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- [Brian] That thing is absolutely cool!
It seems fine, look at her.
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- Hey good morning everybody, welcome to the Vlog.
Look at this beautiful albino Kunashir rat,
did a great shed.
And what we basically do is we'll save these sheds
and often times we just give them to kids
when they come to the Reptarium.
But take a look at how amazing that snake looks.
I mean that thing is absolutely incredible.
And again, it's a snake that you won't see too often,
I mean it's a pretty rare animal in the sense that,
years ago more and more of them were produced,
but now you hardly ever see them, so hopefully in the future
we can produce some more and keep these guys around.
But regardless that shed is absolutely incredible,
and I think that actually the Jungle Carpet had a nice
shed today, too.
So that's a couple cool sheds that some kids are gonna
get at the Reptarium this weekend.
Regardless, I hope the start of your day is amazing.
What do you say we have a great day together?
Super excited to be putting in the side pieces here.
Remember you used to be able to see the two by fours,
now they're covered like this.
We're getting all of the tanks set up.
I still have some that have like kinda a little bit
of a forest background.
I wanna kinda vary it, you know, forest, then I've got
the cement, then I've got the forest again.
Just make it look really awesome but it's just cool to
finally see how much different it looks when you
put these in and start to finish them off.
It's been a job that's been bugging me for a long time.
I am so happy that we're getting there with this one.
Abbasuku's had this stuck shed on her for a while
so I figured we'd go ahead and see if we can soak her,
maybe that'll help a little bit.
It bugs me, I know that it's just part of keeping monitors,
but I just, I look at it and I'm like you gotta get it off.
So this outta be fun, what do you say we try
to soak Abbasuku.
So the thing with Abbasuku is that
it's very, very food driven.
So once it realizes we're not food, I'm hoping that
I'll get an opportunity to be able to pick her up.
'Cause I don't want to strong-arm her or struggle with her.
Basically, you when she first came in, I was able to
actually hold her.
I'm hoping that that'll happen now,
but I don't know how this is gonna go.
I have no idea.
I just know that I don't wanna be on the biting end
of that mouth because that's an extremely...
Oh, come on girl, you're okay, you're okay.
Okay, here we go.
I'm in now, there's no turning back.
It's actually not too bad, she seems fine, look at her.
Okay, okay, we're gonna just put you in some nice
warm water, girl.
There you go, girl, there you go.
(splashing water)
All right so we got her into...
we got her in some nice warm water,
which I think will be good for her.
Uh-oh, we're okay, bud, we're okay, we're okay
we're okay, we're okay, we're all right, we're all right.
We're all right, okay, okay, okay, okay.
We're nice and calm, nice and calm.
Big thing about monitors is you've gotta kinda stay
calm around them.
(splashing water)
Okay, well that didn't go quite as good as it started.
I thought when it first started that she was doing
really good and then she got a little bit crazy on me here.
But I really wanna get all that shed skin off
so I wanted to soak her really good.
So she's in here, she seems to have calmed down now.
We'll probable give her, 20 minutes, 30 minutes in here
and then we'll come up and hopefully it looks like
Okay, looks like I've got all my digits.
(laughs)
So we'll come back and we'll get her back in
and that could be just as perilous as anything
'cause now I have to lift up from her
and get her all the way up on top of here.
But it didn't go too bad, I mean,
I still have all my fingers.
Real quick unboxing.
Actually yesterday when I got that shipment of Ball Pythons,
I thought it was missing something 'cause I remember talking
to him about these particular animals.
And I reached out to him because when I looked at
what he sent, it said they were in the shipment
and I was like wait a second, these aren't in the shipment.
And he was like, "Oh my God, I forgot to send them!
I'll send these today."
So it's really just two Ball Pythons in this box
that were supposed to be in the shipment yesterday.
So there ya go, but no big deal, it's completely fine.
And, but they are nice ones so I'm super excited
to see them.
