- This is an exciting clutch.
Happens to be a gray-banded kingsnake.
I love these guys, and it's been about
seven or eight years since we produced
gray-banded kingsnake, and I know I always
start the blog often times with python
clutches, but today I'm going to start
with this beautiful mama here.
This unbelievably gorgeous snake, of course,
a gray-banded kingsnake from West Texas.
And it looks like she has a beautiful clutch
a pearly whites in here.
I tell you what, I could not be more excited
today to get started like this.
That's right.
Gray-banded kingsnake eggs.
The first ones that we've gotten all these years.
I can not wait for these little babies to hatch.
Let's go ahead and set up an egg box
and get these in the incubator.
(upbeat music playing)
Oh, but before we do that why don't we
just go ahead and play that egg song?
Egg time, egg time.
Guess what?
Not that egg song.
This egg song.
- Can you lay some eggs tonight.
- And now is the time to actually collect
those eggs.
My buddy, Josh, actually kills it with
those egg songs.
Let me know what you think if you like that.
What is your favorite egg song by the way?
Trust me we've got some more coming.
There's no doubt about it.
So let's go ahead.
Put these eggs right here.
Get this last egg right here, and I tell you
what, that is a decent clutch for
a pretty small female right here.
We'll get this cage all cleaned up.
Get her some fresh water.
Get her all settled.
Get her feeding in the next little bit, but
we have two, four, five beautiful eggs.
Welcome to the vlog Reptile Army.
I think today is going to be a snake egg
collecting date.
What do you say about that?
Next up, we actually have a corn snake
that is het for sunkissed, as
well as a mutation called strawberry.
Really beautiful snake right there, and a
pretty decent clutch of eggs too.
Oh mama.
Why did she bite me?
That little silly mama.
That happens sometimes.
We'll get her all cleaned up.
Get her some water.
Get her all happy, so that she's not mad at
me for stealing her eggs.
The truth is coluber snakes, unlike pythons,
actually lay their eggs like in the stumps
of trees and rotten wood, that type of stuff,
and they really just leave them.
They don't even stick around.
They just kind of piece out and let
the eggs hatch on their own.
So they really don't have the maternal instinct
that python have, but every now and then
if you catch them right after they'll
give you a little love nip like that girl did.
There's two, four, six, eight, ten,
beautiful eggs.
I'll tell you what, collecting eggs is amazing.
Hey, you know what?
Just give me a little piece of that egg, Sonjay.
Just a little piece.
Let's hear it.
(upbeat music plays)
All right.
That's good.
Let's keep going.
I want to give a huge thanks to the Reptile
Army and all the other reptile keepers
out there.
This is what the movement is all about.
You guys know that there was a bill that
was going to pass, potentially in South
Carolina, that was going to ban all venomous
reptiles, all non-native venomous reptiles
and there's already a ban for native
venomous reptiles.
So in South Carolina you couldn't keep
any venomous reptiles, if this bill would
have went through and because of you guys,
we actually defeated the first
of two bills by a zero to 44 vote.
That's right.
Unanimous vote.
So the bill was killed, and that's what this
movement is all about.
It's about you guys, Reptile Army, going
out there and doing things and supporting USR
and all the other people that are coming together
to help protect the hobby in the future.
So go to reptilearmy.com, go ahead and
support the army.
Get your swag out there.
Go out, talk out.
Be our soldiers.
You guys did great work.
Let's keep it going.
I want to give you a little update on one
of the baby frillies from last year.
Definitely not the same calm and tame
as our other frillies.
It just goes to show you that all
these things have different personalities.
Look at how cool that is.
Oh my gosh.
That is absolutely wicked.
Look, oh.
He doesn't like people at all.
It's kind of cool because, you know,
we don't have any frillies that frill up at all.
So now we finally have one that does.
Come on buddy.
Come on, come on, look at this thing.
Ooh.
He is feisty.
All right, all right, all right.
I'll put him back, but isn't that cool.
I mean, again, I don't want to get him stressed
out because he's in a defensive mode,
but it is kind of cool to see,
so maybe he'll tame out.
Maybe he won't.
