- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog,
today's the last day.
Tomorrow is the open,
obviously when you guys are watching it
we're already been open
'cause we film a little ahead but the point is,
we're gonna move some things around,
try to start getting all of these enclosures filled up
the best we possibly can because tomorrow's the day.
There's a lot to do.
Later on I'm gonna show you guys
all the things that we still have to do.
Jay's in there cleaning some stuff up with Al Macino.
Oh my gosh, the pressure is on guys.
I'm excited, I'm nervous,
the amount of emotions going through my head are crazy.
But we have our work to get done today so let's go ahead,
move some stuff around,
start to get these enclosures filled up,
and get ready for tomorrow the best we can.
Hey Laurie, can you do me a favor today,
I know you've got a lot going on but,
do you think we could paint the back door brown?
It just looks bad.
The back door, brown.
- What are you doing?
Stop trying to micromanage me, I've got my list.
- From the moment we fixtured this out with Stuart,
the thing that came to my mind was black-headed pythons.
I kept thinking this is perfect for black-headed pythons
'cause they love to climb.
They get in the crevices in the wild and stuff like that.
This is perfect.
Now, could I put one black-headed python in here?
Yeah, I could, but two would be better.
Now I just wanna preface by the fact that
black-headed pythons do eat other snakes,
but typically you can cohabitate them,
so I'm gonna put them in here,
get this enclosure ready,
and then I have to keep a really close eye on 'em
for the first couple days
so that there's no kind of problems with them
trying to eat each other.
Again, these guys have been separate.
Worst case, I pull one out, we have one in here,
but I think it's gonna be super cool
if there's two black-heads in here.
So, let's just get some bedding in this cage,
get it all fixtured out,
move 'em over and hope for the best.
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♪ pick up the phone ♪
So this is actually Snap, and this is Pop,
of course we have Crackle already over there,
so again, never been together,
not sure what's gonna happen.
I'll just release 'em and like I said,
really pay attention to 'em for the next hour or so
and then keep an eye on 'em like I said
for at least a couple days.
I think they'll be completely fine,
I've seen 'em cohabit before so let's just go ahead
and they're gonna look gorgeous in that enclosure.
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It's gonna be cool,
I'm actually gonna release 'em onto the rocks,
because again this is kinda how you would find 'em
in the wild is on these rocky crevices.
So we'll just go ahead, release one here
and then one on the other side.
Then we'll give these guys a little time
to get acquainted.
Wow, they look amazing, there you go guys.
Again, they're gonna be able to go
in all these little cracks and crevices.
Oh my God, I gotta step back and just take a look at this.
This is dope!
Oh my gosh, that is incredible.
When I first saw this enclosure,
this in my mind is what I was envisioning
and it looks so incredible
so again we'll just keep an eye on 'em,
they seem to be doing their own thing,
so we'll see what happens over the next little bit
and fingers crossed, 'cause this
is gonna be an awesome exhibit.
Hey Laurie.
- [Laurie] Yeah.
- [Brian] You gonna paint the door today?
- [Laurie] Jesus. (laughing)
- Got my buddy Miguel, always...
- Always forgetting pythons - Always forgetting pythons
that's right guys.
- Got my buddy Miguel here from alwaysevolvingpythons
he's gonna be vlogging a bunch of stuff
so I'm gonna put a link in the description.
Go show him some love.
Check out all that type of stuff,
but you had one request of me
- Yes, I want to take an Instagram picture with you
to get in that club.
- And we're gonna do it with Lucy.
So, we're gonna take Lucy out and see what happens.
She's been 50/50, you know,
sometimes she's been in a good mood, lately.
Sometimes she's been in a bad mood, lately.
So, let's see what happens.
Come on, big girl.
What you doing today?
You okay?
You in a good mood to-- uh-oh.
- [Man] Careful
- It's all right.
(Lucy hisses)
yep, Miguel I'm gonna need your help.
Gonna need a little help Miguel.
Come on in.
