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good man these guys I trust with my life yeah we’re gonna brainstorm some ideas about what we’re going to do in the future see in a minute what’s going on everyone hanging out with Amy kite here from Good Old bush wildlife and the hours are ticking down how many days left on this facility this place 18 days shutting it down September 9th this is it’s got to be Bittersweet I mean in so many years how long have you been at this place wow you know it’s crazy it’ll be right after my 19th anniversary that we shut this place down September 4th is my 19th wild so here we are there’s Freddy we’re gonna we’re definitely gonna do a video when it’s time to move Freddy to the new facility but today uh I wanted to show you just a little bit about what’s going on let’s head on over I’m really excited to hang out with Amy uh and walk through there this is Hallowed Ground here in Jupiter I mean this has been an amazing relationship you’ve had with the community here uh I mean the Treasure Coast Palm Beach County everyone knows bush wildlife they’ve been really really good to me uh helping me with animals I’ve unturned helped you guys out um it’s so much fun I’ve learned a lot here at the sanctuary but today okay we have something exciting um our friends at customcages.com they were here a while back I introduced them to Amy and Amy had a need yes yes there’s a lot of needs you guys are walking by right now ah that’s all these I need a new home all these birds are gonna get some new cages huh okay well what I’m sure Amy does know this what you guys don’t know is that the guys from Custom cages are here in Florida they are at the new campus uh the new bush wildlife campus right now and they are actually um making well they’re installing the new cages for these birds of prey
they call them the sun catcher that’s right Sun catcher habitat so these actually since I’ve been here we’ve had two Renditions of these we used to have these old little wooden ones and then we moved into these which were the upcycled recycled wood um enclosures now and they’ve been great but they’re you know not the most aesthetically pleasing we wanted more space for these birds and so we went with the sun catcher design and custom Pages help us out big time thanks to Camping I appreciate okay that’s all right I always like to help and bring one of the things I enjoy doing is bringing good people together and this way you get get help Uh custom cages gets help and I get to make videos about it are the birds are the macaws and everything are they getting their own cages well we’re actually going to repurpose those and move those over with us perfect a couple of the Macaws are actually going to go home with some more volunteers awesome they’re gonna retire and then we’re gonna uh turn those into Songbird habitats at the new place all right so let’s let’s can we go behind here and kind of look I know it says employees only but I might I might have it that’s so cool I want to show you guys just some of the animals that are going to be making their way into these new habitats so we’ve got of course the barred owl and all these animals are animals that may have been injured in the wild they can’t go back out into the water right so like Lefty and righty one’s flying in the left eye one spine in the right eye so they’ve been with us these guys are two of the birds that have actually been here longer than I have really yeah barred owls live uh in captivity they go over 30 years in captivity get out of here that’s amazing yeah so wow that’s cool Chris Johnson who is found by a local landscaper in the area um named Chris Johnson okay um so our barn owl here we’ll be moving over with us that’s awesome Mo and Schmo wow great our great horned owls uh the female being the larger one their female’s about 30 larger than the males and that’s just because she has to facilitate the egg production and so on production and and um incubating the eggs Wolfgang red tail hawk no way another one that lost an eye and has a wing
injury after being hit by a car that’s what wow really so it was they were hit by a car what what happens they come down to to scavenge and then they end up getting hit you know they’re great speed but not a great braking system okay no red shoulder these guys tend to be a little bit more on the hyper side so you’ll notice they’re like whoa somebody’s on the wrong side of the fence you can actually see the damage here you can see where that eye was what’s considered a nucleated removed and that’s often we do that for management issues so that I was ruptured and if you leave it in there it caused a lot of pain so removing it actually what they’re gonna be saying in captivity um is just less pain form it just has a better quality of life so Cooper’s Hawks I didn’t even realize that these were native to Florida also known as a chicken hawk so a lot of times people put bird feeders out it’s gonna dry in the doves and the small birds like that and the Cooper’s Hawks love it because you basically open a buffet for them there you go we’ve got it empty right now okay well what’s gonna happen to these enclosures are you going to take these down and repurpose them no these are free to a good home if you need them I’ll take