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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome
to the vlog.
I hope the start of
your day is incredible.
I'm with my guy, Elvis, here and I had
a banger of an idea potentially
that was gonna happen today.
I'm going to tell you what it is,
but I'm not gonna lie.
Something pretty tragic happened
and I'm gonna tell you about that as well.
I am definitely pretty
shook up about it and it has
to do with my buddy, Elvis, here
that I love to death.
So, what we were originally planning is
that I wanted to give him a full body pig
for him to kinda tear
into, and that would be
really good enrichment for him.
He'd be able to use those neck muscles
like they would in the wild, right.
I thought it'd be a
really interesting thing
and that was gonna happen today.
But, it's not gonna happen today
and I'm gonna tell you why.
As you guys know we ball
trained this guy, right,
and the truth is is that Bruce and I
are really the only two people
that ever deal with Elvis
as far as ball training.
But, we were open the other night
and unfortunately, Bruce
was off that night.
I was actually at Bruce's house
doing some things and had a couple hours
where we weren't here and unfortunately,
someone took the
initiative, and I'm so glad
that they have the initiative,
one of my crew, had the
initiative to do it.
They decided they were gonna go ahead
and feed Elvis for some of the people
here at the reptirum
here at the open hours,
and truth be told I'm not gonna throw
anyone under the bus.
I don't want anyone else beside Bruce
or myself to feed Elvis here,
just because he's a big animal
and if something goes wrong
that's not good, well guess what.
Something did go wrong
and unfortunately Elvis attacked the ball.
It's happened to me,
it's happened to Bruce,
but we know how to get
it out of its mouth,
they didn't and Elvis
actually ate the ball.
That is a major problem.
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Down in the dungeon guess what time it is.
Egg time, egg time, egg
time, egg time, egg time.
That's right, and this
is actually a clutch
I was really anticipating.
My orange dream game is not very good,
so what I'm saying is that I don't have
enough orange dreams.
I think it's one of the
coolest ball pythons out there
and this happens to be
an enchi orange dream.
Oh my goodness.
That girl is a ripper.
I mean, she is beautiful.
She's actually bred to
a super enchi pinstripe,
so we could literally get super enchi
orange dream pinstripes from this clutch.
I was so excited when this girl got gravid
and now I'm excited to
see how many eggs she had.
Ew, she is not happy.
The eggs are not very stuck together,
so we're gonna have to be careful.
We're gonna have to
definitely candle these guys,
but all the eggs look really good.
Mama did such a good job.
What a gorgeous snake.
And like I mentioned, I
couldn't be more happy.
We've got two, four, six beautiful eggs.
I tell it again, because
it's a Super enchi
to an enchi most of these
are gonna be Super enchis,
half of them are gonna be orange dream
and them half of them on average
are gonna be pinstripes.
So, hopefully we hit those odds
of the super enchi orange dream pinstripe.
That is gonna be a ripper
and I've gotta keep
some more orange dream stuff this year,
because like I said, that's
a gene I love so much
and I don't work with nearly enough.
So, this is a great clutch.
So now, we're kind of in a little bit
of a quandary when it comes
to my guy, Elvis, here.
Now I talked to Kevin over at Nerd,
obviously one of the biggest experts
when it comes to monitor lizards,
asked him what he thought.
Now number one, he said he thought
there was a good chance that he'd
be able to pass that
little rubber racket ball.
He did say that we should probably
feed him fish for the next week or so
to see if he can actually kinda oil it up
and kinda lube it up a little bit.
The worse case scenario is we'll take him
to the vet here next week, get an x-ray
and see what else we can do.
Hopefully, that ball will come out.
Definitely something
that is pretty tragic.
And why am I telling you guys this?
Because to be honest with you,
I always wanna take you
guys along on the journey.
Obviously, we ball train, right.
You guys know we ball train.
That's one of the things we have
to be careful of.
But again, myself and Bruce know
what to do with it.
Unfortunately, that's why I was upset
that somebody tried to feed Elvis
when we weren't here, right.
Now they didn't do anything wrong.
They thought they were
doing something right
and it's great.
I want people to take initiative
and think it's awesome.
I just wish that it wouldn't have happened
when we weren't here
because I could've trained
somebody and had it do it.
Instead, now we're in a situation
where this animal,
literally, I've said this,
top five animals I've ever owned.
I love Elvis so much.
It's such an amazing animal.
If anything happens to this animal
I will freak out.
But listen, we don't
have to stress out yet.
Hopefully, this guy will pass that ball.
We're gonna feed him some fish
here in a little bit to
get that system going.
Hopefully he can just pass that ball.
Obviously, his legs are working good.
He's not bound up.
He looks completely fine.
Again, if it goes the other way,
in a week or so we'll take him
into the vet, get x-rays,
see what we have to do.
