- Hey, good morning everybody.
And welcome to the vlog reptile Army.
Of course, I'm starting my day out with Ivy,
my beautiful big anaconda.
Not tell you what she is getting so big.
It's ridiculous.
And she's got a long way to go, to be honest with you.
And yesterday I kind of teased you guys a little bit,
that we have something that's pretty awesome happening today
with my green anacondas.
Now I've got a friend of mine that is actually coming in
that has bringing up, well,
let's just say a surprise for us
and it's going to be a surprise for Ivy.
That's right.
So I am so excited about it today, but for the meantime,
I'm just going to spend a little time with my girl Ivy,
because listen, she's absolutely wonderful.
I mean, what an incredible sneak she is.
I mean, anacondas are some of the most curious
and interesting sneaks on the planet.
In my opinion.
Also probably the most misunderstood reptile.
I mean, they're vilified probably cause that movie Anaconda,
thank you, Jane Govind ice cube for that, the fact is
anacondas aren't killers at all.
I mean, look at this girl,
she is an absolute sweetheart and you guys know,
I love her to death.
So like I said, any minute,
my buddy's going to be showing up
and we're going to find out what that surprise is.
Pretty sure you guys already know what's going to happen.
Right.
But regardless, it's going to be an absolutely amazing day.
And I think my girl, Ivy, oops, gosh..
getting a heavier and heavier, she is so insane.
It's going to be pretty happy today.
And of course, just like Ivy always does look at this.
It's so crazy, right?
I mean, she just crawl right back to her page on her own?
I didn't even do anything.
I sat here and she crawled up.
I mean, it's one of the crazy, oh,
it looks over here to visit with us to, Arianna.
Hi Arianna how are you doing?
She's coming over and saying,
why is the Ivy I was playing around
and I'm going to listen.
She's out of here hanging out with me.
And she crawls over her cage claims right in at her own.
I mean, my snakes are so cool.
They put themself away.
(upbeat music)
So my buddy Connor showed up here and in this box,
we actually have a little surprise.
You guys know the deal,
you know what it's going to be, but I'm excited about it.
Where'd you come from again?
- I'm from Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas.
- Little Rock Arkansas, down I 40.
I've been there a million times.
- Yes
Oh, yes
- I know that trip really well.
So I know all about itself.
So let's just go ahead and see what we have here.
Show me what we got.
- All right.
Here is Jazz.
- This is Jazz, the Anaconda,
but not just any anaconda,
a male anaconda.
That's right.
You know that we have an abundance of female anacondas here.
And how long have you had Jazz?
- I have Jazz for roughly about three years now.
- About three years.
And it's chill. Huh?
- He's super chill.
- See, that's what I'm saying.
Anacondas are amazing.
They're so good.
I'm going to just take a look at this tail.
- Yeah.
Go for it.
- Because I just, you know, don't we,
we don't need another female here.
Absolutely, a male.
You could see these big spurs, right there.
Those are what they call it vestigial spurs.
And that is something that a male will have on a boas
Right.
Boas, of course anacondas are a type of boa
and that long, long tail.
Guess what, Connor?
This is a boy.
- Yes
- We got a boy. That's great.
And so that is absolutely amazing.
Can you imagine now we have a male to go in with Arianna
and Ivy, of course.
And now the breeding season is typically
really in the spring, like March, April, like tight mirror.
And they're actually having babies
right around this time of year.
So what we'll do is we'll just kind of let them
get kind of situated together
and let it just go naturally.
Right.
If they produce great, if they don't produce, they don't.
So thank you so much for bringing them.
I mean, I tell you what dude,
this thing is absolutely amazing.
What other animals do you keep?
- So we, of course we do ball pythons.
We have quite a few ball pythons.
We are actually getting into the VCI stuff like that.
Do more there, we do corn.
We'd have a little bit in corns.
- So a bunch of different things.
- Yes, and we will be eventually going into carpet pythons.
- Oh, look at that.
He's got the little zoo going on here.
So dude, I cannot thank you enough.
This is going to be amazing.
What do you say?
And first off, I'm going to ask you
a couple of you've had them for years.
So I don't have to worry so much about quarantine
because you had your pet for years.
No, mice right.
- No mice, but we did treat everyone
before we came up just in case.
- Because we don't want to it mice.
So we're going to go ahead and just,
we're going to put them in there.
I would lie, often times I'll quarantine for a little bit,
but I know Connor knows his stuff
and I know that it's been around for a long time.
So I just want to see how they're going to react
to one another.
Again, not expecting any breeding or anything.
So what do you say?
We go ahead and put Jazz in with Ariana and Ivy.
