Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the blog.
I hope to start your day is incredible,
and you know that, I mean, it,
we actually got a snow storm today,
and it's a busy day today.
So I tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm just gonna take you guys
along on the journey,
and the journey always starts
with me opening up at The Reptarium,
and just making sure everything is okay,
after a snowy night,
like we had last night.
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And basically every single morning,
I do this routine, right.
Is I just kinda walk through,
see what's going on.
Got a little clean up here in Ivy's tank.
That's no big deal.
We'll do that before
we're open here later on tonight,
and I just wanna walk her on,
just make sure all the animals are good,
always talk about, use your nose,
use your eyes,
use your ears,
of course Drogo, just check on him,
he's sleeping in his bed right now,
which is super cute.
Everything else looks good.
A little bit of maintenance work,
probably on salt and peppers tank.
Just looks a little bit,
Yeah, it got a little bit poop down there.
Just take that mental inventory,
just kinda walking around again,
making sure the animals okay,
making sure that I kinda get
that mental inventory,
of what I need to do,
or what we need to do as a crew,
check on the little baby turtles.
They're looking so cute.
Look at how cute they look,
Love those guys.
So I always do this every single morning.
The first thing I do is just get in here,
just look around,
make sure everything is okay.
Just look at every single cage, you know,
so on like that.
And that's just a good thing for you,
If you're keeping reptiles,
not even if obviously,
if you don't have a zoo,
which you probably don't,
you know, you just have your own pets,
yeah. Just wake up,
make sure everything's okay.
Good morning, Bella.
Hey baby girl.
And just, you know,
kinda get an idea
of what's going on in the day,
again, busy day today.
So I want to take you guys on the journey,
and I told you,
that it's snowing and you saw outside.
It's definitely had a good winter storm,
which means ball python breeding,
should go pretty good.
It's a matter of fact,
I ended up staying last night,
till about 11 o'clock last night,
switching all my males around,
into females cages to see,
if we could get a good breeding today.
So what do you say?
We head down to the dungeon,
and go ahead and check male ball Python.
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And again I'm expecting
a lot of locsters today.
I mean, you know,
there was a great snow storm
that came through.
We actually just hit the top end,
of a really big snow storm,
but it definitely dropped
the biometric pressure a lot.
We had just fed all the females
over the last couple of days,
the males had two days off,
so I just thought last night,
you know, I was gonna put them in this morning,
and I thought last night, you know,
hey with this weather prior coming through,
let's get our males in tonight,
so that tomorrow morning,
we hopefully have some really good locks.
So fingers crossed,
It worked out in that extra work
I did late last night is all worth it.
So let's go ahead and go through and check.
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And right off the rip,
we actually have an Enchi Pastave,
half breed clown, bred to a Banana Clown.
And she's actually at 33 millimeters,
so this is actually the last time,
she'll get bred.
So basically what happens is that,
once they hit about 33 to 35 millimeters,
if I see a last copulation,
they're gonna ovulate
within a week or week and a half.
So this girl, is the last time
she's gonna breed for here.
She's done, she should ovulate,
and she should lay eggs here,
in about two months.
We've got the same thing happening here,
we actually have a Pastel pide,
bred to a pin heifer pide,
She's at 29 millimeters,
probably 30, 31 by now
because this was about a week ago,
and now this is the last breeding.
So that's it.
We can actually slide her in,
we'll mark done on her cage just like this,
and she has done for the year,
so things are progressing along pretty well.
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A ll in all, we actually had
quite a few females locked up,
but not as many as I expected.
I honestly thought that like 90%
of the males would be breeding today,
but still good stuff
in the breedings that we did get,
were exactly what I was hoping for.
So all in all,
it was worth staying late last night
because we did get some good copulations,
so now I've got all the males switched out,
it's still low pressure today,
So they might breed today for tomorrow.
So now guess what?
We got to brave the outdoors,
to shovel the front walk.
Well, guess what?
I came out here to shovel the front walk off,
and Laurie has already shoveled.
So, that saves me
a little bit of the hassle,
that's good because we have a tour,
that actually is gonna start here,
in about 15 minutes.
So that at least as good,
I don't have to be out here
freezing my butt off.
Pretty cool, when we move pretty to end,
this is exactly what I was hoping,
was gonna happen,
is that she would actually
use the branches to climb,
and stuff like that.
And I mean, literally she's perched,
kinda like Sunfire often does,
with the retake,
but also like almost
like a Green tree python.
