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- Hey good morning every body
and welcome to the vlog.
Got a little bit of sleep last night for the first time
in like six or seven days.
And having all the help that we had,
doing the reptarium expansion was so incredible.
I mean, insanely appreciative,
with that being said today is finally kinda the day
that I'm alone or with my crew I should say.
So I can start to kinda take it in right.
So the last six days has been manic,
there's all kinds of stuff going on
a million projects.
Today I can actually slow down a little bit,
enjoy what we've done
and start to kinda punch out all
the little things over the next,
probably two or three weeks to get things done.
Again, it's been an amazing experience.
We have come such a long way in such a short time
but today I still have to do a bunch
of glass and cages and I'm kinda itching
to maybe add an animal to the new reptarium.
I don't know if I, I think I'm gonna do it
and I've got the perfect animal in mind.
(air whooshing)
And that snake of course is Almacino.
I've been waiting to get him
over to the reptarium ever since I got him
'cause he's just such an unbelievably cool,
placid animal and look how beautiful he is.
Can you imagine this animal in one of these displays?
It's gonna be absolutely incredible,
not to mention I'll be totally honest with you guys,
after I've been keeping retics
in these naturalistic cages
I'm not as excited about keeping retics
in minimalistic cages 'cause they love
to climb and explore.
So let's go ahead and pick that cage out,
get it ready and later on we can move Almacino over.
(air whooshing)
And I figured now I'll take you guys
on the really quick kind of just walk around
just so that you see what it's like,
kind of finished, not finished
but kind of that way.
And of course you guys know that
this is the other reptarium got Bulgar here.
You guys have been down this path so many times
so you know what it's like,
but it's just kinda cool the new flow right?
Because before there was just the circle
that's all you had so and again Bella,
Bella I love you girl.
It's so nice to be kinda getting back
to where I can spend time with the animals
and not just be building from early morning
till late at night.
But, I still love the reptarium.
The original reptarium will always
have a soft spot in my heart
because this was kind of the thing that changed my life
and gave us the ability.
Of course Lori's just working on some things
with the turtle pond
and of course this entrance way
has just come out so good.
I just love it to death.
Lori's doing a great job over here.
You walk in here anaconda, cage obviously.
This is gonna be the crimson albino iguana's.
Just cage after cage of really cool stuff.
I tell ya, I cannot wait to get animals in here.
That's the next thing right.
Once we get things all fixtured out
and kinda seamed up and stuff,
'cause again, all these seams have the to fathered in.
We still have some other little work of course.
Look at this, unbelievable.
You guys know that they surprised me with this mural
This is the birthday party room.
We'll have a TV that goes up here,
some tables and stuff like that,
kinda have to fixture out the top of these rocks over here.
So still we have a little bit of work to do over here
but the lights are on in all the cages of course.
We have the massage room here.
We have to facade this out,
put the doors on here in a little bit.
It's crazy because again,
I visualized this much like I visualized
the original reptarium and honestly in both cases,
they've turned out better than I even expected.
Once this is done and we get all
the greenage up here and the finishing touches,
woo doggy, this place is gonnalook amazing
and again I can't thank you guys for allowing me
to follow my dreams,
along with all the people that really made this a reality.
- You stay.
'Cause this is how. - Unlock it Lori
unlock the door.
- This is how I contain you,
you can't do anything else
if I keep you in this cage. (laughs)
Problem solved. (laughs)
- The mural turned out unbelievable,
I mean, what a shocker, I mean,
those guys destroyed it on this,
it's really what I had, better than I had envisioned
to be totally honest with you.
I think that just the colors,
because everything here is Earth tones and stuff like that,
you get these colors and woo doggy,
I'll tell you why.
That is incredible.
Now what I'm gonna do is actually put
this base cove molding here
jut to kind of finish the ground.
That's gonna give this whole room a finished look.
So we got to go around,
get the molding around the entire room here.
A few touch ups and this room is close
to being done but this mural, oh my God, next level.
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Yeah guys, I think this is the cage right here.
I can see Al, just the colors just match.
He's gonna use this log to climb.
There's gonna be, put a nice big water dish over here.
The heat mat is right under here.
We can put a couple basking lights
for the warm side of the cage,
cold side of the cage.
He can come up here and cool off if he wants.
So, yeah this is it,
so I've just got to clean this cage up,
get some bedding in here, put a water dish in here
and yeah we'll put him in and see how it goes.
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I can't wait to get the actual utility room
hooked up over there where we'll have
a actual hose rail,
where we'll have temperature controls,
hose rails that can fill.
But for now I was just so excited
to get Al in here.
This guys set up.
We also gonna be getting foliage as well.
So there'll be some greenery in here
and stuff like that but for now we just,
kind of bare bones but I'm just too excited.
I'm like a kid on Christmas morning.
I wanna see what Al does in this enclosure.
(air whooshing)
- This is good, it's actually healthy. (laughing)
- [Narrator] You didn't get Mary anything
for Valentine's Day. - Dude it's a,
no it's a hallmark holiday.
They actually cut peoples heads off.
Do you want me to cut her head off?
That's what they did on Valentine's Day.
- You know what's a hallmark moliday,
maliday, holiday? - What?
- [Narrator] Did you just have a stroke dude,
whats up bro?
- I love Mary everyday and that isn't good enough, okay.
- It's not dude, it's not good enough.
- I'll get it when the chocolate goes on sale
I'll get her something.
- It's too late.
- You panted the seed.
Noah planted the seed in her head.
- [Noah] I didn't even talk to her.
