- In this case with the Leucistic Rainbow Boas,
they actually have both blue eyes and black eyes.
And god, these are feisty little monkey's too.
- [Man] We have a problem here.
- [Man] There he goes.
He's over on the other side.
- Come on baby, thank you so much for being easy.
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- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
What an absolutely gorgeous day here.
And it's always a gorgeous day over here at BHB
and I hope the start to your day is absolutely incredible.
What I am gonna do for you in the beginning of this vlog
is actually to take you through kind of our routine
before we open up for the Reptarium.
You know obviously we don't just open up.
We got to go through all the animals and I don't know.
Maybe you guys are curious what that is all about.
And who ever is working the Reptarium that night
always comes in a few hours early to start
doing all the maintenance.
Obviously Jessica is here and you're taking
a little time with Jade right?
- Yeah, giving her a drink of water.
- That's right and we actually are gonna get
misting systems on her this week because
all our misting systems are on this side.
They go off automatically a few times a day.
But this section needs a little bit more misting right?
- Yeah, from where they're from they like 20 minute showers
and stuff, like a day.
So we're gonna have to do some crazy misting of her cage.
- Oh my gosh, yeah because the other misting system
literally just goes off for 90 seconds to 2 minutes
3 to 4 times a day.
So to do a 20 minute mist is gonna be pretty incredible
but that's the way they're gonna do well.
So in the meantime Jessica just has to stand here
for 15 or 20 minutes.
- So actually I'll fill this all the way up
and I spray her like three or four time a day with it.
And sit here and let all the whole thing empty out.
(laughing)
- That is dedication.
Of course Bruce is working with Elvis over here.
That's kind of a daily grind isn't it?
- Oh everyday, he's like a cat.
Every time we clean out his bowl here he comes in
and he does his business right after we do it.
So we got to do it about two or three times a day almost.
- Yeah that's the daily grind with Elvis for sure but again.
We got to got through every single cage.
We have to spray it down.
We have to change water, clean stuff up obviously.
Bella here always messes her glass up.
And for those of you guys who don't know.
What happens is iguana's like Bella here
actually sneeze out sodium.
So he needs salt and minerals like that.
Everyday she has to be cleaned like two or three times
because she sneezes on the glass
and actually gets it all messy.
That's just another thing.
Making sure the glass all looks good
all the way across the entire Reptarium.
I wanted to do a quick check in on all of the
Jungle Jag's that we produced last year.
They're about five months old right now
and are starting to color up.
I mean look at how gorgeous this one is.
And this one is even a more reduced animal
and as they get bigger.
All of that yellow just continues to start to pop
as they get mature.
And then here's one of the siblings that's
not actually a Jaguar.
It's just a Jungle Carpet Python.
Now I will say that Jaguars actually are
coastal Carpet Pythons.
And of course the jungles are aethered in table lens.
So the truth is this isn't a pure Jungle Carpet Python.
It's just not a Jaguar, it's actually a coastal jungle cross
which means it will never be quite as black.
And it won't be quite a beautiful yellow
as some of the jungles.
And it's a feisty little monkey too.
And of course with that coastal blood means
it will get a little larger because the pure jungles
really typically on get about four and a half or five foot.
Where as the coastal can literally get seven or eight foot.
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Of course everything needs to get fed everyday too
as far as lizards go.
So we have some of the food that was left over
from yesterday that gets out.
We basically clean it out, put fresh food in.
But Elvis has kind of taken a little bit
of a liking to this iguana food.
He's like hey, what is this all about?
Can I eat this?
This will be just something else buddy.
- [Woman] Some meals.
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- So when it comes to reptiles, some animals actually
get daily care.
Take for instance like frogs and so on like that.
They need to be fed every single day.
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The job isn't always easy.
Sometimes you have to get in the cage right?
- Oh yeah.
- Bella made a little mess?
- Yeah, she got a little poop on her rock over here.
Man is it hot.
- Bella what are you doing?
She's looking at you like what are you doing in my cage?
Hey sweetheart.
There's really two types of maintenance that go on
on a daily basis.
You have the one that is actually like care of the animals.
Whether it's feeding, cleaning, watering.
Whatever the case is, even spraying stuff down.
And then you have the aesthetic part of it too.
Which is basically cleaning glass.
