- [Children] Bella.
- Let's check on her and see if she's got any eggs.
Oh.
("Tropic Breeze" by Sarah, The Instrumentalist)
(whooshing)
Good morning, everybody and welcome to the vlog.
Really busy day today.
I'm gonna take you on the entire journey.
Let's go ahead and get started.
I have my first tour in from Miami, Florida
and they're having a little time with my girl Daisy here.
She's giving you guys a run for your money.
What do you think?
- She's beautiful. - Very heavy.
- [Brian] She's heavy though, right?
- Yeah.
Now she's going back.
Daisy, don't go back, girl.
That's a big snake, though isn't she?
- [Both Boys] Yeah.
- [Brian] So, you guys keep, what do you,
you keep a carpet python?
- Carpet python, two ball pythons, two king snakes,
a bull snake, and a milk snake and a green iguana.
- [Brian] And now you guys just need a big snake.
- We need a big snake.
(laughing)
- Showing off Big Bertha, the lycheanus, of course.
I absolutely love these guys
and certainly since I went out to Leaping Lychees,
I have a whole new appreciation for them, for sure.
So, she's awesome, isn't she?
- Yes, she's super cool. - Mm-hm.
- First tour done.
I actually have three tourists today
and a two-and-a-half-hour birthday party
going up right till right before
we open up the Reptarium, so like I said, busy day.
I'm gonna take you guys along on the journey.
Had a great time with that family.
They came from Miami, absolutely incredible.
Next tour is about to show up.
Second tour of the day actually drove
all the way from New Jersey
and I hear you're the one that had
to make all the driving, right?
- Yes, me.
- All right, well, thank you guys for coming.
We've got Night Fury out.
These guys are awesome.
Gonna have a good time, just kind of showing
around the collection and stuff like that,
so it's gonna be a lot of fun.
Excited about seeing her?
She's amazing, isn't she? - What is blush?
- Oh yeah.
- [Brian] Good job.
- Hi, Salt.
- So, that family came from New Jersey.
They were super cool.
They're gonna come back and hanging out with us tonight
but they had a really good time.
Good people.
I'm having a great time today.
Getting ready for the birthday party,
again, two-and-a-half-hour birthday party,
so I got to get all the tables and chairs
and everything ready so should be a lot of fun.
Let's get ready.
Birthday party has showed up.
Elena here it's your birthday, how old are you?
- Seven.
(laughing)
- Carson's doing a little presentation here.
We got Maisie the corn snake out.
Just kind of teaching a bunch of stuff about reptiles.
Letting them get a chance to meet them,
and held them and handle them.
I love birthday parties like this, they are so much fun.
So, one of the things that I'm continually shocked about
is the fact that even people
that are kind of a little bit nervous
about holding reptiles like snakes and lizards,
will often hold a tarantula. (yelling)
Almost every kid here held the tarantula
even when they didn't wanna hold snakes.
I just think that's so awesome.
And even the big brother over here
is ready to face his fear.
So, you're pretty terrified, huh?
- Yeah, I am.
- [Brian] You're gonna be fine.
I'm right here with you, she's super nice.
- Whoo.
- [Brian] You okay?
You okay?
- Yeah.
- [Brian] You're doing good, you're doing good.
You all right?
- Am I allowed to pet her?
- [Brian] You can, you can.
- [Brother] Oh, oh.
- [Brian] Okay, I got her.
(children laughing)
I got her.
- No, no, no, no, no.
- You did good.
(laughing)
There is it, another one, first time with the tarantula.
An absolutely amazing time this morning
with the couple tours, the birthday party.
They're over having pizza and their cake and stuff like that
so I got a jump over at BHB
because today the crew is off at BHB,
so that means me and Lori have to go through
and check everything, do all the work over there.
Lori's next door keeping an eye on the party.
I'll be back pretty soon.
One more tour before we open up.
Just checking on some of these animals.
You can see these Mexican Black Kings or nigritas
are actually breeding right now.
The male is actually inserted right now,
so we're gonna go ahead let them go
and just let them do their thing.
It's pretty awesome to see the kind of
progression of what's going on.
Right here we actually have an Albino Checkered garter snake
that is het for granite, loaded up with babies.
They are a live bearer so they maternally gestate,
so she's not gonna have babies for some time.
Got a High White Albino black and white Cal King
being bred to a kind of Barrett
High White black and white Cal King,
starting to swell up.
I mean all of these animals as I'm looking
are just getting bigger and bigger.
It's pretty exciting.
I had mentioned before, we have a couple things
that are about to lay eggs.
This female right here, this Halloween Pueblan milk snake
has a lay box in with her
because she is due to lay eggs any day.
How exciting is that?
That'll be the first actual colubrid clutch up here.
We've had mangrove snakes.
We have the Cribo snake that's about to lay
but this will be the first clutch upstairs
in the colubrid room so I'm pretty excited about that.
But all these females are just swelling up.
I mean look at the size of that female right there.
That's getting absolutely bloated,
so I don't know, I'm gonna say probably like
two weeks from now, we're gonna have a ton of eggs
coming from colubrids and that'll last
for probably a good month and a half,
almost every day pulling colubrid clutches.
So, it's pretty exciting.