I take that back, there's actually three Ball Pythons
in this bag.
Interesting, there's actually an albino that is
het pieballed Ball Python,
and then there's this little monkey right here.
This thing is really gorgeous.
Take a look at that.
That is actually a low white, albino pieballed Ball Python.
Oh my God, that thing is absolutely cool.
Normally, the low whites aren't that interesting
but look at the pattern on this one.
That is super, super cool.
So anyways, these were supposed to be
in yesterday's shipment.
They turned out today, so there ya go, some more snakes.
While Abbazuku is soaking, I'm gonna give you a
little update on Toothless.
And I talked to a couple of my monitor friends including
Kevin and definitely getting thin, not eating,
so they said you can actually really gently
just put something in it's mouth.
And I've been doing that for the last few days
and it's definitely looking much more alert,
much more beefy.
So every single day I've been putting something
in it's mouth and it actually takes it down.
So really gently, come on, Toothless,
so super gently, I'm just opening it's dewlap here.
And the thing that's nice is, is once it's in its mouth
it'll actually take it down on its own.
So that's a really good sign.
So it's starting to put a little bit more weight on it,
and I really believe that it won't be long before it'll
start eating on its own.
We were just concerned the shipping back to New England
might have been too much stress for this particular animal.
So we thought let's go ahead and give this a shot
and see what happens.
I have a feeling it's really gonna work
but again, you can see how absolutely chill it is,
and after a little while it'll start to take it down
on its own.
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Okay, so as you can see, Toothless will literally
take it down on his own a 100%, I just have to get it
in his mouth.
Not ideal, but again I would rather do that,
and take my risk without the stress of shipping it back
and potentially that killing the animal.
So I think that it's doing really well.
Again, every single day we're putting something in
it's mouth and it's taking it down on its own.
So I really feel good that with all that extra nutrition
it's gonna turn around.
And we've been soaking it every day, keeping it
really hydrated so I think Toothless is gonna be good.
I'm feeling really good about this,
as long as we can keep that weight on him.
That was what I was concerned about, he went from looking
kinda plump to looking kinda skinny really, really quick.
Now he's starting to put a little bit more weight on.
Trust me, he's nowhere near where we want him to be as
far as chunkiness by any stretch, but he looks a lot better
than he did even three or four days ago.
So I'm feeling pretty good about it, his tongue response
is great, his eyes look good, everything looks good,
his response is really good.
He's digesting, moving it through his system good,
so okay, hopefully Toothless with be okay.
Guess what, Eric, guess what tomorrow is?
- What's that, it's Thursday?
(laughs)
- It's the day that Laurie and myself are actually
going to pick up the two-headed snake.
- Yes, that's awesome!
You're partying beats me man.
- So it's gonna be pretty exciting.
We're actually heading down to my buddy's place.
We're gonna do a tour of his place, he's got a
really cool reptile collection.
- Sweet.
- It's gonna be really cool and then we're gonna pick up
the two-headed snake.
Oh my God.
So this weekend at the Reptarium, we're actually gonna have
the reveal for the two-headed snake.
- Is that cool?
- Aw man!
This is too cool.
- And guess what else?
Saturday, we've gonna have a big reveal, too.
I can't tell you much about it, but it has to do
with alligators.
- I like it, I like all that stuff.
Heck yeah!
- All right, all right, so we've got some fun stuff
coming for you guys.
It's been about an half an hour, let's take a peek
and see what's going on with Abbazuku.
Hey Bud, how you doin'?
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You okay? Can I pick you up real gently?
All yeah, that's coming off really good, see that?
Gosh, she's definitely sketchy as heck, man.
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(splashing water)
Okay, okay, okay girl.
Just wanna get this shed off you if I can.
Look at this, it's gonna be better for you, bud.
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It's still really stuck on there, I mean,
it soaks all the time, too.
Okay, Abbazuku, here we go, here we go, here we go,
we're up.
