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- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog!
You know, I hope the start of your day
is absolutely amazing.
A lot of my days are really busy.
You guys know I work seven days a week, day to night
and I am absolutely out of my mind most of the time.
By the way, today is gonna be one of those days.
So I figured, why don't we inspire each other today, right?
I'm gonna kind of test you guys and say
if you wanted to do something awesome
but you've been putting it off,
today is the day I want you to go do it.
No more excuses, guys.
Let's get out there and do it.
I have a fun filled packed day, four tours I have to do.
We're open at the Reptarium.
A bunch of different, you know, I've got some eggs to cut,
I've got some things that are hatching.
I think I got a ball python clutch.
The point is, I have to stay motivated.
And how do I stay motivated?
Just buy doing it, right?
Not making up excuses, but getting out there
and actually doing it.
So I'm gonna check everything here,
get ready for my first work.
And together, you guys and myself
are gonna have an absolutely incredible day
and we're gonna achieve some amazing things.
What do you say we get started?
Got my first tour of the day in the house.
How are you guys doing?
- [Together] Good!
- [Brian] Where are you guys from?
- Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
- [Brian] Oh, nice!
Awesome, well welcome, guys, I appreciate you guys so much.
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Just wrapping up the first tour.
Absolutely incredible people.
And I say that all the time.
I get a chance to hang around amazing people all the time
and again, they motivate me, you guys motivate me.
Like I was saying in the beginning,
when I have a crazy day, how do I get through it?
A lot of times, I rely on you guys.
Your comments, your support.
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, whatever it is
that you guys are kind of encouraging me.
That kind of keeps me going, right?
And the same thing with tours
and even we're open to the public.
You guys just inspire me to be the best I possibly can be.
So we have three more tours today.
But I'm going to go ahead, head down to the dungeon,
and see if we have anything going on down there.
This clutch is actually pretty cool.
This is a black pastel pin,
and ooh, I already see there's a couple sluggers in here.
That's not a good sign at all!
And she's actually bred to a mahogany.
That mahogany and chocolate stuff
mix really, really well together
and then the pinstripe on top of it is really cool.
But I'm not too encouraged by this clutch.
Oh my God, that wouldn't be what I would consider
a very successful clutch at all.
Looks like we've got two good eggs.
We've got two sluggers over here.
And we've got two slugs over here.
So, yeah, that wasn't exactly exemplary
when it comes to clutches
but again, that kind of happens
and I've mentioned it before that sometimes
towards the end of the year, you'll get a little bit
of issues with fertility as well.
So, that definitely wasn't a very good clutch
which is disappointing because I was really excited
about that pairing!
I wanted to get a chocolate mahogany pinstripe.
I think it would have looked so cool.
But hey, we still have two eggs.
- It's a good time,
I always don't know when to
I have the giggles now.
Lots of work to do here.
It's kind of like the peak of the hatching season
for baby snakes for us.
I went from feeding two days a week
to about four days a week now.
Extremely busy.
Right now I'm gonna feed the baby garters.
We're gonna chop up some worms for 'em.
Then I have move onto the other baby colubrids.
But with them being born and hatched
at different times, setup at different times,
we have to really pay attention.
Feed this this day, this the next day,
these can't start eating for a week.
So it's just a lot of work.
A lot of patience.
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Okay, guys, that's it, donezo.
There's a lot of snakes here, let me tell you what.
So we finally kind of got them all fed.
It's just gonna take me a little bit
'cause we gotta go through, you know,
like I said,
all these guys are on different days,
pretty soon we'll be able to sync 'em up,
they're all on one day.
So I got them all fed, everyone's good,
and we'll check them in the morning.
- Got my next tour in the house!
How are you guys doing, what's your name?
- Good, my name's Zac.
- Carly.
- [Brian] All right, where are you guys from?
- Napoleon, Ohio.
- [Brian] Napoleon, Ohio, where is that?
- That is about two hours south.
- [Brian] Two hours south, gotcha.
- Yep. - Awesome, well welcome, guys.
We're gonna have a good time, all right?
- Yup, sure.
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- Another tour down, one more to go
before we open up.
Wait, is that two more tours?
One, two.
Another tour down before my next one.
I think I'm gonna go ahead
and cut some ball python eggs.
Because I know you guys like that stuff.
And hopefully we'll have some cool babies.
This clutch of ball pythons is actually
a female pastel yellow belly bred to a dragonfly male
which is a pastel, a fire, and a pinstripe.
So it should be some really cool stuff.
Weirdly enough, I have this one egg right here
that has a date marked on it
which doesn't coincide with the other eggs.
So, I really don't know what this egg is.
I probably forgot to mark it.
So let's just go ahead and cut this egg
and see if we can figure out what the heck this egg is
because again, I don't think it's in the same clutch.
Although it might be, you never know until I cut it.
Not really sure what's gonna happen here.
Ooh, what the heck is going on with this egg here?
Ooh, that looks like a disaster,
I'm not gonna lie to you here.
Every now and then you hatch out an animal
that has got a lot of deformities
and this one obviously has some spinal kinking
and some other issues.
That animal, it looks like a pinstripe of some sort.
But that one doesn't look like it's gonna make it.
And that's probably why it was a one off egg
because sometimes when a female lays one egg,
or something goes on like that,
a lot of times the babies aren't very healthy.
So, doesn't surprise me.
Don't know what the father and mother was for that one.
But we're just not even gonna look at that egg
for a minute here.
We're gonna move onto this animal
where I know this is a pastel yellow belly
bred to a dragonfly male
and we're gonna just open up this first egg
and see what we have and right off the rip,
there is a beautiful snake in here.
Whew.
