(dramatic music)
- [Brian] Oh my God!
We're gonna go ahead and try snoop froggin' a couple
of the other frogs, and just see if
they'll eat these stillborn Kenyan Sand Boas.
I didn't want to have to break the news
to you guys this way.
It's really a bummer.
- Eric's fired?
- [Brian] Today is Eric's last day.
Ah, right in the poopy water!
Got me right in the face!
- Jimmy, I'm not going to tell you again!
Stop!
- Look at how beautiful she looks right now.
I mean she just looks incredible!
I'll tell you what.
Until you get the snake out, you really don't
realize how big she is!
(upbeat bass)
- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
I hope the start of your day's amazing.
I'm not really sure how my days gonna go
'cause Mary said we have some bad news downstairs.
Let's go ahead and take a look.
Just coming down to check in on the Sand Boas.
Mary said that there was a disaster litter of Sand Boas.
Oh I don't even wanna take a look!
Oh my gosh!
This is horrible!
Look it, ah, they're fully formed, perfect weight!
Oh wait, what does she got going on here?!
What does she got going on?
Oh, there's something actually stuck!
I'm gonna go ahead and pick her up
because it looks like she's got a baby actually stuck inside
of her right here.
Take a look at that!
That is absolutely crazy!
I'm just going to gently pull this out, ah!
Gosh, that is so, oh my gosh!
I'm gonna try to get it out!
It's literally stuck in there!
Oh my gosh!
C'mon girl!
What is going on?
Okay, I got, okay.
It seems like something is going on.
I don't know what is up with this.
This is bizarre!
It's actually, I think its actually a ripped oviduct
is what it is.
You can see it's on both sides where there's actually
like a tear in the oviducts.
So what I'm gonna try to do
is to just really gently squeeze this through
and hopefully get this all, oh there it is!
Got it out! There it is!
It looks like she's completely done
when it comes to any other babies.
This was the last baby but boy what a disaster clutch!
What I think happened, probably, is this baby probably
got stuck, and then all the other babies probably died
because they were suffocated 'cause they need to be born,
and this was the one that somehow got
kind of twisted up in the oviduct.
Regardless, let's see if there's anything going on in here.
It looks like obviously we had that one bad baby,
we have two, three, four bad babies all together,
so that's not good at all!
I'm gonna go ahead and set these down and just see if--
Oh yeah, at least there are some good ones in here!
That is great!
I'm so happy that she had at least some babies!
It looks like we have, let's see,
one, two, three anerythristics!
That's absolutely incredible!
She was actually a head anerythristic bred to an
anerythristic Kenyan sand boa.
I'm gonna set these aside really quick, and
then we've got two more babies here,
and then we'll look through the rest.
We actually put her on paper, normally
they're on aspen, but we put her on paper because it seemed
like she was struggling a little bit.
So let's see, oh there's some more babies!
All right!
This is good.
There's two more anerythristics right here!
Chubby little monkeys too!
It's a bummer she got bound up.
So it looks like she had a good amount of babies
that came out and then she bound up,
and then unfortunately the other babies perished while
she was trying to get them out.
And then of course we have one more normal.
So all together not too bad of a litter.
We've got one, two, three, four, five anerythristics
and three normals.
I don't think that there's anything else in here.
I'll check really quick, and I'll get this cage
all cleaned up.
Poor mama, but she's going to be completely fine now that
she's passed those babies.
She's gonna be okay.
Not exactly a great clutch but wasn't as much of
a disaster as I thought, and thank gosh
we were able to get that baby out and save
that female's life.
Listen, we hate to see any snakes not be born alive
or infertile eggs, but we always try to repurpose, right?
So the frogs really will eat snakes in the wild.
So we're gonna go ahead and try snoop frogging a couple
of the other frogs, and just see if they'll eat these
stillborn Kenyan sand boas.
Because what else are we going to do with them?
And again, to keep our frogs healthy,
we like lots of variety.
So we take an opportunity that isn't good
and try to turn it into the best we can.
So let's go ahead and see if snoop frog wants it.
Oh yeah!
There he goes!
