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- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I've got some pretty exciting news
but I'm not exactly sure what's going on right now.
You can see Lucy over here and if you see right over there,
there are actually two eggs outside her coil
but she's obviously not laying her clutch of eggs right now.
Those eggs looks like
they've been out for a little bit of while
so I'm gonna go in there
and try to get those two eggs out.
See if there's any other eggs underneath there.
But she definitely still has eggs in her.
Now again, I don't know what's going on.
I don't want to get her so ramped up
and get her stressed out
but I don't want those eggs to sit in there too
because they're outside her coils and it's obvious
that she's not laying anymore eggs right now.
So what I'm going to do,
because we're open later today for the Reptarium,
is I'm gonna cover this entire thing with paper
so people can't actually see inside, not stress her out.
Hopefully she'll lay her clutch tonight.
It's really unusual for a snake
to actually lay a couple eggs and then stop laying.
So I'm gonna go ahead, go in there,
see if I can get those two eggs,
see if there's any other eggs under there,
and see exactly what's going on.
I don't know how this is gonna go
and fingers crossed, tomorrow we'll come in
to a pearly white clutch of eggs.
The good news is,
remember I thought she was gonna lay sludge,
well those two eggs look like fertile eggs.
But again, she still has a bunch of eggs left in her,
I just don't want to leave those eggs in there
'cause they will definitely go bad by tomorrow
so wish me luck.
I'm gonna go in, see what we've got.
So obviously, my first concern is Lucy.
My second concern is my health.
And I want to get those eggs too
so what I'm gonna do is
I'm gonna take a roll of paper towel here.
This is just a little protection for me.
If she strikes at me and I can get back
and she can hit this, this is super soft.
This isn't gonna hurt her at all.
It's obviously even softer than hitting my arm
so it protects me and it's gonna be a really good thing.
I'm also gonna use a snake hook
just because she has a wicked long strike range
and I might have to use both.
And then somehow, I'm gonna have to drop these
and pull the egg.
I don't know what's gonna happen here.
I'm gonna try to do this as quick as I can,
not to stress her out because I want to make sure
she lays a beautiful clutch of eggs.
Like I said, once I get these couple eggs out of here,
I'm gonna go ahead and somehow put paper all along here
so people can't see her.
She can have some privacy.
Hopefully, with any luck, nothing is wrong
like egg binding and she'll lay her clutch later tonight
and then tomorrow we'll be able to pull the entire clutch.
But until I get in here, I really don't know what's going on
so wish me luck, guys.
All right, here we go.
Come on, Lucy.
Come on, girl.
You're all right.
You're okay, girl.
You're okay.
All right, girl.
Okay, sweetie.
Whoa!
You're okay.
Whoa!
Come on.
Oh, come on.
Come on.
Oh my gosh, this is not good at all.
It's okay, girl.
It's okay.
Get over there.
Come on.
And you can see, she actually was drinking water
and as she's striking, water's actually coming out
so I don't know what to do here, guys.
I'm gonna try to move in as quick as I can, get her over
'cause I don't want her any more stressed out than this.
I've got no choice.
I'm gonna have to put myself in kind of danger here.
I need to get her over there, get those eggs out of here,
get her set back up 'cause she's obviously spitting up water
as she's striking at me which is really horrible.
Again, I don't want her to be any more stressed out
than she can so I'm going in quick, guys.
If I get bit, I get bit.
This flight goes on, all right?
Here we go.
Okay, here we go.
This is dangerous, guys.
Dangerous, dangerous, dangerous!
It's okay, girl.
Come on.
Let me get your eggs and let me get out of here.
Let me get your eggs so I can get out of here.
Come on, girl.
Stay over there.
Oh my gosh.
This is bad.
Whoa!
Let me hand you one egg.
Take that.
I lost my hook.
Whoa!
Can't even get my hook now.
Come on, girl.
Come on.
Whoa!
Okay.
Whoa!
Okay.
And after all that, guys,
she actually did dip this in the water.
Remember I said I was gonna drain the water?
My mistake.
She dipped it in the water but it was only in there
for a few seconds so I have a feeling, okay.
I'm gonna let her be.
My gosh, that was crazy.
She lays the rest of this clutch, it's gonna be insane
to get them off like that.
But thankfully, I got away without any bites.
Again, I'm gonna close this off,
get her kind of settled in.
Hopfully she'll lay the rest of her clutch
but we got two fertile eggs.
I hope she lays the rest, guys
because definitely worried about some egg binding
or something like that.
I don't know why she's laying just two eggs
and you can tell these eggs were laid
at least a few hours ago 'cause they're nice and hard
so it's not like I interrupted her laying.
So, okay.
Gonna get her closed off and then move on to the next thing.
Whew, that was close.
Just candled these two eggs.
There is definitely embryos on the top side.
I think the one that rolled in the water is gonna be fine
'case like I said, it was a really quick thing
so it's not that much.
And again, I want it stressed to you
that when she was striking and water was coming out,
that's not like some sickness.
I mean, that is literally water that she had in
and as she's projecting forward,
that water is kind of throwing up.
Something that obviously I don't want to see
but obviously in the last 12 hours or so,
she must have drank a lot of water.
I got her upset.
Definitely worried about it.
I had to get these eggs out.
I wanted to see if she had anything else.
Plus, I wanted to kind of see
'cause she looked bound up or not.
