- I'm trying to get her up as much as I possibly can guys.
She is definitely a beastie girl for sure.
- I don't find this humorous at all.
- They're high energy, for sure.
- So probably more likely Jack Russell Terrier.
(laughing)
- Ya, Jack Russell Terrier.
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Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
You know, I figured today, I was just gonna mess
with some of my bigger snakes, kinda just a fun way
to spend the day, if you know what I mean.
I'm gonna be totally honest with you about half the crew
is out today either sick or some other issue,
so I figured a good way to spend today's vlog would be
with my beautiful giants like my girl Daisy here;
Lucy is actually breeding right now so I'm not gonna
pull her out but as you guys know, Daisy is the calmer
of the two for sure, she's still a big girl.
Over on Noah's channel we measured her and she was like
17 foot six inches at the time, probably grown a little bit
since then so hopefully she's about 18 foot, but again
she is super calm, she is a Lavender Albino
Reticulated Python and for those of you that don't know,
Reticulated Pythons really can get about 25 foot.
So the fact that she's 18 foot doesn't mean that she's
full-grown at all, but again she has an amazing temperament
compared to a lot of Reticulated Pythons.
As you see as we go on this walk, some retics are a lot more
high energy, so thankfully, Daisy is a great animal
that I can pull out even with kids and let them hold
a snake that's really huge because I tell you what,
until you've actually spent some time with 150 plus pound
snake, you really don't get an understanding
of just how strong they are.
And again when I say 150 pounds,
it feels more like 250 pounds because it is so heavy.
I mean, it's literally impossible for one person
to pick this up, even though I could probably pick
150 pounds up, picking Daisy up by myself
is almost impossible;
but she is an absolutely incredible animal.
I mean just get an idea, I'm trying to get her up as much
as I possibly can guys, she is definitely a beastie girl
for sure, whew!
And she's just about ready to get to shed so she's gonna
even be more beautiful here in another week or so.
Alright, well let's go ahead and move onto another
Reticulated Python, one that is a little smaller
but a lot more high energy.
Next up, we got Butterscotch here but I actually
got Lori to help me with this because Butterscotch
is a pretty good animal but she's definitely high energy
and I want to make sure I gotta little bitta help.
Here, grab, Lori.
Just grab it.
- I probably would rather have the tail.
- No, no, you got it.
- [Noah] You got the front.
- What's the worst that's gonna happen?
- I'm gonna make her bite Noah.
- [Noah] No!
(laughing)
- So Butterscotch is absolutely a gorgeous animal
right here, but again she's a lot more high energy, than say
Daisy is because Daisy is definitely a calm,
really mellow animal.
She's only about a year and a half,
not even two years old yet.
- I don't find this humorous at all.
- She's fine, she's not gonna be a problem.
She's got my foot.
So as you can see that's she always is kinda on the move,
and she's probably closing in on maybe 11 or 12 foot
right now and this is right when Reticulated Pythons
really start to beef out, right?
So, what happens is a Retic will grow to nine,
sometimes even 10 foot and kinda be really slender
and they'll grow really long and then they get about
this size and then they start to really beef up.
Lori, you okay?
- Ya, ya I'm great.
- She's bouncin' around and that's what basically
when you're handling big snakes like this,
often times it's like they'll kinda move you around
where you've gotta move with them more than anything else.
- [Noah] It's non-stop. (laughing)
- Sometimes you can just kinda spin into 'em
and stuff like that.
(breathing hard)
But she's cardio, you do your cardios today at the gym?
- Not as much as this.
I'm not into retic cardio.
(laughing)
- This is awesome, again you know I talk about snake
massage place, right Lori?
I was thinking the same thing, we could do like
gym cardio lessons with Retics.
- No.
- No?
- No.
- I think it could be a good thing.
Would you guys do it?
Hit me in the comments.
Get it Lori.
Let me know if you guys would pay for a gym membership
to just come handle a big snake for about an hour.
Ooh, she's got me pretty tight right now.
- [Lori] Good.
- Okay.
(laughing)
- Whew!
She is on the go!
Oh my god, Butterscotch, you are crazy girl.
Oh my god, but again Reticulated Pythons I think
are really cool because they are kind of
a little bit more intelligent.
Later in the vlog we'll definitely handle some
Burmese Pythons and you'll see the difference
of Burmese, I always say the Burmese are like
the puppy dog;
whereas, Retics, I don't know what they would be.
I'm not gonna say they're the Pit Bulls 'cause they're
absolutely amazing, but they just seem to be
a little bit more intelligent and they seem to always be
on the go a little bit more. - They're high energy.
- They're high energy for sure.
- Ya, so probably more likely the Jack Russell Terrier.