We might be able to just
go in and get it out
with an enema.
Worse, worse, worse case
scenario is that we would
have to make a small slit for surgery
and get that ball out of there.
But listen, we're way away from that.
Let's hope things work out.
In the meantime, I'm gonna do everything
I can do to get this guy healthy
and happy as possible 'cause
he's absolutely wonderful.
And like I said, definitely gonna feed him
some fish today and just
see if I can get this going,
not to mention, we're gonna
keep swimming in the water,
keep him moving.
Hopefully he can pass all that stuff out.
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- Hi, how's it goin'?
You're lookin' pretty good today.
Today a little bit, a little bit of change
in my scenery overall.
We're gonna basically
take our large lizards
over to (mumbling) and
sort of try some things
that I wanna really try out
with our albino iguanas.
I'm gonna start a little bit more
actively trying to go inside these cages
and sit there and just talk
before I start touching anything.
Sort of interesting and a
nice little change of pace,
so let's get started.
Hey buddy, you're okay, it's okay.
Hey, you hear me,
you can hear me, Dante.
I'm gonna go to you first,
I wanna sit with you.
Come here buddy.
Good, you're okay, you're okay.
Very easy, wow, that went
pretty well actually.
I wasn't expecting him, yeah,
you're tryin' to hop on me.
This is really, really
actually a good sign
with this guy.
As you can see, I didn't really wanna go
runnin' at him.
He heard my voice and he immediately
knew that to be somethin' to be afraid of.
I'm gonna give him some time.
I'm gonna take it right back there,
let him sorta hear me talkin'
while I'm talkin' to you guys.
I have to keep an eye on him
'cause at any moment,
they'll just decide to dart.
Usually most lizards
when you're holding them
and stuff like that, when
they're sitting still
it doesn't always mean that
they're necessarily calm.
It just means that they're just tryin'
to just say well, leave
me alone, leave me alone,
all right, let's go.
So, that's day one of the experiment.
I think it's gone pretty well,
I wanna know about you.
In the comments let me
know how you guys think
this sorta went along and ideas on it.
If you guys think that there's maybe,
maybe a better way to go about this,
I'm 100% I'm all ears.
I'm gonna let him go,
let him do his thing.
You're here, buddy.
And that's a wrap.
That's pretty much all I
really, really wanna do,
so I'm like again, as you guys know,
I'm speaking right now, so that that voice
is really where I'm wanting
to key these guys in.
So, I want a before and a after.
I wanna speak before and
then speak when I leave,
so he knows when the voice go away
there is nobody to be bothered.
- Guess what time it is,
colored red egg time.
Please cut that out, Jake, cut that out.
This is actually a Lavender Cal King.
You know, those purple babies
that are just so amazing.
This is one of them.
So, this is actually a Lavender Snow
bred to a Lavender Snow Cal King,
so that's pretty cool.
Now, this particular Lavender Snow
has a little bit of pattern to it.
Some are completely patternless.
Some are completely patternless,
but this entire clutch
here will be Lavender Snow
which is cool 'cause
this is the first clutch.
Now, you guys know the
majority of our clutches
are second clutches right now.
This girl laid super late
and I was super happy
to see that it looks like all but one
little slugger in there is perfectly good.
So, we have two, four, six, seven
Lavender Snow Cal to Lavender Snow Cal.
That is amazing 'cause
all the other clutches
were lavender Cal to Lavender Snow Cal.
So, that means only about half of them
are gonna be Lavender Snow.
So, this clutch here is
gonna be unbelievable,
more purple snakes on the way.
The only other clutch we have today
actually didn't look
like a very good clutch.
This is a second clutch.
It's actually Okeetee Corn Snake
that half her scale has
shed, that's scaleless.
Yeah, I looked in here and yeah,
not even one, well no, I take that back.
It looks like there's one good egg.
This one soul survivor right here
is the only egg.
And then we have two, four,
six, eight, 10, 11 bad eggs.
Again, I talk about how second clutches
often time are that way.
This year this fertility has been amazing,
to be honest with you, but
it's just bound to happen.
You're gonna have some infertile clutches.
So, we started with the Lavender Snow Cal,
worked out great.
This one didn't work out so great
and that wraps up
colubrid eggs for the day.
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And we have this beautiful girl.
I tell you what, I love this girl.
This is actually a cini woma.
Those two genes mixed together just make
a absolutely gorgeous snake,
and you guys know that I
love cini banana stuff,
so this was actually bread
to a banana enchi pinstripe,
so the cini and enchi go great together.
banana and enchi go great together.
The cini, banana, enchi go great together
and then you add the pinstripe
to it and the woma to it.
Whew doggie.
I tell you what, that's gonna be amazing.
We'll see if mama's gonna
let me take her eggs.
