- Guess what you guys today is the day.
That's right.
Today's the day that we're actually going
to rock out all of these two by fours
and make this place look more like the
reptarium down here. It's a lot of work.
I have a lot of ideas. I've thought a lot about it.
So basically what I have to do is
put panels across all here.
Then I have to put like the wood things right here
so that it looks like kind of tree bark right here.
We'll actually wrap the tree bark here.
We'll wrap the tree bark here, all that type of stuff.
So it looks really kind of finished off. Then of course,
Jessica has to go back. She's got a lot of work.
She's got a seam, everything cut, everything,
make everything good, bioactive plant out.
It's going to take her probably a few weeks to actually get
everything done down here.
But at the end of the day with everything going well,
this should look absolutely perfectly beautiful.
Like the reptarium down here. Again, huge diff-
You will not even recognize this place
at the end of the day.
I can promise you that.
So what do you say,
We just get all our gear together and rock it out.
[salsa music]
Can you start to get an idea
of what it's going to look like.
Obviously we'll paint the two by fours here.
We'll seam all this stuff so that you don't see it.
So, ah you know,
the seaming is what really makes everything
disappear into it,
but you get an idea of what it's going to start to look like
on this edge here.
Now I just have to do the rest of the room here.
So ah, buckle up it's going to be a long day.
[salsa music continues]
And ah, the first wall is done guys.
So this is basically how it's going to look again.
What will happen is that we'll actually come back,
seam all of this,
you know, paint the two by fours a little bit,
but also what you do is you use silicone,
then use like the dust that actually looks like this.
That makes the blends, all the seams and stuff like that.
But for the most part,
this gives you an idea of what the first wall
is going to look like.
Now I just have to do the next two walls,
which hurt a lot.
I'm going to be honest with you.
It's it's a lot of work.
It's a little warm in here and just a lot of, you know,
physical work or squeeze and stuff,
just kind of making things work. Right.
But cause it's, it's, it's kind of art, right?
There's no science behind it.
It's just kinda like making things flow,
making them look as natural as possible.
Make them look like tree bark and all that other stuff.
So, all right. So one wall down two more to go.
[salsa music]
And that's the second one done.
And we even got the corner piece in here.
Again, it's going to look better
once it's all done.
To get an idea of what it looks like
with just the two by fours.
And now it looks much more like the reptarium
getting finished out here.
Once we get all the plants,
we'll put some vines and stuff like that,
that hang down from like here
and all kinds of different stuff like that.
This room is going to look so absolute dope.
So we started this project early this morning
at like nine o'clock.
It's like three o'clock right now been working
for like six hours. Still have one more wall to go.
It is the longest wall, but that's okay.
Once this is done,
then Jessica has a lot of work to do down here.
But I think it's coming out good.
Let me know in the comments, what you guys like.
Oh, by what?
Oh. And by the way, welcome to the vlog reptile army.
I hope to start your day is incredible.
I'm getting beat up.
Reptile army gear definitely getting dirty, but that's okay.
It's worth it right for this thing.
So let me know what you guys think.
You think it's coming out good. Like I said,
when it's completely done,
it's going to look so much better,
but definitely a big transformation and just six hours,
probably two more hours to go
And I'll be wrapped up with this whole build.
- I've been going to the gym though, dad, hold on.
Dad, I've been going to the gym,
- Marshmallow are like toasted marshmallows.
- Bringing out Bowser the snapping turtle
I'm gonna see what kind of damage she can do
to this carrot.
All right. Hopefully no one lose any hands.
Do a prayer.
- Well, I already went here.
- You guys ready?
- We have the first teen snapping turtle.
Yeah, stick your hand in it. Oh!
- Ope we lied.
- [Brian] About a week ago
we actually put this apparatus in here that is actually
almost like a feeding enrichment for our green tree monitors
or where they call Pristina's. And basically what this is,
is we'll put bugs in there, whether it's little cockroaches,
the super worms or crickets,
and you can see there's a bunch of holes in this too. Well,
they can actually see in the tube and there's a stick in the
middle where the crickets or bugs
can actually climb up and down.
And basically what this does is it makes them think like,
how do I get my hand in that little hole for how do I wait
for that bug to get out?
And this is the way we've been feeding them
every single day.
