reptile expo dissapointments

[corncrest64]

Have you ever been to a reptile expo and found something you really want, but there's something about it that keeps you from buying it? I went to one this morning and found something I've wanted to get since the first time I saw them. Anery honduran milksnakes. I was hoping for a male/female pair, and they were both female. That was not really a problem, because they are so awesome I would get one even if I couldn't breed it. If I wanted to I'm sure I could find a male or a male het somewhere. Anyway, to my dismay I was told that they had always refused frozen/thawed, and only accepted live mice. I do not have access to live mice, and I don't want to have to breed them, so I had to pass on buying them unfortunately

 

[cornsnakekid92]

yea happens all the time, there is this table that sells a lot of WC balls, but they also have good deals, like african house snakes for $20 carpets for $45 and all sorts of stuff, but i never buy from them for the risk parasites....:shrugs:

 

[ghosthousecorns]

I had my first expo as a seller this year. It was an eye opener, the rules clearly stated no overcrowded enclosures but several vendors had a bunch of snakes crammed into one viv. I saw a few snakes I would have liked to get, and I did come home with one new snake, but I kind of figured if a vendor doesn't care about putting a bunch of snakes in the same tank and crowding them then their husbandry techniques at home are probably questionable as well. I had read the rules and put all mine into individual deli cups and the larger ones in individual 10 gallon tanks, so I was surprised how many people just piled them all up in one tank. There was one guy who had like 6 adult hondurans in one 20 long, beautiful animals but I didn't like his set up one bit!

 

[RyanR]

Not good.. tommorrow will be my first expo (leaving in 8 hrs:|)

im so happy i cant sleep

i hope i dont come home with TOO many (is that possible? :sidestep: )

 

[corncrest64]

Not good.. tommorrow will be my first expo (leaving in 8 hrs:|)

im so happy i cant sleep

i hope i dont come home with TOO many (is that possible? :sidestep: )

Have fun at the expo. I hadn't been since march, so I was excited to finally go again. As for overcrowded tanks of snakes, there are some like that there of course, but it seems most people use, well I don't exactly know what to call them. I'm sure you've seen them before, so hopefully you can understand what I'm talking about. Plastic box-like things that have individual compartments lined up next to each other. Then most other people use deli cups. There weren't many cornsnakes for sale there this time. I had better luck in february as for amount and different kinds of morphs. Besides normals, amels, aneries and snows, I only saw some anery stripes, which by the way were all male so I didn't bother to get any, a charcoal, a silver queen ghost, and the blizzard I bought. Oh well, I really want to get more milksnakes, of which they had enough. If I had wanted to spend more money I could have gotten some albino hondurans also. Ill get those a little later.

 

[rushrulz]

Well, I'm going to my first reptile show tomorrow. I'm not going to be buying any snakes--or probably anything--but I guess I'm going to be meeting Severus's "daddy" (his human daddy, not his snake daddy). And Kathy Love. So...yeah. It should be at least mildly interesting, if not incredibly interesting.

 

[RyanR]

well im going tommorrow in hopes of a few boas...

and as far as corns go..

A Female Blood red (or a normal Het blood)
and a Oketee

 

[starsevol]

I am sooo envious of you people! Here I am stuck in RI with a non herper hubby and a 6 day a week work schedule..... I would love to go to a show...and I think I would give my right leg to meet Kathy Love too!

gggrrrrrrr you lucky lucky people!!!!

 

[gwb8568]

my really only disappointments is that i never seem to have enough money.

 

[Paradox]

Expos are evil...you always get more than you bargained for :grin01: I had a friend who went to an expo for some food and bedding, and came back with a new Viv, equipment, and a red tail boa... The shows over here are so rare though you have to take advantage of them. I envy anyone who has access to more than one show a year...

 

[dionythicus]

I've had good and bad luck at the same expo, different years. One year I came home with four beautiful, healthy babies and got a great deal on a female banded het snow, $15! Last year, though, the selection wasn't nearly as good and of the three babies I brought home one died within the first week, one turned out to be a difficult feeder and took six weeks before I had to euthanise it (the most amazing high pink wide stripe aztec female snow you've ever seen ) and the only one I have left is a gorgeous caramel het butter female with a kink that can't be bred. I usually have good luck, but last year was a bummer. It's more often the case of funds not equaling the finds. :grin01:

 

[corncrest64]

I envy anyone who has access to more than one show a year...

The one in Michigan is every month, though I can't always go to them. What I like is that I can buy a couple months worth of mice and go a couple months later and restock, so I never have tons of mice and they stay fresher. Something I'm curious on, how big (as in size of building or number of sellers) are the shows you all go to? The michigan one seems small, buut it may be average, depending on how big other ones are.

 

[Tyger9791]

went to Repticon here in Tallahassee yesterday, it's always a very small show with few dealers. there may have been more on saturday, but i couldnt go saturday.
at first i was disappointed at the low turnout and i thought i wouldnt find anything. the first table had some corns labeled "Okeetee" but they looked like any normal corn i would find in my backyard. and my major pet peeve....no prices anywhere! i really hate that. i like to browse around a bit, compare prices and then i will pick out a few snakes i like and then handle them, ask a few questions about their feeding habits, look them over for mites and then decide based on price and health which snake to buy.
but i looked around and came across a small table that had a few very interesting patterned motleys and striped corns. i asked about a couple of the motleys, they were reasonabley priced...i bought a female normal motley/striped that is het snow. dad was a snow and if i recall correctly, mom was amel. they were trying to just produce more snows or amels...and out came a few motleys with striping! they said they didnt know that dad was het motley/striped.
pics to come soon in the photo gallery...
so yeah, the pickings were a bit slim, but i did come home with what i was looking for and i didnt go broke!
that might be a plus to going to some of the smaller expos, they dont have as much to buy and i'm not tempted to whip out the plastic and buy a couple hundred dollars worth of stuff because most of the vendors arent set up to take credit anyway...

 

[tricksterpup]

I went one yesteday as well. It was a small one and I also thought I wouldnt find anything cool. But I was wrong. I found myself a pair of young MBKs and a male bullsnake for my girl at home. So I was pretty please with myself. What I found ironic on the entire trip was that I drove over 2 hours to go to the show and back only to buy from someone who lived 20 minutes away from me.

 

[kimbyra]

Disappointment? I don't have enough $ to buy everything I want!!! :crazy02: