- The clock is ticking down and I'm not sure.
For the first time I'm thinking
is it possible to get done in time?
These are crazy.
Take a look at these.
Hi mom, it's okay.
Wow, whoa!
(dramatic music)
Hey, good morning everybody!
Welcome to the vlog!
So Jessica, I, and Bruce in the back here
are heading to Josh's Frogs.
We're gonna be picking up some frogs,
whatever else for the zoo that we think
is gonna be really cool.
We also need like cork, driftwood, plants,
some pumps for waterfalls, all kinds of different things,
so we're traveling about an hour and a half to Josh's Frogs.
We're gonna spend maybe an hour there,
and then we're heading back to work on the Reptarium.
And we're here!
So again, we're gonna pick up some critters,
pick up some supplies, all kinds of stuff.
Josh's Frogs is a really great place.
I mean, it's super cool, tons of really cool stuff,
not to mention a great kinda source for really cool supplies
so let's go in and see what we can find.
Just checkin' out some of the animals here at Josh's Frogs.
Of course these are standing eye geckos.
These are Phelsuma, they're absolutely amazing.
There is a bunch of stuff.
Since the last time I've gotten here,
they've definitely gotten in to more reptiles.
Of course they always are known for their frogs
and supplies, but these geckos are awesome.
- Five floors that were built
in the we think like the 1870s, 1890s.
- Oh my gosh. - And then to pump out
where the animals are and where shipping is
was in like the 1810s or 20s.
We've got three walk-in safes.
I'll show you one on the way out, it's really cool.
It's all pinstripe 1920s art deco.
This is the-- - I'm gonna be honest with you
I'm a little scared right now.
(laughs) - Oh it's fine.
This used to be a casket company and caskets
for two U.S. presidents were made in this building.
It's pretty crazy.
- You're kidding. - Whoa that's crazy
- This place is awesome.
First thing we're doin' is we're picking up
a bunch of cork bark.
There's a little bit of cork bark here,
so I think we're gonna be okay.
This is some of the stuff that Jessica's
already picked out here,
so we definitely won't have a problem
finding what we need here.
Next up we're gettin' some weathered manzanita.
This is gonna be great for the tree boas,
and the green tree pythons.
I think Pickles is gonna absolutely love this too,
so gettin' a whole bunch of this stuff.
We're now on the plant floor.
As a matter of fact, there's five floors on this building
so there's a lot here,
and Jessica, you probably are lovin' this
'cause you love plants. - Oh my god, yeah.
I'm so overwhelmed though.
There's so much to choose from.
- I'm glad I brought Jessica
because I would have no idea what to do.
I just was like, you figure it out.
I'm gonna go over here and talk with Zach
and we're gonna have some fun talkin' business
or somethin' like that.
The truth is we're gonna get five tanks
of live plants that will be three dart frogs
and then two other frogs.
We've got tons of cool wood.
We have cork bark.
We have all kinds of stuff, but,
oh, and there's, of course, there's moss like this
which is really gonna be cool,
so Jessica's definitely gonna be lovin' life
decorating all these cages.
(calm electronic music)
Finally, in some of the frog rooms,
check out this little Solomon Island Leaf Frog.
This thing is so frickin' cool.
I know, that it's awesome.
Again, workin' our way over,
we're gonna pick up some dart frogs
and then hit the road and get back to the Reptarium.
As a matter of fact, Lori just called me
and all of the window graphics are actually being installed
right now on the front of the Reptarium.
♪ I've been workin' day and night ♪
♪ Just tryin' to get famous ♪
♪ Stay ahead or stay behind ♪
♪ Why don't we just roll with this, I'm ♪
- And this is the tadpole room.
Take a look at all these tadpoles.
Oh my gosh!
Wow!
Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow.
Yeah, now I'm startin' to get the idea
of why they call it Josh's Frogs.
These are crazy.
Take a look at these.
Malaysian Horn Frogs.
Oh my gosh.
And now we're in the froglet room
and this is where we're gonna be picking out some frogs.
Jessica is gonna do the honors.
Of course Zach is gonna help us out.
We're gonna pick out three different tanks
of dart frogs that we're gonna have
nice waterfall, live plants, bioactive soil.
It's gonna be absolutely epic.
I cannot wait to see what we find.
We finally picked 'em out.
Tell us, what did we end up getting?
- All right, so we have
our Dendrobates tinctorius Azureus right here.
Really nice bright blue,
one of our most popular frogs for sure.
Dendrobates tinctorius powder blue.
And then we have these Dendrobates tinctorius Matechos,
which are a very nice, bright orangey-yellow.
Well you picked out some great display frogs.
They're gonna look really great,
especially when they get older.
They're gonna get quite a bit bigger.
- So I'm super excited.
