- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
We have one of the most insane clutches of ball pythons
that we're gonna cut here.
I am nervous, because I hope it turns out
these babies could be ridiculous.
But we also have to fix Bowser's pond
because you know these water features always give me
a little bit of problem.
His waterfalls are down for some reason
I think they're clogged up.
So we're just gonna just tear it down
and try to get these things fixed and get going.
But this clutch of eggs is gonna be ridiculous.
What do you say we just jump right into it
and fingers crossed we have some amazing babies in there.
You know there's not a lot of clutches of snakes
that I cut that I get nervous about
because I'm nervous about this one.
Because again, it's an Enchi Pastave,
which is a Pastel Mojave
and it's Hypo Clown bred to a Banana Clown.
So obviously we can have clown stuff,
we can have Banana Clown Stuff.
But I really want to hit that Banana Enchi Mojave Clown.
The female was actually this Enchi Pastave,
which is a Pastel Mojave and an Enchi
and its het for Clown.
And it was bred to this ripper right here
which of course is a Banana Clown.
That's the animal that I'm hoping for
and I'm nervous cause this is my only shot at it
so what do you say we just jump into this first egg
and see what happens?
I got to just relax for a second.
This is getting me uh...
All right, we're gonna be good.
Here we go.
First egg, what do we have, what do we have?
(gasps) What is this?
What in the heck is it?
Okay, whoa, wait a second.
All right, wow.
Holy moly.
Right off the rip, I think it's an Enchi Clown
because it's basically a patternless snake
with just a stripe down its back.
So it's not a Banana but it is an Enchi Clown
and the thing that's so amazing about that is that
until you prove a het, you never know it's a het, right?
So this was her first clutch ever
so the fact that our first egg we hit a clown,
tells me, at least she's a het Clown.
So we have one clown and it is a ripper.
I mean that thing is absolutely gorgeous.
I cannot till it climbs out.
But let's hit the Banana Clown,
the Banana Enchi Clown,
the Banana Enchi Pastave Clown,
whatever it is.
Oh my gosh, I'm so happy we hit a Clown.
So happy we hit a Clown right off the rip.
And what do we have here?
Oh nope, nope, agh.
It looks like maybe uh... (laughs)
Looks like a Banana.
Probably a Banana Enchi that is het for Clown.
Because it's a Banana Clown male,
of course everything is going to be het for Clown.
So, we didn't hit this one.
For a second my heart dropped cause I saw that Banana
and I'm like oh my god.
It's okay, we got four more eggs to go.
Oh, I'm so excited.
I'm gonna faint if we hit that animal I'm hoping for.
Okay, what do we got?
Oh, whoa whoa
whoa
I think we hit it.
I think we got it guys.
I think it's it.
It's a Banana, it's a Mojave,
it's an Enchi and it's a Clown.
What do you think of that?
I mean, that is absolutely crazy.
Oh my gosh, we hit it.
The all gene animal.
I don't know if it's a pastel, all gene would be pastel.
This may have pastel in it.
It looks like it's a little faded so it probably does.
I think this is the all gene animal.
I think it's a Banana, it's a Pastel,
it's an Enchi, it's a Mojave and it is a Clown.
Man, I tell you, we hit it on the third egg guys.
We got three more eggs.
That means we could get three more of these, right?
And I think if the Pastel isn't in there,
it actually might be brighter.
Oh my gosh, my adrenaline is flowing.
I am so excited about this clutch.
And what do we have here?
Oh my gosh.
Well we at least have a Banana Clown,
possibly a Banana Enchi Clown.
This is definitely not a mojave but hey, I tell you what,
a Banana Clown.
It looks like really a Pastel Banana Clown.
Possibly an Enchi as well.
So, man I tell you what, three out of four eggs
have already been Clowns and we've been crushing the odds.
This is the clutch I was hoping to crush.
So, two more eggs,
that means two more wonderful snakes to produce.
What else do we have here?
Looks like another Clown.
But this time it's just, it looks like, oh my gosh.
Four out of five eggs are Clowns.
This one just looks like a Pastel Clown.
So it doesn't look like it's Enchi,
doesn't look like it's Banana,
for sure doesn't look like it's Mojave.
But still, incredible.
And there is a chance,
let me just poke around for one second here.
Yeah, I don't think it's a Mojave.
But nevertheless that's pretty cool.
One more egg.
This clutch, I told you I was nervous about
and I was so excited about this clutch when it was laid
and here we are 57 days later
and it is exactly what I was hoping for.
Maybe even exceeded my expectations.
I like to end the eggs good.
And we have one more small clutch to cut in a few.
But I just got to get this last egg here.
What do we have?
Oh my gosh, another beautiful snake here.
Another Clown, this on looks like a Mojave Clown.
Yeah, probably not an Enchi but a Mojave Clown.
So, oh my gosh, five out of six eggs were Clown.
