Venomous Snake UNBOXING | Venom Diaries

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]Very, very agile. If I would have let go then, I would have got bitten 100%. Oh, look at the spray.

[00:00:09]All righty, guys. Welcome back to Venom Dross. Today is going to be an exciting one. I know I always seem to say that at the start of each video, but I feel like these are always exciting. All right, so let me know in the comments if you think my videos are exciting. We have new snakes to the collection. So, I've been offsite, back and forth, off site for the last 3 months um to our quarantine facility where we've housed snakes like the tiger snakes that you would have seen Anaka and myself go and collect.

[00:00:36]All right, so before anything comes into this facility, goes and does 3 months quarantine. All right, where they just check for parasites and make sure they're nice and healthy and um we sort them out if they're not. But uh these snakes all got the ticket of approval.

[00:00:48]So, there's eight goodies inside this box. All right, I'm very excited to show you them. Tiger snakes, king browns, and one very fiery eastern brown. All right, so what we do is Logan's really set up their new enclosures for me and and we've brought the feed cars over cuz we always track everything with the snakes, what they're eating, when they shed their skin, their weight is really important. I'm actually going to weigh them as they come in as well today. And even more exciting, I'm going to milk them for the first time. And that's when I get really excited, right? cuz it sort of tells me, it shows me early on the yields I can expect from these snakes.

[00:01:24]So, obviously I'm always after the bigger yields. So, I'm going to milk a couple of those tiger snakes today. So, these snakes are all wild caught. I don't always collect. You would have seen in some of the videos we collect.

[00:01:36]Sometimes we breed um you know, I'm preparing king browns and death adds and so on at the moment for breeding. Um but it's more of a locality thing and genetics. Okay. So CSL who make the antivenenom study the different localities um venom intensively. The toxidity varies in each species depending on a locality mainly due to what they're feeding on. All right. So it's weird like some of the eastern tiger snakes from one area that's only like a couple hours away then they're still highly toxic and abide and ruin your day very quickly. But ones literally over the other side of the range are slightly more toxic. So we use them and our top end King Browns are too toxic, right? So it's like I I get really confused of it all. But so we have to we still use Venom from them, but then we use some from like Western New South Wales and that's where these King Browns are from.

[00:02:32]Tim and GEO and Logan went out before I did that failed King Brown trip that you guys would have seen. They went out a month before me before the as the sort of rain was coming in. um and they got lucky with with with two young ones. So, yeah, we selectively target certain areas and then I grow them up and breed from them for future milkers, if that makes sense. All right. So, and yeah, and then just bringing in new genetics every few years for the program is is also really critical. So, um let's have a look. Let's open the box of goodies here. We got to be very very careful when grabbing these snakes out. So, I'm going to get a white first. Um, so I will get the weight of the bags after I do this. So I just So we monitor their weights. That's 5.6 kilo. Oh, sorry.

[00:03:25]56 point. It's just over half a kilo.

[00:03:28]All right.

[00:03:30]Bilbo is not very good at maths or reading or any literature. We'll just say that. Got to be careful with these bags cuz the snakes can This one was actually he was biting the back. That's venom right there. So yeah, I know who this is. So you remember the video when Anak and I were out in the bush catching and I got like unbelievably excited when I caught that tiger snake. Have a go of this right in front of us. Look at the SIZE OF HIM. MASSIVE male tiger snake.

[00:03:58]Oo, look at him flatten his NECK OUT.

[00:04:00]THIS BLOKE IS OFF THE RT. Look at him, mate.

[00:04:05]I can't even speak. I'm that excited.

[00:04:11]And it is a fiery snake. We'll have a bit of a look in there in the camera.

[00:04:16]Look at the banding.

[00:04:18]Stunning snake. I originally thought it was a male, but it's actually a female.

[00:04:23]Right. So, that's another thing we do when we're when we've got them in quarantine is um we probe them and see what sex they are. Man, look at the neck flare on her. She is wild this snake.

[00:04:37]And really, really good set of end glands there. Get her on the pin and pad here.

[00:04:48]Very eager to bite.

[00:04:54]It's always like these eastern tigers when they come in are usually pretty fiery. Oh, good yield. Great yield, actually. Really clear venom. Beautiful snake. little fangs. That's a good yield for the size of her. That's a really good yield.

[00:05:11]Yeah. Like these these eins always come in really really fiery. They're just very defensive snakes out in the bush.

[00:05:19]Yeah. Like the one that's on display. I can't remember. I don't think we filmed that, but Ger and I went out and got that just before the Venom Center opened and she was nuts when we caught her. And now she's quite ass. She's like a really really quite good snake. So yeah, I guess over the next few months, I'll sort of see what her personality is going to be like. I imagine just maintain that fiery female um tiger snake attitude. But I love that. It always keeps me on my toes and I always, you know, I love to work with tigers that um that definitely keep me on my toes for sure. All right, so Logan set up this enclosure.

