- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the of start your day is absolutely incredible.
We actually have a really cool animal
that I'm super excited about getting in today
but we actually have to address Moo Moo
before we get that going.
And what I mean by that is that
when we're putting animals into the new enclosures
much like the first reptarium
it's a little bit of trial and error.
Not every animal fits with the enclosure
that we intended it to actually be in.
And in this case when we put Moo moo in she kinda explored
a little bit.
But then she tucked right back there in the very back.
And listen we want our animals to feel comfortable
and have spots that they can hide and get away from things.
But when they don't move a lot
and they don't seem to really be settling in
we sometimes make another choice.
So I have an idea that this enclosure
might be better for the animal that we gonna be getting
later today and I think I'm gonna move Moo Moo
right one storey down to this enclosure here.
Still has some spots to kinda hide
and actually feel really secure
but maybe it might be a better suit for her.
So let's just go ahead and get that enclosure ready to go.
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Just going to get Moo Moo out over here.
Hopefully she's not too defensive.
Come on girl.
It's okay baby.
Come on, okay there you go.
Again it's not that she hated the cage
I just don't think it fit her the way I was expecting it to.
I want the animals to be able to be seen by people
and also feel comfortable.
So I'm gonna just give another cage
a shot and if she likes this cage
then we're good to go.
If she doesn't we'll eventually find the right habitat
for each of the animals.
This one's gonna look pretty cool.
Because to be honest with you with the more gray color.
it makes her color pop even more.
I mean look at how awesome this looks.
And again she has lots of room to climb.
She's got a lot of over here.
She can curl right up in the corner over here
and get some seclusion.
But also she's got all these rock walls
to kinda climb out and we know retakes love rock walls.
So I think this habitat actually gonna be even better
than the other one.
I think this is the one that I should have probably picked
from the start.
I cannot wait to get these guys
in their new enclosures next door
because again when we moved them in here
just a few months ago two and a half three months ago
whenever is it seemed like these enclosures are so big.
but salt and pepper are getting huge now.
It is crazy how big they're getting.
There you go.
I can't wait to start doing some training
with these guys for sure.
As far as like again I've mentioned it.
Pepper she's not one of those animals
that's gonna come out and kinda play like RJ or Salt.
That is for sure.
But we could certainly start teaching and kinda stationing
just more of the wild alligator tricks
that you can train these guys.
(laughs)
Pepper is a trip.
A couple more pieces for this and then we'll move on
to my girl Salt.
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(laughter)
Okay, one more time.
Pepper come on okay, good job good job girl.
Onto to Salty.
Now Salty is really good about stationing.
You can see Salts are ready knowing it's gonna happen.
See how she's like she's already up on her hind legs
a little bit pushing forward
that's cause she knows she's gonna get fed.
Now we always feed this girl on this side of the enclosure
where we take her out of her nap side enclosure
There you go baby.
There you go.
You can see she's pretty easy to train.
There's no doubt about that.
There you go Salty.
You're so lazy.
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There you go.
Good job baby girl good job.
You're such a good girl okay you can go back in there
(laughs)
Oh my gosh.
I do really get into a good mood when I'm around animals.
Guess what guys It's exciting day.
All these racks that are empty obviously
is because they're in brumation well guess what?
Today we actually bring them out of brumation.
Basically what happens is unfortunately Eric
and probably Bruce have to carry them all up here.
We get them settled in.
They're kinda pseudo warm cause we warmed up
the reptaruim expansion in course so that the temperature
started to come up but now they'll get in here.
We'll probably leave them off a heat
for at least another six, seven days something like that.
Then we'll warm them up and start feeding them
about a week or 10 days.
Unfortunately those guys are gonna to have to bring
a lot of cages up the stairs
- Springs in the air it's finally here.
We're bringing klubas up.
So I've got Bruce here helping me out.
We're just grabbing as many as we can set them up next door.
They're gonna warm up for about a week maybe two weeks.
And then Lori is gonna go through and we'll get them all
into breeding groups before you know
we'll have some baby klubas coming.
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- Guess what is here guys I'm so excited about this.
This is actually my buddy Ben and Lorenzo
actually this animal they were donating it to the zoo
'cause they're good friends of mine
and they were like, "I know this is going to be such
"an amazing animal."
And you guys know I love rhino and iguana.
I absolutely love cyclura.
Well guess what?
It's another cyclura but this isn't a rhino iguana
this is actually what they would call a Louis I hybrid
which is a Cuban iguana that is crossed
with a Grand Cayman blue iguana absolutely stunning
and she's just as mellow as Bella
or any of the other rhinos.
Again they don't like to necessarily get picked up a ton
but petting and all these things are going to be amazing
and they look so much different than a rhino.
They're similar but they're also completely different.
So let's just go ahead let's get this girl up over here
and let's go get her into the enclosure that I was thinking
about which of course used to be Moo Moo's.
She's a feisty little monkey when it comes to handling
that's for sure.
And it's a chunky one too.
Let's go ahead and put her up here.
