- Take a look at this little monkey here,
oh and it's a feisty little dude too.
- I think I'm scared,
I'll tell you that right now.
("Blue Hills" by Yellowbase)
- Hey good morning everybody.
Welcome to the vlog.
- Good morning!
- Morning.
- Good morning.
- What do you say we head over to The Reptarium.
("Blue Hills" by Yellowbase)
Another beautiful day over here at the Reptarium.
Lucy's cage is still looking good.
Every morning I come in,
I'm always expecting a disaster in that cage,
and the first time when I walk through in the morning,
you're always just kinda looking around,
making sure everything is okay.
I look at every cage,
I look at all the locks,
make sure Potato's still in his cage,
and stuff like that.
Which, by the way
we have the locks in today,
so we can get the locks on those cages.
We also have the glass going in these cages,
which is really cool.
So we can actually start to put animals in them,
maybe as early as today.
Bella, hey girl, hi sweetheart.
You're out this morning.
She is looking good.
So far everything is looking good at The Reptarium today.
I do have a couple animals coming later today
that I'm pretty excited about,
that we're gonna set up
and of course we are open today,
so it's gonna be an absolutely amazing day.
Oh, and by the way, we do have,
oh look at the emerald tree boa,
just look, it's so amazing.
Oh, we do have a little more news coverage, Channel 4,
local Channel 4 is coming out to do a little news coverage.
Gonna be an absolutely epic day.
I'm gonna go ahead a top off Bowser's pond a little bit,
it looks like the water level has dropped.
It is definitely, finally clearing up a lot better.
But now I've got some foam on the top of it,
but I think it might just be that the water level
has kinda dropped, so now the bubbles are coming
from the waterfall, I'm not sure.
I'll tell you what, I don't know much about ponds.
I'm learning the best I can,
but at least it is clearing up.
Quick break from everything,
to show you guys some new baby snakes that hatched out.
It seems that the last handful of times
that I've showed you guys baby snakes,
they've been Mexican Black King snakes.
But that's not a bad thing,
because they are so popular.
Look at how beautiful these guys are.
So again, another, probably, I don't know,
7 or 8 Mexican Black Kings hatched out.
I think there's actually a couple more eggs too,
so it looks like we are gonna
have another 8 or 10 Mexican Black Kings.
It is awesome, I'll tell you what, I'm excited.
I actually didn't realize we had this many eggs left.
I know a lot of people who were on the waiting list,
that weren't able to get the last batch
are gonna be excited to know that we have some more coming.
Misters are on, which that means right when they're done,
the frogs will expect to be fed.
So, I've got some fruit flies
and some little pinhead crickets
to feed all these beautiful little dart frogs.
("Blue Hills" by Yellowbase)
I love feeding these frogs.
It is so fricking cool.
Oh my god, I've literally become a dart frog addict.
I almost hate to admit it,
but literally it's one of
the coolest things I do everyday.
Look at that little Azureus.
Oh my gosh, eat those little things. (laughs)
Literally, every morning I wake up,
I can't wait to get over here and feed the frogs.
Cause they're just so fricking awesome.
Oh my gosh, look at that little dude.
And there's five of them in here somewhere, cruising around.
Oh, they're right there,
they're all crushing a bunch of fruit flies.
Oh there they are, come out!
Oh my God, I just love these dudes.
So, we just had a little visitor come in, which was cool.
So get this, I'm in my office doing some work,
and Noah, what did you say?
- I said "Some dude's here for you."
- Well, he's like "Hey Dad, some dude's here for you."
The dude happens to be the mayor of the city.
(Noah laughs)
So Noah just called the mayor some dude.
- I mean, I told him this, there should be a picture up
saying this is the mayor of your city and you know.
- That's okay, 'cause I bet you a lot of people
watching right now probably don't know what
their mayor looks like.
- There's no way.
- But it was cool, mayor came,
he liked everything, everything's good.
Apparently, there's someone that's a little bit
upset down the street that we have a surface terarrium,
they raised a little bit of hell,
but it wasn't why he stopped by.
He wanted to stop by and see 'em,
I've actually talked to the mayor a few times,
really cool guy, super, super good guy.
But apparently there is someone that's been complaining,
they're afraid that snakes
are gonna attack the neighborhood,
so I'm gonna give them a call a little bit later
and see if I can smooth it over, hopefully they understand
that we aren't gonna be letting snakes out.
What they didn't realize is we've been here for three years,
they just didn't know we were here.
So those snakes have been here for that long.
- Probably thought about one week.
- So, anyways, good job Noah.
- Yeah thanks, hey, see ya mayor.
- Here's one thing I know for sure,
I'm absolutely gonna be getting
some more dart frog displays.
Oh my gosh, these powder blues are unbelievable.
Look at these things, man, they're surreal.
("Blue Hills" by Yellowbase)
Okay, so now that I'm done
feeding the frogs, it's time to other things.
And by other things I wanted to share with you guys,
this amazing little animal here,
take a look at this little monkey here.
