green Anaconda goes in her new huge enclosure!!!
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- čas přidán 28. 03. 2020
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Finally finally finally. I was able to get my female green anaconda into her new 11 x 6 enclosure. I got the filtration hooked up I got the bedding and everything set up I got the temperatures where they needed to be. so since I'm going to be stuck at home sitting inside for who-knows-how-long, I'm definitely going to be posting a bunch of videos of her in there. The little which of course went right towards the filtration and then right towards the waterfall. But I'm going to be leaving her alone for 2 weeks so she can get settled in. I'm hoping she finds the dry side. if you think I earned it feel free to like subscribe comment share all that good stuff and everyone be safe.
P.s. don't let these big python keepers that stuff 15-foot snakes in 4 to 6 ft cages tell you that big cages stress them out. If your husbandry is on point and you add plant cover so they have security and aren't just sitting out in the open, you can go as big as you want.between my time working in a reptile zoo where they provided huge enclosures for big snakes, as well as speaking to herpetologists and zoos, you can provide as much space for them as you can possibly fit as long as you have proper husbandry and places for them to hide. They will use every inch of that enclosure don't let these people tell you about that agoraphobic bullshit myth
Stunning enclosure! Can tell you really planned for her size and needs. So beautiful.
This is going to be a long response. Thank you! This isnt even her adult enclosure. While most anaconda keepers wont provide anything near this large for even a 16 foot adult, my goal is 18x10x8 or 16x12x8 in 5 years or so. But covid hit me hard. Lost a GREAT job that paid me very very well and has eaten about 75% of my savings this year. So the new job i start this week hopefully will workout but its a sales position for a radio station. So im hoping to bounce back and buy a bugger house and get her adult enclosure as scheduled. I went with this size, despite her being 5 feet when i ordered it, in case something happened that i wasnt expecting that made it so i MAY not have the funds to go larger as scheduled. I will still get her a larger enclosure no matter what, but it may take longer. ALSO I was parts of a podcast with myself and the CZcams channel animals at home and we have a guy named Troy who is not only a herpetologist but also a zoologist at Denver Zoo and he has in his care, a 16 foot 165 lb female green anaconda and we discuss why is better to provide larger enclosures with naturalistic Interiors for large constrictors and really all snakes. We also talk about how nearly all snakes, and especially especially especially anacondas in captivity are grossly overfed. And obese. People don't realize how slow Anacondas metabolisms are. For example my girl is roughly eight feet long and she gets a large rat every 4 weeks from March until August and then every 3 weeks from August until November and then she fast from mid-november until March. So she doesn't get food for nearly four months and when she does it's a large rat once a month. Most people feed 5 and 6 foot anacondas jumbo rats when they are completely unnecessary and horribly unhealthy for them. And they feed them far too often. They think because they are big snakes that there is no harm in making them big but obesity can lead to organ failure and can shorten their lives by decades. For example while Troy has the 16 foot female that is 165 lb, she gets a 15 lb rabbit, Which is far leaner than other prey items of similar size such as small pigs and guinea pigs, every 6 weeks and he takes her off food from nov to march.he STILL considers her overweight despite 6 LEAN meals a year and a 16x12 enclosure with a 5 foot deep pond covering 60% of the cage and her being VERY VERY VERY active. Whereas another person i know has a 16 foot 230lb female that is morbidly obese and people worship that big one. You cant take a snake that will get 2-4 meals a year on average in the wild, that is in the water swimming and moving freely, put it in a small cage with little to no enrichment or ability to exercise while inside their cage, and feed it much more often, and expect it to have a healthy body. By tje time obesity is noticeable its very difficult to reduce and the damage may be done. Sorry for the novel but thanks for the kind words! I invite you and anyone else reading this to join my Instagram. Im orettu active there and if anyone has questions or anything i get messages frequently from people who found me here. If anyone is interested just search thicker constrictor and i forget thee official name but searching that will pull it up and its like anaconda_boa fan. I post a lot of shorter videos and pictures they're so I welcome you ( or anyone) to add me and reach out anytime if you have questions! If not no worries thanks for the support!
Nice setup. Adding some live plants would take it to the next level.
There's quite a bit added since then. I tried adding live plants but it's a huge pain in the ass the add lighting that allows it to grow and she tramples and crushes the fake outs as it is. Adding real ones would be extremely difficult to maintain with her. They would get crushed and torn out very quickly with how large and active she is now. I'm hoping in the future to have an even larger enclosure built and may try to add real plants at that time.
