Hi all this is really for the Uk guys and girls

2011 sees the welcoming of the first annual South East Arachnid Show. This will be the only arachnid trade show in the south east of England.

The trade show will be held at the Ashford International Hotel in Ashford, Kent and sits just off junction 9 on the M20 so will be a doddle for you to find. The full address of the venue is as follows.

Ashford International
Simone Weil Avenue,
Ashford,
Kent,
TN24 8UX

The best ways of getting to the trade show are; by car, as previously said they are just off junction 9 of the M20, it is also just 23 miles from Dover ferry port for anyone coming from the continent. By train, the venue is 3 miles from Ashford international train station that is on the high-speed rail link so you can get there in no time at all and there is a short bus ride between the station and venue.

There is a small entry fee to enter the premises, the prices are as follows.

Adult - £3
Child (5yrs-15yrs) - £1.50
Child (under 5) – Free
O.A.P - £1.50

Ive just copied the info from the site but heres a link if you want it

http://invicta-arachnid-club.org.uk/index.php?slab=customer-information

Also martin goss is offering a 20% discount on all pre-orders taken for collection at The South East Arachnid Show

http://www.martin.chaerilus.co.uk/

brilliant!!
is it actually in a hotel?? thats an odd venue for a invert show lol!

hmmm... reading their health and safety regs i found this:
"· The sale of live venomous species of animal is strictly forbidden. It will remain the responsibility of the trader to make sure they are aware of the law on any dangerous or venomous invertebrates."
so no scorpions, tarantulas, or centipedes then?
i think they mean no DWA species but putting this on their site is a bit silly.

Lol Yeah a mistake I guess or just a means of covering them selves who knows? Contactvthem see what they say

Its getting closer and we're all getting excited. they have confirmed tables from the list below and are also awaiting some last minute confirmations.

Jays exotics, (4 tables)
The Spider Shop, (5 tables)
House of Spiders,
Custom Aquaria, (3 tables)
Goss Brothers (mini-beasts), (3 tables)
Amazing Reptiles ( inverts and toys), (2 tables)
Peter Grabowitz, (4 tables)
Michael Scheller, (6 tables)
BTS,
AES, (4 tables)
Invicta Arachnid Club (5 tables)
Peter Collins (livefood)
Della Golding
plus 3 private individuals selling their own stock

A number of traders are offering discounts at the show, including Michael Scheller with his large range of tarantula:

http://www.the-t-store.co.uk/forum/i...opic=16100&hl=

and Martin Goss (mini-beasts) with a 20% discount of his, mostly invert offerings:

http://www.martingoss.co.uk/

The 30th is a Sunday isn't it? I really hope so been looking forward to this for ages but have bookings on the saturday. Hopefully I'll see you guys there!

Yep it's Sunday, not this one bit the nxt

Ok thanks, should have just worked it out myself I know

Looking forward to it!

12 hours 11 minutes until it opens... only 3 people on here going?

what a great show! it was seriously packed though, they needed larger spaces between the tables.
the guy from www.polyped.de was great. he was very hands on with his animals, and seemed to be very trusting of the public with a lot of stuff on display without lids. there were people picking up the emps and stuff and he was very confident when handling them.
i spent most of my time and money there, i got a giant millipede (and a thousand mites with it), a vampire crab (i should have got more) and a scorpio maurus (which needs an exorcism! blimey!).
other than that i picked up a h. swammerdami from the goss brothers, it was sold as a small one (£5) but is a molt away from being the size of the medium ones they had. i nearly got the big swammerdami for £20 but i had spent all my money already and by the time i had fought my way out for some more money and back in some swine had got it

what did everyone else get?

lol looks like you went on a shopping spree there
Take pics of your new pets for us.

We just ended up with supplies no scorpions was very busy ( hard to get a look at most stuff) and was hoping there would be more scorpions than there was, but we still came home with loads of other goodies

The polyped guy had loads of stuff, was tempted on getting 2 emps but I was not completely sure they was emps to be honest they even had a different name on there label which I can't remember now def heterometrus but not pandinus and our plan was to get a male and female emp to go with out other female so didn't want to risk them not being.

So we left with no scorps, but went to Canterbury exotics straight after and we have 2 adult emps coming and my sister got some fire belly newts

hey, i was there, and i bought a few new scorps and large sling salmon pink
i also bought a beetle grub
but as the idiot i am, i forgot to write down the spieces of the beetle, can anyone help?
it was sold to me by two men, who i didnt catch who they were, but, they had some taxidermy aldults infront of the grubs, they were green beetles, males had a slight horn, did anyone notice what they were?
i feel like a right idiot now haha

What a great show! I'd definitely go again next year. I came home with loads of goodies. I got a male and female adult Het. Madraspatensis, a Liocheles waigiensis and a sub-adult Brachypelma smithi for my next spider. Also brought 8 of the custom tanks, jumped straight on those lol the perspex ones sold like hot cakes. Also got bark tubes, couple books, dubia roach colony to start off, supplies and live food.

So you weren't tempted by your first spider then Bex?