them yeah they’re yours oh man that’s awesome this is another one that’s been here longer than I have and you notice what yep crusty character the um you’ll notice the radical amputation so back uh prior to the mid-1990s you could actually amputate a bird’s wing all the way up to the shoulder okay that it was outlawed back in the mid-1990s and so um because the problem was is the birds really have a lot of um equilibrium issues they tend to follow over a lot they have a lot of phantom limb syndrome where they actually have pain that they’re sensating and so um they don’t do that anymore but Pierre is one of the last few left that um has that radical amputation so now being that he’s got this amputation he can still kind of get up onto all this furniture or not all of this we did have another one that was in here Diablo so a lot of the higher stuff is for Diablo and you’ll see we have small ramps and things like that yeah they also really um they like to tear stuff up and so and move stuff around so Pierre’s always redecorating so we’re always adding different toys it’s part of his enrichment and that’s what’s so cool is even though these animals in the wild this is a death sentence but
they become ambassadors here and they’ll become ambassadors for you to come see on the new campus uh and just what did you say 18 days uh well 18 days we’ll be moving out of here and in 46 days we’ll be opening the new oh that’s going to be so awesome man it’s a beautiful facility and what I think I’d like to do now you had you were there early this morning when the guys started to work yeah they were just unboxing do you have some time to run over to the new campus oh I can’t wait I want to see her face when we go over there and show them what the guys were able to do in just about a half of a day so uh we’re gonna split we’re gonna drive just a few miles down the road to the new bush wildlife sanctuary and we’re going to show you what custom cages has been doing all right so we are here at the new bush wildlife with Mark beavers from customcages.com dude this is uh this is awesome man Amy hasn’t seen you I’m not going to show you guys there’s Mark also it’s another yes and uh will Nace is somewhere over there he’s helping out there’s will you may have seen him on some of his videos but uh right now I mean I I haul but past uh Amy on just to get up just to get up here to beat her so I don’t know where she is she was right behind me now she’s taking her time I think that’s her walking okay so let’s go out and meet her the cages are just behind there’s 12 cages 12 cages yep group two so six groups of two 12 foot round each way until you guys these are awesome man I can’t wait to show you guys but hold on I want to get Amy’s Amy’s little mug here she working so hard uh to get this Sanctuary going dude and when we came down here what April I think yeah we’re still just it was flat ground yeah it’s amazing here a couple buildings couple posts up but here she comes close your eyes Amy he’s rolling in but yeah so I just wanted to say I’m really stoked that I was able to introduce you guys to bush wildlife huge uh because you know it’s awesome like I said earlier I like to bring good people together these guys been helping me with my own home and I just thought with their resources and know-how with cages uh the sanctuary could totally benefit from this
where are you get over here yeah yeah you’re allowed come over here I want to get your face yeah they do come on over here we’re gonna go through them with you so this has been a Monumental undertaking to build this facility Amy’s been busted in her butt jumping through all the kinds of red tape so this is nice this is awesome Mark I’m glad you guys came down here to take some of the pressure off of her building these cages man yeah it fills it in perfectly oh Isn’t that cool yeah and it’s so hard to figure out like what they’re gonna like the size of them when you’re just looking like at the Footers yeah get on in there let’s go have a look come on Mark why don’t you take us through and show us what’s going on here now obviously you got to put the roofs on but these are sun catches just like the one you gave to me yep yep these get these are razors those 16 panels around again 12 foot wide eight foot tall this is so awesome so check it out she’s definitely an animal person you can’t open the handle but look at this this is great I mean you’ve got this airlock entry okay so then you’d come in here obviously you shut that when there’s when it’s built up but this is awesome right look at the room fantastic sick our shell contractor we did right by the you get so scared when you’re doing it that you’re doing it wrong like he was so nervous everything we went back and forth a few times making sure you control it’s so hard to like feel the spaciousness of it too and it’s just awesome yeah so the birds are going to be happy in here and then the cool thing is they make these tabs right you’re gonna just have those L brackets that are going to fit with tapcon and they’re going to tap on him into the foundation so this is like the best way to erect the sun catcher right to have a foundation like this yes you want something on the ground there are people that put them just on the ground but then you gotta worry about things digging in and out right A lot of people
