- Guys, I was so worried about Elvis the other day.
I mean, I love Elvis so much.
He is one of my favorite animals.
But then he just kind of sat there
and he didn't move for, like, 20 minutes.
(intense rap music)
Hey, good morning everybody and welcome
to the vlog from me and Nova here.
I absolutely love this animal so much.
Of course, he's an Indonesian frill dragon
and he is absolutely incredible.
Of course, he's like my dilophosaurus from Jurassic Park.
Regardless, this is the first kind of normal day back
after a handful of trips to Italy
and Mexico and all kinds of stuff,
so we're gonna have an absolutely amazing day.
And I hope to start your day as absolutely incredible too.
What do you say me and Nova and everyone else
has a great day together? (popping transition)
One of the first things I wanted to do
was actually weigh Salt and Pepper.
It's been a couple weeks since I weighed him.
If you remember last time, Salt was actually 123 grams.
She is chunky as can be and today we haven't fed her yet,
so she's probably gonna gain another
five or eight grams after we feed her.
She is doing so well.
She is starting to really click her train well.
I just love this animal so much.
Let's go ahead and see how much she weighs.
There you go, sweetie. (claws scraping)
There you go, sweetheart. All right, she is 152 grams.
That is awesome. She gained 30 grams
in the last, you know, week and a half or two weeks.
So, oh my gosh, Salt is doing so good.
But I tell you what, Pepper has gotten extremely big.
That thing is just a beast. Let's go ahead
and get him and see how much he weighs.
(laughs) Take a look at this monkey right here.
Oh doggy, he is absolutely incredible.
He was 231 grams last time we weighed him.
I have a feeling he's gained a lot of weight,
cause like I said, he has been a monster.
When these guys first came in I was feeding
like six or eight pellets every other day.
Now they're eating like 20,
sometimes even 25 pellets every single day.
Let's go ahead and see what Pepper weighs.
He is 283 grams.
So he gained over 50 grams just in the last two weeks.
I'd say he's well on his way.
And again, he's about six weeks older than Salt,
so like I've been mentioning,
six weeks from now Salt will probably weigh 280 grams.
But this guy, who knows?
He'll probably be five, six hundred grams by then,
so all right that is absolutely incredible. (popping)
Let's go ahead and feed the dart frogs.
(relaxed rap beat)
And like I've mentioned in the past guys,
I don't know, it's really therapeutic
for me to feed these guys. They're just so beautiful.
They literally look like little toys.
It's something that you would think
you would find at a toy store.
Like little plastic, vibrant frogs that you can buy.
They are absolutely incredible
so feeding them every day just kind of makes me happy.
So it's pretty nice to be back here
at the reptarium and get back in my routine.
- (Brian) Eric, what is going on, man?
- What's happening? - It's nice to be back, man.
- Yeah! It's good to see ya!
- I haven't seen you since Mexico!
- I know it! - Do I look different?
- You do, you look nice and tan.
You're looking good. - I know, right?
Actually, I only was in the sun
for like one day but I burned.
The entire time I was there I had a shirt on
because I am really white and I burned.
- (laughing) - I don't tan, I burn.
And so literally, Lori and myself went in the ocean
literally like two or three times for like five minutes,
and I got a sunburn on my chest.
- Ow! - I was out there for like,
I was out there for like 15 minutes without a shirt on
in the water and still got a sunburn.
- They say that the moisture in the air from the ocean,
man it just cooks ya. - Is that what they say?
- So, half of me is from Britain,
so I don't even go in the sun.
I burn too, I'm really white and pasty.
- (Brian laughs) Yeah, I stay away from it.
I see you have a bunch of food out today.
What are you feeding? - Yeah, we're gonna be feeding
all the clue birds today, razors and stock.
So, we're just go through, feed everything.
- (Brian) Nice. - Yeah.
- You do realize that we're only about two weeks
away from clue birds coming up.
- I'm so excited. - You're actually excited?
- I'm so amped, man. - That's awesome.
- It's a stairmaster 10 thousand,
but we'll get it, we'll get it.
