- Let's see if we can just somehow slowly get her off.
That's okay Mamma.
This is a little bit of a precarious position right here
because I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to do.
Oh my God.
Okay, well we're gonna go for it.
(yelling)
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Hey, good morning everybody and welcome
to another beautiful day.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
We actually have to do a little maintenance
on Lucy's cage here in a minute.
But, first I'm gonna go over and check
and see if we have any snake eggs upstairs and downstairs.
And like I mentioned yesterday, we don't have
a tremendous amount of colubrids that are gonna
still be laying eggs over the next little bit.
You know, maybe 15, 20 at the very most.
But a lot of 'em aren't quite ready,
so we might have a gap.
I'm still gonna check all of 'em and just see.
This girl's not even in her box.
Tells you that obviously she isn't gonna go.
And you can see some of the dates are a little bit later
so we know those aren't gonna go.
This girl is out of her box.
This girl's not due to lay.
These girls aren't due to lay here.
Not due to lay here.
Not too many prospects for eggs today
when it comes to colubrids.
But, I did have a few ball pythons that looked like they
were gonna pop anytime so I'm just gonna check
one or two more boxes here to see.
Nope, girl's out of her box.
Definitely is.
That's it for colubrids,
so no colubrid eggs today guys.
But like I mentioned,
there are a bunch of ball pythons that are due.
Take a look at this monkey right here.
That is actually a VPI Axanthic.
She's about ready to explode.
We have an albino ball python here
that's about ready to explode.
We have a ton of animals that are
just exploding at the seam.
Ready to pop anytime.
I mean, take a look at this chocolate Pinstripe right here.
Woohoo, man she looks uncomfortable.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and check to see
if we have any eggs in here.
And with any luck, we'll have a clutch or two.
And then we'll pull the egg.
And sure enough, we had a couple clutches
starting with this one right here which is actually
just an Enchi ball python.
But she was bred to a super Enchi lemon blast
which means there's pastels.
All should be Enchi, most of them are gonna be super Enchi
because it's bred to an Enchi.
And there'll be like pinstripes and pastels
and all kinds of other stuff.
Regardless, it looks like she's on
a really nice clutch of eggs here.
So let's see if we can just somehow slowly get her off.
That's okay Mamma.
Oop, it's always harder when you're doing it alone.
It doesn't help when you got a camera in your hand too.
That's for sure.
So I'm just gonna go ahead.
These eggs are all over the place
which means I'm gonna have to candle 'em for sure.
Mamma did give me a little nip.
That's okay, you're okay sweetheart.
But the eggs look really good.
Again, we're gonna candle these guys.
We'll just set 'em right in here.
And then go ahead and pull these guys out.
Once we get 'em set up, we'll take 'em
into a dark room and we'll candle them.
I've showed you guys candling a few times.
And basically what it is is just going to a dark room
and you take a light and you shine it into the egg.
You look for the embryo and network of veins in it
and you make sure it's right side up.
No big deal.
Regardless, we got two, four, six, eight good eggs.
That is a really good clutch for this girl.
Oh, and one sluggard just to come through.
Now what's interesting is there's a little discoloration
here on this egg.
That's not unusual at all and that's nothing to worry about.
I mean, 99% of the time eggs
that have a little discoloration
for whatever reason, still will hatch fine.
So we'll go ahead, candle these eggs up
and we'll move on to the next clutch.
Next up, we have a fiesty little monkey right here.
You can tell she wants to bite me.
It's okay, Mom.
Weird, she's not really coiled around her eggs much.
And the eggs are nice and small which means
there's usually a bunch of 'em there.
There are a couple sluggards.
She happens to be a hat carmel that is bred
to a spider hat carmel so we can produce
some spider carmels and stuff like that.
But again, these eggs are nice and small
which is kind of good because usually it means
that there's quite a few of 'em.
And again, Mom is not happy at all.
I'm trying to just gently take her eggs
without her getting too upset at me.
Gonna just go ahead pull these over here.
Get these in the box.
You can tell just by the softness
of these eggs, these are really fresh.
Like she just finished laying them.
Probably within the last hour or so.
And that's probably why she wasn't coiled around 'em
protecting 'em as much.
But she's definitely probably wore out.
We'll make sure we get her cage cleaned up, get her all set.
She did have three little sluggards,
but she had two, four, six good eggs.
Which isn't too bad.
Again, that's a recessive mutation carmel,
so in theory one in four on average are gonna be carmels.
And then, one in six would be a spider carmel on average.
