Reptile Show in Iowa

Is there a reptile show coming up in November which will be held in Des Moines? I know there is that 3 day event held over the weekend where Dave Barker and various other herpers are to speak, but I cant find anything on the actual reptile sale....such as show times and addmission. I am contimplating on driving down for the day from minneapolis to attend seeings we dont get much for shows up here. On a side note, does anyone know if there are any shows in Wisconsin?
-Josh

Wisconsin Reptile Breeders Sale

Saturday November 3rd
10am-4pm
Monona Community Center
1011 Nichols Rd.
Monona, WI
http://crestedgecko.com/wi_breeders_show.htm

The Iowa Herpetological Society is putting on the Midwest Herpetological Symposium
November 9/10/11th

Holiday Inn
4800 Merle Hay Rd
Des Moines, IA
http://www.iaherp.org/content/view/13/22/

Hope this helps.

-Jason

Sorry, Jerhart, you JUST missed the breeder show there.

The Omaha, Nebraska show is this Sunday, though.

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Are they going to have any reptile sales? I have been seeing this but nothin about having a show?

No, the Iowa show was already done like a week or two ago. The symposium is a talk, and NO reptiles will be present. Just pictures.
The next show coming up is the one here on Sunday, and then there's a big Chicago show coming up not too far down the road.

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No, the Iowa show was already done like a week or two ago. The symposium is a talk, and NO reptiles will be present. Just pictures.

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WRONG!!! The Symposium is an entire weekend event with socializing on Friday night, Speakers all day on Saturday, and a Live animal sale on Sunday. I've even got a table so I KNOW there will be live animals there. Some of them will be mine.

Mark

Hey Mark what time is the show?
-Josh

I think that it's from 10:00am to 4:00pm on Sunday November 11th.

Well that's odd, I read somewhere that it was strictly talks and such. Let me see if I can find where I read it. Someone's written some misinformation on it. It must have been something fairly official, since I just filed it away in my head. I remember it was an article on the symposium, too. Did they originally plan it that way and then change their mind, maybe?
*this is gonna bother me til I find the thing...I hate when that happens*

Here's the official page for it:
http://www.iaherp.org/content/view/13/22/

Might have to see if I can make it to that one, too.

It's odd that they forgot to put it on the itinerary. The Midwest Symposium is a traveling show that moves around to different states throughout the Midwest every year and is put on by that states herp society. I've been to several of them throughout the years and there has always been a live animal sale at each one I've attended.

Mark

Anymore information on the show on what breeders will be there? Really excited to go, anymore info on the show...Who all is going? I know Mark you are going...anyone else?
-Josh :rockon:

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Sorry, Jerhart, you JUST missed the breeder show there.

The Omaha, Nebraska show is this Sunday, though.

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Not sure if you want to really call this one a show.I have a few people i know that say this place is like going to a pet store :( .I even sent for info last year and they stated they have maybe 3 or 4 tables with a few animals each.If you want to travel then i suggest the Indy show at the fairgrounds the last sunday of each month :)

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Not sure if you want to really call this one a show.I have a few people i know that say this place is like going to a pet store :( .I even sent for info last year and they stated they have maybe 3 or 4 tables with a few animals each.If you want to travel then i suggest the Indy show at the fairgrounds the last sunday of each month :)

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Joepythons, are you talking about the Nebraska show or the Iowa show? The last Iowa show I was at there were about 30 tables or so. Not a HUGE show but not that small either. I've never been to the Nebraska show so don't know much about that one. At the upcoming one, I'm sure that some of the larger vendors will include Jim Stelphlug, and probably Marc Bailey and Gerrick DeMeyer. I haven't seen a vendors list so I really don't know who else will be there. I think the animal sale should be pretty good, but mainly I'm going there for the list of speakers.

Mark

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Joepythons, are you talking about the Nebraska show or the Iowa show? The last Iowa show I was at there were about 30 tables or so. Not a HUGE show but not that small either. I've never been to the Nebraska show so don't know much about that one. At the upcoming one, I'm sure that some of the larger vendors will include Jim Stelphlug, and probably Marc Bailey and Gerrick DeMeyer. I haven't seen a vendors list so I really don't know who else will be there. I think the animal sale should be pretty good, but mainly I'm going there for the list of speakers.

Mark

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Nebraska show :)

Ill be at the Des Moines Show. Im in iowa city and its the 8th of november. from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. If you want to meet up there i may bring a couple of friends but not to many people that i know are into herps.

Wow, talk about thread necromancy at it's best. This is over 2 years old.

Yes, the Iowa Herp societies annual sale will be held this year in Des Moines at the Holiday Inn at 4800 West Merle Rd. on Nov 8th from 10:00am to 4:00pm They always used to hold this show in September and I'm really glad they've decided to move it back to November. It makes for a nice 'last show of the year' and you can usually get some REALLY good deals.

The 2009 Midwest Herp Symposium is being hosted this year by the Chicago herp society and is being held concurrently with the NARBC Tinley park show on Oct 10-11 so there won't be any live animal sales at the symposium this year (This will be the first year I remember that happening). The Symposium itself is being held at Georgios Comfort Inn in Orlando Park IL which is about 10 minutes away from the Tinley Park Holiday Inn where the NARBC show is being held.

Here is the link to the Midwest Herp Symposium. They've only got 6 speakers listed so far with only a month to go, I'm not sure how much effort CHS is really putting into it this year. http://www.chicagoherp.org/mhs/