(easygoing music)
(traffic zooms)
(screen whooshes)
- Hey, good morning everybody,
and welcome to the vlog, day four of this insane build.
We are crushing it, though.
I actually can fill Salt and Pepper's cage up today.
I'm excited to get that going,
as well as the fact that we have a little surprise coming.
Kind of the first kind of new addition
of animals to the new Reptarium.
So we've got a busy day, let's just jump into it,
and let's have a great day together.
(screen whooshes)
I have to go through right now and make sure
all of these locks are working,
basically just kind of adjust everything,
tighten the screws and stuff like that,
because what happens is, during transit
these can kind of sag a little bit,
and then the locks theirself don't line up.
So while I'm doing that, Stuart's actually gonna be
fixturing out some of these enclosures.
Just more branches and vines and all that stuff,
to kinda just make it pop, you know what I mean,
really give it that next level of feel
like you would see something out in the wild.
(screen whooshes) (drill whirs)
(upbeat music)
(drill whirs)
Already adding a few animals (laughs)
to the Reptarium, actually some local people had
some red-footed tortoises, absolutely adorable here,
that they donated and they just said,
"Hey, would you like these?"
And I think that they'll make a great addition,
as well as the fact that they're great
animal ambassador animals that I can take
to like kid's show and stuff like that.
'Cause they are a lot less shy than, say, sulcatas
and stuff like that, so these guys are running around.
Little bit of pyramiding on them and stuff like that,
but not too terribly bad, they're absolutely gorgeous.
Now the redfoots do need a little higher humidity
than other desert-dwelling animals,
so a little more humidity,
definitely gonna be a cool addition.
Not exactly sure where I'm gonna put 'em yet,
but I'll make something up and make it really awesome.
Definitely love these guys, definitely an animal
that I've wanted for a really long time.
They are so cute!
(screen whooshes)
(upbeat music)
(aerosol spray hisses)
(drill whirs)
(screen whooshes)
- That's wild, I can't believe
how quickly it's come together, to be honest.
I was here, what, like three weeks ago,
and there was nothing, like this room was empty,
there was not a thing in here, and now,
I don't know, I can't wait.
I can't wait to see it. - Dude, are you excited
to play around with it all?
- Yeah, I'm gonna do the fish spa.
The fish spa is like my thing,
I want to put my feet in the little thing,
and I want to have the fish,
I don't even know, they eat the dead skin?
- They eat the dead skin. - I don't care what they do.
I'm gonna let 'em do it, they can do what they want.
- [Cameraman] Do you have a favorite enclosure so far?
- This one, for sure,
are you serious? - Oh, really?
Wow, really? - Free-wheeling.
And the snake in there, oh I don't know if I can say,
anaconda in there, whatever's going in there.
- Yep. - Yeah, yeah.
- Gonna be living in the water, on the land,
it's gonna be thriving.
I love it, I love it. - Awesome.
(screen whooshes)
(upbeat music)
(drill whirs)
(wood taps)
(tool rattles)
(screen whooshes)
- Yeah, you can really see how some
of these enclosures now are looking
with all of the branches in it and stuff like that.
Unbelievable!
I mean, there's a huge difference
as soon as you start putting all the logs and branches,
and I went through and fixed all these locks now
but again, this was just an open cage.
Stuart put all of these in, now it has some climbing stuff,
whether it's a snake or a lizard
or whatever we end up putting in.
Each of the enclosures has these beautiful logs
and branches and vines and stuff like that.
Looking absolutely incredible.
(screen whooshes)
All right, next one up, gonna fill up
Salt and Pepper's enclosure.
I am super excited to see just how this is gonna look
with water in it, with the waterfall,
and ultimately how they're gonna look
when they're inside it, so.
This was one that I was really dreaming about
for a long, long time, so let's just go ahead
and fill this up and hope for the best.
(screen whooshes)
(easygoing music)
(water trickling) - I need a real life over it.
(laughs)
Turtle pond is all done, so now it's time
for me to get my silicone and dust
and start seaming these seams.
(screen whooshes)
(upbeat music)
- All right, water's high enough,
we're gonna actually ultimately have it about this high,
but this is just a test here,
so I'm gonna turn the waterfall on,
and hopefully no leaks and everything looks beautiful.
Let's go do it.
(screen whooshes)
(upbeat music)
(water trickles)
There it is, no leaks, looks pretty cool, I like it.
You know, not a ton of flow, which is what we want.
We don't want to get the alligators
to be pouncing around, stuff like that.
Think it's gonna be perfect.
I can definitely envision them,
obviously they'll spend a lot of time in the water,
coming up here on the log, you know,
obviously basking, we'll have lights over here.
So another success story.
(water trickling)
(upbeat music)
So all the boys went through
and kind of cleaned up all the glass.
I tell you what, it makes a huge difference
when the glass is kind of at least a little bit cleaner
so that there's not all the smudges
and dust and stuff like that.
You just start to be able to kinda see
all of the intricacies of the cages.
It's looking amazing, and that was a big job,
I'll be honest with you, it's a pain.
That's a lot of glass, it's gonna be hard for us
to keep this glass clean (laughs), I'm not gonna lie.
Gonna have a new full-time employee
just cleaning glass, if you know what I mean.
