- Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
Mother Nature threw us another curve ball.
It was supposed to be 50 degrees and partly sunny today
and I woke up to snow.
That's right, welcome to Spring.
Let's try to make a great day together
regardless of what Mother Nature's doing
and go ahead and head to the shop.
(comedic running sounds)
(crashing)
Laurie?
Laurie's cart is on the ground knocked over.
I don't know what this is, this is crazy,
this is crazy.
Speedy, is that you?
Look at, now he's got.
(laughing)
Oh my gosh.
Speedy knocked over the, yeah.
I can't believe he's never done that before
but he definitely, you've got the face of a,
well no, you've got the face of someone
that ate a lot of carrots but you were guilty, weren't you?
All right, let's clean this up.
I just can't believe it's actually snowing.
I mean Mother Nature's playing some tricks on us lately.
I'm actually gonna start my day by taking
our pied chameleon, the veil chameleon,
that's actually just coming out of shed right now.
Of course, this is the one that laid 52 infertile eggs.
Now I'm gonna put it in with Raoul.
Now basically, the shed cycle tells me that she's ready
to potentially breed.
I have never bred chameleons,
I'm a little bit freaked out by it.
I'm gonna take a look and make sure that they're OK.
Raoul's in here somewhere,
it's such a heavily camouflaged cage,
I'm not even sure where he's at.
So I'm just gonna let her go
and I'm gonna keep an eye on them for a little while,
just to make sure that there's never,
just to make sure there's no fighting or anything like that
but essentially what happens is
about two and a half to three weeks after they lay,
they'll go through a shed like that
and that's when you want to re-breed them.
Although the first clutch was infertile and,
oh wait, take a look, take a look!
Oh he is interested!
Oh my gosh, look at this!
Again, I'm gonna pay attention to what he's doing here.
Let's take a look, he seems like
he's interested big time in her.
So I'm just gonna keep an eye on him for sure.
Wow, I didn't expect him to
immediately want to go after her
and show courting like this.
Again, I'm gonna try to keep her safe as well
but you can see he's wagging his tail,
he's very interested.
Wow, this is crazy.
So again, I'm just gonna watch these guys for a minute
and again, what I was saying is that
after they lay that infertile clutch,
the second clutch usually can be fertile.
You breed them about two and a half to three weeks later,
breed them once, maybe twice at the most
and then hopefully we'll have some eggs this time.
Hopefully they'll be fertile but this is a trip, guys.
I've never bred chameleons before so I'm not even sure
exactly what I'm doing here.
So I'm just gonna keep an eye on them
and hopefully things will go well.
(upbeat pop music)
Hey Diddy, what's going on big boy?
How you doing?
You can see Diddy is definitely getting much, much better
when it comes to habituation.
Just kind of climb in here and spend some time with him,
petting and stuff like that, just so that
he gets a little bit more used to it.
Definitely getting used to his new enclosures
but as you can see, he's got a lot going on out there
with cars and traffic,
so he gets a lot of sightseeing through the day.
But him and Dixie are adjusting, finally getting back
to their old ways.
Continue to try to give you guys distractions
throughout this time.
Again, you guys know what we're doing,
you're gonna have a video from us every day.
We're considering doing a couple other things,
I'm doing an Instagram Live everyday, @snakebitesTV,
just trying to fill you guys up with things
that keep your days, you know, occupied
and as much positivity as we can.
Also I wanna shout out my friends over at Gatorland
are actually doing a 10AM Eastern Standard Time
Facebook, they're calling it School of Croc,
so check that and then they're doing a five o'clock
over on their YouTube channel, Live at Gatorland.
Also my friends at Sea Quest are doing
a daily virtual tour there.
I just want to give you guys content that you can go see
that's really cool, that can keep you guys occupied
and stuff like that.
Down in the comments, let me know who else is doing
daily stuff that you guys can check out.
I mean, I'll keep on shouting people out
as I hear about them.
Definitely, we're in this together guys.
