- Take a look it guys.
At first this is Jazz, the male green Anaconda.
And of course in this enclosure,
we have Ivy over here, and Ariana
is in the far back over here.
But of course Jazz was in shed when we got him
and take a look at this.
A beautiful shed coming out of here.
Looks like a one-piece shed.
Looks absolutely amazing.
And he looks beautiful now.
And he is a really good snake.
I mean, I tell you, he's as tame as
Ariana and Ivy.
Which is great.
So we have four anacondas here,
obviously Ariana, Ivy, Jazz
And of course Viridae.
All of them are unbelievably docile animals,
super tame that you can handle.
That is awesome, 'cause not all the time
Green anacondas are that way.
But with the beautiful new shed,
he looks absolutely incredible.
And of course,
so many people make the mistake of measuring their sheds
and thinking like, all right, that's how long my snake is.
And we all know that that's usually not the case,
but let's go ahead and put it to the test.
So I sent the shed out here in the sun
to actually dry out a little bit.
What I'm going to do is actually
measure the length of it.
And we'll get an idea.
And then we'll measure Jazz and we'll get
an idea of what the difference is.
Looks like we have about 149 inches.
So let's go ahead and get Jazz and see how long he is.
Of course, Mike here is going to help me get Jazz out
and we're going to go ahead and use the old string technique
to measure him out.
Remember 149 inches on the shed.
Let's see how long Jazz actually is.
Come on, come on.
- It's almost like he's wet.
Wow, he's so strong.
- Jazz, woo.
Wow, Jazz is not as- as calm as the other ones,
as far as it's just kinda more flighty and stuff like that.
But maybe it was just as he's in the water.
Keep his head. Don't let him bite me.
No, he's super tame. He's super tame. Look at him.
He's absolutely amazing.
So let's set him down on the ground.
- Wait, I can't. He's got me.
- Stop messing around. (Laughter)
All right. So you're going to have to kind of
restrain him a little bit.
No, just keep them like to a point
where I can get the string.
All right, here we go.
- Wait you're starting at his tail?
- Well yeah I'm going to start at his tail.
He don't like the tail touched.
- (laughs)
- You said he's nice, right?
- [Brian] He's nice, he's fine.
- Okay, okay.
- I just got to follow the contour of his entire body,
cause I don't want to add inches or subtract inches.
So just go around just really slightly.
It's a great technique to actually measure snake.
The only other way to measure these guys
is to actually build two boards
and then have them climb through those boards.
And of course, they'll find them in a straight line.
If they climb that straight line,
you'll be able to then measure
how long they are in the boards.
But when he's actually like this,
you just kind of follow them along, a little bit difficult,
but not too bad.
We're almost there.
- Ooh, Mikey, Mikey, Mikey.
- Almost there.
- You move.
- Then get it right to the tip of the head.
Right to the tip of his nose. Okay.
So this is how long he is right here.
Can you grab a marker?
- Sure.
- (laughs)
Mikey, what are you doing?
We got a snake on the loose here.
- Okay, he don't move that fast.
- (Laughing) He boosts faster than you.
- It's probably true.
- All right. So I'm just going to put a black mark
on this right here.
So we know where it is.
Jazz, where am I?
Can I have that back?
Stretch that out all the way.
Now, for the reveal.
- Wait, wait, what do you guess?
- Well, he was 149.
I'm going to say this as a-
- [Michael] I don't know what that is it in feet,
I'm not that mathematician.
- What that's uh 12 foot, five inches.
- [Michael] 12 foot, five inches
- [Brian] So 12 foot five inches.
I want to say this as 136 inches.
- You'd think it's just about 11 foot.
- Think about 11 foot.
- Okay
- [Brian] Well, let's see.
- [Michael] That's fair. I would say probably about
10 and a half.
- [Brian] Hold it here.
- [Michael] Right there.
- [Brian] So 149, and this is actually 114 inches.
Nine foot, five inches.
Think about that.
114, 35 inch difference.
- So just under 3 feet.
- Yeah, so just under three foot.
So that's the difference if you're actually
measuring a snake shed 35 inch difference
in the size of the shed.
And of course the size of the snake.
Now the thing is about it is number one,
you got to remember the snake shed is this
when it's on a snake and it's like this, right?