- That I didn't get anything because now she's,
Andrea just brought food in for everyone.
- [Noah] Mary.
- And now Mary's like.
- [Noah] I heard Eric didn't get you anything
for Valentine's Day?
- [Mary] I know he didn't.
- [Narrator] What?
Did he even say happy Valentine's Day?
- [Mary] At the gas station, in line he did.
- That is true love.
- What do you mean? - I love her.
- [Narrator] Not even when you woke up?
- No. (giggling)
- [Narrator] Not even when you woke up?
- I was tired, I had a morning do stewed, I didn't know.
(air whooshing)
- Al are you ready for your new enclosure buddy?
(opening a drawer)
Come on baby boy lets go.
I am so excited about this, out of all the animals
that I'm putting over there,
this is definitely in the tops of the ones
that I really was excited about.
You gotta remember that the guy
that had him before kept him really,
really well but he was kept in a
very similar enclosure to this,
so Al has never climbed around,
never explored, so I am so excited
about this and this is one of the things
that when we opened the first reptarium
I was so just unbelievably excited about.
And that's putting animals in enclosures
like they've never seen before
and just seeing how they react to them.
So lets get Al over and release him
in to his new habitat.
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All right Al are you ready buddy?
Come on baby boy.
Oh my God you got me all tied up my boy, lets go.
I think Al's excited too.
Oh my gosh, sometime handling a big snake like this
is just a matter of exercising patients.
'Cause I don't want him to get hurt or fall
or anything like that, but here you go buddy.
I'm gonna put him right up on this log
and just see what he's gonna do.
(laughs) Oh my God he is gonna love this.
Look at him already wrapping the branch.
This is all something new for him,
so his mind right now is kinda going,
he's in intelligence mode and he's looking
around like "what is all this stuff?
I've never seen it before.
So how cool is that?
- [Narrator] Bryan he looks awesome man.
- This makes me so excited I mean
just look at the colors in this enclosure
and the amount of space, he can climb up here
he can get up on those branches
up there are ledges, it's a hot spot here,
cold spot over there.
He is gonna love this so this is what I live for.
This was what I was really, really excited about.
Hey just look at him over there,
he's over here just looking at
this rock right now like what is this?
He's climbing up here, he's gonna breach this
he's gonna climb all over the place.
I tell you guys I'm just gonna take
the next half hour or so and just kind of
watch this guy move around because
the first animal is now in the new expansions, wow,
and this is, again, beyond my expectations,
how awesome he looked.
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Look at him go, ah hell, what do you think Lori
is that cool or what? (laughs)
Isn't that amazing?
He's just loving it.
God I love this, this is so awesome.
First animal in the reptarium. (laughs)
Cool right?
Look at him, he's just love that too.
- There we go.
- [Bryan] Oh my gosh.
- It makes sense 'cause when you get
the retics up they always wanna go high.
So now he's got lots of area to use,
so that's cool.
- [Bryan] This is amazing, I mean,
just seeing him crawl around like this,
using every inch of the cage not knowing what to do.
As happy as I am right now,
I'm a little bit bummed because he lived his whole life
not being able to do this
and we've only had him for a short while
and again the previous owner was great,
loved him to death but it's just most people
don't have the ability to keep a retic in a cage
where they can climb like this
and they're so happy like this,
I mean, this is what they want.
I just think it's so amazing.
I'm a little sad 'cause he hasn't been able
to do this up until now but
the rest of his life is gonna get this.
So it's a great moment, it's a great moment,
and I'm just over joyed right now.
I don't even know what to tell you guys.
I mean, this is what it's all about.
(air whooshing) (upbeat active music)
- Oh my gosh, he went up there
all on his own?
- [Bryan] He went up there on his own,
he's just crawling around like crazy.
- That's so awesome.
- [Bryan] Isn't that cool?
Now you can rub that into Eric, say,
you didn't get a chance to see it.
But isn't that dope?
- He looks so good in here.
- [Bryan] I know right.
I just had to share it
'cause I knew you'd would love it,
I mean, it's so cool.
We put him down, he crawled around here
and then he went right up into that branch
and he's just been crushing it.
I don't think I'm gonna get any work done.
I'm just gonna watch him all day
but I just had to share it.
Isn't that awesome?
- Amazing.
- Just getting all the kind of rock facade on this
just starting to see, got the lights in it
now and stuff like that.
Gotta get the UV lights
the rock wall goes like this,
then there'll be the timber that comes around like this
that kind of caps the whole thing off.
So that's when it starts to feel
like a finished product.
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- What's up on my list today
is the never ending job of seams,
they are everywhere and maybe you don't notice so much
at first but if you really look you start
to see where the stuff seams and the nails
or the screws, so now I gotta go behind
and cover every little one of those.
There's a lot to do here so I'm
just gonna take it one section at a time.
Start with the turtle pond and see where I get.
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- Again lots and lots and lots of little things
to get done but we have the glass
in these enclosures now.
So all the smaller enclosures now have glass,
including these guys over here.
Then we have the rock facade on this one.
We just have to kind of touch up
and do all this to make it look really good,
gotta do the same thing with the ones
on the other side but again we're cruising through
this guys, I mean, I'm actually freaking out
the fact that my punch list of getting done
with the reptarium expansion is getting smaller
and smaller by everyday.
(air whooshing)
How cool is that?
The first animal at the reptarium.
Al looks so amazing,
he's been really exploring his cage all day,
which is really cool.
I hope you do enjoy the video.
Thank you so much for watching.
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