(urine splashing)
- Ah, Jesus.
(woman laughing)
Oh my gosh.
He is definitely not happy.
(suspenseful music)
This is not what I was hoping was gonna happen.
That's for sure.
(high-speed whooshing)
(slow upbeat music)
Hey, good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I'm heading into the reptarium right now
to check if there are any leaks on the waterfall.
I'm a little nervous about this.
(waterfall rushing)
And guess what,
I see a little bit of water on the ground.
Oh no!
This is not good.
Okay, we definitely have some leaking going on here.
Ah, no.
This is not what I was hoping for.
Alright.
So the good news is
Joey is still in town
only for a couple more hours.
So I'm gonna go ahead
and head over and pick him up in a few minutes.
And hopefully we can problem solve this leak.
Because definitely,
water on the ground
with this going on
is not where we wanna be.
But hey guys,
we're gonna be able to figure it out.
And I hope the start to your day is absolutely amazing.
My start, ah, may be a little rocky.
But that's okay.
We're gonna get this fixed.
Thankfully Joey's still here.
So, ah, what do you think?
Just hopefully tighten it up a little bit.
- Yeah, I mean, what we're dealing with is,
is there is just a threaded pipe going through that.
And we have to use threaded barb adapters.
There's no ball cap system.
Which is typically what I would require
or what I would like to use.
But with so little time,
we're just gonna have to work with what we have.
A small little bit of tightening here and there
should do it.
But I think overall,
you'll probably have little drips and stuff
until we completely replace this someday.
But it's not that big of a deal.
With this much water,
a few little drips here and there is expected so.
- Alright, well cool.
Well we've got a little bit of time to tweak this out
before I've have to take Joey to the airport.
And then hopefully when he leaves,
it doesn't explode or something like that.
A little leak is better than a big leak.
I'm back at the airport dropping off Joey.
He is heading back to Canada.
Again Joey, thank you so much brother for everything man.
(loud swooshing)
It means the world to me.
Again, I'm gonna go put his links in the description.
Go show him some love
that he came all this way to fix my tank.
I'll be in touch if there's any problems, alright?
- You will be.
- Alright man, I'll see you soon.
Safe travels brother.
See ya man.
- Yeah.
- That's a big tire.
Back to the shop.
And before I get over to the reptarium,
actually I have this pretty cool thing here.
Look at little baby garter snakes.
(slow upbeat music)
Momma, look at what you've got here.
And look it, we've actually have
some albino granite ones right here.
This is actually an albino granite bread to
a het albino granite.
So a double het.
This would just be a normal albino here.
And you can see,
they even have a little bit of yolk attached.
So this is a normal albino.
There's a granite albino.
Another little tiny thing.
Look at, oh absolutely adorable.
These little babies are.
And this is actually her second litter so.
Much like a lot of colubrids.
They actually have two litters a year.
But in this case, they're live bearers.
So it doesn't look like we have a big litter here.
But so far we have three little babies over here.
We have some ones in the background.
Oh look at this, oh my gosh.
Look at how cool.
That's a granite right there.
Oh my gosh.
That thing is absolutely adorable.
Looks like there's another little granite right here.
Look at how small and adorable it is.
And then we've got a handful of normals
that are obviously het.
They're both granite and albino.
So these were the little double het checkered garter snakes.
Oh my gosh.
Let's see if there's any other babies.
So far we've got what...
Two,
four,
six,
eight,
nine little babies.
I wonder if there's gonna be anymore in here.
Nope, that looks like it.
There's a little infertile ova over here.
We'll get her cleaned up.
But so far we have nine...
Oh don't, don't escape.
We have nine little babies.
This one's still in it's egg sac right there.
A bunch of granites.
So again, we've got a couple granite garters,
a couple albino granite garters,
albinos and double hets.
That's pretty awesome.
We have a lot of work to do next door people.
You guys that are watching,
it's actually two days for me.
It's actually three days.
So I have today and two more days
before the reptarium opens.
Oh my gosh, we have so much to do.
I'll go over there.
And then we'll take inventory and start working.
Just a little quick check list of what we need to do today.
