Anyone going to the pdx reptile expo

Hey, just wondering if anyone is going to the pdx reptile expo Saturday the 21st?

I am, Its my birthday :)

Nice this is going be to my second to going to this show

I'll be there. Sadly, no money to spend, but I love to see all the reptiles!!

Ya I'm picking up a feeder order and hopefully a female cinnamon

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Ya I'm picking up a feeder order and hopefully a female cinnamon

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Just sold my parts car $2000 to spend woot!


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I want to go sooooooo bad! I went to the one in July to get my first snake, and now that I've caught the bug I would love to pick up more! Unfortunately my car isn't working so I can't make the 4 hour trip :(

Picked up a male clown and a proven male lesser bee :)


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i went today, i picked up a little white sided bull snake:D hes super cool, and tiny, only 30grams, the show was smaller than i expected though, but it was cool

did anyone see the rattler and albino monocle cobra? i forgot to take pics but they were awesome, unfortunatly the guy kept pounding on the tank and table to get them to hood up and rattle

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did anyone see the rattler and albino monocle cobra?

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YES!!!!! I was waiting in line to get in and this guy was like theres a cobra over there. So I was like ya he doesn't know what he's talking about (because the site says no venomous snakes aloud). When I got in I wanted to see what he thought was a cobra I walked over there and saw the rattler first and thought it was odd. Then saw this lady talking pics of it and it wasn't moving so I thought it fake but then it struck the glass I must of jumped back like 2 ft lol needless to say it was probably the coolest thing at the show

Yeah, it was up there on the cool factor for sure, and the pair of albino dwarf burns, if I had the money and space I would have loved to pick them up, oh wait, theres a ban now:rolleyes: actually, is it in effect yet?

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Yeah, it was up there on the cool factor for sure, and the pair of albino dwarf burns, if I had the money and space I would have loved to pick them up, oh wait, theres a ban now:rolleyes: actually, is it in effect yet?

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Not in effect yet.... I almost picked up one of the dwarf retics but decided to wait awhile longer

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Not in effect yet.... I almost picked up one of the dwarf retics but decided to wait awhile longer

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okay i couldnt remember haha, i held an sd retic and im pretty sure im hooked, it was stunning, definitly gonna have to get one before those get banned too

I know I want one so bad there patterns are amazing even the normals I think I might just get a dwarf tho i hear super dwarfs are pretty skittish

this one seemed pretty skittish, and the guy said he was really cage aggresive, but he had to have been pretty stressed due to the show. i would love to get a dwarf too, but i think i might work my way up the retic scale. but i know that if i ever get anything larger than a sd, it has to be a tiger, those things are just freakin sick, but i dont think i could ever get a mainland, theyre just too big for me, unless i knew i could always have someone else there while handling it

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but i know that if i ever get anything larger than a sd, it has to be a tiger, those things are just freakin sick, but i dont think i could ever get a mainland, theyre just too big for me, unless i knew i could always have someone else there while handling it

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I agree I don't think I could handle a mainland but a male dwarf and female sd would be sweet

My SD retics are a bit skittish, but they're very sweet. As for 'cage aggressive', that's just called 'being a retic'. Hook train them like any retic. They always want food!! They will come out and try to eat you, because you are warm--hook training is the key, lol. Once in hand, they're great.

Yeah my sd retics are not skittish... They do have that retic feeding response, untill they know its not food they will try it.... My sd's are very active when being held, and amazing how calm they are, inquisitive but good natured....

So once they're out they don't try to run like run away from you like in a freak out way

Well, they do if you haven't worked with them, but once they're calmed, they are fine. Pretty much like any other snake. I even have some ball pythons that will bolt if they aren't used to handling.

Ya but ball pythons are less intimating lol once out and calmed down are they really active like corns or a little slower like boas?