Take a look at this!
I can't even believe that I'm holding
a bunch of pyths like this.
Andrea is giving Perdita a second rep, whoa!
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Hey, good morning everybody! Welcome to the vlog
and welcome to the reptarium.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible.
I am actually draining some of Bowser's pond today
because it is mucky lookin' and I'm hoping
I can speed up that bacterial bloom.
We also have to feed a lot of animals over
at the reptarium today.
So for those of you that have been excited about
"how are they gonna feed these animals?"
You're about to find out.
Andrea is getting ready for feeding day
and really the thing about reptiles is that
if they're feeding, that means that they're probably
adjusting well.
When they stop feeding is usually when they're
a little stressed and they're still kind of
adjusting so, we've been feeding some stuff
and its been going really well but today is
the first big feed for the reptiles.
So let's see how things eat, if they eat really well
that's going to be a great sign.
And by the way, we are open today
if you guys are watching. It's actually Wednesday for me
but Friday for you guys. We are open this weekend.
So we are not going to feed the animals that
are gonna to be out a lot because, of course,
we don't want to feed 'em and then have
you guys handling 'em a couple days.
We're feedin' those guys on Monday so, anyways.
We are gonna feed everything else today and,
uh, hopefully it goes well.
(waterfall running)
That was success.
(water splashing)
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Eric is actually off the rest of the week
because of some big event, what is it again?
- Uh, like a Bar Mitzvah,
or I'm getting married!
- Oh my gosh, getting married.
Wish Eric and Mary a happy nuptials, for sure.
And you're bringing your family?
- Thank you. Yes, it's all Mary's family.
- [Brian] Oh, Mary's family?
- Yep, yep, yep. My family, who knows where they are?
- I hate to ask, but how do you get along with them?
- Dude, honestly, they are so cool.
They are the coolest people. I was really surprised.
I really wanted them to like me and stuff like that.
They laugh at all my jokes.
Mary's ex really paved the way, man, he was a real doucher.
So, your boy, Eric, got in real easy.
(laughing)
- Paved the way.
- Alright, alright, well good.
Well, have fun with the fam, alright?
- Thank you, thanks for lettin' 'em come by.
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- Next up is Perdita.
Yeah, could tell she was ready to eat.
So they said I wanted a zoo,
that means that, uh, every now and then
you gotta get into precarious positions.
There's no way to feed this girl
except to go in the cage.
Okay hun.
You gonna be nice to me?
You gonna be nice?
Alright!
There it is!
Perfect!
(laughing) Oh, my god.
What do you think, Andrea?
- That's insane.
(laughing)
This is, this is awesome.
This is awesome.
Uh, same thing with Titan,
but this time, uh, he's up top
so it's gonna be a little bit more tricky.
But, uh, you gotta do whatcha gotta do.
Titan.
Ready?
Gonna be honest, he doesn't seem interested in food.
He's more defensive, so, I think I'm going
to just let him settle in a little bit longer
rather than stress him out.
So Snaz looks really interested.
I think I'm gonna just gonna go ahead and
leave the rat in there.
If I'm not mistaken, my friend Rhonda said
often times he would just crawl up and eat it.
So, I think Snaz is gonna eat.
We'll come back and check on him in a bit.
Andrea is giving Perdita a second rep, whoa!
Hello, now.
Whoa!
There you go, there you go sweetheart.
You ready for week two?
Reptarium open?
Oh, and by the way, we are open Saturday.
We are going to the wedding.
Some people were mad at me, like,
"I can't believe you wouldn't go to the wedding!"
Ah, we're goin' to the wedding,
but we are open Saturday, which is awesome.
So, if you guys want to come out to see us,
we'll be at a wedding, but please come out and visit us.
Uh, we will be out Friday, uh, movie night sold out.
But we're gonna do, oh, I wanted to tell you,
what do you think about, did I tell you about
the Irwin family thing? The Animal Planet show?
- No.
- Okay, so, the Irwin family has a show on Animal Planet,
I think its, like, the middle of October,
something like that, premiere.
