- Obviously the wrong female Anaconda had babies
the other day.
We know that it's Ariana now of course that had the babies,
but the fact is a lot of people did ask, like,
what if maybe Ivy is a male and he bred of course Ariana?
Well, the fact is is that when we got Ivy,
we actually sexed her, and she was a female, number one,
and number two, males just don't get that big.
It's something that's called sexual dimorphism, right?
So a male Anaconda typically will never get more than eight,
maybe nine foot.
They could maybe max out at 10 foot,
but they're never gonna be a beast
like this girl right here.
I mean, look at how incredible.
She has gotten so big, guys,
where I am not even kidding you,
it is literally impossible for one person
to pick this animal up.
I mean, I can't even get her off the ground.
It is crazy.
Anacondas are like next level when it comes to
actually the size of them.
I mean, she's only 11 and a half foot.
You figure, about some I read are are 20 foot long,
and I can still pick 'em up, and here at 11 foot,
I literally can't get this girl off the ground without help.
I mean, it's gonna be crazy when she's 16, 17 foot,
and another 50, 60, 70, maybe even a hundred pounds.
I tell ya what, Ivy is still one of my favorite snakes
I've ever owned in my entire life,
and she is an absolute beauty.
I mean a green Anaconda, but the fact is, guys,
yes, she is a female.
I promise you.
That was a virgin birth in that Ivy
was not the daddy of that litter.
But we are looking for a male, to be honest with you.
I'd love to get a male that is ready
to breed both Ivy and Ariana now.
Of course we want him to be tame if possible,
but hey, beggars can't be choosers.
So if you know anyone that has a male anaconda
that would like to sell it
and have it here at the reptarium,
I would love to get one because boy, oh boy,
I know if Ariana had one live baby,
Ivy is gonna have about 30 or 40 of 'em,
'cause she is a giant.
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Since we've been hanging out with some big snakes,
there's no doubt that I'm gonna take my girl Gemma out.
She is an absolute beauty. There is no doubt about that.
Again, last time we weighed her 135 pounds,
only 16 and a half foot.
Thinking about that, she's gonna eventually maybe get 20,
maybe even 22, 23 foot.
Think how big she's gonna be at that point.
Maybe 200 plus pounds, for sure.
I mean, but she is absolutely incredible.
I've always mentioned that this is a snake
that I've always wanted, you know.
I love Lucy. I love Daisy.
I love all of those big snakes.
You know, obviously I love Ivy,
but there's just something about a giant reticulate Python
that is just placid as this,
that almost acts more like a Burmese Python
where it doesn't move around a lot
and it's really easy to interact with, right?
And I tell ya, she has been a dream come true.
There is no doubt about it,
and just look at how beautiful she is
and how absolutely habituated she is to handling.
I mean, you can bring this out in any occasion,
and people are like, oh my god, that is a giant snake,
and I've said this a million times,
like, isn't it crazy to think that snakes
like this actually live on this planet?
I mean, to me that just blows me away.
It's almost like dinosaur time, you know,
if you were to see a goanna that was 15 foot long,
that's kinda how I feel about giant snakes, right?
Like you just wouldn't expect that these are roaming
in the wilderness of Indonesia and the Philippines.
I mean, I found some articulated pythons in Indonesia,
but they were just small ones.
I couldn't imagine coming across a 16, 17, 20 foot long
reticulated python, just trouncing around
in the jungle someday,
but I tell you what, I hope I find that one day,
because that would be absolutely incredible,
but for now, Gemma is absolutely a dream come true.
- We just got this new Dumeril's boa.
- [Host] What's her name?
- I thought you knew it.
- I dunno.
- [Man In White Tee] Let's call her Beyonce.
- But it's a female,
so of course we got Bread Loaf right here, and--
- And Gerald.
- And Gerald. So now we've got Beyonce.
- What if we called her like Vulga?
Bread Loaf and Gerald.
- [Man In Green Tee] Beyonce. Beauty.
- Well, we already got (indistinct).
- [Man In Green Tee] There you have her.
- So, obviously we have Bread Loads.
- I thought I was talking.
Okay, go ahead.
- I'll talk about my snake, I guess.
- Okay.
- [Woman] I think I should talk,
since I'm the one who got her here.
- [Man In Green Tee] That's true.
- We've had Bread Loaf for a long time.
Obviously, he's our biggest.
I really hope she don't (indistinct)
- [Man In Green Tee] Dumeril's.
