- Hey, good morning, everybody and welcome to the vlog.
I hope the start of your day is amazing.
You may notice that I have some shorts on
and that I want to start my day with Ivy and Aries.
That's right.
It's been a bit since I've been in the water with them.
They just looked so cute this morning
and you know that's my therapy, right?
When I feel a little bit amped up
I go in and these guys are amazing.
So Aries is already here ready to greet me.
Hi, baby.
How are you doing?
And then of course Ivy just shed, just ate.
She looks absolutely incredible.
So I'm just gonna pet Aries,
make sure he knows I'm not food.
I don't want him to eat my feet.
Then I'm gonna come over here
and I'm gonna get in the water with my girl
and just kind of chill out
and have a good time and see how it goes.
It's always just amazing to start my day with giant snakes.
We're gonna be doing some feeding a little bit later,
actually gonna probably spend a little time with Lucy too.
Why not spend time with giant snakes, right?
How you doing, Ivy?
You don't mind if I come in and hang out with you, girl?
And immediately she's kind of curious
and she comes right over.
Look at that, it's so bizarre.
She's such a curious animal.
I mean, literally as soon as I came in
she just came right over to me.
Hi, baby.
Hi, sweetheart.
And again, the thing with her, that thing with her
is to not actually move around and grab her
but let her come to you
and that's when you really have the best experience.
Hi, baby, how you doing, sweetheart?
Hi, honey.
And that's really what I want.
I want her to kind of feel like she can come over to me
and again, she's gonna come over, she's gonna sniff me,
come right over to my legs, find out what's going on.
She's so curious and this is the experience that I love;
it's not that I'm handling her
as much as I'm in her environment
and I'm doing what she wants to do
and I'm just gonna kind of sit still with her here
and just let her climb around on me
because this is amazing and I wouldn't be surprised
if Aries comes over too.
Right now he's just curious on that side
but let's see what happens to him.
Yeah, here she comes.
Hi, baby girl.
Hi, sweetheart.
Hi.
So bizarre.
I mean, I could never have imagined anacondas
being so curious, such interesting animals.
She's just over here like again,
swims right up to me wondering what's up.
Hey, what's up, dad?
What are you doing in my water?
And that's about it.
I mean, it's just a great way to spend the day.
And I always talk about how I really want
to have people have this type of an experience,
to be able to be right inside
with her is really, truly incredible.
You see, she's just slipping around.
It's almost like a puppy dog, right?
She just wants to be all around me
sniffing all around me, seeing what's going on.
She's gonna come over to my feet.
She's gonna come over to my whole body
and just kind of explore me, which again
I find so intriguing that anacondas are that way.
Whereas most snakes will crawl away from you,
anacondas crawl towards you, which is just really bizarre.
It looks like Aries is trying to escape.
And of course Aries over here,
instead of coming over to spend time with me,
he's decided to go spend time with Anthony over there
and see if he can get out of the cage a little bit.
But what are you doing, girl?
Where are you at?
She's so funny.
Just look at the size of that snake right there.
I mean, absolutely breathtaking how big she's getting.
And again, I'm glad that she's doing well.
Remember she had that little bit
of sickness that really stressed me out.
So thankfully she is looking great.
Her health looks fantastic
and here she comes right over by me.
Hey, baby.
Oh my god, it's so awesome!
Guys, I tell you, look at this.
She's just like giving me a little hug.
She's just coming over saying hi to me.
I love this girl so much.
I know every time I get in here
I always say I'm speechless, but I don't understand it.
I mean, it just is bizarre to me that it seems
like she's just so interested in being around you.
I mean, she's now giving me a big hug
all around me and she's just hanging out with me.
How cool is that?
That's a great way to start the day.
You can see how, when I am a little amped up now
and I can spend some time with her how it calms me down.
She is my spirit animal.
She is my therapy animal.
I love her so, so much.
