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- I'm excited, new tarantulas guys!
Oh look at that! Wow.
That is, oh my gosh that's so cool.
- This place is awesome, come here.
- Hey good morning everybody, welcome to vlog.
We're actually packing up
to go to 'A Zoo to you' birthday party,
it's going to be a really busy day today.
Laurie, myself have a lot of work cut out for us.
First thing is just get all the animals packed up,
like, we're finishing up right now,
and then get on the road to this party.
Day is starting off a little stressful,
because the birthday party that we're going to
is a lot further than I expected
which means that
we're gonna be about 15 minutes late to the birthday party.
Unfortunately it means we're also going to be
15 or 20 minutes late to the birthday party back at the zoo.
I just I hate when things like this happen
but, I mean, there's nothing I can do about it now,
but we're still about 20 minutes away from this event.
I hope that everything goes well
but it kind of cascades everything
out of order for the entire day.
Now we just hit a train, I'm not even making this stuff up.
Literally a train stopped us,
so that's going to put us another five minutes behind.
I'm trying not to be negative here
but to add insult to injury,
now something really stinks like it pooped in the back.
So, of all days that we're going
to have to not do a clean before we go,
even though we're late.
Oh boy, I hope this day turns around soon
cause it definitely started pretty rocky.
We just pulled up, a lot of tortoise poop in here.
We're all sticky, so again we're late,
we're gonna go ahead and load in
and have a good time at this party.
This is actually a Bearded Dragon.
His name is Fatty, okay,
and Bearded Dragons come from Australia.
You guys can touch and pet.
You can feel it's a little bit rougher,
right, than the Leopard Gecko.
And all those little spikes are it's defense mechanism
(children talking)
Even with the day starting out a little rocky
there's nothing that can get me into a better mood
than spending time educating kids
and seeing the excitement that they have
when we bring out
these amazing ani (childrens voices drown out other sounds )
(children talking)
The day definitely started to change
after this first birthday party.
(children laughing)
Just wrapped up the birthday party,
went really well, uh, really good kids.
Actually, the birthday boy, Henry,
was five years old and knew so much
about reptiles it was absolutely ridiculous.
Regardless, we've got to get back to the Reptarium
cause our birthday party there starts in like, 15 minutes
and we're like 25 minutes away,
so we're definitely going to be late,
but thankfully Andrea's there
to get things started for us.
So, back to the Reptarium
and hopefully we can get this day on track.
Finally at the birthday party back at the Reptarium
We got, all the kids are just getting a little time here,
absolutely fun, so, hey, the day's starting to shape up.
Thankfully Andrea,
like I said, held down the fort while we were late.
So thank you so much for that.
- You're welcome.
- She did a great job.
Just cause the presentation went really well,
we're gonna to do cake and ice-cream and stuff like that,
we're gonna go get the Alligator Feeding's ready.
Like I mentioned,
we're getting ready for some Gator feeding with the kids.
You know, it's something that we offer
with birthday parties, and stuff like extra's,
like feeding tortoises, feeding gator's and stuff like that,
so, Laurie just has to cut up a bunch of chicken today
which will be good,
but, it's been a crazy morning so far, huh, Laurie?
- There's not enough coffee in the world today
(laughs)
- Yeah, I know, it's crazy.
So, we've gotta finish up this birthday party.
Again, they're just doing cake and ice-cream right now
and then we're gonna do the gator feeding,
a few other things, and then we wrap up there
and we go right into a tour.
Do you have any idea where these people are coming from?
- Um, no, not off the top of my head
(laughs)
- I'll have to take a look.
I'm sure it'll be a really fun time,
those tours are always really good,
and then that tour literally leads up right till we open up
for the Reptarium. I think I got like 10 minutes
in-between the tour and the Reptarium
so its definitely going to be a crazy, busy day.
I figured I'd just bring you guys along
on the entire journey.
So it is Alligator Feeding time
(Kid's talking)
for the birthday party. Ok.
- Here you go, are you ready? One more.
- Okay, so look right down here
- Down in the bottom there
- Yeah, see, see the (mumbles)
There it is ! There it is ! Good job ! Good job!
One of the other things
I absolutely love about the Reptarium
is what my mission statement was right from the beginning.
Is trying to build a place
that I would've loved to go to when I was a kid.
I get to feed alligators,
and snakes and lizards every single day,
but for kids that have never been able to do it,
the fact that we're able to offer that
and to see the joy in their face
when they're feeding our alligators,
or lizards or whatever they happen to be,
even our tortoises, it really is amazing,
and that's one of the things
that just makes me so happy each and every day
here at the Reptarium.
Our last event for the day,
I'm excited to have you, came all the way from Maryland,
I cannot thank you enough,
of course we're getting a little sunrise time, uh,
going to spend the next hour hanging out with these guys,
right up to the time when we open up,
and then you guys are going to hang out with me tonight,
so that's gonna be really cool.
