so one of my really great subscribers to the channel mentioned um you know what it's time
we should just do a full species tour of the house and i have been thinking about doing that
but here's the thing i want to make that the 1000 sub kind of reward or milestone video
so to kind of give a little something before we hit that we're really close only need like another
300 subs which is a lot to me but for a lot of the other channels out there it's just you know
dropping the bucket but until we get to that thousand sub and i'll do the full species tour i
do have a lot of boas and python and ball pythons so maybe i won't do every single one of those
but we'll do the full tour of downstairs with the exception of one room that we're still renovating
so if we hit that before we hit the 1000 then you'll see it if not then we'll leave that one up
for maybe 5k or something like that where you get to see the big uh the big stuff that i'm working
on with like christmas tree tubs and six foot enclosures and things like that but that being
said to give back to the people who do follow this content and do enjoy it and love seeing all the
little idiots that i have running around we're gonna check out my second room that is temper
uh temperature and climate control which is the arid desert room so back in september you saw
the gecko video tour if not you can check it right here and now we're gonna go check out probably a
two-parter because i'm gonna i'm talking a lot um it'll probably be close to like half an hour or 35
minutes to do the full thing a little bit more in content i don't have as many critters crammed into
that one because they're larger they need more room but i can talk about them a little bit more
so stay tuned for probably what is going to be part one of that let's go check it out
all right here we go so keeping in mind that yesterday was cleaning day and today
i just got off work and we're going to do the whole tour so just got off work
picked up some greens from the grocery store crickets from the reptile store and fed them off
so everything is not super pristine and feeding day was three days ago for all of the non-bug
eaters and vegetarians so again everything is not super pristine everything is not super super clean
because of yesterday but i think you'll see some stuff also keep in mind if you recall if you
watched the previous vietnam previous video but an earlier video of uh this is the room that we had
our fire in uh or fire scare i guess you could say uh things are being remodeled things are improving
and things are going to be changing hopefully some sooner than later and i will discuss that as we go
along so we're just gonna go around i'll just do a quick little sweeping view so here's this room
so that's the room and we're gonna start here we're just gonna go around okay so to start
off with uh partner is a cheese head not from wisconsin also into star wars just like star wars
and the packers for some reason anyway so as we come over here this tank is actually completely
empty this is where a new acquisition will be moving into once he clears quarantine
and i will do a full video or talk about in a podcast about all of the new acquisitions despite
the fact that i'm doing my utmost not to actually search for new snakes they just keep popping up
but that being said so this was a holding container for one small san boa
and this is another san boa eventually i plan to put a rack into here for some of these smaller
animals so fun fact i've actually never purchased a kenyan sand boa every single one has been gifted
or relinquished to me by either rescue or just couldn't take care of it any longer or things like
that so i have three kenyan sand boas never bought a single one but i plan to build a 32 court rack
and i will show you where the plans are i will put that as we get to that moving right along here is
our famous rosie there's a little face hey rosie so rosie is our arizona grand canyon area locale
rosie boa there she is um she's still a little bit of a chunker and she always has been since we've
had her but that being said sorry about the camera about that um i've done a little bit more
research into the rosy bow since i put out the species spotlight since i've gotten her two two
and a half three years ago now um a lot of people don't actually even put water in their enclosures
most of the time like out of a month they'll put it in there for like a week and that's it because
they actively do not drink a lot of water there we go focusing on our face there is my cute little
rosy rosy there she is okay rosie we're gonna put you back in there i'm sorry i'm sorry rosie
so there's rosie she does okay she doesn't ever make use of her little uh her little cave in there
she most of the time either hangs out there right in front of the cage or on that rock for the most
part that's where she spends most of her time she doesn't actually move a whole lot either um but
still give her the chance to do so and she doesn't ever take advantage of it and then moving down
below this is nest pierce this is our gray banded king snake or lampropeltus alterna where you'll
hear a lot of uh king snake club people refer to them just as alterna so here we go so we did the
couple different um whatchamacallits blah blah blah blah blah i'm enclosure upgrades so this
is the most recent one he just knocked over that even though i put it up yesterday that's a little
spot where i would like to think he goes to go into blue and shed but he doesn't he just buries
there sometimes and he spends most of his time either buried back here back there or there he is
so he's growing pretty quickly but there are smaller species they don't usually get too too
big especially compared to like the uh the brooks or the florida king sinks or even the california
king snakes they do get quite a bit larger than these guys but hopefully we'll have a girl for
him or maybe start him out soon we'll see how that goes so moving right along this is my supply
closet which i had to take the door off of to make room for that but that's okay so supply closet is
in here extra lamps light bulbs vermiculite and bedding an extra little aquarium some heat pads
for moving things like that extra cords more heat lamps decor bowls cricket food things like that
this is the third kenyan sand boa there he is actually haha he's really out but yep there he
is there's the third canyon sandbag um the regular looking one so none of them are anything so one is
a stripe um that is sheamus or that is dean this is sheamus and then angelina is the girl the big
the big chunker girl that we have but there we go that's this one i used to keep um leopard
geckos before i knew any better because i got the inspiration from the cheyenne mountain zoo
they have a really cool reptile display um but i went oh hey leopard geckos need a little bit more
room than like a 10 gallon equivalent aquarium so got obsoleted and then it just sat around for a
while so now we're going to do this and eventually i'll probably turn it into just a straight like
plant terrarium but we'll see how things go this is the dubia colony right here
miscellaneous snake hooks snake hook slash use that to open up the window this is the guinea pig
or north american house hippo food uh mazerai for everything all types of rodents so yes
and then we come over here actually i'm gonna grab the uh the ladder the step stool so we can
