- This, of course, is my giant green anaconda, Ivy.
You guys know her.
What do you say we get her out?
(upbeat brass-heavy music)
And I'm telling you what.
This is one giant snake right here.
Of course, anacondas are the heaviest boa today.
And she's actually only about halfway there.
I'm telling you what, holding her up right now
is everything that I have.
I tell you, she is one heavy, but absolutely gorgeous snake.
And again, they won't get quite as long
as an reticulated python,
they're not going to get 25 foot, but I'm telling you what,
that is one heavy bodied snake.
And I wish you guys could actually feel the strength
of this animal.
Anacondas are ridiculous.
And I tell you, Ivy is one
of the coolest animals I have ever owned in my entire life.
There's no doubt about it,
but I'm telling you what, pretty soon,
I'm not going to be able to pick her up like this
and interact with her because she is just way too big.
She's got me on the ground now, guys!
I tell you, what, what an absolute trip this snake is.
I love her to death though.
Look at how amazing she is.
I mean spending time with an anaconda
is certainly pretty incredible.
She has got so much power.
Oh my god.
It is impossible to really.
Okay, I didn't know if I was going to wake up this morning,
get choked out by an anaconda.
All right, I've had a good life.
Take me away.
No, no, kidding.
She's a beautiful snake.
Trust me.
She is absolutely incredible, but she is also so heavy!
I'm a pretty strong guy.
I mean, relatively strong guy.
Struggling with her is everything in my might.
What do you think Jay and Noah could do with this girl?
What do you say we find out?
- I do not want to do this.
I weigh 132 pounds.
Ivy probably weighs like 560...
Oh god.
- [Brian] Well, you're about to find out.
- Oh, this sucks so bad.
- How's it going? How's your knee?
- I mean, it's going.
My knees, you know, it's there.
It's buckling.
- [Brian] She's heavy, huh?
- Yup.
- [Brian] You're doing good.
I'm surprised he's doing as good as he is.
- I can't even move.
I can't even pick my head up.
- Remember Instagram picture, Instagram it!
- No, I can't!
- Take this shot!
- Can't!
- Follow!
(laughter)
That was awesome.
All right, okay, I think that went pretty well.
I think Jay's about to die.
Let's go ahead, get Noah.
Mike is making this look, like, easy.
He's like making it look like I was struggling.
Jay almost died.
Mike's over here, just like
- One arm!
- It's like a baby anaconda.
I think Mike would make a good farmer, don't you think?
- He is a farmer.
- What do you mean?
- All right, so it's Noah's turn.
Jay, you said you weigh 132 pounds?
- Yeah.
- You can't weigh much more?
- I'm like 140 on a good day.
- Okay, so they're pretty much the same.
So Jay rocked us.
You going to be all right?
- Yeah, I'm gonna be fine.
This is nothing.
- [Brian] This is nothing?
- Yeah, I can solo Lucy. Look at this.
Boom. You see this?
I'm a man.
- Look at how good it's on... I want a redo.
- What do you mean?
- It's the Barczyk blood.
- I want a redo!
Look at how good she is sitting on you!
- It's because of my temperament, it's my attitude,
my calmness. Yes it is!
- Family lineage, what are you talking about?
- [Brian] Jay's always making excuses, always making excuses
- [Jay] Redo! Redo! Need a redo!
- I'm out of here.
- All right, look at that, cool.
I'm telling you, handling a giant snake like this
is a great thing.
Oh, and by the way, welcome to the vlog Reptile Army.
I hope this start to your day is amazing.
- Yep, and that's the way we like to start
our day around here.
Did you get that?
- Nope.
- Take a look at this actually
beautiful normal wild-type reticulated python.
Got a little bit of shed on him.
So we're going to give him a little bit of a soak,
but this is what a normal reticulated python looks like.
I'll be totally honest with you.
He looks a little bit sketchy right now.
He's normally a pretty docile animal, but you could see,
he's kind of squeezing me up a little bit.
And this is oftentimes the actions
of a male retic during a breeding mode, right?
When he's starting to kind of feel like he wants to breed,
he'll start to get a little bit more tense.
And even sometimes pulsate,
if they start to push on you a little bit,
that's when you have to worry for sure.
But even a snake this size can actually breed.
And trust me, you don't want to really get lit up
by a male snake this size, that's for sure,
not a reticulated python, nevertheless.
But he seeming to calm down.
And again, just a little bit of stuck shed.
But sometimes I don't show nearly enough love
to just the beautiful normal pattern
of a wild reticulated python.
I mean, what an amazing animal, and you can see,
the shed is almost just really coming up really quick.
Just a really quick soak and this little bugger here
is going to look beautiful.
But can you imagine a snake like that?
That's 20 foot long?
Who dog, your ticks are beautiful.
Remember the other day we actually hatched
some Chinese cave geckos?
Well, we have some more babies, but these are what?
A different species?
- Yeah, so these are canaensis
So they'll, they'll keep more of the black coloration.
The other ones that you guys did,
they'll keep more orange on them.
- Gotcha.
- But they still have those pretty red eyes,
like, dragon eyes.
- Oh my god, they are so beautiful!
Look at how awesome they are!
- I've got a ton of eggs too, waiting to hatch.
- All right, tons of eggs coming.
Tons of babies.
That's awesome.
Gecko season's on its way.
Hey, Noah, guess what my buddy is here
from Ohio, of course, my pal!
- What's up?
- You guys remember him.
He made my cool bike.
So you brought us something.
- I got you something, I think you'll like for here.
You know, Big Brian always gets a gift,
but you always talk about Little Brian.
- We thought of Little Brian on this one.
(surprised reactions)
This is all metal, this all steel.
