- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
You know I'm gonna get my day started
by climbing in Ivy's cage, that's right.
Time to feed Ivy, come on, big girl.
And of course we'll gonna switch it up this week
and we're gonna be go a little smaller with the meal.
But she is a ferocious eater when it comes to rabbits.
Huh, where you at, girl?
Where you at?
Oh!
Oh, oh, oh!
Oh sheesh!
Come on, come on.
Oh God!
Come on, girl.
Get it, get it, get it.
Oh, oh.
Come on girl.
Arghh, shiet.
Hooo!
I tell you what, that's a little intimidating guys.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
When you're kinda stuck in here, I can't get out
of this cage, you know,
so, it's gonna be a lot of adrenaline going.
Regardless, I'm climbing outta here.
Again we switched up and fed her a little bit
of a smaller meal to her this week
after some really big pigs and stuff like that.
And, I've mentioned that we're with four days away
from the install of the reptarium.
And, I cannot wait to get Ivy on that new cage, you know.
It's just gonna be so incredible
to see her in that giant cage with a huge water basin.
I'm anxious to see how is she gonna act
because I've always been surprise how much time she spends
on land and not in the soaking, in the water.
That she even climbs up on these crevices.
So, we gave her some ledges and stuff like this
in this new environment but she can also be in the water.
It's gonna be really wild.
But, that's just one thing
that I'm super anticipating to the expansion,
which again, is only four days away.
See if Jeffrey wants to eat today.
He certainly looks pretty interested in food.
Come on, Jeffrey.
(laughing softly) Here you go.
It is not just the fact that we get the opportunity
to add additional animals which is amazing
because again learning the behavior
of different things is what so incredible
about keeping animals and in particular
with these things like the reptarium, right?
We got the opportunity to really look
at the behavior side of things.
Which is been really life-changing.
I've said this a ton of times
that literally changed my perception of how to keep animals,
and how to interact with animals.
I mean, honestly, I've been very, very, very forthcoming
with the saying that I was wrong in the past
thinking that reptiles are more simple
than they actually are
as far as the intelligence goes.
So, it's cool not only to add new animals
but also an animal like Jeffrey here
that's been fine in this enclosure
for the last couple of months but his getting big now.
Getting opportunity to get him into a larger exhibit
and see how he interacts with that new exhibit.
See how he grows and stuffs like that.
I mean, that's what's so cool about it.
Not only adding additional animals
and additional species so that we can
kinda learn the in's and out's of keeping those.
But also, the fact that we
can take animals we're already keeping them.
Getting them in new enclosures and just letting them blossom
into the beautiful animal ambassadors that they're becoming.
Here Peaches.
Come on, come on silly.
Ah, there it is.
Of course, Peaches's that Hypo Honduran Milk Snake.
I mean, what an absolutely gorgeous animal right there.
And, we will be adding some more colubrids
to the reptarium as well.
In particular, we got a bull snake, we got some corn snakes.
A handful of other colubrids that are gonna go over there.
And I think their gonna just be really cool.
Coz, really we do have some colubrids here.
Some rats snakes obviously, milk snakes.
We have Mexican black kings.
We got of course Pepper, the hognose snake.
But, we don't have enough colubrids in my opinion.
So, adding something like a bullsnake
and a couple other animals,
I think they're gonna be really cool additions.
And, I think people are gonna get a real kick out
of handling animals different than what we have over here.
Hey Diddy, hey, Dixie!
What's going on guys?
Hi, hi guys!
You want some food? (laughs)
Diddy is getting to a point now
where he's almost like a balla where I offer him food.
These are little treat todos food from Missouri.
And, he's just more interested in pats than he has food.
But looks like Dixie's gonna come down.
Dixie, come on, come on, buddy.
Come on, let's go, come on down.
Come on Dixie, come on, let's go.
All the way down, girl.
Come on, over here.
Come on buddy, come on.
There you go. (chucking softly)
Oh my god, so obviously,
we have been talking about the fact
that these guys are gonna get in a huge 12-foot floor
to ceiling enclosure.
It's gonna be crazy, I mean they're gonna get lost in there
to be totally honest with you.
