- Can't handle green tree pythons.
Oh! Okay, I think we're done.
- This is where it ends every time.
(Brian laughs)
- I've been having a bad run lately
with some snakes here.
- Choked out again?
- Every time.
- I know. Well, stop!
- Okay, so we have a pretty interesting happening here.
This is actually a kind of good, bad, and ugly
type of clutch right here.
This is actually a spotted python,
this girl's right back in the back.
You can see she laid her eggs all over the place,
and you guys may remember last year we had that
what I called "the science project".
You can see that black dot again,
you can see the actual head.
Now this one has a pretty good chance of making it.
This one, I'm a little bit concerned about,
to be honest with you.
Which were the eggs that you could actually see into.
You could see the network of veins,
you could actually even see the little dot,
look at this, same girl, same situation.
Basically what happens is they don't calcify them enough.
In this case, unfortunately, an egg popped too,
so now there's a bunch of goop all over the place.
So I have to clean these eggs up a little bit,
it looks like there's plenty of good eggs in here,
but there's definitely some weird ones,
but take a look at this egg right here.
Once again, another science project egg
that you can actually see all the network of veins in.
Now last year, it actually hatched out and was fine,
and it was really interesting so,
weird that the same girl would do the same thing again.
So let's go ahead and set up an egg box
and try to get this clutch out of here
and clean it up the best we can.
(upbeat music)
- Okay, egg box all done,
I'm just going to go ahead and get the easiest eggs first,
and obviously you can really see where the top of the egg is
because you can see right into 'em
and see that unbelievable network of veins.
And again, I thought it was really interesting
last year to be able to kind of follow along
on the development of these animals and see 'em,
'cause typically they're just all white and calcified.
And I mean, take a look at this one right here,
you can literally see inside, I mean, it's so weird!
Again, just kind of go over it,
see the little baby snake right there?
It is so wild.
So now we get into a different part here,
get mom over there.
Alright, we've got this egg that still looks good,
and then we have a little clump of eggs here
that actually doesn't look bad, actually.
I was worried about the fact that this egg right here
obviously exploded, because of course it wasn't calcified.
And so I was worried about it
getting all of that nasty albumin all over these eggs,
which oftentimes can make eggs go bad.
In this case, we look like we're in pretty good shape,
these eggs all actually look pretty good.
I don't see anything else,
so we're just going to clean this mess up right here,
this will just come out,
we'll have to tear the cage down
and actually get this female all cleaned up.
In the meantime, she had two, four, six, eight,
10 good eggs, a few little weird eggs,
and a slugger or whatever, but nevertheless, pretty cool,
and now we got another science project.
Oh, and by the way, good morning, Reptile Army,
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
You might wonder why I've got the ultrasound machine.
Because this is Pickles, my green tree python,
now we ultrasounded her about a month and a half ago,
because she had very small follicles,
basically right now, if she doesn't have advanced follicles,
the year was a bust and she's not going to produce eggs.
She does look a little bit thick though,
and she's going into shed,
so I'm hoping that we'll actually be able to ultrasound
and see some follicular growth, which then will mean eggs.
But like I said, if they're not there,
that means this year was a bust,
and no baby green tree pythons, so wish us luck,
let's get her outta here.
Like I always mention, a lot of people think
that you can't handle green tree pythons,
she just took a little pop at me, that's okay.
We're going to get her, that's alright,
just gotta be a little bit careful with her and she's fine.
And what you wanna do is just never overhandle,
ooh, she's about to bite me.
So I kind of just very gently get her off her branch
and she's definitely looking pretty thick
in that midsection right there,
you see that right there, how thick she looks?
She's got to have follicles.
So what I'm going to do is just
very gently get her on the ground.
It's okay, girl you're alright.
Oh, I hope that she's going to have some follicles.
It's looking good, but I don't know.
Whew, I'm nervous, I'm nervous!
Here we go.
(upbeat music)
Oh, I don't see anything,
I thought for sure I'd see really big follicles right here!
Oh, I thought for sure, I was going to see follicles.
But I don't see any follicles at all,
I see just little tiny bumps
that are like, maybe 10 millimeters.
