- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog!
Ready for an amazing day,
I hope the start of your day is incredible too.
Take a look at this right here.
Of course, Ivy in her water, hoo man!
That is absolutely incredible,
and of course the water is gonna clear up.
It's just still going through the bacterial flow.
In a week or two that's gonna be clear as day,
and I wanna just give you an update to start the day
of the animals that are over here at The Reptarium.
We only have a handful of things in right now,
but they're doing really well.
I'm super excited about having animals here,
and over the next week we can have whatever
a lot of animals are gonna go in.
As a matter of fact, most cages will be filled,
but obviously the 13th is coming up, our grand opening,
so that is gonna be right around the corner,
and we're definitely gonna have a lot of animals,
basically new animals, things coming in.
It's gonna be so absolutely exciting.
Of course, Marshmallow is loving his new enclosure,
looking amazing in here.
It's cool, again, just to kinda get him out.
Now I can actually show him around
with some people that come in on tours,
and pretty soon, people are gonna be able
to just be right through here.
Marshmallow's doing absolutely amazing,
oh, and this is my pet sloth here.
I wish I had an absolute sloth.
Oh, here's the massage room looking good right now.
Of course getting ready, we've gotta still fix that out.
It's pretty cool.
Al Macino is doing amazing.
Let's go ahead just open up, see how he's doing over here.
He loves his new habitat.
Al, you're doing so good bud!
He always hangs out right here, this is his spot,
but I'll find him climbing all over the place.
Absolutely loving the way he looks in this enclosure,
I mean it's so awesome to see the animals over here,
especially things like Al.
Of course Salt and Pepper will go in pretty soon.
Over here, Moo Moo.
Remember how we moved Moo Moo
from up here where the Lewis Eye hybrid is,
of course we'll take at her really quick,
and she's looking great.
Again, still a little bit skiddish,
but doing well.
Eating really well, settling in really good.
It's okay baby,
and we do need a name for her.
Again, she's a Cuban Caymen Blue Iguana Cross,
Lewis side cross,
so we need a name for her.
She's gonna eventually get like the size
of Bella, ya know, they are basically
the same type of things.
Same cyclura, just different sub-species,
but again, she's settling in.
Still a little bit skiddish,
but not too bad,
but remember I had said that I moved Moo Moo
down into this enclosure here,
and I tell you what.
That was absolutely the right choice.
I mean, look at how great Moo Moo looks.
This enclosure is absolutely incredible for her.
Loves to climb around.
It's completely fine where it is.
Now, you can actually see it,
instead of it hiding all of the time.
So, Moo Moo is great.
Can't wait to get her kind of more socialized
to people and stuff like that,
because it's gonna be absolutely incredible.
We actually have a shipment of snakes
that are coming here any minute now,
and I'm super excited about these.
A couple of them are gonna be in the reptarium.
A couple are just BHB animals,
but nevertheless, the place is looking good.
All these habitats are gonna be filled up pretty soon.
It's comin' together guys.
It's comin' together.
Let's go ahead, wait for that unboxing,
and go check out some new animals.
And this is the shipment.
I am pretty excited to see what is in here.
You know, I love unboxing stuff,
and it's just kinda cool when we're getting new stuff
when, you know, you're so busy with the build,
you're doing all that stuff.
Every now and then, I need some new animals, you know,
to inject into my excitement and stuff like that.
All right, so we're doing that.
Of course, it's got zip ties,
so you know what that means.
Literally one of the best gifts
you guys have ever sent me
is these clippers here,
so I can clip these things.
So, you guys know that we got Peruvian Red-tails
a few weeks ago,
and then we got some Guyana Red-tails
a little bit after that.
Well, guess what?
Oh my god, these things are so incredible.
Now, we have Suriname Red-tail Boas,
so that's basically like the big three
to be totally honest with you.
We have Suriname, Guyana, and Peruvian
are typically what you see.
Of course, there's Bolivians and whole bunch
of other stuff, but these are the three most common,
and oh my gosh.