Oh my God, that got sketchy for a second there.
There you go, Abbazuku.
It looks a little better, I definitely got some more shed
off but, okay...
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it doesn't look happy.
Oh my God, Abbazuku, definitely does not look happy.
Look at it, its got it's tail.
Well, we got away pretty well, didn't get all the shed off,
but got some of the chunks off.
We'll have to do this again.
I don't know what else to do.
I mean that shed is on there pretty tight
and she spends so much time in her own water
you would think she would certainly be able to get it off
but we'll keep trying.
In the meantime, I'm happy with the results, over all
because I didn't get bit, no one got hurt
and overall she looks a little bit better.
We some more packages from the post office for us so
I figured I would let you guys open some things.
- Cool.
- You open up this.
- It's like a picture frame.
- Sweet.
- You got this.
- All right.
- And I'm gonna open up this really quick.
- This is something fragile.
- You think it is?
- Yeah, like...
- This box by the way is really cool.
Look, it's got tons of stickers on it and all kinds of
stuff, so I have no idea what's gonna be in it,
but I'm excited about it.
- Wait, wait, before we get started, whatever we open do we
get to keep?
The person that opens it?
- No, you get to keep it if I don't want it.
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- Okay.
- Oh my God, that is awesome.
- Is this from the UK then?
Is that where's it's from?
- Perfume.
- Does it say who it's from?
- For my mom, Victoria Secret, there we go.
- Oh my gosh, you're kidding me.
- No, I swear.
- That's pretty fancy.
What are you trying to do there? (laughs)
- Guys, there's some chocolate, I've got a...
- Melted.
- little chili pepper.
- Dude, that's sweet, and a little key chain.
- I've gotta do this.
- Open chocolate.
- Dessert, I dunno, this is a chili pepper.
- It's an earring.
- It's not an earring.
- It says right here on the box.
- There's no way you could have that...
- Oh yeah, Dude, no you could get it right through there.
Dude, in the 80s that was very popular.
- I still don't know, does it have anything.
Oh, there's another chili.
- We just got, it's a bunch of chocolate.
- Dude, I'm pretty sure they sent those for me.
Chili chocolate, what the heck.
- Chili chocolate, that's pretty cool.
- It's like a big old storage box, from the...
- This is cool.
- the famous underground.
The Underground.
- That's dope.
- Oh my gosh, it's like a map of the tube.
- That's pretty sweet.
- Oh my gosh!
That is sweet.
So, unfortunately, it didn't say who sent this.
There was nothing in there, oh wait, is this it right here?
- I guess.
- Oh my gosh, you guys, this is so cool.
- Oh this is, you know who this is from?
This is from Jane!
Jane Price.
- Jane, oh my gosh, I love you Jane!
Jane, you are wonderful, you're amazing.
- Oh man, what's up, Jane?
I see her on Facebook.
- And there's a little note:
Dear Brian, I sent you guys some gifts.
I was also wanting you to get them personally.
Thank you so much, this is awesome.
- Thank you.
- That's awesome.
- That was cool, that was cool.
- Dude, this is from the fricking Deutschland man,
from Berlin or something.
What is that?
- Deutschland is...Berlin is Germany.
- I dunno, it's over there.
What have we got?
Derelict Darley, What have we got?
- Some authentic newspaper. (giggling)
- Let's see, this is a drawing, half year ago,
about Rick and Morty.
- Wow! Look at that.
That's an amazing photo.
- Look at this, guys, check that out.
That's awesome, so that is so cool.
Thanks so much, Derelict, I appreciate it very, very much.
Letter for Brian, and there's a lot to be said.
My name is Kyla, I'm a 24 years old woman from
James Town, Michigan.
I love your Youtube channel.
Can't wait to come visit the Reptarium soon
and get over her fear of snakes.
- Awesome.
- There you go.
- So thank you so much.
