- This is my giant anaconda, Ivy,
and today she's gonna get the largest meal she's ever got.
And that's this 25 pound frozen thawed pig.
But first I have to get Ariana out of the cage.
Trick or treat.
Up, there she goes.
And again, I always take her out
so that her and Ivy don't fight over food.
And just as a disclaimer.
We only feed frozen thawed food here
that has been humanely dispatched.
So, let's go ahead and get going.
Okay, it's Ivy time.
I'm gonna go in here with the beast.
Pig is definitely a big meal for her.
Look at her comin'.
She knows there's a meal comin'.
Can't hold it long.
Ah, there she goes.
Woohoo.
Toad, this is one giant meal for her.
Really feed meals this giant,
maybe once every four to six weeks.
So, this is gonna be a big meal.
My prediction is she's gonna drag it
in the water and she's gonna eat it.
But how long will it take her to eat a pig this large?
- Two and a half hours to get started.
45 minutes down the hatch.
- And while we're waiting for Ivy,
we might as well go ahead
and start feeding the rest of the zoo,
starting with Lucy.
There you go.
Oh, really on fire today.
Normally she takes a little bit of time,
but she was definitely like, "I'm gonna eat,"
and she's gonna get a couple rabbits today.
For whatever reason,
anacondas seem to like to play with their food
or they definitely take a while to start eating.
My assumption is that she's gonna sit here for a little bit,
then she's gonna actually drag it into the water.
She's gonna spend at least two or three hours
kind of poking around at it
and then once she actually starts,
how long will it take her to actually go?
Look at this little monkey right here.
Whoa, whoa!
Watch out there buddy.
I gotta wrap our, okay.
Woohoo.
Somebody was ready to eat.
- Aha, and it wasn't me.
- Snapper, Pug, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
We got 'em together so we can't feed 'em together.
We gotta get 'em apart. - Right over here.
- There you go.
And then we get this one right here.
Hey, silly.
I missed. (record scratching)
Oh gosh, it's on a tear.
It's on a rampage.
What I'm gonna do is put 'em apart
so that they don't eat each other after they're done.
Put guy up here.
Ugh, let go of my arm.
Man, they are strong for such a little snake.
I tell you what, they have some strength.
Well, this ought to be fun.
Oh, boy.
I really have to work on more ball training for these guys.
- I'm not-
Whoa! Wow!
Did you see that strike?
Whoa. Whoo.
I tell you what, that is a long strike range.
That thing struck at least five or six foot
and it's only about an eight foot snake.
That gives you an idea how careful you have to be
with an animal like that.
Marshmallow is crushing food.
Oh man, I tell you what.
Yeah, and I know it won't be long
and this snake is gonna be nine, 10, 12 foot long.
It's gonna be an absolute,
beautiful with that color right there.
I should say lack of color.
Gene, the woma python's definitely ready.
Come on little buddy.
It's another one,
just like the blackheads,
vicious feeders.
But the difference is that the womas are
actually really tame to handle typically,
whereas the blackheads are so food motivated
that they wanna always bite you.
But I love woma pythons.
Guys, I didn't even try to film this.
Gemma actually just took food for the first time.
For the last 11 months she has not fed for me
and I was definitely starting to get stressed out.
She looks completely healthy,
but for whatever reason,
it took her all this time to actually settle in.
But she just grabbed her first meal in 11 months.
That is so fricking awesome.
Girl Sunrise certainly looks like she's ready to eat too.
Come on girl, over here.
Boom.
My word, she is getting so big.
One of the more underrated snakes
that we have here at the Reptarium of course,
is Mazy.
Here we go bud.
Just, what a great snake.
I mean, we take it out every single educational show we do
and it's just an amazing snake.
I wish people would give corn snakes
the credit they have due,
cuz they are really wonderful.
This is actually the IMG leopard boa
and this is the first time time that I've ever fed it
over here at the Reptarium.
Mike has been feeding it for the last month or so,
so I get my first opportunity
and oh yeah, it's a ripper man.
What a beautiful snake.
