Prismatic Reptiles

Prismatic Reptiles Find top quality, great customer service and worldwide shipping. I am a hobby breeder driven completely by my passion for keeping only the animals I love most.

I founded Prismatic Reptiles in 2013, and I breed and sell our favorite reptile species including Mexicana and Montane kingsnakes, corn snakes, rat snakes, and ball pythons. My full-blown obsession has taken me to the point that I have one of the largest colubrid collections in the country. I only work with animals that interest me and make me say, "I couldn't live without that!". I have been fasc

inated with reptiles since I was a kid and I fearlessly caught reptiles throughout my childhood. When I got a little older I lost sight of that interest for a while, but in 2012 I took a trip to Las Vegas and did some h**ping on the way there. I spent two hours chasing a leopard lizard that I never ended up catching and I was hooked from there. As soon as I got home I looked on kingsnake.com classifieds and bought my first pair of collared lizards. At my first reptile show in early 2013 I bought some poison dart frogs and the "one snake I would ever own", which was an apricot pueblan milk snake. By the end of the year I was keeping corn snakes, cal kings, carpet pythons, ball pythons, gray banded kingsnakes, Arizona mountain kingsnakes, Nuevo Leon kingsnakes, Mex Mex kingsnakes, Durango mountain kingsnakes, hognose snakes, collared lizards, desert horned lizards, Mexican giant horned lizards, panther chameleons and I was breeding my own rodents and insects in preparation for my first breeding season in the spring of 2014. I produced a handful of desert horned lizards, collared lizards, cal kings, corn snakes and a lone Arizona mountain kingsnake. From that first reptile I ever bred and successfully hatched, I was all in. Fast forward to today, and now breeding reptiles is my full-time job! I'm always working on acquiring everything I've dreamed of working with, and I'm absolutely in love with reptiles more than ever. From learning about natural history, husbandry techniques, and trying to do things that no one else has done, becoming a bona fide h**per has been one of the best things to ever happen to me. I have been doing educational shows at schools since the beginning, and I absolutely love field h**ping for all reptiles, from the most common, to the incredibly rare. I specialize in Mexicana and montane kingsnakes, old world ratsnakes, corn snakes, tricolor and Western hognose snakes, collared lizards, horned lizards, and ball pythons. I enjoy keeping, breeding, observing and interacting with reptiles and amphibians so much that I have decided to produce and provide animals for the enjoyment of others. I focus on the rarer and more aesthetically beautiful animals giving us the motto of "colorful captive-bred creations". My hope is that animals from out breeding stock can be used in personal collections, schools, and zoos for education and good, old-fashioned viewing pleasure. Rarely do people from Southeastern Idaho get access to such unique and high quality animals. I also strive to provide the absolute lowest local prices for feeder rodents. A primary mission beyond selling reptiles and providing expert advice and education pertaining to their care, is to offer local customers with feeders for their animals. I provide mice and rats of all sizes. If I have limited quantities on a particular item, I am happy to work with you and satisfy your needs. I prefer to provide rodents in only $25 minimum orders.

-Joel Reep

It’s been a minute since I posted something about captive reptiles so I figured I’d share this scaleless corn on eggs! ...
06/09/2025

It’s been a minute since I posted something about captive reptiles so I figured I’d share this scaleless corn on eggs! My male decided to breed this year so I got 13 good eggs and 5 slugs out of this girl. I’ll take it! Normally scaleless females are known for laying smaller clutches because of the Emory Ratsnake influence (that’s where the scaleless gene came from), but 18 eggs is great! #2025

Final part of the milksnake story! After scarfing down a standing lunch by the recapture milksnake, we carried on up th...
05/28/2025

Final part of the milksnake story! After scarfing down a standing lunch by the recapture milksnake, we carried on up the hillside. We saw about 10 different ecosystems in the several hours to come; some looking decidedly more like Africa than Utah. Over the course of the afternoon, the only two snakes we saw were a rattlesnake coiled up under a rock that Henry was about to flip, which luckily buzzed him when he repositioned, and a rattlesnake which I flipped coiled uncomfortably close to where I grabbed the underside of the rock to flip it. To be fair, the rattlesnake I flipped was asleep and you can see him moving immediately back under the lifted rock to find shelter/safety in the photo, so he was no threat.

