Columbus reptile show July 21st

DeesBalls · 07-20-12, 07:26 AM

basically who is going? i will be down there with a friend who is selling frogs. so if you are there look for me!! (i will probably have a "fro-hawk") and glasses...

Kettennatter · 07-20-12, 07:49 AM

I will be there. I will be chasing a 2yo around, stopping her from hugging snakes.

Norm66 · 07-20-12, 08:15 AM

I'll be there. Should arrive about 11:30 or so. I'll be the huge guy with long red hair and glasses. Definitely say hi.

Kettennatter · 07-20-12, 08:53 AM

Have you been to the show before? This will be my first...so, any idea what to expect?

Norm66 · 07-20-12, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Kettennatter

Have you been to the show before? This will be my first...so, any idea what to expect?

Just a bunch of tables in a Moose Lodge ballroom filled with snakes, lizards, amphibians, spiders, prey items, dry goods etc. There are three rows with tables on both sides, usually they're all taken but a few empty spots aren't uncommon.

Mostly there are ball pythons, but there's a fair assortment of other pythons, boas and colubrids too. Generally there is a couple of real standouts from a perspective of being fairly unusual. Last month there was a pair of beautiful black headed pythons that stood out to me.

I always get caught up in the moment and wind up forgetting to take pictures, but once again I'll try to get some tomorrow.

We're just going for rodent-cicles....but I've said that before.

Kettennatter · 07-20-12, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Norm66

Just a bunch of tables in a Moose Lodge ballroom filled with snakes, lizards, amphibians, spiders, prey items, dry goods etc. There are three rows with tables on both sides, usually they're all taken but a few empty spots aren't uncommon.

Mostly there are ball pythons, but there's a fair assortment of other pythons, boas and colubrids too. Generally there is a couple of real standouts from a perspective of being fairly unusual. Last month there was a pair of beautiful black headed pythons that stood out to me.

I always get caught up in the moment and wind up forgetting to take pictures, but once again I'll try to get some tomorrow.

We're just going for rodent-cicles....but I've said that before.

Thanks Norm, this gives me a very decent idea of what to expect. For some reason I have the feeling that my wife wants yet another corn. I have a feeling we'll be there around 10.00am.

Norm66 · 07-20-12, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Kettennatter

Thanks Norm, this gives me a very decent idea of what to expect. For some reason I have the feeling that my wife wants yet another corn. I have a feeling we'll be there around 10.00am.

There's a couple there that always has some really nice cornsnakes. If you go in the entrance to the room and go straight in along the short side she'll be on the 2nd aisle endcap (on your right). You'll see what I mean.

Don't forget to say hi if you see me. I'm kind of hard to miss.

Kettennatter · 07-20-12, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Norm66

There's a couple there that always has some really nice cornsnakes. If you go in the entrance to the room and go straight in along the short side she'll be on the 2nd aisle endcap (on your right). You'll see what I mean.

Don't forget to say hi if you see me. I'm kind of hard to miss.

Thanks Norm, I'm unfortunately very average looking, but my kids will give me away.

MoreliAddict · 07-20-12, 09:10 AM

Take lots of pics. Like what I did here:
http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/morel...s-morelia.html

And here:
http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/morel...lia-heavy.html

have fun

DeesBalls · 07-20-12, 10:01 AM

I've never been there. im oging to get rats from rodent pro, so basically that is it.. and IF i can find a female breeder norm BP ill pick her up, i want to have one to breed this season and all my femlaes are like 100 grams lol.

ill take pics for sure!! probably not a TON, but a few

Norm, ill deffinatly say hi, if i see ya!

bigsnakegirl785 · 07-20-12, 10:19 AM

We (hopefully) will be going to the Anderson show in December, closer and gives us time to save up. Hope you guys have fun, and make sure you take pics!

DeesBalls · 07-20-12, 11:27 AM

hope to see ya'll there, i am leaving my house around 7am... (live about 2 hrs from C-bus...) so ill be there around 9:30 or so, give or take for eating. lol

LISA127 · 07-20-12, 05:05 PM

I wish I was going. I've been to the Cleveland show a few times in the last few years. But I think it's been a good 8 to 10 years since I've been to the Columbus show. Maybe someday....

Kettennatter · 07-21-12, 01:00 PM

I went in the morning, and I had to make my way around some construction I didn't expect. The place itself was rather crowded, without seeing too many empty tables. I didn't see anybody I recognized, though. As expected, there were plenty of BPs, probably follow by kings, boas and corns. I only saw a few JCPs and rainbow boas. I would have expected more of the latter. There were plenty of other reptiles.

My son got an Oregon red-spotted garter snake, which I consider gorgeous with its yellow stripe, red dots and blue belly. I almost got a goini king snake, but I wasn't sure if I needed another king, right now. (It was a beautiful snake though.)

I ran into somebody in a tie-dye t-shirt in the parking lot who was staring at a KSB. He said that he had just traded two adult BCIs for this KSB. It must have been an odd trade, since he didn't seem know much about KSBs.

**millertime89** · 07-21-12, 02:27 PM

any retics? Where are the pics?