Oh and it's a feisty little dude too.
This is actually and Australian Pink-tongued Skink,
you guys know that I love Blue-tongued Skinks,
this is what they call a Pink-tongued Skink.
Now of course, when they're this size,
their tongues are actually a bluish-black
but when they get older they actually turn pink.
Now this is gonna get like 15 to 18 inches,
so this is just a little baby,
and these little babies believe it or not,
eat baby food, like chicken baby food.
It's so crazy, and they will eat some insects
as they get bigger, but they are so cool.
I've always wanted these and I've never had 'em.
And just like the blue tongues they're live bearers,
but these guys are more arboreal, they'll climb up.
And they even have a semi-prehensile tail,
look how long that tail is, they can kind of hang on things,
which makes them absolutely amazing.
This dude is so cool, so we're gonna set up a terrarium
for these guys, I actually have three of them.
And typically they can stay together,
so next time you're at the Reptarium,
you guys are gonna get a chance
to see these cute little monkeys.
Eric, you trust me?
- I always trust you Brian, good guy.
- So we just cleaned Argumus Prime, the Argus Monitor,
actually, I should say Andrea did,
and I had to take him out and put him in a holding thing,
just so she could get his cage nice and clean,
get everything going and I wanted Eric to give a go
at seeing if you can get it back in the cage,
what do you think?
- I think I'm scared, I'll tell ya that right now.
Look at this ring, ya see that, it makes me,
I'm a grown man, so I'm gonna just--
- All you have to do is take him from this box,
into there and be gentle, be gentle.
- It's easier said than done.
- [Brian] Alright.
- Let's just do it, let's do it.
- [Brian] On with it.
- You can't keep these fingers forever.
- [Brian] Alright, let's see what we got.
- These guys are really fast,
that's the only part that makes me nervous.
Pull my pants up and get ready here.
What do we got here?
Hey buddy, oh yeah he's very tame.
Let's just reach in here.
God, Monitors, they're just so intelligent and so crazy.
I'm just gonna kind of feel him out here.
Hey buddy, hey, hey, hey.
That didn't scare me at all.
Alright, so I'm just gonna grab him now.
Any second now, anyway.
Hey, hey, hey.
- [Brian] Look it, he's just a puppy dog.
- He's a big fluffer, just a big fluffer,
don't bite me now, now you never want
to restrain these animals, I'll tell ya that.
- [Brian] That was fricking epic dude.
- Oh my God.
(Eric gags)
(Brian laughs)
- I'm gonna throw up.
- That, I couldn't have done that better, that was good.
And Eric is right, you never grab a Monitor like that.
If you grab a Monitor it's over,
it will never trust a human again, so.
- You wanna make 'em feel like they can
get away and run, you just wanna kind of
be there, hold them into place.
- [Brian] Exactly.
- And I've learned that the hard way.
- And when you do grab 'em,
they're gonna turn around and try to bite you.
So literally what Eric did,
that was absolutely Monitor Handling 101.
Good job, Eric.
- Thank you.
- So I think the Pink-tongued Skinks are going
to do really well in one of these Zoo Med Skyscrapers,
because there's a lot of height,
again they like to climb, this will give them
at least a year in here before I have to move 'em
up to something big potentially.
Now the one thing you definitely wanna do
is a coconut husk, we use Reptile Prime of course,
and you wanna make sure that's pretty damp.
You don't want it to be wet, but you want it to be damp
because they will dehydrate if you don't keep it damp.
I went ahead and I cut this piece of like a cool backdrop,
that I think that because it has a bunch of terracing on it,
I think they're gonna really like to climb this.
So I'm gonna have to glue this in the back.
So honestly, we're not gonna be able
to put the pink tongues in today,
because we're obviously gonna have silicone
and glue, and stuff like that in there.
But I think it's gonna look pretty cool.
("Blue Hills" by Yellowbase)
And you can kind of get the idea
of what that's gonna look like.
Again, they're gonna be able to climb
all the way up the walls, it's gonna be kind of cool.
I'll put some branches in here as well,
so they have some branches.
Not only to climb up the branches,
but also kind throughout the terracing
if that makes any sense.
But for now, I'm gonna just kind of stick this in here
and then I'll kinda work on the rest of the terracing.
I think this piece of wood here is gonna be really good.
Again, this is actually an aquarium wood,
so it's completely sanitized
and you can literally put this in an aquarium with fish.
I bought it right down the street called Kee's Pets.
But regardless, these guys can go up here,
they can climb up here, they can climb all the way over.
And I think with the terracing of the back,
it's gonna be really good, 'cause I can put it in
kinda something like this, you can kinda get the idea.
Now they can climb up there, they can be up here,
they can climb up there, get to this one,
get to this one, get all the way up there.
It gives them an opportunity, that way when we have
our basking light up top, they can get as close
or far away from it as they absolutely want.
So I think that's gonna be really good.
The only thing I really think I need,
left for this to be honest with you,
is we need a water dish,
we need a place to put the baby food,
so that they can eat that.
