- Oh no, this is horrible!
This is a little dead baby, that's terrible!
Mama is not ha... Oh!
It's okay, Mom.
("Staten Island" by Aldous Young)
Hey good morning, everybody.
Welcome to the vlog!
Don't you worry, we'll be back over at the
reptarium doing the zoo build here in just a few minutes.
But I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible,
and I want to start out with something pretty awesome.
I noticed that this girl had a bunch of babies.
Uh oh! Uh oh! Uh oh!
There's good and there's bad.
Oh my gosh!
Right off the bat, I see that there's infertile ova.
These are just basically unfertilized live babies.
Instead of slug eggs they have infertile ova,
but look at this!
Oh no, this is horrible!
This a little dead baby, that's terrible!
Oh, gosh, what's going on here?
Oh, it looks like there are at least some live ones!
That's good!
More infertile eggs.
This is kind of one of those mixed litters.
Some are really good and some are...
Wait a second, wait a second, what's this?
What's this... Oh!
Come on, girl, it's okay, it's okay.
It's alright, sweetie.
What is this right here?
Oh my gosh, look at that.
That is crazy!
You know, remember how we pulled that
mummified baby from that snake long ago?
This looks like an infertile kind of partially
formed baby that looks like it's probably from last year.
But in the meantime, I'm gonna go ahead
and check and see how many live babies there are in here.
Mama is not ha... Oh!
It's okay, Mom.
It's alright, come on.
You're alright. Let's go, come on.
Alright, I'm gonna put you over here, Mama,
and I'm gonna see what I can do.
Whoa! Come on!
Oh my gosh, she is something else.
She is fired up right now.
Alright, first thing I'm gonna do we're gonna take this
poor baby that looks fully formed but just didn't make it.
That is such a bummer when they look perfect
and don't make it.
Let's see how many good babies are in here.
Look at this, two.
And these are Het Leucistic Rainbows so again
they are really beautiful.
Come on, Mama, don't run away.
Oh and look it, that's a feisty little monkey
right there, too.
So look at how gorgeous these things are.
Holy moly!
There's two babies, another infertile ova.
Let's see here, oh look at this one's
still in the egg sac right here.
Oh my gosh, that's a fresh baby right there.
That's three babies.
Oh no!
No no no!
This is terrible. Look it!
Oh gosh that's horrible!
Two more perfectly formed babies,
and I tell you what guys, this is a perfect example.
This is what breeding snakes is all about.
Reptile, and really live animals as a whole,
sometimes there's disappointments like this.
Oh my god, I'm so bummed out!
But there's still some good babies.
I've just gotta take the positive
and realize that sometimes this happens.
Let's see what else we got.
Okay, this is a fourth little baby,
and again look at how pretty... ow! (laughter)
There's four little babies.
Okay, this looks like a fifth little baby
still in its yolk sac right there.
Oh my gosh, that is crazy.
Six!
Let's see what we have here.
Oh yeah, this is another one that's in its yolk sac.
That's seven babies.
Oh, I can see some stuff moving around.
Eight babies right here.
Oh, look at these feisty monkeys!
Let's see here. Oh, here we go, nine babies!
Okay, this isn't too terribly bad.
Another infertile ova here.
Any other babies that... oh!
There's another one.
Ten babies. Oh my gosh you guys are feisty!
Do we have any other ones, or are we done?
Ten babies?
Okay, so it looks like that's it.
Ten little feisty, little monkeys right there.
And then unfortunately there were
a few stillborns and some infertile ova.
So she had 17 or 18 total,
but unfortunately only 10 of them are good.
But hey, 10 is still amazing!
Look at these beautiful little babies right here.
Oh my gosh!
And again those are Het Leucistic Rainbows.
What an awesome way to start the day!
Hey, I'm so excited to get over to the reptarium
and start building stuff out.
It has been exhausting, but so incredible.