And while I'm in here and I'm all wet
I might as well go ahead and clean the inside of the glass.
That way I don't have to do it later.
So I'll do a little maintenance now
that I've had some good, quiet time with my girl, Ivy.
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Sure enough, as I'm cleaning
and Ivy decides to climb out of the water
Aries, he decides to climb in the water.
These two monkeys are really entertaining.
(upbeat music)
You guys know that we like to vary things up,
so I'm gonna feed Bowser
a frozen thawed rat really quick.
This is really good.
Again, Bowser's become a monster;
he'll eat just about anything.
He eats fish, he eats crocodile chow,
he eats rodents, all kinds of different stuff.
So let's see if he's in the mood to eat right now.
So let's just jump into it, see what happens.
Here we go, Bowser, come on.
All right guys, he looks interested.
He's turning his head.
I think he's gonna take it.
There he goes, opening his mouth and yes!
All right, how awesome was that?
It's crazy to think about a giant turtle
like this eating rodents.
I mean, isn't that cool again?
He'll eat chicken parts,
he eats just about anything.
And he is definitely getting big
but he's probably only maybe a hundred pounds.
These guys can actually get up to 200 pounds.
He's only 41, gonna be 42 years old
and he can live 200 years,
so it's all, it's definitely prehistoric.
I mean, this thing's gonna be around forever.
They are little dinosaurs for sure.
I love them to death.
It was awesome to start the day with Ivy, my giant snake,
but you guys know that the snake
that really always has had my heart,
that's really giant is Lucy,
so let's go check her out.
She just shed.
She looks absolutely amazing.
So I'm gonna just see what kind of a mood she's in.
Hi, baby girl.
How you doing?
You okay?
Careful, careful, careful, careful, careful, careful.
You're all right, you're okay.
We're good, we're good.
She's balking a little bit, but that's all right.
Again, she got shed off
so she looks really beautiful.
Gorgeous animal.
See what she's got going on here today?
Come on, baby.
You wanna come out just for a little bit with me?
Why don't you come out just for a little bit?
And there is my beautiful girl.
Look at her.
I mean, just look at how amazing she's looking today.
Hi baby, how you doing?
Hi, sweetheart.
Hi, baby.
See, she can sometimes be just like Ivy too.
She is definitely a sweetheart,
but she's a big snake that's very heavy,
a lot more active than Ivy, there's no doubt about it,
but I love her to death.
I mean, she is truly an amazing, amazing snake
and getting the chance to spend time
with her is really, truly incredible.
I mean, wow.
So we're just letting her crawl around
just a little bit for a little bit,
get her stretched out and stuff like that.
Can you just get an idea
of how long that snake is when she's out?
You know, people come to the reptarium all the time
and they always talk about how she seems big on the videos,
but when you see her in person she's giant
and when you get her out she's even bigger
and she'll definitely wear you out,
but I'm just gonna let her crawl 'cause look,
just look at how long that snake is.
I mean, that is just absolutely ridiculous.
It's so wild to think there's a snake that big
and today she seems a little calm
so she's not running as much, which is cool.
That's why I don't mind having her out
and let her just kind of stretch out a little bit,
'cause that's a pretty awesome experience for sure.
All right.
So Lucy's had a little bit of time out and about
so we'll just slowly kind of get her over.
I tell you, she is a fun snake,
but she definitely wears you out.
Come on, big girl.
There we go, sweetheart.
Let her crawl back in her cage.
The rare occasion that she doesn't climb
directly up into her tree.
Normally she'll do that.
Today, she's just gonna climb over here
which is completely fine,
but it looks like she might be making
her way up into the tree after all.
Yeah, there she goes.
Typical girl.
Lucy is definitely amazing.
I know a lot of you guys think she's
one of the best snakes I have
and there's no doubt she's wonderful.
She's in a really good mood today, isn't she?
As a matter of fact, Noah and Jay
did a pretty fun challenge with her.