I absolutely have always wanted these ones here
so these are gonna go into really cool displays.
Jessica, you got your work cut out for ya.
- Oh yeah, I gotta learn a lot about these guys.
- All right, so I think we just fit into the car.
Kind of, anyways.
Okay, see ya Bruce!
♪ I been workin' day and night ♪
♪ Just tryin' to get famous ♪
♪ Stay ahead or stay behind ♪
- So we're headin' back to home base over at the Reptarium.
I am super excited to see these window graphics.
Again, I went through the whole design process,
so to see it is gonna absolutely amazing.
Again, I just kinda think about from the road
you're gonna see this, so we've got about
an hour and 15 minute drive
before we're back to the Reptarium.
(calm electronic music)
All right guys, and here are the windows!
Oh my gosh!
Holy moly!
That is frickin' awesome!
Oh my gosh!
I absolutely love it!
And again, we left this window kinda open
so you can see inside
'cause you can see the tortoise pen.
You can see the pond over here.
We did just a couple little graphics on it.
Of course we got big block here.
The entrance into the Reptarium.
Oh my gosh. (water flowing)
Wow.
That is epic!
As we're coming in on the punch out
to a lot of little things,
I was excited to see that Lori actually finished
this right here with the help of our friend Dan Put
who's a pond guy, actually came over,
brought this over, cut it off,
and then Lori actually secured it down.
'Course that's the top of the tortoise area.
So the tortoise area is officially done.
I tell ya what, insanity level over at the Reptarium
is a level 12 right now.
There is so much going on.
It's just flying at me, so I thought,
so I'm takin' a little break,
coming down to see Kelsey
because Kelsey said we had a clutch of ball pythons.
- Yes, and this clutch will officially conclude
our 2018 season.
- Oh my gosh, the last ball python clutch of the year!
Let's go ahead and see what it is.
- And we've got a Pastel bred to a Fire Bee.
- Holy moly, she just. - She just.
- No mama, it's okay, (Kelsey laughs)
you don't have to take care of your eggs.
You just put 'em wherever you want.
They're beautiful looking eggs though, right?
- They are gorgeous eggs.
Like these are, oo! - Oo, mama!
What's the matter?
It's okay.
She's like don't you take my eggs I scattered
all over the place. - All right.
- [Man] All right, it's okay mom.
Oh, whoa! - Oo!
- Come on, watch out!
Oo, she is upset.
Come on mom, it's okay.
Wow, whoa!
Jiminy Christmas!
What is the matter with you, girl?
I have never seen 'em like that before.
Whoa!
It's okay mom.
Oh my god.
So our last mama of the year is upset.
How many eggs did we get?
- [Kelsey] We got two, four, six, eight, nine.
- Nine eggs.
And that concludes the season.
Kelsey, you did an amazing job.
Literally your best season yet.
- Thank you. - It was fantastic.
Literally she killed it this year with ball pythons.
We're hatching tons of cool ones because of her.
Last clutch to put in the incubator.
Probably 10 or 12 left to hatch.
So good job Kelsey.
Way to go.
- Thank you.
- And now back to the Reptarium.
And back here at the Reptarium we have all hands on deck.
We've got Andrea helpin',
we've got Eric just showing up.
He hasn't been working at all.
- No, I've been--
- [Man] Noah of course drinkin' his Arnold ice tea.
- Arnold. - Good job.
Way to go, brand deal there.
We've got Lori over on this side.
She's over here.
She's actually gluing in the backdrops right here.
You can see these have to be actually siliconed in
then we can put the doors on it.
I've already plumbed all of the frog stuff,
so there'll be a waterfall
that comes down here, here, here, here, here.
I think we had five or six waterfalls in these cages
so I plumbed those guys.
Jessica is in here.
She's working on the chameleon cage,
which will be of course Guacamole's cage.
I'm gonna start getting the fronts of these cages
fixtured up, so again, we have all hands on deck.
We have two days left.
If you guys are watching, it's actually today
so hopefully you are heading to the Reptarium.
But we still have today and tomorrow before we open,
so oh my gosh, it's absolutely manic here,
but it'll get done.
I think it'll get done.
It'll get done.
(calm electronic music)
Okay, quick little update, break from the action.
Jessica, you can see her in the back there,
she's fixturing out Guacamole's cage real quick.
It's looking absolutely stunning and beautiful.
I am still working on these panels here.
I'll be honest with you,
I'm not getting as far as I'd like to.
Just so much going on.
Hopefully by tomorrow by the latest
we'll have all of this stuff going on.
I don't think I'm gonna get there tonight
but that's okay.
We're gonna do our absolute best.
Eric put all the glass in these cages here which is good.
That means they're ready to go for tomorrow
when we start to move some animals over.
We're startin' to put plants in all of the cages here.
