(gentle music) - Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start to your day is amazing.
I'm gonna be honest with you,
your day may be starting better than mine
because I noticed yesterday that we had some water
at the bottom of Salt and Pepper's enclosure.
And I thought, well, maybe when we were mopping
maybe some water spilled or something like that.
So I cleaned it up really good last night.
And I came in and sure enough,
you can see there's water there.
Meaning there's a leak in Salt and Pepper's enclosure.
Oh my God, water features are so amazing.
They look great. I mean, look how incredible it is,
but what a pain.
Now, I don't think that the actual tank
or I sure hope anyways, the actual tank isn't leaking.
I think there's a chance it could be the waterfall.
It could be the pump vault over here,
or there's a chance that it could be the fittings
that actually hook everything together.
Gonna have to peel this panel off here
cause that's the only way I can get underneath it.
Going to have to rip that off, go under there
try to diagnose where the water is coming from
that is leaking onto the ground.
And then see if there's a quick fix for it
or if it's gonna be a massive fix. I am nervous.
I am definitely stressed out about it,
but we're gonna do the best we can do
to make this thing go away, cause hey,
we can't have the tank leaking on the ground.
That's not good for anything. So what do you say?
We buckle up, push your problems aside,
you guys send me positive energy
and let's see if we can get this thing fixed.
- All right. Let's take a look in here
and see what we have going on.
See if I can see anything at all in here.
I could definitely see some kinda residue over here,
but I don't really see any other leaking happening,
which is definitely a concern of mine.
So you could see the water filling down here
and you can see the water filling over there,
but I don't see any other leaking.
What I thought was gonna happen was
it would either be leaking right up here,
or it would be leaking right over here that we could...
And I guess there's a possibility that that's it right here.
Can see just leaking down here,
cause you definitely some spots over here
that look like they're damp but I don't see any real water.
Yeah. There's a little water right there.
There it is. There's that drip?
Just that little tiny drip right there,
I think is actually my problem.
Let me see if I can get a little closer look over here.
Yep, that's wet. Okay.
Okay. So that's where my leak is right there.
Right up on top there is where that leak is.
You can see the wet over there. It's a really small leak.
Nothing too major at all.
So now I have to really about how that is leaking
and what's happening is it's leaking down to here.
That's why this area is now wet
which I was expecting it to be wet.
And you can see a little wetness in the corner there.
Okay. Alright. Let's get back outta here
and assess what we've gotta do.
So in a way,
I guess it's best case worst case scenario here
because there's not a ton of water leaking.
That is really good.
I was worried about it being like really bad.
The other thing is,
I don't think it's the actual tank itself that's leaking.
I think what's happening is right here.
When the waterfall, actually, the water goes,
there's probably a little pinhole leak somewhere under here
that's leaking behind this here
and that's leaking into there.
Now the question is,
is that for now I could do one of two things.
I could either try to shut this off
and reseal underneath there
to see if I could fill the pinhole,
which it's like finding a needle in the haystack,
to be honest with you.
Or the other thing I could do is maybe Flex Seal
the actual area where this would be leaking into.
Don't know if that's gonna work
to be totally honest with you,
cause there's a chance that this could leak back here
and where I'm sealing from behind where I think
that the water is going, it still might get down here
and I might have to go back and seal that waterfall anyway.
So I'm not sure what to do here.
I think that obviously let's do the simplest thing first.
And the simplest thing first would be to just go ahead
and Flex Seal that area where it looks like it's wet
on the inside.
Give that maybe a day or two, see if this water dries up.
If it doesn't dry up,
then I'm going to have to shut this down,
drain all the water out and reseal the entire waterfall,
which is gonna be a pretty big job
because I really don't know where it's leaking.
I can't really tell, but again, the water comes down here,
but also curves back down here.
And when it curves back down here,
you can see all this as wet here.
So if there's any leak spot over here
that aren't completely sealed, even a little pinhole
that water's gonna find its way
and then get back in there
and then ultimately leak onto the floor.
So we thought that we had this thing
pretty sealed pretty good, but again,
just through wear and tear that it can come apart.
This is, again, the problem with having water features
is you're gonna deal with problems every now and then.
So let's just go ahead
see if we can Flex Seal this thing up.
Hopefully it's a quick fix.
Hopefully by tomorrow there won't be any water on the ground
and all in all, it's not at least a horrible situation.
It could still be a pretty major fix that I have to do
in the next couple of days,
but at least it doesn't look like structurally we're leaking
as far as the tank, which would be catastrophic.
Okay guys, I know it seems crazy that I use Flex Seal
and it seems like a hokey product,
but this has saved my butt more times
than I want to admit it to be totally honest with you.
You can seal stuff literally when it's wet
and everything with this stuff.
Again, not a paid advertisement.
I almost had a brand deal with them once,
but we don't have it right now,
but this hopefully will solve my problem.
Just gonna crawl underneath there,
spray it up as fast as I possibly can.
And hopefully tomorrow we'll come in
and there won't be any water.
So maybe crisis diverted. Not sure yet.
Okay. So that's about it guys.
I mean, that is as best as I can do for the moment
that Flex Seal should really seal up that at least spot.
And if that's where it's actually leaking down into,
we should be pretty good. My concern is,
is there a chance it could be leaking on the other side
of that wall. And if that's the case, then I'm in trouble.
But I think that it can't do that.
I think that on the other side of that wall's
actually inside the tank.
So I don't think that it could leak anywhere but there,
I think that's the only place.
So hopefully that'll seal it up.
