- And gently what we do is,
we just again, just barely get it in her mouth.
And she seems to kinda clap down on it right away
which is always a good sign.
Come on girl!
Oh my gosh.
This is not fun.
Good morning everybody!
Welcome to the vlog.
Now with the zoo being open on the weekends,
I have to do all the maintenance
every single day, of course.
And this girl shed out.
Look at this cage.
I have to get in there and really clean that up.
Lucy looks like she's just out of the water
so we're gonna drain her water, get that back going.
She's probably gonna be shedding any day
so we'll see how that works in this cage.
This Albino Bora just shed yesterday.
It didn't mess up the cage too much
but ,again, when you're keeping things
like in the minimalistic type,
caging is much easier to get going.
With this, it's definitely gonna be a little bit harder
to keep things upkeep.
But, I'm loving it, lots of masons.
Also, I'm gonna go ahead and give you guys
an update on Cookies and Cream next door.
We're gonna spend a little time there too.
But for now, just working a little bit on The Reptarium.
Did you just come over to The Reptarium just
to get my bag of donuts?
- These are not your donuts.
- You literally came over just for donuts.
- I took out the trash too.
- A lot of people have asked us like,
how we're gonna maintain these cages
and stuff like that
because obviously it's a lot different
than say a plain cage.
So one of the things that we've done is we have
this really soft wire brush.
So with a shed like this,
you can just literally go like this
and it comes right off.
I mean it's absolutely incredible like that.
And we're gonna learn like little processes like this
and then, we can actually put this in disinfectant
between cages so that we're not spreading things
in between cages.
That's just one little trick that we've already learned.
I'm sure we're gonna have to learn a lot more as we go.
You know, it's certainly not as easy as our other cages.
There's no doubt about that.
But the good news is,
with all these rocky edges.
I mean she shed out absolutely perfectly.
And again, when she's in here with the humidity up more.
I expect her to be more full sheds unlike this one
where she kinda blow out.
But ,in the end, it really wasn't that bad.
Again, it's all a learning curve.
Like I mentioned, it's kinda shedding day here at the zoo.
I think a lot of the snakes got together and said
"Hey let's all shed today!"
So we have loves to nip.
It's look she's mostly shed.
She's got a little bit of shed left on her tail.
But we're gonna go ahead and get her out.
Maybe give her a little soak,
get the rest of that shed off,
and then clean her cage up.
This outta be fun.
You okay girl?
It's all right sweetie.
Come on girl.
Oh my gosh.
This is not fun.
It's okay.
Okay.
And in actuality, she was 100% shed off.
She just had some shed wrapped around her.
She looks absolutely gorgeous and all said and done,
she took a couple little pops at me.
But for the most part, that went pretty smoothly.
And honestly, that was like a perfect shed.
I mean there's not even any remnants in there.
So ,again, we just get her back in her cage
and move on to the next.
There's so many things that have been fulfilling
about doing this zoo.
But, I'll be honest with you.
Just seeing the animals and the way they react to things,
is amazing to me.
I mean, just take a look
at how that retic uses the rock and climbs.
This makes me so happy
because ,you know, I'm giving them an opportunity
to have enrichment,
kinda figure things out, plan things out.
And in the future, we'll be like kinda hiding food
in certain areas and give them the ability to go find it.
That'll help them as far as their enrichment goes.
So, I absolutely love this.
Last cage that I have
to clean up is my Sun-Glow Sharp Boa Constrictor.
But it looks like Nova, the Frilled Dragon,
wants to come out for a minute.
He's been hanging out right up here.
What's up Nova?
What are you doing bud?
What are you doing?
What are you doing buddy?
What's up?
There's no one that's been loving his cage more than Nova.
And he is looking so good.
He's gotten completely comfortable.
So now he's running around, he's a great display animal.
I was a little worry that he'd just be hiding all the time.
But like I said, now that he's gotten completely comfortable
with his cage.
He's out almost all the time
and it's so amazing.
Go ahead Nova.
Go ahead bud.
There you go sweetheart!
Oh my God, how awesome.
Okay let's get this boa cleaned up.
She really didn't mess her cage up too much.
She looks beautiful now that she's out of shed.
And that's the one thing again.
It seems like these animals have only been in here
for a few days but ,man, they're coming out just beautiful.
Clean sheds, no stuck shed whatsoever.
And in this case, she has a couple of little pieces.
but ,for the most part, she shed in one complete piece
which is absolutely awesome.
But, look at how gorgeous she looks!
And she was out a lot yesterday,
people absolutely loved her.
And she is a sweetheart!
Hi Bella.
Hi sweetheart, how are you?
How you doing sweetheart?
You doing good?
You ready for another fun day at The Reptarium?
It's so awesome because ,literally,
this is what happens.
Bella comes down, she wants some attention
and then she goes right back
when she's done getting enough attention.
She's absolutely amazing.
Good girl.
Back at PHV for a second,
and look at this,
we have a couple little baby Gargoyle Geckos hatched out.
And these are actually from the (inaudible)
And you can see, we have one striped animal here
and we have one blotchy animal.
Jessica is gonna be happy when she sees this.
A little Cookies and Cream update.
You can see that they're still doing really well.
And eventually, hopefully, they'll get big enough
to go in the zoo.
But for now, we're still having to assist feed them.
Again, the left head which is actually Cream,
is the only one that seems to eat
when we try to assist feed.
And we've actually just been assist feeding them
little pinkie heads.
A couple of times, Laurie has gotten them
to take an entire pinkie but most of the time
if you do a pinkie head, it takes it no problem.
or at least without any major problem.