But, I'm excited also that we're gonna
be putting on other cyclura.
Now, these are Rhino iguanas.
There is something that's called a Cuban iguana
and they're actually Lewisi hybrid.
And they're similar to these guys
but they have a little longer snout.
They have some blues in them and stuff like that.
So, we're gonna be actually adding a male Lewisi Hybrid
over to the new reptarium expansion too.
I've never worked with those guys.
The only cyclura that I worked with
have been the Rhino iguanas.
So it's gonna be pretty exciting
to get an enclosure over there with the Lewisi.
Definitely a different animal.
Hopefully, they'll be as tamed
as Diddy, and Dexie, and Bella.
But, it's definitely the exhibit I'm excited about,
both Diddy and Dexie on, and the Lewisi hybrid.
Excited every time we get something
to add to the due expansion, it's always exciting.
My buddy, Ritchel, Grab Reptile Basics.
Sent us all our thermostats, which is really cool
according to the VE-300 by Vivarium.
I like them, yeah, there's a lot cool things.
Herpstat are really good, stuff like that.
Good friends with Ritchel, Grab Reptile Basics.
So, he always takes care of me.
So, I do my business with them.
And so, we have all our thermostats
for all the new enclosures, so that is dope.
One more thing to check off the list.
- Yo!
- [Brian] What's your favorite podcast man?
- That's a tough, there's a lot of good ones out there.
I would say
it's definitely an adult humor.
just for you kids out there, don't go looking it up
but it's about I know this sounds pretty psycho
but it's about like different serial killers
and it kinda gets in their minds, and different stories.
But, I like the way they tell the story, it's pretty good.
- We've been talking about the
Bill Cosby and all the other unfortunate incidents
with that and, it's been very interesting,
like I actually like it a lot.
- It's entertaining.
- Well, like what you guys see,
these guys all love Checking In podcast.
So, obviously it's their favorite podcast.
I appreciate that, guys.
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(upbeat music)
Casper is always fun to feed.
The reason I film it all the time
is because, I'll be honest with you,
you never know what gonna happen when your feeding this guy.
Wooh!
Oh, shoot, I dropped my rat.
Oh!
Oh, Casper!
Watch out, Casper, Casper!
Hold up. (nervously laughing)
Like I said, never a dull moment.
You definitely don't wanna drop your rat
and go down on the ground with Casper around
coz he's just striking out like crazy.
What an awesome animal though!
Watch where you're sliding.
Here's one.
I guess she doesn't care at all.
(cymbals clanging)
That's enough
There you go, girl.
(upbeat music)
- Tell you what, she found this corner
over here where she can hide it.
Now, she's going back there up a lot.
I wasn't sure if she was gonna come out
and actually but she did.
She's a great a animal.
And yo, as excited as I am about the reptarium,
I mean it is excited as I am about the expansion
and all the new animals.
I'm still super excited
about stuff that I'm breeding like Ball pythons.
It's looking like it's gonna be a really awesome year.
And listen, Kelsy did an amazing job for us
when she was her.
And Mary has stepped up and really matched that,
which is surprising coz I thought
it was gonna take her a year or two to get the hang of it.
She started really well, that's not to say
that Kelsy is a miss, I'm just saying that Mary's
doing amazing job and it looks like we're gonna
have an absolute banger of a python breeding season.
Look at my little sloths.
We actually have the Wild Republic sales rep out
for the gift shop next door and he gave us a bunch of toys.
So, thank you for that, more sloths in my life.
- [Brian] Cory, what you do with all my plushies?
- [Cory] What?
- [Brian] Phoebe's like "Oh, new toys!"
Literally, they gave us all these plushies?
- Yeah, these are the samples.
- Samples? - So, we can figure out
what wanna buy. - Oh my god!
These are all mine, right?
- Sure. - I can play with all these?
- Yeah but not until - Look at this
- I am done. - little dinosaur,
motorized heads.
- Yeah, those are for you.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh! This is so dope. (laughs)
I'm so excited!
- I know, Phoebe's
gonna like this one. - Oh my god
(toy squeaks)
(both laugh)
- Christmas came on second time this year
We're gonna try to actually give Matilda a little treat
for a tomato,
she's never had a tomato. - she's so excited to eat
- [Brian] Look at how they lift, she's like,
she's so excited. - What do you think
about this, girl?
