- I bet you guys thought that children's
and spotted pythons were done for the year
because we haven't had a clutch in over two months.
Well, guess what?
We got a surprise clutch.
Yes, I thought that the season was over as well,
but we found this girl this morning
wrapped around a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Look at that, oh my god.
Of course, this is a little Antaresia Childreni,
little dwarf python from Australia.
And like you can see, she's a full grown adult, here,
because she's got a clutch of eggs
and they really don't get much bigger than this.
I mean, they can get a little bit bigger obviously,
but for the most part,
that's as big as they get.
Absolutely wonderful snakes,
super excited that we got another clutch of eggs.
We've already hatched a bunch of babies
which is pretty cool.
And they do really well,
they're really a great pet snake.
So if you guys are interested in a small python
that doesn't get very large,
certainly Children's Spotteds are a great option.
So we've got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
beautiful eggs laid by this girl.
What an absolutely amazing surprise.
It's always great to get clutches of eggs
but it's even better to get clutches of eggs
when you aren't expecting.
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It would certainly make me happy.
I'm happy that Ivy is actually shed out,
so I can actually get her out and spend a little time but,
she loves her enclosure so much.
Look at her, she's already climbing up
like she wants to go back home.
I spent a few minutes with her out
just kind of messing around.
We actually had a tour in the house
so they got a chance to play with Ivy.
It was a birthday party.
So it was really cool.
She might be the only Anaconda that puts herself
away every single time, right?
I mean, how cool is that?
I mean, she's just out climbing around
and she's just like, dad, I'm ready to go home.
You know what I mean?
So she's definitely, she is such a beautiful girl.
You're so beautiful, Ivy,
I love you.
Now, she's over a hundred pounds
and just absolutely wonderful.
She's cruising around.
Aries is actually up in his tree over here,
which is kind of funny.
But again, I love the fact
that I don't have to wrestle her like I do with Lucy
and she just literally puts herself back home.
And I love the fact that she must love her home so much
that even being out, crawling around,
she really prefers to go back home
and kind of have her own thing, so,
it's absolutely wonderful, what an absolutely cool snake.
And I love the fact that I got to spend some time
with my therapy animal, Ivy.
There's no doubt about that.
I'm brimming on the inside.
- It's time for feeding.
This is obviously Grit.
He's very, very new here.
Already starting to eat food off tongue
so I have a feeling, in no time,
within at least a couple of weeks,
he's going to be really, really on the ball.
Here you go.
Some interest.
There we go.
Ball.
Food.
Good.
See if he gets it.
Maybe, maybe.
All right, let's try it again.
Show it.
All yours man, you took that one.
I should have brought it back a little quicker.
Try it again.
Try again.
Show.
Ball.
Good.
Good boy.
All right.
- You guys know that I love getting new animals.
Well, a buddy of mine was actually, had some animals
that he was kind of downsizing,
just moving out of the reptile thing,
and he asked me if I was interested,
and this is a guy I've known for a long time,
really good friend of mine, probably about 25 years.
So I said, of course I would like them.
Some of these animals will be going
into the Reptarium, other animals
will definitely be going to BHB, I mean,
but take a look at this one right here.
Woo, it's a, woo,
it's a little monkey that's for darn sure.
This is what they would call a Bamboo Rat Snake,
or a Porphyraceus Coxi.
That thing is absolutely ridiculous.
Take a look at that.
I mean, this is a cool Southeast-Asian animal
that don't get much larger than this.
And when they tame out, they can be really, really docile.
So if we can get this guy to mellow out
and not be such a feisty little monkey,
we could actually put this at the Reptarium,
'cause that's a beautiful display snake.
It'd be a really cool snake to come out, so,
again, some of these things will probably
go into our breeding colony.
Other ones will absolutely be displayed.
So my hopes are this will eventually be a display animal
that we could have at the Reptarium,
because it's absolutely incredible.
But again, it's going to need a little bit of handling.
That is no doubt about that.
Definitely a little wiggler, that's for sure.
Let's go ahead and see what's next.
Oh, gosh.
Look at how beautiful that snake is.
Of course, this is the Albino Honduran Milk Snake.
There's actually a pair of it
and these are what they would call
Albino Tri-colored Honduran Milk Snakes.
So normal ones are a little bit more common,
the Tri-color are a little less common.
And this is a beauty right here.
And this is the female.
This'll probably get bred at BHB,
to be completely honest with you.
And then its counterpart, the boy.
Now I could see this one actually coming
over to the Reptarium because it's absolutely gorgeous.
Usually these guys, as they get bigger,
are super, super docile.
So we'll handle this for the next couple of weeks.
Make sure that it's cool.
He said that it's never bit him.
So I think that it's going to be completely fine.
But look at that.