If he doesn't, it's actually going to be cool to
have a frill that actually frills up.
- Have you tried the new Mountain Dew?
It really is.
Look at it.
Three flavors, collide Code Red,
White Out, Voltage.
Mountain Dew, Dew, USA, America.
Laura, can we talk to you?
- No.
- No?
- Did you see the new Mountain Dew?
- Jay just wanted to come over and show you.
- White Out and Voltage.
- He just wanted to show you that,
and then he wanted to also ask one other thing.
- Can I take today off?
- No, not that
We've already discussed that.
You're not taking today off.
He lost his check again and he wants to know
if you could make a new check for him today.
- No, because the problem is, is if we
wait a few more days, it will show up.
- No, no, no.
This one will not show up.
- It blew out of his backpack when
he was on his motorcycle.
- Yeah.
- So it may show up, but it's going
to show up in someone else's hand.
So are you going to give him a new check,
or are you going to punish him?
- I was also wanted to know if you
could double it.
- I actually think the opposite.
I think now you lose a check.
It's punishment.
- You're never going to learn.
- This is the way, is when it costs you
money, become more responsible.
- I learned.
It did actually, cause my cask blew
out on the freeway also.
- Okay, come on new check
- I'm gonna have to think about it.
- Are you done thinking now?
- Can you take Monday off?
- No, no more days off.
- I haven't even had a day.
Every day that I take off, I'm still here.
- You want to be part of this family.
- That's how it is when you're
part of a family business.
Even on your days off, you work.
- Okay, so Monday, can I come into work at late.
- Nope.
- There's nothing on the calendar.
And you have boogie boards on the top
of the calendar.
- Boogie boards?
I'm in the dungeon guys.
You know what that means?
(upbeat music playing)
Oh, and by the way, we got a little
little surprise coming with some new songs.
If you guys are getting sick
of the ones we are, but we have some eggs.
That's right.
Python eggs at oop, come on, mama.
This is actually a pinstriped girl,
and she's around a pretty decent clutch.
It looks like there's one little slugger.
She was actually bred to this male right here,
that happens to be hooked up with another
pinstripe that is growing follicles as well.
She should be ovulating here anytime,
but that's a beautiful animal.
It's a pastel, it's a cinnamon,
it's a bongo and it's a lessor,
and that is going to be cool.
Again, it looks like we've got one clutch already
on the ground, a second clutch here, and
a third clutch, all bred to pinstripe, cause
I just think that combo might be really cool.
Let's go ahead and set up an egg box
and pull this clutch of eggs.
(upbeat music playing)
All right.
Let's see what mama has going on over here.
Can mom, it looks like she's a little
bit mad at me, but that's okay.
We'll go ahead and get this on.
Like I said, one little slug egg here
we can feed to a monitor.
Got one loose egg here that we'll candle,
just to make sure.
It looks like the rest of the eggs are
pretty stuck together, and they're coming
up pretty good here.
And we'll go ahead and put this down right here.
We have two, four, six, eight, good eggs.
One little slugger, and like I said,
that bongo, and pinstripe, and pastel, and
and cinni and lessor mixed together.
Oh my gosh, there's going to be so many
cool combinations in this clutch.
I am super stoked about it.
So with that being said
we are up to 36 clutches in the incubator.
This next clutch is actually pretty exciting.
This is actually a pastel bongo.
Now the bongo gene is actually a incomplete
dominant animal, and of course of the pastel
is as well.
She's definitely wrapped around a beautiful
clutch of eggs and she was bred to a panger male.
And that's this pewter lessor cyprus.
Oh my gosh.
So it's a pastel, it's a cinnamon, it's a lessor,
and it's a cyprus.
That thing is stunning, and I can't imagine
getting the bongo gene in there as well
as another pastel who dug it.
I can't wait for these clutches.
Let's go and see how much mama has.
Okay. Mama.
You ready to give up your eggs girl?
Come on.
A lot of times, if you just take them by the tail
and kind of unwind them, that's
the best way to go.
Especially when they're not trying to
bite your face.
This girl seems to be pretty chill
and actually eggs are rolling around a
little bit.
