- While we were redoing the floors over at The Reptarium,
obviously we had to take the tortoises out
'cause we were doing the floor.
So they were actually cruising around BHB
the last couple of days and I'll be honest with you,
Matilda had an absolute blast.
I mean, she was definitely wreaking havoc over there.
I mean, a giant 150 pound tortoise running around,
knocking everything over, trying to eat everything.
But now they're going back over to The Reptarium,
but we're gonna give Matilda a little time
out here in the sun just to walk around.
I think she's gonna love it.
Just give her a little bit of space.
She's such a great animal, I love her to death.
But then we'll give her some time out here
and then get her back in her pen for today.
So, look at this.
It is crazy to think that there's a tortoise on the planet
that's this big.
And again, she's gonna get three times this size,
so it's just crazy.
I mean, I love this animal.
Take a look at how beautiful she is.
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Pretty cool, Matilda actually walked over to the trees
over here and she's just getting, she's just helping herself
to a smorgasbord over here.
There's all these trees over here.
So like I said, I'm gonna leave her out here and you know,
she can eat all these leaves,
just like trimming the branches for free.
You know what I mean?
If you want a lawn service, by the way
you need some trimming, just go ahead and hit us up
over at thereptarium.com and we'll send Matilda out
and she'll clean your whole yard up.
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But my day actually started a couple hours ago.
I always launch my vlog each and every day
at nine o'clock in the morning Eastern Standard Time,
and then I spend about 30 to 40 minutes
just kind of commenting you back.
I love reading your comments,
and I love commenting back to you guys.
So it's kind of a ritual that I've been doing now
for almost five years and I don't know how
I would start my day any other way.
(cheerful music)
The next thing I do every morning is come downstairs,
admire my fly river turtles as I'm walking into
the office room here and we actually discuss
what we're gonna actually film for the vlog today.
Busy day, so obviously I have a tour today,
- Okay.
- We have podcasts tonight.
I know that we have to get tortoises back over from BHB,
- Right.
- You guys have the floor.
Then we have, I obviously gotta go through
and check all my ball pythons, pythons.
I've got a couple of meetings, but that's,
you know, not going to be a big deal
- I can grab some crew heads maybe while you're in the
meetings, I can grab a couple of things with the crew
- Yeah, crew.
- Oh, I know Jay said that he needs us
to brush Drogo's teeth.
- Yeah, that's right, he told me about that.
Yeah, Drogo's teeth are getting grody.
I have no idea how that's going to be.
- That's going to be crazy, dude. Cause it's- you know?
- You think that we should brush Drogo's teeth?
- Yeah.
- Does that sound fun?
- And then let's just see what else is going on
as far as you know, what other animals stuff going on.
I don't know if there's any clue bird stuff happening,
- Okay.
- Any babies or anything.
- Yeah I'll get together with anybody
and see what's going on.
- So, so cool.
So why don't we get started with the tortoises?
- Sweet, let's go.
- Now all we have to do is grab our gear,
and start filming.
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- I'm kind of keeping them kind of a little bit like this,
you know,
- Mhmm
- You can do,
(muffled)
(laughing)
- I think it's a terrible idea personally.
- I think it is,
but they need to be brushed.
- Well, we do what we have to do.
- I think that
- What is it?
- Next week will be a year.
- Get out of here!
- Yeah, are we going to do like a gotcha date?
- Gotcha date?
- You know what that is?
- [Cameraman] It's like a birthday.
- Yeah it's like a birthday, when people get their dog
- Oh, a gotcha date.
Like we got ya on this day.
- Yeah, we sing and maybe make them a cake or something.
- Yeah, what would we do?
Happy, happy birthday, no?
- No, you gotta practice some more.
- (laughing)
So the idea is obviously we're going to brush his teeth
because his teeth are getting a little bit grody,
but it's definitely going to be interesting.
Cause he's not going to be happy.
And I'm the one that's in the spot where he's going to want
to try to bite me.
- All right buddy, we just gotta get your brush.
- Oh my gosh, he seems to like it.
Are you kidding me right now?
- He does like it.
- Look at that.
- This one, we'll do this side.
More water maybe, here you go.
Here you go.
- Oh, there it is.
- Open your mouth,
open, open.
(laughing)
Oh, it seemed to work at first.
Now he's not so happy about it.
There he goes.
Yeah, nice fresh teeth.
Oh yeah, there you go, Drogo.
- Good job.
- Oh my gosh, I cannot believe it went so well.
- So great.
- I thought for sure this was going to be
the worst idea we've ever had, but like you said,
his teeth was getting grody,
so you got no choice.
- I wish he would try to bite you.
That would help me out a little bit.
- No, I don't want him to try to bite me.
You're brushing the outside of his mouth real well.
(laughing)
- [Cameraman] His lips are super clear.
- I'm going to try it, I'm just going to try it.
You're okay, buddy.
- Dan?
- Yeah?
- I trust you.
- Okay.
- There you go, there you go.
There it goes.
- Here we go, good boy.
- Gotta get those teeth all good.
- Can I just get this side one more time?
There you go.
- There you go Drogo.
- See, I think he does like it.
- I think he does, he seems to be loving it.
- Okay, I think that's good.
- Oh my gosh Drogo
you did so good buddy.
See, he's not even upset or anything.
I can't believe it.
I thought he was going to bite me so bad.
- Yeah, he did way better than I expected.
- Drogo, you did so good.
Give him kisses now.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- Next thing on my list today
is actually got a tour, a private tour.
So I'm going to go ahead and let them in,
meet them, figure out who they are, and have a good time
showing them around The Reptarium.
How are you guys doing?
