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- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to blog.
How is your day? I'll tell you what, it is so good
to be back here at The Reptarium.
This last week was really truly amazing.
Getting an opportunity to building cages
you know see some of my dreams really come true.
But this is what I love to do.
I mean look at Casper!
Casper did you come out to say hi to me buddy?
He is looking for me
and sometimes it is interesting when you're gone for
a week like I was, that you come back and it's just
amazing to see the animals again,
and just see how much,
I tell you what, baby Karma, looks huge!
Look at how big baby Karma is!
Hey buddy boy, how are you doing?
I swear to god, that thing looks like its put out about
20 percent of its size.
He is definitely turning into
a beautiful Nosy Be panther chameleon.
We've got, you know, Daisy looks good!
Mata ma- look at mister Mata mata over here!
Look at that smiley face!
Unbelievably cute right?
And again, I just think now
(scoffs)
Wait, wait look at this!
Look at the frog on the enclosure right there!
That is absolutely incredible.
And that's the thing, you know
you come in, and you see things
that you haven't seen for a week and they look so amazing
and Abashuku come to say hi.
Hi Abashuku! What's goin' on buddy?
I tell ya' its uh-
it's, again, awesome to be back.
But at the same time, it's really cool
to think of the possibilities that came from this last trip.
Bella!
What're you doing my baby girl?
Come on and see me girl!
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That's my Bella!
Hi baby girl!
Oh my gosh you are so absolutely adorable honey!
I tell you what, she's lookin' chunky too,
she's been eatin' really good!
She's such an amazing animal, love her to death.
Hey baby girl!
What're you doing? Did you miss me while I was gone?
I'll see you in a minute lil' girl.
Everything is uh- its just awesome.
I can't wait to see what animals we're gonna be adding,
and moving around.
I spent a lot of time on that long drive back,
really thinking about like animals like obviously
Toothless may eventually get moved over there.
Santana, the Savannah monitor,
obviously needs to be moved into a bigger cage.
Predito will probably stay here,
which by the way she looks gorgeous!
She must have shed before we left and she's definitely
hyped up for food right now!
It's okay girl.
No food, no food girl.
We're not eating, we're not feeding, we're not-
Whoa! Hey, hey, hey!
Hey, hey.
No food, no food.
Okay, whew.
She is ready to go!
I tell ya, but she looks great!
Look at this animal!
Oh my gosh!
Speaking of Caloritech's, obviously
we have Moo Moo, the other Caloritech,
that's gonna come over as well.
I have a feeling she'll go, probably next door,
in one of the three foot, by six foot, by four foot cages
so that'll be really amazing to get her back on display,
and uh- again, so many, like, you know
obviously we've got almachinos coming over
so that's pretty cool.
Obviously Ivy, going into that big enclosure is gonna be
absolutely incredible.
That, again, frees up another enclosure.
Now, just so you know, Salt and Pepper of course,
which pepper is looking great!
Let me look at my girl Salt over here.
Come here little monkey.
What're you doing sweetheart?
What're you doing hun?
Come here. Come here.
Come here girl, what're you doing silly?
Come here!
(chuckles)
Of course Salt and Pepper are gonna go out to next door
into that enclosure I showed you guys, we're building.
So these enclosures are gonna be open.
What we're thinking we're gonna do,
is maybe put a couple little baby alligator's in one of em'
and then of course a two headed turtle.
And the snow slider will go into one of these,
probably this enclosure here to be totally honest with you.
Because I think that we'll raise the water level
a little bit, that way they can climb all up down here,
get out of the water I think this enclosure will be perfect
for them.
And then again, little baby alligators in here
until they get a little bit of size then
we send those alligators back and we put the baby alligators
back over there, and then who knows?
Maybe we'll put another turtle tank down,
or something like that.
But, again just, uh-
Night fury's looking amazing,
looks like it's just starting to go back into shed
which is- seems like it shed's an awful lot.
Let's take a look at Ben and Jerry real quick.
Hey guys!
I missed you so much! Woo!
Guess what! You're gonna have a couple of neighbors
that have two heads too!
I mean how exciting is that?
But again, Ben and Jerry is great so,
Anyways uh- just great to be back here
and great to be kind of dreaming
about what this place is gonna look like
in just a couple short weeks.
[Man] Do you wanna look at the turtles?
[Lori] Of course I do.
- All right, are you excited?
- I don't know, I don't know if you did good or not.
Let's see.
Look it, this one's the crazy one.
- Crazy. Oh yeah.
[Man Chuckles]
Isn't it weird?
- Oh yeah. Look at that - I know its got like a heart.
- Looks like a heart.
- I know. So that's the Siamese twin obviously.
- Right.
- And then this is, or the conjoined twin I should say
and then this is the two head.
They look good though, no?
- Yeah this guy's definitely active here
(Mary laughs) He's trying to climb out of my hand.
- And then this one is really cool.
This is actually, they call this a snow.