So that's going to stretch it out more
and it's got some elasticity.
So it's actually going to stretch and stuff like that.
Especially once it's wet, like in the water,
it's going to have a little bit of a stretch.
35 inches that even surprised me, people.
So that gives you an idea.
Don't go ahead and measure ballpark that didn't tell me
it's eight foot because of the shed,
because it's not eight foot because of the shed that gives
you an idea. That's science right there.
Mikey, we just taught these people science.
- So I'm sure you guys seen the challenge with me
and my BFF, Mike
You guys are talking smack in the comments,
so I'm going to get Lucky out and I'm going to get some
redemption here. Well, I'm not going to get Lucky out.
I'm going to ask Mike to get out Lucky and then I'm going to
hold him.
- No no, I'd take him on the challenge.
You can get him out.
Oh my god, get him all ready?
(Jay screams)
- Okay, sorry. Okay.
So Mike,
could you walk me through how I should go about this.
- You're screwed now, you already woke him up.
- I didn't wake him up. He was already awake.
Dang. Don't bite me in the face.
It's not funny.
Okay. So let's get him to strike first.
- [Michael] That's not good, that makes it worse.
I thought that's what you're supposed to do.
They strike them and then pull them.
- [Michael] They strike 37,000 times a minute.
and you're going to make them straight one time first just
to get them going?
- Okay. I think that I don't want redemption,
so, sorry guys.
You're just gonna have to keep talking smack in the comments
because I just quite literally can't do it.
- [Noah] You want, you want me to show you how to do it?
Yeah, yeah, give me this camera angle. This is easy.
- [Michael] Let's go. Boss's son sneaking up right here.
- [Jay] Wow. I mean, knowing you're already
so much better than I am.
- Right here, right here
- (Jay screaming)
- I don't wanna film.
- Damn you're shaking,
give me the camera, you're going to drop it.
I won't drop it, I am filming nothing though.
He is so wrapped up on the string.
(Jay screams) Oh my god Noah did it get you?!
(Noah laughs) - No - [Jay] Okay.
Dude it's not-
- [Michael] You're getting way more dramatic than
you have to be.
- [Noah] I can't get him off the fricking wood.
He's so wrapped on there.
- [Jay] Jesus Christ
That was a far away. That was basic freaking milk.
Jesus.
I can't get him, look how many coils he has on that thingy.
- [Jay] Oh I don't wanna film this anymore.
- [Noah] I can't rip him off.
- [Jay] It's okay.
- He's too wrapped up there. I'll get bit.
- I'll tell you what Noah got your redemption
but you did not.
- [Jay] I did not.
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Remember the other day actually showed you that Clutch,
that started to hatch out,
that was actually a pin specter, has bread to a dragon fly
yellow belly,
as well as a vanilla bamboo Woma.
Well they all hatched out and there's some pretty
interesting results here.
And I want to dive into this a little bit,
but when I first showed you was this animal here that
hatched out that I thought originally was like,
how could we have gotten an ivory?
Which definitely wasn't an ivory.
Not exactly sure what this was going on.
And there's another animal in here, but nevertheless,
we've got some really cool stuff.
This right here is a Firefly super stripe.
So a yellow belly and a specter mix, at least likely going.
And then there's just all kinds of other,
really beautiful animals.
This is actually the pin super strike.
It looks like a fire too. So it looked like it's a fire,
a pinstripe and a super Stripe, which is really amazing.
Then we got some really beautiful,
beautiful animals in here. These two here,
I actually believe to be a vanilla pastel specter fire
pinstripe, right?
So these are basically vanilla dragon fly,
yellow belly specters.
Really beautiful animals, really came out well.
And then one of these animals, of course
it was dual fathered. This a cool animal here,
this is actually the bamboo gene that came through on this
one, but this one looks like a vanilla bamboo fire pinstripe
Woma ball python, absolutely wonderful. But again,
the two animals I found to be really interesting, that I
wanted to take a closer look at is this animal right here,
which is just basically looks like maybe a lemon blast that
has some really interesting colors.
I'm going to talk about that in a second.
And then of course this mystery animal here,
and to really get into it,
we have to talk about the mystery ball python.
So to really talk about it,
it came from the origins of this animal here,
which is what we call the mystery ball python, that just
basically popped out of a pinstriped clutch that just made
no sense. It was like this pattern,
this wacky thing definitely affecting the pattern a ton.
