- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I have some snakes to unbox, we have some eggs to cut,
we have baby snakes, I mean, we have a pretty fun filled day
I'm not gonna lie to you.
So let's push our problems aside and have a great time.
I think we're gonna start it
by unboxing this box right here.
(crashing sound)
Oops, no seriously guys, seriously.
No seriously guys, this is an empty box.
The box I'm getting is actually 22 pythons,
they wouldn't fit in this box anyways.
I just, I don't know, I thought it would be funny.
So let's go head, get the day started
by doing some unboxing.
(funky music)
And here we go.
What do we have here?
All right, we're gonna open up the first bag
and just kind of roll through these as quick as we can.
Again, just always cool stuff.
And I know it seems weird,
but often times like he'll just send me a thing saying,
"Oh, I'm gonna send you some stuff."
And I forget what he's even gonna send me,
so we're just gonna kinda be surprised together,
if that's okay.
You guys know by now I appreciate that and I kinda like it.
So it looks here we have a bunch of Mojave ball pythons,
which are really pretty ones by the way.
They're really, really nice.
And then one little Blue Eyed Leucy right here.
Take a look at that little monkey right there.
So this is actually a Lesser to Mojave breeding.
It looks like he got a lot of Mojaves
and not any Lessers,
but he did get the one Blue Eyed Leucy in this clutch
so that's absolutely cool.
So that is the first bag,
and I assume each one of these bags
is probably gonna be it's own clutch,
at least the first bag was that way.
We'll see what the next bags have to hold.
Next bag.
What do we have here?
Oh, there's some pretty, pretty snakes in here.
I like these guys.
All right, again, this should be a whole clutch.
It looks like he's just kinda
putting everything in one clutch,
so it looks like we have a bunch of normal ball pythons here
that are actually het for Clown.
I remember he said that he bred a Pastel Clown
to a het Clown or something like that, on that lines.
Regardless, didn't get very good odds
on this clutch unfortunately,
'cause he got a lot of normal ball pythons
that are just het for Clown.
But again, we love these guys
and het Clowns are still really cool as well.
And then we have a nice little beautiful normal Clown.
This has got a really interesting head pattern to it.
It's really kinda different.
Usually Clowns have a lot more spotting.
This one's kind of a really solid color head.
I like that Clown (mumbles).
And then look at that little monkey right there.
That thing is gorgeous!
This is a little Pastel Clown,
and Pastel Clowns can be variable as well.
A lot of polymorphism within them.
This is a really interesting, again, dark one.
I almost wonder if there's some dark line going on in this,
because a lot of these babies were really dark.
Even the het Clowns are pretty interesting looking as well,
so there must be something else genetically going on,
which is pretty cool.
Okay, two more bags to go.
Oh, pretty, pretty, pretty.
(chuckles) I tell you what,
I love it.
Again, we have another beautiful clutch.
We've got some Blue Eyed Leucies.
These are really nice patternless ones
that look really good.
It looks like right here we have ...
That looks like maybe just a Pastel Lesser, a Pastel Butter.
Really pretty.
Just look at all the blushing in the sides
and stuff like that.
And then just another Mojave here.
And then, again, just Blue Eyed Leucies,
so those are always good.
Again, people love Blue Eyed Leucistics,
they love Bananas, so getting these in stock
is gonna be really good.
We'll get these guys eating over the next couple weeks
and they'll be up on the website.
I think we actually have some Blue Eyed Leucies
that are going up on the website anyways anytime,
but these will be up in a couple weeks.
And what do we have in the last bag here?
Oh.
Again, pretty.
All right, again, he always sends me really cool stuff.
This one is definitely a bunch of Pastel Lessers here.
You can see those right there,
beautiful little Pastel Lessers,
or Pastel Butters, whichever the case may be.
And then the other hand I have this beautiful
little Blue Eyed Leucistic.
So there's a bunch of Blue Eyed Leucies in this,
which is really, really gonna be good for us
because they are absolutely great sellers
and stuff like that.
I love 'em.
I really need to raise up some more Blue Eyed Leucies
to be honest with you, because I have some
but the one you know is getting old and stuff like that now.
She's one of the original Blue Eyed Leucies ever produced.
Nevertheless, really cool.
That's it for unboxing for the day.
Definitely some really good ball pythons.
I'll get these guys set up, get 'em feeding here
in the next couple days, and we'll move on to the next.
You guys might remember that clutch
that we cut the other day
that was a Pastel het for Axanthic
bred to a double het Axanthic Lavender.
Well, they have hatched out.
And again, this was just that normal baby right here.
Just nothing to him, normal.
Again, just it's a possible het
for all kinds of different stuff.
