- She is a beautiful, beautiful snake.
Whoa, she's giving me a good squeeze right now.
I'm gonna go ahead and get her back in her cage.
(gagging)
As you can see,
she's a runner too
and trying to keep her in check
is not easy at all.
(yelling)
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Hey good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I am gonna show you the giant snakes today.
That's right, all of my reticulated pythons
and yes, Perdida is one of the giant snakes
but of course, she is a cow reticulated python.
In this particularly locality, actually does
typically stay small.
Normally a cow reticulated python isn't gonna get
much bigger than 10 or 12 feet.
But what an absolutely gorgeous snake
but of course, reticulated pythons or in particular,
mainland reticulated pythons can get
25 plus feet long
so they are absolutely incredible
and I'm gonna take you on the journey
of each and every reticulated python that we keep here
at the Reptarium and at BHB.
Here's a reticulate python that I don't show you guys
nearly enough.
For those of you that have been following the vlog
for a while, you know that this is actually Ricky.
Yes, originally, Ricky was kinda the mate to Lucy,
you know Ricky and Lucy,
but he is Jampae dwarf but he's an albino.
But let me just explain what that means.
Basically, the Jampea dwarfs and then their
all kinds of other localities of dwarfs
are actually island forms that stay much smaller
than the mainland.
But what a lotta people don't understand
is they'll say,
"I have an albino dwarf reticulated python,"
but what happens is once you breed an albino mainland
into a dwarf, obviously
it isn't really a dwarf reticulated python anymore.
It's only 50% dwarf reticulated python.
So like with Ricky here
that's a little bigger than some of the Jampea animals.
But granted, it's much smaller than a mainland animal.
He's about seven or eight years old
and he is only about 10, maybe 11 foot long.
And of course, you get into super dwarfs
which are much smaller than even the Jampea dwarf.
They can sometimes max out at six or seven foot.
But again, once you breed 'em into a mainland,
you're gonna start getting that giant blood
back into 'em, if that makes sense.
So again, if you want a really small reticulated python,
the real only smalls one are ones that are either
completely dwarf from dwarf localities
or one that has been bred back.
So you can take an animal like Ricky here
that's 50% Jampea, breed it back to a dwarf
and now it's three quarter dwarf,
which means it even gets smaller and smaller.
Just food for thought but nevertheless,
Ricky is amazing.
Then of course, we have Night Fury
the beautiful black reticulated python.
This of course, is a GoldenChild Motley.
The GoldenChild and the Motley mixed together
gets that really solid black animal
with all that beautiful iridescence.
He has a few other genes in him as well.
Absolutely a stunning snake.
Again, I love Perdida, that white with black freckling
but I tell you what, this solid black retic
is pretty amazing.
And again, because of all the genes that are in this,
in particular, GoldenChild,
these typically won't get as large as the really big
mainlands, they're typically a 12 to maybe 14,
maybe 15 foot type of animal.
They're not gonna get 20 plus foot
because the GoldenChild's locality
that came off that island version was actually
a smaller locality, not really a dwarf Jampea
but definitely a smaller locality.
Nevertheless, Night Fury is gorgeous.
Now we're gonna get into the giants,
the mainland variety.
This is actually a Lavender albino
and of course this is Daisy.
She's one of the big girls.
She's about eight years old and of course,
the sister to Lucy.
Now she's just shy of 18 foot.
I think she's 17 foot six inches if I'm not mistaken,
whereas Lucy is over 20 foot now, so.
These guys are the big ones for sure.
And again, it was all about locality with these guys.
The fact that this locality, the mainland locality
are the giants and that's where the Lavender albinos
and albino reticulated pythons first came from.
And of course, the story is pretty interesting.
An albino came into the country and Bob Clark
is actually the one that got the animal.
It was a male and believe it or not,
it had a broken back.
It could barely even move its rear end.
So a lotta people thought there was no way
that he was ever gonna be able to reproduce 'em.
And when he actually got a clutch of eggs,
there were even some people--
myself included, to be honest with you--
wondered,
"Hey, is that maybe retained sperm
"from another male breeding?"
'Cause after all, how could an animal that had
a broken back actually father a clutch?
Well sure enough, he proved heterozygous,
he raised 'em up, and a few years later,
he produced these beautiful Lavender albino
reticulated pythons and that really is what
changed the game when it came to these giant pythons.