Let me know in the comments what you guys think,
if you're excited about it.
Cause I know I sure am.
Alright, we're heading into the reptarium.
And again, we're gonna probably focus on Stewart
and the gator tank today.
And to be honest with you, we've been working
the last few hours on, kinda,
getting the framing done with the gator tank.
I haven't really filmed it because it
was a little bit boring.
But you guys can see that Stewart is starting
to put the actual rock into the gator tank now.
So we'll see how this gonna transform.
I'm really excited about this particular feature,
because these are gonna be baby alligators.
We're always gonna have baby alligators,
because as soon as they get bigger
we're gonna actually exchange them for babies again.
That way everyone always can see them.
Here's the beginning. Doesn't look like much now.
Did all this framing all the way around,
and now Stewart has to somehow figure out
how to make this look pretty.
My carpentry work is not that great.
("Staten Island" by Aldous Young)
And that's what's so amazing working with this polyurestone
is because you can bend it, you can mold it,
and this gonna be literally the entire thing, you know?
So again, there's gonna be a big water feature here,
but also the gators are gonna be able
to get on this side or on this side.
Basically to a basking area, and it's gonna be really cool.
Then there's sliding glasses right here
so we can actually feed the gators,
kinda give demonstration.
Even if people are here, maybe we might have,
like, long tongs and people can actually feed
the little baby gators here, too.
So, that's why I'm so excited about this particular feature.
("Staten Island" by Aldous Young)
Starting to get the feel for what
the actual shape of the gator tank is again.
Like, I imagine this would be the viewing area here,
but you would be able to see back there,
back over here.
I think by now you guys are starting
to get what we're trying to do.
("Staten Island" by Aldous Young)
Alright, what do you got going on here?
You fixed up the front?
- Yep, just filling all the seams
Making it look seamless and perfect.
First you put the caulk,
and then you've got some powdered pigment.
And then, you just tap that on there,
kinda matching whatever color it is.
And then add some other accents.
And it just blends right in.
- Wow, that's crazy. - Magic
- I mean the seam just literally, magically goes away.
That's pretty cool.
Gloria has a lot to do with this
because she's got all the screws, all the seams,
and that's just for the front.
Then there's all inside.
But, actually we had a lot of help.
We did hit a lot of the seams and stuff like that.
Still a lot more to do, but it's magical, really.
I mean, I love this entrance.
You guys know that one of the only things
that keeping me sane with all of this physical work,
just building stuff out, is cool reptile stuff.
And Jessica, what do we have?
- Got another little baby Gargoyle that just hatched today.
- [Brian] Oh my gosh! I just hatched another lined one, huh?
- [Jessica] Yeah. - [Brian] This one's a little
bit weird though, right?
- Yeah, its got kind of, like, its mother's coloring.
It looks like maybe, like, the bacon
so its got two colored stripes.
- [Brian] So should this one be hatching any time?
- Yeah it should probably be out by tomorrow,
I would say. - Oh my gosh.
Well that's cool.
Like I said, have to continue to take a break
and just kinda check in over here with the animals.
Make myself just kind of feel good.
It is so much fun with what we're doing,
but also so mentally and physically demanding.
It's ridiculous.
So more or less, this is how
the alligator tank ended up pretty cool.
We're gonna, again, having a basking spot back here,
a basking spot over here.
Obviously it's gonna be lit up more.
Water is gonna be about this high,
so you can kinda see the animals.
Again, they can crawl up on this log, get over here,
crawl over on this log and get over here.
We ended up having to kinda cut it short when it comes to
the surround, so I'm gonna be working on that tomorrow.
The truth is, Stewart has to get to the airport.
He's gotta get back home.
It's kind of a bummer that we're losing Stewart,
but he taught us a lot and we're gonna be okay.
Regardless, I guess we're taking Stewart to the airport.
So Stewart, that was a crazy four days.
- (laughing) It was, it was.
- We got a lot accomplished.
