Hey guys before we start this week's video
I just want a quick but in and let you know that this weekend is the North American reptile breeders conference in Chicago
It's held at Tinley Park in Illinois, and I'll be there of course
There are breeders from around the country with their reptiles for sale
Not to mention all the good deals on supplies you can find there, too
Thousands of people attend this show and if you're planning on being one of them
Don't hesitate to flag me down if you see me. I'll be wearing the snake discovery shirt, so just look for the logo
It's on the back too, and I love meeting my subscribers, so don't be afraid to flag me down say hi
I would love to meet you
And I'll probably be making some sort of video from the Tinley show so stay tuned for that and in the meantime
Here's this week's video
It's that time again two more snakes
These will probably be the last snakes that I actually
Pursue for my breeding program unless I find a really good deal that I can't pass up of course
Inside our two normal-looking hognose snakes a male and a female and what makes them special is that they are 100%
het for axanthic or anery
Which means they carry the axanthic trate and when I breed them together when they get old enough
This is a younger pair. They will produce some axanthic babies
Okay, here we go
We've got our styrofoam lining oh they were shipped in bags
That works, I prefer delis myself, but bags will work. Just fine to
Feel one of them in here actually it feels a little bit bigger than what I was expecting
That was I wasn't sure there were going to be hatchlings or yearlings, and I think they are in fact
yearlings, which is great that means they'll be ready to breed a little bit sooner. Let's see what we've got
oh
I see him
Hi little cutie
Aren't you adorable?
Huh I wonder if this is Oh m. This is probably the male. I can look just to tell for sure and
These are 50% het ghost which means when bred together they may produce ghost babies
Yeah, this is definitely a boy with that length of a tail it's got to be the male
I'm going to not that they get them that often
But I'm gonna look them over for mites quick look up look underneath his chin here, which is where they usually hang out
I don't see any in that stretchy skin underneath the scales
I don't see any around his eyes, so he looks good and ghost hognose snakes are really neat. They look like this and
Again, there's a 50% chance that they are het for that. They are 100% het axanthic he doesn't want to go back in
Inside this bag should be the little girl. Yep f female. I'm sure this is the girl inside
There she is just about just the same size as the male, maybe a little bit smaller
And that's okay girls grow usually at a quicker rate than males, so she'll catch up in no time
Let's check out her tail. Oh my gosh. That is such a female tail here
let me get the male so I can show you side-by-side what I'm looking for and how I can tell that this is definitely a girl
Here they are side by side
So I can show you kind of what I'm looking at to tell males versus females with hognose snakes
It's really easy you just look at the underside of their tail
Males have a very long tail as you can see as on the male on the left and females have a short squat tail
Side by side, you can definitely see the difference
Although they look perfectly healthy, and I'm sure nothing's wrong with them
We are going to quarantine them just to be safe
So we're going to separate these two new snakes from the rest of my collection in case they're carrying something
That could spread to my other snakes
They'll be separated for a couple of weeks so that I can monitor their health
For a quarantine enclosure you're gonna want to use just small simple easy to clean things like Sterilite containers
We're going to line the bottom with paper towels instead of a burrowing
Substrate and this way we can monitor their droppings on the paper towels themself
We're also going to keep it
simple by just adding a single cave in each one maybe a couple things for them to slither around and check out and
A rock in case they decide to shed during their quarantine this will give them something rough to rub up against to peal that shed off
Maybe something else to crawl through and we're going to give them water dishes, but again you want to keep your quarantine very simple
Well, they're looking great. I'm really excited to be raising these up and producing some axanthics in the future
They are pretty small so if anything probably
2019 we'll be breeding them, they're still like I said really young and they have a bit of time before their breeding age
But we're going to add her who is this yep. That's the female she's gonna go in here probably go right into her cave
Yep, sure enough and then we'll add our male too, so thanks for watching and thanks for unboxing these snakes with me
And we'll see you next time