- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
I'm not gonna lie, I'm freaking out a little bit.
You know, I really am.
Four days left 'til this place is open.
Still a lot to do as you guys can see.
We'll talk about it later in the vlog what's left.
But I'm gonna start the vlog
actually by moving some of the baby frillies
up here because obviously right now
we have them kind of on a table that's up front
that's like right over here.
This table needs to basically go away when we open up.
So I'm gonna put some baby frillies
over there to start my day.
And then insanity, guys.
The next four days, craziness.
I hope that you guys will enjoy it.
Friday the 13th is the open.
It's gonna be crazy.
Regardless, let's just jump into it.
I'm gonna try to calm down.
Let's calm down together.
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These little monkeys, they are so absolutely adorable.
I love 'em.
So we're just gonna move the three older ones.
We're just gonna move actually four little bit bigger ones
so they have a little bit more room and stuff like that.
Of course this is Big Maclin right here.
He's the one that was born with
a little bit of a kink in his tail.
I love this little dude here.
So these guys are gonna be awesome here.
I can't wait to see 'em.
And we wanted to put something that's
a little bit arboreal up top.
'Cause obviously it's high up
and people won't really be able to see it that much.
So if we can put animals that climb in their arboreal
that's the way to go.
We've got one other enclosure over here
that we have to still figure out what to do.
I've got a couple ideas, not sure.
But let's just go ahead and release these little monkeys
into here and see what they're gonna do.
I think they're gonna absolutely love it in here,
to be honest with you.
I'm just gonna kinda put them all over the place.
They got lots of room to climb around
and kind of explore and stuff like that.
Lots of rocky crevices and stuff like that.
So it's gonna be really cool.
And again, the thing that's nice is
because they're arboreal, they'll be up high.
People can see them.
We can take them out a lot.
Keep them real habituated and socialized
much like Nova is, obviously, so.
Cool, excellent.
That's one project done for the day.
Lots more of this type of stuff coming
over the next coming days, guys.
We have to have all these enclosures filled up,
obviously by the time we open up.
But the big thing I have to really focus on,
well, one of the big things
I have to focus on today is this.
I want to get this looking as presentable as possible.
Probably won't be done 100% today,
but close to being done today.
So that I can get fish in here within the next couple days
so that they can acclimate a little bit before the weekend.
Also have to work on the massage room today, so.
I tell ya guys, busy day.
Let's just jump in.
A lot of people have been asking
what's been happening with Verde.
To be totally honest with you,
I just haven't shown her as much.
It's a little bit difficult 'cause of course
Ivy has been kinda the focus of a big anaconda,
big new enclosure and stuff like that.
But Verde is doing absolutely incredible.
As you can see, she's just taken a rat right now
so I'm gonna go ahead, leave her alone, let her eat
but I wanted to update you guys
to let you know she's doing wonderful.
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Oh my God guys, take a look!
A couple more gargoyle geckos!
It's crazy that they're hatching
at a pretty good rate right now.
And these guys are pretty cool.
I have no idea what the actual breeding is
with these guys, to be totally honest with you.
I mean, they're definitely striped animals.
I don't know if they're redline,
I don't know what line they are.
I'll have to ask Jessica when she comes in
but nevertheless, a couple more baby gargoyle geckos.
Oh my God, they are so cute.
So in a nutshell, what I need to do
is I wanna put rocking on the front right here.
We're gonna actually paint this out
and put grip tape.
The back is actually gonna be black acrylic, just like this.
I have to still build the actual seat here.
Lori's gonna do the upholstery
with kind of a cool alligator skin type of thing.
It's pretty cool.
Then obviously we've gotta do rock on the sides here,
somehow make it look really good.
We also need to install a little fan right here
because we've got a UV sterilizer here and all these pumps
so we need to make sure that there's air flow.
The UV sterilizer alone is gonna really put out
a lot of heat and obviously we want
when people put their feet in here,
we've got like four levels
of bacterial kind of stoppage, right?
We don't want one person to have a foot fungus
or something like that and spread it to someone else.
So that's why we've got the UV light,
charcoal, bio medium, all kinds of other stuff.
So that and then once I get this top done,
I have to put a back here so again, Lori can upholster it.
This is actually the back, this one right here
goes on the back right here.
So lot of work to do to get this done.
Once we finish this, then it's on to the snake massage room.
Which I have to work on this,
getting this all fixed up.
And then later on, we're gonna move some boas
and some other corn snakes and stuff like that
which will be the actual snakes we use
for the massage obviously, so (sighs)
deep breaths, let's get started.
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And again, this is the actual little compartment
for the fan, so they'll be like a little like
almost like a computer fan that attaches to this side
that'll just kind of cap that air flow.
'Cause this right here is actually the UV sterilizer.
This is gonna be giving off a lot of heat right here.
So we wanna draw air from that side,
suck it through and just kind of blow it out here.
Just a little bit, you know,
just to keep everything kind of cooled off
so it doesn't overheat underneath.
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This was the day we were waiting for, right Jessica?
- Yes, I'm so excited!
- [Brian] I know, that's right, Dracula gargoyles.
Oh my gosh, they're really big babies, huh?
- Yeah, the eggs were really big.
- [Brian] Really?
Oh my gosh. - But these guys
- have a lot more color on 'em already
than most of the other hatchlings we've had.
- [Brian] Yeah, you can see all the oranges.
- [Jessica] We've got mom here.
- [Brian] Mom here.
- [Jessica] This is Mina.
- [Brian] This is Mina?
- [Jessica] She's out of the Dracula line
from TikisGeckos. - Oh okay, gotcha.
- [Brian] And then?
- [Jessica] And then this is actually a male we produced.
