Reptile show tips?

[ckuhn003]

Hi gang!

Former snake owner but lifetime snake lover

It's ts been a while since I've owned anything, but I have owned a couple red tails, an albino burmese Python, a Brazilian rainbow boa and a canebrake. Now I'm older (47) with an awesome 6 year old daughter that shares my affinity with this awesome creature. Her mama not so much lol. But it's important to pass along how great snakes are and how bad a rap they get. I have an agreement with all neighbor's to call me before ever harming a snake and I'll come get it with my snake hook and relocate for free. I usually take my daughter and we've recently relocated a large king snake and really large eastern rat snake. She loves em.

So I want to get another snake and have all but decided on a BP. So many gorgeous morphs but I think I just love the pieds. I doubt we will breed, etc just provide a great home to the BP for a long time. I've owned snakes before so I know snakes can be tempremental but I really need to find a gentle one to keep wife and little one from overreacting.

Repticon Atlanta is coming up and I'll be going. What should I look for in a small juvenile pied at a reptile show, characteristic-wise? I plan to have the habitat set up at least a week in advance. I also need to research more about feeding F/T. I haven't done that and my wife as a teacher is actually fond of rats and mice. Animal lovers we are I suppose. Not sure she is going to let me put frozen mice in freezer beside the salmon. Need to think about that.


Is it reasonable to think I can get a real good deal on a pied at repticon?

Thanks in advance

TNK

I had to chuckle when reading this because I just went through this same experience. For some reason out of the blue, I woke up wanting a BP and my wife thought I was crazy. For 2-3 months, I watched youtube videos which gave my wife the impression that I just might be serious about this obsession. I actually went to the Repticon Atlanta a month ago (is it really coming up again?????). I went w/ the intentions of really seeing if this obsession was limited to the videos or if seeing some of these morphs in person were as stunning as I imagined they might be. I walked around talking to as many breeders as possible, asking the same questions that I've asked and read about on these forums. It wasn't until the last breeder that I encountered a BP that really peeked my interest. I debated purchasing him there but he was feeding on live food (which I did not want to deal with). I ended up looking around online and found an amazing breeder who had the same snake on F/T and that's all she wrote......

I have to say, I was one of the lucky ones who won my wife over w. my purchase. There's no way that I wanted an aggressive snake because of my kids or a snake eating live food. I would suggest researching the names of the breeders attending. You definitively get a sense when you're there of who is really a legit breeder who is just trying to make a buck.

Your comment about F/T next to the salmon is funny. I have my blue box of F/T hidden in the corner so my kids don't see it and I just ordered a fridge for the basement so I can bulk order some rats

Now you have me excited about the Atlanta Repticon. I didn't know it was coming again.