- Now we have six baby alligators for the reptarium.
- What, you kidding?
We had two.
And now how many do we have?
I'm gonna kill you, that's what I think.
- Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
When I got the reptarium started, one of the things
I was really excited about was to offer the ability
for people to feed the alligators.
So I wanted to have a bunch of baby alligators that people
could actually feed here at the reptarium.
So one of the exhibits that I was really excited about,
of course, was this alligator exhibit here,
where you guys know that I have a couple little alligators.
Originally, I really wanted to put Salt and Pepper,
the albino and black alligator in here, but I really
realize that once I put them in there,
they just kinda disappeared,
and that kinda freaked me out too much.
So I decided that I would not keep them in here,
and I got a couple normal alligators to kinda test it out.
Well, Chomper that's in here somewhere, and the other one
are doing really well, but again, they kinda disappear
a little bit in here, so we decided that it was time
to up the amount of alligators that we have.
So guess what?
Today I've got some new baby alligators in.
You guys know that I'm friends with the guys from Gator Land
and they're the ones that sent me the first two alligators,
and I've told you before we have basically a system
where we're gonna get a bunch of baby alligators.
Once they get about a year old, they're gonna be too big
for this enclosure.
We send 'em back, they send us some babies again,
which by the way, is gonna be a little bit of a bummer
because we are already getting attached to these guys.
But listen, I only have so much space,
so that's how it's gonna go.
And again, that vision of allowing kids and everyone else
to be able to feed and hold little alligators only works
if they're babies unfortunately.
So they sent us four more alligators,
and I'm gonna get a chance to take a look at 'em.
Oh my gosh.
It's awesome 'cause they are about the same size.
But I will tell ya this much right now, my guys are
a little bit more chunky than this, so I think I've been
feeding them a little bit.
But take a look at this cute little dude here.
And the fact that they're from the exact same area
means that I don't really have to quarantine them,
which is really good because they're all from Gator Land.
They were all kept the exact same way.
So I'm gonna go ahead and just release all four of these
little babies and see what's going on.
Hopefully with all six of 'em and the fact that we've been
clicker training 'em to come to food, within the next
week or two we can start to offer that ability for you
to come in and actually feed
these little monkeys right here.
Look at how cute.
Here you go, buddy.
There you go.
There he is, he just swims right over there.
Oh my gosh.
That's so cute.
So hopefully these guys'll get settled and get along
with the other two.
I am pretty excited to see how six of these go.
'Cause again, I will tell ya that even though Chopper
and the other one that we've had for the last couple months
have really gotten settled in.
Actually, most of the time they're out and about.
They do still disappear from time to time,
so having six of 'em in is probably gonna be
really, really awesome.
And here is number two.
These guys are really pretty, and they're really
the perfect size.
Again, I was a little bit concerned 'cause, of course,
when we got Chopper, it was only like this big.
When I talked to my friends at Gator Land,
I said try to send me the biggest one of the babies you have
and they did a really good job.
Size-wise, they're absolutely perfect.
There you go, little buddy.
There ya go.
There ya go. (laughs)
That's so awesome.
And here's the other one already hangin' out.
He's swimmin' around.
Oh my gosh, they're both swimmin' around.
They seem to be settling in good.
We've got two more to open.
And for those of you that have been asking
over the last little bit, Salt and Pepper did not come
from Gator Land, they were bought from somewhere else
and they are staying here forever.
They're not going back after a year.
And a lot of people have said, what are you gonna do
when Salt and Pepper get larger?
And, as a matter of fact, maybe later in the Vlog
I'll weight them to see what their growth rate is.
You know, I like to check in once a week or so.
Oh my God, look at how beautiful that is.
We'll continue to just build bigger habitats
for Salt and Pepper as they get larger.
Don't you worry, they're staying at the reptarium forever,
at least some reptarium, whether it be this one
or another one in the future, I'm not 100% sure.
Regardless, this is number three right here.
There ya go, bud.
That one's a little bit bigger, but it doesn't seem
to be an issue.
You can see that's the first one that we opened up here.