I've mentioned before that my girl, Sunfire here
is really a future big ambassador for us.
We've been handling her a lot and she's got
a really great personality but she likes to run a little bit
so as she's getting more comfortable with being handled
all the time, she is gonna be amazing.
So I think that again, when it comes to like the Daisys
and even the Sunrises, which of course is an albino Burmese
that Sunfire here will eventually be
one of those ambassador animals.
And of course, the reason we named her Sunfire,
she is a Sunfire Super Tiger,
absolutely one of the prettiest reticulated pythons
we own.
And again, she's getting much better about
being handled, even though she likes to move a lot.
She is still a stunning snake.
And you know, I'm realizing, I have quite a few
reticulated pythons.
It's kind of interesting 'cause I only really had two
which was Lucy and Daisy for quite a while,
and now I've been getting more and more of 'em
'cause they're just such amazing, beautiful animals.
Of course, Casper would fit into that.
This thing is gorgeous.
It's a Black Eyed Leucistic, which of course is a
Super Phantom reticulated python.
Interestingly enough, the very early
Black Eyed Leucistics oftentimes had a lotta stomach issues
so a lot of 'em didn't make it to adulthood.
Casper is one of the very first
Black Eyed Leucistic retic that Kevin McCurley
over at NERD Crew said actually survived and thrived.
And I am so happy that eventually he allowed us
to bring him in because he's been an incredible animal
ambassador and he's in shed right now.
So when he comes out of shed,
he's even more gorgeous and people come to the Reptarium
all the time.
They love, love, love handling this little monkey.
Now we got my girl Butterscotch here,
who is a great, great snake.
This girl has unlimited energy.
She is always on the go and of course,
she is a Tiger reticulated python
but it was actually produced by Jay over at
Prehistorics and friend of mine that bought it from
said that it was a special Tiger.
I'm still not 100% sure what that means
but I think there might be some other genes
because she definitely looks really good.
'Cause Lucy is actually a Tiger retic as well
and this girl looks even better.
But again, she is high energy.
She's maybe 12 or 13 foot
and she's giving me quite a squeeze right now,
I gotta be honest with ya.
And the thing is, when you're handling these big snakes,
if you're not comfortable, you could definitely
start to panic because
these guys will squeeze ya pretty hard
and if you're not comfortable, you'll think,
"Oh my God, I'm gonna black out."
The truth is, they're just trying to hang onto you
like you're a tree
and she loves to move.
She is super energetic.
I still think that she's gonna clam down eventually
and be a really good animal ambassador.
But for now, she has got to stop moving
because I think that people that
don't have experience handling big snakes
are definitely gonna have a problem handling this girl.
She is a beautiful, beautiful snake.
Whoa, she's giving me a good squeeze right now.
I'm gonna go ahead and get her back in her cage.
(gagging)
You know there's no way I can do a show about retics
and not highlight my girl, Lucy.
Of course, she is my biggest reticulated python
at 20 plus foot long, almost 200 pounds.
Definitely not a snake you can handle on your own
so I've got Eric and Bruce about to help me
but first thing I have to do is just get her
and start to get her out.
So hopefully, she's gonna be in a good mood.
Lucy, you in a good mood today?
You in a good mood, sweetheart?
I'm just gonna push her head aside just a little bit
just to make sure you know I'm not food.
And that's the big thing with these guys, right?
Is the first thing you wanna do is we don't want her
to be defensive, number one.
And number two, we don't want her think that we're food.
She's not defensive
and she knows that I'm not food.
Then, we can actually handle her.
So the big thing is is to just get her rolling, right?
Okay, good, she's running now so that's good.
It's a good thing but she's starting to act up
just a little bit, I don't want that to happen.
Okay, okay.
Alright.
And at some point,
you just have to go for it
and that's what I'm gonna do right now.
You got the front?
She's fine, she's fine.
Would you mind grab that?
Oooh, doggie.
She has put on some weight.
She is a big snake.
- [Eric] She sure has.
Oh my God.
It's like two tons.
- So you can see,
she's a runner too.
And trying to keep her in check is not easy at all.
Just keeping her going.
Oh my gosh.
This is a big snake.
And she's been putting on a lot of size lately.
Okay, yep.
- Oh my goodness.
