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Why are these guys covered with dust? You're about to find out. All right, people. So, I went in as I normally do and checked on my animals this morning. These are the spider tortoises, and you'll notice there are ticks on their heads. I was freaking out. They quite a bit. You know, it just kind of had a tick infestation. I recently added a little bit more uh repabar, but I keep it outside in bulk, and I think it got infested with some ticks. So you can see bunch of ticks on their heads. Uh I have been plucking them off with tweezers but I went ahead and did the dietimmacous earth. That is a really good natural anti-exoskeleton soil that
actually cuts and kills the exoskeletons of any insects or arachnids. Now how funny. Arachnoides and arachnids are sucking their blood. So we're getting it done. This one, they didn't really have a lot on these two, but this one did have quite a few ticks, as you can see. But happily, they're dead. Uh, it's really quick how this stuff works. Um, basically, I'll just kind of let them kind of hang out here. Okay. And, uh, I'll probably put them in the shade for a moment and then I'm going to get to work. I got to break out, break down. I'm just going to take all the
animals out of my office. Um, I just want to get to work. I want to just completely take all the cages out and disinfect the whole place because, you know, Kate's not going to be happy about ticks in the house. So, we're going to get to work on that right now. Let these guys continue to uh hang out in this dust. Let's put them over into the shade where they won't overcook. And basically, I've got a lot of work to do this morning. So, I'm going to get to it right now. Uh-huh. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
a hey a a hey Heat. feel hey. Dire. Oh, brother. All right, we got everything out. The room is clean. Let me show you. I did a lot of work here. We got Mother's Day coming up. So, we have a whole bunch of family coming to the
house. Uh, but this needed to be done. So, look at that. It's uh no longer has animals inside here. Just the eggs cooking. Uh, it's clean. I actually had to get this done because my mom's 87 years old and I don't want her going in a nursing home. I want her to come stay with me. So, this may become mom's room sooner rather than later. But, let me show you where the spider tors are going to go for the summer. All right, let's check it out. And possibly the winter. We got to figure it out. Now, we don't want these guys to be uh exposed to the elements. I'm looking for something important. Ah,
this is the dietmacious earth. You can get this at any tractor supply uh or, you know, horse uh tac stores, things like that. Um, you might even be able to find them in large uh big box homegoods stores or warehouse stores like Home Depot or Lowe's. Um, all right. So, we've got this nice simple enclosure. You could see nice sunshine in the afternoon. And what I'm going to do is I haven't seen any of the um ticks in here, but I want to spread this anyway. We're going to go ahead and spread the earth because if there are any baby ticks that are actually on the tortoises, we're going to want them to fall
off and get cut up by this stuff and die. So, this does not hurt the tortoises. I'm going to leave it on for a few days and then I can soak it into the ground. You can just literally take it, take a hose to it and kind of deal with it that way. And like I said, dusty, but it doesn't hurt tortoises. So, what I'm going to do is get to work in here, have their hides, set it up, maybe put some spagnum moss in here. Uh, and then I'm going to place the tortoises in here, and I'm going to keep an eye on them. We're going to have some water. We're going to clean that up.
Uh they'll have water, they'll have sunlight, it's nice and warm, they're going to be protected. I shut this up every night. Uh and uh yeah, so just man, just didn't know I was doing that job today until I saw ticks on my tortoises. So had to jump into action. So it's been a very busy morning and looks like it's going to be a busy afternoon because I got all that stuff on the patio that needs to go into storage. And we also need to find a new home for Dune. So, I think we're gonna be putting him in Sophia's room. She wanted to put him in her room. I have the perfect enclosure
for that. Uh the taller vision cage and uh yeah, that's what's gonna happen. So, let's get to it. Alrighty, there they are. The spider tortoises are in their summer lodging. Nice little tortoise enclosure here. We got some spagnum moss that's moistened. We got the one that was really heavily infested with some uh ticks. Uh but I'm not really worried because we're on the case. So, I'll keep on plucking them off day by day. They actually die. Sometimes they release. Sometimes
you just pluck them off and they come off very, very easily when they're dead. We've got the dietmacious earth spread throughout the entire enclosure. So, it's going to wind up killing any bugs that walk across it. And these guys are going to settle into the new house. One's already walking around over there. We've got two hides. We got some nice afternoon sunshine for them. Uh we open this up every morning so we get fresh air. Uh we've got nice fresh water and they're just going to kind of wander around and get used to their new abode, which is really, really cool.
Um, if you let ticks go too much, um, what happens with ticks is they're very, very small and you don't see them until they start to really grow. And that's what I noticed today. I said, "Oh my god." So, uh, we got an infestation. It happens. Um, and uh, you got to remedy it. So, that's what we're doing. We are remedying the situation. But, all those ticks thankfully are dead, which is incredible that Dietmacious Earth really does a good job. So if you guys know about dietmacius earth uh as a natural insect killer um an arachnid killer anything with an exoskeleton uh
then good on you and if you don't know about them no worries now you do. So the spider tortoises are going to be just fine. We're going to keep an eye on this little one and uh I think we'll be just doing good. But now let me show you what else I got going on. We have to head over here. I took all of our baby cherry heads and I placed them into the outdoor enclosure here into the play pen, the nursery if you will. And I also have Dune in here. Little Dune, Sophia's buddy, is right there. He's just kind of hanging out. And then look at that hypo redfoot looking gorge. Uh our Burmese
star tortoises. Shin's doing good. We've got all kinds of fun stuff happening in here. So that's where they are for now. We are going to have to remedy the situation as far as where Dune is going to wind up. Going to wait for Sophia to come home. She's a teenager. You don't go in a teenager's room without the teenager. Uh so I want her to come home, show me what she's thinking, and I'm going to take this vision cage in the meantime, clean it up, put some branches in it, and I think that'll be a really cool habitat for Dune. These are going to go uh into storage for a
little while uh because I'm going to wind up probably using them again in the winter. So, we'll probably put a few in the reptile shed. Uh, and I've got to clean up all this mess. So, here I go. Let's get it done. Perfect. Peace. All right, it's warm. Woo. Anyway, we uh got things straightened out. I'm going to let that dry so I can get Dune back in it. Uh sprayed that out. Here's what it looks like inside
the reptile shed. Look at that wall of vision cages there. Be nice if I had racks up off the ground so I can still use the floor space. And here are our little arachnoidis. One is even burrowed whip in it. One is even burrowed way down in which is nice. And uh yeah, these guys are moving around. So good times today. Things needed to get done. You have to see a problem, attack it head on. Uhhuh. I think I'm going to take it easy now. uh hydrate and then uh oh, I don't know. I'll probably finish up, clean up the patio, clean up the warehouse,
check out some of the animals when it cools off, when everyone starts to kind of come out and interact. But that's what it takes, friends, when you have a small zoo of reptiles. All right, there you go, everybody. And by the way, there's Bobby all the way down at the bottom. Looking good. All right, guys. We'll see you all again real soon. Take care.
