- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
I wanted to show you this cute little monkey here,
this is actually that super pastel, cinny lesser
that was actually kind of that purplish lavender look.
Well it shed out it looks absolutely incredible,
and you guys know that we've had these kind
of purplish kind of looking animals that you guys have seen,
but today we actually hatched out some baby clearbreds
that are legitimately purple.
I was so excited the other day when these guys pipped out
because you guys know that I like crazy colored animals.
Blue and silver and all kinds of stuff.
And how about purple?
That's right, I know there's been times
where I've taken a little bit of liberties
on the purple snake part but these guys truly are purple.
These are what they call Lavender Snow Cal King.
And I'll be honest with you this one
still has a little bit of pattern.
You can see the banding and all these
actually have some banding.
A normal lavender Cal King looks like this.
You can see like yellow banding in it, right?
Now the Snows actually are just two-toned purple
and every now and then we will have some
that hatch out purple with no patterning at all.
But nevertheless these guys are definitely
purple lavender snakes.
This isn't clickbait, this isn't oh my gosh,
look at I've got a purple snake.
I really do have a purple snake guys, this is it.
And think about that.
Purple snake, I mean, that just is crazy to me
that there could actually be a snake that is purple.
And that's what these guy are.
Absolutely wonderful animals.
And like I said, we have a couple clutches of these
that should be hatching as well that shouldn't have
any pattern, so they'll be purple just like this,
but none of the banding, just solid purple.
I mean how absolutely incredible is that?
And what basically is a double recessive mutation.
The lavender is a type of albino,
like a t-positive, tyrosine positive albino.
And then there's actually a melanistic
or a chocolate version that causes
the purple like that together.
So absolutely wonderful, excited,
I couldn't be more happy that these guys hatched.
And like I said, we have a handful of other clutches
that probably will be even better than this
in the lavender snow project.
So Big Mama of course, our Leopard Tortoise,
that I got from a buddy of mine.
Of course we have Franklin over here,
we have Steve over here, and they breed all the time,
but I never thought much of it.
To be honest with you we didn't even put any spots
for her to lay eggs or anything.
And guess what?
Today she laid an egg right here.
Now sure if it's fertilized.
Handle it, it's got some pink in it,
but I don't see a network of veins.
But the fact is these guys can
take up to 14 months to hatch,
so I'm assuming you probably don't
see a lot in the beginning and then
as time goes on you start to
see more network of veins and growth and stuff like that.
No idea if this is gonna hatch, but it's pretty cool,
the first tortoise egg that I've ever had.
I've never bred tortoises before!
So we'll probably end up putting a spot in here
with some dirt where she can dig
'cause chances are pretty good if she laid one egg,
she's got more eggs in her.
So we'll have an area where she can actually dig
and see if she can deposit any other eggs that she has.
But pretty cool, right?
I mean unexpected, definitely didn't think
this was gonna happen.
We now have one egg, and who knows,
maybe 14 months from now we're gonna have
a cute little baby Leopard Tortoise.
- We've got some baby gargoyles.
It's been a couple weeks since we've
had some hatchlings of these guys.
This one is really cool looking though.
This one that's still kinda hanging out in the egg.
It's got a lot of orange on it already.
So with these guys a lot of the times
if they start out with a little bit of color
it's gonna keep developing and get brighter and brighter.
So that one I'm excited to watch grow.
This is cool too.
This is out of, the female doesn't have a name,
but Captain Spaulding is a red and orange stripe,
and then the female is a red blotch.
So it'll be interesting to see
what these guys end up being.
- I'm in the dungeon, guess that time it is?
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time. ♪
Egg time!
And this is a pretty exciting clutch
I'm not gonna lie to you.
This is actually a Banana Spider Ball Python,
and you guys know how much stuff I want to
start working with the Lori Project.
So we actually bred the Lori into this Banana Spider.
I just think that that Lori being the darker morph
with the Banana could be really, really cool.
So I wanted to get this going.
And I gotta be honest with you,
sometimes it's almost embarrassing for me to tell you this,
but believe it or not,
this is the first Banana female
I've ever had that laid eggs.
Now I've produced hundreds and hundreds
of Banana Ball Pythons but they've always been
males bred to other things.
I've never actually had a Banana clutch.
This is my first ever Banana clutch from a female.
So let's go ahead and see how many eggs she has.
All right Mama, come on, let's go ahead.