We're gonna get through it, I've said it before,
it's not gonna be fun
but together we're gonna get through it
and like I mentioned, this platform that you've given me
is amazing and I want to be there for you guys,
I will be there for you guys.
You guys mean so much to me
and I'm gonna do everything I can do to be
that little bit of light in a relatively dark time
that we're in right now.
(pop music)
Laurie's at it.
Feeding and feeding, lots of feeding going on here.
That's a lot of rodents!
- Yeah it's a lot of rodents, we got a lot of hungry snakes.
- [Host] Oh my gosh, so tomorrow you get
males in with females for the first time, or today?
Or no it can't 'cause you're feeding today.
- Yeah it'll be either tomorrow or the next day.
- OK so first time males and females
but yes, this is literally what we feed the colubrids
twice a week, right?
- Yep.
- So that's a lot of rodents going through
and a lot of work but I know you'll do good,
so I'm gonna leave you to it and I'm just gonna go
take a break.
- OK.
(pop music)
- I will say one thing
that I am a little bit concerned about
through this whole thing is paper towel.
This is basically the last paper towels we have.
We go through a lot of paper towels, obviously cleaning,
we use it for bedding for some cages.
So when we run out of this paper towel,
we can't find anymore.
We went online, don't know anything about it.
It's stressing me out, I'm not sure exactly
what we're gonna do, we'll get creative.
Let me know in the comments if number one,
you guys have any ideas
how we can get by without paper towel,
'cause we wanna be sanitary, right?
We don't wanna spread things around.
We always wanna keep things as, again,
as sanitary as possible around here.
So number one, if you guys know
where I can find paper towels, let me know,
number two if you have any other ideas for me.
That's probably the one thing
I am a little bit stressed out about.
Not so much about toilet paper
but paper towels got me a little stressed.
I have to do a lot of things getting back to work
at the Reptarium 2.0.
It's not done yet, obviously we have to seam all of this,
all the wood that you see, we've gotta seam all that up.
Obviously the croc monitor cage, when we can travel again
we're gonna go ahead and head down to the Desiree's place
and we've gotta fix that.
A lot of foliage in the enclosures,
obviously there's very little foliage in the enclosures now,
still have to do that.
Oh by the way we've got the massage room,
I've gotta finish the wall up top here, put all this up.
We've gotta seam all of this right here.
Still just a lot of little punch out lists to do,
we're actually adding the hose rail and temperature control
so that we can fill all the gators
and all the water features
with 82 degree temperatured water.
It'll be 82 all the time, it's actually what they call
a hot water mixer that we're putting on there.
That goes in tomorrow.
Just a lot of, again, just little finishes up top
and stuff like that, more foliage in here.
So a lot of little things
and I know this is gonna sound wild
but there's actually the bathroom over at BHB is,
ever since I've taken over this building six years ago,
I've hated that bathroom and I figured this would give me
a good opportunity to maybe gut that bathroom
and fix this up, maybe in the next few days.
I know that's not something
you guys are probably that interested in
but it'll probably be a day and a half, two day project
that I'll be working on, just to make
the bathroom look better
because we gotta take this time
and apply as much positive energy as we can
because it's really easy to get into
that kind of dark mental state
if you don't keep yourself busy.
And like I've been mentioning, I've been trying
to come up with ideas to continue to entertain you guys,
distract you guys and all that stuff.
I don't have to keep on beating that dead horse,
you guys know what it is.
This is actually a scaleless silver queen,
which is just absolutely incredible
and of course, this is a motley scaleless right here.
Oh my gosh, that thing is crazy
and so I have this new idea
that I wanted to know if you guys would want me to do it.
I'm assuming you guys are gonna want it
but I'm still gonna bring it up to you
about doing an extra video,
maybe once or twice here next week
and what I mean by that is that I would just literally
open up cages like this and of course,
this is a ghost corn, it's got all that pink in it
and of course, this thing, oh my gosh,
that is absolutely ridiculous.
That is actually a coral or salmon snow corn
and basically, no edits, maybe I do a BHB tour,
maybe it's a half hour long.
No edits, raw, just whatever comes out.