But again those are averages over thousands and thousands
or hundreds of thousands of eggs called Mendelian genetics.
So when you have six eggs, you could get a bunch of carmels
and a bunch of carmel spiders or you could get no carmels
and no carmel spiders.
That's just how genetics work.
So it's kind of the luck of the draw.
But over time, the averages always work out to be
what the averages are in Mendelian genetics.
And that's it for eggs today over at BHB.
Let's go ahead and tackle Lucy.
Lucy's definitely getting a lot better
but I do have to get her out in order to clean her cage out.
Because we really haven't moved her out
to do a real thorough cage cleaning
in probably about a month or so.
Because she was grabbing and then right afterwards
we didn't wanna really mess her around too much.
So, now it's time to go in there and get her out
and see if she's gonna be in a little bit better mood.
Come on out, that's easy.
You come right on out, sweetheart.
This is little bit of a precarious position right here
because I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to do.
Oh my God.
Okay, well, we're gonna go for it.
We're gonna...
Watch out, watch out, watch out.
(yelling)
That was scary.
Help me to get her out.
There you go girl.
Okay, she's alright, she's alright.
- Alright big girl.
- We're okay.
Booya.
Okay, so that didn't go that bad.
- Aw, dude.
- I tell you what, there was definitely a couple spots
where a week ago, she would've bit me, 100%.
- Oh yeah.
- You know, so, she's calming down.
This is all good news.
Now that we got her out, we can do a real good cage clean.
Get her back in.
Oh my God, that got my heart rate up.
'Cause I, I don't think I've ever been in a worse position
where she's just sitting by my leg.
Oh, Lucy, I love her.
All cleaned up.
Just got to get Lucy back in again.
She's acting really good compared to what she was.
So, that being said, she's in
a pretty precarious spot right here.
See, she would of bit me a week ago like that.
I mean, you know, 100% she would've bit me.
Just be careful.
Hang on, just let me try to spin around.
Alright, I'm gonna set her down.
I got it, I got it.
Hang on a second.
Alright, here she goes, there she is.
She's alright.
Just maneuvering her around a little bit.
That's about it.
And that's again a couple little precarious spots.
But to be honest with you,
a week ago she would've crushed me.
She has really gotten back to her old Lucy ways.
Not even one strike in that entire event.
Yeah she did get close, she was definitely gonna
strike a couple times.
But, again she's definitely restrained herself
back to the normal Lucy.
Looking amazing, she's gonna get a couple rabbits this week
and we should be good to go.
I couldn't be more excited
because tomorrow starts the new era in the vlog.
And what I mean by that is Jay starts tomorrow.
So he's gonna be helping with filming and editing.
And just be another person so that I can free up
my time, not only to do a better job of vlogging
and be even a better storyteller and bring you guys
on more amazing journeys.
But also, I think the vlog is just gonna
look a lot prettier.
Like I mentioned in the past,
we listened to what you guys said.
And I think that we have a really good thing
where you're gonna get the same amount of this,
but you're gonna get a lot of extra stuff.
It's gonna be really cool to not only verbally tell a story,
but also visually tell an amazing story.
In my mind, when I'm collecting python eggs,
it's gonna go something like this.
(upbeat rock music)
But truthfully guys, it's not gonna be like that.
The vlog's not gonna change that terribly much.
But it's gonna give me an opportunity to tell the story
of the day a little bit better.
Be able to get other people from the crew involved more
like Lori, and Noah, and Eric, and Jessica
and Kelsey and everybody.
It's gonna give us an opportunity
to be even a better, more kind of robust vlog.
Plus we're gonna be able to do travel adventure stuff.
Because, you gotta remember in the past,
the biggest part about travel that was hard was
I had to vlog, edit, travel, do everything myself.
Now to have a second person involved,
it's gonna really open up the opportunity
for some amazing things.
But we definitely need your help.
We need you to continue to be engaged with us.
Tell us what you think, what you don't like, what you like,
what you'd like to see more of.
'Cause I wanna take this to the next level.
I wanna be the best possible vlog that we possibly can.
So tomorrow starts the new era.
- That's right guys, I'm back.
It's Jay Tomsky, for those of you who don't know.
I'm here hanging out at the Reptarium.
I'm gonna be taking over a lot of camera work and editing
for Brian, our favorite YouTuber.
We have a lot of stuff planned for the future,
so let's get it started.
- And like I mentioned, we're really excited
about the future, but we need your help.
You know, right now, you know go down in the comments,
let me know what you'd like to see
in the future that we might do.
Give us some ideas.
