- I always love when a semi-truck pulls up
because it only means one thing
something is big coming to The Reptarium.
I'm excited to see what's inside.
And here it is,
looks pretty big.
It's going to be awesome.
It's a couple of new enclosures
that I'm super excited to get in.
Let's go ahead and unwrap these and get them inside.
(fun upbeat music)
And here's your first peak of
one of the enclosures.
This thing is awesome.
(fun upbeat music continues)
So here's the enclosure
it's finally inside,
but they're not going to stay here,
That is for sure.
And remember, I had mentioned, what we're going to do
is we're going to remove these four cages right here
and two of these cages are going to go right in here.
It's going to be absolutely incredible.
Just because up here, you really can't see anything
unless you're six foot five,
like Jay, the camera mine is.
The fact is, is that we've gotta do the demolition now
take all these enclosures out and get this thing to fit.
This is going to be an absolutely epic thing when it's done.
- The bars stay like they won't go on the spot.
- Six feet, oh that's six feet I think that is our opening.
yeah, no, we got it.
- [Mike] We're good?
- We're good.
Didn't look like it was going to fit so, all right.
Seems simple, But to be honest with you
it's going to be a little bit of a chore.
And again, now that we're moving these four cages
and it's going to turn into two enclosures,
that means we have to find spots for all of these animals
too, So we have our work cut out for us today.
But the first thing I'm going to do is try
and get these enclosures actually out of this rack so
that I can do some demo work.
- [Host] The way these cages are fit in
and we actually built the facade around them,
So it's a little bit difficult to actually get them out.
It's kind of like a little bit of a jigsaw puzzle.
So it's important for us to not mess anything up
because ultimately the structure is going to
be the exact same, just removing the level in between.
(fun upbeat music)
I tell you what, even this little thing,
cause all these screws are actually hidden
and we actually silicone over them,
So just trying to get that off it's even just the pain.
So basically what I'm gonna do is now
take all of these enclosures out here.
I'm going to have to take these boards out here
so that the actual enclosures fit a hundred percent here,
So let's hope we don't run into any other snags, but
at least that part was at least one thing I got done.
(fun upbeat music continues)
All right, so we got all the enclosures out now
and this basically is what it looks like.
It's pretty crazy, right?
I mean, when they were all in there, it looks so cool.
But really it's just a bunch of two by fours
that are covered with kind of a fake facade
and stuff like that.
So what have to do is actually take these out,
so that the other two big cages sit up in here like this.
So, I'm not sure what tools I need,
but I'm going to go ahead and give it a shot.
(fingers snapping)
I think I should be set.
One of these tools is going to work.
Not sure which one,
but we've got enough variety.
All I have to do is take out these boards right here.
One down one to go.
All right, now that we have those enclosures off
before we put the new ones in.
Hopefully they'll go in smoothly.
I'm not sure how it's going to go.
Of course, we have to move a bunch of animals around
because those four animals have to go into new enclosures.
So what's going to happen is that
the Frillies are actually moving out here
and Cherry Bomb, the Ackie Monitor is going to go up here.
That way you can have that really hotspot right up here.
That's going to be good.
We're moving Marshmallow out and Flaming Hot
is actually going to be over here.
But Marshmallow isn't actually leaving,
I mean, he's actually going to come where Gramps is.
So Gramps is actually pretty old, we've talked about it.
20 something year old Colubrid.
So what's going to happen is,
Gramps is going to go back over and retire over to BHP.
And marshmallow is going to go into a upgraded the cage
which is going to be super cool.
Now Al, that giant toad of ours,
is actually going to go into this enclosure.
We're going to hopefully get maybe one or two others.
Cause that would be really cool to have them over here.
Then we're going to actually move the False Water Cobra
and we're going to put Betty White,
the White Bearded Dragon, in this enclosure.
And then finally over on this side,
we're going to move off the Garter Snake.
Just because quite frankly,
as much as I love it, hardly everyone ever touches it.
It's really squirmy
it does the (indistinct).
And the Frillies are going to go into this enclosure,
So they're going to have more height.
We're going to have a bunch of branches there.
So that's, what's going to happen there.
Then we can put these enclosures and basically,
what will happen is,
we'll have two brand new enclosures
for some Tree or a Boreal,
maybe Monitors or something like that.
Let me know in the comments,
what you guys think that should go into these
once we have it done.
So let's go ahead and start moving everything around.
