- Hey, good morning, everybody,
and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
It's gonna be a banger of a day today.
Guess what?
Drogo, actually, it's his birthday.
He turns four today.
Also, we are about to move a new animal
over to the reptarium,
and that animal is this panther chameleon,
of course, the ambilobe.
We have two of 'em over here,
but this guy is going over there today.
But first, we've got some construction to do.
Remember, I wanted to move this chameleon cage level
with this chameleon cage with karma over here,
just so that they're up here,
and then these guys can be on an even level like this,
just so that viewing is a little bit better
for these guys up here,
because, obviously, these guys are so high
right now, you can't do it.
So, what I have to do is kind of strip this down,
move a bunch of boards, do some construction,
get this thing ready to go,
move the misting system that's on this up top,
so, we do have some construction to do,
but once this is done,
then we can move over this ambilobe,
and then we need a name for it, by the way,
so, down the comments, let me know what you think
that beautiful chameleon's name should be.
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Got all the rock paneling off here,
so, basically what I have
to do is remove all these two-by-fours,
move this down here
so that there's a level two-by-four here,
so that these enclosures here can go and rest there,
and then I have to make another platform
that will be level with this one,
so that the screen cage can come up here
and be level with that one.
So, getting rock panel off is a pain in the butt.
So, glad that is over.
Now we have to just take these enclosures out,
get all this wood out here,
and kinda redo the whole thing.
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All right. So we have all the boards out right now.
So, basically, what it is is,
this enclosure needs to be raised
all the way up to here, right?
So, I have to build another platform
that it's gonna actually sit on,
and then I'm gonna have to cut some more tubing,
'cause this is the automatic misting system.
Obviously, it's not going to stretch far enough,
so I have to undo this one here,
raise this whole thing up,
put a new line down through here,
and then I can start building
out the bottom for the bottom cages.
So, first thing we have to do is make our shelf
for this to raise up in the air.
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All right.
So, we have our rock front side back on,
we gotta do a little touch-up down here,
but now you see the flow is a lot better, I think.
You know, the two chameleons right next to each other.
Obviously we have Karma,
then the ambilobe panther chameleon,
and then you can see all of these guys here,
like the notorious F-R-R-G.
Literally, no one could ever see it up there,
and then of course, we have Loki,
which is a scaleless corn snake,
that now kids could see down there, too.
So, I think this flow is way better.
It's gonna be really good.
So, all we have to do is hook up the misting system now,
and then we can actually bring over the new chameleon.
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All right, so this little monkey gets to go
over next door after the setup,
so let's go ahead and take him over there
and release him into his new exhibit.
And here we go.
So, it's gonna be really cool to have him over again.
It's gonna be great to have Karma next door.
Now we've got the ambilobe,
I mean, this is amazing.
Panther chameleons are just better handling
than, of course, the veiled chameleons, right?
Because they have less pinchy claws,
and so, this'll be great
so that all of the pressure isn't on Karma,
when people want to hold a chameleon, right?
Now we have two males that we can hold
in their really contrasting colors.
It's really amazing.
So, look at how beautiful he looks.
I tell you, it was quite a bit of work
to do this kind of remodel here,
but it was so worth it.
This is going to look absolutely incredible.
Guess what guys?
Today's a pretty special day, right, Jay?
- Yeah.
- What is today?
- It's Drogo's birthday.
- [Brian] It's Drogo's birthday!
Drogo!
He's shy about it.
Just what he likes,
me coming in and screaming, right?
- [Jay] Oh, yeah. (guys laughing)
- [Laurie] Happy birthday, buddy.
- [Man] Oh God, you guys.
- [Brian] You gonna get a birthday hat?
You gonna get a birthday hat, buddy?
Oh my gosh.
(guys laughing)
- [Laurie] It's my birthday!
(guys cheering)
- [Jay] Happy birthday, Drogo!
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
♪ Happy birthday, dear Drogo ♪
♪ Happy birthday to you ♪
- [Brian] Oh my gosh.
Can you believe it? (Laurie Laughing)
Drogo is four years old today. - Four years old, dude!
- Now, sloths will live, like, 30 years,
so he's still a very young sloth,
but he didn't mind that.
Look it, he's still just chilling there.
- [Laurie] I think he likes it.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh. (guys laughing)
That is so funny. (guys laughing)
He liked it, huh?
- He likes it. (gus laughing)
- Gosh. That is so cool. - [Laurie] I think he's happy.
- [Brian] Isn't that awesome? (guys laughing)
And of course here, in the next day or so,
we get to actually exhibit him for the first time.
As you can see, there's nothing on the window anymore.
So people are gonna get an opportunity to come
and see our new four-year-old sloth, Drogo.
Are you excited about this?
This weekend coming up?
- Yes.
- [Brian] Are you nervous?
(guys laughing)
- [Laurie] Yes. - [Brian Are You Nervous?
- Yes.
(guys laughing) - Some reservation's there
for sure. - I know.
(man laughing) I just...
Yeah, all of the questions
and ll of the- (man laughing)
- [Jay] Yeah.
- Yeah, I think we have to be very clear
that nobody is gonna be holding Drogo.
- [Brian] Yeah, I know. - Because we've had multiple,
multiple emails and phone calls
for people wanting to get first-timers to hold him.
That's not an option.
- Yeah. (Laurie laughing)
It's just a little bit too stressful for him,
plus it's a little bit...
You know, we just can't take the risk
of something bad happening.
