- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I am starting my day with my green anaconda, Ivy,
and she is looking incredible.
You may remember about a week and a half ago,
she ate a 15 pound pig.
Yeah!
Woo!
She definitely grabbed that pig!
Now that's gonna be an extremely big meal for her.
And look at her.
Completely digested, and I'll tell you what,
she is looking pretty big.
There is no doubt that she put a tremendous amount
of that pig energy into growth.
So we are really excited to find out like
what kind of a poop would she have after a 15 pound pig?
Now, I realize that's a little weird,
that we're excited about it.
But I didn't know because this is the first time
we fed such a huge meal to an anaconda.
And take a look at this guys.
Again, I know it's a little bit gross.
But this is all the poop that she did.
And after just holding her,
it doesn't feel like there's anything left in her.
There's no lump, there's no bumps,
there's no kind of masses in there.
So, it looks like she took 15 pounds of pig
and turned it into what looks like
less than a pound of actually poop.
Again, I know that this may be a weird way to start the day,
by examining poop, but to be honest with you,
I find this extremely interesting
to see such little waste from such a large meal.
So again, it's freaking amazing that this animal
put so much of that meal into growth.
And I tell you what, it was funny,
I actually was looking yesterday
at the video when we got her.
She's already so much bigger.
We've only had her for about four months,
and she has gained a tremendous amount of weight.
Now the big question is, and I'd like to know from you guys,
'cause I'm not really sure what I wanna do.
Do we continue feeding her like 15 pound meals?
We do have a handful more pigs.
Or do I go back to smaller meals?
I'm not sure what to do.
The fact that anacondas eat large meals in the wild,
maybe I feed her big meals,
and that's how we're gonna get her to grow really big.
I'm not sure, let me know down in the comments
what you guys think.
Should I do like a couple smaller rabbits at a time,
or should I do one big meal every single
seven to 10 days, or whenever she's ready to eat?
I'm not really sure what to do,
because this is the first time I've had
a relatively large anaconda.
And guys, I realize this is really gross,
but my curiosity got the best of me.
This is the poop right here,
and I'm not gonna lie, it doesn't smell really good.
I'm gonna go ahead and weigh it
just 'cause I'm very curious how much poop it actually is.
It's actually 245 grams.
That's it.
245 grams of poop!
So 245 grams, I mean that's less than a half a pound.
Think about that.
15 pounds of pig went into Ivy,
and only about a half a pound of waste came out.
Probably a first time in YouTube history
that someone has been so excited about weighing poop,
but I think that it's absolutely amazing.
- Yo, what's up? - Guess what?
You know that Ivy, the green anaconda, ate a 15 pound pig.
- Yeah!
Oh my gosh. - Take a guess
how much her poop weighed.
- You guys weighed her poop?
- [Brian] We weighed her poop.
- Okay, 15 pounds and... (crickets chirping)
Probably five out.
- Half a pound. - What?
- That's it, a half a pound. - What?
- [Brian] Yup.
She put 14 and a half... - Where does it all go?
- [Brian] 14 and a half pounds into growth, right?
- Oh my, now that's really crazy.
I never thought about that.
I never thought about...
I guess it's porous, I couldn't tell ya, I don't know.
- [Brian] You don't know what?
- It seems like it's heavier.
I'm sure it's a big load on there, right?
It's spongy, the poop.
The poop is porous, its air pockets.
- [Brian] I've never checked into that.
- I thought it was solid.
That is so cool, I'm sure she's a lot bigger.
- Reptiles put a lot of their intake of food into growth.
There's no other better example to talk about that
than blue tongue skinks, I mean,
look at this monkey right here.
I mean it's just a few months old and it's huge.
It's probably 10 times the size.
Take Salt and Pepper, for example,
Salt was 55 grams when we got her, it's just a year later,
and she's almost 1,500 grams.
Just think about that.
That is 30 times her size in one year.
And one of the reasons for that is ectothermic,
or cold-blooded animals, don't put any energy
into maintaining body temperature.
Mammals like us put a tremendous amount of our energy
into actually maintaining a particular temperature.
That way when we go outside, we're the same temperature.
When we're inside, we're the same temperature.
Whereas with reptiles, they don't do that.
Their body temperature is dictated
by their environment around.
If it's 90 degrees outside, that is their body temperature.
Of course that's why you wanna keep reptiles warm
because if it's 60 degrees, their body temperature
is gonna drop, and that's a bad thing.
So they can put more of that intake of food
into energy of growth and maintaining.
That's pretty amazing,
but I had never seen that with an anaconda before.
That's pretty stunning.
I tell you what, Casper shed.
Unfortunately destroyed his cage.