are not only using them for containing their animal but it’s Predators getting to their hand correct 100 especially when you’re dealing with disabled animals you know these guys don’t have the ability to take care of themselves anymore that’s why they’re with us yeah this is cool I mean this is really nice just the way it was poured and then this is going to be so strong if we get any kind of hurricanes and things like that the cages go together so easy so you got 12 so they’re groups of two yep so there’s six groups let’s go have a look this is really cool that our animals currently have just changing up that rectum rectangle right I don’t like rectangular yeah that works that’s a word that’s good no to this shape it just gives them so much more space to move around and Mark oh sorry sorry when there’s a keeper they’re cleaning and you have this rectangle there’s only so much room for the animals to get away and not feel cornered there’s no corner so they feel like they can move and and not feel um stressed out yeah thank you I’m sorry I’m so excited she’s she’s a little Tongue Tied Mark um you do a lot of the r d right yep out of the r d I’m the director of operation so production cool you know big orders like this get involved right down to the install yeah but this is really great that you’re on hand to see this because I mean I’m sure when you build each new project gives you another idea how can we make our cages better what can we do um all of it yeah because I know that when they came down the last time uh we started brainstorming and in fact later on today uh in this video we’re going to head over to my house we’re going to talk about a few things that I’d like to do over there and maybe we can come up with some interesting modifications uh for the large monitor lizards but this I mean you guys started what it’s 7 30 this morning and right now guys it’s only 10 to 2 p.m the fact that they got this many cages done look at this you’ve got this
one all these I mean this is amazing 10 or up we have two left to go two left to go all right this is amazing um rub it right and then tomorrow you guys are going to do the roofs and that’s gonna be the metal uh metal covered roof so these animals will be out of the heat yep we got the internal bracing that will support the roof structure and then the stainless steel silver roof panels to kind of help reflect so it reflect some of the sun gotcha very very cool what do you thinking I’m in love that’s awesome no and that’s what I said they’re so clean and look at how strong I mean this is a really I think this might even be a heavier gauge than I have yeah that’s good stuff I like that well for us I mean yes we’re using it for the birds now but heaven forbid I had a situation where I had to put some sort of mammal in here right I wanted to make sure it was going to be acceptable by fish and wildlife safe for the animal so yeah definitely conforms I mean and again these uh what what is the official name of this you calling this is it the um Sun catcher that’s a safe the safety catch yes that’s right because look yours would just have two doors so we could connect we did do three no we did two I have I have different sides correct this would be a what we call a double safety catch right awesome that’s amazing well we’ll figure it out I’ll show you when you guys come later I wanted to show you I’d like to do something similar where you know you just connect I guess you call it daisy chain and I suppose I don’t know if I mean you can connect these together at basically any panel you could replace with a door and then Jet out on another side however you want super convenient the big thing for me Amy is that when I did my sun catcher it went up so quick and and it’s sturdy and strong and that’s what I needed so I don’t know that’s true these guys are the professionals yeah and I’d love to say that we’re very fast working but it is because they’re so easy to find out yes I mean three of us really don’t build them you know the one guy builds them and the other three of us are just kind of filling
in so that’s so cool we’re not you know bursting I’m gonna drive the forklift like yesterday oh the other one builds the Mikey that’s so cool they they flew in last night they were a little bit late the truck driver was waiting there was a you’ve been putting out fires for the last couple of years I guess yeah this lady’s ready to have a her head explode so it’s nice when something comes together so uh painlessly so I’m gonna go ahead and let these guys continue working and then a little bit which is literally on the other side of this edit we’re gonna go to Camp Cannon and we’re gonna take a look at my sun catcher and uh we’re gonna brainstorm some ideas about what we’re going to do in the future see in a minute all right so the custom cages guys are here and uh you know what’s funny it’s Mark and Mark Lance and Mike I think I got it yeah I think that’s it come on guys let’s go check it out so the cool thing about this place is that you know being down here I’m able to keep things outdoors and uh that’s kind of fun you guys know that so we just got some guys some fresh Fluker food and these are all radiated tortoises