Çool Snake !!
Greatly done!
Very happy to see such a gleaming build. Also I love to read that this isn't final and she will get even more space in the future.
My own girl (burmese) isn't growing much bigger anymore and currently has a 10m² enclosure for herself.
Thanks for doing the right thing!
That's the plan. Hopefully I'll get rehired at my job after this virus is over but the longer it goes the less likely that will be. But this will at least last 6 years or so. I have to pull her back out of it in the next couple daysso I can go back in and reseal a couple areas that I don't want her getting too.behind the waterfall at behind the cave pretty much is where I cannot have her at because if she poops back there I have no way of cleaning it without taking everything out. So she'll be back in her little cage for a couple days so I can add some more foam and completely seal off that area
czcams.com/video/iOhfQkgShPs/video.html I added even more stuff to the pond
AMAZING enclosure!!
Looks great!
Check out the newest video! I added a bunch of stuff czcams.com/video/iOhfQkgShPs/video.html
Sick af
Thanks! I added a bunch of shit to her pond today if you want to check it out czcams.com/video/iOhfQkgShPs/video.html
I just joined FB group , accidentally found you here , looks great 👍🏾
Wow, what a beautiful enclosure you have built. Well done👏 The green anaconda is my favourite snake, I'd definitely like to own one in the future.
Thank you! It was built by habitat and design pet supplies. As well as my Suriname enclosure. He does great work. But anacondas are amazing animals. I volunteered/worked at a reptile zoo/rescue for 5 years after high school JUST so I could get experience with anacondas and other large snakes long before i got one. They are very very powerful and can potentially be very dangerous even if not trying to be. I honestly think that most of the people I see who have them, shouldn't. They stuff them in small enclosures with just a little water bowl, and feed them waaaaaaaaay too much. They ignore the real experts that have decades of experience with them in the wild and in captivity that are herpetologists, zoologists, etc in favor of the breeders and people that try and convince others that more space isnt needed and is bad. Too many people are selfish and they feel that their happiness and desire to own one is more important that the quality of life of the animal. I will freely admit that I go MUCH larger than they "need" and dont tell people that they need to, but I think that an adult female should have at least the size I have here. I think at least an 11x6x4 with a sizeable water feature is completely reasonable for a 14-17 foot 100-200+lb snake. Me personally im planning on eventually putting her in an 18x10x6 which I dont think everyone NEEDS but I def think the standard is pathetically small in the hobby. Btw im not saying you dont have experience or anything. You may have way more than me haha. Im Just saying in general. But thank you for the compliment! And def get one when youre ready!! And dont get ANY advice from Brian barczyk haha hes a cancer to the industry lol.
@Thicker Constrictor wait whats wrong with that brian guy?
@@lucaguida4286 almost all his bigger snakes are obese and dont get the best enclosures
This looks kool
Hey guys I added a bunch of stuff to her pond today! Check it out! Here's the link czcams.com/video/iOhfQkgShPs/video.html
My son just got a two foot green anaconda just a baby. Could you tell me in a ball park fiqure how much money you have invested in that beautiful in closer. Thanks
Hey! Well it's a little bit of a different situation. This gentleman who built it was just starting up his company and really wanted his name out there and he saw that I had almost 5,000 people on CZcams and a thousand people on Instagram and I was in about five of the big boa groups on Facebook so I got it for pretty much what it cost him which was about $3,100. And then the filtration was another 500 the heating was another 500 I put glass doors on it which was another 500 but typically that cage would have been about $7,000 at least. if it's a male green anaconda that your son has, it'll be a lot easier because they generally going to be about 10 ft. The females are going to be about 15 to 17 ft. Now a lot of people online are less concerned about giving the animal space and they look at massive breeding companies that just give the absolute bare minimum. But I think this cage size is the absolute minimum that an adult female should be in. Personally I'm planning on doing a 16x13x8 with about 60% of it being a pond once I buy a bigger house in a couple years. And I don't expect anyone to go to that level, but I think a cage this size is the least that a 16 ft female should have. It's 11x6x6 and about 60% of it is the pond. And people will say that they don't use the space but she absolutely does. She climbs to the very tip top of the enclosure and stretches out and she spends a lot of time swimming and soaking in the pond and she's very very active. PVC is another route you can go. It's definitely going to be expensive but depending on if it's a male or female a 10x5x5 would be good. And you can build an external water source. Some people use like big kiddie pools with little waterfall things on it so the water stays circulated and that way they can just pull it out and change it relatively quickly. But there's lots of options. Since it's so young I would definitely start saving now. In the meantime get something that will last like 4 to 5 years and then by the time the snake needs a big adult enclosure you'll have 5 years of saving to get it something really nice. Best of luck!