Next job is to actually put all the lights on,
because then they're gonna light up,
and they are gonna look amazing.
(screen whooshes)
There's something about illuminating these enclosures
that just kinda brings them to live, you know?
Gonna take us some time to get the right UV levels,
also the fact that basking lights
need to be in certain spots.
This is just our first kind of go-around.
It's probably gonna take us a week or two
to really dial them in, but I cannot wait
to see what these things look like lit up.
(upbeat music)
(water trickling)
That looks awesome, huh?
- [Cameraman] Dude, it looks incredible!
- [Brian] That looks good, right?
(upbeat music)
Finally got all the lights on, and oh my gosh,
what a difference lights make!
I mean, just look at the enclosures,
look absolutely stunning all lit up.
Now we're gonna have to adjust things
when it comes to like heat,
like we have a basking light right here, right here,
but we might put one over here, not 100% sure.
That's something that's gonna take us
probably the next week or two to really kind of figure out
where we want the hot spots to be.
We'll get over here with a temp gun.
We'll also be checking the UV bulbs
to see where it's kind of penetrating,
to see what we have to change there.
But man, I tell you what, the lighting on this
makes these enclosures look absolutely incredible.
I mean, this anaconda, hoo doggy,
I tell you, this thing is crazy.
(screen whooshes)
(knuckles rap on door)
- Hello. - What's up?
- Yes, come in. - Eric.
- Yo. - Door's locked, dude.
- Oh, here, sorry. (doorknob rattles)
(door scrapes)
- Come on in, dude. - Oh, it's you,
what are you doing down here?
- Oh, not much, just kinda chilling out,
just in my office, you know.
- Yeah, oh, dude, (door scrapes)
it's looking good, man. - Keep that shut.
It's looking pretty good, yeah.
- How much you got left?
- Not too much more, but you know,
they said I could set up a desk down here with a laptop.
- All right, that's cool.
I was just checking in on you. - Thanks, buddy.
No, no worries, we'll see you in a little bit, man.
(door scrapes)
- Thank you.
(screen whooshes)
- Excited, we're actually getting the window decals today,
which is gonna really kind of finish things off
because again, we have all the windows down here.
We have the entrance, obviously, of the Reptarium.
Now we have the exit to the Reptarium that almost matches,
but the windows are bare, so after we get these on,
it's gonna really kind of come together and look
like one unit, so it's gonna be cool to put these on.
(screen whooshes)
(upbeat music)
(screen whooshes)
- Hey! (laughs)
- [Cameraman] Have you seen this? (laughs)
- We are down here in the scary
little snake hibernation room.
It's not too scary, it's not too bad now.
But I'm just checking up on these guys.
So as the build is going on upstairs,
they've turned the heat on, so the heat
naturally is gonna come down here too, warm things up,
so we're starting the process of waking these snakes up,
we're gonna bring them back over.
What an exciting time.
Just checking on these guys, they're definitely
starting to move around a little more.
This is one of our Mexican black king females.
She was responsible for two clutches last year,
so hopefully we'll have another really good year with her.
And just gonna go through all these guys,
check on 'em, but pretty much from here on out,
about maybe two to three weeks we'll get 'em next door,
start to get some food in 'em, but definitely looking
a lot more lively with the heat going on down here.
So super excited.
Colubrid season is just about to start.
(screen whooshes) (traffic zooms)
- And now all the graphics are up here
with the exception of one little window over here,
which we actually cracked when we were moving in.
There was actually a small crack in it
and then unfortunately it just kind of went from there.
But now the entire windows all the way down are gold.
Of course it's a little fogged up right now.
Once we get this all warmed up it'll be different.
But this'll be the iguana cage here.
Again, wintertime isn't friendly to us.
And the whole Reptarium now has graphics,
so that is absolutely amazing.
(screen whooshes)
(upbeat music)
(sander whirs)
(nail gun bangs)
(drill whirs)
(nail gun bangs)
(saw whirs)
(screen whooshes) When we were building this wall,
remember how we had this kind of angle here
that of course the arboreal cage went in?
And I told you it was gonna be all rock.
So maybe now you guys envision what I was talking about,
of this thing being all rocked out.
So we just have to finish the top,
because the actual first panel only came to right here,
so we just have to go all the way down.
Obviously we have to do all the bottom over here.
I love the way this entire aisle way looks,
when you go and you've got the curve right over here.
I mean, how awesome is that!
(screen whooshes)
A project like this can be mentally and physically draining
but at the same time, I'm so passionate about it
and it's coming together so well.
I mean, I couldn't be more happy.
I literally can barely sleep at night
just 'cause I want to come back here and hang out.
I mean, every day it's so interesting to see
how these things kind of come together
and everything changes it.
I hope that you guys are enjoying the journey.
Let me know in the comments how you feel about it.
If you like this vlog, can you do me a favor?
I started a podcast called "Checking In."
You could subscribe to that podcast right there,
I think you're gonna enjoy that one.
Over here you can click and just roll through
a bunch of playlists of videos if you so choose.
You can subscribe to this vlog channel right over here.
Turn the post notifications on for me.
Have a wonderful day, be kind to someone,
and I promise I'll see you guys tomorrow.