I tell ya, you know, I don't know
which ones are my favorite, you know?
The Guyana have this, like, really cool,
kind of purplish look to 'em.
Their tails are absolutely incredible.
Then you have the Peruvians
that are kinda like the biggest one
that usually have the longest, most red tails of all,
but then you have Suriname like this
that are typically, like, really beautiful light animals
with that super red tail.
I mean, I tell you what, I can never pick,
and you know, there's not a huge difference
between any of the three to be totally honest with you.
All of them are pretty ridiculous, you know,
but there is little subtleties,
and just take a look at that tail right there.
Hey, where you goin' little buddy?
I got an escaper over there.
Look at that.
Oh my gosh, these things are unbelievable,
and like I said, you don't see them around that often.
Captive babies come around like once a year.
Usually we have maybe a shot at a few Guyanas,
a few Surinames, and usually never get an opportunity
to get Peruvians, so this year
I was super excited to get those,
so that is absolutely amazing,
so we actually have three bags of these,
so let's go ahead and take a look
at the other ones.
All right, let's see, and I'm not expecting them
to look all that different.
I mean, certainly when you get down
to the individuals of each one,
each one's gonna have their
little different colors, you know?
Some of them are gonna have,
like look at this right here.
Oh my god, that's incredible.
Look at those saddles right there.
Those saddles are so thick and just unbelievable,
and that's cool.
You know, some people want that really saddling,
and then some people like the really thin saddling,
so there's gonna be some differences,
but all in all, they look kind of similar, right?
Where?
So much paper in here.
Where is, all this paper around here.
Let me get to snakes for god sake.
And you can see, this animal here
has a little bit thinner saddles,
and then their connecting saddles,
and then these would have what they call widows peaks.
Really heavy widow peaks right there,
so all in all, unbelievable beautiful babies,
and again, like the Columbia Boas,
these guys are born a little bit bigger,
but not really big.
This is about the size of what a baby would come,
so these guys are only a couple weeks old,
but oh my gosh.
Just looking through this bag, it's ridiculous.
There's so many of them,
and again, I bought every one that I could possibly buy.
You know, I was like, I'll take every one of them,
just 'cause I love 'em.
We'll probably hang on to a few of 'em,
obviously like we always do.
I'm sure the crew always like to buy a couple of 'em,
and then the rest of them will eventually
go up on the website and stuff like that,
but we'll get 'em eating and get 'em settled in,
so a couple weeks from now you'll see these guys.
Two or three weeks from now, something like that.
When we feel like they're really established,
we'll start to slowly put the ones
that are doing really well on the website.
Let's look at this last bag really quick,
and then we do have a couple other animals
that I'm just gettin' a little peak of this box
that I'm pretty darn excited about.
Make sure there's no snakes in there.
Man, that looks incredible.
Just take a look at this guys.
Unbelievable.
Look at this.
Are you kidding me?
Oh my gosh.
These things are crazy.
Oh my gosh, I tell you what.
And again, these aren't gonna get pretty big, you know?
Surinames aren't quite as big as Peruvians,
but they still get really nice, and large,
and really impressive.
Wow, I tell you what, blown away.
I've never had this many Red-tail Boas
in a year, ever.
I just wish I could keep 'em all
to be totally honest with you,
'cause they're all amazing,
and just take a look at the pink on this one.
I mean that is gonna be a ripper when it gets older.
Oh my gosh.
You don't see as much pink on Surinames
as this particular one.
This is unbelievable, and that tail.
Red as could be.
Unbelievable, and it's kind of funny.
You know, I'm showing off this unboxing.
My hands look like worker man's hands.
Now I got, they're all stained up.
They're cut up, they're scraped up.
I mean, oh my gosh, you know,
it's what you gotta do when you're building
a new reptarium type of thing, right?
You're gonna get a little bit beat up.
So, let's go ahead and move on to these.
I tell you what guys, this is honestly an animal
that really is responsible for a lot
of my unbelievable, like, obsession with snakes,
and unbelievable.
