- Look at that mouth!
You would not wanna get anywhere near that!
That's what you would see down in the Amazon
in South America when you're catching these guys.
Only the right head has eaten so far so hopefully,
we can get both of them to eat.
I got an idea, me and you versus these two bums.
Again, I want to do more of this
type of stuff in the future.
Excited I got somethin' in the mail!
- How many times has that happened?
It happens a lot!
(grunts)
- (straining) Good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog with my big guy, Bowser, here
the Alligator Snapping Turtle.
This guy's a heavy little monkey and
we have some pond maintenance goin' on today.
So I figured I'd go ahead, get this guy out of the pond
and before we actually do some maintenance,
I thought it might be kinda cool if we go ahead
and get Ivy, the Green Anaconda, and
give her a little pond swimming time.
I tell you what, this guy's a prehistoric beast for sure.
Just look at that mouth!
You would not wanna get anywhere near that for sure.
I've gotta go ahead and put him up here (grunts)
and have Eric jump in, grab him.
You got him, Eric?
- Yeah.
- All right, we're gonna go ahead and
get him in a holding container.
There you go.
I tell you what, he's about 100 pounds guys,
that's a lot of weight.
And the thing is he's gonna get probably 200 pounds
eventually, gonna take a long time.
He's already 41 years old.
He might live a couple hundred years.
But eventually, I don't know how we're even
gonna lift him out of this pond.
We're gonna need like a crane or somethin' like that.
Regardless, I'm gonna go ahead, get Ivy,
do some swimmin' around in here
because she's never been in an enclosure
that has a swimming area.
We are making a big water basin for her in her enclosure.
Now of course, when we expand, I definitely want
to make something like this for Ivy.
So let's go ahead, get her and see how she'll like it.
And here's Ivy, I tell you what she is such a strong animal.
I can't even quantify how strong anacondas are
compared to say, boas or pythons.
They are ridiculous.
So we're gonna go ahead and get her in some water.
This has been a dream of mine forever
to swim with an anaconda.
I've never done it, I have no idea how she's gonna do.
And again, the way she was kept before
was in a relatively smaller area with not a lot of water
and now that we're building a big basin for her in her tank,
she's never been swimming before that I know of.
So we're gonna go ahead and just release her
into this pond and then I'll climb in
and have some fun with her.
Come on, Ivy, I know you're gonna love this, girl.
There you go, sweetheart.
There you go.
(laughing) She doesn't seem to know what to do.
There she goes, right down to the bottom.
Just like you would expect an anaconda to do.
Now again, we have some sediment down there from Bowser
so it's not crystal clear.
But I'm gonna go ahead and jump in there and have some fun.
This is how an anaconda is gonna live a lot of their life
is in water, just like this.
And ironically enough, even though
the water's a little murky from the sediment,
this is kinda what they're in in the wild.
They just basically disappear into the water
and you can see with that head and the way
the nostrils are, it's meant for them to be
the majority of their body underwater
and just have that little bit of their head
and nostrils sticking up so they can breathe
and they can do their hunting.
It's really interesting just to see
how they move in the water, I mean
what an absolutely fascinating time.
And like I mentioned, I've been kinda dreaming
my whole life to be able to get
in the water with an anaconda.
I remember going to several zoos and seeing
them kinda hanging out in the water
and thinking "What would it be like to just
"get in there and start swimming around with them."
And I can honestly tell you this is everything
I absolutely imagined that it was.
It's incredible, Ivy is just so happy like this.
Again, we have to do this when we expand,
have an enclosure just like this for her.
She'll probably spend maybe 80 or 90% of her time
in the water because she is so adaptive.
Just look at her, I just let her go and
she just goes right down like nothin'
and that's how it is.
See how she's floatin' her head like that?
That's what you would see down
in the Amazon in South America
when you're catching these guys.
Hoohoo, doggy, I tell you what, what a gorgeous snake.
And this is the environment that she definitely needs
in the future for sure.
I can't wait till we stuff like this,
it's gonna be so fun.
And I've mentioned before, doing swimming
with opportunities here at the reptile zoo,
can you imagine swimming with an anaconda,
swimming with Arjay the alligator, maybe Lucy, Elvis.
