- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start your day is incredible.
You know what?
There's been a lot of,
kind of talk about what the future of BHB is,
but the truth is, the future is pretty darn bright.
We have a bunch of animals that are coming up.
So when I talk about like, oh,
I might even kind of downsize a little bit
and stuff like that,
it doesn't mean that I'm still not going to be working
with new projects and new animals and stuff like that.
We're just going to continue to streamline, right?
Look at this beautiful high white,
black and white albino California kingsnake.
Absolutely wonderful that we're raising up.
This was a baby from earlier this year and whoo doggy,
I tell you what, it is incredible.
So again, you know, even if I streamline a few areas,
it doesn't mean I'm not going to continue
to be getting new snakes because I love that stuff,
and there's a lot of really crazy projects.
So today I'm going to take you on colubrids, pythons,
all kinds of other stuff,
what's going to be happening for the future of BHB,
like that little monkey right there.
Trust me, we have a ton of really beautiful
things coming up.
I love the black and white Cal kings,
and of course that last one was an albino high white
black and white Cal king.
This one here, oh,
look at that little monkey right there,
he just grabbed me like that, whoo!
Tell you what, what's going on?
He thinks I'm food.
This is actually a black and white striped
California King snake,
and it is a feisty little monkey right there.
It's just, I think it really thinks
it's going to be able to eat me, buddy.
I, you know, I do feed it pinkies, but not pinkies,
like in fingers, you know what I mean?
Come on, buddy.
You got to let go, come on.
I tell you what, these things can be cheeky.
And talk about an insane animal right here,
this of course is an amber scaleless corn snake,
which is a hypo, it's a caramel, it's a scaleless,
but then it has this crazy stripe down its back
that makes it so cool.
So when we produced this one
we were like we got to hang on to this
because it is absolutely a ripper.
We've got a bunch of really cool scaleless stuff
that's going to be coming up too.
I mean, I love the scaleless corn snakes.
Just like this albino diffused scaleless corn snake,
again, unbelievable here.
It's an albino, it's a blood red,
or what they would call diffused, and it's a scaleless.
Sometimes they'll call these fire corn snakes too.
So these are incredible.
And just as it gets bigger,
it's going to get more and more orange,
more and more red, going to be a great future breeder.
And I have always been a corn snake guy,
and these are ridiculous.
This is actually a super reversed albino Okeetee corn snake.
So basically it's an albino Okeetee corn snake,
but it's an extreme version that has tons of white in it.
I mean, these things are incre--
it's probably the best ones I've ever seen.
I actually got these from my friends
out at The Snake Keeper, the Sutherlands,
and I tell you what, I couldn't be more happy.
Cannot wait till these get up to size, again,
we can start breeding these into all kinds
of different stuff, it's going to be amazing.
These things are rippers.
And hopefully this little California King snake
will treat me a little bit better.
Okay, it's not biting me, but it is peeing on me.
But this is a 50 50 black and white California kingsnake,
and I just like, look at the contrast on that animal,
the black and white, that doesn't get much better than that.
And then the 50 50 part is what's really amazing.
In the wild they would actually be
predominantly black with just a little bit of white banding,
and over generations of breeding the higher white ones,
you get these 50 50s that look like this.
And my goodness, they are absolutely incredible.
I get so excited about this stuff.
And I start thinking that here in two years,
this thing is going to be an adult,
and going to produce some incredible babies.
And back to corn snakes,
and this has always been one of my favorite mutations.
I say that way too much, to be honest with you.
And I guess it's just true.
Look at this guy, he's ready to bite me.
This is actually a hypo lavender corn snake.
What are you doing, buddy?
It's literally coming up like, if you get close enough,
I'm going to strike you in the face.
What an absolute ripper that thing is.
But it's just that pink and the lavender undertones,
a little bit of yellow popping through,
these things are incredible.
And then the eyes have that kind of ruby red eyes,
unbelievably beautiful animal.
Again, one of those snakes that you look at and go,
that can't be real, right?
That's gotta be Photoshop, but this is it.
This is what they look like.
I mean, they are so awesome.
And then there's this cool scaleless corn snake right here.
This is the hypo diffused, which is blood red,
and an Okeetee, just all together making for some
insane patterns, or in this case really, a lack of pattern.
I mean, all of that smooth siding
that comes from the diffused corn,
which is what the blood reds do.
And then you've got the Okeetee and the hypo going on,
oh my gosh, this thing just gets better with age, again,
couple years from now, it's going to be adult.
