- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
This would happen to be the last time in 2019
that I'm going to come to you and say
all the baby ball pythons hatched
from the last clutch that we cut.
Remember this was actually a yellow belly female
bred to a woma lesser pin male,
but it turns out that there was actually
a fire bee as well in there,
because it was a dual father clutch,
so some interesting results.
I wanna show you what we have here,
of course this would be a woma pin.
So we know the male on this one was
the woma lesser pinstripe,
'cause it's a pinstripe and it's a woma,
no other genes in this one, ironically enough,
but nevertheless, that's good.
And this one was actually the all gene animal
from that breeding, which was the woma,
lesser pinstripe yellow belly,
it's an absolute ripper, I absolutely love it,
and it seems like that might have been
the last animal fathered in this clutch by that male.
Although this one is just a yellow belly,
theoretically we don't know who the father is,
because it just looks like a clone of the mother,
if you get my meaning.
The other three animals that were in this clutch,
the other four, wait, okay,
the other four animals that hatched in this clutch
were actually fathered by the second male,
of course which was a fire bee,
which is a fire, a pastel, and a spider,
and this is just a little bumble bee right here,
which is just a pastel and a spider ball python.
Really cool looking snake,
and when I cut this clutch originally,
I cut this animal and I thought
it might be a woma ball python,
I was like, that's a really weird looking woma ball python,
and then later in the clutch we figured out
that it was a dual father clutch.
Happened to be a spider and a yellow belly,
of course fathered by the fire bee,
and then this animal here,
which is just a pastel yellow belly
was actually the animal in the clutch
that I was like, wait a second,
there's no pastel in a woma lesser pin
or a yellow belly, and I was like,
this is a pastel yellow belly, what's going on here?
That's when I knew that there was a dual father clutch,
and that's kind of how the mystery
unfolds every now and then,
and then finally this is the all gene animal
with the fire bee and the yellow belly,
so it's a fire, it's a pastel, it's a spider,
and it's a yellow belly, and I tell you what,
that is one gorgeous snake.
This was the last snake of 2019 that we cut,
and we ended on a pretty good note guys,
an all gene animal and a really gorgeous one at that.
So although I'm very sad that we're done cutting eggs
and showing you baby snakes, we have so much in store.
Obviously the expansion of the Reptarium,
we've got the breeding season,
we've got so many amazing things,
we've got travel, adventure,
it's gonna be an absolute ripper of a year for sure.
So nevertheless, the last time I'm gonna be showing you
2019 babies, but hey, it was a great year, wasn't it?
And again, I'm super bummed that we're done with 2019,
but I'm super excited about 2020,
and as a matter of fact,
I know someone that's really excited about it as well.
- [Man] Very last snake egg of the year.
- Brian it's the very last snake egg clutch of the year.
- [Man] And it said bizarre results.
- Bizarre results?
- [Man] Yeah.
- Oh my God.
Brian, Brian is gonna be so excited and so am I.
- [Man] Yeah.
- I wonder what the clutch, is it python clutches?
- [Man] I'm not sure,
we're gonna find out when we get back though.
- I bet, I think he has one python clutch left.
- [Man] Are you excited?
- Oh yeah.
- Thank you guys for sending that video in, trust me,
you guys remember I vlogged waking up from surgery,
so you get a little bit,
so you get a bit loopy when you have that medicine in you.
Regardless, I got a good laugh, I hope you guys did as well.
Holy moly I was just walking by, and saw Ivy.
Oh my God, it's cool to see her up at the front of the cage,
she doesn't come up to the front that often,
but she looks absolutely incredible.
Of course she shed just a few days ago,
and she is absolutely stunning!
I mean, look at this animal,
again I talked about that big enclosure
I'm gonna build her at the new Reptarium expansion,
I cannot wait for that water feature,
big area, let her get big,
let her get a couple hundred pounds.
I think for Thanksgiving there's a chance
I might feed Ivy and Lucy a really big meal.
I mean, we tried last year, it didn't work out,
I've got another idea that's a little bit different,
let me know in the comments if you guys are excited
about that and you wanna give a
Thanksgiving dinner to Ivy and Lucy.
Regardless, I just had to pull her out,
'cause she is unbelievably stunning.
Obviously we're getting into the breeding season
when it comes to the pythons down here,
and Mary now has gotten that opportunity
now that Kelsey is gone,
and the thing is is that breeding is
all about being attentive, you know,
doing things consistently and not skipping stuff.
So I know that you're really attentive,
so I know you're gonna be good.
And really what I always tell people is that
with pythons and boas really, you know,
in particular ball pythons,
it's about three different things, you know?
You basically have food, follicles, and copulation.
So we wanna also keep track of like,
the old things that are going on, you know.
Take for instance, this is a female, here.
This is a het clown that's bred to an albino clown,
and she didn't produce last year.
And we can kinda see last year she was bred on 1/18,
she had five millimeters pretty much all the way through,
and then all of a sudden out of nowhere,
she pumped up to like 16 millimeters.
