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coool.. any of yall besides jamesw been to it before?

Im going to try and get some rodents, last time there were no rats or mice, but they were giving away rabbits and guinea pigs at the end because they didnt want to travel with them.
Im hoping they will have rats this time.
Im also going for a female retic.

Ya ill be looking for a boa while im there. May buy, may not depends what theyve got.

Also just curious, Ive never been to one of these things but i would assume that these people bring hand sanitizer to these things with all the different animals that are at these things so we dont have to bring our own right?

I dont think these people care about that kind of stuff.

IMHO, if the breeders are not asking people to use hand sanitizer before they handle their snakes, I wouldn't buy from them. You really don't know what little bigs could be there.

Well I ended up picking up a male colombian boa possibly double het for albino stripe from Ben Cole for $80. I liked his snakes by far more than the others. His Orange Ghost was definately the best BP there, and maybe the best overall snake I saw. The show was pretty small but I enjoyed looking at all the reptiles. Makes me want to consider going to daytona a little harder even though I am now out of the market for another snake.


Also I was a little weirded out by the way everyone had there tree boas in the same little things without any room to climb and probably not near enough humidity. Those guys had to be VERY stressed.

Ahh, I know, that orange ghost was GORGEOUS! If only I had $1000 laying around, waiting to be spent... The spider was pretty hot, too! He took it out and let me hold it--really high white sides and a nice pattern. It was pretty fun but there was one guy in the back right corner with a tank of unsexed baby balls that hadn't fed for $12 apiece!!! DDD8 It was terrible--probably twenty or thirty little hatchlings in one small tank...I felt so bad for them!

Ya, I saw a few people keeping their balls in one 10 gallon tank. I think I saw one person keeping boas this way and they were all on one side of the tank laying on each other, definately didnt look very healthy. He had a couple nice baby pastels for $125, if I was looking for another BP I would have definately gotten one of those! Some people had some stargazers and yawners, too. Ben's snakes just appeared to be kept in great shape with the correct husbandrys, and a guy doing it for the right reasons. I came home and found his website, too and find out some more about him and I liked reading what he had to say on there as well.
Ben Cole

Bens set up was nice, I wanted one of his albinos but I knew my wife would be pissed if i spent 800 on a sanke with out telling her.

Ya, the albinos looked nice. Im personally not a big fan of albinos. When I was roaming around his table I overheard him telling someone if they held off for 6 months to a year (I think thats how long he said) that the market price will probably be going down a couple hundred on them. After reading posts over on KS breeders getting mad about discussions of the market I was especially surprised to hear a breeder tell a potential buyer something like that when he could potentially get current value for them. Atleast hes honest and not afraid of discussing the market with potential buyers.