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- Hey good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
Of course, I'm starting my day
with this little monkey right here,
which by the way, Forest, and Steven,
and Desiree had called this Baby Cush,
because it's Steven Cush, and I'm gonna keep it's name,
Baby Cush, we originally were gonna call it Forest,
but I think it's actually more fitting
that we keep the name Baby Cush, and it's kinda cute too.
But I'm telling you what, that animal is wild,
and what I mean by that is right now
you can see it right over there?
And the way it looks at you is like
no other reptile I've ever seen.
I mean, it literally is almost like peering
out of it's side eye like,
I mean it literally is so unbelievable
how it's like, dissecting you with it's eyes.
I tell you what, that animal is ridiculous,
and I am so happy we finally have it.
We have a ton of stuff going on, as a matter of fact,
we're gonna be cutting a clutch of eggs right now,
actually, I think two clutches of eggs today,
things are gonna be wild here today,
so let's just go ahead and jump into it,
but certainly gonna be spending some time
admiring my new Baby Cush for sure.
And like I mentioned, we have two clutches to cut today.
The first one is actually a pastel female,
and this is actually the mom, who's a pastel,
and she was actually bred to this beautiful male right here
which is a pewter lesser, so it's a pastel,
it's a cinnamon, and it's a lesser.
So what do you say we just push our problems
aside today and jump in?
As you can see with this clutch,
these are definitely ready to go,
'cause we have a little head sticking out right here,
we have this normal baby, interestingly enough,
it's just a normal baby,
this guy doesn't have any genes in it at all,
and then we have one other egg that's pipped,
I don't know what's in it yet.
So we could get super pastel cinnamon lessers,
the cinnamon lessers are often called lithiums,
so let's just jump in,
and hopefully we'll hit some cool stuff, first egg.
And here we go, let's see what we got.
Right off the rip, first egg, oh yeah, oh wow!
There's a chance, I mean it's definitely
a pastel cinni lesser, and I think it might be the all gene.
I think this is the super pastel,
what would be called a sterling lesser,
or a super lithium, I don't know, something like that,
I'm not sure what the terminology is on that.
But never the less, I think we might have hit it
on the very first egg!
How freakin awesome is that?
That is incredible.
I was a little bit concerned because
the couple animals I see didn't look
like they had lesser in them,
I'm like oh my gosh, did another father
maybe father this clutch?
Let's move into the egg that's already pipped
and see what's inside there.
You can see these guys have a little egg tooth,
and that egg tooth actually slits all these eggs,
just like the razor blade, and what do we have here?
Well we obviously know that it is a lesser,
a pewter lesser for sure,
because this again is another lesser.
This looks like probably a cinni lesser,
which would be a lithium, I'm pretty sure that's what it is.
Until it gets out of the egg not 100,
no, that's absolutely, that's a lithium, 100%.
That's a cinni lesser for sure, so that's pretty cool.
Egg number three.
So far the odds have been pretty good,
I've been loving this, can't complain,
not a bad way to start.
Again, just egg cutting is awesome regardless.
And there you are again guys,
I was just talking about the odds, and we hit it again.
This is definitely the super pastel cinni lesser,
so that's awesome.
Again, the all gene animal,
so we've got two of 'em already just out of three eggs,
well, theoretically there was an egg head,
but let's move on to egg number four.
All right, what do we have here?
Oh my God, let's just keep our odds going, right?
Let's keep, oh my gosh!
What?
This one's even fatter!
This one is so dope!
Oh my God, that thing is gorgeous.
The other two were pretty, but this one is a rocker!
Oh my, like, we hit three out of four so far,
how crazy is this?
We know the next egg I'm gonna cut with that little head
is poking out, we know that's not a super pastel
because it's got a normal head,
it definitely looks like a cinni at least,
don't know if it's a lesser,
let's just go ahead and gingerly cut this egg,
'cause we don't wanna affect that animal.
But what I think would happen is as I'm cutting
it'll probably pop it's head back in,
but I'll be very, very careful on this one, you ready?
And again, what I'm gonna do is cut right like this,
and not get too close to the head,
I'm just gonna kinda go around like this
and see what's inside here, and you know what?
This is actually just a normal cinni here.
So no lesser, no pastel anything, just a pure cinni,
which is completely fine.
Then of course the sixth egg is this little monkey
that already hatched out.
So we have one more egg left, but oh my gosh,
the odds have been so incredible on this clutch.
Let's go ahead and cut this last egg.
All right, you guys know I always love
to end on something amazing, so let's see what we got here.
Oh my gosh!
It's amazing, that's right, we hit four of them.
Four eggs all of them were the super pastel cinni lesser.
Oh my gosh, that, dude, that is incredible.
We do have one more clutch to cut,
little bit longer odds on this one,
I'll tell you about that in a second,
but wow, I mean, that was incredible, guys, incredible.
Down in the dungeon again,
you know that means what time it is.
Does that make any sense?
That no, (laughs)
- (laughs)
- (chuckles) all right, ready?
Down in the dungeon again, what,
what do I say, here?
Down in the dungeon again, guess what time it is?
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
Egg time, holy moly, that was a mess.
All right, so we have a yellow belly,
oh, that looks like a beautiful clutch
and this mama definitely looks like
she's gonna protect her eggs,
which typically happens, you guys know,
I can't believe I haven't been bitten more this year
getting these eggs out.
But this girl is actually a yellow belly
bred to this amazing spider super stripe red stripe,
so that's pretty awesome,
cannot wait to see some more of these babies come out,
let's go ahead and see how many eggs she has.
Like I mentioned, mama is definitely fired up,
so we're just gonna be real gentle,
and slowly kinda take her off,
and it looks like a beautiful,
beautiful clutch of eggs right here.
That's amazing, again, that red stripe is an incomplete
dominant and of course the super stripe
is a lilac to yellow belly,
so we could produce ivories from this,
we could produce super stripes, spider super stripes,
red stripe super stripes, red stripe spider super stripes,
all kinds of different stuff.
Regardless, it's a really beautiful clutch of eggs,
so we're just gonna push 'em down here.
Two, four, six, eight, nine gorgeous eggs.
Hey, that's a good way to start,
but we have some more clutches to come too.
This next clutch is pretty interesting,
it's actually a spider female ball python,
but she was bred to a real banger male.
And that's this black pewter lesser cypress male.
Oh my God, that thing is absolutely incredible,
and then mix in the spider gene,
gonna get even more cool stuff.
Come on baby girl, it's all right, looks pretty good.
Really small eggs, looks like one little infertile egg.
Look at this egg right here.
Whoo, you could actually see all the veins in it,
which is weird, it's almost like our science project
with the spotted pythons, but not quite as clear,
but that is really interesting.
That's something I hardly ever see, that's kinda cool.
Let's go ahead and grab the rest of these eggs,
looks like we've got some rolled eggs here
so we'll probably actually have to candle these guys.
But oh, mama doesn't want me to take the rest of her eggs,
come on mom, it's okay,
and then there's one little slugger in here,
but we've got two, four, six, seven good eggs, one slug.
That's not bad, I tell you what,
that's gonna be an interesting combination
with all those genes working, I can't wait til these hatch.
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Back to the egg cutting.
We actually have, let's see, two, four,
six eggs in this clutch, and the parents were,
the mama's actually this pastel that's het for Vpi axanthic,
and it's bred to this male right here that is actually
a double het lavender snow,
so it's het for that Vpi axanthic as well as lavender snow.
Which this basically means we could produce axanthics,
we could produce pastel axanthics,
and they would all be possible het for lavender snow,
which is pretty cool, you know, that's a good thing,
but pretty much we're just shooting for axanthics
and pastel axanthics in this clutch.
So let's go see if the odds are as good in this clutch
as they were in the first clutch that we cut.
So first egg, and here we go,
let's see what we're gonna get.
All right first egg is just a pastel,
all right so again, now because of the way this kind of odds
work is this would be a pastel,
it'd be a possible het for axanthic,
and possible het for lavender axanthic.
So pretty much just a pastel.
If you raise up females that way,
then you can breed them to say a lavender snow
and your odds are a little bit better.
But regardless, not exactly what we're looking for.
Egg number two, and let's hope we crush some odds.
I love little axanthics, so that would be really good.
Looks like another pastel, but interestingly enough,
you know the pastels have a little visual cue
when they're het for axanthic,
so they're a little bit dull.
So it's like, kinda visual het, right?
And both these two first axanthics
I would almost guarantee are het axanthic.
I can't mark 'em het axanthic 'cause they are possible hets,
but that dull look to them,
usually is that kind of marker for a het axanthic.
So if they're females I might just raise 'em up.
Egg number three, let's see what we got, come on,
give me an axanthic.
Oh, unfortunately, this looks like just a normal.
Doesn't look like it's axanthic,
doesn't look like it's pastel,
so, so far we've been missing.
Did great on the first clutch,
but we've got three more eggs,
so let's just jump into the next egg.