And I again love the fact that now that we have
the coco bedding in here, the Reptile Prime,
it is definitely cool to see them nest,
and like I mentioned much easier for me to get the eggs too,
'cause they don't stick to the paper, obviously.
And the paper was good for us to try to make sure
that we kept things really clean and sanitary
and stuff like that.
But we're excited to kind of move on to the next thing.
And like I had mentioned before,
we're gonna be adding some kind of more enrichment
into the cages over the next month or so.
So regardless we have two, four, six eggs,
which is pretty awesome, I mean,
just think about Banana Lories, Banana Lori Spiders,
Banana Lori all kinds of stuff,
I mean it's gonna be incredible.
And this is just the stepping stone to the next thing.
I mean can you imagine
a Banana Super Lori Leopard Pinstripe?
(exclaims)
Yeah that's gonna be pretty amazing.
So let's get these in the incubator,
we have one more clutch to pull.
Then this next clutch is just back to those
kind of lavendery animals, right?
This is a big old pastel girl that looks like
she's on a beautiful clutch of eggs.
And she was just bred to that pewter lesser,
so again we can get those kind of
lavendery cool babies from these.
That's super pastel lesser cinnamon, that purpley thing.
So regardless let's see how many eggs this girl has.
Oh doggy, looks like she's got a nice clutch.
Look at that.
Come on mom, I know, you're upset,
and I get it, I totally do,
but look at that beautiful clutch of eggs right there.
Oh my gosh that's absolutely amazing.
This year has been like a dream, I mean, as a snake breeder,
I've been doing this for 30 something years,
and I can honestly say I don't know that I've had
more fun and just kind of excitement with this stuff.
It's absolutely amazing.
Course we've got two, four, six, eight,
beautiful eggs from this girl.
And I think the fact that, you know,
I don't breed snakes for the money side of it,
kind of takes away some of the pressure
so I can just enjoy it more if that makes any sense.
So it's just been an amazing year
and we've got a long way to go,
and by the way, for those of you that are counting along,
that's 137 clutches.
(upbeat music)
- As you guys know I've been working with
our Crocodile Monitor pretty regularly now.
Right now this is just a refresher for him,
I really want him to refresh on that ball training
and stuff like that.
I really want him to get to know that that red ball is food.
That also means these bad boys come off.
So as I told you guys before,
we're gonna just do a quick, quick little feed,
and I'm gonna show you guys
just the little baby steps that we're doing here.
Let's get started.
(upbeat music)
Every time I'm in there there just seems like
there's a more positive movement forward every time.
So after seeing this I think I kind of want to address
that red ball a little differently now.
If I separate the ball from the food,
he's still got his eyes connected to the food.
So I want to take that away.
So odds are what I'm gonna end up having to try and do
is maybe scent the ball, or something like that.
Get something into that realm
and basically present the ball and then
have the food behind it.
Just like how we've done with our Asian Water Monitor
but I felt this was just that previous method
was a little safer and a little easier
maybe things would move a little faster.
That being said I gotta get that focus onto the ball,
so that way we can get that understanding
and that connection through.
- What time is it guys?
Sing along with me.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time, egg time. ♪
Luver egg time, and we have a Brooks King Snake here
that is actually just bred to a Hypo Jelly Brooks King,
so obviously you can see mama looks really good,
we'll get this all cleaned up and stuff like that,
get her some fresh water, all that stuff,
and see how many eggs she has here.
Wow, holy moly!
I wasn't expecting a clutch that big.
This is a second clutch.
That is a big second clutch right there.
And the crazy thing is,
is I've talked about this earlier this year,
is the fact that her first clutch, 100% slogs,
not even one fertile egg.
We switched the male up,
and we got all of these good eggs.
That's why again, it's so important to be on top of things.
If you have a problem switch it up.
And then look at this.
All these eggs wouldn't be here
if Lori didn't decide to switch that male up.
So we've got two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14 beautiful eggs.
I mean that is amazing.
That is absolutely stunning.
Then we actually have another Brooks King here.
This is actually a het White Side as well
as het anerythristic
bred to an anerythristic het White Side.
So we could get some anyery White Sides, some anyereys,
all kinds of stuff like that.
But see what's going on here.
Oh a little bit of a mixed bag on this one.
This one's got some good eggs
and quite a few bad eggs actually.
Now that I'm looking at them,
the more I look at the more bad eggs I see
and the less good eggs I see.
I do see two good eggs,
and then all the rest of these are just slogs here.
