- As giant as it is, it's only 18 foot two inches
and a lot of this vlog, believe it or not,
is gonna start with Teddy Roosevelt.
Look who came- whoa!
Sometimes even 40 and 50 foot field measurements,
but the truth is...
Why didn't anyone claim the $50,000 prize?
Oh my God, this is awesome, I tell you what.
Let's see what we got here, and guess what guys!
I'd like to get it done before winter
because it's gonna be cold and it's not gonna be good.
If you can bring me a 30 foot snake plus,
I will give you $50,000.
Hey good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog!
Today's vlog is gonna be about giant snakes
and Daisy is certainly a giant snake,
an absolutely amazing albino reticulated python.
And trust me, she is a handful to hold
and she is absolutely incredible
but the strange thing is that this snake,
as giant as it is, is only 18 foot two inches.
And a lot of this vlog, believe it or not,
is gonna start with Teddy Roosevelt.
Did you guys know that Teddy Roosevelt literally,
in the early 20th century, wanted a pet snake
but just not any pet snake, he wanted
a 30 plus foot pet snake and he was willing
to pay $1,000 which was twice the price
for a Model T car at the time for this 30 foot snake.
You know Sunrise, the burmese python, is a big snake.
She's gonna get much larger to be totally honest with you,
but of course she's a burmese python.
Burmese pythons are certainly one of the giant snakes,
there's no doubt about it.
As a matter of fact, in Gurnee Mills, Illinois,
there was as snake called "Baby" that was a burmese python.
Reportedly, it was 27 foot.
Everyone came to see it, right on the cage
it said 27 foot burmese python.
Well when Baby died, they actually measured it
and it was 17 foot.
It had lost 10 foot in length from the time
it was alive til the time it was dead.
My point is, sometimes snakes get
over exaggerated a little bit.
So the truth is that Theodore Roosevelt wanted
this 30 plus foot snake and throughout his whole life,
he was offering $1,000 and unfortunately,
nobody, no one in the entire world,
was able to come up with that 30 foot snake.
And when Theodore Roosevelt died,
still no one had claimed that $1,000 prize.
Over the course of the next couple decades,
that prize went from $1,000 to $5,000.
Even up to $15,000, still no one claimed the prize.
Look who came- whoa!
Look who came out of her shed!
She has a little bit of an attitude, uh oh.
I'm not sure what exactly to think about this.
She was really good there when we got her
and I think maybe she just kinda
got woke up a little bit.
We'll see what's going on but that
was definitely a close call right there.
Okay girl, we're all right, we're friends right.
Of course, my green anaconda and like I said,
I'm hoping that she's just kinda got woke up
after her shed.
She's got a little bit of stuck shed
so we're gonna go ahead and soak her.
We're gonna build a larger basin in here
so she can really get a lot of water.
My friends over at Universal Rack are gonna
build something for me, it's gonna be really good.
But we're gonna soak her up, I'm sure
she's gonna love that and hopefully
she gets into a little bit better mood.
Now we did have a poll on the name, right guys?
And we had a lot of people, like 27,000 people,
voted and believe it or not, I've gotta go
with what you guys tell me the poll was.
And my new girl's name is Ivy.
That's right, overwhelming, like 59% or something like that,
58%, 59%, said that they wanted Ivy for the name
for my girl.
And again, she took a little pop at me earlier
which is really unusual 'cause she's been
super, super tame.
I think it's just a matter that she's
just trying to get settled into her new environment.
And she's, you know, she's gonna be fine.
We're gonna handle her a bunch, she'll get some confidence
and she'll get kind of to the point where
she gains her trust in us and we'll be completely fine.
I think she's gonna be amazing but like I've been saying,
you know, we're gonna keep her for at least a month
or six weeks before we let anyone else handle her
'cause we really want to get to know the animal.
And as you can see, as she's getting out,
she's getting more used to things, she's getting much better
and she's amazing but I tell you what,
she looks beautiful out of shed.
Just look at the color of that animal!
So I'm gonna go ahead and just let her go
right in this water which I know she'll love.
We'll be able to get this last bit of shed off of her
which is coming off.