That's the last one, definitely quite a bit larger,
but should be really good.
Just having the five of them in here,
already you're starting to see there's a lot more of 'em
for sure, so that should be really good when people come in.
'Cause again, I don't want people to come in and be like,
I see the gator tank, but I can't find the gators.
Look at how cute this one is right here.
And the last little monkey.
Okay, this one's a little bit more like the size
of the first one, a little bit smaller.
Definitely with the food regiment that we keep 'em on,
these guys are gonna be growing like crazy.
So there it is, guys, now we have six baby alligators
for the reptarium.
I am so excited just to see how these guys settle in,
and to be able to start working with them.
Again, two originals that we have already
doing really good with clicker training.
Oftentimes, crocodilians are so good about learning
that I think that the two coming for the clicker training
should have all six of 'em in with any luck within
the next couple weeks these guys will all just be
ravenous feeders and then I'll have footage
of actual patrons of the reptarium coming in
and feeding the little baby alligators.
Here you go, bud.
There ya go.
There ya go, buddy.
There you are.
Oh my gosh, they are so adorable.
Hognose are so absolutely cute.
Take a look at this little super hognose here.
Oh my gosh, these guys are gorgeous.
One of the things I definitely wanna do this year
is add a bunch more hognose to my colony.
I absolutely love 'em and been working with hognose
for a long, long time.
At one point we probably had a couple hundred adult hognose.
Since we kind of downsized, we have a good group of 'em,
but we really need to get some of the newer mutations
because looking at little things like this superconda here
just absolutely warm my heart.
How cute is that?
What in the world is that spider doing?
Oh my gosh, you guys know I've been getting
into the arachnids a lot lately.
Well, I am finally gonna start building
the arachnid wall today.
It's probably gonna take me a couple weeks
because I do have to travel to Europe, and I still need
a bunch of material and all kinds of different stuff.
But we're gonna go ahead and build the rack today,
and that way we can start to slowly get things over there
over the next couple two to three weeks,
and then that will be done.
I absolutely love 'em, but this spider
is freakin' me out right now.
Whoo doggie, that's actually my Mexican Red Knee,
and she is a pistol.
Usually they're super, super docile.
This is not Queen Elizabeth, by the way.
Let's go ahead and build this rack.
The first thing we have to do is we have to get
all our markings.
We gotta cut all our wood for the shelf systems.
We got all our pieces cut, now we just have to kinda
nail 'em all together.
Again, we'll nail the shelves together and then we'll
nail 'em to the outsides.
And then we'll just put it all together, and it's gonna
be right here is where the arachnid wall is gonna be.
And again, it's not gonna be finished for a couple
more weeks, but at least we'll start to see
what it actually looks like.
All the shelves are made now.
Now it's just a matter of assembling it onto the stand
and then you'll start to see what it's gonna look like.
But again, it's gonna be a long way off
before it's really the way we want it.
At least you'll start to get an idea.
I get excited about just seeing the progress.
We're about to have an arachnid wall.
Just a quick update on the little Kenyan samboas
that were born a couple weeks ago.
They've now shed and a bunch of 'em have eaten.
They look absolutely incredible.
It's kinda neat just to see how a little tiny snake
like this could grow up so quickly.
Of course these guys are what they call sexually dimorphic,
meaning that the males actually don't get really large.
Most of my males are only like 12 to 14 inches.
Females can get as large as three foot
and pretty heavy bodies.
Nevertheless, such a cute little snake
and a feisty little monkey too.
I wanna show you guys, check this out.
This is pretty cool, check it out.
- Sure, what do you got?
- [Host] Look, it looks like the same two alligators,
but there's more in there, trust me.
- Where are the other ones?
- There's more, you got more?
- [Host] Yeah, we got more alligators, check 'em out.
- No way, oh I see another little one right there.
Yeah, you're right.
- [Host] Stick your hand in there, grab them out.
- Yeah, he's a friendly one, right?
- [Host] They're all friendly, dude.
They're from Gator Land.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Host] Now there's a total of six 'em in here.
- There's a total of six?