And it was kind of just a complete mystery.
So we call it the mystery ball python because we had no
idea why it was patternless this and how it was crazy.
And then of course, when we bred this animal,
we produced some really crazy offspring.
Now, we ended up producing five babies
from the mystery female,
all five of them were completely different looking and
really strange. This is again a weird one again,
it's patternless,
but it's got some weird kind of speckling throughout of it.
Never seen a ball python on like this, completely out of the
blue, this came up.
It was just weird. I mean,
there's definitely something amazing going on, what it is,
I don't know. I don't know if it's an allelic thing.
I don't know if there's like a co-dominant incomplete
dominant thing happening that we just don't know about.
I don't know what is going on.
This one was an absolute ripper,
but there was another one that really made me think about
the clutch that we just hatched.
And that's this ball python right here.
Again much like that little baby that we showed.
It has just an very interesting blushed out pattern to it,
right? It's not like a normal pinstripe and a pastel,
which is what this is supposed to be.
This should be just a pin pastel or a lemon blast,
but why is the pattern
so kind, of almost like a Jaguar-ey type of look to it,
right? It's so interesting.
And if you notice this baby and this one,
right here is a year length, look almost identical.
I mean, when this was a baby,
this is exactly what it looked like.
And of course there's other babies in this clutch that look
unusual as well,
but there was really a kind of correlation between this
animal and that animal. So even though the mystery female,
I showed you a little bit ago,
had nothing to do with this clutch,
the pinstripe that kind of was lineage from that mystery
ball python, then that's related
to it, produced these animals.
So obviously there is again, a hidden gene going on in a
bunch of my pinstripes and I've got to somehow figure out
what they are.
Now we have three different females that we know have this
mystery gene in it. Now it's a matter of back engineering,
reverse engineering and figure out.
The good part is, is this guy
and the other males that from the clutch last year are all
ready to breed this year.
And we can breed them out and start to figure out what the
heck is going on.
I don't know if it's going to be easier now,
but that's what makes this whole thing so much fun is that
you have something that's so unusual.
You don't know what the potential is and it's going to be
awesome to figure it out.
I'm excited guys,
because we have the new fall Reptile Army gear out
now. It's so new that I don't even have it yet.
I'm going to get mine maybe next week and I'll show you what
it is, but definitely some cool designs coming out.
So if you're into fall and you want to get some cool new
designs, go to reptilearmy.com, join the army.
We're trying to get out there.
We need you as our soldiers going out there wearing our
gear, talking to people, telling people like, "wow,
it's thought provoking" right?
When someone sees a really cool design with a reptile, like,
"what is that all about?" Now you can go out there and say,
"Hey, it's about this."
And I think this fall line is going to be really cool.
We have backpacks, we have hoodies,
we have long sleeves, we have socks,
we have all kinds of stuff.
And next week we're actually dropping the Halloween one.
So those people that love Halloween as much as I do,
make sure to go to reptilearmy.com,
keep an eye on it because next week that drops and we have
some really fun and cool designs for Halloween.
So I know I'm super excited, the way things are.
And we have all the past designs too. As a matter of fact,
most of them now can be bought in hoodies and long sleeve.
Now that fall is here. So go to reptilearmy.com,
join the army.
And since we're talking about sheds earlier in the vlog,
guess who shed out, my guy Joker here, of course,
Joker is a scaleless Texas rattlesnake,
just such an unusually cool animal. I love this guy so much.
And again,
when people come to The Reptarium, this is always an
animal that they love to hold,
because it feels so different, right?
It feels like gecko skin, or it feels just so,
like human skin, whatever the case is.
But of course he shed out and a lot of people always ask
"do scaleless snakes shed?" And this is the answer.
Yes, they shed.
And you can kind of see in the shed how the scaleless
parts are.
You can see where the remnant scales are and where those
kinds of smooth parts are almost like, you know, sunburn
peeling or something like that.
That's how a scaleless snake sheds.
And this is a perfect shed,
which is going to be really good.
Cause I'm going to hang onto this.
That way when people come here and
ask that question "Do scaleless snake shed?"
I can actually show them they shed because I think it's
pretty cool.
So yes, scaleless snake shed.
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