Just back from the BTS show

hey guys.
as the title says... i'm just back from the show and i'm not impressed.
there was such a small amount of scorpions, the ones i did see, mainly emps, but there was a C. keyserlingi and by the time i bought that, i accidentaly bought 4 spiders lol ....... and 6 stick insects
the scorpions i did see, were all stuffed in small pots and were the same price as pet shop specimins..
anyway, what did you guys (peloquin and i think Callum B) buy?

So nothing special was on there? I can't believe that?! It is one of the bigger expo?

nothing special that i noticed.. in the way of scorpions, it was a real shame, there was 1 mature flat rock scorpion, i wanted a scorpling
i was pretty impressed with the number of spiders there though.. they reckon 30000+. i was happy with my 11 purchases though.. there was a reoccuring theme with 'that's more expensive than last year'
i will have to get some Euscorpius to breed, for a few years time.

so what did you bring? Want photos lol
It is a shame they commercialize everything

i brought nothing.. i wanted to buy stuff. i will upload pics tomorrow, i am sooo tired, it's been a very long weekend
what do you mean by commercialize everything?
all the guys minus a few were very helpful and had lots of time to explain things.. which was good

Man it was waaay to crowded. I hate crowds lol. But yer the show itself was pretty awesome. If you are interested in Tarantulas I don't know how you would cope lol. So many species for sale. As for scorpions it was definately disappointing. I wouldn't have said there was more than around 10-12 species available and they were all the species currently available from online shops. I wanted to see something I had never seen before lol. Anyway enough whinging lol it wasn't all bad. I ended up coming back with 6 new scorpions lol.

thumbs up! so you brought someyhing home too

nice.. what did you get callum?
did you see the emperor in the best scorpion competition.. it was actually a P. cav or a Het sp i swear.
i was happy with the spiders and sticks. the G. pulchra sling took a big cricket and the widow did too.
i was going to buy a Tailles whip scorpion, they were very expensive

hey, we was lucky that peloquin was nice enough to grab us a few bits to send down to us (coz he is awesome like thats lol) seems he only got himself one thing and spent all his cash on getting other people stuff bless him...

Anyway tomorrow we will have a chili rose T, a Regalis T, and 4 emps :)so will post pics when they arrive...

And many thanx to peloquin for putting himself out and offering to get us some stuff

Well, I got back with...
Bex's stuff
1 thing for Jamie (sorry mate, just nothing interesting there)
3 bits for Dan... 1x Blue Fang, 1x Skeleton and 1x Flame Knee

5x Salmon Pink slings
5x Peru Red/ Black slings
5x Greater Horned Baboon slings
5x T. ockerti (dunno common name but lovely) slings
5x Red Rump slings
5x tiger Rump Doppleganger juvs

and finally, 1x adult female E. Truculentus- Chile Beautiful.. That's mine.
Will put up a pic when I get 5 mins.

drool... 5 mins are over

@bex; that regalis will make ur blood pump from time to time

pluto wrote:

drool... 5 mins are over

@bex; that regalis will make ur blood pump from time to time

That's the plan being a bit of a nutter really considering I'm a beginner when it comes to T's well excited about that one though set ups all ready

Show me Bex, please. I love arboreals! so fiesty, much more fun than terrestrials or pet holes. At least for me it is...

Always love the decorations too, I myself suck at designing them though.. that is why I need artistic input from people like yourself

Mines pretty basic really

That is an Exo Terra, with a tree branch, leaves, dirt and spaghnum moss. It will love it. It's a girl? Or a boy?

I have no idea all I know I it is a regalis large juvi

Peloquin wrote:

1 thing for Jamie (sorry mate, just nothing interesting there)

No worries mate, it was a bit of a long shot anyway, cheers for grabbing what you did.

Nice set-up Bex.

JamieLawrence wrote:

Nice set-up Bex.

thanx that was the tank i planned to use for our 5 but they dont need it yet so will get them another one lol

there's 120 ish photo's going up to my photobucket.. check back in 3 months lol

once again thanks for the spider peloquin
is it a rosea because the label said G. porteri?
about 1/4 uploaded now

G porteri and G. rosea are both Chile Rose but the rosea are the red colour form. Yours is the normal colour. The red tend to be a little bit more nervous/ bitey than the normal.

i did look into that because isn't that and the other latin names for the chilean rose just different morphs?
when you alked in the first hall, was that exotic-pets co uk on the left?

what one have i got?

Yeah, that was Karen- Exotic Pets. The 2 morphs are interbreedable (But it's a BIG no-no) but are thought to be different species now.
They used to be...
G. spatulata (Normal) and
G. cala (Red),
They were changed to G. rosea (Both forms) for a while then changed to the ones we have now.

Bex, yours is a RCF. The red will get more apparent as it grows.