He's taking it for sure.
There it is.
Again, I don't like to do it.
I don't want to do it, but hey, what else am I going to
do with these babies that didn't make it anyways.
So this will be a great meal for him
or any of the other frogs that want to eat today.
(lively trap)
- [Brian] Eric.
- What's up dude?
- Guys, I didn't want to have to break the news
to you guys this way.
It's really a bummer.
- Eric's fired?
- [Brian] Today is Eric's last day.
We have to let Eric go.
- [Eric] Why?
- [Brian] Today is his last day.
- [Noah] You were letting too many snakes loose.
- [Brian] Yeah.
- [Noah] It's over.
- But it's Eric. Its--
- Just be like a man, and take it like--
No, so the deal is--
(laughter)
It is Eric's last day, but not because
he's going away forever, but you're going out of town!
- Yeah, oh yeah.
Going to England!
So...
- [Brian] Going to the old U.K.
The homeland.
- The U.K., the homeland, the mother land.
- Exactly, if you guys didn't know,
Eric's parents or dad? or--
- Just my dad.
My dad was from England, and my mom was from Alabama,
so that's a weird mix.
How did that--
- That's what makes Eric!
- The Alabama part explains a lot.
I'm not gonna lie to ya.
(laughter)
No, I'm just joking.
I love you Alabama..
The truth is that Eric is going over
to the U.K. for about, what? 10 days?
- For about 10 days, yeah.
- [Brian] Oh my god, that is so awesome.
What're you going to do without him?
- Um, I'm gonna go to California.
- [Brian] Oh that's right.
- But bring back some, like, tea or something dude.
- Some chocolates.
Some chocolates.
- [Brian] Chocolates?
- If that's legal.
I know the whole Boston Tea Party thing happened.
(laughter)
- Oh yeah!
- I don't know if like you can bring back tea,
but if you can--
- [Brian] I think you can.
I think you can.
So wish, in the comments, wish Eric all the luck
in the world for his adventure across the pond.
It's gonna be amazing.
We will miss him, and Noah is going over to L.A. too,
so I'm not going to have Noah or Eric
for an entire week, week and a half!
- What're you gonna do?
- Actually it's gonna be really quiet and peaceful here.
This is the best thing!
(Eric laughs)
This is gonna be so awesome!
No, so have a fun time, all right?
- Thank you so much.
I'm actually leaving this weekend.
Go over back to England.
See all of my family.
I haven't seen 'em in years.
I'm super excited.
That means Mary's gonna have to pick up my slack.
I run a tight ship around here.
Okay?
So I just want to make sure she knows what's going on,
so there's no, you know, nothing gets messed up
or goes missing or anything like that.
Let's go find Mary, get her up here, and show her the ropes.
(upbeat music)
Hey Mary!
How are ya?
I'm gonna be gone next week.
Really sad, she's really sad.
But I'm gonna need you to pick up my slack upstairs.
I'm gonna show you what's going on.
Show you what to do.
What not to do.
I'm gonna guide you, okay?
I'm gonna take you under my wing.
So let's get started.
All right Mary, so listen.
I'm gonna need you to really pay attention on this one.
Lots of dangerous animals up here, okay?
These are just for back up.
We've got venom control on speed dial.
Anyways this is little Jeffrey, okay?
Jeffrey likes fresh water.
I see his water's a little low.
He only drinks bottled water, okay?
That's the only time he'll drink his bottled water.
Just tap that off.
Don't be drinking this stuff.
Just drink the tap water.
This is my favorite snake.
Just be extremely careful.
Okay?
Here, I'll pick him up.
Don't you do this, only I can do this.
- Okay.
- Look at that.
Here he is.
I know we have a hognose at home, but just don't touch him.
If he gets a little cranky,
or if he's not wanting to eat for ya,
just maybe do like a FaceTime.
I could talk to him, and we'll get it figured out.
- Got a clutch of ball pythons she caught here,
and these are actually a normal, just a normal female
bred to a fire bee which is a pastel, it's a fire,
and it's a spider!
So we should get all kinds of stuff.
