The show itself was small! It was held in a conference room at the Mesa Holiday Inn that was WAY too small for the venue! The aisles weren't more than 3 feet wide and it was IMPOSSIBLE to navigate a stroller in the room.
Attendance seemed really good. I was there on both days, and the place was jam-packed on both days. I was looking for some mantids, but I didn't see any bug guys. There was some representation from bearded dragon breeders and of course snakes were well represented, but there wasn't much offering from chameleons.
LLL Reptile, and Reptile Depot were anchoring the show. I think they were the only two vendors that had any chameleons. RD had some 4 horned chams and some ambanjas (ambilobe I think); their chams were looking a bit stressed. LLL had mostly sub-adult female veileds and ONE adult pair of veileds. They looked very good, so I bought the pair.
Synopsis: the show was small, crowded, and under-represented by the chameleon community. However, there was some GREAT deals to be had, just had to fight the crowds and dive in. The girls from LLL still remember me from Oceanside and I got a GREAT deal for my new veiled pair. I'm very glad I went- really great people out there!
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Victor Gomez
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Just got back from the Phoenix Reptile Show...
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ive only been to 3 shows here and this one had more chams than any other show.
on a side note i just got back from a trip to chigaco. while i was there we visited all the museaums and to my suprise at the shedd aquarium they had an adult sambava on display. he looked healthy and he had a little perch above the viewing glass so he could escape all the little kids i saw hitting the glass.
-jon
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1.1 veiled chameleons
0.0.1 normal cornsnake
2.2 leopard geckos
It sorta sounded like I was complaining about the show. I really wasn't! I'm very glad to have gotten the opportunity to attend ANY type of herp show out here. And I did get some GREAT deals on my veiled cham pair and assorted supplies.
I guess I went expecting a little more. Being this is AZ, and being that there is such a huge biodiversity out here, I guess I was expecting to see a show closer in size to the IRBA San Diego show. If anything, I was surprised but not disappointed. The vendors present were a little more enthusiastic than at the SD IRBA. Perhaps the larger SD IRBA venue is more taxing on the vendors, perhaps the AZ weather (it was FANTASTIC, btw) had it's influence on them, who knows!
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Victor Gomez
gomezvi.tripod.com/sdchamkeepers/
gomezvi@yahoo.com
Victor, I am glad you found some healthy chams! Of course we need pix when you get them 
I have only been to our little show here in NH (will be here in April) and have nothing to compare it to. I hopefully willl have my beardie by then and will go mainly for supply stock up. I have no room left for more herps!
lele
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0.1 veiled - Luna
0.2 felines - Kyndra and Líta
1.0 African Clawed Frog - Skipper
0.3 Mad. Hissers (2 died ;(
0.1 Chilean Rose Hair Tarantula (no name yet)
0.1 Goliath Bird-Eater Tarantula - Natasha
