- Hey good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Look at Ivy just cruising around here.
She is definitely been kinda on the hunt
the last couple days,
and you remember last time I fed her,
my big anaconda, she uh
I pulled her up on to land
because I wasn't sure she could eat in the water.
A lot of you commented like
hey they eat in the water in the wild,
so I'm gonna just wait to see what happens.
I'm gonna offer her food,
if she decides to take it into the water
we're gonna see if she eats in the water.
I'm a little nervous about it, I'm not gonna lie to you.
But, it's gonna be a pretty amazing thing feeding
a giant anaconda in her new exhibit by the way
is always exciting but we'll see if she's gonna eat.
Again, if she comes up on land then great.
If she's in the water that's fine too.
Ivy you about ready for some food?
Oh my God, lets have a great time together.
This is exciting.
Okay here we go.
only one way to get in here,
that's to walk in.
Hey Ivy, hey Ivy you ready to eat?
Ready to eat, girl?
Want to eat?
You gotta eat dinner, come on baby.
You gotta eat.
Whoa!
She got it!
Okay, like I said guys,
I'm just gonna let her go right down here into the water.
I'm a little stressed out, you know I love my animals guys
and I don't want anything to happen and I realize that
these guys eat in the water in the wild so
(sigh)
Like you guys said, that's the way it is
and I don't know what's gonna happen but wow!
That was crazy! I mean just think if you were in the amazon,
and the water is murky and that happens.
(chuckles)
I mean that is ridiculous.
Wow, that is so cool.
So, lets just sit back and see what she does 'cause again,
I have no idea what's about to happen.
She may let it go and just not eat it at all,
she may drag it up onto land,
or she may eat it right under water.
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So you can see what's interesting is that
she is down here coiled,
she'll actually look for the head a little bit
and go up and get a breath of air and then go back down
and look again so,
it's almost like she's waiting to conserve that last breath
for eating, to when she finally finds it
or something like that.
I don't know what's gonna happen
maybe she won't even eat it, I'm not even 100% sure.
We're gonna sit back and we're gonna find out together.
First time that we are gonna feed Sunfire,
since she's in her new enclosure.
She was always pretty interesting in the past.
We'll see what she does,
I don't know she's just cruising right now.
Come on girl. - [Man] There she goes.
- There she goes, right there, perfect.
(laughs)
Again, it's kinda a learning process
to see what these animals are gonna be like
when they're in here in the new enclosure.
So Sunfire is beautiful, so happy to have her back
and she's definitely settling in and eating well.
Wakey eggs and bakey. (Horn Squeaks)
There it is.
(laughs)
Next up is one of my woma pythons.
She's always kinda sneaky where she is,
her heads back in the back
and I'm never really sure where she's at.
And then she just kinda comes lunging out.
Like I gotta tease just a little bit
so she knows food is here.
Oh there she is!
Oh my god that's her tail over there.
Oh and there she goes.
Woo, I thought her head was over here
and she's coming up and kinda ambushing me.
You silly monkey.
What's so crazy is that she's under water with her prey
but she comes up for a breath of air
and then goes right back down.
It's like she's obviously remembering where it is
because when she comes up she goes back down.
She's right back at the spot she does it.
She is always searching like that,
it takes her a good half hour or so to find
even if she's on land.
So it's interesting to see that how she's kinda remembering
and taking a breath and kinda spacing out and this is,
this is bizarre.
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Next up is actually Moo Moo.
Come on girl, come on sweet heart, I know you wanna eat.
Whoa whoa whoa!
Woo, little crazy.
Its okay girl, there we go, woo.
Tell you what, that was, that was a little sketchy for sure.
She's go that Casper strike going on.
I'm just gonna put her right over there.
And you know with only three days left
till the Reptarium opens there is so much work to do
but we gotta still take care of the animals.
Gotta feed them, gotta clean them,
gotta keep fresh waters in with them.
So the work doesn't stop just because
we are getting ready for a grand opening.
So uh today is a lot about feeding and getting caught up
and then it's gonna be a late nigh tonight
'cause I have a lot to do.
That punch list is uh still quite long
and we only have three days left.
Wow, I can't believe it's just a few days away.
I'm not gonna lie guys, this stresses me out.
I don't want anything to happen, I keep thinking like,
is this normal?
I mean I realize this is how probably they eat in the wild
but y'all look at her.
It looks like she is literally knotting herself up,
is she gonna be able to get up to the surface for air
the way she's knotted right now?
I mean this is super cool but is definitely stressful.
Last week Crackle literally tried to eat
an entire paper towel roll.
So this guy is never shy about eating, as you can see.
He's such a cool animal
and I'm really considering putting a couple black heads
in one of the enclosures for the Reptarium.
We got like two or three enclosures that are still yet
to kinda be uh you know determined what's gonna go in.
And so, uh a couple more things
and again with just a couple days left
I have to make some final decisions pretty quick
because before you know it, its gonna be the day.
We're gonna be open so I think a multiple back headed cage
might be really cool,
still on the fence because they are snake eaters
but I think there's a good chance
I might even just give it a shot.
Here we go Snazzy, you ready?
And actually my fiend Ronda, that actually raised Snazz
and donated it to the zoo is coming up for the grad opening.
So this is the first time she's gonna get the chance
to see the new place
and of course she'll get to some time with Snazzers here.
Come on buddy, you ready?
You're okay, there it is bud.
And again, that animal after going 8 months without food
is just turned on now.
Eats rabbits like crazy, just a really cool animal.
And its neat to have a Burmese Python like Snazz here
that's super docile and also like the wild type.
I mean this is the color and pattern
you'll find in the wild.
So its kinda cool to see that along with obviously
Sunrise and Geoffrey and of course now Marshmallow
in the new side.
