From left, Elian Sanchez, 7, Marjorie Furio Madrid and her son Isshin Madrid, 5, look at a ball python from Colorado Cold Bloods at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)
From left, Elian Sanchez, 7, Marjorie Furio Madrid and her son Isshin Madrid, 5, look at a ball python from Colorado Cold Bloods at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)Hannah Griffin, 7, holds a crested gecko from Gecko Kaboom on her shoulder at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. The two-day event featured hundreds of geckos, snakes, spiders, frogs and other reptiles, arachnids and insects. The show will return to Colorado Springs for two more days on Sept. 6 and 7. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)A dune scorpion is illuminated by a flashlight at the Outlaw Arachnids table at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)A snake on display at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)Snakes on display at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)Paul Anderson, a sales associated at Scales ’N Tails and reptile enthusiast, shows off a reptile at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)Gecko’s on display at the Little Potato Dragons table at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)A gecko at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)An ambilobe chameleon at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)A chameleon gecko perches on the fingertips of Kate Widdison of Salty Jungle at the Colorado Springs Show Me Reptiles Show at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)Josh Morris, owner of Outlaw Arachnids, holds a cape banded white monitor on his shoulder as he speaks with passersby at the Show Me Reptiles expo at the Colorado Springs Event Center, on Sunday, March 2, 2025, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Parker Seibold, The Gazette) (Parker Seibold)