We hit the all gene animal,
we hit Banana Clowns, we hit all...
Oh my gosh guys, this was incredible.
If every clutch could be this amazing,
the year will be astonishing.
So, this was incredible guys.
We have a few things to do, now we'll get back
and we'll cut another clutch of just two eggs
but I tell you what guys, there it is.
I'm loving it.
Although water features are absolutely amazing
and I actually just worked on Bowser's tank yesterday,
we cleaned the filters out, everything.
Cause the waterfalls weren't working quite properly.
Got everything set, cleaned it out did everything.
Still a problem so I think what's happening is that
the actual intake tube that goes to the filters
might be clogged.
So unfortunately, I'm gonna have to drain
the entire tank down to nothing.
Take Bowser out right now.
Get it cleaned up and then hopefully
I can maybe blow out whatever is obstructing.
Because two of the three filters aren't working right now.
So again that's part of having water features,
they look awesome, they're amazing
but they can be a pain in the butt.
So let's hope it's an easy fix.
But it's gonna take a good part of the day
to get this thing fixed so let's hope it works.
Fingers crossed.
(upbeat music)
(grunting)
Guess what time it is guys.
(sings) Egg time, egg time, egg time
But before we pull that of course I've got my new merch on.
It is now available.
We've got Ivy, we've got Lucy,
we've got free hugs, we've got no hugs.
If you're not a hug person,
you can get them without the free hugs part
cause you know with the social distancing,
some people don't like their free hugs.
Regardless, they're going to be available for a short time
so link in the description.
You can check them out, please get you some if you like.
So let's just go ahead and jump in.
This is actually a second clutch
from a Coral Snow.
Now that's that Snow Corn that are kind of pink.
And you can see how beautiful this girl is.
And again second clutches
aren't going to be quite as fertile
which is just kind of normal and stuff like that.
So I'm going to go ahead and get this girl out
and I'll show you the male because again this girl is pretty
but the male she was bred to is ridiculous.
And here he is, I mean look at that animal.
I mean, a pink snake.
This is something that, again I always say,
I never thought in my wildest dreams
that I would be holding a pink snake but here it is.
Let's see how many eggs she has.
All in all it looks like a pretty good clutch.
Like I said, fertility sometimes in second clutches
isn't quite as good.
Looks like we just have one little infertile egg
and everything else looks good.
Two, four, six, seven good eggs.
And like I mentioned before, Colubrid's can double clutch
but then they're done, you know?
So this is her second clutch, she's done for the year.
Now it's just about conditioning to get ready for brumation
that's going to happen sometime about October-November
is when we put them down into a cool down.
So that's it, I mean, that's pretty awesome.
Her work is done for the year.
She was a absolute beautiful mama.
Next up is actually an Anery Brooks Kingsnake.
And again this is a second clutch.
So we have a handful of first clutches still left
but for the majority of it, the next clutches
are all going to be second clutches.
This girl laid a beautiful first clutch
and wow she laid a beautiful second clutch too.
I'm just going to go ahead remove these eggs real quick
so I can get mama out.
We'll go ahead get these out of here.
Looks like there's one slugger
just like the first clutch which is kind of interesting.
The rest of them look really good.
Again, Anerythristic which just basically means
is lacking the red pigment but in the Brooks Kings,
it's actually lacking the yellow pigment as well
so they're basically Axanthic and Anerythristic
and it was just bred to another Anerythristic male
so these should just all be Anerythristics
but again one little slugger right here, no big deal.
We've got two, four, six, eight good eggs.
Tell you what, Colubrid season is,
again, kind of wrapping up, not a ton more clutches.
And it's been an exciting year so far pulling eggs.
I'm a little bummed that we're getting down to the last,
you know, maybe 20-30 clutches
but that means that the other clutches
that were laid earlier are about to hatch.
So baby seasons here.
So egg season although it's amazing,
really, it's all about hatching baby snakes right?
So, it's gonna be amazing and I think we're like
within two weeks for our first baby Colubrid's of the year.
(upbeat music)
So we have the pond all drained right now,
you can see those three black holes right there,
those are the ports.
And I can actually even see there,
it looks like there's a little funkiness
in one of them right now.
So the whole idea is to go on the inside
and blow this way with water and see
if I can clear them out first and then if that doesn't work,
I'll actually use air and kind of blow them out.
And I can even take like a hanger and push through,
just in case something is blocked.
I'm hoping that's all it is
cause if it's something different, I'm at a loss.
I have no idea.
But we're gonna try to clear those ports out right now.
(upbeat music)
We left that earlier clutch that we cut,
it's gonna be hard to kind of top it, I'm not gonna lie
and this isn't like a super big clutch.
We only have two eggs
and number two it's actually just a pinstripe female
bred to a Super Enchi Pin male
so we could only produce Enchi Pins and Enchi's.
I mean that's it.
That's all we could produce for this.
But hey, still cool to cut eggs, I don't care.
So let's just jump into it and go ahead and cut these guys.
Oh my gosh, I'm still excited
about that previous clutch that we cut.
That was just such a ripper.
All right, so what do we have here?
Looks like it's just, again, an Enchi Pinstripe.
Again, everything's going to be Enchi
because it's a Super Enchi and it could either be
a Pinstripe or not Pinstripe.
That's all we got.
So we got an Enchi Pinstripe there.
One more egg.
And if I got another Enchi Pin, I'd be very happy
but if we just get an Enchi I'll be happy too.
So what do we have here?
And guess what?
We have an Enchi Pin.
So there it is guys, absolutely amazing.
Things worked out really well.
What a day of cutting eggs I tell you what.
And we've got a lot to go guys.
We have a lot of eggs to cut over the next little bit.
We have a hundred clutches of Ball Pythons on the ground
and we have another 70 to go.
So this is only clutch number eight or nine.
So it's gonna be a fun year guys.
So that is it for egg cutting.
Down in the dungeon.
Which means;
(sings) egg time.
And this is a clutch I absolutely am super, super stoked on.
You guys know I'm super stoked on everything
but of course this is another Lori project.
One of the things I've really tried to say
is that I need to work harder on the Lori Ball Pythons
because of the mutations that are coming out are incredible
and I kind of really dropped the
proverbial ball on this one.
But anyways, this is actually a Lori
and she's bred to a Banana Cinna Pin.
Now, the Banana and the Lori is something
I really want to work on
and then you put the Cinna and the Pin in there,
oh my goodness.
All those dark morphs, the purples, and look at mama here.
Don't bite me mama, you're okay, you're okay.
We're just gonna kind of unroll her real quick.
And a nice, beautiful clutch of eggs.
Doesn't look like a lot of eggs, but still very very nice.
So this is a great way to start.
Gonna go ahead and just get these really quick.
And we'll put them right over here
and we've got two, four, five eggs.
Again, not a very big clutch, but again, we're gonna get
Cinna Lori's, we're gonna get Banana Cinna Lori's.
We're gonna get Banana Lori's.
We're gonna get Banana Cinna Lori Pins potentially.
A lot of amazing animals can come from this.
So fingers crossed.
57 days from now, this is gonna be a great clutch to cut.
And just so you guys can see,
this is the Banana Cinna Pin male.
Again, the purples that are gonna come through on this
with the Cinnamon and the Banana.
It's gonna be really cool
and then you add that Lori Ball Python into it.
I cannot wait till these eggs are hatching.
And then this is another just normal Ball Python
but bred to a Banana Enchi Pin.
So there could be all kinds of really cool combinations.
Just really good.
You know; Banana's, Enchi's,
Banana Enchi's, Banana Enchi Pin's.
All that type of stuff.
So we're gonna get mama off of--
Whoa, come on mama.
Looks like she's got a really nice clutch of eggs here.
And they look really fresh.
You can really see this one, just barely
is starting to harden up.
It's okay mama.
I swear to gosh I'll take care of your eggs mama.
And that's a good girl.
I love when mom's are caring for their eggs like this.
That means that, oh!
That means that they're really good animals for sure.
So we're gonna get these eggs over here.
Get this one egg right here, in here.
And we should be good to go.
Looks like I'm gonna have to remove this top egg
but remember I told you the other day,
how when they're fresh, they get removed super easy.
I mean look at how quick that came off.
You're at another four, five, six hours
it would be really, really hard
and it would be hard to get off
and you jeopardize ripping the egg, right?
So, there's two, four, six, eight, nine good eggs.
Woo doggy, I tell you what.
This year has been insane.
All right so the pond is pretty much filled up now
or close to it.
So we're just gonna turn the waterfalls on,
see if they work this time.
Like I said, this one over there is not gonna be perfect.
We're gonna have to redo that a little bit.
But hopefully the other ones are good to go.
Fingers crossed.
(upbeat music)
(water splashing)
All right, so success.
The waterfalls are all working.
These are really strong.
That's a little bit weak
but still probably better than it's ever looked
to be totally honest with you.
So, I tell you what, that was a lot of work
but I'm so glad it's there.
Gonna have to do some retooling of this
to be honest with you in the future.
But for now we are good to go
and Bowser can go back in his enclosure.
(grunting) There you go Bowser.
There you go baby.
Oh, oh, oh, oh (grunting)
There you go.
There you go buddy.
Enjoy your pond.
Your nice clean pond baby boy.
(laughs)
I hope that you guys enjoyed this video
if you did, you can go through a playlist of cutting eggs
because that's always awesome.
Right over here.
Could you please do me a favor
and support my podcast channel called Checking In?
You can click on the subscribe button right over there.
On this side you can actually subscribe
to this vlog channel.
Please turn your post notifications on.
Have an absolutely wonderful day.
Remember, be kind to someone and I promise,
I'll see you tomorrow.