Vivarium 2010 - Feed back - Pic heavy

[byglady]

We were invited to attend Vivarium 2010 in Niewegen Holland. It was a 2 days exhibition for all things aquatic and reptilian.

The show was very well organised, with volunteers on hand to help out. There were lots of activities for the children to go to, while the parents wandered around the exhibition.

Kiddies stuff


The face painting was excellent and free. There were lots of table with paper, crayons, paints and stuff to glue. The children were having a great time.

Sculptors









bit too big for a viv lol

There were various competitions.
Paludarium competitions





Not sure which one won the competition.

Forum competitions
The dutch really love a forum, there were many tables promoting the forums the two best were.

these are the forums for Stingrays and Pufferfish, these people were really nice and were the winners of the forum competitions


The guppy forum.
Exhibits - Reptiles
There was not as many reptiles as fish but there was a nice selection, along with a few very unusual sights.
Bearded dragons


Our stand - and a few of our babies, we got tons more tables than we ordered it was nice to be able to put all of our babies on show.





This was a bit worring as it was not securred in any way.


Fish Stuff

We have never seen fish in bags for sale before. Not sure that they would allow it in England.












A beautiful blue tank


We will definatly be going to Vivarium 2011, it is going to be held at the same venue. The organisers were very easy to contact and even came round during the show to ask how we were doing and if we had any suggestions on how the show could be improved.

Sorry for such a long post but the show was so huge and varied.

Thank you for your time.

[Nanda]

Posts like this can't be long enough!
Very nice picture's!

We will be there also next year! Would be nice to see you again!

[Frieda]

Nice pictures!!
I'm really looking forward to the show next year.

[Lode]

Great pictures, thanks for sharing!

The fish in bags, don't know what to think of that eigther... Are there laws in Engeland for that kind of things?

[byglady]

The fish in bags would not be allowed in England.

We dont have many fish shows, but the ones that I have been to are very different. The fish are kept in big pools and caught and then bagged, but the animal rights protesters are trying to ban all shows.

We are looking forward to meeting up with everyone next year at Vivarium 2011, and it would be brilliant if people could pop along and say hi to us at the Houten reptile show in December.

Thank you for your time.

[Nina]

Thank you for posting the pictures!

[Robin]

Vivarium was nice, but I also like to see another solution to sell fish.
Don't like to watch them in bags :/

Nice post, great pics

[ruud123band]

i say it isn't good to sell fish in bags, because everyone can lift them up and than the fishes get really stressed.
not so good for the fishies i think