So, agh, what a disappointment!
I tell you what,
I thought for sure Pickles was getting there,
you know, she's looking fat,
she's kind of getting all the things so,
guys, as much as I hate to say it,
no green tree python babies in our future this year.
No more breeding so,
just going to have to keep going for next year but,
she's still a beautiful animal, but I am disappointed.
This is Jimmy, the albino Chinese beauty snake.
And it is a feisty little monkey,
what is going on, Jimmy? Whoa!
What are you doing, whoa! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
It may be because I have the twister Reptile Army shirt on.
I tell you what, the fear me Reptile Army shirt
is probably more better for handling Jimmy.
Jimmy! It's, calm down, calm down.
It's going to be okay.
You can go to reptilearmy.com
and you can actually get all of your swag,
join the movement, be part of the solution,
spreading love of animals.
I mean, listen, even Jimmy wants to be involved,
he wants a fear me shirt too.
Jimmy, it's going to be okay.
You're alright. Come on.
Can we, can we be friends?
Just for one day, be friends, okay?
I'm going to just, calm down, calm down, boy.
Oh! Okay, I think we're done.
Go to reptilearmy.com.
(equipment clunking around)
Jay, if you're having this much problems with this,
you're going to have problems with Daisy.
- Yeah, I know!
- Okay, so Daisy destroyed her cage off course,
so Jay is going to actually help me clean Daisy up.
So, but he's having a problem even with this,
so what is he gonna do with an 18-foot snake?
- What are you looking at me for?
She's due to eat - She is due to eat.
Do we need a hook for this?
- I don't know, do we?
- Oh, I'm scared.
- (laughs) Are you serious?
- Yeah, I'm dead serious. - Look at this, watch this.
You go look this, watch this,
just pet her on the head.
- Whoa! Yeah, see, you jumped.
- Well that's because I just got scared.
(both laughing)
- Alright, here we go.
Look at that pile of poop, Jay! That's just for you!
- I'm looking at something else right now.
- What are you doing?
- Do I just take her out now? - Well, yeah!
(laughing)
Now there's poop all over the place, what are you doing?
"Do I just take her out now?"
No, Jay, we don't take her out now.
Okay, so now we just got to get her in the tub
and then you got to clean this cage up.
- No, you got to clean the cage up! No, we, we.
- Now clean all that poop up, no gloves.
- Can you help me? - What do you need?
- I don't know. What are we, what's the plan?
- I don't know.
- This is where it ends every time.
- (laughs) Jay, you gotta sometimes learn to improvise.
You gotta improvise, though. - I can't, I can't.
- Like what is going to happen if you're,
what if I'm not here?
(Jay groans) (both laughing)
- Get her! - Okay, I'll help you out.
Alright, are you getting choked out again?
- Every time! - I know. Well, stop!
(both laughing)
You are the worst!
- And see, and then that happens,
I almost pass out so I can't stand.
- Okay.
Okay, just needs a good soaking and she'll be good.
(both groaning)
Top on, now you have to do is clean it up.
- Good job. I got the trash for you.
- I'll see you later.
(upbeat music)
Okay, so day two of the Boelen's Python
that is in his new enclosure,
and it's kind of cool,
I was looking like, "Where's it at?"
'cause it was down here before, it was back over here,
but believe it or not, it's right over here,
up in the tree right here.
And that is absolutely cool as heck.
The fact that it's using all of the enclosure is so dope,
again, it's all over the place,
and it looks like it's really settling in well,
so, so far so good.
We'll continue to keep a close eye on it,
but I think it's a success.
Oh, I'm excited because everyone in the crew has held Drogo
but Ashley, are you excited?
- Yes, I'm so excited.
- He's having a little yuccan root right now.
- Is that how you say that? - Yucca-ma, is that it?
- I don't know. (Ashley laughs)
- I think it's yucca root, I think that's what it's called.
- So, I'm gonna take this foot,
put it right there, - Okay.
- and then just bring the rest of them over.
- As long as you don't have a tie dye shirt.
I always say that that- - Just turn,
just like, face square. - Okay.
