- This is a five foot snake.
His name is Marshmallow.
He's an ivory Burmese python.
And one day he could get 18 foot.
And this is an eight foot snake named Perdita.
Of course, a calm reticulated python.
Now she's gonna get potentially a lot bigger.
Reticulated pythons could get 20 plus foot.
And this is actually a 10 foot snake named Sunrise.
Of course, an albino Burmese python.
She's three years old,
and these guys can get up to 18 foot
and sometimes get up to 200 pounds.
So just like those other snakes,
this girl has a long way to go.
Probably double this size.
And this of course is a 20 foot snake named Lucy.
You guys know Lucy,
and she is quite the animal and she is a big snake.
Think about that, 20 foot long.
Now again, we're reticulated pythons
can actually get up to 25 feet.
So she actually can actually grow
another four or five feet, believe it or not.
This is one giant snake
and she certainly is a lot of fun to handle.
And this is a 50 foot snake.
Okay, well, the truth is is that this of course
is a 50 foot stuffed animal snake.
Now I am blown away that there are 25 foot snakes
that live on this planet right now as we speak.
But the fact is, is that at one point, yes,
there was a 50 foot snake just like this
and this is actually a rendition of it.
A stuffed animal of the Titanoboa, that's right.
These guys got 50 foot and up to 2,500 pounds.
Think about that.
Lucy's about 200 pounds.
That is over 10 times the weight of Lucy.
Can you imagine that?
These guys actually lived about 60 million years ago.
I would have loved to come across a snake like this
or would have?
What would I do?
I mean, I could barely handle Lucy.
Could you imagine a 2,500 pound snake like this?
I mean, gosh, even a stuffed animal this size
is absolutely incredible.
I couldn't imagine 2,500 pounds.
It would be absolutely amazing.
But can you imagine that at one time
in our existence as the earth, there was a 50 foot snake?
That's right, 50 foot, 2,500 pounds.
Could you imagine what they were eating?
I mean, you think that Heidi, my anaconda,
eating a 20 pound pig is impressive.
Could you imagine a 50 foot snake
and what kind of meals they would have to eat
to sustain 2,500 pounds of mass?
I mean, could you imagine the battles
between the dinosaurs and the Titanoboa?
I tell you what, people have asked me a ton of times.
Would you ever want a Titanoboa?
I tell you what, if I had one wish,
is to actually have seen a Titanoboa in person.
Because I tell you what,
this 50 foot rendition of it is pretty darn awesome.
But the living specimen, hoo doggy,
would that have been awesome.
And it's pretty cool to think that Cupcake here, of course,
the common boa constrictor, is really a direct relative
of the Titanoboa.
I mean the Titanoboa basically probably
looked almost just like this
but is actually 50 foot long.
Whereas 10 foot long is huge.
And that's how long Cupcake is.
One of the bigger common boas I've ever seen.
I mean, look at how big this is,
but you got to remember, she's about 70 pounds.
Think about that, 70 pounds.
And it's a hard animal to actually hold.
A 2,500 pound boa?
Hoo, doggy, I'll tell you what.
That would be amazing.
Hoo doggy, that was a big snake.
And by the way, welcome to the blog Reptile Army.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
Lori, you haven't seen the new cages, huh?
- No, you did 'em?
- [Brian] Yes we did 'em.
What do you think of the new enclosures?
- Oh, wow.
Oh yeah, that's so much better.
- [Brian] Isn't this awesome.
It looks like a completely different wall, doesn't it?
- Yeah. - That's crazy.
So what do you think we should put in these guys?
That's the big question.
- Huh, I don't know.
- I know, I mean, literally we built them
because we knew it was gonna be practical
but it's gotta be something arboreal.
I'm just not sure.
I was kind of thinking maybe a diamond python, maybe?
And, no, no?
(laughing)
No? - Okay.
- I thought at the time it was a great idea.
I was thinking of a snake in one
and maybe lizard to the other, like some tree monitors
in one and a snake and the other one, but I'm not sure.
- I don't know let me think and see
if I have a better idea than that.
- Oh gosh, a better idea.
What do you wanna put some dart frog in there?
(laughing)
- I'm gonna dart frog you.
(laughing) - All right.
Well I'm glad you like it anyways.
Jessica is about ready to
start collecting leopard gecko eggs.
What do you say we roll a time lapse?
(upbeat music)
You know what that means?
Roll that Dungeon Song.
♪ Python eggs and python eggs ♪
♪ And python eggs and python eggs ♪
That's right.
Python eggs and python eggs and python eggs
and python on eggs.
This is a beautiful female here.
Ooh, it looks like she's got some good eggs.
Let's go ahead and set up some egg boxes.
Get her down.
Oh my God, I cannot tell you how excited I am
about this particular breeding.
Probably top five, top 10 breedings I've done all year.
This is amazing.
(upbeat music)
So this female here actually is laying in a way where
at first I thought she might not have good eggs.
I was like, not again,
but she is actually a Super Enchi Spinner
which is a spider and a pinstripe.
And she's bred doing rocking male.
And that's this crazy project that I call a new gene animal.
Again, don't really know what the genetics,
appears to be incomplete dominant, but I'm not sure
if there's a super form, this would be interesting for sure.
This breeding is gonna really tell me a lot
of things about it.
That's a lot of cool genes together.
I cannot wait to see what hatch
and this boy, this was his first clutch of the year
and I am so happy that it looks like it's fertile.