You would never know.
- [Host] I know, and look at how chunky ours are compared.
- Gosh, they are, they're barrelled.
- I think ours are gettin' fed a little bit too much.
- Oh my gosh.
- [Host] This is probably the way they're supposed to look.
Look at how chunky that one is.
Oh my gosh, Eric, that's unbelievable.
That's one of the old ones.
These are the two chunky ones are old ones.
- Whoa, I thought that was a gator.
I thought this was a gator when my arm touched it.
- [Host] You wanna hold this one?
I'll grab one.
Here, let me grab one for you.
Gosh, look, it took me two seconds.
- How the hell'd you do that?
Oh my gosh, it's kinda wild.
(cross talk)
How do you hold 'em?
- [Host] Look, it's fine.
- You're lucky Big Mama's not around.
She'd of came over and gotcha.
- This is silly.
- [Host] Aren't they cool though?
- They are so cool.
There's nothing cuter, man.
- With the snake, like, it's easy to control
where they're going, but like these guys, they go.
You know what I'm sayin'?
- It's a wild card.
- Does that make sense?
- Look at that little chomper.
He'll get ya too.
- Yeah, he's a little mean.
- Aren't they cute?
So now that we have six it's gonna be much better.
Look at our little chubby monkey over there.
So this is the gooty sapphire here,
and the rack is completely finished.
This is where she is gonna actually go
when it's completely done.
Right like that.
And that gives you an idea of what these racks
are gonna look like.
So we'll have this cage, we'll have four
of these cages here.
We'll have four a little bit shorter cages here.
And then we'll have a couple big ones
for the Goliath bird eaters.
And of course, this'll all be rocked out frange
with timbers on the sides.
You know how I always fix your stuff out.
Essentially, that is what it's gonna be like.
So one more job at least started.
We still have a long way to go, but at least you get
an idea of what this looks like.
And as always, I'm gonna give you guys the weekly update
of how Salt and Pepper are doing.
Definitely getting some size to 'em.
Go ahead, bud.
Last week he was 165 grams.
He's actually only gained six grams, which is kind of
interesting because it looks like he's absolutely
gotten so huge.
That's a little bit of a surprise to me,
to be honest with you.
But nevertheless, it's still growth rate, so that's good.
And then Salt was actually 87 grams,
so let's see what she grew.
There ya go, sweetheart.
Okay, 95 grams.
So again, about seven grams or so.
So it's kind of interesting.
It looks like they slowed their growth down
just a little bit, which is completely fine
because they look really, really good.
So she is closing in on that 100 gram mark
that I was so waiting for.
Usually once they hit about 100 or 110 grams,
they really start to explode.
So with any luck, Salt will be 150, 180 grams
here in another month or so.
So, Lori, what do you think?
This is the new start to the arachnid wall.
- Okay, wait a second.
What do you mean start to the arachnid wall?
Like this is the arachnid wall, and it's huge.
- Well, this is the arachnid wall.
I'm just sayin' it's gotta be finished, and it's not bigger,
that's just about the perfect size I was thinking.
- That's huge.
- Really? - That's a lot.
- [Host] Not really, I mean it gives us space
for about 10 or so displays.
- That's a lot of spiders.
I was not consulted on this, because I would not
have signed off on that.
- What? - What?
- You kidding me? - We had two.
And now how many do we have?
- [Host] We have a lot more.
You wanna see 'em?
- How many more?
- [Host] I don't know, I can show you.
I mean, this is our gooty sapphire up here.
- I saw that.
- I'll show you the other ones, let's go.
I think this is all the ones that we have right here,
if I'm not mistaken.
I don't think we have any more.
This one here is freakin' me out.
Look at this thing.
- Oh my gosh. - It's crazy.
These are supposed to be really chill.
This is just like Queen Elizabeth,
but that thing is outrageously crazy.
So that's the Mexican red knee.
So that one right now isn't really handlible
for whatever reason.
I'm not really sure why.
This is the stirmi, which is the Goliath birdeating spider.
- I know that's not handlible.
- [Host] That's not handlible, but that's okay.