We're gonna do a premiere party here, same thing,
like 20 tickets only available.
Pizza, everything like that.
We can watch the Irwin family, what do you think?
- Why not?
(both laugh)
- So she's agreeing with me.
- This is, this is basically what, I guess,
I've agreed to my life to being, but,
I may not be at all of these.
(laughs)
- She probably won't be at any of these.
But anyways, so, look out for that.
All kinds, of you know, go to reptarium.com.
Gonna have all kinds of things.
I wanna do a, uh, Halloween costume party.
I want a "bring people that are afraid of snakes" night,
so that we can teach them how to do it.
Uh, "handling night".
"Bring your mom or spouse that doesn't want you
to have a snake" night.
- (laughing) Oh, god.
- We're gonna do a onesie night,
we're gonna do a onesie night.
- Oh no, I'm not coming to that. I do not want to see that.
- So go to reptarium.com, you'll see all the events.
- Quick break from the feeding and reptarium stuff
for this shipment of snakes that,
uh, I want to open with you guys if you don't mind.
And this is probably one of the last shipments of these
that I'm gonna get for the year
so that's why I got them when they were available
because these are so popular, that uh,
(laughs) oh my god, they are absolutely incredible.
I know that I'm gonna be sold out relatively soon,
I'm gonna be like "oh, I wish I had more."
So, when I had these available from my buddy
I was like, I have to do it, and of course,
that's Piebald Ball Python.
And that's right, that's a whole shipment
of Piebald Ball Pythons.
We actually got 25 more Piebs in.
Oh my gosh, they are absolutely beautiful.
And of course, you know I'm always looking to see
if there's a smiley face.
This one really isn't a smiley face, maybe more
like a, uh, cyclops-type of face, or somethin like that.
But, wow, is that thing high white?
And the thing that I love about Piebald,
and this is a source that I get all my Piebs from.
They produce a couple hundred a year
and I usually buy about a hundred of 'em or so.
But look at the variability of 'em,
that's what's so amazing about Piebalds.
Again, if you wanna high-white one,
you get a high-what one. If you like ones like I do
where its like almost 50 or 60% white,
and lots of pattern, I think that's the most stunning
and most shocking animal, you can get that.
And sometimes he even ships me relatively
low-white ones, right here. You can see this one
probably only has about 25% white,
predominately cool-patterned up front,
and then a couple white splotching on it.
I still think that's absolutely incredible.
And some of these monkeys are definitely fresh.
This one literally must have came out of the egg
in the last couple days. So we'll set these up,
let 'em shed, get a couple meals into 'em,
and then we'll go ahead and put individual pictures
on the website, that way if you guys are interested
in somethin', you can pick the exact animal you want.
Take a look at how unusual this one is,
this is definitely a pretty high-white one.
But the blotching on it is pretty much patternless,
which makes this one super cool.
But the truth is, every single Pieb is cool in my eyes.
And again, I've said this a million times,
every time I unpack these guys, if you have
a hundred Piebalds, each one of 'em is completely different.
And this one here almost has a little jack-o-lantern
on it, but its a little bit too attached.
And, you know, people ask me all the time,
"What's your favorite ball python, more,
if you could only choose one thing?"
The truth is, I would really have a hard time choosing
but Piebs probably would definitely'd be in the top
two or three
because I just think they're absolutely stunning.
And here's another one that's trying to be a smiley face.
It's so funny how many Piebs have a smiley face on it.
Oh, and look at that! It's almost a heart.
I mean, how cool is that? Or maybe it's a donut.
I don't know, whichever it is, regardless,
that's got some unique marks.
- Oh and take a look at this one.
This is absolutely, really cool
because its got a head pattern,
then its got a white splotch,
then its got a pattern then white spots,
then pattern then white spots all the way down.
This is probably one of the most interesting Piebs
in this shipment, you don't typically see them
with all of these patterns kind of blotching
throughout the whole bottom, I mean that is awesome.