So it's and albino, and its a caramel albino.
And they call that a snow. - And it's a red eared slider?
- Yeah its a red eared slider. - Okay.
- It's cool right?
- Huh.
- So what do you think, did we do good?
(Mary sighs then laughs)
- Yes I hope so.
Okay ooh, this guy's comin' alive now.
Holy crap. Yeah they move a lot.
- Yeah they're good so,
so we'll get these guys set up just temporary
and then they'll be over uh-
at the Reptarium here in another month or so!
- Can't wait.
I love comin' back to the Reptarium,
but I also love coming back to BHB
there's no doubt about that,
because things are definitely heating up here.
This is actually a chocolate pinstripe.
This is bred to that chocolate spinner,
so it potentially produce those super chocolate camo's.
Definitely starting to look
pretty beefy and stuff like that so.
I see a lot of breeding happened while I was gone,
which is really good.
We gave the males a few a days off
they actually go back in today.
And that's something that we try to do
throughout the breeding season is give males a few days off
so that they don't get their self overbred.
You know what I mean?
This is actually a pewter be,
that is looking really chunky for sure so,
these are all goods signs.
I think this is the time of the year for us at least
where we're at this year,
where we're gonna start to see things really speed up.
Where we start to see animals start to blow,
follicles starting to really blow up,
and then of course hopefully
some ovulation's and some eggs not too far off.
This is a pastel yellow belly
that's just looking beefy as heck, looking amazing.
And again, not only are they beefy
because they're starting to swell with some follicle growth,
but also we've been feeding them a lot.
I've talked about those triggers right?
So you want to make sure that you're feeding a lot
during the breeding season
so you can really get these animals pumped up.
And this is a Champin right here
which is a Champagne and a pinstripe looking really good.
That is a big snake right there so,
again, really good to be back here,
to be back on top of what's going on here
to help Mary and stuff like that
she's doing a tremendous job down here.
But its gonna be really cool to kind of get back
in the run of things and see what's going on.
This is that Lori leopard ball python
that is just looking great,
I mean look at how good
these animals are starting to really put on a lot of weight
which is what you want this time of the breeding season.
Now we just have to focus on the right meals
and with the right females over the next month
is the really important time.
From now until the end of February is where
its so crucial to make sure that the breeding is good.
So, uh- yeah good to be back here and
kind of get myself kind of acclimated
to what's happening with the breeding
and get on top of this.
I'll be in town for the next couple weeks at least,
so I can totally focus on this before the start
of The Reptarium 'cause once that starts
it's gonna be a gong show.
First time I've been over the the new Reptarium
the expansion since we've been back.
Anxious to see what's goin' on.
Lori you did a lot of work while we we're gone.
[Lori] A lot of work.
[Man] Okay.
[Lori] It's changed quite a bit.
- I'm curious to see.
[Man] Alright I'm excited,
let's go in and just see what's goin' on in here.
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[Man] Oh yeah.
[Worker] Hey guys.
- How are ya'?
Oh gosh it looks so different in here.
Look at the walls are painted!
We got the ceiling grid up.
Oh my gosh it looks so different in here.
Hey guys!
The snake massage room obviously.
Looks great with the walls now and stuff.
Oh my gosh it's so good.
Even this corner looks so cool.
And obviously Lori just painted this top part because,
this all is gonna be rocked out,
so we just need that little piece there,
but that's it but,
you can imagine once the ceiling tiles are actually in,
how different it's gonna look.
Obviously electricians are now doing like, finish work
so we can get all the plugs in and stuff like that but,
Yeah! Wow!
Huge progress Lori I tell ya' its amazing!
[Lori] It was a very busy week but,
a fun week cause you got to see
some stuff they actually changed
- Oh my gosh yeah,
and of course I brought this enclosure back,
so we'll put that in but we can't do that for a couple
days because two days from now we're getting the floor done
and uh- obviously we have to have everything
off the floor for them to grind it Epoxy it.
So uh- here in a few days I'll be able to
put this enclosure in here,
that's gonna look really cool
I can't wait to see how that flows in this wall
and stuff like that, and then uh-
hey guys we're just uh- fifteen days away from install.
So obviously these guys are selling
and while we're super excited to have em'
but we do need names for these guys.
Of course the people I got these guys from,
have Chopsticks, which is an amazing two headed turtle.
So they thought that maybe,
this little guy could be called, Spork.
You know like, spoon, fork.
So I think the guy on the left will be named Spoon
and the one on right will be named Fork!
And together these guys are named Spork.
But I do need a name for these two monkeys.
These little polycephaly animals,
the two headed slider like this.
So, let me know in the comments what you think these
guys should be named.
Again, it's kind of a tribute to Rick and Morty,
you know we love those guys so much,
we obviously have a big picture of them,
outside the building.
So it's really cool to have these guys again.
So I want a name that's gonna be a tribute to that,
and something that's really cool.
