- Hey good morning everybody
and welcome to the Vlog.
It is amazing to be back here at "The Reptarium".
We are literally just a handful of days
away from the 13th and the grand opening here.
We have so much going on and every day we are going
to be getting new animals up until the open.
We're about to unbox some super cool animals,
just in a few minutes.
But I have to set this first enclosure
up for them right now.
That's what I'm gonna work on right now
and then we're gonna go over to unbox.
I'd like to say this next five or six days
are gonna be bonkers.
I mean I'm not gonna sleep, I am so excited.
So remember this, stay tuned
because trust me everyday there's gonna be something that,
hopefully will blow your mind.
So let's go ahead and work on getting
this enclosure set up
and then we'll wait for the shipment to show up,
unbox and then we'll actually release these animals.
Oh it's gonna be amazing today guys,
let's just have a great day together.
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Excited, we have some of our foliage in.
This is so important when it comes
to kind of featuring out the cages and stuff like that.
No clue what's in either one of these.
I could tell you I ordered a ton of this stuff,
so I'm kinda surprised this box is so small
and then I'm not sure what's in this box.
I did order a tree, but it was back-ordered,
they said they weren't gonna send that 'till July.
So I'm not sure, but look at all this stock.
This is cool Laurie, this is gonna be good.
I mean there's all kinds of stuff in here,
so you can start to build out, you know,
just how these cages are gonna look and stuff like that.
So yeah, it's gonna take some time to just organize this
because obviously we have a lot animals
that are coming in that need to be set up
and I really wanna get a lot of foliage in there,
so that it looks really cool.
So just go through this stuff over the next few
and just figure out what to start putting in.
I tell the cages are gonna look so incredible
once you actually start getting that foliage in.
How should I open this because I don't wanna cut anything.
I don't know if there's just one thing in here
or if there's a bunch of stuff in here.
Like I said, it seemed like we ordered a lot more
than that, didn't it Laurie?
- You know what, I don't even remember,
I'm not gonna lie.
- We ordered a ton of stuff.
- [Laurie] But then again it's just--
- Plus it's so, it could just be so packed in there.
- [Laurie] I don't remember ordering something this big,
it says one piece.
(grunts)
- Help me Laurie.
Ain't gonna work.
- [Laurie] What the hell did you order?
- I don't even know what this is.
(laughs)
I seriously don't know what this is.
- [Camera Man] Is this a ghilly suit?
- [Brian] What the heck is this?
- [Laurie] It is a tree.
- [Brian] Oh okay yeah.
- [Laurie] It's zip tied into this down here.
- [Brian] Oh no wonder why it didn't wanna come out.
- Watch your wrist.
- [Camera Man] Uh-oh.
We have a tool for this Brian.
- [Brian] Yes.
- [Laurie] Thank you.
(laughs)
'cause he doesn't know how to use--
- [Brian] Hey.
- [Laurie] Oh that was so easy.
- I know that wasn't bad at all.
I'll show you guys exactly where this is gonna go.
Let's take this next door and I'll show you.
I have no idea if it's gonna work over here.
The idea was just that we have this,
kind of blank area over here.
So I thought a tree in this corner
but I don't know if it's gonna work or not.
We'll find out in a second.
The thought was just to have it in the corner here,
just to kind of take up some more space.
Yeah I think that looks great.
Yeah you see we'll get a bigger pot and stuff like that,
but I think that's perfect, huh Laurie.
- Yeah.
- It kinda takes that dead area
and turns it into something cool so, good, awesome.
Oops, it's lost a lead already.
It's cool, I like it.
And speaking of the foliage that we just got in,
I'm gonna go through it.
You know I mean, obviously when you think Iguana's,
you think like fern type stuff.
I think I'm gonna use some of this
and just kinda go through
and figure out some plants to put in,
just to kinda brighten it up.
Again, I'll probably adjust it over the next week or two
but at least get started with some cool foliage in there.
And there's a lot to think about guys.
This is getting exciting, but holy cow
is there a lot to do.
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All right, so there it is guys.
Keeping it relatively simple for now,
I just wanna release them in here
and figure out what they like
and then we'll keep adding and kinda you know,
we always let the animals tell us what they want so.
And guess what, package arrived so let's go ahead
and unbox these guys.
And here we go guys, I mean like I mentioned
we're gonna be unboxing stuff pretty much everyday,
really until we open.
And these aren't gonna just be like normal unboxing
in the sense that these are every animal, every shipment,
is really like dream animals to me.
I mean, they are just gonna be ridiculous
and I am over the top excited about it.
And I wanted to stagger them a little bit
that way I could enjoy it right.
Not to get them all in one day,
just slowly do it and then I could really focus
on one animal for the day as well
so these are animals here, that we're about to unbox,
that like I said I've been thinking about this
for years, I mean literally years and years and years
but I'll get in to why
I held off as long as I have and stuff like that.
It's just kinda my whole idea--
Oh my gosh.
I mean, they're in mesh bags as soon as I--
all right just slow down.
Slow down, Brian.
I'm gonna wait to open--
oh my gosh.
I'm gonna wait to open the one that just blew my mind
and I'm gonna start with this monkey here.
Oh my, and obviously you guys are gonna know
what I am talking about in a second here.
And I'm gonna explain it then why I haven't gotten
these in the past and why I'm so exited to get them now.
And this is the first one.
Take a look.
Take a look at this little monkey right here.
Of course this is a Crimson Albino Iguana.
Now I've mentioned in the past,
I love Rhino Iguanas,
obviously we have the Lewis Eye Cross,
the Cuban, I love those guys.
And the green Iguana's have been something
I've stayed away from
and the reason is that a lot of them
are a little bit crazy.
Once they get bigger, they're not really great animals
for handling and stuff like that.
The good news is, the albino's don't have
really good eye-sight, kind of a bummer
but the fact is, it calms them down
because they don't really know where they're going
and stuff like that.
So they're really good.
Now the crimson stuff is ridiculous.
Now this one obviously doesn't have a lot of the red,
this is the female.
You might ask why I'm getting these kind
of small animals for such a large cage.
I wanna get animals that are gonna be around
for a long, long time.
So they're gonna grow into their habitat.
They're gonna grow in to their cage
and oh my gosh.
That is ridiculous, unbelievable.
I mean they are so amazing
and these guys did come from Tom Crutchfield,
my good friend.
I've visited him a ton of times
and got a chance to see his animals
and I've been blown away.
Now he did end up sending me a couple of the reds
that are half red albino.
Now that's where the crimson's actually come from.
Originally I just wanted to get albino's
to be totally honest with you
and then he was like,
you know what I wanna just throw in a couple reds
and stuff like that.
So I figured, what the heck, I might as well get them right
because we have a large enclosure
and take a look at these.
Oh my gosh they are so cool.
So again that's where you get all that beautiful red color.
Oh my gosh.
These guys are so gorgeous and again one of the problems
with the green iguanas, you know the iguana iguana's
is the fact that usually when they do get bigger
they get a little bit kind of testy.
You have to really work with them hard
to keep them kinda chill.
Ooh, look at this little monkey.
Now they're both out.
These guys are--
oh my gosh, look at the green on the under side.
Unbelievable, but just take a look at these guys.
Oh my gosh, they're gonna be so good.
And again this large enclosure's gonna be awesome for these.
So we have four.
We have two of the reds, that are half-red albino.
We have the one kind of yellow female crimson
and them I gotta show you the other one.
And then finally guys, oh my gosh.
This animal is crazy.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
And honestly when I wanted to get an Albino Iguana
for "The Reptarium", this is exactly the animal
I had in mind.
Take a look at that.
A Crimson Albino male, that is unbelievable.
That thing is like what dreams are made of.
Oh my gosh, it's just so gorgeous
and as these get bigger they get brighter and brighter.
They're gonna do so well in this enclosure.
I'm super excited to be working with them,
so there it is guys.
The first day of the six days of "The Reptarium",
where we're gonna be unboxing amazing things
and wow I tell you what, these truly are incredible.
So I'm gonna go ahead and get everything set up
for these guys and get them in their cage here in a minute,
but I'm over the top happy, unbelievable.
Let me know in the comments what you think.
Obviously we need name suggestions male, female.
