- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope that the start of your day is amazing,
or whatever time you happen to be watching,
push your problems aside,
'cause we're about to get busy here
and I love when things change here
at the Reptarium, when we start upgrading
and a bunch of animals are about to get upgraded
to new enclosures, it's gonna be a really fun day.
You guys know I love this.
So we're gonna start with the green basilisk.
You guys remember that I've been talking
about how the basilisk have really gotten huge
(mumbles) environment and they're gonna go
into a big enclosure.
Now the interesting thing is we have a male
and two females in here,
but we have a female in a cage on her own,
so all four of those are gonna go together.
Hopefully they'll all get along.
These guys have been raised up since baby babies together,
the other girl hasn't.
I don't think it'll be a problem,
but we're gonna move 'em over to a big six foot cage,
Jessica's gonna soup it up and make it look
absolutely incredible and these guys are gonna get big
and beautiful over there.
This is a day I've been waiting for
for a long time.
So what's the plan here, Jessica?
- Well, I gotta first get everything cleaned out
and sanitized because we had something in here before
but yeah, so we'll clean it out,
I'm gonna put a bunch of plants in here.
I've got some real plants and fake plants,
we gotta mix it up.
The more foliage you put with these guys,
the more comfortable they're gonna feel,
so they're gonna be out more.
So I'm gonna fill it up as much as possible
with us still being able to see in there
and we'll throw 'em in there.
- That should be great, that should be great.
And there's a waterfall that's in here too,
that's shut off right now
just so we could clean it out.
So the waterfall's gonna look cool.
These guys are gonna look so dope in here
and because they really do stay up on branches
and stuff like that, people should be able to see 'em,
even from down here.
So I'm excited the way this one's gonna turn out.
(upbeat music)
(gentle whirring)
(upbeat music)
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Jessica, it looks absolutely amazing.
It really has turned out better
than I could have expected.
That's why Jessica's the perfect person for the job.
So that's awesome, the waterfall's going and everything,
so now all we have to do is get the animals and put 'em in
and see what happens and then introduce the other female
in too, so let's go grab up some basilisks.
As you guys have seen in the past,
these guys are wicked fast.
So we're gonna definitely do one at a time.
I'm not sure which one,
whichever one I can grab.
But, let's see what we've got.
Oh, don't run away, please.
Okay, I got a female here.
Okay, gonna shut this.
(mumbles)
So this will be the first female that goes into the cage.
It's okay little monkey, you're gonna be so happy.
Can't wait to see what these guys look like.
You guys know I love putting animals into new environments,
especially something as cool as this so,
let me see here, I'm gonna put it right like this.
There you go bud.
Oh, look at her already.
Cool doggy.
That is amazing.
All right, so let's go get the other two
from that cage and then we'll get the female from there
and hopefully they'll all get along really well.
So let's go ahead and do that.
Not gonna lie, that went really, really well.
So I'm hoping that we don't loose any,
'cause I keep thinking that I'm gonna go for one
and then it's gonna run away.
It's okay, it's okay.
Okay, okay, okay little monkey, it's okay.
This is the male of course, beautiful.
And once he gets in your hand,
he calms down pretty well.
You can see I'm not even having to hold him now,
so this is gonna be cool
and hopefully they'll actually chill out
in this new environment as well,
we can start interacting with them more too,
because I mean, let's face it,
you could come into the Reptarium and hold something
like this, oh my God would that be cool.
All right, so this female hasn't even moved.
Now we're gonna go ahead and put this male up here.
Go ahead buddy.
Oh, oh, oh man.
I tell you what, seriously,
when I first got these guys as little teeny, tiny babies,
this is the vision I had.
Of course we originally were gonna put 'em in
soracha and tubasiliscus enclosure,
but I think the waterfall and everything here,
the dark backdrop,
this is really even way better than I could have expected.
Look at that right there.
Unbelievable.
Oh my God.
Okay, so we'll go get that last female from that enclosure
and then we'll introduce the other female
and that'll be the first time that these guys
have been together.
So hopefully it goes well.
(upbeat music)
All right, last female.
I tell you what, this one is actually the most chill
of all of 'em.
I mean, it's a runner, but it's not tryna bite me at all
and then again, as soon as it settles in, totally good.
