(upbeat music)
- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is truly incredible.
I am pretty pumped right now,
because I am about to show you a ball python
that is been something I've been super,
super excited about for over two and a half years.
And the reason for that is,
is I have no idea what this is.
And look it, look, she's got some eggs out of her thing.
She finally laid eggs.
Now, let me just tell you what,
this was actually a pinstriped female
that was bred to a pastel lesser female.
That is not what you should get, okay?
This is a ball python, I have no clue.
And look at that beautiful clutch.
She had two eggs out, but she also had five eggs in here.
I'm gonna go ahead and candle this whole clutch obviously,
'cause it looks like she's rolled things around.
But the point is is that this is a mystery ball python.
Two and a half years ago, almost three years ago,
I produced this animal and I was like,
"What in the world is it?"
Again, it's certainly not a pastel lesser pinstripe,
which would be a pastel kingpin.
It's basically patternless.
It's got a little striping on it.
I have no idea what this snake is.
It didn't genetically make any sense.
Now getting this clutch of eggs basically
gives me a little bit of a window
into what potentially the genetics are.
If it's something brand new or not.
With two, four, six eggs,
once these hatch out I can start to unravel
the mystery that's been on my mind now
for almost three years.
So this is awesome, when she got gravid
I was like, "Please lay good eggs."
And we actually bred her to a
pinstripe red stripe yellow belly,
which is ridiculous, so I don't know what's gonna hatch.
No clue.
57 days, this might be one of the most anticipated
clutches that I cut this year,
just because I have no idea what's in it.
So I am so stoked she laid good eggs.
The only other clutch today was actually
this ghost or hypo ball python.
Oh, she's got a couple eggs out of her coils,
which usually means there's a big clutch
because she can't even wrap around them.
The first thing we're gonna do
is we're just gonna take these eggs
that are out of the clutch.
A little bit deflated, but they should actually
pop back out within a day or so.
If we have to increase the humidity a little bit we can.
And then we'll see what else she has going on.
(snake hissing)
Oh, come on girl, this is a beautiful girl.
She was bred to a champagne lori het for ghost,
so we could get a bunch of really cool things.
Looks like we got one little slugger in here,
that's too bad, but the rest of the clutch looks amazing.
And again, it was a nice, big clutch.
Again, she probably couldn't wrap around them
'cause she had so many eggs.
So we'll get these eggs in here
and we'll give them a count up.
We've got two, four, six, eight, nine good eggs,
one bad egg, that's a pretty good clutch.
Every day we're piling the eggs up,
so I tell you what, it's gonna be amazing here
in the next little bit
hatching all these cute little monkeys.
And the last clutch is actually this beautiful pin specter,
which is basically a het for super stripe
if you have a yellow belly,
bred to a pinstripe red stripe yellow belly,
so we have the chance of producing some
pin super stripe red stripe stuff,
which is really beautiful,
and she's on a really nice clutch of eggs.
Good job, mom, you did so good.
Look at how good that is right there.
Nice sized eggs.
Not too big, not too small, so that there's plenty of them.
Mom looks like she did really good,
so she's not all that beat up and stuff like that.
Just slowly get these eggs off the paper.
And of course we'll get momma cleaned up and ready to go
and get her back onto (mumbles)
as quickly as we possibly can.
So what do we have here?
Two, four, six, eight beautiful eggs.
So I tell you what, this was a great day.
Three beautiful clutches
and some really good potential stuff.
So again, 57 days from now these clutches will get cut,
but trust me, we're gonna take the egg cutting
to the next level this year.
And just like that, we have 50 ball python clutches
in the incubator, and maybe 100, 120 to go.
My daily checkup with Nova and Lilit.
She's actually down at the bottom here
right by the nest spot.
That tells me she is ready to lay.
I keep saying any day.
I seriously every day come in thinking I'm gonna have eggs,
but you can still see she's got little marbles in her,
so she's definitely got eggs.
I'm gonna just leave her alone and hopefully,
fingers crossed, maybe tomorrow
we'll have some frilly dragon eggs.
Now that the open is just coming up here
in a handful of days, by the way,
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You can buy as many slots as you want,
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you can book birthday parties under 10 people.
But we have to get back to finishing up
things like obviously this all needs to be seamed out.
There's just a whole lot of little things
that we kind of haven't had to do for the last nine weeks
because we've been closed.
So now we have to get all this finished up and looking good,
so we've got our work cut out for us this week
but it's amazing and I am so excited
that we're just a handful of days from opening up again.
