- She got me.
- [Brian] She got you?
- She got me.
- Oh my gosh.
She's definitely, I'll tell you what,
I tell people all the time my most painful bite
that I ever had was actually an adult black head bigger
than this one, quite a bit bigger, on my bicep.
And it didn't let go for about five minutes
or how long has this one been on you?
- I would say about three minutes, now.
- [Brian] About three minutes,
so there is only one or two choices.
I can either pry it off.
It's going to hurt, or we'll try to get mouthwash,
and see if we can get up a little bit of that.
- I mean, I'm not going to say no to the mouthwash.
- You wanna try the mouthwash.
So guys, seriously, a little bit of alcohol that's
in mouthwash, and I'm just taking my time explaining this,
actually will cause a snake to let go.
It doesn't hurt.
You know, we put mouthwash in our mouth and stuff like that.
So you can watch how good this works right now.
I'm just going to barely put
just a little teeny bit of this on,
just barely a little bit.
- Should I unwrap her, so she doesn't come back
and bite me again? - Nope. Nope.
And it didn't work.
- Wait no. She's loosening a little bit.
- I'm going to put just a little bit more.
- First snake bite in a year.
- Oh wow.
- Oh, she's loosening,
and we need to try to get her off before she
- [Brian] She's gonna tighten back up.
- Regrabs.
- Mike, how's it going?
Is it working?
- I don't think she want's to let go.
- [Brian] I know. All right.
So we're going to have to do it the old school way, right?
- I don't know how.
- [Brian] I can help you.
Do you want me to help you, or you just want to wait it out?
- I guess you're the pro, right?
- Okay. Watch. This is easy.
What I'm going to do is I'm just going to take
her bottom jaw like this.
- Oh, she's so tight right now.
- [Brian] I know she's going to dig in a little bit.
- Oh, too late.
- I'm gonna un-prise her jaw a little bit.
Just don't move too much.
Don't move too much.
- I'm not trying to.
- [Brian] Get your finger out.
- Then she's trying to bite you now.
- She will try to bite me.
- I don't care if she bites the boot.
That one hurt.
I'm not going to lie.
- And that's how you do it.
That's old school style there.
She was very, very interested in you.
- I guess we taste some life.
- Good job, Mike, way to go.
How's it feel?
Does it hurt when you push on it?
(laughs)
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the blog.
We have a little project going today.
You guys know that Ivy and Arianna in Jazz's enclosure are
kind of the centerpiece for 2.0,
and really one of the centerpiece for the entire rep area.
And we've always just loved this enclosure
from the day it arrived, I was like, oh my gosh,
this enclosure is great,
but I'm going to be totally honest with you here,
and the fact that it's always been a little bit bare, right?
And we try to decorate a couple of times.
So you kind of remember that anacondas are giant snakes.
I mean, Ivy is a hundred and something pounds,
and she kind of just crushes everything.
So every time we tried to kind of, you know, fixture it out,
and put a bunch of foliage in here, she's kind of ruined it.
Well Jessica actually ordered some new foliage
that she feels is going to go really good.
And you guys know Jessica is a genius
when it comes to designing enclosures like this.
So of course, we're going to give it one more go.
We're going to just let Jessica have a go at it
and just fixture out this entire enclosure to make it look
incredible because again, it's awesome when you walk in
and you see this enclosure
with the waterfall, the snakes and all this stuff,
but you know, the foliage is going to make
this thing really, really pop,
so I'm excited to see what Jessica does.
So I'm going to kind of just turn it over to her,
let her do her magic, and we'll come back
and check on her later and see how it goes.
- We are revamping Ivy's enclosure.
Needed it for a while, so with larger snakes and stuff,
the fake plants don't hold up the greatest.
So you have to revamp it every once in a while.
It's kind of fun,
but I've got some new plants, some sturdier stuff,
and some other things to like go up in the corners,
so maybe they can't get to it as easily and destroy it.
Yeah, let's get started.
(chill music)
So crazy how curious these anacondas are, man.
Like I've never seen a snake,
like as soon as I put this in here, she's like,
"What is this? This is new."
She's like I must investigate it.
- [Brian] Jessica's right.
Ever since I've been working with the anacondas,
it's been amazing how curious they are.
Like no other snake I've ever worked with.
As soon as you go in the enclosure,
they want to come over and investigate
and figure out what's going on.