you’re welcome to walk on in and check everything out guys so the fun part about showing these guys around is it gives them ideas about how to possibly create really cool enclosures uh you know that you guys can kind of you’re the r d guy so it’s kind of fun just to see how I do things out here and then perhaps shrink it down for people that need to do it up north yeah which is getting exposure to a lot of stuff that we don’t get to typically see in our daily lives right on man that’s awesome any of you guys keep any reptiles yep these radiators are a lot of fun show you some of the few of the little aldabras are eating and the more radiated and of course we’ve got Aquascape ecosystems here this is our Badger boniensis the painted River Terrapin which is what I use these for is if the turtles don’t get um you know too large they can stay here their entire lives but these guys are going to graduate to a bigger Pond eventually and this is the first ecosystem Pond that these guys put
in that Aquascape put in for me and it’s it’s amazing you know just just how clear the water is how natural it looks and everything’s grown up around it then we added a stream that if you could see the radiator tortoise right there these guys the tortoises will drink from the stream and then of course the turtles can kind of wander all throughout the whole ecosystem and that’s exactly what they’re doing what I like to do is grab some food from our friends at Fluker and just Chuck it in because I don’t like to go around empty-handed so I’ll throw it in on this side and it makes its way all the way over and the smell is kind of neat because these guys have really good noses and they Chomp down on everything and there’s one of those on Lydia I gotta grab him later and put him in the big pond I’ve been kind of taking this or Lydia it’s a black turtle right there eating he was hiding before I got two out as they get bigger like I said some of them graduate to the big pond so it’s kind of fun let’s get the lid back on this and we’ll head on over circulating with pumps it is well we’ve got pumps I top it off with a um I have it on a timer and then the bio Falls is what’s cleaning the water uh over here I may have to do a little quick maintenance I see some bubbles what happens over here from time to time is leaves you can see all these basilisks it’s kind of crazy we have the non-native basilisk yeah they’re on the log you see them on the log right there you might not be able to see it on the GoPro but we’ve got a lot of them running around here so those are the Jesus Lizard but what’s happened here simply is um this is about as much maintenance as I got to do every now and again is I come on over here we put some Mexican River Rock in there’s Boba hi Boba what’s up Boba and another one of our little radiatives but what happens is some leaves and grasses Shed from the plant and it kind of blocks blocks the water from time to time but it’s literally you just pull it like that
and then no more Bubbles and the filtration comes right back again that’s the most likely that is the Indian spotted Turtle right there yeah these guys are awesome they’re from India and Pakistan and they’re really really cool Turtle I love these guys we’ve got quite a few of them in here now so I just agitate that and we’re all good there you go very simple let’s jump over yeah it’s cool man let’s give these guys an offering Chuck out some food throw it up there there’s an Indian spotted about to take a dive come on not on the rock good man that’s awesome dude so I’ll just toss this in there and we’ll go check out some of the bigger tortoises right now like a day is feeding one time yeah that’s it I mean I do that about once a day uh once every other day here’s a little Timmy and another one of the radiators this is part of the fun I like showing folks around especially when they are from a manufacturer that you know really does good work getting these animals into the situations they need to be in uh these are of course the Galapagos tortoises I don’t know where Nostradamus is but he does have food put out for him he’ll smell it soon but these are our big ones you’re welcome to walk in this is the big guy way over there about where is that where was it yeah that’s Darwin that’s our big female what do they weigh uh this one when I brought it from Marin County California we weighed her on the plane I flew her on a Delta flight she was 350 pounds 10 years ago so I’m sure she’s gained some weight and in actuality I helped her out because when I first got her a lot of captive Galapagos tortoises have a swelling under their neck uh it looks like a goiter but that’s not what it is um and it’s for me I found to get rid of it was just diet natural diet we let it browse let her walk around originally she grew and lived on a 20 by 20 flat slate area and