What filter did you use?
This one is an fx6 from fluval. And the waterfall has a secondary filter on it as well. And I do at least 10% water changes weekly and 30% when she urinates and 50% when she defecates. I also use a water conditioner that pretty much eliminates ammonia. And I test the water a couple times a week as well. There are additional filtration systems that people use that are good as well. I am planning a 16 ft enclosure once she outgrows this one sometime in the next 5 years or so and she's going to get a massive pond and I want it to pretty much be bioactive but I'm going to have a special filtration system in there that has a UV sterilizer as well but that's a ways away. but with this filtration I added a few different extra kinds of media in the filter and once you circulate the water through once, you get a good buildup of healthy bacteria so you don't want to change too much of the water out because then your eliminating the good bacteria as well which helps keep everything in balance. Which is why I only do the partial water changes. That was the suggestion from a couple of the zoos that I spoke with and how they handle things
@@thickerconstrictor9037 okay I have a pond for my green which is like 55 gallons. Takes about half an 8x3. Water changes seem to be a hassle mostly draining it. But it makes sense. I cannot imagine this size of pond. THanks dude. NICE WORK!!
@@burningheartexotics it's not bad at all. I have a huge pump and it can drain the entire 400 gallons probably in about like 30 minutes or so. But I don't ever drain it all. So I throw it in there every 7 to 10 days no matter what and I drain water for about 10 minutes and just run the hose through the window. And then if she pees, I throw it in and pump it out for about 15 to 20 minutes and then refill it and then usually she poops once every 4 to 6 weeks because obviously green anacondas have extremely slow metabolisms so most of them are grossly overfed. I was able to have a lengthy discussion with Jesus Rivas. He just came out with I think his third or fourth book on anacondas and he's been studying them in the wild for around 30 years and I asked him how often on average they eat in the wild as adults and he says usually two or three meals a year. But obviously a lot of those are oversized dangerously big meals so we can feed them a little more as long as they're appropriately sized. So even around 8 ft, a large rat was plenty for her. I see people feeding jumbo rats every couple weeks when they're like 6 ft long and it's ridiculous. I think because they're heavy bodied people think that they're supposed to be fat and that's not the case they're supposed to be thick sure but if you check out anacondas in the wild, generally the younger ones are still rather lean. Just very muscular and the ones that are very very large, are generally pretty old adults. And they're not obese they're just thick. So she was getting a large rat every 4 weeks from March until August and then from August till November every 3 weeks and then I take her off of food completely for 3 months during the winter. Usually around month too, I start seeing her hit a growth spurt and then the first month or two back on food, she explodes in growth. Because obviously she's used to not eating for another month after feeding so you're not going to see anything until it's been a little while after that but once the body realizes that they are not coming across food they start to conserve energy and start feeding off the extra fat that they're holding which stimulates growth. She got I believe 8 or 9 meals from December of 2019 until February of 2021 and has grown at least 2 ft each year. Now she's around 8 ft 4 and 13 lb. At 15 or 16 ft she'll probably be like 90 or 100 lb. I spoke to another herpetologist who works at the Denver zoo and he had a 20-year-old 16-ft 165 lb female that he fed 5 to 10 lb rabbits to every six weeks. And then fasted during the winter. She got six meals a year. And he still considered her to be obese not to mention that but he also says that 90% of the snakes he sees in captivity are over fed and obese. But the gold that I found was my veterinarian period when I was doing research with the zoos they put me in touch with him because that's the guy that all the zoos in the area use for their big snakes. he spent over 15 years studying anacondas and other boas as well as big pythons in the wild and then became a vet. He's got 160 snakes currently 80 of them are boas and I believe 40 or 50 or pythons. And he's got 10 anacondas which is included in the 80 boazly because they're boas. And he fasts and food cycles all of the boas and even some of the pythons. And he echoed the 90% number as well. Unfortunately they had to euthanize that 16-ft female because she had cancer. Just a couple weeks ago but when she passed away she was right around 18 ft and 135 lb. They had managed to get her in much better shape by providing a much larger enclosure. Because when she was in her smaller cage she was very inactive but once they provided her with a 16x16 with a massive pond, she became extremely active my girl was in a 4X 2x2 and was my least active snake and then when she was 6'3 I put her in the 11-ft cage that you see here and now she's my most active snake. She swims every night she climbs all over the place even at