- [Brian] Hi Bella,
and good morning to you guys and welcome to the vlog.
I tell you what, I love starting my days
just with my animals
and I hope the start of your day is incredible, too.
Bella is an absolutely treat, I tell you what.
And that's the thing that's so amazing
I've told you guys so much about
being around these animals at The Reptarium
and we have so many amazing new animals in store
to share with you guys,
I wish I could share with you right now
but I want it to be a surprise, you know,
we're working on so many cool things
and of course just walking through this door here
is just like, it still gives me the tingles every day like.
This new place is coming together, it's amazing.
Look at Ivy over here.
Oh my gosh, again the water will clear up,
it's just going through the bacterial thing
but she literally loves it.
I would say she's spending about
80 percent of her time in the water,
makes me so happy.
I think tomorrow we're actually gonna try
to feed her for the first time,
I don't even know how it's gonna go, you know,
I don't know what she's gonna do
when I feed her in the water so it's gonna be amazing.
Like I mentioned, so many new animals coming in
over the next week or so, so buckle up,
it's gonna be amazing.
You know this turtle pond is coming together so good,
the water's finally clearing up,
the water temperature is good.
We are gonna hang a mercury-vapor bulb up here
just so that they can get UV and heat
as well in a basking area.
But I've been wondering what turtles are gonna do here,
I have about six or seven turtles for this pond
but I think I'm gonna bring a couple over right now
and put them in here and just see what happens.
All right, excited to have these turtles.
For sure, it's, again it's that
kind of vision of a turtle pond
and seeing it kinda finally come to vision,
it couldn't be happier with the way it actually looks,
kinda bringing the old Reptarium into the new Reptarium
but really how the animals like it
is more important than anything,
again we'll get some basking lights and stuff like that.
This is just kinda the test, so I'm gonna let them go,
I'm assuming they're gonna do some basking up here
so that's probably where we'll do the light over here.
There's a couple other places
but I'm just gonna go ahead, let these guys go
and see what happens.
I think I'm gonna maybe put them on here
so that they can make their own decision
and let them come into the water on their own,
I'm not 100 percent sure.
We'll set them like this
and we'll just kinda wait to see what they do
and see them kinda cruising to the thing again,
they're like, "What is going on?"
This is a lot of water for them.
Oh, one went in the water already!
Oh, one's in the water!
Where'd he go?
He's gone!
(laughs)
I guess, some of this bubbling
will probably subdue just a little bit,
we've already conditioned the water,
there doesn't seem to be any issues there
but as something like the biological filter
starts to build it just becomes more better,
it usually takes you know, up to a month
for a real good ecosystem to kinda happen so.
That turtle is, he found his way.
Oh, there goes another one!
Come on baby!
Away he goes, yay!
It's gonna be in the water too.
Oh my gosh, again we're getting
one more light over here as well
so this will be lit up even more
so that you can see all the way in it
but I tell you what guys,
it's kinda wild because they went inside there
and then they just disappeared,
I mean literally I don't even know where they are.
This one's just kinda still
hanging out on the cop over here,
this one was over in the corner but I don't see it anymore.
(laughs)
Once we get seven or eight turtles in here
you'll always see some coming,
and again if we get a basking light right here
I'm sure they'll be up here basking quite a bit.
But the idea is once they get settled in,
we can have people come and actually feed them.
I think kids will love to
feed the little turtles in here so.
This is awesome, I mean I'm just gonna hang out
and watch this for a while
and see if they come back up
so I can actually see them swimming around.
This is epic.
Gonna climb in with Ivy here,
and you know animals actually react differently
when they're in a different environment
so Ivy has been pretty amazing as far as handling
and just socialization
but now she's spending so much time in the water,
I really don't know how she's gonna react
if I try to take her out or do anything.
Now I'm not gonna take her out of the water
but I wanna just interact with her for a minute
and see how she reacts, you know,
if I go in here is she gonna be super defensive
or is she gonna be even more calm
'cause she's in a happy place.
I think it's amazing that she's spending so much time here
so let's just go ahead and give this a shot.
Ivy, okay girl?
You all right, baby?
Oh yeah, she seems fine!
