KC Reptile Show--New Kids!

[spidermama]

Daughter and I made a day trip to the KC Reptile Show. Scored a Chromatopelma cyanopubescens and a Lasiadora parahybana, both spiderlings. Also bought some small crickets for those and the six other new spiderlings we got in the mail today from Paul Becker:

Avicularia amazonica
Avicularia versicolor
Brachypelma smithi
Brachypelma vagans
Brachypelma boehmi
Grammostola pulchra

Some are still too small even for small crickets, so we'll have to feed pieces, unless someone knows of a source for 1-2 week old crix in the Hutchinson area.

Can't wait to see what gunnardude got. Exciting!

[John]

saw scott today, sounds like he made out quite well too. great job everyone. oh, and the petco in hutch should have flightless fruitflies in stock that will fit the bill for those tiny slings.



John

[gunnardude]

Yup, the KC show was a very good surprise and doubled my T collection.

I picked up a B. smithi and A. chalcodes from Tarantulas, Inc. There was another kid selling T's - I guess he was getting out of the T business (or selling off his roommates stuff ;D) and from him I picked up (2) A. hentzi's, a B. emilia (labeled as a red knee : and a B vagans. My cooler with a cup of ice worked great and everyone made it home alive. . Everyone got a new home today and everyone was good and hungry.

I kept looking at people at the Tarantula Inc table wondering if they were "spidermomma" Maybe we need to get eksas tee shirts ;D

All and all we had a great time, had some really good BBQ at Brobecks and checked out the Bass Pro Shop.

[John]

never been to the KC Bass pro shop but i've been to the original down in springfield. one of the coolest stores ever! that's a great idea about the EKSAS shirts, i'll have to work with terri on designing a pattern

[spidermama]

Ordered some #10 crix from Crickets Online--I figure what isn't eaten by the little guys will grow up and feed the big ones. We were at the show about 1-2 p.m. on Saturday. I was the one in the red T-shirt that said "The funniest thing about this shirt...". Was hoping for more T vendors, but I got what I went after. The variety of reptiles and amphibians was AMAZING. If only hubby weren't a snake phobe. Those baby pythons were adorable. The price on the baby beardeds was SOOOOOOO tempting. I loved the fact that there were so many parents there with their kids. Gotta love little science geeks. They grow up to have interesting pets.