[00:06:02]There you go, sweetheart. And so she's been smashing food too while she's been in crunching. And uh yeah, she looks great. Really, really good. All right, so this is another tiger in here. This is a big male beauty. Yeah. So remember with that one, I um went back with the camera with an to show where I caught the snake and when I stuck my hand in there, this bloke was inside of the wombat burrow.

[00:06:28]So I come down here like this and just seen out the corner of me eye tiger snake right there. Remember I was just saying how they go into wombat burrows but there's a hole right there.

[00:06:45]And it's a there's another tiger snake down there. I'm not even joking. I'm not even joking. Give me this. I'm shaking.

[00:06:52]I'm literally shaking. There's a tiger snake down here.

[00:06:58]Got it.

[00:07:00]Another huge male.

[00:07:04]What?

[00:07:05]What is going on?

[00:07:10]Man, that was why I look back on that cuz I I get a bit caught up in a moment.

[00:07:14]I get really excited. I literally got in that burrow and almost had me hand down in the hole where the snake was camped up. Don't go reaching down one of my burrows. All right. Well, you guys would see it on camera. I get very excited when I find these snakes.

[00:07:29]>> Two males hanging out. How wild is that?

[00:07:32]Oh, big lunge.

[00:07:36]You are kidding me. I feel like I'm about to pass out. I'm so excited. You can see why people call them the Australian cobra when they they hood up like that. And they're related to cobras. All right. Same group of snakes.

[00:07:51]Alapids. This is actually a fixed front fanged venomous snakes. And this guy has a monstrous set of venom glands on him and a good attitude. And look at that bite already. Fangs are so small. You can't even see them. But they're so effective.

[00:08:14]Oh, look at THE SPRAY. LOOK AT THAT YIELD.

[00:08:21]You imagine every one of those little drops you can see there can kill a person a few times.

[00:08:27]Wow. That is an incredible yield. What a snake. See how different he looks compared like in color compared to her.

[00:08:35]She's like that brown and yellow where he's got like coppery color with white banding and then that white underside where she's yellow underneath. That crazy. And they were literally caught like right there. the same spot. Crazy bit. And he loses his banding down on his tail. That's a cracking new. And I'm excited about that one. Going in here.

[00:09:01]So, I'm going to get this E Brown out next. Um, it's a fiery snake and I sort of want to knock it out of be honest.

[00:09:11]I've got it in a much bigger bag cuz it was really hard trying to get it into one of those smaller bags. All right.

[00:09:17]And obviously I've got to minus that bag weight. This snake's only little got a big attitude. Very big attitude, which you'll see in a second. I'm not going to milk this one yet. Still a little bit.

[00:09:27]I'd like him to be a bit bigger. I'm probably going to give him 6 months in the program before I actually milk him.

[00:09:33]But we'll get him out here and have a gazer. Really fast, really alert snake.

[00:09:38]Here we go.

[00:09:40]So yeah, you can see it's only a smaller brown Saint, but um wait, very very agile and very fast. You can see how quick the strikes are. He's not mucking around. Um and yeah, very very Look at that. Slightest bit of movement, he's going straight for it. And he's actually got faint banding.

[00:10:05]This little fella when he was young would have actually been covered in black bands. All right. And which is pretty typical for a young brown snake.

[00:10:15]Um and then as he's gotten older Oh, mate. As he's gotten older, they've faded out. Yeah. You can only just see the reminiscence of him.

[00:10:30]Oh, mate. He is definitely going to keep me on my toes. Like that's only a young snake.

[00:10:39]See how fast the strikes are? Just like boom boom boom.

[00:10:44]All right. Well, I'm glad I've got that one out of the way. Got another tiger here. This one's definitely a tiger.

[00:10:50]Yep. Is it?

[00:10:52]>> Oh, yeah. It's definitely a tiger.

[00:10:56]That's a big male from downstream from where Anak and I were.

[00:11:02]went out between storms quickly. Just a quick day trip and I didn't film anything. You hear that hissing? A lot of people don't realize tigers hiss as much as they do.

[00:11:13]All right.

[00:11:17]Look at the size of the head on him.

[00:11:20]Ooh.

[00:11:21]See, he looks more similar to that last one I had out. That coppery color. Hey, mate. He's a good size snake. Again, huge huge venom glands. O see how agile they can be. You know, for something that's not considered to be an aroreal species, they're so capable of coming up on themselves so easy.

