("Closure" by Dylan Sitts)
- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
It is gonna be an insanely busy day today,
but I'm gonna love it,
and we're gonna start with this clutch
right here of snakes.
This is actually a snow jelly Brooks right here.
It looks like she has a really nice clutch of eggs.
We'll go ahead, pull mom up over here,
get her off of her eggs really quick.
That's okay.
Aw, she's all over the place.
Don't want to hurt the eggs.
I'm gonna pull the eggs out
just to get her in here.
Oh, you're a feisty little monkey, aren't you?
That's okay, mama.
You did so good.
And this is actually a second clutch,
and it's a beautiful second clutch.
Remember the other day,
when we saw those baby snow jelly Brooks?
This is the mama to that,
so her first clutch is already out,
and now, of course, her second clutch,
and it looks like a really beautiful clutch.
A couple little desiccated eggs, which is no big deal.
We'll just put some moss on them to get them good,
and let's see, we've got two, four,
six, eight, 10, 12 good eggs.
Not bad for a second clutch.
100% fertile.
Make sure there's no eggs hiding,
but what a great way to start the day.
We're actually gonna be collecting
some leopard gecko eggs today with Jessica.
That's gonna be absolutely crazy, as always.
I should probably share that with you guys more,
so anyways, one more colubrid clutch,
and then we'll get over and collect some gecko eggs.
Another second clutch here.
Let's hope that they are good.
And this is actually a really pretty
Halloween Pueblan milksnake.
I mean, look at this girl.
She is really a gorgeous animal,
and that Halloween just means
that it's kinda like orange and black.
There's not as much of the red pigment,
and some of these Halloweens come out amazing.
I mean, it's big, orange bands
with black bands on them.
Some of them don't have any red at all,
which makes it really cool,
but let's see if she has some good eggs.
Oh my gosh, yeah, that's a really good clutch.
I wasn't expecting as much
because this is a second clutch.
She does have one little slugger in here,
but other than that, they're really good.
We'll go ahead, get these in the egg box really quick.
We've got two, four, six, eight good eggs.
Absolutely amazing couple clutches
when it comes to second clutches.
Again, that Halloween is a polygenic trait,
so over generations, breeding high orange animals
with a little bit of red, you'll continue
to get more and more Halloween type animals,
so this should be a pretty good clutch.
I can't wait 'til they hatch.
Look who's on.
- Dude.
- [Brian] Dude, this snake is crazy.
- I should've known.
Yeah, it is insane.
- [Brian] As soon as you open it up, it just goes.
- Just wants to hurt you.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- I mean, it's really got me.
It really hurts.
Please let go.
- [Brian] Oh, it's right in the cuticle too.
- Ow, ow.
- [Brian] That is terrible.
Anything I can do to help?
- Just, I don't know.
- [Brian] Send prayers?
- I'm getting woozy.
Just pray for me, okay?
(laughs)
- It's crazy.
That snake, I don't know what it is, man.
She just, like, turned on
every time you open up that cage.
- I forgot this time.
I just casually opened it up, bam.
- [Brian] Well, all right, well, don't hurt the snake, okay?
Be gentle.
- You got it.
- Got a quick hognose clutch,
and actually, this girl, once again,
laid on the bedding.
We didn't realize that she actually had a clutch coming,
so that's good.
She definitely looks like she's got a whole bunch of eggs.
They're fresh, so they should be really good.
I usually use HatchRite when it comes to these eggs,
so I'm just gonna go ahead, pull them,
and you can see on these eggs right here,
how you can literally see the embryos.
For whatever reason,
hognose don't have heavily calcified eggs,
so that's one of the other reasons
why I don't use vermiculite,
is because they will absorb more moisture
because of how thin the membrane is,
and it's super easy.
You don't ever have to candle these guys.
I'm just gonna go ahead
and just slowly take these eggs out of here,
and again, they are super paper thin, delicate
compared to normal snake eggs.
So we're just gonna take these guys out.