I mean she's got a perfectly disposition right now,
you can see her tongue response is real slow,
she's not showing any aggression.
She feels really warm too, this water is nice and warm.
I mean look it, she just dips right out!
Come on big girl, oh, she loves this water.
I can't wait till it gets super clear
so people can really see her
once we open up on the 13th.
So wow, that's gonna be amazing.
But I'm so glad to see that
she hasn't changed her disposition at all
as far as handling and stuff like that,
that way we can take her out.
Again I'm thinking tomorrow
we're gonna probably try to feed her
which I think will be really cool, so.
That's awesome, that way when we do wanna take her out
we don't have to worry about getting bitten by her.
I was a little concerned about this,
gonna be honest with you,
couldn't be happier with the results.
(upbeat music)
Remember yesterday we actually had
our pied veiled chameleon,
actually we found one slug and then she was buried.
I couldn't even find her.
Well I see her moving around now
which means she came out from her place over here
and she had obviously some slug eggs,
so I wanted to leave her alone because you know,
sometimes those slug eggs can actually bind up in them
so I wanted to give her as much time as she needed
but I see her out now
so I'm gonna go ahead and grab her real quick,
make sure she looks good.
She looks like she laid all of her eggs for sure.
Take a look at her.
I mean she definitely doesn't have anything inside her,
I can feel around and stuff like that,
she looks really good so I'm gonna go ahead
and take a look real quick.
Yep, totally good.
Now the good news is now
that she's laid a clutch of eggs like this,
I can actually put her in
with my male Raul the veiled chameleon
and we can actually hopefully get some good viable eggs
and hatch some chameleons,
although they take like nine months to hatch
so it's a long incubation.
I'm just gonna dig around in here a little bit
and see if I can find where she might have buried the eggs.
Oh I hate to do this but,
gonna have to take a couple things out of here.
Oh, I see one.
Oh, here we go, we got one egg here.
We got two eggs.
Again these are infertile so
I'm not worried about the eggs their self
I'm just sorta, here we go.
Here it's a bunch more eggs,
I found her nest so she's got a bunch of eggs right here
so she basically buried herself right over by that pot
where she felt really good
and it was crazy because I literally couldn't even find her.
Oh my god, there is a bunch of eggs.
We are definitely gonna breed her now
and get all these good eggs.
I couldn't imagine, oh my gosh, there's a ton of them.
Look at all these eggs!
Again these could all be little babies
if we breed her which we're definitely gonna do.
This is crazy, I cannot believe
how many eggs there are here.
There's one, two, three more.
I can't even imagine.
We found one yesterday so we gotta add one to this mix
but holy chamoly!
There's still one more here.
I just keep finding them.
They just can't stop.
There's still more!
There's still, what?
You have to be kidding me right now!
This is insane guys.
More, more.
Another one, another one!
Another one!
My gosh, I thought she was gonna have like maybe ten eggs?
It's like she's got like 100!
Yeah I think we have them all guys.
Oh nope.
One more, nope nope.
Yep, one more here.
Now I think we have them all.
Let's go ahead, see what we have here.
So this is insane, I couldn't have imagined.
Again we're gonna go ahead and breed her
but she had one yesterday
so that's two, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30!
31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50!
52, 54, 55, 56, 57 eggs!
She had 57 eggs!
Yo, I'm not a chameleon expert,
I didn't even know they could lay 57 eggs!
57 eggs!
We are definitely breeding her,
and again she's a translucent
so she's like a pie,
so that's a recessive mutation
so all the babies will be normal veils
that are het for translucent.
57 eggs, people.
Wow, I'm blown away.
Whaddup?
- Hey.
- Dude, is the camera on?
(laughs)
- [Bud] Yeah, yo.
- You need to shoo, I'm stressed now, bud.
- [Bud] Why, what's up dude?
- It's cool, listen I like taxidermy as much
as the next guy does, okay this is sick.
- I really wanna get this as my tax return. I can't decide.
- [Bud] What is it?
- There's a cowboy squirrel.
- You know what, when you still find
stupid stuff with your tax return.
That one's kinda cool, let's see.
- But then this one.
It says, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
- It's bench-pressing the rat trap!
- It's taxidermy you guys, this one's the best one though.