Looking good today,
and by the way, welcome to the vlog reptile army.
Hope the start of your day is amazing.
- [Mike] This is our False Water Cobra,
it is a Colubrid and it is rear fanged venomous snake.
They're called False Water Cobras because as you can see
she's mimicking a Cobra by flattening her ribs
and her whole body can actually do that.
Now, if this is a female, which I'm pretty sure it is
she will get up to about eight feet long.
And then males typically stay anywhere
from like five to six.
- Guess whose birthday it is.
(Everyone cheers)
- [Host] It's Jay's birthday. Everybody,
♪ happy birthday to you, ♪
happy birthday to you,
happy birthday dear Jay the Entertainer.
Happy birthday to you.♪
(everyone claps and cheers)
- If you guys want to send any gifts,
the PO box is in the description down below
I like blue things, red things,
new things, old things.
Thank you guys.
- Let's go ahead and start moving some animals around
starting with the Frillies.
Which means, first off,
that the Scott's Garter Snake has to go.
So it's going to go ahead and go.
You could see how squirmy it is.
It's a beautiful snake though.
I absolutely love Garter Snakes,
but this is going back over to BHB.
(fun energetic music)
I think these guys are going to like this a lot
because they are a Boreal Lizard, right?
So the enclosure we had them in before
was a little bit more terrestrial,
a little bit more flat.
So, the fact that these guys can climb up trees
get in different levels and stuff like that,
I think these guys are going to love it.
And of course in their enclosure,
the Ackie Lizard is going to go on there.
(fun upbeat music continues)
- [Misty] I'm excited to get this guy
in this new enclosure.
It's a little larger than the one we had him in
and it's more up front so hopefully
people can see him more.
I think a lot of people were missing him in the back,
but yeah, he's a really cool animal.
Look at him go.
- Now the moment of truth
these two enclosures here have to fit into these spots.
So, first off, I've done some measurements.
It looks like they're going to be okay,
but until you actually do it you never know, number one.
And number two,
we do have some obstacles to kind of overcome
with some like bumps and stuff like that,
so wish us luck.
I hope this goes well, because if it doesn't
we were pretty much committed to ripping
these cages out, right? There's no going back now.
(fun upbeat music)
This next one's going to be much more difficult.
It fit!
(laughing while explaining) That's how much space we had.
You couldn't fit a piece of paper in that
Oh my God.
That was a tight fit so, let's go ahead
we'll get the glass in,
We'll get the lights on,
and we just gotta pull this piece out here.
Perfect. Get the little thing.
Wow, What a difference, huh?
Can't wait.
Once the glass is in and the lights are on
all the decorations up,
it's like a completely different corner.
I mean, that looks awesome.
- [Host] What do you think?
- That Looks pretty sweet.
- [Host] That's pretty sweet, right?
- I'm so happy they fit.
- [Host] Me too!
- Let me act like I'm pulling out a lizard.
All right guys,
So this is our Tree Lizard,
His name is Oscar.
He's about three years old.
These guys will get about double this size,
So come and check them out.
- I'll be honest with you.
I've wanted to have Al
in a huge enclosure ever since we got him.
So I think he's going to love this.
Take a look at that.
Oh my God, that is so freaking awesome.
I mean, that is cool.
Again, I'm thinking now we need to get maybe two
or three other ones.
Cause in this enclosure, I think two
or three giant toads will look super, super cool.
And people are going to be able to love it.
Plus we'll be able to access them a little bit more easy.
He's going to be kind of more on display
because that corner over there with those cages like that
just didn't get the same type
of viewing as the rest of the zoo.
So this is going to be awesome.
Next up,
We're going to move Betty White into this one.
But first, we've got to get the False Water Cobra out.
Come on, monkey.
Whoa! Again, mildly venomous snake
Not too bad.
Pretty good temperament.
To be totally honest with you.
So it shouldn't be bad.
So again, this is going to go over to BHB
just for a little while,
but I promise you this one will be back on display
because it's so cool when we do our next expansion.
(fun upbeat music)
- It's ready to go in there.
Yeah. I think this is a little bit bigger
than the enclosure we had her in.
I think she's going to love it.
She'll grow into it really nicely.
- Again, it's a little sad moving.
Some of the animals off, you know.
Gramps is absolutely cool and I love him.
And like I'd mentioned, he's 21 years old,
but the truth is we never really take them
out during open hours.