Huh, what you think about that?
- [Brian] Oh, she gonna bit her gift.
Oh, I think she likes it!
Oh my god!
Do you think that Jack used to feed her tomatoes?
- I don't know,
I actually - Because she was excited
as soon as you put in there. (laughs)
Oh my god!
- I was just talking to someone who had
a tortoise that said that this is one
of their tortoise's favorite treats.
- And of course you know, you don't wanna feed them that
that often, it is a fruit.
Fruits aren't really great long term
for these things, but as a treat once in a while,
certainly not gonna be a problem
and she absolutely loves it.
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Alright my girl, Perdida here.
Come on, sweetheart.
You're ready to eat?
Oh yes, she is ready to go.
Come on, little monkey.
Let's go, there.
Oh, you got it's leg, you silly dog, you. (laughs)
Now, Perdida is actually gonna stay here
right were she's at, at least for the time being
until she gets too large for this enclosure.
But, I am excited that we're gonna be able
to bring Momo, the other Cow Reticulated python
over there as well as Almachino.
And the thing that was really cool
when we open up this part of the reptarium,
is just learning the animals.
How they were gonna react differently to way they were.
The way they gonna feed, what were they gonna feed on.
So I'm really excited to see that transition
as well as the fact that it's gonna be super cold
that right now everybody loves to handle Perdida.
Will everyone like to handle Momo?
Will there be new animal?
Will Almachino start to be kind
of that like golden animal that everyone wants?
I don't know, that's why it's so cool about the anticipation
and just kind of dream of this things kinda coming together.
And now that we're so close, it is ridiculously exciting.
Sunrise!
Like the food?
Come on.
There she is, what a beautiful animal.
And again, like I've mention, I'm gonna move Sunrise
actually over to the new place.
Give her a just a little bit different style of cage.
She's gonna have some climbing.
A full floor-to-ceiling type of cage.
It's gonna be amazing.
Also, we wanna make sure that we have stuff over there
that's gonna pull people to that side as well.
So, we wanna kinda have some animals here,
some animals there that come out all the time.
Sunrise is definitely one
of the most popular snakes we have here.
So, having her over there kinda draw people that way.
Not that I think we're gonna have problem with that anyways
but again we're gonna try to disperse things over.
And then we'll figure something out cool for this enclosure.
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Guys just take a look, all the ceilings in now.
Unbelievable!
It looks so good, we just had a little bit of touch-up
on the actual dry wall that we have to go back sand
and actually painted, just to make it look good.
Obviously, we're not painting this wall
coz it's gonna be a rack dock.
Not painting that wall cause there's gonna be cages
all along that, but the rooms their self,
the ceilings are all done, it's getting so close
like I'd mentioned four days away from install.
And we are right there.
I think we're gonna make it.
I think it's not gonna be too stressful.
Fingers crossed anyway.
Still keeping an eye on that weather.
And if everything goes well guys,
like I had mention, March 13th.
That's right, Friday the 13th, March 13
will be the opening day, it's a Friday.
And then we'll have an after-party Friday.
We'll also have have a big event on Saturday
and an after-party Saturday, if you guys can't make it out
on a Friday, but if you wanna plan
and come see the new repatarium,
everything wide open, please come that weekend.
It's gonna be an absolute incredible time.
Like I mentioned earlier, you know,
these animals always act a little bit differently, right?
And Sneya is actually went on that big long hunger strike
that for a long time, he didn't wanna eat.
And now we had to kinda figure out
how to get him going again.
One of the things he absolutely loves
is little frozen rabbits, you know.
He didn't seem to be as interested in eating rats.
Although my friend, Rhonda, feed him rats often.
So it was kinda weird that he came here,
he kinda changed his whole mentality.
Now that we got it figured out, he's crushing it.
Back to working in the stands for the enclosures upstairs.
So again we again we have to elevate them 11 inches
so that their kinda set and stuff like that.
So I think I have maybe four or more cages to do.
So we're getting close to being done with that.
And then that's another thing we can check off our list.
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