- This, of course is my giant Anaconda named Ivy.
And this is probably one of the most
misrepresented species on the planet.
And that's the Anaconda.
There is so much misinformation about them,
it's not even funny.
You might remember last week where we disproved
that these guys could only hold their breath for 10 minutes.
She held it for 49.
(clock ticking)
So It's been 10 minutes and she's probably
just got about 20% of the pig down.
(video fast-forwarding)
And here she goes, she finally came up
and took a breath, look at that.
Unbelievable, almost 49 minutes without taking a breath.
Ivy is certainly a heavy animal,
over 100 pounds.
And I tell you what, she could definitely get 200 pounds
even possibly 300 pounds.
As a matter of fact, I was in the Dells, Wisconsin
at Alligator Alley, and this was a giant Anaconda there
and it was almost 300 pounds.
Just look at the size of that sucker.
But on the internet,
they actually say Anacondas can get 550 pounds.
Now that 300 pound Anaconda
that I ran into it at the Dells,
literally I couldn't pick up the front half of that animal.
There is no way in the world
there is any snake on the planet that is 550 pounds.
Like I said, 300 is absolutely maxed out.
And I can tell you right now
100 pounds of Ivy is pretty hard to hold.
I couldn't even imagine holding a 300 pounder.
But there is no doubt, 550 pounds is ridiculous.
Now Ivy certainly is a pretty long animal
but believe it or not, she's only about 11 foot long.
A really big Anaconda might be 17 or 18 foot
but believe it or not, the internet says
that these guys can get 29 to 30 foot long.
Now I have one time actually said
I would pay a lot of money for a 30 foot snake.
I'm here to tell you, guess what?
That's right, me, Brian Barczyk right here, is saying,
if you can bring me a 30 foot snake plus,
I will give you $50,000.
And believe it or not there's a website that says
that they can get 149 feet.
That's right, 149 feet.
That is five times longer
than the 30 foot that I'm willing to pay $50,000 for.
So I can honestly tell you
there is no Anaconda that has ever been over 20 foot
and really over 16, 17 foot, it's a giant one.
It's just crazy that Anacondas are so misrepresented.
Not all information on the internet is terribly bad.
There's actually something on the internet that says
that these guys get about 12 inches in diameter.
Now I tell you what,
Ivy is pretty thick here.
And again, she's going to get quite a bit thicker.
Now diameter is not the length
or circumference of the animal.
But it's actually the thickness of the animal.
Well, the only way we're gonna be able to know
how big Ivy is, is to science the hell out of this one.
What you do is you actually measure the circumference
of the animal and you actually divide it by Pi, 3.14.
So let's go ahead and get a string
and see what the circumference of her is
and then do some math.
So what I'm gonna do is try to get one of the thickest spots
of her body right here.
And of course she's gonna be moving but I'll just go ahead
go right around like this, measure it up, bam.
And then I can measure this and divide it by Pi.
Okay so that is 19 inches.
Let's go ahead and get the calculator out.
19 divided by 3.14 equals,
All right, so the diameter of Ivy is about six inches
and I expect her to get about twice this size.
So I don't think 12 inches is very far off.
I think really a giant one might be 14 inches.
So in this case the internet was probably pretty accurate.
Since we've been sciencing you guys today with some things.
I tell you what, this is pretty cool.
Caleb over here actually came to me,
I had never heard this before, but if you take fruit
and you actually put it in dry ice
and then let it thaw out,
it turns the fruit carbonated like soda.
So let's go ahead and try this grape.
Literally it's like a grape soda.
- Is that not crazy? - What in the heck
is going on? - How'd you figure this out?
- Noah did you try?
- The apples taste like wine.
- The apple tastes like wine?
What is going on?
So there we go, guys,
you can actually turn your fruit into wine, like Jesus.
- [Caleb] I think that was water.
- That was water, sorry.
You could turn your fruit into fizzy fruit
with some dry ice.
(biting into apple)
- It does actually taste like wine.
- He's gonna have a business for this.
- Its really good.
Blown away, dude, this is crazy.
- Science is so freaking cool.
- Another one that's pretty interesting
is the fact that they say Anacondas only eat
three to four times a year.
Now I understand in the wild,
it can be wildly different from in captivity
because it's an opportunistic thing, right?
They're gonna eat when there's actually an opportunity
not when they are being offered food like in captivity.
We feed Ivy almost every week
but when we feed her a giant meal,
we'll go maybe two weeks.
So I'd say she gets about 40 to 45 meals per year,
somewhere in that range.
Certainly a lot more than three to four
And don't get me wrong.
They could probably survive on three or four
big meals if they needed to.
But probably most likely they're eating somewhere
between 10 and 30 times per year.
Because oftentimes they're gonna eat smaller meals.
The other thing the internet says is that it takes them
three to four months to digest.
Now you guys have seen Ivy eat 25 pound pigs, right?
Now in the wild, they may eat a 50 pound capybara
or something like that.
And it may take them a little bit longer to digest
than a 25 pound pig.
But within 7 to 10 days, she's completely digested
that 25 pound animal.
Three to four months that animal would rot inside of them.
And they would probably die from the noxious gases, right?
So no matter how big that meal is
it's certainly not gonna take
three or four months to digest.
It may take a few weeks to digest
and they may even go a few months without eating
after they eat a giant meal.