You can see, I mean take a look at that.
That looks so crazy.
See how amazing just some plants
make these things pop like crazy.
Take a look at this cage right here.
This of course is Perdita's cage.
They're just startin' to work on it over here.
Perdita's up in the branch!
Look at that!
How crazy is that?
That is so cool.
You guys are doin' a great job.
We've got branches up here.
We've got all kinds of stuff going on.
We've got a little bit of spinifexy type stuff
over here with Tazzy.
Macklemore, look at that.
Lookin' good.
Eric, it's lookin' good my man.
- Hey thanks man.
It's all thanks to Mary.
She's got the perfect eye for it, so.
- Ah, is that what it is?
I knew I didn't wanna give you guys more.
That's all right, that's all right.
Of course we've got Sunrise over here.
This cage is looking really good with Nova.
Oh my gosh.
Again, you're startin' to see it coming.
By the way, we have all of these plants here to still do.
A bunch of different stuff.
Live plants, a bunch of.
Oh my god, there is so much to do.
And I'll be honest with you.
The clock is ticking down and I'm not sure.
For the first time I'm thinking
is it possible to get done in time?
We're still opening the 21st, four o'clock,
probably today when you guys are watching.
We're gonna be opening today
if you're watching in the morning.
(sighs)
Wish me luck guys.
I mean, it's gettin' real now.
It is really late.
We have been working all day
for I don't even know how long.
Gonna go home and get just a couple hours of sleep,
gonna be back here,
because I still have to finish some things up.
We have all the front rock now,
but we don't have the pillars in yet
which is really what's gonna cap it off once you see that
and then of course when Lori and everyone else
goes back and does all touch up work,
that's when it really pops and becomes kind
of like a complete piece, but.
(sighs) We're gettin' there.
It's been tough.
I mean, I can honestly say that here,
18, 19 days into this install with no rest,
no days under about 18 hours,
it's gettin' to me a little bit.
But hey, I know I have one more day of hard work
and then I get to celebrate with you guys,
whoever ends up coming,
so it's gonna be amazing, so.
(sighs)
Oh gosh.
You know guys, I have always said this.
If you wanna fulfill your dreams,
you have to sacrifice and trust me,
myself, my team, Lori, Noah, everyone is sacrificing.
But I know it's gonna be so worth it.
I love these little frogs.
I cannot wait to get them set up tomorrow.
Again, these guys will all have waterfalls in 'em.
We've got a bunch of fruit fly cultures.
I mean, it's gonna be amazing.
Used to keep dart frogs when I was like 20 years old
and haven't had 'em since,
and to think Guac and Karma
are about to get their upgrades.
Guac, you have an amazing new cage.
Jessica did such a good job.
And we're gonna do this kind of mass moving of animals
both tomorrow and the next morning,
so let me give you the rundown.
Again, if you guys are watching this now,
today is our open day,
but for us, we have one more day.
So tomorrow we have to finish all the fronts.
We have to kinda seam 'em as best as we can.
We have to get all of the cages ready with animals,
and then ultimately move the animals over there.
Now honestly we'll probably do some of that tomorrow,
but some of it's gonna happen probably Friday morning
before the open, because again,
we don't open 'til four o'clock,
so I'll get here at like, six in the morning.
That gives me like eight or nine hours
before hopefully start showing up early
because I wanna make sure this is a great event.
So I'm sure that last minute things are gonna kinda happen
and then we we just gotta clean the place up.
Is it gonna be done?
Absolutely not.
I really came to the realization today.
There is no way that we can possibly be done,
but we're gonna be as done as we possibly can,
still make it awesome,
and then you can come back and see it
when it's all 100% done over the next month or two.
But let's face it, I'm always gonna be workin' on this.
So what I'm saying is,
for those of you guys that have enjoyed this journey,
the journey is far from over,
because we're gonna be kinda upgrading
and going into different types of bedding
and sprucing up cages and switching things around
and adding waterfalls and all kinds of stuff
for months and months and months again.
Again, together we are learning how to run a zoo.
I've never done this!
Every day I'm trying to learn something new.
As a matter of fact, I say this all the time,
you never know how little you know
until you try to do something you've never done.
Trust me, I've come a long way in a short period of time,
but there is still so much more to learn
and I cannot wait to take you guys on the journey.
And with that said, I am gonna end the vlog here,
try to get a few hours of sleep before I'm back here
to try to get ready for this open.
I hope that you have an amazing day.
As I've been saying, send me positive vibes, people.
I need all of your energy I possibly can get,
but your support is amazing,
and I truly do love you guys so much.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get outta here?
Can you smash that like button,
turn the post notification on
so you know when I upload a video,
which is every day at nine o'clock in the morning
Eastern Standard Time.
Be kind to someone,
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
(calm electronic music)