NW Frogfest was great and about twenty vendors were present. My wife and presold all our frogs but we brought a selection of about 150 intermediate to warm growing Pleurothallid orchids. We sold almost everything and were able to meet a lot of people. We met non vendors from Oregon, California, Arizona, South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Canada and Florida that made the trip and I'm sure others that I don't remember.
Thomas from Pumilio.com was there with a great selection. Auratus, leucs, Brazil Nuts and Dend. leh... are a few that come to mind.
John and Jen from Tincs.com too. They brought about 30 premade tanks which was awesome planning and I think a real smart move, not only for them, but for our WADS - Wash.Dendro. Society. I'm excited to see a lot of new faces at next months meeting. They also brought some red-Eyes, auratus, some tincs and more.
Eric Malolepsy made the trip from Florida and it was good to meet him. He brought about 5 - 6 types of tincs and I believe a ton of bicolors or terribles - can't remeber which. It was nice seeing some 'East Coasters' - Matt Mirabello being another making the trek. He had some huge auratus and an assortment of tincs. While I did not get a change to meet Matt, his frogs looked great.
Tim Paine brought some great frogs - I hear. Many were gone by the time I reached his table. However he brought some awesome prints! My wife loved them and kept bringing different prints to our table giving me the 'what do you think of this one..' She settled on a great D. azeureas print for our bathroom. For those of you wanting some high quality frog art for your walls, contact Tim.
Speaking of Frog Art, Tracy Hick from Texas designed an awesome book and brought it to the fest. It was not an informative book, rather a gathering of images, writings and thoughts. I purchased one and plan today on taking in his and the thoughts of others presented in this book. Only 30 were made and he might have a few remaining. He also brought me 3.2 P. vittatus and a female "Salvias" tricolor. Not I can break up my group of tricolors and have two groups.
Todd, Tor and Christina were there and had "the stuff" I know I will probably remember half of what was there but here's the list. Yellow galacs, quinquivittatis, various auratus, wide band aurotanea, E. zaparo, vnets, 'Gold" amazonicus, imitators and red amazonicus. I think I got the find of the show though. I passed Tor's table and read the red amazonicus sign and kept walking. My wife and I purchased a group of them from Todd Kelley a year ago and love them. There are bright red with blue/gray legs. Later I looked into the well planted tank and found one and it was NOT a normal red amazonicus. It was pumpking orange with blue(azuereas blue) legs! SOLD Alos the orange bands are much wider than the 'normal' vent/amazonicus - not as wide as a lamasi, but almost! It was a 2.1.1 group!
All in all a great show. I was able to meet Chuck Powell ( We are thinking of going or vending in San Jose) and the people from Arizona Dendrobate Ranch. I'm positive this will happen next year and would urge everyone to come check it out! On a personal not, I am very new to darts. I bred dwarf monitors for 4 ish years. Once married with a baby boy, my wife and I made the switch. One of the main reasons was because of the amount of local froggers here and because of the type of people. This was very evident yesterday and made me more aware of how much I/we enjoy our new 'hobby' and growing group of friends!
Jon & Amanda Werner