Making sure everything looks really pretty.
Doesn't really matter for the actual animal
but it matters for us and the people
that are coming in to see the Reptarium.
And by the way, we do that everyday of the week,
seven days a week.
Even though we're only open to the public three days a week.
We always want the place to look good
even when we're not open.
That way over time it doesn't get kind of gruddy
if you know what I mean.
Remember the little Leucistic or White Rainbow Boas
that we produced a while back.
I wanted to show you these.
There's actually a black eyed and a blue eyed example.
Now that they're getting a little bit of size to them,
whoa doggy.
They are looking good.
And I think it's really weird that there are
actually blue eyes and black eyes from the same thing.
Because of course with ball pythons
there's either black eyes
or there's blue eyes.
And they're not able to be breed together
because if you breed a black eyed and a blue eyed.
You'd actually get normal ball pythons.
In this case with the Leucistic Rainbow Boas
they actually have both blue eyes and black eyes.
And god, these are feisty little monkeys too.
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I see Jessica is working on the Artemis Prime's cage.
She's just cleaning the waters out right now
and Artemis is pretty much just hanging out in the back.
I think you've got him figured out pretty good huh.
- Oh yeah.
He just bluffs for the most part.
- [Host] Yeah, he just kind of hangs out.
As long as he's up on the rocks he doesn't bother you right?
- He feels safe up there so as long as he's there
he's no threat.
- And I'm actually gonna feed Artemis here
a little bit later too.
I don't know if I'm gonna do it while we're open
at the Reptarium or do it before, I'm not 100% sure.
Sometimes I like to do it when it's open
because it's really cool.
But if there's a lot of people it's kind of
impossible to do.
So one way or another we'll feed Artemis.
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Remember the other day when that Kenyan Sand Boa
had 20 babies.
Well 19 live and one still born.
This is our last female Kenyan Sand Boa
to drop for the year.
I don't want to pick her up because she's full of babies.
I don't want to stress her out at all
but look how gorgeous she is and look at how full of babies.
Any day this girl should drop.
I am super excited.
Bruce is about to tackle Butterscotch.
This is the one cage that I think is
the most perilous cage right here because
it's kind of face level.
There's nothing you can do but actually go for it
and Butterscotch is really hungry right now
I can tell you that much.
Find the cheesecake now, now she's moving.
You got her, she's getting away from you now.
- [Man] Is she up in the tree?
- [Host] I think she knows you're there.
We have a problem here.
- [Man] There he comes, he's over on the other side.
- Come on baby, thank you so much for being easy.
Thank you for being easy today.
Oh my gosh, this is the easiest she's been
all the time we've had her.
(laughing)
- She's a really beautiful snake, I mean she really is.
She definitely needs to be handled a little more
because she's super tamed but she just like to move.
You can see how she's just always kind of on the go.
So when she gets bigger she's gonna be a kind of
lucy like animal without the kind of the
biting part of it I think.
But definitely want to get her a little bit more calmed down
like a daisy rather than a lucy for sure.
- Yeah, she's for sure a little ticklish without a doubt.
(laughing)
- So Bruce is just gonna get her cage cleaned up.
Put her in a holding bin for a little bit.
And then keep on moving on.
And like I mentioned, some of this stuff gets daily care.
Most of our lizards get fed every single day
like Toothless here.
Toothless, there you go bud.
Oh my gosh, I absolutely love this animal.
And I like to hand feed it because I just
think it kind of continues to habituate us to it.
So I can eventually have him just taking it off of tongs
and then even eventually maybe right out of my hand.
But this animal is breathtaking.
And I can literally sit here and feed it 10 or 12 crickets.
I just drop them in and it just pounces on them.
And for whatever reason if I dump like six
or eight of them in.
It almost seems like it confuses him a little bit.
Like there's so much going on.
He doesn't want to go after them.
So one at a time actually seems to make him eat better.
So this is just kind of a daily routine.
And we'll do crickets, we'll do roaches.
We'll do fuzzies, we'll do little pieces of meat.
All kinds of different stuff for him.
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(laughing)
The whole process is probably 10 or 15 minutes
but it's really one of the coolest 10
or 15 minutes of my entire day.
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Keeping the humidity up as well as spraying these animals
that actually drink off of the leaves is so important
in a daily event.
