a shed,
which I think is probably maybe the pre-lay shed now.
And maybe she's going to lay eggs in the next maybe
two or three weeks.
I'm not 100% sure. Still not sure.
When I ultrasound her, obviously she has gigantic follicles
or what could be potentially eggs already.
So we're either going to get a beautiful
fertile clutch of eggs or we're going to get a beautiful
infertile clutch of eggs.
Don't know either way.
But Gemma has calmed down.
She's not like that one day where she was just crazy,
she's back to her old Gemma self, which is really good.
But either way, we're going to definitely
get a clutch of eggs.
Now it's just a matter of fingers crossed,
hopefully we're going to have some fertile eggs from her.
Oh, by the way, later on tonight,
I got a cool event, I'm so excited about this,
we're actually going to a trunk-or-treat event.
Last year we went, there was 2,500 kids came by.
So I'm going to maybe dress up as a lizard.
We're going to take some animals, we have a tent,
we have heaters, we're going to take a few animals
and just have a great time passing out candy
and getting kids all excited about reptiles.
So that's going to be really amazing.
But again, that's later on tonight.
- [Man] (indistinct) needs your help with (indistinct)
real quick. (man groans)
- Fill a bucket real quick so I can get him soaked.
But yeah, we're going to get him out.
(loud thud) Ow.
- All right. Don't get bit.
- Ow.
Ow!
(loud thudding)
We just got to get him to calm down,
I don't want to lift him up or pick him up,
cause that's just going to make him feel more vulnerable.
Also, standing over is also making him feel vulnerable.
I really actually like that he's whipping me
out here though, because this is showing that he's getting
a little confidence in himself.
It's not the confidence I want necessarily,
but it is confidence in that.
He's willing to stand up for himself,
that says a lot about him.
You were putting up a good fight today, buddy.
Go ahead, you can whip me.
Yeah. Right in the back of the arm.
See how you do when you go up.
Up and up and up. (lizard hissing)
You can even tell he's looking at me right now.
Probably about to whip me in the face.
(water bubbling)
Rub, rub, just relaxing in my tub.
- Another breeding pair that I am so excited about
are of course Snap and Pop.
Whoa, wait, whoa, calm down.
What are you doing? Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Stop!
Oh no. Oh no.
Don't do it, don't do it. Back up.
(man sighs) Pop was on fire.
He came shooting out at me thinking like
he was going to get fed, oh, here he come again.
Don't you do it. Don't, don't.
And of course, look at this girl too.
She's crazy as well.
I tell you what, things are fired up today in here.
Well, that's great from a breeding standpoint
with the female.
I want her to be really aggressive when it comes to feeding.
For sure.
Now, I don't want her to bite me,
but she's been breeding and she is definitely swelling up
really good, I definitely know she has some follicles.
But I have to be careful if I touch her.
Oh.
Come on, girl.
Come on out here.
Okay.
But look at the swelling that she's got going on here.
She's definitely looking really beefy here.
She's just kind of ramping up for an ovulation,
so with any luck, Snap here is going to be a daddy
and Pop is going to actually have some eggs.
So I am excited about that.
So again, BHB's breeding season's coming up
and it's going to be an absolute banger.
But we still have a lot of stuff here at the Reptarium
that we're breeding too.
So we have an unboxing today.
But I'm not going to be doing that in boxing.
You're going to be doing the unboxing.
So let's go ahead and just see what you got in here.
Of course we're in the gecko room, which means that there's
going to be some geckos.
I know you've been having a good time finding
some new stuff. - Yes. I've been looking
all over the place to find cool things to put in here.
So this is actually going to go with one of the males
that we got at 10 lane.
- That's awesome.
Of course, we're going to probably run out of space
pretty quick down here.
That said, we wish we had about three times-
- So Jeckos Geckos here.
- Jeckos Geckos. - I like their little thing.
- That's cool. Yeah, it's a cool logo.
So go give them some love.
Thank you for hooking us up with these geckos, for sure.
Got even more stuff. Got some pens and stickers.
They've got their A-game on, I tell you what.
Let's see what we got here.
- Packed really nicely.
- It is packed very nicely.
- So these guys are going to be pretty small.
Here's one.
- Okay. I'm going to hold one
and she's going to hold one
and we're going to take a look at-
- You can see this one here. - Oh my gosh! They are small!
- Just a little.
- Oh my gosh.
So we ended up getting one of these.
Of course, these are chameleon geckos.
And we got one of these intently actually, Jessica did.
But these guys are so small!
These are two, what are these, two females?
- Yup. Two females. - Two females.
- She's pretty cool right now.
So she'll probably sit on my hand good.
- Oh my gosh. They are so cool.
These are the ones I loved when I had seen
the male that Jessica got.
But these are so small.
They're definitely gonna need some time to catch up.
But they are absolutely adorable.
So good job. And I think we have some other geckos
coming here in the next day or two too.
So stay tuned for the next unboxing.
(indiscernible)
(man laughing)
- I can feel you watching me.
I know. You need it, don't you?
- I like it wet.
On the top of my head.
- Easy.
- I got to go pee.
- You guys know the drill.
These animals are really smart.
We can't just go throwing them back in there
with them upset like this.
Better to do it when he's calm,
because he'll relate calming down
to going back home and being left alone.
And that's what I want him to do.
I want them to understand that I'm not here to hurt him.
I'm not even here to really mess with them that much.
We just want him to calm down.
All right, bud, you ready to go back inside?
You're calming down a lot more.
That's exactly what I'm looking for.
(soft upbeat music)
(campy Halloween music)
- So we're at the trunk-or-treat.
You can see all these cars have candy for kids.
We're getting set up over here.
Reptarium van's out.
Obviously we're putting up signs.
We've got heaters. Jay's super excited as always.
And here in about a half hour, kids come.
We got some animals for them to meet
and give out a bunch of candy.
Should be a great time.
(campy Halloween music)
Okay, so we are all geared up.
You ready to go? - We're ready to go.
I don't think you even got me in the frame.
Am I in the frame?
Dad, what are you pointing at?
- You're in the frame. - Yeah, we're ready to go.
(both laughing) I'm not in the frame.
- Oh. Speedy's having fun over there already.
So it's going to be a good time.
(campy Halloween music)
- All right guys, so it's about 8:00,
I'm taking a break in the van.
They're out there doing all the hard work.
Was super great, look at all these people.
- Having a great time. We're probably an hour and a half
into it, we've got the heaters going over here.
It's really actually a pretty warm night, which is nice,
plus we have the van that we're taking breaks
with the animals.
So the animals are doing well.
People should be loving it. We're having a great time.
Look at this line.
Still all the way over there.
So yeah, we still have a long way to go.
(campy Halloween music)
- So we see the end of the line.
Right here.
- It's getting close.
- [Jay] We're getting close. - That was a lot of people.
- [Jay] It was a lot of people.
(campy Halloween music)
- And that wraps up the trunk-or-treat.
That was absolutely insane.
Let's head back to the shop
and wrap this day up.
I tell you what, guys, that event is amazing.
We've got a bunch, an army, a reptile army,
of little kids that are now going to love reptiles.
And that's what this whole thing is about,
is educating the future and growing the love of reptiles.
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I'll see you in the next one.