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The nonvenomous snake and lizard selection wasn't much to brag about. There were some nice turtles and tortoises and I actually got a great price on a 2-3 inch stinkpot. heh.

Every time that I thought about something special that I saw, it always came back to venomous. Serpent's Den had phenomenal animals as always. Steve gave us some great trades and was nice enough to let us base ourselves from behind his table.

Dave Kornely (sorry if I misspelled) was nice enough to hold a yellow eyelash viper for us. My friend had to get out of venomous due to family pressures and he gave us an adult yellow eyelash viper for free. Since Dave bought most of his vipers and he's a nice guy, he held onto that eyelash for us. He also had great animals.

We did a lot of trades with someone named Brad (can't remember where he was from) and Jay from exotic jungle. They both had great animals.

There was one table with venomous snakes on steroids. Every single one was probably about at full size (except the still massive gaboons). The Cerastes cerastes was the size of an adult female pueblan milksnake. It blew me away. They also had the largest egyptian cobra I've ever seen. It looked more like a king cobra with the size of the head and all. The funniest thing is that every snake was in party platter containers and plastic cake containers. You know when you go to the grocery store and get a cheese or veggie platter? Well, the gaboons and puffs were in these. The container diameters were about 2 feet across and every inch inside was filled with snake. They had a small formosa cobra in a 6 inch tall round cake pan! It was pretty funny.

This was my first show (aside from the WNY herp society show), so it was a sight to see. We got great animals and more importantly, I got to meet some cool people who I've only talked to via e-mail. Every nonvenomous item I've seen on a regular basis for the most part (except a deformed/stunted indigo snake and some albino sulcatas). So for coming from Buffalo, it would have been cheaper just to order the animals we got and pay for shipping (if you could mostly get everything from the same vendor, which we did). However, it was the experience and that aspect of the show was great. If anyone reading this organized the show, I thought that the organization aspect went very well.

Later,
Dave

I was told it was not that good!

I had my doubts as to wether or not a 2 day show would cut it up there. Ive done well at the 1 day shows in the past, but I dont recall talking to a single vendor (including ourselves) that did well at this show. One vendor I spoke with is a well known name vendor and he only did around $1000 all weekend, we came close to that. We actually did better at the Rockaway, MO show than we did there which is kinda sad considering Rockaway was a first time show and off the beaten path so to speak. Everyone had really nice animals there, just seems the buyers werent out buying. Lots of lookers. Hopefully everyone will do alot better at their next show.

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Cheers!

Anja
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"If I had my way
We'd sleep every night
Wrapped around each other
Like hibernating rattlesnakes."
William S. Burroughs
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