Take a look at, I'm gonna open this thing up.
Of course, look at this guys.
Ow!
It just bit me.
Look at this.
A little baby Emerald Tree Boa.
Oh my gosh,
and again, I saw a picture of a baby just like this
when I was probably 12 years old,
11 years old, something like that,
and I was blown away,
I was like, oh my gosh!
What is that snake?
And I've been obsessed with them ever since.
We have a couple adult Emerald Tree Boas,
about to get another animal that you guys
will flip out about, here in the next week or so.
These guys, of course, are ontogenic,
which means they basically are red as babies
and then turn into green as adults.
Unbelievable.
You can see little green dots on it,
and that's the thing about Emeralds
is that as babies, you'll still see some green dots
on them, unlike the Green Tree Pythons
that are pretty much red and yellow,
these guys you'll already start to see the green,
and then as they get to, you know,
six or eight months old or something like that,
they start getting more and more green,
but this guy is an angry little monkey too.
And again, they have really large teeth.
There's so doubt about that,
so I'm not gonna stress this guy out any more.
I'm gonna get him back,
and we'll get these guys set up here today.
Oh gosh, you bite me like crazy.
And even at this size, their teeth are pretty crazy.
So, we'll get these guys set up.
That was the boy, and this is the little girl
right here.
Unbelievable.
Now, what's nice about sexing Emerald Tree Boas
compared to Green Tree Pythons
that are pretty much to sex as babies,
'cause if you tree avert their hemipenes,
you'll actually kink their spine.
They have a very, very gentle spine,
and very, very fragile,
and this one is gonna light me up too,
but these guys you can actually spursex,
so as babies you'll see males
will have pretty good spurs.
Females won't have any spurs or very, very little spurs
down at their vents,
so you can actually sex them right as babies,
but look at that.
This is my little girl right here.
She is a ripper.
Unbelievable.
I was super excited, because again,
baby Emerald Tree Boas don't come around too often either,
so when you get the opportunity,
you gotta jump on 'em,
so I just got a pair,
gonna hang on to these guys.
I am over the top crazy happy about this.
Of course, these will go in the reptarium as well
here pretty soon, so ill get these guys set up all together.
There it is guys, so unboxing.
Let's get back over to the reptarium.
We've got a lot to do.
So, we actually got one of the displays for the gift shop,
so it's basically a round circle
that has multiple tiers that we can put a bunch of stuff on.
So, just to add to the shelves that are going
in today as well, so the gift shop is startin'
to come together.
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Later on, we're actually gonna have the shelves
that are gonna get installed.
I'll show you how that goes,
but right now, we actually have a little countertop
area here that just showed up,
so Lori and myself are gonna put that together.
That way, we start seeing where that can go.
Of course, there will be a counter over there,
there will be the shelving
where all the stuff goes,
so this is really exciting.
I've been super, super stoked on the gift shop,
and this is Lori's baby, I'll be honest with you,
so let's go ahead and just put this thing together,
and see what it looks like.
Take a look at this guys.
Got another little baby Gargoyle hatching.
Oh my god, it's so cute,
and oh look at it.
There's actually another head sticking out too.
That's right, we got one more head.
This is obviously a sibling.
Look at this one.
This is a striped animal.
Come on little monkey.
There you go.
Look at how awesome,
gosh these guys are so quick as babies.
Of course, we're hatching a lot of Gargoyles.
Oh, what's the matter little buddy, you upset?
They are so, absolutely adorable.
So again, we got one little baby,
and this is a Red Velvet female that is bred
to a Nasferato male,
and the other one is hatching out right now,
so that is awesome,
so a couple more baby geckos, Gargoyle geckos.
We have some really cool stuff.
Obviously, we've got the Dracula Lion
that's still to hatch.
Hoping for some Deadpool Lions,
but nevertheless, awesome to hatch
some cool, new Caledonian geckos.
All right, so it's all installed.
Looks good, and again,
we're not sure exactly.