- Good, how are you?
- [Dan] Good, where are you guys from?
- Ohio.
- [Dan] Ohio, what part?
- Well, we're from Randolph, but no one knows where that is
- [Dan] Okay where is Randolph?
- So we're close to Canton.
- [Dan] Okay, that's good.
Well, welcome, welcome guys.
I appreciate it.
We'll have a good time showing you guys around and
stuff like that.
Who's the reptile lover here?
- Me
- [Dan] Okay, so you like reptiles?
- We all do.
- [Dan] We all do?
Oh good, I'm happy.
we're going to have a good time.
- Except for spiders.
- [Dan] Okay, no spiders?
So did you, did you read that it says you got to
hold this spider before you can leave?
- I told her I would divorce her.
- [Dan] Oh wow.
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- Well, thank you guys so much for coming.
You guys are absolutely amazing, I appreciate you.
And we're going to be doing a bunch
of things in the future together,
so I appreciate you guys.
Drive safe on the way home, okay?
- Thank you, bye.
- And it's crazy how things work out.
Felicia actually does cool gemstones and stuff like that.
And we're going to actually be working with her,
cause she has a company called Treasure Buckets Company.
You can check them out on Instagram.
And they do a bunch of stuff for the mine
that we're gonna be doing in the basement.
So she can provide us with all of the cool,
you know, kind of packets we're going to have
and all that stuff, so it's just cool.
I mean, not only were they great people,
but it's really cool that I now found a great connection
that can help me out,
and kind of make that whole vision a reality.
You know, with Matilda really enjoying, running around,
not only outside, but around BHB,
we always knew that she's going to get too big for
the enclosure she's in now,
so with this expansion, that's another kind of enclosure
I've been really thinking about.
And I want to kind of draw it out for you guys,
what I'm thinking,
is that basically you would have an
enclosure that's about the size that she's got right now,
but then there would be a run,
that would go like this, like this,
and then into a bigger kind of circle like that.
Now there would be an octagon cage, here that would actually
be maybe like tree monitors or something like that.
So essentially, she can like run around
here, here, here, here.
Now this would be all glass on this side,
all the sides, except for one side,
this side right here would actually be a waterfall
that goes into this, you know, tree monitor cage
or whatever we decide to put into that center cage.
But on the other side, we'd actually have a waterfall,
almost like a weeping wall that goes down into kind of a
little pond area that's out right here, right?
So that she can actually climb into it.
All the tortoises can climb into it.
So basically, it gives them an opportunity to run around
this entire thing over and over and over again,
lots and lots of exercise.
We might put some kind of, you know, some hills
and some different things in there, but also, you know,
they really do like to go and soak and stuff like that.
Now, they don't really need the water, because they get the
majority of the water through what they eat.
But at the same time, you know,
Matilda loves being in the water.
So we'll have a nice little pond for her,
with that weeping wall of water coming down.
I think it'll look really cool, you know?
Obviously this octagon cage will really be just a display
enclosure because you won't be able to get to it.
Cause it'll be surrounded by a tortoise pen.
We'll have the same size kind of boundary, you know,
wall that goes all the way around this whole thing.
Maybe have a couple of doors in here so that we can open up
and stuff like that, so that, you know,
kids can go inside there or we can bring them out,
and so on like that, but I just think that would be amazing.
Now this entire thing from end to end,
I'm thinking about 20 to maybe even 25 feet, right?
So that's going to be huge for her.
That way, when she does get, you know, 350, 400 pounds,
she still has plenty of space to continue to walk around
and walk around and walk around.
So again, exactly where it's going to go in the expansion,
I'm not a hundred percent sure.
You gotta remember this wall here is going to be
pumped out almost 20 feet.
So I'm gonna have lots of extra area
over here that I can fill up,
but I think that this will be really good.
Not only for all the tortoises,
but in particular for Matilda.
Cause again, she's a hundred and almost 50 pounds.
Now she's gonna get a lot larger than that,
and she loved running around BHB, and outside,
and it starting to get cold outside.
So we're not going to be able to let her go outside.
But anyways, this is kind of the idea of the tortoise pen
for the expansion of 3.0.
- As with most days, I've got to go through some snake stuff
and I'm starting to
gear up to think about what we're going to be breeding here
in the coming season.
So I'm just going to kind of go through my ball pythons,
make sure everything looks good
and start to get an idea of the weight of the females
and which animals are going to be
ready to go here in just another six weeks or so.
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So, moving through the day guys.
Next up we actually have the podcasts.
I love podcasting.
If you haven't followed yet,
go to Checking In podcasts on YouTube.
You can also get it on Apple podcast, Spotify,
all that other stuff.
So let's go do this podcast.
- Yeah, it's got a battery.
Okay, it's got a battery and it's motorized.
- And it actually walks around?
- And it's got a hump?
- And it's got a hump feature.
(laughing)
- Oh, today, today I had a tour.
and the guy got humped.
- It's getting, it's getting bad.
Likewise need to figure that out
- It's not a problem.
- Yeah, it's hysterical.
- It's good.
Not unless you're a female Armadillo.
- I feel like that's not the experience that people want.
- I think people love it.
I think they might pay extra.
- I mean, who doesn't love
when the little puppy humps your leg?
- I don't like that either.
- You don't like that?
- No
- So that was my day guys.
You know, everyday is a busy day here.
I wanted to take you guys along on the journey.
Let me know what part of the day you enjoyed the most.
I'm going to go home now and spend a little bit of time
left I have with my family before it's bedtime.
And then we start it all over again tomorrow.
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Remember, be kind to someone and I promise,
I'll see you in the next one.