(birds chirping)
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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
How is your day going?
I tell you, every day that goes by now
the stress level just kinda
reduces just a little bit.
Still have a lot to do.
Gotta build some racks out for the snake massage room,
as well as the room out here.
You know, there's a ton of things to do
but this build has been amazing
and like I said, this thing is coming together.
Look at this cage!
Albino Iguanas are gonna be in here, so.
Now that we're getting all that stress behind,
it's starting to get more and more fun
that's for sure, but hey, we still have a lot of work to do
and it's gonna be an amazing day together.
Let's just jump right into it.
Lucy is on the prowl.
She looks so absolutely incredible,
and that's one of the things that,
obviously, you've got Andrea over here
taking care of the animals.
We've been really concerned and kinda
keeping an eye on all the animals,
Sunrise, Casper, all this stuff,
you know, Bruce and Andrea and everyone
have been doing a great job keeping things under control
over here, 'cause obviously, I've been so tied up
with just worrying about the construction,
next door expansion, all that type of stuff.
We wanted to make sure that the animals here
weren't kinda getting upset with all the kinda noise
and hassles over there.
It hasn't been that much in all honesty,
'cause you gotta remember, until we took the wall down,
it was sealed off, right?
So, since we've had the wall down, pretty much it's been
pretty good to be honest with you.
Looks like Bella's come down to say hi to me.
Hey, baby girl, how you doing?
See, Bella doesn't seem to be upset.
I can't wait to see like Elvis,
you know, he crawls around all the time.
I can't wait to let him loose and go explore the new area.
I mean, Elvis is gonna be freakin' out when that happens,
but you can see, Artemis is going good,
Purdita's in shed right now, Snazz.
I'm just so happy that the animals
seem to be completely fine,
because that was a huge concern as well,
as to how the animals would fare here.
So far, like I said, everything is doing completely fine.
Nova's doing his normal self,
just kinda hangin' out, waiting for us and stuff like that.
So, all in all, old Reptarium's doing good,
(laughs) I'm about to put a lot more animals next door.
- Yo, what's up, guys?
It's me and Jay here.
- What's up, guys?
- You know us.
- And, you know that we had a Reptarium expansion over there
and my dad's been whispering in our ears
about a mural that he wanted, okay?
- So Jay got to photoshoppin',
made this mural up,
I contacted the company
that does paintings and murals and stuff,
and we got this really cool mural plan
to be in the party room,
over at the new Reptarium today.
- But, but, he doesn't know that.
- He does not know that we have done this.
- So, shhh!
- So, we gotta keep this secret,
so I don't know why I'm yelling.
Hopefully, he didn't hear us.
- Next big job is to build racks for these ones.
Of course, I'm in the snake massage room.
So, this whole back wall is gonna be these cages
and some smaller cages for the animals
that'll actually be part of the snake massage.
So, we just gotta do a bunch of cuttin',
screwin', and gluein'.
Okay, no gluein' this time, but definitely
cuttin' and screwin' things together.
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(saw grinding)
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- All right, so the guy's here for the mural.
We gotta go set this up so that Brian doesn't
come over and actually see it.
- Gotta go hide my dad.
I have a cage we can put him in.
- [Jay] Why don't we just tell him
that Mary needs his help downstairs?
- Okay, yeah, that'll work.
Let's go.
- [Jay] Yo, Eric.
- What's up, dude?
- There's a guy here to put a mural up.
It's a surprise.
- The mural for the party room?
- [Jay] Yeah, it's a surprise.
You can't let Brian come down at all.
Come over at all.
- Won't get past me, dude.
- We're gonna put him in the basement,
and you just stay at the top of the door
and just, back against it.
- If he comes up here, I'll say, "listen..."
- Until we give you the go.
- What's the signal gonna be?
- Vanilla chocolate.
- That's my favorite.
- Yeah.
- [Jay] All right, let's go.
(water flowing)
- Hey, Dad!
- Yeah, what's up?
- Mary needs your help downstairs really quick.
- All right, that's fine.
- Some ball python stuff.
- I was gonna head down today anyway.
I just gotta get this last screw in.
- Okay, yeah, there's just some locks down there.
She said you wanted to check 'em out.
- All right, that's fine, yeah.
Tell her just give me five minutes, all right?