And she is gonna look absolutely gorgeous, but-
Hey, girl, what are you doing, sweetheart?
You're okay, let's go in the water.
They love water and again, when we have
a really big water basin in there, she's gonna
absolutely love it.
But look at how gorgeous she looks, oh my gosh.
Come on girl, stay in there, sweetheart.
There you go.
And I think she's kinda mellowed out now.
Again, she just got kinda woke up
on the wrong side of the cage this morning.
Now she just needs a little bit of soak time
and she is gonna look even more beautiful
when she comes out of that last little bit of shed.
(scoffs) I love my anaconda, I'm so excited
about this girl.
And again, the more we work with her,
the better she's gonna get.
Certainly, green anacondas are amazing giant snakes.
And often times, people attribute them
to the giant-est snake on the planet.
And don't get me wrong, they are probably the most
heavy-bodied snake, take Verde for instance,
she's only a year old but she's gonna one day,
if she reaches her full potential, be maybe 300 pounds
which is amazing.
So if you're trudging through the Amazon
and you saw a 300 pound anaconda, I could understand
how someone could think like that's a 40 or 50 foot snake.
And there's been reports of big anacondas
since the early 20th century.
Sometimes even 40 and 50 foot field measurements
but the truth is that there's never been
an actual anaconda that's been measured much over 16 foot.
So they don't really even get as large
as a reticulated python or a burmese python.
They're a smaller animal that is really heavy
and very dense and heavy muscle.
That's why they're the largest bodied snake
and certainly one of the heaviest snakes on the planet.
Now that $15,000 reward actually
ballooned to $50,000 in 1980.
The New York Zoological Society basically offered
a $50,000 reward, basically still the Teddy Roosevelt award,
for a snake over 30 foot.
That's right, 1980, $50,000 for a 30 foot snake.
And like I mentioned earlier in the vlog,
reticulated pythons are certainly the longest snake
on the planet, they get absolutely mammoth
when it comes to size.
And as well as girth, I mean Perdida is one day
gonna be a really big girl.
Of course, because of her locality, she won't get
quite as big as, say, Lucy, a mainland.
But regardless, the Pittsburgh Zoo in the 80's,
after the $50,000 reward was being offered,
was offered a 28 foot reticulated python
that was gonna be imported from Indonesia.
When it arrived in Pittsburgh, it measured then 21 foot.
His name was Colossus because it was
an absolutely massive snake, and it lived
there for a while and it really peaked out
at about 24 to 25 foot, a little bit shy of 30 foot.
Got a tour in the house, how are you guys?
It's great to meet you, where you guys from?
- Utah.
- [Brian] Utah, we were just in Utah just a few weeks ago,
that's crazy, it's awesome.
Well, welcome, let's jump in, have a good time.
Love the shirt by the way.
Yeah, fantastic, now lets go.
(thumping electronic music)
So guys, I've gotta ask you,
can there be a snake over 30 foot?
I mean, there's been some giant snakes,
Fluffy at the Columbus Zoo that was Bob Clark's animal,
Twinkie, which was Jay Brewer's over at Prehistoric Pets.
I mean these snakes literally were
close to 25 plus foot long which is a mammoth,
absolutely incredibly large snake,
but the fact is, can you go from 25 foot to 30 foot
and why didn't anyone claim the $50,000 prize?
And like I mentioned, it is difficult
to really understand the size of a snake, right?
I mean look at Honey here, she is literally
just a small pastel pied ball python.
And people might think that she's not that big
but she's actually about two foot.
My point is that it's hard to gauge.
At this size, it actually looks smaller
but when it gets to adult size, it actually
sometimes can be bigger.
I can't tell you how many times
I've had people come in to the Reptarium
and tell me "My uncle had a 10 foot ball python."
Well we all know that there are very few
cases of ball pythons even getting to five foot,
let alone six foot.
I think the largest ball python ever was
just over six foot so obviously 10 foot is
a little bit of an exaggeration.
But I understand it, I don't think people are lying.
And I don't even think that people that have said
that they've seen a 40 foot snake in the wild are lying,
I think that's it's just hard to judge.
When you see a 25 foot snake,
you're probably gonna think it's 50 foot
because it's absolutely huge.