- [Jay] There you go. - [Brian] There you go.
There he goes, now here's got ya.
There he goes! - Aw, oh my gosh.
He is so cute. - So take this hand
and hold them under his butt, like just-
- [Brian] There you go. - [Jay] There you go!
- So now Ashley has a chance to hold Drogo..
That's your daily dose of Drogo.
Say that three times.
- Daily dose of, yeah. Forget it.
(all laughing) - [Brian] Exactly!
- Oh, look at him,
he's so cute. - I know!
He's got his eyes closed, so happy.
- Oh, he's cuddly!
- Isn't he cuddly? - Yeah!
- Oh my gosh. Until I hold him, then he bites me.
Thanks, Jay, for turning my sloth on me.
- Hi, Drogo! Oh my god, he's so cute.
- I didn't realize you never held him!
- I've cuddled with him and hung out with him,
but I never held him.
- Oh my gosh. Well that's awesome.
- He's so sweet. - [Brian] Well, good job.
Alright. Aww, give him a kiss.
- I can't, he's gonna murder me and my family.
(Brian laughs)
- I couldn't be more excited about this female right here.
This is actually a Mexican pine snake.
And quite frankly, they can get quite a bit larger,
so we were really on the fence
whether or not we should breed her.
She was two years old, so she had the age to her,
and we decided to go ahead and give it a shot,
and she is loaded up with eggs right now.
Now again, she's not going to have the size litter
that they would normally have,
because Mexican pines typically will have
anywhere from 12 eggs,
and they're pretty big eggs.
She's probably only going to have maybe five eggs.
But look at that animal,
they're not very common in the, whoa, doggy!
I cannot wait till this girl lays!
You guys might remember a week or two ago, you went to,
where did you go? - Florida.
- You went to Florida for like eight hours.
- Yeah. - or six hours.
Yeah, it was like nine, but that's right.
- So yesterday you went to LA. - Yes.
- So Jay flies to LA, what did you do in LA?
- Hung out with my mom.
- Hung out with your mom, you went to-
- Jay Prehistoric Pets. - Jay Prehistoric Pets,
and now you're back here today.
- Yes. - [Brian] Yeah, so.
- That was 20 hours though, this time.
- Oh, so he got 20 hours in California.
So you flew 2,500 miles to spend 20 hours.
- Exactly, you see my tan?
- Oh my gosh, you look so dark.
- Thank you.
(both laughing)
- Whoa. I tell you what guys,
I've been having a bad run lately with some snakes here.
Yesterday I literally got bit all over,
as a matter of fact, I got bit in the hand by Chicken Strip,
the Nile monitor, I got bit in the nose by a savu python,
I got bit in the finger right here by a rat,
believe it or not, and then on this side,
this little mark right here,
that happens to be a ball python, and no!
We got a rhino rat snake.
What is going, I sometimes go weeks without bites,
and lately I've been just like a pin cushion.
Alright buddy, whoa, calm down!
Okay, alright. Let's get this guy back.
Alright, so Daisy's been ruminating in the-
Shh! Shh, she's taking a nap!
- No, she's not taking a nap, she's taking a bath.
- Oh, okay - There's a difference
between a bath and a nap. - Okay, sorry.
- So she should be pretty good now,
she's been in the water for a while,
we're just trying to get all this extra skin off.
Wow, it's like- - What's it like?
- Revealing of an artist's canvas.
- Yes. - Living art.
- How many feet do you think we have left?
- I think that we've done 5.8 feet.
- Oh gosh. - So we've got-
No, I think actually we're at about 12 feet right now.
- Okay, great.
- So we have about 6.8 feet left.
- Six point, wow, listen to that math.
(Brian laughs) Are you a math major?
I am, actually.
Did you know how to tell the diameter of a snake?
We measure their circumference and divide it by pi.
- Tie-ins are so freaking cool.
- Wait a minute, wait.
- Whoa.
(Jay groaning)
Alright, she's all good.
Get her back in her cage and she's good to go.
- Good job, good job. You got it.
(both cheering)
- That's the most work I've seen you do in a long time.
- I know, that's true. I bet I gotta take a nap.
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