actually get a decent look up here never mind the dvds this actually used to be our bedroom
before the reptiles took over the entire house so here is the african fat tail geckos that we saw
i threw in some duster crickets in here sometimes i'll uh gut load them if i can today i didn't
really have a whole lot of time with that they usually spend most of their time oh hey look at
this so they laid these yesterday from yesterday morning a couple of uh they dried out pretty
quickly but infertile uh eggs the fat tail geckos but they're usually under here there they are
right there cute little buggers and then down below we have our baby sulcata tortoise um took
a while to get growing they're supposed to grow like weeds and i don't know their growth rates are
really weird like speed bump who we normally hear at the moment whenever i'm in here um he didn't
grow very much the first year and then he exploded this one hasn't grown much the first year either
and now he's really starting to get going i don't know if it's like they just take a little while to
get accustomed and then they just get going but so as you all know tortoises tortoises can be quite
messy when it comes to just their basic husbandry so there we go zooming on and there we go that
looks a little bit better right so changed his water yesterday that's what it looks like so i
need to dump that out just a second so if anyone think about getting a tortoise doesn't matter if
they're this big or they're an aldabra sized that's what they do every single day that's
literally less than 24 hours old so thanks buddy as well as the greens that i don't honestly know
why i have this cute little bowl because it's just for show at this point because they just throw it
everywhere and you'll see what i mean as soon as i show you speed bump and pine cones big old run
down below here we go sorry about the reflection there is our little rescue leper gecko there she
is in her little humid hide one of the two the other ones over there threw in some more crickets
again but there is the 20 gallon right there dupe there's that um this is the tub i used to throw
the crickets into for gut loading there are some in there right now um just to kind of get going
the weather here kind of throws the crickets off kind of weird sometimes so normally twice a week
i'll get a box of crickets and i'll throw them in and gut load them overnight and then feed them off
but weather was kind of weird uh with the snow and shipping and everything like that
so it went two extra days longer than i would have liked and i just straight got them to them
as soon as i could and there are more gut loading and i'll be giving those more to tomorrow
those are just a couple extra little uh tanks left over from like transporting bugs and like a little
frog and stuff and that's actually where the gray band used to live in too and then we're going to
move right along so do we'll just take that again and up we go it's our boy moose our big boy so as
you can see there he is his awesome enclosure that has been a prominent and a couple other a little
videos so again that one doesn't really do anything it's mostly just there to use for places
for that for him to crawl up onto and move around which is totally fine um over there just hangs out
there same with this one that's where that is so he doesn't actually have uvb in here but he
does get 12 hours of natural daylight in the room and in his enclosure so this is a 4x2 enclosure
uh legos because i'm still a man baby so there's moose our bull snake are probably wild caught
don't know how old but uh relinquish slash gifted slash hopefully used for animal ambassador
uh in the near future bull snake moose and then i have talked about her a couple times you watch the
podcast you may have heard me talk to travis wyman about her as he has one uh this is our
black-headed python who hates my guts uh working on her with handling the vest up there see just
like that she flips right up she hates me the store that i got her from said that she used
to be just absolutely amazing and so sociable and they're lying they're liars they lied to me there
and there's no way but uh she is quite the cranky butt uh she makes weird vocalizations and if i can
grab this want her flipping out on me there we go so yeah she uh broke her shed a little bit and i
got the other one yesterday but she was sitting on top of this and was uh not wanting to move so
i got it from you this time so there she is and she is uh also gone in the classic
little way that i've done a lot of these enclosures where it's kind of the split
split substrate so these guys like the woma and the only two of the two genus they come
from australia the woman's are usually a bit more arid more sandy in general these guys come from a
little bit more tropical a little bit more humid but still fairly we could throw the word arid out
there without too much asterisk to that but so blackheads they usually use a little bit more
humidity the womas are usually a bit more dryer which is why you seem like a lot of zoo setups
these guys usually have some sort of dirt or wood bedding and then the wilmas typically are almost
always on sand or rock so in here she has some dirt of the desert uh substrate a nice little rock
for basking there's that um this room is basically kept at an ambient temperature that's good for a
lot of these and they add supplemental heat that bulb does to put out a little bit of warmth so
if i ever give her a big meal which is like she's on small rat so if i give her like a small medium
she will go over there and she'll just sit there and just kind of digest on that rock
and i will leave jerkface alone mark there's that and then down below this one so we generally
refer to the rooms as the tropical or gecko room over there because it's mostly geckos
and it's cooler it's more humid and so it's the tropical room this one it's a little bit
more air this one we call the aerator desert room it's really more like subtropical but
and then we make adjustments but this one is the timor monitor where yes it's not exactly a
temperate species but it's a nice sized enclosure we'll back up a little bit as i sit on the turtle
thing so this is the full enclosure it's a little bit it's about four feet wide three feet high and
three feet deep so it's a good size for our teamwork and most of the time when he knows
i'm out here because he's not a fan of me although we can do a fair bit of handling he doesn't flip
out he doesn't tail whip or bite but he just doesn't really like it um he's usually under
that cork bark otherwise he'll be there basking and moving around and hunting for those crickets
this is currently an empty tank it housed a tegu for a while now he's moved downstairs to
a full six foot enclosure this is i don't know what i'm going to do with it i might
i'll probably raise this up and lift this whole stack and move those legos eventually
but i'll probably lift this up a little bit and i might put um maybe an indigo snake or something
like that i kind of wanted to do a six foot enclosure for an indigo um because they do like
to move but it's a good size it's deeper than most of the six foot enclosures um and it's five feet
that's why you can see it's a little bit wider there um but so yeah i don't know i'm just gonna
do something with that i haven't quite decided yet as i said before it is in a transitional period