- [Brian] Oh my gosh, right off the rip.
What did I say?
I mean, just look at how incredible that is.
(throbbing techno music)
Hey, good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
As for me, I've got to do a bunch of maintenance work
at The Reptarium.
I'm a little nervous today
because it's the first day
that we have The Reptarium open, and we aren't gonna be here
because guess what?
Eric and Mary are getting married today.
So like I mentioned in the past,
it's all about maintenance every day
especially with The Reptarium being open.
So Lori is going through the center aisle,
doing all the spot cleans on all of these cages,
getting the glass done.
And I am working on the big cages
starting with being in Lucy's cage.
And again you can see Lucy is back up top here
in the tree right here hanging up.
I absolutely love when she does that.
I just think it's cool that she's using the entire cage.
But I actually have to drain her pond again.
She has a little bit of mess going on here.
That's just part of kinda keeping Lucy in this cage.
It's kind of a daily maintenance thing,
which is completely fine.
And by the way, no, the waterfall
is still not working in here.
I am gonna try to get that fixed this week.
That'll help the kind of circulation
and keep this water a little bit better.
As for now, we just have to drain it every single day.
(peaceful electronic music)
(water hose splashing)
Okay, so I'm gonna just let this water
kinda run through here, kinda clean it out.
It's already disinfected,
so I'm gonna leave Lucy and her beautiful self
and move onto the next thing.
I tell you, this is truly shocking
how dirty the glass gets every day.
With just people, like, I think people just, like,
stick their face to the glass or something.
So that's a big part of it every day.
We gotta go through and clean the glass,
which is completely fine because we all want it
to look really nice.
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One of the things I'm seeing
is that definitely a few of these animals' cages
are getting pretty dry,
even with this reptile prime, coconut bedding.
So I'm just gonna go ahead and give them a nice spray-down.
As a matter of fact,
we might even have to soak a few things.
This is all part of a learning experience
of how to keep these animals.
Oh, Casey, what is the matter, girl?
You're okay.
So I'll just give her a little spritzing down,
and she'll be much happier.
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I hope you don't mind that I'm taking you
kind of on our daily chores here at the zoo,
but just spraying Karma down here a little bit,
giving him a nice little spray.
Our spray nozzles will actually be fully functional
probably by tomorrow, so we have all the components ready.
But right now, we're still doing it all manual.
(peaceful electronic music)
(water hose splashing)
And chameleons like Karma, and even these
Jackson's chameleons can get normal water spray like this.
But with the frogs, you definitely
have to do RO water because, of course,
they absorb the water through their skin,
so you can't do that.
But with chameleons and stuff like that, it's okay.
Although, once the system is hooked up,
they're gonna get RO water as well.
And I tell you what, it is so exciting
to see these animals finally kinda getting used to it.
This animal here,
which is that beautiful super tiger sunflower plaidy,
she actually had been hiding kind of there the entire time.
She went up, and she just coiled up right over there.
Now she's finally out and about,
which is just absolutely amazing.
Look at how gorgeous she is.
And I'm so happy that this girl is out and about.
Her name is Butterscotch, by the way,
and she is an absolutely gorgeous snake,
and I think she's gonna be another one
that we can pull out a lot.
Because again, when we're pulling animals out,
you guys know The Reptarium
is all about pulling animals out,
letting people handle them.
We don't wanna overstress one particular animal.
So if we have a bunch of animal ambassadors,
we can kind of rotate them through.
And it'll be a little less stress on the animals.
So Butterscotch can now kinda get in the rotation
that she seems to be settled in.
And I've been saying this all along,
I'm always gonna work on the animal's pace.
I'll read them.
If it seems like they're getting stressed out,
they stay in their cage.
If it seems like they're really enjoying it,
like Sunrise, and even Perdita typically does,
they can stay out for as long as they want.
Always keeping in mind, we want an amazing experience
here at The Reptarium,
but we always want the animals' health be first on the list.
And then with cages like Abasuku, the night Nile monitor,
obviously, she seems to dirty her water almost every day.
And what we basically do
is we just take a wet dry shop vac,
we suck it up, then we disinfect it,
we fill it up, suck the water out again
to make sure all the residue is out,
and then we fill the water up.
That basically is a daily task with Abasuku,
and a lot of the other animals, too.
(peaceful electronic music)
Take a look at Chicken Strip.
I mean, he is absolutely loving this cage.
He's always out and about,
which is just absolutely fantastic
because he used to hide all the time.
That tells me that he's feeling really comfortable.
And again, he does have plenty of spots.
Sometimes he goes up there,
he's got some spots in the back,
but he really does love the basking area,
which is just great for monitors,
so I am loving the fact that almost everyone
that comes into The Reptarium
gets an opportunity to see such an amazing animal
like Chicken Strip.
And then there's Argimus Prime,
and just judging by the amount of fingerprints
all over the place,
it means that kids absolutely love him.
And I love the fact
that we can actually allow people to feed,
of course, reasonably and safely as possible,
but it is a great experience
because Argimus is an amazing animal
and always willing to eat.
The kids absolutely love him.
I noticed that Perdita hangs up by that hot spot
almost all the time.
Every now and then she wanders around,
but one of the things that's happening
because she's just hanging out, getting baked on,
is that she's drying out a little bit,
so we're gonna have to soak her probably
at least once or twice a week
to just kinda get that whole humidity
and moisture thing worked out.
She has been an absolute hit, though, people love her.
So let's go ahead and get her in the soak.
(peaceful electronic music)
There you go, sweetheart, I hope you enjoy it.
We'll leave her in here for maybe,
like, you know, 15 minutes, maybe a half hour,
at the absolute most.
But she seems to be really enjoying it.
And this is such an amazing cage with the waterfall.
And of course, a lot of people don't even realize
that there's an emerald tree boa in here.
They think oh that's just a really beautiful cage,
what's in there?
And I'm like, there it is, right there.
It just kinda speaks to how amazing their camouflage is.
(water hose splashing)
And oh my gosh, has Taz been an unbelievable crowd favorite.
The kids love him, and the fact
that I can literally hold him and feed him
at the same time is amazing.
He is such a good animal,
but boy, he loves to mess his cage up.
He is constantly redesigning his cage.
Pulling the bedding up here.
I mean, he is an absolute nutcase,
but I love him to death.
You're such a good boy, Tazzie.
We finally had Macklemore out for the very first time
last night, and he did so good.
I mean, it was really awesome.
I love the fact that we can continue
to rotate through animals and people are interested.
Macklemore is really a special animal,
and I'm so happy that some people
really appreciate him.
And there's really not a whole lot to say about Sunrise,
other than the fact that no doubt,
she's the favorite snake here.
I mean, she comes out more than anything,
and she loves kids.
I mean, last night when those kids
were just kinda all over her,
she was loving it, I loved it, they loved it.
Nova's been out a handful of times, too.
He's such a cool little thing.
It was around yesterday
when Sunrise was actually by his cage.
He'd frill up, so obviously,
Nova does not like snakes at all.
But the kids kinda loved the fact
that he was doing that kinda Jurassic Park, you know,
frilling up like that.
It was really cute.
But Nova is awesome, he's a little bit jumpy, but still,
people love him.
Just the last final things before we are ready
for the day open here at The Reptarium,
of course, unfortunately, Lori, myself, and the crew
are not gonna be here.
My friends Ben, Lorenzo, their family,
a couple other people are gonna be here,
kinda greeting and doing the same things that we do.
But of course, we've gotta go to Eric and Mary's wedding,
so we're gonna just wrap up here and get to the house
and start getting ready.
But before I get going, I do have a clutch of ball pythons,
just a couple eggs in it,
I wanted to cut before I go.
I picked up a few new snakes to raise up
from my buddy John that produced them.
This happens to be a blotch king snake,
but it's a half blaze blotch king snake,
so it's got that really beautiful red on it.
This thing is a stunner.
And then there's this anerythristic Honduran milk snake.
We actually produced the second ever anerythristic Hondurans
that were produced way back in the day.
A guy, Dave Dorty, had the first ones,
and then I bought them actually off a guy named
Matt Shrim, that bought the first one from Dave Dorty.
I raised them up and bred them.
It was one of my first really big investments,
so it's kinda cool to have a few more of them around.
We picked up another 15 or 20
little colubers to raise up, too.
So I'm super excited about it.
And just before I get out of here,
I'll promise you two things.
Number one, I will give you that proper tour
of The Reptarium cage by cage
and let you guys know what is going on
within the next couple days.
Also, you will see more stuff from BHB
in the next week or so.
We're gonna definitely not leave this behind,
if you know what I mean.
So you will see Reptarium stuff,
but you will also see BHB.
Of course, Eric and Mary are getting married today,
but I think they might be able to work
two days this week, and then they're gone
like a week and a half.
So you guys that love to see Eric and Mary, I'm sorry.
You're gonna miss them for about a week and a half,
but wish them a great success with their marriage.
I am so happy for them.
As for now, I am out of here and off to the wedding.
But before I go to the wedding,
I do wanna cut just two eggs
in this ball python clutch.
It's actually a female het brew,
so which is, of course, het, for blue-eyed leucistic,
more or less.
It's really a codominant, but the super form
is a blue-eyed leucistic and they call them het brew,
so for whatever reason.
And it's actually bred to a pastel kingpin,
so we could get blue-eyed leucis,
we could get a whole combination
of pastels, lesters, spiders, all kinds of different stuff.
Anyways, let's go ahead and cut these two eggs.
I'll get ready, and then we'll get onto the wedding.
Here we go on the first egg.
I'm really not sure what I'm hoping for here,
I mean, I really love hatching blue-eyed leucistics,
so I think I almost hope that I get some
blue-eyed leucis, just because it'd be,
oh, oh my gosh.
Right off the rip, what did I say?
And sure enough, there is a blue-eyed leuci in there.
There's just something about them.
They're not, like, super expensive anymore,
but I just think they're some of the most amazing snakes.
I mean, just look at how incredible that is.
Oh my god.
So I'm pretty excited.
Again, I said I didn't know exactly what I wanted to get,
but I wanted to get a blue-eyed leuci, so there it goes.
Let's see what this next egg is.
Maybe we'll get lucky, we'll get two blue-eyed leucis.
And away we go, let's see what we're gonna get
in the second egg.
Oh my god, you have to be kidding me right now.
Do you see that?
Oh my gosh, that's right guys,
we got two blue-eyed leucistics out of two eggs.
Look at how gorgeous that is.
Oh my gosh, you can literally see that little blue eye.
Oh my god, that is awesome.
So again, I just know that blue-eyed leucistics
are so popular, so to get two of them
is absolutely amazing.
Okay, guys, so that wraps up this.
I do have a clutch that I can cut tomorrow
that is due that I'll start the day at,
but for now, we're gonna go ahead and get ready
and get off to Eric and Mary's wedding.
So we are all dressed up and ready
for Eric's wedding.
You ready?
- That's right, kinda. - [Brian] Look at this.
Got the Gucci belt on.
Looking sharp, Lori's looking good,
We're ready to have some fun.
I just got here.
Jessica's behind us,
Kelsey's here somewhere, so we're waiting,
and the wedding is about to begin.
(joyful guitar music)
- As long as both shall live.
- Yes, I do.
- As long as you both shall live.
(audience applauds)
(joyful electronic music)
- I don't know, I woke up,
and I've been nervous all morning.
But thank God for Jack Daniels,
that's all I'm gonna say.
(laughter)
He's got me through today.
- Nice to see the crew together,
all dressed up, having a good time.
(laughter)
And I probably won't vlog a whole lot more
of what's going on tonight.
I'll do maybe a maybe a couple little quick things,
but definitely really, really happy and proud
of Eric and Mary.
I think it's amazing,
they're great people, such a big part of my life.
They are definitely my family,
so, it's great to be able to be here
and actually share this moment with them.
("Chicken Dance" plays)
(joyful electronic music)
And that's a wrap at the wedding.
Lori is just saying bye.
(group exclaiming)
It's definitely been a good night.
I'm lucky I have not only the best crew
when it comes to caring for animals.
But also, they're family to me.
They're amazing people, and I love just being around them.
It's absolutely amazing, and I do wish Eric and Mary
a lovely, lovely life together.
They could not be more perfect for one another.
And I am home, and I am gonna go ahead
and end the vlog here.
What an amazing day.
It's awesome to see Eric and Mary's wedding.
Had a great time throughout the entire day,
and I hope that you guys enjoyed watching.
I wish you guys an absolutely amazing day,
evening, whenever you happen to watch.
You guys are so amazing,
and I truly do love you guys so much.
Could you do me a couple favors
before we get out of here and I get a little bit of rest?
Can you smash that Like button,
turn those post notifications on,
leave a comment down below?
Like I said, say congratulations to Eric and Mary.
You guys will see them for a few days before they are off
on their honeymoon for a week or week and a half.
Make sure to be kind to someone,
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
(peaceful electronic music)