Maret 18, 2017
for english, japanese, chinese, spanish or russian subtitles, please click on the subtitle button. hello and welcome to a new episode of reptil.tv! here are my really nice and beautiful introduction animals that i want to show you. unfortunately, i have sold them, however today i can still present them to you. i posted some pictures of them on our facebook page. two bobtail skinks from australia (silique rugosa asper). they are absolutely original! from the front or the back, they almost look identical. their main diet are plants and flowers. they look like ancient animals, something unusual. they are gigantic!
they used to be easy to obtain. nowadays they are rarities ... ... because they are such rare animals, they cost a few thousand euros each. they are live bearing. these pups are about 3 months old. their offspring is born with this huge size. as i said before, i really wanted to present you these animals today.i am a huge fan of them. however, these nice bobtail skinks are not the topic of today’s episode. today i want to talk about something else. you'll never guess what the topic is. if you look closely, you will notice that i've brought a little snake along. today's topic is about burmese pythons.
today i'll be talking about keeping, breading and color mutations. their area of circulation is enormous. there are three sub species, the bright ones, this dwarf (python molurus progschai)... ... a few years ago it was accurately described for the first time. this bright animal is a python molurus molurus. and the dark one is a python molurus bivittatus. their area of circulation reaches from the south east of pakistan ... ... across the complete south east asian continent ... ...and reaches far into southern china.
southbound, it reaches all the way to the indonesian islands. that is the indian python's area of circulation in general. however, the bright indian python live on the indian peninsula (sri lanka). the dwarf burmese python live in the east. today, i am going to mainly talk about the dark burmese python. it is the most common animal among herpetologists. you seriously have to consider their size at the end. they definitely are one of the largest snakes in the world. they can become up to 5-6 m large!
if you look at the lecture, the champion is stated with being 7.80 m long. i would like to verify that; for me it is hard to believe. but 5-6 m in an extreme case can be realistic. just compare it with people that are 2,20 m large. of course there are animals that push the limits. by default, they become between 3-4 m. males can become a good 3 m ... ... females often become 4 m long. so please take this size into consideration, if you plan on getting on buying such an animal. but there is good news, have a look at this brat here...
... as a baby they are often mean and bitchy; they bite everything that moves ... ... just like my hands ... however, the more they grow, the tamer they become. they probably are more self-confident and say to themselves ... ... i'm 3-4 m long; how could they harm me? as adults, they are among the tamest snakes in the world. they really are predictable. i don't want so summon you to - because it is a delicate topic ... ... but you can put them into a child’s hand.
you don't have to fear that they could snap at them at any moment ... ... as it is the case with reticulated pythons or other snakes. an adult and well-behaved burmese python will hiss 15 minutes in advance, before biting. the larger they get, the tamer and better their behavior becomes. of course if we talk about keeping them; they become gigantic. you need quite some space. i can't place its terrarium on this table, because it would have to be gigantic. according to the guidelines for keeping burmese pythons, issued by the federal office ... the size has to be: 0,75 x 0,5 x 0,5 x body length.
if your animal is 4m long, you need a terrarium with roughly these dimensions: 3x2x2m. pups can of course be brought up in a smaller terrarium. my proposal for keeping a pup is to have a terrarium with 1m. that is sufficient until the animal has reached a size between 1.30 - 1.40 m. at this point, you have to build a large terrarium room. that way you can keep your animal there for the rest of its life. another important point about keeping burmese pythons in general. you need an allowance for the keeping of these animals in some of the federal states. in baden-wã¼rttemberg, everybody has got this allowance.
in hesse, nrw, and bremen their keeping is forbidden in general. you have to apply for an allowance. if you want to buy such an animal, you have to file an application that you can keep them. the basic question is why you want to keep such a large snake at all. my analogy is the model train set you have in your cellar. the typical german has got a gigantic model train set, set up in his cellar. nobody would say that he is crazy. i believe that it behaves the same with large reptiles. if you are fascinated and have got enough space available ... ... the it is legitimate to keep them; in my opinion.
of course you have to climatize the whole terrarium. if you adhere to these points, there are no arguments against keeping them. the climatically conditions are an important topic we have to talk about. burmese pythons are from south east asia. try to visualize a climate as in thailand, indonesia or sri lanka. during the day it is brutally warm, above 30â°c, in the night 25-26â°c. with a very high - a tropical - humidity. that is the climate you need to provide for your animal. but these high temperatures are a must.
additionally, you have to make sure that it isn't too muggy or damp. never just keep the floor damp; only for maintaining a high humidity. the climate has to be a good one! lighting itself doesn't really matter. snakes do not need uv or light in general. the main point is that there is light inside the terrarium. in the forests or their hiding spots - where they live - there it is dark.in addition, they are nocturnal. the lighting is for you. you want to have a good looking terrarium. considering this; you can install the light that you want.
e.g. you can use an energy-saving tube or something else that illuminates the terrarium. the heating of the terrarium is much more important. in our last episode we talked about the available heating solutions for terrariums. our conclusion was that heat panels ... ... are a great method for heating a terrarium. this is such a new heat panel. it is a really cool and great product. included are these elements that you can fix the panel to the ceiling with. you can put them inside and adjust the height between the ceiling and the panel.