Because you know, I'm a welder.
I built you a dinosaur.
- That thing is so dope, man!
Holy cow, that thing is awesome!
And this is, it's one of my favorites, of course.
I mean, come on.
T-Rex, everyone loves a T-Rex.
We saw some T-Rex out in,
out in the, where were we at?
- What do you mean?
- South Dakota?
We saw some T-Rex out in South Dakota.
Now we have our own T-Rex, dude.
This is awesome, man.
- This is all laser cut on the CNC machine.
And then I tackled it all together.
- Oh my gosh.
- I thought this was like the ponies on the playground,
that you could ride.
(laughter)
- That would have been awesome.
Dude, thank you so much.
This is absolutely amazing.
So Laurie, I wanted to show you.
You see my Instagram yet for the Easter picture?
What do you think, that, is that a good picture
or what for Easter?
Tell me that that shoot doesn't look good.
Tell me that.
- It doesn't look good.
- What do you mean?
- That looks like an awesome Easter picture, right?
- No.
- Guys, go to my Instagram at snakebite TV.
Comment if you think that this is a great picture
because I think it's amazing.
You don't think so?
- It's not Easter.
- Number one: it's awesome.
And it's Easter colors and it's great.
So you guys are going to love it.
Let me know what you guys think,
even if she's a hater.
You guys probably remember when I said that Bones,
whoa!
Bones over here was actually potentially
going to be Betty White.
We put a kind of, you know, kind of a community poll
on the comments.
And I'll be honest with you,
even though a lot of people said, keep it Bones.
More people said Betty White.
So I think we're going to go ahead
and make the decision to change this little monkey's name
to Betty White, mainly because I'm a huge Betty White fan.
So I've got to have a lizard named after her.
I apologize to all of you that love the name Bones.
I tell you what, we'll get a male and we'll name him Bones,
how's that sound?
Noah, what the heck are you doing?
You're supposed to be working.
Oh my god, this kid.
You guys may have realized
that I've been slipping in the whole "Reptile Army" thing.
I want you to join the army.
And we're about to launch.
Here in the next two weeks, we're going
to launch reptilearmy.com.
It's not there yet, but
if you want to join the mailing list to get on it,
you can actually email join@reptilearmy.com
and it's about to launch.
So we are super excited about it.
Go ahead and send that email off.
I know that spring is just here, and summer is right
around the corner, but I'll be honest with you.
I think at BHB, Halloween hit,
because that is one Halloween snake.
I have no doubt
that this is the animal we're going to be putting
on Instagram on a Halloween post.
Can you believe that?
Orange and black, that thing is ridiculous.
Of course it's a scaleless Texas rat snake.
You know what's amazing about this time of year
is that you start to see females starting to swell
up a little bit.
This little girl right here is really feisty.
Ow!
Come on, don't,
Ow!
She keeps biting me
but you can see she's starting to swell up with eggs.
This is the boy right over here.
And boy, she is a feisty little monkey,
come out little girl, you're okay.
Okay, okay.
(woops in surprise)
Of course those are licorice rat snakes, and I love those.
So it's really cool to get, to start seeing things
swelling up, knowing that eggs are right around the corner.
And gosh, that girl has quite the bike.
(calm music)
Splendid.
(calm music)
That felt good.
I'm always torn on what to do guys,
because in one way, you know, I want to put more time
and energy into the Reptarium and all that stuff.
The other side, I love working with breeding snakes.
Well, this happens to be an anerythristic Kenyan sand boa.
And I've been working with these guys
literally since I was 18 years old.
They are absolutely wonderful.
So I've been thinking like,
I need to expand my Kenyan sand boa colony,
because there are so many amazing ones out there.
We have some pretty ones, but trust me,
there's a lot of mutations that I'm not working with.
So at one side, I'm like,
do I really need to have another project?
And on the other side is yeah, I sure do.
Because Kenyan sand boas can be pretty darn awesome.
Remember my buddy Brian Cosco actually sent me
this sunset ball python?
It's actually a sunset cinny ball python.
Well, I just wanted to give you an update.
It's doing so well and so amazing.
Cannot wait till this guy is ready to breed next year.
And I can actually maybe produce some sunsets
on my own again.
Of course we started this project a lot of years ago,
so it's pretty cool
that we're going to be able to probably produce
in the next breeding season.
I absolutely love it.
Now, now what do we have going on?
- Okay, so I've got this.
Oh, see you!
So, I got this idea.
My friend owns a Planet Rock.
- All right.
I want to take Drogo
- To go climbing?
- To go rock climbing.
- That's a good idea to be honest with you.
- He can do it.
- He would crush it. He'd be like climbing
the walls like nothing.
- So next week?
- I think we could probably do that.
It's close?
- No, Ann Arbor.
- Ann Arbor.
- That's okay though.
- Maybe. I'll think about it.
- Well, the piebald ball python laid.
So now the countdown for the genetics, right?
Let's go ahead and roll that dramatic music.
(dramatic music)
So will today be the day?
(suspenseful music)
Nope.
No eggs, but I'm telling you,
she's looking like she's going to lay anytime.
I'm not going to do this
for all 150 clutches this year,
but I'm pretty excited about eggs,
you know what I mean?
This is an amazing stunning snake.
And she does this all the time.
She kind of sits like a green tree python.
And she's looking at me right now, like,
"Oh, is that food?"
She's looking at this furry microphone
and thinking maybe she's going to get fed.
But the truth is Sunflower is absolutely amazing.
And I hope that you guys enjoy this video.
How awesome are green anacondas, right?
If you enjoyed that, here is a playlist
of me playing with a bunch of giant animals on this side.
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