It's kinda like fishers, but the fact is
that it is very difficult to actually judge a snake.
And of course, ball pythons don't get 10 foot.
But for those of you that have been watching the vlog
or those of you that are new to the vlog,
I often times love to cut ball python eggs when
they're due to hatch, and I've got a pretty cool clutch
we can cut right now.
For those of you guys that love egg cutting,
we've got a clutch that we're gonna cut really quick.
This is a lesser female bred to a pastel crystal.
So theoretically, we could get blue-eyed leucistics,
we could get lesser specials, we could get
a whole host of things.
Regardless, let's just jump in and see what we've got here.
Should be a pretty cool clutch.
Let's see what our first egg is here.
And weirdly enough, we've just got a pastel crystal.
Now because a crystal is allelic,
it means everything is gonna be either special,
which is like the het crystal,
or mojave, which is the other gene that actually goes in.
So we know if it's a pastel, it has to either be
a pastel mojave or a pastel special.
In this case, pastel special.
Moving on, and I would assume that that's kind of
like the lowest animal we could get in the clutch
to be totally honest.
Is a pastel lesser.
Now okay, so right off the rip
we now have a little blue-eyed lucy here,
which again that would be the mojave gene
and the lesser gene mixing together.
So a blue-eyed lucy.
We could also get another whitish snake that would be
a lesser special.
I know I'm talking circles around you guys,
I hope you're following along regardless.
There are gonna be some badass snakes,
let's just put it that way, okay guys.
Let's see what we have here.
Oh, you know when I said the pastel special
is probably the less thing we get?
Actually this is just a normal special
so it doesn't even have the pastel in it
which is fine.
Moving on to the next egg, and we could get a normal
mojave in here too to be totally honest with you.
But next egg, another blue-eyed lucy.
And it doesn't look like there's any pattern.
If there's a little but of pattern on it,
that would actually be a lesser special.
If it's all white, it would be a lesser mojave
or a blue-eyed leucistic.
So we've got two blue-eyed leucistics.
Which I love producing blue-eyed leucistics
as they're so popular, people love these to death.
And oh, guess what, we have another
blue-eyed leucistic so that's absolutely incredible.
So far, we've gotten three blue-eyed leucistics,
I couldn't be more happy about that, that's for sure.
That is super cool.
Let's see what we have, it looks like another white snake
in this one, too.
Yup, another leucistic!
So we haven't had any lesser specials yet,
just blue-eyed leucistics, which is awesome.
Four out of six eggs were blue-eyed leucistics.
Last egg, oh my God, this is awesome.
I tell you what, let's see what we got here.
And guess what guys, another blue-eyed leucistic!
So we got five blue-eyed leucistics out of seven eggs.
That is awesome, I tell you what.
That is a great ratio there.
Let's go ahead and see what my girl is doing in here.
Should be able to get all that beautiful shed off.
No problem, that's a good girl.
You look so good!
Look at her!
I'm just gonna go ahead and just like, yeah,
and just help her kinda get that shed off.
She wants to keep in the water because
she loves water, that's for sure.
That's why I can't wait til we get
that big water basin for her.
'Cause she is gonna absolutely love it to death.
Look at this beautiful snake right here, wow.
Just got this little bit of shed right here,
we're just gonna help her.
She is so beautiful, I tell you what guys.
I mean she's even more beautiful than I expected her.
I mean just look at the color on that animal right there.
Wow, what a gorgeous snake, I love it man.
I tell you what, that snake is amazing.
So, all right, we'll go ahead and get her back in here,
get this last little bit of shed off,
and then we're good to go.
I tell you what, all my life I've wanted
a big green anaconda.
And I realize she's gonna get much larger but
just having a girl like this and now that she
shed and looks so beautiful, I can't tell you
how excited I am, I mean this is definitely
a dream come true to have this animal.
Again, once we get this big water basin,
she's gonna be even more happy.
We're gonna continue to handle her
and hopefully pretty soon, we'll be able
to have other people come here and handle
a big green anaconda.
How awesome will that be?
Back to reticulated pythons
and my beautiful guy, Night Fury here,
which of course is a goldenchild motley
reticulated python.
