- This is not only my smallest,
but also the least expensive enclosure
that I have here at the Reptarium,
costing me only about 20 bucks.
(Mike laughs)
- It's got one cactus in it.
- And my most expensive enclosure that I've ever made
is certainly Ivy's enclosure here,
who's right over here.
Look at how beautiful she looks.
She's got all kinds of land features,
but also, it has a few hundred gallons of water
with a waterfall.
It's an absolutely massive enclosure.
And this one cost me over $40,000 to build.
But let's go ahead and back up
and start talking about what the difference is
between my most expensive and my least expensive enclosure
here at the Reptarium.
Let's go back to some of the more inexpensive enclosures
that I've actually done here.
When we built the Reptarium,
it was all about making really cool enclosures,
but also trying to save as much money as we possibly could,
so we could have a bunch of really cool animals in here.
So we use Zoo Med skyscrapers
that are 36 inches by 18 inches by 18 inches.
Those enclosures only cost a couple hundred dollars.
Then we add a nice beautiful backdrop.
And I've gotta be careful because, Carl,
emerald tree boa's looking at me like, are you a fool?
These backdrops cost about $150.
And then we, of course, have plants, we have lighting,
we have all stuff like this.
But overall, most of these enclosures cost us $450.
- Sexy, eh?
This is not stupid.
- What are we doing?
- I got juice in my eye!
- Mike, this spa day is so relaxing.
Stop, touching my butt. - You know what we should do?
I'm sorry, I can't see.
(Noah and Mike laugh)
Give some animals some spa days.
They deserve it. - Oh, my.
They really do. They work so hard.
- Inspect her feet.
Ow!
(Noah burps)
- Ooh, them nails are sharp!
Hurry up. - [Mike] Snip.
- Look how relaxed he is.
Mike, you're really just not that good at this.
- Can you hold-- - Ah! Ah!
- Can you hold him still?
- Dude, I'm going through something!
Ah! God!
Wow.
- Can you hold him?
- I am literally trying.
- You're not doing good, Noah.
Can you hold still for 30 seconds?
Noah, you suck at holding him.
(Noah yells)
- I got one nail left on this foot.
Hold on, I have two left.
Oh, I gotta get his back legs.
- What? You gotta do those too?
- Yeah, those are the ones that we're cutting, yeah.
Alrighty.
Nope. Maybe not.
- [Noah] God, Toothless doesn't like you very much, huh?
- Funny thing is he actually sat still for that.
- [Noah] Maybe that's all you gotta do.
- [Mike] Whew. - [Noah] Nice, Mike.
- I did not cut his finger off.
We're done.
That's all the tips.
- If I ran this place, things would be so different.
- Now, there's a big jump up
when it comes to the amount that these enclosures cost.
Look at these chunky monkeys right here!
They just wanna come out and eat me.
This, of course, our alligator enclosure here.
And it's actually pretty cool.
It's built right into the wall.
There's actually Universal Rock here.
We've got basking lights on both sides.
We have a water feature down here.
We have a sump pump that's down here,
and those sumps cost quite a bit of money too
to keep this water as clean as it is.
So this enclosure here, from start to finish,
installed by myself.
Lot of swag and equity.
Still cost $6,000.
- I think Karen just pulled up.
- [Jay] With your ice cream?
- I don't know. I didn't ask her to bring me any.
- Take a look at, guys.
This is so dope.
Got my monkey tail skinks.
They're actually eating right now.
They are so absolutely adorable.
And these enclosures here are cool
'cause they're actually four foot by four foot
by five foot tall.
So they're kind of a neat, kind of mid-size stuff.
Really cool enclosure for the monkey tail skinks.
This is actually the female right here.
Male's a little bit feisty.
He doesn't really like people too much,
but I just thought it was super cute
to see the female eating.
They love this enclosure,
and we have a bunch of these enclosures here.
And each one of these enclosures like this
cost us roughly about $7,500.
- No ice cream.
She brought Beth's milk.
- Been a minute since we updated Frosty.
What are you doing, you silly monkey?
You want some food, don't you?
And it has some shed on it right now,
but absolutely beautiful white animal.
Love this thing.
Such a cool, cool lizard.
