- What do we have here?
That's right,
looks like a clutch of ball pythons.
Go ahead and roll that egg song.
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
(tape whirring)
No, no, no, no, no,
not that egg song, the other egg song.
♪ Python eggs and python eggs ♪
♪ And python eggs and python eggs ♪
That's better!
This is actually a beautiful,
pastel yellow belly female on a clutch of eggs.
And she was bred to a lemon blast extreme gene en chi.
I'll show you that in a minute.
Let's go ahead and get an egg box set up.
(lively upbeat music)
And again, she was bred to this wonderful, beautiful male
which is again, it's a lemon blast extreme gene Enki.
Absolutely wonderful.
So we, could get super pastel, pinstripe Enki...
- Interaction of magneto reluctance
and capacitive directives...
- Yellow bellies, all kinds of stuff (chuckling).
All I know is they're gonna be absolutely beautiful.
What do you say we get this female
and see how many eggs she has?
And I tell you what, it looks like
an absolutely gorgeous clutch.
Mama, you did so good! Way to go, mama.
I tell ya what,
after those last two kind of terrible clutches,
I was a little bit concerned.
So it's so good to see white, beautiful eggs.
Look at that, ooh doggy, I tell ya what!
Mama, you gonna be good?
Oh, she's being such a sweetheart.
So many of the females this year
have been wanting to bite my face off
but this girl is amazing.
Look at how many eggs that girl has!
She's probably only about 1500 grams.
Absolutely wonderful!
And listen, I've told you guys before
that we always kind of wash them up
and give them a little bit of a wash.
So, I'm going to go ahead and show you what I do
with this girl as soon as I'm done with these eggs.
But for now, let's go ahead and get these eggs over here.
Just get them off the paper real quick.
It's okay, mom, you did great.
Oh and look at, here is one little slugger
in the bottom there, oh my gosh!
Wouldn't you know, one little slugger?
So, hey, Amanda is going to get a little feast today
but she had two, four, six, seven beautiful eggs
and one little slugger.
Gosh, I tell you
that one little slugger is a bummer,
but hey, I'm excited
about the fact that she had such a beautiful clutch.
So let's go ahead, get these eggs set up
and then I'll show you what I do to clean her off.
(upbeat music)
So, because a bunch of people asked about
what do I do when I mean cleaning the animals off.
The first thing, obviously. we're gonna do is
clean the cage
because there's actually residue
from the clutch down here.
Now, if she's smelling those eggs, she could potentially
want to coil around them, right?
And that's her maternal instinct.
So what I want to do is get all the egg smell
out of the enclosure itself.
Then I'm gonna actually take over the actual snake itself
and just kind of wash her off, maybe a little soap even,
get all that egg residue off.
So let's go ahead and get this cage cleaned up
and we'll head over to the sink.
- The mangrove snake just shed out.
And what's really cool is he's not a regular mangrove snake.
So this is our Reptarium.
He is looking fantastic.
What's different about these guys
versus the regular mangrove snakes
is these guys have twice as many bands
and actually go all the way around
and they'll keep these bands their entire life
versus the Jimmy snake that we have next door,
the multi-colored one
which will lose all the color and go jet black.
But how awesome is it that he shed
out in a one complete piece
with the head, the tail, everything.
Just look at him go.
- So, the first thing I want to do
is make sure that the water is warm,
not hot, not cold.
I'm just going to basically just put her down.
I'm going to wash her all up with this water
and stuff like that.
And sometimes I'll even take a little soap
and just kind of rub her down just a little bit
getting all that egg smell off of her.
And then ultimately we'll just dry her up
put her back in her cage and that is it.
Now she should be ready to feed here relatively quickly.
Again, what'll happen is
if you don't wash your animal up and wash the cage up
sometimes they'll stay off of food for up to 60 days.
Whereas when you wash them up
and get them all set and ready to go,
a lot of times they'll go on to food
literally within a week.
So there's your little healthy breeder tip
You know...
Hoo doggy! What a way to start the day
and welcome to the vlog, Reptile Army!
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
These are some of our new Caledonia geckos.
I cannot wait to get that room done.
We're literally just waiting on Zoo Med
sent us all of the equipment for it.
So it's super exciting there.
Of course, we've got to build the racks and stuff like that.
So Jessica is going to be so happy to get them
out of tubs like this.
So hopefully that's going to happen in the next week or two.
