As you all know, well in case you don't know, a fan Kristen sent us this beautiful axanthic morph
black-tailed Cribo named
Loki, and ever since we got him we've fallen in love with the black-tailed Cribos, and we've decided that we would like to
breed him someday. So we were looking and looking and looking for a potential mate for him
and we finally came across a normal but 100%
het-axanthic female to be his future girlfriend. So today we are going to open her up,
she just arrived in the mail and we're gonna see what she looks like.
Before we start I'd like to thank today's sponsor, Audible. Audible has the largest selection of audiobooks on the planet.
I use audible when I'm cleaning my snake enclosures and it comes in particularly
handy what I'm trying to drown out the sound of my sassy bullsnakes.
"...the back of Ender's head, suddenly a pain..."
I'm currently listening to Ender's Game, which is one of my favorite books.
It's about kids who go through training in space to fight aliens,
and there is a huge twist at the end. If you like sci-fi novels, like I do, I
highly recommend Ender's Game. You can get the Ender's Game audiobook for free by going to audible.com/snakediscovery
There's also a link in the description below. If you don't like it you can cancel at any time, but you still get to keep whichever books you've already
downloaded, including the free ones. You can use audible to learn a new skill, find a new fitness
routine, catch up on the news, or just to have something fun in the background to listen to while you're doing chores like I do.
Again, just go to audible.com/snakediscovery or text "SNAKEDISCOVERY" to 500500 to get your free audiobook,
two free audible originals, which you can't find anywhere else, and a 30-day free trial. It doesn't have to be Ender's Game,
of course, it can be whichever audiobook in their library that you want. You can get it for free using that link.
So, thank you again Audible for sponsoring today's video. And now let's unbox this cribo. All right. Let's see what she looks like.
She was born just last summer, so she's gonna be pretty small.
Whoo, hey, we've got cards
ROG reptiles. Yeah, I bought her from John and Terry. Let's see. Are you in a--oh you're in a bag? Okay.
Well, she's, she's little, she's very light. That's what I was expecting. I mean, we couldn't find an adult female.
So, we're kind of expecting to raise up a baby.
You have all sorts of shredded newspaper with you.
But where are you? I assume it's not just a bag full--oh there she is! I could see her.
Oh my gosh, you're so little compared to Loki. Oh my goodness, you are adorable!
You can definitely see the color difference between axanthic and normal.
The axanthic mutation gives you kind of a grayscale snake, and this is just a normal
phenotype, or a normal physical look, so she's brown. This is what they look like in the wild, but her dad was an axanthic so she carries
the axanthic gene, which means that about half of her babies with Loki will be axanthic as well.
Of course, the black-tailed cribo gets its name from its gorgeous black tail that
changes from this like dark brown color to the jet black near the end of its body. It's just so pretty.
This is an extremely smooth snake because they have unkeeled scales.
Keeled scales means they have a raised ridge in the middle of each scale, which gives them kind of a rougher texture
But this species as you can see, there's no keels at all, so it's very smooth. Now, she is a cute little snake--
let's check you over for mites, of course. Mites is something that it's not gonna kill a snake--
they're a little external parasite that suck the blood of the snake,
they don't kill them as long as you treat them quickly enough--
but they're a pain in the butt to get rid of, especially if you have large collections like we do.
So, common places to find mites, and this is where
you should look too if you're getting a new snake, would be around the eyes and under the chin because the skin
is white and the scales are white for the most part, so you can easily see the black mites
in-between the scales, but I don't see any on her. She looks perfectly clean. I don't see any
blemishes in her scales on her back.
Underneath? No, I don't see any under there either. She is in like perfect
condition. We are going to set her up in quarantine just to make sure she's eating and passing food properly and
we're gonna take it from there, pretty much just raise her up.
We'll have to forget about her for about two years and then we can remember "oh, that's right,
we have this breeding project," and we can produce these in the future. Thank you very much,
John for this beautiful het-axanthic black-tailed cribo. Oh, we love her already, she seems to be in
great shape, and we can't wait to raise her up. If anyone watching this is interested in a cribo,
they do still have some left. You can contact John and Terry at ROG reptiles.
They were a pleasure to work with, very quick at responding. I communicated
over Facebook with them, which seemed to work well, and I mean based on what I see here,
I would recommend them. They were great. Thank you John and Terry, as well as all of our Patreon
supporters for backing the channel, and to everyone who's watching this video today; and I
will keep you updated on how she does. You know what I just realized?
We need a name for her. If you have any ideas, comment them below and we'll see you next time.
*funky music*