I walk in, I start opening up cages,
showing you guys animals for like a half hour
and then maybe do another one over at the Reptarium.
Again, no edits, just like we're talking,
just hanging out and it would be in addition to the vlog.
So we'd still put out the morning vlog,
maybe in the afternoon we do a tour like this.
Again guys, I just wanna keep you guys happy,
I know some people are probably struggling
and I want to keep you guys going through this,
we will get through this.
So let me know if you want me to do it.
If you do, I'll go ahead and film those
and we'll release them sometime next week.
- I have been waiting
for a really, really, really, really long time
for our grammostola pulchra, the Brazilian black tarantula
that we actually have, I've been waiting forever
for it to molt
and wondering, oh my God, literally I've gone through
so many tarantula molts,
I've gone through so many feedings
and this one is the one, I've been waiting
since the day we opened and finally, finally, finally,
finally I get the chance to pull her out
and show you guys a little bit
what these guys actually look like
finally after post-molt
and how beautiful this animal really is.
So let me actually get her out for you
and she's beautiful, golly man.
I mean, it's really funny 'cause a couple of days ago
I was holding that bird eater
and you know, that's one thing that's certainly intimidating
of an animal and then you got these guys
who are just little puppies, man.
They're sweet little things.
- [Cameraman] So I see a lot of crazy webbing going on
and it looks like she burrowed a little bit.
What's going on with all this stuff?
- The best way I can actually explain this
in the best layman sort of way I could do
is think about a lot like sound waves.
Sound waves are vibrations.
The wider the frequency, the lower the sound
and the higher the frequency, the higher the sound.
So with these guys, the more vibration they feel,
the closer the animal is.
So similar to like sound waves, they would actually
pick that kind of thing up.
So these guys, instead of their eyesight,
instead of all their ears, instead of anything else,
they have hair and they have their webbing
and they have those little hooks on their body
and that is exactly how they feel around,
that is exactly how they know their environment
because that's all they need to know.
And evolutionarily speaking, that's just
how they've developed.
They've never needed to develop further better eyesight.
They've never needed, like a jumping spider
who has the frontal eyesight, they've never needed
to get anything more than just to create that ambush,
create the nest and then wait for their food
to come to them.
- Daisy's looking extra beautiful today
and oh, by the way guys, remember the other day
when I talked about Netflix shows
and asked you guys for what we should watch
and I talked about The Lion King?
("Circle of Life")
And I talked about the Tiger King series?
Holy moly, I'm only on episode two,
I think there's six episodes.
It, cra--
trust me guys, you want to watch this one.
Now I know almost everyone that's in this documentary series
and I'm blown away, I don't even know what to say
and I'm only on episode two
and I hear it gets even crazier.
So take a little advice from me, Tiger King, watch it.
(pop music)
Andrea!
- Yes.
- [Host] You're still alive.
- I am, unfortunately.
- [Host] I know I was worried about you.
You were out not feeling good.
- Yeah I was worried I was gonna get you guys sick.
Thankfully I didn't.
- [Host] Thankfully, people should stay home
when they don't feel good but you feel good now.
- Stay home, stay safe!
- [Host] You're good?
- Yes, we're good, we've got the animals. We're all good.
- [Host] Good, I'm glad to hear it, thank you.
- Awesome.
- Remember I told you guys I was gonna
give you homework assignments?
Basically, the one thing I'm gonna kind of suggest to you is
don't spend too much time watching the news, OK?
Look for positive things out there
because the news is really negative
and they're only showing the negative side of things.
We have to take things seriously but not over-panic.
We will get through this together
and I hope that you guys are staying safe
and remember to stay smart.
And another thing you could do if you're bored
is that you could watch or listen to our podcast.
Checking in, right here, you can subscribe to it.
You can also listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,
all that type of stuff.
You can run through a bunch of a playlist of vlogs
if you guys wanna just spend time doing it that way.
Over here you can subscribe to this vlog channel.
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Try to have the best day you possibly can.
Remember, be kind to someone
and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.