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- Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start your day is incredible.
And you know, I mean, I know I say it every single day.
Regardless, we're gonna go ahead and get our day started
with Salt and Pepper's enclosure.
If you guys didn't watch yesterday's vlog,
you'll see that it's been leaking,
and it's getting worse and worse.
So we went and we fixed it yesterday.
Well, we hope we fixed it yesterday.
But we have a busy day today.
So the first thing I'm gonna do
is because we flex sealed the area
that I believe the leak was in,
we're gonna make it look better,
but we have to test it out.
What we're gonna do is just drain this water,
get everything kind of fixed up,
because there's a little bit of residue
that came from the flex seal.
We'll clean it up really good,
fill it up, get Salt and Pepper back in here, turn it on,
and it's gonna take about 12 hours for us to figure out
if there's any leaks left.
If it doesn't leak, we fix it.
And then we just have to make it look good.
If there is a leak, then I don't know,
I'm not sure what the next steps are,
we'll have to get back into it.
We also have to work on the podcast room,
a little bit later today.
We have a really cool clutch of eggs,
I'm super excited about cutting.
That'll happen here in a little bit.
Just a lot of busy work.
So what do you say we push our problems aside,
have a good time for the next say 14, 15 minutes.
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Alright, so the water is high enough now,
where we can turn the waterfall line
and just get the process starting, right?
You know, just to see, again, it's gonna probably
have to run for at least 10 or 12 hours
before we know for sure if it's leaking.
So I figure, I'll just get the waterfall going now,
we still have to raise the rest of the water level,
but we can get the waterfall going.
And then we'll put Salt and Pepper back in
as soon as this kind of high enough and something like that.
But I might as well get the waterfall going
and fingers crossed this worked out.
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All right, so it looks all filled up.
And you can see where that black you know, flex seal is,
it's all wet, right?
So that's exactly where that waterfall was going underneath.
And if there was any kind of a perforation and any of that,
kind of seen right there.
That's where I think it's been leaking out.
It's only been running for the last hour or so.
And I don't see any water.
Again, it's gonna take a little bit of time
for us to know, in the next 10, 12 hours.
But I hate to keep Salt and Pepper in a holding tank.
So I think I'm gonna go ahead
just put them back in there for the time being
and then they can actually just kind of chill out in there.
And if this worked out, we'll take them back out here
in a day or two.
There you go, baby girl.
There she goes.
To get back at her tank.
Now let's go ahead get Pepper in here.
Come on monkey.
What a beautiful animal.
I mean, I tell you what, that a melanistic alligator
is ridiculous.
I mean, just take a look at those eyes.
And, I tell you, I love this animal.
Although it's not nearly as docile as Salt is,
it's still just spectacular.
I'm in awe of it.
Even though it's a baby, it was much more black,
it still has developed into this cool gray, blues, blacks.
Again has a jet black eyes like this, so it's amazing.
So again, just put this little monkey back in as well.
(mumbles)
And now they can go hang out.
And we will keep an eye and fingers crossed people.
If tomorrow we come in and there's no water in here,
we have solved the problem and it's gonna be good.
And then like I said, well I'll have to just drain again,
go in there and actually make it look like rock again
with just the seal, you put the silicone
and then you put the cement dust to kind of seam it out.
So fingers crossed.
I really believe that we may have solved
the problem that I've been dealing with
for the last two or three weeks.
So fingers crossed on this one.
What do you say, we go cut some eggs.
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Guys, I am excited about this.
You know I've been talking about
the lori project this year a lot because I'm excited.
This happens to be a super lori pinstripe female
that is bred to a banana extreme gene.
I don't know how the extreme gene
is gonna interact with the lori.
Don't know how it's gonna interact with the banana lori.
I don't know what's gonna happen there.
The thing that's nice again,
because it's a super lori pin female,
everything is lori in this clutch.
So every animal is gonna be a Lori,
every banana is gonna be a banana lori.
It could potentially be a banana lori extreme gene,
a banana lori extreme gene pinstripe,
all kinds of different stuff.
