My name is Nick Polaski. Ever since I was young I have had a passion for wildlife. With traveling and exploring nature I have come across animals in amazing places! My passion for wildlife and my collection of exotic species is always growing! My goals are to have fun helping with conservation, education, inspiration, and learning myself by exploring the world. Seeing the beauty of our natural world. Step by step overtime I have invested so much into these goals with no plans to stop ever. With patience and hard work I will keep the passion I have for wildlife along with others alive. I am excited to get my personal projects going and hope that the videos I share get you excited and inspired as well. Comments are always welcome! So please if you have suggestions let me hear them! Thank you for joining in what I am passionate for! I am excited for the future ahead!
I waited over 20 years to get into breeding ball Pythons. Drives me nuts seeing people buying animals that they impulse buy. When I sell I want to see a video of the person with the enclosure
This is a topic that never gets old. Everyone needs to watch this video, and maybe rewatch every year or so just as a reminder of just how much of a commitment animals can be. I think there have only ever been 2 scenarios where I impulsively got animals. 1 was my beardie. A friend knew of someone looking to rehome their son's beardie that he basically abandoned to his mom and she didn't want to have to care for it anymore. I wasn't ever interested in owning a bearded dragon, but when I saw the condition of the enclosure, I knew he needed to get out of that situation. So my original plan was to get the beardie, revamp the enclosure with proper husbandry, and take him to the reptile expo I was volunteering at for USARK and find a responsible owner who was looking for a beardie and could get him and the enclosure for a deal. But... then I fell in love and decided to keep him. 😅 The other time was NARBC USARK auctions. Idk why, but I decided I was going to fight someone to win a Chinese Beauty Snake in the silent auction without any prior knowledge of the species. But it worked out because Beni is one of my favorite snakes to handle. He's got a great temperament and the husbandry is relatively easy. I also impulsively got a pair of ball pythons in the silent auction too. Spent a little more than I wanted to. But it adds to my future breeding projects with axanthic stuff.
Very great points! And yes i agree it’s definitely a topic that continuously needs revisited because the more eyes we can get on these things the more we can help avoid problems in the future!!
I must have missed the purple snake or you didn't include it in your video. One of us could be color blind. Either way. Clickbait title, don't oversell your videos and you'll have more retention. Cool snakes, downvote unfortunately
Sorry to over sell you. But to each his own on what is classified as purple? There are many shades and this definitely does fit the bill. Not mad at you though i get it may not be the purple you seek but i assure my videos dont oversell for sensationalism you can check through for yourself! I respect your opinion and feedback though
@@NJPExotics Thank you for your reply. I really respect what you do, I like the way you raise your breeders. They are beautiful snakes. Colors are not really subjective. I could be wrong, I'm no color expert, but I think we both agree the thumbnail you used is purple. My only issue was that it's misleading. Again I thank you for your reply, I really respect it and I hope to see your channel and the snakes grow
Of course! Im willing to always have a conversation on things like this and for the record by no means am i mad at you or bitter. Yes the thumb shows a blown out of proportion purple to catch eyes but thats marketing by no means did i expect people to think that’s what was to be seen. I appreciate you though and your kind words lots of fun content to come!
Absolutely beautiful!! Purple is my favorite color and bananas are my favorite morph. It does remind me of a banana blackhead leopard. Can you send in a shed test??
I do nails and during Halloween the favorite nail art is splatter s of red. We put the color on a toothbrush and flick it with a fingertip. Thats kinda what this little ones spots look like. Perhaps you have a whole new morph.
I like that thats so true on the look! Fun fact Halloween is one of my favs! Potentially? But definitely at no means assuming that yet more so believing it could be just an additional current gene in the mix BUT hey you never know! In time we will see!
@@NJPExotics Idk tons about snakes, but do all the hets/morphs come from 1 anomaly of a clutch? Like you know what you should expect, but you get 1 that is totally out of expectations, and when that one breeds you possibly have something new. I watch too much Snake Discovery so I? know words but don't really know what I am talking about.
I know that space is expensive, but I'd love to see the end of rack systems. Most of my favorite RU-vidrs use racks, and I have mixed feelings about supporting them. I really hope that some day we will look back and be embarrassed at how we kept living, sentient beings.
Appreciate you!! Thank you! And i agree on the dorsal as well as Brian! Honestly i know how much he loved producing purple snakes and when i saw this little guy in the egg he was the first person i thought of to text about it wish i got to see his reaction in person but im sure he’s loving it too!
