- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
It's gonna be an amazing day, and I hope the start
of your day is absolutely incredible.
You may wonder why I'm standing
in front of this cage right here.
Yeah, the arboreal cage.
Well we're gonna go ahead and fixture this one out
a little bit because we have another unboxing today,
like I mention almost everyday until we open
which is just what, five days away or something like that,
we're gonna have new animals coming in, dream animals,
amazing animals, so the first thing I've gotta do
is actually get this cage kinda set up.
Fixture it out with a bunch of foliage, get it ready,
cleaned up, stuff like that, and then here pretty soon
we've got a shipment coming in, we're gonna be able
to unbox it together and release the animal.
I mean, dreams are coming true everyday for me,
it's getting closer, Friday the 13th is coming up.
The opening weekend's gonna be amazing
and hopefully the majority, if not all the cages
will be filled with really insane animals that again,
like I mentioned before, these aren't just normal animals
for me, these are dream animals.
Things that I've been dreaming about for 10, 20 years,
so let's just go ahead and work on this enclosure
and get on to unboxing.
(upbeat music)
All right again, just for now that's the beginning of it.
We'll probably do some live plants
down in the bottom at some point, get this goin'.
Definitely gonna have a misting system on this cage
because again, it's an arboreal animal
that needs high humidity.
Gonna put misting on a handful of other enclosures,
so for now this is good, box has arrived
so let's go ahead and just get into this unboxing.
And here we go, day two of crazy unboxings
and of course the next couple days we are getting stuff
from my friend Kevin over at NERD,
he's always got amazing animals, so let's go ahead
and see what he sent us right here.
I know what it is obviously
but I'm excited to actually see it.
Again, one of those animals that I've been
kinda dreamin' about since I was young.
I say that all the time, I guess there's a lot
of animals but, open here.
I wonder what that means.
Why would he do that?
Oh, you're a jerk!
The guys over at NERD, they're always wantin'
to play little games on me.
That's a cute little spider, though.
They don't realize that I'm not really
afraid of spiders anymore, so thanks guys over at NERD,
I appreciate that.
And of course, here we have it, the lone bag.
I wanna make sure there's nothin' else in here.
Ooh, nice and warm, packed very good, so that's amazing.
I tell you what guys, this is crazy cool.
I have thought about this animal for ever,
and really again, a lot of the animals that I'm getting,
much like the albino iguanas, the ones I'm gonna be getting
over the next several days, I've made mention of this before
where they just didn't make sense in the past, right?
So for me to get animals that just didn't work
into our facility just didn't work, right,
so now that we have The Reptarium,
we can kinda say, "Hey, let's just work
"with animals we love," right, it doesn't matter.
We want people to love 'em as much as we do,
we 'em to look good, we want 'em
to be able to be interacted with.
But this particular animal may not be interacted with,
but it's still gonna look amazing in that arboreal cage.
And let's just go ahead and take a peek.
Oh my gosh.
Holy cow, that is ridiculous!
Come on, little monkey, let's go.
Look at this guys!
Oh my gosh!
Of course, you've guys seen that I have emerald tree boas,
but this is actually an Amazon basin, oh my gosh!
This is like the pinnacle of the tree boas, this is amazing.
Again, Amazon tree boas are 10, 15, 20 times more rare
than the normal emerald tree boa, so wow.
You can always tell the basin
by that huge white dorsal striping
that makes 'em incredible!
And this one is an absolute gorgeous one.
And again, sticking with what I've been saying,
I've been tryin' to get smaller animals.
This is probably about two years old,
so it's gonna be around a long time.
I don't wanna get a bunch of animals that are huge and old
and then in the next five, six, seven years
they may not be around, right?
Somethin' like this could last another 20, 25 years with us,
so I am super excited about it, it is gorgeous.
Let me know down in the comments what you guys thing.
What do you say we get over
and put this in its new enclosure.
And again guys, holding an animal like this
has been a dream of mine, obviously I've seen a bunch of 'em
but I've never thought that I would actually
own an Amazon basin emerald.
I'm just so happy to have one here
at the new Reptarium expansion, and I hope
that people that come will enjoy it as much as I have,
and realize how absolutely incredible it is
to be able to see an animal like this.
Wow, and this is little girl, needs a name of course.
Go ahead down in the comments and let me know
what you guys think and I tell you what guys,
I feel so lucky.
I feel so overwhelmed with just how amazing
things are right now, and I realize that without you guys,
this couldn't have happened, so you're really a part of it
and I hope that you're enjoying the journey,
and I hope some time that you can come visit me.
If not you can just kinda watch along
'cause everybody that watches, comments, visits,
you guys are all apart of this,
without you this couldn't happen,
so let's just get this girl in her new cage.
And here we go, guys.
I'm assuming she's gonna spend a lot of time right up here
because there's a basking area, she can be here,
she can be here, she can even get a little bit lower
'cause every now and then, emerald tree boas
will cool off a little bit, so I wanted to give her
plenty of heat gradient and stuff like that.
And you gotta remember that this enclosure
almost didn't exist, right?
I asked you guys what you though,
should we make this enclosure,
and you guys really overwhelming said I should,
and here we are.
We have the enclosure, now we have
an Amazon basin in there, unbelievable!
And look at it already
just kinda cuddling in there, it's crazy!
I mean, ridiculous, just step back for a second
and look at that enclosure.
It is crazy, it looks like it's just carved into
the side of this rock, sitting there,
she is just so gorgeous!
Guys, it's ridiculous, I am blown away.