Not from a mean standpoint; they're not afraid of us.
We're not afraid of them.
It's just curious, which makes it really interesting, right.
And as she's putting all this new kind of foliage in here,
they're investigating that as well,
which I think is great enrichment for the animals.
- So I pretty much have everything kind of
where I want it in here.
So now it's time to start drilling
and putting everything in place to make sure
they can't knock it off or down or whatever.
You can already see, she's already up
in this plant trying to pull it down, so.
(chill music)
So we're all done.
We'll see how long the plant's last in here.
And as soon as we see Brian,
we'll see what he thinks about it.
- Holy cow, does this look amazing and look at Arianna.
She is just all over the place, loving it.
And that's the thing that I think is really interesting is
the enrichment that comes from this type of thing.
I think it looks great.
It really makes this entire enclosure pop now
and look amazing.
You know, what's really cool too is you remember
that yesterday, the anacondas were breeding.
We'll look at, they are locked off totally right now.
And I've never really seen anacondas breed
underwater like this.
What's interesting is Jazz will be underwater breeding.
And then he comes up for a breath of air every now and then.
And then it goes back down to breeding.
The entire time that Jessica was doing this enclosure,
which was at least an hour, they stayed hooked up.
They never even cared. They just were locked up.
So definitely a lot of breeding when it comes to this,
but oh my goodness, this enclosure looks so amazing.
Again, I always love this as a showpiece,
but now that Jessica has it like this,
it's a completely different environment.
It looks so cool.
I love it to death. So let me know the comments
what you guys think.
Like I said, I think it's over the moon happy.
And again it's an idea for you guys that are having animals
at home is every now and then to switch the enclosure up is
a lot of enrichment for your animals, right?
Because it's new smells.
It's new things for them to look at and stuff like that.
Now we'll have to see how they actually act
over the next month or so where they rip it apart,
or we'll have to change some things around.
But in the meantime, Jessica just absolutely knocked it
out of the park.
I couldn't be more happy.
Well, Gemma shed out and blew her cage up has always.
Got a little bit of stuck shed on her.
And that's what happens.
Unfortunately, when you're in a Northern climate
with the heats on the lot,
even when you're trying to spray them down every day,
they still, sometimes don't shed as good,
and big snakes like Gemma, oftentimes don't shed
in one piece anyways,
but regardless, I don't really know what's happening.
I know a lot of you guys have been like,
what's going on with Gemma?
She swelled up; she looked rabid.
It looked like an ovulation.
She went through a prelay shed.
Then she went into another shed,
and now I'm like 99% sure she is not grabbing.
I don't think she's gonna lay slugs.
I don't think she's going to lay.
I think what basically happened is
what they call a reabsorption.
Basically they go through almost like a false pregnancy
where they go through ovulation, they get ready to go,
and then all of a sudden they just suck the eggs up.
It happens every now and then with ball pythons,
never seen it happen with retakes,
but I'm almost 99% sure that's what's going on here
because obviously she does not look rabid anymore.
So now that we get her cleaned up and stuff like that,
give her a couple of days,
I'm going to try to feed her,
and hopefully she'll go back onto food,
and we can start beefing her up.
But I'm so bummed.
It looks like we're not going to get any eggs
from Gemma this year.
Don't know if I'll breed her next year.
But nevertheless, I hope she goes back onto food now
after being off food for like four months.
- No preggo that we know of.
- No Preggo, me eggo.
We got to get her out, get her in a little bath.
I'm basically just his coach.
I'm a snake trainer.
You're doing a great job.
Grab her by the upper half, slowly worked that back end.
- Yeah. I'm still trying to be gentle.
I mean, we don't think she's pregnant,
but Kay said, you know, if eggs pop out,
I'd rather be eggs and not yolks, scrambled eggs you know.
Bad jokes I'm worried about them gourds.
- I realized that over easy eggs,
and then there's ovaries are also eggs.
- No, that's over easy.
- You guys know that I always have a bunch of crazy ideas,
but there's been this one idea
that I finally want to share with you that I've had
in mind for a couple of years.
And I don't know if you guys follow gamers
and stuff like that.
There's obviously like the FaZe Clan, there's cloud house,
there's TikTok house.
There's all these houses that basically are
where people could congregate to collaborate
and to grow their followings and stuff like that.