It's gonna be in this area somewhere,
and there will be, like, shelves up here,
some shirts, a countertop over here,
but looks good.
What do you think Lori?
- I love it.
- I know.
It turned out so good. - Even better than I hoped.
- I know, it's so good.
We just have to put the little things in here
to cover up, and looks good,
so there it is.
The gift shop is startin' to come together.
I mentioned it a million times.
It's the little finishing touches
on things that make the difference, right you know?
I mean, the big stuff is amazing,
but it's the little details
that sometimes people don't even realize
that make things look amazing.
So, we have these, obviously, pillars here
that will ultimately all, like, feathered out
and stuff like that with Lori,
but you can see they go up about six or eight inches
on the top, but because they're only
a half round moon, obviously you can see
that they stop, you know?
So, we're trying to decide what to do.
Do we cut 'em up or whatever?
Lori brought up the fact
that could we try to make it look like
an all around log,
so I've got an idea to cut some cardboard out
to finish the circle and then wrap them a little bit
so hopefully that they look good,
so I'm not sure if it's gonna work,
but I have an idea.
So, let's jump in, and see if it does,
'cause if it does, it's gonna look really amazing.
From up here, you're gonna see the log
go all the way around,
and then we could put some foliage
that grows out of the top of them.
Again, those little details are what makes things amazing.
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I'll get it.
Not exactly perfect, because the colors
don't match a hundred percent,
but you gotta remember,
one thing is is that once we get the flowers
and the pots, you're really not gonna see it.
The other thing is, except for you guys
that know I did this, a lot of people
are just gonna think that that is a pole
that runs straight through.
From back here, it looks like it's a round pole,
so I think mission accomplished here.
It worked out well.
Now, I just have to finish these last couple
on this side.
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Okay, one more job down.
Continued to punch it out.
Looks all right, and again,
once we seam it up and stuff like that,
you're really not even going to be able to see it.
Put some foliage in there and stuff like that,
so good.
I'm happy with the way this one turned out.
Well, we've removed all of the stairs
that I think are supposed to be there.
All the way up there.
- Only one or two more.
- Waitin' for my guys to show up with the shelving unit.
Actually, they were supposed to be here, like,
I don't know, like, an hour and a half, two hours ago.
I guess apparently they built these shelves,
and they were so big where they built them,
they couldn't get them out,
and they had to like,
take their stairway out,
and still have to get these things out,
and still it was too big,
so we have to maybe disassemble them
a little bit.
I don't know, I haven't heard from them
in, like, an hour and half or two hours,
so I'm hoping the shelves show up today
for the gift shop,
but there's a chance they may never get out
of this guys house.
- [Narrator] Two hours later.
- So, what happened guys?
What, you guys are like four hours late.
- Brian likes, like, big things,
large, in your face,
like whoa, this looks great! - Why have a four
foot wide one, when we could
have a five foot wide one,
so yeah, the extra foot got us.
- We removed 13 of my brother's steps,
and I almost cut a hole in his wall,
still had to break
it apart. - We got all the way
through the steps, all the way up
'till it hit the ceiling.
It wouldn't get through hallway.
So after we did that, everything was already
glued, screwed together.
We had to get chisels and chisel everything apart.
- Oh my gosh, I'm sorry.
- Tear it apart.
- Guys, holy cow.
- Don't worry, it looks gross too.
- We were this close to making it come apart.
- Take it back, this not all that I wanted.
All right, let's get them in, all right guys?
Guys, sorry, thanks guys.
Insane.
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So, I couldn't be more happy
with the way these shelves turned out.
Obviously, it was little bit of a pair
for my buddies to get it here,
but they did an absolutely amazing job.
Again, one more thing, kind of, checked off the list.
It's coming together.
March 13th, weekend's gonna be absolutely amazing.
Hopefully you guys will join us.
If you can't come here, you'll see it online for sure.
Thank you guys always for your support.
You mean the world to me.
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Have an absolutely wonderful day.
You better be kind to someone.
I promise, I'll see you guys tomorrow.