- What can go wrong with swimming in a
58,000 gallon predator pond?
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Oh my Gosh, that was a close call!
I got to get these out of here without her biting.
(shocked exclamations)
Oh my Gosh, she-
Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
Kinda old school style intro for you right there.
I'm actually with my boy here, Toothless,
just kinda spending a little bit of quality time with him,
and actually thinking about some of the things
I'm going to be doing at the zoo in the next day or so,
and that is moving some animals around,
and kinda doing some new displays, so
Toothless is getting pretty big for his environment so
what I think I'm gonna do is actually take the
Grettel's Carpet Python and get that back over
to BHB and get it into a breeding cycle for next year
cos we didn't breed her this year,
and I think this is gonna be an absolutely
amazing enclosure for Toothless, it's four foot
by four foot by four foot, so it's gonna give him
lots of room and lots of things to do, so I
think he's gonna look absolutely wonderful in there
and it's just gonna give us an ability to see him
even more which is gonna be really cool,
cos as Toothless gets bigger he's gonna have to
continue to stay so habituated to handling.
What an absolutely amazing animal
and a great disposition, after going out to
Steve at Leap and Leeches and seeing some of his
bigger ones, I was like, Oh my God,
I cannot wait until Toothless gets four or five
or even six foot long.
Regardless, so that's one of the things we're
gonna be changing this week.
Another animal that's about to get an upgrade
is another jet black animal, of course, this is
NightFury, the Golden Child Motley,
that is ridiculous.
He's getting really big and he's definitely
gonna need a bigger enclosure too,
so what I think I'm gonna do is, we're actually
gonna take Sunny the Sharp Albino Boa and we're
gonna put that back over at BHB too because
Bruce and Jessica are really excited about breeding
Boas next year, and they're like, can we try
to breed Sunny?
And I'm like, sure no problem.
So, I think that's what's gonna happen because
I'll be totally honest with ya, a lot of people don't
handle Sunny for whatever reason.
I think it's an amazing animal but I think that if
NightFury was in this cage right here, just look at how
beautiful that would look and people could really
see NightFury, plus he's gonna get much much larger
quicker, he is growing like a week for sure.
I think even more people would want to hold him
so I think we're gonna go ahead and switch
this one out so that's another upgrade,
which means we're gonna have two cages, of course,
Toothless and NightFury's cages that we need new
animal ambassadors for.
And I was thinking for NightFury's cage,
maybe a couple Ackie Monitors,
maybe some red Ackies, they're kind of a
dwarf Monitor, they don't get really big.
They could stay in here for quite a while.
When they get to full grown adult, we'd have to
move them up to something bigger,
but for probably a year or so they would stay in here
and they'd be really cool.
They're a real active Monitor, which is really cool
and I just have always wanted to keep them.
So I don't know, maybe some Ackies for this cage
and then the next question is, what are we going to
do for Toothless' cage up here?
I just don't have an idea right now,
I mean we always have a lot of animals,
but let me know in the comments if you can think
of something that would be really good for
36 by two foot by 20 inch cage, right here.
You can see lots of rocks and crevices
and stuff like that.
I think I wanna put something that's really awesome.
The only downside to that cage, of course,
is that it's kinda up high so we don't want something
that kinda burrows down because
then people will never see it,
but it's kinda cool that we'll be able to,
not only move a couple animals up,
but we'll also be able to get a couple more
Ambassadors at the zoo.
Let me know what you guys think about it.
I definitely wanna make sure I'm putting something
really awesome in here.
Uh oh, look who shed guys.
Lucy shed her-
She's got a little piece of stuff still on her,
but for the most part, looks like she's shed the
rest of her-
Which means that we are less than 30 days away
probably from a clutch of eggs from this beauty,
and she had spent the last couple of days in the water
before she shed off, and guess what?
She's right back to where I said,
I think she's gonna lay her eggs.
I'm almost positive that's where it's gonna be.
Definitely gonna be really exciting.
Wow guys, we are less than a month away from
hopefully a beautiful clutch of eggs from this girl.
But now the downside of, I've gotta clean this cage.
I have something that's really exciting to share with you.
Look at this, oh my Gosh!
Look at that Mangrove Snake, beautiful.
Well she was loaded up with eggs and guess what?
Oh, Geez!
Relax, oh my Gosh, that was a close call.
Whoa, come on girl!
It's okay, it's okay,
oh gotta get these out of here without her biting.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, oh my Gosh!
Okay, okay, okay.
Gotta shut that cage really quick,
we're gonna take a look at these eggs.
Oh my Gosh, she was upset definitely!
She's like, Lucy, as a Momma,
she's a mean little mugger here.
So take a look at this guys, look at-
two, four, six, eight, beautiful eggs
from this Mangrove girl.
They look a little desiccated, cos this
dried out just a little bit so we'll get 'em
in an egg box, we'll put a little bit of
moss on top of them, to get them rehydrated
and we should be good to go.
Oh my Gosh!
Mangrove eggs again!
This is so exciting!