We went left, we went right, we went way up high in elevation, we tried new ravines and we saw nothing but a couple lizards the entire remainder of the day. We must have hiked 5 miles uphill, when we finally decided that we better call it a day. I needed to pick up the RZR by 6:00 pm and there was a bit of a drive to get to the repair shop.

We reluctantly headed down the mountain just absolutely beaten and dejected. If you don’t know for yourself, I can’t describe how truly defeated you can feel after turning gigantic buried rocks for the better part of a day without acquiring a real victory or two!

We walked down through habitat containing many rocks we’d already flipped, but one little ravine with a bunch of dead branches in the bottom caught my eye. I said, something like “I can’t NOT jump over and flip that rock”. So I proceeded to the other side to flip a cherry looking rock. Nothing. I decided to flip the less desirable rock below it, also, and voila! Milk number 2! I shouted “milk” but Henry was watching from the other side of the steep but narrow ravine and immediately recognized the hidden treasure! I flipped that baby male milk with a lizard in his belly at 4:45 pm. We took some quick photos and completed the long hike down allowing me to get to the mechanic right before they closed to find out it was only a belt, which was best-case scenario. We beat the buzzer and not a thing can prepare you for that satisfaction

Part 4 of the Utah milksnake story! The next day, I planned to meet my buddy Henry and search for milks the same place ...
05/23/2025

Part 4 of the Utah milksnake story! The next day, I planned to meet my buddy Henry and search for milks the same place I’d seen the first one two days prior. used to work for me with the snakes/rodents when he was in high school and is now a bonafide h**per. I told him conditions should be just right and that he wouldn’t regret making a day trip in hopes to see a milk or two.

We met up at 10:30 am when I thought the temp might be warm enough to start seeing snakes under rocks. It was still chilly from the storm fronts and rain. We worked up the hillside, not seeing much aside from centipedes and scorpions. He went up one ridge line and I worked up another, taking us out of earshot from one another. I kept hoping I’d hear him scream “milk!”, but silence followed for the next couple hours. I finally found a baby gophersnake under a really deeply buried rock. I walked it over to show Henry and then back to his rock for release. When I went back over to my hillside I was preparing to turn a really large rock when a subadult gophersnake just slithered by my right hand. It was moving so fast I had to visually (rather than instinctually as we normally do) check that it wasn’t a rattlesnake before picking it up. I put it in my backpack to surprise Henry with it while we took a break to eat a sandwich.

I realized we were nearly at the rock where I’d seen the milk the other day so it was a perfect time to break out the gophersnake to show him, and to re-flip the rock and to see if she was still there. I told him the likelihood was low, but sure enough, there she was! I was so surprised I just picked her right up, and in hind sight I wish I would have let him flip the rock! Needless to say, he was stunned. Utah milksnakes have an aura about them. I can’t explain what it is, but they are a special animal. He was stunned that just a few hours from where we live in Idaho a hidden jewel like that could be uncovered!

He took some photos, I took a couple with the milk and the gopher together, and we let the snakes go back to their business. We were energized at the prospect of finding another milk after seeing one under a rock!

Part 3 of the Utah milksnake trip! I got up the next morning and found a repair shop for the RZR and they allowed me to...
05/22/2025

Part 3 of the Utah milksnake trip! I got up the next morning and found a repair shop for the RZR and they allowed me to bring it straight in. The place was literally right across the road from where I’d broken down! 🤦🏻‍♂️. To be fair, I couldn’t see their sign from where I was, but they were still open when my crappy circumstances hit! Maybe if I had some phone battery I’d have found that out!

After doing some more research I was really hopeful that I had just thrown a belt rather than destroying the transmission which was my original fear. I dropped it off and told the guy I needed to be gone in 2 days so to let me know the issue asap so I could decide whether to have them repair it or haul it home broken down and get it fixed in Idaho. He seemed pretty confident that it was the belt also (sight unseen) and said he would call later in the day.

It was chilly and rainstorms were just drenching all the areas around me that day so I decided to scout around at some new potential milk spots. I didn’t want to haul my trailer back up to camp in case he called like an hour later and told me it was a big issue to fix and to come pick it up, so I kind of just killed time waiting out the rain and the repairman’s call.