- Mary's been doing an amazing job down here
with breeding everything.
You can kinda just go through and see everything's got
breeding marks on it.
Big follicle growth and stuff like that.
One of the things that's been hard
with doing the expansion next door
is the fact that I've been pulled away from BHB,
really pulled away from everything,
so the crew's doing a good job.
I'm gonna jump and kinda go through and just see
what the breeding is.
Maybe do even a couple ultrasounds, stuff like that,
kinda switch males around.
Spend maybe half hour, hour here at BHB.
To be totally honest with you, I need it,
because it'll be nice to take a break
from just building all day so let's just go ahead
and jump into some ball python stuff.
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Holy moly, take a look at this snake right here.
This is actually a champin,
which is a champagne and a pinstripe.
What a beasty, and she just ate a couple rats this week,
and she's at 20 millimeters follicle, so.
She's been bred a bunch of times,
so that's pretty good when it comes potential.
Probably her last meals this week
to be totally honest with you,
'cause typically they shut off of food
about 20 to 25 millimeters.
She is a beast.
She's gonna have a huge clutch.
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This is one of my favorite snakes.
This is actually a blue eyed leucistic.
I've had this animal for a long time.
I think she might have been the first
blue eyed leucistic that I ever got
when they were still like $40,000 or something like that.
Regardless, she looks like she's about to ovulate.
She's at 35 millimeters right now,
so probably in the next week or two, she's gonna ovulate.
The thing that's awesome about this snake in particular
is the fact that this will be her fifth year in a row
of producing, so she's been a great producer.
Most ball pythons don't go five years straight,
so I'm pretty lucky to have this one.
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Guy's, I have to show you this.
Look at this.
This is a genetic stripe, but see right here
how she's so just full she can hardly even bend
if I were to pick her up just a little bit.
She's almost like a rock.
That's an actual ovulation, so she is 100% gravid.
They're gonna blow up like this right from here,
all the way through here.
That's what they call, again, an ovulation.
That's only gonna last for maybe, 12 to 18 hours
of this rigid, hard ovulation here,
and then it's actually gonna drop down into the oviducts,
the actual eggs are gonna spread out
and get a little softer, so this is 100% ovulation here.
That means she's about 50 days away.
About 20 days from now, she'll go through
what they call a pre-lay shed,
then about 30 days from that pre-lay shed
is actual ova-positioning, or laying of eggs,
so that's awesome.
We've got a handful of ovulations all ready this year.
This is probably gonna be clutch number four,
or maybe number five of the year.
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- Hey, how's it goin?
- What's goin' on?
- Oh, nothing much.
I just got a little something for ya.
- What?
- Oh, nothin', but you're gonna need to come follow us.
- What's goin' on?
All right, well...
- It's important.
- Where are we goin'?
- We're goin' upstairs right now.
It's more important than breeding season.
- All right, I'll come back, I'll come back.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, don't worry.
- Is this a prank?
I don't have time for pranks.
- This isn't a prank.
- I have way too much going on.
- Don't worry.
There's no pranking being involved.
All right, before we go any further
you're gonna need to put this on your face.
- Noah.
- I told you, it's not a prank!
- Not today, seriously.
- It's not a prank.
Just put this on.
- Put it onto what?
- On your eyes.
- Are you gonna go buy me a bird or something?
- This is how it goes.
You put it on your eyes, and then you're blind.
Hence the blindfold.
- Tell me what we're doin' first real quick.
- Yeah, yeah, I will, just put this on.
- Man, if you're...
- Just put this on.
- [Jay] It's important, Brian. I promise.
- It's important, oh my gosh.
- Get that fold.
- I don't like this.
- See, that's why they call it blindfold, 'cause it folds.
All right, follow, grab my hand.
Let's go.
- I don't like this at all.
- We're going outside!
- Don't lead me into traffic!
- We didn't do anything.
We're about to party right now.
(ding)
We're about to have a party.
- [Jay] So, Bry.
- What's up?
- [Jay] We know you've been super busy,
and you haven't had the time to do this,
so Noah set this all up, I took care of the work,
the artwork of it.
- What is it?
- [Jay] Take it off.
- [Noah] Take off the blindfold.
- What am I looking at?
- [Noah] In the party room.
- What the...
What the hell?
- [Jay] What do you think, man?
