Was at the National Reptile Breeder's Expo in Daytona Beach this past weekend. As usual a great time seeing old friends and of course, seeing what was going on at the show.
Here is a shot from Friday afternoon on the boardwalk. With world authority on wood and Blanding's turtles Jim Harding--a great person.
At the show. Neat sideneck from Madagascar, Erymnochelys madagasciensis.
A super neat panther chameleon. Boy did my wife want some of these!
This red one was in a large, decorative birdcage...
Some flat tailed tortoises a friend of mine picked up...
Some really nice art!
There were just a few cherryheads of any note...
A couple of pretty nice red-cheek mud turtles---too bad they were sold when I saw them.
This is a hypo red-footed tortoise another friend of mine was getting on a breeding loan, or something. He wasn't sure if it was a cherry-head or not but the guy who owned thought it might be.
One look at it will tell you that it surely isn't a cherry-head. The head and plastron are as Colombian (or some other northern race) as you can get.
While some juvenile hypo red-foots are OK, I'm pretty ambivelant about the adults, they just seem kind of dingy looking.
Did see this nice orange cherry-head. The color in life is much more orange than these photos show. This is a seven year old Joe Terry animal that was raised by Barbara Mader.
He had some significant fungus on the plastron but this can be cleared up in time.
Last photos. Two big old male northerns (probably Colombian) with hardly any color. You used to see many red-foots like this in the 70's.
Here is a shot from Friday afternoon on the boardwalk. With world authority on wood and Blanding's turtles Jim Harding--a great person.
At the show. Neat sideneck from Madagascar, Erymnochelys madagasciensis.
A super neat panther chameleon. Boy did my wife want some of these!
This red one was in a large, decorative birdcage...
Some flat tailed tortoises a friend of mine picked up...
Some really nice art!
There were just a few cherryheads of any note...
A couple of pretty nice red-cheek mud turtles---too bad they were sold when I saw them.
This is a hypo red-footed tortoise another friend of mine was getting on a breeding loan, or something. He wasn't sure if it was a cherry-head or not but the guy who owned thought it might be.
One look at it will tell you that it surely isn't a cherry-head. The head and plastron are as Colombian (or some other northern race) as you can get.
While some juvenile hypo red-foots are OK, I'm pretty ambivelant about the adults, they just seem kind of dingy looking.
Did see this nice orange cherry-head. The color in life is much more orange than these photos show. This is a seven year old Joe Terry animal that was raised by Barbara Mader.
He had some significant fungus on the plastron but this can be cleared up in time.
Last photos. Two big old male northerns (probably Colombian) with hardly any color. You used to see many red-foots like this in the 70's.
