Moldy Mangrove Snake Eggs Hatching!
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2024
- After experimentally cutting this clutch of mangrove snake eggs, I was convinced they weren't going to hatch... But the eggs never went "bad", so we left them in the incubator. And then one day...!!
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“Oh my god, I didn’t kill ‘em!” The victory cry of every animal breeder at some point
so true
That's me with plants lmao
Guys is Rex dead???
@@markmontaldi1549 i don't think so idk really
@@markmontaldi1549what? Rex isn’t dead ;-;
The way Emily fell when Edd threw the merch LOL 😂 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Edit: OMG TY FOR 1.5K LIKES
😂 totally
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Lmao.
That was perfect. 😂
It was PERSONAL
Emily please take the “failed video clips” and put them together as videos and I bet a bunch of us will watch very entertained!! I love all of your guys videos.
yes!!!
I would watch it too lmao
Omg yes I want to know about the green tree eggs now!!
They might have sad endings where eggs never hatched or babies failed to thrive.
@@sarahloomis2034Exactly. The reason we are seeing this one is because they didn't all die.
These babies are the poster children for "Incubate til there's no debate", wow!!
How much snakes do you have?
Omg, the tiny work hat for the bearded dragon got me.
My first thought was "yea we can buy all the reptile stuff and that's awesome but can we buy the hat????"
WOW, the fact that it was 6 weeks is MASSIVE! I hope this vid attracts some experts in the breeding Mangrove field to explain what the heck CAUSED those super-thick-shelled, super-long-developing eggs!
I know with goose eggs, I got better results letting them cool for a short time each day, and then misting them with room temp water. I found their eggs seemed to be easier/ thinner for the goslings to pip through. If these snakes live in the mangroves, it might be that, normally, the eggs might go through periods of high moisture/humidity and a slight drop in temperatures.
It might be something to try. At least the misting. It might help thin the shells out as the babies develop since the water is probably dissolving some of the minerals with my goose eggs.
Love watching hatching videos.
I had a professor in college who did surgery on chicken eggs as part of his research into fetal development, so I know that there is a way to do it safely/it's not too dangerous of a practice. While I'm not a snake expert by any means, those eggs look too dry to me, so that would be my starting hypothesis. I would expect for mangrove eggs in the wild to be regularly doused/partially submerged and somewhat adapted for that.
Comment so that they see this!!
I so hope this gets seen! You're so right.
The self-promo section with the "staff" helping - PRICELESS!!! Also holy crap is the male mangrove sooo much more chill than the female. He's just crawling around on Emily, curious tongue flicks, not defensive at all. Pick any video where Emily and Ed dare to enter "The Cage" and HOOO boy is she spicy!!
Emily And Ed: "How did these hatch?!"
Life finds a way.
You forgot the ".. uhh..."
Malcolm is always right
@@kaboomsihal1164 I know. I wasn't sure how to write it (english isn't my first language) so I didn't include it. 😄
Emily was absolutely bodied by all the merch 😂
Can't wait for all the other egg videos later this year! And please keep giving us updates about the new snake breeding building (and I promise we do not get bored with the cleaning bits!)
This is why they incubate until there's no debate 😊
Especially if they include more slightly awkward ED shenanigans and double snake intros.
I wonder if in nature mom gets less calcium so it's more advantageous for her to put as much as possible into the eggs versus controlling the amount more exactly
ooh, that's a good theory!
Cant believe I am saying this, but the add for your store was 'oddly enough' the best part of this video 😂
The merch throw, the fall, the 'employees', the adorable tiny hardhat! I cannot 😂
Yeah. If I didn't live in Finland that add would've worked on me
@@idiotically-everything yeah me too! Well I dont have reptiles in any shape or form... And I live in Denmark. But otherwise it would 😆
Omgosh another like from snake discovery! I feel honored!! 😃
The ad def worked on me lol. I’m building a new tank for my crestie and I know where i’m getting all the decor and substrate for him
I wouldn’t be surprised if they need a wetter environment considering that mangrove trees are water trees so I assume the snakes are from a similar environment
jerry wasn’t eating the product. he was doing quality control. he’s a dedicated employee. 🤭
I beleive Kevin at NERD has Mangrove snake breeding experience, if you haven't already. Maybe a chat with Kevin may help fine tune your method, about his results, how calcified he finds the eggs to be, how moist he incubates them etc.