Look at how beautiful that white is and that yellow
popping through the belly and oh my gosh,
it looks so alert and oh gosh, I'm so lucky
to have good friends like Kevin over there, too,
so it's crazy.
And again, we'll continue to make this enclosure
better and better again with some live plants,
misting systems, whatever happens to me,
whatever she's gonna feel the best with,
so I think she's gonna love it and she's gonna look amazing.
So I'm gonna just sit back,
spend some time admiring this beauty.
(upbeat music)
Of course my friend Steve Bacci from Bacci Aquatics
is in the house working on the spas,
thank you dude, I appreciate you.
I'm going to put a link in the description
to all his social and everything like that,
if you need live support or anything cool
when it comes to, what else do you do?
- I play drums.
- [Brian] Yeah, exactly.
What else can we buy from you?
- That's it, lights. - That's, lights,
okay, cool.
- Lights and filters.
- All right, so he's got a great company,
seriously, definitely, link in the description,
go show him some love for helpin' me out,
I really appreciate it.
(upbeat music)
Well, Lucy did it again.
Blew up her cage, pooped in her water,
did all the things that Lucy is so good at doing.
If you remember last time, she was not in a good mood.
I have no idea what to expect today,
we're gonna go in, we're gonna get her outta here,
and then get her cage cleaned up, so wish me luck.
Lucy, how you feelin' today?
And you know, I'll be honest with you, typically,
as soon as I come in the cage,
I can see her mannerism, right.
Her mannerism is immediately to kinda pop up
and come at me, so I think she's gonna be in a good mood.
I could be completely wrong,
now let's just see what she does.
Lucy, you okay, girl?
Yeah, see she's not got that
really aggressive posturing on me.
A little bit but not too bad.
She might be gettin' a little bit crazy.
Oh yep, she's mad.
It's okay, baby, it's all right.
Unfortunately she's not in the greatest of spots here,
so I'm gonna just kinda sit in here
and just hope I can get her without her,
come on, baby, now I'm committed.
All right, come on, girl.
Not too bad, she's doin'
a little bit better than I expected.
But see how she's, she's messed up now.
All right, now she's movin'.
As long as the snake is moving,
you're typically pretty good.
Come on, big girl, come on big girl.
There you go.
And because we're gonna soak her
just to get that last little shed off her,
we all know that Lucy loves the water,
so I can just kinda plop her in the water
and she could usually, where you goin'?
Where you goin'?
She's on the loose!
Oh, I lost a shoe.
Come on, big girl.
All right, there we go.
Gotta stay in the water, all right, stay in the water, girl.
Stay in the water.
Guys, she just changed the disposition so much
when she's in the water, she loves it.
Definitely maybe my next expansion I'm gonna have to make
an enclosure where she can swim like Ivy
'cause I think she would utilize it a lot.
Yeah, and I lost my shoe, so all good here.
We're just gonna get the cage cleaned up,
I'm gonna get back to work on stuff on the expansion.
- So I guess I got the lovely honor of doing this Mama Jama.
So I got a little bit of work ahead of me
on the Lucy poop here, wow.
(upbeat music)
- So much, things are coming at us so quick here,
gettin' ready for this open.
But Lori ordered these.
I hadn't really even known what she was doin',
but these are little Reptarium key chains and I love them!
I tell you what, these are so dope, they came out so good.
- They did. - Oh my God,
you got blood all over everything.
So some of this stuff will be available on our website,
reptarium.com, stuff that's branded to us
like the snakeskin jewelry, The Reptarium
- Key chains. - Doing posters
of the mural, so there'll be a bunch of stuff like that
that will be, the other stuff will only be here
at the gift shop, but the key chains turned out dope.
All right back to Lucy and seeing if we can get her in.
Ooh, she looks a little bit touchy right now.
You okay, girl?
You all right, sweetie?
Oh okay, she's all right,
just the way she was layin' I was like,
"Oh my God, that does not look good at all."
Just a little bit of skin on her neck here.
Oh, here you go baby, it's all right.
I don't know if this is just laying on there
or if it's actually attached.
She's definitely a big girl, just gonna try to get
that little bit of shed on her head,
there it goes, got her off there!
All right baby, back in.
There you go sweetheart.
She looks gorgeous after she's all shed out
and lookin' beautiful and cage is all nice and clean,
she's ready to go, and there she goes
up into her tree just like she always does.
It's bazaar.
I've just never seen a snake
that just always does the same thing, it's crazy,
definitely obsessive compulsive, but she's amazing,
beautiful, she didn't give me a bad time getting back
so nice to see Lucy back in
what I consider to be a pretty good mood.
You know, with all this build with The Reptarium,
I gotta sometimes come over
and just play with the animals over here,
of course the colubrids.
This is just an Everglades rat snake that's beautiful,
it's actually het for ghost glades right here.
These guys all get their first meal
in just a few more days so it's busy time.
We're just a handful of days away from the open.
Take a look at this blaze goineye right here, blotch king.
These guys come out unbelievably red
and beautiful as babies, so these guys
are all gonna be eating in a few days.
Opening comes up in just a handful of days,
wow it's just insane.
Look at this Albino Nelsons Milk, it's gonna be really cool
to have these guys back feeding, getting 'em breeding,
we're gonna have eggs before you know it
and it's absolutely incredible.
But again, it's super exciting that on the 13th we open,
the grand opening, and it is getting so close now,
so I hope that you guys have enjoyed the journey,
will join me on the journey as we get more animals
and stuff like that.
Been an amazing day again,
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