The Big Show and my dissapointment

[greenman1867]

**Edit, I suppose this should have been in the general forum, but I WAS looking for a Ball at the show :) .........please move this if you like. Thanks Shawn **

Well, here it is, I went to the "Big Show" with a wallet of cash I had begged borrowed and the other. Looking of course like the rest of the free world for a big ole female ball python. Anyways as luck would have it, I got called out to work(I am an army guy) Thursday night at 9pm and never got off until 10am Sunday, so there went my plans of leaving at 0700 hrs to get there for opening. But I did make it later...........

So my wife and I get there and look what she spent all my Ball Money on!! LOL That'll learn me good! This is my wifes new project, she actually got 2 but I only have a good picture of one.
I have to say these are the "cutest" lil fellas I have seen.

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Well, time to start saving for the April show!!

Oh ya, to all the PCPC Peeps, what a great show and turn out, I met MattK and several other sSnakes.com people. I think we should all have name tags for the next one with our sSnakess name on it :rolleyes: . It was very cool to see the people i did though!
I just wished they used both floors and spread out the displays a tad, it was bumper to bumper in there :D !!

[Manitoban Herps]

LOL, cresties are cool too!

[Ray]

But not as cool as b.p lol

[mykee]

Shawn, maybe it turned out for the best, you would never have found a "big 'ole female ball python" for anywhere near the price of two cresties.

[justinO]

big female ball pythons are never for sale at the show (or if they are, they would probably be $1000). You need to arrange them WAY before hand, and that's if you are lucky enough to find one!

Jessy

[greenman1867]

LOL I was using that as an example of what I could have spent all my loot on instead of buying the boss a couple of little runt Cresties.

The post was actually meant to show off the crestie and say what a great time the show was, just in my own sick little sarcastic way, so stop spoiling my fun :D

Beside every married guy knows that letting her buy stuff at this show just loosened the reigns a bit for next show. Or other in between purchases :)

Shawn

[improvius]

We got there pretty early. My wife found a nice young female bp with a nice lonnngggg stripe down the back. Luckily she bought it pretty soon after we got there. All of the female bps were sold by the time we left.

Someone was selling a young female anthill python there, for a lot less than I would have expected. I gave in to temptation and bought her! Now to find her a mate...

-Imp

[Skinnychondro]

Ya, I found it slim pickings when it came to bp's. I guess the fall is better for bp's (new hatchlings). I really wanted to get a het for pastel or albino. I was so disappointed, that when I got home I went and got myself another GTP. There so addicting! hehehe

Cheers
Jamie

[brutus]

What is a het for pastel?

[HumphreyBoagart]

a homozygous pastel. LOL!

[greenman1867]

Pastel is co-dom, that means the het version itself is a morph, like pastel. But if you breed two co-dom hets (Pastel x Pastel) you have a 25% chance of producing a Super Pastel, so Pastel is het for Super, but still a morph of it's own.

[greenman1867]

Bah!

[Skinnychondro]

Oh crap, I see what you mean. haha.. I'm more of a chondro guy, but I want to get into bp's a little more. I have a normal now, but would like to have a nice morph. I would like to get hets and produce my own someday. I read all that stuff about co-dom at the NERD site. I guess that part didn't sink in. hehe. Thanks for clarifying.
I know this is the bp forum, but this is my new Biak. Hope you like.


http://dynamicart.is.theshyt.com/chondros/biak1.jpg


Cheers Jamie

[CallDawg]

I was going to go and check out the show but wound up doing renovations on my aunts place

how was it ?

[greenman1867]

Fantastic except as I mentioned that big female Ball riding around on "that girls" (who was she?) shoulders all day didn't fall into my pocket.

I can't wait for the next one, I just hope they use all the available space to open it up a tad.

[YoungBuck]

greenman186 - The crestie is still a nice change though. :D

Skinnychondro - That is a really nice lookin' Biak~!

[justinO]

"that girl" with the big female ball was not selling her for anything, it's her pet.... believe me, she wouldn't take money..... lol

The only thing that bothered me was that she said it was taken out for hours a day to be handled..... I guess when you just have one, it's hard not to be tempted to do that.

[greenman1867]

LOL I talked to her a minute, she said everyone wanted her (the ball that is) I used the term "that girl" because I didn't know her name, I figured someone would though, if she is a sSnakess.com member.

Shawn

[crazy4reptiles]

I laughed when I read this... at the last show here, I went with the full intentions of picking up another snake... Then the GF was saying we really didn't have the extra money.. etc, etc... every excuse in the book!!!! Then by the end of the show... I had spent more money then I planned for my snake... on a bunch of Cresties for her...... I'm a sucka!!! lol... That's o.k.... because now I've grown very found of them!!! Never realized how cool they were.....

[Xena03]

*Crazy4*

Oh sure blame it on me! ;) you liked them just as much as I did! And they are the cutest lil guys ever! The ever changing Crested Gecko will soon take the place of Leos.

[pablo111]

Im sorry to tell you that's a gecko, and not a ball python at all :(