Spoils from today's show?

[justinO]

.. HELL NO! ..

[bistrobob85]

Just got myself another little ETB from JD_Terrariums !! Awesome looking and actually exploring it's new cage !

[KaHane]

Great show today!! We actually made it there before the end this time so we did get to buy a few thing. We picked up a pair of bearded dragons from Capital Dragons, an adult female boa from Mardy, several dart frogs, hooks and an enclosure that almost did not fit in my car!! Took me awhile but I made it fit. Next time I'm coming in the Jeep.

[damzookeeper]

Well, I started off the day buying a bp manual, then I bought a beautiful amel corn female, a female baby ball, a crested gecko book from Scotty, who sexed two of my snakes for me. What a sweet man he is!
I also came home with some butterworms and waxies.
I got 4 ocellated skinks from Roy and a New Guinea Legless lizard from Grant. Which reminds me, does anyone know where I can find a good care sheet on these guys!! I previously did research but on the European legless lizard and I'm not sure if they have the same requirements but couldn't fine the New Guinea one on a google search.
I also bought a calender and some prevent a mite. I wanted to pick up some heating pads and forgot. lol.
And I got a bag of rodent food and some mice from Mice 4 you. They even threw in some rat pups because the mice weren't as nice as he expected. That was really thought ful.
I was so tempted with those fisher chams as well but I had to leave with some money in my pocket!

Oh, and I spread the reptile bug to my friend. He usually drives me to all the shows and he fell in love with a leucistic texas rat and came home with it.

There were so many beautiful animals there today! It was an awesome show and I had a great time.

Thanks Grant and all who made it possible.

[Double J]

Well, I picked up a few goodies......
I nabbed an unsexed pair of Giant Day Geckos (Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis) from Nathan Greenlay (Geckoboy) and a couple of those blue fiddler crabs from Web Wheeler's table for my little lady.
I think, this is the first time that I did not come home from a show with any Darts from Mark Pepper (Understory Enterprises)..... That said, I will without a doubt, come home from his place within the next month with some more dendros. Still, I managed to come home with *LESS* than I went with... which is an absolute first!
To me, it seemed as if there was a little more variety than in the past. Either that, or I saw more things that I liked.
Phil Ramos always has some neat little amphibs at his table... but no salamanders this time. I would have picked up those emperor newts from The Reptile Store... but someone managed to get to them before I did. You know, I really miss the arachnophiliacs table......even though I am not really an invert guy ,they always brought some spice to the show. It is a shame that paranoia is keeping them out of the venue rather than reason. I would hate to see something like western hognose snakes being banned for their being rear-fanged.
What I like about the shows the most, besides coming home with additions to the frog room, or the gecko room..... is clearly shooting the breeze with fellow hobbyists. I also enjoy helping beginners head in the right direction when they make their first herp purchase. It is always rewarding clearing up misconceptions about husbandry and of course, reassuring people that poison dart frogs *DO NOT* shoot poisonous darts out of their mouths. You'd be surprised how often that comes up.

[Linds]

The day was sucking from the moment I woke up. We almost didn't even make it... went to get gas and take out money for the show only to find my bank card reset itself... and Mike had nothing either, so we had to go back to the house and borrow money from my parents (which we were already borrowing my moms broken down jeep because my car is too small to hold more than one cage). Then the whole way up the jeep was emitting odours on and off, and the interior functions kept failing to work. Had to take a pee break, only to find the gas station didn't have one We got there *just* before the doors opened, lucky for us we didn't have a complicated display to setup! Overall it was a pretty crummy day, although I got to see some old faces and meet a few new ones, got some frozen mice from Andrew @ Mice4You, and got to take home two beautiful cages from Jean-Benoit at Reptic-Plastics

Dani and Matt,
Glad you guys are so happy with your little monsters!

[corr]

Still, I managed to come home with *LESS* than I went with... which is an absolute first!

Same here. All I got was a hemostat from Matt K. Used it last night and it sure beats kitchen tongs!

[Thrush]

I bought a fabulous little crestie from DragonDrop, yay! It's already eaten a couple crickets, the ravenous little thing. My mom got herself another small redfoot (she's addicted) and my friend who came down, also left with a beautiful tiny amel corn and a hamster, rescued from the mouth of the lion, so to speak.

[Removed_2815]

Of course, I only intended to sell calendars and I made certain not to bring any cash whatsoever, yet, for some reason I managed to get pushed back into Okeetee Corn Snakes with this gift from a friend.
You'll notice calcium powder on the caudal portion of the mouse; I found, when I used to breed corns, that the babies grew up better when pink mice had a little calcium supplementation (since pink mice are rather calcium deficient, and it is during this growth stage that skeletal development is most important in young snakes).
Anyway, here are the pics!




Cheers,
Ryan

[corr]

Gorgeous Ryan! I meant to get one of those calenders! Do you have any left and can you ship?

[Removed_2815]

Originally posted by corr
I meant to get one of those calenders! Do you have any left and can you ship?

Yep! Most of the sales will be through mail order. Just send a quick e-mail to brookslab@hotmail.com and you will get a reply with how to order, it's real easy - we just need an address and as soon as we get the cheque we just mail it out. Don't forget to say who sent you
Thanks,
Ryan

[justinO]

Oh, another thing i "bought" on the way home.. a $40 speeding ticket down hurontario

[damzookeeper]

Originally posted by Double J
You know, I really miss the arachnophiliacs table......even though I am not really an invert guy ,they always brought some spice to the show. It is a shame that paranoia is keeping them out of the venue rather than reason. I

I know, it's too bad. I heard a couple people complain about not seeing any arachnids at the show. One guy was saying he drove 4 hours to find a nice spider and there wasn't any at the show. I guess that would be a disappointment after all that driving.

[marisa]

Well *very very* close to the show is Port Credit Pets and they always have a nice selection of tarantulas!

Marisa

[Oni5000]

I spent way too much yesterday.

Went there in the morning and got a temp gun, a thermostat and a bag of frozen feeders. Ran into boa who had just bought a big female ball. Turns out we were both talking to the same guy about it and he had contacted it first, but I ended up buying it from him for the same price.

Came back later with the gf as she wanted to check out the show, ran into boa again and we decided to meet up later that night to pickup some more ball pythons that I had put a deposit down on.

So in total yesterday I got:
- 0.3 big female balls
- 1.1 04 100% het albino pair
- 1.0 03 beautiful pastel...the yellow on this guy is unbelievable
- feeders
- temp gun
- thermostat

Plus in the last 2 weeks I built a sub-adult rack, an adult rack and a rat rack (which is being taken apart and redone today as it's more like the leaning rat rack of pisa right now). I think it's safe to say i've officially been hooked