- [Noah] Look at that!
- Are you kidding me?
- [Noah] Look at that!
- When did you guys do this?
- [Jay] When you went downstairs.
That's why we told you to go help Mary out.
- Oh my god, this is better than I could have expected!
- This is awesome, huh?
- Oh my gosh, dude.
So tell me, what'd you guys do?
How did you do this?
- Oh, well we painted it ourselves.
- No, this is a picture, right?
- [Jay] So, all these are the photos that I've taken
since I've been here, a bunch of them at least,
and I took about seven hours to put this together.
Noah took care of gettin' ahold of a company,
gettin' them out here to put it all up for us.
- Look at this.
- Oh my gosh, guys. Man, I--
- It's beautiful.
- Oh my gosh, you guys are awesome.
- Dude, much love, man, much love.
- This looks so freakin', oh my god, look at it.
Oh, my god.
- [Jay] Here, grab the wheel.
What do you think?
- Oh my god, this is like...
This is so cool, 'cause I was thinking like,
this wall in the birthday party room,
I wanted to have some cool, like, mural
but this is way cooler than I...
I mean, look at how cool, oh my gosh.
It just pops so much.
I gotta come out here.
This is my idea, was that, what I was thinking
when you were walking around, you know,
you'd see Salt and Pepper, you'd see the other animals,
and then you would see that through the window,
and oh my gosh.
That is so dope, guys.
I thought for sure you were pranking me, man.
Are you kidding me?
- [Jay] No, we got you man.
- Oh my gosh, this is awesome!
Wow!
That's beyond my wildest dreams.
Let me know down in the comments, guys.
Blows me away.
Is this awesome, or what?
I mean, you guys are too much.
Thank you, guys, thank you.
- Dude, we love you, man.
No problem at all.
- [Brian] Thank you, guys.
So what do you think, Lori?
I mean, it's coming together pretty good.
- Yeah, it is.
- Everyday it just looks better and better.
Did you see the mural yet?
- I did.
- [Brian] What'd you think?
- I can't get enough of it.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, it's so cool.
- I know, it's way beyond my expectations.
They did an awesome job, from Jay creating it,
to them doing it, and then the install guy just nailed it.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh, I know.
It looks so incredible.
- It's so hard, like I said, to take this little picture
like on a phone, and then like picture it blown up,
holy crap.
(laughs)
- [Brian] The colors just are amazing.
It's next level, and I just think
that this is gonna be such a good room.
I know you were excited about this room,
because you wanted to have a birthday party room
and event room, so that is super cool.
Here we are, day six, five, I don't even know
how many days it is out.
- I know, what day is it? I don't even know.
(laughs)
- You know,
Lori said something to me that I was so happy about
the other day, you said,
"I think this is the coolest thing we've ever done."
and I think that's awesome that you think that,
'cause I think it.
It's pretty awesome.
- Yeah.
- Can't wait to share it with you guys.
Friday the 13th.
March, Friday the 13th.
VIP tickets are on sale now
for Friday night and Saturday.
Come join us that weekend.
It's gonna be so amazing to be able to share
all of this with you guys.
So, thank you guys for joining me.
Wow, we still have a lot of work to do.
Let's get to it.
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Let's finish up building these.
Again, these are gonna be kinda like the Boa size
that will be for the snake massage.
Now, we're building some enclosures that will be right here
which will be really corn snakes,
maybe some ball pythons,
for kinda the smaller snakes to go.
This is done, gotta finish this one,
and then we can push this back, and you kinda get a feel
for what this room is gonna look like.
(soft music)
Got the snake massage room goin'.
Still have to fixture out the front of those cages,
but that will happen, and oh my gosh,
what about the birthday party room, guys?
The mural.
I mean, Noah, Jay, everyone.
They surprised the heck out of me,
and it came out so good.
I think I'm gonna make this into my bedroom.
I don't know, I love this.
This is what I would have loved on my wall
when I was a kid, for sure!
I hope that you guys are enjoying this build.
Of course, the open is gonna be March 13th, Friday the 13th.
We're gonna have a VIP party that night
as well as Saturday the 14th.
Definitely check that out.
I'll put a link in the description.
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and if you're as excited as I am.
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Be kind to someone, and I promise,
I will see you guys tomorrow.