- [ Brian] All right, here we go.
Up she goes.
I'm thinking 120.
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Hey, good morning everybody
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is really incredible,
it's just gonna be great to be here for the day.
Kind of a little bit more of a normal day.
For the last week and a half or so
I've been just absolutely incredible,
but I am excited to show the crew our new little girl.
Of course, our Aldabra tortoise.
Andrea just got in, so I'm gonna show her first.
Come see our little baby.
- Oh my gosh, it's huge.
- That's what she said.
- [Brian] I know she's huge isn't she?
- Wow, how much bigger will she get?
- [Brian] Oh, she's gonna get, she's maybe 100, 150 pounds.
Maybe we might weigh her later today.
She's gonna get like 400 pounds.
- That's insane.
- [Brian] (laughing) Isn't that crazy?
Oh my God, she is so awesome, isn't she?
Isn't she beautiful?
- So cute.
- And what I'm gonna do is,
I'm actually gonna let her wake up
'cause it's like eight in the morning right now.
I can see, she's starting
to just barely look around right now.
Like hey, what's going on.
Once she's up and about
I might actually let her run around the shop
which is something that we'll probably do quite often
so she has lots of exercise.
It's important to get those guys exercise
but then I'll bring the rest of the crew over
to meet her in a little bit.
And like I said, maybe later on
we'll go ahead and weigh her.
Every now and then I wanted to update you guys
on Chicken Strip, 'cause he is getting so big
and he's so absolutely incredible.
I just took him out,
so sometimes he wants to run a little bit
but it's like I talked about with monitor lizards,
you never want to grab them or restrain them.
A lot of people make the mistake of
especially with an animal like Chicken Strip
that's a little bit high strung
is they'll grab 'em, and they'll hold on to him.
That's the worst possible thing you can do
because then they're gonna wanna do it every single time
because they have that bad experience with people.
If you just kind of run them through your hands,
restrain them as little as possible,
you can see he'll start to chill out pretty quick.
I mean literally within ten, fifteen seconds
he's already chill.
Now I've been working with him a lot of course,
a normal wild-caught Nile monitor
might take a little more time this,
but look at how absolutely big and beautiful he is.
He's just starting to shed
and monitors always shed in pieces and stuff like that.
Like literally sometimes
it takes him weeks to shed everything off
but he looks absolutely incredible.
And for all the people have that've been asking like
"we haven't seen chickens strip in a while, is he okay?"
Well, he's been doing absolutely incredible,
and look at how unbelievably big he is getting,
I mean, I tell you what, I love this animal so much.
And so people have also asked if it has problems seeing
because, you know, some albinoes, like albino iguanas,
certainly albino alligators seem to have
a little bit of issues with their eyes.
When it comes to Chicken Strip,
I don't think its the case because literally,
I can walk around the corner
and immediately it puts his head up
and it starts watching me
and sometimes comes right down to the front of cage
and just follows me,
even from ten, twelve feet away.
So I'm pretty sure that his eyesight is really good.
Which is really awesome
'cause I know the other albino Nile monitor
that I knew about actually was blind,
so this guy seems to have really good eyesight and again,
is looking absolutely incredible.
Time to show some of the crew our new girl, Tildy!
Matilda!
- Shut up, are you kidding me?
Holy crap!
- [Brian] What do you guys think?
- Dude--
- She's amazing.
- Are you guys crazy?
- [Mary] Tildy!
- What is that?
It's huge!
- Wow!
- Oh my gosh, I don't want to stare or yell but--
- [Lori] Isn't she amazing?
- That is the most incredible thing
I've ever seen in my life.
- [Brian] Isn't it crazy?
- [Eric] Holy smokes!
Look at it's elephant feet man!
Holy crap!
Dude, that thing's crazy.
And we are actually gonna weigh her a little bit later
so right now you can guess, what do you think she weighs?
- 130.
- [Brian] 130?
Can I bet that's not--
- [Eric] You know what, I don't wanna--
- [Presenter] You can.
- No that's cheating.
I'm gonna say 135.
- Oh-ho-ho, you guys, I don't know.
(laughing)
I'm gonna hold off,
I'll tell you what I think in a little bit here,
but those are some pretty good guesses, so there it is.
Tildy, isn't she amazing?
- Dude this is--
- It's so amazing.
- I'd never imagine in a million years be sitting next;
there's a statue, a bronze statue at the Detroit Zoo,
this is, it's the same size!
It's huge!
Oh my gosh!
- [Mary] It's so cool.
- [Eric] The shell and everything,
it's so incredible!
Wow!
- Next up, we have Kelsey and Jessica
coming over to see my girl.
- Oh my God!
- Oh yeah!
- She's huge!
- That's what she said.
- [Brian] She's crazy cool.
- Oh my gosh!
So cute!
(gasps)
Hi babe!
Wow!
- [Brian] Isn't she nuts?
- It's really cool, beautiful.
- [Brian] Isn't it the coolest thing ever?
- How much does she weigh?
It's funny you asked that
because I was about to ask you,
what's your guess on weight?
- She looks like she weighs like 150.
- [Brian] 150, okay.
- Oh jeez, yeah,
yeah, maybe like somewhere around like 100, 110 pounds.
I don't know--
- [Brian] 110 pounds. Okay, good, good, good.
Yeah, its interesting,
I don't really know how much she weighs
but we're gonna wear today.
So, so far we have 110,
we have 150,
and we have 130 from Eric and Mary.
So, I think that you guys,
any one of you could be right,
I don't really know.
She's definitely pretty heavy
but we're gonna find out today.
- [Jessica] I won't say, just like,
based off of like, Savvy, he's so heavy,
he's a monster an auxiliary can pick up at this point.
- [Brian] You can't pick this one up, trust me.
