- Excuse me, ma'am.
You guys can touch or pet her, do whatever you want.
She's fine.
Hey, good morning everybody!
Welcome to the Vlog.
Before I head over to the Reptarium and see
what's on my docket today, I wanted to
give you a little update on Lucy's eggs.
Lookit, we have the first ones
sticking their head out right now.
Lookit that little monkey right there.
Of course, this one was sticking
its head out too before I came in here,
and even this one, ooh doggie that one
is gorgeous, just take a look at that thing there.
Oh my gosh!
These little stinkers are taking a little while
to hatch out, but I think within the next day or two
we're gonna start to see the first babies come out.
But that is absolutely incredible.
You can even see the little egg tooth on this little dude.
Oh my god, I cannot wait to have all these little baby
Retics hatch out, they're absolutely adorable!
And speaking of adorable, look at
the things here, ooh doggie!
Of course these are just some more
Ball Pythons that hatched out, but this one
right here is actually a Super Pastel Yellow Belly.
It was a Pastel Ivory, which means
all the babies are Yellow Belly
and then it was bred to a Pastel.
We have a normal Yellow Belly here,
another Super Pastel Yellow Belly,
even two more Super Pastel Yellow Bellies
and then one just normal Pastel Yellow Belly.
It's absolutely awesome!
What do you say we head over to the shop?
Pretty excited to have a female Red Blood Python
that was actually donated yesterday
to the Reptile Zoo.
Of course you know we have that male
that's a little bit touchy, this girl
is absolutely dog tame, so it's really
cool that we'll be able to take this
animal out and kinda show it off.
Now, our typical protocol again is gonna
be at least a 30-day quarantine area
because we haven't had mites at BHB
and certainly never at the Reptile Zoo in a long time.
So we're gonna quarantine 'em, just preventatively
treat them for mites over the next month or so.
Then after 30 days we may move 'em over to the zoo.
It might even be 90 days for some species,
we'll have to see.
But this animal is absolutely gorgeous,
looks clean as can be, and man,
what an awesome chunky little monkey!
And like I mentioned, we still have a lot
of work to do at the zoo but we do
open up later on today from four till nine o'clock
so I'm gonna kinda go through and just
get some maintenance done before I really
move on to any major projects.
And I'm not gonna lie, you know,
being over here today is amazing because I
don't have any major projects I'm gonna do today.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of projects I need to do,
and I will have some major projects coming, but not
for today, so I get to kinda just look around and enjoy.
I actually didn't show you Pickles yesterday.
Pickles' new habitat is right here.
I mean, look at how amazing it is.
I'm just basically going through now and doing
all my spraying on all of the animals with RO Water.
Of course we'll hook up our misting system here
in the next couple days which will make it really good
because then we can have the animals misted
and we don't have to go through and manually do it.
But for now I'm actually enjoying it, 'cause
I get to see all these animals again.
It's been such a crazy month or so I haven't
been able to kinda just sit back and enjoy
the animals and the beauty of it.
Today is absolutely amazing.
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Yeah, getting that misting system is
definitely gonna cut down on maintenance a lot.
Look at Big Bertha, oh my god.
I absolutely love this Gecko, and again we have
the other little male that's growing up, too
but I just cannot believe how quick they grow.
She's gonna get a lot bigger, but man, she has like,
tripled her size just in the last
few months that we've had her.
Almost ready to open for day two of the Reptarium.
It's a departure from my norm, cause like I said,
I've never really been open to the public,
so of course every day now we've got Andrea
just kinda cleaning up stuff over here.
And you guys are gonna see Andrea a lot
over here at the Zoo, so when you come in
you can see her smiley face.
But we have to make sure that every cage,
the glass is all cleaned, everything looks good.
'Cause we wanna really represent the reptile
trade and hobby and just the animals
themselves as best as we possibly can.
Now I'm certainly not expecting
the kind of turnout we had last night, every night
because that's just impractical.
But for the actual Grand Opening, it was pretty amazing.
Another amazing thing that happened is
someone else donated this Dumerils Boa right here.
You guys know that I absolutely love Dumerils Boas.
It's actually a little female Dumerils Boa,
and it is absolutely adorable.
Again, we'll have this set up over here,
we'll make sure it's in good shape,
we'll feed it up a bunch, and who knows?
Maybe in the next month or two it'll end up
over in the Reptile Zoo and you guys can come visit.
A lot of the people have asked me about my buddy RJ.
