Well, for those of you who recognize the post title you'll remember I was lamenting what the BP craze has done to the diversity of shows like the NARBC. Well, I spent both days at the NARBC in Tinley, IL looking around and I'd have to say it was every bit as disappointing as I thought it'd be. Fully 80 percent of the show was BPs, with about 15 percent being Leopard and Crested Geckos, and Bearded Dragons and about 5 percent everything else, meaning misc. ratsnakes, kings, chelonians, etc. VERY disappointing.

I did come away with probably one of the most RARE animals in the entire show though - a yearling male COMPLETELY NORMAL HET-FOR-NOTHING WILD TYPE Cornsnake. Yeah, I know a Cornsnake. Nothing exciting there but I have a couple lonely females (Normals as well) and I haven't had eggs incubating for years so I figured what the hey? On Sunday I did make an end of the day impulse purchase as well which was a nice sized female Corn, also wild type but apparently a wild type of hypo since she's lacking in black borders around blotches. There were some ratsnakes of interest however - King Rats, Leopard Rats, and Kunisir Island as well as a few Coxi but that was about it.

There were literally about 2 or 3 Coxi and about 6 King Rats and about 3 or 4 of any other type. Of course there were a few people selling some Corn morphs but no normals on hardly any of those tables. And just table, after table, after table of Ball Pythons. It actually makes walking through a rather large show hall pretty easy because if you don't stop to look at the same look-a-like snakes at every booth you get through pretty quickly.

I gotta say that BP morphs just don't do it for me. Not that I'm a big fan of any morph or any snake to begin with, but when the look only slightly different from a normal, it's hard to get excited and even harder to justify paying thousands of dollars.
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Matt Campbell

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