- Alright so, success people it seems like the water
is coming out okay.
There doesn't seem to be any leaks underneath there,
oh my gosh, look at him, oh, he's imminently
like whoa what's going on?
(energetic techno music)
hey, good morning everybody welcome to the vlog.
And to the day I have been kind of anticipating
to see how this is gonna go.
I have to fix Lucy's cage today
which first means, I have to come in the cage with Lucy
and try to get her out
and try to get her into another holding cage.
This is going to be fun, I have no idea what's gonna happen
and I hope the start your day is absolutely amazing.
What do you say we just, do our best and brave this thing.
Lucy, how you feeling today?
That's alright, this is a little intimidating,
but were gonna have a good time.
So, again I have two issues here there is something
that's leaking right form this drain over here
and then right where that puddle is, it's leaking.
The other thing I'm a little bit concerned about
is this bedding is completely soaking wet.
Now, we did have an issue with the waterfall when I was gone
that might have put some of the water over here,
but I don't know what's going on.
So, definitely have my work cut out for me.
I think for today I'm gonna drain this, take a closer look
and see if I can start to repair it
but uh, this is a bummer.
This is the one cage that
I wish this would have never happened to.
- [Woman] Hey girl, it's alright.
- Little bit different when you're walking in here with her.
Oh, boy. Oh, boy.
It's okay girl.
Oh, boy.
You're alright.
( high intense music)
oh!
(intense music continues)
it's okay girl.
(intense music continues)
this is getting a little weird now,
its getting a little weird now because
she's got me trapped in the corner now.
Okay, watch out. Watch out.
You're alright, you're alright.
(intense music continues)
intense music continues)
okay.
Alright now she's coming.
Alright so, were moving her all the way to a new homing cage
so we can work on this cage
she's fine.
she's acting fine.
Don't let her get away.
You want me to jump on the front end?
Okay y'all got everything? I've got the front.
Alright so, she's going to go into this cage
for the next day or two while I'm fixing her other cage.
I'm sorry Lucy, I know you love your cage
- [Woman] Uh oh.
(laughing)
it's a waterfall back here.
- Let it go, let it go, let it go. Let it go.
Let her go , she's fine.
- Lucy kinda-
- [Woman] She peed all over me.
Lucy kind of peed all over the place.
But she actually, it wasn't as bad as I thought.
(girls coughing)
- [Woman] There's a mop.
- I tell ya she looks really good in this cage too,
shell stay in the bigger cage once we get it fixed
but it actually looks really nice in here.
(laughing)
what happened guys?
- She does what she usually does.
- It stinks, it stinks.
- The first time you made me handle Lucy with her
she peed on us. Reminiscent of that.
- [Man] It just- it takes a while to get that smell out.
- Yeah.
- [Man] You guys did good though.
- Its crawling over here,
- [Man] Look at all this pee. Oh my gosh! Look at that all!
Holy moly! Okay.
(laughing)
Okay so, Lucy is in her cage were gonna like I said,
were gonna go ahead and let her kinda
crawl around, roam around in this cage.
It isn't quite the luxury penthouse she's used to
but still a very nice, big cage.
Like I said in the next day or two
we'll be able to get her back,
but I have to try to repair her cage.
First things first.
Andrea and Kelsey are gonna go ahead and clean that cage,
so I can get in there and kind of hopefully fix it today.
So, I am currently under the cage, there's two issues
there's this pipe here
where the fitting is seems to be dripping
and then up there the seal seems to be broke.
I can fix the one up front no problem,
the one back here where its actually leaking
that is a major, major, major problem.
I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna do yet
but, I definitely found the issue.
Okay, draining Lucy's cage.
I'm sad people, wish me luck on this one.
I want this cage to work it's my kind of highlight cage.
I hope its gonna be a simple fix.
(upbeat music)
so now that we have it cleaned out I can kind of take a look
it looks like there's a little bit of seam, kind of where
the caulk is up right here.
I don't really see a seam break along this wall.
But I think I'm just gonna go ahead and redo
all of this caulking here
just get this kind of sealed up.