We get fires, we get pastels, we get fire bees.
We get fireflies, we get bumblebees,
you get the point.
Let's go ahead and dive in and see what we have here.
Not a ton of eggs left to cut for the year.
Looks right off the bat, looks like we
just have a fire ball python.
Just a single gene animal.
I wouldn't expect there to be anything crazy in this clutch,
but that's why we cut clutches, 'cause we never know
what's gonna happen.
This looks like a little firefly right here.
So it's a pastel and it's a fire.
Really beautiful animals for sure.
Let's go ahead get moving on this one!
Looks like a little, looks like a probably
a fire ball python?
Maybe even a normal.
I'm not 100% sure until they hatch out,
'cause in the egg they look kinda similar.
I'm pretty sure that's a fire the more I look at it.
But anyways, regardless.
But like I had mentioned, I'm not expecting
some great combination 'cause the female
was just a normal ball python, but this one looks
like a, let's see, looks like a fire spider ball python.
So getting a lot of combinations, not a lot of stacking
of genes at this point, but that's just kinda
the way things go when you start having one of
the animals as actually a normal.
Another fire bee.
So the female isn't really contributing
to any of the mutations, right?
Only the male.
The female is just a wild-type normal ball python.
So it's just a three gene animal, so the most
we can get is a fire bee, which is exactly what we just did!
This is a fire bee.
It's a pastel, it's a fire, and it's a spider.
And that was pretty awesome, right on cue.
Two more eggs to go on this clutch!
Let's see what we have here!
Ah, let's see, let's see, let's see.
Looks like probably a firefly, which is a pastel and a fire.
And then last egg in this particular clutch.
Boy, am I going to miss egg cutting, guys.
I know I can get redundant for some of you guys
after cutting a hundred plus clutches already this year,
but I still love it.
This little monkey is actually flipped on its back,
so I have no idea what it is.
Looks like it's probably a spider.
Could be any of the above to be totally honest with you,
because all we can see is its belly right now.
So there it is.
A real quick egg cutting for you guys that love it,
and again, we probably have maybe 10 or 12 clutches
to go for the year.
- All right, so I gotta explain to Mary now,
you know she's not as an advanced keeper as I am, okay?
Let's just say she's a little, a little far behind,
you know what I mean?
So these, Mary, actually eat earthworms, okay?
Do you know what an earthworm is?
- Really no.
- Yep. So I'll have to send her a picture or something.
Old Mary.
But anyways, these worms have to be cut
about five millimeters, okay?
Just very small strips of worms.
Two of 'em.
They like the tail pieces.
Two tails, okay?
Not the heads.
The heads, use 'em for fish and throw 'em away.
That's Sally, all right? Jesse Rafael.
I named that one myself.
Just be very careful with these guys, very delicate,
a little more advanced keeping, you know?
These guys are eating fish.
I like the water temperature somewhere around 64 degrees.
63's pushing it, it'll work, but get those in there.
Make sure they're eating.
I just don't want to come back to a bunch of hungry snakes,
you know what I mean?
- I tell you what, that is one messy cage right there.
Lucy destroyed her cage as always.
You know how she does things.
Ever since I've had her she has just been
a wreck in this cage.
Regardless, it's time to take her out,
get her cage all cleaned up, clean that nasty water out.
Not as bad as usual, I'm gonna be totally honest with you,
but hopefully Lucy's gonna be in a good mood.
You in a good mood, girl?
In a good mood for me?
Come on baby, come on.
You're okay.
There she is--
Ah, right in the poopy water!
Got me right in the face!
Ah!
Come on girl.
Come on! Come on baby girl.
I'll tell you what, she's a big snake.
All right, you guys ready?
She's fine, she's acting good.
- Okay.
- You can just take her right on.
Just start pulling her out.
- [Eric] Come back in.
Got her, Bruce?
- The good news is, as you guys know,
is that Lucy loves water.
She needs a good soaking to get some of this last shed off.
Get her in this water.
There you go, sweety.
Go ahead.
There she is.
Okay.
All right.
We'll soak her up as we're cleaning her cage out,
and we should be all set to go.