uh that was kind of not conducive to that species is someone coming yeah here comes Nostradamus he’s uh maybe he’s late from time to time but he never misses a meal that tortoise I got um in August of 20 oh what was that 2004 and it was a little peanut he was only about that big and now he’s 150 pounds and he is a boy because he showed me uh he’s pretty awesome it’s tough to get a dude you know so when you get a male giant tortoise you’re pretty stoked so pretty compressible I mean here’s your voice and come yeah they’re amazing and in fact if you want Mark go ahead and Crouch down and give them a scratch on his neck he’s the only one that really enjoys it he’ll just stop raise up relax just kind of enjoy the interaction and what I’ll do while you’re doing that you’re keeping them busy I’m gonna go over here and make sure he gets his meal and he’ll be really thankful that I helped him out there you go now when you stop you should hopefully get his uh brain to adjust from Hey there you go right down Isn’t that cool yeah I hear you hey that’s that’s exactly what happened to me canon.com right yeah I know unfortunately you can’t not El dabbers um but have other tourists I do I do have some other torches but actually if you’re interested in large giant tortoise and I’ll have to be specific you gotta talk to my friend uh Sam pescucci at Florida tortoise Farm I think that’s what he’s changing to Florida tortoise and iguana Farm but look for Sam piscucci he knows what he’s talking about beautiful animals that’s full size no this actually is not this animal is only about 19 years old this will be about a 600 pound tortoise when it’s full grown so he is maybe like a quarter of the way there I don’t know he’s [ __ ] 50 so oh wow he’s got a lot to go and that’s what’s so challenging about iding them uh sexually is they need to be about 200 pounds before you can visibly tell so I got lucky because he flashed me if you know what I mean all
right there you go I know I know for certain that that’s a female and my guess is that Socrates is going to turn out to be a gal there’s just not a lot of male giant tortoises so we’ll see what happens but it’s fun you know this kind of this time of day is a great time of day after I feed is usually a good time to see everybody and uh that’s what we’re doing right now let’s see the Cherry heads how many of them wandered out still kind of full sun so these guys probably won’t all be out yet until it cools off a little bit more but we got the Cherry head tortoises over here so they’re just kind of nibbling away basically they are a red foot that doesn’t get as big and keeps that beautiful redhead but there’s uh 16 in there yeah exactly that would be a better uh yeah yeah it would it would be a lot less stressful for you outside all right so now in here are the Rhino iguanas and this is something I always wanted to talk to you about marked down the road like it’s an eyesore you know it’s just horrible um I’m curious I wonder if there’s a cage we can put next to it or basically I don’t know if we even would attach it to something else but um or do I just move these guys totally I mean I don’t know the rest of the camp looks good this was back when I was uh big borrowing and stealing for for lumber so I’d like to get something better for these Rhino iguanas and then I’d like to be able to not be like Quasimodo The Hunchback of Notre Dame so I’d like to stand up in here but anyway it’s just any ideas you have I’m always welcome to and these of course are the Rhino iguanas and the female had laid eggs which is why all this is kind of filled up I got the eggs out that’s our boy that’s petro and then the female’s name is Petra she was in here a little while ago she must be relaxing or is she eating and he’s gonna get mad about it but I saw something at bush wildlife where they built a cage around the tree I love it yeah no I I love that kind of stuff in fact there’d be some customization but
you know basically use the existing structure with some angle brackets Tire roof to it come out and then do like a wall structure similar to this yeah see I think you know that’s the kind of interesting thing you guys know how to build I don’t but like you it’s exciting to me and that’s where I love the the uh Artistry of it all you know exactly and to be honest if you look at that ficus tree there I always thought how would you build around something like that but maybe that’s a little bit more difficult because of all the different branches you know depends on how you want to go up gotcha no it’s interesting stuff and that’s kind of be it you know on-site modification I mean you kind of get the footprint of what you need and then I mean the trimming around everything would kind of have to be done on site cool but yeah it’s cool to know that it can be done though that’s amazing and that’s uh I mean I’m sure when you guys do things for zoos you’ve got to come up with some interesting ideas and things like that struggle always is you know making sure you’re getting accurate measurements getting sure we’re getting accurate information for the location because you know a thousand two thousand three thousand miles away there’s a lot to that sauce yeah there’s pictures and even communication so that’s the unit for yourself is priceless priceless very cool come on in I want you to meet guapo yeah definitely don’t hit your head right here uh but this is Lola and Guapo and these are my Cuban Rock iguanas and these guys I’ve had for 20 years and they are just amazing they’re you can reach down and give her a scratch on her head super friendly lizards man um love these two uh close closest to a dog as you’re gonna find with scales in my opinion yeah and then yeah absolutely and then that there is Guapo uh Mr Handsome and uh yeah he’s just out sunbathing here these guys just got a little food and now they’re just kind of relaxing in the sun yeah go ahead Mike don’t be scared very cool that’s awesome and then we have we won’t go in this one because they’re lunatics these are the blue iguanas which superficially look the same as the Cubans but they’re actually a little bit different and then
