♪ Heigh-ho, heigh-ho ♪
♪ It's off to work we go ♪
♪ Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo ♪
♪ We work with snakes until ♪
♪ Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho ♪
- Oh, Nova, what are ya' doin'?
You crazy.
(upbeat music)
- Good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
Guess what?
It's actually my birthday today
and I couldn't think of a better way to spend it
to hang out with animals, work over at the reptarium
and I've got a bunch of friends coming in.
Miguel from Always Evolving Pythons,
Brian Kusko, my friend Scott Smith and a host of others.
I did want to update you.
Lucy did end up (water dripping)
coming down from up top over here
and now she's hanging out over here.
She seems to really be loving it.
She definitely spent some time in the water yesterday
because I saw that I had it filled
just a little bit too much and it spilled over here.
This is actually the hot spot over here
so she's hanging up over the cool spot right over here
which I think is absolutely amazing.
Again, she's using that heat gradient.
Oh, I wanted to show you this too.
This is pretty exciting.
We actually got the filters in.
We got two of the three filters in
that will run Bowser's tank.
So we need one more filter.
It's supposed to be here later today.
And then like I mentioned,
I have a friend of mine that might come in to help me out.
I'll let you know if that works out.
That'll be sometime next week.
Then we can get fill Bowser's pond,
have the waterfalls going.
Next week we'll start working on fascia
for all of these tanks.
It's gonna be absolutely amazing.
Today we're gonna move a handful of animals
over to the reptarium
starting with my girl, Bella.
I wanted to get Bella into this cage
as quickly as we possibly could.
Then again after we figure out what she's doing
we can kind of figure this out a little bit more.
But I just wanted her to have this space right now.
So Jessica has got Bella comin' over right now.
We're gonna see what she likes.
I don't know.
I think she's gonna absolutely love it.
Here you go, Bella.
Guess what sweetie?
You've got a new cage.
Oh my gosh, yes, this is all yours.
- [Jessica] Put your feet on there.
- [Brian] That's all yours, girl.
You could do whatever you want, sweetheart.
You can run around, you can hang out,
or you could just sit here.
That's fine, whatever you want to do.
- [Jessica] What's happening right now?
- [Brian] This is all yours, girl.
Isn't that cool, Jessica?
- Yes, I want her to go in there though.
Go on, lady.
- [Brian] Come on, sweetie.
She says no, I'm just gonna hang out here
and be a good girl.
A nice hot spot for you over there.
There's all kinds of place for you to cruise around.
- [Jessica] Be able to get in your water too.
- [Brian] Yeah, you're gonna have a whole big water bend.
Oh my gosh, go check it out, Belles.
- She's side-eyein' you, like what the heck?
- I'm not playing a joke, this is yours.
You can have it.
Well I'm gonna give her as much time as she definitely needs
to kind of get used to it.
She can hang out right here.
It's completely fine.
And a lot of days honestly, this door's gonna be open
so she can come up, we can feed her,
we can play with her, stuff like that.
So I want her to be really comfortable.
Yes, I know sweetheart.
But as long as it takes her to get comfortable
I'll just let her hang out.
(relaxed music)
Taking a quick break from the reptarium
to take a look at all these beautiful babies.
Oh my gosh.
Take a look at these amazing babies.
Of course these snows are all coral snows.
They can get super, super, super big.
So these can be absolutely beautiful.
And then there's some really cool
caramel corns in there too.
I love it when I'm hatchin' baby snakes.
Trust me, I need a break
from the reptarium every now and then.
Come over and look at some amazing little baby snakes.
And here's a few more that are just about to get set up.
I mean look at all these corn snakes.
It's so cool to finally be hatching corn snakes.
You know for whatever reason
the corn snake production this year
was a little later than the other snakes that we produce
because we had been hatching a bunch of other stuff
and really weren't hatching very many corn snakes.
Oh my gosh.
Take a look at that.
Oh doggie.
I wasn't even expecting that.
Oh my gosh.
That thing is ridiculous.
Of course that's a scaleless corn snake
but I don't know, it looks kinda like
a snow corn or something.
I'm not really sure what the mutation is
but that thing is ridiculous.
And yes, again, I know my hands are still dirty.
Trust me, I've been washin' 'em all day.
It's impossible to get this stuff off.
I'm gonna call Stewart and be like Stewart,
how do you keep your hands so clean?
Oh, and here's a couple more scaleless corn snakes.
We've got some normal scaleless corn snakes right here.
A a little albino scaleless corn snake right here.
Oh my gosh, what a cute little monkey.
Oh, and take a look at these right here.
It's a bunch of lavender and het lavender corn snakes.
Oh my gosh.
Those things are gorgeous.
Uh oh, we're in trouble.
(piano music)
Yep.
You guys know the routine.
Every time I open a bunch of baby corn snakes
they're all over the place.
I still am baffled how Laurie does it.
Oh. and here's another little scaleless corn snake.
Obviously it was a good day
for hatching scaleless corn snakes.
Before I get back next door
I wanted to share with you one another animal
that's gonna be a resident at the reptarium.
It's just so wild to watch her.
I mean she's like looking around.
You could tell she's trying to take it all in.
