Wasatch Reptile Expo

[ssssnakeluvr]

Nikki and I attended the first day of the reptile expo here in Salt Lake City. We worked the Utah Reptile Rescue booth (also S & M Reptiles, Jim and his girlfriend Jenn's sales booth, they breed some stuff and sell some rescued and rehabbed critters to help pay for feeding and caring for all the critters). Was a good day, Utah is finally catching up with the rest of the world.....was packed!!! I talked to the guy that runs the expo, Guy Verslius...he had to turn away about 10-15 vendors as there wasn't enough room. next year we may have to use the 2nd floor also! hopefully I will have enough snakes that actually breed so I can have my onwn booth!!! I did show a bunch of my garters...got a lot of people interested but couldn't sell any hypermelanistic wanderings....guess Utah isn't quite ready for high end garters...:D did sell 2 ribbons tho. here's a couple pics taken today...

Nikki hard at work...

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Nikki and an albino burmese..she had so much fun with this snake

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Nikki hard at work again....

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Me with the albino..

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and me hard at work....didn't even know Nikki had taken the pic

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g302/ssssnakeluvr/herpexpo-8008.jpg

[Sid]

Good to hear the expo there is picking up, Don.

[drache]

nice photos, Don
I can't remember ever seeing more of Nikki than a hand, so that's nice too
great that the turn-out is picking up

[Lori P]

Great pics! Glad you had a good time. Did Nikki get to take the burm home?? :-)

[Snake lover 3-25]

looks like you had a wonderful time:)

[jitami]

Nikki is cute as a button! Good thing we don't live closer otherwise I'd have a hard time with my promise to keep my boys away :D Glad you both had a good time! Great pics!

[Loren]

Nice Homer Simpson shirt. I have the exact same one!

[Zephyr]

What a good start for Utah. :P
And HELLO there Nikki. :D

[reptile3]

that is awesome... love the burm, Nikki had around her neck!!:)

[Garter_Gertie]

Nikki reminds me of Missy Egyptologist Lulu.

It's hard to say who's the cuter o'the two.

[ssssnakeluvr]

Great pics! Glad you had a good time. Did Nikki get to take the burm home?? :-)
no...we don't have a big enough tank for the brum...very nice snake...but no.....we did buy a cuban tree frog (was for sale as a feeder!!!! now a pet!), 2 rats for my other 2 girls (Claire and Kelly), Keith got a baby ball python, and Nikki got a prairie kingsnake, female, het for albino. I got 2 baby plains garters (to increase my gene pool) and a male prairie kingnake, het for albino. I sold 1 hypermelanisitic wandering and 3 ribbons. will be trading the remaining ribbons for an albino checkered this week!!! was a fun expo, lots more people than we expected. they had to turn down about 10-15 vendors as there wasn't enough room in the expo area. they will probably open the 2nd floor next year. I am hoping that I will have enough to get my own table!!!! :D
we took a few photos...then Nikki ran off....shot 110 pics!!!!! will be posting some tomorrow. we had some cool snakes here....including a $1,000,000 snake and one for $750,000.....the are gold finger ball pythons...only 3 in the world....real yellow..kinda hard to describe. will be posting a pic of them...he had that price instead of saying not for sale....just having fun! He did say that if someone offered to pay the million he would send the snake out the door!!!! I will be posting pics in the next few days or so.

[ssssnakeluvr]

What a good start for Utah. :P
And HELLO there Nikki. :D
Down boy, down.....lol!! :D

[dashnu]

Looks like a great time, father to father was it tough to keep Nikki into reptiles or what? Even though my girls are only 3 & 4 they love em, they flip over every rock they see now! Wondering if you got any tips for me on making that "bond" last.

-cheers!

btw, the easterns holding up for you ok?

[Hornets23]

Don, if I had you for a dad, i would have been in heaven when i was a kid....lol...to be fair my parents werent THAT horrible about animals but heck, i had to beg for three hours just to get a hamster. Snakes were out of the question.

[ssssnakeluvr]

I had no problem keeping Nikki interested in herps.....she has been interested all her life. she is continuing in my footsteps...hopefully. she is volunterring at the shelter I work at, and hopes someday to be an animal control officer like me!! the easterns are doing great!!!! the larger female ate her first pinkie mouse!!!!! the others are taking pinkie parts and worms. I had to send a male to Scott....I owed him some money for snakes I got...so he has one of the males.
I was lucky when I was a kid....we had fence lizards most summers. when I hit my freshman year in high school, I was allowed to have garter snakes only....after I built a 3 ft by 2 ft snake cage. I have been keeping herps ever since then....28 years!!! not counting all the lizards in all the summers when I was younger!!! I am pretty good at letting my kids have critters....most of the time and also depending on what the critter is!!!!

[NikkiSixx]

Great pics! Glad you had a good time. Did Nikki get to take the burm home?? :-)


No!!!:( i really wanted to!:D

[NikkiSixx]

Down boy, down.....lol!! :D


your a nerd!!!:D

[NikkiSixx]

I am pretty good at letting my kids have critters....most of the time and also depending on what the critter is!!!!


speaking of can i have Amanda's guinea pig:D.... she will come with cage, Amanda dosent want her anymore.... it is the female she bought from me.