And again, that IMG is just gonna get darker
and darker as it gets bigger.
And like I mentioned,
she's doing her normal thing.
She let's go.
Even though she had it perfectly on the mouth,
she let's go and she'll sit like this sometimes
for 20 minutes, a half hour,
sometimes even an hour
and then she'll probably go back
and she'll drag it into the water.
Now it's just a waiting game,
but that is gonna be a big meal.
You know, what's interesting,
I'm trying to decide what I'm gonna do with Butterscotch,
if I'm gonna leave her in this enclosure
or take her across the street.
Just so cool in this high enclosure.
Come on.
Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Whoa. Whoa.
Whoo.
Okay, here we go now.
Wow.
Just such a cool experience.
I don't know that I wanna move her and miss out on this.
Again, we won't be open to the public,
but we'll do private events.
So, maybe we can incorporate this
into private events here at the old Reptarium.
Ow!
Oops.
See, even when a snake has something in their mouth
they can still get you if you're not careful.
Faraday has actually graduated to large rats now,
which means she's only gonna get bigger.
Pretty soon, when we get this expansion done,
she'll probably go in with Ariana into the big cage
where Ivy is gonna be across the street.
Here's Joker, the scaleless Texas rat.
Come on buddy.
Oh yeah, it's alright.
This snake used to be a little bit finicky.
Not anymore.
Pinocchio is so cute with that little nose.
It's called a baron's racer and just look at it.
Hoo, hoo, hoo.
It used to just come in and take it out.
Now it's like coiling it up and everything.
These get pretty big.
Mildly venomous, rear fang,
but look at how cute that snake is.
Oh my gosh, I love him to death.
Interestingly enough, Al is one of those animals
that if I give him a pig, he just destroys it,
but when I try to feed him a rabbit
he doesn't ever strike it.
I just lay it in the enclosure
and he'll crawl up to it and eat.
And that's why it's important to know each one
of your animals because every animal is an individual.
Neo has settled into her new enclosure really well.
Definitely rocking and rolling when it comes to food.
Gonna get big.
I mean again, you know pie retics typically,
are 15 foot or so of snake.
Can you imagine that snake when it's 15 foot,
this big around and it's just stark white and black.
I love, love, love this snake.
Dominican mountain red tree boa.
And every now and then I like to do
just a good old fashioned
"Feed the Reptile Zoo" type of video.
Used to do 'em all the time.
Don't do 'em nearly as often.
So let me know in the comments
if you guys like feeding videos,
cuz if you do we'll do a little bit more.
We always have things to feed around here.
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Definitely one of the crown jewels of my collection.
Boelen's python, absolutely wonderful,
but boy, I don't like having to reach my hand up like this,
cuz if it strikes straight out
it's gonna hit me in the hand.
Right, here we go.
Bullfrog!
Gosh, I saw it go right towards my hand there
and I was like, "Oh no, this is gonna be bad."
They have really big teeth for a snake this size.
Never been bit by this one,
but I see the teeth,
I don't wanna be.
Tiger Lily, the Brazilian rainbow boa,
absolutely wonderful snake.
One of the more naturally occurring beautiful boas for sure,
no doubt about it.
There she goes.
Every now and then you gotta do
what they call tease feeding,
which just means
that you have to kinda tease them a little bit,
almost simulating the fact that it's live food
and then they always seem to go for it.
Well, it's been 30 minutes and still Ivy
is just sitting there staring at it.
Perdida, my gorgeous cow reticulated python.
I tell you what, I love this animal so much.
Ah, perfect hit. Love it.
When they hit it just like that,
that means she's probably gonna eat it pretty quick.
What a gorgeous snake.
Look at my girl, Sunfire, right there.
You think she's ready to eat?
Look at.
She knows it's the day to eat
and I'm about to feed her.
Hey girl, dinner.
There we go.
Aah.
And she is definitely gonna be one of the animals
that's getting a much larger enclosure
over at the new place.
I've already started the design on her enclosure.
It's gonna be absolutely epic.