you have to choose the wattage according to the size of your terrarium. they are great for heating a terrarium. an alternative can be an elstein radiator, they have been around for 20-30 years. they are good for heating a terrarium. please do install a protective basket for your radiator. you need very much energy to heat up such a terrarium for a burmese python. even a terrarium for pups needs about 60 watts. if you want to heat an entire room, even these solutions can be difficult. if you have the option, do use a central heating.
install a radiator that can be heated throughout the year. that is the most efficient method for heating a small room. that way you can achieve a perfect temperature. the most important fitment is a cave for hiding. in the wild, the snake would hide in a cave and not lie in the direct sun light. due to that, color isn't important; natural or artificial materials ... ... a flower pot or these hiding caves. it is important that one good hiding spot is available. more are better. put damp moss into the hiding spot.
this helps achieving the climate and humidity needed. apart from that you can use branches for decoration. a young burmese python can climb a branch from time to time. adult burmese pythons like to stay on the ground. in a large terrarium they like to lie on a tray or placement area. but they are no tree dwellers that enjoy climbing. branches are more likely for decoration. if you have real plants, you have to live with the fact that ... ... after a few weeks these heavy animals have pressed the plants flat.
real plants are good for a great climate. if you can, use real plants. apart from that, you can use plastic imitations. your terrarium is fully arranged. it just has - luckily only the small one! ouch, i can't believe it. as you can see, there are small and large animals. you just witnessed, small and mean or large and well-behaved. now the small one is even biting the large one. it even is hissing. michel!adamo! i have to try and separate these two.
handling these animals is of utmost importance. if you have such a young animal, you must handle your animal regularly ... ... that way you experience that they become well-behaved. by nature, they turn tamer the older they get. you have to take them out and handle them. it won't happen by itself. if they bite you, it doesn't hurt too much. you are startled and you feel a pinch; it isn't severe if they bite you. if it helps, you can use gloves while handling them regularly. michel, adamo!
with such large animals a snake thong is a necessary tool. this is the large one, it has got a wide head. if you use thin snake thong to lift a large animal ... ... the risk of injuring the animal is higher. the thin thong can nick the animal, the large one is more gentle. a large burmese python needs a large snake thong. it is important if you want to take out an animal. if a large animal does bite you, it is ... ... a panic reaction in most cases.
the animal is in its terrarium and you go there for feeding or when cleaning the terrarium. however, the animal thinks that there is prey coming and bites. this is what these large hooks are good for, you can take the animal ... ... and the animal notices that you are not prey at all. afterwards, you can put away the hook and handle your animal with your hands. the first moment of shock is over. it notices that there is no food. and you can handle the animal well with your hands. in my opinion, such a hook is part of the basic equipment you need for a large snake.
at first, while feeding, you can use the hook too. let's talk about feeding. for a small one to grow that large, naturally it has to eat quite some food. pups are fed in a normal interval, once a week with a proper prey animal. such a small one can already eat adolescent mice. a rule of thumb is that you should see the prey in its stomach after feeding. michel, could you please come and take this animal from me. michel: both?stefan: no, only the big one, into the terrarium where it came from. it was from back there.
so, while michael is unwinding the animal from my feet ... ... i want to continue talking about feeding. pups are fed once a week. after feeding your snake, you have so see a fat stomach ... ... and that a mouse or rat is inside. with a large animal, you wouldn't see a mouse. if that is the case, you have to feed two mice. after some time, you have to switch to feeding rats. after feeding, please check if you see that your snake has got a fat stomached.
leave it alone for 2-4 days. sometimes it tries to eat it's lordling, when it is hungry. but that is not the rule. as i said, feed once a week and let them rest for 3-4 days. large animals that you use for breeding are fed exactly the same way. when a large female is laying its batch ... ... it doesn't eat during the end of the gestation and egg deposition. it need a lot of energy for the eggs. an animal used for breed should be fed once a week. during mating season, males also don't eat.
apart from these phases, you can feed them weekly. if you only keep a single animal, you have to restrict this. feeding it every 3-4 weeks is enough. otherwise you would overfeed the animal and it would become fat. if your snake doesn't copulate or lay eggs ... ... you have to extend the feeding interval to 2-3 weeks.otherwise your animal will become too fat. it goes without saying, that you need to have fresh water inside of your terrarium. you should change the water every 1-2 days. in my opinion, a burmese python will only lay in water when it has got mites.
that is a typical sign for mites. i would even state that you do not need a giant basin ... ... as an anaconda or rock python would need one. it is sufficient to have a bowl that is large enough for drinking ... ... if you want, you can use a larger bowl, where it can lie inside.than you would notice that as a sign for mites. but the bowl doesn't have to be gigantic. an important point on feeding. i have had special ... ... animals, that didn't accept any food they were presented. mice, rats, chicks or rabbits; they didn't eat any of them.
we only had success, when we used guinea pigs; they were frozen foods. i know 2-3 herpetologists that had the same problem. usually, i would say that a burmese python east almost everything. but there are specialists that wouldn't accept mice or rats. if you have such an animal; an animal that almost starved to death;give the guinea pigs a try. this often helps. burmese pythons have been bred for decades now. there are many color morphs; a result of breeding. in general, they can be bred easily.
