Preparing for the SuperShow in SD...

[Brian]

Supplies, supplies, supplies, cage & one of Amandil's babies from the Kammers that hasn't hatched yet but I just paid it since I was already there..

Thanks again Ryan!

Dude, there was also this absolutely gorgeous snake for $25,000 (or was it $20,000). Oh man it was sooo beautiful!

Did you go?

No I dident go After I heard how much of a good time people were having I wish I went. I wasn't ready for another cham...because the new babies and all. I do have 2 extra cages here ready If anything comes up When will the amandil's babies be ready? WOW Ryan you got some nice chams I saw the pics of your ambilobe. He's going to be a real stunner, Im shure the amandil baby will be also

Brian

P.S how do you like your dubias Mika arent they cool or what?

 

[Brian]

Yeah, I couldn't believe i spent soo much! I just totalled it out when I was at work today..

I was like ohhhhhhhhhhhhh man!!!!!!

I only got the cream colored nozzles from herpmist cuz I already bought their misting system like 2 weeks ago. It works great but I added a hydor inline heater cuz my veileds would run away..

How do you like the cream colored nozzles? Are they better then the red ones?

Brian

 

[mika]

Cool? Dude, I haven't opened it yet.. I'm still getting up the courage to feed it to em..ewwwwwwwwww..hhahaha.. I keep telling myself i love roaches, i love roaches..

One of the roaches went up the tong i was trying to pick it up with and I almost dropped all the roaches on my floor. Those things are fast!

I think they'll be ready on August. I'm not in a rush though cuz I still have to set up his cage and all.

It was fun meeting people from cham forums. You should have gone!

Yeah and that's why I didn't wanna go either cuz I was bound to buy another cham

 

[mika]

How do you like the cream colored nozzles? Are they better then the red ones?

Brian

Dave gave me one for free at the meeting so I tried that one first. Since I liked it I bought 3 more. I think it's better than the red. More water comes out of it and my veiled likes it. The red is too fine I think.

 

[Brian]

Cant you twist the end to make it less fine? I dont want my mist that fine eathier. I wish I went... I will be at the Anaheim show for shure!! Do use tongs to feed your roaches? Trust me...once you grab them you will fall in love with them They dont scare me but If one escaped and found it way out of the room and into my room... and was crawling on me I would freak out

 

[Brian]

I saw one in the office the other day...and I hurried and grabbed it before any of the family saw

 

[mika]

Cant you twist the end to make it less fine? I dont want my mist that fine eathier. I wish I went... I will be at the Anaheim show for shure!! Do use tongs to feed your roaches? Trust me...once you grab them you will fall in love with them They dont scare me but If one escaped and found it way out of the room and into my room... and was crawling on me I would freak out

I wish I could twist em but you can't.. haha....

Nah, I use the tongs to feed the roaches to my chams but after that incident, I haven't tried feeding them the roaches again but they seem to like it. And grabbing em is out of the question.. ughhhh.. I can't even grab crickets ..haha

When's the Anaheim? Sept 6 and 7th? Why you buying more chams? I dunno if I should go.. I tend to impulse buy as you can tell.

 

[Brian]

Yeah...the Anaheim show is on the 6th and 7th. Maybe in a few months I'll get a Sambava from the Kammers, or an Ambanja from amandil Or I might wait until Anaheim. Did you see Amazing Blue at the show?

Brian

 

[teacherspet]

Went to the Show it was cool, I have never seen soo many reptiles in one place I guess that is why they call it a convention...wow I just got a werid image in my head of a cross between a reptile and a trekie! Anyway...I got a great time and I met Chad from Tiki Tiki and got 2 baby pgymies, one which i have no clue where he or she is in the cage... and the fruit flies kinda grossing me out, kinda wish they came in a parmasean cheese shaker...but anyway great show..

 

[mika]

Saw those tiny cute babies too. I'd love to take several home but I didn't have the setup for them. They were the tiniest little things..

 

[summoner12]

This is what I got at the show:

 

[SoCaliSon]

Awesome Kevin! You must be stoked!... Man if I only had the space for more... One of little guys would be my next buy. Can't wait to see him grow up! Where is he from?

 

[Jeweledchameleons]

Wow! The colors on that guy were awesome though! $750 was the original price on him, right?

Nice meetin' ya today! Get those plants online soon!

Yeah, nobody can say that "I'm unreasonable"
I KNEW that the person I sold him too was going to take REALLY good care of him.
vs some richer, gold encrusted old lady that was going to depend on her maids to feed and tend that "pet".
It's OK. I have another that looks EVEN BETTER for the breeding program (get ready!)
I thought $750 was a steal.
But whatever it was worth the peace of mind for 50 bucks less to know he's going to be living a really nice life.

and YES the plants are going to be online soon
Let me know how you like them (pm me) I need customer comments!
those things ARE going to take off!~

Too bad that I missed some people there at the show!
I thought the cowboy hat was going to be a giveaway

Summer12, Dave and all the others it was great meeting you!
Sorry I was so busy I couldn't sit down with everyone!