- [Brian] Oh, he's really pretty.
- [Jessica] Yeah.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, that's yeah,
definitely a lot of red. - Not so bad.
Yeah, oh my gosh.
So those should produce,
I mean you can just imagine - Yes.
those two animals together are gonna,
oh these babies.
- Just with her influence too
is gonna definitely make things really nice
on those babies. - Oh my gosh.
- That is so exciting,
you guys know that I have been waiting.
Of course we hope we hope we produce Deadpool
a little bit later,
but Dracula was the second kind of thing
that we were super excited about.
So we finally got some baby Dracula gargoyle geckos.
Good job, Jessica.
- Almost in, I'm so happy.
- And remember when I said I had kind of a crazy idea?
I really do need your help with this guys
because it's something I've been thinking about for a while
and I just don't know if it's a good idea or not
to be totally honest with you.
You guys know I upload seven vlogs a week obviously,
I know this is gonna sound crazy,
but I'm actually considering
doing three more videos a week on this channel.
So basically like Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
you would get a vlog, normal vlog like everything,
every other day, but then have an extra video.
But that extra video wouldn't be an animal-based video
but like the podcast, you know?
You're getting to know me.
I may talk about animals,
because obviously my life is about animals,
but it's about my philosophy, my outlook on life,
you know, how to be successful in what you love
and stuff like that
and I thought that maybe this would be shot
more like a fly on the wall, right?
Shot you know, maybe an eight minute,
10 minute, 12 minute video, who knows what it is,
and then I'll have some opportunity to just kind of talk
and tell you some of my ideas
and how I kind of approach all these projects in life
like the Reptarium and expansion and all the things I do.
Let me know in the comments if that's something you want.
Do you want three extra videos a week
but not really animal-based?
I wouldn't probably be showing animals
unless it fits into the format, I'm not 100% sure.
So I know it's crazy but I really need your help
to know if it's worth trying.
And if we do it, we'll do it for maybe a month or two
and if it goes well, we'll keep going,
if not, you know, I don't know,
I mean, 'cause I love inspiring you guys
to follow your dreams and I think this would be
a great platform to do it.
So let me know what you think
and feel free to tell me I'm absolutely insane
if that's what you think.
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Still have a ways to go,
but at least we have all the kind of rocking out
on the sides and stuff like that.
Like I said, I've gotta build the top
where Lori's gonna upholster it,
the back where Lori is,
we're gonna paint this and put grip tape on it
so people don't fall.
There's gonna be black acrylic with the fish spa
kind of engraved into the back right over here.
So now we're actually gonna fill these guys up.
My friend Steve Bashi, of course
the one that made these from Bashsea Aquatics
is coming over, he's just gonna get the filter going
so everything is good so these can run,
'cause like I said, fish are coming in like two days
so we gotta make sure that these guys are good.
So I would say we're 85% done.
It'll look a lot different here by tomorrow.
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This is so crazy.
Ivy is just so like, curious.
Lori's over here dusting out and feathering these sides
and (laughs) Ivy literally climbs out of her water
and goes right up and starts looking.
Isn't it crazy?
- Yeah, she's just saying hey,
what are you doing to my cage?
(laughing)
- [Brian] She's so cute.
And obviously what I need to do here
is put fixture out all of the rocks here,
we're gonna put like timbers in the middle here,
I'll get these all set.
And actually I'm gonna bring a couple boas over today
that will go in here.
These three will be boas,
and then these will be corn snakes on this side.
Maybe a ball python, I'm not 100% sure about that.
But anyways, first things first
is we have to fixture this out
just so that it looks really cool,
it matches the rest of the decor.
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And again, it's just amazing how different
this place can look just fixtured out.
Again, this'll all be, you know, seamed out
so you won't see any wood,
everything will kind of seam together, look really well, so.
I tell you, these jobs with the spa and this
were a lot more work.
I was gonna move some snakes in here today
but I'll be honest with ya,
I think I'm gonna wait 'til tomorrow to do that
'cause I still have to button up a few other things
and I'm bushed, guys.
I mean, I tell you what, it's crazy.
Also I have to cut this base a little bit
so this tree goes back in that corner.
So I'll just tackle all that stuff tomorrow
but I'm happy that that's two major projects down
and again, with only a few days left,
every project finish is a big thing.
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Lori's been working on kinda getting all the seaming done
and now of course the plants.
It's amazing, Lori, how different things look
just with plants and the seaming.
I mean it just, it's crazy.
Now it's starting to look like it's been here forever, so.
It looks so good.
- Yeah, those finishing touches, you know?
Which are are still gonna keep happening,
but like every time we do it
it just looks more and more finished and complete and
- It looks great, yeah.
It looks so good.
I tell you what, I'm so happy because again,
when you walk in, you're gonna see this.
Of course Lori's starting to work on this over here
which looks really cool
so a lot of finishing touches to do in the next few days
but it's coming together.
Couldn't be more happy
with the way the anaconda cage is turning out.
- So we got our first cave gecko hatchling of the year.
These guys I was actually starting to wonder
if they were actually gonna hatch,
just 'cause they've been incubating a little longer
than they normally do.
Which is fine, the baby's a little bigger.
We should have another,
the other one should hatch out
probably by tomorrow morning, maybe by tonight.
Here, we've had them incubate like around 75 days
but these guys went more like 85, 90 days.
It gives them more time to grow in the egg,
so they just hatch out a little bigger.
The higher the temp is,
the faster eggs usually'll hatch with geckos
and then the lower the temp is, longer incubation.
- It's coming guys,
I mean, it's crazy to think that
months of thinking about this
and now here we are just a few days away
from being able to be open.
I mean, it's kind of settling in but it is surreal.
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