Jeffrey, the Burmese python.
I love this animal,
but it is turning on the food like crazy.
Boom.
I tell you what, Burmese pythons are amazing.
Males typically stay a little bit smaller.
Every now and then males will still get 17, 18 foot.
Hopefully he'll calm down at about 12 foot
so that we can still take him out
and not have to get a hernia every time we pick him up.
Whoo.
I remember when we first got Snaz.
It was a little bit finicky too.
It didn't eat for a little while,
just like Gemma.
Now this animal is gonzo.
I mean, you put food in front of his face,
it just goes after it.
I love Snaz,
but again, this is a older male, right.
About seven or eight years old
and you can see how big it is.
It's not that big.
So oftentimes males stay small,
even when you're feeding 'em pretty big meals.
Another baron's racer,
but this is what they call a blue fade Baron's racer.
And ah, yeah, I would say
that she's not gonna take any time to feed.
She's definitely likes her food.
100 flower rat snake,
Zuko comin' out of the trees.
(throat clearing)
Little ambush hunting there.
Where are you at buddy?
Wakey, wakey, eggs and bakey.
Come out. No, not that way.
Not that way.
See, when he comes up like that,
it's coming toward my hand.
There it goes.
Beautiful diamond python on.
Next up, is the albino carpet.
And here it is.
And as soon as I open up the enclosure
it popped out like, "Oh, is there food coming?"
This is an albino Darwin's carpet python.
Wonderful snake.
There it goes. Beautiful.
These guys are amazing.
I like the fact that Lucky's been spending a lot of time
up in the trees these days.
Come on, there it goes.
That'll be a good meal for him, I tell you what.
Look at that snake.
Look at how cool it is, and I tell you what,
teeth, probably second or third largest teeth
of any non-venomous snake, really big.
These guys are gonna catch birds
up in the trees in the Amazon.
So when a bird flies by, they gotta get it right,
you know, they can't let it go.
That's why they have such big teeth and the recurve,
so as soon as they hit that bird, bam,
they're gonna grab onto it and it won't fly away.
And just as predicted, she has it in the water.
Now, interestingly enough,
she has it right in the head,
but what she normally does,
she normally lets go and plays
with it for like another hour,
sometimes even two hours.
We're now an hour and 20 minutes into this process
and she finally has it in the water.
Now the big question is,
"Is she gonna just go ahead and eat it?"
cuz she has it perfect right now.
Or is she gonna spit it out
and look around for the next hour and a half
and start eating then?
Oh, look at that.
What a beautiful snake.
Absolutely dream snake.
I love this animal.
Luna usually just eats off the ground,
but I'm gonna see if she'll start to hand feed now.
There you go.
Oh yeah, she's hand feeding now.
That's a gorgeous snake.
We had this over here when it was just born.
Now it's getting like to that sub adult phase.
Absolutely great animal.
Kids love Luna.
It's a great way to start here at the Reptarium.
- [Noah] You shut up Mike.
- Yeah, my bad.
- Remember when I said that Gemma hadn't eaten in 11 months?
- Well, actually I've got a Snapchat
from July of last year,
so it's really 15 months.
- That just goes to show you a snake can go 15 months
without food and still be healthy.
I am so glad she's finally back on food.
Now she's gonna get really big
and that's gonna be amazing.
Like I mentioned earlier,
Lucy's actually getting a second rabbit.
Come on, girl.
- Aah. - There she is.
She takes it so gentle.
That second rabbit's always so gentle.
What an absolutely amazing animal.
And Gemma, after 15 months, has her first lump.
It's amazing.
I'm gonna start feeding her up really good
and get her really beefed up.
I'm so excited that she finally ate.
And Ivy absolutely crushed that pig.
There's no doubt about it.
Only took her less than 30 minutes from start to finish,
even though the whole thing took about two and a half hours.
This is probably the fastest she's ever eaten
and this is the largest meal she's ever had
since we've had her.
Oh, it's always good to finish the feeding with Bowser.
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Whoa, whoa!
Watch out there, buddy.