- You can see, it takes three of us to hold her
and it's still...
(laughter)
And it still can wear you out even with three people.
She is all muscle.
Again,
she's about 200 pounds
and she is an amazing, amazing snake.
Look at how great she is.
But again, she's in-- oh!
She's in a pretty good mood today, I think.
- [Bruce] I hope.
No, no, no.
- And,
she is a lotta fun.
I gotta be honest with you, even though
she's a heavy snake and she's definitely
a lotta work.
- We have a oil leak.
- Oh, no we gotta leak.
(yelling)
- Gross.
Oh, no get a bucket.
Get a bucket, no, no.
- [Cameraman] Stick your finger in there!
Clog it, Eric.
Stick your finger!
(gagging)
- Oh, no!
- Okay, so.
- [Cameraman] Eric, go grab a towel.
Go grab one.
- I'll be honest with ya,
that's the end of the snake that I don't like more.
I would almost rather get bit
than get pooped on and peed on back there 'cause
trust me, if you guys could smell right now,
it doesn't smell too good
and that's again, another one
of big snakes' kind of defense mechanism.
Sometimes, if they're like,
"Alright, I'm not gonna bit ya but I'm just gonna
"pee all over ya."
The other thing that happens is quite honestly,
is that when they're moving around, it's
moving a lot of things inside there.
And so with all that jumbling up
that often happens where
they just kinda pee all over the place.
But nevertheless,
Lucy's amazing.
Guys, you did good.
- Alright!
Not so much, huh?
- Yeah, you were kinda,
I don't know, you were kinda the weak link in this bunch.
Bruce did good.
Eric...
- I'm still tired from that Tokay.
(laughs)
- You can see, once she calms down,
she's actually a pretty good animal.
You just have to wear her out a little bit
and get her into a comfortable spot.
Man, Lucy is absolutely
incredible.
And if you wanna own a retic,
one day you might have to deal with something like this.
A couple retics that I haven't shown in a while
because they're over here in the dungeon
at BHB of course is
Kelsey's baby, Titan.
And you think he might eat a rabbit today, possibly?
- I'm feeling good about it.
- Okay, let's give it a shot.
Titan usually eats rats but we're gonna try a rabbit today,
we'll see what happens.
Titan, you wanna eat, bud?
Maybe not.
He might not be interested.
Okay, I have a feeling Titan is not gonna
take a rabbit today, which is completely fine
because he might be starting to get into breeding mode,
which by the way, Kelsey,
next week we're gonna start putting Titan back in with Lucy.
- Awesome.
- Really, Kelsey's the one that talked me into
breeding 'em last year,
so I figured it'd be really cool to do it again
this year.
And a few people asked me,
"Are you gonna breed Lucy this year?"
Well now you have the answer.
Let's go ahead and see if Cronos east.
If Cronos doesn't eat, that's okay too.
But let's go ahead and see if he will.
And of course, Cronos is another Titanium
so let's see if he wants to eat.
He looks a little interested but I'm not sure yet.
Okay, so Cronos is gonna eat either.
But again, male retics start shutting down
when they start wanna get into breeding mode.
So regardless, there you go.
Titan and Cronos,
beautiful Titanium retics.
And of course, we were just talking about breeding
Lucy and Titan together.
This is one of the babies that we're holding back
from Lucy and Titan.
Of course, these are Citron Tigers.
Because Titanium is a super version of Citron,
these guys are absolutely wonderful, beautiful animals
and I tell you what, I love reticulated pythons
and that basically sums up what we've got going on here
at BHB and the Reptarium with reticulated pythons.
But we are certainly gonna get more.
On my wishlist, would be a Pyge reticulated python
and there's a couple other retics
that I'm really looking at,
thinking,
"Wow, I wouldn't mind adding 'em,"
so we definitely have a growing
colony of reticulated pythons.
They are amazing animals.
And if you ever want to work with giant snakes
or for that matter, if you wanna get super dwarfs
that don't get that big, reticulated pythons
are super intelligent, super amazing animals
and we absolutely love 'em to death.
And there you go, guys.
Our huge snakes.
I hope that you guys like it.
Bunch of people had made a comment saying,
"Yes, do a showcase on just your reticulated pythons,"
so I hope that you enjoyed this vlog.
I am gonna go ahead and end the vlog here
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