Let's jump in.
A bunch of these eggs are already pipped out,
so they are ready to hatch.
And I can see the first one is a banana lori for sure,
don't know what else is in there.
Let's see.
This is gonna be an exciting clutch to cut.
And again the first egg right here
I can see it's definitely a banana,
and that means it has to be a banana Lori.
And it looks like it, looks like a banana lori for sure.
The question is, is it a banana lori extreme?
I don't really think so.
I think it's just a banana lori.
Looks pretty cool, I'm pretty happy about that.
And again, this is the kind of building blocks
for more things down the road.
So let's just keep on cutting and see what else is going on.
I'm really excited to see if we
do get that banana lori extreme pinstripe.
What is that gonna look like if we hit it?
So let's move on to egg number two.
I should I tell you what that is gon be
some super nice animals in here for sure.
Let's see what we got, looks like we have
just a little lori pinstripe,
not a banana, but a lori pin.
This one actually looks like it might be an extreme gene too
so this might be a lori extreme pinstripe right here,
which is cool.
Next head is definitely a lori,
don't see a banana in there.
Let's cut it and see what else is going on.
So again, we just kind of cut around here,
gotta be more careful when the eggs are actually pipped out.
And woo, that's a really pretty animal right there.
That's just looks like an lori extreme gene,
which is the first time I've ever produced
a lori extreme gene, which is pretty cool.
So again, we're starting to get animals
that we didn't have before into the lori project
building for the future that is gonna be amazing.
So let's head on to egg number four.
All right, what do we have here?
Okay, another lori pin,
but I'm trying to see it might be,
it looks like it's an extreme.
Let me see, it looks really cool though, right?
I just love the way the lori kind of influences the,
and it is definitely a lori extreme pinstripe.
So that's cool too, right?
So now we're building layers into that lori project.
Wow, oh, that thing is dope.
I love the way it looks.
Again, the extreme gene
just kind of reduces patterns and stuff like that.
So that looks amazing.
We still have four eggs to go.
I hope we get more banana stuff,
'cause that's really what I wanna see
with that banana lori stuff,
and sure enough, oh my gosh, look at that.
That is actually a banana lori, extreme pinstripe.
So that is the all gene animal and it is a ripper.
It is so cool to finally see that right there,
that is gonna be amazing.
And because bananas are of sexcellent,
we know that that's gonna be a male heart,
99% says it's gonna be a male.
So this is gonna be a really good animal to raise up
and to breed into other things,
to see what's going on, start mixing things
and maybe we can get into leopard, you know,
who knows what we can do.
That is gonna be a great hot genetic animal
to breed into other things.
And we still have three eggs to go.
Again, one of the things I really talked about
early this year is I wanted to get banana into lori stuff
because I just thought it would be really cool.
So I'm super excited that I'm finally getting that.
And again what we have here this is pretty interesting,
you can kind of tell the difference now.
This is actually a banana lori pinstripe
as opposed to the extreme gene.
It's a little bit thicker banding,
a little bit more purple, to be totally honest with you.
So it's really cool to see the dynamics
between those two animals
and get an idea what the extreme gene
is actually bringing to the table.
So again, another banana lori pin, loving it,
getting that banana gene into the Lori project
is what I wanted.
Two eggs ago.
One egg is pipped and one egg is not.
This is the egg that's not pipped,
so I don't know what is gonna be in it.
I know it's gonna be a lori at very least.
And it looks like just a lori pinstripe.
Doesn't look like anything other than a lori pin.
But that's what's so nice about this super animals
when you have animals that do have supers like
whether it's pastel or lastal or whatever the case is.
As you know, everything is going to be Lori,
so there's no guessing, right?
'Cause sometimes you'll be like,
I think it might be a pinstripe lori,
might not, just be you know,
this way we always know it's a Lori.
We've got one egg to go,
and let's make this a banger target.
I'm super happy with this already,
just because I've got a bunch of banana lori stuff,
which is what I was really interested in producing
to begin with.
