- Take a look at this giant snake!
Oh my gosh, this girl may even be larger than Lucy.
Dev, what is up, brother?
- What's going on guys?
- How are you dude, it's good to see you.
What did you bring me today?
- Oh man, I brought a big surprise.
- This is what I've been waiting for!
A little cute puppy too, oh my God.
We got something in here, we got a cute puppy.
This is gonna be a good day.
Look at this animal right here, unbelievable.
Oh my God, this is one giant snake.
She actually may even be bigger than Lucy.
Oh, she's big, oh my gosh, she's heavy.
Mike, help!
Dev, how long have you had her?
- I've had Juliet for about three years now.
- She is amazing.
She's giant, like the size of Lucy,
may even be bigger than Lucy,
but yeah, she's super, super docile.
And that's what makes her incredible.
I mean, just look at the size of the head.
When's the last time she ate?
- A month ago.
- About a month ago.
So, that's good, so she's cleaned up,
so she's not gonna poop all over us,
but what do you think, Mike?
- She's big.
(laughing)
- I am in love with this, and again, Dev loves this animal.
We're working on him, you know what I mean?
It's like baby steps.
So he's coming to let us hang out with Juliet for a while.
She's gonna stay with us for a little bit, but who knows?
Maybe one day she'll be with us all the time, I don't know.
We're gonna keep on working on Dev, you know what I mean?
We don't know how big she is.
When's the last time you weighed her?
Or have you measured her lately?
- I haven't weighed or measured her in about two years.
- Oh my gosh.
- The last time that I weighed her,
three years ago she was 166 pounds or something.
- Oh my goodness!
Well, you know, Lucy is 20 foot, two inches.
Don't know how much she weighs,
but I do know she's 20 foot, two inches.
So what do you say we measure her, and weigh her up?
I tell you what, I mean guys just seriously.
Take a look at this snake right here.
- Come on Dev, control your snake, man.
- Early in the morning, they do the wait numbers.
- Time to measure Juliet.
Now we're gonna use the string trick,
and then we'll actually measure the string, so.
That is one giant snake.
Basically what we're gonna do is we're gonna start
from her head right now.
Because she's so docile, it's gonna be pretty easy.
Just right to her nose.
I'm gonna, whoa, work with that all the way down her body.
She likes to move a little bit, which is fine.
Now I'm just gonna try to contour as much as I possibly can
so that we get as accurate as we can.
It might be an inch or two off,
but we're gonna get a general idea of how big this girl is.
And I tell you what, she's a big snake, man.
- [Matt] She's going to the bathroom.
- Oh, Dev.
- What can I say, what did I say, it's early in the morning.
- It's better on the floor than on us,
there's no doubt about that.
But there's a little black mark on the string.
I think that was how big Ivy was, think about that guys.
I think that was how long Ivy was.
And we still have all of this snake left.
She's gonna weigh a little less
because she just pooped on the floor.
But I have a feeling she's still gonna weigh a whole lot.
There's no doubt about that.
Look at this snake, you could straddle her,
you could ride her like a horse.
I tell you, weighing this girl is not gonna be easy
because we're gonna have to step up on the scale,
tear out the scale to a zero,
and then actually hold the entire snake.
And that's gonna be the trick is how we can get her
to get on top of us like that.
It's gonna be a little bit difficult because she does like
to move a little bit.
Here we go.
We're getting down to that nitty gritty end.
Here we go, ooh it doesn't smell real good right here.
We're done. So this is the length of the actual snake here.
What I'm gonna do is put a little mark on it.
All right, I want to get everyone's guesses.
I'm gonna say 20 foot, six inches.
- 19 and a half.
- 19 eight.
- 21.
- 18.
- Whoa, okay, all right, we've got the gamut.
Let's lay this sucker out, that's a big snake right there.
Here we go, all right we are at 12 foot, 14 foot, 15, 16,
17, oh my gosh, she's actually an 18 foot,
just shy of 18 foot.
You called it right.
Now I will say this isn't as scientific as possible.
She was moving a little bit.
There's a chance she's a little bit larger, but still,
18 foot, that's a giant snake.
I thought she would actually even be larger than that
because she is, she's crazy.
It makes me wonder if we need to remeasure Lucy
because I wonder if she ended up gaining a couple extra feet
on something because I swear to gosh,
this girl is bigger than Lucy.
But let's go ahead and weigh her now,
that's gonna be amazing.
And this is the thing, guys.
If you saw a snake like this laying out on the ground
and you look at how long, she literally stretches almost
across the entire building.
If you saw this, you would probably estimate that
to be 30 foot, certainly in the wild.
That's why estimates get really wild, like 30, 35 feet.
You know the fact is that that is a giant snake
and she's only 18 foot log.