And it's getting super docile.
Remember when it was super shy?
Now it comes out like, hey, what's going on?
And these enclosures here are actually eight foot long
by six foot deep by four foot tall.
And each one of these enclosures,
we have a bunch of 'em here.
They're all fixtured out a little bit differently.
This obviously has a log in it,
has a basking light, has UV light,
has all that type of stuff.
But each one of these enclosures costs us anywhere,
on average, of about $14,000.
(upbeat music)
- Come on, girl!
- You gonna get her out anytime soon?
- Come on!
Okay, Dixie's got some dry shed on her body.
God.
So we're gonna let her soak a little bit.
Slow and low.
Don't wanna freak her out.
(water splashes)
- How'd that go?
- Mike! The water made her tail rainbow!
- I don't think that's the water.
- No, I put her in the water, and then she's,
now that's rainbow.
- Must be that shed.
- Ah! Ah!
Try number two.
Ah!
Mike, you're gonna have to put her with some amnesia.
- We got a larger pool.
Ah, she's pooping.
- See that? Gotta lift her tail up for support.
(Noah gags)
- Acts like a baby.
Just some iguana poop!
Look, Noah, her poop's rainbow too!
I don't think that's normal.
You've been eating too many Lucky Charms.
I don't think she likes the water.
Maybe we try somebody else.
- Yeah, she literally went home.
- We're gonna give Al a spa day now.
(upbeat music)
- You don't have to go in slow-mo
when the camera's in slow-mo.
- Huh?
Uh, toad's water.
Ew.
What is that?
- Mike, grow up!
(water splashing)
- Ew.
Is it Juicy Jelly?
- Feels like it.
- No, Mike!
- Did you enjoy your spa day, Al?
- [Mike And Noah] Mwah!
- Ew!
- Perdida, my beautiful girl.
How are you sweetheart?
You are looking so good.
I love this snake.
Look at the iridescence on this snake right here.
Just absolutely shimmering.
Beautiful, beautiful snake.
And we have an entire row of these enclosures
that are actually double sided.
So you can see from that side or this side.
Plus, they have the doors on each side,
which are really cool.
These guys are actually six foot long.
They're five foot deep and they're seven foot tall,
so they have so much room,
not only with surface area, but also all this climbing area.
Each one is fixtured out a little bit differently,
but on average,
each one cost us about $15,500 per enclosure.
For this one, I'm actually getting inside the enclosure.
Of course, my guy, Diddy, over here.
What's going on?
And Dixie over here looking like, hey dad, what's up?
This is actually a really long and tall enclosure.
I love this thing to be totally honest with you.
And of course it's right in the window.
So Diddy and Dixie get the view of the road the entire day.
It's actually 11 foot long.
It goes floor to ceiling. It's almost 10 foot tall.
And it's three foot deep,
so they have all kinds of room to climb.
When I designed this enclosure,
this is exactly
what I was was hoping it was gonna look like.
And I tell you what, getting it in here was a bear.
There's no doubt about it.
But this enclosure itself cost over $16,000.
Now I don't want you guys
to think I'm telling you all these prices
because I'm trying to brag or anything.
A lot of times people ask me,
how much did it cost to open up the Reptarium?
What does it actually do?
It's a lot of money to make really cool exhibits.
But listen, if you wanna do it, you can definitely do this.
I hope that you're getting something out it,
so that you know what you need
to actually make these types of enclosures.
Of course, we have Baby Kush,
the absolutely incredible crocodile monitor.
Love this guy to death.
And the reason this enclosure costs as much as it did
is 'cause it's what they call a neo angle,
so a lot more glass, a lot more money.
This glass is not cheap at all.
And then whenever you do something custom,
it's gonna cost a lot
because we have angles and all kinds of different things.
It's a pretty large enclosure.
He's gonna actually get a slight upgrade
when we move across the street.
So he's gonna get a little bit more room
'cause he is definitely getting big.
Enclosures like this cost me $17,500.
- I'm not gonna lie.
Totally just farted.
- [Jay] You know how many comments I seen yesterday
about your tape worm?
- Oh, what the (donkey neighs)?
Waiting for her.
- Oh my God, I'm just not really in the mood.
