- Good job, Casper, yeah that is awesome,
I'm so excited, he finally ate!
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon bud.
(upbeat music)
Hey, good morning everybody, welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible,
I'm pretty excited, I mean, it's not like a huge triumph,
but look at this little monkey right here.
This is actually the first Stimson's python
that we ever produced.
Now the bad side is there were three eggs,
and you can see that two of the three went bad
and only one little baby hatched out,
but what a cute little monkey it is!
I am just so excited to finally produce
Stimson's pythons, one of my favorite little
pythons from Australia, so that is so cool.
Hey, maybe next year we'll produce more than just one.
Regardless, let's head over to the shop.
We have a busy feed day over here at the Reptarium,
but I'm still trying to get Toothless to get going.
I mean, again, it seems hydrated, seems okay,
but I still haven't seen it eat.
I've heard that fish really works well,
so I've got a little piece of fish here,
and I'm hoping this will maybe entice him to eat.
Toothless, you wanna try?
(upbeat music)
Not interested in taking it off the tongs.
I'll leave a little dish in here with a bunch of fish
and just hope, but I tell you what, I am really
starting to stress out about Toothless.
I talked to Kevin, I think there's a good chance
I might send Toothless back and see if Kevin
can get him going and then send him back
when it's maybe a little bit more established.
I'm not sure what else to do.
Toothless certainly has me stressed out,
but we have a lot of snakes to feed today,
so let's just go ahead and get right to it.
Starting with my girl, Sunrise.
Here you go girl, here you go.
Oh, yeah, woohoo!
That was a strike, she was ready to eat.
(upbeat music)
I love feeding Lucky, the Amazon tree boa.
What's up bud, you ready to eat?
Ready to eat? C'mon, din din.
Din din.
(growls)
Ah, there you go, guy.
(laughs)
For such an active striker when you have him out,
he doesn't really strike a whole lot for eating,
but he absolutely is amazing!
My girl Sunny, she's usually pretty energetic
about feeding, so let's see if she wants to eat today.
Here you go girl.
(crunches)
Yes, there you go girl, up you go.
Yep, as always, she eats well.
(relaxed music)
I am super happy that the mangroves snake way back there
has really settled into it's cage really well
and eats really good.
We actually feed it frozen chicks.
It doesn't take 'em off of tongs, it doesn't eat 'em,
it eats 'em overnight.
So basically all we do, just set it down right here
and the last four or five weeks we come back,
and it's gone in the morning.
This strawberry pineapple horned frog
always seems like she's hungry.
You gonna eat, girl?
(laid-back music)
And that's pretty much it, I've got a few other
horned frogs to feed, including Snoop Frog.
I am getting such a kick out of these frogs.
Oh my gosh are they cool.
There's something wrong with me, I've become a frog addict.
(laughs) Snoop frog is amazing, remember,
he was this big, now look at this chunky monkey.
You never get to see this, check this out.
- Let me see what, oh my God, holy crap,
that happened really fast.
- I know, so our friends that came from Texas
to visit us brought us a monarch cocoon,
just literally like three days ago--
- That is crazy!
- And it's already hatched.
- Wow.
- Isn't that awesome?
- Yeah, that is shocking.
(laughing)
- I don't know what we're gonna do with it now.
- Well, I mean, we're gonna let it loose, right?
What are we gonna--
- I don't know, is that what you do?
- Well, I don't think you keep a butterfly--
- Let me know in the comments.
I mean, can we just let it loose?
I mean, it's cold outside, I gotta make sure,
I wanna make sure, or do I set it up?
Let me know in the comments what I do with a monarch.
- Well, I guess we could just let it free
in the (inaudible).
(laughs)
- Isn't that thing awesome?
- Wow, yeah, that's really cool.
- I didn't even think it was gonna hatch.
(laughs)
Oh my god, that is out there.
- Three days later, there you go.
- Oh my gosh.
Casper's only been with us a couple weeks,
but he's yet to take a rat so let's hope he eats this time.
Casper you want to try to eat, bud?
Wanna try to eat?
(crunch)
Oh yeah, good job Caspar.
That is awesome! I'm so excited he finally ate.
Oh my god, well at least he took a rat,
let's hope he eats now, but oh my gosh,
that means he's settling in great.
I'm so excited about this!
(chill music)
I am so happy that Casper actually did eat.
You have no idea what a relief that is
because it's such an amazing animal
and I knew that Kevin said it was a great animal
but until it gets here, settles in
completely different environment, now it's eating,
now I know that he loves it here.
Oh my god, I'm so happy for Casper.
This'll be the first time that we're offering food
to the blood python over here at the zoo.
She was eating over at BHB, but I don't know what's
gonna happen with this one, so let's see if she'll eat.
Wanna eat girl, wanna eat?
(upbeat music)
She doesn't seem interested in striking,
but I'm gonna go ahead an leave the rodent in there
and just see if she'll eat it overnight.
Some of these animals do take two, three, four weeks
of adjusting before they get ready to eat over here.
We've seen this with so many animals,
so I'm not worried about her, but for now
ill just leave it in there and check back later.
That's the thing, you know, some of these animals
adjust really quickly.
Remember, they're used to kinda living in a rack,
which is a closed environment.