Here we go, come on, give me an axanthic.
Oh, I can already tell it's not an axanthic.
So this is again, another normal ball python,
possible het for axanthic, possible het for lavender.
Two more eggs to go.
All right, come on, just even one axanthic right now
would be nice, I'd even be happy with one at this point.
Again, another normal, so, one egg,
we're down to one egg, guys.
We either hit the odds or we don't hit the odds,
and remember the first handful of clutches we cut,
the odds weren't that great,
then the last two or three clutches we've cut
have been amazing odds, and that's how it goes, right?
That's what, odds go that way.
Sometimes you do really well, sometimes you don't.
In the end it kinda all equal out to be honest with you.
So last egg, let there be an axanthic.
Come on axanthic, come on axanthic.
Let's see, let's just get this,
oh I can already tell it's not gonna be an axanthic.
It's just gonna be, but this is a pastel,
this is a much brighter pastel,
so this one definitely is not het for axanthic,
'cause you don't see that dulling.
So all in all, hey, we got three pastels,
two of them look like they're hets,
all possible het for lavender,
and three normals that are possible double hets.
So there it has it, we'll let these hatch out
and if there's a bunch of females,
I may just raise 'em up and prove 'em out down the road.
Guess what time it is?
♪ Egg time, egg time, egg time ♪
And we're gonna start the day off with this
absolutely beautiful okeetee that is het for scaleless,
and of course it's bred to a
beautiful Abbott's okeetee scaleless.
And here's that beautiful little monkey right here,
I mean take a look at that, I mean,
those like kinda cool circles on it, it's a beauty.
And this one's actually had a bunch of good eggs this year,
so hopefully this clutch'll be good too.
And away we go, let's see,
look at mama's really big, big girl,
and look at that beautiful clutch of eggs.
Absolutely incredible, definitely not a disappointment.
And take a look at all these eggs right here, oh my gosh,
and guys, what's really crazy is this is a second clutch.
The first clutch she laid 21 good eggs,
so this is amazing, she's got two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14, 16, 17 good eggs.
38 eggs for the year for that corn snake, that's crazy.
Again, half of these are gonna be
Abbott's okeetee scaleless,
the other half will be Abbott's okeetee het for scaleless.
So wow, I tell you what, that is beautiful.
The only other clutch actually is a het albino scaleless
that was bred to an albino scaleless.
This is a second clutch and unfortunately
she slugged out the first time, so I don't have high hopes.
Now what happens a lot of times when we have a
bad clutch the first time, so we'll switch the male,
and try to breed a different male,
just to see if the fertility gets better,
so let's take a look and ah, not so good.
Yup, not such a good results.
We do have a couple good eggs in here,
but it looks like the majority of the eggs
are definitely no good.
We'll get her cleaned up, get her some fresh water,
all that stuff, she should be back onto food
here in the next, you know, week or so,
and then she's gonna just beef up for brumation.
So we'll just take a closer look at this clutch.
Like I said, this is definitely a good egg here,
looks like this is a good egg here,
and it looks like the rest of them are sluggers.
So this whole year she only gave us two good eggs.
Slugged out the first clutch, two eggs the second clutch,
then a whole bunch of slugs,
but that's just the way it goes.
Again, we keep records on this so we know last year
she actually laid two fertile clutches,
so it's not a female issue, it was just a male issue,
and that's the way it goes.
This year we missed on it,
next year I'm sure she'll do better.
It's that time again, we're open tonight at the Reptarium,
so time to mask up, go let people in, and have a good night.
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So I'm actually heading over to the Reptarium,
we got 25 people, that's our max capacity
at this point in there,
and we're gonna feed Lucy for the very first time
since we're back open to the public,
so should be pretty fun, let's do it.
Ready?
I think she's ready.
All right, here we go.
There she goes, there she goes.
So there she is.
What do you guys think?
So she'll take about a half hour or so to eat,
and then guess what?
Later on, you're feeding the second one.
Okay, (chuckles)
- I'm ready.
(gentle techno music)
- So as always, we actually have Lucy getting fed
her second one, but my friend from New York is in town,
so he's actually gonna do the feeding.
I'm gonna jump in, protect him,
you're gonna come right to here,
and you're just gonna kinda put the rabbit,
I'm gonna go in first,
and you're gonna put the rabbit by her face, all right?
So come on in, come on in, I got you protected,
don't you worry, and then right up by her face.
There she goes.
(crowd exclaiming)
There she is, good job, way to go.
And we survived, I know you guys wish we didn't, but.
(crowd applauding)
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