We've got a couple other females that are
due to lay some beautiful eggs too here.
But basically that's really the first clutch of the year
so I'm super excited.
How awesome is that?
Guys, that was pretty exciting.
I just pulled some Mangrove eggs.
- Oh yeah?
- Oh my God, but that female got so close,
I mean she was upset, she was upset!
It was crazy, was really cool.
We're actually gonna wrap up here
because we're going to see some cool fish.
Everyone knows that Eric is a fish-head.
- Love it!
- So coming with us?
- I don't think I want to.
- Why?
- Why not?
- Because we almost died on our last road trip, I don't-
- That is true, we did have a really close call
where literally this trailer was in the middle
of the road, just stopped.
No lights, anything, and we're doing-
This is the middle of the night, so we're literally
doing like 75 miles an hour, and literally
inches.
- Oh my God!
- It was so scary!
- But we're gonna be fine tonight,
don't worry about it.
And the word is, is that I'm not sure guys
but, this guy has huge fish.
He turned his swimming pool into a fish tank
and the word is, is we're gonna be able to go swimming.
Did you bring your swim trunks?
- I bought my swim trunks, got my waterproof case
on the GoPro there so I can get some up close-
- I don't know for sure that's gonna happen,
but that's what they told us.
They said we could go swimming with these huge fish
in this swimming pool so it's gonna be epic,
so we're gonna wrap up here.
I think that Noah and Eric are gonna shoot
this little piece about taming the [Inaudible 05:48].
Put a link in the description,
you guys can definitely see that.
As for now, we're gonna wrap up,
we're gonna get out on the road.
I think it's about a three and a half hour drive
to Cleaveland.
About an hour outside of Cleaveland, my buddy Dan
here from [Inaudible 05:59],
put a link in the description.
Go show him some love.
Of course Eric and Mary, are you guys excited?
Now these guys have actually, these guys have actually
seen this place.
I haven't even seen it online so it's really-
- It's so cool, I can't believe we're actually going there.
Big Rich!
- Big Rich, I hear this guy's a character.
Of course my buddy Greg, Paul Kefaro is coming.
So we're gonna meet up with Paul and who else?
I don't know who else is gonna be there.
It's gonna be awesome, we are an hour away,
and I guess we're gonna see some really cool fish.
So we made it here to Ohio Fish Rescue, we've got
Greg in the pond, we've got Paul,
Predator Prince in the house.
This is absolutely incredible, look at this!
This is a big fish tank, what do you have for me Greg?
- [Vlogger] What the Heck? Is this just in here?
- A little Caiman just swimming in here, how cool is that?
This is called Fantasy Land.
- [Vlogger] Oh my Gosh, what the world?
Oh, I'm definitely gonna be getting in here man.
This looks awesome, oh there's a ton of fish,
they're moving a bunch of stuff in here,
there's a bunch of fish rooms, oh my God.
This place is insane.
Just released the Platinum Alligator Gar, holy cow!
That is an unbelievable fish, I mean, can you believe this?
They're just releasing- we're gonna get the chance
to go in and swim a little bit later.
Oh my God, this place is unbelievable, I mean,
it's crazy, I love it!
- Speechless, I really, it's just surreal
to be here after watching it and stuff.
It's so cool, isn't it?
It's crazy, it's crazy.
- [Vlogger] Mary, you're worried about this
being your house one day, right?
- Yes, very much so.
- [Vlogger] One day, one day.
- It's gonna happen, we're gonna build it for you.
- Yes!
- Well they're gonna be releasing fish kinda all night,
and then we're gonna be like I said just having a good time
and get a chance to get in the water.
Eric's gonna go swimming.
- Oh yeah, oh, bought the trunks, bought the shirt.
There's a lot of people, okay, I'm a little shy.
- There's another Platinum Alligator Gar right here.
- Well this is Big Rich's backroom, where really
all the fish were.
Now you said you've seen this side in the video.
- Yes!
- Stuff like that?
So you can see all these guys are in here,
we've got fish all, got some Rays over here.
A bunch of Rays over here, look at this tank here.
So this is like the big one right?
- Dude, look it's next to me, it's just as tall as I am!
I think it's a 4500 gallon, if I'm not mistaken.
45, 4800.
- [Vlogger] Oh my Gosh.
- [Eric] Dream tank, look at that!
There's fish in here!
- [Vlogger] Big Arowana, you've got Oh my God.
- [Eric] Giant Gouramis
- [Vlogger] Giant Gourami.
- [Eric] I don't know what that thing is,
that thing looks like a Sturgeon.
- [Vlogger] It almost looks Sturgeonesque, yeah.
That's crazy.
So this place is insane, I mean you can just kinda
go, right we've got all the whitefish over here,
another huge tank here, Oh my God,
there's just all kinds of stuff.
Are these Silver Barb, is that what they call them?
- Tinfoil Barbs!
- [Vlogger] Tinfoil Barbs!
- [Eric] Yep, yep!
These are pretty small, they'll get quite a bit
bigger actually.