And some greenage I guess,
and I think that we're pretty much set.
Let me know what you guys think,
I mean I know it was kinda quick,
but I think it's gonna look awesome.
Again, just finished it off with some greenery.
I think this is kind of a cool little spot here,
little bit of greenery over there,
just to kinda mix things up.
I might hang something up here,
I'm not 100% sure, but in the meantime,
I think we have a pretty good cage.
Now I just have to tear it down,
glue it all in, seam everything up,
so they can't behind the backdrop obviously.
So I think we're good to go.
We'll have some Pink-tongued Skinks
on display, the next time you visit the Reptarium.
Just making our final preparations for the Reptarium open.
I tell ya what, I get so excited about every week
I get to open, that Monday through Thursday,
as much as it's nice to be in here
catching up on things and stuff like that,
I just wanna share it with people.
So I'm excited for another night here,
as a matter of fact, a little secret,
and I'm probably gonna get in trouble from Lori,
by telling you this, almost everyone that shows up
during the week if I'm here,
I let 'em in and show them around.
So it seems like everyday I've got someone here
going "Yeah, it's cool!", so it's awesome.
But the nights like tonight,
when there's tons of people, it is absolutely amazing,
so let's go ahead and open up the Reptarium.
Just opened up, and actually I have someone
that came all the way from Brooklyn,
they're here from, Noah is, your birthday's
coming up anytime, so happy birthday!
Eight? Oh my gosh.
That's awesome, so people are just coming in.
We're gonna have a great night here at the Reptarium.
Having some fun at the Reptarium, as always.
Andrew actually came to visit, all the way from Syracuse?
- Yes.
- Oh my gosh, that is a long drive.
And I of course said if he's coming all that way,
he can see anything he wants, and you wanted to see?
- An Abronia.
- An Abronia, something that
I haven't really taken out too much.
- [Child] What's an Abronia?
- Abronia is an alligator lizard.
- Oh.
- A little alligator lizard.
So these guys can sometimes be a little nippy,
but we're gonna do our best we can do,
because they are really awesome.
There you go, what do you think?
- Really cool.
- Isn't it a neat animal?
- [Andrew] Yeah.
("Blue Hills" by Yellowbase)
- Oh my gosh, this is so cool.
- Lots and lots of cool people come to the Reptarium,
I mean that's what really makes this special for me.
Is kind of just, sharing the passion of reptiles.
And you came all the way from L.A.
- Mm-hmm.
- Oh my gosh, all the way from L.A.
You're local though, right?
- Yeah.
- That's awesome, well thank you both for coming, so much.
What was the highlight?
- Definitely Perdita.
- [Brian] Perdita, oh my gosh.
- I think everything.
(crowd laughs)
- I'm like her, I couldn't pick just one.
- Yeah, I feel the same way.
- (laughs) Exactly, well thank you guys for coming.
And these guys came all the way from--
- La Grange, Georgia.
You left at three in the morning?
- Two this morning.
- Two o'clock in the morning, to come here.
You guys are amazing,
I just wanna make this so amazing for you.
So anything that you want, I will do for you.
And by the way, they bought me a really cool
Walking Dead shirt, that's awesome,
you guys will see it on the blog.
And then these guys came all the way from Texas.
What part?
- Austin, Texas.
- Austin, Texas, I love Austin, Texas by the way.
It's on of my favorite places in Texas,
sorry Arlington, Austin's a little bit better than you guys.
Regardless, thank you guys for coming.
- No problem.
- And these guys came all the way from--
- Cincinnati - Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Cincinnati, Ohio.
It's like I keep saying, I'm not gonna bore you guys
every week with just nothing but look at the Reptarium,
but it is really amazing, I wanna share my life with you.
And this is so incredible for me, I love this place,
I love when there's all these people.
I mean just take a look at this.
- [Child] Oh, that one's kind of scary.
- This is exactly what I was talking about,
this to me is worth everything, and all the work that I did.
So, another amazing, successful night at the Reptarium.
Just wrapping up the first night of the weekend,
at the Reptarium, and man oh man is it awesome.
You know, I keep thinking, maybe the next time
we're open it's not gonna be as busy,
maybe people are gonna get bored
I'm not 100% sure, but you guys just continue
to keep pouring in, it's amazing.
And what's really cool, is there's new people
every time we open, which I think is amazing.
Don't get me wrong, there's some people
that come every time and I appreciate you guys a lot too.
Trust me, but regardless, I'm gonna go ahead
and end the vlog, what an amazing way to end the day for me.
Again, let me know if you guys are gonna get bored
of this type of stuff, I don't wanna bore you guys.
And I always want to keep my content fresh,
so let me know what you guys think.
In the meantime, I'm gonna wish you a great day,
evening, whenever you happen to be watching.
Your support means the world to me.
And I truly, truly, truly love you guys so much.
Do me a couple favors before we get out of here.
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("Blue Hills" by Yellowbase)