a stimulating factor is to lower the temperature during winter. lower the temperature a bit every 4-6 weeks, the males will start mating. females need good fat reserves. feed them well, every 7-10 days, then they will have fat reserves and will want to mate. that way breeding is no problem. as with all pythons, the incubator temperature should be around 32-32,5 degrees. after roughly 60 days, these nice babies are going to hatch. no big or unsolvable problem. be prepared that a burmese python can lay 50-60 eggs.
please do consider who is going to want all this babies. apart from that, they are easy to breed. these two here are a good template for color morphs. to my right is a hypo, you have seen him a few times already. he really likes me; so much that he already pinched me a few times. hypos have been around for about 10 years. the big sensation breeding hypo x hypo was this white animal; an ivory. therefore, the hypo is the co-dominant color variant of the burmese python. a super form will result in this yellow white animal.
here we have a nice granite tiger python. with a granite, the classification into co-dominant or recessive is a bit difficult. on first glance it is recessive. but the babies that are het for granite ... ... you can notice something, compared to the wild color ... ... their markings are a bit more jagged.25100:21:42,310 --> 00:21:48,244if you cross a normal x granite, you clearly see which babies are het granite. strictly speaking, i would say that granites are co-dominant. here we have a small one that is het granite. if you look at these markings ...
... and compare them to our large animal from the intro. a granite has got more ragged spots that are at close quarters. animals that are not het for granite, have got such large saddle-spots. het granite have got these smaller, ragged spots. these features are great and reliable indicators. if you breed such animals, you will receive a granite. we can hear this one hissing clearly. i stated before, that a burmese python will hiss 15 min in advance, before biting. this is a great example for an adolescent animal.
unfortunately, i haven't handled this animal often enough ... ... for it to understand and become tamer. but it has been worse; it is getting better. i have to take and hold him once a week; he will become tamer. if necessary, you can also use gloves; at this size it can hurt. today, there are also color morph combinations. here we have a perl granite burmese python. from the hypo, we had the super form, an ivory. ivory crossed with albino is called pearl.
in this case there are granite genes in it as well. hence, a pearl granite burmese python. this is a triple morph from ivory, albino and granite. here we have a handsome caramel. some people call it a blond or t+ albino. the animal you saw earlier, was a normal t negative albino. this one is a caramel; or t+ albino. they have been bred during last years. an absolutely nice burmese python variant.
they have fantastic colors, even as large animals. there are two lineages. the american "gold coast line". and the indonesian "alan wei line" we've almost covered all color variations. of course you can cross breed them all among each other. granites can be albino or hypo. it would take too much time, if i were to present you all combinations. apart from three, we've covered all basic variations and colors. the green or patternless burmese python has been left out.
as a baby, they are stunning animals. their markings bear resemblance with anacondas. they are green with some black spots. as they grow, they almost turn into a unicolor olive green. in my opinion, their optics wear off with the years. ?? then we have the labyrinth burmese pythons. 15-20 years ago, there were quite widespread in the us. labyrinth and albino labyrinth are very handsome animals. similar are the granites that have got labyrinth like markings. they fell victim to a virus - luckily that has almost disappeared ...
... it was a chronic respiratory disease that was caused by a virus. especially the labyrinth were very vulnerable. this virus significantly reduced the population. last, but not least, there are the calico burmese pythons. as with the reticulated pythons, the calico gene is not hereditable. they look terrific, fantastic colors. my employee michael has successfully bred a calico with something else. unfortunately, not a single calico hatched. even if you reverse breed them, the chances are fairly low.
and seemed as with a burmese python a calico gene is not hereditary. let's have a look at the available literature. compared with other animals, there isn't much literature available on burmese pythons. there are only two german books on this topic. the first book is 10 years old and a classic from henry bellosa. a very nice book, henry was very thorough and did a terrific job researching everything. the other book is "der dunkle tigerpython" from moritz von zeddelmann a really good book, i like it very much. all the information there is up-to-date.
it includes the 'molurus broschei' as a new dwarf subspecies. a nice booklet that i can highly recommend. of course, it is only a booklet because of its size. but the content wise it is a really great book. we can't cover everything in one episode, so please do look at the available literature. so, we've reached the end of today's episode. something on my own account. we are thinking about doing an episode about reptiles and myths. if you have ideas or myths like ...
... there is a 20m long gigantic snake; or other myths ... please contact us via mail: info@reptil.tv remain faithful.check my balls. and check my burmese pythons. wo noticed, that this isn't a burmese python, it is a reticulated python. surely we'll do an episode about this topic in the future. action! who is making these rattling noises? can you hear me? or is the mic covered?
actually, this is a dark burmese python ... it will, if it can, bite me in the face.ouch!! maybe i should talk less dialect! that sounds stupid! we'll use this take; i'm out of breath and sweating. it's biting me again! adamo adamou: i'm on the phone! michel
everybody is on the phone, well then they are excused. look at this bite, it's heart shaped. that was good; let's wrap it up.
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