Remember I told you that a couple of the Pastels
had that kinda faded look to them?
That typically meant that they were probably
carrying the Axanthic gene.
You can really see the kind of muted Pastel here
as opposed to this one here that's really bright.
So you see the difference between these two?
This one is probably het Axanthic
and this one is probably not.
Although, I find this pretty interesting,
there's a little paradox spot on this one right here
where you can see some gray coming through,
which I find kinda interesting for sure.
But again, we had two Pastels right here.
These two that look like they have that Axanthic
kinda paling look to it.
Again, it's just a heterozygous animal
that is expressing some of the Axanthic
or expressing a little bit of the phenotype,
that color phase, right?
And then this would just be what I would consider
a normal, but again, because it was
a double het Lavender Snow,
that one could be het for Lavender too.
As a matter of fact, all of these could be het for Lavender,
so what we might do is take a couple of these females,
raise 'em up, and then hopefully
prove them out down the road.
Nevertheless, a bunch of beautiful babies hatched.
So nice to be able to have in person tours now
at The Reptarium.
They're not exactly the same,
but they're still cool.
Gotta wear masks and stuff like that.
Nevertheless, these guys are coming up from Houston, Texas.
Should be a good time.
(funky music)
(whooshing) (metal ringing)
Are you guys ready for some egg cutting time?
That's right, we actually have a Pastel female,
she was actually dual fathered,
so it could be one of two fathers.
The two males she was bred to was actually
a Black Pewter Lesser Cyprus,
and we also bred her to this Woma Lesser Pinstripe.
So I'm really kinda hoping the Black Pastel Lesser Cyprus
is the dad because that is definitely the superior male,
but I'll take whatever I can get.
Let's jump in.
There's only one way to find out, right?
Always exciting cutting eggs.
And what do we have right off the grip?
Oh my God, I think that we have something I like
right off the bat!
Oh my gosh!
Oh, you know what?
I was wrong.
(laughs)
So, originally I was thinking that it was ...
Well, you know, I don't know.
Huh.
You know, this is a tough one.
I'm gonna open this up just a little bit more
and look around.
It could be either father really.
I think it might be the Woma Lesser Pin
and then a Pastel.
I think this might be a Pastel Woma Lesser Pin.
I was kinda hoping that the Black Pastel Lesser Cyprus
was the dad, but it's so hard to say
'cause this has got some weird patterns to it.
Let's just keep cutting
and see if we can unravel this mystery together.
Egg number two.
As we're getting to this you will definitely start to see
more examples of both fathers,
so we can really tell what's going on.
Okay, right off the rip, this is ...
Wait a second here.
Yep, this is a Woma ball python,
so the first two eggs were definitely fathered
by the Woma Lesser Pin.
I was hoping that Black Pastel Lesser Cyprus
was gonna be the dad, but he could still father
some of the other eggs.
Let's just keep on cutting and see what we've got.
All right.
And that's the thing when you're cutting eggs,
you never know what's gonna be in 'em,
and that's what makes it so absolutely exciting.
So right here it looks like we just have a Pastel Woma.
It looks like maybe just a Pastel Woma.
Really reduced patterning.
That Woma ball is that, again,
that really tiny kinda pinstripe-y pattern,
but not an actual Pinstripe.
Interesting.
Okay, that was pretty cool.
Four more eggs to go.
What do you say we just keep jumping in?
You never know.
Until we get to the end
we won't really know what's in these eggs,
and that's what makes it so absolutely exciting
this time of year.
Another Woma ball python here.
Just a straight out Woma ball python.
The first egg was really the all gene animal
that we're looking for so far.
Three more eggs to go.
Let's hope we hit an all gene animal
or maybe that other father
fathers a couple of these eggs.
Let's just jump in.
What will we have?
All right.
And, interestingly enough,
it looks like a normal ball python.
This year has been interesting
because you don't hit normal ball pythons a lot
when you start combining a lot of genes,
but this year seems like almost every clutch
there's at least one normal ball python.
Which is fine, because people like normal ball pythons,
so there you go.
Two eggs to go.
What do we have here?
Okay, this is, again, this is a really nice animal here.
This is the Pastel Woma Lesser Pinstripe.
Which again, so another all gene animal.
So we've hit two of the
Pastel Woma Lesser Pinstripes in this clutch.
Again, not quite what I wanted with the father,
but I'm very happy with those odds anyway.
And let's face it, it doesn't matter what eggs there are,
I'm just happy to hatch babies, right?
Babies are looking really good this year
which I'm super happy about.
And we've got one more egg to cut,
so let's go ahead and wrap this one up.
All right, what do we have here?
And it looks like, okay, another.
This looks like a Pastel Woma Pinstripe.
