Questions About Expo Prices

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It'll mostly be a large room (think like a large, open school cafeteria) with lots of rows of tables with animals or products. One expo I went to had a tiny outdoors area for some large tortoises, but the other one didn't have any outdoor area (most, if not all, is indoors so the animals don't get too hot). It's busy, but not like "I'm having trouble avoiding people" sort of busy. Traffic, in my experience, wasn't any worse than usual (but I don't usually get there right at opening hours). Ticket line was nonexistent every time I've gone. This picture is one of the first times I went to an expo and you can kind of see behind me that there's not like a TON of people in that isle. If you're claustrophobic or something, there shouldn't be a problem, I think. There will be hand sanitizer all around so you don't have to bring something to wash your hands between holding animals (unless you want to). If you've ever been to something like an anime convention, it kind of has that feel (but less crowded) since people are there to sell after all. Depending who's there, there will be snakes, lizards, tortoises, geckos, spiders, chameleons, feeding products (mice, rats, dubia roaches), frogs, a few supplies like glass tanks. One I went to had a few "extra" exotics like sugar gliders and chipmunks. Saw someone brought a dog once lol (but they had like four rectangular tables laid out, so it kind of just chilled in the middle out of the way). Just about everything is contained in containers or bins except when people want to see something (or if they're showing off like a young burm or something). If you want to hold something, you can just ask and people are pretty nice about it. You can take pictures, and people usually don't mind turning off the overhead lights if you ask. Feeder mice/rats are a helluva' lot cheaper. There's generally lots of kids, too, but no one is really rambunctious.

Hmm... can't think of anything else. There's not really any "surprises" I think. It's about what you'd expect.