Like, what's goin' on, can I go up there?
I mean she's just kind of just exploring the entire place.
This is what it's all about.
I mean all the hard work and all of that.
This is really what kinda motivated me.
I wanted to sit here and see animals in these displays.
And that's why I literally just want to put
a couple animals, two or three animals a day
so I can just watch them
and really get an idea of what they look like.
What's up, girl?
I tell ya'.
This truly is a dream come true for me.
Bella has definitely settled in nicely.
Eric, you want to go move Nova over?
- Yeah, for sure, I'd love to.
- Alright, let's go do it.
Here comes Eric with Nova.
Nice big cage.
This is what the deal is with Nova here.
I'm gonna put him in this cage here
so he has all these climbing branches.
We're gonna definitely fix here.
I will have some more branches in there,
some vines.
You know, certainly foliage and stuff like that.
I just am kind of moving animals over
again, kind of see how they're gonna react to the new cages
so that way I can decorate, compare to what they like.
You know?
Sp let's go ahead and put him in.
- [Eric] He's gonna love that.
- Go ahead bud.
Where you want to go?
What do you want to do?
You just gonna hang out here?
It's interesting every time we put a new animal
in a new cage they just kind of freeze up
like uh, what am I gonna do now?
I don't know what's going on?
So I think he's gonna be absolutely amazing
up in these branches and stuff like that.
And we're using coconut bedding in the bottom
because these guys do need some humidity
so we can keep this a little bit damp
and I think that's gonna be really good for him.
We may mix change things up a little bit as we go
like we're gonna put Chicken Strip over
and with the bedding there I'll kind of use
like a dirt, sand, coconut mix.
Maybe some leaf litter and stuff like that.
But for now we're just getting things set up.
We'll be changing things and improving things
over the next coming months
but in the meantime, Nova, go climb buddy.
Climb.
Oh, Nova, what are you doin'?
You're crazy.
What's goin' on, Nova?
Oh, come on, silly.
Alright I'm just gonna leave Nova alone
and we'll come back and check on him in a little bit too.
So my buddy Scott just came in
you guys remember him from the Chicago show.
The all animal expo.
Literally when we were talking on the phone
the one thing I said is, Scott,
you're gonna love these trees right?
- You did it intentionally.
- [Brian] So you gotta come down this aisle, Scott.
(upbeat music)
(laughs) It's not that bad really.
- Nice, nice.
- No, it's not horrible.
I was expecting worse.
- That's awesome.
I've literally talked to Scott
pretty much every single day of this build
so he's kind of been on
the emotional journey with me as well
so I'm so happy he can be here
to kind of celebrate with us on my birthday
and stuff like that.
And guess who made it over here to visit?
And of course we've got Miguel and Brian Kusko.
I will put the links in description to their channels.
Definitely go show them some love
tell 'em I sent you.
You guys are in town for the day
and then we're going to Canada together, right?
- Yes.
- So these guys are just hangin' out for the day
checkin' out the reptarium.
We're gonna check out the shop next door
actually do some vlogging with both them
so you can check out the vlog that they do
on their channels as well as an episode of Triple B
with Brian over here.
So again, I will do it.
I will put a link in the description for those guys.
In the meantime we're gonna have some fun.
And honestly, it's been hard to really pick which cage,
which animal should go in,
but I picked this one for Chicken Strip here.
Of course as he gets bigger
he's gonna get even a bigger cage
but this is a four foot by four foot cage right here
and the batting in the back there
is about six to eight inch deep
so he can really burrow in
and again, right now we're just using Reptile Prime
but like I'd mention we're gonna do a combination of dirt,
sand and Reptile Prime.
Even some leaf litter.
Again, we're getting stuff in the cages
just seeing how they're gonna actually move around
and stuff like that
and then we'll do our finishing touches
over the next couple weeks.
And let's face it, even months from now
we're going to be continuing to improve.
You know whether putting water features in
or whatever the case is.
This is just the very beginning.
I'm gonna be tinkering with this place forever
but for now let's go get Chicken Strip.
Here's Chicken Strip, and of course one of the things
that I want to continue to do is
because Mary and Kelsey take care of Chicken Strip
I want them to have the kinda honors
of releasing the animals just like all the animals.
Whoever is the kind of the caregiver
I want them to kind of experience.
So I'm gonna let you guys to do your thing,
put Chicken Strip in there.
Chicken Strip, what's up buddy?
Oh my gosh, careful bud.
Here you go.
Enjoy.
Run, be free.
Wup, there he goes, he's just running.
Chicken Strip, what are you doin'?
It's gonna take a while for these animals
to kinda settle in
and realize that wow, this is my new home.
But he has so many great spots.
There's crevices all over the place.
Little places for him to hide.
All the way up here is 115 degree hot spot.
So he's got all kinds of options in here.
He's gonna absolutely love it.
For now I think I'm just gonna watch him run around.
Enjoy this big case.
Lookit, oh my God.
Again, within no time he's gonna settle down
realize wow, I've got all this comfortable space.
I don't wait to see what he ends up doing with this cage.
Of course we had to give Bryan a little time with RJ.
RJ, you gonna be good?
