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For The Love Of Snakes!

01/08/2025

Crowley ❤️🐍
1.0 Blade Clown Pied

Future wives:
Nyx- Leopard YB Clown het Pied
Demeter- Leopard DH Hypo Clown

01/02/2025

The brumation station is rather full this year 🐍

It’s always rewarding to see long term projects coming to fruition.
Raising a worm to become a snake is truly a long term investment but love is patient.
I know I don’t usually talk about the process or my plans but I’m looking to change that.
People are always surprised when they find out just how many different species of snakes I work with.
They are all awesome in their own way and I am proud of the collection of species and genetics we have grown for many years.

This year I am hoping to see colourful clutches of Milk snakes, Corn Snakes, and King Snakes all by design.
In formulating this post I realize I don’t really photograph and showcase my colubrids like they deserve. That also needs to change!

One of my passion projects this season is my collection of Lampropeltis Alterna from Germany that I will be pairing for the very first time. I was also fortunate enough to acquire the 1.1 het hypo Alternas that happen to be the parents to my visual hypos produced by our friend Tim from New World Reptiles last year.

Of course I’m always excited about corn snakes. I have some cool scaleless pairings this season as well as some other really cool combos like Ice and Blood Red projects.

Milk snakes are going to be 🔥 this year.
I have some incredible Hondurans in the spotlight this season. My favourite probably being the Hypo Tangerines because honestly, who doesn’t like a bright orange snake? The Hypo Crazies are also beautiful little creatures and of course Albinos are always a favourite.
Also new to the line up this season are the Albino Nelsons. Tim proved last year that T+ and T- albino genes are compatible in Lampropeltis Triangulum Nelsoni and the babies were stunning. This year I will be attempting to replicate those results with his original pair.

That pretty well sums up my colubrid breeding dreams this season. As we always say: “next year is going to be even better” when the grow ups are ready to make their debut but I’m content with the line up this year and grateful to be working with the animals that I love 🫶🏻

12/31/2024

From our family to you and yours,
we wish everyone nothing but good things in 2025 🫶🏻

#2025

12/25/2024

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12/22/2024

Sterling, Barbados, and our flock of broody Judy’s and their butt nuggets 🫶🏻

12/21/2024

Made with love 🦎🪱

12/21/2024

Homegrown tastes better 🤘🏻

12/18/2024

Carry me slave!

12/09/2024

After 2 seasons, these are my last little dinos from Lilith and Dante ❤️
Next season my two RED power pairings will be Lilith x Ares and Artemis x Dante.

12/09/2024

Excuse me miss ma’am, it’s time to go to work now 🐍🦎🦖🐸

12/01/2024

Black Pewter Spotnose het Clown x GHI Pastel Butter Clown

This guy didn’t move this year so now he’s earning his keep.

I think Black Pastel GHI Butter and Spotnose Clowns would be pretty pretty dont you?

12/01/2024

I love watching chickens hunt down crickets. They are ruthless! They don’t always kill them right away either, sometimes they play with them first 😂

11/29/2024

HELLOOOOO!

Yes I’m still alive, and yes I am still quite sick 💀
It has been a few weeks I know….
I have another doctors appointment on Tuesday.
I am barely managing being Mom and Zoo Keeper while keeping an acreage running in deep winter weather and trying to take care of myself so I can get over this death cold.

One day it will be business as usual, but that day is not today.
I wish everyone well and I look forward to being “back”
Stay warm friends 🫶🏻

11/23/2024

Well that escalated quickly.
A foot of snow and it’s still coming down!
Don’t mind me, just gonna be plowing in my pjs like I don’t have pneumonia and a raging sinus infection for the next 2 days 🤧💀

11/15/2024

Hey everyone, I just want to jump on here before I go back to bed and let you all know I am quite ill right now and I will not be responding to messages. I can barely hold my head up never mind a conversation. I’m not sure if it’s some type of pneumonia or bronchitis but I have begun coughing up bits of blood today on top of all the other nastiness.
To state the obvious, there will be no feeder orders or orders of any kind until further notice.

If you absolutely NEED something and it can’t wait, You can message our page and Alex can respond when he’s not working.