I have to take Stewart to the airport.
He is gonna be sadly missed, but we definitely
gonna see him pretty soon at the Universal Rocks Academy.
We'll talk more about that if you guys are interested
at doing crazy stuff like this,
or waterfalls, or whatever it is.
Definitely hit me up, we're gonna be doing that in November.
It's gonna be absolutely incredible.
As for now, taking Stewart.
Thank you so much, man. - Thanks, buddy. Yep.
- Yeah, it's awesome.
- So, please excuse how hit I look right now,
but I have been working hard all day.
Doing rock faces, that's why I'm dirty and sweaty and messy,
but I'm not gonna lie, it's so worth it.
I really am so excited so excited about this reptarium
and I just want to show you around.
I know Brian showed you some stuff.
It is just so amazing, it blows my mind
how cool this stuff is turning out.
Like, right here, our tortoise pen area.
I can't wait to get all the tortoises in here.
Everything obviously isn't finished yet,
but it's getting really close.
Sure, Brian showed you Bowser's pond,
and that is just something to be reckoned with, for sure.
Stewart showed me the fountain flowing today,
that was crazy.
We started to get the lights up in some of these cages.
Like this is Lucy's big cage.
It's so cool, because every single thing
that gets done is just one step closer
to it being open.
I'm not gonna lie, I was excited and I
had an idea of what this was gonna be,
but this is blowing away anything that
I was expecting as far as, you know, the detail and stuff,
like the trees and the rocks.
Honestly, like, he told me
and he showed me pictures of these cages but
I can't believe how big these cages are
and how much room these animals are gonna have.
It really makes me happy, it makes me excited.
And, you know, it's just one more reason
to want to come to work.
Do stuff, you know, because, whenever you
have a project that you're working on like this,
it's just super exciting.
Aw, man.
I tell you.
This, this is really cool, and I know Brian said,
"Oh, I'm gonna be hanging out here all the time,
and I'm never gonna come home,"
and I'm like, "Yeah, whatever,"
but I'm not gonna lie.
As cool as this is, I think I'm gonna feel the same way.
I mean who wouldn't want to just, like, hang out
and get a pillow and sit under this tree right here
and chill out and read a book, or something.
I might be spending more of my free time here, too.
I know I probably sound like an idiot,
but it really is overwhelming and super excited,
and I really couldn't be happier.
We still have a lot of work to do, but holy cow,
this place is gonna be amazing.
- Alright guys, just back and the waterfall is on right now,
but you can hear the pump in the background.
That is not gonna be the pump that
is actually gonna be running.
We're just testing it out and running it for a little while.
Making sure everything works out.
And once the filtration system is actually on this thing,
obviously it's gonna be filled up to, like, right here.
And this will be really quiet and continue to run.
But this is the very first time that I've actually been
at the reptarium since we've been kind of getting
a little bit of progress here alone.
There's always been a lot of people here.
So I finally get a chance to kind of
soak things up a little bit.
Kind of absorb what just happened over the last four days.
It was truly amazing.
No, but, think about it: this building
was empty four days ago.
Literally empty four days ago.
Well, it had a TV on it.
But other than that it was empty.
And look at where we have come,
I mean it truly is breathtaking.
And here's another water feature
that I think is really cool.
That we have for one of the cages,
I mean take a look at how insane that cage is.
I mean, it is absolutely incredible.
Again, these racks here are something that
we still have to continue to work on.
And what I mean by we, is pretty much me and Laurie,
because again we pretty much lost everyone as far as
our volunteers and everyone as of today.
Stewart went back, and pretty much everyone is back to work.
Oh, there will be some people that stop in here
and there to help, but for the most part
we're kind of on our own.
And we still have quite a bit of work.
We still have some trim work,
but you can certainly see how the edging
and the blending is starting to take place again.
I showed you the gator tank before
I took Stewart to the airport.
