- If there's one thing that I absolutely love
to start my day
it's unboxing a new animal
and uh, playing with this knife.
What do you say we opened this thing up?
(upbeat music)
And I gotta be honest with you
this is going to be a trip.
Maybe one of the weirdest snakes
that you'll ever see me on boxing.
I shouldn't say that
cause I unboxed so many weird snakes.
But nevertheless, I was excited about this
cause I used to have one of these.
But unfortunately it's no longer around
and now I get a new one.
So a friend of mine reached out to me and said
hey, listen I've got this cool snake.
Do want it?
And I thought, Oh my God.
This would be so cool at the Reptarium
cause it's such a freaky snake.
It is so weird looking.
So let's go ahead and take a look
at what I am talking about.
Let's see here.
Whooo.
Oh my God.
They are so weird.
And they're so cool.
You guys know that I love scaleless snakes
but there's something weird
about this little guy right here.
Which of course is a white scaleless snake.
This is actually a leucistic Texas rat snake.
And I don't know why
but when you take away the color on a scaleless snake
it looks all wrinkly and kind of alien-like.
I mean, look at the face right there
and how goofy it looks.
And again, you see all the wrinkles.
It almost looks like a giant white worm
or something like that.
Absolutely incredible.
It's super cool.
And a lot of our females are actually
heifer leucistic as well
when it comes to the scaleless Texas rat snakes.
So this guy could eventually even breed some animals
or breed some more leucistic Texas rat snakes.
So essentially the leucistic part
the white part
which the root word is luco, which is actually white.
And of course the scaleless is recessive as well.
So we have a white scaleless is Texas rat snake.
And I'm telling you what
it doesn't get any more bizarre than that.
In a way it's creepy
and in a way it's absolutely awesome.
I don't know.
It is one of those things
where it's a face that only a mother could love.
And I tell you what, I love this thing.
There is no doubt about it.
It is a beauty.
Again, you can almost see its ribs and wow.
It's just so cool.
I love this guy.
So I'm super excited to be able to get this guy
in the collection.
Absolutely wonderful.
It's gonna look cool.
And people are gonna love him here at the Reptarium.
And oh, by the way
welcome to the vlog, Reptile Army.
And what are you say we go show Laura.
[Brain] Laura, look what I got.
Is this thing cool or what?
Of course like I said
we used to have a male scaleless Texas rat
but it's been a long time.
Isn't it this thing cool?
- Yeah.
- Do you like it?
- So how did we get him?
- So we actually
it's a long story.
A guy knew from another guy and his cousin.
It doesn't matter.
It's cool, right?
(laughing)
- You drive me crazy.
- I know.
But are you going to breed it
or are we just gonna put it at the Reptarium or both?
- It is a male?
- It is a boy, yeah.
- Okay.
Ah, yeah.
I can actually use him.
- Yeah?
- Mmm hmm.
- That'll be cool.
So maybe at the Reptarium a little bit
and then breeding during the breeding season.
Something like that.
Cause I do think this would be really cool
at the Reptarium.
People will freak out about it
cause it's so alien looking, right?
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- So obviously scaleless snakes are absolutely weird, right?
Because obviously the scales are their armor.
So these guys wouldn't really perform well
in the wild obviously
because they have no protection against anything.
But in captivity scaleless rats snakes
and scaleless corn snakes in particular
are completely fine.
And that is a recessive mutation
that's lacking the keratin that makes up scales.
Making this unusual kinda cool pattern.
And the interesting thing like this animal that's super red.
If this had scales
believe it or not
it would be a gray animal.
And the red would just be underneath.
Whoa, did you see that?
That was a close call right there.
He came right up at my face.
And the fact is
is that rat snakes can be a little bit cantankerous at times
but absolutely wonderful.
I mean just look at how beautiful this one is.
He could certainly see the polymorphism
within the actual scaleless rat snakes.
And polymorphism is just a fancy word
for variability, right?
You know, difference in color and texture.
There's yellow ones.
There's orange ones.
There's red ones.
There's all kinds of different colors.
This one has a lot of white in its side
which makes it really unique as well.
And again, Texas rat snakes
and corn snakes in particular do really well in captivity.
We don't keep them different at all.
I mean, exactly like any other snake.
They shed perfectly fine.
Everything goes completely good.
So it's really cool to be adding that leucistic scaleless
Texas rat back into the colony.
It's going to be cool to produce those in the future.
- I got some chicken legs here.
Oh, the old J bone skirt.
I dunno why I called him that.
He gave me some chicken legs over there
and I decided not to eat them.
I'm gonna give them the Elvis, okay?
You didn't give me any tongs.
- Oh.
You're just gonna hand feed him.
- I guess I'm just gonna hand feed Elvis
these chicken legs.
[Man In White Shirt] Oh, he's turning on.
Come on.
Ohhhh.
(laughing)
Look at him taking it down.
Stretching these legs, dude.
(laughing)
Whooo hooo.
Whooo hoo.
Nothing like feeding your big old lizard outside.
Can we just stop to think about this?
(upbeat music)
- Got all the Ball Pythons separated out for a little break
and we're gonna feed the females later on today.
And like I mentioned earlier
the scaleless corn snakes are even crazier
than scaleless Texas rat.
The one thing that's nice
is that they're really kinda tame.
You know, corn snakes are really tame.
But also there's a lot more coloration or mutations
in corn snakes than there are Texas rats snakes.
Like this reverse Okeetee scaleless corn.
I mean, look at the color and pattern in this monkey.