we’ve got a coastal carpet python and then the famous Inky who’s looking at us over there we’re not going to go in because I’m wearing sandals and if I walk in there that lizard will take my toes off so every time I feed them with sandals you got to be a little bit no these guys never these guys I trust with my life and your lives too but that’s why we’re not going in there they’re lunatics we’re staying away from them guys but these guys are awesome this is just more handling over time you know it’s an interesting thing um I got these guys they were hatchlings I raised them up for about half a year in a small enclosure and then once I put them in this as soon as they were big enough to not fit through this inch by half wire um they lived out in that section and I would always be in there with them and for whatever reason this these guys in the Rhinos tame down very quick but the blue iguanas just haven’t done it you know so I keep waiting you know um what are you gonna do I want your heads heading on out and we’re going to walk just over there very cool all right yes we’ve got the Argus monitor he might have dug in there yeah so that’s again it’s the monitors that I’m concerned about I want to get some Cajun you see him yeah these guys like to dig so it’s already already The Argus monitor he’s hiding out um but yeah these guys um they’re going to be large so I want to get my ducks in a row to make sure we have adequate housing for them whether I build them something or whether it’s um you know a sun catcher I just got to figure it out but uh it’s nuts man now we’ve got the Burmese python in there you guys have seen Burmese pythons before we’ll go ahead and leave Buttercup alone she’s probably in her water bowl but then again here we have we’ll tell these guys quick while you have to keep the burmes inside yeah you know so being that we are in Florida and they’re an invasive species Florida Fish and Wildlife makes us keep them in a locked room uh so that’s where they are you know um it’s uh when I’m on site I’ll I’ll open the door for some ventilation but basically they stay in a locker room can’t be
outside any screening nothing no it’s got to be a solid structure and it’s Gotta Have a double door entry and it’s just the way it’s got to be now so I will comply when she croaks that’s it for me no more uh Burmese pythons so this is Cayman Creek this is the newest exhibit we have and um right now you can kind of we’ll go in let’s have a look let’s go take a look at Lucifer come on come on in here fellas so here’s Lucifer uh well watch your toes because of the this female snapping turtle this is Marge Marge is my attack Turtle I I’m more worried about Marge than I am the Cayman that’s right over there but look at her she will follow me all over and I am wearing sandals isn’t that ridiculous uh if you guys know Snapper or that is a Florida Snapper so it’s a subspecies but um if you guys know who Garden State turtle and tortoise is Chris Leone Nice Guy funny guy he’s got a box turtle that is just as personable as Marge here but hopefully Marge gets the fact that there are no it’s not food let’s say she’s sniffing the GoPro she’s looking for my finger and she’s going for the finger so you gotta look out but if you want to have a look there’s the uh dwarf Cayman over there oh boy oh boy right for the sandal this is nuts yeah I definitely don’t want to get nipped by her get in there so we’ve got different Turtles South American turtle species in here and we also have of course the Cayman so it’s called Cayman Creek and then we have two smooth front on the opposite side yes cichlids no just cichlids the uh South American Cichlids convicts um blue acara uh what else did I put in there there’s one more convictara oh and Oscars there’s a couple Oscars in there to kind of regulate and then over here is where the smooth front came and lived but they are this time of day in the cave there’s one right there it’s poking out let’s go have a look I’ll go show you guys an unfettered look but this female uh just laid 13 eggs and I’m incubating
