- Oh good morning everybody, and welcome
to the vlog, this is a comfortable cage that
I slept in last night, no I didn't sleep in this.
We actually made this yesterday it's our
first habitat for the reptarium.
If you didn't see it check out yesterday's video.
Today we're gonna make four, five, six habitats.
Super excited about it, lot of creativity
lot of things going on we're gonna
have a great day together let's push our
problems aside and just rock this day out!
While I'm down here making these habitats
for the expansion of the reptarium,
I'm thinking first off it's like,
what's gonna go in there, is it gonna be
a snake or a lizard?
Because obviously snakes and lizards need
different type of environments.
With lizards they really like terrace,
so we're looking at like ledges that
we can put in there, different types of
levels so that they can get higher to the
basking light.
They don't really need the sub-straight heat
because they're basically gonna be basking heat.
So we look at different types of elements
here that we could potentially add,
again giving them a hot spot where they can get
relatively close to, as well as the UV light up there.
With snakes, it's a lot different because they
need the belly heat so we definitely need to make
sure we have area, as well as like
let's say, water dishes.
Lizards a lot of times don't need as much water
'cause they don't do as much soaking.
I mean water monitors and stuff like that do.
But with snakes, you know you need an area
for a big water basin like this
so they can get into it.
So it depends what size snake.
Well the fact that we're building larger
enclosures here which means that we're gonna need
areas for big water dishes like this.
So again you're just kinda putting the puzzle together.
What's going in there, I may not know the exact
animal yet, but I know it's gonna be a snake
or a lizard and that's how we start the
process of building these habitats out.
A food bowl or a water bowl like this for
say a Rhino Iguana is fine because they
really don't swim in the water they don't need
a lot of area, which is good.
But they do need branches and we
need to be able to climb.
Smaller lizards maybe something like this,
you know this is a cool little element
that we can add in here.
I mean there's even like a big element here
that we can add into cages that, you know,
for an animal to climb up and stuff like that.
So again, a lizards gonna utilize that as well.
We can add that to snake cages as well but
it's just kinda thinking through the process,
and even things like this, like rocks,
this would be good for snakes or lizards.
Cause you know snakes can rub on this to help shed,
lizards like to perch up here,
getting closer to the basking light.
So again, lot of thought process
that goes into it but uh, it's kind of a
work in progress right, we don't like plan
too much ahead we just get to a habitat and
we just start building and adding elements
until it looks awesome and is perfect for
the actual animal that might go in there.
(Drilling)
You know, this is another day of
banging, screwing and gluing.
It's a glamorous job.
(Mood music)
(Drilling)
Take a look at this right here,
I just came across this, I'm thinking
I might add this into Casper's cage.
You know cause Casper does like to soak
and he has a basin that he can soak in
but something this size might be
really cool so I wanna see here's another
even smaller one over here so
these are the type of things that I can add
to even the existing cages that we already have.
So as much as I'm trying to build out
the new expansion I'm thinking
of cool things that can go into
the old place too to make it that much better
and the animals that much more happy.
Speaking of Casper, you know his cage
doesn't have a lot of like, terracing
at all in it right.
Now I wanna be able to have a hotspot where
he can lay on the heat panel
that's on that thermostat.
But I'm thinking like something like this
we could add in there too, just as another
element maybe that big water basin,
maybe a big rock structure like this.
And the thing is, I mean take a look
at this, I can just lift this up,
I mean if this was really a rock this thing
would be 500 pounds, that's what makes this
so cool so again ideas constantly are coming
through my head when I walk around.
And even something like this might
be a really cool addition to one of our
old exhibits like Casper.
(Mood music)
(Drilling)
So we got the four littler cages
the smallest cage we're that we're gonna do.
We're on to now six foot by six foot
by seven foot cages right now, so
we're just gonna start assembling these guys up
and repeating the process, and these guys should
be pretty cool, I can't wait to get
them over to Stuart and have him kinda fixture up
they're gonna be pretty dope.
Now for the fun part, we get to actually
fixture some more enclosures out.
So here we go another box heading to Stuart
for fixturing out.
We're making some pretty good progress.
The last time that we started this,
I think it was like day three or four before
we even made an entire enclosure.
And here we are really on the second day,
and we're already crushing like three or four
enclosures out.
So things are moving pretty quick
but we do have a long way to go
and I will say this the hardest enclosures,
the real custom ones the big ones are coming up.
That probably won't happen till the next trip
I'm here but as for now let's get this one going
and see what magic Stuart has to offer.
Like I mentioned we don't wanna plan too much out
we wanna kinda go for it and I want
Stuart to just be able to obviously
use his creativity so there's this yin and yang right.
Stuart wants the coolest looking cage,
I want the functionally coolest looking cage,
so it's back and forth.
So what we decided here, is that, you know,
I think a snake will go on this enclosure here.
And we have a nice rock here, that
can be a basking spot where it can go up on.
And then it's got this kinda rocky bottom
over here which is cool.
But now, I can still put the heat panel
in the back corner over there,
which is completely fine.
The water dish can come over here
which is where you want the water to be away
from the hotspot.
Anyways, he's gonna build up the
area back here so the snake can't hide
back there and get over there.
So again, terracing looks cool,
functionally good, it's kinda the perfect
marriage of two kinda worlds.
You guys know that even in the winter I'm
typically in a t-shirt but what you might
not know is that I hate cold weather.
Today gonna be working in here, it's 32 degrees.
