- Guys, you have no idea how excited I am
to see what's in this box right here.
Actually, a few months ago, a friend of mine
actually got this animal, sent me a picture,
and I was smoked about it.
It's definitely one of the rarest turtles
that I'm ever gonna have, and I cannot believe
that I actually am getting it today,
or I should say, got it today.
So what do you say we just open this monkey up
and see what's inside?
(knife clicks) (cardboard tears)
And like I said, this is just a true, amazing,
I've been telling you guys,
I've become a kind of turtle maniac, right?
So, first off, I want to show you these guys,
which are actually just kind of a throw in.
My friend that said that I could just have these guys
right here, and they are unbelievable.
These are little albino sideneck turtle.
You guys know, like I said, that I have been getting crazy
about turtles lately, and these guys are so absolutely cute.
You can see how they tuck their head in right there,
they're albino, so of course we have the normal
sideneck turtles.
So these are some albinos,
you see this one's just kind of peaking it's head out,
it's going, "what's going on here?"
So we'll go ahead and put these guys together
with the normal sideneck, and eventually they'll
come on display here at the reptarium.
But the truth is is that this is the one I was the most
excited about.
Don't get me wrong, I am super stoked about this
because I have become a turtle nut,
like I've been mentioning,
but the actual animal that I am blown away, that is super,
super rare is in this little tub right here.
Okay, so let's just go ahead,
we've got to cut a couple things real quick.
Tell you what guys, there are times I'm nervous, and this is
definitely one of them.
Oh my goodness, it's actually much smaller than I expected
it to be, to be totally honest with you.
I knew it was gonna be small, but this is it right here.
Take a look at this.
Oh my goodness.
This thing is the cutest thing in the world.
And for those you guys that don't know why this is so rare,
this is actually an albino eastern box turtle.
That's right.
It's an albino box turtle,
and there's only a few of these in the entire world.
That's right.
And I love box turtles, they are super, super adorable.
They can be really, really outgoing,
like this one already is, look at it,
he's already poking his head up, he's already like,
"oh my God", and they are just really cool animals.
I've wanted to get box turtles for a long time
because they're such amazing animals,
and then when I saw the picture of this albino box turtle,
I was like, "You gotta be kidding me.
I must have that animal."
And thankfully, my friend was like,
"Hey, listen, once it's established and doing really well,
I'm gonna go ahead and let you get it."
And we got it, and this is it guys.
Oh my goodness.
Now the thing is, is that the setup is very important.
Now, number one, these guys, as babies are a lot more
carnivorous, right?
A lot of land turtles and tortoises will eat vegetation.
These guys will eat a little bit of that,
like just a little tiny bit,
but the majority they're gonna eat stuff like worms.
They're gonna eat little like slugs in the wild
and stuff like that.
You can actually feed them, actually, turtle food
that is a carnivorous food that's actually kind of
balled up and they'll actually eat right out of your hand.
Absolutely incredible.
So as young, they need a lot of protein,
but you also need to keep them extremely humid, right?
That's really, really vital for these guys.
So, I'm gonna go ahead and get a new set up
set up for this guy,
get him in there and just absolutely fall in love with it.
I cannot believe how absolutely adorable this thing is.
Legitimately one of the rarer animals that I have here
at the zoo, and I am over the moon happy.
Let me know in the comments
what you guys think about how cute this is.
He needs a name, by the way.
So what is this little cute monkey's name?
Albino Eastern box turtle.
Don't know if it's a male or female,
probably gonna be several months before we're gonna be
able to tell, but oh my goodness,
he definitely needs a name.
Go down in the comments, let me know what you guys think,
'cause this cute monkey is absolutely amazing addition
to the reptarium.
So what's important when it comes to care of these
box turtles is, at this size, is to make sure that there's
really high humidity, number one.
You don't want a basking light at all,
and you don't want it to be too over light either,
because they'll literally typically spend the majority
of the first year of their life, almost underground, buried,
and in the water a lot.
As a matter of fact, a lot of turtle breeders will actually
keep baby box turtles in like just a little bit of water
with no substrate whatsoever.
So what we're gonna do is we're actually gonna move
El Toro, the bull snake, up top over here,
and we're gonna use this enclosure because it's
a little bit cooler, the way you want to do it.
Now we're gonna put a thick layer of coconut bedding
on the bottom here, and we're gonna make it
really, really damp, right?
And that bedding is gonna lead right up into this water
bowl, where it can actually climb into the water bowl,
get in the water as much as it wants,
might spend the majority of its time in it's water,
but also can climb out, right?
So we're gonna have to disinfect this cage a hundred
percent, kind of redo the entire thing over again,
and then, like I said, humidity is number one important.
If this thing dries out, even for one day,
it would be a complete disaster,
so we got to make sure that the bedding is always
super soaked out and that it has a lot of water
to actually get in.
