Rocky Mountain Reptile Expo

[BarelyBreathing]

Saturday, February 5th, 2012. Denver Merchandise Mart.
Vendors:
Art in Scales (burms, balls, corns, bcis, acrylic displays)
Boas and Balls (boas and balls, cages, tubs, heat tape, bedding)
Red Dragon Exotics (ball pythons, art work)
Rocky Mountain Reptile Expo (adoptions, rescues, education)
Willard's Rodent Factory (live and frozen rodents)
KG Constrictors (boas, retics)
Dan Reed (ball pythons)
Xtreme Beauty Reptiles (crested geckos, leopard geckos, giant day geckos, corn snakes)
Ancient Dragon Exotics (ball pythons, candles, knives)
Designer Geckos (leopard geckos and supplies)
Mile High Bug Club (insects, spiders, scorpions, club promotion)
Altitude Exotics (crested geckos)
Twisted Genetics (boas, pythons, lizards, turtles, roaches)
T-Bonez Pythons (balls, boas, retics)
Top Line Constrictors (boas, rainbow boas, rosy boas, ball pythons)
JAK'L Reptiles (bearded dragons, balls, meal worms, accesories)
Colorado Herp Society (rescued animals)
Cache Reptiles (high color morph bearded dragons)
Colorado Chondros (chondros, carpets, colubrids)
Clockwork Reptile Co. (leopard geckos, specialty boas, green tree pythons, bearded dragons)
Frogs with Altitude (dart frogs and supplies)
Feeder Frenzy Reptiles (beardies, axoltls, tokays, cresties, croc geckos, fat tail geckos)
John McClellan (king snakes)
Paul Davis Reptiles (geckos, dart frogs, plants, terreriums, honduran milks)
Denver Lizard Ranch (geckos, monitors, dragons, chameleons, skinks)
Ultimate Herps (ball pythons)
Southern Serpents (leopard geckos, colubrids, dubias)
Scales N Tails (everything)
Reptilian Paradise (everything)
Sloan Reptiles (ball pythons)
Old School Burms (burmese pythons)


I will be there, will you?

[reptile65]

I'm not gonna be able to make it to this one, but I'm planning on going to the one in May. I'd like to point out that it's actually the 4th, not the 5th :)

[BarelyBreathing]

Well then, it's the fourth. You are absolutely correct! Wayne, can you please fix this for me? Sorry to inconvenience you.

[Maclyal]

I will be there.
just look for the booth with the ball pythons & knives.
That's Me.:eek:

[BarelyBreathing]

Oh, hey. I know you, then (kind of).

[Maclyal]

ok, here it is the day before the show & someone ordered all this white stuff. to who ever ordered it "Thanks for the mess!"
see everyone at the show
stop by & say hi so I know who you are.

[BarelyBreathing]

You've seen me before. I used to have green hair. Hubby was the one filming over the summer.

I don't know if we can get out there. The roads are closed east of Airpark (I live out east). Hopefully I'll be able to get out there.

[Shmoges]

WooHoo! I am so excited! I will be at the bug club booth, both our clubs are sharing. I'm gonna bring my anery longicauda for display and will hopefully sell a pair of Ortiz Rosies.

[BarelyBreathing]

Do you know if the Bug Club will be selling any A. versicolors?

[Shmoges]

I asked Bell if she or Greg were bringing anything and it seems they may not, I tried to make them reconsider. We will have to see.

[BarelyBreathing]

Hmm, I hope they do.

[Shmoges]

Wow, that was fun to have a table. Got to talk to so many fun people. My wife noticed a mutual acquaintance had baby kings so we ended up trading our rosies to him then top line referred a lady to me because she was very excited to get some Ortiz rosies. Which I referred her to the guy I traded to and she bought them lol. We packed up early and just as we were leaving a lady bought our last 10 gallon. Maybe its just me but I got a kick out of how everything worked out. I think we did a good job attracting people to our table. Greg Quintana showed up and brought a tarantula and a bunch of baby scorpions. Then our friend Jay Hartman showed up with the big snakes, his purple albino retic 14 ft and an albino burm 7ft I think.

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0074.jpg

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http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0077.jpg Reptiles won!! voting for donations rocks lol

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[BarelyBreathing]

I was snowed in. The roads were closed out here and I couldn't go. I was terribly disappointed.

[Shmoges]

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0081.jpg

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0083.jpgcha ching!

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0084.jpg

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0085.jpgThis thing was enourmous.

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0087.jpg

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0086.jpgOur two new Kings!!

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0088.jpg

http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af309/Shmoges/Feburary%20Show/IMG_0089.jpgOur Anery Longtail was a good show animal, everyone was asking what he was and then saying "uh a what??"

[Maclyal]

considering it was a Feb. show & the weather & roads were crap, it turned out to be a very good show.
hopefully we will see everyone in May.
by then I should have a bunch of new & interesting babies.

[millertime89]

I wish we had more shows around here.

[Shmoges]

Our clubs are actually working out the details for doing our own show in the Springs!

[BarelyBreathing]

That would be great. I'd come as long as I wasn't snowed in.

[Maclyal]

I would be up for vending at that. keep in touch & let me know.

[Shmoges]

Yeah we want to call all the vendors that go to Lynns show and then expand on that list and ask them what time works best and what is a reasonable table price and get an idea of whats best for the vendors and go from there. We are thinking that Its all about the vendors, if there not happy then there is no show. People go to Lynns show just because its convenient and its always been there, but she is angering more and more vendors and regardless of weather the vendor list is getting sparse imo.

[BarelyBreathing]

Not only is she angering the vendors, she's angering the buyers.

[millertime89]

I'm curious, but what's she doing? I'm itching to help set up an event like this. I got a taste of it at my last job and think helping and getting the experience will be invaluable in what I want to do. I would be willing to help set things up even if I can't make it to the actual event.

[BarelyBreathing]

First off, for a long time she made it so other people supplying feeders other that her company's sister company couldn't vend. She started with one booth, then two, then three, now six. She kicked out a smaller breeder (with wonderfully healthy snakes) because they pointed out that a bigger breeder had a snake at the show showing signs of a URI. She has a set list of rules that she lets some vendors break but not others (examples, no sharing tables, no venomous, no imports). She's openly rude to customers (I was helping a friend pick out a ball python for his son and we stopped at her company's booth. The kid picked out a snake he liked and asked to see it. She said that it wasn't a petting zoo. We told her we were genuinely interested in purchasing a snake, and we would take our business elsewhere. She made some very loud and rude remarks about the guy and his son as we were walking away).

[exwizard]

I wish we had more shows around here.

Kyle, if youre willing to drive a little, Jason Kruses's Kansas City Reptile Show is every other month on the Kansas side. Then theres the Kansas City show on the Missouri side run by the Missouri Herp Society and thats twice a year. Then theres Omaha in April and October as well as Des Moines in April and October or November. I love going to shows like this. Theyre always fun and vending at a table is a blast.

[millertime89]

I didn't know the KC KS show was every other month, I'll have to do more digging.

[Wes83]

I was one of the vendors at jakl reptiles. Everything i had sold in first 2 hr so i walked around alot. Got my het albino from top line, my het pied a few tables down. Was a fun time