General Exotics

[Ebony]

Why would a vendor tell you it will turn "ugly" as it matures? To do so may discourage any sales of the frog.

To not do so would discourage any further sales. Surely they want future sales and a good rep. But I wouldn't say the frog is ugly. It pays to read up on a frog before a purchase then.

[Kurt]

Thats why I put the word ugly in quotation marks.

[Ebony]

I suppose like any thing, there would be allot of dodgy dealers out there. If i had that kinda choice in frogs, I wouldn't be able to resist and i would be doing allot of impulse buying. As long as I had the enclosures id have the frogs. Mind you im quite busy with my measly 3 species that we are allowed to keep. I would so give any thing to go to one of those frog shows that you have over there. We have nothing like that here at all.

[Kurt]

There's a big one in Anaheim, California every year. The convention center is just down the street from Disneyland. The hotel I stayed in was awesome. You could make it a vaction. Rent a car and drive all over SoCal. You could go to the San Diego and/or LA Zoo, the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Sea World and so on. You could hit the beach in Hunington or Laguna. Just writing this makes me want to go back.

[Ebony]

I wish....Got to watch money at the moment, Kids costing allot. If I win lotto I'll be there in a flash.

[Kurt]

Good luck and remember you have to buy a ticket to win.

[Malduroque]

There's a big one in Anaheim, California every year. The convention center is just down the street from Disneyland. The hotel I stayed in was awesome. You could make it a vaction. Rent a car and drive all over SoCal. You could go to the San Diego and/or LA Zoo, the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the San Diego Wild Animal Park, Sea World and so on. You could hit the beach in Hunington or Laguna. Just writing this makes me want to go back.

I've found that the best way to access all of these places is to actually live here.

[Kurt]

When I was there I wanted to move there. I think I would love to live in either Laguna or San Diego.

[Nora]

Not directly related to purchase experience but the frogs being sold as Vietnamese Spotted Gliding Frogs (Rhacophorus annamensis) are another one of those juvenile color change examples like a peacock - but more so. I was looking into Annams several months back - and they only keep that coloration for a short time before becoming a muddy tree bark brown. Nice looking body form but no special color attraction as adults.
I haven't ordered from General Exotics - I did some limited looking at the place last summer, a real mixed bag of responses, some people loved them some hated - the only thing substantial that I got from my research was that their turnover seemed fairly high with all the pros and cons that go with that type of operation.

[SludgeMunkey]

When I was there I wanted to move there. I think I would love to live in either Laguna or San Diego.

Many days I wondered why the %$#^ I ever left San Diego...then the crazy herp laws passed in 2007 and I was glad I got myself and my critters out legally before then.