- [Miguel] Nah, I'm good over here man.
- [Brian] Come on my baby.
Woo!
Good girl.
(grunts)
now you're out.
- [Miguel] Dude I'm praying.
I'm sorry for making you do this, man.
- No this is fun, man, this is fun.
All in a days work.
- [Miguel] All for an IG picure, dude.
I'm so sorry.
I should probably get ready.
- Nope, your good, we're good.
We'll let her run around for a second.
Wear her out just a little bit.
- [Miguel] Brian how big is she now?
- She's 20 foot two inches.
- [Miguel] Wow!
- You ready?
- [Miguel] Oh yeah, lets have at it.
(laughs)
- This is just for when people get bit.
It's when it gets bad.
- Are you serious?
- [Brian] Yeah. - I don't want to do it now.
- That's why I'm not doing (mumbles).
I'm not silly. - All right so what do I do?
Just grab her and put it in?
- Yeah, just like right about here.
- That's easy.
- So right about there,
and just kind of maneuver
she loves to-- watch, she'll go right up into the tree.
- [Miguel] Perfect.
- She's a victim of--
- Like one home between the wrestler.
Here we go.
- [Brian] Here we go.
There you go.
Just like that.
Oh, she's not gonna go.
That's weird, she almost always goes in the tree.
- You think I was lying when I told you I was a pro?
- [Brian] I know, right?
There she goes.
There she goes up.
- Dang, woo!
- Look at her she goes right back up--
- [Miguel] Oh, you were being serious?
She does go up there.
- Yeah yeah, that's what she does.
It's like she's got O.C.D.
She's a reticulated python with O.C.D.
(laughs)
that was fun.
That's a nice little break from the insanity
of getting ready for the Reptarium to open tomorrow.
So, that was fun.
So honestly you can kinda see that it's a disaster
in here 'cause we got stuff all over the place.
That's because we have so much work
to get done today and early tomorrow.
Because we have some tours tomorrow, too.
So tomorrow is almost a wash.
We've gotta almost really get everything done today
to be totally honest with you.
We're still putting a bunch of plants up over here.
We gotta fill the tank, the turtle tank,
up a little bit.
Hide these cords.
So on like that.
We just gotta clean Ivy up a little bit.
She pooped in her water.
So I've gotta drain that.
Gotta get that done.
Get the glasses clean like I showed you earlier.
Jay's working on a bunch of glasses.
Gotta move a handful more animals into enclosures.
Still some fixturing up down here.
You can see Lorna's still dusting over here.
Gotta paint that door brown.
I keep saying, doors gotta be painted brown
'cause it just doesn't look that good.
You know what it is?
Obviously we're gonna have to seam
all of this stuff up here.
That's not gonna happen by tomorrow.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
Think the birthday party room is in good shape.
This is also where the VIP party's
gonna be kind of happening.
A little thing left with the snake massage room.
Just gotta kind of straighten it up.
Obviously we're not gonna get a chance
to fixture this out.
It's just gonna have to be what it's gonna be.
Just clean up in here.
Let's see what else we got
fish farm looks like it's completely done.
We are not gonna have the croc monitor for the ope--
I'm gonna go down to Desiree and Steven Kush.
Of course my old buddy Forrest.
I'll talk about this in the future, guys.
I know some people have asked me about it.
I'm gonna dedicate a vlog to my friend Forrest,
but why haven't talked about it is honestly,
emotionally it's just been a little bit difficult for me.
So bare with me.
I promise there'll be more news on that.
We're getting there,
and tomorrow is gonna be a party, man.
This weekends gonna be a bash.
It's gonna be amazing.
And I'm gonna just put all this stress behind
and just enjoy every minute of it.
So we're just moistening this cage up
because I'm pretty excited about the animals
that are gonna come over for this enclosure.
This, by no means, will be their end place, at all.
This is for short term,
but they need a lot of humidity.
They like a lot of moisture.
As well as aquatic ness to it.
So, you'll see what I got coming over.
