(groaning)
- My arms. I don't feel my arms now.
- Oh, no. You better hurry up. You've got to keep going.
- This is Ivy, my Anaconda, and she looks absolutely huge.
- That's a big snake.
- Yeah, Mike, she sure is,
and she's been doing a ton of breeding lately.
- I'm so jealous.
- And you guys might remember, the other week,
She had a really bad shed,
where she had a bunch of stuck shed on her face.
Just try to see if I can get whatever I can get off here.
I don't want to make her too mad either.
Come on, girl. It's okay.
What I'd really like to do is break that front shed.
I got that eye cap off, which is really important obviously.
And I think I'm gonna let Mike, oh my gosh.
Look at this musk right here.
That's how much, and now it's on my leg. Oh!
And then about two weeks ago, she really started to swell.
- That's a big snake.
- Yep. That's probably an ovulation, which means my girl,
Ivy, here is probably pregnant,
or what they would call gravid.
Earlier today, she actually started to shed
and she shed the entire top of her head off,
which meant she got those eye caps off,
which made me so happy.
One of the things I'm the most amazed at with snakes is
that they can shed without using hands or legs.
Let's see if these boys can do the same thing.
What do you guys think?
- That's easy.
- Whoever wins gets a Lunchables from next door.
- Let's go.
(upbeat music)
- Can we do this just like a snake would do it,
or are there rules?
- The only rule is you can't break out.
You gotta do it just like a snake,
undulating your way out of it.
- Just like a snake?
- No ripping, no tearing.
These guys can't do it standing up,
so guess what?
We're gonna lay them down.
- Please don't drop me. Dad. Dad.
Ease up a little bit. He's so loose, man.
- We're tight. He's loose. Oh my goodness.
(laughter)
Don't push so much on my foot.
(screaming)
- He laid him on me.
- I think I've seen this in a mobster movie.
- Don't kill my family.
- Oh, Mike's cheating over here.
- No, no. Just a little snake therapy. Use this stuff.
- He's trying to use this rock.
- Now, Noah's trying to use the rock.
(struggling noise)
- We caught some insane footage of her shedding.
We've been trying to catch shed for months,
and months, and months.
This footage was absolutely incredible,
so we're going to show you that later on in the blog.
So guys, I am 99% sure that she is gravid now.
She is looking absolutely swollen up.
- Baby anacondas. How many of these things we gonna have?
- A girl Ivy size could literally have 40,
or 50 babies inside her body right now.
- Wait, I have to take care of all these babies?
- Guess what, Lori?
Looks like we're going to have baby anacondas.
You excited?
- Are you serious?
- Yeah. It looks like she's gravid.
- I don't even know. I'm just speechless right now.
- What do you mean? Aren't you excited?
- No! No, I'm not excited.
Why? Why would we want that?
- Because we're going have maybe 40, 50 baby little Ivy's
That's going to be incredible.
- Oh my God. Okay. So buy your tickets to the Reptarian now,
because one baby Ivy free with purchase.
- That is not true. There's no way. There's no way.
- It is.
- That's not gonna happen.
- To the lucky 40 or 50 people who buy the right tickets,
yes it is.
- That's BS. Don't even listen to her.
- Oh, no. I'm going to get little carry cases,
so when they leave, they'll each get to carry out.
- Number one, that's irresponsible.
You don't just give away anacondas to people.
Number two, I'm probably going to keep the majority of them.
- (laughter) Oh, God.
- I mean, at least like half of them.
- None of them.
- What do you mean?
- None of them.
- I'm gonna keep some.
- No, you're not.
- I am so.
- No, you're not.
- I am so.
- No, you're not. How many ...
You already have too many anacondas.
So which ones are you replacing?
- I don't even know what language you're speaking.
Too many anacondas.
- Too many anacondas.
So now you're switching.
It's instead of the Retake aream,
it's going to be the Anaconda aream?
- Yeah, I think that's ... I like the ring of that.
That's pretty good. What do you guys think in the comments?
Let me know. If you like that idea, hit that like button
down below, because I think it's really a good idea.
So I'm glad that Lori's on board with the Anaconda aream.
Thanks, Lori!
- I feel like a fish outta water.
(grunting)
You know, this is not a bad idea.
(struggling noise)
Oh, my arms. I don't feel my arms now.
- Oh no. You better hurry up, boy,
he's starting to get it going.
- Oh my God. My arm's hurting so bad.
(grunting)
- Oh my God. Mike is getting it going.
- I'm so tired. This is a good one.
- Get it. Get it.
- Noah's starting to loosen up here.
- This is ridiculous.
- You feel differently about snakes now?
- Yeah. Yeah, a little.
- Getting there?
- All right, guys, enough making you wait.
Let's go ahead and check out this shed,
because this footage is absolutely incredible.
Catching a snake shed like this
is actually pretty difficult,
but a giant snake can be even more insane,
because instead of starting to shed, and shedding within
say, a half hour, an hour
sometimes it can take several hours.
And we've been trying to do this with Ivy
for the last year or so, and we always miss it.
We put a time lapse on her,
and she doesn't shed for several hours.
So it was so amazing to actually see this footage.
I mean, I was blown away at how cool it is.
