- Hey, good morning, everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I'm about go on with Lucy and that means one of two things
either I'm holding her, which is not gonna happen today
or I'm feeding her, which is gonna happen today.
So let's hope Lucy is hungry.
Girl, are you hungry?
Sometimes when she's over in this corner
she can be a little bit tricky and not really
be that interested in food, but let's see what happens.
I'm just gonna kind of give her a little bit
of a, come on girl, you wanna try to eat?
Come on, girl.
Ah, yep.
She wants to eat.
That's a good sign right there.
Get her over here.
Up you go girl.
Again, you never know this time of year
sometimes Lucy feeds really well.
Sometimes she does a little bit more finicky.
Today I'm really happy.
And one of the things that I really do when I get
into feeding giant snakes, like Lucy again,
she's over 20 foot long.
And I'll be honest with you.
She could probably be twice the weight she is right now
as far as thickness goes
but I want her to be a little bit lean and mean.
You could see she's still a very large snake, right?
But in the wild, they aren't typically gonna be huge.
You know, they're not gonna be massive.
They're not gonna be twice that girth
and in captivity oftentimes people will feed them
in a way where they are giant.
Don't get me wrong, I want a giant snake.
I want Lucy to be just unbelievably enormous
but I realized that if I do that
I'm actually gonna be shortening her life, right?
I mean, a leaner, meaner snake, like you would see
in the wild, this is really the proportions
of a snake that you would find in the wild, right.
Now every now and then you're gonna find a giant huge snake
that just ate really large meals all the time.
But the vast majority of snakes in the wild
at 20 foot are gonna be roughly
about this weight right here.
And that's really what I want, right.
I don't want something that, I mean, I shouldn't like
I said, I want a giant snake but I also want Lucy
to live 35, 40 years, right?
And in order for her to live 35 or 40 years,
I'm gonna have to feed her accordingly.
Today she's gonna get about eight to 10 pounds of rabbits.
I'm gonna do that every seven to 10 days or so.
Again, that's about the metabolism
that they're gonna be able to do.
She could eat 25 pounds easily
every single time I feed her,
but again, is that gonna be good for her?
Much like we do with Ivy, right?
We feed her four or five pound rabbits
for four to six weeks.
Then we give her a 20 pound meal.
Same thing I'd like to do with Lucy is
every now and then I give her a really large meal.
But most of the time she's gonna be eating
eight to 10 pounds worth of rabbits.
And that's gonna keep her healthy.
It's gonna keep her happy
and it's gonna keep her around for a very long time
'cause for me, I want Lucy to be around for as long as I can
cause she is certainly one of my favorite snakes.
And she's certainly one of the most favorite snakes here
at the Reptarium and speaking of Lucy, she started eating.
So it might be the right time
for me to get out of this cage.
(bright music)
We have to constantly be doing checkups.
Of course, Jay is involved with that.
I do much of that.
If I tried to do it Drago would probably bite me
but he seems to love Jay.
And of course that's part of keeping the USDA permits
as we have to continuously be checking up on him
so we can give it to our vet.
And then the vet checkups would sound like.
So what are we doing today?
- So we're gonna put some, a little bit of oil on his feet.
It was just was cracking a little bit.
And we're just gonna go ahead
and brush them a little bit.
- Just brush him a little bit.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
The problem is, of course it's really, frigidly cold here.
And even with the humidity cranked in his room
'cause he has his own humidifier still
a little bit dry for him.
So we're gonna just put some coconut oil on there
just to kind of keep it a little bit more moisturized
calm him up and stuff like that.
And then just do the health checkup with them
to make sure he's good.
But he is absolutely adorable.
Drago, what are you doing you silly monkey?
He loves you Jay.
- He does.
- I'm so jealous.
(bright music)
And strangely enough,
it's easier to work with Drago on the ground
because he seems to like to be on the ground a bit.
And he does really well.
So we're able to oil up his pads.
Just kind of check them all out.
Give him a little bit of a brushing.
Now he's starting to go back home.
So we'll just go ahead
and get them back up in his enclosure.
And he's good to go.
So one more day with Drago is always a good day.
I really do my best not to really think about numbers
a whole lot on things but you know,
we are getting close to 3 million, literally,
just over 30,000 subscribers away from 3 million.