I mean, who would think that down in
Texas it's gonna be 32 degrees.
Not much warmer in here, so I am layered up today
until it warms up this afternoon.
- Sometimes different groups or
different organizations reach the same
conclusion but they take a different
road to get there.
And some people reach it faster,
some people reach it slower, some people
reach it after a lot of money and time.
Some people get there fast you know, so
I think the idea of having these
exhibits that no longer look like
the traditional cage.
It's what everybody's kinda heading to.
- Yeah I agree with you a hundred percent.
And that's what I told Stuart last night when
he was finishing the first habitat I was like,
I don't know why every zoo in the country
or aquarium isn't using you guys.
- [Tattooed Man] Look right here.
- [Eric] Let's see it.
- [Tattooed Man] Oh my god!
- [Eric] Gentle, this is calm.
- [Tattooed Man] Is that a lock?
- [Tattooed Man] Oh my goodness.
- [Eric] Why don't my ball pythons lock?
- [ Tattooed Man] Because you don't have Barcheck Blood.
(Crosstalk)
- [Tattooed Man] If you wanna buy some
I'll sell you a pint of blood.
- Is it clean?
- [Tattooed Man] It is clean blood-
- Dude let's do a little blood transfusions up there.
(crosstalk)
- [Tattooed Man] It's gonna cost you 12,000 dollars.
- Like I mentioned all the enclosures we've been building
so far the smallest, this is the side of the next enclosure
we're building so you can see much taller,
much deeper, and of course they are a lot
bigger that way too so next
to assemble these guys.
(Mood Music)
(Drilling)
- And that's the last screw on the six foot cage,
I mean just take a look at this thing,
I can almost live in here I mean this is
definitely a step up.
The majority of the enclosures are gonna be this
size or even larger with the expansion.
- So Mary's gonna let me actually, this is pretty cool,
we're gonna put the Savu pythons together.
So we have to mark the male with the silver marker.
Just so it's easy to distinguish you know, who's who
when you're going to clean or separate them.
So we have the male Savu python.
- [ Tattooed Man] Are you excited for this?
- [Blonde Woman] I wanted to see if
he knows what he's doing.
- [Eric] And then I think we're gonna-
- [Tattooed Man] Is this the male?
- [Eric] Boy I sure hope so,
it says male on the front there.
So I'm gonna go ahead and trust it.
- Do it like, down here.
- [Tattooed Man] Oh dude, come on no.
- It's not gonna bite me.
So we literally just put a little stripe down here.
It's getting a little crooked.
So now we know that this guy's the male,
just so when they go to flip em it's a lot easier
to determine, these guys are really cool too,
I like these they're like a miniature-
- [Tattooed Man] Look at this dude wow.
- Here we go. One fluid motion.
- [Eric] Love is in the air already huh?
- [Blonde Woman] Yeah she's trying to get away.
- [Eric] She's trying to get away.
That's how a lot of my relationships go.
(laughter)
- Usually a lot of running and acoustic guitar playing.
Here we go.
Okay the tubs a little sticky.
Hold on a sec, breeding isn't as easy as it looks here.
- [Blonde Woman] You make it look very easy.
- [Eric] We've got it there, we wanna just
make sure the animal
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- We can cut that out.
- [Tattooed Man] So how many different Savus
are we putting together?
- You know I think we only have
- We just have the pair yeah.
- Oh, okay, well there you go.
- Well I guess it wasn't that bad then cause
if we had a bunch of those you would
have never got that done.
- No I would literally be putting the OT in for sure.
But really exciting man, I love snake breeding.
I mean who doesn't?
They're going together, we're gonna get eggs soon.
Baby snakes.
- Next question, you guys wanna do Mangroves next?
- Dude I'll do it dude.
- You guys may not know this but I sprained my
ankle a few weeks ago.
I'm okay I'm fine well, this right here
is a hole in the ground right here.
Now I've been coming here for the last couple of years
and I have actually twisted my ankle many
times on this hole right here.
Well yesterday, my ankles getting a
little bit better, and guess what?
I went in here, twisted my ankle, now my
ankle hurts again.
The thing is, is you know I'm always trying to
make an impact on the world the best I can right?
Well this used to not be blue, but after
I have sprained my ankle again yesterday
they painted it blue so I think I'm making a
difference in the world,
if you know what I mean?
I'm saving peoples ankles in the future.
As I was saying Stuart came up with a good idea,
maybe not take up the surface area,
and we just put that right there.
Secure it to there, I think that's way better
because now we even have almost a little
makeshift hide underneath where the snake
could actually get in there and feel comfortable.
And also can climb up here, don't lose surface area,
I think that might be the best bet for sure.
I like it sir that's awesome
- Okay we'll put it in.
(Mood music)
- Still some work to do on this one,
we have to sand blast it, color it up,
kinda finish some things over here.
This cage is pretty much all done,
just a couple little- and again we're gonna add some
foliage and stuff like that to this one.
And then this one over here I really like this one a lot.
So we're definitely getting some things accomplished.
Three habitats were built today, we have a
bunch more to build tomorrow, so we're
up to four so far.
This is amazing, I love doing this,
and I love the way they're looking.
Again, once these guys are fixtured out with
all of the foliage and stuff,
gonna look absolutely incredible.
And that is it for today.
If you like this video, here's
yesterdays video right here.
You can see the start of this build.
Here's an entire playlist of building the reptarium before
the expansion, over here you can hit that subscribe button,
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I promise, I'll see you guys tomorrow.