I skip ads and promos for merch every time when watching a YT video. Your merch ad BETTER be on every video from here on out because it was hilarious! Emily getting knocked over by Ed's merch toss, Gary eating the fake plant and slacking watching videos on the phone. You two have found a new career!
I nearly died when Emily fell over from Ed throwing merch at her😂 love the hatched baby mangrove snakes! Interesting how mom and dad have yellow stripes but the babies have red. Orange. Or yellow. Guessing the red and orange are recessive. I want some live noodles to play with lol
It also may be like variable kingsnakes and (I think) green tree pythons, where there's a range of color variation and it's somewhat random what the babies look like.
It unfortunately could be baby coloring that they lose as they grow
i think maybe the humidity isnt high enough; perhaps theyre thicker to protect from excess moisture during the rainy season, and so need a higher level humidity?
This makes me wonder if the substrate these eggs are normally laid in is both damp and slightly acidic.. having the ground be slightly acidic would cause the shells to become softened since it would leach the calcium from the shell while leaving the membranes intact (think leaving a raw chicken egg in vinegar to dissolve the hard shell but on a much less extreme scale).
From what i can see online they lay their eggs in tree hollows in the wild which would make some sense since decomposing wood releases things like tannins that are weakly acidic.
Something else i have noticed is that the incubation periods stated for this species seem to be really inconsistent, with the smithsonian saying 45 days and zoo Thailand saying 12 weeks which is nearly double, and various forums making different claims.
One source stated: "I have bred B. d. divergens three times and had learned from the mistakes on how to rear the hatchlings. Incubation temperature must be kept between 28 and 32 degreess Celsius; RH at 70-80% for a period of 52-68 days." Before going on to describe keeping the neonates in a paludarium style brood enclosure to ensure proper humidity
Another source (centered around boyga cyanea but containing some useful information around boigas in general) mentioned a 112 day incubation for cyanea but most interestingly referenced the extremely tough shells seeming very unusual to them. That source then claimed they had spoken to European breeders of boigas (since they are apparently a more popularly kept species in europe) and that they were informed that the tough shells are normal for cat snakes (they also mention hatching difficulties which they attributed to the shells and potential drop in humidity, along with babies reaching full term but never hatching)
All sources i have seen seem to suggest that the biggest key to success with incubation is high humidity and that neonates need the same high humidity. Many imply that force feeding is necessary to start off neonates or that there is a low success rate with hatching and neonate survival in general but there doesn't seem to be all that much information
A way to test this would be to split a clutch and incubate one half normally and use blackwater to hydrate the other half to simulate the natural environmental conditions (best way I've found to make it personally for use in aquariums is using black alder cones, either sanitised by baking them first or by just boiling them and then using that water directly). Blackwater is also known to have mild antifungal properties so that could be an additional benefit.
Your theory on the tannins and the acidity makes so much sense to me. Nearly all tropical fish from that region (especially bettas and gourami) also do better with high tannins and more acidic conditions, so it would stand that snakes from roughly the same environment would also require that
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That tiny blue hard hat was brilliant.
Reminds me of Mike from monsters Inc with his helmet
i have been watching for about 5 years and this has to be one of the most beautiful clutch's i have ever seen
Same
Sameee
Haha!! The whole merch part had me dying!
The tiny helmet for the beardie. 😍😭❤️
You are the worst at riding
Why can’t you just go to the store? And buy them
Omg that has to be the best ad I’ve ever seen🤣🤣 the way Emily just fell
The pure releif and joy in Emily's voice when she said "i didn't kill them"
I don't have any reptiles...yet. but I'm buying everything with that top notch ad 😂
honestly, the way emily looks at these tiny tiny noodles is what keeps me coming back to these videos hahah she loves them SO MUCH, its so sweet
What a long time for them to incubate. Even after Emily opened an “eggzit”!
Hi guys you are my favorite UA-camrs you guys help me get over my biggest fear of snakes, and now I have a snake and a bearded dragon
Grats! Lemme guess! You got a hognose!? No wait, a cornsnake? Bull snake?