Gonna have to clean that up in a little bit,
but oh my gosh, he looks amazing.
He always looks really good, but some sheds,
he comes out and just looks like a stunner.
I mean, just this stark white beautiful snake.
I mean, look at this, this is a long snake too.
After visiting with Kevin McCurley over at NERD
and seeing some of his big retics, I tell you what,
it's pretty amazing.
Oh my gosh, but Casper is a handful.
It's shocking how long this snake is.
Again, you know, some animals get more girthy than others.
With him, he's not like a big eater,
where he'll eat, you know, three or four rats a week,
but he's not gonna eat a lot of rabbits.
But he did actually eat that pig last time,
which was a few pounds,
so maybe he'll put a little more girth,
but nevertheless, this is a gorgeous snake.
He looks incredible, but I've got my work cut out for me
'cause I'm gonna go ahead and have to clean this whole cage.
(bass thumping beat)
Were you surprised I didn't bring
any animals back from Kevin?
Were you expecting me to?
What if I maybe did and I didn't tell you?
- You wouldn't do that.
- No, I didn't, I didn't. (Lori laughs)
- But I wanted to, there was a pied retic.
I wanted that. - Yeah you're lucky
you didn't. - Pied retic, that's amazing.
- You literally would die if you brought home another retic.
- What? - Yes.
- [Brian] Can I just get
one more retic? - No!
- [Brian] I'm gonna get rid of a few retics
and then I can get one retic. - No.
- [Brian] So it'd be like four gone, one back.
- No, because how many do you already have?
- [Brian] It doesn't matter,
we need one more. - No, it does matter.
It does matter, that's why I'm asking.
It matters. - I've got this new idea,
but we need more retic snakes. - Oh yeah?
Retic-arium, is that what you have?
- [Brian] No, no, no, listen, I got a new idea.
I wanna start setting up temporary reptariums in malls.
- No.
- [Brian] What?
So we go in the malls, we set up a reptarium
for like one month.
They pay us to be there for a month,
and we're gonna need some big snakes
and some big monitors. - What part of...
I'm not doing anything else, did you not understand?
- [Brian] But reptarium in malls,
it's not just gonna be really popular,
but it will drive traffic back here,
and it will be a good way to...
It's a good revenue stream too.
- Do you ever listen to what I say?
- [Brian] So that's why we need a pied retic.
Little update on the viper boa,
that little baby that we found out that Miguel, my buddy,
at Always Evolving Pythons,
sent us the adults, and one of them had babies.
Unfortunately we only found the one baby out.
We don't know if she had more,
but I just wanted to update you.
Doing absolutely amazing, love little baby viper boas,
but unfortunately, we didn't find any others,
so she might have just had one, or who knows,
maybe one day we'll find other ones down here,
but it was a bummer 'cause I was hoping
we were gonna find some more,
but I'm so happy that we have this one little baby.
It's amazing how just a hundred grams
can really change an animal.
This is actually a cypress pin,
which is a pretty easy animal to produce.
It's just a double incomplete dominant animal,
but unbelievably clean.
Beautiful as a baby,
but now that it's another hundred grams, ooh doggy!
That thing is a smoker!
Lori, what'd you get?
- So, I did not order this.
- [Brian] What the heck is it?
- I am not sure, but it's clearly snake prints.
A shirt, maybe? - So what is it?
Oh my God.
- Oh my gosh, it's a one... (Lori laughs)
- It's like a one arm shirt,
oh my gosh. - Fashion show!
Fashion show! (Lori laughs)
Put it on.
- [Brian] C'mon now.
- Oh my gosh. - How sweet that somebody
sent that to you.
- That was super nice (laughs).
- We love when you guys send stuff,
but Lori's not as appreciative as some of us.
- Where am I gonna wear it?
Just put this on for the birthday party?
(laughing)
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, well thank you guys.
Whoever sent that, awesome.
- I don't know who, so thank you.
- [Brian] So Bruce has been doing a great job.
He finally figured out
how to keep this pond clean, I take it.
- Yeah, I got the formula down.
- He got the formula down, but is this poop right here?
- Yeah, I know you guys might like...
For the most part actually, it's kinda like their...
- Yeah, it looks like pellets.
But that's actually...
I've never seen a snapping turtle's poop before,
so that's pretty interesting.
So I guess that goes along with the whole theme
of anaconda poop in this vlog, so, good.
We'll get that clean up hopefully really soon.
I got my guy, Flaming Hot Cheeto,
always love taking a little time
and doing a little enrichment with these guys.
We'll take a roach right here,
we'll just throw it on the ground,
let him see if he wants to come and get it.
There he goes.
Nice little meal for him.
These guys, again, roaches are tremendous amount
of nutrition for him.