You can see he's back in the water a little bit.
I think he's really happy that Bowser is out.
Now he can stay in the water a bit,
he can climb out, he can do his own thing.
People have asked me, is he gonna
be over at the Reptile Zoo?
We do not have an enclosure for RJ at the Reptile Zoo,
and there's a couple reasons for that:
Number one, I really wanna spend time with him.
I'm afraid if I get him around too many people
with the commotion of the Zoo itself,
maybe we won't have the same relatioship
and he won't be as docile and tame as he is now.
Number two, I kinda just don't have
the space for something like RJ.
So now he's gonna stay here, but he's
gonna be over at the Zoo all the time
for special events, birthday parties, whenever
I possibly can, I will bring him over.
For those of you that are visiting, you're definitely
gonna get a chance to meet this amazing animal.
And just so you know, we will be
rotating animals out a little bit.
For instance, this Hypo Brazilian Rainbow Boa
may end up over there, and who knows?
The major animal ambassadors, the ones
that you guys know that I show all the time,
they're gonna be there permanently.
But we wanted to make sure that when you come
come to the Reptile Zoo, if you come every month
or every other month or whatever the case may be,
that there's some different and exciting things.
So we will be rotating animals out for sure.
With that said, let's get back over to the Reptarium,
and get ready for the open of day two.
But before we open up, I wanna take a little inventory
about the things that still need to be done.
And there'll be a lot of decorating, like plants
all up on the ceiling, all kinds of stuff like that.
But all of this here, where you can see the 2x4,
that's all gonna be covered with something,
whether it be a scenery like this or something,
so that when you look in the cages,
you won't be able to see the 2x4's or the next cage.
That's gonna be a big job 'cause every single cage
needs to get covered throughout.
But we haven't got to that point yet.
We definitely gotta build some racks for these cages here,
fixture them all out, get them all set.
This rack is already built but we're gonna have to
do the fronts on it and get that all fixtured out, and
then of course the Gator tank is gonna be a big one here.
We still have to get the silt from my buddy Steve Basci.
We still have to finish out all the foam work,
the lighting, all of that stuff.
As a matter of fact I gotta be honest with you, there's a
chance I may have a surprise about this Gator tank.
Originally I was just gonna do eight or ten
normal Alligator babies and Boa,
I have something going on that might or might not work.
I can't say much about it, but within the
next week or ten days or so, I may be able to
actually share this with you guys, to see what happens.
But, fingers crossed, I'm not sure if it's gonna happen yet.
But that is basically it.
Then it's just a lot of decorating and finishing touches,
and kinda re-doing cages, you know, things
that we might not be happy with.
Again, we may wanna do a bio-active soil.
We've got a lot of leaf litter that we still have to put in.
There's some waterfall stuff, like this
cage right here that the waterfall's
not working that we have to fix, just little things
like that that will eventually get worked out,
but we're getting pretty close.
That pretty much concludes the major parts of the build.
Again, right now we're probably not gonna get a lot
of comments because we're open,
but even this area here, I'm not a real big fan of this.
This is where we're gonna be adding
presentations and stuff like that.
But it looks so bland, I think maybe just some plants
and some other things goin' might make it look good.
I'm not 100% sure.
Anyways, just to get you guys up to speed
on what we still have to do here at the Reptarium.
Got a few people waitin' so I'm gonna
go ahead and unlock the doors and let the fun begin.
- How you doing?
- Are you making alright?
- Yeah, it's awesome, it's cool. Thank you so much.
Come on in, man.
Hi, hi how are you?
- Hi, good how are you?
- [Owner] Excellent, excellent.
Hi guys, hi, how are you? How's it goin'?
I tell you what, this is so awesome.
I don't know that I'm ever gonna get used to this.
This is so cool.
- She has, look at those things.
- Oh no, look who's here, it's Uncle Chuy.
What's goin' on man?
- Look at this!
- Chuy came. Whatcha think?
What do you guys think?
- I love it, I'm gonna go walk around.
- [Owner] You're gonna go walk around?
Okay, so we'll get Chuy to take somethin' out.
You gonna take out, like, the meanest snakes, or?
- Maybe
- No, no, we're not gonna get him bit today at all.
But definitely walk around and let me know what
you want to see, all right?
- Okay.
- Certainly the favorite thing about this to me
is just being able to take out animals.
Sunrise has been out every time we open up.
People just love her, and she's just gonna get better.