@@electricheartpony a corn snake
But I almost got a hognose
@@CaraTaylorsVersion558 nice! I'm thinking a hognose for my first snake. I hope for an overly dramatic one, lol
@@electricheartpony yea for my birthday I am going to have a YES day so I’ll probably get one
Snake discovery is my favorite reptile channel!!!
SAME
Same I love the baby videos especially the hognose they are so cute
@@eternityfocused4293 YES THEY EXPLAIN EVERYTHING SO WELL AND ARE SO FUNNY AND ENTERTAINING TO WATCH!
@@stephanienoblet8503 omg yes the hog nose are so cute one of my favorite species
They’re so cute! Especially the tail wiggles ❤❤
I didn't hear a "snake not included" 😳, I'm ordering that water bottle right now!! 🤣🤣😘 Cute commercial 💚
Mangrove implies a wet environment, maybe highly variable depending on humidity 🤔
It was great seeing dad at the end there because I keep forgetting how big these guys can get when I see them hatch.
The reptiles packing orders and the beardie in the helmet were magnificent. Well done, I'm so glad I subscribe to you
Maybe the high calcium content in mice or rats compared to maybe a bird or a chick? Truely a mystery why the eggs are too thick to hatch from! Edit: just got to the part where you explained you fed the adults chicks! The mystery deepens!!
I had a good, hearty belly-laugh at the merch throw.
ahh yes the old incubate until no debate! so glad they hatched out! it was indeed looking dire but they are so pretty :D
that mold was worrisome. I'm glad they made it!!
When the snakes hatch and the egg-sit opens easily: "I AM SO STRONG!"
I wonder if they are over calcified? Perhaps the mothers naturally don't get enough calcium to harden the shells, so when they do, they over harden the shells. I wouldn't want to test that theory, and I have no experience or expertise, but I do have to wonder.
Oh the little hard hat. I'm dying
I am HERE for the snake discovery commercials, i can't wait for all the different ways you will promote your shop XD
congratulations,that was incredible.
So now you know its possible to keep developing even after the shell was cut. if before they are finished another time,that might come in handy at another time when you have doubts and are worried the little creature inside are drowning.
It might be worth looking at something to keep it a bit better cl,osed,and keep the fluids in the egg, maybe with surgical glue or small pieces of thin silicone bandage ,im not sure what you call it in english,its used for burnwounds and other skindamage that takes a long time to heal. mayby you could look at what they have at a farmacey,
Omg that beardie safety helmet is so cute lol
Ayy the snake subtitles are back!
I always loved them the most in the early Snake Discovery days!!
Omg I can’t with the reptile warehouse workers 😂😍
Not only is that male very well mannered, he looks extremely friendly and very social!
He was sniffing Emily all the time, climbing her, trying to go on her head lol
Such an adorable lil man, and my god is he beautiful, those colors are amazing
I’m loving these late egg season hatching videos
It almost makes me wonder if they were incubated with too low humidity? Maybe next time you get eggs you can test that by just having a higher humidity, maybe even higher temperatures, since they're endemic to southeast Asia, which tends to be very hot and wet. I don't know, just a thought. But I'm glad you're trying to captive breed since I hate when people get wild caught and keep getting wild caught instead of trying to breed them.
It’s very interesting how mangrove snakes and mangrove monitor’s both have the Sameish pattern (Both black and yellow)
The commercial was ✨GOLD✨ ❤️❤️
I love the little subtitles that are on behalf of the snakes 😂😂
The wailing sound Emily made when the mound of merch hit her though.... still laughing!!! 🤣😂😂🤣😂😂🤣😂😂😂
Very interested in purchasing a captive bred baby mangrove snake from you guys! Theres so many untrustworthy snake breeders that ive seen have them, but I'd absolutely buy one from yall!
I don't think people are shocked enough that these hatched. Absolutely insane.
wondering if ed and emily have seen the footage of the newly discovered northern green anaconda yet! from what i’ve read green anacondas were seen to be one species but have now been identified as genetically distinct. the anaconda found and filmed by freek vonk was 26 feet long and 440 pounds!
The advertisement was my favorite part lol
LOL I get that feeling. My last clutch of white lined eggs was taking forever and I had resolved that if they didn't hatch within a couple of days, I was going to assist the first egg and see where it was at. Ended up not needing to, but I had pretty much stopped watching. Then I had gotten used to the eggs hatching 3-4 days apart and the second one hatched the next day instead.