- She is huge!
- I know isn't she crazy?
And she is such a good girl.
Literally we just had her out on the ground.
She's just playing with us,
hanging out all over me and then she crawls up
and just crawl right back in the cage, legitimately.
That's how she does every single time.
And I'm wondering what she's going to, they're so curious.
They're such curious animals and the thing that's nice about
this with Jazz is cause he's in shed.
He's going to be able to go on the water..
- Yes
- ..Get super moisturized.
And so there we go.
- We've him soaked quite a bit over the last,
like 48, 36 hours,
just to see if we could
pop that shed real quick.
- The anacondas shed so slow, so slow.
- [Connor] So slow.
- So slow
I mean he's deep in blue and you could see,
he's just kind of, he smelled and he's like,
what is going on here,
Ivy so far is not doing anything.
She's just, she's still like what, what now what's going on?
So she started her funds coming out a little bit,
but he's definitely smelling.
You could see he's kind of acclimating to the cage.
He smells all those pheromones for them.
The females, obviously,
probably wondering what is going on here.
So I'm just going to sit back.
I love this part.
I love when an animal gets into an enclosure like this
and kind of for the first time.
So I'm just going to sit back and watch this for a while,
but this is awesome.
Connor, thank you so much, dude.
- [Connor] No..
- This is absolutely amazing.
- [Connor] Thank you!
- And I appreciate it.
This is going to be awesome. And we'll keep you posted.
We'll take care of the baby as best we can.
I tell you it's absolutely stunning.
Oh my gosh guys, we have a male green anaconda now.
Oh, I'm hoping for babies.
Take a look at this guys.
Actually, the boa's python, it just shed out beautiful shed,
by the way,
I'm going to try to save the shed the best I can
because I don't have a full boas python shed
in my collection.
And this looks like it's absolutely perfect.
And literally just about an hour ago,
I checked on him because I knew he was going to shed
and look at that. Perfect.
Got a little bit of a tear just in one spot other than that.
Perfect.
So let's go ahead and see if we can get him out of here.
Come on, buddy.
It's tough to get an it boreal snake out of a heavily
planted cage. But look at that.
Look at the iridescence on that animal right there.
That is incredible.
So who God, he looks absolutely amazing after a shed.
I mean, uh man, man, it's only going to get better
and better as this animal grows.
I mean, oh my goodness, look at that animal right there.
Absolutely loved my fly river turtles
and they love blackberry.
So we're trying to get them kind of just habituated
to be able to come up and start taking them out of her hand.
But they're just not there yet.
I mean, so what basically,
what I have to do is just kind of drop them in here
and he'll usually take them right off the bottom.
So we'll just go ahead and see what happens.
They're just so cute.
And they eat, especially in the blackberries cause they,
they kind of chop them up
and then they sometimes spit them out a little bit.
So let's just take a look and see,
these guys are absolutely amazing.
Can't wait till we do our expansion
and have these in a giant enclosure.
That's going to be so cool.
And hopefully by then, they'll actually
be able to take stuff right out of our hands.
(cheerful music)
And we have some other friends in the house,
military Morris,
my friends came in
and they actually have a couple of cool animals for me.
Not for me just to show,
but these are awesome.
You don't see these around too much.
Tell me a little bit about them.
- These are pancake tortoises.
These guys are just super awesome.
They don't get super big.
They're from Africa, mountainous regions.
They have a very soft pliable shell.
So what they'll do, they'll go into rock crevices
and they'll shell actually flex
and bend to be a rock crevice and they'll stick those
nails in like ice picks and then, you know,
- You can get them out.
- And they're just super interesting.
I love their shelter pattern.
- Exactly. And you might think,
I mean they literally call pancake tortoise
cause they look kind of like a pancake
and a, this is a boy he's about, how old?
- About 11 years old.
- 11 years old.
So that gives you an idea.
They don't get much larger than that.
And then this is a little girl here. How old is she?
- She is three,
- Three.
- Three Years old.
Oh my gosh, absolutely amazing.
The thing that's cool about these guys is that they only lay
typically one egg at a time, which is crazy.
That's why they're so rare now, you know,
back in the eighties and nineties,
these came in like crazy out of Tanzania.
And so they're in the Patrick relatively cheap.
Now they're very sought after because they're, you know,
- Very much sought..
- They don't import them anymore.
And with only proofing one egg a year from them,
obviously they're, they're not very common,
but these guys are absolutely amazing.
So hopefully here in another six or seven years..
- Yes
- Little girl here, I'll start producing baby.
And I get the first baby, alright?
- Yeah. We'll talk.