And that room should be wrapped up.
It's going to be absolutely incredible.
So I can't wait to show you what we have in mind.
Hello, Jerry. What's up?
Hey, Chopsticks. What's going on, bud?
Remember you talking about this rack and
how there's big changes coming to this one?
I think tomorrow we're actually
supposed to get the new enclosures
and I'm going to be doing some demo on this.
If everything goes well, tomorrow is the day.
I'm pretty excited
and this entire rack is going to look really different.
I cannot wait, but again.
don't know maybe tomorrow stay tuned!
You know Al Mo chino,
the Machine reticulated python
looks beautiful even when he's in shed.
So this is the ugliest he's going to get
and he's still a stunner!
Laurie where are we at?
We got eggs yet?
- No, not yet, but probably pretty soon.
- Really? Got any females that have shed yet, or no?
- No, I don't have any that I have marked yet.
- Okay, good.
So basically what happens is after a snake sheds
at seven to 10 days later,
eggs, all these little pink stickers are very pretty.
Why did you do that?
That's very nice.
- Those are my male tags.
- Okay. They're very nice. Why pink, though?
- Because it's what I had.
- That's what you had? Okay.
All right. Well, normally egg tags are pink.
So, now I'm going to be confused.
- Well, maybe I'll collect eggs, then.
I won't get confused.
- No! No, I get to collect eggs.
- Oh really? Because I do all the work.
- No, I do the work of collecting eggs.
- No, no.
We're going to change that up this year.
Tell down below in the comments
if you would prefer that.
All right?
I'm curious.
- Would you rather have the enthusiastic me, or...
Laurie?
- Yeah. I'm curious. Curious minds want to know.
- All right.
Well, we'll take a poll down in the comments.
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So I get a call last night from Jay the Retained.
And guess what he says?
He says, "Brian, Salt and Pepper's tank
is leaking again.
Now you guys remember, I've had a little bit
of problem with this tank, right?
Like here's some old clips of that.
Well guys, we have a leak.
Disaster. I mean, I come in one day
and one of these things bust
or something goes on and there's going to be hundreds
of gallons of water on the floors.
[Upbeat Music]
So obviously, when he calls I'm freaking out, right?
I'm like, where is it leaking?
What is going on?
Well, apparently he said, right back here, it was leaking.
There was a towel with some water over here.
So I came in this morning thinking,
"Oh my gosh,"
"what disaster am I going to come into?"
The fact is, is that I don't see any water at all.
So I have a feeling what happened was
that salt might have jumped up on here
and in this here right here is not exactly sealed.
And she can actually get water on the ground.
I don't see any other problems, or hey,
maybe there's going to be issues down the road
but I tell you what crisis diverted.
I was stressing out all night last night
I almost drove all the way here last night, just to see.
But he said it wasn't that bad, but I'm glad.
That's one thing I don't have to worry about.
Remember a while ago, I got those
albino Apple gate gopher snakes?
Well, here they are
Now that they've gotten a little bit more size to them.
Again, these will get about five to six foot long.
They're a really cool snake from San Diego.
Just absolutely wonderful.
And Bob Apple gate was a legendary breeder
way back in the eighties and nineties.
And he named them after himself because he was
the first one to actually produce them.
Still sought after so much.
Hardly ever see these guys.
And I tell you what, they are absolutely rippers!
Ooh doggy, look at this snake right here!
I tell you what, I love this enclosure.
I've said it a ton of times.
Of course, this is Gunfire.
She's absolutely incredible.
But I love the fact that she's always climbing.
She's always up on theses branches and stuff like that.
She looks absolutely breathtaking!
Remember when I got Perdit and how she was pure white?
Just a white reticulated Python?
And then slowly she's gotten all these dots on her?
Look at her.
She's like, "Dad, what are you doing?"
He's just coming up to me.
You are such a good girl!
I love you so much.
You do wonder though,
you know that she's gotten so dark.
Now she's really more like a black snake with white dots
as opposed to a white sake with black dots.
You do wonder,
what's she going to look like in a year or so?
But isn't this awesome to see a snake like this?
Again, this is what I talk about all the time
about breaking that stereotype of snakes.
She's not crawling away from me.
She's crawling right to me like,
"Hey dad, what's going on?"
What an absolutely amazing animal!
I've really been breeding colubrids
along the side of anything, really.
