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- Hey, good morning, everybody.
and welcome to the vlog.
I'm of course, in Abasuku's cage
and I hope the start of your day is incredible
or whatever time you happen to be watching the vlog,
and look at this girl right here.
Hey baby girl.
Remember when she was just a monster
where literally you couldn't even touch her
without getting destroyed.
Now you can actually climb right in her enclosure
and she's absolutely incredible.
And the reason I'm in here
is to actually showcase what we've done.
We've been kind of slowly going around
and redoing enclosures, right?
And Abasuku didn't have any foliage in it whatsoever.
And Jessica actually came in a little bit earlier
and put some cool plants,
some hanging plants here got some plants behind me here.
And it just kind of brightens things up,
Like let's face it,
this is kind of a grayish kind of charcoaly cage.
This animal is obviously
a kind of blackish, charcoal-ish, grayish animal
and it doesn't really have a pop to it, right?
So when you put this foliage in here
now suddenly the whole thing pops a little bit
and I couldn't be more excited about it.
And I am so excited about
working with this girl in the future.
You guys know that chicken strip
the Albino Nile monitor is getting close, you know?
Maybe another six or eight months
and we can put these guys together
and maybe get the first breedings here
of an Albino and a Black Nile monitor
for potential double head snows.
How frickin awesome is that?
And look at her,
look at how curious she is.
What'd you doing little monkey?
Hi baby girl.
I tell you what she has become a beautiful animal.
And Nile monitors are definitely known
for not being as tame as water monitors.
So we're really fortunate
this girl has been doing an amazing job
But that being said, the cage looks incredible
and we're always up, you know, fixing the place up.
We have a lot still left to do.
And next on the docket
is actually my girl Bella here, you know,
she has the same type of situation
where a cage just pretty sparse
when it comes to decoration and stuff like that.
Hi, Bella, how are you doing baby girl?
I love you so much.
And I love the way she just kind of perks up
when you pet her.
She's such an amazing animal.
But again, you know, her cage is not...
She's got a little bit over here, but not too much.
but the one thing you've got to know about Bella
is she is a creature of habit.
She does not like change.
One time we literally just switched her water dish
to a different water dish and she freaked out.
I mean completely lost her mind,
was running around going crazy.
We had to throw her water dish back in
to calm her down.
So she does not like change.
She's such an emotional animal, which I find interesting.
So we're going to come in
and we're going to definitely decorate her cage up next
maybe in the next couple of days
but I'm a little worried about her stressing out,
I'm not gonna lie.
She is absolutely wonderful,
there's no doubt about it.
But again, you know, continuing to
kind of improve things here at the Rep Care
because we want not only the animals to be as happy
as they possibly can
but we also just want the place to look awesome.
Nothing good can happen when these two are together
what are you looking at?
You looking at my monitor.
- Yeah, I've literally never seen him, but he was playing.
- [Interviewer] You never saw him.
- No she doesn't really even work here.
- [Interviewer] You know, (chuckles)
they never looked at my monitor
once you take him out, he's got a really friendly bite.
- Yeah that's why I've never seen him.
- [Interviewer] So what do you guys got going on?
You're putting it in.
You've got some new toy for Drogo.
- Did you see that yet?
- Yeah, I did see it.
And I'm super excited about it.
It says that it holds 600 pounds.
I was thinking he can sit on my lap.
- Yeah I was thinking - [Interviewer] Oh my gosh
- The same thing we could sit in there and swing
- Yes all together actually
(laughs)
- [Interviewer] Oh my god all right,
Well then show me what you guys got.
- Hey bobo
- [Interviewer] Alright, So what do you got?
Oh my gosh It's like a huge swing.
- Yes
- [Interviewer] And this is going in this room?
- Yes.
- [Interviewer] Where do you have any idea
what you're going to do with it?
- So I was thinking either this corner or that corner
- Exactly what I was thinking
- [Interviewer] why I think it really...
- But I was thinking if we had it
in this front corner and the people can look in the window
and see him.
- [Interviewer] Oh, you got a point, you got a point
but he's going to be in there.
- We can move this anywhere.
- [Interviewer] Alright settle up over...
- This has the most room.
So maybe for right now we try it just under here.
- [Interviewer] We'll give it a try.
- But it can possibly go in that one too.
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- So this looks pretty cool, so we put his bed on here
and already Drogo is like holding onto it.
Like he's interested.
That's the thing that's interesting
about Drago is that whenever you move things around
he's very curious, you know, he's like, Oh
what's this new thing and stuff like that.
So I have no doubt that here very shortly
he's gonna climb down and actually, you know
experiment what this is all about.
But I think this is going to be cool.
Again, just another little toy you guys spoil him so much.
- Yeah,
- Of course We have to
- [Interviewer] If you guys only treated me this well.
- That's why he likes us so much.
- [Interviewer] Yeah exactly
- It is true
- Back at it again, guys
today actually did want to show you guys a little bit
of update on our albino iguanas.
So let me show you guys what kind of
what I've been doing recently.
And I've been seeing some really
really positive movements for us.
So hopefully we'll be able to capture a little bit
of that while we're going ahead.
So let's get started.
Mmmhh yummy yummy yummy
So you guys hear I'm talking and stuff like that.
So my hope here is that like he hears me
and at least feels the vibrations of my voice.
So that like, that he can associate that not with fear
but with the food that I'm feeding him.
So I'm trying to talk to him.
Like I would my dog almost like come on buddy.
Like it's all right.
It's okay.
I'm not trying to hurt you.
So he usually loves bananas and goes right for him.
But I can tell he's already being a little bit like
all right, I'm noticing that something's different.
Something's off.
Come on little buddy.
So you notice also I'm not, I'm not trying to restrain him.
That's a big thing too
that I've noticed a lot of these guys, especially
because their lack of eyesight that they really, really
if you start closing your hands around them
that's usually when they freak out the most.
So like, as you see there, you sort of platforming up
you sort of checking stuff out
like looking around like what, what, what is going on
this, this feels weirder than my porch that I'm usually on
it's actually kind of funny seeing him look around
he's all wide-eyed and trying his best to check stuff out.
But he using every bit of sensory, he has just
just to sort of like get a good, a good
a good idea of what's going on right now.
You're a pretty little boy Aren't you?
(chuckles)
You're cute.
Come on Gone on.
That's the, that's what I'm talking about.
I liked that a little better
than I normally get out of them.
Cause a lot of times it's usually spending
most of the time on the tree rather than on me.
So I like, I liked
that he climbed a little bit on me at this time.
So that was awesome.
- And speaking of improving,
I got to tell you guys something
from the day I opened up the Rep Care
and first off we were initially not going to have the lights
on at all.
We're going to have the lights off
and just the cage lighting would light the place up
which a lot of reptile places do, you know, reptiles
zoos and stuff like that.
But we realized that we wanted the lights
on because people were holding
and taking pictures and stuff like that.
But with that said, my vision was that I wanted to do
have you ever been to the rainforest cafe?
I've ever seen the thunderstorms
the lightning thunderstorms.
I wanted to incorporate that somehow to this.
Right? And, and then I kind of just forgot about it.
Well, just recently I started looking at Phillips hue
light bulbs and light ropes.
And believe it or not
they have a lightening feature that actually is
like a lightning and thunder storm.
We have speakers throughout the place, right.
That are in the ceiling.
And I'm thinking, is there a way to put
like rope lighting above here?
And somehow at some point in the night
I don't know when it would make sense.
The lights go out, the thunderstorm starts
you hear the thunder
you see the lightning striking and stuff like that.
This really cool ambience.
I have no idea why I want to do that.
I don't know what it would make sense.
I don't know if it would be cool.
Let me know in the comments.
Number one, if you've ever messed with them
you think it's a good idea.
Would you wanna see that?
And you know, I'm thinking like, you know
because we let people in every hour
maybe the first five minutes of every hour
as you're checking in the lights, go out
the lightning is going on.
The Thunder's going on and suddenly you know.
Five minutes later, the lights go on and you play around.
I don't know, Just always thinking crazy thoughts.