I'm gonna put a card up here, go check it out.
It's really funny.
They actually did riddles where they had to carry Lucy
from cage to cage on Noah's channel,
so please go pay that some attention
and show her some love for me.
Guess what time it is,
it's time to meet my other anaconda again
and getting an opportunity to get her
as big as I possibly can.
And she looks interested, there's no doubt about that.
Come on, little girl.
Come on, come on, sweetie.
Come on.
You got it.
There you go.
Oh, there it is!
Bam!
I tell you, what a little monster.
So predaceous, you know what I mean?
You could see, as soon as I opened up the enclosure,
she like kinda came, she was coming out, she got it.
That is just awesome.
I mean, anacondas are truly amazing.
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Time to feed Ben and Jerry.
It's been a minute since we've done it.
And of course, Ben always will take the food first
and then hopefully Jerry will later.
So let's just go ahead
and give these guys a little,
look, look, look.
Give these guys a little offer.
There it goes.
Ben, as always.
And basically like I mentioned in the past
what we'll try and do is we'll let Ben
eat maybe halfway down, then we offer Jerry
and hopefully Jerry will take, sometimes he hasn't.
Lately, Ben has been doing the majority of the eating.
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Now that Ben is kind of taking it down,
I'm going to go ahead and try to offer Jerry
and see if he'll take it.
Let's see what happens here.
He's kind of showing a little bit of interest
but I'm not a hundred percent sure yet.
And let's see.
Yeah, he took it.
He's gonna take it right now.
So I'm gonna just kind of get it in here.
Oh, my god, he dropped it.
Oh no.
So I'm going to offer it to him again.
A lot of times if he drops it the first time
he won't take it a second time
and like I said, it's probably been four
or maybe even six weeks since Jerry's eaten anything,
even though they share the same stomach.
So I'm gonna to try one more time with him
and see if he gets going.
Interest.
Okay, he got it.
Yes, he's got it.
Awesome!
Ben and Jerry are both eating right now, which is rare.
I think that is so awesome.
So I'm gonna sit back and watch these guys eat
and give them a couple more meals.
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Got a little package here that I'm gonna open up.
As always, you guys are amazing when you send me stuff.
I try to open as much as I can up on the vlog.
We always have so much, so thank you.
Link is always in the description to my PO Box.
This is actually from, Hey, Brian and Laurie.
These pictures are to let you two know
how much I appreciate everything that you do
for the vlog and the zoo.
I watch every day while I'm doing these pictures.
You're like family to me.
Sincerely, Lavette?
I think, I'm not a hundred percent sure
but thank you so much.
The package was a little bit rough coming in
but I like the wrapping job,
so I appreciate that very much.
And it definitely brings me back to Christmas,
you know what I mean?
As a matter of fact, you guys may know
that we love Christmas at the Barczyk house
and we still have our Christmas trees up, yeah.
- [Cameraperson] All of them?
- All of them are up,
but I'm thinking about just leaving them up
for the whole year to be honest, what the heck.
It's cold, it's dark, you might as well just do it, right?
- [Cameraperson] I love it.
- No, we'll probably take them down eventually
but yes, they are still up, but this is cool.
I can't wait to see what this is all about.
Trying not to break these.
Oh, so these are these, like what do they call it?
Like diamond?
- [Cameraperson] Diamond art or something like that?
- Something like that, that is cool.
This is of course a tortoise, which is cool.
That's awesome.
Very much.
Thank you very much.
And then secondly, aww, we have a sloth!
We got Drogo!
So there we go, that is awesome.
I know these take a tremendous amount of time,
so thank you for spending the time,
the amount of time to make these for us.
That's absolutely beautiful.
So there it is.
I always appreciate you guys sending stuff.
You guys just warm my heart.
Starting my day swimming with Ivy is always the way to go.
And then of course, to have all the other stuff
feed today and just, it's a really fun day.
I mean, these are the days that I look forward to.
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