hey everyone so obviously things are super crazy right now with moving back and forth between up
here in denver and moving all the animals plus all of our other stuff too because it's not just the
facility we're not traveling four hours just to go to work down there we're moving down there as
well so it's just taking a lot um as well as i'm doing a lot of it kind of solo right now
because partner is still working full-time here in denver and establishing herself down there to get
clients and stuff down there so i'm doing a lot of smooth back and forth so i'm just very tired
and unfortunately i got a little bit sick no i don't have the the scary one but i am sick a
little bit so i apologize for you're going to hear a little bit of a little little creak in my uh in
my voice for a while for this video in the next few months and so i also don't have a whole lot of
time to record videos as well which is why you're not going to see two too many facility updates but
i apologize for that anyway let's get on going with this so while i'm moving back and forth and
kind of the reason why this is taking so long is i'm fighting colorado winter right now and while
yes winter is kind of a big asterisk at the moment it's still very cold for trying to move reptiles
that you know we're usually trying to keep in the 80s 80 degree fahrenheit plus all of the time so
that's a little difficult to do so i decided let's do a little bit of a video about how i am packing
and moving the animals from the rack systems or the enclosures that we have them up here down
south and so i've talked a little bit about like how i'm doing that down there a little bit in some
of the previous videos about how i'm trying to make it a little bit easier as far as their move
goes but making a little bit harder for myself in that regard but i'm just going to show you a quick
way to how i'm doing it this isn't the only way to do it and i'm hoping that you know maybe as other
people are having to move around or choosing to move around as whatever the case may be
you know here's a good example or an idea of how you can do it because so far i haven't had
anything uh any issues with moving the animals yet and quite a few have moved down already so i did a
little recording of before we're going to show you how we pack them up a little bit and then we'll
show you the end result here at the end so without further ado so to show you we're going to start
with washington here he is our bamboo male one of our males one of our bamboo males actually we have
two and we're gonna put him in this pillow case we're gonna do this one-handed we're gonna see how
well this goes doing a lot of stuff one-handed solo right now so here's the little pillowcase
um and what we're gonna do is pillowcase similar to snake bags um i don't have a whole lot of
larger snake bags so we use pillowcases for the larger snakes where we'll just put them in
um actual plastic tubs with some stuff and i'll talk about that in just a second so we're gonna do
as i sit here and swatch switch between hands um what we're gonna do we cut in a knot and then zip
tie it i can't show you that right now because one hand um but it's gonna look like this so we take
the animal from the tub that it normally is in put it in a pillow case secure it with a not a zip tie
and then into here with a travel thing so there are going to be quite a few in here but i'm sure
you've seen that in a lot of other videos where a lot of animals are either in the same bag or
in the same box or container i don't like to double up on the animals inside the bag not
that i'm really worried about them predating on themselves but i just don't want to deal with that
so in this thing i have this sherpa line blanket and there's a reason for that number one i don't
have like big styrofoam chunks to help insulate heat so we're going to use this and then we're
going to use these so big big big big asterisk on using these guys specifically these ones versus
like the long 12 24 hour um heat packs you would get from like reptile supply or ship your reptile
these things get very hot you would never ever want to use these for shipping an animal um
these guys would get way too hot with direct heat contact so what i do is in these corners
where there's a lot of build up in this back i'll put one here and i'll put one on the other side to
kind of help raise the ambient temperature but there's a lot of distance and insulation right
here in between this and the animals and the lid goes on top and it kind of helps keep the heat in
and so from there put the animals just like this they're going to be moved into a car that's
already been warmed up that has the heat going so it's not as much of a shock to the system and then
it's just taken directly down and then as i've discussed in previous videos how we have them set
up down there where i've already built the racks already have them plugged in to where literally
all we have to do is just pop them right back into tubs or even new tubs and then slide them right in
where the temperature is fairly consistent and then you know just like any other snake when
moving or shipping you're going to give them a couple days to react before offering food so yeah
and now that we're here at the shop we can see where they got nice and set up so like i
said we already had it plugged in ready to go so we get down here all we have to do is just
give them nice fresh water which we already did that but whatever and then under here
there's north now we started with wash but here's north um he's not in the permanent spot where the
rack's gonna be i just needed to put it somewhere while i'm still building stuff and figuring out
electrical work but as you can see he's doing fine he looks really good doesn't look like there's any
signs of a respiratory issue or anything like that so we're going to give him another day or
two to uh fully acclimate and then we're going to feed him and we're going to get going on the
actual breeding season again so that is how we move them again this isn't necessarily the only
way or the best way but this is the way that we're going to do that so there you go that's how we
move them back and forth again not the best way or not the only way but just the way that we've
been doing it so far as you can see behind me we already have a few racks going and i'll give you
the full tour once i have a little bit more time to give you the better update but i just wanted
to give you a little something supplementary supplementary in the meantime so you know we just
we pack them up in the pillowcases don't over pack them make sure they don't get too hot with those
hot packs if you have those nice longing laster hot packs i would actually recommend those over
the little hand warmers anyway but every way every animal that we've moved down here so far this way
seems to be working pretty well um the only thing that i mentioned before in the video that i didn't
show i apologize about that just because it's very hectic and we're trying to do this as quickly but
as also safely as possible for the animals is that for like a larger one we would put something in
you know in a in a tub with like a lid like this like the 32 quart tubs and then we line that with
paper towels or with actual like regular like cloth towels and then we'd still put that in that
box that has that additional heat source in there be it the hand warmers are the actual real good
shipping hot warm packs and then we'd still put it in the warmed up car and move it down here in
the setup that's already ready to go um that's the thing that is kind of extending this whole process
is you know building everything down here and having it set up ready to go so you know we
can't just move everything and let it just sit on the floor for a couple days it could be done
but i think this is just a little bit safer and a little bit less stressful for the animal so
that's the way that i'm doing it and that's the way that i'm sharing with you hopefully this gave
you a few ideas if you guys ever decide that you need to or want to move your reptile collections
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let me know down below if you want a playlist of like the updates and stuff i know i'm not able
to do it as much as like you know other people who are working on their like reptile zoos and
their facilities and things like that just because i am not able to unfortunately
but let me know if you want like a full playlist you can kind of see a
little bit of the progression and i'll have again another update for you guys very soon
just wanted to give you a little bit of break in between those hope you're having a great day
hopefully this year is treating you better than the last couple and we'll catch you next time