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- Hey Good morning everybody, and welcome
to the vlog! How's the start of your day
let me know on the comments how you
guys are doing. You know one of the things
that was so amazing about opening up the
first reptarium is the fact that, I was
able to work with some animals who were
kinda dream animals of mine.
But prior to opening up the reptarium
it was kinda hard to justify getting them, right?
So, that's one of the things that I'm super
excited about with the new expansion
is being able to get things that I've been
dreaming about that didn't quite fit in
to the first one just because we ran out
of room, and stuff like that.
Today we're actually going to be getting
a shipment of a couple of those animals.
I am so excited, literally it has probably
been 10 or 12 years, at least that I've
been dreaming about this day, so uh
those should be getting here anytime.
It's gonna be an amazing day, oh and we have a
bunch of work obviously to continue to
get ready for the open on March 13.
I've been wanting to get these for,
I mean gosh probably 15 to 20 years or so.
When some babies came available, I was
all about trying to put these in the
reptarium. No idea how small they're going to be,
but I am pretty stoked. Again another dream animal
and that's one of the things that's so amazing
about doing what we do now with the repatrium,
and the expansion and all that stuff.
Being able to get animals that I've dreamt about
forever. Not to mention, being able to share it
with other people, right? So...
Awe..
These things are. Freaking. Crazy.
Oh my gosh. Let me take a look at this real quick.
Oh, come on little monkey I'm sorry.
Oh look it guys. These are little captive
baby Caiman Lizards.
Unbelievable, these things
have always been just one of those dream animals
for me. The heads are super huge. They've got this
it almost looks like an alligator in the back,
and then a tegu off front, or something like that.
They've got of course that nice orange head to em,
and then the green body. And, they basically look
just like this when they get to adult.
Now these guys do like a lot of water, so
the one thing some people make the mistake of
is actually not setting these up aquatic enough.
They're gonna spend a tremendous amount
of time in the water, so uh. We've got 2
little monkeys in. I'm gonna show you the second one
see with it, but that first one was, so
absolutely incre- woaw!
Come one little buddy it's okay. I'm just gonna
set him down, and let him go.
And these guys can be pretty habituated,
so you can actually socialize these a lot
by handling them, and when they get large
you can hold them, just like you would
any kind of really cool lizards,
so I'm gonna go ahead. Oh this guy is a climber,
so we're gonna get this guy out, oh I know
these guys had known to have a pretty
ferocious bite, when they bite. So we definitely
don't want that to happen at all, but look at
the 2 of these crazy ones, ohhh. Come on it's okay.
It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
See this one's already opening his mouth, and we're
gonna definitely have to socialize these guys,
because when they get bigger that bite can be
pretty ferocious. We don't want that to happen,
but look at how adorable, a couple new
exhibits for the new reptarium.
Oh my god, I am so excited about these guys.
We're gonna make these guys super tamed, so
people can come and handle them.
And when they get really large they're
gonna be such a cool lizard for sure, so uh.
There it is guys.
Add Caiman Lizards to the dream animals
now gonna be at the reptarium.
- [Guy Holding Lizard] Look dude. Look at that thing
dude it's like..
- [Guy With The Beard] Having a panic attack.
It's literally a gun, a Caiman body
with a monitor's head.
- [Guy Holding The Lizard] It's like a Lego dude.
Speechless. Speechless right now .
It's like somebody put a freaking Lego piece
together wrong.
Can I touch it?
- [Guy Holding The Lizard] No.
- [Guy With A Beard] That thing is insane dude.
That thing I had no idea we were getting that.
- [Guy Holding The Lizard] Me either.
Look at how nice it is too.
- [Guy With A Beard] Oh it's super nice.
It looks really healthy too and everything.
The other one..
It's a red head.
The other one is even redder.
There's 2 of them?
Yeah.
Oh my gosh dude. Let me just
Hold it, dude. Look how cool the body is.
It literally doesn't look real.
- [Guy With The Beard] Sorry, I don't mean to
feel you up here. Here we go. He feels really good too.
He's nice, and he's firm. He's nice and alert.
They're so cute.
Look how nice he looks.
These guys get pretty big too.
Yeah, they get really big actually.
They get really big.
This is just a little baby.
This is incredible. Mom, I'm gonna get going now.
Guess what guys? We have the very first tour ever
with the new reptarium open. You guys are gonna
get the chance. How you guys doing?
Where you guys from?
We're from Flint, Michigan.
- [Guy Vlogging] Flint, Michigan. All right
Flint, Michigan, all right.
Home town boys, so all right let's get this started
all right? Let's do it.
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It's exciting now as we're getting closer with
the reptarium expansion being open that we have
tours in the house, and uh we kinda show them
and I cannot wait when we get animals over there
where we could be pulling stuff out.
It's gonna be hard to get around the place in an hour.
These guys came from Indiana. How you doing Zane?
You having a fun time?
Yup!
- [Guy Vlogging] All right.
You doing all right here Casper?
Absolutely.
- [Guy Vlogging] All right you guys are awesome.
It's cool to have some friends in, from uh
out of town checking the place out.
Like I said, it's awesome to uh be able to
kinda share the new place for the first time
with everyone. Again, not really very many
animals over there, that's gonna change really quickly,
because there's so much we could put in.
I actually have another tour in from Chicago
with uh.
- [Guy Vlogging] You guys having fun over here?
(Group cheering)
If you're gonna rate 1 to 10 what would you guys think?
11
- [Guy Vlogging] 11?!
That's fine bro. We're off the charts.
All right have a good time.
Again, we're having a good time here.
I love it you know? It just feels like more space,
more excitement. Oh my god I cannot wait to get
this place done and share it with everyone.