- Me and Brian have actually been talking
really, really heavily about what we could do
like next step type thing.
Really, really cool stuff is being done
with alligators, but not so much with monitors,
not so much with iguanas.
Don't get me wrong, there are people out there
doing incredible, incredible things,
but we're just not, to me, doing enough.
We could do so much more.
These animals are more intelligent
than I've ever, ever, ever in my life
have ever given them credit for,
and working here has certainly proved that to me.
So how do we do that?
Well, I have a couple ideas.
It's something I've been seeing people do
with dogs and even other animals, even alligators,
and it's called stop and go.
Basically the idea of the technique,
and I'll go into it further one day
when we actually show you how I plan on going about this,
but basically the idea is I want to be able
to teach our monitors to stop on command
and come to me on command.
It doesn't really matter how far or how short that is,
it's just a matter of how do I get him to do exactly that.
That's the kind of brainstorming I'm talking about.
There are ways that I have ideas to do it,
and there's three or four different ways
I can think of doing, but I've got to figure out one
and one's got to work.
Obviously our dietary needs are gonna change substantially.
We're going to have every type of food we can possibly find
and even actually go out and do some cool videos
of me showing you guys different little critters
that we can even catch locally, and how we prepare them,
and how we can actually feed our animals stuff
that you can go out there and catch yourself
and actually feed to your animals.
I am so excited to take you guys on this journey.
Oh, man, it couldn't be more or more happy
to be a part of this,
especially with Brian and everybody working here.
It's gonna be a really great journey
and I really hope you guys come along.
- Guess what time of the day it is kids?
It's colubrid egg time.
Okay, that was just my way of doing a silly intro.
It's colubrid egg time guys.
This is actually a het creamsicle scale,
it's bred to same.
Now, this girl last year actually laid slugs.
You can see on June 17th she slugged out.
So let's see if she has good eggs this year.
And pretty good, not too bad.
There are a couple interfiles in here,
but for the most part looks like a pretty good clutch.
But let's go ahead and get this female back in the cage
and then we can take a closer look,
but I can tell you this much,
the fact that she 100% slugged out last year
she did better this year, there's no doubt about that.
So let's jump in to see what we've got going on.
Again, we'll just peel off the good eggs here,
get them in and we'll give it a good count
and see what's going on.
Again, not a great clutch by any stretch,
but I'll tell you what, I was expecting maybe all slugs,
so hey, I'm not gonna complain about it.
Looks like we've got two, four, six, seven good eggs,
and two, four, six bad eggs.
So more than 50% fertile, that's at least an improvement.
That tells me that probably the male last year
was the problem with the fertility,
and she might have a little bit of problems as well.
Maybe one of her ovaries isn't working well
or who knows what's going on.
Nevertheless, I'm happy with the clutch that we get,
but we have a few more clutches to pull
and hopefully they'll all be perfect.
Next up and let's hope that this one
gives us a good clutch of eggs.
This is just actually a het snow corn snake,
and it's bred to that super pink coral snow male,
so these guys could be really beautiful for sure.
Lets see, it looks like a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Are you kidding me?
They look great.
Now that's more like it.
That's what I want to see, 100% fertility is always good.
And again, this is just a normal classic corn snake
right here that is actually het for both
albino and anerythristic, which is the black corn snake,
making it a snow, and then, again,
it's bred to that pink polygenic snow corn male.
So half these babies should come out
beautiful pink coral snows.
There's two, four, six, eight, 10, 12 eggs.
Definitely a better clutch than the first one.
So I was checking for colubrid eggs
and I see this one here, this aberrant cal king,
and it says, "Hi, my name is Carole."
I have no idea why her name is Carole,
so let's find Laurie and find out.
Laurie!
Laurie.
Why is that cal king named Carole?
- (sighs) She deserves that name.
- [Brian] Why?
- Because she's killed like three males this year.
- [Brian] So Carole Baskin?
- Yes. (laughs)
- [Brian] You named her Carole Baskin?
- Yes, Jessica and I were talking
and I mean does it fit or does it fit?
- [Brian] Oh my God.
- And left no remains.
(laughing)
- Well, there you guys go.
We now have Carole Baskin the California kingsnake.
I know I tell you guys all the time
that I miss you guys being here with the Reptarium open,
but I've got to be honest with you,
animals like Bella here, they miss it too.
She is starving for attention all the time.
And we try to give her as much attention as we possibly can,
obviously, myself probably more than anyone
because she is my baby.
I love her so much and I love the fact that
literally I come to the cage and she just comes rushing over
just like this to say hi to me.