That's the thing that's amazing.
Sunrise comes out all the time with us, the crew,
stuff like that, but now with her coming out
all the time with people it's gonna be amazing.
And then Bella is hilarious, because she runs
up to the front of the cage, she gets the pets,
when she's done getting pets she runs back like,
leave me alone, she is just so cool.
I tell you guys, I am loving this.
This is pretty exciting, this is
actually his first Ball Python.
One of the things that we're able to do at the
Reptarium of course, is that, actually, you can
order if you want from BHB and we can, you know,
get you a snake and you don't have
to pay for shipping and stuff like that.
David actually is getting his first
Ball Python today, so this is exciting.
I love these types of things.
- It is so cool.
- [Owner] Well congratulations.
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- Yeah at home, a 40 gallon.
- It's going good.
Busy, chaotic, but it's a good thing.
We're learning, too.
Got our learning curve (laughs)
We've done a lot of first times today.
- [Owner] Did you?
- First time using the picture printer,
first time making a sale on the iPad, so we're learning.
It's going all right. (laughs)
- And speaking of firsts, this will be the very first time
I've taken out a giant snake while the Reptairum is open.
I don't know how this is gonna go, let's hope it goes well.
We're gonna take Daisy out.
I think everyone is pretty excited
to see Daisy out, so wish us luck.
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- What do you think?
You guys can touch her, pet her, do whatever you want.
It's fine.
[Upbeat Music]
- So far, Daisy is acting good, she's just chillin'.
When I first got out she was a little bit
wired like, ahhh, but now she's just chilling out,
seeming to enjoy the attention.
So, so far, it's goin' good.
This is awesome, we actually have a special guest.
You guys may remember this Monitor Lizard from the Vlog.
This is amazing, he came all the way
from north of Chicago to bring him and kind of check it out.
He is so awesome!
Dude, I cannot thank you enough for comin' brother.
- Not a problem.
We had a show down in Kalamazoo and we're like,
screw it, two hours more, let's go.
- [Owner] Aww, I'm so happy you came, man.
Look at this thing.
Is this awesome or what?
- This is amazing.
- This is, I don't even know what to say anymore.
This is amazing.
This has been such a great, great day.
Excuse me, ma'am?
- (laughs)
- So let me get this straight:
this is the first snake you've ever held?
- It is.
- [Owner] This is the first snake you've ever held.
- It is.
- [Owner] A Green Anaconda.
And then she's trying to take it home.
- (laughs)
- [Owner] Verde needs to stay here. (laughs)
This is awesome, I love it.
There she is.
- There she is, there she is.
- [Owner] What do you think?
Tell me what you think.
- I love her.
I've been watching since the first day you
brought her home and got in trouble with Laurie.
- Oh, I did get in trouble, yeah.
- Uh-huh
- I'm still in trouble, by the way.
- (laughs)
- It's so awesome, I mean that's so cool
to have an experience like that.
I mean, first experience holding a snake
here at the Reptarium, a Green Anaconda I love.
That's day two in the books for the Reptarium.
I promise you guys, I'm not gonna go every Vlog
where I'm just like, lookit, the Reptairum's open,
look at all the cool things!
It's just new, it's exciting, it's awesome to me.
This is exactly what I was hoping was gonna happen.
People coming out, sharing their passion,
taking animals out, getting hands-on,
being excited about it, I tell you what, I am on top
of the world with how successful the last two days are.
I know it's gonna calm down here.
Not every day is gonna be as packed as
it's been the last couple days.
But I know that people have loved it,
and that is all that matters.
We've had people that were afraid of
snakes holding their first snake.
People that never held big snakes
holding their first big snake.
It has been absolutely incredible.
But like I said, I don't wanna bore you guys
with the same thing over and over again.
But for now, it's new, I wanted to share it with you,
and I hope you guys are excited about it.
Let me know in the comments how you feel about it, and I
promise that we will get back to all kinds of other things.
We definitely do have to get back to
building out the rest of the Reptarium,
we have to do a bunch of stuff at BHB,
there's stuff with Reptile Prime,
there's all kinds of travel stuff.
It's gonna be exciting in the future
and I cannot wait to take you guys along on the adventure.
As for now, I'm gonna shut down the Vlog
and wish you guys an absolutely amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get outta here?
Can you smash that like button, turn the post
notifications on, make sure to leave a comment down below
'cause I love readin' about you guys, be kind to someone,
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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