I tell you what, the future is pretty awesome, isn't it?
And although garter snakes can be a little bit hyper,
you know, they move around a lot,
this is where my love of snakes started when I was a kid
catching garter snakes in the local woods.
And this is actually a granite checkered garter snake
that we're raising up.
I love these guys,
such beautiful pattern, and colors, and contrast.
It's really amazing.
It's a recessive mutation that causes all of this graniting
that looks absolutely wonderful.
So next year, this guy will be up to size too,
and we'll produce some more little baby granite garters.
You guys may remember when I
actually got these animals here.
These are actually tri-colored hog nose snakes.
Now, they're not related to the Western hog nose snake,
but they do still have that little pug nose,
and they're so cute.
So they're doing really well,
and this is actually what they would call a jag,
So it's got kind of an interesting,
kind of scrambled up pattern.
So next year, these guys will be up to size.
Again, we're raising up a lot of really cool stuff.
So as we're streamlining in some areas,
we're definitely growing into other areas for sure.
And speaking of baby colubrids
just like all these beautiful ones I just saw,
we have some babies that are hatching out today
that are going to be awesome.
This clutch was actually a butter Motley
to a butter Tessera,
and the one thing we found out this year is that Tesseras
seemed to be allylic to both stripe and Motley corns.
So we're producing Motleys and all kinds of different stuff
from the Tesseras.
So everything's going to be butter because the female
was a butter and the male is the butter Tessera.
And sure enough,
we have a bunch of really cool butter Tessera stuff here.
One, two, these guys are little tiny ones,
there's no doubt about it, but they still look good.
Wow, look at all these little Tesseras.
I mean, there's a whole swatch of them here.
Of course, these are all amazing
little butter Tesseras here, wow,
there's a bunch of them.
And we really, really crushed the odds
on this clutch for sure.
So that's pretty awesome.
And again, for whatever reason,
when you're breeding them into Motley or stripe,
you get more stripes and more Motleys in the butters.
Whereas this one all was butter Tesseras or butters,
which there's only one, two, three butters,
and the rest were butter Tesseras.
I tell you what, that's some pretty good odds.
We actually bred an albino Motley scaleless
to a het albino here in hopes that maybe it was
het for scaleless because it came from that same group.
Unfortunately, we didn't produce any scaleless stuff,
but we do have some albinos, some normals, of course,
these are the albinos, and a feisty monkey here,
what are you doing?
You little crazy monkey right there.
And of course these would all be triple hets, right?
Because they're het for albino,
they're het for Motley, and they're het for scaleless,
and the albinos are just double het.
They're albinos that are het for Motley scaleless,
so, nevertheless, nothing too crazy with the clutch,
but it's still cool to see babies no matter what.
And the genetics behind them is pretty awesome.
Down here in the dungeon we definitely have some
really cool ball pythons we're raising up
for the future as well.
Remember that mystery clutch that
hatched out some crazy stuff?
This is one of them that I absolutely love.
Again, it's definitely lemon blast, red stripe,
yellow belly, something else going on.
And it's absolutely incredible.
Keeps getting better with age.
And then look at this one from the same exact clutch.
I mean, it's crazy.
I don't understand what is even influencing the pattern
on this, or in this case, lack of pattern.
And then we have those gray ones
that came from the same clutch too.
So there's a lot of mystery to unravel in this clutch,
but it's going to be so cool
when we get these ones up to size,
we can then breed them to even normal ball pythons
just to start unraveling what genes are actually in them.
And that's the way you kind of figure it out, right?
Is going back to the basic and breeding to wild type,
and then every mutation will start to show.
And then we can start figuring out what that hidden gene is,
because there's at least one gene in here that I'm not sure
what it is that's causing all of this craziness.
Then of course, you know,
I'm raising up a bunch of Lori stuff,
including the super Lori leopards.
We had a trio of those produced this year.
They're getting big, they're growing like crazy.
They look absolutely amazing.
And we hung on to a bunch of other Lori stuff.
It's a project that I am super, super excited about.
I know I've had them for so many years, it's crazy.
And I feel terrible that it's taken me all these years
to really understand the potential of this project,
but I am all in on it.
So we're raising up a bunch of them,
and they are certainly not disappointing.
You guys may remember when we produced
this little monkey right here.
This is actually a banana enchi Mojave clown ball python.
Oh my gosh, as it's gotten some size on it,
it gets better and better.
I mean, just take a look at that thing.
It just is on fire.
Literally looks like it's glowing.
It's a boy, and next year it'll be ready to breed.