- Noah! - Mike, what are you--
- Noah! Get her out!
What are you doing? - She is just so
freaking strong.
- I thought you worked out every day too.
- Ah! Taking me down.
- All right, just hold her.
All right, we're gonna give Ivy a nice big massage
'cause she's a single mother.
- Gentle. Gentle.
- I just hope she doesn't musk all over you.
A lot of people don't think snakes have bones in 'em,
but that's not true.
A snake's just basically a skull
with a really, really long spine just like people,
except they have lots and lots of ribs.
We wanna rub between every single rib.
Make sure that we get her good.
I'm not so strong. - Yeah.
Just getting all of that like, tissue.
Just wanna rub that out.
Get the lactic acid up. - Just rub it right out.
- Oh my God.
Ivy, didn't know you had grippers like that.
Mike, was that you?
- No, I wasn't even on you.
Rub between all those ribs.
- You're so screwed up. (Mike and Noah laugh)
- Oh my goodness, look how strong she is!
Yeah, okay.
- Lucy's enclosure is really a big enclosure,
and you need a big enclosure
to make a 20 foot two inch snake
look like she's kinda small.
I mean, when you get in here, can you see how much room?
Remember, I actually spent 50 hours in here.
I'll put a card right up here.
You can actually see that 50 hour challenge.
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Of course, there used to be
a little waterfall feature in here.
We just never fixed it.
We gotta get around to doing that at some point.
But it's actually a 12 foot long enclosure,
eight foot deep and eight foot tall.
So she has plenty of room to climb up in the tree,
which she does often.
She'll climb on the ledges at times.
She spends a lot of time in the water.
She loves right over here
'cause this is one of her basking spots.
An enclosure like this could set you back about $20,000.
- A lot of ice cream.
And like I mentioned, glass, water, waterfalls,
costs a lot of money.
Hey, Salty.
It's okay.
Come on. Come on, girl.
Up you go.
And of course, Salt and Pepper deserve it
'cause they are absolutely amazing.
But they are outgrowing this enclosure.
There is no doubt about that.
So in the new place, they're gonna get a giant enclosure
where they can stay their entire life,
and I cannot wait for that.
That enclosure is gonna cost a lot, probably about $100,000.
But this enclosure, because of all the glass,
the water feature and everything else, cost me $25,000.
Bowser, Bowser!
Look at that prehistoric beastie right there.
I absolutely love him.
And I absolutely love the way that this pond turned out.
It was one of our biggest first features
when we actually only had Reptarium 1.0.
This was the feature
that when you walked through the door, you saw,
so it had to be absolutely spectacular.
And the reason it cost so much money
is not only does it have super thick glass,
lots of viewing panels,
but it's also built with steel framing.
So it just cost a lot of money.
Plus all the waterfall, the filtration, everything else.
Really, really expensive.
This unit here actually set me back $30,000.
But again, it was such a focal point of the Reptarium.
We had to have something really cool,
and it's worth every penny.
- Now we have Matilda out, why don't we see what she weighs?
- How about you do it and I just relax?
My pillow.
(upbeat music)
The thing's not even on.
- [Mike] Yeah, it is. - [Noah] Ow!
- Down, down, down.
On the bucket.
Back up, back up.
- [Jay] 152.8.
- But she's not centered! Wow.
- She must be hitting a growth spurt, right?
Because typically when people gain weight,
they shoot up in size, right?
You know, like kids grow.
They get fat.
- She's peeing!
Mike, Mike! She's peeing.
- [Mike] Grabbing the mop!
- So much for relaxing spa day.
Don't drink your pee, Matilda!
- She's so gross!
What is that? A little squirt?
It's clear.
She's hydrating.
It's just so much.
I think she's still going.
There's a new stream coming.
Not the Disney+ or Netflix.
Different kind of stream.
- That brings me back to the most expensive enclosure
that we've ever built here,
which of course was Ivy's enclosure.
The one she's gonna get across the street,
it's gonna be actually even bigger.
Instead of having about 300 gallons of water,
she's gonna have close to 1,000 gallons of water.
That way she can grow to 300 pounds and be happy in there.
Can't wait to share this journey with you.
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