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- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
The last screws for this habitat,
tell you what,
it's gonna be an amazing day.
Let's go ahead and recap what we've built so far.
Just a recap, we had four of these enclosures
that we built yesterday,
but now it's time to move on to the big stuff.
But before we get building these enclosures,
we're gonna actually head over to
the Dallas World Aquarium.
I've been hearing crazy things about this place forever.
So, we're gonna get a little behind-the-scenes tour.
So, let's go ahead over there
and get our animal fix in for the day.
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This place is crazy.
It's like right downtown Dallas.
Wild, man.
We haven't even got in and I'm already blown away.
Did you like the place?
Was it cold?
- [Group] Yes!
- All right, what was your favorite thing?
- The sharks. - The sharks!
- Yeah the sharks.
- How are ya?
- Good!
- Dude, guys we're famous!
You're gonna be on TV.
No, you're not famous anymore.
- Chill, chill!
- Literally one of the coolest birds ever.
I've always wanted to see one.
I've never seen one in person,
so oh my gosh!
That thing is crazy cool!
Guys check this out.
This is crazy.
This was literally just a normal building
down in downtown Dallas that the owner bought
and just went crazy with it.
Built all the way up,
all the way down here.
There's fish,
there's reptiles,
there's sloths.
I mean this place this is the dream.
I mean one day to own something like this would be crazy.
I cannot wait to just kinda canvas this place.
Plus we're gonna get a chance to talk to
a couple of people that work here,
so oh my God.
Let's just check this place out.
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Take a look at the Orinoco crocodiles down there.
I tell ya they are so beautiful.
What a really critically endangered crocodilian.
To see them that size is really cool.
They are a very large crocodile.
Really beautiful colors and patterns,
and those two are some stunners.
Now I would imagine they're both females
because males are very difficult to get.
I'll definitely be asking them if they have plans
at getting a male Orinoco
and hopefully breed them in the future.
I really wanted to get a Caiman lizard at some point,
but this is how you really want to set off.
A lot of ability for them to get in the water.
They definitely like to climb.
As you can see this one's right up on top over here,
but you need to have a lot of aquatic part of the enclosure.
So I'm not really quite sure
if I'm gonna add it in this expansion,
but something in the future I'm definitely going to add
because they are super cool.
Look at this anaconda exhibit.
Ours is gonna be a little different
but have the same idea of a lot of water.
You can see that this one loves to be
in the water right here,
but then there's plenty of land.
The thing that I didn't really think about is putting fish.
Look there's discus in there.
There's neon tetras in here.
I didn't even think about doing that,
but it's a really good idea,
so maybe we'll add that to the exhibit
over at the expansion of the reptarium.
And that's one of the things that's amazing
about coming to a place like this
is that you start to get ideas for other exhibits, right?
So when I came here,
I wasn't even thinking of this,
but now I am,
and that's what I love about place like this.
It gets my brain just going a million miles a minute.
Actually asked about the Orinocos and believe it or not,
it is a breeding pair,
which is really crazy.
One of the only breeding pairs in the United States.
I mean these are again for this region,
one of the most critically endangered crocodilians.
It is amazing that they actually have a male and a female.
That makes it even more incredible.
Look it here guys!
Two-toed sloth!
That's right.
What a cool exhibit over here.
Oh my God I've gotta get a sloth.
I mean, they are so incredible.
Oh my God way up there!
Look at him right over there.
Oh my gosh guys.
I'm flipping out.
This is a must.
I have to have a sloth exhibit.
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What an absolutely amazing experience right now.
This is actually a three-toed sloth.
Now the majority of sloths you'll see are two-toed sloths.
Three-toed are super rare,
and it's crazy that it's even awake number one
because they sleep twenty-three hours a day,
and number two to see it just kinda cruising around
and being this close to it, wow!
What an absolute treat.
How cool is this?
Of course it's like a twenty-year-old manatee.
Oh my God.
This is actually a two hundred thousand gallon aquarium.
Holy cow, that's awesome.
I would love to go swimming with this little girl
because she is amazing.
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Interesting thing is that this whole idea came from a guy
that was really into fish and birds,
but this restaurant here was the first part of it.
