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D.Dedrick

I didn't attend, never have. My once a year event is the Anaheim NARBC. I always look forward to all the pics and the postings from Daytona. They have always started on Saturday night after the first day of the show. This year there were no pics and as of this a.m. there are still very few pics. I suspect that attendance was down. If you check the boa and ball forum, pretty much nothing posted. Same for the Corn forum.
Kind of disappointing.

John, you should introduce yourself, I'll be working the VPI table.
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Chris & Alliey
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For the last few years I have helped at The SnakeKeepers tables. I plan to do so again this year. I'll be sure to stop by.

Dan and Colette are awesome!
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Chris & Alliey
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Daytona was good.
The weather was fair and made for good days at the beach and nice nights to hang out on the courtyard.
The vendor list was down, seemingly. Some isles had 10 or more feet of space between tables. Attendance seemed up. Lots of people were coming through all weekend long.

Game & fish was in full force with 6 game wardens and 2 investigators inspecting and checking permits and issuing warnings or citations. A few of them actually were buying herps at the show and said they kept personal collections.

Some vendors did ok at the show but I spoke to at least 2 that had not sold anything. At least 4 vendors said they would not return due to low sales and hassles with permitting.

As far as hognose go, I got to see some pics of the ghost produced by Vin Russo and Rich Hume. They also had some super nice light phase axanthics.
Mike Nearhoof and Ted Thompson had the mosaics out and anacondas.
Brent Bumgardner had a nice Albino conda and some cool supers and anacondas displayed. A light phase snow was cool also.
Don shores had a cool purple line conda
and a nice super female displayed.
John Waddell had some cool het albino condas out.
Jeff Nemanius and Chad Fuchs take the cake with Chads paradox/calico hoggie. Its face was literally colored normal on one side and bright orange albino on the other. One eye is colored normal, the other is albino.

I have a few pics to share at a later time.
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Thank you,
Kevin Rhodes

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http://www.freewebs.com/spreptile/index.htm
http://s212.photobucket.com/albums/cc314/lifesciences/?action=view¤t=09-09hognose001.jpg

I look forward to the pictures.

It sounds as if my sentiment towards Florida is shared. I believe you will continue to see the vendor and customer attendance list continue to fall each year. Soon, you'll have Tinley or Anaheim as the largest US reptile show.
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Chris & Alliey
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Kevin just want to clear something up so people dont get confused. The MOSAICS and the ANACONDA's are mine. Ted has nothing to do with them although he did but a pair of anaconda's from me this year