- [Narrator] First I thought
she was just smelling the stool,
like, "What's this stool all about?"
And then guess what?
She starts to climb the stool.
I'm thinking, "There's no way in the world
"she's going to do what I think she might do."
Sure enough, climbed right into her cage
and right into her water.
I have never seen anything like this before.
Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
It's a beautiful day here.
It's sunny, it's getting warm here.
Spring has finally set in, almost at summertime,
and guess what?
My girl Ivy, the green Anaconda,
not only is she on land,
but she decided to destroy her cage.
Look, there's leaves all over the place.
There's leaves over there.
She's kind of flipped around the log a little bit.
She's pooped in her water.
I don't know what this girl is up to,
but she's a busy girl.
What I'm going to do is actually go in there,
get her out,
so I can fix her cage up,
so let's just go ahead and get in there and get her out,
and hopefully that goes well.
Hi, sweetie.
I have no idea how I'm gonna get her.
There you go.
Come on, move on.
There she goes.
There she is.
What an amazing snake, huh?
Come on, big girl.
Let's go.
We're going to go for a little walk, okay?
So I can clean your cage up.
Is that all right with you?
There is something amazing about a green Anaconda.
She is one beautiful snake,
there's no doubt about that.
But it's kinda hard to get her out of here,
cos she has a mind of her own, right?
So, I think I'm gonna be able
to just kind of take her like this.
Come on, baby.
Whoo, this is gonna be interesting.
Whoo, I tell you what,
what an amazing snake (laughs).
Heavy.
She is so fun.
So, what I'm gonna do, of course,
is get her on the ground,
just let her kind of crawl around a little bit.
I'll get in there, kind of reattach
all her leaves and stuff like that,
and then I actually have something
really cool to show you in a little bit,
that will clean her bottom of her cage.
Someone actually sent me an email about a product.
I bought it, should be really cool,
but she's obviously always on the go, this girl.
So, I think what I'm going to do
is maybe set up a time-lapse tonight,
because obviously, she's all over this cage,
and maybe I'll catch her and find out
what this rascal does at night.
I mean, let's face it, she's a big Anaconda.
She could do whatever she wants,
but I'm excited, because she uses
every inch of this huge enclosure she has,
and maybe we'll catch some cool footage on time-lapse,
so tune in tomorrow and I'll show you what we caught,
but for today, I'm just gonna let her
kind of wander around a little bit,
get her cage all cleaned up,
and I will definitely spend some time with her,
because I'm telling you what,
Anacondas are one of the most peculiar animals.
I always talk about the fact that, usually,
I can figure a snake out, whether it's
a Burm, a Corn snake, a Ball python, whatever it is.
I cannot figure this girl out.
She throws me for a loop all of the time.
The way she acts, the way she moves,
what she does, everything like that.
So, it's pretty incredible, and been a pleasure
working with what I think is probably
one of the coolest snakes on the planet.
Wow, what an amazing girl.
(upbeat music)
Guess what time it is?
Coloured egg time, and we have a few clutches
that are bangers today.
I tell you, I'm pretty excited about it.
The first one is actually
just a Head Snow scaleless Corn snake here.
Nothing gone wrong with that whatsoever.
Bred to a scaleless Snow so it's absolutely beautiful.
Not a big girl at all.
She laid a really good clutch.
But this next clutch that we're gonna pull.
I don't know what it looks like yet,
but it's gonna be amazing.
So let's just go ahead get these guys
in the incubator box really quick.
Really nice clutch eggs for a small girl right here.
She got two, four, six, eight, nine eggs.
Not bad.
Again, Head Snow scaleless bred to a Snow scaleless.
So that should be pretty good but buckle up,
this next clutch is gonna be crazy.
And I'm not gonna lie,
I'm a little nervous about this clutch
because I have never had
a female scaleless Corn snake,
lay a good clutch of eggs.
Now I haven't bred very many
scaleless Corn snake females,
to be honest with you,
I typically do a scaleless male to a head female,
but this actually a Tiger scaleless
bred to a Tiger scaleless.
You ready?
They look good.
There's a couple little bad eggs
but for the most part they look good.
There's two little sluggers in here
but look at this mama here.