- Biggest Dumeril's boa, and obviously awesome.
- Gerald, okay, he's 37 years old.
There's something wrong with his growth spur though.
I don't know what's going-- nah, I'm just joking.
But Gerald, we've had him for a few years
here at the Reptarium.
He's a fan favorite. Pretty much.
He's just rock solid.
If a kid wants to hold a snake for the first time,
hand 'em Gerald.
- And now we got this new girl here who doesn't have a name.
Noah said Beyonce,
but something's just telling me that
that's probably not gonna stick,
and as you guys see,
she's already super, super tame.
Look how sweet she is, and she's perfect.
'Cause she's not as a small as Gerald,
not as big as Bread Loaf.
So yeah, come check her out.
Dad.
Dad!
- [Man In Purple Tee] What?
- [Man In Green Tee] Can we name the new snake Beyonce?
- [Man In Purple Tee] Yeah, that's a no.
(Men laugh)
- [Man In Green Tee] There you have it.
There you have it. No Beyonce.
- And then of course we have our future big snakes, right?
You know, these are the animals
that one day will be the giant snakes at the Reptarium,
starting off with Neapolitan,
what I called Neo now for short.
Absolutely wonderful. Eating like crazy.
Really putting some size on already.
I mean those red eyes and that pied look
are absolutely wonderful.
I mean, I am so obsessed with this animal.
You don't even understand, and it's just a baby,
but one day this animal is gonna get big,
you know, 15 plus, 16, 17, maybe even 18 foot.
Now the original pied stuff was actually kinda smaller,
maybe 12 to 14 foot, but as you breed it more into mainland,
they get bigger and bigger.
So she does have some mainland stuff.
Of course the golden child is actually
kind of a smaller thing as well,
but she should probably get, I would say on the average of,
you know, anywhere from 15 to 18 foot.
So she's gonna be a giant snake,
but what an absolute stunner of an animal.
I mean, I'm telling you what,
that thing just blows me away every time I look at it.
And of course, then we have the rock pythons, right?
This is actually the patternless rock python, male.
That's absolutely a credible animal.
So we're trying to get the giant snakes here, right?
I mean, there's no doubt that rock pythons get huge.
I mean, these guys will get like the size
of a big Burmese Python.
They typically have a little bit of a crazy attitude.
So we're doing a lot with handling these guys
as they're babies, because we want 'em to stay super tame,
so when they get bigger,
they're not absolutely crazy, right?
But one day this is gonna be probably a 15 to 18 foot snake.
Of course the female could get even a little bit larger.
They're a heavy body snake,
and we're trying to do our best we could do
to represent all of the giant snakes here at the Reptarium.
Speaking of that, we actually have another giant snake
that's gonna be coming in in about a week or so.
I'll have more on that later.
I don't want to ruin the surprise, but definitely,
really always worked with giant snakes my whole life,
and I just think there's nothing more impressive
than a really large snake.
I mean, look at this animal.
It's gonna be incredible when it's an adult.
Walking into the lion's den.
Of course, Lucy, my girl.
When I'm talking about giant snakes,
Lucy is always gonna be in the conversation
'cause she still is my baby.
I love her, but she is in shed right now,
and so when Lucy's in shed, you don't muck with her.
I mean, there's no doubt about that,
because she's a cantankerous girl when she's not in shed,
so when she's in shed and blue like this,
she is definitely not an animal that I'm gonna mess with,
but nevertheless, she's still absolutely wonderful.
I love her to death,
and she'll always be one of my favorite giant snakes,
even if she is a little bit of a handful at times.
Of course, Sunrise is our largest Burmese Python,
but you know, they can get really huge.
When I was younger, I actually had a Burmese python
that was over 18 foot and about 150 pounds.
One time she laid 98 eggs. That's right.
98 eggs, almost got to that hundred mark,
so these guys can get big.
I mean, I'd say Sunrise iss about 10 and a half foot or so.
So she can literally grow another seven, eight foot
or something like that.
I can't wait to get this girl this size,
'cause she's so beautiful, and again,
there's the pros and cons to it, right?
The cons are the fact that, you know,
people won't be able to pick her up like this
and kinda hold her, but the pros are,
it's gonna be cool to have a giant Burmese python
that we can take out and people can actually interact with,
'cause she's so absolutely beautiful,
but again, we don't just have Sunrise.
I don't know if you guys remember,
we got a normal hypo Burmese python too.
Of course we have Jeffrey, the hypo granite Burmese python.