You can only imagine what a 25 footer,
and we know there have been some actual reticulating pythons
that have measured at 25 foot.
Now you can see why people often way overestimate the size
and weight of their snakes, right?
So she is big, big girl, there's no doubt about it.
I tell you, I'm in love with this snake.
Let me know what you guys think.
Okay you guys ready for this?
This is the tough one.
Dev and Mike are gonna actually put her on top of me.
Hopefully the entire animal will fit on me,
but she's gonna be moving a lot.
So that's gonna be the tough part.
It's gonna be tough for them to get her on me,
and it's gonna be really tough for me to hold her.
- Ready, Mr. Brian?
- I don't know if I'm ready, but let's do it.
- Come on Dr. Brian, you got to get ready because I'm ready.
- Okay, oh my gosh.
- You good?
- All right so try to wrap her up on me as much as you can.
- Think fast guys, fast.
- Oh, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, ah.
Take two, we broke the scale already, so.
Jesus, damn it hang on, hang on, hang on,
hang on hang on hang on.
- [Matt] Yep, yep.
- Take three.
I'm trying, I'm trying.
- We're trying.
- Don't push me forward though.
- There we go.
- Up, up, up, up, up, I got this end, lift that up to me.
I got her, okay.
- She's all yours.
- Okay, she's mine.
- [Matt] All yours.
- [Brian] What's it on?
- [Matt] 156-
- 159, 159 pounds guys, that is a big snake.
Woo, I'm tired out and I need a nap.
Let me know what you guys think about my new snake, right?
Right, Dev?
My new snake.
- Oh yeah.
(laughing)
- Mike what's the matter.
- This is ridiculous.
- What's the matter, Mike?
You're gonna take a nap?
- Yeah, I'm tired, it's nap time.
- Get in there with you, let me take a nap.
- Okay.
- Ah, I'm tired.
- Wait a second, I did all the work, didn't I? (laughing)
Remember when we got those little albino sideneck turtles?
I mean, look at how big that they're getting,
and they're absolutely amazing.
These stay over here at BHB until we get the expansion
and we can actually put them in there.
But this thing is getting huge.
We also got little tiny, normal sidenecks.
They're getting big as well.
These guys were literally like the size of a dime
when we got them, and look at how big they're getting,
and look at how beautiful that belly is right there.
Unbelievable, and such cute little faces.
Like I said, these are gonna make great displays
when we do the expansion, can't wait.
And these don't get pretty big, you know, they'll get,
you know, five, six inches.
So they're gonna be really amazing animals.
So I just think they're one
of the most adorable turtles out there.
I guess we're coming up on the end of the first month
of breeding season.
And there's a lot of really cool stuff that's breeding.
This is actually a pastel heifer cow.
It's actually bred to a banana leopard clown ball python
and he's a first time breeder.
So the fact that he's hooked up and it looks so good.
Look at amazing, that's an amazing snake right there.
And he just started breeding
in the last like three, four days.
So every time I'm putting him in with a female,
he's locking up and a lot of the young males are starting
to turn on and starting to breed a bunch.
So definitely a month down, got a long way to go.
We'll probably ultrasound here in a week or so,
and start to get a baseline of what the follicle growth is.
But so far breeding has been really good.
A little pro tip for you guys,
if you have more than a handful of snakes
and you want to do a lot of watering and stuff like that,
there's actually this cool thing ,it's called Hose and Reel,
it's from Flowmaster, get it on Amazon and stuff like that.
And basically you can just hook it right
to your water source.
We actually do water that's temperature controlled here,
but you can just have like kind of a hose type of thing.
It's really pretty simple hookup,
but the problem is, is every now and then they do go bad.
This one no longer retracts.
So I seem to have to replace them every, maybe six,
eight months, something on that line.
So it's pretty easy once you set it up,
because all you have to do is pull this pin out right here
and this reel just comes right off like that.
And then of course you just screw this off,
you screw the other one on, I'll show you how to do it.
First thing we've got to do is just unscrew this right here.
Just a little quick thing, right like that.
And basically this is a, you know, it still works fine,
but more or less, this is garbage.
And you can see, we have a backflow adapter on this.
This is something you always want to have on any kind of,
you know, something like a hose or something like that,
the back load.
So that way it never siphons back into the thing.
So more or less, unfortunately this whole reel here is,
although it works, it's pretty much just garbage.
So this goes into the garbage, but we put the new one on.
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Then literally all you have to do is hook this back up
to here, make sure it's nice and tight.
I always kind of hand tighten it first
and they give it one little turn with the wrench,
make sure there's no leaks and stuff like that.
And this one even comes with a little nozzle here,
which is perfect. And I'm telling you what guys,
this is gonna save you so much time and energy.