In terms of the gold coloration? I have seen some bananas with it too but then again the two are very closely related genes so it would make sense for sure!
I have a banana mystic that was purple like that as a hatchling and now a slightly darker purple as a young adult. Spots will come in but they are amazing
Looks like a double dark gene banana mix. I have a black pastel leopard banana het pied that has that color of orange and purple but the pattern is different. She is still just as purple as an adult. Your snake looks to be a leopard banana het pied plus another dark gene.
Ooooo. That is an interesting looking banana. We've got a clutch h of bananas hatching right now. Keeper for sure I bet. Would be interesting to see what happens when you pair him to different things. I personally would breed him back to a female banana, and also breed him out to a normal. See what happens if you hit a super banana version of this guy. And then with a normal, maybe his mom, and pick apart and separate the genes.
Both parents were not banana so not a super also supers normally are lighter in coloration at a minimum though its banana leopard het pied though im sure!
The bashing has been going on for eons. It's not just reptiles. It's horses, and dogs, and even human children. People look down on anything that is different from how they do something. But there's more than 1 way to skin a cat, there's more than 1 way to train a dog, there's more than 1 way to break a horse, there's more than 1 way to raise a kid, more than 1 way to keep a specific reptile species. Unfortunately there will always be bad apples in any group.
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I think it’s CRAZY that the whole spider or not to spider is even a debate for snake owners. I breed rats, and no breeder that I know would breed from any rat that had a neurological issue, let alone breed for a coat pattern that came with a known issue! I know people who’ve stopped whole lines because a few customers told them they had to get males neutered for hormonal aggression.
@@TVelodrome it sounds like some kind of punishment handed out by judge Judy or something right? And why was he neutered your honour? He was sleeping around! I mean hormonal aggression m’mam.
Still have the Gonyosoma? I’m waiting on some coming in oct. I like working with boiga, yellow anacondas and couple other boa species. Got one pair of pied balls I may put together.
Very nice species! Good variety! Yes! Still have my male! He just shed out yesterday i’ll show him off soon looking to raise a female to pair with him in the coming years that’s likely my next big move
100% KEEP your Lucy- she is beautiful, & seems to have a bond with you already! …. I used to breed Corn snakes, & years later, I still regret not holding on to some of them. …. The podcast “Animals At Home” has had lots of folks talk about regretting not holding back animals. (But, it is the fact that breeders need to sell animals & need that money to pay their bills.) I personally think ALL of those snakes you showed should be held back… they are very distinct.
I’m leaning towards it!! I know i regret not holding back any of the first pieds I ever produced haha and those feelings and thoughts are circling in my mind again with these snakes!
Sorry to hear about your losses. It definitely happens. In our first clutch of ball pythons for the year we had a baby fathered from a crazy genetic packed snake. We just call him "Mr. Plus Plus Plus". He's an 8-ball pied, het sandblast, poss super sandblast. Het pastel, poss super pastel. Het Mystic. And I think he had 1 more het or poss het. Bit anyway, he is a completely snow white snake with black eyes, red pupils, and 3 individual black scales. He was paired to just a dbl het albino pied. Got a sandblast pied, a Pastel sandblast pied, a mystic, an OD YB pied (dual sire), and "Whitey." Only male in the clutch like his father. Completely white with dark eyes and red pupils. Unfortunately he was a failure to thrive, and I was really bummed about it. Another clutch we had 5 eggs. 2 went bad in the last week of incubation, and when I opened them up they were bamboos. We did get a banger of a pastel bamboo with a ringer. But other 2 snakes that hatched were a pastel and a gravel. (Pairing was Pastel Highway to Bamboo). So really bummed on that clutch. But it just comes with breeding. I'm very grateful that my first ever bullsnake clutch hatched out all 8 eggs being healthy beautiful babies. But being my first year with bulls, I didn't know that laying eggs takes A LOT out of the females. They look terrible afterwards. And you have to slowly bump them back up with small meals or they just end up regurgitating. Lost the female to my 2nd bull clutch because I tried to beef her back up. My first girl is starting to coke back. I just hope she does NOT double clutch, because that would take even more out of her, and then I'd be in trouble.
Sorry to hear about the stresses with the bulls! Yeah hopefully it gets better and they bounce back like you said small meals, rest and time will help them for sure
Congrats on those beautiful babies. I just hatched some banana pieds 50 percent het clown that looks just like yours. It defenitely has me scratching my head. Where can I send you picks of them? Maybe we can figure this out?
