- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the blog.
And welcome back to the Reptarium at BHP,
I tell you what?
It is so amazing to be back here,
and you know that I'm gonna go revisit
some of my animals that I miss so much,
of course, starting with my girl, Bella.
Because after all,
Bella is where it all kind of started, right?
When I first kinda addition to the Reptarium,
way before we had the Reptarium.
And I tell you what?
It is so amazing to see my animals.
Being gone for 12, 13 days was incredible.
It was an amazing adventure,
but missing these guys was unbelievable.
I mean, I tell it you, being back here,
I am so happy to see my animals again.
Look at this beautiful girl right here.
Bella, I loved you so much.
Were you a good girl when I was gone?
I'm sure she was really good,
but the fact is that, it is beautiful to be back home.
Let's just go ahead
and check up on everything that's going on here
and it's gonna be about Drogo, right?
So let's go check out Drogo.
Of course I had to take Drogo down
and just play with them a little bit,
I missed him so much.
Obviously, we did see the slot at SeaQuest,
which was super cute, but I tell you what,
just between me and you,
I think Drogo is even cuter.
He was awake today this morning when I came in,
which I thought was really interesting.
Normally he's on the sleep mode during the day
and only up at night, but today he's very adventurous.
I miss this guy.
He is so absolutely cute.
And I know Jay and Laura
and everyone's been working really hard with him.
Just kinda getting him used to it, habituated settled in.
He's doing absolutely incredible.
As a matter of fact,
we have a new humidifier being installed today just
to keep the humidity perfect.
That way we can dial it in really, really well.
I think that's gonna be great for Drogo,
but it's so cool to be back with him.
I tell you after 12 days of not being around my monkey here,
I tell you what, he is so cute.
Just look at that cute little face.
I tell you why I love this guy so much.
He's like, oh, let me get that camera.
Let me get that camera.
Oh my God, there's a reason he loves cameras.
He is so funny and it's gonna be amazing.
Now I get to spend every single day with him,
bond with them a little bit more.
And that's the thing,
bonding is so important when it comes to Sloss.
So I definitely need to spend a lot of time with him.
So it was a bummer
that we were only with him for a few days before we went
on this long trip.
Now that I'm back,
as soon as I came in the room, he was like,
dad, what is going on?
He was so absolutely cute,
declined ride over and came on me,
and like I said,
now he's just want to adventure.
He's really awake for the daytime again,
very unusual for these guys to be awake.
So, so, so much he is on fire today.
Ready to roll.
So he's already fed a little bit.
What are you doing, Drogo?
- [Man] I think he wants to climb the trees.
- He wants to try the trees, but not in that cage.
You'd be in trouble.
Well, if you were in that cage, you silly monkey.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and put Drogo back in his enclosure
and just say hi to the rest of the animals for sure.
So of course I climbed into Ivy's enclosure
and immediately she came out of the water.
Just come say hi to me.
Hi sweetheart.
How are you doing?
I tell you what, it's crazy to me.
I mean, again, I don't know, maybe she missed me.
Can snakes have that type of emotion?
I'm not a hundred percent sure,
but literally I climbed in his cage and she was in the water
and she immediately climbed right up.
And you can see now she's just kind of smelling me,
climbing up me and stuff like that.
He is bizarre.
You know what I mean?
You expect it from your dog.
You expect it from even Drogo,
but you don't expect it from an Anaconda.
It is so cool.
Again, I had one of the most amazing adventures of my life,
but the fact is that,
being back here is absolutely incredible.
And seeing this is just crazy.
I mean, look at this, you can't make this up man.
I'm not making her do it.
Look it I'm just like, I'm no hands here
and she's just climbing up to me like,
dad, I missed you so much.
It is the most adorable thing in the world.
I literally don't even know what to say about it,
I mean, crazy.
I mean, guys, I want people to have this experience so bad.
I wanna figure out a way so that people can come in
and do this because she'll do this to almost anyone.
I mean, every time I have my friend over,
she climbs up to him.