Now it opens it's mouth, look. Cheeky monkey.
There you go.
Here you go, right.
(laughing)
It's disappeared into the forest.
Look at the male over here on the wall.
That is so, oh, and there goes that female
just jumping up.
They have so much room now,
they're gonna be so happy.
So let's get that last female
that came from another enclosure, put it in
and we'll keep an eye on 'em for just the next half hour
or so, make sure they get along.
They should be fine because two males may be dominant,
but an extra female shouldn't be a problem at all.
This girls been pretty chill.
We've taken her out a handful of times
and she's actually probably a little bit better
than the other ones to be totally honest with ya.
Maybe it's just that she was alone
or whatever the case, oh.
But she seems to be good.
She's really pretty.
For a female, look at the color on this girl.
So let's hope she gets along with the other ones.
They're about the same size,
so I think they'll get along fine.
And again, about a year from now,
maybe we'll get lucky
and this male will breed these females.
Let's see what she does.
There you go girl, look at it, it's almost perfect size.
Just see how they interact in a little bit.
They don't seem to really care about her.
(laughing)
It's just wild how they're just zipping around here.
I tell you what guys,
this is exactly what I was hoping for.
I mean, just take a look at that.
We've got one, two, three females,
a male up on top here.
They're gonna love this.
This is so cool.
So I think the last thing we have to do
is I think Jessica's gonna put some isopods in
to make this bio active.
So just to make this bio active,
what are we adding?
- Yeah, I've got some Dwarf White Isopods
that have been breeding with some gecko's I've been keeping
next door so I'm just gonna throw a bunch in there
and they should breed and help clean up the enclosure,
'cause these guys poop a lot.
- They do poop a lot, yeah.
If we could have this bio active to where the cleaner bugs
do most of the cleaning,
it's gonna help us a lot.
So just throw 'em in there and that's it, right?
- Pretty much, just gonna throw 'em in
and mix 'em up and then I'll throw some glitter
and stuff in there to get 'em started too.
- Perfect and there it is, done.
Great job Jessica, this looks beautiful.
Absolutely wonderful.
I love Mata Mata Turtles.
Obviously this guy is super cool,
but I'll be honest with you,
it's about to get moved off for the little bit,
but basically what we're gonna do is
we're gonna put this in the back,
we're gonna raise it up.
These guys can literally get three, four times this size.
So for the next six, eight months or so,
we're just gonna be feeding this guy up.
In the meantime, we really wanted to bring over Chopsticks,
the two headed turtle,
as well as a caramel snow Red Eared Slider, Voldemort,
so what we're gonna do is we're gonna fill up this water
a little bit, we've cleaned the entire tank up.
We're gonna get a little bit more water in here
and then we're gonna move over the turtles.
I know that although I'll be missing this little guy
on display, people are gonna love the two headed turtle
and that snow caramel is super cool too,
so let's just go ahead and fill a little bit more water up
and again, things are changing here.
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So Chopsticks and Voldemort have been actually shop pets
over here at BHB.
I know Beth is gonna be bummed
'cause every day she comes in and takes care of 'em,
but they're definitely ready for an upgrade.
We just wanted to get 'em big enough
where we felt they could go over to the Reptarium
and thrive, as you guys know,
baby two headed turtles can be really delicate.
Definitely at that size
where I think that they're both ready to come over.
I mean, take a look at how big Chopsticks has gotten.
(laughing)
They are absolutely amazing.
So let's go ahead next door and release these two monkeys
and hopefully they do really well.
Beth are you okay with me taking your little pets?
- You weren't even gonna let me say goodbye?
- You can say goodbye.
You can come visit 'em every day.
Actually, I got news for you.
Every day you get to go into the Reptarium and feed 'em.
- Oh good, okay.
(laughing)
No, this is what they've been training for.
So, to get next door,
this is what they've been growing up for.
- [Bryan] We kinda grow 'em up and let 'em go Beth.
- Gotta let 'em go.
- [Bryan] Gotta set 'em free.
- Bye, Chopstick.
- So, with some negotiation from Beth here,
(laughing)
she lobbied to see if we could keep Voldemort over here
for a little bit longer.
