- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
I wanted to let you know that I'm feeling pretty good today,
so I hope that you guys are as well.
And I'm excited because we've got two clutches
of ball python that we're going to cut,
which is pretty exciting.
But before we do that,
I'm not going to lie to you.
I have to go ahead and get Ivy all cleaned up.
As you can see,
she wrecked her bottom of her cage pretty good,
like she does.
And basically what happens is that
when you feed her a big meal,
I've never seen this before with any other snake
other than an anaconda,
she like distributes these urates,
but she does it like two or three times a day.
And it's weird because she doesn't pass hard stool;
she passes these urates.
Again, I haven't seen that with other snakes,
only with anacondas,
and she really only does it
majorly when we feed her a big meal.
You can start to see she's got that big lump still,
but it's starting to go down.
Probably by tomorrow, you'll probably
barely be able to see it.
But, unfortunately, it means that at least once,
sometimes twice a day,
I have to get that PondoVac out,
and we have to just clean up her cage.
So before we actually cut these eggs,
I'm gonna get Ivy all cleaned up,
just so that she's not in dirty water,
and then we'll cut these clutches.
(upbeat music)
Let's just go ahead and jump into some egg cutting.
And one of the things you're going to see this year
is we did a lot of dual-fathering clutches.
What I mean by that is that we breed one male,
and, if it wasn't breeding well enough,
we throw another male in.
So we don't know who the father is of a bunch of things.
Don't get me wrong.
The majority of clutches,
we know exactly who the father is.
And the mom was actually this pinstripe ball python
right here.
And it was bred to two males,
which is actually the silver streak bamboo woma python
and then this pastel enchi yellow belly.
So, again, we don't know
if the silver streak bamboo woma is the father
or if, potentially, the pastel yellow belly enchi
is the father,
so we're going to find out here in a second.
Only three eggs in this clutch,
so it's not a very big clutch.
So hopefully we'll get something really cool.
And, right off the rip,
what do we have here?
We have a lemon blast.
It looks like just a normal lemon blast.
So truth is that doesn't...
You know, either father could have it, right?
So both fathers have pastel in it,
and, obviously, the female is a pinstripe,
so the fact is that proved nothing to us,
but we have a lemon blast right here.
Second egg, what do you say we jump in?
Here we go.
And, again, it's always kind of interesting
when you do a dual father clutch,
'cause you never know what's gonna happen, right?
Weirdly enough, this is another lemon blast.
And I'm just trying to see if I can see
any other mutations in there.
To me, it looks like it's probably just a lemon blast.
There's a little bit more blushing than normal,
but I don't think that it's an enchi for sure.
It doesn't look like it's a yellow belly, per se.
I'm just going to poke around a little bit.
Yeah, I wouldn't say a yellow belly,
so I don't know who the father is.
So one more egg, and that's it for this clutch,
but we do have another clutch we're going to cut after
that has more eggs,
and, I think, only has one father.
And we'll see what is going on here with this one.
It's always fun to cut eggs,
no matter what's in there.
And what do we have here?
I don't even know what this is.
Unfortunately, the snake is actually turned
upside down, right?
So I can only see the belly.
It looks like it's probably a yellow belly,
but I can't tell.
And I don't want to manipulate the snake too much.
I'm just going to kind of move it around a little bit.
It looks like it's actually a pastel yellow belly,
possibly a pastel enchi yellow belly,
but I can't really tell 'cause I can only see the belly
and a little bit of the side pattern.
So my gut feeling is probably the pastel enchi yellow belly
was the father because the two eggs were lemon blasts.
The other egg looks like it's a pastel yellow belly,
possibly a pestle yellow belly enchi.
Can't wait till it rolls around.
So, again, nothing too crazy in this clutch.
I was kind of hoping the silver streak bamboo woma
was the father so we can get some bamboo stuff,
but that's okay.
So we do still have one more pretty cool clutch to cut.
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There's actually nine eggs in this clutch,
so that's going to be quite a bit of cutting here.
And, again, we know exactly who the parents are.
And here's the mama right here,
which is just a normal pretty pastel ball python.
And the male that bred her
was actually the super enchi pinstripe.
Absolutely gorgeous.
So being that we know there was a super enchi pinstripe
as a father,
we know every egg in this clutch is going to be an enchi,
and then we could have pastel,
we could have lemon blast enchis,
and can have all kinds of different stuff like that.
So let's just go ahead, jump in.
Hopefully our odds are really good too.
And that's the whole thing.
You never know what's going to happen, right?
So, right off the rip, what do we have here?
