(carnival music)
- Guess what guys?
I have a box.
What do you think that means?
That's right.
We're about to inbox something.
I think we should roll that unboxing tape.
Now onto the fun part, of course, unboxing.
Listen, I've told you guys I'd have a lot of dream animals.
And seems like every time I get a shipment,
I have something that I say as a dream animal.
But I've actually said this particular one
in the vlog several times and
oh my god (yells excitedly)
God, it is so absolutely adorable.
And so cute.
Here it is guys.
Remember when I was back in Arizona,
I actually said this about these animals.
Remember guys when I said I wanted to do chuckwallas?
This is what I was talking about right here.
Take a look at how cool those lizards are.
I mean, wow.
That's just so cool.
- [Woman] You want to take one out?
- Yeah, could we?
So again guys, remember when I was talking
about wanting to get chuckwallas?
This is what I was actually talking about.
I mean, look at how cool these things are.
I mean, they are just such interesting desert animals.
I think a really cool desert display can be really cool.
And you can keep these guys communally as well
which makes it really cool.
And look at how chill they are.
That's right.
I said I wanted to get little chuckwallas.
And actually someone reached out to me
and said that they wanted to donate one to the zoo.
By the way, thank you so much for this.
This is absolutely wonderful.
And I really didn't know the size of it
or anything like that.
But this thing is absolutely adorable.
It's just a little tiny one.
Now these guys, depending on where they're from,
can be anywhere from 15 inches up to 30 inches as adults!
Absolutely amazing.
Of course, they're desert dwelling
from the Southwest part of the United States.
And they're absolutely
Of course, the thing I love about them
is they're typically very docile.
Just like, look at this thing.
It's just hanging out like nothing, like no big deal.
And that's typically the way they are
when they're adults as well.
Which makes them a great animal for the reptarium.
Now I only have one so far so I definitely need more.
If anyone knows where some more are about this size,
please let me know.
Because I need to get a group of them.
They will live in a kind of hierarchy type
of a community, right.
Now, males will get a little larger than females.
And they're typically more brightly colored
than females, as well.
And actually the largest male usually is dominant
over the smaller males.
How fricking awesome is that?
They'll live in groups.
And that's what I'm saying,
if I had a cage like maybe even a big cage,
a six foot plus cage that had maybe a half a dozen
of these in there.
Oh my gosh!
Would that be absolutely incredible!
For now, we just have one.
We're going to have Jessica set up a temporary cage for now.
We're going to put it in a permanent cage here
in the next couple of days.
Figuring out where everything is.
We've got a lot of changes coming to here to the Reptarium.
And of course the expansion coming up.
But these guys are incredible.
They need about a hundred to 105 degree basking spot
with maybe like a low eighties kind of cool side.
So they're really kind of much like a bearded dragon
when it comes to that, right.
But look at how cool that little face is
and how chubby they are.
When they get big, they are so chubby and so cool.
So again, guys, check off one more animal off my dream list.
This is definitely one of them.
I am so pumped right now.
You cannot believe it.
Like I said, now I just need some more.
Because one is awesome but six would be a lot cooler, right?
How cool is that?
Let's go get Jessica.
Let's set up a temporary case
so we can get this little monkey put away.
And then he or she,
I'm not sure what it is yet,
will go into a permanent cage.
And people can actually start interacting with it.
Kids here at The Reptarium are going to love this guy!
- Got this little chuckwalla today.
And I'm going to set up this little feed for,
these guys are really cool though.
They're from the Southwestern U.S. and Northern Mexico.
This will get about two feet long, probably.
This one's still a baby, obviously.
Yeah, so let's get this cage together.
(upbeat, fast paced jazz music)
- And it has always, Jessica did a great job
of setting up a kind of temporary housing.
You can see it has a nice little brick area here
that can warm up under the light.
It's got a hiding spot here.
Of course, it's got some food right here.
It's got water.
It's got a whole bunch of stuff.
I noticed that she actually used some
of the hemp bedding that my buddy sent me.
So that's going to be pretty interesting.
I wonder if Jessica is going to want to use that in
the permanent cage too?
That'll be pretty interesting.
But you can see he's going to love this rock.
And he's got a little place to hide right here.
