New England Herpetological Society Show and Sale

[John]

Kurt and I will be at the New England Herpetological Society Show near Boston, Massachusetts, USA, this coming Sunday. Here are more details:
http://www.frogforum.net/calendar.ph...10-11&e=11&c=1

We'd be delighted to meet you.

[Ebony]

I would love to go to the show. Its just a bit far for me.

[John]

LOL, a bit?

[StephenLS]

I can only imagine the scale of herp shows in the States.

We only have a couple here and they easily fit within a college sports hall! .... and.... amphibs only make up a small percentage of the animals on sale at these events

[scribbles]

I can't wait!

[John]

I can't wait!

Are you going? If you are and you want to say hello, I'll be wearing a Caudata.org T-shirt.

[John]

I can only imagine the scale of herp shows in the States.

We only have a couple here and they easily fit within a college sports hall! .... and.... amphibs only make up a small percentage of the animals on sale at these events

Hi Stephen,

I've been to the show in Birmingham a few times (used to be in Walsall but I think it has moved around) and a couple of the shows here, and the average US show is about the size of that one. Granted there are a couple of huge shows in the US but I don't think many are much bigger than the Walsall one.

The one this weekend is going to be pretty small - it's a local society show only a week after a more significant show - I doubt many vendors and people will make the journey.

[Kurt]

There are quite a few vendors listed already.

[Kurt]

Well, a few of us did manage to meet up today at the New England Herpetological Society Show and Sale. I got there first, since I am a member of NEHS and I had the cash box. I met up with Richard (RPM) from Caudata.org. I had gotten some blotch tiger salamanders from him about two years ago. He had more of with him today, plus some barred and easterns. John showed up and I showed him around the NEWC. He was disappointed by the limited numbers of frogs for sale.

Cold Blooded Pets had some African bullfrogs and some pac-mans. Regal had red-eyes, White's, and a few different darts. We met up with Mike and Ray in the parking lot and Mike had some dazzling auratus with him, as well as an Epipedobates bicolor, which I thought looked a lot like an Ameerega trivittata. There were tons of leopard geckos, crested geckos, bearded dragons, corn snakes, ball pythons, Boa constrictors, milk snakes, and other snakes for sale as well. The coolest things for sale were the CB Chinese box turtles, Cuora flavomarginata. It wasn't a bad day, though I wished there were plenty of other frogs for sale.

[Mike]

Nice meeting you today Kurt, and good to see you again John. Actually it was an Epipedobates tricolor .

[Kurt]

D'oh! I was close. Don't know why I got that one wrong, as I used to have one a long time ago. It was nice to meet you too. Did you get your Mantella aurantiaca?

[Mike]

Yes! and they are TINY.

[Kurt]

How tiny are they? (Whoa! Just had a Johnny Carson flashback for a moment)