(laughs)
(bass)
- Believe it or not.
The boas and anacondas are pretty closely related.
They're actually both in the day family for one,
but they're also from the same region in south America.
Now Boas can also be in central America too,
but the actual imperator is there common boas
are in South America,
typically Colombia and that type of range.
So actually the Anaconda range
and the boa range are pretty similar, right?
Basically south American rain forest.
And it's pretty cool that we have
a giant boa like cupcake as well.
So we have the big anacondas,
but we also have a bunch of different boas,
but the biggest boa of being cupcake is absolutely amazing.
I mean, she is a giant,
just take a look at her right now and is really cool
because even a heavy body animal like this,
she will climb up on these branches.
Sometimes we'll find her up here and in the rainforest,
that's actually what they'll do.
The anacondas typically stay in the water and on land,
very rarely are they going to do much climb,
although every now and then we'll see Ariana actually up
in the tree branch, which I think is really crazy.
But the boas are actually pretty adept climbers
and just really cool.
But it's interesting to think that something like a boa
and that's such a common pet
is so closely related to an anaconda.
Well, Connor did bring one other snake to show.
I'm not keeping this one, but it is pretty cool.
Of course, this is a yellow anaconda, which is amazing.
What's this one's name?
- [Connor] This one is Sephora.
- Sephora
So there's a little story behind Sephora,
much like Arianna for me, right?
- This one started off as a female
- Starting as a female.
- Yeah. So then after, you know,
after just keeping for several years,
about a year and a half ago,
we were cleaning out his water bowl
and we noticed some milky substance.
And I was like,
I'm not sure what this is supposed to be considering.
This is supposed to be a girl.
Well, come to find out about "bada bing bada boom", we got.
- It's a boy.
- We got a boy.
So I went the opposite of that.
And my male turned into females.
Your female turned into males
and I'll take a look at that tail too.
- Yeah.
- And the thing that's interesting
about the yellow anacondas
and you have a hundred percent, that's a boy too.
There's no doubt about that.
You can see the spurs and all that stuff.
The thing that's interesting
about the yellow anacondas is they stay much smaller.
I mean, this is probably not that far off
from an adult male.
And then the females only can get maybe eight to 10 foot,
you know, whereas of course, you know, the green get much,
much larger, but these guys are really interesting.
And I'm really impressed.
That Sephora is actually really tanned.
- Because they are usually pretty nippy.
- Yeah. When it comes to the yellows and greens,
the yellows for some reason are much more nippy
than the greens.
You know?
So I don't know if it's because there's less F generations
out in the wild or whatever the case is, but nevertheless,
that is a beautiful snake dude.
- Thank you
- Let me know what I would comments.
You might get some yellow anacondas because come on,
look at that snake right there. That is just crazy.
Oh my God.
By the way,
did you see the albino anacondas that were just born?
- Yes, I did act like they're pretty gnarly.
- Oh my gosh.
- Definitely need to get him a girlfriend.
- All I, yeah.
That's awesome. That's cool.
So thanks so much Conner for coming out.
Appreciate everything.
Appreciate you bringing me a couple snakes.
One to look at and one to keep.
So this is awesome, man.
- It's happening.
I don't know what I'm doing,
but I got a camera
and I'm going to go and film it right now.
They're locked up.
I got a camera.
What do you think?
Crazy, right.
About to be a daddy.
About to be a mama.
Let's go tell Mike.
Mike.
[Mike] What?
Oh my God. Perfect timing.
What are you doing right now?
(indistinct)
Get up here. Come on, come on.
- [Mike] Do you want to say.
- Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Just come up.
Mike you're not going fast enough.
- We are about to have so many of these.
- What?!
- I just thought you'd be happy.
- Why would I be happy? We are about to have so many babies.
- Who's going to call Laurie and tell her.
- Oh, that ain't me.
I like my job.
- Are you going to call her?
Did you hear?
- Hear what?
- What happened?
- No
- Okay, come on.
- Oh my God! Already?
- Four hours..
(indistinct)
(laughs)
- So we were wondering where you're going to call Laurie.
- No.
- Why does all the coolest stuff happen when I'm gone?
I literally step out to run a couple errands,
get back here and they hooked up.
I mean, how crazy is that again?
It's off season right now.
So it's probably not anything more than them.
Just kind of checking out. You gotta remember.
It's the first time the mail has been in with the female,
but here in a couple of months,
hopefully they'll breed again and then maybe I will go.
But that's amazing.
I'm mad that I missed it,
but it's still super cool that it settled in like that
it in shed on top of that is absolutely crazy.
So I'm just going to hang out with my people here
at the reptile terrarium.
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