Learned some lessons as to what to change and improve:
*CORNER BOOTH is a MUST...
*Bigger banners
*Request extra cables to power all of your ballast lighting
*more than 2 helpers required, lots of cheaper item, LOTS more sleep before the opening day, securing kent

AND Watching out for people trying to cut into your cages (attempted theft first day!!!!)

THAT REALLY UPSET ME... someone cutting into my new 80 buck cages to steal my 3 month olds!~
if the screen hadn't been made of wire they might have been able to get away with it.
hummmm,.... should I take that as a complement or insult?
"I don't have the cash available... but I want his animals so bad that I'm willing to steal?"
hummmm?

I'm always trying to put the positive spin on things
but that doesn't stop wanting me from stomping on their faces if I would have seen them.

 

[Vegas Chad]

Went to the Show it was cool, I have never seen soo many reptiles in one place I guess that is why they call it a convention...wow I just got a werid image in my head of a cross between a reptile and a trekie! Anyway...I got a great time and I met Chad from Tiki Tiki and got 2 baby pgymies, one which i have no clue where he or she is in the cage... and the fruit flies kinda grossing me out, kinda wish they came in a parmasean cheese shaker...but anyway great show..

Well, got home at about 3am this morning... Work? Pfshhhh called in sick.. haha. I am glad that you like the flies ... It was great to meet everybody, thanks for stop'n by and saying hello. I think that I give a little price break to all the forum members that came by
(that told me you were a member) if I missed you then let me know at the NARBC!!! Mika, now that you are home I can tell you the truth about the roaches, they do fly, and climb Juuuust kidding!
Anyhoo… We had a great time! We ended up bringing home some fantasy frogs… back to sleep…

 

[Vegas Chad]

THAT REALLY UPSET ME... someone cutting into my new 80 buck cages to steal my 3 month olds!~
if the screen hadn't been made of wire they might have been able to get away with it.

WFT are you serous? Got a pic of that?!?!?!

 

[Kent67]

What a great weekend, I'm so still trying to recover. The show was busy busy busy. I talked to Ed and Liddy Kammer quite a bit yesterday and may have convinced them to stop by the forums here to say hi every once in a while. They were very appreciative of all the support and positive things people here say about them. Also got to hang out with my oldest cham-friend who's still into it, Linda Davison of Sticky Tongue Farms. She had another booth of really cool carvings, wall hangings, etc from Indonesia that I wish I could've afforded on top of everything else. Bought some crickets and house flies for my critters that ended up going to Vegas instead of my house I also took my showcase GTP to be probed again. Although I was really hoping the original probing was a mistake, I do indeed have what may very well be the largest male GTP EVER (avg 7-800 grams, my big boy pushes 2000 grams ). Also, thanks to Sara270 for the dubias!

Ok, on to the pics. Once I recharge the camera batteries I'll take pics of the 3 little Meller's babies that came home with me too.

The booth before the show opened Saturday morning:

Here's a sequence of photos from half an hour after the show opened, starting with a pic from the front door and then some pics of the line to buy tickets:

Best pic of the weekend? "East siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide"

 

[SoCaliSon]

Thanks for posting Pics Kent! Who else has some fun shots!?!

Edit: No way! I missed that little line about the Mellers! Congrats... You will have fun with those 3 I am sure. Where from? You gave in huh?

 

[Jeweledchameleons]

WFT are you serous? Got a pic of that?!?!?!

Yeah... here it is.
We found it on saturday at the end of the day.

you can tell that it had some force applied with something like a car key or small knife
it's about 3" across in broken wire moving down to the right.
They were cutting in a arc to create a hole w/ a flap large enough to put a hand through
if the screen would have been nylon vs wire they would have kept on going
and been able to grab a few of the young sambavas off the plant.
while we were distracted by his friends or other customers.

You know, I'm a straight up guy, I play straight and honest with people.
But if you steal from me ... better hope the security guys grab me.

I'm not the only one. one of the crested gecko vendors was also hit by some "lady".
they said she was a good one. She knew how to confuse people and rip off stuff while
handing over confusing amounts of money, then even trying to return some switched animals later.
"sigh" too bad that there's low life's out there that try to screw other people.

 

[SoCaliSon]

Wow... Talk about lame! I would have gotten a running start and tackled someone if I saw that happening. Not sure if it is already common practice... But all you vendors know what kind of cages to use at the shows from now on.

 

[Kent67]

Where from? You gave in huh?

*Sigh* Yeah. I suppose you could call it that. LOL If you look at my last post you'll see the guilty party in the last photo.

So here are Drew, Chris, and Jamie: