- Today, I bought the smallest reptile cage on the internet,
called a micro habitat.
But I didn't just buy one, I actually bought three of 'em.
One for Mike, and one for Noah.
We're each gonna try to build this out,
find an animal that can be put in here,
not permanently, just as a temporary thing.
And whoever does the best, wins the competition.
And you guys are gonna help.
Down in the comments, you gotta let me know
who has the best build, and the coolest micro habitat.
Whoever comments down below,
we're gonna actually send you that micro habitat.
Are you guys ready?
- Ready. - Let's do this.
- Let's go. The first thing we gotta figure out,
is how to assemble this thing.
I am very impatient when it comes to these things,
I really hardly ever read instructions.
I hope that this is easy,
because if I have to read instructions,
I'm definitely gonna be bummed out.
Already there... What is this?
Why are there these in there?
Why don't these walls just clipped together easily?
The thing is none of us can cheat, right?
Because we're doing it independent of each other.
Insert lock this side.
What I don't... I'm already confused.
- All right, I think this is a race, I don't even know.
Never built any type of habitat before, been my dad;s job.
Let's try not to drop any of this into the pond.
Oh no.
- [Narrator] What are those? - What are these?
That looks complicated.
All right, we're good.
Where do I even start?
- Of course, I'm the smart one. I got a place to sit down.
Might take me a minute.
(playful classical music)
This is a lot more instructions than I thought it'd be.
What, are there 87 pieces?
Insert lock this side. What's that?
- Unfortunately I do have to read the directions,
'cause there's no way I'm gonna be able to figure it out.
The first thing it said is,
peel all this protective layer off early.
There's no doubt about that.
Not sure what these circle things are about.
Maybe it'll all come together as it's going.
I'm hoping that the hardest part
isn't gonna be putting this thing together.
I thought this part was gonna be the easy part.
Micro habitats, there's a lot you can do.
Bioactive, you can do a bunch of live plants.
We're not gonna be able to do that right now today,
but down the road, I think it could be really cool
to have a little micro habitat.
I'm trying to decide even what animal
I'm gonna put in this.
Insert lock this side.
- So I am not going with my dad's route of just winging it.
I have this beautiful thing called directions.
I'm just gonna follow this.
Then hopefully I'll be able to put some sort of stuff
inside of it.
Fit my mourning gecko that I want inside,
but I'm not sure if we even have one of those.
So I'll have to go ask Jessica.
- Make sure to stick around to later in the vlog,
so you can see the finished product.
- I just got the step one, been about 10 minutes.
Is there two pieces on this?
I got these stupid plastic acrylic protectors,
and I can't get an edge.
I shouldn't have cut my nails.
I'm thinking something small.
Well obviously, but like,
maybe like a day gecko or something, like something small
that could actually live in here forever.
Honestly though, I'm not really thrilled
that there are spiders all over this stupid box.
It's designed for spiders.
And if a spider come crawling outta that box,
you're gonna know it. (screaming)
- Okay. First issue is I can't get it to fit.
- [Noah] Mine doesn't work.
- Mine doesn't work either.
- [Noah] Really?
- I can't get it to work, I can't get it to line up.
I don't know what's going on here.
Does this go to the back or the front?
It doesn't say, I don't know what's going on here.
- Okay, I got it.
I had it upside down, it's all good now.
Don't tell my dad.
Come on baby.
Yes, I got it.
- What? This is stupid.
Attach the front back and two side walls,
to the base using the silicone bands as shown.
What's the base? (playful classical music)
Oh, this is the base, right?
Like this, maybe?
- It doesn't fit, it literally doesn't fit.
Can't figure it out. (peppy music)
I literally cannot figure this out.
It doesn't make any sense.
These pieces go together,
but then this piece doesn't go together.
I don't know what's going on.
- Almost done, but I kind of messed up.
If you can see this side's super clear.
I didn't take off the protectors on the other side.
- [Camera Man] Mike's literally still reading
the directions. (laughing)
- Figured it out, I had it backwards.
Now we're cooking with peanut butter oil.
Doesn't eve make sense. (laughing)
What hell does that mean?
Now I know what the rings are for.
You actually use them to put like this,
and like that, it keeps it all together.
(playful music) - Who does this for fun?
All these stupid tarantula keepers.
No offense, to everybody out there.
Why? Oh-ho! I'm making progress now.
I'm putting the little locky-who thingy thingy's on.
Did you miss it? I totally wish I was recording.
I was putting one on,
and it snapped me in the head. (laughing)
Why does this sit so weird though?
(upbeat music)
- The box is almost together.
- Well, this is broke out the manufacturer.
So good job Zilla.
This doesn't fit in there, like it's supposed to.
- That's what she said.
- It doesn't fit.
So this might just be a open concept.
I don't know, I just don't know.
- Oh, that's genius. (playful music)
Look, it like pulls out, it twists, and opens.
That's all of it.
Oh my God, freaking genius.
And then you pop this out, twisty twist.
God that's smart.
- Officially done, we've got the little locker right here.
This opens up. This comes like this.
That's how you get stuff in here.
It was a little bit of a pain, but not terribly bad.
So now it's time to start decorating.
I gotta think about what kind of substrate it is.
Off to find substrate.
- But like something' small enough
could easily get out of that.
I ain't putting no frigging tarantula in here.
Are you joking?
- All right, this is the fun part.
We've gotta find some substrate.
I think I'm gonna go with like ABG,
like a kind of more bioactive type thing.
It's not gonna be bioactive, but the ABG is a soil
that looks pretty cool.
I think we're gonna find it over here
in the new Caledonia room, I hope anyways.
I know we had a bunch of it.
And then these are the plants I'm thinking here.
Not sure yet.
No ABG down here, so I might have to go find Jessica.
- I'm taking my enclosure.
I gotta go ask Jessica... coming through.
What to put in here, oh my mourning gecko.
Dang it, she's not in here.
But I may be able to use some of this stuff.
Think she'll be mad if I steal some of this stuff?
(energetic music)
I heard him talking about soil.
He was just down here.
Is that a stick?
I can use this.
- This will be perfect.
- Coming along great.
- What are you doing?
- Get that, that plant was the plant I was gonna use.
- Was it? (laughing)
- No, no luck, gotta find ABG.
- I need to find Jessica.
- [Brian] No I'm talking to Jessica.
- No, I am.
- No, no, no, no, no. I am.
You stay out here.
- No, he's holding the door, I can't talk to Jessica.
- [Brian] Jessica- - Oh, oh, he locked it.
- [Brian] Do we have ABG?
- Open it up.
- [Brian] Where's that?
- Gift shop basement.
- Gift shop basement, okay.
Don't don't tell Noah or those guys, aright?
- He locked the door.
- Tell 'em we don't have any.
- I got all this stuff in my hands.
- All right, gotta go to the gift shop basement.
- Hopefully someone's there.
Thank you, my dad locked me out.
Did my dad talk to you already?
- Yeah.
- Can I steal this plant from you?
- Yeah.
- Time to put the Crocs in sport mode.
(energetic guitar music)
Gosh dang it. I don't typically put 'em in sport mode.
(suspenseful drum beat)
- Do we have any mourning geckos?
- We have plenty of mourning echos.
- Cool. What kind of substrate should I use?
- Don't tell Noah or those guys, alright?
- Probably use ABG, but we're out of ABG.
- Crap.
- I gotta get some substrate and some decorations.
- [Noah] What am I gonna do?
Is that the only one I could use?
- You can maybe mix up your own.
I've got like sphagnum and peat moss.
- Okay, is there any location?
- Down to the new Caldonia room,
where I have all my supplies.
- You just mix it together, get it a little wet?
Awesome.
- We're going, we're going, we're going.
I got substrate, I know where all the decorations are.
- [Camera Man] Did you see Mike?
- That way.
- I'm back here. - [Camera Man] What?
- I'm back here.
- [Camera Man] Where are you?
- I know where the decorations are.
- Let's see. Where are we at here?
ABG, ABG.
Not sure where it's at.
Ah, here it is found it found it.
This is what I was looking for.
This is gonna look so good on the bottom.
(dramatic drum beat)
- Perfect bedding.
See, I think that the fact that I'm going with
ABG bedding is gonna set this apart
'cause they're gonna probably go with Reptile Prime,
which looks great, but this is gonna look good.
So now gotta find some plants and some decoration.
- I don't want that water bowl it's really big.
Oh, that's huge. This one's not.
Notice Noah doesn't have his lock on his cage.
That's important, Noah.
I'm gonna make a big mess.
Oops. God, this stuff is so messy.
Oops, can we get some Windex in this challenge.
Gosh, I'm a genius.
In my shoe.
- I have an idea and I think this is gonna set me apart
from the other two, if it works out, not sure.
So follow me real quick, back down into the basement
over here and try to find the backdrops.
I think those guys aren't gonna do that much stuff.
If I can't find 'em, I'm gonna have to just go
with what I can go with,
but I definitely wanna find some cork bark.
That's something I definitely need.
This might be pretty cool,
maybe use some of this for the bottom.
I like that a lot, handful of this stuff for the bottom.
Can't find the backdrops, now it's to find cork bark.
- Substrate is in, now I'm thinking plant.
(playful music)
What do you think about that?
We gotta go find some more stuff.
Don't look at my stuff. Get, get.
- [Brian] Get out of here.
- ♪ Do do do... ♪
- For the bottom here, just a little more texture.
All right, we need cork bark.
- I found a little sphagnum moss,
and the other stuff she was telling me to grab.
Now I'm gonna place this little plant in there.
Break a little bit of this stick off.
Perfect. Just like that.
Now if you ask me that looks pretty cool.
- I'm already pretty sure I know what I'm gonna put in here.
Again, this is a very temporary thing.
Wouldn't last, very long.
Gotta know the animal, so you know what environment
to actually put it in.
Because if you build a terrarium,
that doesn't fit the animal's needs
the animals isn't gonna thrive, right?
I've got a pretty good idea of what I'm trying to do.
- That's pretty cool.
- [Camera Man] You did a good job.
- Now let me know, how did the other people do?
- [Camera Man] They're not at this step yet.
- Oh snap.
- [Camera Man] They just got some ground in there,
that's it.
- Let's go. I got everything ready, I'm ready for my gecko.
- And I definitely need some-
- Don't look at mine, don't look at mine.
- Get outta here Noah. - I gotta put this back.
Do you need some mossy? Condolence.
- Don't you worry about me.
Okay. Let's see what I need here, I need some plants.
And I'm trying to think what will look good here.
I think this might go well, take out just part of this.
I think this is the way to go.
- I'm gonna go get my animal now.
Good luck with that. (sarcastic laughing)
- Cork bark. Lots of cork bark in here, but I don't know
if there's any extra cork bark in here.
- Oh, he did steal my idea.
Little... (aggravated grumbling)
I can't use that idea now.
Gosh, dang it Mr. Brian, you always do this to me.
Can't break that.
I don't think that vine will fit.
Ooh, scraps.
Maybe a little piece of this in the back.
Ooh, now we're thinking.
I gotta go find that knife, do a little sneak around.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Whew. Shouldn't have ran I'm not a runner. Okay.
I'm like a freaking genius.
Now the only thing is I can't get it to stay back.
The downside's the little gecko can get behind that,
but it's a day gecko, you don't really hold...
Not a day gecko, what am I thinking of?
When the (beep) did we get ice cream?
Mourning gecko, I'm like a freaking genius.
Thinking a little mourning gecko,
even if it goes behind it,
you don't pull it out and play with it.
Then you can always turn this around and see it.
It's like one of those leopard geckos hides
that sit up against the wall,
you can always see it.
way above my guy.
- Where'd Jessica go? Uh-oh.
Now I gotta find Jessica.
Found a little cork bark, some trees, some branches.
So let's go ahead and fixture this out.
I'm not sure that this is gonna fit, but you know
for us doing all this hard work,
trying to make these awesome terrariums,
do me a favor, hit that like button.
Helps our algorithm, you know what I mean?
And while you're down there, comment, like I had mentioned.
You could subscribe too, that would mean a lot to me.
First thing I'm gonna do is see if this cork bark fits.
Perfect, that's what I was looking for right there.
Perfect. That fits good.
Now I just want a whole edge in here.
So I'll bury these, like this, this side right here.
- [Camera Man] Looking pretty good, bro.
- Thank you.
I'll plant these roots in here so that they can grow.
I don't know.
I think I'm done.
There it is, I think that that's it.
What I wanted is a backdrop,
Finish this off, but I can't find any.
I should probably look one more time.
I found a backdrop, this is exactly what I want.
So I gotta attach this and then get an animal.
- I have to catch a morning gecko.
- [Jessica] They're down in the other basement.
- Oh, okay. Perfect. Yours looks-
- Don't look, don't look.