Think about a hundred plus pound snake shedding its skin off
all so delicate, you know, without arms or legs,
it's absolutely incredible what these snakes can do.
This was just really, really awesome to see.
And I'm so happy that we finally caught this footage.
It's incredible.
Finally got our new condo back in,
the one that's not broken,
So Mike has to get to work cleaning the Anaconda enclosure.
- This is with three anacondas.
What are we supposed to do when there's
like 80 of them in here?
(upbeat music)
- So why do snakes shed?
Snakes actually shed because they have stretched
through their capacity of their outer layer skin.
What I'm gonna do is show you with three different layers
of skin here, what they actually go through,
because that's what snakes actually have.
They have what they call the epidural layer,
which is the outer layer.
They have a middle layer right here,
it's going to eventually grow into the epidural layer.
And then they have a new layer of skin
that's starting to grow out there.
And that's basically how the system works.
When a snake gets to its maximum capacity,
this top layer needs to shed off and go away,
because it can no longer stretch any further.
Now, this middle layer actually becomes the dead layer
of skin, or the epidural layer.
Now, this is able to stretch that next length, right?
And when this gets to the next length, basically
the same process happens. This sheds off,
and now that inner layer actually becomes the outer layer
again, and it continues to repeat that process over,
and over, and over again.
So snakes always have three layers of skin,
with the outer layer being the shed layer,
or what they call, the epidural layer.
- We got three in anacondas now.
You add another 87 of them, it's going to take
four and a half hours to feed them,
and then, oh my gosh, the poop!
- Noah's got it coming down too.
These guys are both getting the good. Oh, it's coming.
(struggling)
- Where are you going buddy?
Oh, crap. It's so close. You guys are both so close.
- How am I gonna get my legs out?
- His arm's out.
He's got his arms out now too.
Come on, Lunchables on the line fellas.
- Oh, it's so close!
(grunting)
They're dead heat. Honestly, they're dead heat right now.
Oh, got to roll back over.
- Oh my gosh, that was so close. They are neck and neck.
You gotta get your feet through there.
(sarcastic laughter)
- So when it comes to a gravid live bearing snake
like an Anaconda, they typically go through a rapid shed.
So they'll shed out, which is called a pre-ovulation shed,
and then they go through a post-ovulation shed,
or a pre-lay shed, which is basically meaning
that the babies are on their way.
After ovulation, you're looking at somewhere between 105
and 115 days until we have baby anacondas.
- How the heck are we gonna find them?
- Honestly, I have no idea.
- Can't they get through this little crack?
(air blowing out nose)
- Yeah, probably, to be honest with you.
I have to do some prep. There's no doubt about it,
before she has babies. We still have a few months, at least,
before she has them. Listen, she just looks amazing.
I'm so excited to produce baby anacondas.
It will be absolutely a dream.
Will we keep them all?
Of course not. I would like to,
because it's going to be hard for me to get rid of it.
There is no way that I'm not going to
at least keep a handful of them, because Ivy's baby,
my favorite snake in the world, is going to have babies,
hopefully. There's no way I'm not going to keep them,
but yeah, definitely going to have to cover up this crack,
or the babies will get out.
- Forget the poop.
When you feed them, the next seven days, they pee in a row.
I don't have time for that.
I got other stuff I gotta do.
- All right, Mike. You gotta get this Daisy out,
because she blew up her shed all over the cave.
- Okay.
- Hurry up. What are you still tired from
ballerina practice, or something?
- Yeah dude. How did you know?
- You know you wanna take that hat?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, because of all that hard work
I just did to get her out.
- You're as bad as Jay.
- She's like really interested in the world right now.
- That's a nice piece. She's getting heavy.
You just crushing. Come on big girl. No, don't go out.
- She doesn't wanna cuddle today.
- Oh, that's not true. No, no.
- Oh. Oh, Mike. Mike.
Mike, she's trying to kill me.
- He can't even stand up anymore.
- All them pirouettes.
- All the what?
- Pirouettes.
- She smells like broccoli.
- I think that's you.
- Yeah. That's true.
- It's all like chicken and broccoli you've been eating.
- I ate it last night.
- Did you eat chips earlier?
- It doesn't count. I can eat a bag of chips.
- I thought the whole point of a diet
of strict chicken and broccoli was the main meal.
- Chicken and broccoli.
- I can have a side piece.
- It just sounds like a crappy dinner.
- Well, it is.
(upbeat music)
- Seriously guys, I gotta get rid of these anacondas,
before they even get here.
I'm going to out eBay, Craigslist ads.
I might even start our only fans
just get rid of these snakes.
- Oh my God! It's so close!
Mike is out.
Noah, you came in so close. Oh my God.
- Noah, you were so close.
- That's hard work.
- What is going on?
(laughter)
- These guys might have a new appreciation
for how snakes shed. I'm going to buy
them both Lunchables, because they were so close.
You guys both get Lunchables.
- I'm bleeding!
- You're bleeding?
- Lori, do you have money?
- What?
- For Lunchables.
- Why am I buying Lunchables?
- For them.
- That's hard.
Cream and shed.
Dang it!
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- These are 40 chameleons that spread out
and scribed my entire body.
And then some other places. That's a lot of snakes!