He had a restaurant and he had some fish tanks
because he thought it was cool,
and this is the actual area
and still it's there where it started,
and then it blossomed into this entire vision
and grew from there.
I mean, I am so inspired by stories like this,
but it all started right here.
This is another lizard I was really thinking about
maybe adding an exhibit at the reptarium.
These are Green Basilisk Plumifron.
I used to breed them when I was younger, super cool.
Now they're pretty invasive down in South Florida,
so but they're really amazing,
I mean with the fins and stuff like that on their back.
Their spines really cool.
Thinking about doing a really cool rainforest-type exhibit
with a handful of these guys.
I could certainly spend all day here.
It's incredible like I said so inspiring.
One day I dunno hopefully I have something like this
because it's crazy.
Don't get me wrong I love the reptarium.
We're expanding the reptarium.
It's awesome,
but my gosh this place is absolutely
something definitely to look forward to,
and I've never been to a cooler place that I can think of,
so but hey with that being said,
speaking of the reptarium we gotta get back to work
and start building some habitats,
or we'll never have this expansion done.
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All right so back at Universal Rock,
I have all these pieces assembled for the larger enclosure.
The thing that's gonna be interesting about these guys
is that this is gonna be a window here,
and on the other side there's a window too,
so it's going to be a see-through big enclosure.
While I'm getting these guys assembled,
Stewart's over there figure out one
of the other larger cages
that doesn't have double-side glass,
but these enclosures I'm really excited
to see how they turn out.
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And here's one of the enclosures,
the big ones that Stewart is actually just in right now,
but it's looking absolutely incredible.
That's the thing that's gonna be different about
the new reptarium expansion is mostly enclosures
are gonna be this size or even bigger.
We're not doing as many small things,
so super excited the way this one is turning out.
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Sounds like Stewart is done
with the first habitat with 6-footers,
so let's go take a look and see what this thing looks like
before he moves onto the next steps,
which is basically making it look terrible
before it looks good.
Yeah, this thing looks awesome.
Stewart!
Looks great.
And then he's onto the next one.
- Look at this one.
I wanna make that into a shower.
- Yeah that would be perfect.
Put a shower head up here.
That is beautiful.
I really like this one.
This is awesome,
but that other one turned out great too.
- Yes.
- Oh my God it's awesome.
Love it!
- (machine drowns Stewart) with these vines,
these got metal in 'em.
- So once you bend them they're gonna
- So we'll be able to,
you know for the snakes to get on 'em won't be hard.
- Yeah, yeah.
That's beautiful man.
Absolutely amazing.
Love it!
I love the size you know.
- Aw impressive isn't it?
- Looking good!
Yeah I'm pretty happy with that.
- [Man] What are you doing?
- This is the thing I love about Universal Rock.
Just hanging out in my old hot tub here.
I mean how cool is this?
I mean not obviously with the tubes in there not as cool,
but this is literally a hot tub.
I mean I need to have a hot tub somewhere
whether it's at the reptarium or in my backyard.
I'm not sure but this is awesome,
and they have even bigger ones than this.
Pretty cool.
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This is the enclosure.
I've been super excited.
Now I can visualize it.
There's gonna be glass on this side.
There's gonna be glass on this side with doors to get in,
and that way when you're in an aisle way,
you can see right straight through.
There'll be ledges, tree branches, whatever oh my God.
I am so excited about it.
I think there's gonna be five or six of these enclosures
down the middle aisle.
It's gonna be insane,
and I cannot wait to see what Stewart is gonna do with this.
Couple more enclosures are done and in the books.
Cannot wait to get these guys gotta touched up a little bit.
Thinking about the plants and the rocks
and the glass in them and the front.
Oh my gosh today was an amazing day.
I cannot wait for tomorrow because then we're gonna start
to tackle the one with the double-glass in it.
It's gonna be really amazing,
but take a look at how awesome these things have turned out.
Stewart definitely outdid himself as always that's for sure.
So, one step closer to getting this whole project done.
One more day of build before we head back to the reptarium,
and then we'll be back here in a few more weeks.
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