It's a huge number.
And I appreciate each and one of you guys
that had hit the subscription button.
And if you haven't hit that subscription button
do me a favor and hit it right now
because you can help us get to 3 million.
And I cannot thank you enough.
Guys I am so stoked about this.
I've been waiting for this for weeks.
Are you excited?
- Yeah, I kind am.
- Okay, let's go.
- As you cut as always.
- Oh yeah.
So we've been, some friends did this for us
and oh my gosh look at this
"After Hours At The Reptarium" coloring book.
All right.
So I've only seen, I saw this here, of course
we got Perdita, we got salt and pepper playing the piano.
We've got, it goes all the way around like this.
We've got Drago up top.
You've got all this stuff.
Look, look, look.
So let's open it up here.
"After Hours At The Reptarium".
So you can color this.
Oh my gosh.
(laughing)
What? - Jay is gonna love it.
Baby gator, laser tag.
(laughing)
- So this is what all the animals do after hours
when we're gone.
Look at this.
Oh my gosh,
this is so funny.
- Is that Matilda?
- Elvis.
- You become Michigan.
Look at this it says ssup Matilda
Oh my gosh.
This is--
- Look at Nova.
(laughing) - Oh my God.
- He's got so much bling.
- Oh my gosh.
- They got the little DJ going out.
Abasuku jamming out DJ.
Did you know that Abasuku was a DJ?
- No.
- Yeah, he is looking at it.
(laughing)
This is great..
Oh my God.
This is gonna be dope.
So obviously we will have these coloring books available.
I don't know when it's going to be
within the next week or so
'cause we don't even know the price on them
or anything like that yet, but this is absolutely.
Oh my gosh.
Is that Jerry?
Oh what's this?
Oh my gosh.
No more doers.
This isn't the last one.
So help me.
(laughing)
- Oh my gosh.
- Well how creative.
- Look at Daisy.
(laughing)
- This is ridiculous.
This is legitimately awesome.
- Yeah, this is so awesome.
- And I've only seen a few pages I'm going to,
I'm not doing anything today at work.
- Chickenstrip has a food track.
(laughing)
- Chickenstrips.
- Look at Bowser.
He's got the TV going in there.
Bowser's layer, Ninja school for the turtle,
oh my, I'm blown away man.
- This is so cool.
- So thank you to our friends that--
- Oh you're in it.
- I'm in it?
- No way.
- Oh my gosh.
(laughing)
- Hello and welcome to the vlog.
- Oh my gosh.
I look pretty good.
Actually I don't mind it at all.
Oh my gosh, this is great.
So thank you so much.
And like I said, these coloring books will be available.
We'll figure out the pricing.
We'll get these up at therepterrarium.com.
- Oh shoot we are all in it. - Wow.
Oh gosh, look at this.
- Podcast.
- Oh it's a podcast.
This is ridiculous.
This is legitimately ridiculous.
- Yeah.
The is the coolest thing ever.
- This far, far exceeded my expectations.
When I saw the front and back
I thought it was gonna be amazing
but I'm telling you what, this is crazy so.
And check this out.
It's actually in a little thing
and it's even got a box of crayons that come with it.
It's a little, oh my gosh.
I'm okay.
I'm gonna go color guys.
We'll see you guys later.
(bright music)
Been working on this basement for the last couple of days
and we finally have all of the flooring in all
in the main room right here, we have it kind of all
the way around to here where the hallway is
but we don't wanna actually finish the hallway
because we're actually putting up a new wall over here
that's gonna expand the cool, new Caledonia room.
So we don't want to kind of do that,
so we're gonna end here.
But what we're gonna do today is we're actually
gonna paint the trim so that I can start putting
all the trim up just so that it looks finished up here.
Gonna actually go get TV,
so I can mount the two TVs in this room right here.
And again, like I had mentioned,
I ordered the arcade council,
the tabletop that is not only "PAC-Man"
but I think there's 420 games on it.
Couch is gonna go here.
I ordered the popcorn machine,
the old fashioned popcorn machine,
it's gonna go right here.
Again they'll be a couch over here.
There's gonna be a fish tank right over here
with the Matamata turtle in it.