If you're watering 100 snakes, instead of going back
and forth from the sink and stuff like that,
it's a lifesaver.
So then just turn the water on,
get all the air out of the tube.
(water running)
And that's your pro tip for the day.
And this is why we can't have nice things, that's right.
We tried to figure out Ivy's enclosure,
and snapped it right off.
I tell you what I, you know, what can you do?
I mean, these, they're big snakes, right?
So they put the pressure on stuff,
like this will probably bend,
but this literally snapped right in half.
It's like PVC in there, so.
(sighs)
I'm trying to make her cage look beautiful
but she's making it pretty difficult.
I absolutely love the fact that Diddy
and Dixie are in the windows.
And you got to remember that the new expansion,
all of this is gonna be windows.
So my view would be that every window have an enclosure
that people can look in, right?
Now, I think it's amazing now that when people walk by,
they often walk from the sidewalk over to our walkway,
and walking, they see Diddy and Dixie.
They obviously see Matilda and the leopard tortoises.
So I want to have even more of that,
but it's cool to look from outside in a wintery day
like this up here in Michigan, and you see this cool cage
with little dinosaurs in it.
And I think that we could do more of that
with the expansion, right?
There'll probably be like 12 or 15 windows.
So I'm thinking 12 or 15 enclosures,
all with amazing things that people can see.
And now we're gonna be closer to the road.
So I don't want to cause any accidents out there,
but literally when you're driving by,
you could be looking and seeing the animals
through the windows.
So I'll have to put a caution sign up out there
so that people don't get into accidents
because the place could look crazy from the road.
I talk about food cycling all the time to you guys, right?
That it is important that when you're breeding your snakes,
if you decide to breed your snakes,
whether it's a pair, or 10 pair, or 100 pair,
whatever it is, that it's important to get calories
into females just as the season is kind of going on, right?
So basically we are starting
to crush females with food, right?
So, you know, going from like one rat a week
to maybe two rats, sometimes even three rats.
So I fed one meal already.
Now I'm going back and feeding another one.
So what I do is I still only feed once a week,
but I feed multiple meals per that once a week.
So I don't have to feed like twice a week,
because then I don't have enough time to get the males in
and stuff like that.
So basically what happens is I take the males out,
give them two days off.
And during that two days I feed the females really heavy,
and I feed all the males too, I want males to have food too,
so they have calories in them,
so they have energy to actually breed.
So my chore for the moment is
to go through all these animals, see what ate,
and then re feed again.
So it's again, calories in, production out.
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All finished up with the feeding, definitely went well.
I think out of all like 200 females, 200 plus females,
like four didn't eat.
And so definitely a lot of double feeds,
gonna get this weight in these females,
got to get the weight on, but it's great.
I mean probably the best feeding start
of the breeding season I've ever had in my whole career.
So hopefully that means good production later on.
- Actually, I got Brian and Christmas present.
So Brian had told me that he needed this thing,
not that long ago.
And I felt, what a great altruistic thing to do
for the man that has everything, let's get him something
that he actually needs, so this is what I got for you.
- [Brian] It's a lizard!
- It's a lizard, Elvis.
- I love it, I love it.
Looks just like Elvis.
Oh my God, that is actually cool as could be.
This is, we talked about with training salt
and stuff like that.
And of course, with even RJ, as it gets older,
this is gonna be absolutely amazing, you know?
So I can do this as a training stick,
not to mention a nice walking stick to, so.
- Yeah, I mean it's Grandpa, you know,
you got to have the walking stick.
- Yeah I can have a walking stick, so it's good.
But I can use this as a training stick too, I love it.
So thank you, Bruce, I appreciate it man.
- You're welcome Brian, no worries, merry Christmas, bro.
- Thank you, I love it.
Wanted to give you a little update on the Sanzinia,
the Madagascan tree boas that we got a while ago.
Of course this is the Mandarin phase, unbelievable.
They probably have about doubled their size
as they are with us, absolutely incredible.
The male's a little bit smaller, I'm not gonna lie.
It kind of is a little slower,
but this female is just powering food.
I just love the way these guys actually
look like a venomous snake, you know?
Look at the head, the way the head structure is,
looks more like a viper than it does an actual boa.
It's just absolutely wonderful.
I cannot wait to have these on display next door
at the reptarium because people are gonna trip out
about these.
Now, will they come out and handle a lot?
Probably not, you know,
they're not an animal that you want to take out constantly,
but every now and then we could probably bring them out.
And the fact is,
they're just gonna look really cool in a super cool,
naturalistic display cage.
I mean, these things are a dream snake
and I cannot be more happy with the way they're doing.
Now it's just a matter of talking to Devin
into letting me keep this animal forever
because I love it so much.
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