So ,with any luck, if we continue to get this nutrition in
and it is a great sign that it actually takes it down
on its own.
So we're not force feeding,
we're just putting it in its mouth.
And it's actually eating it, that is really a good sign.
I really do believe that these guys
will eventually take off, get good,
and then we can give them over to the zoo.
And you guys can come and see 'em.
But for now, I'm gonna go ahead
and just put this in Cream's mouth
and hopefully she'll eat.
And gently what we do is, we just again,
just barely get it in her mouth.
And she seems to kinda clamp down on it right away
which is always a good sign.
Then, I'm gonna just set her down
and hopefully she's gonna eat.
And we're doing this every third day.
So we're getting lots of nutrition in this way.
So let's go ahead set her down, leave her alone,
and hopefully she's gonna eat it.
And success!
They did eat.
A little bit unorthodox, but at least they are eating
and that's all that matters.
Nutrition in, they're passing stuff.
I know they're gonna get going
as long as we can keep this up.
I have faith they're gonna get going.
And I cannot wait till they're big enough
to get on display over at the zoo.
And ,speaking of the zoo,
lets go make our final preparations
before we open the door.
Oh my gosh!
Look at all these Albino Honduran Milk snakes
that hatched out.
Oh man!
They're so amazing!
And this one kinda reminds me,
remember last year when we hatched that Albino Honduran.
They'd almost look like the candy from the Halloween
like the candy corn or whatever they ended up calling it.
Oh my gosh!
This one looks almost just like it.
Just not as wide yellow bands.
Again, I had never really hatched Albino Hondurans
that had yellow bands like this before.
And now that's two years in a row.
Of course, the other one is growing up
and looking amazing.
And here it is, right here.
How cool is that!
You can ,again, see that really big, wide yellow band.
Again, I had never really produced any
of them like that before.
This one last year
but ,as you can see, it looks even cooler now
that its got some age to it.
So it's pretty cool
that the line seems to continue to produce.
I'll probably hang on to that one too and raise it up.
And see if we can polymorphically produce Albino Hondurans
that have big, wide yellow bands.
Hey buddy, this is a family channel.
Slow down.
These guys, I swear to God, these tortoises are crazy.
And tomorrow at the zoo, we're actually planning
on getting Rick and Morty's cage ready.
So we're gonna get the turtle tanks plumbed in.
Get a nice little decoration going on
with Rick and Morty.
I'm really excited to have them on display next weekend
so when everyone comes they can see that.
And that's kinda the plan,
it's to start to not only finish
all the little things that we're doing.
And then, go back and re-fixture out the things
that we kinda have to do fast
because we're like "We gotta get these cages going!"
So there is a lot of cool enclosures
that were gonna go to.
As a matter of fact, down in the comments.
Let me know, out of what you've seen,
what you like to see us improve or change
and how you'd like to do it.
Down in the comments, let me know.
And hey, if you guys have a great idea,
I promise I'll give you credit and we'll do it.
The thing that's amazing about today
which is actually Sunday,
I think you guys will be watching on this Tuesday,
is that Sundays seem to be big for kids.
I mean, a lot of kids have come through
and I absolutely love it.
I mean don't get me wrong, I love adults coming through
and being passionate about animals.
But when kids come through, oh my gosh,
it is just so cool.
I mean they have so much fun.
And you guys know that I love the fact
that people come in that have never held a snake.
Now, you said you like snakes but you've never held them.
- Yes.
- So this is your very first snake.
You ready?
- Yes.
- This is a Pastel Piebald Ball Python.
And there you go.
Look at you, you're like a pro.
Oh my gosh, what do you think?
- It's super cool.
It feels so weird.
- So this is awesome.
Like I said, this is a thing that I really live for
and there's been probably 15 maybe even 20 people
this weekend that literally came in.
They had never touched a snake before.
I am so happy that this is happening.
This is what I envisioned and I can't even believe it,
but this is awesome.
As we're getting close to close here,
on the last day of the weekend for The Reptarium.
I think today was more typical of what we're gonna see
because the majority of people were really local.
You know, within an hour driving range
or something like that.
It was really good to see all the kids that came out.
I think the couple days before that,
we had people traveling from a long, long way.
Which ,by the way, thank you guys so much.
Some people traveling about just eight or nine hours,
I don't think we're gonna see that often.
I think that every now and then,
we're gonna have someone traveling
but I'm really excited
that the local community really came out and supported.
And I hope that this is what we're gonna see
every time we're open.
For now, we have the next four days off, closed.
We're back to building some stuff up,
getting the turtle tanks ready.
Niching those back track stuff like that.
So I'm excited to get back to work
and getting the animals a little bit of a break.
Let them de-stress from all this.
It's an adjustment period for the animals as well
but tonight was an absolute success.
So with that said, I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog.
And call it a complete and utter success for the opening.
But ,again, the build starts tomorrow.
We're back to building tomorrow
so we have a long way to go.
But thank you guys for joining me, watching.
Thank you guys for coming out and doing this.
I hope that you're not gonna abandon me now.
I mean, it's been so amazing that you guys have shown me
so much support here.
I hope now that we're kinda done ,even though,
we still have a long way to go.
That you guys don't go
"All right I'm sick of it now, I'm bored."
I really hope that you stick around.
Trust me.
We have so many great things ahead of me
and your support means the world to me.
I truly do love you guys so much.
Can you do me a couple of favors before we get out of here?
Can you smash that like button,
turn on those post notifications
so that you know when I upload a video.
Make a comment down below and let me know what you thought
about the grand opening weekend.
Be kind to someone
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
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