That's absolutely incredible,
but we're raising up other stuff too, right?
Whether they be educational animals, whether they be,
you know, they're eventually gonna be over
at the Reptarium full-time.
This is a cool animal in hypo Burms,
as they get older, get lighter and lighter.
They're a little bit of a different shade
of the albino Burmese Python like Sunrise.
So I just think it's gonna be a cool addition.
So this guy is doing really, really good,
tame as could be, absolutely love it,
and the pattern and color is absolutely incredible.
Love Penelope. She is absolutely a darling.
Another really beautiful Burmese Python that we have,
that we haven't really ever really introduced
to be honest with you,
this is actually a pearl Burmese python,
which is actually a hypo albino.
So it's kind of just a different kind of shade
of an albino, right?
And this is gonna be an animal ambassador for sure.
Now whether or not this actually gets over to the Reptarium,
that's hard to say.
So what we're doing now is we're actually trying
to put a group together of some educational animals
that don't necessarily belong at the Reptarium,
but are still gonna be super tame
and just absolutely wonderful animals,
that way when we go to Zoo to you and school events
and stuff like that, we can actually take those animals,
and not take animals out of the Reptarium,
and that's for two reasons.
Number one, we don't want those animals at the Reptarium
to get stressed out, going around all the time,
not to mention we really don't like the quarantine factor
as well, right?
So we wannna make sure that we have kind of a new set
of animals if that sort of speaks,
so maybe we'll have like two sets of educational animals
and maybe an A set and a B set,
and they're all the really cool animals.
And this Pearl Burm is probably gonna be one
of the mainstays, kinda like Sunrise iss at the Reptarium,
but this one will actually probably go out
to school events and Zoo to You's and birthday parties,
and so on like that.
Now that brings me to the next point,
as you see a lot of racking systems here,
and that's where even this one is being kept right now.
Now I'll be honest, it's in a big enclosure,
but I actually wanna get away from racking systems,
especially for this stuff with Zeus.
Now that doesn't mean I'm gonna completely get away
with racking systems,
'cause some snakes I think actually do pretty well in 'em,
particularly ball pythons.
You know, really ball pythons do really good
in rack systems, but the animals that don't,
I really wannna switch over.
So this entire aisle, both this side and this side,
we're hoping we can get rid of all of the racking systems,
and I really like the caging system
that's called Toad Ranch.
They just look cool, like a plastic type of cage,
but they actually look like wood grain. Really cool.
So we're gonna actually hook up with those guys,
have 'em build a bunch of custom cages here and here
that the animals can actually have climbing branches,
naturalistic, almost like little Reptarium setups down here,
and that's where all the educational animals are gonna stay,
and to be honest with you,
a few animals we might breed might stay
in those enclosures too.
So like I said, not gonna completely get away
from racking systems,
but we're definitely gonna reduce racking systems
quite a bit over the next year, year and a half
or something like that.
Nevertheless, this animal is gonna make a great addition
to our animal ambassadors 'cause it's absolutely gorgeous.
- [Man] (indistinct) I coulda sworn I left the Burm in here.
- Did you really?
- [Man] Yeah.
- [Mike] Shane.
- [Woman] Yeah.
- [Man] Come check it out. Come here.
- [Man In Green Tee] Did you really?
- [Man] Come here.
- I actually asked you to not do something with my phone.
- [Man] Come here, come here.
- And you actually put it in the cage
I didn't want you to put it.
- [Man] Noah, did you hear?
- [Noah] No.
- [Man] I put Mike's phone in the (indistinct).
- No. (laughs)
- Now it looks like I peed myself.
Who's team are you on?
- Team vlog
- So what TMJ?
Is it actually in there?
(sighs)
Well no that's my phone?
I thought it was just the case. I'm like, I'll get it later.
Why would you do this to me?
- It's just the content.
It's just, you.
- Oh
That was.
- Just get it. It's so far away.
He's so fast.
- I'll protect you
- No you won't
- Oh my God.
I'm jump scare me. That's your name?
And he's just my case. You sons of
- I told you I wouldn't lie to you, dude.
You going to do nothing with your phone bro.
- So my buddy Tony stopped by and
I think that I found my new
whip. We're talking about big snakes today.
I think that sunrise is going to enjoy a little ride in the
this cool Vespa.
What do you guys think? Let me know down the comments.
- There was nothing like giant snakes, right?
They are absolutely incredible. As a matter of fact,
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