(upbeat music)
- All right, so some of these snakes are a lot faster
than your pythons and stuff, all right?
So you just gotta be really careful.
They won't hurt ya.
- Sure.
- So this thing here, this is little Jimmy, all right?
Jimmy, hold on Jimmy.
Jimmy has uh...
Ah!
Like I was saying--
- What about not getting bit?
- Don't get bit.
It's bad for the hobby, but little Jimmy,
he likes to be handled every now and then,
you see what I mean?
Jimmy.
Jimmy!
Jimmy!!
It's Eric!
Jimmy, stop!
Just little Jimmy.
He's just like that, you know what I mean?
Jimmy, what did we talk about?
So just try to work with Jimmy.
I like to try and pet his head,
is usually what happens here.
There you go, Jimmy!
Jimmy!
(laughter)
Just try and work with Jimmy.
- Okay.
- Show him some love.
He's being a jerk right now.
Listen, I know you're not as advanced of a handler as I am,
so, you know, I'm not worried about it.
- Keep talking.
- You know, the uh--
Jimmy!
Jim!
Hold on, Mary.
Mary, help.
Help, Mary.
(Mary laughs)
Jimmy, I'm not going to tell you again to stop.
Jimmy!
Hold on, we got technical difficulties here, can you cu--
Ow!
You can cut all this stuff out, right?
- [Cameraman] Yeah, yeah, yeah dude, we got you.
- Oh okay, thanks man.
Jimmy! Get in the--
Like I was saying, this isn't an easy job, okay?
It's not for the light hearted, if you will.
(Jimmy hisses)
Do I cut a couple of corners? Sure.
Only the best of 'em do, but uh...
I think I showed you the ropes.
I showed you what to do, you know,
I know I've got big shoes to fill.
You're gonna do just fine.
And if I come back and anything's messed up,
okay, ADAM, okay?
That's the American Divorce Association for Men.
I'm just kidding, but you'll definitely be sleeping on
the couch a couple nights, all right?
I think we're gonna be good here guys.
(energetic bass)
- Okay, let's see what Lucy's got going on.
I'm sure she's got a nice shed right now.
Again, she's been soaking for probably about 35-40 minutes,
something like that, and the shed that is on her seems to be
coming off pretty easily right here, and again,
just like the night fairy thing I always talk about,
you know, sometimes people think it's bad to try to help
remove shed from a snake, but if it's already shedding,
and it's stuck on there, helping it come off,
just like this, isn't a problem at all.
What you don't want to do is prematurely take off shed skin
because that can actually hurt the animal, all right?
Until they're absolutely ready to shed, you don't want
to take that skin off because that epidural layer
is gonna not be completely healed up,
and it can actually scar up and stuff like that,
definitely hard.
But this girl's already shed.
Obviously, she's ready to go.
So by taking her shed off, it's actually
helping her a little bit.
There you go baby.
There it is.
(chuckles)
I've got to imagine it's relatively soothing for them too,
to get that skin off.
I mean I don't really know, but--
Get Lucy like we always do.
Just kind of slowly let her crawl back in her cage.
It might fight with me.
She'll probably wanna crawl right up into that tree
like she always does, but maybe not.
We'll have to see.
Look how beautiful she looks right now!
I mean she just looks incredible.
I tell you what, until you get the snake out
you really don't realize how big she is.
That's a big snake!
That's 20 feet of snake right there.
I love the fact that she's lean and mean,
and that's the way I like to keep my retics, to where
they're not so obese where they're gonna actually
shorten their life by having all of that fatty liver
built up, right?
She looks incredible.
(laughs)
She's climbing, oh my god.
Absolutely amazing.
As always, cleaning Lucy's cage can be an adventure,
but today, things went great.
That was definitely absolutely bizarre with that sand boa.
I've had egg binding with egg layers,
but it's really rare to get bound up with a live birth.
So that was really crazy.
As a matter of fact, one of my most watched videos ever
is right here, which is an egg bound snake.
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Be kind to someone, and I promise,
I'll see you guys tomorrow.