And this thing is going to father some ripper babies.
And then there was that all black ball python,
the suma, the super mahogany, that has het for pied.
I mean, take a look at it.
It's gotten a lot of size,
it's probably doubled since the last time
I showed it on the vlog as far as size goes.
And it's so amazing.
Just jet black eyes, beautiful.
Whoo, it's a little feisty monkey too, but that's all right.
I still love you buddy.
And one day we'll be able to produce that panda look, right?
Where you're gonna have white and the suma,
black and white ball python,
it's gonna be absolutely incredible.
And then take a look at this.
This is actually a fire cinni yellow belly
cypress ball python, that thing is so crazy.
So cool, and again,
we're raising up a bunch more ball pythons,
I just wanted to give you the overview again,
continuing to push forward,
continuing to try to take it to the next level.
I love it, I'm having a blast with this.
And as a matter of fact,
speaking of little baby ball pythons,
we have a clutch that's hatched out today
that's pretty awesome.
Let's go check that one out.
Some more little baby ball pythons.
This was actually that yellow belly
bred to the pastel ivory clutch.
And just really good odds on this one.
We had four eggs, had three pastel ivories.
These are definitely all pastel ivories,
'cause you could see how light their head pattern is.
The ivories without the pastel will have
much darker gray heads and stuff like that.
So three pastel ivories, one yellow belly from the clutch,
I mean, that's pretty good odds.
White snakes are white snakes.
And really the ivories was the first white snake
that was ever really brought in.
So the black eyed Lucy's and the blue eyed Lucy's
actually came a year or two after.
So these were the very first white snakes
in the reptile trade when it comes to ball pythons,
so it's still awesome to produce them all these years later.
Holy moly, this was that double het albino clown
bred to an albino clown clutch that just yielded
an insane amount of awesome animals.
We had literally 10 eggs, nine of which were clowns.
So we have a bunch of just beautiful clowns.
These are all het for albino right here.
And it's just absolutely amazing.
And I've told this story before,
but Vida Preciosa International, or VPI,
down in Texas actually produced the first clowns,
we were the second people to produce clowns.
But they said that they thought that the patterns
on their face look like clown makeup.
And that's why the name clown ball pythons.
The double recessive is the albino clown like this one,
and this one here.
So we ended up having two albino clowns,
a whole bunch of clowns het for albino,
and one albino, that was a dream clutch when we cut it.
It was amazing.
As a matter of fact,
if you guys didn't see when we cut this,
I'll put a card right here to that one.
You guys want to definitely check that out.
Back up in the colubrid room to some of the yearlings
that are about ready to actually breed.
This of course is an ultramel scaleless corn snake.
Oh my gosh, look at the purples and browns
that are coming through that animal.
My goodness, and again, this is a little male,
so he should be big enough to breed
and go into brumation here.
Most of the animals up here in this rack
are going to breed in 2021.
So, oh my gosh,
we're going to have some beautiful
new snakes up to size that produce babies.
And I'm going to be honest with you,
I don't think there's much more beautiful
than this animal right here.
This is a female Palmetto corn snake,
and I'm not sure what we're going to breed her to yet
this coming up year, that's going to be a big decision.
We do have some other Palmettos coming up,
but they won't be ready to breed this year.
They'll be ready to breed next year.
So we have to take this little girl
and breed her into something super special.
Not sure what it's going to be,
but my goodness, isn't she gorgeous?
This is a really good example of a granite mex mex,
or a Mexicana Mexicana, San Luis Potosi kingsnake.
And typically they have almost like saddles on them.
And you can see the graniting looking right here,
which is a polygenic trait, absolutely wonderful snake.
And this is one of the better ones that we produced
a couple of years ago, so we're raising her up,
and again, she's just on the cusp.
I think with a little bit more food,
she's going to be able to breed for us next year.
Some of the scaleless Texas rats that we have coming up
for next year are legitimately unreal.
I mean, they absolutely don't even look like real snakes.
I mean, look at the orange on that animal.
Oh my goodness gracious.
We have orange ones, we have red ones, we have yellow ones.
We have so many amazing ones.
Next year it's going to be our best
scaleless Texas rats year ever.
I mean, I cannot wait to see the babies we've produced.
My goodness, this thing is ridiculous.
Whoo doggy, I love coral snow corn snakes,
those pink corn snakes.
There's just something about it.
Always reminds me of Easter, you know what I mean?
Again, I keep saying you don't expect snakes to be purple.
You don't expect snakes to be pink,
but yet this thing is pink and it gets pinker every year.