them now so we’ll see how they do here she is and the malesman most likely behind her yes he is and uh yeah so they just come out here hang out in the cave all day we put a couple of redfoot tortoises in this enclosure and what they’re doing is kind of keeping uh weed management there are Lawn Care Specialists so they’re just doing that man they do all the weeding I don’t want to do except there you go um awesome stuff and then of course some of the South American turtles are in here and you can see the fish are happy whenever I walk in so it’s pretty awesome so it’s a it’s a really cool habitat and these these Turtles are and crocodilians are making use of it for sure most of the turtles at all I you know that’s pretty much what’s happened I mean they actually cohabitate they’ll hang out in there with the red foots will hang out in the cave with the smooth fronts it’s pretty cool I don’t know you know they just like each other there’s a lot of predatory systems if you keep them fed they’re usually no drama exactly all right and then over here are our Croc monitors oh really that’s my last name is it really yeah it might be a distant relation to our friend Fred Grunwald who passed away um man he’s been over a year now and he was awesome man so he’s the reason I have these Cayman and the alligators We’re Not Gonna all go in here yeah I just wanted to show you guys so I’m gonna show my friends give him an update on the Croc monitor show you how they’re doing um they’re male and female are both right here so these guys are hanging out it’s really warm see and he’s been extremely uh interested in me because I always bring the food but the one thing that Spooks me is I’m in here with sandals so I don’t want him to get too uh amped up but you see that tongue flicking he’s really curious um and that’s a good thing but so far so good with this
guy he is just beautiful don’t you guys think he is gorgeous man and then fairly new to you about less than a year okay so you know it’ll be a year I think in November or was it maybe I don’t even remember I think it was November do you guys know when I got these let me know in the comments below I forget but um he’s awesome and I really think these are as far as monitor lizards they are at the top of the list you know they’re just incredible highly intelligent very agile as they live in trees we’re gonna let them get close and Flick I’ll be brave here I don’t want to lose a finger but he’s not showing me any kind of sketchiness so that’s cool huh what do you guys think you stoked to see I’m talking to you guys you stoked to see these beautiful Croc monitors they are definitely doing well here all right she’s just hanging out and sponsors I like these guys a lot man and then of course there’s the king of the camp get easy out right let’s go ahead and lock it up keeping all my cages locked this is the man where is he slinky slinky hey slinky hey what’s up that is awesome huh he’s just so curious he wants to see what you guys are all about what’s up buddy so he’s enamored by you guys ah now he’s on me very good what’s up buddy if you guys want to come by the door slinky’s pretty good man um I’ll let you know just don’t crowd him but I always make a fist and let them know it’s not eating time he’s just kind of hanging out but that’s beautiful yeah this was like one of my crowning achievements and I was able to do it with my friend Jerry wolf um you know he builds beautifully and um yeah we made this originally we were going to divide it
so we’d have two sections which is why we have the two doors but you know for Slinky I was just like you know I just love seeing him in as much space as possible that’s what’s really cool about this so I let him have the whole thing and we’ve got that ecosystem Pond the waterfall the stream into the pond we’ve got African cichlids in there and you can see this is a pretty darn good Lizard Man I mean he’s just just very curious and super friendly so he’s awesome man I don’t know we almost lost him a couple of years ago he almost froze to death in his old enclosure because he got out of his hide during the night and I I pretty much said if you live dude I’m gonna build you the coolest enclosure of it and then here we are here is Lulu’s cage and you guys might see this is be very familiar to you this is one of your cages man and she’s actually right down there in between the water and the cage itself so yeah man loving it and uh this is the sun catcher it went up so easy that’s what’s awesome you know like I said for me the hardest was pouring the foundation for it to Anchor to but you can see I mean it is completely sturdy I I added you know this wood here so I can kind of put my furniture up and then I also did some brackets that I nailed in just to be extra precautionary I probably doesn’t know look she thinks she’s getting fat um she’s been getting a lot more come here you want to take my finger off yeah so she’s a Croc Monitor and she’s just kind of having a look and she’s blind in one eye which is why she’s always kind of looking out of that right one so she’s really curious and flicking I’ve been doing this with her just letting her know this is a finger a hand this is not to be eaten and you can see she’s not going after the cage so that’s pretty good but yeah this enclosure is a lot of fun man I um it’s super easy to put up easy to move around in uh and we were talking earlier originally when I thought maybe we’d I’d do more I would kind of connect them but the more I think about it as far