This is going to be perfect
because, again, they're from the desert area,
the Southwest.
So there's definitely going to have a terrain
just like this.
Lots of climbing areas and can get close
to that basking light, if he wants.
Get on that hot rock if he wants.
He's got food, water all the types of things
that he's going to want.
So this is going to be a great temporary kind of housing
just for the next two or three days.
Then we'll set them up into something permanent.
And then hopefully get a group of these guys.
I tell you what, I am like a kid in a candy store.
This is like Christmas for me.
I am so excited.
I finally have a chuckwalla!
And by the way, welcome to the vlog Reptile Army.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
Guess what guys?
Lucy shed.
And there is a ton of poop soup!
But unfortunately I have an appointment.
I've got to get out of here.
So I am going to entrust Mike and Jay
to see if they can actually clean it up.
I'll be honest with you.
I'm happy that I'm getting out of it.
'Cause I know that's going to stink really bad.
- I guess we got to clean this.
- I guess we got to do it.
- [Mike] Is that the right key?
- [Jay] I don't know I just picked a random key.
- Oh my god!
- Don't hook her up like that, bro.
She's too big!
Wait, she's coming out.
Let's just get her out.
- Oh my god, Michael!
(Jay yelling enthusiastically)
No, no, no, not now!
Hold on, she's coming out.
She's coming out!
Let her go in the water.
There you go.
Good job, Mike!
(both grunting)
Come here, baby.
Your dad's not here but it's okay.
Put your head in the water.
(water splashing)
Let's do it.
[Jay] You got the garbage bag?
What am I supposed to puke in?
[Mike] I'll get it! I'll get you two bags!
- With your hands?
- [Mike] It's just shed.
- [Jay] Pick up the shed, Mike!
Oh!
Do I have to pick this up with my hands?
- [Mike] Yeah.
- [Jay] With my hands?
Is that how Brian does it?
- [Mike] Yeah, dude. It's gross.
Don't be a baby, just do it!
- [Cameraman] Ew! Why are you using your hands, bro?
- [Jay] I thought I was supposed to!
- [Cameraman] Don't touch your face,
you just had urine on them!
- [Jay] Oh my god!
There's so much happening!
- [Mike] Yeah, you got to get the juicy poop.
- [Cameraman] Oh that's so gross!
(retching)
- [Mike] Don't start making that noise!
If you throw up, I will.
(retching loudly)
Stop it!
- [Jay] Oh my god, it's on my finger!
(laughing) I can't.
- [Mike] Don't trip over the vacuum.
- Hello?
- [Brian] Hey, what's going on? How are you?
- We took Lucy out of her cage.
- [Brian] Uh huh.
- What do we do now?
- [Brian] You want to take the strainer
and strain all the poop out of the tub.
It's going to smell.
- Wait, you mean with that silver thing?
- [Brian] Yeah. With the silver thing.
- Oh god.
- [Brain] It takes the poop out and-
- Well, we'll just wait on you.
We'll see you in a bit.
(Brian laughing)
- [Brian] No, but just strain it out
and then take the Ponodo Vac and suck it out.
And then disinfect it really good.
Scrub it.
Disinfect water, Ponodo Vac, Wanda Vac,
and then fill it up.
- Mkay.
Bye, Dad. Love you.
- My dad sent me to supervise these fools with Lucy.
That's a small, frail sick,
did you just chuck-
(Jay laughing)
shit on me, dude?
- [Noah] Mike must've worked at a massage parlor.
He's got the touch.
You just let Lucy go into the forest pen.
This is why I have to supervise.
Whoa!
- [Mike] Up the tree, she's gonna go.
- [Noah] It's very small animal.
- [Mike] She's wagging her tail, she's happy.
- [Noah] Look at how happy she is.
- My DoorDash is finally here.
- And that's why I need to supervise these children.
- The truth here there's not a day that goes by
that I am not constantly thinking about what else I can add
to the reptarium for experience.
That's all I keep thinking about is,
"What experiences can I add that people can come in
and just absolutely have amazing opportunities
to mess with these animals?"
And that chuckwalla is pretty darn cool.
And don't get me wrong.,
when I'm adding something amazing,
like Drogo the Sloth here.