- [Man] Yeah, I'm gonna do an Instagram story.
- [Brian] Your arms are probably killing you right now.
- My arms are killing.
Miguel made me do all kinds of workouts this mornin'
I couldn't even barely hold my camera.
- You know that's what I love about friends
they come from out of town
and we get to play with alligators and snapping turtles.
It's awesome to have really cool friends
like obviously everyone that is visiting me right now.
- [Man] So cool but what do you think of.
- Oh my God, he's awesome, man.
And a lot lighter than Bowser
'cause my arms were killin' me with that guy.
- Yeah, we had Bowser out before
Miguel actually was holdin' 'em and trust me,
Bowser will give you a work out.
As much as I've enjoyed the building of the repatrium,
it's been absolutely awesome,
I needed a day like today
where we just have fun,
hangin' out with friends,
playin' with animals.
This is what I needed.
Again, I love what we're doing next store
and I can't wait to get back to it
but having a little break is rejuvenating for me
and it's awesome to have fun with these guys.
Takin' a little break for lunch.
(jazz music)
- Check this out guys.
I'm gonna be doing a giveaway on my channel
with one of these beautiful Texas scaleless rat snakes.
And all you have to do is go over check out my channel.
Watch a video or two.
If you like it subscribe, comment on the video,
and then on Monday I'm gonna do an actual video
for the giveaway.
So again, if you find what you like on my channel
and you find it's content you like
then go ahead and join up.
- Ending my birthday with just a little bit of a gathering
with all my friends.
It's so great to have.
(crowd conversing)
We're just kind of enjoying this.
You know, again, it's been so much work over the last week
week and a half and really months before that
that was kind of behind the scenes
that it's nice to kinda have some of my close friends
just kinda hang out with me again,
celebrate my birthday.
celebrate the not completion of the reptarium
but at least the progress of the reptarium.
We're having a great time just kind of seeing
the few animals that are in here.
Thinking about which animals can go in here
and thinking what the future is gonna be.
I couldn't think of a better way
to have a birthday celebration
to have all my friends and crew and family here
enjoying the fruits of all our hard labor.
I mean this is absolutely exactly what I needed.
It makes me even more excited about the future.
Jessica's goin' in, hangin' out with Bella.
- Hey Bella.
Oo, I'm already standin' up taller.
- [Brian] Aw, look at that, she loves you.
Oh my gosh.
- [Jessica] Like your new cage?
- Now I'm jealous.
She didn't act that way toward me.
Oh my gosh, how awesome is that?
Guys, that gives you a little bit of an idea
how big the cage is.
I mean Jessica's just hanging out in the cage.
Bella is loving it.
I think, I don't know, guys.
Everything that I've done leading up to this is worth it
just to see this type of interaction.
I think it's amazing and it's gonna be so awesome
for people to come here and just get the experience.
I'm not gonna let people climb in the cage
but we've definitely worked with Bella
to where Bella can come up so we can take her out.
Oh my gosh, how awesome, huh?
So I think we're gonna wrap this day up
by bringing Daisy over to her new enclosure.
What do you think, Noah?
- I'm excited.
- Just and me and you.
We got it? - Yeah.
- Alright, me and him gotta go get Daisy.
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♪ Heigh-Ho, heigh-ho ♪
♪ It's off to work we go ♪
♪ Do do do do do do do do ♪
♪ We work with snakes until they ♪
♪ Heigh-Ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho, heigh-ho. ♪
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- Just let her crawl in on her own.
See where she wants to go.
It's amazing, you don't realize how long she is
until you see this, you know?
I mean, that's a long snake.
And she's amazing.
I mean look at how awesome it is.
This is what makes it all worth it, you know?
Seein' this.
I mean seeing take a look at how cool that is.
Oh my God, she's gonna love it.
I just can't wait to see where she ends up, you know?
She's like what's going on?
But look at her.
Look how long she is.
I mean that's a long snake right there.
You figure that six foot deep and eight foot across
you know?
And she's already almost all the way there.
I mean there's a little but of cut-in on this side
but you're looking at.
I mean that's she's gotta be all of 19 plus foot.
(jazz music)
It looks like Daisy has kinda found her happy spot
right back here.
She's just kinda chillin' out.
But I have a feeling that later on tonight
she's gonna kinda do some exploring
much like Lucy did her first night.
Came in and definitely
she was in a completely different spot
and spent some time in the water.
So we'll see how Daisy does, but so far so good,
she seems to be really happy.
She looks amazing in here so uh,
I think that that's uh, the last chore for the evening.
Guys, it's been a great end to an amazing day.
All my friends here just kind of celebrating my birthday,
just kind of hanging out at the reptarium.
Some people are still here.
It is definitely getting late.
I think it's like 10:30, 11 o'clock.
We are off to Canada tomorrow.
So I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog.
Here we're gonna probably hang out for a couple more hours
and just a good time.
I really needed this day and night like I said before.
I hope that you guys have an absolutely amazing morning,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
You guys' support means the world to me
and I truly do love you guys so much.
Can you do me a couple favors before we get out of here?
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make a comment down below
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- Ladies and gentlemen that is the vlog.
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