There's even a seam like right here that basically
looks like it needs to be caulked as well.
This is basically like an acrylic right here,
and we have an acrylic pan in every single cage
so, theoretically you're supposed to be able to fill
this cage up with this much water and it would literally
hold like an aquarium.
Obviously, there was a leak there.
But more importantly, this leaks right here.
And this is the part that concerns me, really a lot.
If it's this down here where the seam is, its okay.
We can probably fix that with a product that is actually
like a welding type of product
that will actually get down in there.
We'll be able to put around the edge
and the seam will be completely fine.
My bigger concern is this bulkhead is bad.
So how I'm gonna do it is,
I'm gonna go ahead and put that putty down in this hole
seal all those seams up and then what I'm gonna do is
actually, you can see there's a threading right here
I'm gonna go ahead and thread a cap on that.
Then I can fill this water up right here.
I can turn the waterfall back on and if it doesn't leak
then I would know that the leak was down in the fitting.
Not in the bulkhead part here.
Because if it's in the bulkhead we have a major problem.
But I don't think that's gonna be the case.
I think it is gonna be in the fitting.
Worst case scenario, we have to get under there
cut it all out and start over.
But, hopefully that welding product
can actually seal that up.
In the mean time, I'm gonna go ahead and work on that.
I'm gonna go ahead and put that cap on there
to hold the water in.
We'll turn the waterfall on and then we'll just have to
wait to see of there's any leaks.
(upbeat music)
I had to enlist the help of Lori,
because she has smaller hands.
(laughing)
I couldn't fit down here.
I think we might have all the welding stuff in here now.
Basically now we just have to let it dry.
Again what I'm gonna do now is screw a cap on this
that way I can fill the water up and it won't
get down into that hole at all
and we can see if there's any other leaks.
As I'm giving this putty a little time to set up.
As I been doing everyday, were gonna bring one or two
animals over, the crew wanted to bring Macklemore
the macklots python over so we have a cage set up.
There gonna bring him over and release him
and let's see how he does.
I went ahead and chose this cage right here because
I think it's actually perfect for him
there's some areas right here for him to climb,
he can hide back over here,
here's the hot spot over here
the cool spot is over here, so its got plenty of room.
It's a pretty cool cage.
I think he's gonna really love it.
And Kelsey is over here with Macklemore right now.
What do you think?
Do you want to do the honors and put him in?
- Absolutely.
- [Man] Alright, Come on Macklemore let's see what you got.
- Alright come on buddy.
- I tell ya, I love this part,
it's my favorite part of the zoo by far.
Putting animals back into a new cage,
I mean how cool.
Just to see how their gonna act.
Oh, my gosh look at him. Oh.
He's immediately like whoa, what's goin' on?
What are you doing buddy?
There he goes, he's trying to find some areas,
just kind of checking it out.
Oh, my gosh that's so cool.
(upbeat music)
and like I've said, I'm anxious to see how they end up doing
in these cages.
Sometimes, its really kind of amazing how they'll use
certain areas of the cage that I never expected.
So, were gonna give him couple days,
we'll kind of keep an eye on him, see what he's doing
and we'll decide, was this cage the right choice?
Do we want to move him to another cage?
Do we need to add some more branches?
You know, what is it that we actually need.
But, again were gonna let the animal's kind of tell us
what were doing.
Right now he's just kind of checking it out.
I don't think he really knows what's going on.
He's just like, kind of confused right now.
And that's the thing that's so interesting,
is you know, this is the first time that these animals
have ever been in an natural environment.
And it's kind of heart warming to see them crawl around
and just kind of explore and see
what their trying to figure out.
- I think he looks great in this habitat,
And he seems to love it.
- Alright so back to this, I'm back in the cage.
So again this is the little plug
that I'm gonna put into this hole and again
that should seal everything up.
So I can make sure that there's no leaks in this at all,
that it's definitely the plumbing.
Again, we put the putty down there,
we hope that seals up
if there's any potential leaks down there .
