(upbeat music)
- Hey, good morning everybody, and welcome to Vlog.
Let it snow now because I don't care about the weather
now that we've loaded it.
Let's go inside and see what's going on today.
(key clinking)
Tell you what, it's crazy, look at lights are on over here.
Oh my gosh, it is looking so crazy in here.
Oh my God, it's so cool.
I tell you what, it's wild to just see the difference
of what's going on, just in a matter of a few days.
Ah I mean, I tell you what.
And now Stuart, a few other people,
we just have a couple people here today.
So in a way I love the fact that everyone's here helping out
but now I can kind of really get into it
and get all these little things going on.
Gotta get the anaconda cage back on,
with filled up with water today.
A bunch of little things.
We are making some huge progress you know,
but the little detail work
takes a tremendous amount of time.
All of the little bit of seaming and fixturing
all this type of stuff.
Of course we got to do lighting in
all the rest and the rest of the enclosure
so we got our work cut out for us but man
I tell you what, I couldn't imagine it
just a few days ago
this was an empty spot and now it's full.
I mean this is truly guys,
it is a dream come true.
But we have our work cut out for us
so let's just go ahead
and buckle up and have a great day together
and jump right in.
Now what?
Eric, Noah where are you?
Time to fill the anaconda cage up again.
Looking good today.
Oooo this thing was amazing with the lights on.
It's got a tree in here and the moss going on
so we're gonna go ahead and fill this back up
and get the waterfall back on.
Check it for a couple of days
and make sure it's in good shape.
Keep tweeking the temperatures, the lighting,
all that type of stuff but
I love this enclosure. Definitely I said
it before, this is the centerpiece
of the entire place so ah it's looking amazing.
(upbeat music)
Some guy came out, fixed this glass.
Pretty painless to be honest with you.
He did it in no time.
Crazy to see that he actually used fire
to warm it up to crack it.
I mean that is absolutely wild.
This is good. Now all we have to do
is get the detail put on
and the front is done.
Okay the water is kinda at that point
where we're gonna fill it up to here
but I'm gonna get it going
ah just to make sure everything is going well
and then we'll get it to the levels
that we want
but we're gonna plug it in right now
and see what happens.
(upbeat music)
This just takes awhile for the
actual pump to fill up the biofall
when stacks fill up
then it'll start to overflow again.
These are intakes. We have an intake
way down low and intakes here
that basically the water flows
in the pump that's in this chamber
and it sucks water and goes in through here.
That's where all our bio medium is
where it's gonna basically filter
the water and stuff like that.
(upbeat music)
(rushing water)
All right, the waterfalls on
everything looks good.
It's gonna take a while for the
water to filter.
You gotta remember that
all of this polyurea
not to mention this seaming
and stuff like that
is like a dot stripe
almost like a stone dust.
So obviously, we can wash this stuff
as much as you want
but you are still going to have
some of that residue
and it's going to take several days
to get this completely cleaned out
so we won't have an animal in here
for at least a couple of weeks.
So obviously Ivy goes in
in a couple of weeks
but we got a couple of weeks
that #1 get all the chlorine
out of the water
make sure it clears up
get the whole thing
we're going to also go through
probably a bacterial flume
where it gets clear
and then it cloudy again
and we'll wait till that clears up
so ah
all right, this cage looks like
we're in good shape.
(water pouring)
Well guys we have a leak
in the alligator cage here.
So ah, looks like some fittings over here
as well as the waterfall itself is leaking.
Have some water on the ground so we have
to problem solve it
and hopefully,
get this thing fixed.
So basically what's happened here
is it looks like this piece right here
is leaking and this kinda washer isn't on right.
And then on the other side
all the way back over here
we have all kinds of leaks right here
so that is definitely a problem.
I mean there is a pretty good drip
especially on that far right one over there.
So what we have to do is basically
get in here and figure out what is going on.
My buddy Dan's coming here in a minute
and ah he's gonna help me out
with trying to figure this out
I mean definitely a nightmare.
The one thing I was really nervous about
was water fixtures leaking.
That's a disaster.
I mean I've come in one day
and one of these things
bust or something goes on
and there's going to be
hundreds of gallons of water
on the floor so ah hopefully,
hopefully, it's gonna be an easy fix.
I'm definitely stressing out.
What's you doing here?
- Ah, nestling and checking Chip a little bit.
So I've been trying to do a bit
with him since he's so afraid of the cage
that um so actually um you should come in
come in a little bit.
Right, so what I'm doing is
I'm letting him kinda crawl off
me nicely.
But the thing is that the trick here
is that see how he corners himself?
He's a little scared and he's gonna
start to run.
I wanna put my hand in his way
and get him to move.
Come on.
So that way he's used to this.
I know this is sort of a provocative
position here but
(whispers)
Come on out.
Come here.
(normal voice)
I'm hoping that by doing this a lot
with him it will remove his whole
fear that we think we're trying
to mess with him or hurt him.
Now when every time he's always been in this cage
he always likes to go right up here
to this corner and right back there.
Every time he does it he immediately
puffs up, he has his tail moving backwards.
He's upset. He's scared.
You can tell his eyes his pupils
are dilated. I really want him
to stop thinking that that's where
he needs to
that's where he needs
to feel safe.
I want him to feel save with me.
- The anaconda cage has this
smallest little leak and a by the way
this reminds me of "The Wizard of Oz" over here.
(scary music)
What is Dan doing?
So Dan is actually crawling in there
just a little tiny leak he is going
to put a clamp on
that one should be good.
Obviously, salt and pepper
much bigger repair job.
So ah fingers crossed
salt and pepper is going to be okay.
This one I'm not worried about.