But then she fell off at five millimeters,
and what basically happened is we only have
one breeding at five millimeters which is kinda low,
but sometimes you can use, like, that five millimeter--
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- And I know I'm making things confusing,
but the point is sometimes you can get the females
to start producing follicles through copulation.
But then she actually started to grow right about here,
but then she fell off and she went down to five millimeters.
Now I think probably happened was,
if you look at the feed records here,
she was feeding good all the way through February,
which is probably a month or so after this,
when she started to grow here,
and then in March she basically fell off and hardly ate,
and then she probably reabsorbed her follicles.
So I know you're gonna do great,
I know there's a lot to absorb,
we're gonna have to feed well,
get males in with females, mark all the data down,
ultrasound a bunch, and we're gonna do awesome.
You excited?
- Yeah, I'm really excited.
- I know, I think you're gonna,
I think you'll have a fun time,
'cause you know, Mary's been like,
cleaning all the babies that we produce,
so now that she gets to see the whole process
I think it's gonna be a lot of fun for you, you know.
There's a lot of kind of reward with the fact
that you see copulation, you see ovulation,
you see eggs, you see babies.
Taking it from the start to the finish.
So it's gonna be a fun year, I'm excited to teach Mary,
she's gonna be great, I know it, and we are on our way.
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- So this is pretty crazy, guys.
You might notice that there's an appendage
coming out of Matilda, there.
That appendage looks to be a tortoise penis.
Now of course, I'm no genius or anything like that,
but I'm pretty sure that female tortoises
don't have penises, so I have a feeling that Matilda
might actually be a boy.
I'm not 100% sure,
I'm gonna talk to a couple of my tortoise people,
just to see if there's some other explanation for this,
in my understanding is male Aldabra tortoise
are actually more rare than females.
So if Matilda is a boy it's actually probably a good thing,
but I don't know what else it could be,
and I have a feeling that
that's what Matilda's doing here.
Okay Matilda, what's your name gonna be if you're a boy?
And while we're talking about Matilda and the tortoises,
you know, it's winter time,
and last winter it was kinda okay,
we had the window over here,
it got a little bit cold but they were all right,
but this year it just is a little bit cooler over here,
so what we think we're gonna do
is we're gonna drop this light just a little bit more,
and actually add a second light
to increase the temperature in their enclosure,
just 'cause I don't want anything to happen to them,
definitely notice that they're slowing down
when it comes to feeding,
still doing extremely well with it,
but I think I'm gonna go ahead and add an additional light
just to kinda bump that temperature up just a little bit.
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- Well although that explosion was a little unexpected,
not sure what happened,
probably a faulty bulb or something like that,
I've got the lights hung,
I'm gonna have to go get another bulb to screw it in,
but basically this is just a double shot for these guys
so that they can actually get enough heat,
and they can come over here,
bask, and stuff like that.
And we use vapor bulbs that give off UVB as well so,
so a little bit of an interesting experience there,
but nevertheless, cleaned this place up
so there's no glass where the tortoise is, obviously,
get a new light bulb, and we should be good to go.
- Yeah.
- [Brian] Let's cut.
So we went to Lion's game.
- We did do that.
- [Brian] What did you think, man?
- Oh man, we're so good!
That's what I thought.
When I was watching, I was like,
dang are we good, you know?
- [Brian] We're good, yeah, yeah.
Just not as good as the other teams.
That's the problem, we're good, but they're better.
- I'm pretty sure, I pulled out my stopwatch one time,
to see how long Dak had in the pocket.
12 seconds.
- Did you hear that Dak Prescott,
they played the Cowboys, did you hear he said afterwards,
he was like "Yeah it was a really good game
"for the offensive line, sometimes I went
"two or three times for my progression".
- Yeah, usually, some times, most times I would say,
quarterbacks will be lucky to get like,
through one full progression.
- [Brian] And he did two or three times.
- Yeah, he was just like,
- [Brian] He coulda made donuts back there.
Coffee and donuts.
- Yeah, usually they're like, one, two,
ah, get the ball out, 'cause then you're getting hit.
- [Brian] Nah, he's just sitting back there--
- He was standing there one time,
not even like, moving around, he was just standing.
- Guys are speaking a different language
I wish I knew about,
but hey did you guys see when Grady Simmons,
he's twisted his ankle, he's talked to be out
next season, it was over the scrimmage line, or something.
- [Brian] I don't even know who, who are you talking about?
- Dude, Lions, number 23.
I don't know, I'm just trying,
I just wanna sound cool like you guys.
- [Brian] What is this?
- Wait, is that a turtle?
- [Brian] Oh it's a sloth!
It's a sloth!
Someone sent me a sloth.
- And there you go.
- Oh that's cool. - Oh perfect.
- That's a Christmas ornament, right?
- This is our sloth, we got it!
- No, no, no, we got that,
speaking of which, I have something to talk to you about.