(water rushing)
It's pretty cool.
We actually got light in the pond now.
I can't wait til later tonight.
I'll show you guys how this looks when it's dark.
And then the rest of the pond here,
this should be ready to go in a couple days of warming up
and Bowser'll go in there.
And...
Lucy's waterfall is working again.
She needs to be
very little splashing to no splashing here.
Everything seems to be good.
No leaks.
Making progress.
Move Lucy into here.
I've got another really beautiful tiger retic
that I'm gonna put up here in her spot.
So I have to clean this cage up pretty much.
And then the next big thing is working on
all the fronts here.
I've gotta finish the plastic up top.
And just like I did here with this post
and the rocking right here,
I've gotta do that on all the fronts and like that.
And then Lori has to go back and actually touch em up.
So that's a big job for today.
We have to just continue to punch out these things
one job at a time.
It seems a little overwhelming
with only having a few days left.
But, we've gotta do one thing at a time.
Oh, and by the way, hopefully with any luck,
I can get some slate on top of this.
And we can maybe get the tortoises in maybe tomorrow,
by the latest the next day.
So, ah, okay.
Let's buckle up people.
It's gonna be a crazy day.
So good to have Lucy's pond getting filled up again.
And then after that, we have to put the bedding back in.
Just kinda make sure everything is working.
And then the exciting job of having Lucy over here.
And by the way, she's going into shed
which is kind of a bummer.
Because that means she's probably not gonna be
in that good of a mood.
But more importantly,
the fact is that she's not gonna look her best
when we open up on the 21st.
She's gonna look kind of dull and then blue.
And then of course, when she sheds,
hopefully she doesn't wreck the whole place.
Because then we have to come in and clean it up.
But hey, that is what is.
What can you do, so.
Hopefully this thing works out well.
Get Lucy back over here.
So Lucy's cage is all set and ready to go.
Ah, this is kinda the moment
I was a little bit concerned about.
She's actually, if you look real quick,
she's going actually a little bit blue and opaque.
Which means she might be a little bit cranky.
I'm not 100% sure.
We're just gonna have to see how it goes.
You know, last time I did this,
you know, I used this stick to kinda push her head away.
And some people were like
oh, you're prodding her and stuff like that.
You know, I'm not prodding her.
I'm just kinda keeping her head going away.
Because, if you can get her to go away,
then she's not gonna strike at you.
I'm never pushing or doing anything like that.
So that's a technique you use with big snakes.
Is you just kinda get their heads moving away from you.
Because if they're moving towards you,
you're in trouble.
We'll see what she does here.
I'm just gonna try to get her.
I'm kinda in a pretty vulnerable spot right now,
unfortunately.
And I don't know what's gonna happen.
So I'm just gonna have to go for it.
And see, what goes down.
Okay.
Ah.
(suspenseful music)
- Oh no, we're going.
Uh huh.
Alright.
(snake tail thumping)
Whoop.
Oh.
- Whoa.
- You alright?
- Watch it.
Definitely not in a good mood at all.
(high-speed whooshing)
See she's got her mouth open.
She's not wanting to come out.
Not a whole lot I can do.
And I'm kinda just face first with her here.
(high-speed whooshing)
Ah.
(dramatic music)
So there's not a whole lot I can do.
Hah.
This is not easy at all.
Oh.
Again, I'm just trying to keep her face away, moving away.
Because if I can get her to move away,
I can maybe grab her.
And I have her coming.
(suspenseful music)
See how she starts to move away?
Now I'm in, I've got a spot that I might be okay with her.
Now you just have to be careful with her coming this way.
And unfortunately, because this is such a big cage,
it's, it's a disadvantage to me for sure.
Huh, she is definitely not happy.
This is not what I was hoping was gonna happen.
That's for sure.
(high-speed whooshing)
(scuffling)
(dramatic music)
(high-speed whooshing)
Watch yourself.
- Oh.
(suspenseful music)
- Come on girl.
There you go.
(heavy breathing)
Okay I'm not gonna lie that was
about the worst case scenario
for getting her but,
she's back in her cage.
I'm sure she'll be happy
now she's back in here.
