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Almost no eastern kings at the Tinley Park show this weekend - a few unremarkable babies. Same for goini - a couple unattractive adults and a (very) few tables with puppy-mill quality snakes.

There was a nice young adult pair of Pinnelas County kings and a nice young adult female eastern from north Florida (which I bought). But very little else. I heard others remark on the absence of decent easterns and goini too.

Most interesting herps of the show (in my opinion)

NERD's tokay gecko morphs, puff-faced water snakes, ornate uromastix, cb yellow tailed cribos and rufous beaked snakes.

joe

what was popular at the show?
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"Yeah ya told me, and ya wrote it down too. But how the hell am I supposed to remember!"

It had pretty good variety, but it was still ball python heavy. Not as bad as some of the shows I have been to. It look almost like the ball pythons are going away and bloods are coming in. There were more people with bloods at this show than I have seen before. Overall I felt pretty good about walking around each time where as in the past I found myself not wanting to go look around because I was tired of all the balls.

Jason

The table prices are a little restrictive on the smaller breeders who would be the ones to actually focus on an eastern or goini. If things go well this year I should have a table there next year and I will have a bunch of both (hopefully). I just need some higher end stuff to produce. I have a few easterns left but if I went this year it would have been cheaper for me to just meet you in the parking lot and give the snakes away.

Jason

yeah, you aren't kidding either! table prices are outrageous! I couldn't do one on my own!

but it was a fun show to attend and there were some other things for a guy to see. I almost came home with a hypo brooksi... Maybe next year...

I sent something like this guy to a guy there...

and this guy has been on hold for a while...

although this one is dark, I bet it turns out nice...

I should have known there would be others that may have wanted a few (maybe not?)and sent them along...
Maybe I'll grow 'em up for next year..
:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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Sorry - I know we've been over some of this in email, but is there a pair in there? They are much nicer than the couple goini babies I saw at the show. There were a couple fugly adults too

I did have a vendor tell me that ALL patternless are male. I know you have an exception, but are the patternless generally male?

Interesting that most all patternless spilotes are male too.

joe

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:Mark
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Surrender Dorothy!

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But I've seen a bunch of patternless females. Male patternless are still definitely more common...

Ditto on the Easterns and the Goini, also, Pits seemed to be almost non-existant.

Pinellas kings and Ornates uros - I think I can safely claim that combination was unique to my table in that show. I wish all us kingsnake.com folks would wear badges with our login names. I'd feel like I knew more people even though I don't recognize the faces. It would probably spark up lots of conversations.
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Lindsay Pike
Urotopia Uromastyx

Yep, sounds right. I agree, these shows are not organized well at all. There should be pre-event online meetings with specific message boards, live chats, etc.

Keep me in mind for any patternless goini you may be producing next year! Those Ornate Uro's are going to be the next big thing I think -

Joe