Scaly and slithery visitors at the OC Fair & Events Center

Ashley Bernardin of the Southern California Herpetology Assn. & Rescue holds Kevin, a reticulated python, as Frank Peña helps his daughter Cassandra touch the creature during Repticon on Saturday at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa. Reticulated pythons, found in Southeast Asia, are the world’s longest snakes.

Ashley Bernardin of the Southern California Herpetology Assn. & Rescue holds Kevin, a reticulated python, as Frank Peña helps his daughter Cassandra touch the creature during Repticon on Saturday at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa. Reticulated pythons, found in Southeast Asia, are the world’s longest snakes.

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Lincoln Labonty, 5, holds a bearded dragon Nov. 12 during the two-day Repticon show at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.

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Photo Gallery: Scaly and slithery visitors at the OC Fair & Events Center

Grayson Labonty, 9, holds a veiled chameleon, part of the Repticon reptile show Nov. 12-13 at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.

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Photo Gallery: Scaly and slithery visitors at the OC Fair & Events Center

Jonathan Merrill shows off a jack-o’-lantern-style skin pattern on Elvira, a piebald ball python, on Saturday at Repticon, a two-day reptile show at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.

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Photo Gallery: Scaly and slithery visitors at the OC Fair & Events Center

Andrea Devereaux, 16, doesn’t look sure she wants to meet a western hognose snake as she visits Repticon on Nov. 12 with her sister Ayelen, 12, and father, Patrick, at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa.

  (Scott Smeltzer / Daily Pilot)