Most of the day it poured, even in the areas looked like they might be dry. It was pretty ironic because the first day was so hot and dry that I considered chasing rain the following morning, and now here I was chasing a spot that would hopefully be dry enough to h**p. It did stop raining briefly, and for long enough to check out a new area. I found one of the most beautiful racers and a skink just minutes after the rain stopped and in 49 degree weather which was pretty neat!

Finally, at 5:30 pm I decided I was sick of sitting in the driver’s seat all day and would go back to camp where at least I could play guitar in the backseat. I drove past the repair place and it looked really busy so I resisted the urge to call them and to just hang tight. As soon as I got back to camp they gave me a buzz and said that it was just my belt, they’d order me a new one, and have me fixed up in time to leave Utah!

…Part 2 of the Utah milksnake saga. With the RZR out of commission and a dead phone I had no choice but to start hiking...
05/22/2025

…Part 2 of the Utah milksnake saga. With the RZR out of commission and a dead phone I had no choice but to start hiking the 6 miles back to my truck. I thumbed it for a bit but no one stopped so I walked up to a house I was passing. As I walked up I caught a guy about my age getting into his truck, and in spite of having his infant son with him he agreed to take me a couple miles down the road. He said he was late to meet his wife so I asked if he could just get me to the turnoff to the canyon where I was staying. I was, and still am, very grateful he picked me up, but in hindsight I wish I would have offered him some cash to take me all the way up. After ripping the RZR up and down that stretch I had no clue how far it really was.

Turns out it was a little over 3 miles. That doesn’t sound bad until you consider that I’d been turning giant rocks for the better part of a day and that the hike was almost entirely uphill. Luckily I had some water, but let me tell you, it was a long walk!

Because the RZR had no power to drive it into the trailer, I quickly dropped it at camp so I could flat tow the RZR back to camp. That was a learning experience 🤣! Once I got it up to camp, I had to drop it uphill from the trailer and “Flinstone” it as fast as I could, to get it as far up the ramp as possible. I got the RZR about halfway into the trailer and had to use the winch with the two anchors on either side of the center of the floor to shimmy it all the way in. To say it was “sketchy”, given that I had to be standing in front of the RZR and inside the trailer, at the risk of getting stuck in between with no one around, would be an understatement.

Fortunately I got it put away and secured it, because I couldn’t trust leaving something like that on the side of the highway. I did do some research as to what my engine issues could be, but I went to bed that night STOKED on my milksnake find and BUMMED on what the outcome might be with the RZR. Part 3 coming tomorrow! Included are the best “as flipped” pic I could get of the milk, the weirdly flat rock she was under, the other couple snakes encountered the previous night and a couple camp pics.

Finally! After three years of searching a new area for Utah milksnakes, I was finally able to turn one up! I met a bud...
05/20/2025

Finally! After three years of searching a new area for Utah milksnakes, I was finally able to turn one up! I met a buddy and flipped rocks for a bit the night I arrived but it was pretty warm that day, and late, after we had both been stuck in gridlock traffic. We saw a nice big gophersnake right near the turnoff; I swerved, he swerved and the the guy behind my friend steered right into it, killing it purposely and even checking his mirror to be sure it was hit. 🤬

I brought my RZR so we could access the area more easily and we did find a nice young adult female gophersnake on the way up and a juvenile Great Basin rattlesnake on the way down. Other than that we didn’t see much.

I camped out and woke up to a cold morning, so I decided to pick up some supplies and do some skateboarding while I waited for it to warm up. By noon it was finally 50 degrees (albeit cloudy and breezy) so I decided to give it a shot. I pulled the RZR off the main trail at the first opportunity to see what the habitat was looking like. I threw it in park and flipped a couple rocks I couldn’t pass up. No joke, on the fourth rock I flipped, with the RZR still running, there she was! I couldn’t believe my eyes! She was under a very flat rock (by Utah standards), and just materialized before me. After all the hours and hard work I’d put in, the moment finally arrived. The taylori WERE there all along!

I photographed the snake, texted a few friends, let her go back under her rock and went about my way hoping to see another. I flipped rocks for another 5.5 hours and didn’t see a single other snake all day. I hopped in the RZR keen on making a quick retreat to camp to have dinner and celebrate my accomplishments when suddenly a horrible sound pierced the calming purr of the engine. Smoke came from underneath the vehicle and I pulled over to the side of the road, unable to accelerate in any gear. And I had 7% phone battery. I tried to get an uber to no avail, I tried calling my roadside assistance which I discovered doesn’t cover me when I’m out of state, and my phone died while I was over 6 miles from camp. Stay tuned for part 2!