- [Vlogger] Oh my God, holy cow!
When I go to reptile places, I get super excited
well Eric and Mary are getting super excited
about these fish things.
- They're cool dude!
(laughing)
- [Vlogger] Look at these, Oh my Gosh.
Now is this, what they call a Clown Blade?
- Clown Knife!
- [Vlogger] Clown Knife!
- [Eric] Yep, yep, yep.
Looks like an Asian Arowana.
- [Vlogger] What the heck is that?
- [Eric] Some kind of Peacock Bass, I've never seen one
that color before, Peacock Bass, very cool.
- [Vlogger] Of course got the [Inaudible 09:18] Over here.
Got some sort of Catfish.
Everywhere you look there's just huge fish here so,
we're having a good time.
We're gonna go ahead and get in the big pond
or pool, or fish tank, whatever you want to call it.
We're gonna do that a little bit,
try to see if we can just swim around.
Get some underwater footage and stuff like that.
But then lots of people are rolling in
and we're having a great time.
Eric and myself are gonna go swimming around.
There's, what is in here?
- That's Ragtail Catfish, there's some Alligator Gar,
there's a Giant Gourami, there's a few other species
of kinda Amazonian Catfish, so, just watch your toes.
- Oh my Gosh, so these are Predator fish, right?
- Predator tank, yes.
- So, could go wrong swimming in a
58,000 gallon Predator Pond.
Alright, let's go check and see what we can find.
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Oh my Gosh, I tell you what, this is amazing, right?
- Incredible!
- Oh my God, Mary?
- It's just awesome!
- I mean, guys, I don't even know-
- There's a four foot Alligator Gar in here!
- It's crazy, that was right up and touched it.
Oh my Gosh, no it was fine!
It was totally fine, oh my Gosh, I mean,
I need one of these at the reptarium.
- Please!
- Could you imagine if we had this,
like Alligators floating around, oh my Gosh.
- I'm telling right now.
- I would love to have this experience offered somehow
where you could get in with again Alligators,
maybe a big Python.
I've talked about it before, oh my Gosh, and doing this
is so cool!
- Incredible, incredible!
There's a 40 pound Redtail Catfish in here.
This is insane!
- It was literally just at our feet.
- Humping our feet.
- Oh my Gosh, this is awesome, guys,
definitely worth the drive.
Absolutely great place, I'll put a link
in the description to the Ohio Fish Rescue
if you guys want to show them some love.
Definitely a cool place if you're in Ohio,
definitely look up Big Rich.
He is a character, let me just tell you what,
and a great guy, so come see him!
- [Crowd] Five, four, three, two, one!
- Sometimes love is just in the air,
y'know what I mean?
This is one of the cutest things, look at it.
I'll be honest with you, I'm not sure if that's love
or if that's two males fighting but,
nevertheless, there's a lot of kissing going on here.
Y'know it's beautiful.
Take a look at this, a little Cuvier's Caiman.
These things are incredible and earlier this
was actually just swimming around in the pond.
I thought that it was going to still be in there
when we were swimming around because I thought,
Oh my God, that would be cool, but I tell you what,
these guys are really athletic.
Look at those little chompers right there.
You don't want to get hit by this, cos
even an animal this size, is definitely
gonna inflict some damage.
It'll be really difficult.
It's not like an Alligator, trust me.
An Alligator is a lot less than this,
and it is an absolutely beautiful,
just look at that!
Absolutely chiseled look on its face, prehistoric.
I tell you what, he's a feisty little monkey too but
absolutely gorgeous, I love this little dude!
I tell you what, what an absolutely amazing place,
an amazing time, met a bunch of great people,
had a great time swimming around with a bunch of these fish.
And guess what?
They're actually gonna hook me up with a bunch
of really cool fish [Inaudible 12:36]
so everyone's gonna be happy.
And it's gonna make that front pond really cool so,
definitely I appreciate these guys for supporting me.
We'll do a collab when they bring them up, and release
them and all that stuff.
But we're gonna make sure the fish are great,
they're experts, I'm certainly not, I cannot
be more excited about that future.
Hopefully that'll happen in the next y'know
two three weeks whatever the case may be.
Let me know guys what you thought of this.
Such an amazing experience, sometimes it's good
to just kind of step away from what you're used to,
and the normal thing, with the reptariam,
and all BHB and all that stuff
and just hang around some awesome stuff like this
and like I said I'm going to the Monster Fish
Bashdown at the end of May so again
I'll put a link in the description for that,
if you guys are in the Jupiter, Florida area
or in that kind of area over there, I'll definitely
be there, we're gonna have a great time with Paul
Kefaro, Joey from King of DIY will be there, Catchemall
all kinds of great people, all kinds of stuff.
So it's gonna be a really good time.
Until then I'm just gonna go ahead and end the vlog.
We're gonna have a four hour drive back, and just
start to chill out.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it, have an absolutely
amazing day, I love you guys!
Be kind to someone, I promise, I'll see you tomorrow!
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