So it just looks kind of cool.
And that's why I like them here, but the truth is
at this age, he's probably ready to retire anyway.
So we'll go ahead and move him
over to BHB and spoil them over there.
This is going to be a great enclosure for Marshmallow.
Like I said, Marshmallow is getting an upgrade
which is really cool.
It really, it doesn't need it per se, you know
because it hasn't gotten that big,
but it's certainly pretty soon going to be big
to the point where it's not going to stay
in this enclosure and actually Flaming Hot
is going to come over here and be in this enclosure,
which will be pretty cool.
But I love letting snakes
like Marshmallow out into the large enclosures.
It's going to be absolutely amazing.
So let's see what he does.
- [Host] Here you go Marshmallow,
Enjoy your new big enclosure.
And what's kinda cool about this
in a way is you've got a white snake down here
and then of course we have Night Fury, the black snake,
up here.
So it's just really cool contrast, right?
I think it's going to be really good,
but he looks really good in here.
Now he doesn't know what to do.
He's just hanging out.
That thing is going to be amazing to see how he does
in this enclosure.
I truly love days like today
when you're moving stuff around,
upgrading all the enclosures, let's go ahead
and see if the glass fits in these new enclosures.
That's the last thing that could possibly go wrong.
(fun upbeat music)
And there you have it guys.
I mean, I tell you what,
I've done a lot of projects recently
and this was, I hate to say it,
probably the smoothest one that I've done.
Usually there's some massive thing.
For the last several days I've been thinking about like
"what could possibly go wrong?"
Because it usually does.
Barely fits, I mean, literally
with a sliver in between.
Everything went in, looks good.
The glass is in, everything is there.
Now we just got to figure out what to put in these two.
I just like when you come around this corner
it looks like a completely different area.
And I love it to death.
So down in the comments
let me know what you think can go on this one
and in this one,
because we definitely need to put something really cool.
A Boreal, we'll design this out with a bunch of branches
and lights and
oh my god, it's going to be absolutely dope.
But wow, there it is.
Cool renovation done.
All right,
So the last animal to move today, of course
is our guy Flaming Hot.
And again, I like the way things are kind of shaping up
because some animals are going to be in some areas
that they'll get a little bit more attention.
Obviously this area, gets a lot of people, right?
So we're going to just go ahead and put Flaming right here.
Look at how good it looks.
Just basically almost the exact same enclosure he had just
from over there, now over here.
Same setup and all that type of stuff.
But over here, it's probably going to even be handled more
because people kind of congrue here, you know what I mean?
So that's it, we did it guys.
The enclosures are in, they look absolutely amazing.
Again, in the comments,
let me know what you think we should put in there.
All the animals have their new enclosures and
wow, I can't believe that way as well as it did.
- [Host] I've got a surprise.
- If it's not a new girlfriend, I don't want to see it.
- Well, it's definitely not a new girlfriend,
but I think this is maybe even better
To be honest with you.
A lot less hassle.
- Oh, when did you do this?
- [Host] Isn't this cool?
- That's beautiful!
- I know. Me and Misty and Mike actually did it.
It only took us like seven, eight hours.
- Let me guess,
one for Chewy.
- [Host] One for chewy?
- One for the Barney ball.
- No, seriously, what do you think we should put in here?
That is the big question.
- Well, I think we should go with,
I dunno, Elmo.
Elmer Fudd.
- [Host] It's supposed to be reptiles, Noah.
- Reptiles?
Since when do we have reptiles in here?
- [Host] Yeah. That's true.
- Should I give you a serious answer,
do you want a serious answer now?
- [Host] Yeah, Serious answer now.
- Okay, Okay.
I think one of those
beautiful blue Tree Monitors.
- [Host] That's a good idea.
- Would be gorgeous in here.
I mean it's head level, you can't even be short enough.
Everyone can see it.
The beautiful blue dragon in there.
- I don't hate it.
The only problem with the blue Trees
is that they, they hide a lot.
So that might be an issue, but I don't hate the idea.
It's a pretty good idea.
- What are you thinking?
I don't know yet.
I don't know.
I'm hoping these guys here will help in the comments.
So remember blue Trees, great idea,
But they hide.
So I want something that's going to be out.
Maybe green Trees?
- green Trees.
Maybe, I don't know.
Let me know what you guys think.
So there it is.
I couldn't be more happy with the way this turned out.
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