Just a little, so we're just gonna bring Chopsticks over
and we'll leave Voldemort here,
so that Beth is happy.
- He needs to bulk up a little bit more.
- Okay, a little more.
- [Beth] A little more, then you-
- Okay, sounds good.
So let's go ahead and take Chopsticks over.
And I do think Chopsticks is gonna really love
this new environment.
Obviously it's much larger, a lot more space
and I guess now that he's gonna be solo,
he's gonna have all the food to himself.
He has a little log to crawl on if he wants to,
as well as that ledge over there.
There's UV lighting here,
basking light, all the things that turtles need,
so I am excited to see what people are gonna think
the next time we're open.
I know that this has been a big hit
every time I've brought him over,
so I'm excited.
Let's go ahead and put him into his new enclosure
and just see him swim.
(uplifting music)
The next thing we're doing is actually we set up
this enclosure here for a scaleless corn snake,
we're actually naming that Loki.
I'm sure we have Joker,
of course the villain from a DC Comic
and now we have Loki from Marvel villain.
I realize that it's kinda corny,
but after all, it is a corn snake.
Again, I love days like today,
'cause there's a lot of moving parts
and we're giving the animals better environments
and that's what it's all about here.
So today's been a really fun day.
We're actually gonna take my girl Helen here,
of course the no eyed, albino ball python.
Love this girl, but she is starting to get a little bit big
and we're gonna go ahead and upgrade her cage,
then we're gonna move
an Albino Highway California King Snake
into this enclosure, once we break it down,
redecorate it and stuff like that.
So over here, they're actually breaking down
the cage that the basilisk was in,
right over here and then Jessica's gonna go ahead
and decorate that cage up for Helen
so that it's good there and then Helen can move over here.
So again, lots of cages getting switched around today,
it's gonna be amazing at the end of the day.
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All right Jay, you ready?
- Yeah.
- All right, let's go get the corn snake
and the King Snake, right?
- Yep.
- All right, let's do it.
And here comes Loki.
Let's see, oh my gosh,
that's a beautiful one too.
Look at the striping on that.
Really kinda chill too?
- Yeah, oh yeah, he's chill.
He's awesome.
- [Bryan] Kids are gonna love this one.
So all right, let's release him into his habitat.
- [Jay] Here you go buddy.
Oh my God, love it.
(laughing)
Here he goes.
- That's gonna be cool.
Again, little snakes like that,
you know kids love that because Midnight,
our Mexican Black King Snake,
people love it and of course we still have the Albino
Highway black and white Cal King that's coming over as well.
I always find it interesting with Helen
because obviously she doesn't have eyes,
so I think it's interesting how she can figure out
where everything was.
When I put her in that original enclosure
and there was that terrace thing,
I found it really strange that she knew
where all the terraces were pretty quickly.
I'm sure that's just because of the Jacobson organ
and her smell with her tongue that got her there,
'cause the heat pitch wouldn't work,
right 'cause it's all the same temperature,
more or less.
So it'll be interesting to see how she likes this enclosure
and where she spends her time.
She certainly is gonna have a lot more room,
which'll be really good 'cause she is getting big
and it's also nice to have her over on this side
so people over here can take out another animal,
right, so there it is.
Helen is in her new cage and then the Cal King
comes in there and then I think we may actually be done
for the day.
Okay, so what's his name?
- Her name's Luna.
- [Bryan] Her name is Luna?
- Yeah.
- [Bryan] Oh my God, that's weird.
I guess Midnight, Luna.
Kinda making sense, it's making sense.
Of course Jessica redid this cage here
that looks absolutely beautiful for Luna.
So let's do it.
Are you gonna miss her, Ashley?
- Yeah.
- Ashley's been raising her up
for the last several months so-
- [Jay] Wow, it looks so good in there, doesn't it?
- It does look good.
Oh my gosh, so there's a couple of new little tiny,
oh and now it's burrowed right away.
So now there's a couple of new little snakes
that people can hold here at the Reptarium.
Again, I love days like today
when animals get new environments, bigger environments.
It's gonna be cool to just see how they react,
I can't wait to see how Chopsticks does over here.
Just all the animals, it's gonna be really, really cool.
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