- (laughs) It is funny, I will say this,
when you go to put clue birds
down it's almost like a relief.
Like, oh, finally we get a little bit of a break.
But once they're down for a short while,
you can't wait to get them back up
because it's exciting. Gonna breed them,
get eggs, all that stuff.
It's gonna be a really fun year.
Oh, and by the way, I have
some surprises about the clue birds,
but I'm not gonna share that with you guys now.
It's probably gonna be a week and a half, two weeks
and then I've got something to surprise you guys with.
Hey, Lori, what's going on? I've gotta ask you a question.
Can you help me out with something?
- No, I can't help you out right now.
I'm too busy. (wheels rattling)
- What the heck is wrong with her?
What in the heck is wrong with your mom?
- I don't know, I was in there like 10 minutes ago
and she was just screaming at me, I don't even know.
- That's crazy! I wonder what's going on?
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(knocking on door) - Lori?
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(laughing) Really been working these alligators a lot.
(clicker snapping sharply) As you can see.
Look at this guy. (clicker snapping)
There you go, buddy. (clicker snapping)
(smooth rap music) (water splashing)
(clicking and splashing)
There you go. (laughs)
I absolutely love these animals.
They are so absolutely incredible.
Look at this little guy. (water splashing)
He's like, "Come feed me some more!"
(splashing) That's one thing I will say,
if I ever get a bigger reptarium built for stuff like that,
I definitely wanna do more crocodilians
because I absolutely think they're amazing.
Alligators are cool, don't get me wrong.
I really love my alligators,
but I wish I had like 10 or 12
different exhibits of different crocodilians.
- Eric, what do you got in your hand there, bud?
- Shh, this is Mary's taco, okay?
- What are you doing with someone's taco?
- I'm a little hungry, okay? She has a leftover.
I'm just gonna say Phoebe got it.
- You can't blame it on Phoebe, dude.
You're not gonna really eat Mary's taco, are you?
- I mean, you know we're married.
What's hers is mine and mine is hers.
- Oh my God.
- Okay, just cover me. - No.
- I'll put a couple of little wrappers on Phoebe's bed.
I do it at home all the time. - No!
- The dog got your leftovers.
- Don't eat Mary's taco. - (sarcasm) I'll try not to.
- Oh! (laughing) Okay, we gotta go.
Guys, I was so worried about Elvis the other day.
I mean, I love Elvis so much.
He is one of my favorite animals.
Just look at how absolutely incredible he is.
A couple days ago I did the same thing I'm doing right now.
We always open the door and we always
let Elvis come out on his own.
We never actually take Elvis out.
We always just open it up.
If he wants to come out, we let him come out.
If he wants to stay in his cage,
we let him stay in his cage.
But the truth is he always wants to come out.
He did exactly what he's doing right here,
but then once he got out he's always cruising around.
He's always on the go, He's always super curious.
But then he just kind of sat there
and he didn't move for like 20 minutes.
At first I thought, "That's kind of weird,
maybe he's just chillin. I don't really know."
But the truth is it seemed like he was just
kind of having a problem where,
it's almost like he couldn't move the way he wanted to move.
I was stressed out like you can't believe.
It was all in his back legs. His back legs for some reason
were just kind of a little stiff.
You could see he was trying to straighten out
and move a little bit, and I thought,
"Oh my God, something is going to happen to Elvis."
I was stressing out.
And then you'll never guess what happened.
He actually pooped all over the floor.
I think he was maybe a little backed up or something.
I'm not a hundred percent sure,
but every since then he's started moving around really good.
The last few days I've kept a really close eye on him.
He seems to be completely fine,
but oh my gosh, I was so stressed out.
Because this animal is absolutely so special to me.
Right, Elvis? You're a good boy.
Go ahead and have some fun, buddy.
And like I've mentioned before,
we typically let him just kind of run around
for a while every single day,
because he needs his kind of enrichment.
He loves cruising around and exploring.
Go ahead, bud. You can have some fun.