[NikkiSixx]

we did buy a cuban tree frog (was for sale as a feeder!!!! now a pet!), 2 rats for my other 2 girls (Claire and Kelly), Keith got a baby ball python, and Nikki got a prairie kingsnake, female, het for albino. I got 2 baby plains garters (to increase my gene pool) and a male prairie kingnake, het for albino. I sold 1 hypermelanisitic wandering and 3 ribbons. will be trading the remaining ribbons for an albino checkered this week!!! was a fun expo, lots more people than we expected.
we took a few photos...then Nikki ran off....shot 110 pics!!!!! will be posting some tomorrow. we had some cool snakes here....including a $1,000,000 snake and one for $750,000.....the are gold finger ball pythons...only 3 in the world....real yellow..kinda hard to describe. will be posting a pic of them...he had that price instead of saying not for sale....just having fun! He did say that if someone offered to pay the million he would send the snake out the door!!!! I will be posting pics in the next few days or so.

Cuban Tree frog- his/her name is gorge!!!
Female Prarie kingsnake- fred/ some really long name i cant remember...:D
Male prarie kningsnake- dont have a name.... but will soon

So what if i took 110 pics, there was actully more than that but ok, i had a great time, and that million dollar snake was so cool.:D i wanted to take it home... but we have no room.:( but that is ok i will get one when i am older!!!

[Zephyr]

Those leetle treefrogs always get me with dem beeg 'ol eyes. XD

[reptile3]

My son who is 4, & daughter who is 13, fight over who is going to feed the reptiles!! Bathtime, both are great helpers, but when it's cleaning time.. they flee!! he he Actually they help, they hold the critters while I clean their homes out.

I used to own a 6 ft male green iguana that was 7 yrs old. My daughter helped all the time with him. He is still alive, with a new family.. about an hour away. He is about 12 yrs old now.





Looks like a great time, father to father was it tough to keep Nikki into reptiles or what? Even though my girls are only 3 & 4 they love em, they flip over every rock they see now! Wondering if you got any tips for me on making that "bond" last.

-cheers!

btw, the easterns holding up for you ok?

[Lori P]

speaking of can i have Amanda's guinea pig:D.... she will come with cage, Amanda dosent want her anymore.... it is the female she bought from me.

Why, I think it only fair that you get the quinea pig... since you didn't get the burm... :rolleyes::D

[dashnu]

yea if Don was a really good dad he would say YES! :D:D

[NikkiSixx]

Oh gee Guys if he says no then its a no.... im ok without the guineapig anyways she is just looking for a place to send her cause she wants a hamster... i sold her the guinea pig a while back i love the cute little thing... Dad i can give her to jim when she dies if i have to.:D amanda just dosnt want to give her away to someone that will eat her...... she said that is is ok if i cant have here. Were would i put her,i have no room in my room with claires rat my snake and clothes everywere, im suprised i havent lost the prarie knings yet.Pluse the cage is the wire ones, so she will fling the bedding everywere. so i am ok with not getting her.

[ssssnakeluvr]

Oh gee Guys if he says no then its a no.... im ok without the guineapig anyways she is just looking for a place to send her cause she wants a hamster... i sold her the guinea pig a while back i love the cute little thing... Dad i can give her to jim when she dies if i have to.:D amanda just dosnt want to give her away to someone that will eat her...... she said that is is ok if i cant have here. Were would i put her,i have no room in my room with claires rat my snake and clothes everywere, im suprised i havent lost the prarie knings yet.Pluse the cage is the wire ones, so she will fling the bedding everywere. so i am ok with not getting her.
youre funny....got a question for you.....how come you ask me about this on here...but when I am home you haven't mentioned a word about it?????? :D

[Lori P]

I'm just amazed that she's ok if you say no... would you like me to beg and whine for you, Nikki? lol

PLEASE DON???? I promise to feed and clean and I won't let it smell and I'll never put it under your pillow and I won't dribble droppings in your cereal and call them raisins and...

[NikkiSixx]

I'm just amazed that she's ok if you say no... would you like me to beg and whine for you, Nikki? lol

PLEASE DON???? I promise to feed and clean and I won't let it smell and I'll never put it under your pillow and I won't dribble droppings in your cereal and call them raisins and...


Its ok you dont have to beg for me i do that enough at home. But thanks for doing it....LOL

And dad I totaly forgot, I didnt think about it until I saw Her in 5th Period today.:D

[ssssnakeluvr]

here's 2 babies I picked up at the expo...radix taking pinkie parts and worms

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//504/plains_1.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//504/plains_2.jpg

[GartersRock]

CUTE! The one on the bottom looks on the skinny side. Can't wait to see you fatten up. :D

[ssssnakeluvr]

she is...but is eating....the one on the top is a pig!!!! needed to expand my gene pool here.

[GartersRock]

I didn't know you had plains. Cool! I really want some.

[ssssnakeluvr]

yes...have 4 others besides the 2 from the expo....Cariad, and a brother and sister, and a red phase x snow male from Scott. Cariad and her siblings are het for nebraska, iowa, and christmas albino....should get all 3 when they breed, and hopefully orange nebraskas....

[GartersRock]

Nice. :cool: