- Hey, good morning everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is incredible.
I know mine sure is gonna be.
I get to feed Ivy today.
That's right, I have no idea how she's gonna eat
in this water.
I've watched a couple YouTube videos
(laughing) ironically enough like with
the Dallas World Aquarium how they feed
their anacondas in the water
'cause she's been hanging out here.
The question is I don't know like once she grabs the rabbit
if she grabs the rabbit,
do I pull her up on land
or do I leave her in the water?
I'm not sure what's gonna happen, guys,
but let's just go inside and feed Ivy, how amazing.
We're also gonna feed a couple other animals
here at the Reptarium expansion
as well as a bunch of stuff next door.
It's gonna be an awesome day.
Let's just go ahead and jump right in.
(laughing) I'm in the cage now.
Ivy is right over here.
You can see her over here
and I don't know what's gonna happen.
My heart rate is kind of up.
I'll be honest with you, this is super exciting to me
just to see something I just didn't know
what's going on.
I think I'm gonna, I don't know if I should drag her up.
I don't know if she'll eat under the water
so I think I'm gonna try to hand it to her first
and see what happens.
Come on, girl.
You wanna eat?
You wanna eat, baby, you wanna eat?
I don't know what to do.
I've never done this before.
There she is, she's sparking now.
There she goes, oh she got it, she got it.
She's pulling it under the water,
she's pulling it under the water, oh yeah.
All right, look at that, she's coiled under the water here.
I think I'm gonna go ahead and pull her up on land.
Oh my gosh she's got that thing coiled
like you can't believe.
I'm gonna pull her up on land
just so she can eat because I don't know
if she can eat underwater or not.
Get her up on land like this.
I'll tell you what, that was an adrenaline rush.
I didn't know what was gonna happen.
That was so fricking awesome.
Did you see her just (laughing) lunge out of
the water like that?
Oh my gosh, that's got to be the way they eat in the wild.
I wonder if she would drag it,
I mean, she was gonna drag it under water.
Would she have eaten it underwater?
I don't know, let me know in the comments
what you guys think.
In the meantime, I'm just gonna sit here
and enjoy this moment.
That was fricking epic.
I can't believe how absolutely incredible
that was to feed Ivy.
Now I'm just gonna feed Perdita.
Come on, my big girl.
There you go, sweetheart.
(laughing) She is gorgeous too.
So obviously I've got to feed the animals over here
and later on today, I actually have to build
the stand for the fish spas.
Remember, we went over to Steve Bache's place,
saw the fish spas getting done.
He came by yesterday
and actually told me what he wanted,
so I've got to build a stand
so that he can come in here in the next few days
and actually start to install the fish spas
and make them look amazing
so I'm excited about that
so we'll do that a little bit later,
but we've got a lot of snakes to feed in the meantime.
Pretty cool again, every single time
we get to feed an animal for the first time.
It's a little freaky when you have to come inside.
I have no idea if Al's gonna be ready to eat
or not to be totally honest with you,
'cause again, sometimes it takes a little bit of time
for them to adjust where their new environment is,
so I'm just gonna give it a shot
and see if he's interested.
Al, you want food, bud?
He also is starting to look a little dull
like he's starting to go into shed
so I have a feeling that Al is not interested
in eating today but he's yet to flick his tongue out, so.
See, come on buddy.
All right, so that's a no go for Al.
Again, I didn't expect every animal to eat
while it's over here so we're just gonna give him
another week or two and I'm sure he'll go onto food
so let's move onto the next.
Keep popping over to BHB because after all,
I love all my animals here too
and guess what we gosh,
we got a couple little crested gecko babies.
They are adorable too, oh my gosh,
the color on these guys are ridiculous,
so two more little baby crested geckos.
That is awesome.
Definitely can't wait to start hatching
some of that really red line gargoyle stuff
but we're actually having a pretty good
crested gecko year considering we didn't even
gear up to try to produce them.
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I can definitely tell that Loves to Nip is ready to go.
It wants to eat for sure.
Come on baby, come on silly.
There you go.
(laughing) Such a cool snake.
Here you go.
Monster.
There you go, sweetie.
There you go, buddy.
And I've mentioned before that these guys
can sometimes be found in kind of the entrance
of a bat cave where bats are flying out
and they're just chucking them right up.
Well guess what, I might be going
to one of those places in Mexico.
Now these guys are from Haiti,
but the Mexican version is like that too.
Boas at the edge of a cave entrance.
Might be going.
If I do, I'll definitely film that one.
Caspar is always an adventure to feed.
He's a super tame animal,
but when it comes to feeding.
Whoa, here he comes.
Whoa, come on guy, come on, you're okay, you're all right.
Here we go.
I'll tell you what, he just goes nuts.
I mean, he just like strikes with his mouth open
just like waving around
so you always got to be careful with him.
He's a great snake, but holy cow,
you got to be careful.
Hog nose are so cute and of course Papa here
is just amazing.
Here you go.
(grunting)
There it is.
(laughing) And they are so absolutely adorable.
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Come on bud, over here, whoa, here you go.
Whoa, hello now, buddy.
Oh, he grabbed it all weird, killer.
(laughing) It's a good snake.
Now I can't wait 'till this sucker gets 15 foot.
It's gonna be ridiculous.
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The thing that's amazing about Tazzy
is just how gentle he is.
He's not like Albus or these other things
where you got to really go after it,
so a lot of times, you can just get him to kind of,
see, he's already excited.
There you go, bud.
And you can just feed him.
He's just so gentle compared to most animals.
So I'm just feeling him some really small meals right now.
Here you go, bud.
There you go, sweetheart.
I mean, that's the thing that's so cool about this guy
is he is just so chill and so gentle
you can use shorter tongs,
just have him sitting on your lap.
Here you go buddy, want some more, there you go.
That's a boy, good boy.
(laughing)
I mean, how absolutely adorable is that?
I mean, I'll tell you what,
this is a cool, cool animal.
Tegus are pretty amazing.
Here you go buddy, want more?
There you go.
There you go, there you go, Tazzy.
And again, you couldn't do this with a monitor really
because they're just, it's not that they're mean animals
or anything like that.
It's just that they have a much more ferocious
feeding habit to them where as Taz is just so gentle.
You can see, just barely takes it.
So you don't have to use those long tongs
to keep your hands away.
I certainly couldn't even have Albus up on this
not because Albus would wanna bite me
but you know, if I'm over here,
he could potentially just reach over and grab me
on accident really so Taz is pretty special
in the sense that I can actually do this.
There you go, bud.
There you go, sweetheart.
Woop, dropped it.
And that's about it for Tazzy.
He's a pretty dainty eater so what an
absolutely beautiful animal and again,
what I always do with Tazzy,
you guys know this,
is I just let him go home on his own
whenever he wants to.
Go ahead, bud, you wanna go home baby?
Do you wanna go home and go back to sleep?
Such a lazy little sloth like reptile, you know.
(laughing) See you later, buddy.
Thank you for spending time with me.
You know, it's always awesome to feed snakes
but it's even cooler when you can feed them
for the first time in a new environment
and kind of learn what they're doing.
Like Ivy, I didn't know what was gonna happen.
That's super cool over there.
Now I've got to decide if I ever wanna let her eat
in the water or when she's done,
is she gonna go back in the water?
I don't know what she's gonna do.
And again, Al will turn on here pretty soon.
You know, just getting all the new animals
over in the next week or so in
and then feeding them,
I mean, it's cool, right?
It's a cool new experience.
No matter how many times I've fed reptiles,
feeding them in a new environment
is gonna be completely different
'cause they're gonna act completely different,
which is just really exciting.
Perdita eating great over there
so let's go ahead and try Moomoo on this side.
Again, being the first time feeding,
I just don't know exactly what to expect,
to be honest with you.
You see, she's kind of tucking her head
but maybe if she smells it,
she'll come up and eat it.
I'm not 100% sure.
Here she comes, there she is.
Now she can start smelling it
to see if she actually wants to eat.
You wanna eat, girl?
Come on.
There she goes.
That's such a great thing, I love it.
That means she's settling in quicker than Al obviously
so that's really good.
Getting her good meals in her, get her growing.
She is gonna be good.
After she gets handled a bunch by a bunch of people,
she's gonna be just as big of a sweetheart as Perdita.
Just heading down here to BHB, the dungeon,
Mary, what's going on?
Things are, looks like there's a bunch of lock ups, huh?
- There is so much locks,
some babies are starting to,
some young males are starting to breed.
There's so much locks.
- It's crazy how you'll have like a young male
that's like a year and a half old
that has got plenty of size
and he just won't breed and then like you said,
middle end of February, he decides he's gonna breed.
And once they start, they'll breed for a long time.
Unfortunately, females are already
kind of developing follicles so sometimes
you got to stress out about it.
So good to hear.
I see a lot of colorful things happening here.
I don't really know what the system is
and I'm gonna let you just run with it
but there's green, there's yellow,
there's blue, there's red, there's yellow,
there's orange.
It's yeah, I mean, it's definitely
a colorful place down here
but keep up the good work, Mary. (laughing)
This girl's actually the Lori leopard ball python
that produced the Super Lori leopard last year
and she's bred to the same exact male.
She's up to 24 millimeter follicles.
Usually once they get over 20, 22,
it's like a 90% lock, especially if you've seen breeding
and stuff like that so I have a feeling
we're gonna get another clutch.
Now will we get lucky and produce
another Super Lori leopard?
We'll have to wait and see.
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Guys, take a look at that, oh my gosh.
Ivy ate, I mean that's so exciting, isn't it?
I mean, just the fact that she ate like that.
It's hard to say that snakes are happy.
I'd say they're mentally enriched
and mentally stimulated.
She seems to be so mentally stimulated in this cage
'cause she's got all this environment here,
she's got the water that she's loving to death.
Obviously she's happy, she's eating.
This is, I'll tell you what,
there is nothing that is making me
more happy right now than the way
Ivy is enjoying her habitat.
The three turtles I put in the other day
are settling in pretty good
but what I've noticed is that
it's gonna (laughing) take them a while
to feel comfortable 'cause they're hiding all the time.
I decided to go ahead and put another five turtles
that I had and then I'll hang a mercury
vapor bulb here later on.
So I'm just gonna let these guys go and swim around
and I don't know, maybe with eight turtles in here,
maybe they'll all cruise around a little bit more.
Look at this big old mama right here.
I'll tell you what.
Here you go, be free.
(laughing) I think they're gonna love it.
I can't wait 'till they get socialized enough in here
where they'll come up and come out for food
and be all over this.
It's gonna be really really cool,
so all right, we'll see.
It looks like I've got eight of them in here
and I don't see, oh there's one.
Oh, it just went right back down.
Yeah, so it'll probably take them a few days
to get socialized but I wanna go ahead
and have these guys looking good
so that the open, of course March 13 weekend,
Friday March 13, we're gonna have a bash.
Remember, we're giving away two tickets
to the VIP party Friday
and two tickets Saturday.
You got to follow the Reptarium on Instagram
for more details so you may get lucky
and win a couple free tickets
to come hang out with us on the VIP party.
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That is awesome.
Oh my god, that's so cool.
Here you go, there you go.
Obviously the more animals you get,
the more challenge it is gonna be to feed everything
now that we have this side,
some animals on that side and like I said,
here in another week and a half,
that side's gonna be full up so there's gonna be
a lot of stuff to feed over here.
But I've got to feed this girl here,
of course Sunrise.
There it is, perfect hit right there.
She got it perfect.
(laughing) I'll tell you what, again,
I love feeding stuff and now that we've got
new stuff over there.
Oh my god, this is, the feeding day's even more epic.
Let me know in the comments if you guys
are enjoying it for sure 'cause I sure am.
Pickles is pretty amazing
and she is fired up right now.
You ready, girl?
Here you go, there you go, right up here.
Here you go, there it is, right there.
There it is, good job, girl.
That is one incredibly beautiful girl.
I can't wait to show you the arboreal cage next door
and what's gonna go in it in about a week.
Ridiculous.
Come on, Jeffry.
Cheer up.
God, he looks so pretty today.
Wow, look at this animal.
There it is.
There you go, buddy.
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Like I mentioned earlier, off to Home Depot
to start building this stand for the spa here,
so you know, it seems like I live at Home Depot nowadays
with the expansion so let's head out there,
grab some wood, get back here,
and build this stand for my buddy, Steve.
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Essentially what's gonna happen guys
is this will be the stand that the actual spas are on.
It'll be out to about right about here
roughly in that thing.
There will be one spa here, one spa here,
you'll be able to step up in the middle
to get into the spa
and then this will be the sump area back here
which is the actual pump.
And then of course the seat will be here.
So you'll be sitting here, feed in the thing like that,
so that's the stand for it,
so I'm gonna have Steve in the next couple days
is gonna be out here, gonna be installing these guys,
getting all the plumbing for sump
and stuff like that.
Then we'll get a good idea of what this thing
is gonna look like.
Well I guess that answers my question
whether or not she's gonna stay on the land
or if she's gonna go in the water after she feeds,
but what an amazing opportunity
to see her eat for the first time.
She loves it, she's great.
Everything went really well here with the new place.
Again, lots of new animals gonna be here
within the next week.
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