(laughing)
- Ya, Jack Russell Terrier.
But they aren't small like the Jack Russell,
that's for sure. (laughing)
- But they've got the energy.
- Okay, so there you have it, Butterscotch.
Oh, hi honey, how are you? (laughing)
- Well, this doesn't work out so well.
(laughing) Alright.
- This is a little tip for the guys out there.
- [Noah] I was just about to say, if you have a crush,
get a Retic and strap it around you guys both real tight.
(laughing)
- Alright, let's go ahead and get Butterscotch in.
Okay girl, back in girl.
Back in.
(laughing)
You got her?
- Ya, no she's got me.
- Okay girl, okay girl.
- [Noah] Couple's exercise.
- Alright, whew!
I love that snake, high energy.
Thanks for your help, Lori.
- Ya, thanks, you're welcome. (laughing)
- And then you guys see Casper all the time.
Of course, he's a Super Phantom Black Eyed
Leucistic Reticulated Python.
Now he's a little bit older so some kinda of localities
of Retics will stay smaller, we've all heard about dwarfs
and super dwarfs but not just dwarfs and super dwarfs
can stay small like the Golden Child stuff which
is something that stays about 10, 12 foot.
Is another locality that stays small, well this guy
also is an animal that doesn't seem to be getting
much bigger, again at his age, he's probably only gonna
grow a little bit more, which is perfectly fine.
He is definitely a lot more high energy.
So when people come and handle Sunrise, the Albino Burmese
and the handle him, they're always a little bit surprised
'cause he's always on the move, he's always climbing
but he's actually a super super good animal.
And it's kinda that perfect size for someone that wants
a big snake but they don't want somethin' that's so big
like Butterscotch or Daisy, where it's almost like,
oh my god, one person can't handle this animal.
Casper is certainly an animal that you can handle
with one person for sure.
And what's really neat is again, because he's
a Super Phantom, means if I bred him, everything would
come out Phantom.
Now you guys may or may not know this, but Perdita of course
is a Cow Retic, we'll look at her in a minute;
she is actually an elitick animal so when you breed
a Phantom to a Het Ghost Stripe, you'll get one to four
on average Cow, so if I were to breed Casper to Perdita
in the future, half the babies would come out Cow
and half the babies that weren't Cow would come out Phantom.
So it's pretty cool.
Will I ever do it in the future?
I'm not so sure about it.
But nevertheless, Casper is a beautiful beautiful snake.
Then we have Sunfire here,
this thing is absolutely gorgeous.
This is a Sunfire Super Tiger Reticulated Python
and it's kind of almost the same size as Casper,
maybe slightly smaller but usually
a lot more energy than Casper.
As you can see, she is always, always on the move.
And again, this is an animal that we're kinda preening
to eventually be a really good kind of ambassador here at
the reptarium 'cause she's so beautiful.
I think as she gets bigger, she'll start to calm down.
Like I had mentioned with Butterscotch, see how long
and skinny she is?
She's probably only a foot and a half or two feet smaller
than Butterscotch, she's still so thin.
As they start to grow out and get a little bit fatter,
they usually calm down a little bit.
And I'm gonna be honest with you, even though she's always
on the move, she's already calmed down tremendously,
just in the last four or five months,
so I think this is gonna be one of our best handling snakes
at some point, when it comes to a big snake that is.
I mean, obviously Perdita and Sunrise and all those animals
are gonna be incredible but this girl, when she hits
15, 16 foot, she's gonna be another Daisy;
and the truth is, is although Daisy's amazing, we don't
take her out a lot because she just seems to be a little bit
stressed out when you take her out for too long;
whereas, I think an animal like this can actually be more
habituated to it and do real well.
But I don't know, obviously you never know and I talk about
it all the time, you have to read the animals.
Some animals don't stress out with handling,
some animals do.
The ones that are a little stressed, we only handle
a little bit.
The ones who seem to do really well like Perdita
or Sunrise, they come out and stay out a lot longer.
Regardless, Sunfire here, is a beautiful snake.
Now Ricky is a little bit of a combination of a bunch
of things too, he's a relatively bigger animal
but he's also a real good runner.
I tell you what, this guy is always on the move
and he's pretty hard to handle.
Trying to take him out now and then at the reptarium,
he's a really tame snake so you don't have to worry about
him biting at all.
But he is always on the go, you can kinda see he's really
kind of unusual with the way he moves, where he's kinda
goin' backwards, he's kinda all over the place.
And even for me, someone that handles big snakes
all the time, he can kinda get me hand cuffed a little bit.
But he's a really cool snake.