I mean, I had some pythons in the early days
but for the most part colubrid breeding
is where I've been, right?
So I've had a lot of animals that have retired
because obviously it's been 33 years.
I think it's our 34th year of breeding.
And Laurie had told me
these girls are starting to really swell.
This is a Mexican black King right here.
You can see she's just starting to go opaque,
and she is full of eggs.
So this is her pre-lay shed, which means
that she'll probably shed out in three or four days.
And then after that seven to 10 days.
So we're literally just over a week away from having eggs.
But like I said,
I've seen plenty of animals in my colubrid colony
Just get to the point where they actually are old
and have to retire.
And it's always a bummer.
There's no doubt about that.
But the good news with Netty at least is
that he's going to be able to get spoiled
for the next couple of years
because my office always does
a lot of spoiling my animals.
As a matter of fact, Speedy, my tortoise,
I don't even know if he's going
to want to go back home in my backyard
because he has been so spoiled this winter.
Nevertheless, look at this
female coral snow right here. The pink in her!
And she has swollen up with eggs for sure.
So it is really cool to see so many animals
looking so good down here.
Like I'd mentioned
I think seven, maybe 10 days or now,
we're going to have our first colubrid eggs.
And that means what?
That's right.
Roll the song!
Egg Time!
Erebus's sitting back here
definitely going to soak her up a little bit.
because Nile monitor shedding pieces.
Sometimes it could take weeks for them to actually shed out
but she definitely looks
like she needs a little cosmetic soaking for sure.
Now the interesting thing I've got to ask you guys
about this is that, you know,
obviously, Erebus's is
for what we know the only black Nile monitor
melanistic Nile monitor from Africa, obviously.
And she's a female.
Of course Chicken Strip is the only albino male
or albino monitor, for that matter,
and he's a male.
And of course they're probably right at that size
where next year I can try to breed these guys.
But that brings me to a little bit of a dilemma.
She's a pretty big girl.
So she's probably going to have anywhere
from 10 to 15 eggs, something like that.
And they'll lay like every four months.
Now, they'll be double hat for albino, melanistic.
Essentially snows is the actual end product.
if you get this one in 16 odds.
But the fact is, is that, think about that
in one year she could potentially have 30 to 50 babies.
I'm going to have to raise
up all of those baby Nile monitors.
And then of course the following year,
I'll breed them again and maybe have
there might be a time where I have a hundred
Nile monitors that are all going to need big cages.
But I really want to see this breeding project through.
And I do wonder, you know, Nile monitors are known
for being a little bit more aggressive
a little bit more kind of attitude, right?
But the fact is
is that they haven't really been captive bred much.
The majority of the babies, you see,
are really imported from Africa.
So I'm wondering if just like water monitors
the more we breed them, the tamer they become.
Wouldn't it be cool?
But that being said
I'm going to give you the entire building just
for this project that things go well.
Let me know in the comments
if you think that's a smart idea
or should I just not even breed them
or if I breed them
should I sell off the babies?
I'm not sure.
I think I want to see the project through.
Ooh doggy!
Look at how beautiful Fruit Loop looks!
I mean, that is just amazing!
Panther chameleons are so cool.
And of course we have four Panthers,
but I think I need more, right?
Because they're just so cool.
And there's so many localities,
an each locality is completely different.
I tell you what, I love them.
They're my favorite of all the chameleons
to be totally honest with you.
That being said,
I wouldn't mind adding a couple other species
of chameleons when we do the expansion.
Just, you know, different size, chameleons colors
stuff like that.
But wow!
I just walked by and Fruit Loops totally blew me away.
Doing some work with Drongo here.
He actually has been doing really good.
The bonding process has been going amazing.
So I'm not sure if you guys knew
but we actually use this blanket here to protect us
in case he ever did try to bite us
or anything while we're holding him.
And lately I've been holding him with no blankets.
So yeah, let's just get rid of that.
And honestly, he's been doing phenomenal
As you guys can see. he just likes to hang out.
He likes to look around.
So yeah, let's walk around the Reptarium a bit.
Yeah, every time I see this snake, it blows me away.
Of course my friend, Lindsay, actually gave it to us.
This is a Reptarium dendrophilia Reptarium
and it's just absolutely ridiculous.
So again, kind of like a mangrove snake
but with a lot more banding and just absolutely stunning.
I mean, I am blown by this animal.
Love it to death.
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