Whoo doggy!
That is a beautiful, beautiful snake right there.
And I tell you, although there are a couple slug eggs,
I am very happy with the result of this one.
So we should go ahead and pull these aside really quick.
We'll take a closer look at the second.
Just clean this snake up, we'll get some water in with her.
All that good stuff.
She did really, really well,
and again she bred to a Tiger scaleless male,
which is just kind of interesting scaleless Corn snake.
So let's go ahead and take a closer look at this.
Again, like I mention there's two little slugs
but everything else looks fertile.
I'm gonna candle these egg just because they look like
some of them may have rolled around a little bit
to be totally honest with you.
Just remove that slug right there.
Get these guys over here.
Let's see, one, two, three.
Here we go.
And of course we've got two, four,
six, seven eggs.
Not a big clutch but seven good eggs, two slugs.
Tell you, that's the first time I ever had fertile eggs
from a scaleless Corn snake so that's pretty awesome.
Back to Ivy, now we have to get to the water part
because all the land part all set.
And remember I was struggling with this, you know,
getting debris out and stuff like that.
Actually someone sent me a message in an email
about this product called a PondoVac.
They have several different kinds.
I chose the PondoVac five,
and basically the deal is you can see right here.
You can literally stand up and you can.
It's almost like a pool filter
but the different with a shop vac,
the wet shop vac,
is that once it fills up, it's done.
This one, the water go through it.
So it's like the continuous
water shop vac type of thing.
That way I can suck up all the debris,
not only on Ivy,
but the turtle pond,
Bauer pond, salt and pepper and stuff like that.
And we can actually put it
right to the drain in the back.
I'm excited, I have no idea
how this thing is gonna work,
but I'm excited to see how it does.
So just let's open it up
and hopefully it's gonna be a life saver.
(upbeat music)
Ivy is such an amazing animal,
I mean I'm over here just unboxing
this new vacuum thing,
and she just kind of curiously crawls up to me.
At first, I was like what is she doing,
why she crawling right at me.
But then she just kind of crawling around,
see what we're doing.
Almost like she's curious
about what we do.
I've never had a snake
literally come towards me,
out of curiosity,
not out of like,
"I wanna be fed," or anything like that.
And then you know,
next thing you know she crawling around,
she sees these flowers,
and she's just like checking them out.
Like, again,
it's about curiosity.
Her brain is thinking right now.
And that is amazing.
I've never seen an animal
so curious like this before.
So I've just been keeping an eye on her,
you know, letting her crawl around,
and I notice she's kinda crawling back
towards her cage,
not thinking much of it at this point.
You know, I just think she's wandering around
and stuff like that.
And then, I really started to wonder
what's going on when she checking out the stool.
At first I thought she was just smelling the stool,
like, "What's this stool all about?"
And then guess what?
She starts to climb the stool.
I'm thinking, "There's no way in the world
"she gonna do what I think she might do."
And that's right, she slowly
inches her way up this stool.
Look at her cage,
she sniffs it a couple times.
Next think I know, I'm like,
"Are you kidding me right now?"
She goes and starts to climb into her cage.
Even then I thought,
"Would she potentially back away at some point?"
Sure enough, climbed right into her cage,
and right into her water.
I have never seen anything like this before.
(gentle music)
Yeah, you think that snake aren't smart?
Literally, Ivy has been crawling around for about an hour,
hour and a half, whatever the case maybe.
She literally used this stool
and climbed back in her cage by herself.
That was it.
She just crawled right up here,
climbed back in her cage.
So you tell me, that snakes aren't smart.
Craziest thing I've ever seen.
I mean, and you guys saw it man.
That is nuts.
We got it all kind of set up.
The thing is nice.
This is the drain hose right here.
And I actually have another 30 foot extension,
so I can actually just run this
right to our drain,
and we can actually put
like a little mesh bag on it
to get the debris out.
The thing that's also nice is the fact that
before I used to have to put the sock back.
Like inside the cage,
we have lots of room now,
and kind of a long one as well
to get in here.
Now I'm gonna go ahead
and get in this thing with some shorts on.
Just to see how this thing works but let's hope
that this is the kind of solution,
to what I needed.