The Jampea Dwarf that is bred to a Lavender Albino ,
so he's half Jampea Dwarf and he's half mainland.
And this is where the kindly original dwarf crosses so
he's really close to that Tampania F1 generation,
which means that he's gonna be a little bit more
high strung.
And as you breed it into tamer and tamer animals,
they actually mellow out, but now he's actually
being really good.
He's just kinda using me as a tree here, which is
probably the best thing.
If I were to stand up and kinda try to walk around with him
a little bit, he'll start to just go absolutely crazy
and of course we named him Ricky, we originally thought
that Ricky would be Lucy's boyfriend, as it turns out,
we really have never bred Ricky to anything.
We tried a couple times and he didn't breed so we just
kinda gave up.
And now, of course Titan continues to breed Lucy but;
nevertheless, I don't show Ricky as much as I'd like to
and because I'm handling big snakes today, I thought
I would give you the pleasure of seeing this absolutely
beautiful monkey right here.
And I'm gonna just do a really quick thing with
the usual suspects, if you know what I mean.
Obviously you guys see Perdita so much, there's not
a whole lotta explanation other than the fact that I
talked about Casper being a component of Perdita's genetics,
if you guys understand what that is.
Now, Perdita's probably at least a year, maybe even
two years away from potentially being big enough
and old enough to breed;
will I ever breed her?
I'm not a hundred percent sure,
I'll have to cross that bridge when it comes.
I don't think I'm going to but there's always a chance
I will, but obviously when it comes to a Reticulated Python,
she is the best of all worlds.
She's super smart but also super calm and really handleable.
Not only was she a great personality from the day
we got her, but obviously she was handled so much,
she's so habituated to be handling, definitely one of the
coolest snakes I have here at the reptarium.
I can't really consider this a big snake yet but I wanted
to show you Night Fury just because he just shed out!
Look at the iridescence in that snake right there.
I mean just the rainbow effect is absolutely ridiculous!
Oh my gosh, that thing is incredible.
And it certainly is getting big so it's not gonna be
too much longer before this will be a big snake.
Because he's probably doubled his size in the just the last
couple months since I've had him.
So I know before long, this snake is going to be 10, 12,
maybe even round out at 15 foot within the next year
and a half, two years or so.
And oh my god, it just keeps gettin' better and better.
And of course we're gonna round out the big snake handling
with the easiest big snake that I have, which of course
is Sunrise, I told you guys earlier that Reticulated Pythons
are a lot more high energy and some people would say
they think they're more intelligent;
I'm not really sure if you could actually quantify
intelligence by how much they move.
I mean, it certainly does seem that Retics
are more inquisitive, you can see their eyes moving around,
the way their tongues are,
(mumbles)
are a little bit more derpy but I'm not exactly sure if that
means they're not as intelligent.
All I know is that they are kinda like the puppy dogs of
the big snake world, I mean look at this snake.
I mean, I could do it with one hand, she is so placid,
so easy and pretty much the majority of Burmese are this way
as they get older.
Obviously we have Snazzy and Sunrise over here now.
We have a couple other Burms that are coming up that may
eventually end up here but if you want a big snake that
isn't as energetic Burmese would definitely
be the way to go.
And if you want one that is a little bit more high energy
and kinda more fun, if you ask me, certainly Reticulated
Pythons are the way to go.
And I tell you what guys, I've been keeping big snakes
since I was 15 years old, I think they are absolutely
incredible and oftentimes one of the most misunderstood
nonvenomous snakes in the world, people think big snakes
are gonna kill people, again, I've been working with
big snakes since I was 15 and never one time was I ever
in a situation where I thought I was in danger at all.
Sure, have I been bitten?
Sure I have.
Usually it's by accident, sometime Lucy is a little bit
cantankerous as well and she just kinda gets me,
but the truth is, is that they are amazing animals
and the fact that a lot of people think that they are
just uber dangerous, that is just really the wrong
image, all the way around.
That doesn't mean I think everyone should own a big snake
but hey, listen, if you have the experience, the knowledge,
the passion, and all that stuff,
big snakes are absolutely incredible.
And with that said guys, I hope that you enjoyed
this episode of Handling Big Snakes by Brian Barczyk.
I absolutely love 'em, I mean truly it's one of my biggest
passions in the world, I love crackadillions, I love big
snakes, I love all snakes.
I love all reptiles, I love all animals.
But there is something really special about big snakes.
Maybe it's because my first snake ever was a Burmese Python
when I was 15 years old.
Maybe ever since then, I'm just obsessed, I don't know.
Regardless, let me know in the comments what you think,
would you'd like to have a big snake;
which big snake would you like if you had a dream big snake?
Let me know, I love readin' about you guys.
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