the very top of the cage. She's just now bumping up past large rats. And she's getting extra small rabbits around 11 oz every 6 weeks and then she'll get them every five weeks after August and then she'll continue to fast every 3 months until she's an adult and once she's reached the peak of her growth and started to slow down, I will start fasting her for 4 months a year and she'll get six meals a year. She's primarily going to be fed rabbits for four meals and then one bird like a chicken or turkey and then she'll get one high-fat meal like a small pig once she's larger or jumbo rats in the meantime. Before her fasting. But my goal is once she outgrows the 11x66 she will be getting a 16x13x8 and she'll have a pond that is 4 ft deep at its deepest point and it's going to cover 60% of her cage. We have to remember that they rely heavily on water when they are adults because of their mass. so they need a large water area and it breaks my heart seeing people that stuff them in tiny cages with just a water bowl. I would say that the vast majority of people that have them ...shouldn't. it's very sad. But I'm glad to hear that you got a water feature! I could have gotten one seven years ago because I had the money but I would not have been able to provide a proper sized enclosure like this so I waited until I could. My rule is if I can't provide large enclosures if I don't have the space or the money for it, then I don't have the space or the money for the animal. My desire to own the animal is not more important than the animals quality of life. And so many people are brainwashed to think that these big snakes do poorly in big cages and it's sad. I mean babies, absolutely you don't want to rush a big cage with them cuz they can be fickle eaters but once they are older, the sky is the limit as long as you have proper husbandry and plenty of hiding places and cover for them. If you check out some of the other videos, within the last month or so, one of them is titled a Day in the Life of my anaconda I believe that's what it's called. And you'll see how active she was in all of it was in one day don't get me wrong she doesn't climb all over the place like that every single day, but she's in the pond pretty much every night and she climbs up places at least three times a week. She's very active but I can't wait to get her the 16-ft cage. It's going to be wonderful.
@@burningheartexotics but like I said it's all about the pump. Once you have a lot of water like this, it's much easier to maintain because for now even if she poops it doesn't make the water dirty looking at all. Doesn't mean there isn't bacteria in there so that's why the water changes are important but when you have this much water it deludes down the ammonia and bacteria so if you can do the water changes and have a quality filter and have the conditioner that drops the nitrates and ammonia, it's not that hard to keep clean. And when she has the 16-ft cage we're talking about a pond in the thousands of gallons. So it'll be the same thing and I'm going to provide very very high quality filtration and it's going to pretty much be self-sustaining.
How far is she from being too heavy for you to pick up one handed?
Probably a while. She really doesn't weigh very much yet. She's still relatively lean because she's only two years old. I'm meticulous with her feeding as well because even though they are heavy bodied snakes they can still get obese and which can lead to organ failure. . She's probably about eight pounds right now but as she matures she's going to get thicker and thicker. She's currently eating once a month And during the winter she was off food for 10 weeks and then during the summer she's going to eat every 3 weeks instead of every four. I reached out to a herpetologist who is also a zoologist in charge of all the heavy bodied snakes at his zoo. He's the one that suggested I do the food cycling which my vet also suggested as well.he also used to work in South America with them and now specializes in Boaz. but the zoologist has a 16 ft 165 lb female and she is gorgeous. She only eats 5 times a year
@@thickerconstrictor9037 When your anaconda gets to be 165 pounds, are you gonna have any wrestling matches with her like Marlin Perkins did?
@@jasonirelan4487 haha very unlikely. However I do plan on having her in a bigger cage at that point. Ideally a walk-in enclosure somewhere around 16x12 with a massive pool
@@thickerconstrictor9037 I was bugging my Mom because someone on Quora asked for a picture and/or story about a big python so I downloaded a picture of a reticulated python and showed it to the person who asked. I then asked my mom how I'm gonna take care of this 🐍 that I caught a picture of because it's kinda hard to keep it contained in a 29 gallon tank, and rabbits are expensive.
@@jasonirelan4487 haha yeah reticulated pythons get huge. I really want an albino Burmese one dayand possibly a reticulated python but that would be at least three 15-foot enclosures that I would need and I don't think I'm ever going to be able to have three massive enclosures. But what I'll probably do is when I move the Anaconda into her walk in and closure I will probably make adjustments to this cage and get a male albino Burmese and just give him this cage as a permanent set up
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