Live, Laugh, Toaster Bath ✌🏻

11/13/2024

~Ares
It’s so hard to catch this guy fully fired up, but even half fired he’s a work of art 🌹
I’m looking forward to seeing what he produces with Lilith next season

11/12/2024

Banana Split 🫶🏻

11/11/2024

🇨🇦 Remember them today and always 🇨🇦

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Hawkmoths 🖤#hornworm #hawkmoth #hatchybirthday #loveyou #manduca #moth #manducaquinquemaculata #fivespottedhawkmoth #lifecycle

Scary story time 🐍Yesterday my scatter brain forgot to put the lock back on the enclosure after pairing my extra spicy Superballs (Ball Python X Sumatran Short Tail hybrids) Dexter and Morgana.Needless to say my heart got a jumpstart when I went to check on them this morning and found the glass wide open! Of all the snakes to misplace, Dexter is the most offensively angry animal I’ve kept to date. Its a hybrid thing, I dont judge him 😛 We searched the basement and found them…. LOCKED! Here’s to hoping we will see some Banana+Enchi+ Pied Superball babies next year 🤘🏻#snake #livingart #python #canadiansnakebreeder #canadianreptilebreeder #superball #sumatranshorttailpython #ballpython #hybrids #serpentqueen

Day 2 of the fall Edmonton Reptile Expo hosted by Herptile Rescue and Education Foundation ❤️🐍Come show us some love at the Alberta Avaition Museum from 10-4 🤘🏻#expo #reptileexpo #canadianreptiles #reptiles #reptilesofinstagram #amphibian #invertebrates #odditiesandcuriosities #art #mamasedart #ophidiansbydesign

Thanks to Zoe Python Bliss I welcomed 5 new faces to my funny farm yesterday. Say hello to my Guinea-its (Guinea fowl idiots) 🦃🐓🦖 #birdwrangler #chicken #turkeys #guineafowl #growyourownfood #acreagelife #countrylife #crazybirdlady #guineaits

Building An Empire 👊🏻

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Mexican Black King Snakes Hatching today! Seeing these little faces coming into the world never gets old 👊🏻

Mexican Black King Snakes Hatching today! Seeing these little faces coming into the world never gets old 👊🏻 #mexicanblackkingsnake #mbk #lampropeltis #kingsnake #lampropeltisgetulanigrita #babysnakes #hatchybirthday #pippiphooray #crazysnakelady #serpentqueen #canadianreptiles #canadianreptilebreeder

Behind the scenes of our weekend at the 2024 Western Canadian Reptile Expo ❤️🫶🏻 #reptile #reptileexpo #wcre #expo #wcre2024 #wcrecalgary #snake #lizard #plants #oddities #reptilefamily #expofamily #canadianreptiles

WCRE 2024

What an incredible first day of the 2024 Western Canadian Reptile Expo in Calgary! We’d like to extend a heartfelt Thank You to our fellow sponsors and vendors, show organizers, promoters and volunteers, and of course YOU- all of the people that attended the show. It was a crazy busy magical awesome day doing what we all love 🫶🏻Thank you, Thank You, Thank You! See you again tomorrow from 10-4 🦖#reptiles #reptileexpo #wcre #wcre2024 #westerncanadianreptileexpo #expofamily #reptilefamily #thankyou #shoplocal #supportsmallbusiness #dowhatyoulove #lovewhatyoudo

Welcome to my craft dungeon 🤘🏻🌹💀My other office when I’m not working with my animals 🦖

JUST LOOK AT HIM! KC Paradigm Bearded Dragon from The Reptile Shop Red Deer #beardeddragon #pagonavitticeps #paradox #translucentbeardeddragon #geneticstripebeardeddragon #kcparadigmbeardeddragon #livingart #lizard

We had green grass at 6am 🫣#snow #f**kityf**k #aprilshowers #idontwanttobuildasnowman #alberta #spring

Don’t mind me, just mapping out where I’m going to grow my F*%#s 😂. #acreagelife #fieldoff**ks #justkiding #itsavegetablegarden #lifesagardendigit #tractor #momboss #acreage #garden #manifestingspring #alberta