We'll find out tomorrow, if there's any water.
I'll keep you guys updated.
But for now, not as bad as I thought.
If this worked, that was a pretty quick fix
and we can get back to our regular scheduled vlog.
So hopefully crisis is diverted
and hopefully I'll have good news for you guys tomorrow.
In this case, it's not egg time. It's slug time.
And I am so bummed out guys,
because this girl right here,
which is this crazy wild red stripey thing
that I don't even know the whole genetics,
I just know it's a Redstripe
and then has some crazy cool patterns.
I bred that to a pastel leopard clown ball python
and she laid six slug eggs today.
That's right, six slug eggs. Not even one good egg.
I was so excited to puce this into a clown ball python.
And in particular, a pastel leopard clown.
They would all just be hats,
but still to be able to have this genetics
and it could produce some really good stuff.
The Pompeii stuff is from Redstripe clown,
of course, with black pastel. But nevertheless,
a lot of really cool stuff's coming in.
And then with this being a Redstripe, goofy, crazy,
who knows what genetics, wow.
We could have produced some things.
So that's the way it goes. She's a first time girl.
She's not that big, and that happens.
I tell you what, I was so bummed.
This was definitely a top five clutch
I was excited about this year,
but you know what things go on and things happen.
We still have I think about seven or eight more
ball python clutches to go for the year.
So egg time today was slug time.
Tomorrow, hopefully egg time will be actual egg time.
I wanted to give you guys a little update
on this little Suma ball python.
Of course that jet black ball python that it hatched out
about a week and a half ago.
It shed out and looks absolutely wonderful.
What an amazing animal. Again,
this is a Suma ball python which is the super version
of a mahogany, but this is also half her pied.
So we can actually pruce
the black and white piebald ball python
with this that panda pied.
But the panda pied is typically either senior black pastel.
I'm not sure what they call the super Suma pied
or if it's even been produced for that matter,
then the fact is is that I'm pretty excited about this.
So I'm gonna erase it up for sure.
And it is looking absolutely wonderful.
I mean, what a great snake. And by the way,
speaking of black ball pythons,
we actually have a clutch that hatched out
that has another one.
But this all black ball python genetically
is a little bit different,
rather than being a Suma or a super mahogany,
this is actually a black pastel
and a cinnamon pastel bred back together.
Now the super cinnies are a little bit more brown.
The super black pastels oftentimes have like nose issues
and stuff like that. So I try not to do those breeding.
But the black pastel and the cinnamon pastel together,
produce this nice jet black snake
that looks very similar to the Suma, by the way.
It does have a little bit longer nose,
to be honest with you, but absolutely wonderful.
And then there's this monkey right here
that I was so happy about.
And it's very similar
to what they would call a silver bullet,
which is basically a super cinny
or super black pastel, pastel.
But this is actually the lesser version of it.
So this is a black pastel style, a cinny super,
the super version, which would be all black,
but then you add the lesser
and it turns into a silver ball Python.
And that thing is absolutely a refer.
Absolutely love it.
And then we just have a little black pastel here.
And again, that's what the mom was
with the black pastel lesser.
Then we have a little cinny woma here
and another little woma ball python.
So nevertheless, pretty awesome snakes,
super excited about it.
Absolutely incredible.
This silver one, oh my goodness gracious,
that thing is unbelievable.
As you guys probably know,
I haven't traveled since February.
I've been in town and you guys know I travel a ton.
So I've been starting to work on this new idea of a travel.
I've been wanting to do this for years.
I think that J Anthony that works with me, Noah
and myself are gonna literally rent a small mobile home.
And we're gonna travel from here,
probably down to St. Louis, Oklahoma, Texas,
over to New Mexico, into Arizona,
maybe even up to Las Vegas.
And along the way we're gonna stop at cool animal places.
I don't know. Do you wanna see something like that?
We'll do it in November.
Probably the end of October early November
is what I'm thinking. Maybe like the 12 or 14 day trip.
But I wanna know,
do you wanna see a series like that
where you would see the hilarity of traveling,
what we're gonna do.
We'd be stopping along the way.
We would certainly do animals every day.
Some cool animal, whether it's a collection
or a zoo or something that we would do.
Get some hands on, stuff like that,
but also bring you along on the journey of four guys
in an RV for 14 days, traveling across the country.
It's just, I just am dying right now.
And of course, one thing is
if my anxiety is good enough to do it right now,
I'm probably not in this position
to be able to make that trip. But I think by November,
I'll be in a position where I'll be able to make the trip
and absolutely enjoy it.
So, number one, I wanna know in the comments,
would you guys dig that trip?
Would that be something that you guys would really buy into
getting away from the Rep Tear and getting away from BHP?
I don't want you guys to miss it too much.
Of course we could check back in with these guys
every now and then.
Lori could send us some stuff.
But the fact is is that I know that.
Number two, do you have any places from Detroit
down into Texas over into Arizona
that you'd want us to stop at?
Is there a place like, "You gotta go see that."
I'd like to know your list in the comments
so I can maybe reach out to people
and make this just one crazy cool 12 or 14 day road trip
that you guys will enjoy as much as we will.
So let me know in the comments, what you guys think
and if you have any suggestions for us.
Well, guys,
we definitely see a little bit more water down here,
but that could have been residual water
that was down underneath. It's just spilling out.
I don't see any puddling. So hopefully that's gonna work.
I don't know.
If not, the next step is gonna be ridiculous.
I'm gonna have to rip this whole front end off
and really get in there
and find out where the heck things are going from.
So let's hope and pray this works out.
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