Every time we breed these guys together,
they get better and better each generation.
So this is a brand new generation of pink coral snows
that we have up,
and they're the best generation we've ever had.
So these babies are going to be out of this world.
It's been awhile since we produced
licorice black rat snakes, and finally,
we have a pair that are up to size to breed this year.
Just a really cool animal.
Again, they have that white,
but then they have that crazy,
whoa, what are you doing, buddy?
Oh my goodness.
This thing is fired up too,
he wants to bite me in the face.
What are you doing?
Stop looking at me that way.
But these are really cool, it's a recessive mutation.
They were found out in Maryland years ago,
probably 20 years ago, and bred.
And I loved them ever since.
We used to have a big group of them,
then we stopped breeding them,
and finally we have another pair up to size.
They're pretty cool,
and I can't wait to produce them again this year.
Much like that pink snow corn snake,
this is the same bloodline,
but this is a coral ghost corn snake.
So instead of being a snow, it's a ghost corn snake,
but it still has all of that pink and cool color in it.
Basically all you're doing is adding the
anerythristic corn into this, as well as hypo,
and then the pink,
you're polygenically breeding for the pink color.
So, you know, as you can see guys,
there is a lot of cool snakes that we're raising up.
I mean, it's going to be a really,
really fun year here this next year.
Again, BHB's future is looking pretty darn bright.
And then there's some ball pythons
that actually should be up to size to breed this year
that we produced last year that will be new on the scene.
Of course, this is a banana super chocolate ball python,
what an amazing snake.
I mean, you guys know that I'm doing all kinds of stuff
with that dark mark, along with the banana stuff.
So this one's going to have a lot of plans this year
to produce even darker animals.
So maybe we'll take it into mahogany, maybe black pastel.
I mean, who knows what we're going to do,
but I know one thing, it's going to be busy this year.
And speaking of busy,
this is another one that's going to be busy.
This is actually a pastel, it's a vanilla,
it's a woma python, and it's a bamboo ball python.
I mean, wow that thing is so, ridiculous, love this thing.
And again, these guys are up to size to breed.
So they're going to be getting in with females here
in just about a month, month and a half.
It's really hard to pick up the beauty
of this animal on camera,
but this is actually a banana cinni enchi pinstripe.
And just the orange that kind of is
popping through this animal is just ridiculous.
When it was a baby, it was literally glowing.
And when it was three, 400 grams, it was even better.
Starting to dull out a little bit now,
but it's going to produce some wicked babies.
Again, probably take it back into enchi,
maybe into orange dream, Mojave, who knows?
I know this one is going to produce
some really beautiful babies,
and I'm excited about it.
And speaking about orange dream,
this is actually a stinger bee orange dream fire.
So it's basically a pastel, it's a spider,
it's a fire, and it's an orange dream,
and it's going to be absolutely incredible.
And if it's little head will come out,
look at the pattern or lack of pattern on that head,
whoo doggy, and of course this one's in shed,
so you can imagine when it sheds out
how absolutely gorgeous it is.
Then there's this project here
that we're just calling a new gene animal.
I promise one day I will come up with a better name
than a new gene, but just that orange look to it is crazy.
And finally we have some of these up to size
so we can prove them out,
as well as breed them into other mutations.
So I'm pretty excited how this is
going to turn out this year,
because this is the first time we're going to be able to
actually breed one of the full new gene animals
and find out what the heck is going on.
I love this combination here.
This is actually a banana leopard enchi ball python,
and again, in shed,
so when it's out of shed it is ridiculous.
I mean, it's ridiculous when it's in shed,
but when it's out of shed, it's absolutely incredible.
Everyone's always excited about clown ball pythons,
there's no doubt about it.
And we've had some pretty cool clowns this year,
there's no doubt.
And we're going to hang on to a bunch of them too,
but this is actually a lesser leopard clown ball python
that I absolutely love to death.
And you know,
I was just thinking that this would be a good vlog to do,
because I was watching the 1500th vlog,
looking back on kind of old school vlogging and thought,
why not bring you guys just a snake filled vlog
with a bunch of kind of old school feel.
Let me know in the comments if you liked this feel,
or you missed the kind of more cinematic stuff,
we'll probably mix it up a little bit.
But today I thought I would just show you guys
a bunch of cool snakes,
show you that the future of BHB is still awesome,
even if we will be streamlining a little bit,
it's not like I'm getting out of it,
and it's not like I have lost my passion for it.
'Cause I'm as passionate now as I've ever been.
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