I have an idea of what I wanna name them
but I wanna hear from you guys first
and then of course we have the couple Reds
that are half bred Albino's so wow.
Gosh I love this man, this is the best ever.
So let's go ahead and let these monkeys go
and we're gonna let the Albino's
or the Crimson Albino's go first.
Gosh, I know they're kind of tiny for this cage
but look at how crazy they look.
Unbelievable and they're gonna get big.
One day this enclosure is gonna be too small for them,
believe it or not.
It's a long way away, but we'll have to deal
with that when it comes.
But man, that is insane and again because the Albino's
are chill, you can take these out.
People can come and hold them and stuff like that.
We'll put the Reds, that probably won't be as chill,
we're gonna have to work
with them a lot to keep them socialized
which is fine because they're super cool.
But the Albino's hanging out in here, unbelievable guys.
I mean with that little bit
of foliage in there just popping.
The colors of these guys, holy moly.
I cannot wait to see what people think of these guys.
Again, names in the comments guys.
Let me know what you think and wow I'll tell you what,
it's so exciting.
I'm not even gonna sleep the next five or six days
because everyday is gonna be so amazing
but I'm over the moon.
This is insane.
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Again just like everything, it's moving along so quickly.
Got our new countertop in for the gift shop
that matches the old countertop.
Put this one side-ways instead of that way
and a little bit longer so more shelves
and stuff like that.
And of course it got this beautiful epoxy here.
We've got a little scorpion over here,
a little tarantula,
we got some snake skins,
actually I think it's a tiger skin there.
Little counter over here,
so again just it's light-speed now you guys.
Things are just zipping at me like I can't believe.
I am so excited.
A little bit stressed because we have a lot
to do in the next few days but hey listen
it's turning out amazing.
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All right the fish spa's are kind of in,
I mean there's a lot of work to still do
but my friend Steve Vecchio
of Vecchio Aquatics came in when I was gone
and put the the filtration in.
We still have to get the UV sterilizer on here.
Obviously we'll fixture out this, we've gotta make stands
so people can sit on.
So basically what will happens is,
you'll step up here,
there'll be a seat that is a bench seat
that goes all the way across here,
then of course a back on it
and you'll just step up, step in here,
sit on the seat and your feet will go
into the fish spa.
So these things looks amazing.
And when it's all done, it's gonna be ridiculous.
So still a lot of work to get this done.
Hopefully it will be done for the opening
because we only have like six or seven days or five days,
I don't even know anymore.
So a lot of work here, but we've gotta get
these done for sure, but they're looking amazing.
- [Brian] Do you wanna see the iguanas?
- Yeah, did you already set them up?
- [Brian] Did you peak at them?
- Oh shut up.
Are these right there?
- [Brian] Isn't it cute?
- Oh my goodness, they're so tiny.
- [Brian] I know.
Aren't they amazing though.
- Wow.
- [Brian] So there's two red ones, just normals.
And then this is the male.
- [Laurie] I thought there's only two.
- [Brian] No, there's four.
Yeah I got four.
Tom sent us actually two for free,
he just he had ideas of whatever.
So this is the girl way up.
So this is a crimson albino female,
but she's all yellow.
And the of course this is the boy here,
who is a crimson male.
And then these are two reds that are,
the reds are what make the crimson albino.
Okay, are you ready?
Isn't he cute?
- Oh my goodness.
- [Brian] Isn't that awesome?
- He's so pretty.
- [Brian] I know, it's crazy right.
And they look so good in here right, I mean
they just kinda pop with that little bit of green now
in the back drop.
I mean they are so pretty.
- Oh my goodness, yeah.
- [Brian] Been a long since we had green iguanas.
- Yes.
- [Brian] Maybe when I was a kid I had them,
that's the last time I had any green iguanas.
- You are beautiful.
- [Brian] They are cool so very happy.
- Yeah.
- It's awesome.
They seem to be settling in really well.
I've been watching them,
they're all over the cage exploring.
I think it's absolutely amazing.
Obviously we want them to kinda get settled in.
Hopefully they'll eat in the next couple of days.
We've put a bunch of food in there for them
but I mean how incredible.
Another enclosure filled up here,
getting ready for that March 13th open.
It's coming quick guys but it's been absolutely exciting.
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