[00:11:52]Whoa. See, daddy tried to roll in my hand.

[00:11:57]When you when you're milking, when you get them by the head, you really really got to commit. You know, it would have been very easy to let go then. And if id let go, I would have literally worn a bite.

[00:12:13]Oh, great yield, too. Great yield, man.

[00:12:18]He's fiery.

[00:12:22]That was I can't wait to slow that down and have a look. Like he rolled and I just had to ride it. Hold on. I knew if I would have let go then I would have got bitten 100%.

[00:12:37]Whoa. That is still just twisting and rolling.

[00:12:42]Come on, mate. Let's just calm down in there.

[00:12:53]Whoa.

[00:12:55]See that? He just twisted inside of his like own skin and almost like Yeah. I I could not have let go then otherwise I would have got bitten for sure. One thing I've really learned when cuz I've been doing this for 20 years now, right?

[00:13:10]I've learned to like be very calm. A lot of people think that I'd be in here just like freaking out and you know like that's my hand after almost getting bitten by a tiger snake. Dead calm. You you really need that ability. And that's not me being cocky. That's just me being confident in myself. Not overconfident.

[00:13:30]I know my limits. I know when to let go in a situation. And I know when to not let go. Whether that's hanging on the back of Elvis when he's thrashing and going crazy or having a tiger snake almost slip out of your hand. Commit, right? You You got to be fully committed when you're working with dangerous critters like this. work and you need to know when to, like I said, when to let go and when not to let go. So, um, that was one of them. But that just comes with experience, right? So, so the next tiger um is deep in shed. So, I'm just going to leave him. I'm not going to milk him. And he's he's a a young one that um Go and Logan caught. So, I'm just going to literally tip him straight into his enclosure and leave him be. Yeah.

[00:14:15]Come on, mate. There you go, little fella. All right, so we got the two king browns left. First one is just a tiny little bubba. So I'll get him my scales.

[00:14:23]I'm not going to milk either of these yet. They're not This one's obviously not at milking size. He's way too small.

[00:14:29]But I'll get him out and show you.

[00:14:30]They're so cute. There's little king browns. Most people don't think a baby king Brown's cute, but I definitely do.

[00:14:36]Hello, mate.

[00:14:38]Come on.

[00:14:42]Look at him.

[00:14:46]What a little snake. He's a cracker. So, he's probably at that size. He'd be like 18 months old. Beautiful, beautiful little snake. So, we'll get him straight in his enclosure. All right, mate. I need to give that little fella a name. I want to give him a cool classic Aussie name. All right. So, drop in the comments what you think. I was thinking like Robbo or something like that or like what else? What's a real Aussie name? Like like Dave. That's me dad's name actually. David. All righty. Lucky last.

[00:15:16]So yeah, this King Brown's much bigger.

[00:15:18]It's bigger than those tiger snakes.

[00:15:20]It's almost milking size. I love these coppery colored king browns. I reckon they're stunning. That's real typical for um western New South Like if you see a king brown in New South Wales, it's either going to look like this or like almost jet black. We used to have one here at the park. Brutus many years ago.

[00:15:36]Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[00:15:39]Um, he was like a jet black king brown from Western New South Wales. Beautiful snake. He's longer than the tiger snakes, but he's not as bulky as those big tigers. Um, I think this one's a boy. Um, this was the only one I didn't probe cuz it was in um shed when I took the probes down to the quarantine facilities. Looks like a boy based off that tail. And yeah, look at that coppery sort of color, which is really typical for Western New South Wales and sort of central Queensland.

[00:16:14]Really, really nice snake. Nice hood there, too, with that tongue just going flat out. All right, mate.

[00:16:23]Welcome to the Venom Center, and you are going to be helping to save human lives.

[00:16:31]I love um getting these new snakes. I like, you know, build up a bit of personality with them and really get to know them and they all sort of to to most of you guys, they probably all look the same, but to me, they definitely stand out. Different personalities and yeah, I just I just love getting to know these new snakes. It's really fun. Hey, mate. All righty. So, just remember, you can't go out into the bush and catch snakes. All right. I got permits. We got permits um here through the park for going out and collecting snakes. And most of the snakes you see in the program here are captive bred. All right? So, we only selectively collect from the wild when we need to. All right. Um, but yeah, if you see a snake in the bush when you're camping or out exploring Australia somewhere, leave it alone. Don't muck around with it. Don't do what Bilbo does. All right. I'm a trained professional. Remember that. All right. Um, but anyway, hope you like that episode. Something different. Um, you know the drill. Like, share, subscribe. Remember, like most of you haven't subscribed to the channel, so hit that subscribe button. Boom. Tell your friends and family. And I'll see you all for the next episode.