Just a really beautiful pastel enchi
and that pastel gene and the enchi gene,
they're both kind of enhancing genes, right?
So they just make things look prettier.
So that's going to be a beautiful animal,
real clean, vibrant, beautiful snake, so that's cool.
Next egg!
I tell you what I am so happy to be back
in the egg cutting season.
And we have some bangers coming this year, guys.
I got to tell you what.
Again, another pastel enchi.
Super uber clean animals.
I mean really, really cool.
I'm really hoping we can get some lemon blast enchis
because that would be a really beautiful snake.
Number three is...
Come on, number three.
Okay, this one looks like another pastel enchi.
So are we just getting a bunch of pastel enchis?
At least we know everything's an enchi, right?
Because, again, with the super enchi.
Egg number four.
It's so many eggs in this clutch
that you never know what you're going to get
as far as possibilities.
And at least we have enough to really hit some.
So here we go, interesting.
Let's see, what do we have here?
Ah, nah, this isn't...
It isn't lemon blast enchi,
but it is a pin enchi, which is still pretty cool.
I mean, it's a beautiful one too.
Kind of reduced pattern.
That's that enchi gene really pushing through,
so still a beautiful egg,
still hoping to hit the lemon blast enchi.
To be honest with you,
I was hoping we'd have a few lemon blasts enchis
in this clutch.
See what we have here in egg number five.
Right here.
And you know, a lot of people ask me,
"Are you ever worried about cutting an animal?"
I've been cutting eggs for -
There it is, guys!
The lemon blast enchi.
I'll tell you about how I can cut eggs in a second.
But the lemon blast enchi.
Look at how unbelievably clean and gorgeous that animal is!
That's the animal I was hoping to hit in this clutch,
and I'm so happy I did.
This is, again, the all gene animal,
meaning that all of the potential that you could prove
is in this animal.
We still have four eggs, so we could do more.
And, like I was saying,
I've been cutting snake eggs for 30 years or so,
and I've never caught a snake, right?
Never ever.
And there's a bunch of different techniques.
And maybe sometime this year,
we'll go through all the potential techniques
of how you can cut snake eggs.
And guess what, guys, a second lemon blast enchi!
Two in a row.
And that's how snake odds go, right?
Sometimes you can cut four or five eggs and miss your odds,
and then, like this, two eggs in a row
we hit lemon blast enchis, or the all gene animal,
and we still have three eggs to go.
So let's just jump in.
I don't know, maybe we'll just keep on getting lucky here.
But again, maybe we'll go through and do
all kinds of different techniques of how you can cut eggs
with scissors, with razor blades,,
with all kinds of different stuff,
and oh my goodness gracious.
This is a pastel enchi, but I'm telling you what, guys,
this looks really amazing.
It almost looks like there might be some yellow belly in it,
and I wonder if the female pastel had,
'cause that, to me, looks like a pastel enchi yellow belly.
I don't know if it is, but holy cow,
that is one ripper of an animal.
Two more eggs to go.
Let's go.
I cannot wait until these things crawl out of the egg.
It's okay.
Last couple eggs here.
And it looks like we have another
really gorgeous pastel enchi here.
I tell you what, these last two pastel enchis
have been ridiculous.
So I think that puts us up to like five pastel enchis,
which one of them, for sure,
looks like a yellow belly,
and this last one looks like it could be a yellow belly too.
So good.
One last egg; you know I like to end with a bang.
Let's hope for a lemon blast enchi.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
What do we have?
And unfortunately not.
But we do have another pastel enchi
that looks like a yellow belly.
So these are really cool.
So all in all, you know what?
We hit a couple of the all gene animals.
We hit a couple of really beautiful snakes.
It's really nice when you have a super
of an incomplete dominant,
that way there's no guessing,
"Is it an enchi; isn't it an enchi,"
or anything like that.
So there it is guys,
the egg cutting done for the day.
We have another one coming up in two days
I'm super excited about.
It's the enchi pastave clown bred to a banana clown,
so we could potentially produce
some banana enchi pastave clowns in that clutch.
Oh my God, it's going crazy.
I think it's going to be in two days.
So that's it.
So, all right, egg cutting done for the day.
I obviously mentioned the other day about,
you know, keeping limited numbers here at the Reptarium,
and, overwhelmingly, you guys thought
that it was a good idea to keep limited numbers.
So for now that's what we're going to do.
I don't know what the future holds,
but for July tickets are now on sale.
So again, every weekend in July,
by the way, we are closed on July 4th,
but every other day, the weekends of July.
Tickets are now on sale at thereptarium.com.