She smells him sexy.
She's curious.
She wants to come over and play and hang out.
And I think it's absolutely incredible.
And I almost forgot how cool it was.
You know what?
Getting in here and seeing her climb up like this,
wow, I tell you what an animal, right?
So I'm just gonna sit in here and chill for a little bit
and join my girl.
Let her climb up on me wherever she wants.
She can come all the way on top of me if she wants to,
because this is pretty amazing.
And definitely something I missed
a whole lot when I was gone.
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And I don't care how many times this happens.
It's still shocking to me every single time.
I mean, I don't even get it.
I mean, you can see now she's a quarter of the way out,
climbed out on her own, just hanging out with me.
I don't know what she's gonna do next
as far as like, I don't know
if she's going to come all the way out
and just hang out on me,
but she just seems to be sniffing around,
just hanging out with her dad and loving it.
So I tell you,
I wish all my animals seem like they miss me as much.
I wish Mori seemed like she me his and punches Ivy
because this is wonderful.
I love it.
It's it definitely makes my heart glow.
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My girl Matilda, she is just cruising around right now.
I remember when we saw those giant tortoises,
the Aldabra tortoises at Reptile Gardens.
I mean, I thought Matilda was big,
but I'm telling you what,
she is absolutely gonna get so much larger.
And as you could see, she's like, dad,
can I come out for a little run around?
She just is kinda cruising around,
so what do you say?
We take her out,
let her run around because she,
come on girl, come on over here.
Definitely gonna work on target,
training more with her, get this door fix.
I know I've been saying this forever, but now that I'm back,
I can actually do it.
Let's go ahead and get her out.
Let her just run around a little bit.
She is incredible
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And I love the fact now again,
that she loves running around
and kinda spending time outside seen everything.
The only thing that we have to worry about is that,
sometimes she like comes over here
and she wants to eat the leaves
and stuff like that inside the cages.
So she's kind of big.
If she ever wanna smash her head through the cage,
that might be a problem.
Other than that, she is loving,
just cruising around and again, she's 150 pounds.
Those ones that we saw were over 550 pounds.
Think about that, 550 pounds.
She's only 150,
so she's got a long way to go, but you've got to remember,
they were over a hundred years old.
He's only 15, but nevertheless,
very happy to be back, seeing her as well.
She's so incredible.
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Believe it or not,
I'm in the new calubrad room right now, downstairs.
This is the one that we just put in beforehand.
Of course, all these animals are revamped
and ready for brumation.
So here within the next week
or so we're gonna be dropping the temperatures.
I mean, just take a look at
this beautiful Albino Tangerine Honduran Milk,
I mean, these guys are incredible
and it's so cool to finally see
this room come together, right?
I mean, it's done.
Again it goes all the way down here.
Again these will all be filled up
with culverts over here.
And then it comes around this side over here
and these are the rest of the culverts right down here.
And again, you can see these guys, all have snakes in them,
stuff like that, that are ready to go.
This place will go dark here in the next week or so,
and then start to cool off.
I mean, look at animal, doggie.
Of course, that is a scaleless silver queen,
which is a ghost that is just absolutely beautiful.
So these guys are gonna be cooling off
and I wanna show you what we did when we were gone.
I shouldn't say we, what we had done is,
basically we have a pipe that comes in
from outside, way up here,
it's piped in here
and then it's just straight here
and it has a fan that is hooked to a thermostat.
And so we can actually control the amount of air
that comes in, right?
We set this thermostat to say, 55 degrees
and the fan will come out
and sucking cold air from outside
'cause of course, it's Michigan and this'll cool
this room down to 55.
Once it hits 55,
the fan goes off the louver shuts
and then it actually won't get any colder than that.
So this is kinda the setup that we have
for the Kluber drum in order to cool it off, down here.
So absolutely gonna work out perfectly
so excited about that.
Now it's cool to finally see the Kluber drum
'cause I hadn't seen it done since I left.
