How good is the Portsmouth Show? just attended Exeter.

[cornmorphs]

its the time of year you have to look at.
the shows so far wont have had too many hatchlings... sept onwards you will find loads.
portsmouth is usually a very good one.
its one where you have to be a member of one of the clubs, so in theory you have higher quality breeders.. there SHOULD be more there.

[NNY]

Originally Posted by wohic

: oh boy am I going to have trouble feeding my king

We'd have to fight over food then... got to find enough kings to feed about 8 snakes in that case Although if theyre hatchlings maybe princes will do.. garter snakes would be the funniest though

[Neonius]

fazer how busy was the show? like how many people turned up etc? coz i want to go to a show but only if its a relatively big one not like 10 people rofl

[wohic]

Originally Posted by Neonius

fazer how busy was the show? like how many people turned up etc? coz i want to go to a show but only if its a relatively big one not like 10 people rofl

If you are on about exeter there were 800 plus people throught the door,
portsmouth will not have as many through the door as it is a members only show, but there should be a good amount of sellers there and they will all be selling animals bred by themselves.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Lol999

not wanting to hijack the thread but Andy was the Doncaster one that bad? My daughter and me were going to go to it in October. Don't want to make a wasted journey

Dont let me put you off i am a miserable get! I think i just went with high expectations thinking i would see some really good stuff but there was just corns,leopard geckos and and some more corns. Not my cup of tea! There were some royals and stuff but nowt too exciting but like nige says it should be better later in the year.

[cornmorphs]

Originally Posted by wohic

If you are on about exeter there were 800 plus people throught the door,
portsmouth will not have as many through the door as it is a members only show, but there should be a good amount of sellers there and they will all be selling animals bred by themselves.

agreed, less people, but these people are serious buyers too, so money will change hands... although i havent been myself.

[CBR1100XX]

I cant go anyway as I am not a member

[NNY]

How do you become a member to get to all these shows.?

[PendleHog]

Just pay your membership and away you go. I think the IHS is the best to go with, you can get into any of the shows with an IHS card and you get newsletters etc. too.

You can join here: http://www.international-herpetological-society.org/

[cornmorphs]

i dunno if its me being tight lol, but i aint shelling out 20 quid to join only to go to a show.
theres no other benifit for me really.