as ease of servicing I like being able to walk into one cage come out and then walk into another and I think that’s kind of what uh might might be the best route for me to go to keep it simple yeah keeping it contained yep easy you can walk back and forth going in one door and going to the two is nice but I think keeping them separate right the thing that I want to do is I’m just going to go ahead and put the foundation out we’re going to add the safety catch I think that’s important because coming down the road who knows what kind of legislation uh new rules fishing Wildlife is going to come up with so I want to make sure I have that but I mean look at all the room and what I love also is the height especially for these arboreal species these guys are able to just kind of climb high feel secure at that elevation and so like kind of some of the brainstorming that I wanted to do with you guys and I can only see Mark’s brain uh working right now but um I’m curious about the next cage I’d like to do at least uh three quarters of it screen and then maybe just have roof or or a solid structure on maybe a quarter of the roof just so they can get out of weather but then we have this screen on top and I don’t know if that’s something you could do with a panel or water have you ever done that before have uh what we call a aluminum laminate panel so it’s PVC bonded with aluminum sheet on the outside totally you know watered nothing will hurt it that way it’s uh no part so you don’t have to worry about you know bacteria or mold or anything it is black we can get it in different colors it would be a flat roof you know you don’t have to worry about snow load or anything no not at all um so yeah you could you know it’d basically just be a panel similar to this we’d put it on the roof and then you could do three four five with that solid aluminum laminate and then do a wire top for the rest of it to have a little bit of bulk that you’ll still have a little bit of a gap between it I mean yeah but as long as rain water yeah you guys can see that’s the Gap he’s talking about it’s really when you don’t talk with a full-size lizard it’s not an issue at all yeah that would probably be my recommendation and then it’s you know you don’t have to worry about it I mean
it’ll fade a little bit in the Sunbeam but you’re not going to see that you know one of the things obviously with universal Rock I I hide things and there’s even more that you know I don’t know if some of your customers actually hide some of this sometimes but you know I’ve in the past taken large pieces of bamboo let’s split them in half and then you can put them right on so it’s just yeah see people do with bird cages and they do that thatch roof on top yeah kind of neat yeah so I mean it’s just a really cool structure to begin with and then you can like you know customize it yourself however you want but yeah like I figured I’m just gonna kind of build out this way um and just you know I’ve got these monitors I want to give them the best possible home and I love just the ease and then the configuration of the sun catcher just works out really well for me so yeah it’s good to know you guys uh to be honest I’m glad you’re here definitely thank you for bringing us here and showing us no this is amazing man uh before we go you guys want to see the Gators they’re probably already over here Mike’s found them uh you might as well see them do you guys make a sun catcher big enough for Gators okay yeah probably could it’s gonna Falcon Run which how big is that gosh as well really that’s awesome man that is so cool let’s see where they are come on Dale well you know what Dale ate a raccoon earlier Here Comes somebody I could see the water moving so I think it’s going to be um my friend is somebody there oh yeah there’s our big boy come on there snaggletooth come on come on snaggletooth come on come on oh yeah yeah you’re big all right yeah this dude’s big man he’s 12 foot and he’s one of the animals that my buddy Fred uh entrusted to me here so there is snags Dale’s out there somewhere she like I said got a raccoon my buddy Reuben brought me some raccoon I don’t know how it’s life ended but uh it was dead and now it is fed to Dale that is so um yeah this is pretty much
uh Camp Cannon guys it’s amazing how much more water’s in here right yeah you were walking out 10 feet Yes uh that’s the cool thing about Florida there’s really two seasons here there’s the wet and dry and you guys were here at the tail end of the dry season and you could also tell it’s hotter than hell in the wet Seasons it is Africa hot they say but it’s uh it’s pretty intense but these guys like it the water levels are up everybody’s active and um about when you can’t deal with the heat any longer around November starts to cool off and the rain subsides so there you have it man listen guys I really appreciate you coming here and helping out and just I love like I said interacting with you guys because part of the reason we do things here uh is to educate our viewers on how to take care of these animals but what’s neat is we can educate each other in the industry as to what’s best for these animals and customcages.com you guys are doing fantastic work with the vision cages The Majestic cages uh you’re also doing uh aquariums I mean these guys are building absolutely everything for for the hobbyists out there and Zoo professionals so really stoked that we’ve become friendly so uh we’ll see what happens we’re gonna come up with something interesting and I’ll be sure to show you guys what we build from top to bottom Soup To Nuts as they say and I’ll talk to you all again real soon thanks guys we’ll see you again later hope you enjoyed the tour absolutely good deal hope you guys enjoyed the tour and I’ll see you soon bye thank you