(laughs)
Look who it is, Andrea.
You've gotta guess how much you think she weighs.
You've been with her all day today
so you know this is important.
- Like 157.
- [Brian] 157, okay you're close.
So here you have it, 157, 150, 110,
Eric was 135, Mary was 130.
What do you got?
- I don't know, see I'm the worst to,
like I'm terrible with even weights at the gym.
There's big ones, there's small ones
I don't even know how much they weigh.
(laughs)
- Yeah Laurie, when she works out:
"I worked out with the medium one today!"
(laughs)
- Its usually several medium ones, so calm down.
(laughs)
- So Lori says nothing.
I'm just gonna go out on a limb right now,
I'm gonna say 120 pounds.
We're gonna ask Noah,
and then we're gonna put her on a scale.
Okay guys, so we are about to weigh Matilda,
and I want you to guess,
go down in the comments,
guess how much she weighs.
I tell you what, if you guys are close,
I don't know, I'll figure something out,
send you guys some stickers or something like that.
So down in the comments,
how much do you think Matilda weighs?
- Oh ho, holy crap, that's a lot bigger than I thought!
That is insane!
Okay, now I can understand why you said 150.
That thing is huge!
- That's what she said.
- [Brian] And speaking of that Noah,
everyone has guessed--
- Okay.
- [Brian] What do you think she weighs?
- Alright, I'm going with 145.
- [Brian] 145, okay.
- Yeah, that's gotta be it.
- [Brian] So we have, low is 100, Kelsey.
High is--
- 157
- [Brian] 157.
Okay, so were all the way from 110 to 157.
I'm at 120 by the way guys.
So you guys ready to do this?
Let's see what she weighs.
The moment of truth,
we are going to weigh our new girl,
and we were gonna do me and Eric
but Lori said that he didn't have enough muscle.
(laughs)
So let's do it,
all right so we gotta put her right onto the bucket
and lower her arms, okay?
- [Lori] I know.
- [Brian] Alright, here we go.
Up she goes, I'm thinking 120!
106!
(excited gasping)
106 and a half pounds!
So Kelsey won!
- That's shocking.
- 106 and a half pounds.
- [Noah] She looks a lot bigger than 106.
- [Mary] She does.
- [Brian] She feels a lot bigger too,
I really thought at least 120.
- [Noah] She's moving, so fast!
Holy crap!
- [Brian] Come on girl!
So that is awesome.
Let me know if in the comments you guys got it right,
if you were in the area or stuff like that.
Holy cow, how awesome is that!
Bye girl, have fun!
- [Mary] She's just making away from, like everyone.
- Right.
- I think you guys know by now
we are constantly working on improving the Reptarium,
trying to make it a better experience for people,
just always adding new things.
well check this out,
Lori's been working on this
for the last two or three weeks.
Look at this,
a QR code, open it up,
it goes to https://thereptarium.com/
Casper, all the information on it.
So every single cage
is getting a QR code in the entire building.
You can see all these on the frogs,
on the rat-snake,
on Lucky, on Honey the ball python,
on more frogs, on more loves-to-nip.
I tell you what, I am so excited!
Even Bella, let's see what Bella's has to say.
Open it up, what do we have,
Bella the rhinoceros iguana!
All kinds of information you can read about rhino iguanas,
about her, how long we've had her,
all that type of stuff so it's just really cool
that Lori did such a good job along with staff
and a bunch of other people that were helping out.
So really really awesome,
again just wanted to update you guys
on more additions to the Reptarium.
Just trying to make this place
as awesome as we possibly can.
Matilda's really settling in well,
I mean look at how amazing this girl is.
I absolutely love her to death
and we've just kind of been
letting her run around today.
Just so she gets kind of familiar with the area.
She is just so cool,
look at how she's just coming out, looking around.
I tell you what, I am in love with this animal.
Of course Lori's in love with her too so,
I can't tell you how happy I am,
and I'm so happy that she's starting to settle in.
She hasn't quite started eating yet,
she seems like she's interested in food
but then she doesn't do it.
That's because she's probably
still needing to get kind of settled in
so hopefully in the next couple days
she'll start to feed really well for us
which will be really awesome,
so I'll keep you guys updated on it.
For those of you guys that've
been watching the Bella 24-hour camp,
it's over there, hey guys!
That's actually the camera there.
We are definitely going to be expanding
like I've been mentioning
but Bella's getting a lot of attention
which is really awesome.
Again, I'll put a link down in the description
so you can watch 24 hours a day
and it's pretty cool because there's a really cool chat.
I try to jump on there at least four or five times a day
and hang out with you guys a little bit on the chat feature.
Definitely gonna be adding other cameras
like I had mentioned in the past.
Lucy is definitely gonna be one of the
ones coming up pretty soon,
because she's gonna be laying eggs
in like about a month and a half, maybe two months tops.
I want you guys to be able to watch her
lay eggs live on camera.
We're gonna do live egg hatching cameras.
That way, when we're hatching, you know,
pythons, or colubrids, or geckos or whatever it is,
we're gonna have live cameras on them
that you guys can watch.
Even thinking about doing, like some live Q&A.
We've got a lot of technology we still have to work out.
Right now we're just kind of hanging out with Bella,
having a good time with her.
We still have to figure out a lot of things
but trust me guys it's gonna be absolutely incredible.
Again link in the description,
check out the live reptile camp, gonna be epic.
Also we're gonna be adding some moderators to the chat,
because every now and then you get an idiot on there.
Regardless, we'll have a good time.
So I hope that you guys are gonna like it
because I'm super excited about it.
Alright guys, I'm going to try
something different from the outro
because a bunch of people were telling me
that they were starting to click out, so guess what?
Be kind of someone, see you tomorrow!
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