Mama looks really good and stuff like that too,
which is fine, that just happens.
So we'll go ahead, get her cleaned up,
get her back in her cage, get her some water,
get rid of these slog eggs,
probably feed it off to some lizards
or something like that,
and as is, just two eggs in this clutch,
but that first clutch was an absolute banger.
Nevertheless, again, just a handful more Colubrids,
and we're done for the year.
You guys know that we're doing virtual tours now.
You can get one hour, 15 minute,
half hour, five minute tours.
Of course there's always the private tours,
Brian tours, stuff like that.
And guess what?
Now we have a Bruce tour.
- What's going on, hey guys.
- So Bruce what can we expect on your tour?
- So obviously, 100%, always gonna be messing with
some Monitors when you guys are doing a tour with me.
So if you're a guy that really likes Monitors
or a gal that really likes Monitors,
I'm telling you, you guys wanna come talk to me.
I will love to talk to you guys about lizards.
I'm a nerd about 'em.
Also at the same time, just like you man,
I love my spiders around here.
I will always pull off a spider any time for anybody
who wants to face their fears.
- That's it, that's it.
So down in the description, thereptarium.com,
you can go, you can book your tour with Bruce now,
or whoever you want to.
It'll be a blast.
Have another Brooks King Snake clutch hatch out
but these are kind of interesting,
because this was actually an anerythristic
which is that kind of black and kind of blueish look animal,
bred to just a normal that was het for anerythristic.
So we have a combination thereof.
So this would be like a normal Brooks King.
You can see it kind of has the yellow
in it and stuff like that.
And then you get into this animal here
is kind of more black and blue, right?
It's lacking the yellow pigment.
That yellow pigment is what they call xanthifar.
And that xanthifar is missing in the axanthic.
It's also missing some of the
aritifar which is the red pigment too.
As a matter of fact it's kind of weird.
Sometimes you'll see snakes
like anerythristic Honduran snakes
or anerythristic Brooks King snakes.
They're actually lacking both the yellow and red pigments,
but for whatever reason they're just called anerythristic,
and that's the way it goes.
But nevertheless we have some black and blue ones,
we have some normal ones,
and they are feisty little monkeys here too.
They are gonna be out of here in a second,
so I'm gonna put this lid on before I lose all my snakes.
I was so excited when this clutch started hatching.
This is actually a Tessera Corn, a Candy Cane Tessera Corn,
bred to a scaleless snake.
So these are all het scaleless,
but this would be considered a normal Tessera.
That one with that kind of racing stripes,
and whoa look at how feisty
that little monkey is right there,
ho you're such a big, bad snake.
It's so funny when snakes hatch out with that attitude.
I find it kind of interesting that we had
a really nice mix of snakes here.
Of course we have a bunch of the Tesseras with the striping,
these are the Candy Cane Tesseras right here.
We had a really good ratio.
On average you would get about half Tessera,
that racing stripe pattern, and half normal.
But it looks like the majority of this clutch
is actually Tessera and these are all het for scaleless.
My gosh these things are absolutely amazing.
And these ones right here are gonna get really white and red
when they get bigger, that's that Candy Cane line,
which is a polygenically bred line.
Just meaning you breed the animals that have
the highest white and the highest red together,
generation after generation,
and now I'm in trouble.
All right let's get you back in here guys,
let's go, let's go, let's go.
Back in, back in, back in, back in, back in.
I tell you what that went better than I expected.
Just wanted to give you guys a little Elvis update.
He's actually hanging out in the tortoise pen
with Matilda and the other guys.
And they don't seem to bother each other.
He has not passed the ball yet,
but he has went to the bathroom a couple times,
and he is moving around.
It's all about movement you know,
getting him moving around as much as we can,
keep that oily food kind of coming through him
to try to continue to pass things and so on like that.
Probably next week if he hasn't passed the ball
I'm gonna take him to a vet, get him x-rayed,
just so we can monitor what is going on.
But so far he's doing well, his legs are working good.
That's gonna be the first thing that we're gonna notice
if he gets bound up with that ball
is his legs are gonna have some issues.
So right now he's doing great,
he's climbing, he's hanging out,
loving his time with the tortoises for sure.
So just wanted to let you know
we're keeping a hugely close eye on Elvis.
But so far he's doing wonderful.
How absolutely incredible was that?
Purple snakes guys.
I know that sometimes I trick you with kind of
lavender snakes, but these are really purple,
and they're absolutely incredible.
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