So I'll probably have to candle this whole clutch
just to be safe because they aren't stuck
together like a normal clutch,
which is no big deal.
It just takes a couple extra seconds to candle them
and we make sure that they're all good.
It looks like all the egg.
Wow.
That's weird.
It's so unusual for every egg.
It looks like these two eggs are stuck together.
They're the only two eggs
in the entire clutch that were stuck together.
Nevertheless, we have two, four, six, seven
beautiful eggs.
And again, great combination.
Can't wait to see what these guys do.
Hey, things are heating up here, man.
Unbelievable year in the ball python season.
I don't want to get ahead of myself guys,
but I tell you what.
I have a feeling that this mole
snake might actually be grabbing.
Now they have live babies and my friend, Heidi,
over in South Africa actually said that she
doesn't really know anyone that breeds them,
So she really didn't know anything to tell me
how to breed them.
So I literally just put them together
and I tell her she is swelling up.
She's definitely got a nice lump in her.
I tell you what, I might have some
baby moles snakes this year.
That would be absolutely incredible.
Again, I'm not counting my babies
before they're born, but boy, oh boy.
If I get some baby moles snakes
I am going to be freaking out.
You guys know that we have team lizard.
We have team steak, and of course we have
team frog and I know a bunch of people have said,
"Brian, you just don't show enough frog."
I agree with you.
I definitely don't, and it's cool that we have
one of our white street frogs just hanging on
the glass right now, and it's interesting because
these guys could go from this greenish color
and then when they change moods or whatever.
Did you hear that?
Oh awesome.
Oh my god, that was awesome.
Right on cue.
When they go through a different mood change
they'll actually turn purplish color.
So they go from green to purple.
And so there's a little chunky monkey
in the back over there chirping away.
So, Oh my God.
That was perfect.
Just looking at a few of the scaleless corns
we produced last year, and this is just
an anerythristic scaleless.
Holy cow.
I tell you what, that thing doesn't
even seem real.
For me to think, you know, when I was a kid just starting to
breed corn snakes, that all these years later
there would be a mutation that looked like an
anerythristic scaleless corn snake like this.
I couldn't imagine in my wildest dreams
but I tell you what that is one absolute ripper.
Just little training thing with Tamale.
You know, every chance I get
I'm trying to work with this guy.
And sometimes it's just a matter
of doing a little petting, right?
Just like, come in touch.
No big deal.
Not going to hurt you.
Just so he knows.
He doesn't like it that much, but
these are little things that are going to
build that kind of bond, right?
That trust in him.
So I can just go in there.
I can touch him, leave him alone and say,
"Hey, listen every time I touch you,
I'm not going to take you out.
I'm not going to do those things. I'm
sometimes just going to be nice."
And that's how you build those threads
of trust, right?
Little tiny things like that.
So if I do this two or three times a day,
every single day he's going to become more
and more habituated to touch and feel.
And ultimately when he comes out
he's going to get less and less kind of crazy.
You know what I mean?
But Tamale is absolutely cool, but he's
not ready to come out during open hours yet.
This is actually Mac and daughter leopard geckos.
And we only have two leopard geckos over
at the Rep here, and I don't
show them up on the vlog nearly enough,
but the truth is they're really popular,
especially with kids that want to hold
their first lizard.
Leopard geckos are great animals
and look at how cute they are.
I tell you what, she is absolutely an
amazing animal.
No doubt that Bella is my baby.
There's no doubt about that.
And by the way, speaking of Reptile Army,
we're actually going to be launching
all of the designs, our older designs,
including Bella Bananas on the
reptilearmy.com page, so if you guys
love that shirt, or you like any of
the other animal ambassadors.
We will be launching on Reptile Army, too.
All the old stuff.
Two headed turtles, one arm, all the charm,
all those old vintage ones going to be
coming back on reptilearmy.com.
But in the meantime, I just want to show
my little girl some love.
She is the most adorable thing in the world.
Lots of snake eggs today,
and if you do enjoy snake eggs, you can actually
hit this playlist right here.
It's all me collecting snake eggs.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day Reptile Army.
Remember be kind to someone, and
I promise, I'll see you tomorrow.