- Hey, good morning, everybody.
And welcome to the vlog.
And welcome to Black Friday.
That's right, BHB reptiles has a Black Friday sale today.
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go to BHBReptiles.com
Everything is on sale.
Enough about that.
Let's talk about Ivy.
Obviously yesterday success, right?
She finally ate a turkey.
It took us three years to find a snake
to eat a turkey for Thanksgiving.
Everyone got a piece yesterday,
but she is looking big.
And I have documented plenty
that when you feed Ivy a big meal what happened.
She does these urates and kind of pees a ton,
way more than any other snake.
So I'm not gonna lie to ya.
Her water's a little bit nasty.
I think it's gonna be cleaning every single day
for the next, probably seven to 10 days.
So I am gonna start my day by cleaning Ivy's enclosure.
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All right, all cleaned up. Just gonna fill her up.
I promise you it won't last 24-hours
before I'm back in there again,
but I don't mind it.
I love starting my day working with Ivy
and all my animals for that matter.
So we're gonna have a good day together.
Let's push our problems aside and let's rock this day out.
It has been a minute since I've showed you Chopsticks,
the two-headed red eared slider.
They are getting very big.
I mean, I tell ya what,
they have definitely double or triple their size.
They're gonna be over here at the reptarium soon.
I keep saying that I'm getting an exhibit for 'em,
but it's just been so busy here with so many projects.
It is gonna be absolutely within the next month or so.
We'll have these guys on display.
It's gonna be cool to have both the two-headed snake
with Ben and Jerry and Chopsticks over here.
But I just wanted to update you guys
because again, they are absolutely thriving right now,
getting huge, and they don't look like baby turtles anymore.
And this is about the size that I felt comfortable
bringing it over to the reptarium.
Smaller than this, I'll be honest with you,
I was just a little bit too nervous.
We know that I've had some problems
with two-headed turtles in the past.
I wanted to get these guys really established over at BHB
where there was no commotion, no problems,
anything like that.
Now that they're this size,
I feel very confident that they don't have that
stress level they have as baby.
And they are just doing so, so well.
How cute are those things?
Can you imagine?
I mean, two-headed animals are so bizarre.
Again, it's called polycephaly,
just meeting two heads or multiple heads, right?
In this case, two.
Absolutely incredible.
I can't wait to see the kids' reactions
when they see these little monkeys swimming around.
They're gonna absolutely love it.
Day two of python breeding,
or I should say ball python breeding.
So we have to get all the males and females
switched up today, see what else is breeding.
It's always exciting.
I mean, I tell you what, this is a really good start.
We had a ton of males breeding yesterday,
probably the best first day of breeding I can ever remember.
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And now that we have all the ball pythons together,
we have to get the Children's, the Stimson's, the spotted's,
and Sabu's breeding too.
So we wanna get all of the pythons breeding.
All the boas that do breed, things like rainbows boas,
and sand boas, we typically breed like maybe March or April,
but right now we've got to get
the rest of the pythons together.
So I've got my males up here,
got all my female groups,
and basically what I do just to keep it really simple
is I'll take a silver paint marker and mark the males
that way, when they go from this cage to this cage,
and I have to just check,
the male and females look so similar.
I know the one with the paint marker is the male.
He can go to the next cage,
and the next cage, and the next cage.
So a pretty easy, simple system.
Again, I keep talking about organization, simplicity.
The more dumb proof you make it,
the better your success is gonna be.
So let's just go ahead, mark up the mails,
and get them in with females for the first time.
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Hey, Matilda. How you doing girl?
She is so like, every time she sees us now,
she's like, take me out, take me out.
So obviously I am working on the door.
Now, a lot of times you guys think that
I should just be able to do things like, oh, on a whim,
but there's a lot of planning that goes into everything.
So let me start to tell you what my thoughts are.
Cause listen, by cutting this out
and making this into a door,
the hinges are going to have a lot of weight at 'em, right?
Because this door is kinda heavy.
So I have to kind of think of how do I do things.
So I've been thinking about it.
I've been using my brain.
First off, I've got this concrete masonry saw
so that I can cut this,
and I cut this on the circular saw.
Then I'm gonna take and cut this down here,
and I'm gonna cut this down here.