But the fact is it doesn't take three to four months
to digest, there's no doubt about that.
And we've proven it with some pretty giant pigs.
- Science is so freaking cool.
- Now the last misrepresentation
that I've seen on the internet that is kind of crazy.
Is they say that gestation on an Anaconda,
which basically means how long she's pregnant
is seven months.
Now it's a little bit misleading in the sense that
from the start of breeding to the start of actually
having babies, it may actually be about seven
or even eight months.
But from the actual gestation
is which when they are actually pregnant or gravid,
is what they call it in snakes,
It's probably more like 115 to 130 days.
So definitely more like four months, not seven months.
But the first few months,
three to four months is gonna be breeding, pre ovulation.
So with them saying that it's seven months
is not really accurate,
but it's not far off from the standpoint
that they are in a breeding mode
and then ultimately gravid or pregnant
and then having babies about seven months later.
But again, definitely not scientifically correct
because once they become actually gravid or pregnant,
it's more like four months at the most.
So regardless, there's a lot of misinformation.
And I think that, to be honest with you,
it's just because Anacondas are just that legendary animal.
They're mystical, they're amazing,
they're just so absolutely incredible.
And for that reason, there's a lot of information
out there on the internet.
I hope that I've cleared some of it up.
Pretty exciting.
Lori, what do we have?
Jesus what's that?
- I was gonna burp.
(both laughing)
I think we're good.
- Lori, what do we got?
- What?
- What do we got?
- What do you mean, what do we got?
- I was excited... - We got snakes.
(Lori laughing)
- I was excited to show you.
We have our first shed,
but Laurie's not playing along very well.
So what we got.
- Yes, this girl actually just shed the other day.
- [Brian] So this should be our first Colubrid clutch.
She's definitely loaded, oh my gosh
a beautiful high white, black and white Cal King.
And by the way, Lori
I wanted to tell you that hardly anyone in the comments
wanted you to pull clutches.
- So I know that's a lie cause
somebody- - Damn, did you read?
- Well, yes, because our fans messaged me
and then I had to go and look and read the comments.
And I think I got all but one.
- I know you guys betrayed me.
- Yeah, the one sour puss
that was like, "No I wanna see Brian."
But everybody else (Lori laughing)
- Well guess what?
Now you guys are getting Lori.
- But am not doing some dumb ass egg song.
(Lori laughing)
- She gotta do a new egg song.
She gotta dance egg song, egg song.
Its eggs time.
- I guess that's what you can do.
Okay, you do the dancing song
and I'll just do the.
- Oh my gosh, so anyways, excited,
seven to 10 days, we'll have a clutch of eggs.
- Oh, it's gonna hit the rug, every day.
Could you imagine if we as humans, peed this much?
Like you just drank a 20 gallon bucket of water.
- Guys do not tell Jake or Lori that I'm doing this
but it's finally getting warm enough where we have
hibiscus trees actually available at the nurseries.
And of course, Drogo loves hibiscus.
So I actually have him a flower
and they'll be mad that I came in and gave him a treat
without their knowledge but.
You want some baby?
Oh, there you go, look at.
Do you want it?
Oh yeah, he's happy.
(laughing)
I'm just trying to win him over guys.
I get so jealous when I see Jay just come and pick him up
and walk around with him.
Then I try to pick them up and he wants to bite me.
So, maybe I can just win him over with food
and hibiscus is his absolute favorite.
He is loving it look at how cute it is.
He's got the flower.
Oh my gosh, I love having a sloth,
but again don't tell anything to Lori or Jake.
Cause if they found out I did this, they'd be so mad at me.
I am feinding for more ball python eggs
but unfortunately we have probably a good 10 days or so.
This girl is the next girl that is actually due to lay.
She's just a pastel girl.
She was bred to a pinstripe, red stripe, yellow belly.
So it should be some pretty cool stuff.
And then after that, a couple of days later
we have like three or four snakes
that are actually due to lay
and they are really bangers.
Of course, this one is the GHI Mojave,
that's actually bred to a banana GHI
so there should be some pretty cool stuff.
Love that snake.
I am super excited about the potential for that clutch.
There's no doubt about it.
And then this one is really cool too.
This is actually a mahogany
and a mahogany head for clown
but it's red to a pastel leopard clown.
So we could get, you know, mahogany pastel leopard clowns.
It could be really cool.
So there's the next three clutches that are coming.
But unfortunately they're going to be a week,
week and a half away.
Tons of people ask me what happens to the eggs
once they are actually laid.
Well they come into this room,
which is my walk-in incubator room.
And basically it's a really simple setup.
You know, basically I have two by six walls
that are insulated.
Then I've got two inch foam insulation that goes
on the ceiling, the walls, everything like that.
I just have these shelves right here.
These are the only clutches of the year so far
just getting rolling.
I have an oil filled heater here.
That's hooked to a Vivarium Electronics
high power thermostat that basically has a backup on it.
So if everything goes well
this stays at 88 to 89 degrees in here.
I have a little fan up on top,
ceiling fan that actually just barely circulates the air.
And that's it.
Literally from this corner here down to that corner there
and all over the place.
We only have about a half a degree of fluctuation
in temperature in here.
So this incubator is perfect for me.
And pretty soon the entire incubator
is gonna be full of eggs.
No doubt that Anacondas have intrigued me my whole life.
And that's why there's so many myths
and weird stuff about it.
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