They actually say that one roach is the equivalent
of like eight or 10 crickets, so it's really good for them,
plus they like chasing around, so it's pretty cool.
Flaming Hot is looking absolutely amazing.
Beautiful lizard, love this guy.
All right, are you ready for another one?
You're gonna have to work for this one a little bit, buddy.
Oh, where did it go?
There it goes, there it goes, go get it! (laughs)
He made quick work of it, that's for sure.
Okay, we'll give him a few more,
and then I think we're gonna move on
and see if Toothless want some too
because we like to give him some,
and it's good enrichment for him as well.
Okay Flaming Hot, you ready?
Go get it, go get it, go get it, go get it!
He got it, what an awesome animal.
(bass thumping beat)
This palmetto corn is starting to get so big
and unbelievably beautiful.
This is a recessive mutation in corn snakes, obviously.
It's like a little cow retic, right?
But the cow retics are elite like this,
it's just a recessive mutation.
Unbelievable, got to add more palmetto corns
into the collection for sure,
'cause they are the perfect little corn snake.
And speaking of ridiculous corn snakes,
take a look at this salmon snow corn snake here.
That pink is really coming in, oh my God.
I mean, how is that even real?
How is a snake pink with green splotches?
I don't know, but I'm holding it right now
and I'm blown away.
Since I have some roaches out, I might as well feed Nova.
Come on buddy, come on.
Come on, I know you want.
There you go bud, come on, get down.
Ooh look at him!
He loves roaches, and it's so good for him.
I mean, again, it's full of nutrients,
plus they're dusted with vitamins, really good stuff.
Come on Nova, come on, down here.
Down here bud, down here.
Come on over here.
Yeah, good job Nova!
You're such a cute little monkey.
One more.
He's so excited.
He's such a cool little dude.
I love that little guy.
But if you notice when he's eating,
he's got those two little fangs up front,
I would never wanna get bit by that, dude.
That is for sure.
This coral snow motley isn't as pink
as the one I showed you earlier, but still really amazing.
I love the fact that the pattern
is just this like pink, green, white.
I mean, it's just crazy.
We got so many cool colubrids that are coming up
that are gonna breed over the next couple of years.
It's pretty exciting.
Sweetie, what the heck are you doing, dude?
You're knocking all this stuff down,
what are you doing?
Sweetie!
Come on buddy, stop making a mess, I gotta clean this up.
This is what they would call a bulls-eye albino
nelson's milk snake, and the bulls-eye is just literally...
Instead of bands, there's these kind of bulls-eyes
that go right down their back,
where the triads actually don't meet with the belly,
which is really cool.
I wanna get this into the t-positives for sure,
'cause it's gonna make some really beautiful animals.
- We were talking about getting a live tree,
and I just wanna talk about when we're gonna do this.
- Is all you think about is Christmas trees?
Because it seems like all I talk to you about is a...
So now we're getting a live Christmas tree?
- Oh don't act like you're not the one who wants it.
You want it even more than I do.
- I actually do like live trees.
I do like, but... - See, don't even...
- My whole childhood I wanted live trees
but we couldn't afford it, so it's pretty cool,
the last few years we've had a live tree,
I love it to death.
Are we gonna chop it down with like an axe?
Are we just going to get it?
- I don't know, we've never chopped it.
- [Brian] It'd be cool to chop one down.
- But, are we gonna go
to the same place? - Yeah, yeah.
- 'Cause my favorite part is the wine, so...
(Lori laughs) - Wine and trees,
that's all you ever think about.
This is another snake you guys may remember last Halloween,
we produced this as an albino Honduran milk snake,
but I said it looked like
the candy corn candies from Halloween.
Now it's getting some size to it, it looks even more gold...
Those big, white, kind of yellowish bands when it was a baby
have turned more into like orange bands now.
Nevertheless, it's still super cool.
Can't wait 'til this gets up to size
and see if we can actually breed these polymorphically
and produce some more just like this.
I know I've been kind of showing you
some random things today, especially the colubrids stuff,
basically I've told you that as a snake breeder,
things are a cycle, right?
So we're always concentrating on the adult colubrids
when it's breeding season,
but now that they're in brumation,
we can really start focusing on the raisers,
so I wanna spend more time with them,
getting them up to size, getting them ready for next year.
So wow, I tell you what,
it is amazing some of the animals
that we've kept and raised,
and Eric's been doing a great job
of getting these little buggers up to size.
It's crazy to think that one day,
Verde is gonna big as big as Ivy, who knows, even bigger,
and we're super excited about the new display
that we're building next door in the expansion,
for Ivy with that water thing.
It's gonna be one of the coolest little things in the world.
And eventually, maybe Verde will go in there as well.
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