And then lastly I need a name for this guy.
This one is so cute,
of course its a caramel and albino, so it's a snow.
So I need a name for this little monkey here.
Those big red eyes are ridiculously cute.
I'm already completely over the top in love
with this this thing for sure so,
I need a name for those two turtles,
or I guess three turtles with, you know,
three heads, but, anyways.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think.
And I'll go ahead and do a poll once we get some cool names
and we'll choose names for these little monkeys.
[Man 1] Mary, I gotta show you the new arrivals!
[Man 2] Oh! My gosh, Yes!
I love new arrivals.
[Man 1] All right ready?
[Man 2] I love turtles!
I like turtles.
[Man 2] Oh!
(Mary gasps excitedly)
[Mary] Yess!
[Man 2] Oh! My! God!
Dude they're so cute-
there's just too much going on in here right now!
[Man 1] You can pick em' up!
[Man 2] Dude! Look at these little guys! [Mary] Oh my god!
[Man 1] Isn't it crazy?
[Man 2] Dude look at that one it's so weird!
[Man 1] Yeah, its like total conjoined twins over here!
[Man 2] Look at this little guy over here!
[Mary] Look at this guy.
[Man 1] I know isn't that thing cool?
This is a caramel albino, albino.
So its a snow.
[Man 2] Wow!
[Mary] Look at him! [Man 2] What kind of turtle is that?
[Man 1] Its a slider.
- Wow!
- Yeah just a slider.
- Wow! That thing is incre-
give me that turtle Mary!
(Mary and man 1 laugh)
[Man 2] Oh my gosh! [Man 1] Isn't that thing cool?
And its got so much personality. It just likes swim-
[Man 2] Look at its little eyes!
Its like a little alien of something!
Oh! My!
I am so excited. I love turtles man!
[Man 1] I know you do!
- Yes!
- Oh my gosh.
I just had to show you guys huh?
- Dude thank you!
Welcome back by the way!
- I know! Its nice to be, yeah,
nice to be back!
[Man 2] Oh. My. Gosh.
They look really healthy too.
Look at em they're really.
[Man 1] They move around a lot,
they're really amazing so.
[Man 2] Oh my god!
[Man 1] Alright so now we got some new turtles.
[Mary And Man 1] Yes!
Alright cool!
Here's those boas that Lori unboxed the other day,
and oh my gosh!
Are they incredible?
Again these are the Guyana red tail boas.
Like the other day we got the Pruvian red tail boas,
these guys are a little bit smaller but,
look at the connecting widows peaks on this thing.
Oh my gosh!
That is absolutely incredible!
I've always love the Guyana red tails for sure.
They're not as big as the Pruvian or Suriname.
But still really impressive, beautiful snakes.
Again, that's what's so neat about these guys
is the different localities.
Look so tremendously different.
Look at this one here!
I tell you what the red tail and the nose!
Saddles are ridiculous!
And of course we got a couple of these little
Brazilian rainbow boas right here.
Last year we didn't even one Brazilian rainbow
which was a huge bummer!
So hopefully this year we'll get an opportunity
to produce more.
One of the problems we only have like
one or two males, this happened to be three males
and one female so, now the question is,
do we keep all four of them or at least a male
or two to race up the help breeding of the other ones
but uh- they are absolutely stunning little babies
for sure, I love brazilian rainbows
and with any luck hopefully this year we'll have
a better year than last year.
Got a quick little thing that we're uh-
gonna open up here.
This is actually from Spencers.
Which if you guys don't know is a store that
has all kinds of novelty crazy stuff.
So this could be just about anything.
Did you send me some thing Lori?
- No I did not.
- No?
- I did not but I'm slightly worried,
a little concerned. - It could be anything, I mean
they have all kinds of crazy stuff.
Got a poster?
Something, a poster?
Who's this from?
Here you can take that.
This is from uh- who is this from?
This is from oh, Joseph from Dearborn Michigan.
So, local guy.
Not too far away from me.
What is it lookin' like?
- I can't
jeez!
- Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
Oh its a sloth!
So is it like a decal or something?
(Lori laughs)
- Look it.
- Oh my gosh!
Look it guys!
Its actually like, you can put a sloth
that's waving in the back window!
So uh- I definitely- I think I could put this
like in the back window of my truck.
Oh my god you guys, no.
This is like,
- This is getting ridiculous.
- I know everyone's sending me sloth stuff.
This is some omen.
- And we don't have a sloth.
And we're not going to-
- And this is a three toed sloth too so.
No we're gonna get a sloth now.
We've got no choice!
- Oh we have a choice.
- Joseph, thank you, I appreciate this.
You'll see- you'll see me if I go to Dearborn,
you'll see me driving around,
you'll see the sloth,
driving around in the back of my truck waving so,
I'll wave as wave as I drive by. Thank you so much!
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It is so great to be back with my animals
after a week or so, so just gonna spend some time
and admire my little critters here.
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