(water rushing)
(heavy breathing)
There you go Lucy.
(water dripping)
(people chattering)
The turtle tank is basically full.
(slow upbeat music) (water rushing)
We might go a little bit higher.
But for now I'm stop here
and make sure it just goes well.
The sound is a little bit better.
It was a little bit loud when it was lower.
And I'm thinking to myself,
when people come in,
you're gonna have to be like screaming.
It sounds like Niagra Falls.
With it being higher,
it's definitely a little better.
But we can adjust it.
So it's gonna be a work in progress.
But uh, we're getting there.
Now on to working on this front side here
and all of the fronts of these tanks.
There is a ton of work.
Probably gonna take me a day and a half to finish it.
Hopefully, because we have to get that finished.
That is the next huge thing on my list.
And, with that said,
we have a problem.
(water dripping)
For some reason, my power keeps shutting off.
I don't know if maybe running all three of those pumps
on one circuit is no good.
I'm gonna have to try put this up.
Uh oh.
This ran for like the last 12 hours, no problem.
I don't know what's going on now.
I'm stressing out.
Okay, so this makes me feel better.
I completely forgot.
I think what happened is we have a bad outlet up top.
Because it's blinking.
It's a GFI.
And it won't reset.
So when I plugged into a different circuit,
what ends up happening is that these pools
run for one minute.
And then they go off for two minutes to purge theirself.
And then two minutes later,
they turn back on.
So when I plugged it into the new one,
I was like what's going on?
It only ran for a minute.
So that should be good.
We're gonna go ahead,
give it two minutes.
Hopefully it goes back on.
And problem will hopefully be solved.
And then it's just really a bad outlet.
(water rushing) And we're back running.
So I think my anxiety and stress level
is getting a little high
because I got pretty worried.
Like, oh my God, Joey just left.
What am I gonna do?
Alright, back to work,
getting these fronts of these cages.
Well it sure wasn't fun moving Lucy.
But now the cage that Lucy was in is open and cleaned up.
We can move my one big tiger reticulate probably.
That's really a beautiful snake
that definitely needs an upgrade.
(snake rustling)
- Watch yourself cuz she'll pee.
(laughs)
- Wouldn't ya know it,
she's in shed too.
So all the big, beautiful reticulate pythons
for our opening are gonna be in shed.
You guys ready?
- Yes.
- Yep.
- Okay, here we go.
It's okay girl.
(footsteps scooting)
- Ah.
- She's gonna look great in that big cage though.
- Absolutely.
- She's gonna be happy.
(people chattering)
(urine splashing) - Oh no.
(woman laughing)
- Oh Jesus.
Oh my gosh.
- That was a little delayed.
(woman laughing)
- Oh my gosh, be careful.
Okay.
- Woop, where's she going?
- Watch yourself, watch yourself.
You're gonna get pee all over ya.
Be careful.
- Watch your step.
- Yeah, watch yourself.
Don't let that tail get ya.
That's the worst thing.
- Uh.
(people chattering)
Come here honey.
Almost there.
- Okay, girl.
Oh my gosh.
- Just for you momma.
- She looks pretty.
- A figure eight, okay.
(snake moving)
- Look at that.
She looks good too.
(people chattering)
(laughing)
Oh my God.
What's with this retics today, man?
(laughing)
Holy cow.
Geez.
- The full moon?
- I know.
- The christening of the reptarium.
(laughing)
- Oh my gosh.
It's like these retics today.
(chattering)
I mean both Lucy and her and we don't.
Do we have a name for her yet?
- We don't.
She needs a name.
- What do ya think?
- I don't know.
We have to give this some thought.
It has to be special.
- Special, okay.
Let me know in the comments.
Another girl that needs her name.
She is absolutely gorgeous.
She's a...
(laughing)
She's a handful today.
Gave us a little bit of a,
a little bit of a shower.
But, we're in good shape.
So, let me know what you guys think of her name.
It's awesome to have her in.
Now, back to work.
I'm doing these front.
And while I was working actually,
Noah and Eric,
you guys moved Ricky over?
- Yeah.
And he went straight to the top.