They don't have a lot of hustle and bustle, now they've got
big glass windows, they've got people walking around.
All this stuff, some animals adjust really quick,
others take a while.
We've been really lucky and only had to pull
a couple animals off exhibit, like Rico,
and as soon as Rico got next door,
he started eating and acting his old self.
So, hopefully the blood python will turn out pretty soon.
I'm imagining she will.
Here's another one of my cool fat frogs.
(upbeat music)
C'mon, let go, let go.
Oh, you chunky monkey (laughs).
It tried to eat my tweezers.
It is important when you're feeding frogs like that
to not just feed rodents, you have to vary their diet up,
because they could be unhealthy for them
just to eat rodents.
What do you say we feed Elvis?
He's still beefing up and he is doing so good,
so we'll let him come out and get a little food.
C'mon Elvis, c'mon, bud.
C'mon, over here. Hey, over here.
Elvis, c'mon, down here.
Good job, buddy, good job.
Whoa, whoa, that was quick!
My goodness gracious, buddy.
There you go, bud.
Good job, Elvis, oh my gosh.
Literally my little dinosaur, and this is what's amazing
about him is then afterwards you can just
pet him on the head like nothin'.
He's not aggressive, he's not tryin' to eat me,
I mean you gotta be smart, you know,
don't just put your finger in his mouth or
something like that but he is such a beautiful animal.
You're such a good boy, Elvis.
Thank you so much for comin' out.
I absolutely love the way this snake looks, the way it eats,
the way it acts.
I mean, its just such a beautiful snake.
There you go girl, c'mon. There you go.
Ooo, doggy how amazing is that!
Look at how gorgeous that is.
Again, that's one of the things I've been saying
I love about these cages.
Look at how she's up on that rock ledge right there,
she's hanging down.
This is really what they would be doing in the wild,
just something like this.
Oh my god, I get excited every time I see this.
(chill music)
This black-headed python, Crackle, is so amazing.
Look at this thing right now, oh my gosh.
C'mon now bud.
Oh my gosh, how amazing is that.
Oh my gosh. Course this is Crackle,
Pop and Snap are next door, the black-headed pythons,
but what a gorgeous snake.
(chill music)
This mexican black king is usually a pretty good eater.
Let's see what he's got going on, he's hiding
in the back though so I don't even know where his head is.
Where you at, bud, where you at?
Oh there you are, there you come.
There you go, there it is.
(chill music)
I'll be honest, this corn snake here is probably one of
the most underrated snakes here.
Every time we bring him out people love him.
His name is Mazy, and he's just a great snake
and always happy to eat.
You ready to eat, bud, ready to eat?
Oh there you go, there you go.
There you go, buddy.
(chill music)
I've mentioned it a bunch of times in the past that
we wanna have the zoo not only a place you can come,
and visit, and do tours and birthday parties,
and all kind of events like this,
but we also want to give back to the community as much
as we can too, so tonight we're actually opening up from
five to seven for trick-or-treaters.
They can come in if they have a costume.
It's completely free, no cost to anyone.
The parents get in free, everything like that,
we pass out candy.
I don't know if two people are gonna show up
or 100 people are gonna show up, I have no idea.
I'm thinking probably realistically 20 or 30 people
cause we haven't had like this big thing
and it's only local people, and so unless you follow us
on Facebook, or Twitter, or Instagram, which I suggest
you do, you wouldn't have know the event was tonight.
We're gonna go ahead and open up here in a minute
and just have fun for a couple hours and hopefully
there will be a bunch of kids that come in with a bunch of
really cool costumes and we can show 'em some cool animals.
Alright, so we are ready for the trick-or-treaters to come.
Hopefully they will.
We've got fog machines over here,
we got lightning over here, screams.
We've actually have some spooky stuff over on here
when it gets a little darker.
So hopefully we'll get some kids, again we might get
five kids, we might get no kids, I have no idea
what's gonna happen, but we are ready if they come.
We have our first people here.
Oh my gosh you're a crocodile--
- No, I'm a raptor.
- [Narrator] You're a raptor?
(parents laughing)
Oh my god, you're a raptor. We got a spooky spider.
(inaudible)
- Why would I be a crocodile?
- [Narrator] Because I love crocodiles.
Iron Man!
- [Mother] No, Hulkbuster.
- [Narrator] What is it?
- [Mother] Hulkbuster.
- [Narrator] What? A Hulbuster.
- [Mother] I don't know how to turn him on.
- [Narrator] It's a Hulkbuster Iron Man.
We've been having a good time so far.
Not a ton of kids have come, maybe 15 or 20 kids have come,
but it's kinda cool in here because
we're just having a good time.
I think Lauren's gonna eat all the candy
if we don't give it away.
So I hope more kids come so we don't take any of that home,
but its been a fun event, I love Halloween, I love it.
That concludes our Halloween here at the Reptarium,
and again it wasn't a ton of kids that showed up,
but the ones that did had great costumes.
We had a great time and I just love the fact that we can
be part of the community.
Again, I love the night, it was so much fun.
I loved it with the dark in here,
we had the fog machine goin', the scary music,
everything like that.
So regardless, I am ending the vlog and I am gonna
wish you guys an absolutely amazing day/evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
As I say every single day your support
means the world to me.
Honestly, I do love you guys.
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(upbeat music)