I tell you what, that is gorgeous.
That is actually a super pastel fire, so a super fly,
and a yellow bellow, whew.
That's a pretty snake right there.
Hoo doggy, that thing is nice.
I hope we keep going with odds like that
because that is amazing.
The only thing we missed in that
was actually the pinstripe.
Now this one here looks like it's gonna be
probably a super pastel yellow belly.
So it doesn't look like it has fire in it.
So, okay, but hopefully we'll get some pinstripe
stuff in this as well.
Got a few more eggs in this clutch to cut.
See what we have.
Okay, so far we've been kind of missing the odds here.
Looks like this is just a pastel,
probably a pastel yellow belly,
but no super pastel, no fire, and no pinstripe.
So, come on guys, let's get this going here.
Let's get something awesome.
Okay, we have another really beautiful animal in here.
This one actually looks like a super fly,
possible yellow belly, not sure if it's a yellow belly
'cause it doesn't look quite as faded
as that first animal that was really blown out
because of the yellow belly.
Last egg, fingers crossed, guys,
let's see if we have an all gene animal here.
Come on, gotta give me something awesome.
Please, please, please.
Okay, what do we have here?
Looks pretty cool so far.
Okay, ooh, yeah, baby, whew, oh yeah!
Yup, that's the all gene animal, guys.
We nailed it!
This is a super pastel fire pinstripe yellow belly.
Hoo doggy!
That is one gorgeous snake.
I love ending the day with an amazing animal cut.
So there you guys have it.
Actually, a really good clutch,
we had a lot of variety.
Really cool stuff with the exception of that first egg.
So that concludes a cutting for the day.
All right, got my next tour.
How are you guys?
- [Together] Good!
- How about you?
- [Brian] Where do you come from?
- Texas.
- [Brian] Texas, what part of texas?
- Like central, next to St. Antonio.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, welcome, we love our Texans in here.
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So this is the very first snake you ever held.
- Yes, this is definitely the first snake!
- Awesome.
And of course she's up for her birthday, so happy birthday.
- Thank you!
- [Brian] She said she likes snakes, but she's just never
had a chance. - Yeah!
- [Brian] So what do you think?
- I mean, it's heavier than I thought.
- (laughs) But you're doing good!
I was surprised, I had no idea.
She's like that's the first snake, I was like what!
That's awesome, that's super cool.
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I have to share this clutch with you
because I am pretty much blown away right now.
We had this animal that we called cinny new gene
because it was a cinnamon that hatched out
that was kind of unusual looking
but we didn't really know what was going on
so I just kept it and said cinny new gene,
and I bred it this year for the first time
to just a normal enchi.
So essentially, it was a cinny bred to an enchi
which would be a double co-dominant animal
and I hatched out some crazy stuff.
I mean, first off, you know, here's just like a normal
kind of cinny black pastel, whatever the case may be.
It looks more like a black pastel to a cinny.
So that could make sense where this cinny looks
a little different but to me,
the adult looks just like a cinny.
But regardless, doesn't matter,
and then here is kind of what I would expect
from like a cinnamon enchi.
It's a really pretty cinnamon enchi,
but it's still pretty much what I would consider
a cinnamon enchi, then we have this animal right here,
which is definitely just a normal enchi ball python.
So basically, these three animals here don't surprise me
that much because we essentially have a cinny
or a black pastel, we have an enchi,
and then we have what I would consider to be
a cinny enchi which is all these things.
Now the next three animals are what blew me away.
Because I have no idea what these are.
I mean, literally, I have no idea.
I've got one, I've got two, and then this one
is absolutely a ripper!
I mean, I have no clue what's going on here.
So apparently, we're definitely having this new gene
animal mixing with enchi and you're getting these
super orange animals.
I mean, these are way oranger than say
even an orange dream because the orange dream
has a little bit of orange, but then when when you get
the super orange dream, that's when you get
that really great color.
Well these aren't supers.
These are just straight, I don't know,
maybe enchi new gene.
So I'm gonna probably rename it
instead of calling it a new gene.
Something completely different.
But unfortunately, until I prove it out,
I don't even know what's going on.
I think we've proved out that there's definitely
another gene that is absolutely stunning,
but we don't know what that gene is.
We have no idea what this means.
Is there a super?
Is there something else?
So now I just have to start raising these guys up
and breed them back.
But at least I know that this kind of dinker project
which is just basically a project that is like
a dinking project because we don't know
what the genetics are, it proved out
that there is definitely something going on
and I couldn't be more excited about the results.
I never expected this to happen.
So you guys let me know what you think.
If you have a cool idea for a name for this new gene,
let me know down in the comments.
Last tour of the day is in the house.
How are you guys doing?
- We're good! - Awesome.
- Good, now tell us your names.
- I'm Heather. - Heather.
- And I'm Finn. - And Finn, awesome.
Heather and Finn, thank you, welcome to the Reptarium.
Where are you guys from?
- We're from Maine.
- [Brian] From Maine!
Oh my gosh, that is awesome.
Maine is so beautiful, right?
Well that's awesome, welcome to Michigan.
Another M. - Yes!
- So we're gonna have a good time today,
show you off some cool stuff, all right?
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Everything is set and we are ready
to open up the Reptarium.
Gonna be an amazing night.
You guys all ready?
- Yeah!
- Well at least Bruce is ready.
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Really fun night here at the Reptarium.
I tell you what, this is just always amazing.
And I hope that you guys enjoy the whole vlog.
Let me know in the comments which parts you like,
what part you'd like to see more of,
all that other stuff.
Have a wonderful day.
I love your beautiful faces
and I wish you the absolute best.
Do me a favor, be kind to someone today
and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.
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