Down here is actually gonna be the filtration system,
and I thought what would be really cool
is to actually have the, kind of, bio balls and everything,
kind of visible so you can kind of see
the working behind the scenes.
I don't know. I'll see how that goes.
If I don't like it, I can always cover
it up with a rock wall or something like that.
Probably one of the biggest jobs we have going forward
is to figure out all of these center racks,
and I'm gonna do that over the next couple days.
But, again, just take a look at these cages
as the lighting is on.
Now is really the fun part.
We have to start designing,
figure out what water bowls we are,
what plants are gonna go, what animals are gonna go
and the bedding that's gonna go in it.
I mean, my gosh, it's gonna be so exciting.
Take a look at some of these habitats, I mean,
I tell you what, I am so excited.
I couldn't be more excited about this one, too.
I mean of course this my big tank right here.
Lucy will probably go into, and of course,
this is where the waterfall kind of drips into here,
goes into here, and then ultimately into that drain.
Just a few more things that I have to fix up on that
before I can actually start running that waterfall.
And, of course, this gonna be the tortoise area over here,
which has got really cool walls, some trees.
We'll go ahead and put Timothy hay down here.
And when kids come in they can actually feed the tortoises
and stuff like that.
So, I don't know guys.
It's pretty awesome to be here by myself.
I mean, this is incredible.
I mean, it's amazing the progress we've made,
but listen, we still have a long way to go.
That being said, I did want to talk to you about one thing:
and that's I've been saying that
the 14th is gonna be the Grand Opening.
Well I think we're gonna have to postpone it a little bit.
Although we got an enormous amount
accomplished in four days, the truth is
I thought we were gonna be a little bit further ahead,
cause I didn't know how complicated things were.
When I talked to Stewart before he came,
we both kind of thought, like,
"Maybe we were gonna get done with all of
the middle aisles and everything before he left."
And we worked our butts off,
and we just weren't able to quite accomplish that.
Just meaning that now that it's gonna be
a smaller group of people: BHB, myself, Laurie,
helping out with this and with a
handful of volunteers here and there.
The truth is, it's gonna slow down quite a bit.
So I think it's probably gonna take me two or three weeks.
I promise, after a next a day or so,
I'm gonna kind of decompress, figure this thing out,
reset, and then I will tell you
what day we're actually gonna open the reptarium.
But for now, I don't think it's gonna be the 14th.
I'm gonna be completely honest with you guys,
this was an unbelievable thing.
I mean, I've done a lot of things in my life,
but this was probably the biggest,
most monumental thing that I've ever
really taken on in a short period of time.
From building the cages, to getting them up here,
to installing them and trying to build this place out.
Trust me, it is hard work.
Hard hard hard work.
Harder than I ever really anticipated,
but that being said, if you want to achieve your goals
and go after things, you've gotta be willing to sacrifice,
and you've gotta be willing to
work as hard as you possibly can.
So it's all gonna be worth it.
And I have no doubt that at the end of the day,
I'm gonna sit in here and just be in amazement.
Here I am, the first time in the reptarium,
even though it's still kind of a distaster,
and I don't even want to leave.
I've been up since Four A.M.
and it's now like 11 o'clock at night
and I just want to stay here cause it's amazing
and there's no animals in here yet!
There's no glass in most of the cages; there's a disaster!
It's just amazing.
I already love this place
and I cannot wait to share the rest of this
journey with you, and eventually finish it,
and eventually have you come visit me.
With that said, I am gonna go ahead and end the vlog.
I wish you guys an amazing day.
Truly you guys are the reason this happened.
Without you guys, honestly, I couldn't achieve this.
I cannot thank you enough for it.
You guys are absolutely amazing.
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Let me know how you've enjoyed this journey,
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of me rattling on about the reptarium,
because I'll change it up if that is the case.
Make sure that you're kind to someone,
and I promise, I will see you guys tomorrow.
("Staten Island" by Aldous Young)