You can get your time slot,
more on what we're going to do
through the month of July and August.
We're going to have like individual things each hour.
So maybe like Saturday at six, we feed Lucy;
Sunday at four, we do something else.
That way you can look on the calendar
and actually book your time slot.
But again, they're selling quick.
So anyways, if you want to come
and hang out in a small group with us,
limited numbers in July, tickets are on sale now.
Guess what time it is?
(singing "Egg Time")
It's actually a lavender cal king
that we're going to pull a clutch.
She actually laid on April 24th.
She was one of our early clutches.
This is her second clutch.
So she had seven eggs the first clutch.
Like I'd mentioned before,
a lot of times you have a lot less eggs the second clutch.
Sometimes fertility isn't that great either.
So let's go ahead and just see what she has.
Whoa!
This is a little bit of a shocker.
I was not expecting her to have this big of a clutch.
This looks like almost the same size clutch
as the last clutch, which is very unusual.
I mean, usually you don't get similar sized clutches
in the second clutch.
So let's just go ahead and get mama back in here
and look at how beautiful is that.
Again, it's a lavender cal king,
and she's bred to a lavender snow,
and she's actually a hat for lavender snow.
So everything will either be lavender or lavender snow,
which is just a solid purple snake.
And she had two, four, six, seven eggs.
That is unreal that she had seven eggs the first time,
seven eggs the second time.
That doesn't happen too often, so that's pretty good.
14 eggs from that girl.
Wow, these babies are going to knock your socks off
when they all hatch.
And again, when it comes to colubers,
we can double clutch.
Then there are rare colubers that you can do
three, four, even five clutches and stuff like that.
But for the most part,
most of them will do one to two clutches a year.
So this girl is done for the year.
Now she's just going to get conditioned up for brumation
that happens here in another three or four months.
So she's just going to get pampered,
and her work is done for 2020.
We still have to pull a couple clutches
of ball pythons really quick.
While I have the PondoVac out,
I figured I'd just go ahead and get Bowser's pond
all cleaned up too,
just hit it all now,
and then we'll pull those clutches.
(upbeat music).
Back down in the dungeon,
and that only means one thing: egg time.
And what we have here is actually,
believe it or not,
it's just a half python female,
but she's bred to a spinner blast banana,
possible hip height,
and then a black pewter cypress,
so there's a bunch of different possibilities.
We don't know who the father is, but wow,
look at this clutch of eggs right here.
Oh, whoa.
That is a lot of eggs.
And y'all talked about before how
the bigger the eggs, the smaller the amount of eggs, right?
So it's the same kind of weight.
These are the perfect size eggs.
They're not too big.
They're not too small, and there's a bunch of them.
So let's just go ahead,
get these out of here and see how many eggs there -
Oh my God mama!
You did such a good job!
I tell you what, we'll get these out of here
and get this one egg here first.
And then oh my gosh goodness,
this is definitely a bunch of eggs here.
All right, we're going to have to remove this one egg
to fit the box in there,
but we've got two, four, six, eight, 10, 12.
That's right, we hit that 12 number!
Kevin hit 13 this year, but hey, I'm not getting greedy.
I was just really shooting for 12.
So I think this is the third 12 a clutch of the year.
Man, that's a great way to start egg collecting.
Next stop is a female I love.
Last year was the first time this girl laid,
it's actually a black pastel lesser ball python
bred to a sunny lesser woma,
so it should have all kinds of different stuff,
potentially even the solid black ball pythons,
which will be the super cinnamon black pastel.
Regardless, I love this girl.
Don't bite me girl.
It's okay.
She's just, she's a sweetheart.
She definitely was just protecting her eggs,
but she's a good mom,
and I tell you what, I am so excited again.
I remember raising this girl up,
and I just absolutely loved her.
She's four and a half years old.
This is her second clutch she's ever laid,
so it's pretty exciting.
And mama -
Whoa, mama!
Calm down, girl.
Calm down, it's okay.
Just kind of get these eggs outta here.
We'll go ahead and count these up.
It's two, four, six eggs.
Again, not a really big clutch,
but again, some pretty cool offspring potential in this.
I mean, lots of different genes that play here.
So that's pretty awesome.
And again, the ball python season continues
moving along amazingly.
Pretty awesome that we got to cut two clutches today,
but I'm telling you what, this clutch we're going to cut
in a day and a half, it's going to be crazy.
So again, two days from now, we'll have that one.
It's going to be amazing.
And let me know down in the comments
what shots you liked.
Do you like that really close up, the down -
Tell me what you want.
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