She's such an amazing animal.
But again, it's different not having
all the people coming through.
So we can start to have people back at the Reptarium safely
and these animals can start getting spoiled
like they deserve it.
My guy Tazi, I haven't shown him off in a while.
He is such a beautiful animal.
Just shed out.
He's got a little bit of shed still left on his tail,
but looking absolutely adorable.
Tazi is such an amazing animal.
And again, now that we're almost open
the fact that people can come out and play with
Tazi again is gonna be incredible.
I just, again, am so excited that these animals
are gonna start getting attention every single weekend.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible.
But I just had to show Tazi off
because he is amazing and he looks so beautiful
now that he has that fresh shed of sed.
Now that he has that fresh shed.
Oh my gosh, let's just see what he does
and I'm sure he'll go back home when he wants to.
(mellow music)
And there Tazi goes.
There Tazi goes.
All right, bye bud.
See you later buddy.
(chuckles) I love that animal so much.
(mellow music)
Got some gargoyle eggs.
Who is this from?
- [Girl] This one doesn't have a name.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, she's pretty.
- [Girl] Yeah, she's pretty though.
- [Brian] She's really kind of on the small ...
Is this her first clutch or has she had others?
- She's had some other ones,
which is the only reason she got paired this year.
But I think they're good.
She's had a couple good eggs so far.
- [Brian] Okay, well, let's hope.
Fingers crossed.
Let's see what we got.
- There they are. - Do they look good?
Nice, oh yeah, pearly white.
Small eggs too.
They're little ones, so that's so cute.
That's awesome.
- They should still hatch out though just fine.
- Yeah, exactly.
That's awesome, good job.
Next up is another corn snake that is actually
a het strawberry sun kissed corn snake.
So the sun kissed is actually a cool kind of
interesting color pattern mutation
that really changes the actual head pattern
more than anything.
And then, of course, the strawberry is a
recessive hypo that just looks really strawberry looking.
It's just bred to the same thing,
so they're both normal looking.
We'll of course get the shed out of here,
get some water in, get her all cleaned up.
And take a look at this clutch.
It looks really nice.
Not a huge clutch, but a beautiful clutch for sure.
We'll go ahead, plop these in here, count 'em up.
Two, four, six, eight eggs.
Not bad.
And for those of you guys that know,
all these eggs up here of course are colubrid eggs.
The majority of them actually hatch in 60 days.
Sometimes they'll go 65 days 'cause we don't actually
keep the temperature steady.
You can vary it from say 78 degrees to 84 degrees.
So if it's cooler it's gonna take a little longer,
if it's warmer it's gonna hatch a little bit quicker.
But there are a couple things like hognose
and other snakes that will go about 50 days,
and then of course mangroves go almost 100 days.
These ones, so hopefully in about two months
we'll have little babies.
Then the last clutch, Okeetee het scaleless
bred to that Abbots Okeetee scaleless
that is just absolutely a ripper.
I'll show you him as always.
Just take a look at that snake right there,
I mean it looks like a painting.
That is just absolutely ridiculous.
And he's been such a good male this year.
I think every single egg almost
he's produced has been fertile.
Now I probably jinxed myself.
I did.
The last time I said that on this exact same male
there was a bunch of slugs.
So this is a beautiful Abbots Okeetee, by the way.
Really beautiful female.
She's actually het for scaleless.
We'll get her set up.
Good job, mom.
It's okay that you didn't have all fertile eggs,
but sure enough I tell you, that is hilarious
that I've done this now to myself twice
where I'm like, "Oh, yeah, all the eggs are always fertile."
And then there's a bunch of infertile ones.
So we're just gonna pull all of the good eggs out
and we'll get to the bottom
of the bad eggs in a second here.
Just pull this last egg out right here.
Looks like these two are good.
These two are good.
That one's good.
That one is good.
This one's kind of a so-so one.
I'm gonna set it up,
'cause you can see a little blood dot in it.
These are definitely all infertile.
So we've got two, four, six, eight interfiles.
Two, four, six, eight fertile.
So 50% on the nose.
You will not hear me the rest of the year
say anything about the fertility of a clutch
before I pull the clutch.
But nevertheless, still an amazing day of eggs
and I will always be thankful for what I get.
(mellow music)
That mystery clutch is wild.
I cannot wait for 57 days from now
where we can start to unravel that mystery
and figure out what that animal actually is.
And again, I am excited to be over at the Reptarium
doing these kind of little things,
trying to get the place ready to open.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing.
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