She's lookin' at me like, no, you're not
gonna be a egg thief, but she looks like
she's pretty good and I'm super happy.
It looks like there's a beautiful clutch
of eggs in here for sure.
So, we're just gonna slowly get mama
off her eggs.
You did great mom, way to go.
All right, we'll get her over here.
There is one little slugger here
which is fine, we'll just go ahead
and feed that off to probably Elvis
or something like that.
Nevertheless, let's pull
these clutch of eggs
and see what we have goin' on here.
And here we go, get 'em over here.
Again, there was one little slugger,
but we have two, four,
six, seven beautiful eggs,
Again, the combos of
these are gonna be amazing
with that banana, the cini, the enchi,
the pinstripe, the woma.
Well, I tell you what.
That's gonna be a banger
clutch when it hatches.
Again, we'll cut that in 57 days.
So, like I mentioned,
I'm just gonna go ahead
and feed Elvis some fish
because it's gonna be nice
and oily, gonna be easy
digest, hopefully move
through his system.
And listen, like I said,
I want to tell you guys
this story because this happened.
As a matter of fact, a friend of mine
that works at a zoo over in Europe
just recently sent us some pictures
of a Kimono Dragon that
actually ate a water bottle,
one of those steel water bottles.
So all these things happen.
It's gonna go down and any zoo that says
that these mistakes don't
happen is lying to you.
So, we wanted to be
completely transparent,
let you see what's going on
and then show you the results.
You can see, Elvis isn't, his appetite
hasn't gotten any worse.
He is definitely gonna keep goin'.
I'm not gonna feed him too terribly much.
I wanna feed him just enough to get
that thing moving and hopefully
be able to push that out.
And again, we'll just
continue to use the ball,
just like this.
There you go buddy, there you go.
He is such a good animal I think.
I love him to death.
He is so, so good and I don't want you
to think for one second that I'm upset
at one of the crew for
doing what they did.
I mean, I appreciate they
took that initiative.
Yeah, I'm upset that Elvis had this
happen to him, and it
wouldn't have happened
if it was me or Bruce working with him
and we have to just set those parameters
in the future so that people know
that they can't do that.
But, I really take responsibility.
You can see now he knows
there's no blue ball.
We just go back to our normal self
just like we always do
and he's really good.
Again, moving well, legs working well,
all these things are going good right now.
I can't feel the ball in him,
so I think that it's just gonna be
one of those things that
he's just gonna hopefully
one day pass.
Again, it's a soft rubber ball,
just like this one right here.
So, it's not that big,
should be able to.
Their GI tract is pretty straight,
there's not a bunch of twists in it,
so there shouldn't be any reason
why Elvis shouldn't be able to pass it.
But again, I was bummed
because we had this plan,
this kind of feast that he was gonna have,
that you would see in the wild
where he'd walk up to a carcass
and just start ripping it apart.
And that was gonna happen today.
Not gonna happen today now.
Maybe if he passes this ball
in the next four or five days
we'll do it next week.
Regardless, I'll keep you to date
because you guys know
I love Elvis so much.
I will let you know every step of the way
how this guy is doing.
Hatching little corn snakes brings me back
to when I was like 15 years old
and hatched my very
first clutch of snakes.
Well, truth be told, the
first clutch I ever had
was rough green snakes, but it was
from a wild caught gravid.
The first snakes I ever
bred were corn snakes.
Now, the were normal corn snakes.
These are far from normal.
These are snow corn snakes, but these are
those coral snow corn snakes
that get that super, super pink
when they get bigger.
This is what's kind of interesting though.
Every now and then this happens.
There's a little ghost corn in here,
right here, of course this
is a coral ghost as well.
Look at this feisty little monkey.
What are you doing?
Oh, you silly little monkey you.
But, I don't know why every now and then
you hatch out something like that.
I mean coral snow to coral snow
should produce all coral snows,
these salmony, beautiful pink animals
that are gonna be amazing.
And then that one little ghost pops out,
not sure what that's from.
Nevertheless, they are so cool
and they are absolutely adorable.
Once these guys get just
a little bit of size,
the next five, six
months, they'll get pink
and pink and pink and more pink,
absolutely wonderful snakes.
So obviously, Elvis is
gonna have a tremendous
amount of time moving.
I want him to move
around a lot, swim a lot,
do a bunch of different things
to keep that moving so
that he can pass that ball.
I'll keep you guys updated how things
are going with him,
definitely a stressful time,
I'm not gonna lie to you.
But, I have high hopes that
things are gonna be okay.
Again, I will take you guys along
on every part of this journey
and hopefully in a couple days I'll have
something amazing and we'll look forward
to that feeding.
Speaking of feedings, if
you do here's a playlist
of us feeding a bunch of reptiles
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