But, now we can actually test each individual thing.
And so, if we put this down in here,
screw it in and seal that.
Once we fill this up with water
were gonna find out if there's any leaks around here
or over here, or anything else like that.
If there's no leaks there and then we open that up
and it leaks again, we know it's a connection issue.
Make sense?
Hopefully if it was a connection issue, now that putty
will kind of seal that up.
In the mean time, I'm gonna tighten that up
we'll add some water in there and hopefully
turn the waterfall back on and hopefully
there won't be any more leaks.
Okay, water is on.
The pond is starting to fill.
Fingers are crossed, let's hope this works.
Oh, my gosh!
And again we should be able to realize pretty quickly
if I fill this up if there's no leaking going on
then we know it was the fitting
and it's not like the bulkhead or some other leak
that's actually the pond itself.
In a perfect world this would be sealed
and we won't have a problem.
Because this would be really, really hard to fix.
If it's just the fitting hopefully that putty
that we put on will fix.
Worst case scenario, if I have to cut it off an start over
it's a pain in the butt, but it's not that bad.
This needs to be sealed so, this is the most important
test we have here so, let's hope this works.
Okay the water is full, I just climbed
underneath it, there's no leak with it just sitting here
filled up like this.
I'll go ahead and plug the pump in
and see if maybe as it's circulating,
that shouldn't really change anything
so that tells me that it's probably not the bulkhead
or anything wrong with the pond itself.
It's probably something with the connection
which hopefully that putty fixed,
if not were just gonna have to
rip it apart and do it over again.
But step by step, I'm gonna go ahead and run the pump
probably for 24 hours,
See if there's any leaks anywhere else,
and if that works out then I'm in good shape
then I know I just have to make sure
that weld works.
We'll pull the plug out, we'll see if that actually
holds with the putty that we did
if that doesn't happen then we have to go from there
but at least were starting to problem solve
and figure out what the actual problem is
and it doesn't appear that it has anything to do with
the bulkhead or the pond lining what so ever.
This seems to be holding true.
(upbeat music)
okay, pond is plugged in.
It's gonna take a few minutes for it to prime,
and hopefully we'll see this start to work.
And then we'll find out if, with the pond done
if there's any leaks.
(water dripping)
okay, pond is starting to prime now,
water is starting to get some waterfall in here.
Still looks like were good.
I'm gonna climb underneath in a minute
to see if there's anything going on.
I'm just gonna get these valves kind of set again,
it kind of takes a while for this pump to kind of
prime cause again, it's gotta come all the here,
go all the way up, all the way up to the top
it's kind of hard but once it's primed
then it works really well.
So, it's gonna take a few minutes but, once that's going
then we'll go ahead and check underneath and see
if there's no leaks.
If there's no leaks then at leas we know we are one step
closer to having this thing figured out.
Alright so, success people.
It seems like the water is coming out okay,
there doesn't seem to be any leaks underneath
there so success.
I'm gonna let this run for the next 24 hours
make sure there's absolutely no chance there's a leak.
And if that's the case then we'll open the valve up,
make sure that that connection is fixed
and we should be good to go.
I also re-caulked all of this
and then I used that Flex Seal paint to kind of go on it
just to, when there's a little but of wetness going on
like if Lucy overflows the pond,
it doesn't get out.
Because again, this is supposed to be all water tight here,
so we should be good to go.
We definitely gonna need to air this out for at least
a couple days, because there's a lot of fumes from
the Flex Seal but, hey I think were on the right path.
I think we might have Lucy's cage fixed again.
The last thing I have to do for the day is I actually
have to build racks for this screen cage here
and that screen cage down there, and I think
I'm gonna put a couple frog tanks in it so,
I've gotta work on that.
That's the last racks from the center,
and then I'll just have to start tie them together
and then we can start fixturing them out early next week
so, okay let's build some racks.
(upbeat music)
we have all our cuts now for our racks
we just have to bring these in, nail them together,
and kind of put the racks together and hopefully
do it right this time.
So, I'll show you guys as its coming together how it
actually should look.