And it really is great mental enrichment for monitor lizards
because monitors are so smart. When you guys know,
we try to do all kinds of training things with all our
monitors. Well,
it's really hard to take green tree monitors or any of the
tree monitors out and actually enrich with them.
So we decided we're going to use this
and it's working out so good.
Again, it's all about keeping our lizards as happy
as they possibly can be.
- It's been a while since we've looked
at our gargoyle collection
and I have a lot of really cool stuff,
so we're going to check it out today.
First, we're going to take a look at one of the males
I just paired up with a couple of females and he is from
tikis geckos regular line actually.
He is beautiful and he's only produced in 2020.
He's actually my favorite offspring from last year.
I'm going to show you a few gargle geckos today.
He's got really, really white eyes
gargle geckos can come with a few different colored eyes
that can like blue, white, even black,
which is super cool.
So these guys have actually been on the blog before.
There are a lot bigger now and they've developed a lot more
color to them,
but this is from Kiki's geckos Deadpool line.
They're looking nice. One's a male, one's a female.
They, they won't be paired together.
We'll end up pairing them
to different stuff in the collection.
So we're just like not inbreeding or doing any of that.
You want to do a lot of out crossing with them.
This one just hatched out a couple weeks ago and it looks so
much brighter than the two I just showed you
when they hatched out.
look all that orange on it.
It's gonna, so these guys will saturate out a lot more
as they grow.
So I'm hoping it pretty much ends up with a all red back.
So this one here is at sibling and this one's going to be
even more like dark red. They're my favorite
so far that a patched out this year and these ones actually
came out of an out crossing from the Dracula line
to another production from tikis geckos that we got
that I think they didn't produce,
but they got from another breeder. This is actually Somara.
She doesn't look,
If she's not like a red Stripe or anything,
she's very different looking than everything else I've shown
you so far, but she's a Phantom eyed gecko.
And if you look,
you can see that she's got two different colored eyes
right now, for the phantom eye gene
usually won't show up until the gecko is
about two to three years old, but could be older than that.
And it usually doesn't happen all at once.
So that's why she kind of like has one white eye,
has one like gray, black eye.
I have a ton more geckos.
So we'll have to do this a little bit more often, I think.
But yeah, that's it for today.
[salsa music]
- And we are done.
The gecko room is done.
Good eight hours of working later,
everything is all rocked out.
Now we got the seams in between them.
So again, now Jessica is going to have to come down.
I'm going to go get Jessica in a minute, show her this.
Cause I know she's going to be really excited
and, and then she's got a lot of work.
I'm not going to lie to you. You know,
this is kind of the hard light labor work, but the truth is,
is there's a lot of seaming that takes a lot of time.
And so I don't feel, I don't feel good for Jessica,
she's got her work cut out for her,
but there it is guys,
the entire gecko room has come together.
Hopefully with any luck here in the next few weeks,
we can actually have animals in here.
This room is going to be absolutely amazing.
So let me know in the comments, what you think.
- Have you ever seen a African egg eating snake ever?
- No.
- Oh well you're about to.
Now she is a little feisty.
- I don't know about this.
- Oh yeah you'll be fine. We made friends today.
You can do it.
- Yeah, I don't know pal. Oh yeah, no.
- Not that guy.
- You're not that guy pal,
You're not that guy.
- she's such a little girl.
I thought she was gonna get me in the eye.
It's okay. It's only partially venomous.
- Okay, Jessica.
So what do you think come on in.
So the room is done. It's done.
- It's looks so good
from in here now with all the lights.
and everything.
- I know,
lights and the thing I know there's a lot of,
lot of seam work that has to get done.
And I know you're going to do.
- It's a lot to do,
and I'm happy about it though.
- It's going to be nice to be in here.
- It's gonna be great fun.
- Exactly.
And just so you guys know if you want
Bruce and Jessica tours,
if you're into monitors with Bruce or geckos here in the new
Caledonia room,
it's the only way you're going to see the new Caledonia room
is with that.
You go to reptarium.com and book a Bruce and Jessica
tour so. Anyways, there you go.
- It's awesome.
You worked so hard today. Thank you.
- I know we did. So you're, you're you're up next though.
You're going to be working hard, so absolutely amazing.
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