And of course, we brought the very first
Albino Honduran Milk Snake ever into the country
from a friend of mine over in Stuttgart, Germany
named Stephen Broadhammer from MNS Reptilians.
And that really changed a lot of things when it came to BHB.
I mean we, that was our first major animal
that we pioneered at BHB,
way back in the early nineties.
So the Albino Honduran Milk Snakes
always have a super soft spot in my heart.
And this is an absolutely gorgeous animal.
This has to come over to the Reptarium 'cause
look at how gorgeous that is.
Not only is it a beautiful snake,
but it's also super calm.
People will love to handle this one.
Continuing to move on.
Oh yeah, come on, now.
This is definitely an animal
that we want to bring over to the Reptarium as well,
a Mexican Black Kingsnake.
Now, we have a big group of Mexican Black Kings at BHB,
but we just have one little baby called Midnight
that we have here,
and they are super good to handle,
really docile and stuff like that.
And absolutely gorgeous.
For a while, we actually had an adult
Mexican Black Kingsnake at the Reptarium,
and then we ended up moving it off
just because we put it back into the breeding colony.
But I think this one will be perfect size
for, especially kids that don't want to handle
something big and just look how gorgeous that snake is.
So, this is another great addition.
So as you can see, we're adding some pretty cool additions
to the Reptarium with this collect and that's for sure.
So I'm just so happy that my friend reached out to me
and was willing to entrust me with his animals
that he loves so much.
This is an absolute gorgeous one.
Moving on to this here,
which is actually a super special animal
because you hardly ever see these.
This is actually, ooh,
it's, ooh!
It's an Albino Calico Beauty Snake.
Remember Jimmy, the feisty monkey?
Well, this one seems to be a little feisty too.
Not sure that we're going to be putting this
at the Reptarium until it calms down a little bit.
But the fact this is a double recessive,
so the Calico Beauty Snakes were actually produced
by a guy named Larry Keller at Prairieland Herp,
about 10 or 12 years ago.
And they weren't very common back then.
And then the Albinos were also produced
by a handful of guys way back 15 years ago.
And this was actually an Albino that was bred to a Calico.
And then you produce double heterozygous.
You'd have to raise those up
and you get 1 in 16 odds to produce the Albino Calico.
I'll tell you what, I haven't seen the
Albino Calico Beauty Snake in probably seven or eight years.
So this is definitely a special animal,
but probably not quite ready for the Reptarium,
but maybe with some handling it will be.
And then lastly, I love this.
We actually have an Albino Kunashir Island Rattlesnake
at the Reptarium.
This is the normal colored wild type
Kunashir Island Rattlesnake.
And I've often said, in all honesty,
that I like the normal ones better
than the albinos when it comes to the color,
because just look at that green-ish color.
And some of these guys can actually get blue,
believe it or not.
It's almost like an Axanthic form.
So if you reduce the yellow pigment in this,
it actually turns like a turquoise blue.
You can see a little bit of it in his neck, right here.
And I've had some that have been predominantly blue
and absolutely are incredible.
So this is a girl, and of course,
the Albino we have is a boy,
this is also an Albino,
so we can, not only put these at the Reptarium
because they're really great animals to handle,
but we can also breed them and produce some more normal
and Albino Kunashir Island.
These guys come from Japan and are absolutely ridiculous.
So there it is, guys.
Always love adding new animals,
partly to the Reptarium, and partly to BHB,
but I am so excited about them.
Baby steps when it comes to the expansion,
you know, we're slowly, slowly getting there.
It's going to be probably several months
before we actually get there.
It may be four or five months before we even start
because of permits and planning and stuff like that.
But I want to continue to take you guys on the journey
as much as I possibly can.
This area will change a tremendous amount.
This, of course, is the gift shop.
Laurie loves this gift shop.
Now remember, this wall, here,
is going to actually be extended out almost 15 feet.
So there's going to be 15 more foot of this area.
And my idea is, here, actually now, is to
keep this the same, keep baby cush here,
keep this rack here.
But right on this level here, I'll come out here,
all the way to probably where this wall is right here,
again, this wall won't even be there, but you know,
still I'm just saying, right out to about this wall,
and I'll go all that extra 15 feet
and these will be two huge alligator ponds
for Salt and Pepper and for RJ.
So for those of you that said put Salt upstairs
or put Pepper downstairs, I had said,
I might want to do that.
Actually, I've decided now that if I can go this way,
I can fit Salt and Pepper and RJ down here.
So right here, this entire area will be
giant alligator enclosures that can fit RJ
and Salt and Pepper for the rest of their lives.
They can actually stay right here.
So I, again, I'm vision-izing in my head.
I think it's going to be amazing.
My thoughts are somewhere in the middle.
There will probably be land with a door
and I can actually open that door,
have them come up, and station at that door.