This is awesome. Again March 13 is the opening weekend.
So many little things to do, I'm actually
gonna go and get some TVs for up here above the
fish spa, as well as I wanna have a TV in
the birthday party room obviously. Just so if
people have parties and they wanna place something over
here above the wall. Not to mention if we have events
I've been talking about it since we've
opened the reptarium that I really wanna do uh kinda
of a Herp Society meeting, so once a month
just have people for free just come.
And, this would be a perfect room to not only
have you know some tables and stuff like that.
We can have guest speakers over here, but also
if we wanted to watch like some documentary or something.
I don't know. I just think that it's gonna add
to the whole thing, experience, right?
So I've gotta go and get a couple of TVs,
a couple of TV mounts. Mount these up and uh yeah
just continue to work on the punch out list
until we finally finish this place.
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[Cameraman] How much is that?
[Vlogger] 200 bucks a piece.
[Cameraman] Are you for real? Why?
You're telling me man.
[Cameraman] Why is it so much?
I know they're crazy. Literally these fans are like
wall mounts are almost the same price as the TV,
but Lori was very specific.
She said make sure you get the full motion.
I mean if I go back, I could go back with 80 inch TV
she's fine as long as I have one of these.
[Cameraman] So, let's get 80 inch TVs then?
If they could fit I'd get them.
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(Engine revving)
So I'm back at the shop. We ended up deciding
to go with these 50 inch TVs that are Roku TVs.
That way we can plug in you know memory sticks,
and all that other stuff.
Listen, I'm not like normal guys like
I don't get excited about sports games, and
I don't get excited about going to the bar.
Whatever guys do, but you know come on,
I still am a guy. I enjoy buying TVs, right so
the fact that I had to buy 2 TVs today that's awesome
and hey, it's all for the cause, right?
Because it's gonna be awesome.
Even Lori will allow me to buy TVs on days like today.
Like I've mentioned everyday I'm gonna try to
start to put some animals over here slowly
building out the animals around here.
I'm so excited about it, I mean look at Almachino
he absolutely has been incredible.
I've been messing around him a lot lately too.
He loves his new habitat, so uh I've got to pick
the next animal that's gonna move
over to the reptarium expansion.
And that snake of course is my
Cow Reticulated Python, Moomoo.
Now she's not Predita when it comes to being
unbelievably great handling snake, but she's actually
really good. She just acts a little bit more goofy.
You can see, she kinda stops a little bit.
Her tongue response will be a little bit.
So, I'm not sure she's really bullet proof
coming out all the time. But, if we can get her
over to the new expansion work with her every single day
I think in the next few weeks, when we open up
she'll already have calmed down.
She's not a bitter at all, although you might remember
when I first got her she lit me up.
Ow ow ow! Just got me through the whole.
Oh my gosh. Look at this guys, I didn't expect that at all.
It's okay buddy.
Let's see how this Cow Reticulated Python.
Woaw ohhh! She's supposed to be a really tamed animal
Woawww. We're gonna go ahead and just close that up.
She's actually really good, but she just kinda
hangs on a little bit tight. She's not quite as used
to being handled as Predita, but she is gorgeous.
I mean instead of being that solid white with
all the freckles, she's got the yellow.
Apparently she has a bunch of really cool genetics
that's what Kevin told me over at Neuragecell.
All though it doesn't matter to me,
I'm just happy that she's beautiful.
And I wanted something that looked a bit different
than Predita, and this girl definitely fits the bill,
so let's go ahead and set that cage up next door
we'll come back and we'll get her and see what she does.
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After really looking at all the options for
Moomoo the Cow Reticulated Python.
I think that this is gonna be the perfect enclosure,
because again it's got a lot of space, got some
climbing areas. As well as the fact that we can pull
her out and bring her over here to an open area
where people can handle her. So, that's part of me
picking where to put things too is like how we can
access them, where is people gonna hold stuff.
Right, so uh I think this is gonna be big,
and it's gonna be absolutely stunning
to see her in there.
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Okay guys let's go get Moomoo.
All right guys you know that I am always
excited about this stuff here, because again
Moomoo really lived her life in a tub,
now she gets to go into a large enclosure
where she can climb, so this is gonna be absolutely amazing.
She's gonna love her new habitat.
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Oh my god. I am excited about this,
and I think this enclosure is gonna be great too
because she can climb up here and get right on
the hotspot because we know Predita loves to do that.
But she's got some areas over here she could
kinda climb on, as well as a little hiding spot
underneath this ledge. So, I think I'm just gonna
let her go, just like I always do. Just spend some
time admiring what she's gonna do,
because that brain is gonna start thinking immediately.
She's already in there thinking, she's thinking,
"What is all this." The smells, the tastes are different.
And uh, she's gonna have a great time,
and I've told you before that she needs
this type of enclosure. Lots of mental stimulation.
Lots of climbing, so this is where I wanna keep Retix
in these type of enclosures for sure, so uh.
It's gonna be cool. Let's just sit back and watch,
and see what Moomoo does.
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Although it's gonna take some time..
- [Man In Background] Who's this guy?
Over here on this TV, so that TV is working
all good to go.
Just got this one hung up here in the Birthday party room,
obviously we gotta hook up the whole
like you know, the electrical and put the Roku
on it and stuff like that but uh. Okay cool.
That's awesome, because I could definitely
doing some events here with TV,
and the other side too so uh awesome.
One more thing off the list.
Moomoo has just been working her way around the cage,
it is so awesome to see, and I can't wait
to start filling up these other enclosures.
We have stuff pretty much everyday we'll be
putting new animals in. We actually will
start getting some shipments in it's coming together
really quick and really cranking.
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