Salt and pepper is a disaster but ah
again the good thing is their connections
and not the actual tank itself.
So we can kinda change the connections.
It might be hard work for Dan
but at least ah
there is good hope that we're going
to get this thing resolved today.
All right my buddy Dan from Hoods Pond Dot.
He's the one that does all my pond stuff
helps out with tons of stuff.
So, what do you think we've got going on
and are we going to be able to fix it?
- So right at the bottom of the lime falls
we've got a bulkhead fitting.
The bulkhead fitting
either the washers are reversed
and we need to have the rubber
on the inside instead of the outside.
Or it just needs to be tightened up.
So, I'm going to crawl underneath there.
We'll tighten it first to see if it still leaks.
If it still leaks, we're going to shut
everything down, drain out the biofalls.
Once we do that, we'll pull apart that
bulkhead fitting and make sure that
the fittings are in the right side.
- So
- Easy fix.
- I'll take that.
- Little tighter
- Ya it's a little bit tighter there but ah
- No digging.
_ Okay good I like it. All right let's do it.
(soothing music)
So basically, in the biofall itself, there is
actually a connection that goes
to the drain that is actually like a seal
that goes against the plastic
and then there's actually a little O ring
and stuff like that.
So we're not getting a good seal
cause we have all of this silica
all of this decoration here that
basically is not giving us a good seal.
So we have to kinda clean that out.
Cut out some plastic.
That should seal that side.
Then the other side is probably
just a matter of like a connection's
not having the proper amount of
proper amount of like
you know, I don't even know like
what you call it.
The other side is probably not just
having the connections tight enough
as well as the seal and stuff like that.
So, ah first thing we're going
to get all of the silica out of here
as well. Just because it's just
gonna cloud things up.
So we're gonna shop vac that out.
Cut that seal out and hopefully,
we'll continue to work on this problem
and solve it.
(upbeat music)
Hi, I've picked up all my 2 x 4's
to start building the racks
for the enclosures out here,
as well as in the massage room.
So ah, I think I've got enough 2 x 4's.
I may have gotten too many.
I'm not sure.
I figured I'm just gonna get a bunch
and hopefully I won't run out.
All right, so Dan took off this fitting,
kinda re-did it.
Hopefully this is gonna set.
We're actually gonna wait about 20 minutes.
Then see if it leaks.
Ah, if this side is good then we'll move
on to the other side.
If the other side just can't go,
Dan said he would just rip the entire part out
and start over and kinda re-tool it.
So ah, either way, we'll get this fixed today.
But ah, definitely a little addition
to my stress level for sure.
(upbeat music)
(saw cutting)
(nail gun clicking)
(wood hitting wood)
(nail gun clicking)
Okay, the rack is completely done now
again this will all be rock here.
We'll have timbers on the edge here.
So it will kinda match I realize it
but that is the last of the cages
that kinda come in here.
So it's pretty cool again we've got
the I don't even know exactly
what we're going to put in.
We've got three 30" cages
and of course we've
got three 36" cages.
Much like flaming high chito
and Ace the eldritch python.
Basically, the same type of setup
as we have over there.
So, that's it.
I do still have to work on the rack
in the Snake Message Room though.
(upbeat music)
Dan wrapped up all the fixturing here
on the waterfall so ah let's hope it worked.
He had to get out of here and ah if it still leaks,
I'm going to be in big trouble.
I mean ah I guess one for three wasn't too bad
but ah hopefully, it was an easy fix for him
anyways and ah hopefully this thing will work.
(upbeat music)
(water flowing)
All right so the time is here.
We've got it filled up a little bit.
We're going to go ahead and test it out.
Hope for no leaks. Hopefully, this will be
a crisis diverted.
Dan ah said that we should be go so let's
go ahead and turn this on and ah fingers crossed.
(upbeat music)
(water flowing)
All right, so ah let's go ahead and check the fittings
cause the waterfall is on now.
The fittings is going to be the trick here
to make sure we don't have any drips.
I don't see any drips so far.
This is where it was dripping before over here
so that looks really good.
The finger part was this fitting over
on the other side was literally leaking
like crazy.
I don't see any drips there either.
So we'll go ahead and let this run
for the next ah maybe half hour
or something like that.
Just to make sure there is no wetness here
but it looks like, Dan did the job.
So there it goes.
Good to have good friends.
Yup, I think that we are good to go
and looks like we have an alligator tank
with a waterfall.
We'll recap where we're at.
Got the anaconda rip waterfall going now
which is good.
We've got of course this cage which is
all lit up.
The majority of the lights are on now.
This cage has all the vineage in it and stuff
like that.
The Stallagtite over here.
We've got of course some more vines
and trees over here and that's one
of the things we did.
We actually put all of the kinda vine
and tree type of stuff.
We of course now have the tank over here running
and seems to be working well which is great.
Again, lights on over here.
Tree in the corner over here.
I think it's kinda coming together.
We got all of the glass in the cages now.
Which is 100 percent which is really cool.
We made a lot of progress.
We're definitely way ahead in the game
where I thought we were gonna be.
We still have a few weeks to open
of course, March 13th, Friday the 13th weekend.
But even though we have a bunch of time, we've got
a lot of work still to do I'm not gonna lie
to you here.
Again, we're going to have that VIP party
Friday night and Saturday night, the 13th
and 14th.
So, tickets will be on sale any time for that.
Anyways, it's coming together.
I'm really proud of everything that we've done.
You know the help that we had was amazing
and ah wow, I'm loving this place so much.
I mean it feels like home.
It's finally starting to feel like home.
What a crazy ride.
I hope that you guys are enjoying this ride.
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Thank you again.
Have a wonderful day.
Be kind to someone and I promise
I'll see you guys tomorrow.