Then on the other spectrum, look at this,
it hardly has any pattern at all,
that is definitely a 90% white animal for sure.
Then finally, this one here, and I tell ya what,
this is so amazing.
I'm not sure if I'm going to get any more Piebs this year,
again, we're about done hatching, so we're not going
to hatch anymore, so this may be the absolute last ones,
the last 25 of the year.
If I have an opportunity to get any more,
if he hatches some, I'm definitely gonna do it.
But for now, this might be the last baby Pieb of the year.
And it sure is a stunner,
oh, my gosh.
But the truth is guys, all of these are amazing.
I mean, just take a look at this.
I can't even believe that I'm holding a bunch
of Piebs like this.
Again, way back when Piebs were first roose
they were $25,000. I mean right now I'd be holding
like a half-million dollars of snakes if these guys
were still worth $25,000.
But regardless, there is the unboxing for the day.
Let's go ahead and get back over to the reptarium.
And like I mentioned, Snazzy here, ate no problem.
So, we're gonna go ahead and offer him a second one.
He might take it this way or we'll just have to lay it.
I'm not sure.
Again, we're just still trying to figure out
this animal's behavior.
Okay, we're going to leave another one.
It's a weird animal.
Again, each animal has a different personality.
Snazzy is definitely one of those ones that, uh,
just takes it right off the ground,
which is completely fine.
I would say feeding went okay,
I would say about sixty percent of the animals ate.
Which is about what I would expect.
Remember there is an adjustment period.
These guys haven't had the commotion, bigger cages,
all that stuff, and a lot of people sometimes
think that a bigger cage is better,
but, it actually can cause a little stress for animals.
At least in an adjustment period,
so we just have to just continue to work with them.
I think the majority of the animals will get going
in the next week or two, but if an animal
just doesn't adjust, we'll have to pull it off
and replace it with something else that eventually does.
But in the end, it really was about what I expected.
Jessica is over here, kinda, redoing some of the pond stuff,
right?
- Yeah, I'm trying to. We'll see how it goes.
- So you can see she tore down one of the dark parts.
So basically what happened, is what, we didn't have
the waterfall right, right?
- Yeah, so what we're gonna do is add some more
of this stuff here, which is false bottom, and make it
a little bit higher so the water can be all
throughout the cage cause we had originally tried
to make, like, a reservoir, and it didn't seal,
so it just went everywhere.
- Gotcha.
Yeah, and basically what could happen is
you could have water in the false bottom,
but you don't want water in the actual substrate
because that makes it go bad.
So, what we had to do was literally increase
the false bottom a little bit, that way
the water level can be as high as that
false bottom and submerge the pump,
the waterfall works, then you have your
bioactive soil on top of it, make sense?
- Yep.
- Another thing I was able to do today is
I finished out the rack here.
So this rack is all built out here,
it swoops 'round to this side,
goes over to here, right to here,
so tomorrow I can actually rock this out,
and make it look really nice.
We'll do the same thing we've done with the rest
of the place, but with this wall here so that
should finish out that.
Then, really, the only last major job, of course,
is gonna be the alligator tank.
Oh, and by they way, tomorrow I have my first
private tour, so that's pretty awesome.
Then we have some media stuff, and something like that,
so, uh,
good day comin' up tomorrow.
With that said, guys, I am gonna do one last thing
for the night, which is replace a few ballasts.
We actually have three lights out, yeah,
like I don't have enough on my plate.
I'm building the zoo out.
Doing all that type of stuff, working with animals
and I am the electrician.
So, I'm just gonna go ahead and finish the vlog here
because its boring watching me do electrical work,
if you know what I mean.
And I am going to wish you guys an absolutely
amazing day, or night,
if you happen to be watching at night,
thank you, as always, for all your support.
You guys mean the world to me, and I truly do
love you so much.
Do me a couple favors before we get outta here,
smash that "like" button,
turn the post notification on, leave a comment,
because I like readin' about you guys.
Be kind to somebody, and I promise,
I will see you guys tomorrow.
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