>>Just curious, as I had to do an educational event and couldn't get to the show. Hamburg is NOT my favorite place, as there are so many wild-caught animals, sick and dead animals, too many hatchling sulcata. I've even seen two vendors with lizards with red mites on one Saturday.

Place seemed a little too crowded for the number of vendors and people there (hardly any aisle space except for the center row) and the lack of any a/c or proper ventiliation caused a couple of people to go into heat exhaustion/stroke.

My primary gripe about the show was not the condition of the reptiles but that of the mammals and the vendors dealing them... the lack of air condition and ventiliation in that building had many of the mammals noticably suffering. I'm surprised the chinchillas were even alive at all as they can easily die in the conditions found in that building. I saw rabbit cages and guinea pig cages stacked several high upon each other thereby cutting down even further the amount of ventiliation to those with the bad luck to be on the bottom of the stack. No fans on the mammals either. It was appalling.

Reptile wise, animals looked fine for the most part though a few seemed to be overly crowded in the cages (re: iguana hatchlings). The only chelonia I saw at the show was a single sulcata tortoise and it was by no means a 'hatchling'. I didn't see any 'dead' animals or anything that appeared overtly 'sick'....if any of them (reptiles) were sick they seemed to be hiding it very well from what I could see.

DP

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