And again keep telling us how
you're liking the progression of this.
Like I had mentioned, I am super excited for the future.
- I'm not only a camera guy and editor,
I'm actually an animal lover.
Be honest with you guys, I've actually watched
every single one of Brian's vlogs.
So it's not like I don't know what goes on in here.
And I just wanna be a part of this project.
You know it's really special to be able to help out
not only with Brian but to help animal education as a whole.
Like we said before, we have a lot
of stuff planned for the future.
And if you wanna see some behind the scenes stuff,
go follow me on Instagram at jaytomsky.
- I wanna take a second guys
because this is really important.
I realize it's gonna be a little bit more boring
but hang in there.
I really want you to listen to me
because it's an incredibly important topic.
You know, a lot of our love for reptiles,
or animals in general, kind of started that one day
when the people brought animals into our school
when we were in elementary.
Well you know the animal rights and kind of the people
that wanna outlaw all this stuff that we've got going on
are always trying to attack the ability to educate people.
Or even get animals and people and certainly the ownership
not just of reptiles but of all kinds of animals.
Well, they do it in two ways.
First what they'll do is they'll try
to attack a national law.
And if that doesn't work, they go state by state.
Right now, kind of both things are happening.
And let me explain.
There's actually a bill that is being
brought to the House of Representatives.
HR/28/63.
And basically what it does is it outlaws all
animal traveling shows.
Including animal education shows to schools.
Yes, that's right.
We're not talking about elephants and tigers,
because I get why people have an issue with that.
You know, not that I wanna get into that
and not that I personally have a problem
as long as the animals are cared for.
But the fact is is that this bill would actually
outlaw us taking animals to schools and educating kids.
That's right, if you remember that day
when someone came in and educated you
and had that Burmese python or whatever
that would be outlawed if this bill passed.
On top of that, there is I think five states that already
have introduced legislation that is going to eventually
go to vote that is doing it on a state-wide level.
Now it's a lot easier to pass a state law
than it is a federal law, right?
So this is something that we have to be aware of
because they are trying to outlaw educational shows.
Now listen, people come here to the Reptarium
and that would still be okay.
But the fact is is a bigger part of what we do
at the Reptarium is going on site to schools and libraries
and even birthday parties
and educating people about animals.
If this bill were to pass on a state level
or on a federal level, we couldn't do that anymore.
None of the animals in here
could leave this place to go educate people.
Now, what do we do about it?
I'm not 100% sure.
The first thing I wanna ask you to do
is to go to usark.org.
I'm gonna put a link in the description.
Go show them some love, go show them some support.
Because as a reptile keeper,
they are protecting our rights to keep reptiles.
So go show them some love number one
and they'll keep us posted on what they wanna do.
There's probably gonna be times where
they're gonna want us to send in letters,
maybe calls, whatever the case may be.
That's the first thing we need to do.
Other than that, we just need to ban together
because again I'm just saying that
this is a slippery slope people.
I mean, they outlaw that, next thing you know
none of us are gonna be able to keep animals.
So again, I know this was a boring part.
Sorry to break from our normal routine
but this is so important to me.
I don't want the ability for me to go educate people
to be taken away and I don't want anyone else's ability
to be taken away either.
So please, go show usark some love and comment down below
what you think about this and what you think
we can do about this.
Just like yesterday, more baby geckos hatching.
Holy moly, are we gonna have a lot
of little baby leopard geckos this year.
I love it though, I love little babies.
They are so absolutely adorable.
Take a look at this white
and yellow tremper albino right here.
Oh my God, that thing is absolutely stunning.
And that's the thing, I mean with the variety
that we produce and then the quantity we produce,
we definitely have a lot of stuff coming up.
So everyday when we're hatching a hundred,
two hundred geckos, it's just so cool
to see what's hatching out.
Take a look at this thing here that's just basically like
almost a pure white animal.
But that is actually a super snow tremper white and yellow.
Oh my God, that thing is adorable.
And of course, we just have this bold pattern right here
which is a polygenic trait bred for that striping.
And then this is actually a bold bell.
Which is the bell-line albino
with that polygenic bold stripe.
I'll have to do a big gecko show here pretty soon.
With that said, I think I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog.
I really do wanna know what you guys think we should do
about that potential legislation.
It's certainly something that we have to act on.
We can't sit back because animal education shows
are kind of the foundation of people's love of animals.
Let me know your thoughts down in the comments.
As for now, have an amazing day.
I love you guys so much.
Be kind to someone, and I promise
I'm gonna see you guys tomorrow.
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