I unboxed 'em a couple weeks ago,
and people are gonna love these things.
They're so cool,
but again really dampening up the bedding.
And then we'll put a nice little water basin in there
for the kind of go in.
And then some climbing something.
It's gonna be cool. So , lets just go get 'em,
and you'll see what I'm putting in here. That's right,
these are the two little monkeys
that are going over.
Of course my caiman Lizards, unbelievable.
Again, these are gonna get pretty large
so this enclosures just gonna be a temporary
fix, for sure,
but here in the next, probably,
six months or so I got an idea
of where I'm gonna put these guys
that will be for at least another couple years.
So, super cool animals.
Dream animals, for sure.
So lets just go ahead
slowly get 'em over to this new place
and get 'em set up.
And people are gonna freak out when they see these guys.
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Again, not exactly the most beautiful set up, right here.
So we'll fix something else up.
Put this kind of log here for them to crawl on.
They can get under here, kinda stuff like that.
Look at how cool these things are.
I mean, they are ridiculous.
Some of the coolest lizards ever in the world.
But again, very aquatic lizards,
so a lot of people make the mistake of setting
these guys up without a big water basin.
So like I said, we'll have Stuart
maybe make us something that looks more naturalistic
than this Tupperware bowl in here.
But, for now this is gonna work
at least for the opening weekend.
And like I said, I have an idea for them
here in the next several months.
Where they can grow really large and be really cool.
So, I'm just gonna release this little monkey,
and they look dope, wow.
We got some of our signage going up here
Reptarium exclusive plushies.
We've got feeding,
we've got this, like massage,
we got the fish (mumbles)
Laurie, what's the high priority on your list right now?
Just everything?
- Everything (laughs)
- Yeah I know,
we're running out of time.
We're like 20,
I think it's about 24 hours right now
away from open, so, holy cow.
- Lot to do.
- Did you see the door in the back
that needs to get painted, though?
The painted door, brown?
Next up, I'm gonna go ahead
and use this cage here for my guy Jeffrey.
Of course, the hypo granite Burmese python.
Giving him a nice big enclosure.
Something that's easy to get him out of.
'cause he's gonna be a hit over here.
So, lets get this habitat set up,
and bring him on over.
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This snake is gonna look so good in this enclosure.
I can just see him climbing up on the big rocks,
and just kind of draping all over.
He's gonna love it.
"There you go, Jeffrey."
"There you go, buddy."
"Go and explore."
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One more animal that's gonna come over today,
and we're close to being done,
but we are gonna move a couple things
over here too, so.
I guess we're never really done,
but by tomorrow we'll be done.
Lets work on this gate.
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Next snake is actually Cupcake, the giant boa constrictor.
Now we actually had her over at the Reptarium
when we first opened up and she stressed out.
She didn't like being there.
But now it's been a little over a year.
It's a different environment, different cage.
So lets see how she does.
We'll put her over there.
If she doesn't do well we can always
bring her back to BHB.
She's just such an impressive animal.
I sure would love to have her on display.
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and you guys know that I love putting
animals into new enclosures.
She's got me wrapped up good.
She is definitely a big snake.
So we're gonna go ahead and just let her in here
and see where she wants to go.
"There you go, big girl."
She is such a big snake for a boa constrictor.
Again, that's a pretty impressive
display animal right there.
So, you guys know I love this.
Moving a few animals.
I wanted to spend a little time
just watching my snakes in their new environment.
And by the way, this was gonna be my sloth display.
I'm still holding out hope that maybe one day
I'll be able to put a sloth in here.
Not with Cupcake, obviously.
But wow, she looks, she still looks big
even in this huge enclosure.
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Definitely freakin' out guys.
One more day.
Tomorrows the day.
It's exciting, right?
We've been working on this for so many months.
Tomorrow starts the new adventure of the Reptarium.
Might not be 100 percent done,
but it's gonna be 99.9 percent done.
Thank you for joining me on this journey.
Let me know in the comments what your favorite part
has been, so far.
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