Now again, he's gonna get really large.
Now the Brox Zoo, which is sanctioned by
the New York Zoological Society,
actually was going to acquire a 28 foot reticulated python
and when it showed up, sure enough it was 21 foot in length
and it was named Samantha.
Now in their care, it actually got to 26 foot,
believe it or not.
That is a giant snake and by the way,
it is the largest snake that was measured in captivity
so we know it was 26 foot, so it wasn't a field measurement.
The largest snake ever.
When Samantha perished, the New York Zoological Society
decided to suspend the $50,000 reward and stop the contest
that Teddy Roosevelt started back in the early 1900s.
But I'm here to tell you, guess what, that's right,
me, Brian Barczyk, right here, is saying
if you can bring me a 30 foot snake plus,
I will give you $50,000.
So I am reinstating the Teddy Roosevelt wish
which is can we find a 30 foot snake?
Now guys, I don't want you to overfeed your snake.
I do not want to ever put these snakes in harm,
but if someone knows a 30 foot snake
or gets a 30 foot snake from the wild
and can prove it and I can actually have it
in my possession, I will give you $50,000.
That's right, because I really wonder if it's a possibility.
Me personally, I don't know that there's ever
gonna be a 30 foot snake, but if it's out there,
why not reinstate Teddy Roosevelt's wishes.
Let me make this perfectly clear,
I do not want anyone to take a 24 foot snake
and overfeed it to try to get it to 30 foot
so that they can claim a $50,000 prize.
I am wondering is there a naturally occurring
snake that gets 30 foot.
Do you have a snake that is just kinda one of those
naturally huge snakes or is there one in the wild
that could potentially get to 30 foot?
I do not want, and I will not support, anyone
that is gonna overfeed their animal
just to try to claim this prize.
I'm anxious, it's been almost 100 years
and it's not claimed.
Now it's reinstated, let's see what happens.
Speaking of giant animals, I want to put
a giant mural on this wall right here
so people can come and take pictures of it.
If you're a super artistic person and think you can
paint a giant mural of a cool animal on this wall,
make sure to hit me up.
I'll put a link in the description to my email address.
Send me your kinda information, if you wanna come out
and make this mural, I'd like to get it done
before winter because it's gonna be cold
and it's not gonna be good.
But let me know, link in the description.
Today, I reinstated a reward for a 30 foot snake
that was around in the 1980s.
- What?
- [Brian] So I reinstated Teddy Roosevelt's award
for a 30 foot snake for $50,000.
- What does that mean?
- [Brian] So if someone comes up with a 30 foot snake,
Teddy Roosevelt started it in the early 1900s,
$50,000 I'm gonna pay them for this 30 foot snake.
- (laughing) No, you're not.
- [Brian] No, I am.
- No, you're not.
- [Brian] Well, I'm gonna-
- No, you're not.
- [Brian] No, I reinstated the thing on the vlog,
if someone comes up with a 30 foot snake,
I'm offering them a $50,000 reward.
- Well good luck because I guess
it won't happen anyways 'cause it won't get that big
but if you do happen to do it, I'm so sorry
'cause that's not happening.
- So that's it, down in the description now.
$50,000 reward if you come up with a 30 foot snake.
So here's the deal, guys.
Basically, if you think you have a 30 foot snake
or you know a 30 foot snake or you think you
found a 30 foot snake that is not overfed.
Again I cannot stress that enough,
I do not want people abusing their animals
to try to win.
If there is an animal that is just a mutant
that turns out to be 30 foot,
I will put the link in the description
for my email address.
Reach out to us.
We will literally come to the place,
if it's in the states, and measure the animal.
If it's somewhere out of the states, we would
need it to be shipped in.
Of course, you can't ship in burmese
or reticulated pythons, but we might be able
to get around it with some zoo permits.
So we might be able to work with some zoo animals
if we find something abroad.
So go ahead and email, we'll do the best
we can possibly do.
And hey, if it turns out that it's over in Indonesia
and we have to fly over there,
I'm not opposed to that either.
Again, email in the description.
I hope someone actually does claim this prize
'cause for 100 years, no one did.
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