Like I mentioned earlier, a lot of our cages
actually have automatic misting systems
but some of them don't.
Like these leaf-tailed geckos right here.
We actually have to spray down each day.
I will probably add some misters to this cage as well
but for now it's actually kind of cool to just see them
drink off of the leaves and off of the racks
and stuff like that.
It's pretty awesome.
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Of course I've told you guys that we keep Salt
and Pepper back here in the quarantine area.
Just to kind of monitor their weight
and their food and all that type of stuff.
But when we open for the Reptarium we always
put him out on display so people can actually see him.
So one of the things we need to do is actually
go get Salt and Pepper and put them
in their little display case for the day.
For whatever reason the last few days
some people have been asking about Daisy.
Just saying I haven't seen Daisy lately.
I thought she was in a vlog within the last couple weeks
but maybe not.
I might have missed it.
Regardless Daisy is doing absolutely amazing.
She's actually getting ready to shed any day now.
Probably tonight she's gonna break that shed
and hopefully she will shed beautiful.
But she is a gorgeous girl.
Like I mentioned earlier we actually spray down
all of the bedding each day.
Just to keep the humidity up.
One of the things that's really nice about Reptile Prime
is that it's really absorbent
and it holds humidity really well.
The downside is is that it can dry out during the winter
when the furnace is running trying to keep the place warm
with the winter weather outside.
So we literally just come into her cage
and just give it a little bit of a spray down.
Kind of get it nice and moist.
And a lot of times we'll even agitate the bottom
so that it really gets down there.
This keeps it nice and humid in this habitat.
And she likes a little spray down every now and then too.
And looking so beautiful girl.
You know I always do the best I can do
to not make the flaw repetitive right.
On days like today when the Reptarium are open
and I have tours and all kinds of stuff.
It's a little bit difficult because the majority of my day
is literally taken up with getting ready for
the Reptarium like I showed you guys.
Doing tours and then being over at the Reptarium.
Kind of an interacting with everyone that comes.
So I'm trying not to make it boring so I just show you guys
the same thing all the time over and over.
So I'm trying my absolute best to kind of
mix it up a little bit.
Let me know in the comments if you think
I'm doing an okay job.
Or what, I can do a better job of.
As much as I'd like to show you even more
of what happens over at the Reptarium.
I'm kind of concerned about you guys going.
Yeah we've seen it before Bryan. now we're bored.
I want to keep you guys engaged.
And in the meantime, I have a lot of
other things to show you.
So I'm having a good time just showing off stuff
here at BHB.
Let me know down in the comments what
you guys think about it.
Or if there's something specific you'd like me
to show you in the future.
Or even talk about if there's a specific topic
that you think would be really good for a vlog.
Let me know, I'll try to do it.
You guys know I read all your comments.
And the last thing we do before we open for the day everyday
is we sweep and we mop.
And of course Bruce gets in.
(laughing)
- I'm doing that.
- [Host] Last guy on the totem pole this guy.
No you're good, you're good.
But that way it stays really nice and clean.
We do the same things on the days that we're not open.
We have that last task to do and then we open up
for the night here at the Reptarium.
So for those of you that wondered what our daily routine is,
now you know.
As you can see mopping is all done
and everything is all cleaned up.
We are ready to get the Reptarium open for the night.
And hopefully have an absolutely amazing time.
I know we will because it's always awesome.
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Been open for a couple hours.
Another bonkers day, really fun time.
You can see aisles are packed.
People are smiling and that's what matters to me.
Is everyone seems to have a good time.
We of course Taz out.
He's just kind of cruising around.
He's the flavor of the day but I know we have
Creed out over there.
Bruce has Taz over here.
Bella's cage is open in the back.
Lots of animals, lots of fun as always at the Reptarium.
Like I mentioned recently, it's just awesome
that we can have Chicken Strip out.
I know that Bruce has been working hard
to get it really habituated.
And now it comes out really almost every night
and people can actually interact with him.
I mean how awesome is that.
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And with all that said I am gonna go ahead
and end the vlog and wish you guys
an absolutely amazing day.
Or whenever you happen to be watching.
I hope that you enjoyed today
and kind of got a look at what it's like
behind the scenes at the Reptarium,
as well as everything else.
Let me know in the comments what you guys thought.
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