As for now, I'm just gonna check downstairs
and see what's going on there.
And like I mentioned, we had a mangrove clutch already laid.
Well, this girl, let's check on her
and see if she's got any eggs.
Oh, she is so close.
She's in her egg box right now
and she is definitely ready to lay any minute.
I think by tomorrow, the next day, the latest,
she's definitely gonna have a clutch
and of course our one black-tailed Cribo
also has a big lay box in here as well
that she's spending lots of time in there.
Oh, she is getting close too.
Oh doggie.
I think she might be within the next four or five days, too.
I am so excited about that, for sure.
And then, of course, the Blue Tongue skinks
are getting close to having babies in another few weeks.
Oh my god.
But things are looking good down here.
Ball python clutches are on the way.
We do have to check just a few things
to make sure that they didn't lay
and then I can get back over to the birthday party.
And look it here.
I think we might have a clutch of eggs being laid right now
by a Children's Python.
Oh, look it, she's actually
in the process of laying right now.
She's got a big clutch of eggs out
but she is literally pushing them out as we speak.
Oh my god.
That is so absolutely exciting.
So, I'll come back
and hopefully pull these later on tonight.
All right another clutch of Children's pythons.
("Tropic Breeze" by Sarah, The Instrumentalist)
And I know I've said this is a ton of times,
but it is so awesome to be able to do something
like we're doing here.
Especially with the Reptarium, I mean,
it is literally a dream come true
to have people coming in from all over the country
and even over in Poland and New Zealand last week,
to come and visit us and just hang out
and kind of share that kind of passion
and not only of animals
but also following your dreams, you know.
Everyone that comes seems to have that similar story
that they are either following their dreams
or they wanna follow their dreams.
So, I'm always continuing trying
to inspire people to do that
because, trust me, it is really crazy.
I can't even express you the gratitude I have
for every person that follows me
not only in this vlog but online
with my Instagram and Twitter.
Also the people that come not only locally
but people that travel long distance.
It's amazing and doing tours like I've done today
and birthday parties, is pretty darn amazing.
I'm gonna head over wrap up at the birthday party.
Have one more tour before we open tonight at the zoo.
- [Children] Bella?
(laughing)
- [Child] Oh my gosh.
- And we always finish off with Sunrise.
- [Child] Is somebody going to win?
- Children are being grouped together.
- Really great group of kids, really a lot of fun.
- Finally, time to move over the D'albert's Python.
Been meaning to do it for the last couple days,
to be totally honest with you
but I needed to kind of redo a couple things in this cage
just to make sure it's perfect for it.
So, here we go D'lbert's Python is now in its new habitat.
I know a bunch of people were kind of concerned
about the fact that he was in a tall cage
that didn't have a lot of surface area
even though he climbed a lot, you know, I totally get it.
So, we wanted to put him into a larger enclosure now,
where he still has lots of room to climb
but also has some more surface area.
So, we'll see if this works.
If this doesn't work, we'll find another habitat for him
but regardless he is now in his new habitat.
And my last tour of the day,
came all the way from New Jersey.
How are you? - Good.
- [Brian] Was it a good drive?
- Yeah, actually, actually, I flew.
- [Brian] Oh, it was a good flight then?
Awesome. - It was two hours.
- [Brian] All right that's not bad at all.
How do you like Helen? - Cool.
- [Brian] That's awesome.
All right, well, we're gonna have
a good time today, all right?
- [Man] An awesome kid.
(laughs) - [Brian] You like Elvis?
- Yes.
- [Brian] Isn't he awesome?
- Yes.
- [Brian] What's your favorite so far?
- It's hard to tell.
I think it's probably Sunrise.
- Sunrise, awesome, that's cool.
All right, first tour started at nine o'clock in the morning
it is now four o'clock with absolutely no break
which is just awesome.
Straight time but it is ready to open up the Reptarium.
I have a feeling it's gonna be a pretty busy night.
You ready? - Let's do this.
- [Brian] Ready?
Ready? - Ready.
- Lori's leaving.
Andrea are you ready? - Ready.
- Okay, let's do this.
- [Child] I have an expert.
- [Brian] Hey guys, how are ya?
- [Women] Hi.
- Welcome, come on in.
("Tropic Breeze" by Sarah, The Instrumentalist)
We're getting towards the end of the night, guys,
so it's been a really fun time, for sure,
but it's definitely slowing down a bunch tonight.
so it's really good to kind of
be at the end of a long day
but what an amazing day again,
although it took a lot of energy,
'cause I ain't gonna lie to ya,
it was a lot of energy but it's just so fun.
I'm just so happy for days like today
because I get a chance to spend a lot of time
with a lot of people that are super passionate
about the things that I'm passionate about
and I get to share all the things that I love so much,
so we have like about an hour left at the Reptarium
and we shut it down and we end this
extremely long but amazing day.
Just closed up at the Reptarium and shutting it down.
Amazingly long day, really cool.
Need some rest, for sure,
so I'm gonna wish you guys an amazing day.
Thank you as always, for all your support,
you mean the world to me.
Do me a couple favors before we get outta here,
smash that like button, turn those post notifications on,
be kind to someone,
and I promise I will see you guys tomorrow.
("Tropic Breeze" by Sarah, The Instrumentalist)