I'm gonna make a template so that the actual floor
is the same way, and then I can cut a board.
And I'll show you that.
I'll probably do this tomorrow, to be honest with you.
I just wanted to go over what I was thinking.
But the biggest thing is
how is this door gonna swing, right?
If we have hinges over here, there's a lot of weight.
It's gonna drag. It's gonna be issue.
So I was thinking about it,
and these are actually ball bearing rollers, right?
So I can put this on the bottom here
where you won't really see it,
and the whole door will actually just be rolling on this.
So I've got a bigger one,
and I'm hoping that actually the smaller one works better,
to be honest with you, cause it's gonna be a lot tighter.
So I'll put like five or six of these ball bearings
on the bottom of a piece of wood that's attached to this,
and then I can have a latch here, hinges back here,
and this door will swing open.
And Matilda, like you can see,
she wants to come out constantly.
She could just come out.
We can come in the morning, open the door, come out,
and he can go back all she wants.
Cause now the problem is is that she sees us.
She says, lift me up and let me out, Dad.
But then we have to lift her up to put her back too.
If she can make her own decisions about coming and going,
it's gonna be way better.
So I think I'm gonna start this project tomorrow.
As promised, we are gonna start to look at
Salt and Pepper's enclosure.
So basically the only thing I can do
without like tearing the entire thing down,
which I don't wanna do,
is I'm gonna have to cut this down here.
This with this knife,
make a little bit of a flap right here,
drill a hole through it right here,
and then I ended up getting this camera right here
that is actually pretty cool.
It's got a little camera on the end of this.
I can push this through the hole,
and I can actually look around
and see where I can hopefully find a leak,
where it is actually leaking.
And that'll trace it back.
We know it's the waterfall,
but we don't know where it's leaking from the waterfall.
So if we find out where it's leaking,
we can save ourselves a lot of energy
of just like kinda continuously
shooting for the dark, right?
So hopefully this will go well.
It shouldn't mess with the integrity of the structure
at all by drilling a hole in this right here.
There's still plenty of kinda support there.
So it shouldn't be a problem.
So hopefully, if I'm lucky,
I won't have to do any massive deconstruction
of this enclosure,
and I can just find out where that leak is.
So first thing, cut this.
Second thing, drill a hole.
Third thing, stick this camera through.
And hopefully we'll start to find out
what the heck is going on.
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(buzzing)
I tell you, that a bear.
We finally got through.
I don't like the fact that all this wood is wet down here
telling me that this is definitely getting soft,
but overall, the actual integrity doesn't look too bad,
but I literally burnt that one drill,
had to get the heavy hogger over here.
We finally got the hole drilled.
Now we can actually put the camera through
and see what we can see inside
and see where this water is coming from.
But like I said, the water damage to this
is much than I expected it to be.
So we'll have to see once we get this completely dried out,
if that dries out, or if we're gonna have to lift this up
and replace that board.
That would be a nightmare.
But at least now we got the hole drilled,
which was 10 times harder than I expected it to be.
See if I can't see inside here.
Right now I don't see anything at all.
I might have to actually shine a light in here as well,
and hopefully see this camera.
Cause right now, all I see is darkness in here.
Camera doesn't really help, to be honest with you,
but I can actually see through,
and I can really see exactly where it's leaking,
which is on the very back side of the waterfall,
which is really interesting.
So basically what you have
is right where the waterfall is coming down,
that backside there is definitely where the water
is getting somehow down and actually leaking.
Don't know exactly how that's going on,
but at least now we definitely know that it is the backside.
Nothing up front is leaking at all.
It is the backside.
So all right, I think next bet, I tell you what,
it didn't really help us that much to drill that hole.
Other than we did see exactly where the leak is.
Gonna have to shut the waterfall down
and just start sealing every single thing up
in just hopes that when we turn it back on it stops,
because definitely not a good situation at all in there.
Well it's after Thanksgiving,
so that can only mean one thing to the Barczyk family,
and that is Christmas is here.
So we are off to get our first Christmas tree.
If anyone's been following, you'll know,
I'd say the over under is about 11 trees this year.
Lori loves Christmas.
I think she gonna have at least 11 trees,
but we are heading to get our first tree right now.