And then a few other things.
So this room is gonna come along really well
and get along quickly.
And again, I'm gonna be offering those,
those VIP experiences, right?
To where like for whatever price we end up
you can come down here.
You can spend some time with us
watch the podcast and then spend like an hour or two
in the Reptarium after.
So almost making an evening out of a VIP experience.
It's gonna be, I think it's gonna be really amazing.
So more on that here.
So hopefully we can do that maybe in the next two
or three weeks, we'll be at a point
where we can actually offer that.
So more news on that, but nevertheless gotta paint the trim,
get the trim up, get the TVs up.
Bunch more work.
It's getting there guys.
It's getting there.
Rabbit number two for my girl, Lucy, come on, girl.
Come on.
Want the next one?
Ah.
There she goes, she's usually good when it comes
to eating the second one once she's on.
But again, she's much more mellow the second time around
just like most reptiles
really that first meal they're very aggressive.
And then the second meal, typically they slow down.
Now you've got to remember one of the reasons
why I talked about not over feeding an animal
like a retake like this too is that when reptiles get older
their metabolism actually slows down.
So obviously when Lucy was growing, she could
eat big meals every seven days cause she was metabolizing
and putting the growth, growth, growth, growth.
They go from literally babies to 12, 15 foot in two years.
Now she's at 20 foot 2 inches,
she's probably only going to grow
maybe two maybe three inches per year, you know?
So the growth is really slow.
And so the metabolizing of actually pushing that food
through their body slows down as well, right?
So if you over feed them, you feed them too large
or a meal or too often it goes to fat, right?
And then the more fat the animal has
the more fat that surrounding all their internal organs
like their liver and stuff like that.
And absolutely it shortens your life.
It's no different than people, right?
You know, people that are very heavy
have a shorter life typically
cause they have other health problems.
The exact same thing happens with snake.
The only real differences is
that their metabolism slows down a lot more
than say humans do when they get to this size.
So you've got to make sure not to overfeed your big snakes
as much as it's hard not to.
I get it.
You want a giant snake
that's just absolutely massive
because it's super impressive.
But what I think is more impressive is the fact
that you have a really healthy snake
that's gonna live for 35 or 40 years.
So let's hope Lucy continues just eating
and continues to look good.
And she's gonna get larger.
You know, she's going to continue to grow
and she's going to put weight on
but I never wanted her to be obese.
I always want her to be lean, mean like she should be.
And I know that's gonna lead to a long and healthy life.
(bright music)
Little update on the coloring book, which is really more
like a comic book coloring book, cause it is so intense.
I mean, it's not your normal coloring book.
This literally is ridiculous.
It is now available.
Lori said she put it on our website, 999.
You can get this shipped right to you,
trust me guys this is a banger.
I'm not even kidding you.
It's one of the coolest things that I've ever gotten.
So again, go to the Reptarium.com
and you can get yourself your own coloring book that is
I'm telling you when you get this
you're gonna be absolutely blown away.
(bright music)
Trims all painted up.
So now we just got to tack the trim on
and get that in place.
And every little bit, we're getting closer and closer.
Trust me in the next week and a half or so
this place is gonna look so incredible.
It's gonna be so cool to hang out.
So just got to get this trim up here
and we are one step closer, probably pick up the TV
so that we can put the TVs on the walls here today.
So I'm excited and things are coming together.
It's awesome.
(bright music)
All right like I said, progress, progress, progress.
And we now have the TVs going over here.
Of course the control room right in here.
You can see Noah's hanging out.
Hey Noah, what's up.
So things are starting to come together, getting closer.
I said, I think about a week
we're going to be completely done
and we could start having some banging parties
already down here.
- My bed comes next week, so I could sleep in here.
- No, but definitely gonna do the VIP experience.
So if you guys are interested go in the comments
we can talk to you guys about it.
You'll be able to come in spend some time here,
watch the podcast live.
Do the Reptarium for a couple hours.
Jay will show you Drago.
- Oh yeah.
Yeah, I got you.
- But I definitely am loving the way this place
is turning out.
(bright music)
So there it is, Lucy has a good meal.
It was a good day.
Coloring books are available.
I mean, this is, it's been an all around good day.
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