So, for now, at least, no holding.
Jay'll hold it, I'll hold it.
Laurie'll hold Drogo, but that's it.
But, there he is.
Four years old, my little guy Drogo.
I'm so excited.
With Jessica.
It's cool that we're producing geckos, Jessica,
during the time when it's boring,
when we're not producing anything else.
So, what did we hatch today?
- [Jessica] I know, it feels like these guys go all year.
- [Brian] Yes, they're weird.
- [Jessica] I've got one gargoyle and one crested.
- [Brian] Oh, okay, cool.
- [Jessica] Yeah. So, here's our little gargoyle.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh. That's a cute little dude.
Little striped dude.
- [Jessica] It'll probably end up, like all dark-red,
and, like, with some white stripes on it.
- [Brian] Oh, so it's the one with the red lines.
- Mm-hmm. - [Brian] Oh, that's awesome.
That's good stuff.
Again, we've been crushing it on that stuff for sure.
- [Jessica] And the new got a little red.
- Aw, they're so cute. - Red harlequin
- [Brian] A red har- - [Jessica] or a red plain.
- [Brian] Okay. That's super cool.
Again, you know, we don't do a ton of crested geckos,
but it seems like we had a pretty good crested year.
- Oh, yeah. They produce like crazy, too.
- [Brian] Yeah, yeah.
- [Jessica] Sort of like leopard geckos do.
- [Brian] Yeah, exactly. (Jessica laughing)
- They won't stop producing
at this point. - They won't stop producing,
- [Jessica] Yeah. - But that's cool.
They had some geckos.
Again, it kind of gets my hatch fixed
for reptiles during the off season.
So, keep up the good work.
- Yeah.
- And of course, I'm gonna start dreaming
about the potential of what we're gonna produce
this year with all these females.
Hopefully, it will be a banger a year
like it was last year.
Definitely working really hard at it.
And look at this animal from last year.
We hit some monster cool things.
This was actually that banana Sydney lori ball python.
Now that it has a little bit of size on it, oh my gosh,
and I think we hit three of these last year,
so, wow.
These things are turning out amazing.
And then, take a look at this ripper right here.
This is actually a super pastel
lesser leopard clown ball python.
My goodness gracious, I tell ya.
The clown stuff is always, like, super sought-after.
So, it's really cool to produce some really neat animals,
and this one definitely turned out cool,
and as it's getting bigger, it's getting neater and neater.
That's one of the things I love about certain mutations
that actually get better with age,
and this is definitely one of 'em.
And speaking of clown mutations,
this is kind of the groundwork
for a clown mutation I'm excited about.
It's actually a pastel lessor enchi bongo
lesser het for clown ball python.
That's a lot of genes in there,
and that thing looks absolutely ridiculous on its own.
Again, it's het for clown,
so we can now get it into clown
and produce some crazy cool animals here in another year.
Then also, that little update
on an animal that I didn't produce
that my buddy, Brian Costco,
actually, was nice enough to send me.
Of course, this is the Sydney sunset project.
You guys know that we were the first ones
to produce the sunset.
Kinda had a tragic story behind it,
but then, we finally have another one
back in the collection because of my friend, Brian,
and it's really doing well.
I mean, look at how beautiful it's getting.
Cannot wait till this guy gets up to size
so I can breed him into some of my animals
and start producing sunsets again.
My friend, Jason, from Morph Mixology,
he actually made this Drogo sign for us,
and we had it just kind of hanging,
but it wasn't really out in the open,
because, of course, we weren't displaying it.
So, I wanna actually hang it on the door now,
so everyone can see.
So, basically, what'll happen is,
it'll look something like this.
That way people can really notice Drogo,
and of course, they can come over and see little Drogo
in his hammock right over here.
So what I did, was I actually made a template
out of a piece of paper,
because of course you want the fasteners
to be the same on the door as here,
and it's gonna be important to have a really tight fit.
So, I just kind of cut this off.
Now what I'll do is I'll just put this up here,
drill the holes,
I'll put the anchors in there,
and then I'll put screws on the backside of this
and it should go in.
So, in theory, this should work out fine.
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And I figured, for Drogo's birthday,
he should certainly have a beautiful sign like this,
so thanks to my buddy, Jason, for making it for us.
It's absolutely incredible.
Just fits perfectly.
It's got, of course, the species and genus,
It's got The Reptarium, Drogo,
I mean, it's absolutely wonderful,
and I can't believe my sloth is four years old.
- Aw, man.
That looks good.
Hold on, let's do the test.
Wow.
My dad's a carpenter.
(guys laughing)
That's so good, though.
This is awesome. - It looks really good.
It's really good. - Yeah.
- Oh, yes. I think they are.
- [Brian] Turned out good, huh?
(wood thumping) We both did the same thing.
- All right. Yes, perfect. (Jay laughing)
- Well, we had to see if it passes the slam test.
- Wow. That door should never slam anyways,
but this is the, this is the people-
- [Jay] We're talking about-
- [Brian] Just slow down a little bit.
Slow down. - [Jay] (laughing) Yeah, see?
Look, you're all right.
- Well, I'm just trying to make sure-
- [Brian] Rip it off the wall.
- Have you seen the children and adults
that come to the reptarium?
- So, there it is.
My boy Drogo is four years old,
and I'm really happy
with the way the chameleon cage turned out.
I absolutely love the building projects.
You guys know that.
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and you like to watch building stuff,
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