Again, that's something that she didn't,
have the opportunity to do,
in her other enclosure,
although she had some ledge
that she could climb on.
She wasn't able to perch like this,
and this is absolutely gorgeous,
I love it to death,
she looks so good.
So it just warms my heart,
to know that she's happy,
and she's able to have
all that other mental enrichment,
with this nice new enclosure,
with all the climbing areas,
and places she can go,
and wow, what a beautiful snake.
So my tours should be here any minute,
so one hour Brian tour,
so basically we just show them around the zoo,
it's been while since I've done that,
with you guys, of course.
Now the only difference
between now, and the past,
was the fact that we always have
to wear masks when we do tours,
which are, you know,
that's just the way life is these days,
is still awesome to have people.
So hopefully with the snow,
wherever they're coming from,
they can get here on time.
So just a few minutes,
before they're supposed to be here,
so let's go have some fun,
show people around The Reptarium.
Speaking of new enclosure,
since Jessica has redone,
the monkey tailed skink cage,
they're oftentimes right here at the front,
it's almost like they feel more comfortable
because there's so much more foliage
that seemed to come up here,
and both those cute little dudes,
are sitting right here.
Of course, this is a pair,
hopefully one day
we'll have some babies from them,
cause that would be absolutely amazing.
I've mentioned in the past,
that they have live young
only one baby per year.
On rare, occasional they'll have twins,
but normally one baby per year.
So fingers crossed
that we'll eventually produce these guys.
They definitely are enjoying
the new kinda rehab of their enclosure,
there's no doubt about that.
Like I said,
it's kinda giving them the confidence,
to spend a lot more time,
at the front of the enclosure.
All right so my tour just showed up.
Where are you guys from?
- Chicago,
_Chicago area?
Well, welcome to The Reptarium.
Glad you braved the weather to get here.
So who wants a special occasion?
- Two birthdays,
happy birthday, happy birthday,
How are you?
Alright guys,
you can settle in, if you want,
you can hang your coats up or whatever.
We'll start looking at some animals.
All right?
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Definitely a super hectic day,
you know, and every now and then,
I wanna try to find some time
to kinda mentally slow myself down
because it's just scheduled,
from the moment I wake up,
till later tonight when we close it,
at nine o'clock tonight,
so definitely a long, long day.
So every now and then,
just coming in and seeing
this chill animal here, look at him.
I mean, that definitely
looks like a relaxed animal.
Of course Drogo is just sleeping on his bed,
he looks absolutely incredible.
He's barely opening one of his eyes like,
yeah, damn you just leave me alone,
and let me sleep,
I love this little dude for sure.
So we have to just kinda wrap up
a few things here at The Reptarium,
and then we actually have to head home,
cause I'm doing a brand deal
of brand integration.
You guys know I work with,
HelloFresh, Raycon,
some other brands.
So we have to shoot that today.
So I have to go all the way home,
just to shoot that promo,
just to come back,
so that we're open at The Reptarium,
later on tonight,
we feed Lucy, we feed Ivy,
we feed butterscotch,
may feed Aries and Daisy,
I'm not a hundred percent sure,
got a bunch of food thought out,
so people can see us feed some snakes tonight.
So definitely hectic day,
but I'm gonna take a few minutes
to chill, with my guy Drogo.
Now we actually have a birthday party
that's about to start,
and this cake is absolutely ridiculous.
probably the coolest reptile cake,
that I have ever seen
in my entire life.
But unfortunately I've got to head home,
and actually go do that,
HelloFresh promo,
But man, I tell you what,
I wanna taste a piece of this cake
cause that thing looks absolutely ridiculous.
fatefully the roads aren't too bad,
after that little winter storm,
that we had last night.
So heading home, to do this spot,
with HelloFresh.
It's always great to work with this brand,
to be honest with you,
actually, all the brands
we work with are amazing,
but go get to have some scrumptious food,
that's always a bonus
when you're talking about filming.
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Surely the hardest part
when I'm starting to do
the HelloFresh thing,
is they actually send me
three different meal packages, right?
So I have an Italian chicken,
over lemony spaghetti,
we've got mozzarella-stuffed caprese burger.
That sounds absolutely delicious,
and a fully loaded pork taquitos.
So I have to decide
which one of these I wanna eat today,
and make, all of them look so good.
I don't know what I'm gonna do.
I think I might go with the
mozzarella-stuffed caprese burger,
but man, I don't know.
So I have to decide that.