And guess what, it looks like
we hit the all gene animal again,
a banana, a lori a pinstripe and oh my gosh,
that thing is so cool, and it's extreme gene.
So there it goes, looks like we got two
of the all gene animals,
and then we got a few more banana and lori projects
but what a great clutch.
I'm telling you that down the road,
this gonna be such an amazing building block
for future projects.
I am stoked to have produce these guys.
Next up back to working on the podcast area.
Today the chore is to get some cabinets in here
so that tomorrow I can have some come out measure up
and then we're gonna put the countertop here,
and you could see all the wiring
is starting to come together over here.
Gonna mount some TVs and stuff like that probably tomorrow,
carpet comes in tomorrow.
So things are really gonna wrap up,
I mean probably three days from now
this place is basically gonna be done.
We still have to do some staining,
some trim work, all that other stuff
but right now we have to run to Home Depot,
get some cabinets.
And I think we're just gonna buy like the wood ones
and spray them white.
And then we'll put them down here, get them all set to go.
So let's head to Home Depot and get those cabinets.
And the cabinets are here.
So again, we just got a couple drawer units,
we got a corner unit.
This is where the actual countertop will sit on
and stuff like that, so we'll unload these,
we'll try to paint them up
to make them look really really awesome.
Then we have to get some hardware on and stuff like that,
get them downstairs.
I you know every little bit is a progress forward.
And I am so excited about the future of this podcast,
you have no idea.
So let's go ahead and get these out here.
And by the way, if you haven't subscribed,
checking in, link in the description,
subscribe to my podcast, y'all,
'cause I'm all in guys, I am all in.
Let's get these cabinets painted out.
You guys may not know that people
can actually sponsor enclosures here,
and we actually had a company Wolf Comics,
the one that sent us a comic book, by the way
- Yes - Which I by the way,
look it up, Wolf Comic.
It's a pretty cool comic that he actually did
and he's right here in Michigan, well, that's cool.
So he sponsored Ivy's cage as well as Lucy's right?
- Yes.
- So when you do sponsoring,
obviously, we send you a certificate
and then we put your name right down here.
So Wolf Comics is now a sponsor of Ivy's cage.
And like I said, he also sponsored Lucy's cage.
So let's go ahead and put that over there.
Like I said, that comic was really cool, talented guy.
So definitely I'll go show him some love.
And we appreciate you guys sponsoring us.
And how do people go about that, Laurie?
- It's right on the website.
There's a tab that says sponsorship.
- Okay. - And you can choose
the animals, the length of time,
who you want to do it,
whether it's your name, or in somebody else's name.
And yeah, we'll go ahead and put your name on that page.
- That's awesome, and this is actually what Wes and Raycine,
is the name of the people that own Wolf Comics.
So thank you, Wes and Raycine,
you are now the sponsors of Lucy and Ivy.
Thereptarium.com, you can find more information
if that's something you're interested.
So thank you guys, you guys are awesome.
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Finally got the cabinets in,
got the drawers out and stuff like that.
Again, the countertop will go all the way across here,
all the way over here, all the way to this side,
all the way to this side.
That will be the countertop
where all of the podcasting like, you know,
all the gears up there as well as
Jay Anthony and Noah can have their desks here
to edit and all that type of stuff.
So countertop I think goes in in two days,
carpet goes in tomorrow.
So things are gonna look good.
I think in two days this place is gonna almost look done.
It'll probably be about three or four days
before it's completely done,
but it's gonna almost look done here in two more days.
So a lot of progress,
can't be more excited about the way things are looking,
so yeah, it's definitely coming together.
Our next podcast will be in the new podcast room, can't wait
Oh guys, let's hope we got
the Salt and Pepper cage leak fixed.
We'll find out tomorrow, it's gonna be exciting,
and some amazing baby lori ballplayers today.
I hope you guys aren't bothered by the fact
that we've been doing a lot of this podcast pilgrim,
trust me, I'm just super excited about it.
We're gonna be working on a lot more tomorrow.
So fingers crossed, things work out with Salt and Pepper.
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