- Well, I regrettably have to tell you
that, yes, my alligator tank is leaking once again.
Cory fixed it very temporary.
Literally, it lasted three, or four days,
and it's been leaking for the last week, or so.
The problem is, I keep saying, is
that we don't know exactly what's going on.
We think that, it's inside here, that's actually leaking.
So, what we're gonna do is, actually,
again, get Salt, and Pepper out,
drain the enclosure, shut off the tank, let it dry out,
and then we're gonna try
to really, this is, I know this is sketchy,
it's worked for me a million times.
We're gonna Flex Seal the living crap
on the inside, you know?
I Flex Sealed a little bit down here before,
and it didn't work at all.
That was about a year ago, or something like that.
And, this just goes to show you
that when, there's even a little pinhole leak
in a water feature, you have leakage.
When we, kinda construct this,
obviously something wasn't exactly perfect, right?
Now, we have to fix it.
And, we fixed it already, a few times.
But, I think in the past we've used caulk.
And the caulk eventually, wears out.
In the last time,
I think, again, Lori probably caulked it, good enough,
but the water got in, and started to leak.
So, this time we're gonna try the Flex Seal,
I'm talking, go crazy with Flex Seal on the inside.
You won't see it from the outside,
but, hopefully that'll do it.
So, the first thing we have
to do, get Salt, and Pepper out.
Salt is easy, you guys know that.
Pepper, not so easy,
drain this out, get it all completely dry,
get the filter medium out,
and then, hopefully seal this thing up.
Lori's gonna help me with this,
but, I tell you, I pray this is the last time we have
to fix this thing.
'Cause, this has been a problem,
for a good two years we've had it.
We've had problems with leaks probably a year,
of the two years.
So, let's go ahead and get Pepper first,
'cause that's a hard one, right?
(water splashing) (upbeat music)
Whoa, Jesus, wow!
That was close.
That was really close!
(water splashing)
Whew, wow, that was close!
It almost got me, I mean,
that was as close as I've gotten in a long time,
and now I'm drenching wet.
Thank you, Pepper!
Wow, okay, I'm gonna put this on top just so
that it doesn't get out,
and Salty, should be a lot easier.
Come on Salt.
(upbeat music)
It makes me appreciate my baby so much,
but these guys are gonna be in the holding tub
for the next several hours,
while we drain this, dry it out,
and Flex Seal it so, yeah.
They said working with animals would be fun.
(upbeat music)
All right, so Lori's in here, and basically,
do you understand what I think is going on, or no?
So, I think that right on this edge right here,
I think the only possible thing is,
that this edge has even just a little bit of a leak,
because it doesn't make sense
that anywhere else would actually leak.
Yeah, I think that's the most common possibility.
- I have to agree with you.
It's very much like this.
So, it's hard to really see.
- [Brian] Right, well, that's-
- [Lori] How much is a bubble, or a hole.
- [Brian] Well, that's what I'm saying,
if there's a pinhole, it doesn't take much
for the water to get out.
The only thing I think, wait so I think
that if we Flex Seal that,
to the point where it's like, I mean thick,
big layers or Flex Seal.
Then, if it leaks again,
then we know it's not leaking from in here.
Now, we know it's leaking somehow from out here.
Although, I don't know how it would be leaking
from out here, it wouldn't make any sense.
- None of this makes sense.
- No, none of it does make sense, so.
I mean, so now the thing is, why I need your help is
that, I wanna spray,
but I need you to make sure
that none of it's over spraying,
into the actual thing.
So, I don't want it getting on the windows,
don't wanna get it on the floor,
this stuff is terrible, okay?
All right, so I'm gonna get the Flex Seal,
and let's just see what we can do.
(upbeat music)
First off, I gotta tell ya,
we're high as a kite in here because holy moly, the fumes.
We gotta get out of here,
'cause I'm starting to feel a little loopy.
But, we sprayed all of this,
as much as we possibly could,
and sealed it 100%.
I might come back,
and do one more coat here, when it dries.
It usually, you know, takes about 12 hours
to completely dry.
But, it's dry enough in about an hour,
to spray another coat.
I just want that coat super thick,
that there's nothing that can possibly leak out of there.
And, at least, this'll at least solve this issue
to where you know that it's not leaking
from the waterfall, itself.
And, then, if this is a problem,
then we know, it's the other side down here,
and we'll have to kind of address that, at some point.
So, let's hope that this is it,
but, I gotta get out of here guys.
'Cause I, woo!
Tell you what, (Lori laughing)
I'm feeling loopy.
- Brian is, finishing up their enclosure.
We're actually gonna, you know, clean it up a little bit.
