Quote Originally Posted by bcr229 View Post
You also need to realize that most show promoters do not vet their vendors to ensure they are only selling healthy animals; anyone who wants a table gets one. So, you could have one vendor who breeds and sells his own critters set up next to a vendor whose wild-caught, stressed, parasite-riddled critters came off of a plane from overseas the week prior to the show.

Since you have decided which shows you are attending I would strongly suggest going to the show's Facebook page or web site and doing some research on the vendors well before the day of the show. That way you will know who to avoid.

I wrote this up a while ago about buying from online vendors, but the how-to-research aspect applies just as much to vendors at expos.
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...g-Herps-Online
Quote Originally Posted by tttaylorrr View Post
...@craigafrechette i am here to eat crow.

so i bought two new babies at the same show, but one has mites. yes, mites. despite what i thought was a "careful eye" or better knowledge, i could not have noticed them and i only noticed after the Bamboo shed.

@craigafrechette i was WRONG. both animals should have been QT'd separately since i COULD have made the space.

i will be posting a thread aaaaallllll about this, but i WISH i QT'd these babies separately as now i have to treat both babies as having full-blown mites and subject them both to treatment.

yay, mites!!!


Mites....Yikes!!!