So, uh lotta cool animals to see, for sure, right?
- While Brian is at the Reptarium giving his tour,
I'm back here at B.H.B,
trying to get some of the things that I need done.
I'm not gonna lie, today has been so crazy.
In order for me to do anything more,
I need coffee, number one, most important.
And then I also decided
that I was deserving of some chocolate as well.
So, now that I have these two things,
I'm ready to go and get some stuff done.
So first off,
I'm gonna start going through the Colubirds here,
I have to switch males,
put males in with different females,
and see how production is going.
- Wrapping up our tour, did you guys have a good time?
- We did.
- Awesome, that's good stuff.
You're gonna hang out with me,
but we're gonna actually get surprised by what Bruce got me.
Remember Bruce was kinda teasing
about getting some tarantulas for the Tarantula Wall?
Well, guess what? They're here,
and I don't know what they are,
but it looks like he's got a stack of animals.
- So, first one I'll have to show you here, this is this,
- [Brian] Oh my god.
- This one right here is the Singapore Blue Tarantula.
- [Brian] What is it? A,
- Singapore Blue. This is a Southeast Asian species.
- [Brian] Dude! That thing is so sick !
- And they are gorgeous.
And incredibly potent venom on these guys,
this is an overwall species of tarantula,
just like I told ya.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh. So you don't handle this.
- No. Not at all. I wouldn't even try.
Not even going to try and make and attempt.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that's cra- it's beautiful, though.
- Oh, they're like,
- [Brian] So are they arborial, or,
- So, uh, yeah. These is an arborial tree spider,
a lot of times they can be a little shy,
but man, he's gonna web up this cage
and its gonna be like so cool, so cool.
- [Brian] So where's this one gonna go ?
- So this one, for sure,
I'm actually gonna put this one here
where the leaves and stuff,
- [Brian] Ok, we're gonna put this in the leaves
and probably maybe a little more foliage as we go here, so,
- Oh yeah, we'll do some plants
and put some actual real-life plants in there,
later on, for him.
- Ok, and I actually guessed this one.
I thought for sure, when he was telling me about this,
it's a Pink-Toe, right?
- Yip. This is a Avic-avic.
Now these are, these are fast-moving tree spiders,
but they're for the most part, they're pretty nice.
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- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
- [Bruce] They're beautiful.
- [Brian] Look at how gorgeous that thing is, though.
- [Bruce] I love these guys.
They're just, they're just cute as can be.
Would you like to hold him? You're more than welcome to.
Put your hand out.
- [Brian] The weird thing is, ooh!
- [Bruce] It's alright, they are, a little skittish,
so you gotta let her walk on you.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
They just have those legs move so weird! Oh my gosh.
I dunno. Its gonna, it's gonna take me a little time.
Be patient with me, people,
cos this is gonna take me a little time.
- [Woman] You are very brave.
- [Brian] To get, oh. My. Gosh. That thing is cool as heck.
I love it. It's super cool. But it scares me.
Just something about the way they crawl is different,
and it makes me really freaked out.
- Looks like hydraulics, doesn't it?
- [Brian] It's like, yeah,
it's like multiple legs are moving at the same time
and oh my god!
- Like I said, I'm going through, and I'm switching males.
And I'm also looking for progress on the females
and I'm excited to see that a lot of the things
are starting to look
like they're getting ready to produce eggs.
Especially here, is one I just opened,
its a Pueblan, if you guys can see there,
she's just really starting to look a lot more full,
her body's becoming a little bit more distended
in the lower part, in towards the tail,
which is a really good sign.
Looks like she might even be going into her shed,
so she's just starting to get a little bit pale
and blue in the eye. So, that means
that next shed is probably going to be her pre-lay shed.
Think its going to be a race to the finish,
who lays the first clutch,
between her and a Mexican Black King
that I have in the same position right now.
- [Brian] So where's this one gonna go?
- This guy's gonna go right here,
this is gonna be his new home.
- [Brian] You wanna put him in?
- You wanna do it right now? Let's do it right now,
- [Brian] Let's just put him in,
let's see what he's gonna do.
- She's a,
- [Brian] It's a girl?
- [Bruce] It's a, definitely a female.
- [Brian] It's a girl. Ok, girl.
There we go. Get your new cage, girlie.
- [Bruce] (mumbles) There you go.
- [Brian] Oh, there you go. Oh, look at that. Wow.
That is, oh my gosh it's so cool.
It freaks me out but it's absolutely gorgeous, dude.
I love it, man!
- Another one I wanted to show you,
real quick before I was done,
was this really nice Blizzard Corn.