And then of course,
these are all like talking points,
and stuff like that,
that I have to go over,
and then we just filmed me cooking it,
and then eating it.
So that's the best.
The eating it is the best part,
to be honest with you.
So gotta make that decision,
and get started.
Back at you with another
HelloFresh opportunity for you,
and a great opportunity for me
because I get an opportunity
to eat some really good stuff.
The quick breakfast, lunch, savary size,
and drool worthy desserts,
and extra dinners or lunches,
to your weekly order,
throw in extra proteins,
or add any yummy meal compliments,
like HelloFresh's, best-selling garlic bread.
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That was some of my favorite,
brand deals to do, or with HelloFresh,
its so yummy.
What do you think?
- Oh, sorry.
(laughs)
I love it.
I mean literary every time,
I'll make sure I'm home,
when you make them.
Because they're so good,
I don't wanna miss them.
- They're good.
So, you'll see this in the next few days.
I'll give you a kinda preview here.
If you go to elbridge.com,
use my promo code, Tim Brian B,
so you can get some cool stuff.
So now, but this isn't part of the brand deal,
it's just what I have to shoot today,
but man, it just it's delicious!,
So heading back to the shop
with a full belly,
and another brand deal in the can,
that's always a lot of fun to shoot those,
there's no doubt about it.
We'll get there just in time,
to open up tonight.
Again, we're feeding Lucy,
Daisy,
Butterscotch,
and Ivy tonight,
should be a good time.
So like I mentioned,
we got back in time for people,
ready here at The Reptarium.
We're open, having a good time,
that we're holding stuff,
having a good time.
We're gonna feed Lucy here,
in a few minutes here.
And then, maybe Daisy,
maybe Ivy.
We have five rabbits,
so we're gonna feed five things,
or at least four things,
with maybe Lucy getting too,
that's sure, nevertheless people love it,
when we feed stuff,
so we're gonna have a fun night
here at The Reptarium.
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Okay, time to feed Lucy
and it looks like
she's definitely ready to go.
So let's go ahead,
and jump in here and see what happens.
Hi girl.
Hi Lucy.
Hi my Lucy, come on girl.
Come on.
There she goes.
For a second there,
I didn't think she was gonna eat,
but now she's definitely, see.
Good girl.
(groans)
Alright so the deal is,
we're gonna feed butterscotch guys,
so basically Jay is gonna be
the one that keeps you
guys alive over here. Okay?
So you gotta trust Jay,
You might wanna give him a tip,
before we get started again
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So if everything goes well,
what will happen is,
we'll actually have
butterscotch will come out,
fly out at me, maybe strike at me.
I will toss the rabbit in the air,
and she'll catch it out of the air.
That's what we hope will happen.
The worst case that happens,
someone else gets eaten,
but that happens, you know,
alright,
are you guys ready?
- I'm ready.
- Here we go.
This is always the fun part.
She's close.
She's too close.
Oh my goodness!
(laughs)
So she didn't catch it on the air,
she just got too close to me guys,
but anyways,
She'll go,
We got a leak.
(laughs)
Okay. So we'll clean that up.
So I'm gonna push her back up in there,
again you can watch Lucy eat.
we'll probably feed some
here in a little bit
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Already number two
and we're getting going, good.
Wait a second,
Is this the first snake you ever held?
- Yeah.
- Oh my God. Let's do this.
- I'm just gonna do it. I don't care.
- Let's do it.
You're good, you're good.
- If I've played with baby tigers,
I can do this.
- That's awesome.
Good job I'm proud of you.
That's awesome.
It's the best part of my job.
No doubt about it.
Okay. It looks like we've got a crowd around,
and we're ready to feed Ivy.
Of course my baby anaconda,
not too much baby, but lovely Anaconda.
Let's go ahead and check her out.
Let's get her over here, come on,
Ivy.
I tell you that was amazing.
That was absolutely crushed.
He's definitely fired up
and ready to eat today.
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Short, winding down the night here,
at The Reptarium,
and we have a group from Lansing, Michigan.
Hey guys,
And look here,
you got sticker, sticker, sticker.
They held their first snake for the first time,
so you guys are absolutely awesome.
Thank you guys for coming.
(group cheering)
And there it is,
wrapping up the crazy insane day,
that was just, wanted to take you guys
on a fun night here
at The Reptarium, went really well.
So I hope that you guys enjoyed this day
because it was an awesome day,
very long day, about 14 hours,
but I'm ready to go home
and just relax a little bit,
and start all over again tomorrow.
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