I have no idea why she would lay two eggs
you know, maybe six or eight hours ago
and then stop laying.
So I am definitely concerned
but hopefully well be able to cover
the front of this cage up really quick,
she'll get settled back down
and hopefully in the next 12 or 18 hours,
she'll lay an entire clutch of eggs.
So I definitely am nervous about it.
We don't want to have anything to happen to Lucy whatsoever.
But she's definitely settled back in.
You can see behind me, she's starting to nest back up
which is really good.
That's why I wanted to get in there, get in there quick,
get these eggs out and get her settled in.
She's doing exactly what I was hoping she was gonna do
so I think we're gonna be fine
but right now I've got to calm myself down
because my heart rate is up.
You know, when I'm in there,
I'm not fearfuL at all.
I'm just thinking,
Let's do it, let's do it.
It's awesome.
But then when it's done, then the nerves start going like
Oh my gosh, that was so close.
So, gotta calm myself down 'cause I've got people coming
in the next like 15 minutes for a tour that I have to give.
Then we have a birthday party, a couple more tours,
and then we're open for the Reptarium so
need to breathe a little bit, calm down
but I'm gonna get these eggs in incubators.
Okay, finally my heart beat is down a little bit.
I've got my first tour, all the way from Maryland.
Welcome, guys.
You guys are awesome.
Thank you so much.
Anything in particular like you're excited about
or just let's see it all?
- Let's just see it all.
- Just see it all.
- All right, good.
It's gonna be a fun day.
Again, must less stressful than the last half hour
that I just went through with Lucy.
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Getting down to the end of the tour here
but these guys are gonna come back and visit us tonight
so we'll get more time to spend with them.
Was there like a favorite thing that you saw so far?
- I love Bella.
She's just so like expressive.
- Petting your chin.
- And she just acts like a dog.
- I know, it's great.
I mean, who can't love Bella?
Even someone that comes in is like
"I don't know, Bella's okay."
Then you meet Bella and it's like she changes minds.
She melts my heart.
There's no doubt about it.
So that's cool.
So we're gonna wrap this up.
We've got a birthday party coming up right next
and then I think two more tours
and then the Repaturium opens.
So we're just getting the birthday party getting going.
Obviously, we have this all cordoned off
so that no one can see Lucy
so she can get kind of settled in
and hopefully have her eggs here later.
Have a sign, do not disturb, I'm laying eggs right now.
So let's get the birthday party started.
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Presentations done, just setting up the tables
for their pizza and cake
and I tell you what, this was an amazing group of kids.
Not only were they attentive, into it,
but we had two people in particular, a girl and a boy,
that were so afraid they didn't even want to hardly
come in the building.
They were like "We're not touching anything."
Both of them, they were holding tarantulas.
I mean, it was amazing to see that transformation
being like "I just am gonna touch one"
to all of a sudden like "Yeah, sure.
"Put Purdeed around my neck."
That is what I live for.
This was amazing.
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Next tour of the day actually came from Indiana.
Luca here is a big animal guy so it's awesome.
Got Night Fury out.
We're gonna just look at a bunch of stuff.
As always, have a good time.
And you said you wanted to see Salt and Pepper
so obviously we already checked Salt out a little bit.
We got Pepper out.
He is definitely getting really big.
He's getting really big but he is definitely squirmy
so you can always keep an eye on him.
He's absolutely amazing but he always calms down.
It's just a matter of holding him
and getting him into a comfortable position
and then he's a sweetheart.
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There's always a ton of work that goes into opening
each day at the Reptarium.
We do this maintenance really even when we're not open
but we definitely have a lot more hands on deck
before we open for the Reptarium.
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It is that magical time of the day!
You guys ready?
- Always ready.
- Boom shakalaka.
- Ready.
- [Brian] Ready, Lori?
- Sure.
- Yep.
- Let's get it going.
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I figured it's been a little while since I've done
kind of a Reptarium net where I've shared what's going on.
Definitely a busy night.
We just opened maybe 20 minutes ago,
popping like you can't believe is all I can
Lots of feeding of tortoises.
We got Elvis out over here.
Hey guys, how you doing?
- [Man] How's it going?
- [Brian] Looks like Jessica's got the busy aisle over here.
You hanging in there, Jessica?
- Yeah.
- All right, good.
All right, it's gonna be a fun night.
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- Hey, it's super busy today.
We're feeding some alligators over here at the Reptarium.
- It's a night here at the Reptarium.
We're actually over here with our little girl,
Shirley Temple who's our Honduran Curly Hair Tarantula
and she and our Rose Hair Tarantula, Charlotte
who's just recently come out of molt
and look how beautiful she is.
She's gorgeous.
Beautiful purple color to her.
- Hey, what's up?
So pretty busy, crazy night here at the Reptarium.
I usually don't work the Reptarium.
Usually I'm, obviously, next door
but it's so cool to show these little kids,
see their faces light up when they get to hold a snake.
But I better get back to work here.
It's a crazy night here, very busy.
- So as you can see, this is absolutely an amazing night.
I tell you what, I think I'm just gonna set the camera down
and enjoy this rather than vlogging
and I'm gonna wish you guys and amazing day
because you guys are absolutely lovely
and I love you guys so much.
Do me a favor, be kind to someone today
and I promise, I'm gonna see you guys tomorrow.
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