Let's hopefully do it right.
(upbeat music)
(music continues)
so heres the finished product here, you basically have this
nice screen cage a two by two by four foot
and were actually gonna have two frog tanks here.
this is actually Snoop frog here,
and were gonna have another one here
and then were gonna build another rack right next to it.
Where this actually goes down here,
and the frogs are up here.
So we can actually display four horned frogs.
So, one more rack to build I'll show you guys in a second.
And there's the nice rack right there, you kind of
get the idea, where we want them a little bit staggered
so were kind of creating these interesting lines.
Again frog tanks will go up here, chameleon's down here
chameleon over here, frog tanks over here
let's go ahead and take a kind of inventory
of what's been happening here and what's already over here
first off, obviously today we still have the waterfall going
the pond is going, I just checked, no leaks
which is absolutely amazing.
Lucy is actually up in this cage, right now
and she seems to be completely happy.
She's gonna be completely fine for the next day or two
or three or whatever it takes
to get this other thing figured out.
For now she's absolutely loving this cage.
Of course I can't wait to get her back into her other cage
that goes without saying.
Daisy looks absolutely fantastic in her cage and she's
been doing so well.
She's just been lounging around, as a matter of fact
I mean , just look how amazing she is.
She just looks so good.
It's okay sweetheart, I know you're trying
to figure it all out.
But, I love her cage. It looks fantastic.
And of course we got my girl Bella up here,
just lounging out in her hot spot,
just loving her cage.
Its really cool, today she came running up to the front,
she got a bunch of attention from us, petting her and stuff.
Its like she enjoyed the attention, I absolutely love
the fact that she's digging her cage.
She always hangs out in her hot spot, a lot of
times she sleeps right down here so she's doing great.
And of course there's Chicken Strip, right up here
you can see he loves hanging out right by the heat.
I mean this is where we find him almost all the time.
Every now and again he'll pop down here kind of hide
a little bit, get out of the way you know that's fine
but he loves it up there basking.
This is a perfect cage for him.
Of course then we put Rico in this cage right here.
He's just kind of hanging out right on the hot spot.
I think it's great that he loves it.
His cage is looking good but,
he is definitely settling in nicely.
Of course Tazzy here has his nice little penthouse.
Right buddy?
You hanging out and enjoying your self sweetheart.
He's been hanging out up at the hot spot a lot
but he comes down for pets and he's just absolutely amazing.
Of course Macklemore's only been
in his cage for just a couple of hours but
he seems to be hanging out right on the hot spot,
seems to be liking that.
I think he's still getting used to things.
We'll see how he acts in the next day or two
but so far so good.
Finally, of course Sunrise is over here
hanging out in her little penthouse
as well, having a good time.
There's a chance we may move her up into a bigger cage,
I'm not a hundred percent sure yet.
We'll give her a day or two in here and probably
sometime over the weekend or something like that,
I may move her, I'm not a hundred percent sure.
With that being said, I wanna know from you guys
what other animals do you want us to move over?
Of course were gonna be moving tons of stuff but,
I wanted to know from you guys.
I do have to go out of town tomorrow,
I got to head to head out to L.A
for a quick thing, I'll be gone for like
a day and a half and then I'll be back
working on the reptarium.
So, let me know in the comments
what animal you'd like to see moved next.
With that being said, I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog
get ready for my trip to L.A
I can not wait to share with you.
You guys are gonna be surprised
who I'm gonna do a video with.
Its definitely really bizarre
but it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Of course I'm gonna stop over at Jay at Prehistoric
and the reptile zoo out there.
Have some fun with him.
I'm borrowing some of his animals for the video shoot.
Again, a one day trip. I'm flying out to L.A.
Doing a thing, flying back the next day
so we will not be gone long.
Cause I think we have nine or ten days
left before the opening.
Again, were hoping for the 21st of September
for the open for the reptarium and I hope
that you guys are gonna come visit me that weekend
again, the whole weekend we'll be here having a great time.
I hope that you have a wonderful day,
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