And back to the moment of truth.
And of course, that's this girl here and she is
just such an interesting looking snake, you know
just so reduced in pattern, all the white up her side.
She's a really good mama too.
And I tell you what, let's take these eggs off.
Oh my goodness.
That is a gorgeous clutch.
Again, because they were flat,
not only do they fit in the egg box better
but it made it look like there weren't as many eggs, right?
So it looked like maybe they were slugs or whatever
but let's go ahead and get these eggs up here.
Oh my gosh, mama, you did so good.
And just like I showed you guys before
we'll get her all cleaned up,
her cage cleaned up and all that type of stuff.
Get her back onto food and she should be good to go.
I'm gonna put these eggs down here,
again, laid really flat.
So that makes it perfect for the egg box
got two, four, six, eight, nine eggs, nine eggs.
That's gonna tell us all a whole lot
about that new gene animal and figure out what's going on.
I am so excited.
Mama, you did absolutely amazing.
(upbeat music)
That's clutch number seven in the book,
soon to be in the incubator.
Again, you know, the ups and downs of the year.
Remember a couple of bad clutches made it seem pretty bad.
Just a couple of good clutches in a row
and now we're ready to go.
I am excited for the rest of the year.
Pretty cool, one of our powder blue dart frogs
is actually doing a little bit of courting
and getting into what they call amplexus.
That is awesome.
Maybe we're gonna have some little tadpoles soon.
And one of the things that's really amazing
about dart frogs is, believe it or not,
the males will carry the tadpoles on their back.
That's right, it's kind of cool.
They actually develop on the back
of the male and then ultimately he goes
to the water where they go in and actually develop.
So they are such cool animals.
Fingers crossed we get some babies.
(upbeat music)
And so it begins, that's right.
A bunch of leopard gecko eggs.
What did we end up getting?
- We ended up with 65 eggs this week and 26 slugs.
- All right, so that's the start of the thing.
That's how it goes.
You know, slugs a little bit earlier in the year,
less lugs later in the year.
So there it is, 65 babies on the way.
Oh my gosh, the madness has begun, Jessica.
- Yep, that's awesome though.
- Definitely cool.
Got a little package
from my buddy Thomas over at Atypical Origins.
It seems like a shirt of sorts.
So I am gonna open it up and see what is going on.
Oh, this is actually dope.
Got some stickers in here first.
Atypical Origins Exotics, that's cool.
And then let's see.
Oh, we got pink.
That'd be perfect for me.
This color matches my eyes really, no, that's not true.
I'm sure that's for Lori.
And here we go, buh, buh, buh.
Atypical Origins Exotics, so thank you so much.
I appreciate you.
Definitely like them.
And they're really nice.
And guess what?
They're the right size.
Take a look at Luna right now.
Oh my God, she's up on the trim of the actual thing.
It's so weird when they do this and I'm gonna
really gently open this door cause I don't want her to fall.
Okay, there she is.
That just gives you an idea of how crazy these snakes are.
When people think they can't get out because they haven't
got a lock on the screen, that gives you an idea.
Luna you silly monkey.
That was pretty wild.
And it's that time of year, Nova is at it again.
He's breeding up Lilith, that's right.
Hopefully we'll have some eggs soon.
I can't wait to hatch baby frillies.
And this is really why I love putting retics
into large high climbing enclosures.
I mean, look at Perdita up there.
Just perched right up on top of a vine.
This is exactly how they would be in the wild.
It's so awesome.
I love this enclosure and I love the fact
that we moved Perdita to into it.
So Noah has taken interest obviously in the lizards.
So what are we doing today?
- Well, first, I gotta put on my khaki
since we're dealing with reptiles.
But I have a special little horn worm
for our beard dragon buddy.
Get it, get it, yeah, look at him go.
He took that down easy.
- [Brian] Give him another.
- Come on, Flaming Hot.
I got another one for you.
Come on, I know you want it.
Boom, that's the good stuff right there.
Another one? - [Brian] Mm hmm.
- All right, we're gonna beef him up good today.
You're getting special horn worm buffet.
He's just tongue punching it.
Come on boy.
Bingo.
Woo hoo!
They're like little gummy bears for lizards.
- [Brian] And more gecko news, we actually have some babies.
- Yeah, this one's just now coming out.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, he's not even out of the egg.
Look at, his climbing out right now.
There you go, buddy.
Oh, that was awesome.
We actually caught when he came out of the egg.
That is absolutely cool.
Which one's this one first?
- This is from Predator and Nosferatu.
So this one will probably stay like black and white.
- [Brian] Black and white, gotcha.
And we have one more baby too.
- This one's pretty cool.
This is our first.
Do you remember that really nice red stripe male?
- [Brian] Yes. - So
that's the father to this one and we got Mina.
So that's one of our direct red strip ones.
- [Brian] Oh wow.
- So it hasn't shot out yet.
It's hard to see really what's going on there
but it's gonna be real nice.
- Oh, that one's gonna be a good one.
That is exciting, great job, Jessica.
Hi baby girl.
Did you decide to come out and just hang out with us today?
You're such a good girl.
I love the fact that Matilda,
she just pushes her way out and she just kind of hangs out
with us whenever she wants to.
Right girl?
You're a good girl.
Love you, oh yeah.
How you doing baby?
(chuckling)
That is such a prehistoric monster.
I mean, it's crazy to think
that one day she's gonna be three, four times the size.
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