Looks like she's got a really beautiful clutch.
Mama, you did so good.
Let's see, we got I think one more egg here.
That might be it.
We've got one slugger here.
Just look around, she if she's got
any other eggs in here, 'cause sometimes,
they're really good at burying.
Looks like that's about it.
We'll go ahead, get her in there,
get her all set up.
We've got two, four, six, eight good eggs,
so that's pretty awesome.
Not bad for a second clutch.
- I have a ton of stuff to do today.
On my list is collecting eggs though first.
We peaked a couple weeks ago, about 700 eggs.
It's winding down a little bit,
but I'm still expecting to get about three, 400.
We'll check fertility, actually, today,
and see if we're gonna stop breeding
at the end of this month,
or if we're gonna push it 'til about mid-August.
If fertility is still high, I'll push it.
If not, we'll just back off
and end in a few weeks here,
but we still have a ton of hatching to do,
and a ton of egg collecting,
so I'm just gonna get started.
- You know, one of the things
that you may not realize about Salt, the albino alligator,
is the fact that she does get some algae on her.
You know, that's just part of it.
With a normal alligator, you wouldn't see
all of the green and kinda algae spots growing.
About once a week, we actually have to go in
with a little toothbrush,
and just give her a little bit of a cleaning.
It just makes her look so much better,
and I'll be honest with her,
it does two other things.
It desensitizes her a little bit to touch,
and I'll be honest with you,
who doesn't like a little back rub?
Guys, I am glad you're here.
I've gotta tell you something.
- What's up?
- [Brian] Have you heard about what's going down,
I think it's September 20th or 21st?
- September 20th.
No, what's up?
- [Brian] Listen, there's a Facebook campaign going on
to get people together, Area 51.
- Dude, I did see that. - Oh, yeah.
- I did see this, yeah.
- Because they said that they can't stop us all,
so if we all gather there, then we can, yeah.
- 400,000 people say they're going
to just jump on Area 51 and find the aliens.
Do you guys want to go? - I'm-a tell you what,
they have more bullets than that.
- I was just about to say.
- They have way more bullets than that.
- I was just about to say that.
Dude.
- Don't do it, you guys.
- Don't do it.
- Guys, I wanna go. - They're gonna be up there
with a 50 cal.
They're gonna be like (imitates gun)
- [Brian] Cutting people in half.
- Just chopping people down, yeah.
- I think this happened a few years ago.
- [Brian] What?
- A few years back, someone got killed, shot and killed.
- That's true.
- Swear to God.
- I read that. - I don't know.
- Swear, scout's honor.
- [Brian] Oh my god.
- And they covered it up. - I think we should go, man.
I think it'd be a great event.
I want to know if there's aliens.
I believe in them.
- I agree, I agree.
- There's definitely something.
I remember, when I lived in Nevada,
they had that plane.
Didn't have any numbers on it at all.
Had, like, the red stripe down the center,
and it was flying the employees in
and out of Area 51,
and back in there, and all the test sites.
- [Brian] Yep, Groom Lake.
- I believe.
You know, the little exoskeletons.
- [Brian] So let me just get it straight.
So are we not going, or are we going?
- September 20th?
- [Brian] 20th or 21st.
- I think we should go.
- Let's go. - You know what,
let's just go.
- Imagine how great of a vlog that would be.
400,000 people, has that ever even happened,
400,000 people in one area?
- But this is the thing,
400,000 people said they're gonna go,
and I want to go, but how many
do you think really will go?
But even if there's 5,000 or 10,000.
- This is a problem.
I'm sure you guys, you watch old documentaries on Area 51.
Dude, it's a hell of a stretch out there,
so they'll catch you, and you gotta run miles.
Look at me, can I?
I can't run.
- Have you ever seen the video
where the old lady, she just drives through the gate.
- [Brian] Oh, yeah, I saw that, yeah.
- Bro, I don't know, that could've been fake,
but dude, that chick, she just goes through,
and she's never seen again.
