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Went to NARBC and I must say I am dissapointed in the way that there was not many monitor people. I would say 60-70% of the show was all ball pythons. There was NERD there with the albino water monitor which was nice. I noticed in the rules and regulations it is suppose to be all CBB reptiles. However that was not that case by any standard. Overall the show was set-up nice and all the booths were clean though. On top of that swamp brothers was there and I also saw the crew from snake bites tv.

Did anyone else attend on here? if so give me your thoughts on it.

you didnt misss the guy by the venomous snakes with the 6ft water monitor did you it might as well have been a puppy

The snakes were very cool, too bad they were just for display. I saw the huge water monitor, did you see the huge gash on it's back????

Theres a bit of a dilmema, There are very very few actually breeding varanids and not in a number that they must go to shows to sell them.

What I think is odd is, folks say they want CBH but do not want to pay what it costs to produce them.

Which means, there are some who continue to produce monitors for fun, but to produce them in number like other reptiles is very very expensive. Food costs alone, muchless energy costs which are sky high.

An example is, Ball pythons, you can feed them a mouse or two a week, a similar sized varanid would consume three or four a day.

Many snakes can be shut down for a big part of the year, monitors not so much, so their costs continue for all the year or most of the year.

Then in most cases you have to really heat the cage and if you have a number of monitors, you then have to really cool the room. Cheers

There were monitors, I would say about 90% of them were not CBB. It states clearly in the show rules no reptiles that are not CBB. I was like hmm really now

Yea I know, its not the shows fault, the sellers claim they are farm raised etc. Only without the farms.

All the shows are that way. Some way worse then others. Good luck