And of course you guys know
that breeding season is literally upon us here sometime
in the next couple of days,
we're gonna be rearranging all the animals
into their breeding groups.
And there's a lot of new animals that are up to side.
This is just a pastel camo banana right here.
So basically this was the Barney ball with the pastel,
didn't turn out that well,
you guys know that,
but genetically it's just a really beautiful snake and all
these animals are gonna be ready to breed this year.
A lot of new stuff, this just a blue eye blue cystic
that is a little boy that might be big enough to breed,
but we also have all our adults.
So basically what happened is I kinda rearrange all the
groups on paper.
Now they actually rearranged them
in the actual groups in the racks and stuff like that.
And with any luck,
we'll be doing that in the next few days.
And then within a week,
we're gonna have our first male
and female ball pythons in, right?
So it's crazy that we're still hatching.
We're still cutting eggs, but at the same time,
we're gonna start breeding again.
And the majority of the females look really good.
I mean really, really good as far as their weight.
So they should have a really excellent year if everything
goes well with breeding,
which I'm sure it will.
Then guess what, when we're gone,
we did have a pretty cool clutch hatch too.
And by cool I just mean there
was some really beautiful babies in here.
There was actually a Pinstripe Red
to a Banana Fire Spinner Blast.
So this is just a lot genes, right?
There's banana, there's pastel, there's fire,
there's pinstripe and there's spider
and it looks like this is the all gene animal right here.
This is actually a Banana Fire Spinner Blast right there.
And then we just have a little bit of a spinner right here.
It looks like a fire really beautiful animal right here.
It looks like a banana lemon blast fire right here.
That's just really blown up.
This is actually a Fire Spinner Blast.
So again, this is a pastel, it's a fire,
it's a pinstripe and it's a spider,
just not with the banana in it.
And then we just have a couple other really good,
beautiful steaks right here. Banana pinstripe,
a little spider right here.
It looks like this is probably a fire banana here.
So it's always cool. Come home to some baby snakes.
And I always mentioned how sometimes just being gone
for a short while things just seem to grow a lot.
We were only gone for a couple of weeks
and pretty to look so much bigger
and she's just so absolutely beautiful again,
a wonderful snake.
It's so cool to be back and see these animals
and be able to be back sharing it
with people as well.
So it's really cool.
Although I love seeing other people's animals
and traveling around is great.
Being home is definitely where your heart is.
There's no doubt about that.
And now that I'm back,
I did wanna address one little thing.
I don't want you guys to think
that I took it lightly about this pandemic happening,
and here I am traveling across the country.
We were super safe.
I mean, you guys have to understand
that everywhere we went, we had masks on.
and occasional, I would take a mask off just to do a piece
of the camera when I wasn't around people,
then the mask went right back on
and the most time we were just really
in our own bubble in our RV, right?
We weren't around people at all, but we were super safe.
I mean, we didn't wanna take any chances
with anybody at all.
And I just didn't want you guys to think
that I was just gallivanting around not caring,
'cause I do really care.
Not only about myself,
but all the people around me and for the next 14 days,
I will be self quarantine to only here in home.
Not going anywhere else.
No stores, no restaurants, no place at all.
I'll literally be home or here.
And I'm gonna even try to keep my distance from my crew
if I can just to make sure we're all feeling good.
And again, we were so safe on this trip.
I'd be very surprised if anything happened.
That being said, I didn't want you guys to think
that I didn't take it lightly.
I mean, I did.
I just had to get out and go adventure and I'm glad I did.
It was about the mental part
and everything else not to mention
to celebrate my son's 21st birthday.
So I just wanted to address that, you know, listen,
I wasn't out there unsafely.
We were doing everything we can do.
And I know it's hard to really get that on film,
but I just wanted to assure you that that was the case.
I tell you guys it is incredible to be back.
Don't get me wrong.
The trip was amazing.
But to be back home around my animals, around my people,
I tell you what I am loving it.
And I'm so,
so overjoyed to see all these guys again
and spend the next six or eight weeks home.
Not doing anything else.
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