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For those of you guys that don't remember,
we go to a place called Blake's,
which is like an apple orchard,
but they also have trees and stuff like that.
Oh look, Lori, there's a,
a statue of you up there.
So we always get one big tree
for the front of our living room, stairway area that's tall
cause we have a tall ceiling there, goes 20 feet.
So yeah, that's a big tree right there.
There's a lot of big ones.
Last year we kind of were slim picking, so.
- I know. Hopefully they have a nice one.
- [Brian] Well let's look.
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(laughing)
That's a big tree. That's too big.
- [Worker] It's perfect.
(laughing)
- [Worker] All right, where we going with this, sir?
(groaning)
Mr. Barczyk, it seems like
you're having a little bit of a problem there.
- It would be pretty funny if they were tied.
- [Worker] Yeah, right.
(groaning)
- Well, it's gonna keep going.
- Dangerous situation.
(laughing)
I'm outta here, y'all.
- That's a big tree, Lori.
- [Lori] It's pretty.
- [Brian] That tree is going to go all the way
almost to our ceiling.
- It doesn't matter how tall it is.
- [Brian] It doesn't?
- I'm the one who decorates it.
- [Brian] What are you like? Are you Clark Griswold?
(laughing)
- Maybe this year.
- We're gonna to have squirrels.
We're gonna have squirrels in the tree.
We're gonna. (laughing)
Oh my God. Whatever makes you happy.
- We gotta make up. Last year's was too short.
- [Brian] All right, make you happy.
- [Worker] Happy wife, happy life.
- [Lori] The bottom looks nice.
- [Brian] The bottom does look nice.
- You go grab a tag.
It's gonna be heavy.
- It's gonna be probably tricky to get it in the tree stand.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Brian] Well, we got some-
- Yeah, we can just-
- [Brian] We got these guys with us.
- I can't put the tree in the house though.
(laughing) I cannot.
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- [Brian] I got two dozen donuts.
One plain, one sugar.
- Who eats the plain?
- Yeah, what are you doing, dude?
- I don't know.
Should I have gotten two dozen?
(muttering)
And you got wine.
So it's gonna be good.
Now let's go see if we can get this
16-foot tree in our house.
- And in your truck. (laughing)
- [Brian] Yeah.
Yeah, it's only an eight foot bed.
I'm gonna have eight foot hanging out.
(laughing)
- We're never making it.
- We're not getting home.
If anyone's watching this,
come pick us up at Blake's with a flatbed.
(laughing) - Please send help.
(muttering)
- Woo hoo!
All right.
- As if they couldn't see the 16-foot tree.
(laughing) Like, here's a target bag.
- That bag aint staying on there.
Okay.
- It's doing good.
- [Brian] Good job, Lori.
- Listen- - Way to go.
- [Lori] The bag will stay on
longer than the tree will stay in.
- This is a nightmare. (laughing)
All right, let's go home,
and let's find out how bad this doesn't fit.
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(buzzing)
(laughing)
- [Worker] Merry Christmas, y'all.
- You want me to spin then?
- Okay, now go up.
- All right.
Hold on, hold on, your shoot is here.
- [Worker] Too far away from us.
- [Brian] Guys, help me pick this up.
- Want me and Lori to try?
- I got it.
(buzzing)
- This one probably will flop because it was out already.
Like you know how the other ones were open?
- Where are you? (laughing)
You're behind the tree.
(laughing)
It's like reaching the ceiling.
(muttering)
Tell me where.
- [Worker] Keep going.
- Hold on, let me see.
Looks fine here.
- [Worker] It looks good from here.
- [Brian] You think it looks good?
- Yeah.
- [Lori] There's the squirrel.
(laughing) - [Worker] There's-
- Oh, my God! (laughing)
That was in the tree?
That's crazy.
(laughing)
Bah humbug, sucka!
- [Brian] There is literally one inch to spare.
We could have got a bigger one.
- Yeah, we could of.
I'm disappointed.
Good job.
- Yeah, dude, this is a classy tree.
- [Lori] It's a good one.
- All right, well there you have it, guys.
Barczyk Christmas has begun.
Down below, let me know how many trees
you think Lori will have at the end of this.
But we have the first Barczyk Christmas tree.
We have to decorate it and get it going.
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