Again, thank you for the person that sent me this email.
Hopefully this thing
is the charm that I've been waiting for.
So let just go ahead and try this bugger up.
(upbeat music)
I tell you what guys.
That works way better than expected,
so, thank you
for the person that recommended that to me
cos that is a life saver, I mean,
In just a few minutes,
I was able to clean the entire bottom
of the enclosure,
whereas it used to take me 15,
20 minutes just to clean a little bit of it.
And I've been here for a half hour, 45 minutes,
so, wow!
What a life changer it is for sure.
So I love it.
So there's another tool to the chest
that is gonna make my life at keeping me.
And we're learning our way through it,
that's what this is about, right?
We haven't even had a reptilian expansion
kind of going for more than
two and a half months,
so this was a huge huge huge thing.
So thank you again.
Wow, my life just got a lot easier.
(upbeat music)
Kind of surprised there's no Ball python clutches today,
we have like four, five females that are due today,
but like I mentioned,
it sometimes happens where it takes some day after,
sometimes they're early,
sometimes they're late,
but a couple really cool animals
including this one that I'm really excited about.
This girl has just always been kind and near
and dear to me for whatever reason.
Of course, this is a Blue eyed Leucistic right here.
This is the one that's produced
like five or six years in a row
for me when I originally bought her.
They were still like $50000,
so she's just a really special animal to me,
and she should be laying any day.
Just my daily check on a little up here, and Nova.
First I wanna just see her,
see if she looks like she's big and fat.
Still looks like she's got some eggs.
And I'll just check the nest box
by just popping it open.
And if it starts to look like she's escalating
and a little bit pushing that around,
that means I know, she's getting close.
She's not there yet but I hope that
within the next week at the most,
we'll get some eggs from these guys.
I might have to dampen that box
just a little bit more here, the next day or so,
cos I want them to still stay damp.
But Nova you've been good protecting your little girl?
All right.
You guys have a good day.
Age is pretty much good to go.
This girl is amazing, I mean.
I never in my wildest dream thought that one day
I would be able to just mess with a big Anaconda like this.
I mean, again it's a iconic animal, but the truth is
that up until the last maybe six, seven years,
most of these animals were coming out of the wild
believe it or not.
They stopped the importation.
I think about six or seven years ago,
and those animals just weren't friendly.
I mean, they came in, they were mean.
Every Anaconda I handled that was this size,
tried to bite me in the past.
So, it's amazing now that people breeding
you know, second, third, fourth generation.
And with that, the breeding
kind of came tamer animal like Ivy.
So now you can literally interact,
with a beautiful Anaconda like this.
And you don't have to worry about it biting you,
cos I'm telling you what,
some of those worst bites I've ever got
have been from Anacondas.
They have very big teeth,
very strong, powerful bites.
So you definitely don't want to get bit by them,
but again, both Vedere and Ivy are incredible animals.
And it is such a pleasure
to be able to just do this.
I mean, it's gun,
it's iconic guys.
I mean, an Anaconda
and she's only gonna get bigger, right?
Here another year, she's probably
gonna be another 50, 60 pounds,
and another four, five foot.
That is gonna be so impressive,
and to have one that has the mentality like this.
I mean, what an absolute pleasure.
Of her teaching me,
what the weird world of Anaconda is all about.
And finally, we have this girl here,
which is just a really beautiful snake.
Inbred to a gorgeous male right here.
Let's take a look really quick.
This of course is just a Corn snake
that is actually half for (mumbles),
but is also half for (mumbles),
And she actually bred to this beautiful male right here.
Of course right now she's in
with this black matly female right now,
but that one absolutely ridiculous.
So there can be some real beautiful babies in here,
and it looks like a really nice clutch of eggs too.
So let's just go ahead,
get these out of here really quick,
put them in here.
We'll count them up two, four, six, eight.
Good eggs, not bad again, a small female,
really nice beautiful clutch.
So, Cloo continues to bang here,
it's gonna be amazing once we start hatching.
(upbeat music)
Again, I have never seen
any thing like this Anaconda in the way she acts.
I mean, for her to crawl back
in that cage blew me absolutely away.
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