It's a flashing rat.
He's flashing, I want it!
Why do I want it so bad?
- You think you know someone okay.
- Really quick I'm gonna hit you guys with
two little pieces of spam.
Remember the opening weekend is Friday the 13th,
March, Friday the 13th, come hang out with us.
The Reptarium will be open, we'll be having a great time.
Also, do me a favor of course, for you guys that know,
I started a podcast called "Checking In,"
putting a link in the description,
please go show that some love, subscribe, stuff like that.
Wednesdays we have "Checking In" with the whole fam fridays,
Eric and Noah completely hilarious
so go show those things some love,
come hang out with us at The Reptarium
the weekend of the 13th.
Of course little baby caiman lizards
often eat snails in the wild
so we've been feeding cat food and stuff like that
but we finally got some snails
so we're gonna see if they wanna eat.
You guys wanna eat buds?
Go ahead!
(gasps)
- There it is. - [Mary] Yay.
(laughs)
- [Brian] That one definitely crushed it.
(upbeat music)
So this one definitely loved the snails which is cool,
right Mary, that's awesome.
- Hell yeah.
- The other one actually you said likes cat food?
- Really loves the cat food, so.
- All right, so at least the one's eating cat food,
the other one now is eating snails really good
so we'll give them a lot of variety and stuff like that,
and again this is the temporary set-up for it,
gonna do something really cool aquatic next door
when we get The Reptarium going over there
but they are absolutely wonderful.
You guys know that I'm like a kid on Christmas morning
when it comes to all this stuff
and I was working on the iguana cage obviously,
the temperatures are actually dialed in,
I'm not even sure if we need the mercury-vapor
'cause the temperatures are getting so good,
I'm not putting these guys in permanently
because I'm gonna spend at least a week on that enclosure
getting everything dialed in.
But I just wanna see what Diddy's gonna do.
Come on Diddy, what are you doing silly?
You wanna step up to me?
Come on over, oh looks like Dixie wants to come, too
but I'm just gonna take Diddy.
I'm gonna bring him back in a minute, Dixie I promise!
Don't you worry.
Let's just see what he's gonna do in there.
I wanna see, he's gonna get lost in this cage.
He's just gonna be so small for this big cage,
I just wanna get an idea of what he's gonna do.
Where is he gonna run around, what's he gonna think?
Up you go, up you go.
What you wanna do?
Yeah, what are you thinking?
(laughs)
Oh, look at him in there!
That is so absolutely dope,
and that's the whole idea is that I'm hoping that
when we come he's gonna either come up here
or come down here 'cause Diddy's like my dog, right,
as soon as we open that cage he runs right over to us
but have some fun, play little buddy!
Where you going, silly?
Hi sweetie, hey.
Oh my god, he looks so cool.
I'm gonna look at him outside,
I gotta go see what this looks like.
Look at that!
Oh my god, that is so dope!
Man people are gonna be able to
come up and see him like that,
again I'm gonna let him run around
for maybe just a few minutes then I'll take him back over.
I don't wanna put him in here permanently obviously,
we gotta still dial things in but
that, that is amazing.
(upbeat music)
All right, so it's time to feed Lucy
but my buddy Jada's doing the shell snakes so,
he's gonna get the honors today,
she's not in a good mood so let's hope things work out.
I'm going in.
- [Jada] I'll pull you out.
Ready?
- [Brian] Yep, you can go in.
There you go, good job.
Hey Jay, you're like a pro, man.
It's okay, it's all right, it's good.
We're good.
Woo, there it is!
Nice, huh?
Everyone lived, right?
- [Man] Yep.
- [Brian] All right guys, good.
Way to go.
Super excited to tell you guys
that the pied veiled chameleon that laid all the eggs
is crushing food, she ate a bunch of food.
We're just leaving her alone, letting her de-stress
but the fact that she's eating is incredible,
now we can get her in with Raul pretty soon
and maybe get some fertile eggs, I mean how insane.
And 57 eggs, couldn't have imagined that
in my wildest dreams.
Can you imagine 57 little babies hatching?
Oh my gosh, it's gonna be ridiculous.
So hopefully that'll happen in the future,
thank you guys so much for joining me today,
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