And then people can come in
and throw food into their mouths and stuff like that.
So I think that, I think, you know, listen,
it's slowly coming together, guys.
There's still a lot to do.
We have a long way to go.
This isn't something that's going to happen overnight,
but the plans are starting to work out.
And every day we get closer and closer
and I cannot wait for this to happen and bring
you guys along on the journey.
- Hi Buddy.
Oh wait, maybe you are the female, I don't know.
Woo, no, you the male.
Can I see your tail?
Come here.
Let's be friends.
No.
Woo.
God, they're so quick when they want to be.
Ow.
Ow, his nails.
Ow, got him.
His nails going to my cuticle.
Ow, ow,
ow, son of a biscuit.
Please don't bite me, please don't bite me,
please don't bite me.
He's still peeing.
I don't smell anything.
My nose is blind to salt and vinegar chips.
These are our Monkey Tail Skinks,
or Solomon Islands Skinks.
And they're generally very slow moving animals,
unless they want to do something.
I believe this is the male.
I don't know where the female is
but he's very protective of her as well.
So when we try to go in the cage and clean,
or get food bowls or something like that,
he's generally the first one to come find
out what we're doing.
And like Mr. Brian keeps saying,
well hopefully we get some babies from these guys.
They only produce like one a year,
and we still haven't had a baby yet.
So hopefully sooner than later.
- Remember that clutch we cut the other day
that was actually an Enchi Pastave Het Clown bred
to a Banana Clown?
Well, they are hatched,
and they look like some beautiful babies.
Let's take a look, just starting with these guys here.
Believe it or not, these are just Banana Het Clowns.
So, we kind of missed the odds on a lot of that stuff
because we didn't have Enchi, we didn't have Pastave,
we didn't have any of the other stuff.
We didn't even have Clown, but that's all right.
These are our Banana Het Clowns, which are really amazing.
And then we have this beauty here.
I love this combination.
This is actually an Enchi Clown Ball Python.
Just look at the head pattern is amazing.
That striping on his body's amazing.
Enchi and Clown go together so well.
I love it.
So I'm glad that we did hatch that.
The fact that it's not Banana
is actually kind of cool, too,
that we had the one normal Clown Ball Python,
of course, Enchi Clown Ball Python.
Then we ended up hatching this
and I think it's absolutely staggeringly beautiful.
This is actually a Banana Enchi Mojave
that is Het for Clown Ball Python
and just look at the orange and that
blushing coming through.
This might be my favorite animal in the clutch.
I'm not going to lie to you.
It's not a clown.
I wish it was a clown.
But hey, I tell you what,
that thing is an absolute ripper.
And then finally, we did have the
Banana Pastel Mojave Clown Ball Python, here.
But unfortunately we missed on the Enchi,
and the Enchi is what would have made that orange flaming
like that other animal, but it's still cool.
I mean, it's still a Banana Pastel Mojave Clown,
it's an awesome animal.
So all in all,
we hit some pretty darn cool animals in this clutch.
I was pretty excited that they're hatched out.
Well, we started the day with a clutch of Children's Python,
and we're actually going to kind of end the day
with a beautiful clutch of Ball Python.
This is an Enchi female
and she can't even coil around the eggs,
she's got so many eggs.
And she was bred to one of my favorite males of the year.
And that's this Pastel Stinger Bee
Orange Dream Fire.
Think about that.
Pastel, Orange Dream, Spider, Enchi, and Fire.
There's a lot of genes in here
and breeding it to an Enchi means we can get a bunch
of super Enchi stuff, combinations,
it's going to be absolutely amazing.
So down in the comments, you know how this game works,
let me know what combos I can get.
I think this male is a little upset, right?
Hey daddy, you just had some eggs.
Chill out, all right?
Let's go see how many eggs mama has.
And it's normally the mamas taking pops at me
but today daddy's on the prowl, that's good.
It seems like mom's pretty good.
And look how many eggs this is.
Again, the combos are amazing.
So down in the comment section,
definitely let me know what you think
we're going to produce.
It could be some pretty cool babies.
I cannot wait to cut this clutch.
And like I said,
I'm definitely gonna be cutting this clutch on the vlog.
There's no doubt about it,
'cause it's going to be absolutely wonderful.
And the other clutches that we don't cut on the vlog
we'll definitely be cutting over on Patreon.
Again, we're trying not to overload you guys with
taking eggs away as well as we're trying not to
overload you guys with cutting eggs every single day either,
but we will be cutting every single clutch.
Just some will be over on Patreon,
just like we're pulling some eggs on Patreon as well.
You know, so I appreciate you guys supporting me,
link's in the description.
You know how that goes.
We've got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, beautiful, big gorgeous eggs.
Ooh, doggy, I'll tell you what,
57 days from now,
they can't come quick enough.
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