(bubble popping) I was pretty excited
I had my friend Matt Ron-it come out.
He actually is a zookeeper.
He worked a lot with amphibians at the Mystic Aquarium
where he was talking about lighting and what we can do here.
He said that we should add some bromeliad,
some java moss and stuff like that,
but the one thing he really talked about
is we actually replaced some of the light bulbs
with LED light that just looks a little bit better.
Noah and Lori seem to really like
this one's light bulb right here.
This one is pretty cool right there.
It really makes the cage look different.
- It makes the cage look different,
but I also can't open my eyes anymore
(laughing) because I'm going blind.
- That light just draws your eye to it
and then you're like (laughs).
All you see is that light when I close my eyes. (laughs)
- But the light looks cool when you look at it.
It's like red, white and blue. - Yeah, it is.
- But it hurts so bad so you can only look,
it's weird. It is really weird.
- (Brian) (laughs) It is true.
It's like the cage looks absolutely incredible
but the light kind of draws you to it,
so when you're looking in the cage
you're like, "Oh, that light is really good,"
but then it blinds you. - Yeah.
- (Brian) I don't know what we should do.
- Do you think the frogs feel the same way?
- (Brian and Noah) No!
- (Brian) They're staring at it right now.
(laughing) - (Lori) Yeah, I know, maybe!
- (Noah) Look into the light!
(bubble popping)
- Take a look at this Solomon Island skink right here
just kind of laying so crazy over here.
These two Solomon Island skinks are absolutely amazing.
As a matter of fact like I had mentioned
my buddy Matt was here. He was actually
head keeper over at the Mystic Aquarium for Reptiles.
Now he works at another zoo in the New York area.
He gave me a lot of ideas about our zoo.
One of the reasons he came to visit
was just to kind of give his insight
when he was running an institution that's an AZA,
which is an accredited zoo,
and basically he said with this cage right here,
it would be perfect to change the bedding out a little bit
and actually add some Solomon Island toads,
which are the ones with the little horns
that are really cool. He said that they can live
right with the Solomon Island skinks.
A lot of zoos do that.
They'll do multi-species exhibits
as long as they come from the same region
and they won't eat each other
and they'll all co-habitate.
He said in this particular enclosure
it would be perfect because
a lot of times these skinks will hide,
not like this one out right now.
That way people could actually see
the toads cruising around when it's open on exhibit.
He actually gave me the same idea
for some dart frogs and some other things,
so I don't know. We might do some changes here.
As a matter of fact, one of the first things
I think I'm gonna do is change out some
of the bedding for what they call ABG bedding
in some of our tanks and start to kind of see
if that's gonna work out for us.
It's always cool to have cool friends
that can come in and give us ideas
of how we can improve the zoo.
(swooshing transition) Let's go ahead and feed Toothless.
Toothless is back there saying,
"What do you got for me, Dad?"
Here you go, Toothless. (metal clinking)
Ah, yes. (laughs)
He is such a good animal. (tapping and clinking)
We're gonna give him a big one now.
Here you go, Toothless. There you go, bud.
Ah, yes! There you go.
He's got his big old roach.
(smooth rap beat)
There you go, Toothless.
Whoo! (crunching)
(rustling)
Good job, buddy. Okay, now another small one.
(snapping) There you go.
Munch it.
(crunching)
(rock clattering)
There we go. Oh, oh oh oh!
(rock clattering) Where'd it go? Where'd it go?
There it is. (thumping)
Where'd it go, bud?
There it is!
You got it.
(crunching)
(laughing) Toothless is amazing.
I tell you what, what a cool, cool animal there
and again I always talk about variety.
Bugs are really good for little monitors in particular.
Feeding those insects is really great protein
but it's not bad for them.
Feeding them too much raw meat
and stuff like that and rodents
can actually really be bad for them.
He loves roaches. We do crickets.
We do a whole bunch of other stuff.
What a great animal.
(popping transition) With that said guys,
I think I'm gonna go ahead and end the vlog.
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As for now, I just wish that you guys
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(smooth rap music)