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Guys she's been underwater for quite a while now.
I mean it seems, every minute seems like an hour like,
Is she okay?
I mean Can she handle this?
Again, I know that in the wild they do
but I've never seen it before so it's stressing me out.
I just can't wait till she's done
so I can take a breath of air.
It is crazy to see how she twists and turns so freely
'cause obviously she's weightless in the water.
You see constrictors kinda coiling up and turning around
to aid them to get that prey down their gullet
but in this case she's in the water
so she's just kinda spinning like crazy.
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What do you guys say that we feed this crazy monkey here.
You know he's always insane.
Yeah, yeah he's a special animal.
Its okay bud.
Whoa!
Come on now Casper, its okay bud its okay.
Whoa!
Man for such a tame animal,
he gets the smell of rodents in the air
and he just turns maniac on me.
(laughs)
I love that little dude.
He is a maniac.
Ooh she is crushing it now, look at how quick
it's going down.
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And guys finally she is finished
and she just came up for a breath of air.
(inhales)
Like I said, now I can actually breath.
I mean, that was unbelievable.
Can you believe we just witnessed that.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think about it
'cause that was, I mean that was crazy.
I mean I am so happy that you guys kinda of encouraged me
to do this the last time you saw Ivy eat because uh wow.
That was amazing and I'm so glad my girl's okay.
Night Fury just shed out and looks really amazing.
Whoa!
We just gotta get him to decide if he's gonna
take a rabbit.
Yep, he is.
There you go buddy.
What a beautiful snake.
Man I tell you what that thing is ridiculous.
Again that's a motley golden child
but also has the calico gene in it.
The calico is what really makes that dark really dark,
at least that's what Kevin from Nerd tells me.
So regardless beautiful snake, getting big for sure.
And guys just so you understand why
it did stress me out so much is
you know how obviously I don't want anything to happen
to my animals and like you guys kept on sending me messages
saying you know its normal, they eat underwater,
I've seen them eat underwater.
A couple of people even sent me videos
of them eating underwater in the wild
so obviously that's what they do
but you know its stresses me.
I don't want my animals to go through unneeded stress
but I realize this is kind of a natural thing for them
and witnessing her kinda going through those motions
like they would in the wild was really one of the coolest
things I've done in a long time.
Geoffrey of course the Hypo Granite Burmese Python
actually gets moved this week into a new enclosure
that's gonna be nice and big.
It's actually gonna be a 6 foot by 3 foot cage.
So quite a big upgrade for sure
but he's getting big beautiful snake.
Like I was saying earlier
about the kind of stars that's coming up
in the new Reptarium.
I think he's gonna be one.
He's gonna be like a Sunrise type of animal over there.
Now that he will be more accessible and get bigger quicker,
I think people are gonna love him
but he is absolutely breathtaking.
Feed my girl Daisy.
Here you go sweetheart lets go.
Want food?
Come on girl.
Oh yeah, oh Daisy was fired up today.
Yeah she was definitely ready to go.
She just shed a couple days ago.
So she's been a few weeks without food
and uh she was ready to rock and roll too.
Oh my God I love it, I love it I tell you.
It's always great to feed the animals.
Its cool that the animals next door are getting settled in
and stuff like that so a good day of feeding snakes.
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- Stay over here dude.
- I hope, hope the piece fits.
- Jesus.
(laughs)
- [Man] Are you ready?
- [Man] Thank you guys.
- [Man] All right eyes closed bright guy.
- I've closed, eyes are closed.
- [Man] Close them harder.
- I beg please.
- [Man] All right turn around man.
- (giggles) Oh dude that looks so dope man.
Dude that's it man, that was it man.
That green pop like that.
That's, oh my gosh dude.
That is ridiculous.
- This is actually from my house,
I just wanted to show it you--
- Yeah yeah this is good, you're not gonna put it here.
(laughs)
Oh my gosh dude that is sick.
- Ooh man, take a look at it.
- Oh my gosh dude that is so, yeah I love it man,
with that green in the back, that that's--
- Yeah, I did the bubbles 'cause it got massive bubbles
we put inside it.
- Oh my gosh that is sick as can be.
- [Man] (mumbles) you crushed it man.
- [Man] Yeah you crashed this one.
- What I do.
All right I have one more for you.
- [Man] What, how did they even know?
- Another thing?
It's like Christmas here.
- [Man] Oh stop it dude!
- Just stop it.
- Oh my, dude what the heck man!
- [Man] That is sick is heck man.
- I will not marry you.
- [Man] No please please.
- Yes I will, yes I do - Thank you.
- [Man] How sick is that?
- Oh my gosh.
This will go down here.
So good here dude, are you kidding me?
(upbeat music).
So Steve did it again,
he surprised me with some stuff I
like I said, links in the description.
Show this guy some love, I mean you're an artist dude.
I mean I had no idea, this is amazing I mean waooh.
Lauren what do you think, are you excited?
- I am, it's actually coming together.
It's kinda cool to see all the pieces come into play.
- This is, this is my baby.
The Fish Spa is something I wanted so bad so.
And you know again we just talked about this yesterday.
And literally he came and just crushed it with this
and that oh my God dude, it is so amazing.
Now we just have to upholster this, finish this out,
touch it up a little bit, and uh,
I'm gonna try out fish maybe tomorrow.
(laughs)
I'm trying to cover all the wood obviously.
The more we can cover it,
the better this is gonna look, you know what I mean.
So the idea is just to have this drip tape
on the bottom here.
If I can't get this hall situated.
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Right the fish spa is looking dope,
unbelievable with Ivy,
again probably top ten coolest animal thing that I've done
with my own animals today.
I hope that you guys enjoyed it
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