Let me know what you guys think in the comments.
(birds chirping)
(thunder storm)
Speaking of changes.
I might've changed my opinion a little bit down here.
Remember, hi RJ, how are you doing, buddy?
How's it going?
Remember how we're doing the rep terrarium 3.0
and part of it's going to be down here
and I want to do swimming enclosures
all along this wall right here, right?
This was gonna be a swimming with alligators.
Now it's not going to be this.
We've ripped this pond out as a matter of fact
RJ would get his own pond down here
that people could actually feed.
But that's not what I was talking about
here was going to be a swimming with alligators.
Then there was going to be a swimming with snake
and then swimming with stingrays.
Well, after salt bit me,
I changed my perspective a little bit.
Not that I think salt is a bad animal.
Not that I think salt would ever bite anyone
but I kind of think that
that might've been a little too cavalier.
A friend of mine down in Florida does swimming with
and I thought this could be a great opportunity
to do the same type of thing, but I tell you what
I think it's just a little too risky
but we're gonna still have the swimming with snakes.
And I want to do really an Anaconda,
whether it's Ivy or we get veardy big enough
or we get another Anaconda.
I think an Anaconda would be the one that we
could build a giant 20 foot enclosure
that has a big water feature, but also has land feature.
We can go in, take it off of land
if it's off of land and get in there and swim with.
And then of course
a huge 20 foot by 20 foot stingray enclosure.
So things are changing.
I still want to do the expansion.
I still want to do this.
Probably not going to do the salt and pepper experience.
Now salt and pepper will still be down here
in a giant enclosure that maybe people can feed
and stuff like that as well as RJ.
But I don't think I'm going to do the swimming with us.
I think in the comments you guys can tell me
I made the right decision, right?
Because I'm telling you what, that salt, that her size
when she bit me, it hurt really, really bad.
I can't take the chance
of someone else getting bitten by her.
One of the things that's really amazing
when you're walking through the zoo
is you just see so many cute things, right?
Look at this, got Aries and Ivy just nuzzling together.
Like two love birds.
I mean, I absolutely love it.
And we see this stuff all the time.
That's why when I walk around
I'm always looking in every cage, right?
I'm like, what are they doing in there?
And sometimes you find some stuff like that.
That is so absolutely cute.
Since we're talking about changes.
Yes, we do have to finish the basement here.
Of course, this is the podcast hallway.
Of course, the podcast room in here.
This is the change I'm about
to talk about because in here was going to be
and it's still going to be the new Caledonia room.
Right. But it's a relatively small room, right.
This wall is right here.
Well, the problem is,
is that this is kind of an area right now.
That's just kind of a catchall
for like junk and tools and stuff like that.
I don't need that here.
Stupid. Didn't think this before
but I'm going to go ahead and do it.
I know it's crazy that I just literally
put this wall up here and I'm going to tear this wall out.
And what I mean by that, is that
I want to extend this room that way all the way over.
Right? So basically what I'm going to do
is I'm gonna tear this wall out and make a wall right here
so that when you're walking down the hallway
they'll basically be an end of the hallway.
You can go in this way, you can go in this way
and that extends this room all the way into here.
So basically when you get into here
this wall is going to be another four
and a half foot that way,
giving us a lot more room
for the new Caledonia stuff, right?
I mean, I know it's silly.
We didn't even get started in the new Caledonia room
and I'm already making plans to change it and expand it.
But I think it will in the end be really worth it
because honestly we need a little bit more room
to fit all the new Caledonia's
and expansion for all of those geckos.
But on the same side, this is just an eyesore to me.
And I know it's just going to get worse and worse and worse.
So let's just scrap this out.
Forget about it, move this wall over as much as it stinks.
Hey, let's just go ahead and do it.
And it'll be better for the new Caledonia room.
And they'll really be better
not to put a bunch of junk here
where I'm going to be unhappy about it.
As you can see, there's a lot of big changes on the horizon.
You know, I've kind of always lived the fact
that you're not changing and evolving.
You're probably dying.
So I'm going to continue to change
and evolve the best I can hopefully for the better.
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