So Mikey's gonna move the El Toro out,
kind of get this cage all ready to go,
and then we're gonna go ahead and release it,
and with any luck, maybe we'll even get a chance to feed it.
I'll show you what we're gonna feed it
a little bit later on, too.
- [Mikey] So, basically my job today is,
we have to move different things around because obviously
we just got the new box turtle, so,
my job is to set up El Toros old cage,
and now we have to move El Toro up to this cage,
so, basically I have to remove some of the lights
so it's not as hot, vacuum out the substrate,
put new substrate down, clean it up, make it look all
pretty, healthy, stuff like that.
So, let's just get rolling.
(upbeat jazz music plays)
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So El Toro's cage is all set up now,
so we're basically just gonna, you know,
grab the finishing touches, a couple more sticks
out of her enclosure, his enclosure,
and put the snake in there.
That's pretty much it.
Grab the snake, obviously that's pretty important.
And I obviously wanted to use his sticks too,
because his scent's all over it, he's really used to it, so,
putting him into a new cage, new everything,
basically sometimes freaks snakes out,
so we're just gonna make sure he feels as cozy
as he can be.
So we're gonna throw this stick probably up.
I'm not the cage designer here, so don't make fun of me.
Be free!
So El Toro is our bull snake, and obviously she's so,
so active, she moves around a lot,
she likes to interact with everybody.
So if you want to interact with her, come to reptarium.
Now that El Toro is out of his cage and into his new one,
now I have to completely deep clean this one,
disinfect everything for the new box turtle.
So let's get going.
(upbeat jazz music plays)
(upbeat jazz music continues)
Everything's all cleaned out and disinfected.
So now, they like it with really, really thick bedding,
so we're gonna give it a nice couple inches of bedding,
we're gonna put a water bowl, sink it down to the bottom
so it's nice and flat.
Something that's not too deep, but deep enough to where
he can sit, kind of drink from it, also take a bath
if he has to, and then get back out.
So that's the next move, let's do that.
(upbeat jazz music resumes)
(upbeat jazz music continues)
Then one more thing we have to do to it before we put
the little guy in here,
we actually have to take this heat light off
that was on here for El Toro.
she's got a new one up there,
but they don't like too much hot, heat,
and it's very hot.
Now I'm acting like I'm dyslexic and this is hot.
I can't, we'll have to come back to that.
Now that the cage has plenty of bedding,
big enough water bowl for him right now,
bedding is all soaked down, so it's nice and humid
in there for him.
Should be to be good to go.
Now we just got to wait for Brian was release
the little dude in his new home.
- [Brian] So Mike did a great job of setting this guy up.
And again, we're gonna make this bedding
really nice and damp all the time.
He's also gonna get an opportunity to go in this water
right here, if he decides to go in and look, (chuckles)
I mean, he's so small in here, but he's so absolutely cute.
I cannot wait to actually get an opportunity to work
with this guy more, and kind of learn all about him.
And as a matter of fact, we're gonna let him set up
for a little bit, maybe come back in an hour or so,
and actually see if we can feed them a little bit of food
because he's so outgoing.
He very well could eat right out of our hands.
I think that will be amazing,
but he is definitely so tiny in this cage.
I tell you what, that is absolutely the cutest
little thing in the world.
And again, these guys are gonna get, you know,
probably anywhere from five to six inches,
something in that range, so he's got a long way to go,
but he is looking absolutely incredible.
Unbelievable.
So that's good.
I'll probably put a rock or two in the water as well,
just so that if he's in the water, he can get out.
You know, shouldn't be a problem,
but I just want to make sure a hundred percent that
there's nothing that could possibly go wrong with this guy.
'Cause boy, I tell you what, as is rare as he is,
and as cool as he is, I don't want anything
to happen to him.
Look at how adorable he is.
I love the fact that he's just so brazen, right?
He didn't like hide in his shell.
He's just out like looking around like "What is going on?",
You know?
He is gonna love this new environment and we're gonna
take such good care of him.
He's gonna be my baby, for sure, so, wow.
I tell you what, I am blown away and I'm so excited
that he's now here at the reptarium.
It's only been a couple hours since my albino box turtle
actually got here, but we're gonna see
if it wants to eat for us.
Look at that.
He's already eating.
I mean, that is a great sign that
we're through the shipping,
like I said, we let him settle in for a couple hours
and then I gave him a little bit of a worm
and he's already crushing.
I mean, that is absolutely the best sign
that you could possibly have with an animal,
knowing that it's not that stressed, right?
Because typically, especially with turtles and tortoises,
if they're stressed, they won't eat, right?
So he is crushing a worm.
That's the cutest thing ever.
Oh my God, I love this guy to death.
(upbeat jazz music resumes)
(upbeat jazz music continues)
Just another amazing animal to add here to the reptarium.
He's small, I'm nervous.
I'm always nervous when I have animals like this, but hey,
he ate, it's absolutely incredible, and I say "he",
but we won't know for a little bit.
Again, name down in the comments, guys.
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