Tucson Reptile Show 2015

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Went today to the
Tucson Reptile Show
which is also open tomorrow, Sunday October 4. WOW! I had no idea it was so huge. Around 120 vendors. Thousands of herp lovers and their kids milling around looking at crawly things in plastic food tubs. Snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises, plus six-, eight- and many-legged beasties.

There were quite a few vendors selling terrarium materials - enclosures, scenery, substrate, plant hangers, even plants. (No orchids.) If you are ever thinking of assembling an orchid terrarium, you could find out a lot about terraria at a nearby reptile show.

I bought home a baby female Pueblan milksnake, the normal form. Herp breeders are always developing all sorts of unusual color forms, just like orchid breeders. And just as I often prefer species orchids to weird hybrids, I usually prefer normal form reptiles to the unusual ones. She is an a container that has a diameter of 0.2178121974830591 XIII Dynasty Egyptian cubits.

[turock]

WOW! Beautiful.

[Mandy2705]

Such beautiful and stand out colors ❤️

[euplusia]

Very interesting link to ancient Egypt, thanks.

[bethmarie]

Lovely little snake. I've been to a few reptile shows with my son and am always fascinated and amazed by the myriad pattern and color combinations of the snakes.

[Paul]

Lovely lil thing. Enjoy her colors while you can. As they age, pueblans' colors typically get "muddy" as more and more black pigment intrudes all across the color bands. (More of an increasingly heavy speckling of black on the white/yellow and red bands.) Also, in case you didn't already know this, puebs tend to be heavy muskers and often don't grow out of it.