I've thought the same thing in the animal world.
I wouldn't mind doing a house say in Florida
because there's so much stuff going down there
that would be called the conservation house where
we basically get a house where anyone can come and stay
and collaborate with one another.
If you want to just hang out for the week,
and you are a content creator,
you have a conservation project,
you have something like that,
a place where everyone could go.
I mean, what do you think about that?
You know, could we somehow figure a way to get
some really cool house that everyone could stay at?
And again, it wouldn't be permanent residency,
but let's say someone was flying in from another country
or maybe someone from California was going to Florida
and they needed a place to stay.
They could stay at the conservation house,
and then they could actually collaborate with other creators
that were staying at the conservation house too.
And a lot of it really brought it to mind,
like with the Croc Fest thing
because not only were so many people coming in for Croc Fest
but in particular there were some people from Jamaica
that were crocodile conservationists.
It'd be great for them to have a place to stay,
not only to stay, but also stay around other people
that would then create content with them
that would get their cause out.
I don't know what you guys think about that.
Like I said, we've seen it in other genres,
like fashion, TikTok, gaming, all kinds of other stuff,
but we haven't seen something like this in the animal world.
And I'm all about all ships rise with the tide, right?
So if we get people together, yeah,
we're going to grow all of our channels,
we're going to grow all of our reach,
and we're going to be able to really get our message out.
Again, if it's about conservation,
which I certainly want to work more and more with
in the future, it'd be a great opportunity to have
a house wherever we could go.
So let me know in the comments, number one,
what you think about this project?
Number two, how do you think we can actually get it done?
You know what I mean?
Can we just rent like a six bedroom house for a year
down in Florida?
Do we buy something?
I don't know.
Let me know what you guys think because it's just something
that I think could be really good,
not only for the education, but also the conservation
of animals around the world.
What do you say if Drogo likes butternut squash?
I've fed him squash before,
but I don't know if he'll like this.
You want it Drogo? What do you think, bud?
I think he likes it.
Oh yeah. He loves it.
It's just one more thing that we could feed him.
There's all kinds of different types of squash, right?
So it looks like he really is enjoying this one.
So I've got a handful of pieces for him, and look at him.
He is immediately like, yes.
You can always tell Drogo
because he'll taste something really quick.
If he doesn't like something, he just spits it out.
This one, he just immediately gets his little claw in there,
and was like, "Yes, I wanted some."
So that is amazing.
Again, lots of variety for these animals is so important.
So we're always trying to look for not only things
that are going to kind of vary his diet,
but also things that we can maybe use
to kind of lore him out
because we've been trying to train him lately to,
as soon as we come in the enclosure,
for him to climb out of his actual bunk
so that we can have encounters and stuff like that.
So I think butternut squash may actually be another one
that he's going to like a whole lot.
There you go, bud.
Honey, here you go, sweetheart.
Oh my God. What a cutie.
Mike got Gemma cleaned up.
Let's get her back in.
Like I said, I have no idea what's going on with this girl.
There's no doubt.
There's no eggs in there.
I mean, you could see, she went
from like super fast to kind of skinny.
So I just hope she eats now.
So just get a little bit of shed off of her
and she should look, she looks beautiful.
I mean, she's just an absolutely gorgeous animal,
but what a rollercoaster ride, right?
I mean, we didn't know she was grabbing.
Then we thought she was grabbing.
An ultrasound, she was grabbing.
Shed, shed again, now here the third shed.
So I don't know I think we just missed it,
and I'm not exactly sure why?
Because we certainly saw Night Fury lock up
with her a handful of times.
I'm not really sure,
but she's back to being her sweetheart self
and hopefully here in the next couple of days,
we'll offer food, and she'll eat and go from there.
Come on Gems.
- She's like, I don't want to leave the water.
- [Brian] Now she's like, I like this water.
This is good.
- Not handling her for those couple months.
She feels like she's gotten a lot heavier.
- [Brian] Yeah. We'll just wait until she starts eating.
Now that she probably has done with all this garbage,
she'll probably start eating like a monster.
She's going to get big cause when we got her,
remember, she was so much fatter she was like,
cause she had been eating a lot before we got her, and wow.
Yeah. She's going to get big after this.
That's for sure.
What a cool snake.
So she's all set and we are good to go,
and we'll feed her in a couple of days.
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