Come on girl I'm gonna put you way up top
where I think you're gonna love to go, look at that.
Oh my gosh that is amazing.
Now these guys get that really blue faced.
The males have a little bit longer faces.
What she doing climbing all the way up there.
That silly monkey.
She just has to get used to her enclosure
cause she doesn't know what she's gonna do
but she has all kinds of area.
I think this enclosure is gonna be perfect for her
and much like Bella she's the type of animal
that will probably come down for pets and stuff like that.
So right now she just needs to get settled in
and again lizards are a little different than snakes.
I'm literally just gonna walk away from this girl
and let her kinda get settled in
cause right now she's probably like
doesn't know what's going on.
Like what is this new big cage and all this climbing stuff.
I'm sure she's got to it figured out.
So, I'm gonna give her a little bit of time.
We'll come back and check on her a little bit later
but for now I think she is gonna look absolutely stunning.
Definitely another dream animal that I was over the top
happy about whan my buddy said I could have it.
So wow there you guys go.
A Cuban Cayman Louis I hybrid, oh my gosh.
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Excited today we actually have Barcroft media
coming out to film a little piece.
It's a cool YouTube channel that does like
stories on people that they think are interesting
or whatever like this.
So we'll give you a little behind the scenes on it.
They're gonna be at here anytime.
We're just doing some interviews we're gonna move
a few things should be a good time.
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- All right guys we about a third of the way done here.
It's a lot of work, it's a lot of lifting.
We're getting there, you can see them,
they're slowly coming out here we're getting them inside.
It's good to see these guys again
and we'll keep you updated.
- [Camera person] Its a lot of work.
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- That was a ton of fun again I love the fact
that we're just gonna be able to reach
kind of a new audience with people
'cause I think they have like close to 8 million
on YouTube or something like that subscribers.
Just to be able to get out to those people
kinda inspire them to love reptiles.
Maybe check our channel out and see stuff
and maybe we'll get a whole bunch
of new reptile lovers out of it.
So whenever I get an opportunity to do a media thing
like that I'm gonna do it.
It's a ton of fun and I'm excited when they finally put this
out over the next few weeks.
So all the klubas are now up and look at this.
Oh my gosh!
I forgot how beautiful some of these guys are.
This is actually a Coral Ghost Corn.
You can see how reactive they are.
They are definitely waking up on a big time again,
they've had about a week or so next door
to kinda get semi woke up and now they're gonna start
to get heated up.
This is actually a Hypo Lavender Corn snake.
Oh my gosh these are so beautiful.
This is amazing to have all this stuff up
and now Albino Arizona Mountain Kingsnake.
Again super reactive.
You can see they're moving around their tongue response.
These guys are gonna be ready to eat.
I mean literally within probably a week for sure.
There's no doubt about that.
Lavender Corn King cruising around his case.
The animals all look really good.
Looks like brumation went really well.
We don't see a lot of animals that are like
kinda on the thin side and stuff like that.
Here's a Diffused Corn right here.
Wow just unbelievable.
Again I always love the day we bring stuff out of brumation
because it's like literally like getting an entirely
new collection of animals that you almost forgot about.
Not that we forgot about him but you know what I mean.
They'd been kinda in brumation for almost three months.
You don't see them every day.
Now he can kinda just reintroduce yourself to him
and realize how amazing they are.
We're so lucky to see this many animals
and how unbelievably beautiful they are every single day.
So it's exciting.
So we'll start to feed we'll probably start breeding
in about two, two and a half weeks.
And hey we should get some eggs here
probably within maybe four to six weeks
something like that, just look at this
Corn snake looking amazing.
Oh my God it is so cool to have this stuff up
out of hibernation.
Oh let's look at one of our Mexican Black Kingsnakes.
Of course the night greed is just beautiful snakes.
Oh gosh I tell you it's gonna be a fun year guy.
So buckle up we've got a lot going on.
It's gonna be amazing.
Let's go ahead and check on our girl
the Lewis I Hybrid, she's still definitely a little
defensive right now.
You can see she's kind of posturing up
like she doesn't know what's going on.
So we won't mess with her too much
but I'm glad that she's up on the hotspot now.
At least she wasn't real hiding away, like tucked away,
kinda freaking out.
But you can see as soon as I opened the case
she's just a little bit tentative
so it's probably gonna take her a couple days
to kinda chill out.
So I'm gonna go ahead and just walk away.
I'm not gonna lie to you
because look at this girl she's crazy.
She jumped all the way up.
She's just trying to get away,
I know that because my buddy said she's super docile.
She's gonna be just like Bella or Diddy and Dixie
but just gonna take her a little time
to kinda settle in.
I'm just gonna walk away leave her alone.
Good to see that she's at least exploring the cage
and she's gonna be fine.
A huge thing for me I've wanted these guys for a long time.
We may actually get a male as well to go with her
'cause the males are even more blue and more impressive.
So that's cool man.
I'm glad to add it.
I couldn't be more excited.
Things are really coming together.
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