- [Brian] Never seen again, gone.
- Vanished in thin air.
- Let me know what you guys think.
Have you heard about this?
Do you believe in aliens?
Should we go and document this?
- If we go, everybody that's watching has to come.
- Everyone has to go. - Everyone, we saw
the alien-human hybrids.
- Let me know in comments.
You guys in?
We're gonna do this.
We're doing this.
- This is some of our slugs, actually, from today.
There's about 20, 25 here.
This isn't all of them,
but as the year goes on, we start to see a little bit
of decline in fertility, so we'll get some slugs.
We still get, like, way more eggs.
I collected probably around 300 eggs today,
maybe about 60 slugs.
Things just slow down a little bit
as the year goes on.
- I know it's still a wreck down here,
but we got some stuff cleaned up.
I'm gonna head off to the Home Depot,
get us some two-by-fours,
and start building some walls out.
It's gonna probably take me a few weeks
to finish this project, or at least finish all the walls,
and get ready to kinda start other things.
Again, podcast room, really cool new Caledonia gecko room,
gargoyle geckos, crested geckos, Gehyra geckos,
leachi geckos, who knows what else?
I'm so excited about that.
It's gonna be like a mini reptarium down here.
Again, the podcast room, camera, storage room,
so let's go to the Home Depot,
and go get some two-by-fours, and a bunch of them.
♪ Closure ♪
And I am back at the shop
with all my two-by-fours here.
We're gonna go ahead, load them in.
It's getting a little bit late in the day,
so we'll get the project started,
but we're probably not gonna get too far.
Finish it up over the next few days.
A lot of work ahead, but I am excited
to get this new project going.
Remember I told you guys
that I wanted to have you send video questions
and comments to Jay Tomsky,
of course, my boy Jay, my editor and film guy?
Well, Gaming Exotic sent this pretty emotional one.
- Hey, Brian.
My question for you is,
in all your line of work and stuff,
I know it's been your purpose
or you strive to bring more understanding
and knowledge about reptiles to people,
and bring the two closer together,
but with all that being said,
did you ever imagine that you'd be able
to bring people closer together
because of the hobby?
With that being said, I just wanted to say thank you,
because you helped repair a pretty damaged relationship
I had with my mom.
That actually brought us closer together because of it.
Thanks.
- I tell you what, you know,
number one, thank you so much for that.
That meant the world to me,
and you know, it's a really weird thing,
because YouTube is amazing, you know?
When I set out on this journey,
I never in my wildest dreams thought
that we'd reach as many people as we have,
not only with the message of reptiles,
but hopefully the message of inspirations, tolerance,
you know, just living your life to the fullest
and stuff like that,
so did I ever think it was gonna happen?
I guess I never really thought we would get that far,
and it means so much to me
to hear stories like this.
It keeps me inspired.
You guys keep me inspired,
and if you guys have any questions,
or comments, or anything, again, you know,
send them over to @jaytomsky on Instagram,
and I'll try to feature you, but as for now,
thank you so much for that one.
Your daily update of what hatched
as far as colubrids go,
and remember that one clutch
that I had all these normals,
and I said that it was a het plasma?
Which, of course, is that lavender diffused corn.
Well, I thought that there was maybe a lavender diffuse.
Well, it turns out that it was just
this one little baby.
There's a couple still left in the egg,
but this is actually a diffused
or a blood red scaleless corn snake,
so I'm pretty excited that we ended up getting that.
The weird thing is, is that,
honestly, it wasn't supposed to be het for scaleless.
Number one, there was no scaleless animals,
and number two, why do you only get one scaleless
out of all these eggs?
What crazy odds are that?
So I can't quite explain
what this mystery diffused scaleless corn snake,
but I'm not complaining
because it's absolutely pretty dang cool.
Next up, oh, this clutch is just starting to hatch.