This one is Zombie here.
- Right, that's one I'm aware of.
And then this one
- That one is Charlotte. - Is Charlotte.
Those two I know.
- Which are both the Chilean Rose Hairs.
Then this one here is one of my favorite ones.
Look at that.
That's the Brazilian Black one.
That's handlible, that's a good one.
That's almost like the rose hairs, they're super nice.
- Too much.
- Too much? - Way too much.
- [Host] No it isn't, no.
- Yeah it is, this is not the spider-arium.
This is a reptarium.
- [Host] And then take a look at this cute one here.
This one's really cute.
This is a little curly haired here.
And that one's handlible.
So you can see a lot of ours are handlible.
And then lastly we've got this one here.
Oh, it's out, it's out, it's out.
Look it, look it, look it.
It's a purple one.
Look at that one.
It's a purple spider - Oh my God.
Oh my God, this is literally what nightmares are made of.
- [Host] No, no, that's a cool tarantula.
So the purple one you don't handle,
'cause that one can mess you up.
And then lastly, we just have the scorpion.
So that's it, that's not that bad.
- Wait a second.
What is that?
- No, there's nothin', those are molts, Lori.
- Number one, I don't like that, because it looks like
there's loose spiders, but there's a cage
under that too, isn't there?
- [Host] No, that's an empty cage.
There's nothing there.
So what do we have?
We have one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven.
See, we only have seven spiders.
It is empty.
Lori, it's empty, seriously.
- You lie all the time.
- That was where the curly hair used to live,
and we moved it up into a bigger thing.
So we got seven - This is too much.
And we have space for, what?
We have space for 10.
So we can get two more spiders.
- No. - Yeah.
- No. - That'll be good.
Let me know in the comments if you guys like the idea
of the arachnid wall, what I should add
to the arachnid wall.
- I'm gonna kill you, that's what I think.
- No. - Straight up.
- No, these are awesome.
I love these things.
These are awesome.
Look at this purple one.
- [Lori] Literally terrifying.
- For another animal I'd like to get more of this year,
to be honest with you, are African fat tail geckos.
We work so many leopard geckos.
And African fat tail geckos come in a wide variety
of amazing morphs too.
Not as many as leopard geckos, but still pretty awesome.
And this is actually Jasper here.
It actually was over at the reptarium for awhile,
but wouldn't eat.
And I've told you guys every now and then that happens.
We have an animal over at the reptarium
that just doesn't seem to do well.
We bring it over to BHB, we kinda put it into more
of a rack-type system, and immediately it starts
to take off again.
It's still a little bit thin, but it's certainly putting
a lot of body weight back on it.
So I hope I can work with more of these cute, adorable
little monkeys this year.
Not everything I do in the Vlog works out, you know.
In this case, I actually missed a shot that was pretty cool.
Eric and Mary told me that they had a crested gecko that was
about ready to hatch, and they were just gonna help it out
a little bit, because I guess the other sibling
had already hatched out.
They ended up filming it on their cell phone
and here's the footage.
- [Mary] Come on, you can do it.
- And typically I won't cut a lizard egg
to be totally honest with you, but in this case,
the other one had actually hatched, and it was already
like 12 or 14 hours since this one did.
So they were concerned about it potentially drowning
in the egg, and as it turned out, it's completely healthy.
And it's absolutely a beautiful little dude.
I'd say that was a pretty awesome day.
We got our arachnid wall at least started.
We have a ways to go, but it is definitely coming together.
And we of course have our little alligators
that are making a way.
Look at all of those alligator all over the place.
It is so cool to finally come over here
and see a bunch of alligators.
People are absolutely gonna love it.
I can't wait 'til people come to the reptarium this weekend
to see how they're gonna react to it.
With all of that said, guys, I think I'm gonna go ahead
and end the Vlog and call it a day, and wish you guys
an absolutely amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
I did wanna thank my friend, Brandon, for coming over
and helping with the arachnid wall.
Without him, it would've been much, much harder.
So, thank you, dude.
I appreciate your support, my man.
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