So this is a Pastel Woma Pin.
All in all, pretty good.
Just missing the Lesser gene in that one.
The odds weren't bad in this clutch.
We found out what the father was.
The odds weren't bad.
I do have one more clutch to cut later in the day,
but it's only one egg,
so those odds are really gonna be crazy.
That wraps up cutting for this clutch.
Got a couple more clutches of colubrids hatched.
They are starting to come out too.
Now, this is actually a pretty interesting clutch here,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
Basically what we had was we had
a female Blotched kingsnake,
and unfortunately we didn't have a male
to go with this particular one,
so we actually bred an Albino Brookes kingsnake.
Brookes kingsnakes and goini are pretty similar,
come from the same area.
They are a different subspecies
but they're the same species.
And interestingly enough, we got albinos.
Now, that's the part that doesn't make a lot of sense
because this goini was from like wild stock
that was obviously years and years and years ago,
but it was never bred to any mutations,
and there aren't any albino goini or Blotched kingsnakes.
The fact that half the babies came out albino blows me away.
Now, the Blotched kingsnakes
are a little bit more like this.
They just have a little bit more red coloration in them,
and these are probably a pretty good mix.
As a matter of fact, a lot of people think
that Blotched kingsnakes are actually
a naturally occurring hybrid between Brooks kingsnakes,
so those Florida kingsnakes, and actually Chain kingsnakes,
that have a little bit more red coloration into 'em.
So this isn't really that far off,
breeding the two together.
I'm not a big hybrid guy to be honest with you,
but we wanted to get a clutch.
The weird thing is is that there were albinos in it!
Doesn't make any sense.
How is an animal that's not genetically
supposed to be carrying anything
and has never bred to albino,
we've had this line for like 20 years,
how does it produce albino?
Just totally blew me away.
Nevertheless, pretty awesome.
And then sticking with South Florida kingsnakes,
I love these guys right here.
These are--
oh, look at the feisty little monkeys.
These are actually Anerythristic Brooks kingsnakes,
or they're actually Anerythristic, lacking the red pigment,
but they're also lacking the yellow pigment,
so they're this really cool black color.
Almost a little bit of blush to them.
Now, the first person to ever produce these
was a guy named Lloyd Lemke out in California,
and when they were originally produced
the genetics were not very good on 'em
and you had huge problems with fertility.
We actually got some animals from Lloyd Lemke,
outbred 'em like four or five different generations,
and now they're super strong.
They are amazing.
I mean, they're just as good as a normal Brooks kingsnake.
We actually produced the very first Ghost ones,
which were hypos of these as well,
but I just have always loved the Anery Brooks.
And the fact that we were so involved in making
these things viable made them more even special to me.
So absolutely wonderful, wonderful snakes.
And like I mentioned earlier,
I've got a clutch of one egg.
Actually it was one fertile egg
and five infertile eggs in the clutch.
The pairing was kind of interesting.
The female was actually this Champagne het for Ghost,
and she was bred to this Super Enchi Pinstripe male.
That Enchi and Champagne is really cool together.
It's my favorite combination to Champagne
to be honest with you.
So with one egg, will we hit a double co-dom?
I don't know.
We could have a normal, we could have a Champagne,
we could have a combination.
I'm not sure what's gonna happen.
Let's go ahead and see what's in
this only egg in the clutch.
Come on, just be something amazing.
Blow me away on the odds.
This is the last egg I'm cutting today.
I always like to end on something amazing.
Well, right off the rip we've got a Champagne,
so that's cool.
That's really cool.
Uh ...
Uh, I can't tell if it's an Enchi Champagne or not,
but it's a very interesting Champagne.
Ah, I know what this is.
This is actually a Pin Champagne,
so it's a Champin is what they call it.
That's why it looks so interesting.
It doesn't look like a normal Champagne.
Now, the interesting thing is
I'm not sure what a Champin Enchi looks like.
There's a chance this could be a Champin Enchi
because the color is a little bit different.
I think we might have hit a Champin Enchi
to be totally honest with you.
When it hatches out, we see the actually head pattern,
we'll be able to know for sure.
But hey, I tell you what,
either way the odds were good on the one egg clutch
so I can't complain.
We have a banger clutch coming in the next day or two.
That is that Super Lori Leopard clutch.
There's 11 eggs in it,
so I think that's gonna be either tomorrow or the next day.
So tune in for that for sure.
That's it, I'm retiring this razor blade
and we're gonna move on to a new one tomorrow.
And after I realized, this is actually
a Super Enchi Pinstripe was the dad,
meaning that all the babies have to be Enchi in the clutch,
so that was definitely a Champin Enchi.
Can't wait till that hatches out
to show you what it looks like.
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