I mean this is really the experience I want you guys
to feel 'cause as awesome as it is for me,
I want you guys to see how awesome it is.
Just look at her over here, hoo.
And she is just absolutely loving this time.
Definitely something I'm gonna do more often,
just ever time I take Bowser out for a cleaning,
I'm gonna give her a half an hour or an hour
just to kinda swim around 'cause this is what
she absolutely loves.
And again, this is the first time in her entire life
that she's had this opportunity which I think is
absolutely incredible.
I definitely have to make this a reality all the time.
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh,
what an absolutely amazing experience.
Ivy, you are incredible, girl and
I know you love this, sweetheart.
Oh, I love it when my animals are happy,
it just makes me happy.
Wow, how awesome is this.
(thumping techno music)
Since we're cleaning Bowser, the Alligator Snapping Turtle,
let's go ahead and see if my two-headed
snapping turtle will eat.
They've been settling in really well.
Only the right head has eaten so far
so hopefully we can get both of them to eat.
Let's just go ahead and give it a shot.
Oh my god, that was so awesome.
Finally, both heads ate, that is amazing.
You guys know that Ben and Jerry, the two-headed snake,
both heads eat.
The fact that they're both aggressively feeding now
gives me so much happiness because I know
that they're well on their way to growing up.
I mean hey, we got a long way to go, I understand that.
But they are doing absolutely amazing.
Oh and by the way, we did a little community poll
as well as you guys commented like crazy on the video
for the name and I think the overwhelmingly,
because we have Bowser the Alligator Snapping Turtle,
we now have Mario and Luigi the two-headed snapping turtle.
Let me know in the comments if you guys like it
and if you don't, let me know if there's another name
you're thinking of, I am 99% sure it's gonna be
Mario and Luigi but hey, down in the comments
you guys can go ahead and try to change my mind.
But how awesome is it that they're both eating.
So I'm pretty stoked, someone actually came over and
made us a surprise, a Reptarium and "Make Today Awesome"
corn hole, that's where you kinda, you know,
you throw the little bean bag and it's gotta get in the hole
so I think I'm gonna go get Lori and we're gonna
challenge Noah and Eric to a game of Reptarium corn hole.
Lori, I've got an idea.
Me and you versus these two bums in corn hole.
(laughs)
What do you guys think?
- Uh uh. - Good at corn hole?
- You're goin' down.
- All right, what happens to the loser?
- Bucks.
- 50 bucks, that's right, winner gets 50 bucks.
- Wait, these guys don't have 50 bucks.
- Oh. - No, we got it.
- I can make a few phone calls, I got people.
- All right, let's go do it.
Let's, you ready, Lori?
Let's go show these kids how you're supposed
to be playing the game.
- He's older than me.
- Well yeah but he's still a kid to us.
- He's still younger than us.
- Let's go!
(anticipating rock music)
Yes!
(Lori whoops)
This was so much fun, we kicked their butts!
- Yes, we did! - I tell you what.
- Thank you so much for making these,
these are gonna be out in front of the Reptarium
for the rest of the fall for sure.
We're gonna have some good time, so.
(yelling) You guys suck!
- And you owe me 50 bucks!
- 50 bucks!
- There was no shakes, we didn't shake on it!
- I told you he didn't have any money.
- These kids, these kids.
And if I'm gonna spend time with my girl, Ivy,
you know I'm gonna spend time with my girl, Verde.
As much as I think Ivy is incredible, honestly
Verde will always have my heart when it comes to anacondas.
So we went ahead and set up a little tiny pool
for her to swim in.
And again, eventually both these guys will have
really large enclosures where they can swim all they want.
But let's just go ahead and see what Verde does
in this little pool.
There you go, Verde, you wanna do some swimmin' too?
Oh, there she goes, she just disappeared!
Verde, where'd you go?
Where'd you go, sweetheart?
(laughing) Oh my god, I think she loves it too.
How awesome is that?
And obviously, this isn't a super deep pool
or anything like that, but she seems to be
lovin' her time in here, too.
I don't know, I just thought it was really cute.
Again, if I'm gonna spend time with Ivy in a pond,
I have to have my little girl, Verde, have a little bit
of swim time, too.
Again, she doesn't have a super large water basin
in her cage, but eventually she definitely will as well.
And look at how big she is getting.
And she is just so absolutely incredible.
I love her so much.
I tell you what, there's somethin' about green anacondas,
I don't know what it is.
They're just such majestic animals, so incredible.
And they are super cool to work with.
So I'm gonna let her just have a little bit of fun
and, while I'm thinking about it, might as well pull
Toothless out and let him have a little fun in here
later in the vlog, too, because I think he'll love
climbing up on stuff then maybe swimming
around a little bit.
If the water was a little deeper, it'd probably help
but for now, I think this is the best we're gonna do.
Toothless will love this, too.
He's startin' to go into some shed, too.
He'll probably just climb around.
Ideally, this would be a deeper water for him.
I think he'd like it more but I think
he'll still enjoy this.
Toothless, you wanna go in for some swims?
There you go, buddy.
Well, I don't know if he's gonna actually
be able to swim too much because it's a little bit shallow
but I think he'll enjoy just kinda runnin' around
and exploring and stuff like that.
(laughing) He's incredible,
what an absolutely insanely cool animal.
Look at him, he's like "Oh, what's this?"
Again, I want to do more of this
type of stuff in the future!
More of these types of enclosures that have
the ability for them to hide and climb and get in water
and all that type of stuff.
That's what I eventually want to continue to expand into.
I think Toothless is loving it, he's just kinda
checking it out, he doesn't know what's going on
to be honest with ya.
So again, just like Verde, I'll give him
the next 20, 30 minutes just for him to kinda
run around, enjoy himself and
have some good enrichment from this.
Definitely have to do this more often.
So time to get Bowser back.
We got it cleaned up pretty good.
He's ready to get back in his water, I'm sure.
Gosh, this guy is such a heavy beast.
(grunts)
Okay, Bowser, it's okay buddy, it's okay.
Up you go, up you go.
All right baby, oh my gosh those claws are just so crazy.
(grunts)
There you go, baby.
(laughs)
I tell you what, I wish you guys could just feel
the energy and the power that that animal has.
It's heavy, those claws get on you, he just grabs.
I mean this really is a living dinosaur.
Oh my gosh, so all right, one major thing down for the day.
Excited, I got somethin' in the mail!
But this is something I actually ordered.
You guys know that I am a sneaker guy
and I love sneakers.
Well you may not know know this,
I might have told you, I can't really remember,
but I always do sneaker Saturday and sneaker Sunday
at the Reptarium.
I don't know, I'm real superstitious so I always
feel like I have to have like a really cool
pair of sneakers on during the weekend because
you guys won't come if I don't have cool sneakers on.
I know that's ridiculous but the point is, I like sneakers
and I'm really pretty excited
about these ones here for sure.
Let's go ahead and see what we got, hoohoo doggy,
look at these suckers right here!
Oh oh, look at this, "Species!"
And then this says, what does this say?
"Infinite."
So I've got "Infinite Species."
These are actually Adidas hu or Human Races,
I love 'em, I love the soles on 'em and stuff.
Cool, I love these guys so I just needed some fire
for my feet for next weekend's you know, Reptarium shot.
Let me know in the comments if you guys like this
and let's go see if Lori'll like 'em.
I'm sure she will.
Let's go ahead and show Lori the new shoes.
Hey, Lori, I think you're gonna like these shoes.
These are awesome.
What do you think?
Are they good?
- Infinite, what is this, species?
- [Brian] Infinite species.
- Um, the color is okay, the style is ugly.
- It's ugly, what are you talking about?
- What the heck's going on in there?
- That's nice. - Froot Loop rainbow,
fruity pebbles.
- Yeah.
- Um, no, these are really ugly.
- They're ugly?
- Yeah.
- These are fire, Lori.
- I'd like to set them on fire.
(both laugh)
- Don't you set my shoes on fire.
Give me these shoes back.
We're outta here.
- How many times has that happened?
- [Lori] It happens a lot!
(both laugh)
- And you know what I gotta do?
I come back here on my off time
to drink and paint more animals, that's what I do now.
- [Lori] Welcome to my life.
- What an absolutely amazing experience
to go swimming with Ivy the anaconda.
It was so cool, and it was cool to see little Verde
and Toothless as well.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it.
Here's another video of me swimming with big snakes.
Here's another playlist I think you guys will
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