Oh doggie.
Take a look at this monkey right here.
This is a scaleless silver queen.
Which is a hypo erythristic
beautiful beautiful snake right there.
I mean, this thing is crazy.
This is a little boy.
He's breeding some things this year.
I tell ya.
That is my favorite of all of the scaleless.
Whenever you get into the erythristic
or the ghost ones are just, I mean
they're just so absolutely stunning.
Look at that thing.
You know, I've been doing this a long, long time.
30 something years and I still get nervous.
This is the second clutch
that's going to be laid any day now.
Now remember the first clutch was the Pinhead Pied
breed to the same male.
And it was basically a bad clutch.
There was a couple of, kind of so-so eggs
that might make it.
And to be honest with you
this Pied girl has been ready to go.
And I thought she looked great.
Then the last few days I've been nervous like
oh she's going to slug out.
And then I literally helped her a little bit earlier.
And I could feel it looks like good eggs again.
But my point is
is that no matter how long you've been doing it.
I'm still nervous, you know.
I'm still nervous for my second clutch to be good, right?
Because I don't wanna start the year off
with two bad clutches.
So with any luck
this girl will be the first girl that lays
a good clutch of eggs.
I think she's gonna be okay.
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
But like I said
even after all these years, I still get nervous.
- [Laura] What's going on out there?
By who?
- By just a detailer.
What?
Is that not okay?
- [Camera Man ] He's using company power.
- I know.
I'm like, who the hell is out here?
[Camera Man ] Could you imagine if it was a random person?
- That's what I was like.
That's why I'm like, what is going on here?
Why didn't you get my car detailed?
- I can get your car detailed.
- My car smells like ass.
- Joey literally peed in my car.
Peed.
- Okay.
- Yeah.
- Well, my mine has spilled protein.
- I have grown man pee all over my back seat.
- Have you ever had dirty, nasty, hot protein?
- And there was mold growing in the cup holder.
- From the pee?
- I don't know what it was from.
(laughing)
- All right, pay to get mine done too.
- Okay, I got it.
- This one here is actually a new mutation that my buddy
Forest, actually had kind of worked with.
And it's called a Tiger scaleless.
Just again, kind of looks like a tiger, right?
You know.
And it is genetic.
We're able to actually reproduce this last year
for the very first time
and prove it out to be its own actual line.
Which is pretty exciting.
And you can see absolutely stunning animals.
And just like Forest named it a tiger
I couldn't agree more.
I absolutely love this one.
This is actually a blood red
or what they would call a diffused scaleless corn snake.
Just wow.
Look at the pattern on the back there.
Kind of that translucence.
Just really cool.
Kind of, you know, patternless sides.
I mean just absolute ripper.
But like I've mentioned
scaleless animals actually can work really well
when it comes to rat snakes and corn snakes in particular.
It's absolutely amazing
in some of the colors and patterns on them.
Whoo doggy.
I mean it's cool.
But you gotta admit, that leucistic scaleless Texas rat
that thing looks like it came from Mars
or something like that.
That is one alien looking snake.
Take a look at Flapjack here.
Of course the black-throated monitor is still
a hyper little monkey right here.
We're trying to get him to calm down a little bit.
Stay right here buddy.
You're okay.
And he just has to gain confidence.
The other day literally, I actually saw a picture
of a giant black-throated monitor
that was absolutely huge.
I mean, literally bigger than Elvis.
And I know that this guy is just chilling
just like Diddy and Dixie.
When they're young they're just a little bit more keyed up.
Right?
They're a little bit of afraid of everything.
And I don't want to get bit because again
I've had a bad reaction to a bite.
Whoa.
That was a close on right there.
And so I'm just kind of trying get him
to where he becomes a little bit more confident
and a little less crazy.
But you can definitely see
he is ready to bite every step of the way.
I don't want that to happen, buddy.
We're supposed to be friends, right?
We're gonna be friends soon.
But I'm telling you what?
I know that when he gets older
he's going to be an absolutely amazing animal ambassador.
Now I know I'm gonna be able to hold him over my shoulders
like a little baby.
Right now he is definitely a little feisty monkey.
What is wrong with you buddy?
I promise everything's gonna be okay.
And he's going through a shed cycle right now.
Which means he's growing.
I mean, this thing was this big when we got him
and look how big he's getting now.
But boy, I tell you what
that big attitude goes along with that little body.
There's no doubt about that.
Whoo doggy, I tell you.
That's a beautiful animal though.
Isn't it?
(unintelligible)
- Got a bunch of cool stuff from the PO box
you guys are always sending.
- Phoebe.
Watch out.
You know what's interesting?
It's like all these boxes are like really light.
They just have air in them.
Oh wait a second.
This has got a cool, something cool.
Look at that.
That is a cute sloth.
It's a three-toed sloth.
- Oh, that's a good one.
That one's so cute.
- Oh my gosh.
Look at this sloth.
Let's see.
What's his name?
Spark Creative Imaginings plushy toy.
- It says, first off
I just wanted to say thank you
for everything you've done for the hobby.
Been watching you loyally for two years.
And me and my daughter watch you every day.
- Well thank you.
So that's awesome.
Well, thank you to you and your daughter.
Yes, I don't know if you have a sticker collection
but I gave you one of mine.
So there you go.
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it.
It's absolutely adorable.
I'm still always blown away when piebalds
have really cool smiley emojis on them.
And this is just an absolutely incredible smiley emoji pie.
I love it.
This thing is so cool.
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