That needs to be an ad for TV
That merch ad was hilarious!
Lolz your “commercial” was totally on brand and hilarious. Love your dedicated staff and the catching your products 😂😂😂
Mangroves are such attractive snakes. That black with yellow-orange bands is just gorgeous.
So happy you’ve posted. Love you guys. Cheers 🇦🇺
I remember there was an experiment where some grade schooles grew chicken eggs out of the shell using plastic shrinkwrap and an incubator, maybe you could do that if you ever have a cracked egg.
Oh my gosh my new dream is to hold a (friendly) mangrove snake!!!! I love how much they love to climb and explore. Ever since I got over my fear of snakes because of you guys, I’ve been wanting to meet you and maybe touch a snake or two…but now I REALLY want to hold a mangrove snake too! 😊💛
Shop add was teh best thing I've seen today=3 I'm glad the snekks made it!! Tail wiggle is so intense, love it=3
The way Emily was happy and said "I didnt kill them" was so sweet and cool that the Mangrove babys hatched although the eggs were cut open 🥳
"Incubate till theres no debate!!"❤😂
wow, that dad snake is absolutely stunning! how fun that he loves climbing on you! heheh
So beutiful
I'm so amazed to see that in spite of how bad the moldy eggs looked, they still hatched.
I was laughing when Emily fell when Edd threw the merch at her
I love babies!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
Something tells me that Jerry has had many coaching sessions.
cant get enough from your fantastic ad guys
Man those really are some thick egg shells 😮
I love the hard hats on the bearded dragons 😂
Awwhh that cute little blue helmet🥰😂❤
It’ll be interesting to see if the more reddish one keeps that tint into adulthood!
I wasss howling when Ed threw all that stuff at you Emily when he shouts "plus we have tons of snake discovery stuff!" And boom clothes in face 🤣🤣
So cute🥰🥰🥰...perhaps you could name the snake after a time of mould seeming as they hatched from eggs that had mould growing on them??🤔🤔😊
Mangrove dad is so chill, I love how content he was to just climb all over Emily!
The merch ad had me in the floor 😂😂😂
It had Emily on the floor, too! 😂
@@GlowingTrashPanda99 love,😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 yes
THE WAY SHE FELL LOL
Hi Ed & Emily! I stumbled across an article in Scientific American that REALLY grabbed my attention! It was about the Ringed Caecilian, and about the mother feeding her young when they "cry" for it! It isn't the same way as a mammal, but she "nurses" the babies! And of course it's very... interesting?, that they eat her skin every 7 days or so! Can you tell i get excited about this stuff?😂 But you probably already know about this amphibian...
They are so curious and active, amazing how big they get from such small eggs. Good you cut the eggs.
I just LOVE the blocky heads of the mangrove babies! And they're such gorgeous adults! I'm so glad you kept incubating them!
It was hilarious when Ed was yeeting merch at Emily, and she was smushed
The mini hard hats are soooo cute!
I’m wondering if perhaps you can sand the top of the shells thinner, when they are close to hatching rather than risk cutting them prematurely?
Remember last time when the eggs expanded? Maybe the film was the part that expanded and that probably helped them hatch
I got my wisdom teeth removed today, and this video definitely helped me feel better. Thank you for your wonderful videos, I always look forward to more babies and breeding videos along with the shenanigans
Did i see a GREEN TREE PYTHON video in the failed folder?!? Aw, im so curious!
I love when they do skit things 😂😂😂
Honestly, I'm so happy for you two! I've been a follower since Rex was adopted and seeing the progress has been amazing! Going from inside your own home to a massive warehouse and store has been incredible. I'm so happy to see the clutch of Mangroves survived as having captive bred snakes is so important to the trade.
I wish everyone at Snake Discovery the best! Everyone is amazing!
That's awesome. I guess they just weren't ready yet. Lol.
I would talk to Kevin over at Nerd he may give you guys some good advice on the eggs.
Mangrove snake eggs are indeed very thick, and a lot of the Mangrove snake babies don’t really develop their egg tooth fully. Helping them is a great choice! This usually happens with bred mangrove snakes! And usually the egg also cracks on its own
Hope that’s helpful :3
Best AD ever !
Ed enjoyed chucking that stuff at Emily way too much lol 😂