You can see a bunch of bubbles and stuff like that,
but this is actually a motley corn snake right here,
and this is actually
that andrey het for scaleless motley corn snake,
and it's bred to what we call an orange flow,
which is just a really cool scaleless corn snake,
so hopefully we'll get some more scaleless corns
in this clutch.
We're certainly gonna get some variety
of different things,
potentially andreys, potentially motley.
The truth is is that we probably shouldn't have gotten
a motley corn snake from what we actually bred,
but that just tells you, with corn snakes,
that there's a lot of hidden genetics.
Almost every corn snake seems
to be het for something, so a lot of times,
you think you know what you have,
but then surprises pop out,
like a motley corn, and that's absolutely cool.
So when the rest of these hatch out,
it's gonna be pretty awesome.
Then, lastly, that Mexican black king clutch
that we had a couple heads popping out yesterday,
look it, we have a bunch of babies out.
Look at how gorgeous these guys are.
Hoo, doggy, I love Mexican black king snakes.
We still have two or three still left in the egg,
but the majority of them are out,
and look at how big they are.
These are big Mexican black king snakes too,
so that's pretty awesome.
Again, what we do is, we get these guys set up.
It takes about a week for them to shed out and start eating.
We get a few meals into them
before we put them up on the website,
so hey, maybe in about a month or so,
we'll have some Mexican black king snakes for sale.
So these are leopard gecko eggs right here
that are incubating, and leopard geckos are something
that they call TSD, temperature sex-determinant.
Basically what that means is,
the temperature you incubate the eggs at
determines the sex of those eggs.
Now, not all reptiles are that way.
As a matter of fact, a lot of reptiles,
you have to incubate at a certain temperature.
Say, pythons, you have to incubate, really,
at 88 to 90 degrees or they won't hatch,
or you'll have a really low hatch rate,
so they're not TSD, so they can be males and females.
Regardless, up here,
that we put our leopard gecko eggs up top
is actually about 82 degrees.
If you incubate in that 80-, 82-degree range,
you're gonna get the predominant amount of females.
If you incubate in the 90 to 92 range,
you get predominantly males,
and if you do it right in the middle,
maybe 86, 87, you're gonna get males and females,
so we actually incubate these eggs at mainly female,
so about 90% of the babies
we hatch out each year are females,
and then we take about 10% of the eggs,
and we actually increase it to upper 80s,
lower 90s so that we have some males,
and that's basically just because,
you know, multiple females can stay together,
so if you want two or three pet leopard geckos,
you can keep two or three pet females together.
You can't keep two males.
You can certainly keep a male
and a couple females together,
although, sometimes, when you keep them like that,
they get beat up a little bit,
but the point is, is that we want
to produce more females than males,
and that's why we do it that way, and that's
what temperature sex determination means in reptiles.
♪ Closure ♪
Jessica's wrapped up the egg collecting.
What was our final total for the day?
- It was 405, which means we're not, like, dipping yet,
so we'll probably actually keep breeding 'til mid-August.
- [Brian] Really?
Okay, wow.
- Yeah, so we still have a lot of geckos ahead of us.
- (laughs) We do.
- I don't know if that's a good thing or not.
- It's a good thing, it's a good thing.
You're doing a great job, so thank you so much.
A lot of reptile eggs today for sure.
Way to go, Jessica.
You're doing great, thank you.
- Thank you.
("Closure" by Dylan Sitts)
♪ Closure ♪
- Well, didn't get really far today,
but it's still progress.
It's the end of a very long day,
but we started to get a wall up here.
We started to get an idea of the spacing of everything.
Had to kinda shift things around
just so that things work,
but I'm gonna go ahead, leave it here,
spend some time tomorrow trying to finish this out
the best I possibly can.
Again, within the next few weeks,
we'll have all these rooms built out,
and we can start to actually see
how this whole thing's gonna come together.
It's a long journey, but at least
we are on the beginning stages of it.
With that said, I'm gonna go ahead
and wish you an amazing day.
Love your beautiful faces.
Be kind to someone, and I promise,
I'll see you tomorrow.
♪ Closure ♪