She's coming along so good, as you can see,
Now the male here has the stripe,
this is actually a Blizzard Sunkissed,
but she is getting so big and full with eggs,
I'm not gonna lie,
this is probably one of the clutches this year
I'm the most excited about,
cos it's been a long time
since we've produced Blizzard Corns,
um, so yeah, it'll be really nice
to see those little heads popping out.
- [Brian] What this, the next one, I'm excited
- Alright, so, you know, this is a old friend of ours.
- [Brian] This is an old friend of ours
- This is the Skeleton Tarantula we drew,
I originally had in Noah's video,
and I think we did a video together, as well with him.
- [Brian] Yeah, we did, yup.
- And I just thought, you know,
this one's such a great terrestrial animal,
we had such a great time, and they web up really cool,
like, the enclosure's gonna be so sweet when he's done.
- That's awesome. And for you guys's knowledge,
remember about a week ago,
I said that purple people-eater didn't look good,
uh, it was getting to the end of it's life,
we knew when we got it,
the breeder said that it might live 6 months or so,
I think it ended up living 6 or 7 months,
well unfortunately we did lose him last week.
So uh, and again it was a male, so, we knew it as coming,
its a bummer, so this is the new one for that tank.
So uh, lets uh, see what we can do.
- Let's go and put him in.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh. There he goes
- [Bruce] (mumbles)
Oh my gosh. That thing is so gorgeous, dude. Wow. Sheesh.
That thing is crazy.
And again, that's what, that's a Skeleton Spider?
- Yes, so this is a Ephebopus murinus, Skeleton tarantulas.
- I am so excited. I'll be honest with you,
they're all amazing,
I'm super excited to see how people feel about 'em.
That Pink-Toe, I'm pretty interested,
- Oh,
- I mean, that thing is incredible,
- We need to get Eric to handle it.
That's what we should do.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, I'm not ready for it guys,
but I'm already fascinated, I mean,
take a look at that animal right there,
I'm already really fascinated by it,
but I just need a little more time.
But I promise you, soon,
I will definitely hold that tarantula.
Good job, Bruce, thankyou so much, man.
- For sure, for sure.
- I'm excited. New tarantula's, guys.
Uh, time to open up at the Reptarium.
- [Brian] Ready to open up?
- Let's do this
(laughter)
- Yup
- Yes
- [Brian] Ok,let's go
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Hey guys, Welcome! Hi guys, how are ya?
- Hello,
- [Brian] Hi, how are ya?
- I watched your, uh, video this morning.
- [Brian] Ah, thankyou so much.
Come on in, guys, come on in. How are ya?
- Hey, how's it going?
- [Brian] Good. Good to see you. How are ya?
Hey, what's happening? How are you? Good to see you again.
What's going on man, how are you?
How's things going? Really good.
How's it going, man? How are ya?
Hi guys, how are ya?
- [Female Customer] I'm good, how are you?
- [Brian] Thanks guys, alright guys, how are ya?
Hi, how are you, welcome, come on in.
We've got halfway through the night here at the Reptarium.
It was so busy
for the first, two and a half, three hours,
that I literally couldn't even move, I mean
I was stuck here, in this corner here,
and I swear to God,
I didn't move for like,
literally like two and a half to three hours.
Starting to finally calm down a little bit,
still quite a few people here just hanging out,
looking at the alligators over here,
got a bunch of people over here,
got a Rainbow Boa over here, hanging out,
of course, this corner,
always is the Arachnid Corner over here.
Go look at the new arachnids really quick,
- How come you don't make beds like that?
- And he can go on your face,
(Exclamations from crowd)
- Caught on tape, right there.
As you can see,
it's always fun when we're interacting, (mumbles)
Like I said, it's definitely one for the books,
crazy busy, but finally, calming down a little bit.
- Hello,
This place is awesome, come here.
- Just popping over at B.H.B really quick,
I'm seeing some breeding action here,
you can see this little Albino Checkquered Garter Snake
is actually trying to breed the female,
which is really good.
Lot of really good breeding going on
over the last couple weeks,
getting a lot of swelling with the females,
we've got some Anerythristic
and Head-Anerythristic Brux King's right here.
Really, B.H.B is just humming along,
I mean, we're gonna get eggs in no time,
but I tell you what, another breeding right here,
these guys are actually locked up,
even though the tails aren't completely wrapped,
the male is actually inserted right now and again,
those are Mexican Black Kings,
so, again I'm super excited, I tell you what,
today was a really hectic and extremely busy day,
I hope that, uh,
you guys enjoyed kinda coming along on the journey,
and, how awesome is that, to get those new tarantulas,
Bruce surprised me with it,
I'm super excited about it.
Now I'm shutting it down guys,
I hope that you have an amazing day,
as always, you're amazing, I love you guys,
you are absolutely incredible,
be kind to someone today
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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