Richmond 7/25

Who is going, and what are you looking for?

I'll be going to see what's out their but as usual no specific target. If I run across a nice multi gene candy male he may have to come home with me.

Putting a group together to go, so far I have 4 people. I'm specifically looking for frozen rats/mice, and a female monitor as a girlfriend for my Roughneck Monitor.

It's been years since I have been to this show, and I know I have asked this before, but is it worth driving 4 hours? Is there a good number of vendors or are you in and out in 45 minutes after seeing everything? Last time I went I doubt there were 25 dealers in attendance.
I wouldn't mind picking up a NICE young pure Jungle Carpet to go along with a screaming female I have, however I'd hate to make the drive to find that it is a ball python, boa, leopard gecko festival, like it was when I decided to stop going long ago.
If someone has been to the show recently and can comment on the variety of animals that have been seen I would greatly appreciate it.

You'd be in luck!

...if you only wanted ball pythons...
Last few shows I"ve been to, I made the rounds in about 30 minutes, mainly because I *wasn't* looked for a ball python. I haven't seen a carpet in some time.

Tell you what, post a pic of what you are looking for, and I'll keep an eye out for it when I'm there, save you the drive...

Nocturnalnature wrote:

It's been years since I have been to this show, and I know I have asked this before, but is it worth driving 4 hours? Is there a good number of vendors or are you in and out in 45 minutes after seeing everything? Last time I went I doubt there were 25 dealers in attendance.
I wouldn't mind picking up a NICE young pure Jungle Carpet to go along with a screaming female I have, however I'd hate to make the drive to find that it is a ball python, boa, leopard gecko festival, like it was when I decided to stop going long ago.
If someone has been to the show recently and can comment on the variety of animals that have been seen I would greatly appreciate it.

You'd be better off getting Pure Jungles with bloodlines/lineage with them elsewhere.  I've seen Carpets almost everytime I've went but nothing specific.  It's a small show still last time a group of us tried to get a table for educational purposes but "he didn't have room" and there was the entire back of the building not in use.  

It's primairly a Ball Python festival, mostly male ball pythons at that.

Some Burms available, possibly retics will be available.

Thanks for the input guys!
My decision not to go was made for me yesterday. I had a network of folks looking, and coincidently I got the call that a suitable male has been located (Lazik/Hamper line). Should be a good match for my Covergirl/Headhunter female.
He'll be in the air Wednesday and hopefully at my doorstep by 10:30am Thursday.

Sweet!

I was somewhat surprised, although there were plenty of ball python morphs, there were enough other critters to make the show better than the last few.

I would say, I feel the entrance fee is a tad high, but not much I can do about that.

Did you see the tub of burms?

I did, it was cute, even if Burmese pythons aren't my gig

I was sitting there with them most of the day, those are my little burms.

picked up a Mojave male from the same table.. show was cool to me, not as big as others but ive never been to any of the huge ones so this was fine from my experiences