Ready to look all pretty again,
obviously albinos, they do get some algae.
She doesn't look too bad,
but we'll give her a little scrubby,
then we'll put her back,
and enjoy her like we usually do (lips smooching).
All right, come on, handy-dandy toothbrush,
now, let's get you nice, and scrub-a-dub-dub in the tub.
- [Friend] Look how she closes her eyes dude.
- Scrub-a-dub-dub in the, middle of the reptarium.
It's a good girl.
♪ Just don't bite the toothbrush ♪
It's all I ask.
Salty, no, no, no.
Wow, she's doing really good!
You're all right, you're all right, you're all right.
Calm down girl, calm down.
Who's a good girl?
Yep, a good girl, ooh, don't bite me.
Like I said, she's not too bad, looks really good,
and she's doing amazing.
No, Salty.
She's so cute, wham!
- [Friend] Boom!
- Black-headed pythons are breeding again,
I tell you what, if we don't get babies
from black-heads this year,
I'm gonna be so disappointed,
because they have been going at it now
for the last couple months.
Again, now, typically what you're looking
at, is an ovulation, usually around,
you know, February, March.
So, we still have some time, you know?
But, the breeding is going really well,
definitely seeing some swelling in the female.
She just looks a little bit bigger, you know what I mean?
But, also, we've been feeding her more, too.
So, that's part of it as well.
So, nevertheless,
black-headed pythons better be in our future.
Could you imagine having a clutch of black-headed pythons?
The woma pythons,
by the way, have been breeding really well too.
So, those are the two species of the Aspidiotus genus.
So, it'd be really amazing
to produce both black-heads, and womas this year,
that would be sick!
All right, it's been about an hour, and a half or so,
so basically, the coat here, looks pretty good.
And I tell ya, I just can't imagine
if there's a leak inside the waterfall,
that, this isn't gonna cure it.
Because, I'm telling you we have it packed in there,
but I'm gonna go ahead,
and put another coat in, just to be safe,
just to make sure, again, if we turn it on,
and it leaks, now we know it's definitely not something
in the seal of the actual waterfall, itself.
It could be externally part of the waterfall down here.
But, I really doubt that,
that's the case, because what you have
to remember is that this is like a box.
There's actually a wall that goes all the way across,
that's like an aquarium, right?
So, really it has to be leaking
from that backside of the aquarium,
down into the bottom.
So, we're just gonna go ahead, our Flex Seal here,
gosh, I could get a brand deal with these guys,
because I'm definitely pimping 'em,
but this stuff does work, it really does.
We'll go ahead, spray it up, and call it a day.
(upbeat music)
- Wow, all right, she is so much bigger now.
Oh my God, that muscle!
As you guys know, this is Pepper,
always, always ready for a fight.
I'm trying to get her out here,
so she actually gets a little exercise.
Her like Salt, getting a little cooped up
because we're fixing her tank.
Boy, she already wore me out just from holding her.
Man, she's heavy, she's a big girl!
So, obviously, ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa,
obviously, Pepper's not quite the trained girl
that Salt is.
You can hear it right now, she's very upset.
For the most part, we want her to be interactive,
but not necessarily holdable, like Salt.
You're all right, girl.
So, I'll slow down, I don't want her to feel chased.
So, we'll just see, she's just walking down here.
Now, she's perfectly safe down this hallway,
there's nothing she can get into,
but, I do wanna keep an eye on her, obviously.
It's not really a good idea
to just let an alligator loose in the building.
But, out all of these animals here
that we have here, I'm super excited what we have,
in store for her.
There's gonna be so many cool things
that she's gonna be able to do.
She's already doing cool things at this size.
Now, can you only imagine when she's twice this size?
Look at this, look at this.
He said, "Come at me."
Ooh, man, this is a,
oh my God look at Kush!
Look at his tail going,
it's clear that Kush is
giving us some serious territorial issues, here.
These guys would never necessarily see each other
in the wild, but there are crocodilians
that he would potentially run into, in the wild.
And I bet you, he's got a lotta instinct
that says, "You better not mess with me lady."
Man, he is keyed up on her, and her alone,
and that is it, wow.
So that really shows you the expansion
of that intelligence there, man.
These guys can really, really recognize something
that's truly gonna be a threat,
something that can truly, truly hurt them,
or, something that's like them.
He's just so on it,
to the point where the three of us are larger
than she is, aren't even considered a threat to him.
That's the threat, not us.
- Before we actually add water, we wanna make sure
that we get all the water from down here, up.
You could still see there's some residue water,
from when we shut the waterfall off yesterday.
And, basically what I wanna do is just vacuum
that out, so that when I turn the water on,
I don't see that and go, "Oh my gosh, it's leaking," right?
So, basically, just, you know, it's gonna take
about 10 minutes of just literally trying
to suck all the water from underneath the tank,
into the thing, so that it's completely dry.
So, that way when we fill it up, turn it on,
we'll know for sure if it's actually leaking or not.
So, I tell you what guys, you know,
this has been a bear of mine, you know?
So, let's hope, and pray this time, it works.
(upbeat music)
The moment of truth, well, not quite the moment of truth.
Now, it's time to fill the thing up.
Once it's actually filled up,
we can turn the waterfall on,
and see if this puppy leaks or not.
So, let's get the hose, and fill her up.
(upbeat music)
All right, so the moment of truth, guys,
I'm just gonna go ahead, and plug the filter in.
Again, it doesn't look
like there's any real water down here,
a couple little residue things, but, nothing good.
So, we'll plug it in,
we'll wait about 10, or 15 minutes,
we should see if there's any water coming out.
And, then of course,
probably tomorrow is gonna be the big thing, right?
But, let's plug it in, and see what happens.
(water gurgling)
Now, it's basically just a waiting game, right?
We'll go ahead, and put Salt, and Pepper back in
which, Pepper, always is a lot of fun.
But, we'll go ahead, get them back in,
and then we'll just keep an eye on the floor
to hope there's no, drips going on.
Like I said, it'll probably you take at least, you know,
probably an hour,
to really know what's going on with the floor.
So, we'll check back, we'll get the animals in,
and then check back here in about an hour.
(claws scraping)
Come on, big girl.
(water gurgling)
Well, that went a lot easier than I expected.
Raising up so many amazing colubrids
that are gonna be ready
to breed next year, not this year, but the next year.
So, the 2022/23 season's gonna be really amazing.
And, remember,
I got those file snakes just a couple weeks ago,
well, all of them are eating,
of course, these are Cape file snakes.
You do see other African file snakes as well,
but the Cape file snakes are the ones
that I like the best.
They have that racing stripe down, such interesting snakes.
Like I said, they remind me
of the dragon snakes so much,
'cause they have those crazy keeled scales,
and, just such an unusual animal.
But, all of them are eating, which is great news.
And, speaking of all of them are eating,
actually, all of the little Aurora house snakes,
are eating as well.
Oh, and this one just peed all over me.
It said, "Hello, welcome to the world."
Well, that's the way it goes.
Hey, working with animals,
sometimes you're gonna get a little bit
of a pee on you, if that's all right.
But, look at how beautiful these guys are.
And, I'm just so happy that all of them are eating,
and doing well.
And, then of course, we have a ton of babies
that were last year's babies, that are getting big.
Remember, the albino Wolf snakes,
take a look at how crazy, cool these guys are right here.
Of course, this is the only pair of albinos in the country.
And, I am in love with them.
Again, next year, I think they'll be big enough
to breed, and we can potentially produce more of them.
But, wow, that is such an incredible snake.
You know, albinos are always amazing.
You guys know that I've always been obsessed
with albino animals since I started off.
But, for some reason,
the albino Wolf snakes are extremely albino.
One of the more interesting looking albinos I've ever seen,
real candy cane type looking snakes, right?
And, then, take a look
at how big the divergents are starting to get.
Of course, these are a boy,
oh, cat-eyed snake, just bit me right in the face!
Don't worry, it's just a mildly venomous snake.
It's not like I'm gonna die, or anything like that.
Truth is, it just bumped my face.
It didn't even get me, really.
I don't think I'll be bleeding.
And if I did, it's not gonna be able
to inject any venom,
because they don't have a pressurized venom tooth.
You know, like a front-fanged elapid, do.
These have a rear fang,
which basically has a slit in it,
where the saliva that is basically a type
of venom, will actually drip into.
That's why, they have to actually bite you,
and chew on you, in order to actually get envenomated.
But, nevertheless, this is an absolute beauty.
It's been about an hour since it's been running.
I don't see any additional water.
There was a little bit of water
that was still left over,
but I don't see any pooling of water.
So, again, I think we're okay,
but I've said this before, right?
So, really, tomorrow will be the test.
When we come in tomorrow, if there's no water on the floor,
and this water should be dried up by then.
We should be good, but again, no additional water here,
no water at all, on this side.
So, I think we may have cracked this one,
but again, I hesitate to say that,
'cause I've said that about 10 times already.
Well guys, time will tell.
I've revisited this topic way too many times.
I hope this is the last time we ever have
to talk about the alligator tank leaking.
So, in the next day, or two,
we're gonna find out if it actually holds.
But, so far so good.
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