He came down a couple times.
But he made his way back up there so--
- How'd he go?
I mean because we got peed on both times
we were moving retics.
- No.
He was super chill.
- He was pretty good.
He was wrapped around my leg the whole time.
- Yeah.
I like threw a hamstring out trying to walk with him.
- Oh my gosh.
- Yep, but he didn't, he was really good.
- Alright, so if you guys wanna check
their whole move out there,
that's on your vlog channel?
- Correct.
- Okay, I'll put a link in the description.
You can see, Ricky moving over to his new cage.
They were doing that as I was working of course.
(Noah laughing)
Which it sounds like they got the easier one because--
- Yeah.
- They went well for you guys.
- Yeah.
- Didn't go so well for us with the retics, so.
Ricky absolutely looks amazing in this cage.
So I'm not gonna lie.
I've done a horrible job of vlogging today.
The last like five hours,
I've just been like working my butt off,
trying to get stuff done.
And I haven't even picked up the cameras.
But let me show you what I did do.
(water rushing)
I did the front of the cages here, see?
So again, this is gonna be black and moist.
And here, you can see we kinda came around for this.
It kinda wraps to the door.
The door's gonna be covered
in a bunch of vines and stuff like that.
We did all the plastic up top here.
And then around the other side,
we did the exact same thing.
You can kinda start to see,
that the fronts are looking like this.
Come around here.
And your gonna start to see here.
We still have to fixture all this up.
But your starting to see
that it's coming together right here.
We have the centers done.
And then we have to put the poles down here.
It is slowly coming together.
I tell you what.
It is arduous guys.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
This is really, really difficult.
I mean I can not tell you
how hard we have been working.
Literally, I've been doing like 18 plus hours a day.
Not even stopping for lunch, dinner, anything.
But, that's what you have to do.
I mean we want to get opened by the 21st.
Which is again, tomorrow for you guys.
But actually two days for us.
(water rushing)
Lucy's hanging out in the water, okay.
With that being said,
we had another leak we had to fix today.
But I think we've got that settled in.
This girl here,
that we moved over into the cage that Lucy had,
seems to be settling in really nicely.
Again, we need a name for her.
She is such a beautiful animal.
And she's definitely looks like she's got a really big cage.
But she'll have a couple bigger cages
that we're gonna put bigger snakes in as well.
Just a little update on the mangroves.
I've definitely seen them up in the tree quite a bit.
Over here is the hotspot.
Hangs out all the time.
And then right now it seems like at night time,
it goes over to the cool spot.
Which is pretty interesting to see
the behavior of these animals.
How they're using the hot spots, cold spots.
And even their climbing.
Perdita is loving this new cage.
I mean she is always
up on the hot spot up there.
She climbs around.
She comes out.
I mean she is amazing.
I will say this though.
Now that she's in a big cage like this,
she was a little bit touchy.
Earlier, I took her out.
And she struck at me a few times.
And Perdita never strikes at people.
So I think she's kinda like hey, this is my cage.
You better watch out.
Then of course, Eric and Noah moved over Ricky.
And he's just been hanging out right here on the rock.
I think it's really cool.
Cuz they got, this is the real hot spot.
He's touching a little bit of the heat over here.
This is the cool side down over here.
But it's interesting how the retics
definitely seem to find like
one of the highest spots in the cage.
They definitely love to climb.
But as far as snakes go,
I'll be honest with you.
This jungle carpet python
that's back here in the corner,
she's probably been the most active snake
when putting her in here.
She's up by the hotspot sometimes.
I find her at night right on this branch over here.
Sometimes she's over here.
Sometimes she's over there.
I mean she uses every inch of this cage.
And just seems like every time I come by,
she's in another spot.
She is loving it.
And by the way, she's super, super docile.
Had her out earlier and she was like a puppy dog.
So it hasn't changed her personality.
Oh I mean I know it's kinda a wreck around here.
We're just really working really hard.
But remember I told you we got the lights in the pond.
(water rushing)
And you guys know that I love it
when it's dark in here
and you can just see the light of the tank.