- Yeah?
- [Brian] What's this?
- It's the first tree.
- [Brian] This is the first tree?
- It's the second tree, - It's the second tree?
- The first one's in my office.
- [Brian] You got this too, you got,
so we already have--
- Well I always have mine, but,
- [Brian] Well this is the first tree of the year, right?
All right, well make your mark, first tree.
Aw, look at that, we got a sloth ornament.
Oh my God that is super cool.
Okay, tree counter.
The over under is probably 10 this year,
10 trees I would say, we have two trees so far.
This is hardly a tree, though, this is embarrassing.
- That's not embarrassing,
that's Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
- I know.
- [Brian] It's Charlie Brown Christmas tree.
- It was actually perfect--
- That is perfect. - If you wanted one.
- [Brian] Well what's really good is the sloth.
- That's perfect.
- Yeah, so, good.
All right, two trees down, eight or 10 to go.
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- Laurie you're never gonna believe this.
It's about Matilda.
- What?
- [Brian] I've got some good and bad news.
- What?
- [Brian] Matilda is a boy.
- What?
- Yeah, Matilda's a boy.
He had his little wingy wing out.
- When?
- [Brian] We just saw it, right over here.
Matilda was doing the old bumpity bump on the floor.
- I don't believe it.
- I swear to gosh, I swear to gosh.
I am like, not even,
the good news is I talked to my buddy Kenan Harkin
and he said that male Aldabra tortoises
are much more rare than females,
and they get like 100 pounds bigger.
100 to 200 pounds bigger.
So I think that Matilda is actually not Matilda,
or it's a really weird name for a boy turtle.
But I think that that's the case, what do you think?
- I don't believe you.
- [Brian] You don't believe me,
well how am I gonna prove you wrong?
- I guess until I see it I don't believe it.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, I got a video!
- And I hope I don't see it.
- I'll show you a video.
She never believes me but,
so that's wild, huh?
- Kind of upset about that.
- Really? - Yeah.
- [Brian] Why?
- 'Cause boys are nasty.
- Andrew is working on Salt and Pepper today,
of course we've got a bunch of food down here,
which means our training continues with Salt and Pepper.
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- Look how chunky Salt is getting.
It's really cool, and I think that what's happening
now that they're in their own enclosures,
and that they have kinda that sense of
not getting moved around,
they're separated out, I mean you can see Salt
is back stationed right at the front.
She knows that's where her food is.
And that's the thing, you know,
they might not immediately respond
to the noises that we're making,
but what happens is that as we're feeding them
and making those noises,
they'll start to relate those noises to food,
and eventually that's how you train 'em,
so although it's the very beginning of the process,
and Salt is doing much better than Pepper is,
as far as stationing,
Pepper seems to be just a little bit more shy.
She'll eventually come up and do that as well.
So it's just about consistency training,
so I think Salt even as wet as it is right now,
still wants some more food.
As we're getting ready for groomation,
there's a bunch of animals that are just on the cusp,
that hopefully will breed this year.
This is actually a Blair's phase gray-banded kingsnake,
and whoo doggie, this thing is absolutely gorgeous.
It's a little bit small,
probably gonna feed it for just a little while longer,
but definitely hoping that we'll have a whole new group
of gray-banded kings that are up to size
this coming year to breed, that's for sure.
Now this girl is definitely gonna get going.
This is actually what they call
a Mosaic California kingsnake.
I just love it, it's like that black and white Cal king,
but instead of bands or high white,
it goes the other way where there's lots of black,
and just a little bit of that mosaic pattern
on the sides with the white.
I mean, absolutely incredible,
and it's so exciting to get like,
new animals ready to go and stuff like that.
And here's a project I've been working on
that I love to death.
We call it the red line albino.
So it's just an albino corner and amel corn snake,
but it's really got tons of like,
orange, red, dark pigment,
and we're hoping that through polygenic,
much like we've done with the pink
and the salmons and stuff like that,
we can get a almost red corn snake
that's an albino that's gonna be really cool.
So I love that, again, just high contrast,
and when we start taking that into other mutations,
we can start getting some really cool stuff as well.
Another Cal king that is crazy cool.
These have been around forever,
but we finally raised another big group of 'em up,
and that's the lavender Cal king,
just got that purple color.
Of course we produced a lavender snows
that are all purple with no patterning on it at all,
and that's really cool, but still,
a lavender snake when these guys hatch out is insane,
I mean, I love 'em to death.
And again, so many cool animals for sure.
I mean take a look at this.
This is actually a candy cane tessera corn snake.
Again I think about that with that red line animal,
if I could breed the red line into candy cane,
get that really red and really white,
and then you get into like a tessera, something like this,
whoo whoo man, I tell you what,
there's gonna be some cool snakes
that we can start working on,
and a bunch of new projects this coming year
that I'm super excited to kinda get started,
and seeing what they actually look like
once we start getting these things bred.
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