- You can look at this majesty right there.
- Oh, really?
Check on mine, baby. It's how it's done.
- [Jessica] I did not find it in here.
- Okay. (upbeat music)
- Let's go find Jess and see if she has a mourning gecko
we can put in here.
♪ Bum-ba-da-dum. ♪
Where'd he get sticks from?
I know we're not supposed to steal each other's idea,
but like this is too good not to use.
- Jessica. Oh crap, where is she?
Where is she?
Hey Jessica, quick question.
Do you have a mourning gecko I could use.
- Yeah, go... You're gonna have to catch him though.
- Okay. Go down to (indistinct).
- Oh okay. I'll meet you there.
(playful music)
- I'm not talking about speed here.
I'm talking about beauty of the terrarium.
You know what I mean?
I think this is what's gonna set me over the top guys.
Little details, when you're doing terrariums,
the details are what matter.
Perfect. And there you go. What do you think?
Now we just gotta get the animal.
- What are you doing, Mike?
- What are you doing Noah?
- No.
- No. What?
- You can't have what I want.
- You going for morning gecko too?
- Yes. - Me too.
That's what I've been planning the whole time.
(laughing) - Well-
- Do you think there's two together?
- I'm trying to find a baby.
- But you didn't take the clear plastic off all the way.
Your door fell off. (laughing)
- I know it came broken.
- I mean, are the adults big? - Yeah.
Okay guys.
- Oh, you smart, smart man.
Thanks Jessica.
- I need to ask Jessica where the animal is.
I'm thinking about that little Chihuahuan
we got from Chicago.
- Oh, that'd be great in there I think.
- Look at hat, isn't that-
- Oh it looks so good, iI love the fern.
- It's isn't up to Jessica standard,
but hey, listen, you know, I'm doing the best we could do.
All right, I'm gonna put that little guy in here.
So obviously guys, like I mentioned,
we're not keeping him in here,
because you know we've got a larger enclosure
for the Chihuahuan here.
We're certainly gonna keep it there.
I just think for this particular challenge
this little chihuahuan's
gonna look absolutely incredible in here.
How beautiful that lil' monkey is. Look at how cute he is.
Okay little Mr. Chihuahuan.
Look at it blends in perfect.
I think it's judgment time guys.
So we're gonna go see what these other guys are doing.
You guys can judge who you think has the best one.
And listen, be honest, you know what I mean?
I mean, I know mine is the best but I want you to be honest.
You think the other ones, even though they aren't, you know,
you can say the other ones, you know what I'm saying?
But let's go see.
- I won.
Look at that, right on that leaf right there.
What a good idea. Look at Mike's trash.
- It's not trash, it's really good.
That's like, reptilian quality right there.
- I did not say trash. - I heard you.
- My dad's last?
- Can we just say that your door's not even in.
- Because it's broken
- [Mike] You broke it? - from the factory.
- Boys, where are you guys at?
Mike's already pruning his plants and stuff like that.
They're all gonna be dead by the end of the week anyways,
it doesn't matter.
- I got fake plants.
- Why are you watering 'em? (laughing)
What are you gonna water fake plants for?
- I'm not I'm just adding humidity.
- Okay, so first off I could see these guys
took the minimalistic route.
- [Mike] Okay, you gotta have room for the animal.
- [Brian] Plenty of room, look at this.
Okay, Jen. - [Mike] Wow that's amazing.
- You don't know who built what, right?
- Right.
- So just pick which one.
- Okay. I think this one won, because I like the background.
- A little extra.
- Yeah, and then this is number two.
(laughing)
- Again, I like the background.
This doesn't have any background, no presentation.
- I would add LED lights and things like that.
- 1, 2, 3, again, down the comments.
Brian, Mike, and Noah.
We'll pick a random commenter,
and we're gonna send you each one of these terrariums.
So in the comments, just put Brian, Mike, or Noah.
We'll pick a random person for each of these things.
Anyways guys, good job.
Yeah. I finished first by the way,
that's gotta get some sort of points.
- Oh, this wasn't a time challenge.
- [Camera Man] You always finish first.
(laughing)
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have a wonderful day reptile army.
Remember be kind to someone,
and I promise I'll see you in the next one.
- Brian, you taped yours.
- I taped the background, not that the actual thing.
the background has to be taped.
- Still looks like crap.
- You know, while you're like misting your fake plant.