When I got into Mexicana and montane kingsnakes it was never really a goal to collect them all. They’re just so cool, y...
04/24/2025

When I got into Mexicana and montane kingsnakes it was never really a goal to collect them all. They’re just so cool, you kind of can’t help it! Once I had them all, it was never my goal to be able to say I’ve successfully bred them all, either. For years I’ve produced Alterna, Leonis, Mex Mex, Greeri, Pyros and Zonata, but the one species giving me trouble were Ruthveni. I got a pair in 2016 and have tried to breed them every year since they reached maturity, but they just didn’t produce! Until 2024…which happened to be the year I added an AC unit to the brumation room. Maybe that did the trick, or perhaps it was just one of those things where you have to put in the time to be rewarded. Either way, I would be lying if I said that I hadn’t considered selling my pair and using the space for something else.

Now that I have these hatchlings (yearlings now), I’m so glad that I stuck with it. It was really the most rewarding thing of the whole last season, watching my first Ruthveni crawl out of their eggs! It helps that they all ate F/T mice right out of the egg, and that they have an albino and striped/aberrant gene to play around with. These snakes are really different from the other Mexicana complex. I liken them to a cross between Mex Mex and Pyro, but more robust than either. Really cool and unique animals that I’m having a lot of fun with!

One day maybe I can produce Lampropeltis Webbi, the world’s rarest kingsnake, and then truly be able to say I’ve produced all the species in the complex! For now, that one isn’t available and I’ll take 5/5, until we can get the 6th species, if ever!
**petoculture **petología **petology

Okay, just one more post about the little baby weasel I saw the other day! Right after I finished taking the video I po...
04/18/2025

Okay, just one more post about the little baby weasel I saw the other day! Right after I finished taking the video I posted a reel of yesterday, he leapt off the branch and into the water just inches from over 100 hungry rainbow trout and swiftly swam to the other side! It happened so fast I didn’t even realize I had captured any of it until later! He was hyping himself up to make the jump in the video and trying to gauge distance and level of danger! 🤯. Next post will be a snake, I promise!

Some crazy deals are about to be had! Go and check out the auctions I’m running on MorphMarket ending in about half an ...
04/14/2025

Some crazy deals are about to be had! Go and check out the auctions I’m running on MorphMarket ending in about half an hour!

and I went to check the garter snake den site we found last year and sure enough, they were out! What we didn’t expect...
04/11/2025

and I went to check the garter snake den site we found last year and sure enough, they were out! What we didn’t expect was a melanistic individual! This is now the second melanistic morph I’ve seen in less than a year in a totally different area! How cool! **ping

I’ve been having trouble deciding what reptile to post next, so how about my first (and second) steelhead instead? Noti...
04/02/2025

I’ve been having trouble deciding what reptile to post next, so how about my first (and second) steelhead instead? Notice the wild female, aka hen, spewing eggs in the first pic. She was quickly released. The second fish, also a hen, and a hatchery fish, became some of the best fish wraps of our lives! 😋 Thanks to my buddy John Miller for helping me learn to fish for these monsters! ❤️

This post is all about saying “thank you” to my amazing customers who give me the life I dreamed of. In three days, I w...
03/15/2025

This post is all about saying “thank you” to my amazing customers who give me the life I dreamed of. In three days, I will have officially been a full time reptile breeder for 5 years. I was never sure how long this would work out, or if it even WOULD work out, but a sincere thank you goes out to all of you amazing people who support me and my family by buying snakes from me! It’s been an amazing ride! As a way to show my appreciation, I’m running a 25% sale on all ball pythons, as well as select colubrids that have been on the market longer than a month or so. MorphMarket reflects this pricing. In addition to that, through this Sunday the 16th, all the new animals I’ve posted are also 15% off. This pricing will not be reflected on MorphMarket, so be sure to mention to me that you saw my post to get my discount! We have nearly 200 animals up on MM and ready to go, so I’m certain there’s something for everyone! The link is in my bio! **petoculture **petology #2020 **ping ❤️

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