So I wanna turn out the lights for you guys,
and see what this place looks like
with the lights in the pond.
(water rushing)
Oh my God.
Look at this place.
Oh my gosh.
Is that freakin awesome or what?
The pond looks really good.
And again, you can start to see,
the whole place is coming together.
Now there's lights on both sides.
And this is how we're gonna pretty much have it.
Usually when we're open for the public.
We'll probably have the lights off.
So that you can really just see the animals
and the cages pop a tremendous amount.
Rather than having the lights on.
So that way, you can just kinda walk around in the dark.
And it's kinda really cool.
And a little bit creepy
in a little bit of a ways.
But pretty awesome.
And for those of you that are missing the antics
over at BHB,
we are still hatching a lot of cool stuff.
And take a look at these.
Oh my God.
These of course are little mangrove snakes.
I mean take a look at how oh,
look at how cute they are.
Oh my gosh.
They are just mildly venomous.
I think at this size they can't even break the skin.
So I'm not worried about it.
But that one is angry.
Look at how amazing this one is right here.
Oh my God.
They have some red tinges to em.
This one doesn't have the bars all the way across it
so it's really black.
Oh my gosh.
And we have three more eggs
that haven't quite hatched yet.
And this little angry monkey right here.
Oh my God.
They are so cute so...
Regardless, don't worry.
Once we get the reptarium up and rolling,
you're gonna see a lot of stuff back at BHB.
Of course we're gonna always be at the reptarium as well.
But, I know some of you guys are probably like
ah, I really do miss those days with just seeing BHB.
It hasn't been that long, honestly.
(laughing)
But I promise you we will get back to normal here again.
It's like I said,
you'll see the reptarium,
and then we'll kinda be able to pull the shades back
and see what's going on over here at BHB too.
And of course Eric and everyone else
will be back in the vlog soon.
Anyways.
So we have a couple more days.
I am absolutely loving these little mangroves.
I am so excited to be hatching these guys.
You notice always I've said,
that I'm gonna take you guys on the journey.
Emotionally, physically.
The whole shot of building the reptarium.
And really, fulfilling my life's dream.
It's been amazing.
Yes, it's been hard.
Yes, I am exhausted.
Yes, I've lost like seven or eight pounds
cuz I haven't hardly eaten over the last week.
But it's gonna be amazing.
And I can't wait to see you guys when you come to visit.
Some of you again, will be tomorrow.
For me, it's gonna be two days
because the vlog is always a day behind.
But maybe tomorrow,
I'm gonna get a chance to meet some of you guys.
We'll hang out.
We'll have an absolutely amazing day.
Again, four o'clock, the 21st.
We're gonna be open.
But again, we'll be open all weekend long.
The 21st, 22nd, and 23rd.
From four o'clock to nine o'clock.
You can also go to www.thereptarium.com,
if you wanna book a private tour,
you wanna little time before four o'clock,
all that type of stuff.
And I know that I'm gonna look back on this,
and even though it's unbelievably draining,
it's gonna be so worth it.
I mean, every now and then,
I can just kinda take a breath.
And kinda look around and go
oh my gosh.
Right now it's kinda a tornado over there.
But the truth is this has been incredible.
And thank you guys for kinda joining me.
I mean this last few weeks with you guys commenting it
lifts my spirits.
Everyday when I read your comments,
even when I'm tired,
you guys inspire me.
So thank you and keep those comments coming
and all those positive vibes.
With that said, I am gonna go ahead and end the vlog here.
And I will try to do a better job of vlogging tomorrow.
As a matter of fact, tomorrow morning,
I think myself and Jessica
are gonna Josh's Frogs.
We're gonna pick up some animals.
Some other supplies that we need.
So that's the way we're gonna start our day.
I think we're leaving at like 6:00 in the morning
to head over there
because we have a really long day
of building the things out.
Regardless, you guys have an absolutely amazing day.
Thank you, as always, for everything.
I do truly love you guys.
Do me a couple of favors before I get out of here
and hopefully get some rest.
Can you smash that like button?
Turn those post notifications on
so you know when I upload a video.
Make sure to be kind to someone
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
(slow upbeat music)