Part of it is just because I want it.
Because it's amazing to own a sloth
or whatever animal it is.
But I also think about experiences.
I think about people being able to come in
and get up and close and personal with Drago the Sloth
or whatever the animal is.
Or otters in the future.
Or stingrays or whatever the cause is.
I just get excited about that.
So it's a dual thing, right?
I get to get an animal that I have never worked with
or I want to work with.
But I also get to share it.
And that makes it more special to me by about a level of 10.
- So we got Beetlejuice and he's up at front of the cage.
So we figured we might as well handle him.
I've never actually grabbed him.
But I think this is as good as a chance
I'm ever going to get
All right.
So I got him out.
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
He's jumping.
He's running fast.
I gotta just try to calm him, ow!
I got tail whipped in the face!
Okay. All right.
I am completely and utterly tore up right now.
And usually at this point I'm like,
"Hey dad can you help me out?"
I'm going to try and get to some open space
and do a spin move.
That did nothing.
- [Cameraman] Whoa! It did something!
- Ah, ah, ah!
He is tearing me up.
These guys like to be high.
I'm going to try to do this.
It seems to be working.
It does seem to be working.
He is chilled out when I put him up in the air.
So my dad's not lying to you.
- [Cameraman] Damn, your hands are messed up, man.
- Whoa whoa!
Not bad.
You're doing really good Beetlejuice.
I'm actually, I'm impressed.
And now that he is finally calm.
Come on, stay calm, buddy.
Stay calm.
A nice slow sabbatical release.
Since I got cut up from Beetlejuice,
we have to take the trusty old hand sanitizer,
and just give it a nice little dowsing.
(groaning in pain)
Just got to make sure we don't get infections.
- That's right, the uromastyxs and the chuckwallas
seem a lot alike, right?
But, of course, these come from completely different areas.
These guys come from the Middle Eastern area
and sometimes the Northeast part of Africa.
Whereas the chuckwallas, again,
come from the Southwest part of this country.
So completely different animals, but very similar.
Almost like a parallel evolution.
- Have you ever just laid with her?
- [Cameraman] Yes, I have actually.
She's great, isn't she?
- Yeah.
You can feel her breathe.
Look, she's coming to give me a kiss.
No, don't run me over because you're scared.
It's okay.
You think she'd bite my face?
- [Cameraman] 100%
- [Jay] Oh really?
- [Cameraman] No. I don't know.
- [Jay] I'll put my nose on hers.
Wow. Oh my god.
Our guy, Tabasco, needs his nails done.
So I grabbed Mr. Mike here
and we're gonna do some nail trims.
- [Cameraman] Get in there, Mike!
- [Jay] You grab him by the base of the tail.
- [Cameraman] Wow, he's getting so good!
- Wow.
That was actually really impressive.
All right, are you ready?
Whoa.
Mike, man, we've been in some pretty shady
positions together and I feel like this is one of them.
Just let him go.
Let them go.
I mean, I don't necessarily want to offer myself.
- Oh god, that hurts so bad!
- [Cameraman] This is why we need to trim his nails.
- [Jay] Wow, that was almost to your face.
Wow, dude, look at all that blood.
- [Mike] I know.
Let's just trim his nails real quick.
- [Jay] Have you seen Saw?
- Yeah. My hand looks like that chick
that got cut by the saw.
I would've laughed so hard
if you would have grabbed his nose.
- [Jay] That actually would have hurt really bad.
- [Mike] Yeah, it would've.
- He's actually doing better than most dogs right now.
- Is the next one Sriracha?
- No!
The next thing is for you to go wash your hands
and put band-aids all over everything.
- That's maybe a good idea.
- It's always nice to end my day with my girl, Ivy, here.
I mean, she is absolutely amazing.
Getting bigger and bigger every single day.
And I wonder, let me know down in the comments,
what you think another animal you'd like to see us add
to the reptarium, when we expand, now, when we go
into aquarium stuff, what is it that you're excited about?
I really would like to know.
And by the way, if you enjoyed this video,
here's a playlist of us building the reptarium,
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Have an absolutely wonderful day, Reptile Army
Be kind to somebody.
And I promise, I'll see you tomorrow.