Check that out.
There's a bunch of cool stamps.
- Damn.
That's cool 'cause we do stamps for the Reptarium
so now we can change it up, like one night we Reptarium.
- Oh nice.
- That's awesome.
- There's a little hashtag in there.
- There's a little hashtag, there's all kinds of...
That is awesome.
- Sweet.
- Got some toys, (squeaking) that's for you, Noah.
- Oh man.
- Rubber ducky. (squeaking)
- Oh my God, your mum is gonna love that.
- Yeah.
- That is awesome, she is gonna love that, that is for sure.
This is super dope.
- Sweet.
- The dogs will love this.
This will be good.
- Dogs will like that.
- What else have we got?
- A love bracelet. I love bracelets.
- It's a little, red panda Lego type of set.
Check that out, how cool is that.
- Oh yeah, that's sweet. (sqeaking)
- Deadly Creatures sticker book, that's awesome.
Reptile and Amphibians sticker book, I love it.
- Sweet.
- A bunch of cool stuff.
So thank you so much.
Anyways, guys, you always spoil us.
Thank you.
I just wanted to do a quick unboxing of some things
that you guys mailed us.
So you guys are wonderful.
That's awesome, no?
- Dude, that is so cool that people reach out and do that.
- Thank you, thank you, guys.
- You guys are awesome.
All right, now get back to work.
There was one last thing that I wanted to open alone
'cause I just think it's so amazing.
I can't wait to show Laurie this.
Ashley did this, take a look at that right there.
Of course those are my three sweethearts there:
Zeusie, Artemis and Phoebe.
And unbelievable, Ashley said that she spent like nine weeks
making these things perfect and she did such an amazing job.
We are absolutely gonna frame this, it is absolutely going
up in either mine or Laurie's office so Ashley thank you
so much, this is absolutely incredible.
You guys are so talented, you guys send me stuff
all the time that just blows me away and it makes me
feel so good.
So thank you, guys, for everything.
Take a look at this albino chocolate California King Snake.
Oh my gosh, that thing is so cool.
We used to call these guys iridescent cals because
they just kinda look like they have iridescence.
And what it is, is the yellow pigment that kinda comes
through it, makes it look like it's almost in sheening,
so that's why we call them iridescent Cals.
But they are so cool and it's been a couple of years since
we've produced them.
So this little guy is going down into hibernation
and hopefully here next year we'll produce some
albino ghost or iridescent Cal Kings again like we
used to years ago.
And today was great we got so much accomplished.
Every day that goes by, we just check things off the list
at the Reptarium.
And you guys probably don't notice, but we're constantly
working towards, kind of what I would consider completion.
And the fact is, we only have a handful of things
left to go.
The gator tank is done.
Big gator reveal this weekend with my friend Savannah
from Gatorland.
I am so excited, tomorrow, I couldn't be more excited
about picking up the two-headed California King Snake, adult
that's about this big, or actually even a little bit bigger.
And we're gonna get a tour of my friend's place,
and to the best of my knowledge, he just doesn't let people
video his stuff so it's gonna be a real treat,
I am so excited about it.
And all we have left at the Reptarium after that
is the Arachnid Center, which I am really excited about.
We're getting a couple new arachnids next week.
Hopefully, wrapping that thing up in the next week
and a half or two weeks.
And then, I dunno, we'll kinda just keep re-doing stuff
I guess, kinda upgrading, I dunno.
Regardless, I'm gonna go ahead and end the Vlog
'cause now I'm just rambling all over 'cause I get excited
even thinking about this stuff.
I wish you, guys, an absolutely amazing day, evening,
whenever you happen to be watching.
As always, your support is so, so important to me,
thank you, guys, I love you so much.
Do me a couple favors before we get out of here.
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I love reading about your beautiful faces.
Be kind to someone and I promise I'm gonna see you,
guys, tomorrow and we're gonna get a two-headed snake.
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